Agantuk Quiz 2016 Prelims

Agantuk Quiz 2016 Prelims1. Id this Prodigy.

Agantuk Quiz 2016 Prelims2.Which famous Bengali film has been sub-titled as 'The Stranger?

Agantuk Quiz 2016 Prelims*3.Pingalabat was the unfinished work of this famous Bengali author. The work was eventually finished by his wife Dayamoyee. He started a famous Bengali literature magazine 'Ushnish'. Name him.

Agantuk Quiz 2016 Prelims*4.This capital city was founded in the year 1548 and the meaning of the city is 'Our lady of peace in native laguage. Name the city.

Agantuk Quiz 2016 Prelims5.It is proved that the main cause of the defeat of Napoleon in a battle against Russia was of this disease X. Of late, our state has been infested by X quite a lot. Which disease?

Agantuk Quiz 2016 Prelims6.Which Hindu god has two wives named Valli and Devsena?

Agantuk Quiz 2016 Prelims7.In which country thirteen months make a year instead of twelve months?

Agantuk Quiz 2016 Prelims8.The catch line of which edible oil is 'Diabetes Care Oil'?

Agantuk Quiz 2016 Prelims9.What is common in Bolmer,Gala,Verial. Non-exhaustive.

Agantuk Quiz 2016 Prelims10.What did the Arabs call 'the Indian art'?

Agantuk Quiz 2016 Prelims11.On the suggestion of which Jnanpith awardee was the city Bangalore's name changed to Bengaluru?

Agantuk Quiz 2016 Prelims*12. X and Y were the first and last signatory respectively of original handwritten constitution of India which was written by Prem Behari Narayan Raijada. Id X & Y.

Agantuk Quiz 2016 Prelims13.Till date only two persons won Nobel Prizes in different fields. Name them.

Agantuk Quiz 2016 Prelims14. X was the Sikh Guru tested/examined by the Mughal emperor Y for his holiness by presenting two thalis,one containing precious ornaments & clothings,and the other containing sacred cloths of holy man which the guru chose. Id X & Y.

Agantuk Quiz 2016 Prelims15. Who is the supremo of the political outfit 'People's Resurgence & Justice Alliance?

Agantuk Quiz 2016 Prelims16. It is a psychological phenomenon first described in 1973 in which hostages express empathy and sympathy and have positive feelings toward their captors, sometimes to the point of defending and identifying with the captors. The FBI's Hostage Barricade Database System shows that roughly 8% of the hostages show evidence of this phenomenon. What is this widely known as?

Agantuk Quiz 2016 Prelims*17.Put Funda: Edward Daniels-Andrew Laeddis. Madam Curie-Radium Came. Rachel Solando-Dolores Chanal. Vladimir Nabokov-Vivian Darkbloom.

Agantuk Quiz 2016 Prelims18.What is Tasseography?

Agantuk Quiz 2016 Prelims*19. Amba Laxman Rao Sagun was born on 18 April,1916,into an orthodox family in Yeala,Nasik,where her father was a rich silk and cotton piecegoods merchant. She started her acting career at the age of 9 in the film, Raja Harishchandra(1928) and later went on to play in silent era and 1940's films,in a career that lasted until her death ,spanning seven decades. She was honoured by the Govermen of India as the First Lady of Indian cinema.She made her name a household one by playing a mythological character. By which name is she popularly known as?

Agantuk Quiz 2016 Prelims20. X is a sporting discipline that made its Summer Olympics debut at the 1900 Paris Olympics. It disappeared until 1912 but has appeared at every Summer Games since. The current X discipline are Dressage,Jumping and Y. Id X & Y.

Agantuk Quiz 2016 Prelims*21.In chess a game is guaranteed to produce a result because Black has draw odds that is,for Black,a draw is equal to a victory. To compensate,white has more time on the clock. Common times are six minutes for White and five minutes for Black or five minutes for White and four minutes for Black. In what term is this expressed?

Agantuk Quiz 2016 Prelims22. X was founded as the Palestine Orchestra by violinist Branislaw Huberman at a time when many Jewish musicians were being fired from European orchestras.Its inaugeral concert took place in Tel Aviv on December 26,1936.X did not have a formal music director but instead 'musical advisers' until 1977,when Y who has served as X's musical adviser since 1968,was appointed as the first Music director of Y. Give X & Y.

Agantuk Quiz 2016 Prelims*23.The man in the picture was an African-American religious leader who led the Nation of Islam from 1934 until his death in 1975.He was a mentor to many famous individuals such as Md. Ali,Malcom X who were influenced by his doctrine and always fought for the cause of Black people in America.Id him.

Agantuk Quiz 2016 Prelims*24.The dispute between X and Y over the royalty of Z had to be eventually settled in the court and the verdict went in to the favour of X. X claims that Z was inspired by the song Bad Sign, Good Sign sung by the Indian character in A House For Mr. Biswas,a musical adaptation he composed based on novel by V S Naipal set in the Indian Community in Trinidad. Give X,Y and Z.

Agantuk Quiz 2016 Prelims25. Built between 1743-1746 by Maharaja Jagat Singh II,it has been voted as the most romantic hotel in the world. Id this building.

Agantuk Quiz 2016 Prelims26. Identify the film from these clippings.

Agantuk Quiz 2016 Prelims27. First identify and then connect them .

Agantuk Quiz 2016 Prelims28. Just Id. The picture.

Agantuk Quiz 2016 Prelims29. She is Karen Vaswani,a 44 year old Mumbai based graphic designer who comes from a strong Catholic family. She in her spare time,playes keyboards and vocals in a local jazz,pop and retro band called Rockin Marmalade. However she shot to fame in the middle of the current year by creating something special. What am I talking about?

Agantuk Quiz 2016 Prelims30. Id the novel and its author judging by the cover page.

Agantuk Quiz 2016 Prelims Answer1. Bob Dylon.

Agantuk Quiz 2016 Prelims Answer2. Agantuk.

Agantuk Quiz 2016 Prelims Answer3. Kamal Kumar Majumder. Author of Nim Annapurna,Antarjali Jatra,sati,Tahader Katha.

Agantuk Quiz 2016 Prelims Answer4. La Paz.

Agantuk Quiz 2016 Prelims Answer5. Scrub Typhus.

Agantuk Quiz 2016 Prelims Answer6. Lord Kartikeya.

Agantuk Quiz 2016 Prelims Answer7. Ethiopia.

Agantuk Quiz 2016 Prelims Answer8. Fortune Vivo.

Agantuk Quiz 2016 Prelims Answer9. These are different varieties of Kites,as Chandial,Mombati,Bogga etc.

Agantuk Quiz 2016 Prelims Answer10. Mathematics.

Agantuk Quiz 2016 Prelims Answer11. U R Ananthamurthy.

Agantuk Quiz 2016 Prelims Answer12. X- Dr. Rajendra Prasad. Y- Firoz Gandhi.

Agantuk Quiz 2016 Prelims Answer13. Marie Curie & Linus Pauling.

Agantuk Quiz 2016 Prelims Answer14. X- Guru Harkrishan. Y- Aurangzeb.

Agantuk Quiz 2016 Prelims Answer15. Irom Shramila Chanu.

Agantuk Quiz 2016 Prelims Answer16. Stockholm Syndrome.

Agantuk Quiz 2016 Prelims Answer17. Anagrams.

Agantuk Quiz 2016 Prelims Answer18. A fortune-telling method that interprets patterns in tea-leaves,coffee ground or wine sediment.

Agantuk Quiz 2016 Prelims Answer19. Lalita Pawar.

Agantuk Quiz 2016 Prelims Answer20. X- Equestrian. Y- Eventing.

Agantuk Quiz 2016 Prelims Answer21. Armageddon.

Agantuk Quiz 2016 Prelims Answer22. X- Israel Philharmonic Orchestra. Y- Jubin Mehta.

Agantuk Quiz 2016 Prelims Answer23. Elijah Muhammed.

Agantuk Quiz 2016 Prelims Answer24. X- Monty Norman. Y- John Barry. Z- James Bod Theme Music.

Agantuk Quiz 2016 Prelims Answer25.Lake Palace. Situated on island of Jag Niwas in Lake Pichola,Udaypur.

Agantuk Quiz 2016 Prelims Answer26. Visaranai. It has been selected for Indias official entry for the Best Foreign Film at the 89th Academy Award.

Agantuk Quiz 2016 Prelims Answer27.Shimon Peres,Ytzhak Rabin and Yaser Arafat. They jointly won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1994.

Agantuk Quiz 2016 Prelims Answer28. Rohit Khandelwl. The first Asian to Mr. World title.

Agantuk Quiz 2016 Prelims Answer29. Karen Vaswani designed the official logo for the canonization of Mother Teresa.

Agantuk Quiz 2016 Prelims Answer30. The Sellout by Paul Beatty.