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MANORAMICA 2015
You are supposed to know these things.
J Ramanand
Prelims
• This is a GK quiz
• You are supposed to know these answers
• 30 qns, 20 minutes
• No points for correct answers
• -1 per incorrect answer
• 6 least worst loser teams go into the final
• No whining, no winning
• There is one way to actually score some
points in the prelims.
History, Military, Geography
1. Which Viceroy of India partitioned Bengal in
1905?
2. Who was India’s Army Chief during
Operation Blue Star?
3. What is the capital of the Canadian
province of Quebec?
Sports, Business, Science
4. Where will the 2020 Olympics be held?
5. Where is the HQ of the Asian Development
Bank?
6. 1 Astronomical Unit is defined as the distance
between which two objects in space?
Capitals, Dates, Who’s Who
7. What is the capital of Burkina Faso?
8. In which year did India first explode a
nuclear bomb: 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976
9. Russian, wrote Dr. Zhivago, declined the
Nobel Prize
Characters, Cities, Chief Ministers
10.Lady in Sheridan’s The Rivals with a habit of
mixing up similar sounding words
11.The Lazio football club is based in which
European city?
12.Name the Deputy CM of J&K
Awards
13.Which of these directors won the 1972
Academy Award for Best Director: Bob Fosse for
‘Cabaret’ or Francis Ford Coppola for ‘The
Godfather’ or Andrei Tarkovsky for ‘Solaris’
14.Jacobus van’t Hoff won the first Nobel Prize in
which discipline?
15.For which book did Ian McEwan win the Booker
Prize in 1998?
Bollywood, Pune, Quotations
16.What is the name of Rajkumar Hirani’s long-
time writing collaborator, a professor of
English?
17.Who is currently Pune’s Lok Sabha MP?
18.Which European leader said: “How can you
be expected to govern a country that has
two hundred and forty-six kinds of cheese?”
Words & Phrases
19. A very hard or crucial question to answer is often
nicknamed a ______ dollar question. What’s the
number? (not million or billion, but an odder no.)
20. If “de facto” means “in fact/in practice”, what is
its opposite term, meaning “by law”?
21.“tight trousers made with excess material at the
bottom of the legs, which falls in folds around the
ankles, traditionally worn by people from South
Asia” – which Indian word has been added to the
OED recently?
Abbrs., Flags, Maps
22. Expand EBIDTA
23.
24.
Media, Music, Medicine
25. Delhi Press, the publishing house behind Caravan
magazine, also produces which English language
mag for children?
26. Nikhil Banerjee was a noted exponent of which
music instrument?
27.In which part of the body will you find the bones
malleus, incus, and stapes?
What’s What, Important Offices, Records
28.What kind of a sentence is a Pangram?
29.Who is the current Secretary of the BCCI?
30.Which Tamil actress was in the record books for
acting in over 1000 films, and has also worked
with as many as 5 CMs?
By the way, there is one way to score 2 points
Are you carrying a copy of
You get 2 points.
Exchange sheets – Answers follow
1. Lord Curzon
2. Gen Vaidya
3. Quebec City
4. Tokyo
5. Manila
6. Sun and Earth
7. Ouagadougou
8. 1974
9. Boris Pasternak
10.Mrs Malaprop
11.Rome
12.Nirmal Singh
13.Bob Fosse
14.Chemistry
15.Amsterdam
16.Abhijat Joshi
17.Anil Shirole
18.Charles de Gaulle
19.64,000
20.de jure
21.chudidar
22. Earnings before Interest, Depreciation,
Taxes, and Amortization
23.Kosovo
24.Manipur
25.Champak
26.Sitar
27.Ear
28.Has all letters in the alphabet
29.Anurag Thakur
30.Manorama
MANORAMICA 2015
Finale
J. Ramanand
• Rounds
• Chakkar de Flag
• Manoramic Passages
• Blind Dates
• Panoramic Massages
• Continental Drift
• Scoring system
• No points for answering correctly
• -1 for getting answers wrong or passing
• Rounds
• Chakkar de Flag
• Identify the flag(s)
• Manoramic Passages
• Blind Dates
• Panoramic Massages
• Continental Drift
• Scoring system
• No points for answering correctly
• -1 for getting answers wrong or passing
Manoramica 2015 Prelims and Finals
Manoramica 2015 Prelims and Finals
Manoramica 2015 Prelims and Finals
Manoramica 2015 Prelims and Finals
Manoramica 2015 Prelims and Finals
Manoramica 2015 Prelims and Finals
• Rounds
• Chakkar de Flag
• Manoramic Passages
• Blind Dates
• Panoramic Massages
• Continental Drift
• Scoring system
• No points for answering correctly
• -1 for getting answers wrong or passing
In the three battles of Panipat, who were the
two sides in each?
What are the code words for the following
NATO alphabets:
X, Y, Z
w.r.t Maharashtra, what is its
• State butterfly
• State fruit
• State animal
If genus of Humans is Homo, identify for each:
Gorillas
Chimps
Identify these military operation codenames:
Liberation of Goa (1961)
Capture of Siachen (1984)
Kargil War (1999)
Nepal earthquake relief (2015)
• 1.3806488(13)×10−23 Joules/Kelvin i.e. relates
energy and temperature
• 6.02214129(27)×1023 mol−1 i.e. amount of
particles in one mole
• Currencies of which countries?
• Ngultrum
• Kyat
• Taka
• Zoroastrianism’s supreme god?
• 1st and 24th Jain Tirthankarars?
• Rounds
• Chakkar de Flag
• Manoramic Passages
• Blind Dates
• What’s the year for these 20th century
events?
• Panoramic Massages
• Continental Drift
• Scoring system
• No points for answering correctly
• -1 for getting answers wrong or passing
• “Raja Harishchandra” released
• Mohenjodaro excavated
• Civil Disobedience Movement begins
• India’s first ever Cricket Test match
• Ambedkar converts to Buddhism
• LBS dies
• Emergency withdrawn
• Rakesh Sharma goes to space
• Sushmita Sen-Aishwarya Rai win beauty
titles
• Arundhati Roy wins Booker Prize
• Rounds
• Chakkar de Flag
• Manoramic Passages
• Blind Dates
• Panoramic Massages
• Continental Drift
• Scoring system
• No points for answering correctly
• -1 for getting answers wrong or passing
• India’s longest railway route is between
which 2 places?
• Longest highway (NH7/NH44) is between?
• Demonyms
• Manchester
• Christchurch
• Parma
Manoramica 2015 Prelims and Finals
Manoramica 2015 Prelims and Finals
Manoramica 2015 Prelims and Finals
Manoramica 2015 Prelims and Finals
Manoramica 2015 Prelims and Finals
Manoramica 2015 Prelims and Finals
• Rounds
• Chakkar de Flag
• Manoramic Passages
• Blind Dates
• Panoramic Massages
• Continental Drift
• Pick a continent. I will provide clues from
the Yearbook about a country. Identify
the country.
• Scoring system
• No points for answering correctly
• -1 for getting answers wrong or passing

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Manoramica 2015 Prelims and Finals

  • 1. MANORAMICA 2015 You are supposed to know these things. J Ramanand Prelims
  • 2. • This is a GK quiz • You are supposed to know these answers • 30 qns, 20 minutes • No points for correct answers • -1 per incorrect answer • 6 least worst loser teams go into the final • No whining, no winning • There is one way to actually score some points in the prelims.
  • 3. History, Military, Geography 1. Which Viceroy of India partitioned Bengal in 1905? 2. Who was India’s Army Chief during Operation Blue Star? 3. What is the capital of the Canadian province of Quebec?
  • 4. Sports, Business, Science 4. Where will the 2020 Olympics be held? 5. Where is the HQ of the Asian Development Bank? 6. 1 Astronomical Unit is defined as the distance between which two objects in space?
  • 5. Capitals, Dates, Who’s Who 7. What is the capital of Burkina Faso? 8. In which year did India first explode a nuclear bomb: 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976 9. Russian, wrote Dr. Zhivago, declined the Nobel Prize
  • 6. Characters, Cities, Chief Ministers 10.Lady in Sheridan’s The Rivals with a habit of mixing up similar sounding words 11.The Lazio football club is based in which European city? 12.Name the Deputy CM of J&K
  • 7. Awards 13.Which of these directors won the 1972 Academy Award for Best Director: Bob Fosse for ‘Cabaret’ or Francis Ford Coppola for ‘The Godfather’ or Andrei Tarkovsky for ‘Solaris’ 14.Jacobus van’t Hoff won the first Nobel Prize in which discipline? 15.For which book did Ian McEwan win the Booker Prize in 1998?
  • 8. Bollywood, Pune, Quotations 16.What is the name of Rajkumar Hirani’s long- time writing collaborator, a professor of English? 17.Who is currently Pune’s Lok Sabha MP? 18.Which European leader said: “How can you be expected to govern a country that has two hundred and forty-six kinds of cheese?”
  • 9. Words & Phrases 19. A very hard or crucial question to answer is often nicknamed a ______ dollar question. What’s the number? (not million or billion, but an odder no.) 20. If “de facto” means “in fact/in practice”, what is its opposite term, meaning “by law”? 21.“tight trousers made with excess material at the bottom of the legs, which falls in folds around the ankles, traditionally worn by people from South Asia” – which Indian word has been added to the OED recently?
  • 10. Abbrs., Flags, Maps 22. Expand EBIDTA 23. 24.
  • 11. Media, Music, Medicine 25. Delhi Press, the publishing house behind Caravan magazine, also produces which English language mag for children? 26. Nikhil Banerjee was a noted exponent of which music instrument? 27.In which part of the body will you find the bones malleus, incus, and stapes?
  • 12. What’s What, Important Offices, Records 28.What kind of a sentence is a Pangram? 29.Who is the current Secretary of the BCCI? 30.Which Tamil actress was in the record books for acting in over 1000 films, and has also worked with as many as 5 CMs?
  • 13. By the way, there is one way to score 2 points
  • 14. Are you carrying a copy of You get 2 points.
  • 15. Exchange sheets – Answers follow
  • 16. 1. Lord Curzon 2. Gen Vaidya 3. Quebec City 4. Tokyo 5. Manila 6. Sun and Earth 7. Ouagadougou 8. 1974 9. Boris Pasternak 10.Mrs Malaprop 11.Rome 12.Nirmal Singh 13.Bob Fosse 14.Chemistry 15.Amsterdam 16.Abhijat Joshi 17.Anil Shirole 18.Charles de Gaulle 19.64,000 20.de jure 21.chudidar 22. Earnings before Interest, Depreciation, Taxes, and Amortization 23.Kosovo 24.Manipur 25.Champak 26.Sitar 27.Ear 28.Has all letters in the alphabet 29.Anurag Thakur 30.Manorama
  • 18. • Rounds • Chakkar de Flag • Manoramic Passages • Blind Dates • Panoramic Massages • Continental Drift • Scoring system • No points for answering correctly • -1 for getting answers wrong or passing
  • 19. • Rounds • Chakkar de Flag • Identify the flag(s) • Manoramic Passages • Blind Dates • Panoramic Massages • Continental Drift • Scoring system • No points for answering correctly • -1 for getting answers wrong or passing
  • 26. • Rounds • Chakkar de Flag • Manoramic Passages • Blind Dates • Panoramic Massages • Continental Drift • Scoring system • No points for answering correctly • -1 for getting answers wrong or passing
  • 27. In the three battles of Panipat, who were the two sides in each?
  • 28. What are the code words for the following NATO alphabets: X, Y, Z
  • 29. w.r.t Maharashtra, what is its • State butterfly • State fruit • State animal
  • 30. If genus of Humans is Homo, identify for each: Gorillas Chimps
  • 31. Identify these military operation codenames: Liberation of Goa (1961) Capture of Siachen (1984) Kargil War (1999) Nepal earthquake relief (2015)
  • 32. • 1.3806488(13)×10−23 Joules/Kelvin i.e. relates energy and temperature • 6.02214129(27)×1023 mol−1 i.e. amount of particles in one mole
  • 33. • Currencies of which countries? • Ngultrum • Kyat • Taka
  • 34. • Zoroastrianism’s supreme god? • 1st and 24th Jain Tirthankarars?
  • 35. • Rounds • Chakkar de Flag • Manoramic Passages • Blind Dates • What’s the year for these 20th century events? • Panoramic Massages • Continental Drift • Scoring system • No points for answering correctly • -1 for getting answers wrong or passing
  • 36. • “Raja Harishchandra” released • Mohenjodaro excavated • Civil Disobedience Movement begins • India’s first ever Cricket Test match • Ambedkar converts to Buddhism • LBS dies • Emergency withdrawn • Rakesh Sharma goes to space • Sushmita Sen-Aishwarya Rai win beauty titles • Arundhati Roy wins Booker Prize
  • 37. • Rounds • Chakkar de Flag • Manoramic Passages • Blind Dates • Panoramic Massages • Continental Drift • Scoring system • No points for answering correctly • -1 for getting answers wrong or passing
  • 38. • India’s longest railway route is between which 2 places? • Longest highway (NH7/NH44) is between?
  • 39. • Demonyms • Manchester • Christchurch • Parma
  • 46. • Rounds • Chakkar de Flag • Manoramic Passages • Blind Dates • Panoramic Massages • Continental Drift • Pick a continent. I will provide clues from the Yearbook about a country. Identify the country. • Scoring system • No points for answering correctly • -1 for getting answers wrong or passing