Eclectica 2017 prelims (with ans)

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PRELIMS

THE PRELIMS:
26 questions.
A-Z format.
No negatives.
Top 8 teams qualify for the finals.

A.
Map of which place?
An institution in DC Comics universe is named in
of this place.
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B.
Consumers found the name “Aristocrat” difficult to
pronounce and understand.
Other than the above-mentioned one, there was another
which went by the name “Blue Ribbon”.
If these 2 failed in the marketplace, what debuted at a
Uniontown, Pennsylvania restaurant in 1967, selling for 45
cents.

BIG MAC

C.
What is the 10-letter word for the encircled portion?
Which engineer, known for his exploits in another field,
invented it, in 1838?

COWCATCHER

In the British empire, this has happened thrice.
The 2nd time it happened was in 1903 when the world’s
press dispatched their best journalists, artists and
photographers to cover proceedings. The popularity of
movie footage of the event, shown in makeshift cinemas
throughout India, is often credited with having launched the
country’s early film industry.
What am I talking about?
D.

DELHI DURBAR

E.
Oriental Nicety gained notoriety on March 24, 1989, while
owned by a former shipping company and bound for Long Beach
California.
Also known as E Mediterranean, SeaRiver Mediterranean and
Dong Fang Ocean, the two word name by which it is more well
known comes from the fact that it was owned by E and was
employed to transport crude oil from the Alyeska consortium's
pipeline terminal to somewhere in Alaska.
Hence how do we better know this notorious vessel?

EXXON VALDEZ

F.
ID the person seen here with
Madhuri Dixit.
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G.
Worldwide fame touched the place in 1770, when Captain
James Cook became the first European to navigate its deadly
maze. Although it was beloved by nearly all who knew it,
Cook was not a fan.
“The sea in all parts conceals shoals that suddenly project
from the shore, and rocks that rise abruptly like a pyramid
from the bottom,” he wrote in his journal.
Cook’s ship foundered on one of those shoals and was nearly
sunk, but after several months Cook escaped it.

GREAT BARRIER REEF

H.
“The Protocols of the Elders of Zion” is perhaps the most
important and influential anti-semitic document ever.
Which anti-semite published the 1st English version of the
document, and hence it is not a surprise that he influenced
the most famous anti-semite ever?

HENRY FORD

I.
What is the Arabic word for “breakfast”, as
observed by followers of a particular religion,
and ironically, its not consumed in the
morning?

A couple of years back, the Ranchi district administration gave
a no-objection certificate to the tourism department to
develop and restore ______ Hill, Jharkhand’s popular heritage
and tourist site.
X had first visited Ranchi in 1905 and was mesmerised by the
beauty of the 300-ft hillock. Finally, he settled here in 1912. He
had built two monuments named Brahma Sthal and Shanti
Dham on the hillocks. He breathed his last in Shanti Dham in
1925.
J.

JYOTIRINDRANATH TAGORE,
elder brother of Rabindranath

K.
The third most important city among all Harappan
sites, which town, situated in Hanumangarh district
of Rajasthan, precisely located upon the banks of
Ghaggar River, got its name from the fact that
innumerable pieces of terracotta bangles were
excavated here, to be preserved forever?

L.
Named after the institution’s mascot, the Beaver,
which was chosen “as representing an industrious
animal with social habits”, a newspaper was first
published in its recognised format on 5 May 1949,
and is the oldest student newspaper in this
European country.
Which educational institute thus publishes THE
BEAVER?

LONDON SCHOOL OF
ECONOMICS

M.
The cast of which TV series is being represented by
these Barbie dolls???

N.
A subsidiary of Illinois-based Mondelēz International, the
company’s plant in Chicago, a 1,800,000-square-foot
(170,000 m2) production facility at 7300 S. Kedzie Avenue,
is the largest bakery in the world.
Logo designed by Gerard Huerta.

NABISCO

O.
The OED traces the word to a Spanish word,
meaning manliness, modified after the Sicilian word for man.
According to a different theory, the word comes
from Latin humilitas (humility).
This code of honor that places importance on silence, non-
cooperation with authorities, and non-interference in the
illegal actions of others originated in Southern Italy.
We however know it through a posthumous publication of
someone, who wrote extensively on the Mafia.
What’s the good word?

P.
An "updated" version of the original story, combining the
original author’s illustrations with new text about the 2009
Iranian presidential election, recounts the re-election of
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on June 12, 2009.
The authors of this work used the original drawings, changing
the text where appropriate and inserting one new drawing,
which has X (the original author and the narrator) telling her
parents to stop reading the newspaper and instead turn their
attention to the internet and Twitter during the protests.
Which 10-page long work be this?

Q.
ID the movie.
R.
What’s the screen-name of the
lead character of this movie?

QUEEN; RANI

S.
Zeno of Citium, born in Cyprus in the 4th century B.C.E., traveled
to Athens while a young man and studied with the important
philosophers of the day, among them two influential Cynics. He
eventually arrived at his own philosophy and began teaching at a
public hall. Zeno’s philosophy, took its name from the hall where
he taught, and it preached self-control, fortitude, and justice. By
the 14th century, English speakers had adopted the word as a
general term for anyone who could face adversity calmly and
without excess emotion.
Either give the philosophy or the people who adhered to such a
philosophy.

STOIC
from Stoa Poikile

T.
Where is this film set?
Doing Time, Doing Vipassana is a 1997 Israeli independent
documentary film project by two women filmmakers from
Israel, Ayelet Menahemi and Eilona Ariel about the use of
Vipassanaas taught by S. N. Goenka, somewhere.
It also starred Kiran Bedi, who was instrumental in setting
up such classes in 1993.

U.
Which company was started by Kevin
Planck, a university-level footballer,
who, being frustrated by his sweat-
soaked cotton T-shirts' inability to
keep him dry and comfortable,
searched for a material that would
wick the sweat from his body?

UNDER ARMOUR

V.
First brewed by Sam Barrett and Charlie Moir in 1824, which
lager, produced by Carlton & United Breweries, until recently,
used an innovative television advertising campaign featuring a
very similar recording of the theme from the film The
Magnificent Seven?
We however have heard the name of this brand in sporting
context.

Pic from 1962. Who’s running high school
track?
W.

WILT CHAMBERLAIN

X.
ID the TATA model, which shares its name
with the 5th element of a noble list.

XENON

Y.
The term “chhnam saun”, applied to the takeover of Cambodia in
April 1975, by the Khmer Rouge, is an analogous to that of
the French Revolutionary Calendar. During the French Revolution,
after the abolition of the French monarchy (September 20, 1792),
the National Convention instituted a new calendar.
The Khmer Rouge takeover of Phnom Penh was rapidly followed
by a series of drastic revolutionary de-industrialization policies
resulting in a death toll that vastly exceeded that of the
French Reign of Terror.
What is the literal translation of the phrase “chhnam saun”?

YEAR ZERO

Z.
As per historians, this is the
only known photograph of a
Mughal empress.
ID her.

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