Clash of Titans- Prelims

Clash of Titans Prelims

Team NameTeam Member 1Team Member 2CollegeTeam IdPhone no. Phone no.

Rules and Regulations. 1. The answers have to be written down in the space provided after each question. 2. Use of electronic gadgets in any form during the event is strictly prohibited. 3. Any form of malpractice will lead to disqualification of the participants. 4. The answers should be legible and clear. Be as specific as possible.

5. Questions 3, 10, 12, 21 and 22 are Starred questions. Starred questions will be considered to
resolve ties.

6. Top five teams will qualify for the finals. 7. The decision of the organizers will be final and binding.

Good Luck!!

1. Who is the author of the book The Immortals of Meluha.

2. Who is the current holder of Daphne Akhurst Memorial Cup?

3. {*} A Sanskrit Grammar manuscript of grammarian lexicographer and

philologist Arnos Padre which had been lost for over two centuries was found in an Italian Monastery recently. Name it.
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4. On this day (17th Feb.), one of the worlds youngest nations declared its

Independence. Name the nation.

5. The byline of which company, rather ironically went What we do will

touch your lives in some way.

6. We are a British alternative rock band formed in 1996 by lead

vocalist Chris Martin and lead guitarist Jonny Buckland at University College London. Pectoralz was our name then and later changed. We have so far released 5 albums and all were chart toppers on the release date in UK. Our recent release was MYLO XYLOTO which was a global phenomenon so far. Identify us?

7. 71ST in 1996, 71st in 2000, 65th in 2004, 50th in 2008. What is being

referred to here?

8. US banned her entry calling her a communist good. She was kept in

on her journey to the USA from China. She was later taken to the London zoo and then, she became a centre of attraction. Who is she?

9. ________________ is a United States bill introduced by U.S.

Representative Lamar S. Smith (R-TX) to expand the ability of U.S. law

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enforcement to fight online trafficking in copyrighted intellectual property and counterfeit goods. Provisions include the requesting of court orders to bar advertising networks and payment facilities from conducting business with infringing websites, and search engines from linking to the sites, and court orders requiring Internet service providers to block access to the sites.

10. {*} Expand.

11. On the occasion of the 63rd Republic Day Celebrations, DRDO unveiled

the indigenously developed Unmanned Aero Vehicle. Name it.

12. {*} 2012 marks the celebration of the life and scientific influence of

X on the occasion of the centenary of his birth on 23 June 1912. He had an important influence on computing, computer science, artificial intelligence, developmental biology, and the mathematical theory of computability and made important contributions to code-breaking during the Second World War. Name X.

13. What Kolkata could not, Dhaka [did], even though I think that West

Bengal is more progressive than Bangladesh in most respects. These are the words of a famous writer at a book fair. Identify the writer.

14.

Train number 17303/4, an express of the Indian Railways, plies between Yeshwantpur (Bangalore) and Mysore in Karnataka. This comes under the South Western Railway. Recently, this train was given a more endearing name, something fitting to that particular section of the country. Perhaps a tiger or Gandhiji will one day board the express.
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15. The play Mahatma vs. Gandhi portrays two important characters. Who are they?

16. Z is a computer hacker group that claimed responsibility for several

high profile attacks, including the compromise of user accounts from Sony Pictures in 2011. The original leader of Z was a computer security specialist that used the online moniker Sabu. The group also claimed responsibility for taking the CIA website offline.

17. Two Indian states changed their names in 2011. Give their new names.

18. The Delhi High Court passed an ex-parte interim injunction against X while acting on a copyright infringement claim, filed by Canadian singer Loreena McKennitt for copying her compositions. Identify X.

19. Never Born, Never Died. Only visited this planet Earth between Dec

11, 1931- Jan 19, 1990. Whose epitaph reads this?

20.

->9 to 10 feet (2.7 to 3.0 m) tall

->Have blue striped skin, pointed and mobile ears, large eyes, catlike noses and teeth, tails, and four fingers. -> Have a distinctive tendril feature protruding from the back of their heads, surrounded by hair feeding directly into the brain. Identify the fictional species.
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21. {*} A tweet reads like this A huge window shaking bang here in Abbottabad Cantt. I hope its not the start of something nasty :-S.

Mention the operation that is being referred to here.

22. {*}Your Lifelong Prisoner is a poem extracted from No Enemies,

No Hatred: Selected essays and poems by Z. Z was awarded the 2010 Nobel peace prize for his long and nonviolent struggle for fundamental human rights in China. Identify Z.

23. In January 2007, Mr. X refused to accept the Padma Shri conferred on

him stating that such honours are against the Constitution. "The Constitution says everyone should be treated as equal. Giving such honours at different levels, the State discriminates between people. I see the Padma Shri conferred on me as an opportunity to expose this discrimination.. Identify X.

24. Fill up. Associazione Calcio ____________.

25. As depicted in the fiction 1984, which is the language, whose vocabulary gets cut annually?

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