OPEN GENERAL QUIZ.

1. KAUSHIK BANERJEE
MEMORIAL QUIZ CONTEST
A
SAMANWAY BANERJEE
PRESENTATION…

2. PATTERN
 14 DRYS.
 4 AUDIO CLIPS.
 5 VISUALS.
 2 VISUAL CONNECTIONS.
 1 NAME FORMATION.
The initials of question no 1-15 will make connection, and
from 17-26 as well.
1 mark for each correct answer.
2 marks for writing the initials’ connection at the last.
NO NEGATIVE MARKING.

3. 1. Voice clip of???

4. 2. X’s father ran a transport and timber
business. X’s father died when X was
still a child. He had enrolled in a local
medical college in 1988. He also
studied political science at Delhi
University. X also worked as a fruit
merchant. His wife is a nurse and he
has a son.

5. 3.

6. 4.* That Tagore won a Nobel Prize in
literature was known to the people of
Kolkata through an evening daily
named ‘Empire’ on 14th November. The
poet himself was in Santiniketan and
came to know it on 15th November
through a telegram. Who sent it?

7. 5. ID THE FILM..

8. 6. The person in question is the
Chancellor of the University of
Bradford. According to Asia Society, he
was voted as Asia’s Person of the Year
2012. He has published 6 works of Non-
fiction, including an autobiography co-
written with Patrick Murphy. In 1992,
Mandarin published his book “All
Round View”.

9. 7. ID THE “Actor”

10. 8. He was born under Shravan nakshatra on
Shravan Purnima or Raksha Bandhan. In
his childhood, he killed Dhenukasura. In
the Mahabharata war, he was neutral.

11. 9. *X, an African American, was the 1st black
player ever to be selected to the US Davis Cup
team and the only black man ever to win the
singles title at The Wimbledon, the US Open
and the Australian Open. On June 20, 1993, X
was posthumously awarded the Presidential
Medal of Freedom by Bill Clinton. In 1988, X
published a three-volume book titled A Hard
Road to Glory: A History of the African-
American Athlete, after working with a team
of researchers for nearly six years.

12. 10. X was set up in 1902 by X Israel, a
Jew who had come to Kolkata from
Baghdad. X was very famous with the
British. After Israel, his son Elias took
over and then David took the reins.
David died recently.

13. 11. Born on 7th September 1933 in
Ahmedabad she is the founder of
SEWA-Self Employed Women’s
Association. She is also awarded with
the prestigious Indira Gandhi Prize for
Peace, Disarmament and Development
2011.

14. 12.

15. 13.
In Tunisia and the wider Arab world, the protests and
change in government are called the Sidi Bouzid Revolt,
derived from Sidi bouzid, the city where the initial
protests began. In the Western media, these events have
been dubbed the _______ ________. The name ________
________ originated from Tunisian journalist Zied El-
Heni, but it was not widely adopted in Tunisia itself.
Within Tunisia, Ben Ali's rise to power in 1987 was also
known as the _______ _________

16. 14.* Connect:

17. 15. The English rock singer in question was
born Reginald Kenneth Dwight on 25th
march,1947. He was inducted into the Rock
N Roll Hall Of Fame in 1994. Having been
named a Commander of the Order of the
British Empire in 1996, He received
a Knighthood from Queen Elizabeth II for
"services to music and charitable services"
in 1998.He also has an AIDS foundation
named after him, estd. in 1992.

18. 16. FORM A NAME.

19. 17. Excerpt from the story “Anukul” by
Satyajit Ray. FILL IN THE BLANKS..

20. 18.

21. 19. Miguel de Cervantes was said to have
fought the Battle of _______ bravely. He
received 3 gunshot wounds- two in the chest
and one which rendered his left arm useless.
After the Battle of ________, he remained in
hospital for around six months, before his
wounds were sufficiently healed.

22. 20. *X was 42 years old when sworn in as President of the
United States, making him the youngest president ever. X
was also the first of only three sitting presidents to have
won the Nobel Peace Prize.
After the end of his presidency, he left New York for a
safari in East & Central Africa. Regarding the volume of
his hunting he remarked, “ I can be condemned only if
the existence of the National Museum, the American
Museum of Natural History, and all similar zoological
institutions are to be condemned.” He later wrote a
detailed account in the book African Game Trails, where
he describes the excitement of the chase, the people he
met, and the flora and fauna he collected in the name of
science.

23. 21. This Character has appeared in one play named
“Black Coffee”, besides 33 novels and 50 short
stories. John Moffatt, Albert Finney, Sir Peter
Ustinov, Sir Ian Holm, Tony Randall, Alfred
Molina, and David Suchet have all portrayed him,
onscreen or on radio. His last appearance was in
“Curtain”, published in 1975, the year when its
creator died.

24. 22.CONNECT.

25. 23.Audio clip of [eng song]

26. 24.ID THE MOTHER.

27. 25. Bengali song-singer??

28. 26.* Which sport was banned in Soviet
Union from 1930-1950, as it was believed to
be harmful to the eyes?

29. THAT’S ALL FOR PRELIMS..
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