This is the prelims of the Defense Quiz conducted for the Eagles and the District Planetarium.

2.  20 questions.
 25 points.
 Q16-Q20 are two pointers and starred
questions.
 Switch off your electronic devices.
 Googling leads to immediate disqualification.
 Think simple and make intelligent guesses.

3.  He proposed the use of a powder of sulfide,
arsenic and verdigris in the 15th century:
 throw poison in the form of powder upon galleys.
Chalk, fine sulfide of arsenic, and powdered
verdegris may be thrown among enemy ships by
means of small mangonels, and all those who, as
they breathe, inhale the powder into their lungs
will become asphyxiated.
 Who was this early proponent of Chemical
warfare?

5.  It is an American privately held global corporation
based in Minnetonka, Minnesota,. Founded in 1865,
it is now the largest privately held corporation in the
United States in terms of revenue. It owned 2/3 of
the shares ofThe Mosaic Company (sold off in 2011),
one of the world's leading producers and marketers
of concentrated phosphate and potash crop
nutrients.
 The reason why this Q is featured in this quiz is
because it sounds like a place which was widely in
the news in 1999.
 Identify the company/or the other place.

7.  Lewis Wallace was anAmerican lawyer, Union general in the American
CivilWar, governor of the New MexicoTerritory, politician, diplomat,
and author from Indiana.Among his novels and biographies, Wallace is
best known for his historical adventure story, X (1880), a bestselling
novel that has been called "the most influential Christian book of the
nineteenth century.

9.  X was the name used to refer to the Hyderabad
PoliceAction which was essentially a military
operation under which the Indian armed forces
encroached the State of Hyderabad and
defeated the Nizam, obtaining the state of
Hyderabad for the Indian Union.
 X?

11.  It was first worn in the Corps of Guides that was
raised in December 1846 as the brain-child of Sir
Henry Lawrence.They were used officially by
British troops for the first time during the
Abyssinian campaign of 1867–68, when Indian
troops traveled to Ethiopia (Abyssinia) under the
command of general Sir Robert Napier to release
some British captives.Subsequently, the British
Army adopted it and was used in the MahdistWar
(1884–89) and Second BoerWar (1899–1902).
 What?

13.  Field Marshal ______ _________, 1st Duke of
__________ , was an Anglo-Irish soldier and
statesman, and one of the leading military and
political figures of 19th-century Britain. In 2002, he
was number 14 in the BBC's poll of the 100 Greatest
Britons.
 His battle record is exemplary; he ultimately
participated in some 60 battles during the course of
his military career. He is famous for his adaptive
defensive style of warfare, resulting in several
victories against a numerically superior force while
minimising his own losses.
 Who?

15.  Kuldip Singh Brar about which incident?
 “It is very easy to say to we could have laid
siege, we could have postponed it for a day or
two, or carried out the operation without the
loss of life. It is only we, who were there at
that time, who know what our limitations and
needs were.”

17.  X is the helicopter display team of the IndianAir
Force.The team flies four modified HAL Dhruv
helicopters, also known asALH (Advanced Light
Helicopter).The team was formed in October 2003
and their first public performance was at the Asian
Aerospace Show, Singapore, 2004.
 The name will remind you of an annual event
happening in a prestige South Indian educational
institute.

20.  The Japanese word is usually translated as "divine
wind" and has been used sinceAugust 1281 to refer
to the major typhoons which dispersed Mongolian
invasion fleets under Kublai Khan in 1274.
 In Japanese, the formal term used for units
carrying out suicide attacks during 1944–1945.
 While the term usually refers to the aerial strikes, it
has also been applied to various other suicide
attacks.
 What term?

22.  It is an ancient city and has historical significance.
From various accounts; It may be believed that
'Audumbara' was the name of it. Numerous coins
of great antiquity found at the city prove that it is
one of the oldest sites in the Punjab.
 It was the capital of Nurpur State and its name was
changed to Dhameri (Nurpur) in the time of Akbar.
 The reason why the question has been asked is
because of the events happened here on Jan 2016.

24.  In the late 1980s, after the initial success of Nagraj,
Raj Comics wanted another superhero for its titles.
It was in this period that writer Anupam Sinha came
up with the idea of this character.
 The original design was created by Sinha back in
1987, was an adolescent boy standing beside his
bike wearing a yellow-blue trapeze artist costume,
buttoned shirt collar, a black belt with star buckle,
shoes (instead of boots), and with no gloves, mask,
or cape, holding a helmet in his hand.

26.  Matti Henrikki Järvinen was
a Finnish javelin thrower.
He won the Olympic gold
medal at the 1932 Summer
Olympics ahead of two
other Finns, Matti Sippala
and Eino Penttilä, with a
throw of 72.71 metres.
 What was his contribution
to the Finnish army during
theWorld War II while
serving in the Karelian
Isthmus?

28.  The count is arrived as follows:
One elephant, one chariot, three horses and five
foot soldiers form a Patti;
Three Pattis form a Sena-Mukha;
Three Sena-Mukhas make a Gulma;
Three Gulmas a Gana;
Three Ganas aVahini;
ThreeVahinis a Pruthana;
Three Pruthanas a Chamu;
Three Chamus a Anikini;
Ten Anikinis form an ________.

30.  “My regiment was stationed near a small marsh
(in Secunderabad) and suffered badly, while
another regiment situated only a mile to leeward
of the same marsh escaped.”
 This is an extract from a speech delivered in 1902
by a polymath who also made significant
contributions in pure and applied mathematics as
well as poetry.
 Who and what escape is he talking about?

32.  Andrei Kirilenko is a Russian-American former professional
basketball player, currently the commissioner of the
Russian Basketball Federation. One of the most versatile
players of his generation,he is considered one of the
greatest international players of all time.

34.  A ______ hold is a grappling hold which is executed
from behind the opponent, generally when both are
on the mat face down with the opponent under the
aggressor.
 The term ______ dates back to the early 19th
century. It has been suggested that it was named
after the British war-hero _______ ______, who used
strategies based on surrounding the opponent to win
the Battle of the Nile and the Battle of X.
 Name the hold/person.(1 point)
 Name the battle X. .(1 point)

37.  X(two word term) is a military aviator credited
with shooting down several enemy aircraft during
aerial combat.The actual number of aerial
victories required to officially qualify as an X has
varied, but is usually considered to be five or
more.X?
 Manfred von Richthofen, better known as the
Y(two word nickname) has scored the most
officially accepted kills inWorld War I and is
arguably the most famous X of all time.
 Term?
 Nickname?

40.  Near the Bhikhiwind village, a strip of land was
called X Nagar for a short while in 1965.It was here
that more than 97 Xs of the Pakistani army were
displayed at the end of the September India-
Pakistan conflict.They were captured at the Battle
of Asal Uttar by India's 4 Mountain Division.
 Xs is named after an American General.
 Name X.(1 point)
 X also took part in the 1912 Olympics held in
Stockholm and was so close in winning an Olympic
medal.Which event did he took part?(1 point)

42.  When the news of the first use of the _____emerged, Prime
Minister David Lloyd George commented,
 It is really to X that the credit is due more than to anyone
else. He took up with enthusiasm the idea of making them a
long time ago, and he met with many difficulties. He
converted me, and at the Ministry of Munitions he went
ahead and made them.They are, of course, experts in the
matter of armour plating. Major Stern, a business man at
the Ministry of Munitions had charge of the work of getting
them built, and he did the task very well. Col Swinton and
others also did valuable work.
 — David Lloyd George, 19 September 1916
 FITB.(1 point)
Who ix X?(1 point)

44.  Identify the film.(1 point)
 The film is an adaptation from real life events that
happened in which battle during the Indo-Pakistani
War of 1971?(1 point)