Dept Of Instrumentation Technology, Rvce Transit 2009 General Quiz

Dept of Instrumentation Technology, RVCE TransIT 2009 General Quiz

Siri Padma Govind

Finals

Long Visual Connect 16 slides

Literary Awards

The Jerusalem Prize

Best fulllength novel written in English by a woman of any nationality

The Orange Prize for Fiction

The IMPAC Dublin Literary Award

The Costa Lit award for authors in the UK

Literary Review’s award for “Bad Sex in Fiction”

Books in Canada award or the Amazon.ca award for best first novel

Hugo Award for Science Fiction

Franz Kafka Prize

Pulitzer Prize

Sahitya Akademi

Man Group

PEN/O’ Henry Award for Short Stories

Agatha award for Crime Fiction of no sex/violence, amateur detective fiction

Hutch/Vodafone Crossword Award

Nobel Prize for Literature

Jnanpith

Pile on the ____ _____ _____ To gratify your greed; Go, clear away the "niggers" Who progress would impede; Be very stern, for truly 'Tis useless to be mild With new-caught, sullen peoples, Half devil and half child.

A parody of a more well known poem. Fill in the Blanks.

The Brown Man’s Burden after The White Man’s Burden by Rudyard Kipling

Rajaji, the second Governor-General of independent India, played a significant role, in her initiation into politics. Soon after joining Swatantra Party, she wrote to Rajaji informing him of her decision and received a reply thanking her and telling her that she was a brave lady. Rajaji ,later wrote an article in the party newspaper, which he edited, comparing her with the Rani of Jhansi. Who are we talking about?

Maharani Gayatri devi

The photograph was made by the preeminent New York studio photographer Napoleon Sarony. “A picturesque subject indeed!” Sarony cried when Wilde showed up at his studio. He posed for no fewer than 27 pictures: in a fur-lined overcoat, in evening dress, and most significantly, in a velvet jacket with ribbon piping. Ehrich Bros, a New York department store, used this picture to promote a line of hats. This angered Sarony and he sued the Ehrich bros for having produced more than 85000 copies.

• the Constitution permits Congress to protect authors’ writings, and photographs are neither writings nor the work of authors; instead, they are mere reproductions of nature, created by the operator of a machine

Bayuex tapestry depicting?

Halley’s comet

Through the latter part of the 19th century and well into the 20th century, the ____ _ ____ trade expanded greatly to satisfy the needs of the growing industrial population of Great Britain. The development of the steam trawler brought it in from all over the North Atlantic, Iceland and Greenland and the steam railways allowed easy and fast distribution around the country. THE typical retail ____ _ ____ is run by its owners, usually husband and wife and with part-time help, represents a continuing tradition which goes back in Great Britain to the early days of the 19th century.

Fish and chips

Put funda

Sarkozy recounting on his Facebook page about how he rushed to Berlin on the morning of November 9th and was able to chip away at the Wall with a pickaxe later that evening.

Lord Louis Mountbatten was Chief of Combined Operations, who encouraged scientists to produce ideas however fantastic during second world war. Habbakuk was the idea of a scientist called Geoffrey Pyke. His idea was that because ______was unsinkable, the ships would be insulated and impervious to bomb and torpedo attacks. The idea was taken up by Mountbatten and in December 1942, Churchill was convinced that the idea was worth pursuing. One problem had to be overcome. _____ split too easily and Pyke suggested the addition of some kind of building material could solve the problem. In 1943, two American scientists made a compound out of paper pulp and sea water which was almost as strong as concrete. This substance was named “Pykecrete”, after Pyke. What was the material considered?

Ice

What is special about this cover?

Drawn using iPhone

A legend has it that the goddess Ganga’s descent from the heavens would have split the earth had lord Shiva not tamed it by tying it into his ash smeared locks. They say this region is a heavenly braid. A further twist to the tale is in the river’s final stages. There is a point where the braid comes undone, Shiva’s matted hair is washed apart into a vast knotted tangle. What region?

Sunderbans

First as the foster daughter of Brahma, she was known as Lopamudra, later she became the wife of Agasthya. Agasthya confines her in a pot, and betrays her, to go bathe in the downstream Kanaké. The furious Cauvery spills out of the pot, and flows away as a raging, rushing river, cascading and looping across the countryside of______, pursued by the chastened Agasthya. They also say that, at the village of Balamuri, where she swerved right to avoid Agasthya, who tried to obstruct her, she washed over the ______women, waiting to stop her flight from their land. This they say made the women unique in a way. How?

The pleats of their sarees worn by Coorgi women were swept from front to back and it is worn like that to this day.

Id x and y Much of the writing about the film of ________ __ _________acknowledges that when Hollywood bought the rights to the story, he wanted X to play Y. Most accounts treat this as yet another of his many idiosyncrasies, X whom he knew well, was raised in Texas, and her parallels with his Y do not end there. She was a depression-era orphan who was both exploited and saved by older men. She is befriended by an extremely short, powerful Hollywood agent who recognises her potential and helps her reinvent herself, renaming her and providing her with access to education and a more sophisticated veneer. He also wrote of his own alter ego, the unnamed narrator of _______’s, was never able to shed his sense of belonging on the margins

• X- Marilyn Monroe • Y- Holly Golightly Breakfast At Tiffany’s

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Put blank When_______ , the British Raj's foreign minister in India, took a red pencil to a map of the fragmenting empires run by ________and Delhi in 1914, it is doubtful he would have envisaged the events that would haunt the region decades later. After the British left India and the Communist takeover of China, the _______ ______became a de facto boundary. Then China swallowed Tibet in 1950, leaving Delhi and Beijing to claim swaths of each other's territory along the Himalayan border. The result was war in 1962

McMahon line

Stage 2

• A great flood ravaged the domain of Hyderabad in 1908 three years prior to the ascent of the _______throne, one of his first assignments was to invite ________to advise him on how a similar flood could be controlled and excess water be put to good use. In accordance with his suggestion, the embankment of the Musi River and construction of the Himayat Sagar Dam and osman sagar dam at Gandipet were undertaken. If the old city suffered minimum damage in the recent flood two years ago the credit goes to the _______for his foresight and commitment to the welfare of his people. ID both

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Until 1977 no women were elected to______ _____, because the will as interpreted by the _______Trust Acts of Parliament confined the awards to 'male students‘. After much lobbying , Secretary of State for Education made an order in 1976 declaring _______Scholarships to be tenable by women, and nullifying the effect of the words 'manly' and 'manhood' in the will. Also during world war 2 German nationals were not considered for _______ _____

_______ _______followed Fa Hein nearly after a gap of two centuries. The object of his travel was to visit the holy land of his religion. He observes the ascendancy of Brahmanism thanks to the impetus given by the Guptas who ruled then. after his extensive touring of India visiting places like Kashmir valley, visited________, and reached Mathura, where he saw the sacred traces of Lord Buddha at Kashi. He went to Kapilavastu, Kushinagar, Pataliputra, Vaishali, Mahabodhi. He returned by the same route to China.

Born into a poor family in _______, in what is now the Ardennes département, Robert de ______ entered the Church and was educated in Reims and Paris. He was noted for his piety and attracted the patronage of the Comte d'Artois and King Louis IX of France, later known as Saint Louis. He became the canon of Cambrai around 1251 before being appointed canon of Paris and the king's confessor in 1258. ______ began to teach around 1253 and in 1257 established the Maison de ________, a college in Paris originally intended to teach theology to twenty poor students. It was sponsored by King Louis and received the endorsement of Pope Alexander IV in 1259. It subsequently grew into a major centre of learning and became the core of what would become the larger institution we know today.

“_____is his dhrubatara (guiding star) and _______is the place where he comes to seek peace." He visits her every winter, towards the end of December when ________conducts its convocation and when the Paus Mela is held. During his visits, he does the rounds of the ashram on his bicycle, stops by for a round of adda (chat session) at Kalor Dokan, a tea-cum-sweetmeat stall at Ratan Palli, and frequents the Subarnarekha bookshop. Indranath Mazumdar, owner of Subarnarekha, said that during his visits to _______,______always looked up his old friends who still live there. "Clad in kurta-pyjama, he would stand in the queue to buy a railway ticket from _______ to Calcutta, and no one would guess that he is a Professor”

For Kannada _________gave Shri Ramayana Darshanam. As with other poets of his stature, ________as he is known, greatly handles the sublime material. Divided into four books (Ayodhya, Kishkinda, Lanka and Shree), the epic concludes with Rama's coronation described in terms of the glory and grandeur of Mother Nature. The epic opens with ______obeisance to world poets including Firdausi and Sri Aurobindo and concludes with the assurance that the rasa-laden poesy of the Ramayana is greater than Rama's incarnation itself.

Universities

The Last Nizam- Osmania Vishweshwaraiah

• Annavaru- translates to big brother • Anna Univ

• Banaras - BHU

• Rhodes scholar ship – oxford

• Hiuen tsang- Nalanda

Sorbonne – University of Paris

• Amartya sen- Tagore- Visva bharathi university

• Kuvempu

Gilbert's elaborate masterwork ___ _____ __ _____ ______was exhibited to much acclaim in 1850 at London's British Institution. The crowded tableau is arranged as if on a stage, a format adopted from Raphael's School of Athens (Vatican), with the main characters from the tragedies in the foreground, historical figures in the middle, and magical and supernatural beings in the upper region.

The Plays of William Shakespeare

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Indian Summers

Ram Jethmalani defended Manu Sharma, Ketan Parekh, Harshad Mehta and Satwant and Kehar Singh in court.

___ _____ was founded by Hubert Beuve-Méry at the request of General Charles de Gaulle after the German army was driven from Paris during World War II—took over the format of Le Temps, whose reputation had suffered during the Occupation. Beuve-Méry reportedly demanded total independence as the condition for his taking on the project. Its first edition appeared on December 19, 1944. __ _____ has been available on the Internet since December 19, 1995.

X was a British tobacco importer and cigarette manufacturer formed in Bristol, England in the late 18th century. Their first product was the "Bristol". "Three Castles" and "Gold Flake" were other major products. In 1901, the Imperial Tobacco Company was formed from a merger of X and seven other minor British tobacco companies. Imperial remains one of the world's largest tobacco companies. In India the Gold Flake range of cigarettes (my brand, and that's why i've actually noticed it) manifactured by ITC (formerly Imperial Tobacco company India) still prints X on the cigarettes to honor one of the biggest players in tobacco history. X?

ID She was born and brought up in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh and is currently married to Chetan Anand. She began to play at the age of 10 under Mr. S. M. Arif. He was born at Ramanattukara, in the Calicut district to Karunakaran and Lalitha. He completed his graduation from Farook College, Calicut. He started his career by representing Calicut University at All India University Championships.

V Diju and Jwala Gutta. First Indian pair to win a Grand Prix Gold in Badminton

This story is told by Sister, whose grandfather, PapaDaddy, has gotten her a job as “postmistress” of the “smallest post office in Mississippi”. Sister is living peaceably with her family when her younger sister, StellaRondo, returns home from an apparently failed marriage/elopement with a two-year-old daughter, Shirley T. No sooner does she move in then Stella-Rondo is back to her old tricks as the family favorite. No matter how tall Stella-Rondo's tales are, the family believes her, and Sister remains the family scapegoat. Finally, to protest her dispossession, Sister rebels by moving away from home-to the local post office. This is the synopsis of a story titled “Why I Live at The P.O” by Pulitzer prize winner X, also the author of “Death of a Traveling Salesman” and “The Optimist’s Daughter”. This story inspired Steve Dorner, a software engineer to name his creation X, a popular tool in the mid-late nineties.

Eudora Welty

“______ ____ ____ ______" is a song composed by Vivian Stanshall and Neil Innes and performed by the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band. It was included on their 1967 album.

Henry X was born in Chorley, Lancashire, the son of a clergyman. When he was 13, he became a grocer's apprentice in Liverpool. After a seven-year apprenticeship, he was able to set up his own shop. In 1872, he purchased the patent from German Eugen Langen on a method of making sugar cubes, and in the same year built a new refinery in Liverpool. X made many donations, often anonymously, and always discreetly. They included £42,500 for Liverpool University, £3500 for Bedford College for Women, and £5000 for building a free library in Streatham; additional provisions were made for libraries in Balham, South Lambeth, and Brixton. His most famous donation of course is to X.

Tanstaafl is central to Robert Heinlein's 1966 libertarian science fiction novel The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, which popularized it. The free-market economist Milton Friedman also popularized the phrase by using it as the title of a 1975 book, and it often appears in economics textbooks; Campbell McConnell writes that the idea is "at the core of economics".

There Ain’t No Such Thing As A Free Lunch

Long Audio Connect 5 points for every correct Artist (Band or Artist Only)

4 tracks +40 -15 3 tracks +30 -10 3 tracks +15 +10 +5 (one shot)

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Magazines

Debonair by Dope

Mumbai se aaya mera dost -Bappi Lahiri

Soldier of Fortune- Deep Purple

Riding to Vanity Fair by Paul McCartney

Vogue by Madonna

Time- Pink Floyd