Thursday, August 15, 2013

Landmark Quiz 2013 Chennai prelims



Landmark Quiz 2013 Chennai round prelims


1. Central hall of Parliament House

2. The Bible (Gutenberg)
3. Device invented in 1873- Typewriter
4. MS Subbulakshmi
5. Apple
 
6. Ashes Urn (Ivo & Florence Bligh) 

7. McBabbar- Rs 12 burger
8. Walt Disney font

9. Pacific Rim Nations
10. 'I think it's utterly mad; but if you think, it will work, go ahead'- Mr Verghese Kurein
11. Aerospace city in France- Toulouse
It’s related to an Indian city- Jaipur
 
12. Central African Republic (Q: Identify the African country highlighted in the map)
13. (i) Akbar    (ii) Pandit
14. Brotherhood without banners
15. Jim Morrison
16. Yannick Noah
17. Viji Krishnan
18. Omerta- Code of silence
19. The Salvation Army
20. .gif file format (invented by Steve Wilhite at CompuServe in 1987)
21. Introduced in 1985 in F1 cars- Camera (for on-board TV footage)
22. The Pied Piper of Hamelin
23. Michelangelo (hand)- prosthesis
24. Mandakani river (means ‘calm’ in Hindi)
25. Priyanka Chopra (debut song)
26. Jews & Zoroastrians (reservation in Iran Parliament) 
27. Window Tax- 1696
Term derived out of it- Daylight Robbery (robbing you of daylight)
28. The Panama Hat
29. A) The well of death
      B) The Centrifugal force
30. Creatures with bragging right
     A) Atlantic Sail fish (fastest creature in water)
     B) Peregrine Falcon (fastest in air)
     C) Cheetah (fastest on land)
31. Shonen Manga
32. Minecraft
33. T9- Text predictive software
34. American progressive metal band- Dream Theater
35. Mid Day Meal Scheme logo
36. Bungalow
37. Bhima & Hanuman (siblings from Ramayana and Mahabharata who confronted each other. They had a common father)
38. A) Death Star (Star Wars movie)
B) Richard Wagner
39. Sericulture (rearing of silkworms for the production of silk)