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)