Open Quiz at IITD

Hi folks, following are the prelims questions of the Open Quiz organised by Kutub Quizzers at IIT Delhi on 12th August, 2007...

1. Which then-Chief Minister presented Ramanand Sagar with the crown used in the coronation sequence of the TV serial ‘Ramayana’?
2. If the Metre, the Kilogram, the Second, the Ampere, the Kelvin, and the Candela are six of the seven basic units of measurement of the SI system, what is the seventh?
3. Which coffee shop-cum-restaurant at the Oberoi, Delhi was named because it claims to offer cuisine from all over the world?
4. On which river is the Three Gorges Dam being built?
5. Which company describes itself as the “DNA of Silicon Valley”?
6. Whose book of letter supposedly written to her children is titled “Speedpost”?
7. Which film was based on “Yabunonaka”, a short story by Akutagawa Ryunosuke about a rape and murder in 10^th century Kyoto?
8. On 10^th December, 2000, who arrives in exile in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, along with his younger brother and 16 of their relatives?
9. What proposal for testing a machine’s capability to demonstrate thought is named after the author of the 1950 paper ‘Computing Machinery and Intelligence’?
10. Which educational institutions was established in 1994, fulfilling one of the clauses of the Assam Accord of 15^th August, 1985?
11. In 1906, which neurologist at Frankfurt Asylum found clumps of fibrous protein in the brain, which he called “amyloid plaques”, during an autopsy on Frau Auguste D.?
12. Which tune from the 1929 film ‘Chasing Rainbows’ did Franklin Delano Roosevelt adopt as his campaign theme in 1933 and Thums-Up as its slogan from 1981 to 1988?
13. Who was the Leader of the Opposition in the Maharashtra Assembly from 1978 to 1980 after Sharad Pawar left the Congress to form the Progressive Democratic Front?
14. In ‘Star Trek: The Next Generation’, to whom did the producers pay tribute by naming a character ‘Wesley’ (As in ‘Wesley Crusher’)?
15. If Max OS X was ‘Cheetah’, Verson 10.1 was ‘Puma’, 10.2 was ‘Jaguar’, 10.3 was ‘Panther’ and 10.4 was ‘Tiger’, what is the codename for Mac OS X Version 10.5?
16. What connects Shadi Bagiar to the Lowyah Dakkah plains?
17. Which baby featured on the cover of the first issue of the magazine TV Guide in April, 1953?
18. What Roman deity’s name means ‘the wealthy one’ in Latin?
19. If the Batman’s secret identity is ‘Bruce Wayne’, what is the actual name of the “super detective Tracer Bullet”?
20. Which Chinese phrase’s literal translation is ‘Law of the Wheel Breathing Exercise”?
21. Developed by Chemie Grunenthal in 1957, and marked as a prescription anti-emetic and sedative, what medication is now used to treat Kaposi’s Sarcoma in HIV patients?
22. Which figure in the Mahabharata received his name because, abandoned by his father Sharadvan, he was brought up by Shantanu in an act of mercy?
23. About whom did Alfred Hitchcock say, “I envy him; if he didn’t like an actor he could just tear him up”?
24. Which U.S. Army major was hired by the Mount Wilson Observatory in 1919 to take charge of the Hooker Telescope?
25. What is being built by the Norwegian firm Snohetta on Egypt’s Mediterranean coast?
26. Who supposedly got a British Passport in March, 1999 thanks to Peter Mandelson, which led to Mandelson’s sacking from the Tony Blair cabinet?