THE GENERAL QUIZ

Questions 4, 9,14,17,20 are starred Time: 25 min

1. The ________ ____ was a ring of Russian spies who passed information to the USSR during World War II and into the early 1950s. All the members came into contact with communism while attending the same University in the 1930s. Although four of the members have been identified, there has been some controversy over the fifth member. 2. Jack Broughton invented muffles, the precursors of modern X, an instrument of both attack and defence in a common combat sport Y. Give us X. 3. The Yak Golf Club is located in Kupup, India. It was started on 19 September, 1972 and is maintained by the Indian army. It has been affiliated to the Indian Golfers Union since 1992. What global distinction does it hold? 4. (* for both x and y) X is the study of literature, languages, history and cultures of the subcontinent. It is often associated with German scholarship and is more commonly used in departmental titles in German and continental European universities. The beginnings of X date back to the Persian anthropologist and historian Ab Rayhn al-Brn (973-1048) in his book Y. What are X and Y? 5. This is X. It's twelve days north of Hopeless, and a few degrees south of Freezing to Death. It's located solidly on the Meridian of Misery. It snows 9 months of the year and hails the other 3. Any food that grows here is tough and tasteless. The people that grow here are even more so. The only upsides are the pets. While other places have ponies or parrots, we have Y. X and Y? 6. When Y painted, he had a blue period and a rose period. For about three years in his early twenties, he used mostly light blue colors in his paintings. The rose period came after the blue period. It began after he moved from Spain to France. Who is Y? 7. The shape of the Matterhorn in the Swiss Alps is the inspiration behind a certain confectionery X. Though there have been claims by Ys sons that the shape of X originates from the shape that dancers at the Folies Bergeres (Paris) created as the finale of a show that Y saw. Picture of Matter can be found on the cover of X. Id X and Y. 8. Often used to depict philosophy, a sculpture X was carved by an artist Y in the year 1902. Originally cast in bronze and some marble, it is based on the theme of an epic poem The Divine Comedy, and hence earlier X was named as Z. What are Y and Z? 9. (*) Richard Wright wrote famous books such as Uncle Toms Children and The Outsider. In his autobiography, X, he explores his childhood and race relations in southern USA. X? 10. Which modern musical instrument, widely used in orchestral music, when devised, in 1709, as the very early and crude version, was called harpsichord with soft and loud? The Italian word meant quiet and loud, which referred to the variation in the volume that could be produced depending on the person playing the instrument. 11. Teaser, totalizators, roposition, parlays, head-to-head are all types of? http://nsit-qc.blogspot.com/

12. An X is a book, paragraph or similar text in which a particular letter or group of letters is avoided usually a common vowel, frequently e. It is achieved by replacing the original words with different words which do not contain the alphabets intended without changing the meaning of the sentence. X? 13. Logo of which organization?

Translation: Where no counsel is, the people fall. But in the multitude of counselors, there is safety 14. (*) This term refers to the period between the end of World War I and the Great Depression, characterized by a decline in traditional American values and soaring of the American stock market. What term? 15. What is being described here (X)? Around 10 A.M. begins the first event of X. A greased pole is climbed. Meanwhile, a group of people works in a frenzy of singing and dancing while being showered with hoses. Once someone is able to drop the ham off the pole, the starting signal is given. After exactly one hour, the fight ends with the firing of the second case. 16. X is a form of physical child abuse that occurs when an abuser violently shakes an infant or small child, creating a whiplash-type motion that causes acceleration-deceleration injuries. It is common for there to be no external evidence of trauma. X is often fatal and can cause severe brain damage, resulting in lifelong disability. What is X? 17. (*) The X is a wood wind instrument that has been in use since the last 1,500 years in Northern Australia. It ranges from 1-3m in length and is cylindrical or conical in shape. Termites hollow out the wood to make this instrument. In other tribal languages, it is also called the yirdaki, kumur, bambu, paampu. Name X. 18. X is a progressive American news website and content aggregating blog founded by Arianna X, Kenneth Lerer, and Jonah Peretti, featuring various news sources and columnists. X is ranked the most powerful blog in the world by The Observer. X's co-founder Arianna was named as number 12 in Forbes' first ever list of the Most Influential Women in Media in 2009. Name the website. 19. X is a US computer services company, best known for its web browser. X's web browser was once dominant in terms of usage share, but lost most of that share to Internet Explorer. By the end of 2006, the usage share of X's browsers had fallen, from over 90% in the mid 1990s, to less than 1%. X developed the Secure Sockets Layer Protocol (SSL) for securing online communication, as well as JavaScript. X? 20. (*) This disease (a fungus, Y) has hit the plantations of this fruit (X) in Southeast Asia, Indonesia and Australia. In another five to 20 years it is expected to hit the Latin American and African plantations. Name the fruit (X) and the disease (Y).

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