Horizon Prelims

QuizmasterSiddharth Shankar Bebarta

1. Identify this Legendary sports person

2. Connect

Shakespeare’s Titania, Oberon, Puck, Miranda, Caliban, Sycorax, Prospero, Setebos, Stephano, Trinculo, Francisco, Ferdinand, Cordelia, Ophelia, Bianca, Cressida, Desdemona, Juliet, Mab, Portia, Rosalind, Margaret, Perdita, Cupid

Alexander Pope’sAriel, Umbriel, Belinda

3.One version of this series of paintings by paul cezzane was sold in 2011 for a price variously estimated at between $250 million and $300 million, making it the most expensive work of art ever sold.Name the painting(the series).

4.Who is the only Indian National to be conferred with Nishan-E-Pakistan

5.Which was the last Movie that Hrishikesh Mukherjee directed?

6.What is X’s Y• X’s Y is a franchise, founded by Robert ‘X’, which

deals in bizarre events and items so strange and unusual that readers might question the claims.

• The ‘Y’ panel proved popular and was later adapted into a wide variety of formats, including radio, television, comic books, a chain of museums and a book series.

• The ‘X’ collection includes 20,000 photographs, 30,000 artifacts and more than 100,000 cartoon panels. With 80-plus attractions, the Orlando-based ‘X’ Entertainment, Inc., a division of the Jim Pattison Group, is a global company with an annual attendance of more than 12 million guests.

7. Logo of which company

8.This Instrument was invented in 1921 by John Augustus Larson, a medical student at the University of California at Berkeley and a police officer of the Berkeley Police Department in Berkeley, CaliforniaIt measures and records several physiological indices such as blood pressure, pulse, respiration, and skin conductivity while the subject is asked and answers a series of questions.What Instrument?

9. Poster of which movie

10.Who won the Gold in 66kg men’s freestyle wrestling , in the recently concluded London Olympics, 2012?

11.Ricin is a highly toxic chemical/biological warfare agent. It is a naturally occurring protein. A dose as small as a few grains of salt can kill an adult human.What is the source of Ricin?

12. Connect

13. Earliest pictures of which famous performing arts hall

14. Ad of which product

15. First of what?

16.Connect

17.• He was a Berber Muslim Moroccan explorer, known for

his extensive travels, accounts of which were published in the Rihla (lit. "Journey").

• Over a period of thirty years, he visited most of the known Islamic world as well as many non-Muslim lands; his journeys including trips to North Africa, the Horn of Africa, West Africa, Southern Europe and Eastern Europe in the West, and to the Middle East, South Asia, Central Asia, Southeast Asia and China in the East, a distance surpassing threefold his near-contemporary Marco Polo.

• He is considered one of the greatest travellers of all time. He journeyed more than 75,000 miles (121,000 km), a figure unsurpassed by any individual explorer until the coming of the Steam Age some 450 years later.

Who is HE?

18. Who said it and when?

*Be specific about the date

19. Give Me X & Y• X is a syndicated daily and Sunday American

comic strip written and illustrated by Y, which ran from October 2, 1950, to February 13, 2000, continuing in reruns afterward. The strip is the most popular and influential in the history of the comic strip, with 17,897 strips published in all

• X has been described as "the most shining example of the American success story in the comic strip field"; this is ironic, given its theme is "the great American unsuccess story." The main character is meek, nervous and lacks self-confidence. He is unable to fly a kite, win a baseball game or kick a football.