Here are the Prelims Questions from the Cradle Sports Quiz (Both School and Open), held on January 16, 2009 at Sirifort Auditorium.
Find out the answers yourself… And add them as comments 🙂
Cradle Sports Inter-School Quiz Prelims
Quizmaster: Parnab Mukherjee
Held on 16th January 2009
Venue: Sirifort Auditorium
School Quiz Prelims
1. Who played the lead in Christopher Nolan’s brilliant noir thriller Memento – which served as an inspiration for the Tamil and Hindi Ghajini?
2. His foray in the field of animation is eagerly awaited. A legend of Indian cinema, his real name is Shivaji Rao Gaekwad. Who?
3. Which personality has been recently declared as FIFA Women’s Player of the Year?
4. Which recent Bollywood release features Akshay Kumar, Dimple Kapadia, Gulshan Grover, Rajpal Yadav and Lara Dutta?
5. Which Hollywood star is popularly called “Muscles from Brussels”?
6. According to Mahabharata who is the mother of Pandu?
7. Ljublana is the capital city of which nation?
8. If a person is said to have ‘Arachnophobia’, then what fear he is suffering from?
9. The relocated Tata Nano Plant has a central plant near Ahmedabad and an auxiliary plant in which state and which particular place?
10. Who is the current Chief Minister of Arunachal Pradesh?
11. In which town in India did Sant Kabir pass away?
12. Which floating island-lake in north-east is a home for the Sangai species?
13. Where in the world would you be in if you are shopping in Thamel?
14. What connects Joey Zawinul, Chile and Amitav Ghosh essay in the book “Dancing in Cambodia”?
15. He stays in Hyderabad, won the world championship and national championship within the last month. Who is he?
16. In which city did Bahadur Shah Zafar breathed his last?
17. Which well-known director’s animation debut is Hanuman Returns?
18. Which international retired sports celebrity manages Rafael Nadal’s career on behalf of IMG?
19. Proton Accelerator is also known as what in the field of science?
20. Peter Kenyon is the Managing Director of which international company?
21. Potti Sriramulu’s fast unto death and his passing away resulted in the creation of which state in India?
22. Who is considered as the religious head of the Ismaili sect of Islam?
23. Robert Polet, the Chief Executive of which international giant remarked in a Fortune Asia interview: “We are not in the business of selling handbags. We are in the business of selling dreams”?
24. Which political party was formed by B.R. Ambedkar?
25. Who is the current president of Palestine?
26. Which legendary cricketer was recently removed as the COO of the Bangalore Royal Challengers team?
27. Fiesty forward of West Ham, he began a foundation for the disadvantaged children at Freetown in Sierra Leone. Can you name the EPL star?
Open Quiz Prelims
1. What connects the Amitabh Bachchan film Aalap, Satyajit Ray’s Goopy Gayen Bagha Bayen and the great dance innovator Chandralekha?
2. In 1650, a pathway was created by Jahanara Begum connecting the Lahore Gate of a well-known monument with the Fatehpuri mosque. How is it known to us now?
3. In 1947, KM Munshi was appointed to a post in Hyderabad by the state of India. What was this post?
4. Which Scandinavian God’s name explains the origin of the nomenclature of nuclear reactor fuel?
5. Once known as a Mahapadma, it is India’s largest fresh water lake. Can you name the lake?
6. Youngest Son: Bilas Khan. Daughter’s Name: Saraswati. Son-in-law: Mishri Singh. His initial surname: Mishra. Can you name the Indian legend?
7. An architect of an early success in the field of Indian sports. His incomplete full name is Chandrakant Gulabrao. How do we know him better?
8. One of Sachin Tendulkar’s significant world records includes a century in Johannesburg in 1992 that replaced a long-standing record of a cricketing legend. I want to know the nickname of the legend whose record was broken?
9. If a tendon connects the muscle to a bone, then what connects a bone to a muscle?
10. Who is the current Chief Minister of Meghalaya?
11. Which Indian city is called “Venice of the East”?
12. Dense, Super-dense, Hyper-dense crush load are three classifications of what in India?
13. Where in the world would you be in if you are shopping at the Ima market?
14. If you translate the name – it would be called Fruit of India. The name in Arabic is how we know it as. What is the name I am referring to?
15. He stays in Hyderabad, won the world championship and national championship within the last month. Who is he?
16. Which former India opener is the Director of Operations of the Chennai Super Kings?
17. Brahmaputra different trajectories take independent names as it flows along. Two of the names are Tsang Po and Siong. Name the other two.
18. If CNN-IBN is “Whatever It Takes”, then which international brand would be “All it takes”?
19. India’s first mobile telephone call was made to Sukh Ram – the then Telecom minister on August 23, 1995. Who made the call?
20. In 1988, the Goa Postal division opened a landmark post office whose name begins with the word Dakshin. Where was the post office and what was it called?
21. Potti Sriramulu’s fast unto death and his passing away resulted in the creation of which state in India?
22. In the field of psychology, a recent trend has been to de-mystify the medical advances of the illness called BPD. How do we know BPD better as?
23. With which 1985 Dev Anand film did Tabu make her debut in Bollywood?
24. The Central Police Forces or CPFS comprises of the following companies: Central Industrial Security Force, National Security Guard, Indo-Tibetan Border Police, Central Reserve Police Force, Assam Rifles and SSB. What does SSB stand for?
25. Khalid Hosseini’s latest book A Thousand Splendid Suns takes its title from the lines of a 17th century Persian legend who wrote: “One could not count the moons that shimmer on her roofs, /Or the thousand splendid suns that hide behind her walls.” Can you name the poet?
26. His real name is Paul David Hewson. He was briefly christened as The Mother Teresa of Abandoned Songs. How do we know him better?
27. Directed by Govind Nihalani, this Hindi film features animation and stars Kitu Gidwani, Joy Sengupta, Aly Khan and is based on a play by Manjula Padmanbhan. Can you name the film?
Please note that – Some of the questions were current affairs when the quiz was held!
Signing off,
Prateek
10 responses to “Cradle Sports Quiz Prelims – 16 January 2009”
Chirag Jain
March 17th, 2009 at 08:31
Hey Thanks for the prelims!
Have you by chance written down the semi final and final quiz questions also?
Prateek Vijayavargia
March 18th, 2009 at 18:51
@ Chirag – Welcome. I had noted some of the Semis and Finals questions, but they are in my notes. But there is a very slim chance that I will be uploading them. In quizzes by Parnab Mukherjee, questions are not flash on the screen and he asks from memory, so its difficult to keep track and also he gives many clues and hints with questions. His quizzes are full of “live on-stage action” 🙂
Chirag Jain
March 19th, 2009 at 07:13
Ya thats true — but what ever you remember do put it up on the blog!
susmita
April 24th, 2009 at 20:36
WHAT ARE THE ANSWERS????????????????????????????
Mortgage Guy
May 29th, 2009 at 13:33
I would also like to know the answers. Please post the answers too.
Aman
July 17th, 2009 at 22:54
. His foray in the field of animation is eagerly awaited. A legend of Indian cinema, his real name is Shivaji Rao Gaekwad. Who? Rajnikant
4. Which recent Bollywood release features Akshay Kumar, Dimple Kapadia, Gulshan Grover, Rajpal Yadav and Lara Dutta ? That baby elephant animation one – JUMBO
16. In which city did Bahadur Shah Zafar breathed his last?
Rangoon
21. Potti Sriramulu’s fast unto death and his passing away resulted in the creation of which state in India? Andhra pradesh – the quiz seems difficult…..Did u reach the Open Quiz
new era is a good team
August 15th, 2009 at 11:53
i cannot believe parnab mukherjee gave such easy questions.please tell me about the connections the craig belemy question was an easy.when is HIQ and please tell me aboutayatolllah al khameini
मुकुन्द
September 18th, 2009 at 18:59
Answers to Open Quiz prelims…..
2. chandni chowk
3.diplomatic envoy and trade agent to the princely state of Hyderabad,
12.That’s the official term to describe what happens during rush hour in Mumbai when 14 to 16 standing passengers pack into one square meter of floor space on.
14.tamarind
23.ham naujawan
24.Special Services Bereau
26.Bono
27.Deham
Mukund
25.Saib-e-Tabrizi
Aman
November 6th, 2009 at 10:14
Heyy Prateek , please give the answers now to both School Quiz as well as Open Quiz .
ISHAN VERMA
September 10th, 2010 at 11:51
I would also like to know the answers. Please post the answers