QLS

2. Preliminary Round
Total 30 Questions
 Star Questions are 1, 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30
Keep your phone aside
Pleasedon’tshout inany situation

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In the 1970s when, "convinced that it
would never get made", this one of
the most important and influential
master of 20th century spent his time
painting these pictures of every little
details, untill in 1980 his dream
became fulfilled, and it became one
of X's masterpiece.
(Visuals follow)

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This temple
in Khandsa village of in
Haryana dedicated to a pupil
who offered something to his
master in this very place,his
offering was buried here and
a samadhi built at the current
location of the temple.It is
highly revered by the Bhil
people who visit it in large
numbers
from Rajasthan,Madhya

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Darpa Narayan Chowdhury
Sir Donald Ramsey
Pablo Patranabis
Koel Dhar
Yudhajit Sarkar
Khaja Khan
Which actress from the 1940s is
missing from this inexhaustive

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She sang two Tagore songs for the
film, from which we will play "Aaji
Bijan Ghore" that gave her
the national award for Best Female
Playback Singer for "her husky and
haunting voice that brings a gentle,
nostalgic tone to the film."
So, just identify the singer.

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Hank Mann, a comedian of
repute, was also the last
surviving member of the
Keystone Cops. For his
contribution to the motion
picture industry, he has a star
on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
His most regarded movie role
was that of a no-nonsense
fighter who knocks the
protagonist out despite the his

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If they were nominated for a specific filmfare award in
1977 and 1978, then tell me who received those
awards for these two films? (part marking available)

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Ugandan Red Colobus is an endangered
species of red colobus monkey, which is found
across Uganda and Tanzania & Kibale National
Park (a moist evergreen tropical forest) is the
largest among them.
Apart from the crowned eagle, they have a main
predator. There are many species of monkey in
Kibale but that predator rarely hunt any species
other than the Ugandan one. Each year up to 12%
of the red colobus population is killed by
them.They have killed and eaten so many red
colobus,that the population has fallen by 89%
and they are having to find new prey.
Which tree dweller predators am I talking about
who can be very aggressive ?

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Identify the London-born
lady (1919-2009)
celebrated for
her classical beauty, and
holds the Guiness world
record for world’s largest
landslide victory in an
election, came alive on
the big screen as Ileana
De Cruz played this

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This species
of antelope native to South
Africa, Zimbabwe,Lesotho,
and Swaziland.
The Dutch spelling of the
species lends its name to a
British sportswear
manufacturing company,
originally named 'J.W Foster
and sons' when it was found
in 1895. Then in 1958, two of
the founder's grandsons, Joe
and Jeff Foster, renamed the

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This American company, the largest
manufacturer and pioneer of ____, was
invented by this American industrialist in 1852.
They have installed their equipments in some
of the world's most famous structures,
including the Eiffel Tower, Empire State
Building, World Trade Center, Burj Khalifa etc.
In 1892, they installed their first equipment in
India at here (The land belonged to Mohammad
Reza Khan, a Nawab of Chitpur)
(Visuals follow)

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The upcoming video is taken
from a 3D movie of Doraemon.
The animator made a parody
here by copying an iconic
work by a Norwegian painter
(part marking available) [video
follows]

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The earliest attempt to
scientifically explain the causes
of this natural phenomena was
by the Italian
physicist Alessandro Volta in
1776 when he
discovered methane.
He proposes that natural
electrical phenomena
(like lightning) interacting with
marsh gas may be the cause. It
is generally accepted that most

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This full-length bronze
statue of a matador
saluting someone
which stands
outside Las
Ventas bullring in
Madrid as bullfighters
collected money to
erect a monument in
1964 to pay their
gratitude to a nobel
laureate as their lives

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Sir Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya,
served Diwan of Mysore from 1912
to 1918 received Bharat Ratna, in
1955.He was responsible for the
construction of the Krishna Raja
Sagara dam in Mandya district.
How some scholars and students
from a certain field across India
gave him recognition every year ?
(give your answer by filling these
blanks in 9:3 letters order

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The upcoming song is sung and
composed by the American rapper
RZA from a 2003 hollywood movie.
The song is dedicated to the
protagonist's"first target" (Listen to
song carefully)
[Lyrics and the song follows]

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Half Chinese,Half Japane-see, Half American and yo/Oh what a
specie, a feminine perfection/She got the sinister cat eyes and
little freckles on her complexion/Chief of Yakuza, but she's
wicked like Medusa/And she got Crazy 88 killers that'll slice right
through ya/Quick to chop a head off then wipe the blood off/A
long range sniper shot she bust, never let a dud off/You got a
minute to pray and a second to die/You can see the image of the
devil reflectin' inside her eye/But since she was a little girl, yo,
she never would cry/She seen so much tragedy, let me explain
to you why/She grew up on the military base, where she had to
face/The brutality of her mother and her father being erased/The
blood drops from her tear drops, on her face you see the smear
spots/She silently watched, as the shogun sliced through her
dear pops/Through his thick skull, now she's vicious like a
pitbull/And when it comes to hatred, and revenge she got a shit

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Ram Vanji Suthar is the recipient
of Padma Bhushan and Padma
Shri for his contribution in the
field of arts.
The project for which he is
famous for was first announced
in 2010 and the construction
started in October 2013 by the
Indian infrastructure company -
Larsen & Toubro. It is actually a
much larger version of another
similar project installed

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One of the
most
essential item
in any
Bengali
Kitchen from
the most
trusted brand.
A fairy queen

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During 1st world war this 16-year-old
genius was denied enlistment
because of his age. But he was
determined to serve his
country.When a friend learned that
the Red Cross Ambulance Corps
would accept volunteers as young as
17, he used his artistic skills to alter
the birth date on his passport
application from “1901” to
“1900”.While overseas, he
decorated vehicles with illustrations
& drawings, illustrated posters for
the Red Cross, and drew war-related

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The following poem is taken from
a 2010 album whose name
translated as "Sensitivity".
Just identify the versatile poet.
(audio and lyrics follows)

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The giant pediment at the centre is crowned
with the statue of Minerva. The terrace also
contains several other statues and notable
among them are four clusters of statues,
christened 'Justice', 'Commerce', 'Science'
and 'Agriculture', with the Greek gods and
goddesses of these four streams -
Zeus, Hermes, Athena and Demeter respectiv
ely.
Name the architectural astonishment which

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In the coat of arms of Zambia
----
African fish eagle represents
the conquest of freedom and
nation's hope for the future
The pick and hoe represent
the country's economic
backbone: agriculture and
mining
Then....
What (locally known as Mosi-
oa-Tunya translated as "The
Smoke That Thunders") does

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Australian journalist Hamish McDonald wrote
a biographical book on his life The Polyester
Prince: The Rise of _________ ______ in
1998.
Name this posthumous Padma Vibhushan
awardee on whose death in 2002 the poet
from the question no.19 said that - "The
country has lost iconic proof of what an
ordinary Indian fired by the spirit of

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The following song from Chandrabindu is
an iconic tookli as Chandril said in a live
performance that they have used a great
music composer's original music to create
this bengali song.
Just identify the original music composer
of the song on whose honor the third
largest crater on Mercury is named.
(audio follows)

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Sukhamay Roy , grandson of Nuku Dhar, inherited
his maternal grandfather’s wealth. When the
British wanted to bestow on Nuku Dhar the title,
he requested them to honour his grandson with
the title. The request was acceded to and
Sukhamay Roy, thus became the founder of the
this Raj family who had once constructed the
road from Cuttack to Puri, in order that pilgrims
could travel easily to the Jagannath temple.
Sukumar Ray mentioned this neighbourhood / Raj
family in one of his poems from Aboltabol.
(visual follows)

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This trophy was named after this
"first"international celebrity
because the last possible game of
the inaugural Kontinental Hockey
League season would take place on
April 12, 2008, the anniversary date
of his seminal "event" (12th April,
1961 )

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About logo = The First Emblem came into existence in
1896. It represented two birds holding serpents in their
beaks and carrying a Crown on their shoulders.In
1961, the old emblem was changed and a new design
was adopted.
About the bird = Once found widely across
southern Asia, is now restricted in only two small
breeding populations; one in Assam with the largest
colony and the other in Cambodia. Considered to be
unclean birds, sometimes hunted for the use of their
meat in folk medicine it is evaluated as Endangered on
the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.

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There are more than
thousand of its kind
whose leader happily
had done three precious
things for two young
villagers whose
contribution to the
bengali pop culture is
tremendous.
Give your answer as

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This following advertisement by
Tata Gluco Plus begins
melodiously with the slightly
modified version of a nostalgic
tune, originally composed by the
Carnatic musician L.
Vaidyanathan.
Which nostalgic tune you will be

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_____ ______aravinda Bhaktivedanta
Swami Prabhupada "emerged as a major
figure of the Western counterculture,
initiating thousands of young Americans."
His translation of the Bhagavad-Gītā As It
Is is considered by many Vedic scholars
as one of the finest translated literary
works of Vaishnavism.
FITB & he was the founder preceptor of
which religious organisation (1966) whose
headquarters situated in a holy city at the
point of its confluence with the Jalangi
perhaps the "most approprite question" in QLS vol -
2.0

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Known as Derbyshire Spar, this semi-precious
mineral is purple-blue or yellowish in colour,
was mined for its ornamental value during 19th
century.
The most common explanation for the name is
that it derives from the French word meaning
'blue-yellow'.
This mineral is immortalized through a short

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