Prelims:Hostel-3 & 5

After successfully conducting the quiz in hostel-7 we moved on to other hostels the next day.This time we divided the task and prelims were held at two hostels simultaneously.

Questions of the prelims :
1. Fidel Castro recently quit the presidency of this country owing to health problems. Which country?
Ans: Cuba

2. Who is Hillary Clinton's main opponent in the US presidential election's primaries?
Ans: Barack Obama

3. Which cricketer has the record for being the fastest to score 9000 test runs?
Ans: Rahul Dravid

4. Which famous multiplayer game has been developed by sierra studios?
Ans: Counter Strike:Condition Zero

5. Name the award given to coaches who have excelled in their respective fields.
Ans: Dronachrya Award

6. Name the highest run getter in tests?
Ans: Brian Lara (Presently Sachin Tendulkar holds the record bur the prelims were in march 2008 at that time Lara was the highest run getter in tests )

7. Which sports company's logo is called 'swoosh '?
Ans: Nike

8. Which company owns the 'Pizza Hut', 'KFC' &'Taco Bell' chain of restaurants ?
Ans: Pepsi Co.

9. Name the writer of 'Robinson Crusoe'.
Ans: Daniel Defoe

10. Name the current Indian vice-president.
Ans: Md. Hameed Ansari

11. Which country shares its' National Day on 15 august with India?
Ans: South korea

12. Who composed the national song of India?
Ans: Bankim Chandra Chatterjee(The national song 'Vande mataram has been adopted from his book 'Anand Math')

13. How many Indo-Pak wars have been fought over the kashmir issue?
Ans: Three

14. Name the co-founders of Microsoft.
Ans: Paul Allen

15. Who was the director of the bollywood blockbuster "Mughal-e- Azam"?
Ans: K. Asif

16. Which element is common to all the acids?
Ans: Hydrogen

17. Name the blind poet who wrote the epics 'The Iliad' and 'The Odyssey'. (film ‘Troy’ is based on the two works)?
Ans: Greek poet Homer

18. Name the CEO of the Citicorp.
Ans: Vikram Pandit

19. In which year was the 1st train in India started, it was from Bombay to Thane?
Ans: 1853

20.Name the captain of Pakistan cricket team that won the world cup’92?
Ans: Imran Khan

21.Who is the mascot of the Indian Railways?
Ans: Bholu,the guard

22.Which company's tagline is "The best a man can get"?
Ans: Gillette

23.Name the company that bought the Delhi IPL team .
Ans: GMR

24.What does PETA stand for?
Ans: People for Ethical Treatment of Animals

25.At what temperature the celsius and fahrenheit gives the same reading.
Ans: -40

Prelims at both hostels were successfully conducted.Our journey was going great.
Hope you all liked the questions and our ideas.

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