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Saturday 21: The Open Quiz Set

Hello readers, as Tata Crucible Corporate has been announced, I am guessing you might be looking for the questions from Pickbrain?? I get it. Tatas and me have a long history and I would like to bring forward some of the typical Pickbrain and Crucible questions for you to enjoy.



Q.1. ____alpine Gaul and ____alpine Gaul are two Roman Provinces that
were named so because they were on this, or that side of the Alps. 

Now the Latin prefixes attached to alpine mean ‘on the same side’ and ‘on the
other side’ respectively.

We have encountered these prefixes in the past but never knew their origin.


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Q.2. This painter and his drawing is described by Encyclopedia Britannica as,

“He envisaged the great picture chart of the human body he had produced
through his anatomical drawings. He believed the workings of the human body to
be an analogy for the workings of the universe.

Its inscription in a square and a circle comes from a description by an
ancient Roman architect in his treatise De architectura.

Which famous Drawing is this?


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Q.3. According to Hinduism, the lake was first created in the mind of the Lord
Brahma after which it manifested on Earth. In Hinduism, this Lake  is a
personification of purity, and one who drinks water from the lake will go to
the abode of Shiva after death. He or she is believed to be cleansed of all
their sins committed over even a hundred lifetimes.

It is an amalgamation of two Sanskrit words, X and Y where X means Mind,
Intellect and Y mean a huge pond.


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Q.4. Aku Ankka is a Finnish weekly Disney comic book. Once there was a myth
that this comic was banned in Finland because one of its characters didn’t
were pants. This myth was sparked by an incident in 1977, when Helsinki
councilman Markku Holopainen proposed discontinuing the use of city funds to
subscribe to Aku Ankka comics for youth centres, due to the city’s financial
difficulties.

Name the Character we are talking about


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If you didn’t get that, Donald Duck is laughing at you.

Q.5. X is both a philosophy and a practice with aanaim of achieving ultimate
wisdom as well as immortality, involving the improvement of the X-ist as well
as the making of several substances described as possessing unusual
properties. The practical aspect of X generated the basics of modern inorganic
chemistry, namely concerning procedures, equipment and the identification and
use of many current substances. X please.

I guess Isaac Newton is the biggest hint for you in this question.


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