Prelims for tms 13 auto quiz answers

PRELIMS ANSWERS

• 1)On July 2, 1909, Babu Okhil Chandra Sen lodged

a complaint to the then Transportation Superintendent, Sahibganj. After this, the railway authorities introduced ‘this facility’ in all lower class carriages in trains running more than 50 miles. The rule is that the trains running more than 150 km have to provide this facility in all compartments.

What facility am I speaking about?

• TOILET

2)*LOGO progression of???

3)

If Fred Noonan was one among the two casualties who was the other ?

• AMELIA EARHART

4)

What was announced by Mamata Bannerjee the then railway minister in railway budget 2011-12 to commemorate the 150th birth anniversary of X to be held in 2013

5)

Which airlines giant offered a limited period sale of 10 lakh seats across its domestic network in India for an all-inclusive fare of just Rs 2,013 in january this year

• Spicejet

6)

• The name of which two wheeler, launched by Suzuki in India and has Salman Khan as the brand ambassador, means "breeze" in Japanese

7)

• This place in gujarat is famous for the tata nano plant which was shifted from singur after state wide protests

• Later narendra modi confirmed himself as the man behind development of gujarat with the introduction of another automobile giant in the same place thus claiming it as another detroit

• Place and the autogiant?

• Sanand • ford

8)*WHAT IS BLANKED OUT?

Pelican crossing system

A Pelican crossing is a type of pedestrian crossing featuring a pair of poles each with a standard set of traffic lights facing oncoming traffic, a push button and two illuminated, coloured pictograms facing the pedestrian from across the road - a red, stationary person to indicate that it is not safe to cross, and a green, walking person to indicate that it is safe to do so.

9)

• Established as Winklhofer & Jaenicke in 1896 by Johann Baptist Winklhofer und Richard Adolf Jaenicke, the company used the X brand name from 1911, making civilian automobiles until 1941 and military vehicles until 1945.

• During gr8 depression the company formed part of Y with horch , audi and DKW

• Wanderer• Auto union

10)

• Id the concept car unveiled at 2013 singapore grand prix

• Caterham aeroseven concept car

11)Put funda

Your answer should have two names , occasion and what is happening here?

Sebastian vettel overtaking mark webber defying his team orders at malaysian grand prix 2013

12)*

• The name of this class of vehicles is derived from the name of the French region, because the covered compartment of this vehicle physically resembled the raised hood of the cloak worn by the shepherds there

• LIMOUSINE

13)

• In 1938, Citroën introduced the Traction Avant Commerciale initially with a two-piece tailgate, of which the upper piece hinged upwards, cutting well into the roof, and after 1954 with a one-piece top-hinged tailgate.

Under what names is such configurationknown ?

• hatchback

14)

• Bombay High Court recently restrained John Abraham's production House from using which popular tagline as the title of his next movie?

15)put funda

• HALDIA - ALLAHABAD• SADIYA - BANGLADESH BORDER• KOLLAM - KOTTAPURAM• PONDICHERRY - BHADRACHALAM• TALCHER - GOENKALI• LAKHIPUR - BANGA

NATIONAL WATERWAYS

16)

• Identify the logo

17)*

• Very recently a black on black 1993 honda nsx was put up for sale on e-bay . The seller claims that its no . T000999 , which is still in Portugal, for 17 years, and the 31,000-mile odometer indicates it was driven about 1,500 miles per year on average .

• WHY DID THE ENTIRE PIECE OF INFO HIT THE HEADLINES?

• That acura nsx was once owned by Ayrton Senna.

18)

• Which famous personality owned this car?

Note that the vehicle has no number plate,He was pointing some loop holes in the law

19)Id the video game?

20)• What are these called?

• carhenge

21)

• Id the airlines from its tail .

22)

• What was originally made by Vishwakarma for Brahma the Hindu god of creation; later Brahma gifted it to Kubera, the God of wealth, but it was later stolen, along with Lanka, by his half-brother, the demon king Ravana.

• Pushpakavimana

23)*

• The undershown image is of andaman based ‘jalhans’ ,the 1st ever of its kind in india . Which is the 2nd in the list ?

24)

• We have been seeing Mark William Calaway born on march 24 , 1965 almost every week since 1993 along with his Harley Davidsons and occasionally with his Titans

• Who is Mark William Calaway?

25)

The origin of this phrase is unknown.• One of the theories are: that most trucks in India are

manufactured by TATA. In India, when wishing someone goodbye, one commonly says, "OK TATA!", where TATA means goodbye. Since most trucks had the TATA logo on them, truck owners often painted the words ______ above it.

• Another theory says that the term bears its roots in the second world war where the trucks were run on kerosene engines. Kerosene, being highly unstable in nature, would cause the trucks to explode at the slightest accident. Hence a warning would be painted on the back saying “______,On Kerosene“.

• Which phrase?