IAS QUIZ Series

	Boob Day in Spain is what day in Britain (practical jokes played)	April Fools Day 1st April
	What crime did Theresa Vaughn commit 62 times in 5 years	Bigamy - Tried 1922
	Who sailed in a ship called Queen Ann's Revenge	Blackbeard
	Saponification is the process that makes what common product	Soap
	Blue red green yellow four Olympic rings colour what's missing	Black
	Detective Philip Marlow smokes what brand	Camels
	Who landed on Timor Island after being cast adrift	Captain Bligh
	What is the more common name of the Chaparral Cock	The Road Runner
	In what language did St Paul write his epistles	Greek
	Ian Fleming's house was called Goldeneye - which country	Jamaica
	Alfred Schneider became famous as who	Lenny Bruce
	A C-Curity was the original name of what common object	Zip Fastener
	Fidelity Bravery Integrity is which organisations motto	FBI
	Who was the first black entertainer to win an Emmy award	Harry Bellefonte
	Anthony Daniels played who in a series of films	C-P3O
	Of what material was the hairspring made in early watches	Pigs Hair
	In 1860 Napoleon III banquet - serving dishes dearer gold - what	Aluminium
	Which author created Dick Tracy	Chester Gould
	What is the worlds most widely used vegetable	Onion
	What are lentigines	Freckles
	What type of animal is a vmi-vmi	Very small pig
	What did Mege-Mouries invent in 1870 winning a Napoleon prize	Margarine
	What was Walt Disney's middle name	Elias
	Who would you expect to find in Castle Gondolofo	The Pope
	What two items make up the dish devils on horseback	Bacon Prunes
	What does ludo mean (literally)	I Play
	The Detours changed to The High Numbers then what name	The Who
	What animal was believed to be a cross camel - leopard	Giraffe
	An elephant has 400000 what in its trunk	Muscles
	What colour is cerulean	Deep Blue
	Who composed the Air for the G string (init and name)	JS Bach
	What were Twinkletoes - Lucky Jim (stuffed cats) first to do	Fly across Atlantic Alcock Brown
	What are kreplach	Jewish ravioli
	The pica pica is what common bird	Magpie
	What male human feature was taxed in Elizabethan times	Beards
	Which record company rejected the Beatles as being past it	Decca
	From which country does spinach originate	Iran
	British policemen have truncheons what is USA equivalent	Nightstick
	In DC comics Linda Lee Danvers is whose alter ego	Supergirl
	In what country does the cow tree grow - sap looks tastes  milk	Venezuela
	The penny black - worlds first stamp  -  what was second	Two penny Blue
	Which country produces Tokay	Hungary
	Where could you legally flash your dong  - then spend it	Vietnam currency
	The Bald Eagle is Americas bird  -  What is Britain's	Robin
	Australian Clement Wragge instituted what	Naming Hurricanes
	What does Zip stand for in the American Zip Code	Zone Improvement Plan
	What wood is plywood mostly made from	Birch
	What is a Hummum	Turkish bath
	In which sport are left handed people banned from playing	Polo
	What food was invented in a sanatorium in 1890	Kellogg corn flakes

IAS QUIZ

	Who sold the most albums on a single day	Elvis 20 million day after death
	What was the last item shown on British TV before WW2	Mickey Mouse
	What countries people had the longest life expectation	Iceland
	Who said "I like Beethoven especially the poems"	Ringo Starr
	What does the entire economy of the island of Nauru depend on	Bird shit  -  Guano fertiliser
	John Glen first USA to orbit earth was in which service	US Marine Corps
	Oedipus was named after what - literal translation	Swollen feet
	What fish can hold objects in its tail	Sea Horse
	Who is the most filmed comic strip character	Zorro
	Whose version of A View to a Kill reached 1 in USA 2 in UK	Duran Duran
	Which country grows the most potatoes	Russia
	What does a drosomoter measure	Dew
	Which English Kings armour has the biggest codpiece	Henry  8
	Which country was the first to abolish capitol punishment 1826	Russia Czar Nicholas -  Siberia instead
	In law what is a co-parcener	Joint Heir
	Which pop group had a hit with Silence is Golden	Tremaloes
	Greek mathematician cylinder enclosed sphere carved on grave	Archimedes
	What does a psephologist study	Voting - Elections
	Where would you  find line of Mars - Girdle of Venus	Palm - lines in Palmistry
	British call this bird species tits - what do Americans call them	Chickadees
	Which country owns the Hen and Chicken islands	North island New Zealand
	Who created the TV series - The man from UNCLE	Ian Fleming
	Which film director described actors as cattle	Alfred Hitchcock
	Shirley Bassey sang three Bond themes - which 3 films	Goldfinger, Diamonds are Forever, Moonraker
	Barring rain - in which athletics event would you get wet	Steeplechase
	What colour is the flesh of the Charentais melon	Orange
	Who appeared on the first US postage stamps (both names)	Washington - Franklin
	Who  was the first person elected to US swimming hall fame	Johnny Weismuller
	The guillotine was invented for chopping off what	Hands
	Which country invented the bedsprings	Greeks
	Whets the difference between fog and mist	Seeing Distance under 1000yd
	What did Spanish scientists fit to cows to increase milk yield	False Teeth
	What people founded cheese making in England	Romans
	What is the first name of Mr Toad - in Toad of Toad Hall	Thaddeus
	Atephobia is a fear of what	Imperfection
	What are Grapnel, Bruce, Danforth, Plough types of?	Anchor
	Why did Handel compose The Messiah	For Cash
	Red flags flown by French ships - Joli Rouge origin of what name	Jolly Rodger
	in which country could you spend a Kwanza	Angola
	John Henry Deutchendorf famous as who (both names)	John Denver
	Mitre Dovetail Jig and Hack are types of what	Saw
	Tracey and Hepburn first film in 1942 was what	Woman of the Year
	Antimacassars were fitted to chairs - what is macasser	Hair oil
	Jack Ketch 1663 1686 had what job	Hangman
	Nekal was the first type of what product (Germany 1917)	Detergent
	Who was the first Grand Prix driver to used a safety belt in 1967	Jackie Stuart
	The SF award the Hugo is named after Hugo who?	Gernsbeck
	Maurice Micklewhite became famous as who	Michael Caine
	What do Ombrophobes fear	Rain
	If you had a Brassica Rapa what vegetable would you have	Turnip

SYLLABUS FOR UNION PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION MAIN EXAMINATION ENGLISH

SYLLABUS FOR UNION PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION MAIN EXAMINATION

ENGLISH

The syllabus consists of two papers, designed to test a first-hand and critical reading of texts prescribed from the following periods in English Literature : Paper I : 1600-1900 and Paper II : 1900- 1990. There will be two compulsory questions in each paper : a) A short-notes question related to the topics for general study, and b) A critical analysis of UNSEEN passages both in prose and verse.

Paper-I

Answers must be written in English. Texts for detailed study are listed below. Candidates will also be required to show adequate knowledge of the following topics and movements :

The Renaissance : Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama; Metaphysical Poetry; The Epic and the Mock-epic; Neo-classicism; Satire; The Romantic Movement; The Rise of the Novel; The Victorian Age.

Section-A

1. William Shakespeare : King Lear and The Tempest.

2. John Donne. The following poems :

- Canonization;

- Death be not proud;

- The Good Morrow;

- On his Mistress going to bed;

- The Relic;

3. John Milton : Paradise Lost, I, II, IV, IX

4. Alexander Pope. The Rape of the Lock.

5. William Wordsworth. The following poems:

- Ode on Intimations of Immortality.

- Tintern Abbey.

- Three years she grew.

- She dwelt among untrodden ways.

- Michael.

- Resolution and Independence.

- The World is too much with us.

- Milton, thou shouldst be living at this hour.

- Upon Westminster Bridge.

6. Alfred Tennyson : In Memoriam.

7. Henrik Ibsen : A Doll’s House.

Section-B

1. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver’s Travels.

2. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.

3. Henry Fielding. Tom Jones.

4. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.

5. George Eliot. The Mill on the Floss.

6. Thomas Hardy. Tess of the d’Urbervilles.

7. Mark Twain. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

Paper-II

Answers must be written in English. Texts for detailed study are listed below. Candidates will also be required to show adequate knowledge of the following topics and movements :

Modernism; Poets of the Thirties; The stream-of-consciousness Novel; Absurd Drama; Colonialism and Post- Colonialism; Indian Writing in English; Marxist, Psychoanalytical and Feminist approaches to literature; Post- Modernism.

Section-A

1. William Butler Yeats. The following poems: - Easter 1916

- The Second Coming

- A Prayer for my daughter.

- Sailing to Byzantium.

- The Tower.

- Among School Children.

- Leda and the Swan.

- Meru

- Lapis Lazuli

- The Second Coming

- Byzantium.

2. T.S. Eliot. The following poems :

- The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock

- Journey of the Magi.

- Burnt Norton.

3. W.H. Auden. The following poems :

- Partition

- Musee des Beaux Arts

- in Memory of W.B. Yeats

- Lay your sleeping head, my love

- The Unknown Citizen

- Consider

- Mundus Et Infans

- The Shield of Achilles

- September 1, 1939

- Petition.

4. John Osborne : Look Back in Anger.

5. Samuel Beckett. Waiting for Godot.

6. Philip Larkin. The following poems :

- Next

- Please

- Deceptions

- Afternoons

- Days

- Mr. Bleaney

7. A.K. Ramanujan. The following poems :

- Looking for a Causim on a Swing

- A River

- Of Mothers, among other Things

- Love Poem for a Wife 1

- Small-Scale Reflections on a Great House

- Obituary (All these poems are available in the anthology Ten Twentieth Century Indian

Poets, edited by R. Parthasarthy, published by Oxford University Press, New Delhi).

Section-B

1. Joseph Conrad. Lord Jim

2. James Joyce. Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.

3. D.H. Lawrence. Sons and Lovers.

4. E.M. Forster. A Passage to India.

5. Virginia Woolf. Mrs Dalloway.

6. Raja Rao. Kanthapura.

7. V.S. Naipal. A House for Mr. Biswas.