adrishtha - ifest india quiz 2016 - finals

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1• Designed and established by Princess Jahanara Begum,

daughter of Shah Jahan, in 1650 CE. Originally containing 1,560 shops, the bazaar was 40 yards wide by 1,520 yards long. The bazaar was shaped as a square, and given elegance by the presence of a pool in the centre of the complex. The pool shimmered in the _____, a feature which was perhaps responsible for its name. Shops were originally built in a half-moon shaped pattern, now lost.

• Which place are we talking about?

Chandni Chowk, Old Delhi

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• Incidentally, two Havelis, of the several in this locality have slightly greater significance.

• Haksar Haveli, situated in Bazar Sitaram, witnessed the marriage of [X], a former Indian PM.

• Haveli Naharwali, in Kucha Sadullah Khan, where a former president of Pakistan, [Y] was born.

• Give me the names of these 2 Heads of their respective States.

• X – Jawaharlal Nehru• Y – Pervez Musharraf

3• This company was started by KM Mammen Mappillai as a toy

balloon manufacturing unit.• In 1952, they ventured into the manufacture of tread rubber.• The company went public on 1 April 1961 and an office was

established in Beirut, Lebanon to develop the export market in 1964 and its current logo of the muscleman was born.

• Since then, the company has grown to become a INR 30 billion enterprise.

• Which famous Indian Co are we talking about?

MRF

4• Established in 1986, and conferred the status of World Heritage Site

by UNESCO in 2012, this is the largest biosphere reserve in India.• Spread over 5500 sq. Km., it comprises 6 different National Parks

within its area, and expands into 3 different states.• It happens to be India’s first international biosphere reserve and

houses fauna which includes the Bengal tiger, Indian leopard (and Black panther), Indian elephant, mongoose, Malabar giant squirrel, Lion-tailed macaque, gray Langur, the Tahr etc.

• Which ONE of the 18 biosphere reserves in India are we talking about?

Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve

5• An Indian Co. (X) manufactures a popular product (Y).• For years, the Indian govt and the company have a dispute. The govt

says that this product is a cosmetic item and therefore should be liable for excise duty.

• As a counter, the company (X) said that the packaging/advertising does not mention this product as a cosmetic, and is actually intended to be used as an edible item. The company argues that it cannot be held responsible for how the consumers use it.

• Despite various legal and legislative attempts made by the Govt., the company continues to avoid excise duty to this day for this product, which even comes with a green-dot label.

• Identify X & Y.

• X – Marico• Y – Parachute ‘Coconut’ oil

6• Until 1996, the list included various symbols of India, such

as Bengal tiger, the Peacock, Ashoka pillar, Oil Rig, Konark Sun temple, Tanjore temple, Aryabhatt satellite etc.

• However, in the last 20 years, only 1 symbol is included for this purpose, a move aimed at standardisation, improving quality, and doing away with the demand for more inclusions into the list by various state govts.

• What symbols are we talking about?

Indian Currency note symbols

7• (X) was a classic Indian monthly magazine for children, famous for its

illustrations. It also published long-running mythological/magical stories that ran for years. Originally, it was published in Telugu by B.Nagi Reddy and Chakrapani, noted Telugu Film Producers. It was edited by K.K. Rao, a very close friend of Chakrapani and a literary colossus in Telugu Literature, who edited it for 28 years, till his death in August 1980.

• In 2007, (X) was bought by Geodesic, a Mumbai-based software services provider company. They planned to take the then 60 year old magazine into the digital era. However the magazine is currently defunct as Geodesic itself was found defaulting on outstanding loans and was ordered to be wound up by the Mumbai High Court.

• Name this magazine, which expanded its readership to 200,000, and was published in 13 different languages including English, Sanskrit and Hindi.

Chandamama

8• While Gandhi and the entire Congress Working Committee had been

arrested during the Quit India movement, from 1942 to 1945, (X) was one of few Congress leaders free. While pressing demands for the immediate release of political prisoners, (X) began secretive talks with Liaquat Ali Khan, the second-most important leader of the Muslim League.

• They allegedly reached a deal, wherein Liaquat gave up the demand for a separate Muslim state in turn for parity of Muslims-to-Hindus in the council of ministers. Conceding the League as the representative of Muslims and giving a minority community equal place with the majority Hindus, (X) attempted to construct an ideal Indian alliance that would hasten India's path for freedom while ending the Quit India struggle.

• Identify this leader who has a road in Mumbai named after him.

Bhulabhai Desai

9• Gayatri Devi• K. M. Munshi• Mariadas Ruthnaswamy• Minoo Masani• N. G. Ranga• Piloo Mody• S. V. Raju• V. P. Menon

• With which Indian political party would you associate these people?

Swatantra Party

10• Days before the arrival of Mahmud of Ghazni, the ruler Bhimdeva Solanki

had transferred part of the wealth in Somnath Temple to a fortified offshore island Gundevi. Another part was transported to an impenetrable area by horses at Mount Abu – the fortified castle of Achal Gadh. The Shiva lingam was immersed in the sea and later it was re-installed.

• Within a few weeks the construction of a brand new temple (X) took place, during 1026-27 CE,and the treasures were shifted here. This new temple The temple complex has three components: Gudhamandapa, the shrine hall; Sabhamandapa, the assembly hall and Kunda, the reservoir.

• Identify this temple (X), situated on the Tropic of Cancer, which observes an annual 3-day classical dance festival following Uttarayan.

Modhera Sun temple

11• In the Bollywood movie Haider (2014), one particular song

titled Bismil sung by Sukhwinder Singh is filmed against the backdrop of a 1800-year old structure (X), or rather its ruins.

• In the movie the temple was shown as a place of evil. This partially led to a controversy surrounding the movie. Anupam Kher criticised director Vishal Bharadwaj for shooting the Devil’s Dance sequence in the temple, resulting in humiliation to Kashmiri Pandits.

• Identify this monument, which was destroyed by Sikander Butshikan over a period of 13-months.

Martand Sun temple

12• The Indian Home Rule Society (IHRS) was an Indian organisation founded

in London in 1905 that sought to promote the cause of self-rule in British India. The organisation was founded by (X), with support from a number of prominent Indian nationalists in Britain at the time, including Bhikaji Cama and Dadabhai Naoroji and was intended to be a rival organisation to the British Committee of the INC that was the main avenue of the loyalist opinion at the time.

• The society was founded the India House and, along with (X)’s journal The Indian Sociologist, was the foundation of the militant Indian nationalist movement in Britain. After Krishna Varma's shift to Paris in 1907, the society gave way the secret nationalist society (Y), founded by V.D. Savarkar and his brother Ganesh Savarkar.Identify the patriot X and the organisation Y.

• X – Shyamji Krishna Verma• Y – Abhinav Bharat Mandal, also known as

Young India Society

13• India's X was the first nuclear power station in the world to use

thorium rather than depleted uranium to achieve power flattening across the reactor core. Both X-1 and X-2 units are loaded with 500kg of thorium fuel to improve their operation at start-up. In 1995, X-1 achieved about 300 days of full power operation and X-2 about 100 days using thorium fuel and today it operates 4 units.

• On 22 August 2006 it was reported by village inhabitants that the area around the power station had been penetrated. A terror threat alert was initiated but search by the police did not result in any findings.

Identify X.

Kakrapar Atomic Power Station (KAPS)

14• X was an ancient seaport and urban center in the western

coast of India that dates from at least the 1st century BC, if not before it. X has found mention in the Sangam literature and a number of classical European historical sources.The port was a key to the trade between southern India and the Phoenicians, the Persians, the Egyptians, the Greeks and the Roman Empire. A lesser known fact about this place is that it hosted the 2nd Mosque and 2nd Church in the world as well as the 2nd Synagogue before it was moved to another historically important city Y on the same coast 18 miles south.

X – Muziris / KodungallurY – Calicut / Kozhikode

15• The (X) is claimed to have originated in the Middle east, from a

similar sounding Persian root word prior to the 10th century. • (X) was introduced to the Indian subcontinent in the 13th or

14th century by traders from Central Asia. Amir Khusro (1253–1325), a scholar and the royal poet of the Delhi Sultanate, wrote in around 1300 that the princes and nobles enjoyed the "(X) prepared from meat, ghee, onion and so on”.

• However, the Eastern part of India refers to this snack as Shingara, derived from the Sanskrit root word śr̥ṅgāṭakaṁ, pointing to its presence in the regional cuisine from an earlier period.Identify this Indian snack.

Samosas

16• Dr Talimaran Ao (1918-1998) was a Physician and

professional Footballer from Naga Hills district, erstwhile Assam. He had a nine-year career as a professional footballer with Mohun Bagan, before taking up Doctoral studies.

• He studied medicine at R.G. Kar Medical College and Hospital, Calcutta. He earned his MBBS, and in 1963 he returned to Nagaland where he was given the post of Assistant Civil Surgeon. He went on to be appointed Director of Nagaland Health Services, from which he retired in 1978.

• What unique distinction did he achieve as a sportsman?

First Indian football captain

17• The (X) are the floodplains and foothills of the

eastern Himalayas in North-East India, synonymous with the Terai region of Nepal and Northern India.

• Politically this region would constitute areas spanning three states including the Jalpaiguri district, the plains of Darjeeling, upper Cooch Behar, Alipurduar, Mainaguri, Malbazar and Birpara from West Bengal, districts of Kokrajhar, Dhubri, Barpeta, Goalpara and Bongaigaon in Assam and foothills of Arunachal Praesh. Siliguri is the largest city of the region.

• Can you name this region which is also known as the gateway of Bhutan to India?

Dooars or Duars

18• In a corner of the courtyard lies a wooden cabinet with five

relics of the Prophet known as Dargah Asar Sharif. These were inherited by the Mughals from Timur who in turn got them them from Sultan Bayazid Yaldaram from Turkey. Kept safely, are a treasure trove that includes a set of two Arabic writings in Kufic script on deerskin. which is the handwritten Quran of Hazrat Ali, son-in-law of the Prophet and excerpts of Quran Sharif translated by Imam Hasan-grandson of the Prophet.

• Can you name the historic building we are referring to?

Jama Masjid, Delhi

WRITE BROTHERS - I

• Identify the given flags.

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British India [for international representation]

Viceroy of India

Mughal empire

Jammu & Kashmir

Sikkim

Swatantra Party

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• Identify the given Amul ads.

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Sterilisation programme during Emergency

Bofors scandal

OBC Reservations

Raj Kapoor’s demise

Ambassador terminating factory production

Uber Rape case

MINI CONNECT

• Connect the given set of images.

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The individuals are

• Ustad Zakir Hussain• Pandit Ravi Shankar

• AR Rahman• Pandit Vishwamohan

Bhatt

Grammy Awardees (Not Exhaustive)

MEGA CONNECT

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1• He was born in a Punjabi family. He studied at The Doon

School for two years before moving to St. Stephen's School, Chandigarh; He graduated from Stephen's in 2000.

• His Mentor was Dr.Amit Bhattacharjee who has been closely associated with him since the beginning of his career.

• His current coach is Gabriele Bühlmann from Basel, Switzerland.

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• He Singh was born in a Jat family on 29 October 1985 in Kaluwas village, 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) from _______. His father, Mahipal Singh Beniwal, is a bus driver with the Haryana Roadways, while his mother is a homemaker.

• His father drove extra buses for overtime pay so as to pay for He and his elder brother Manoj's education. He did his primary schooling in Kalwas, secondary schooling in Bhiwani middle from happy sr sec. school bhiwani and finally received a bachelor's degree from Vaish College.

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• He endorses brands such as Mountain Dew, Eicher tractors, and the National Egg Coordination Committee which earns him ₹10 million (US$150,000) annually.

• He refused the offer of ₹5 million (US$74,000) to appear in a surrogate ad for a leading liquor brand.

• His father, Diwan Singh, was a driver in MTNL Delhi, while his mother, Kamla Devi, is a housewife.

• He is presently employed with the Indian Railways as an assistant commercial manager.

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• He hails from Barsar village of Hamirpur district of Himachal Pradesh and is a serving Subedar Major (Warrant Officer Class I) in the Dogra Regiment (16th Battalion) Indian Army.

• He has been posted at Indian Army Marksmanship Unit(AMU) Mhow since 2003 where he is being coached by the Russian Pavel Smirnov.

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• ______, the second daughter of Harvir Singh and Usha Rani, was born in Hisar. Her father worked in CCS HAU. She completed her first few years of schooling at Campus School CCS HAU, Hisar.

• The family later shifted to _______. • She also has a brown belt in Karate. • She did her Xll from St. Ann's College

Mehdipatnam Hyderabad.

6• _____ appeared on the final episode of the Super Fight

League's mixed martial arts reality show - SFL Challengers. During this time _____ was in talks with owners Raj Kundra and Sanjay Dutt to work with the SFL in some manner other than being a fighter.

• On 24 September, the Super Fight League announced that _____ will serve as the SFL's brand ambassador.

• _______ is a supporter of animal rights, and has associated with animal rights organization, PETA India, to call for an end to use of elephants in circuses by starring in an ad. "Circuses are cruel places for animals where they are beaten and tortured. As a mother, I can imagine what animals go through when their children are taken away from them to forcefully perform in circuses. It's sad,“ ____ has been quoted saying in the media.

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• In August 2010, _____ had publicly expressed his displeasure after being ignored for the prestigious Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award thrice and he threatened to skip the 2010 Commonwealth Games due to lack of motivation.

• However, intense pressure from his family and fans, he later decided to participate.

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• He won the gold medal in the men's 65 kg freestyle category by beating Canada's Jevon Balfour 10–0 in the finals of the 2012 CWG.

• He had earlier beaten Alex Gladkov of Scotland 4–0 in the pre-quarters and then easily defeated another Scottish wrestler Gareth Jones in the quarterfinals by employing his trademark Fitele (leg twisting) technique that he had used while winning the bronze medal at the 2012 CWG.

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• _________ (born 5 July 1995) is an Indian professional badminton player. At the 2016 Summer Olympics, she became the first Indian woman to win an Olympic silver medal.

• Sindhu came to international attention when she broke into the top 20 of the BWF World Ranking in September 2012 at the age of 17. In 2013, she became the first ever Indian women's singles player to win a medal at the Badminton World Championships.

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• Her first success as a professional wrestler in the international arena came in 2010 at the Junior World Championships where she won the bronze medal in the 58 kg freestyle event.

• At the 2014 Dave Schultz International Tournament, she won gold in the 60 kg category.

• And after that she never stopped and maintained the passion and dedication towards the game.

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INDIAN OLYMPIC MEDALLISTS• Abhinav Bindra• Vijender Singh• Sushil Kumar• Vijay Kumar• Saina Nehwal• Mary Kom• Gagan Narang• Yogeshwar Dutt• P. V. Sindhu• Sakshi Malik