india quiz 2015

THE TARKA ROUND!

• 16 questions. Two for each team, in rotation.• Pounce +20/-10. Open for 5 seconds.

Team to which question is directly addressed can pounce as well. Must be written down.• Direct +10 / Pass +5.• Part points are applicable.• Hints will be provided only at will.

Q. 1It’s name has been taken from Sanskrit, taking inspiration from mythological stories. It was coined by M. V. Gopalaswamy after starting a private service in his residence, “Vittal Vihar”, in 1936. Later, the official service launched by the Indian Government adopted its name after independence.

What is being referred to here?

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Akashvani.

Q. 2Connect (non exhaustive list):o Sangram (1950) starring Ashok Kumaro Ziddi (1948) starring Dev Anando Pratima (1945) starring Dilip Kumaro Jwar Bhata (1944) starring Dilip Kumaro Maa (1952) starring Bharat Bhushano Mahal (1949) starring Madhubala

With X, a 2013 anthology film directed by Anurag Kashyap, Dibakar Banerjee, Zoya Akhtar and Karan Johar, celebrating the centenary year of Indian cinema.

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All of these movies were produced by the Bombay Talkies film studio.

Q. 3X was created by the god Brahma as the most beautiful woman; she is the wife of Gautama Maharishi; on being seduced by Indra, she was cursed by her husband to become stone until she was liberated from it by Rama. X’s name literally means ‘unploughed’, symbolising unfertile land.

X is also the title of a 2015 Bengali short film directed by Sujoy Ghosh and starring Soumitra Chatterjee & Y. The plotline is a feminist take on the original version of the story.

Identify X and Y.

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X = Ahalya

Y = Radhika Apte

Q. 4• Four appendages: Labourers (Dalits),

Intellectuals (Brahmins), Traders (Vaishyas) and Warriors (Kshatriyas)• Rotational Symmetry indicates harmony

of society• Pillars indicate balance.

What is this?

(Pounce or Die.)

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Swastika!

Q. 5• Manufactured and marketed by

Mohan Meakin• Age – 7 or 12 years• No advertising of the product is

done. However it is hugely popular due to word-of-mouth.

• Was ranked 5th among Indian brands in its respective category in Impact International's 2008 list of "Top 100 Brands At Retail Value“

• Was in a recent controversy regarding its shutdown due to steadily declining sales, but rumours deemed false.

What is the product?

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Q. 6Connect with a specific answer:

Kannum Karalum (1962)

Paarthal Pasi Theerum (1962)

Paadha Kannikkai (1962)Kalathur Kannamma (1959)

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Movies in which Kamal Haasan starred as a child actor.

Q. 7“….often I jokingly tell people that I hold the most coveted job – I play the whole day and still get paid! There could be nothing better,” states Arvind Gupta, an IIT Kanpur graduate, toy inventor and educationist. He has been teaching science and toy designing to children by utilising everyday objects, explaining concepts in a simple manner. His educational programs were aired in Doordarshan under the name X, produced by CIET – NCERT.

What is X?

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Tarang.

Q. 8What does this depict?

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Colour codes used by Dabbawalas of Mumbai for delivery of the packages

Q. 9“The Hindu religion is the only one of the world’s great faiths dedicated to the idea that the Cosmos itself undergoes an immense, indeed an infinite, number of deaths and rebirths. It is the only religion in which the time scales correspond to those of modern scientific cosmology. Its cycles run from our ordinary day and night to a day and night of Brahma, 8.64 billion years long. Longer than the age of the Earth or the Sun and about half the time since the Big Bang.”

A famous quote by whom?

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Carl Sagan

Q. 10Two of these monuments exist; one at Varanasi, which was inaugurated by MK Gandhi in 1936, houses a marble idol of a personified entity; another at Haridwar, which was inaugurated by Indira Gandhi in 1983, whose floors are dedicated to mythological legends, religious deities, freedom fighters and leaders. What is being referred to?

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Temples dedicated to Bharat Mata.

Q. 11

What is this campaign about? A possible connection to Sundar Pichai.

Hint: The picture itself.

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Campaign to name Android L as Android Ladoo.

Q. 12The Mughals were the most prominent wearers of this type of clothing, because these are quite easy to put on and the name comes from the fact that they are strapped to the side of the body. The ethnic top Angrakha from Rajasthan is a famous example of this kind of attire. What is this type of clothing called?

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Bagalbandi.

Literally translated to “tie to the side of the body”.

Q. 13Connect:• Tipcat in England• Lippa in Italy• Pee-Wee in the US• Klipa in Polish• kitti-pul in Tamil• kuttiyum kolum in Malayalam• viti-dandu in Marathi

• A short story by Munshi Premchand

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Gilli Danda

Q. 14Identify this famous Indian mystic; seen here in a mugshot in an Oregon county arrest for conspiracy to evade immigration laws.

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Osho / Acharya Rajneesh

Q. 15This particular product was originally imported in India by Dada & Co., however when Y wanted to start a manufacturing facility for producing the product locally, Dada & Co. requested Y that the branded product should reflect their name in it. Thus, Y incorporated a character in the product name which became X.

The brand name X is so common that the generic product is usually referred to by the name X.

Identify X and Y. Absolute sitter again.

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X = Dalda!

Y = Hindustan UniLever Ltd.

HUL incorporated ‘L’ from Lever into Dada.

Q. 16• Hussainiwala is a village in Firozpur

district in Punjab which lies near the bank of the Sutlej river.• After partition, it went to Pakistan.• However, India gave 12 villages near the

Sulemanki Headworks on the Sutlej to Pakistan in exchange for Hussainiwala, because of something symbolic.

• What is so special about this village?

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• Cremation grounds of Bhagat Singh, Rajguru and Sukhdev.• A Shaheedi Mela is observed on the 23rd

of March every year at the National Martyrs Memorial at Hussainiwala.