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JUNG-E-HINDUSTANINDIA QUIZ

- Quest, IIM Kashipur

FINALS

4 Rounds• Infinite Rebound 1• Visual Connect• List it• Infinite Rebound 2

INFINITE REBOUND 1

• 12 Questions• +10 for every correct answer• +10 / -10 for every incorrect pounce• Infinite pounces

1. Complete this list that is of significance today.• 2014: Japan• 2015: United States• 2016: France• 2017: ?

UAEChief guests at Republic Day Parade

2. X’s logo is vibrant, dynamic and symbolizes a lot of energy and vitality depicting the ambitions and aspirations in its realm.The logo visually depicts the upward mobility of X with the arrow shooting upwards conveying that it can break all barriers, be it gravity or mindset!The name X is written in Devnagri and English, with latter in stylized font called 'Prakarta' resembling the Devnagri script to create a balance in design.Give me X.

3. The Lusophony Games is an international multi-sport event in which Angola, Brazil, East Timor, Macau, Mozambique, Portugal, India, Sri Lanka and few more countries take part. What is common to them?

Ruled over by Portugal

4. The caption on this 1998 movie's poster reads-In a newly partitioned country, a ghost ___ is the only link. Which movie, based on a novel of the same name?

Train to Pakistan

5. Nataraj is a depiction of the god Shiva as the dancer who performs his divine dance to destroy a weary universe and make preparations for the god Brahma to start the process of creation. The Indian government gifted this 6 ft Nataraj statue to which organization in 2004?

CERN

5. Ritesh Agrawal is a college drop out who says he loves to code. This 22 year old's business is one of the most talked about app in India at the moment. The app, he claims does a business of over 25,000 units a night on average. What app?

Oyo Rooms

6. The scene in Om Shanti Om where Deepika gets trapped in fire while shooting and is saved by SRK is based on a real and similar incident that occurred during the shooting of an Oscar nominee in 1957. What pair who later got married were involved in that incident? Also name the movie.

Nargis and Sunil Dutt, Mother India

7. In 1978, a lottery was held in Meghalaya to decide the _____ _______. It was decided that the winner would be made the _____ _______. Darwin Diendogh Pugh, a Khasi, won the lottery to become the first Khasi _____ _______ of Meghalaya. What has been blanked out?

Chief Minister

8. This colour is so named after X, who in 1940s suggested that painting the ships by this colour would make it difficult for the ships to be spotted at dusk and dawn, times considered to be dangerous for war ships. Several ships around the world such as the USS Winslow and HMS Kenya were soon painted in this colour. Even a few fighter planes were so coloured. The trend soon faded away as the ships stood out prominently during the day time, something that is not a problem with the “Battleship Grey” colour used today. Name the colour. Pics follow.

Mountbatten Pink

9. There are two UNESCO World Heritage in Madhya Pradesh. Both of them fall in the district of Raisen. One of them was inhabited by Homo Erectus more than 300,000 years ago and are the earliest traces of Human life in India. The other, is more famous and was built around 2300 years ago with 4 ornamental gateways added to it about 200 years later. Id both the sites.

• Bhimbetka Rock Shelters and Sanchi Stupa

10. On 4 September 2015, Narendra Modi released two commemorative coins of ₹125 and ₹10 in the memory of this personality. The ₹125 coin was not meant for general circulation, however. Both coins were stamped with a picture of this person on their obverses. In whose honour were they issued?

Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan

11. Chandragupta Maurya is said to have died at this place, far south of his capital, Pataliputra. There are two hills located here- Chandragiri and Vindhyagiri. Chandragiri has a shrine dedicated to Chandragupta Maurya. Vindhyagiri has a monument built in memory of another great king, whose blessings Chandragupta Maurya had come to seek. What monument is this?

Gomteshwara Statue, the largest monolith statue in the World

12. The Adventures of X was a comic series published by the India Book House in the early 1980s. Supremo (the character's name) was the alter ego of X. Supremo’s aides included Vijay, Anthony and a falcon named Shaheen. Id X.

Amitabh Bachchan

AUDIENCE Question

This character was created as a direct competition to Detective Moochwala of Target magazine. His alliterative name also mentioned his occupation just like Detective Moochwala’s and the stand out bodily feature of his was the same as Detective Moochwala’s. Name this character.

Shikari Shambhu

VISUAL CONNECT

+35 / -18

+30 / -15

+25 / -13

+20 / -10

+15 / -8

+ 10 / -5

+5 / -3

Deputy Prime Ministers of India

LIST IT

There are 22 scheduled languages in India. Name them.3 points per correct answer.Bonus 5 if you name 20 or more.

Assamese BengaliGujarati HindiKannada KashmiriKonkani MalyalamMarathi NepaliOriya PunjabiSanskrit ManipuriSindhi TamilTelugu UrduBodo SanthaliMaithili Dogri

AUDIENCE Question

Out of the 29 states in India, this is the only state to have no airport, either defence or civil. After several delays due to beauracracy, finally the construction of one was sanctioned in 2008. Slated to be completed in 2012, it is still under construction thanks to several protests and landslides. Which state?

Sikkim

INFINITE REBOUND 2

• 12 Questions• +10 for every correct answer• +10 / -10 for every incorrect pounce• Infinite pounces

• 1. "Char baans, chaubis hasta, angul ashta praman.Ete pai Sultan hai. Ab mat chuko Y.“ goes a poem that is now stuff of legend.The last line translating to - "This where the Sultan is. Now don't miss him, Y."These seem to be the correct measurements of the distance between the Sultan and Y.Identify the Sultan and Y. Why is the speaker giving such an accurate measurement?

Muhammad Ghauri, Prithviraj ChauhanChauhan had been blinded

2. What place in Himachal Pradesh, named after a British Lieutenant General of Punjab, is also known as “Little Lhasa” because of its large population of Tibetan refugees? The Tibetan government-in-exile is also headquartered here.

Mcleodganj

3. The word's origin is Iberian. In the 16th century, the term was used in Portuguese and Spanish to mean species and breeds in both botany and animal husbandry. It was first used in its current context in the Iberian New World colonies, and soon thereafter in India. What's the word, India’s bane for centuries?

Caste

4. X Village in Unnao District of Uttar Pradesh claims to be the spot were a tragic incident from Hindu mythology took place and has memorials dedicated to X. According to Munnu Lal Pandey, a former pradhan of X, the 19th century British Gazetteer states: ‘It is said that there lies a stone statue of X and as he died of unquenched thirst, if water is poured into the navel of the stone figure, the hole never gets filled up. Id X.’

Shravan Kumar

5. X is a mountain pass in the Y range, the oldest in India. The name of X is believed to have come from the colour of the soil. X witnessed one of the most significant episodes in Indian history in the 16th century, and now features a bronze statue of Z. The place and the incident have been immortalized by a great classic poem by Shyam Narayan Pandey, titled X. Id X, Y, Z.

HaldighatiAravalliMaharana Pratap

6. In a semi-final match of a knockout football tournament against East Bengal in 2010 X made his Indian football club debut, wearing the no. 99 on his jersey. Playing as a striker, he took a great shot on goal which keeper Naseem Akhtar had to fly to save it brilliantly. X though was never seen again in Indian football as his side Mohamedan Sporting Club lost the match & a possible agreement with Chirag United didn't see the daylight. Id X.

Saurav Ganguly

7. During the Indo-Pak War of 1965, he was posted at the border in the Khem Karan sector. He was the sole survivor of an enemy attack—variously claimed to have been a bomb, an aerial assault and an exchange of fire at the border—while he was driving a truck. The experiences of wartime, coupled with the poverty from which he had come, affected him. He considered suicide at one point but turned instead to pondering the meaning of life and death. He said of the truck attack, "[It] sent me thinking. I felt that God wanted me to stay alive for some reason. I was reborn in the battlefield of Khem Karan. And I decided to dedicate my new life to serving people." Id him.

Anna Hazare

8. What polymath wrote this poem? And on what occasion? This day relenting God Hath placed within my hand A wondrous thing; and GodBe praised. At His command,

Seeking His secret deeds With tears and toiling breath,I find thy cunning seeds, O million-murdering Death.

I know this little thing A myriad men will save. O Death, where is thy sting?Thy victory, O Grave?

Ronald Ross, accepting Nobel Prize for having discovered the vector of Malaria

9. In 1965, after approvals, a 450 ton consignment of Lerma Rojo & Sonora 64 left for Pakistan and India but was stopped at Mexico, then went by a 30 truck convoy to Los Angeles, reaching LA after a detour due to riots. At LA, a Mexican bank refused to honour the Pakistani payment of US $100,000 due to a misspelling on the cheque, but still the shipment was loaded on a freighter and shipped to Bombay and Karachi. 12 hours into the ship’s journey, war broke out and X received a telegram from Pakistan minister Malik Bucha “I’m sorry to hear you are having trouble with my check, but I've got troubles, too. Bombs are falling on my front lawn. Be patient, the money is in the bank.” Who was X and what was this consignment all about?

Norman Borlaug, Wheat seed varieties that brought Green Revolution in India and Pakistan

10. U is a brand of dairy spreads created by Unigate and sold to Dairy Crest in 2000 as part of the milk and cheese division. When you search this brand in Wikipedia, they say “Not to be confused with Amul”. Id U.

Utterly Butterly

11. When the Sepoys stormed into Delhi in 1857 they were strangers with several different accents and dialects. The people of Delhi referred to them as <del> or Purbias meaning outsiders. <del> is a reference to the region X from where the Britishers originally recruited Sepoys for the Carnatic Wars. Id X.

Telengana

11. In 2008, Kuldip Singh Chandpuri filed a defamation case of Re. 1 against two gentlemen for tarnishing his image, claiming “they were not there”. These two gentleman cast doubts about the truth of a certain night in late 1971, which coupled with a JP Dutta movie shot Kuldip Singh Chandpuri to fame. What am I talking about?

Border

12. Moirang , situated 45 kms south of Imphal, is famous for various things including the deity Lord Thangjing as well as the origin of the famous Khamba-Thoibi dance. The people of Moirang gather every year on Jan 24 to celebrate the birth anniversary of a famous son and often speak of him on a first name basis. But more importantly, the little known claim to fame of the town comes from something Colonel Shaukat Hayat Malik did on April 14, 1944 – the first instance of something like this happening. What happened?

The Indian tricolour was hoisted

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