India FinalsCHAKRAVYUH 3.0

Quizmaster : Preksha

FINALS

Rules

– Pounce : +20/-10– Bounce : +10/0– Direct : +10/0

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1. ID X and Y

– Abhijeet Sawant

– X

– Prashant Tamang

– Sourabhee Debbarma

– Y

– Vipul Mehta

X - Sandeep AcharyaY - Sreeramchandra Mynampati

2. ID this painting style

Pithora Paintings

3.

– Hindustan Times had an article about this girl who works as a ticket checker in the Indian Railways (in Mumbai in fact). The headline was “The Other Untold Story of an Indian Captain”. Name the girl and sport.

Sushila Chanu, Captain of the Indian Women Hockey team

4.

– This is a dessert from the land of Himachal Pradesh. It is a delicious treat of rich preparation of khoya , full fat milk, cardamom, semolina, saffron, pistachio, sugar and garlic. Peeled garlic flakes are boiled in water to remove the strong aroma and flavor and added to boiling milk. All other ingredients are added then to the milk and brought to cook. Finally, garnished with pistachios, the dessert when served chilled is a testimony to an old Indian saying “Naam me kya rakha he boss ? Kaam dekho !”.

Benami Kheer

5.

– X is a congregation hall in India built with the objective to provide employment to the people . X has three room each has a different shaped roof that represents a country’s culture (tehzeeb). The Indian roof resembles a fruit Y.

– Identify X and Y.

X= ImambadaY= Muskmelon

6. ID him

Ravish Malhotra

ANTI CLOCKWISE

7.

What three-peat was achieved by these people ?

• First time : Geeta, Pinky, Chitra, Manjeet

• Second time : Manjeet, Sini, Ashwini, Mandeep

• Third time : Priyanka, Tintu, Mandeep, Poorvamma

Women’s 4X400m relay gold medal at Asian Games – 2006, 2010, 2014

8.

– This word in Sanskrit is referred to the “edge of the water” i.e. where the land meets water. In Hindu system, this edge was the bridge from the earth to heaven. Hence ashes and idols are immersed in water. Also, all religious places are on banks of water bodies – rivers, lakes and seas. What is this Sanskrit word which now means a holy place ?

Teertha

9.

10.

– She was born in India. Her father, Frank Handrich, was a German Christian graphic and industrial fair designer, architect, artist and interior designer based in Munich. Her mother, Deepa, is a Bengali Hindu who is an interior designer, landscaper and currently does social work as a volunteer to help alcoholics and drug addicts. When she was four-and-a-half years old, her parents got divorced. Immediately afterwards, her mother married Ahmed, an Indian Muslim from Hyderabad, and she (then only a toddler) was given the surname of her step-father. Hence, evolved her name. ID her.

Dia Handrich Mirza

11.

– Name the only Indian to have been conferred with the fourth highest civilian award of Pakistan i.e., Tamgha-e-Pakistan. He/She was bestowed with this award in 1987 in the field of Public Service albeit posthumously.

Neerja Bhanot

12.

Darling, I like you but not so fastBe soft on my curvesDon’t be a Gama in the land of LamaFeel the curves, do not test themFast won’t lastOn my curve, mend your nerve

– Which institute is responsible for these ridiculously witty lines?

Border Road Organization (BRO)

CLOCKWISE

13.PM of India X

Jawaharlal Nehru 8Lal Bahadur Shastri 1

Indira Gandhi 35Moraji Desai 16

Ch. Charan Singh 4Indira Gandhi 15Rajiv Gandhi 6

VP Singh 2Chandrashekhar 5

PV Narshimha Rao 11HD Deva Goda 1

Atal Bihari Vajpayee 5Manmohan Singh 12

Narendra Modi 5

14.

VVS Laxman

15.

– During 1st day of 1965 War, Indian army successfully crossed the Ichhogil canal in Lahore sector and captured this ( marked by X ) factory belonging to a famous Corporation. Unfortunately, due to air superiority of PAF and lack of Indian army artillery support, Indian troops had to retreat next day.

– ID the corporation or the town.

BATA

16. Id this Gentleman

Richard Madley

17.

– This is a biennial air show and aviation exhibition held in Bengaluru, India at the Yelahanka Air Force Station. It is organised by Defence Exhibition Organisation, Ministry of Defence. It is the second largest air show in the world after the Paris Air Show. During this event, many manufacturers and service providers from the Indian aerospace and aviation industry meet the potential buyers of their products. ID this air show.

18.

Amrita Shergil

19.

– X was a Hindu guru, mystic and devotee of the Hanuman. In the book Miracle of Love, compiled by Ram Dass, a devotee named Anjani shares the following account:

– “There can be no biography of him. Facts are few, stories many. He seems to have been known by different names in many parts of India, appearing and disappearing through the years. His non-Indian devotees of recent years knew him as X, but mostly as “Maharajji” – a nickname so commonplace in India that one can often hear a tea vendor addressed thus. Just as he said, he was "nobody". He gave no discourses; the briefest, simplest stories were his teachings. There was gossip and laughter for he loved to joke. Sometimes he sat in silence, absorbed in another world to which we could not follow, but bliss and peace poured down on us. Who he was no more than the experience of him, the nectar of his presence, the totality of his absence….”

Neem Karoli Baba

20.

– She started Avant Garde Hospitality in 2008 in collaboration with chef Abhijit Saha, setting up popular restaurants Caperberry and Fava. Caperberry brought molecular gastronomy to Bengaluru, while Fava was appreciated for its Mediterranean cuisine. Tamara was the next logical step for her. The Tamara Coorg, her flagship luxury resort, is spread over a 170-acre estate that produces coffee, cardamom, pepper, and honey. There most of the architecture has been constructed on stilts to cause minimal damage to the environment.

– PS : She is daughter of Co-founder and former CEO of Infosys.

Shruti Shibulal

21. Connect

• Babur

• Khaibar

• Badr

• Jahangir

• Shah Jahan

• Alamgir

• Tippu Sultan

• Ghazi

Ships/Submarine used by Pak Navy in 1965 war

– PNS BaburPNS KhaibarPNS BadrPNS JahangirPNS Shah JahanPNS AlamgirPNS Tippu SultanPNS Ghazi

22.

– He was a multi-talented personality as an Indian English poet, a dramatist, an actor, a musician and a member of the 1st Lok Sabha from Vijayawada constituency. He was the younger brother of Sarojini Naidu. He often recited his poem Rail Gaadi on All India Radio (Akashavani). The song was memorably sung by Ashok Kumar in the film Aashirwad. His most famous acting role was in the Hindi movie Bawarchi. He played the role of the strict and regimented patriarch of the house, where his sons, daughters-in-law and grandchildren lived in a joint family and still respected and abided by his rules. Identify him!

Harindranath Chattopadhyay

23. ID this temple

Ranakpur Jain Temple

24.

– She was an Indian cultural activist and writer, best known for her work on the revival of traditional and village arts, handlooms, and handicrafts in post-independence India. She was a friend and biographer to both the Nehru-Gandhi family. She served as cultural adviser to Indira Gandhi and her son Rajiv Gandhi. She founded the National Crafts Museum in 1956 and the Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage (INTACH) in 1984 to restore and manage monuments and advocate for heritage property conservation. She was also a founder of the National Institute of Fashion Technology in New Delhi.

Pupul Jayakar

Long Visual Connect

– 8 questions– Marking Scheme : +11/-7 – Exhaustive connect

+120/-60

Sir Dorabji J. Tata

+110/-55

– X was the ruling Maharaja of the princely state of Patiala from 1900 to 1938. He was born at the Moti Bagh Palace, Patiala and educated at Aitchison College. He was the first man in India to own an aircraft, which he bought from the United Kingdom in the first decade of the twentieth century. He was captain of the Indian cricket team that visited England in 1911 and played in 27 first-class cricket matches between 1915 and 1937. He also founded the State Bank of Patiala in 1917.

Maharaja Bhupindra Singh

+100/-50

– X was Maharaja of Patiala from 1938 to 1974. He was also an Indian cricketer who played in one Test in 1934. He was a noted horticulturist by passion and later served as chairman of Indian Horticulture Development Council. He was succeeded by his son Amarinder Singh, who is a politician with the Congress Party and who served as Chief Minister of the Indian State of Punjab from 2002 to 2007. His daughter, Heminder Kaur, is married to K. Natwar Singh, former external affairs minister of India.

Maharaja Yadvendra Singh

+90/-45

– X was an Indian first class cricketer and Maharajkumar of Patiala. He was a tall, handsome and lissome young man, with remarkable prowess in several branches of athletics. His interests were finally divided between cricket and tennis. Another of his major interests was Indian classical music. His favorite hobby was cooking and he also turned out a book of recipes. He spent a time at Cambridge University where he continued to play first grade cricket, excelling as a slow bowler. Slow bowling had always been his forte.

Raja Bhalendra Singh

+80/-40

– X was Chief of the Air Staff of the Indian Air Force from 1973 to 1976. He received Param Vishisht Seva Medal (PVSM), the highest military award for peace-time service, in 1968. He was awarded Padma Vibhushan, India's second highest civilian honour, in 1977. He later became Governor of Maharashtra from 1980 to 1982, and Governor of Rajasthan from 1985 to 1987. He was an honorary life member of the Durand Football Tournament Society, which organizes the Durand Cup. He died on 8 November 2015.

Air Chief Marshal O.P. Mehra

+60/-30

– X was a noted Indian politician and Minister from the Indian National Congress party. His political career spanned of almost six decades. He was a close associate of Indira Gandhi. For the general elections in 1957 the Congress Party chose him as their Lok Sabha candidate from Mahasamund constituency. He won with a thumping victory to enter the Parliament of India as one of its youngest Parliamentarians. He returned elected to Lok Sabha 9 times in subsequent elections. He was part of Congress Party's Parivartan Yatra in Chhattisgarh, when he got bullet injuries in Naxal attack on 25 May 2013.

Vidya Charan Shukla

+40/-20

– X was an Indian media baron who ran Tamil newspapers Daily Thanthi and Maalaimalar. He started the first evening Tamil Daily Maalai Malar at Tirunelveli in 1959. He was an educationist, an industrialist and a philanthropist. He was popularly called "Chinna Ayya" as a mark of respect by the people. In 2012 he bought the NDTV Hindu news channel and renamed it as Thanthi TV. The Government of India awarded him Padma Shri in the year 2008 in recognition of his distinguished service in the field of Literature and Education.[

Dr. B. Sivanthi Adityan

– X is an Indian politician and senior sports administrator. He was formerly a member of the Indian National Congress. He was a member of parliament from Pune till May 2014. He joined the National Defence Academy in 1960 and was commissioned as a pilot in the Indian Air Force, serving between 1964 and 1972. He then became an instructor with the Air Force Training Team of the NDA from 1972 to 1974 before retiring from the IAF as a squadron leader. He was charged with conspiracy, forgery, misconduct and under provisions of the Prevention of Corruption Act and later arrested for the same in April 2014, but as has yet not faced trial.

+20/0

Suresh Kalmadi

Indian Olympic AssociationPresidents

– Sir Dorabji J. Tata

– Maharaja Bhupindra Singh

– Maharaja Yadvendra Singh

– Raja Bhalendra Singh

– Air Chief Marshal O.P. Mehra

– Raja Bhalendra Singh

– Mr. Vidya Charan Shukla

– Dr. B. Sivanthi Adityan

For Tie Breaker

– He was born in 1980 in a Jat Family and hails from the Churu District in Rajasthan. At the age of eight climbing a tree he touched a live electric cable. He received medical attention but the doctors were forced to amputate his left hand. In 1997 he was spotted by Dronacharya Awardee coach R. D. Singh while competing at a school sports day, and from that point was coached by Singh. He gave credit to his personal coach R. D. Singh for all his success, saying: "He gives me a lot of advice and helps me during training.“

– ID him and also tell his claim to fame.

Devendra Jhajharia, The first Indian Paralympian to win two gold medals at the Paralympics

The five uncapped cricketers exposed in India TV's sting operation were suspended from all forms cricket by the IPL governing council.

– X was a naval operation commenced by the Pakistan Navy to attack an Indian coastal town of on 7 September 1965. This was the first use of Pakistan Navy in any of the Indo-Pakistan Wars. It was one of the significant naval events of the 1965 Indo-Pak war, and Pakistan celebrates 8 September as "Victory Day" for Pakistan Navy. In 1998, Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR) financed and produced the dramatization of the operation named, “X, 1965", which was based on this incident. The film was directed by Pakistani film director Qasim Jalali and it was written by Hameed Kashmiri.

Operation DwarkaOperation Somnath