India Quiz Finals

Dhanraj BTauseef Warsi

Round 1 – List It

The Seven Sisters with Capitals

• +5 for every pair• +5 for all correct• Nothing for incomplete or incorrect pairs

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State Capital

Arunachal Pradesh Itanagar

Assam Dispur

Manipur Imphal

Meghalaya Shillong

Mizoram Aizawl

Nagaland Kohima

Tripura Agartala

Round 2 – Infinite Pounce 1

• Clockwise Pounce• +10/-5 on Pounce• +10/0 on Bounce• If no one answers, question passes clockwise

1. What exactly?

• An example of something that was subject to much controversy and debate in its times and later on as well.

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Answer

• Muhammad bin Tughlaq’s copper tankas

2. The movie

• The picture on the next slide shows Apta railway station, Maharashtra. The railway station has been used in multiple films of late including Fida, Swades, Bunty aur Babli, Shaadi No 1, Rang De Basanti and Chinatown and is reported to earn the Central Railways 40L per year.

• This trend apparently started with a very famous movie of 1990s whose now iconic scene was shot here. True to Bollywood style, the scene sacrificed all resemblance to details by shooting the scene here.

• Which movie?

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Answer

• Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge

3. The person• Mathilukal is a Malayalam movie from 1989 directed by

Adoor Gopalakrishnan that got him the National Award for the best director. Mammootty, playing the lead role, got the National Award for Best Actor. It is based on a book by the same name by Vaikom Muhammad Basheer who received the Kerala State Film Award for the best story.

• Based on a real life story of a jailed freedom fighter who befriends and falls in love with the inmate of the next cell who he never meets. Who is the person the book and the film tell the story of.

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Answer

• Vaikom Muhammad Basheer himself.• The book is an autobiography.

4. The name of the “wall”

• More than 2,000 miles long and tended by 12,000 workers, X was considered the Indian equivalent of the Great Wall of China. It was grown to prevent the smuggling of salt in response to the East India Company's oppressive Salt Tax.

• At its greatest extent it ran from the Punjab in the northwest until it reached the princely state of Orissa, near the Bay of Bengal, in the southeast.

• What was X called.

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Answer

• Inland Customs Line, OR• The Great Hedge of Idnia

5. Why is it odd?

• Punjabi tradition is considered to have four love stories that are considered very important. Heer Ranjha, Sohni Mahiwal, Mirza Sahiban, and Sassui Pannun.

• Mirza Sahiban is considered the odd one out for majorly 2 reasons. The first one is that Mirza and Sahiban are not separated and married off to other people, fact referred to in the song “Heer” from Jab tak hai Jaan.

• The second reason is a much simpler one and can be understood even if you haven’t heard or read the stories in detail.

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Answer

• The male is named before the female

6. Who is X.• X was born to the clan of the Lichchhavis even though she

may have been of unknown parentage but was raised amongst them. She grew up to be extremely beautiful and became the nagarvadhu, or royal courtesan of Vaishali.

• Both king Bimbisara and his son King Ajatashatru fell in love with her Ajatashatru burned down the entire city out of love for her.

• Her life has been the subject of classic movies and she is one of the most popular Amar Chitra Katha characters.

• Who is she?

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Answer

• Amrapali

7. What was the real name.

• Shravanabelagola, near Bangalore, is famous for the statue of Gomateshwara. Gomateshwara’s was the son of the first tirthankara Rishabhnath. He had a dispute with his brother and became a Jain monk.

• What was his real name, the same as a recent popular movie that has absolutely no reference to him whatsoever.

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Answer

• Bahubali

8. The sportsman.

• X is a shooter from Uttar Pradesh who contested mainly in 25m centre fire category. A gold medallist in Asian and Commonwealth games and a world record holder, he remained away from Olympics because his category wasn’t recognised there.

• He was also a BJP politician and currently runs a shooting academy in Dehradun.

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Answer

• Jaspal Rana

9. A list of what?• The following is an exhaustive list of the Bollywood forays

of a very successful musical pair. Identify.1. Silsila (1981) - Filmfare nomination2. Faasle (1985)3. Vijay (1988)4. Chandni (1989) - Filmfare nomination5. Lamhe (1991)6. Parampara (1993)7. Sahibaan (1993)8. Darr (1993) - Filmfare nomination

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Answer

• Shiv Hari• Shivkumar Sharma, a Santoor player, and

Hariprasad Chaurasia, a flautist

10. What are we talking about?

• Mangalagaur is a festival very significant for young brides in Maharashtra. It includes doing pooja, making and having good food, and several other activities and rituals.

• One of them involved the women standing with their legs apart and then performing dances that looked like going round and round.

• The thing we are talking about may literally mean the same – going round and round.

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Answer

• Pinga

11. Identify this cricketer.

• X was born in Bombay and went on to play 27 test matches for India. An all-rounder, he was famous for his catching abilities and was called the “best forward short-leg I’ve ever seen” by Tony Greig.

• His 53 catches in only 27 matches is the best ratio for catches per test-match among non-wicket-keepers with 20 or more Tests.

• He is responsible for one of cricket's most celebrated quotes, directed at Geoffrey Boycott: "I will out you bloody."

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Answer

• Eknath Dhondhu Solkar

12. Why would the CIA be involved?

• Air India flight 101 crashed near Mont Blanc on 24 January 1966. • Multiple conspiracy theories have been associated with this.• One of these accuses the United States Central Intelligence

Agency (CIA) of being involved, in order to paralyze India's _____ program.

• Gregory Douglas, a journalist who taped his interviews with former CIA operative, Robert Crowley, over a period of 4 years, records that Crowley claimed that CIA was responsible for eliminating Lal Bahadur Shastri, who died at Tashkent summit in 1966 and for the crash of the flight 101.

• Why?

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• Homi J Bhabha died on that flight

Round 3 - Short Connect.

• Exhaustive.• List can’t have an order• Write answers• +10 for each correct one

1. +50/-25• Launched in 1977, the brand is one of the top-selling

products in its category.• The brand had the famous tag-line “Happy days are here

again” before it was replaced and has now been modified to something we are more familiar with.

• It was the market leader in its category before being pushed to second a few years ago. Its iconic status is cemented by its product placement in many movies of 80s and 90s and association with stars like Sunil Gavaskar and Imran Khan.

• Its logo is a literal representation of its name.

2. +40/-20• The owner of the brand had approached a rival brand for

the method of production of the product with the promise of not making this product in India.

• The rival brand declined and the owner decided to make the product in their own way. Interestingly the rival brand was owned by a foreign parent company whereas the brand in question was Indian.

• The brand gets its name from its key ingredient, literally meaning “of (ingredient)”. It has been associated with something in India the global version of which is associated with a company that started as a brewery.

3. +30/-15• The brand was named after another popular product of its parent

organisation which is no longer in production. The organisation was popular for its innovative ads, including having Rekha as its endorser and using bill boards and flashy signs as major methods.

• This is what Osho had to say about the advertising:• “If you start reading only the essential, our cities will become far

more beautiful because boards and advertisements on the walls will disappear. They are there because you go on reading them. And the same thing, “Livva little hot. Sippa ____ ____.” Whenever you pass, again you read it: “Livva little hot. Sippa ____ ____.” And if you read it too many times: “Livva little hot. Sippa ____ ____.” one day you will sippa ____ ____. How long can you avoid it.”

4. +20/-10• This brand was first phased out in India to launch a new

brand that has gone on to become to the market leader in its category. However, a variant of this was launched in the US

• There are plans to launch the brand again but at a price point 20% lower than the market. The brand derives its name from a name generic to the category its key ingredient belongs to.

• It was characterised by its trademark logo design that had the name of the brand and three dots on top, one yellow and two red.

5. +10/-5• The brand is considered the largest selling in its sub-

category in India. The brand had huge demand in Middle East because of the key ingredient as a result of which it owner decided to get into deals with middle eastern companies to market the brand there.

• The brand has recently started using celebrities as endorsers for its products and its ads claim to make the key ingredient, which happens to be seasonal, an all-season one.

• The brand name literally derives itself from the Hindi word for fun and thus signals its core USP.

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+5/0

1. Thums Up2. Limca3. Gold Spot4. Citra5. Maaza

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Connect

• Soft Drink brands sold by Parle to Coca Cola

Round 4 – Infinite Pounce 1

• Anti-Clockwise Pounce• +10/-5 on Pounce• +10/0 on Bounce• If no one answers, question passes anti-

clockwise

1. • He became a symbol of cultural resistance to

authoritarianism when he was murdered during the performance of a street play during the Ghaziabad municipal elections in Sahibabad's Jhandapur village on 1 January 1989. On 4 January 1989, a couple of days after his death, his wife Moloyshree went to the same spot again with the _____ troupe which he had co founded, and defiantly completed the play. Identify the person

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Answer

• Safdar Hashmi

2.• The focal point of commerce for over 2500 years, this

bustling seaport traded in everything from spices to precious stones with the Greeks, Romans and the rest of the world, X is reputed to be the ancient world’s greatest trading centre in the East. The exact location is still debated with areas around Kodungallur, an area 18 miles north of Cochin being speculated as the probable location.

• X also gave its name to the Kochi X Y, the first Y (a large scale international exhibition on contemporary art) in India.

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• X – Muziris• Y - Biennele

3. Excerpts from a note

• “The size of the ____ Frame has been unduly inflated as a result, on the one hand, of an over-optimistic growth in national income, which it aims at, and, on the other, of an unduly high average rate of saving as applied to this assumed growth in income”

• “Nationalization should be ordinarily limited to public utility concerns and to concerns involving national security. Otherwise state intervention should be concerned with the prevention of monopolies or quasi monopolies. Efficient management of business and industrial concerns in a competitive market economy is a highly specialized function and demands qualities which a civil servant is not required to, and in the ordinary course of his training may not, acquire”

B. R. ShenoyIdentify the note

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Answer

• Dissent Note on the Second Plan

4.

• He was made the Union Law minister in the Charan Singh ministry in 1979 but resigned within 3 days and was also nominated as a presidential candidate in 1982

• But history remembers him for being the only person to give an voice of dissent when A. N. Ray, P. N. Bhagwati, Y. V. Chandrachud, and M.H. Beg didn’t.

• For full marks give me the name of the man and the incident (popular name will do)

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Answer

• Hans Raj Khanna, ADM Jabalpur or Habeas Corpus

5. • “The British were convinced that this was proof of

‘Hindoo’ decadence. Many of our nation’s founding fathers felt ashamed. A group of overzealous social reformers once planned to raze or deface or bury such ______ ______. It is said that Gandhiji supported such action. But then Rabindranath Tagore wrote an impassioned plea that, good or bad, moral or immoral, this was a national treasure that we could not wish away. We had to preserve it. “ _Devdutt Pattnaik

• What is being referred to that Gandhiji wanted to be “covered with mud”?

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• Khajuraho Temples

6.

• What happened on Indian soil on November 10th 1991 in Calcutta that otherwise would have happened in Barcelona in 1992 if not for the statesmanship of the then Indian High Commissioner in London, LM Singhvi, Madhavrao Scindia, Jagmohan Dalmiya, Dr. Ali Bacher and Steve Tshwete among others.

• What historic event?

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• Return of South Africa to International Sports

7.

• He is currently the Founding Editor of The Wire and is a recipient of the Ramnath Goenka Award for Journalist of the Year.

• A mob forced the cancellation of his speech on ‘Democracy, Media and Freedom of Expression’ on January 20 at Allahabad University.

• A case was filed in Delhi High Court to challenge his appointment as editor of a major newspaper since he is a US citizen and a written complaint to Press Registrar and Asst Press Registrar of News Papers of India under Ministry of IB, Govt of India was also made. On Oct 21, 2013 he resigned the position.

• Identify the person

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• Siddharth Varadarajan

8. He was elected four times to the Lok Sabha from Meerut constituency in 1951, 1957, 1962 and 1971. During the 1965 war, his son Mahmud was a Pakistan Army Officer and the opposition demanded he be removed from the government where he was a minister. But Lal Bahadur Shastri, as Prime Minister, refused to accede and reminded them of his selfless service to India. More importantly he is remembered for two other things. One which involves Prem Sehgal and Gurbaksh Singh Dhillon and the other a commission that he headed in 1956 that is in news currently. Give his name and the two reasons for his fame

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• Shah Nawaz Khan• INA trials and Commission on SC Bose

disappearance

9.

Created by Prasoon Joshi, chairman Asia Pacific and CEO and chief creative officer McCann Erickson Mumbai and his team McCann World Group India in 2008, it was the only one to feature in the Gunn Report of the top 15 for the 21st century so far released in December 2015. What am I talking about?

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• Happydent

10.

• The Election Commission froze the ‘X’ symbol in 1999 following the split and demand from both factions and allocated the 'farmer driving a tractor' and ‘Y’ to the two factions. ‘Y’ is believed to have caused confusion in the minds of the voters in a recent election and so the faction is demanding the allocation of a new symbol and X would be their first choice.

Answer

• X – Wheel• Y – Arrow

11.

The first edition in 2006 drew a crowd of about 100 attendees, including some who "appeared to be tourists who had simply got lost," according to the event's co-director X. Namita Gokhale is the other director and Sanjay K Roy is the producer. The 9th edition concluded recently. What?

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• Jaipur Literature Fest• X – William Dalrymple

12.

• Currently there are 30 full members, 4 associate members, 3 affiliate members, 6 future members and 3 non-members.

• If the Supreme Court appointed Panel recommendations come into force, this is bound to change with a one-state: one-vote system coming into force and second and third member from each state being relegated to associate status.

• Which organization?

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• BCCI

Round 4 – Short Visual Connect.

• Exhaustive.• List can’t have an order• No answers to be written. Just Connect.

+40, -20

+30, -15

+20,-10

+10, No negatives

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• The First Cabinet of India after Independence, as on 15 August, 1947