India Quiz - Finals

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Ques1. During the first general elections, Sukumar Sen the CEC, got outraged by a social practice and directed his officials to correct the electoral rolls by inserting the names of the women 'in the place of mere description of such voters'. Nonetheless, some 2.8 million women voters had finally to be struck off the list. He felt that such a step will help in eradicating such social practice. Which practice, give funda.

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Ans. ‘Chintu ki Mummy’

Ques2.•Writer : Abrar Alvi •Directorial : Raj Khosla, Abrar Alvi •Cinematography : V.K. Murthy •Actor(s) : Waheeda Rehman, Johnny Walker, Rehman •Singer : Geeta Dutt, Mohammad Rafi •Music : O. P. Nayyar, S.D. Burman, Hemant Kumar •Lyrics : Sahir Ludhianvi, Kaifi Azmi•Editor : Y.G. Chawhan • Art Director : Biren Naag What were they collectively called ?

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Ans. Guru Dutt’s Team

Ques3. Give the title X as well as the person Y. X is a persian word, used as a respected title for persons who have achieved mastery over languages. It became a surname for people whose ancestors had received this title. In modern Persian, this word is also used to address Clerks and secretaries. Abdul Karim was a valued Indian servant of Queen Victoria who was often known as the “X”. The close relation between him and the queen led to friction in the royal household and he was sent back to India after her death. X Y , was an Indian writer famous for his modern Hindustani literature.He is considered the first Hindi writer whose writings prominently featured realism. He wrote on social issues such as poverty and the Zamindari system.

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Ans. X- MunshiY- Premchand

Ques4.Designed by Ram Chander Sharma of the Sawai Man Singh College in Rajasthan, this was designed to be inexpensive , water resistant and quick to fit and manufacture. The material used is polyurethane , which was quite different from the material traditionally used to make similar items at that time. It played a prominent role in the 1986 Hindi film, Naache Mayuri . What?

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Ans. Jaipur Foot

Ques5.X identifies himself as Prince Dakkar, son of the Hindu Raja of Bundelkhand; and also a descendant of the Muslim ruler Sultan Syed walSahrif Fateh Ali Khan Tipu of Mysore. After the loss in the 1st war of independence of 1857, in which he lost his family and kingdom, he devoted himself to scientific research and developed the Y, wherein he and a crew of followers cruise the seas. Give me X, adopted by Alan Moore and also played by Naseeruddin Shah; and Y.

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Ans.X- Captain NemoY- Nautilus

Qus6.Connect

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Ans.Amrita Sher-GilVillage Scene, her prominent work; Postage stamp issued by India Post with her work “Hill Women”; This novel by Salman Rushdie has a character inspired from her, Aurora Zogoiby.

Ques7. Give funda behind this Amul ad.

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Ans. Bhagavad Gita trial in Russia.

Ques8. First to achieve what? Neecha Nagar (English: Lowly City) is a 1946 Hindi film directed by Chetan Anand. Written by Khwaja Ahmad Abbas and Hayatullah Ansari , it was a pioneering effort in social realism in Indian cinema and paved the way for many such 'parallel cinema' films by other directors, many of them written by Abbas. It starred Chetan Anand's wife Uma Anand, Rafiq Ahmed,Kamini Kaushal, Rafi Peer and Zohra Sehgal.

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Ans. Neecha Nagar became the first Indian film to win award at the Cannes Film Festival, after it shared the Grand Prix du Festival International du Film (Best Film) award at the first Cannes Film Festival in 1946.

Ques9.Like the formation of the nation itself, Pakistan started its ______ quite earlier than that of India, and the Pak organisation is named SUPARCO, while the Indian counterpart is named X. While X has 77 of a certain achievement, SUPARCO has only 2 of those till date. Name X, often creating news for its "efficiency".

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Ans. ISRO

Ques10. The personal god in Hinduism is worshipped in a five-step process: 1. Dhoop 2. Deep 3. Naivedya 4. Akshat 5. PushpaSanskritic verses used to describe this process have been taken from the Taittriya Upanishad. This verse is so useful and sacrosanct that it became part of the Hindu "Code of Conduct".What part of this verse are we talking about?

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Ans. Athithi Devo Bhava

Ques11.Identify the Brand from the anecdote. Tarangini Mitra loved to pirouette. To dance by spinning on one foot came naturally to her. On one of her school functions, her talent was spotted by a certain Mr. Padmasee, a reputed ad film maker who approached her mother and said “We just want her to do the spin, like she does so gracefully. The small twist would be counterbalanced by a jingle. She does the move, packs her bags, gets the cheque and leaves. Think of it, she’s going to be the first ________".

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Ans.Nirma

Ques12. X was a popular cultural show on Doordarshan. One of the reasons for its popularity was weekly quiz open for viewers participation. Viewers would post their response using 15 paise postcard of India Post. The show once received 1.4 million letters in a single week (Limca record). This lead the postal department to issue “Competition postcards” priced at ₹2 for participating in such contests. Identify the show.

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Ans.Amul Surabhi

Ques13. Whose twitter handle tweeted “There are two kinds of ppl in the world. Those who have visited me and follow me here and those who haven't seen me and yet follow me here.” It also happens to be the 1st of its kind on twitter ?

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Ans. Taj Mahal

Ques14. In his book “Neither a Hawk nor a Dove” , former Pakistani Foreign Minister Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri writes: ”the ADC informed the PM that the Prime Minister of India Atal Bihari Vajpayee wished to speak with him urgently.“ Sharif apparently was not aware of what Vajpayee was saying about the Kargil conflict, and promised him that he would talk to Chief of the Pakistan Army Staff General Pervez Musharraf. But before the conversation could end, Vajpayee told Sharif that there was someone else who wanted to speak to the Pakistan PM. Sharif was astonished when he heard the voice on the other side. “Mian Sahib, we did not expect this from you since you have always claimed to be a great supporter of peace between Pakistan and India”, the person told Nawaz Sharif. Who was this person?

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Ans. Dilip Kumar

Ques15. "One Village, One Library" an NGO from Kochi started an initiative “X” that went viral on social media during August and September 2014. Facebook data centre announced that they had analyzed over 130,000 status updates regarding the initiative.It derives its name from another hugely popular global initiative “Y” among celebrities that went viral earlier in 2014 and was aimed at creating awareness among people and encouraging donations to certain medical research. Id X.

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Ans.X- #BookBucketChallenge Y- ALS Ice bucket challenge

Ques16. Where do you expect to find these “Self-Realization Fellowship gurus” Mahavatar Babaji, Lahiri Mahasaya, Sri Yukteswar and Paramahansa Yogananda.

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Ans. On the cover of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, The Beatles eighth studio album.

Ques17. According to mythology, when Indra was dethroned by the Asura Vritra, one who was invincible from all the weapons made prior to gaining the "vardaan" and all other weapons made of metal or steel; he seeked the help of Vishnu who suggested a weapon to be made of the bones of a certain sage. Name the sage and also name the Indian award which still commemorates this.

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Ans. Param Vir Chakra

Ques18.“X” is a fictional DC Comics character, and a potential love interest of Wonder Woman. He met Wonder Woman after Cronus, a Titan of Myth, and his progeny the Hecatonchires and Cyclopes ransacked Olympus and attempted to destroy the Hindu gods. The Hecatonchire known as Oblivion trapped X and Wonder Woman in a dream realm where the two were united in wedded bliss. The false memories of this illusion were shattered when Diana defeated Oblivion, but X supposedly remained infatuated. Identify X.

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Ans.Rama

Ques19.What does this map depict?

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Ans. Countries whose head of state or government have been special guest for Republic Day Celebrations in India.

Ques20. Siachen Glacier(disputed)

Guhar Moti Kibithu

______X______

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Ans. Indira Point, all are extreme most geographical locations of India.

Ques21. Give the funda or the effect of them:

Fact1: The Japanese forces surrendered to the Supreme Allied Commander of Southeast Asia, on August, 1945

Fact2: Anything born on a Friday would be doomed.

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Ans. India’s “Freedom at Midnight”. Lord Mountbatten personally decided the date of Aug 15 as he considered that date to be “very lucky” for his career as he was himself the commander of the allied forces.

15-Aug-1947 was a Friday and considered “unfortunate & unholy” . Alternative dates were suggested but Lord Mountbatten was adamant on Aug 15 (since it was his lucky date). As a workaround, the astrologers suggested the midnight hour between Aug 14 and 15 due to the simple reason that the day according to English starts at 12 AM, but according to Hindu calendar, starts at sunrise.

Ques22. In late May of 1987, Alexander Frater landed in India. He was on a pilgrimage of sorts, trying to realize a dream from his childhood growing up in the South Pacific.

His main stops were Kanyakumari, Trivandrum, Calicut, Goa, Bombay, then over to Delhi, Calcutta and finally, Meghalaya. His reportage on India, and dealing with the Byzantine bureaucracy, is nothing short of brilliant.

The book that resulted from this journey was later made into a very popular BBC documentary. What is the book’s name?

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Ans. Chasing the Monsoon

Ques23.Y was just 16 when Subhash Chandra Bose visited Rangoon at the height of World War II to collect funds and recruit volunteers for INA. On meeting Y’s father, Bose said, “Due to her innocence, she gave away all her jewellery. So, I have come to return it.” While her father, a freedom fighter who had himself made massive donations to Bose’s cause, simply smiled in reply, an indignant Y said, “They are not my father’s, they are mine. I gave all of them to you, and I will not take them back.” So stubborn was the teenager that Bose could not but admire her determination. He told her, “Lakshmi (money) comes and goes but not X. You have the wisdom of X. Hence, I name you X.” This was how Y became XY from that day onwards. So persuasive was she that the very next day, Bose recruited XY and four of her friends as spies in INA’s intelligence wing. An endnote: For a long time, this veteran freedom fighter lived alone in a dilapidated and cramped one- room apartment in Chennai, adorned only by several photographs of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose. Finally, the Tamil Nadu government allotted her a house, albeit an old one in a housing colony.

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Ans. Saraswathi Rajamani

Ques24. The todas are a small pastoral community who live in the isolated nilgiri plateau.They live in small hamlets called munds. The Toda huts, also called doggles, are of an oval, pent-shaped construction. They are built of bamboo. Each hut is enclosed within a wall of loose stones. In accordance with the resemblance of these munds to something, they are fondly nicknamed as ‘Indian _____ _____”. FITB

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Ans. Hobbit holes

Ques25. Identify the place or give funda.

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Ans. Renkoji temple which held the ashes of Netaji.

Ques26. In the State of Madras v. Champakam Dorairajan case, a Brahmin woman in Madras challenged the state's Communal General Order, which established caste quotas in government-supported medical and engineering schools, on the grounds that it denied her equality under the law. In its ruling the Supreme Court upheld the Madras High Court verdict, which in turn had struck down the Communal Government Order (G.O) passed in 1927 in the Madras Presidency. The Communal G.O had provided caste based reservation in government jobs and college seats. What did this led to on 18th June 1951?

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Ans. Passing of the first Indian Constitutional amendment.

Ques.27 Dalal Foundation, a coalition of activist groups against environmental and human rights violations, state repression & corporate crime in India, instituted a one time set of awards in 2007. The winners were those who, in foundation’s opinion, commit or abet such activity, in particular politicians, businessmen and bureaucrats. The ceremony drew attention to the ongoing controversies over the Bhopal Gas Tragedy and violence in Nandigram and Singur. After whom was these awards named? Next slide….

1. Best Environmental Talk the Talk Award: Ashok Punjwani 2. Birds of a Feather Award: Mukesh Ambani 3. Bureaucrat for Business Award: B.K. Chaturvedi 4. Money Can Buy You Law Award: T.K.A Nair 5. Best Diplomat for Welfare of Transnational Corporations: Ronen Sen 6. The World is a Business Award: P. Chidambaram 7. Best Use of an Inside-Outside Strategy: Abhishek Manu Singhvi 8. Lifetime Spent Evolving Opportunities from Disasters: Babulal Gaur 9. Extraordinary Contributions to the Progress of International Capital: Kamal Nath 10. Best Use of the Revolving Door: Montek Singh Ahluwalia 11. Best Friend of Big Business: Manmohan Singh 12. Dynastic Loyalty to the Empire: Ratan Tata

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Ans. Mir Jafar

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