India QuizFinals

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A quiz by –Dhanraj and Raghavendra Kamath

Special thanks to – Dany James and Krishnananda

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1.1O'Cracy,D.E.M beloved husband of T.Ruth, father of L.I.Bertie, brother of Faith, Hope and Justica expired on 26 June 1975.Put Funda.

AnswerThis was printed on the Times of India on 27 June 1975 as a novel protest against the declaration of emergency.

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1.2X was a popular comedy sitcom, written by comedy writer Sharad Joshi aired for the first time in 1984. It was one of the first sitcoms and one of the biggest hit shows on Indian television after the state owned television, Doordarshan, started sponsoring its programs. The title song was sung by Kishore Kumar and the show had such actors as Shafi Inamdar, RakeshBedi and Tiku Talsania. A trademark of the show was Satish Shah, who portrayed a different character in every episode of the show. In later episodes, Anjan Srivastav also joined the show, playing different characters.X?

Yeh Jo Hai Zindagi

1.3• h/h, also known as Oh or the X Blood group, is a rare blood

type. This blood phenotype was first discovered in X, by Dr. Y.M. Bhende in 1952.

• Individuals with the rare X phenotype (hh) do not express H antigen, the antigen which is present in blood group O. As a result, they cannot make A antigen or B antigen on their red blood cells, whatever alleles they may have of the A and B blood-group genes, because A antigen and B antigen are made from H antigen; For this reason people who have X phenotype can donate RBCs to any member of the ABO blood group system.

• In the 2012 Hindi film Y the main antagonist has X Blood Group and this fact was one of the evidence in the thriller film.

AnswerX – BombayY -- Kahaani

1.4X Express is a category of long distance trains run by the Indian Railways. The special feature of these trains is that they run non-stop from source to destination, barring technical halts. All X Express trains can be easily recognized by the characteristic yellow-green livery of their passenger coaches. Several X Express services connect the metros and major state capitals of India. The X Express trains are projected to be the fastest trains between the particular pair of cities they serve.

AnswerDuronto Express

1.5In September 1997 Texas, USA company RiceTec was granted U.S. Patent on "X“. The patent secures lines of X and X-like rice and ways of analyzing that rice. RiceTec, owned by Prince Hans-Adam of Liechtenstein, faced international outrage over allegations of biopiracy. It had also caused a brief diplomatic crisis between India and United States with India threatening to take the matter to WTO as a violation of TRIPS which could have resulted in a major embarrassment for the United States. Both voluntarily and due to review decisions by the United States Patent and Trademark Office, RiceTec lost or withdrew most of the claims of the patent, including, most importantly, the right to call their rice lines "X."A more limited varietal patent was granted to RiceTec in 2001 on claims dealing with three strains of the rice developed by the company.

AnswerBasmati Rice

1.6The XY is the name of a muslim shrine located in the Khanyaar quarter of the city of Srinagar in Kashmir with the graves of two men. The word X means tomb, the word Y means place, often a landing place by a lake, hence "place of the tomb." Locals have traditionally referred to the main sage buried there as Yuzasaf,more recently Yuz Asaf . The other man buried is Mir Sayyid Naseeruddin.The shrine was relatively unknown until the founder of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, claimed in 1899 that it is actually the tomb of Jesus.

AnswerRoza Bal

AudienceWhat is Pandit Gangadhar Vidhyadhar Mayadhar Omkarnath Shastri better known as?

Shaktimaan

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Now written in Devanagari in India. Intellectuals in the court of Maharaja Ranbir Singh of Jammu and Kashmir, described X as a distorted form of the word "Dwigart", which means “two troughs”, a possible reference to the Mansar and Sruinsar Lakes.On 22 December 2003, X was recognized as one ofthe national languages of India. X?

Dogri Language

2.2X is a company based in Pune, India. It has nine manufacturing plants in India, Germany, Sweden, United States, Scotland, United Kingdom and mainland China. The company's international operations are carried out by its subsidiary Carl Dan Peddinghaus GmbH.In 2006, X had total sales of US$ 659 million and has a market value of US$ 1.8 billion. It was rated as one of the best companies in Asia by the Forbes magazine because of its high growth rate. The company increased its sales by more than 50% in 2005.The company was founded by Nilkanthrao Kalyani in 1961.X?

AnswerBharat Forge

2.3Born in a small town in Tamil Nadu, India, X grew from humble beginnings. From a nearly age, X was different. He loved to sing, to dance and to entertain his parents and the local community. He pursued his dreams while working in traditional Indian jobs. Yet these jobs would not hold his future. His need to entertain and educate, overwhelmed his career so he quit his day jobs to carve out his dream. Now, X is taking the world by storm and bringing his unique combination of dance, drumming and musical humor to fans around the globe. His approachable nature has allowed many to find him as not only an inspiration, but a friend. Now with an increasing passion to make the common man, woman, child and cause, an object of extraordinary importance and significance, X has created a growing movement of social media buzz around the concepts of Cultural Intelligence. His desire to bring not only equality to the globe, but unity has not been matched in recent history. Watch out for X as he takes the world by storm from Chennai to L.A and from Tamil Nadu to Tokyo! This man is really one of a kind! This is from X’s website. His fame has reached the ears of such people as Roger Ebert, who tweeted : X wants a Love Marriage. Dare you not to like this Indian music video with its smiling bride. Who is X

AnswerWilbur Sargunaraj

2.4On being asked by X if he was ready to fight on the eve of the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971: “I am always ready, sweetie."

Who did X ask this question?

___________ and ____________

Sam Manekshaw and Indira Gandhi.

2.5Which famous phrase signifying unbounded optimism was inspired by a phrase coined by Prof. Samuel Beerand used in a 1936 Democratic National Convention speech by Franklin D Roosevelt? “There is a mysterious cycle in human events. To some generations much is given. Of other generations much is expected. This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with ______.”

AnswerTryst with destiny.

2.6I remember once going to see him when he was ill at Putney. I had ridden in taxi cab number XXXX and remarked that the number seemed to me rather a dull one, and that I hoped it was not an unfavorable omen. "No," he replied, "it is a very interesting number; it is the smallest number expressible as the sum of two cubes in two different ways.

Answer1729- Hardy-Ramanujan Number

Audience• The island of ________ is modeled after the island

of Dr. No; it is a self-contained colony, having advanced communications, weapons, and laboratories to build various high-tech devices. ______ sits on his throne in the island, monitoring the evil perpetrated by his henchmen all over India and hoping to someday conquer India entirely. All his subordinates know the formal salute “Hail _______!” (with an accompanying “Heil Hitler” style gesture). This emphasizes his complete authority over his minions.

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3.1Excerpts from a famed 1958 report. Who about what?Of all the objects we have seen and admired during our visit to India, the X, that simple vessel of everyday use, stands out as perhaps the greatest, the most beautiful. The village women have a process which, with the use of tamarind and ash, each day turns this brassinto gold.But how would one go about designing a X? First one would have to shut out all preconceived ideas on the subject and then begin to consider factor after factor:

The optimum amount of liquid to be fetched, carried, poured and stored in a prescribed set of circumstances.

• The size and strength and gender of the hands (if hands) that would manipulate it.• The way it is to be transported — head, hip, hand, basket or cart.• The balance, the center of gravity, when empty, when full, its balance when rotated for

pouring.• The fluid dynamics of the problem not only when pouring but when filling and cleaning, and

under the complicated motions of head carrying — slow and fast.• Its sculpture as it fits the palm of the hand, the curve of the hip.• Its sculpture as compliment to the rhythmic motion of walking or a static post at the well.• The relation of opening to volume in terms of storage uses — and objects other than liquid.• The size of the opening and inner contour in terms of cleaning.• The texture inside and out in terms of cleaning and feeling.• Heat transfer — can it be grasped if the liquid is hot?• How pleasant does it feel, eyes closed, eyes open?• How pleasant does it sound, when it strikes another vessel, is set down on ground or stone,

empty or full — or being poured into?

AnswerRay and Charles Eames in their 1958 India Report which recommended a national design institute which became NID. They considered the humble LOTA as a shining example of excellent design.

3.2In 1965, there was only one X in India. In November 1966, one more X got added. It remained this way, till in November 2000, two more X's got added within a gap of 15 days. Hence, India now has 4 X's. What is the X I am talking about?

AnswerX- Indian States that do not touch the sea or any international border. (or landlocked states)

These are: Madhya Pradesh, Haryana, Chattisgarh and Jharkhand.

3.3Connect the following states: Gujrath, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Chattisgarh, Jharkhand, West Bengal, Mizoram, Tripura.

AnswerTropic of Cancer

3.4 What have I blanked.

Shankar(K. Shankar Pillai)

3.5Who? And he is the co-founder of what?

AnswerNaveen Selvadurai.Co-Founder of Foursquare

3.6As per Hindus, this day is ruled by god Vishnu. It is traditionally celebrated as the birth day of the Hindu sage Parashurama. It is also believed that on this day the Treta Yuga began and the river Ganga, the most holy and sacred river of India, descended to the earth from the heaven. According to Hindu mythology, this was also the day when VedaVyasa started dictating the epic Mahabharata to Ganesha.It falls on the third Tithi (Lunar day) of Bright Half (Shukla Paksha) in the month of Vaishakha. Unless you live in a vacuum, it is impossible to be unaware of this day in India because it has been turned into a marketing gimmick. What day am I talking about?

AnswerAkshaya Tritiya.

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4.1Vedre Ramachandra Reddy got his title " X " as he was the first donor and initiator of the X movement in early 1950s in Andhra Pradesh at a village called Pochampally in the Nalgonda district of Andhra Pradesh. He was a great social worker and noble man. Y started the land donation movement in Pochampally village in April 1951 with initiation of donation of 100 acres, of land from Vedre Ramachandra Reddy, which led to a total of 1 million acres of land donation and distribution among the poor in post independence Era in India.

AnswerX- BhoodhanY- Acharya Vinoda Bhave

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4.3ID.

AnswerWilliam Dalrymple

4.4Which word was coined in this book?

AnswerBollywood

4.5 ID

Ruskin Bond.

4.6ID.

Suraj Sharma.

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AnswerDr. Verghese Kurien passes away.

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AnswerRobet Vadra’s Banana Republic comment.

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AnswerAir- Asia’s proposed low-cost airline with the Tata group.

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AnswerBritish Prime Minister Mr. David Cameron’s 2013 visit to India.

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AnswerUnder threat, Kashmir girl band calls it quits.

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AnswerAbhijeet Mukerjee's comments on women protestors.

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Answer'Guns N Roses' rock band performs for the first time ever in India.

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Ajmal Kasab finally hanged.

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AnswerSlide 1- Jawaharlal Nehru,Dr. M.A.Chidambaram

Slide 2- Rajiv Gandhi, Firoz Shah Tughlaq

Slide 3- Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, Dr.M.A.Chidambaram

Slide 4- Subrata Roy, Dr. D. Y. Patil

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