INDIA QUIZ

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•Which were the first two sites in India that were given the status of Unesco world heritage sites.• Both of them start with the

same alphabet.

• AJANTA CAVES• AGRA FORT

• G K Dutt who currently owns the AR studio in New Delhi is entrusted with what responsibility for the past 60 years, at a gap of every 5 years and 2 years, a practice started by his father AR Dutt.• What practice?

CLICKING A GROUP PHOTO OF MP’S AT THE CULMINATION OF EVERY LOK SABHA’S TERM AND RAJYA SABHA MP’S.

A

• X got a street named after him in Markham, Ontario, Canada and the board having the street's name reads ‘X street'.

• A delighted X posted a picture of him holding the board and tweeted "Welcome to my street!

IDENTIFY X?

B• X was built as a modern city, designed by German

architect Otto Königsberger with wide roads, gardens and parks.

• X derived its name from TriX, which literally means the Lord of the Three World , which refers to Shiva.

• X has been known by names such as Toshali, Ekamra Kanan, Ekamra Kshetra and Mandira Malini Nagari.

• IDENTIFY X?

BHUBNESHWAR

C

• Sukumar Sen was the first in this list that started in 1950.

• Nasim Zaidi is the present.• T.N. Seeshan brought major reforms

when he was a part of the list.• What thing of immense important to

the nation are they linked to?

CHIEF ELECTION COMMISSIONER

IDENTIFY X?D

• Mahatma Gandhi wrote to X in a letter of 1894 that "The Indians look up to you as children to the father. Such is really the feeling here.". He was a member of parliament (MP) in the United Kingdom House of Commons between 1892 and 1895, and the first Asian to be a British MP.

• X is also credited with the founding of the Indian National Congress, along with A.O. Hume and Dinshaw Edulji Wacha. His book Poverty and Un-British Rule in India brought attention to the draining of India's wealth into Britain.

• The manners and customs of the Parsees (Bombay, 1864)• The European and Asiatic races (London, 1866)• Admission of educated natives into the Indian Civil

Service (London, 1868)

DADA BHAI NAOROJI

IDENTIFY X?E

• X  (born 16 August 1989, Madras, Tamil Nadu, India) is an Indian cricketer. He is a right-handed opening batsman. He plays in the Indian Premier League for the Chennai Super Kings.

• XY personal explanation of his unusual name. "My grandfather was a scientist. He wrote a letter to him and even got a reply from him. I've got no idea [what the letter was about] even though I've read it. My mother was a physics graduate and she teaches Physics in one of the schools. So I'm X. Y is my father's name.“

• "We don't believe in God. In our family, we're rationalists. Other people are named Krishna and Ram after Gods, so we were named X and Y after great people."

EINSTEIN NAPOLEAN

H• There are two observation towers on the dam one at each

side. One is "Gandhi Minar" and the other one is "Nehru Minar".

• X is built across the Mahanadi River, about 15 km from Sambalpur in the state of Odisha in India.

• It is one of the first major multipurpose river valley projects started after India's independence.

• X was formally inaugurated by Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru on 13 January 1957.

• It is the longest major earthen dam in Asia.• IDENTIFY X?

HIRAKUD DAM

I

WHAT’S THE HIDDEN PART?

IRCTC

J

• The first Shatabdi train was started in 1988 to commemorate the centenary of Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru's Birthday by Madhav Rao Scindia, the then minister for railways.

• Between which two cities did it operate?

DELHI AND JHANSI

K

• There are two unique towers built at different times on the famous fort of Chittorgarh in Rajasthan.

• The tower of fame or _______ was built in he 12th century by a Jain merchant named Sah Jija to pay tribute to Adinatha the first Jain Tirthankara.

• Which tower?

KIRTI STAMBH

IDENTIFY X?L

• The director submitted the film as an independent entry for the 2007 Academy Award for Best Foreign Film.

• X was the first Hindi film to be shown at the United Nations.

• X is the recipient of four National Film Awards.

LAGE RAHO MUNNABHAI

IDENTIFY X?

• "My Country My Life" is an autobiographical book by X. The book has 1,040 pages and narrates autobiographical accounts and events in the life of X. The book became a best seller in the non-fiction category.

• The book includes mentions of events in Indian politics and India's history from 1900 till 2007.

• In 2015 X was awarded the Padma Vibhushan, India's second highest civilian honor.

L.K. ADVANI

N

• X Enterprises Private Limited was founded way back in 1962 by Shri Suresh B. Sanghavi as a cottage industry. From a humble beginning, X has today become the largest producer of _______, Tooty-Fruity and Roasted Vermicelli.

• Managed by a professional and dynamic team, X is now among the fastest growing processed food suppliers in India.

• X is the largest producer and marketer of _______ in the world.

NILON’S

O• Odhavji Raghavji Patel the founder

of the world’s biggest clock company Ajanta transistor clock manufacturing company in 1970. • What is the name of his second

most popular brand?

ORPAT

IDENTIFY X?Q

• X (“Axis of the Faith, Moon Prince“) was of Turkic descent from Central Asia, the first Sultan of Delhi and founder of the Mamluk Dynasty of India.

• He died while playing polo in Lahore . He built the Quwwat-ul-Islam mosque in Delhi and the dhai-din-ka-Jhonpra mosque in Ajmer. He started the construction of _______ in Delhi, which is dedicated to a famous Sufi saint of the time. After he died, ________was completed by his successor, Iltutmish.

• He is also remembered as lakhbaksh "giver of lakhs" because of his generosity.

QUTUBUDDIN AIBAK

R

• Francisco Esteban Acuña de Figueroa (September 3, 1791 – October 6, 1862) was an Uruguayan poet and writer. He was born in Montevideo, on September 3, 1791 and died on October 6, 1862.

• He has achieved a rare feat which is attributed to only two persons in the world.

• Who is the other person and what feat?

RABRINDRANATH TAGORE

• NATIONAL ANTHEM OF TWO NATIONS

IDENTIFY X?

• X originated in India as part of a family of ______ _______, that included Gyan chauper and pachisi. X made its way to England and was sold as X. The basic concept was introduced in the United States by game pioneer Milton Bradley in 1943.

• Known as Moksha Patam, it was popular in ancient India and emphasized the role of fate or karma. A Jain version, Gyanbazi or Gyan chauper, dates to the 16th century.

• It was also called Leela and reflected the Hinduism consciousness surrounding everyday life.

SNAKES AND LADDERS

V• Designed by Frederick William Stevens with

influences from ________ Italianate Gothic Revival architecture and traditional Mughal buildings, X was built in 1887 to commemorate the Golden Jubilee of ____________.

• In 1996, the Minister of Railways, Suresh Kalmadi did something that’s was dubbed by the Outlook magazine in 1996 as "the biggest sex change in the history of modern India"?

VICTORIA TERMINUS

• NAME CHANGE FROM VICTORIA TERMINUS TO CST.

Surekha Yadav (born 2 September 1965) is the first female ________ for the ___________ in India and also in Asia. The momentous event in her career was on 8 March 2011, on the International Women's Day, when she became Asia's first woman ____________.

FITB.

INDIA’S FIRST WOMAN RAILWAYS DRIVER

• She became India's first female train driver in 1988. She drove the first "Ladies Special" local train for Central Railways when it was first introduced in the four metro cities by Mamata Banerjee the then Railway Minster, in April 2000.

•The Musalman is the oldest Urdu-language daily newspaper published from Chennai in India. •According to Wired and The Times of India, The Musalman is possibly the only ___________________ in the world. The newspaper was founded by Syed Azmathullah in 1927.•It was inaugurated by Dr. Mukhtar Ahmed Ansari, the president of the Madras session of the Indian National Congress.

WHAT’S UNIQUE ABOUT THIS NEWSPAPER?

WORLD’S ONLY HANDWRITTEN NEWSPAPER

•P. Sheshadri (born 23 November 1963) is an Indian film director who works in Kannada cinema. •He is known for his films Munnudi, Atithi, Beru, Tutturi, Vimukthi, Bettada Jeeva, Bharath Stores and December-1. •He is the only director to have achieved this rare feat.What?

ALL HIS FILMS HAVE WON A NATIONAL FILM AWARD.

IDENTIFY THE CONTEXT?

INDIAN ARMY ATTACK ON INSURGENTS FROM MYAMMAR.

•In August 2014, the Indian Minister for IT launched the first ever top-level domain name in the Devanagari script (which is used to write languages such as Hindi).

•This provides an option of registering domain names ending in a word related to the country written in this script (akin to .in or .co.in).

•What does this launched domain name end in?

.bharat

•The Narendra Modi-led Indian government is an acronym-friendly one.

•An acronym used during the 2015 budget is "JAM", used to denote ways to help deliver financial benefits to the poor.

•In "JAM", if "M" is for "Mobile", what do the letters "J" and "A" stand for?

J" is for "Jana Dhan Yojana", the banking inclusion project, and "A" for "Aadhar", the UID project.

•The Hindi and Urdu word X originally derives from Persian, literally meaning "three strings.“

•In his Bharatiya Sangeet Vadya Dr. Lalmani Misra traces the instrument's development from the Tritantri veena.

•The X saw use in popular music after the Beatles featured the X in their compositions "Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)”, "Within You Without You", "Tomorrow Never Knows" and "Love You To".

• Brian Jones of the Rolling Stones also used a X in "Paint It Black”

IDENTIFY X?

SITAR

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•A private business house in Lucknow had attempted to create a world recorded of something with 1,21,653 staff and workers on 6th May ,2013.•The attempt made its way into the Guinness book of world records overtaking the previous record set by Pakistan.•The event took place with all its employees at the same point and dress.•What am I talking about?

•A 920 CE kannada language work by Shivakoticharya mentioned the preparation of this.

•The western Chalukya king and scholar someshwar III, Chavundraya II author of the earliest available Kannada encyclopedia also the mention the recipe of this dish.

•The earliest extant Tamil work to mention X is Maccapuranam.

•It is also described as non-fermented version of dhokla.•The main ingredients include black lentils and rice.

IDENTIFY X?

•The Link Global Group was established in 2004 and in a short span of 9 years has become one of the fastest growing business in the UAE. With its enormous resources and professional set up it has been able to expand its interests in real estate, energy and commodities trading, power generation, construction and oil and gas.

•The Group with a combined net worth of more than US$ 250 million Group is currently in the process of setting up on of its most ambitious project called as _________ with a total cost of US$ 300 million.

•The ___________shall be developed as a themed, luxurious mixed use development and wedding destination in the shape of the ___________.

•The said project will be undertaken in the Falcon City of Wonders coming up in Dubai, UAE.

•Why in a India quiz?

IDENTIFY THE AUTHOR?

Apart from Chandigarh which serves as the capital city of both Punjab and Haryana, name the two State/Union Territory capital cities which are closest to each other in India?To give an idea they are 20-30 kilometers apart.

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