india quiz finals round 3

8/14/2019 India Quiz Finals Round 3

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Pillow Rani aka Paddoo

Infinite Bounce


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1) He was educated at the LSE and the first editor of penguin'sprestigious non fiction imprint PELICAN. In the 1930's he hadworked tirelessly for garnering British support for independence. Hewas appointed as High commissioner to London. A man of forcefulopinions, he was controversial both in India and outside. They say itseemed strange that a man who carries a such a storm around him

should have been used for delicate diplomatic missions. He waslater made the minister for Defense. He shared a strainedrelationship with the then army chief General Thimmaya overprocurement of arms and deployment of troops during the Indo-China crisis. In spite of all these shortcomings, Nehru would turnblue when anyone pointed fingers at his diplomatic pet. During the

height of the cold war, the very news that he was scheduled tospeak in the General Assembly was good enough to cause a stir inthe United Nations and a minor stampede in its galleries. His five-hour speech on Kashmir followed by another two hours and 48minutes the next day set up an all-time record in any internationallocution or UN declamation


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V.K KRISHNA MENON


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Put funda Ottiyana (Ornament covering stomach) Hand

eyes nose throat left arm right wrist right leg

right arm genital organ great toe right toes finger left thigh

crown earring bone left anklet right anklet Navel

Tubular bones of the feet


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Sati the wife of lord Shiva killed herself unableto bear the insults of her father Daksha whochastised her for marrying Shiva. Shiva in hisrage, picked up the remains of Sati's body, anddanced the dance of destruction through theUniverse. The other gods intervened to stop thisdance, and the Vishnu's disk, or SudarshanaChakra, cut through the corpse of Sati. The

various parts of the body fell at several spots allthrough the Indian subcontinent and formedsites which are known as Shakti Peethas today.


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4) CN Annadurai once sarcastically

remarked ' If we had to accept the

principle of numerical superiority while

selecting our national bird, the choice

would have fallen not on the peacock but

on the common crow.' What was he taking

a dig at?


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Imposition of Hindi as official

language


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Ellatuvalapil ___________ from Palakkad district ofKerala. He won the railway minister's award for thereconstruction of Pamban bridge that connectedRameswaram to Tamil Nadu in 1963.

Later he was appointed the CMD of Konkan Railway oncontract in 1990. Under his stewardship, the companyexecuted its mandate in seven years.

He was made the managing director of ______ _______and by mid-2005, all the scheduled sections werecompleted by their target date or before and within their

respective budgets. He was given the sobriquet of________Man by the media. In 2005, he was awardedthe Chevalier de la Legion d'Honneur (Knight of theLegion of Honor) by the government of France


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E Sreedharan of Delhi Metro


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It is grown exclusively in the upper areas of theGangetic Plains. To protect the farmers of thisregion, India and Pakistan have decided to applyfor a joint registration of the ________.

It successful, the efforts to gain geographicalindication, or GI, will have a global impact. Indiais the largest producer in the world followed byPakistan.

In essence, India and Pakistan are unable toagree on a definition of what constitutes _____ Indian scientists are also mapping its DNA.


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Basmati


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This term was probably first used to describe theterrain of election campaigns in the 1977general election. Farmers and villagers who livein the countryside of northern India, a denselypopulated area that city people scornfullydubbed the __ ____ because devout Hindufarmers do not slaughter the sacred animals. Bigblocks of parliamentary seats from the ___

_____ region have been crucial to all five of theCongress Party's national electoral victories inthe Nehru-Indira era .


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COW BELT


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He is 85 now, and still teaches at the institute inPune, India, that he founded in 1973. He taughthis first class in 1936, but it wasn't until he struckup a lifelong friendship with violinist Yehudi

Menuhin that brought his teachings to the West. With his long white hair pulled back off a broad

forehead, eyes undimmed by age, eyebrows forwhich bushy would be an inadequate epithet, heis clearly not a man to mess with.

He was so demanding a teacher that some ofhis earliest British disciples had described himas Bang Kick Slap ______


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BangKickSlap IYENGAR


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Each group tends to belong to the sameinstitution or literary and artistic group or thesame political party, with their very own devil'sadvocate for verbal combat or what is known

as____ .This word is hard to define, though it isintegral to Bengali life. Before the 1930'sBengalis had akharas where young men wouldgo regularly to build their physical fitness. Duringthe nationalist movement akharas became

hotbeds of seditious activity and werediscouraged by the govt. So the more informal

___ was used.


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Adda


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The three white lines represented the different

geographical units of _____ _____and its

frontiers. The red colour was the symbol of the

worker and the force of progress and the ploughof the kisans, formed the backbone of the

State's people. The plough on a red background

symbolizing labor substituted the Maharaja's

state flag. Three stripes represent the threedistinct administrative divisions of the state,

namely ____,________, and_______


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The flag of Jammu and Kashmir, designed

by Sheikh Abdullah. The three regions

are Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh.


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Connect


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Tughlaq

Karnad's second play, written in 1964, is perhaps hisbest known

The play shows the transformation of the character of

the medieval ruler Mohammad bin Tughlaq. Cho's magazine is called Tughlaq.Its mascot draws from

Muhammad bin Thuglak, Sultan of Delhi; on whom in1968, the founder staged a play and later a movie in1971. The plot is a socio-political satire, which narratesthe scheme and success of a small band of idealists whotake over the Government of India as the resurrectedMuhammad bin Thuglak.


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They wrote to each other with rapturous frequency but themost intimate letters will never be available to scholars and

historians.

Natwar singh once asked Vijaya Lakshmi, if the rumours

about X having an affair with Y were true. She was herself

a diva and uninhibited in her conversation. She said to me:

Of course he did. And good for him.


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Nehru, Edwina

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