PowerPoint Presentation

ShankarPoLi, Poli Shankara and Kampni 2017QMs: Kaustuba and Lingaraj

40 questions +1 AV theme round. All written.Each question carries 1 point each, unless mentioned otherwisePart points given at QMs discretion.

1B.L. Rices 19th century Gazetteer of Mysore throws light on the probable origins of the names of these two places in Karnataka. One of them is a district, the other a locality within Bangalore with a popular urban legend about its etymology.Both these places, as per the gazetteer, derive their names from the single petal flower known as Thumbe Hoovu (leucas indica), that used to be found in these regions.Name the two places

Tumkur old name Tumbeguru/Tummeguru.Domlur old name Tumbaluru.

Answer

2Name the 1964 movie (clue pic below) whose titular characters existence has been questioned by prominent Kannada historians like N.S. Rangaraju and the late Kalburgi on account of lack of any credible evidence.

AnswerAmarashilpi Jakanachari believed to have been the artist behind many of the sculptures in Hoysala temples

3The Tamil film Alibabavum 40 Thirudargalum, a landmark movie for South Indian film Industry for being the first full length colour feature film in any South Indian language, has a Karnataka connection. The outdoor shoots for the movie took place largely in Mysore. This is because the movie depended on Mysore Reserve Police for something very specific that was integral to its story. What?

AnswerMysore Reserve Police had a Mounted police division that inherited a large number of horses from the Mysore Wodeyars royal stables.The mounted police still exists, albeit less active today

4Pictured is a Padma Shri award winning theater actor well known for portraying villainous characters like Duryodhana, Raavana, Khamsa etc.The actor also founded the _____ Nataka Mandali (pic 2) in 1958, the first of its kind in Karnataka.Name the actor and the troupe

AnswerR NagarathnammaStree Nataka Mandali (all actors in the picture are women)

5Pranay Lals popular science book Indica: A Deep Natural History of the Indian Subcontinent begins with the below accountDrive out of X for about 70 kilometres and you will arrive at the 1479-metre-high Y Hills belonging to a family of rocks called the Z Craton that was formed about 3.5 billion years ago. A craton is that part of Earths crust that has remained largely unchanged for billions of years. [Thus] Y Hills is among the oldest rocks in India and it is literally a part of the very bedrock on which the country stands!Also, the age of the Z Craton makes India one of the oldest land masses in the world. Only Australia, Greenland and South Africa have rocks that are older than those found here.

Name i) X city ii)Y Hills iii) Z Craton (so named because the earliest evidence of the craton formation was found in Z district in North Karnataka)

AnswerX BangaloreY Nandi Hills Z Dharwar Craton(The hills in Lalbagh also belong to the same family)

6. He started his career working on Ravichandran movies like Naanu Nanna Hendthi and Prema Loka.His first major Bollywood gig was the 1990 multi-starrer Hum where his choreography for the song Jumma Chumma De De won him his first Filmfare award. One of his more recent works has been on the song Lungi Dance from Chennai Express.In the mid 90s he helped turn Akshay Kumars career around with hits like Tu Cheez Badi Hai Mast and Churake Dil Mera, at a time when other contemporary choreographers like Saroj Khan dismissed him as a stuntman unfit to dance and refused to work with him.His wife is also a frequent collaborator on his projects. They won a national Award in 2008 for Jodha Akbar.Name this husband-wife choreographer duo from namma Karnataka.

Chinni Prakash and Rekha Prakash

7) Identify these entrepreneurs and the Bangalore based start-ups they founded.3 pointer (1/2 + 1/2) x 3

AnswerRashmi Daga Fresh MenuShubhra Chadda - ChumbakRicha Kar - Zivame

In an article published in 2002, Jyotsna Kamat recounts the efforts and contributions of Xs in philanthropic deeds throughout history in Karnataka.She highlights two such instances i) the Shantisagara lake in Davanagere, and ii) the Mahakuta group of temples in Bagalkote.The legend of the lake has been bolstered by Basavas Siddhalinga Kavya that talks about a 10th century woman named Mahibhadra who donated large amounts of wealth for building an irrigation tank in present day Channagiri in Davanagere.Donations to Mahakuta temple, on the other hand, has been acknowledged in an inscription within the temple.

William Darlymple, in his book, Nine Lives, also highlights a similar effort by the Xs in aiding the construction of the famed Virupaksha temple. This donation is also acknowledged in an inscription.

Who are Xs?8

AnswerDevadasisShantisagara is more commonly known as Sule Kere. As per the article, until about 18th century, sule was used as an honorific to refer to Devadasis

Cartoons showing a popular husband & wife pair from Kannada literature. The husband, apart from being a photographer and writer himself, has been the subject of many a humorous short stories written by the wife, who is also an AIR broadcaster, and historian.Today, the couple is known for a popular blog they started that calls itself a Hodge-podge of History, Mystery and, Diversity of India (and lots of pictures)Name the blogFor bonus points name cartoonist9

Kamats Potpourri started by by Krishnanand Kamat, Jyotsna Kamat.Cartoonist - Hublikar

10Around mid 90s, this agricultural town in Karnataka found another use for its crop and has since turned into a prime exporter of an oleoresin (a naturally occurring oil extracted from plants) that is used in the preparation of lipsticks and nail polish as a colouring agent.This also led to the boom of cold storage industry in the town as cold storage helps preserve the natural colour and also increases the amount of oleoresin extracted from the crop.Both in the crops use as well as the way it is treated and preserved after harvest, it is a far cry from what it is primarily known for.Name the town/crop

AnswerByadagi/Byadagi chillies

11Identify the singer/ activist who was awarded the Padma Shri this year. Name the community she belongs to?

Sukrajji aka Sukri Bommegowda Halakki community of Ankola

Places like Masti/Mastigudi get their name from stone tablets such as these, erected to honour specific acts of sacrifice. Explain the etymology

12

AnswerThe stone tablet is called Mastigallu. These are erected to honour a Maha Sati. Masti is a shortened corruption of Mahasati.

13In August 2016, nearly 20 years after the original event took place, an excerpt of it was uploaded on YouTube. Such was the events popularity and so rare was finding a footage of it that the video garnered more than half a million views within four days of being uploaded. And most comments on it read like a nostalgia trip with each person identifying exactly what they were doing on that day.What video/event?

AnswerSrinath and Kumble taking India home against Australia in the Titan Cup match held in Bangalore.(When last checked, the youtube account that uploaded this video had been terminated.)

14X : Native of Belur. Son of Krishnamachar. Given name Sundararaja. Y : Native of Bukkasagara. Son of Krishnayya. Given name Srinivas.

How do we better know X and Y

BKS IyengarBKS Varma

Answer

15A) __________ is a Kannada writer of novels and short stories from Kasargod.Her books usually relate the plight of Muslim women in Kerala and Karnataka. Her most famous novel, Chandragiriya Theeradalli (1984), was adapted into a National Award winning movie in 2011 (the first in a particular language), albeit without her consent, creating quite a stir. Name the writer and the movie.

B) ________ is also a well-known Kannada writer and a social activist from Hassan that writes on topics concerning Muslim women.Her short story Kari Nagaragalu was adapted as _______ in 2005 starring Tara in the titular role, which also earned her a national award.Again, name the writer and the movie.

2 pointer = (1/2 + 1/2) x2

AnswerB) Banu Mushtaq. Hasina

A) Sara Aboobacker. Byari

16A graphic designer by profession, his other passion is caricature. But what brought him recognition was a hurried work of half finished art done for a youth organization in his hometown of Kasargod thats become ubiquitous in Bangalore now.

What did he create for them?

Angry HanumanArtist Karan Acharya

Answer

17What was installed at its present bastion in Bijapur by one Pandit Murari, a general under Adil Shah with the aid of 10 elephants and 400 oxens after capturing it as a war trophy from Ahmednagar in early 17th century?

The famed canon, Malik-e-Maidan

What is this a map of? What town in Karnataka that helped answer a long standing question has been blanked out?

18

Map of Ashokan edictsMaski in Raichur the first edict to contain the name Ashoka, all previous discoveries had him known by the names Devanampiya and Piyadasi

Answer

19Excerpts from architect Charles Correas memoir, A Place in the Shade, where he talks about his work on what was then just called new town in Bagalkote.This town will have 100,000 inhabitants some are new migrants and some are families displaced by X. We based all designs on traditional typologies so that families can recycle their existing doors, windows, balconies which the government is helping them salvage from their old homes.There are 49 sectors in all, arranged in a pattern of concentric rings with the town center in the innermost one. In this, I was much influenced by Y, an ancient temple town consisting of seven concentric rectangles of which ancient temples occupy the innermost three.

Name the townshipWhat were the families displaced by? (X)What is the temple town being spoken about? (Y) Images next slides

Township map

Temple Town Map

Answeri) Navanagarii) Displaced after the height of Almatti Dam was raised in the 1980siii) Srirangam, near Trichy, Tamil Nadu

20The _____ system was first introduced in Mysore by G P. Sanderson in 1873 at Kardihalli. The venue of such events was the Kakanakote forest on the banks of the Kabini River. This used to be organized at frequent intervals, usually coinciding with the visit of a dignitary to the state. It was discontinued in 1973 following the enactment of a law.What is being talked about that, curiously enough, derives its name from an earlier less effective system used for the same purpose that it replaced?

AnswerKhedda the pen and stockade system of trapping wild elephantsName derived from Hindi word for ditches, which was the earlier method of capturing elephants.Similar systems like Khedda was in use throughout India, but Nort East and Karnataka were the more prominent examples specifically used for capturing elephants.

21Who was the lead pair in the following 60s Kannada movies? (Exhaustive List)Chinnada GombeMane AliyaMavana MagaluNanna Kartavya

(No part points)

AnswerJayalalitha and Kalyan Kumar

22A burning issue in Karnataka finds its origins in the Kannada Sahitya Sammelana held in Manipal in 1961.The president of the sammelana, A.N. Krishna Rao (AaNaKru) spoke about it in his official address calling this practice detrimental to Kannada language and culture. His proposal to tackle it was included as one of the seven resolutions of the meet and has snowballed into a major movement today. To this day, the Kannada Sahitya Parishat backs this movement that has caused frequent frictions with the neighboring states.

What issue?

AnswerAnti dubbing - Opposition to dubbing of Tamil/Telugu/Malayalam movies into Kannada.(Recently, arson threats were issued to Karnataka theaters screening dubbed version of Ajith starrer Satyadev IPS.)

23Two main features of architect Anil Bhaskarans designs for office buildings are -i)less use of glass, and ii) inspiration from nature and surroundingsThis building, Infosys Mangala in Mangalore, for example, is influenced by the step farming technique apparently practiced in coastal Karnataka.

A prominent Bangalore building designed by Anil also has similar design principles. Unlike other buildings in its vicinity, it has minimal glass surface and its shape, resembling a wave, is inspired by the fact that there are no straight lines in natureWhat building?

AnswerJal Bhavan on Bannerghatta Road.

24

This chapel is now named after a missionary of the London Missionary Society who was also a Kannada scholar and a pioneer of education in the Bangalore Pete region.

Name the church and the street on which it stands.

AnswerRice Memorial ChurchAvenue Road

25

This idol in Dodda Malloor, Chennapatna taluk is believed to be the only idol of Krishna in this pose. One of the most popular Purandaradasa Kriti was apparently composed in appreciation of its beauty.

It is popular among issueless couples who believe if they pray here, they will be blessed with a child

Name the kriti/ composition that has been immortalized by the renditions of stalwarts likes of M S Subbulakshmi and Balamuralikrishna ? Although the idol has names like Aprameyan and Navaneetha Krishna, what name is it more popularly known by?

Answer"Jagadodharana Adisidale YasodeAmbegaalu Krishna

26Shankar Nag reprising the role played by Rajkumar in a 1960 National Award Winning Kannada film for a 1988 docudrama directed by Girish Karnad. The 1960 film holds the distinction of being the 100th Kannada film. Name the character played by Shankar Nag or the 1960 film.

AnswerBhakta Kanakadasa

27Speaking about a 1996 autobiography of a Kannada poet, late Kannada literary critic D R Nagaraj felt, the work resounded with poor mans laughter. It has been hailed as one of the most significant autobiographical writings to be published in Kannada and was translated into English recently as A Word With You, World: The Autobiography of a Poet. The Kannada title of this two part autobiography translates to Neighbourhood. Name the autobiography and the poet.

AnswerSiddalingaiahOoru Keri

28This panel from a 11 century Hoysala temple in Tarikere taluk is depicting an episode from Indian mythology thats believed to have happened on the seventh day of the dark fortnight in the month of Bhadrapada. This episode is also the source of a very popular Kannada proverb. A newspaper article on the temple once described it as amarchitrakatha on stone for the rich details from the Indian puranas in the panels in the outer praakara of the temple. Identify the temple Name the Kannada proverbWho is the mythological character prostrating in the picture?

AnswerAmrutheshwara templeKaryavasi katte kaalu hidiVasudeva As per a version of Mahabharata, every night during the birth of a child to Vasudeva and Devaki, a donkey would bray loudly thus alerting Khamsa. On the eve of Krishnas birth, Vasudeva pleads with the donkey to stay quiet.

29In 1951, the tenants of a village in Sagara taluk,Shimoga protested, among other things, against the unjust measure used by landlords to calculate rent paid in kind. This was the first movement of its kind in post independent India. Initially the movement was restricted to tenants, from lower-caste Deewar community. Later the movement was backed by the socialist party and attracted supporters from many student bodies all over the state. Among the many students involved in this event, as many as four went on to become chief ministers of Karnataka. Identify the village.

AnswerKagodu

30Who? And why is Cyprus honoring an Indian soldier ?

AnswerGeneral K.S. ThimayyaHe died on active duty as Commander of UN Peace Keeping Force in Cyprus

31

Screenshot from a films division documentary on a remarkable Kannadiga showing his footprints across India. Name him.

AnswerSir M Vishweshwariah(pic shows his contribution to water supply schemes for various towns in India)

32Historians, geologists and archeologists have long pondered about the plausible factors culminating in this ecological disaster. Among the reasons cited for it is a Vijayanagar era dam and an active fault line around the region. Folk traditions attribute it to another reason. What ecological disaster?

AnswerSand in Talakadu

33

God ___ ____ with Goradrove cattle with Chokha.cut grass with Samvata,wove garments with Kabir,coloured hide with Ravidassold meat with the butcher Sajana,melted gold with Narahari,carried cow-dung with Janabai,and even became the Mahar messenger of Damaji

-- Translation of Ekanaths poem

AnswerBaked PotsBhakta Kumbara is based on Goras life.

34A 1799 Pen-and-ink and water-colour drawing of the "Kankanhalli River" by Elisha Trapaud. Identify the river that's much abused due to anthropogenic activities.

Kanakanahalli is the old name of Kanakapura. The river in this drawing is Arkavati.

AnswerArkavati River (Kankanhalli is now known as Kanakapura)

35In 2014, Karnataka government banned a bookby K.S. Narayanacharya, on the grounds that it contains material that hurts the sentiments of a community. Citing the reasons for the banning this work a minister opined that the author had hijacked the icon of a community and created a divide in society. The government then set up a 14 member committee headed by Prof. Ham Pa Nagarajaiah to determine the caste of of Ratnakara the subject of the banned book. How do we better know Ratnakara?

AnswerValmiki (Book : Valmiki Yaaru)

36The [X] [Y] festival was started in the year 1997 by an ex-employee of State Bank of India who was associated with [Y] in some form. The idea was initially conceived as a platform in which the different [X] families can get together. Realizing common passion of [Y] among [X]s, it was decided that a [Y] festival would be a good event to bring the families together.

Each year the festival is organised by a different family and the name of the family is given to the event. The organising family is mainly responsible for arranging the finances and infrastructure needed for the festival, which is then recovered from the sponsors.

This unique festival was also the subject of a 2015 documentary by Sandhya Kumar.

What festival?

AnswerKodava Hockey Festival founded by Pandanda Kuttappa(2015 documentary being Hockey in My Blood)

37Who is being awarded with a Karnataka Sahitya Akademi award in which category for what work?

AnswerSrinath PerurTranslation of a Kannada novel to EnglishGachar Gochar

38At the 2004 Athens Olympics, in the last of the Womens Heptathlon events, the 800m race, this Indian athlete put up a stellar performance to loud cheers and standing ovation from the crowd to finish third in a time quite close to her personal best.

But at the end of the race the scoreboard in the stadium only flashed DNS (did not start) against her name. Why did this happen? Who is the athlete?

AnswerDharwad born athlete J.J.Shobha

While competing in Javelin throw, the penultimate event of the heptathlon, Shobha had injured her leg. The official doctors, after examining her, had ruled her out of competition saying she wouldnt walk for a week. Hence nobody expected her to start the 800m event.

39.

Popular Kannada villains, Vasishta Simha and Madhu, dubbing for a movie they were not originally a part of. What movie?

Dubbing for Anil and Uday in Mastigudi

40

A Bangalore road was originally named (A) to commemorate the visit of this English prince to the city in 1889. During this visit, the prince also laid the foundation of an iconic Bangalore structure (B) that bore his name for over 50 years.

Post independence, the road was renamed to honor an illustrious Kannadiga from Bijapur(C).BBMP now plans to rename the road to (D) again that has Kannada activists up in arms.

Identify all (1/2 x 4). Writer (C) was chosen for a very specific reason. What reason? (1)

AnswerA Albert VictorB - Glasshouse LalbaghC Alur Venkat RaoD Tipu SultanSame initials A.V shared by Albert Victor and Alur Venkatrao. The road is sometimes referred to as just A.V. Road.

Stage - 26 cluesAll connected to a common themePoints for theme crack decreases from +6 through to +1No negatives maximum of two shots at the theme per team.

a) +6 points

b) + 5 points

c) +4 points

d) + 3 points

e) +2 points

f) +1 point

AnswerH.Y. Sharada Prasad, media advisor to Indira Gandhi, Morarji Desai and Rajiv Gandhi

Explanations follow

KV, Kaustuba (KK) -

His father was the noted Carnatic composer H Yoganarasimhan (song 1). Indian Oceans Rahul Ram(song 2) is his nephew. HYSP himself had a great knowledge of classical music. He also led a campaign to have M.S. Subbulakshmi awarded the Bharat Ratna.

The Kannada song Tandanu heard in the question was something Rahul Ram picked up as a child from his aunts and his grandmother, Sharada Prasads mother, Rajam Saraswathi. She was an educationist, actively involved with Makkala Koota in Bangalore and also founded its Mysore Chapter. Prasad was closely associated with the institution since his childhood.

Later in life, he spearheaded the efforts in the establishment of The Indian Institute of Mass Communication and The National Institute of Design.

He wrote Kannada translation of R.K. Narayans Swami and Friends and English translation of Shivram Karanths autobiography Huchchu Manasina Hattu Mukhagalu.

But he is mostly remembered for his career in the PMO serving a string of Indian Prime Ministers as a media advisor.

-

FolkSukri Bommagowda79046.43eng - converted by convert2mp3.net