THE ILLUMINATI INDIA QUIZ 2015

PRELIMS

1. IDENTIFY THE LOGO

2. IDENTIFY THE MISSING COMPONENT

BIHAR KARNATAKA

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3. WHO IS X?• Writing in the Times of India article, describing this Nobel

Laureate’s 1993 visit to Mumbai, Anvar Alikhan says:“X was apparently as handsome as a Greek God in his youth(far better looking than Russell Crowe anyway), but now there was an air of vulnerability about him. He smiled in a slightly lop-sided way, and his eyes seemed shadowed with the sadness of the years. As he walked in through the door, with the awkward, bouncy gait, clutching a bedraggled bunch of flowers in hands held up clumsily near his chin, for his newly wed wife.”

4. WHAT TREND IS BEING DEPICTED?

5. WHAT IS THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THIS FAMOUS SHOT ?

6. IDENTIFY THE BLACKED OUT PERSON

7. DESCRIBING THIS LONG-KNOWN EATABLE, AMIR KHUSRO WRITES

8. What is the context?

• Freedom at midnight, a long 68 years later A 14-ft pandal has been erected, a 5X5ft LCD screen brought to the village, a new approach bridge has been built with 200 bamboos to accommodate OB vans and a handful of tricolors have been kept ready, all to herald the special moment on July 31 midnight, when a 68-year-old historical error will be rectified. Every Moshaldanga home will light 68 candles that night to mark their struggle for "Independence". 

The company recently made history when it was sold for 1651 crore to Emami by its founder at more than 5 times its annual revenue just a little after 6 years of inception of the brand in a one room office in Ambala near Chandigarh. Juhi Chawla is/has been brand ambassador for it.

9. Identify the company.

• During the emergency Govt. of India passed the MISA Act to maintain law and order in the country. It increased the powers of the state considerably and most of the arrests and other excesses committed during emergency were attributed to it. Though officially named Maintenance of Internal Security Act it came to be known as Maintenance of X and Y Act due dominance of X and Y in Indian politics. Give X and Y.• No part points.

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• Participating in the discussion on railway budget, Trivedi said aides of Y, who played the character of Z, had approached him during his days in the rail ministry, seeking permission to shoot a train sequence for 'X'. "I put three conditions: that they will not show that passengers in India travel on roofs of trains, that there will no compromise with safety during the shoot, and that O would sign up as a brand ambassador for Indian Railways. As per the third condition, which was only added in jest, Z would be required to say that 'Indian Railways is stronger than Z'," he said.• Give X,Y,Z.

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• Sati, the consort of Shiva was the daughter of Daksha Prajapati. Sati had married Shiva against the wishes of her father. The vain Daksha performed a great yagna (with the sole aim of insulting his son-in-law), to which he invited all of the gods and goddesses except Shiva. Against Shiva's wishes, Sati attended this sacrifice and was insulted by her father. Unable to bear the insult, Sati immolated herself.

• Enraged at the insult and the injury, Shiva in the form of Veerabhadra, destroyed Daksha's sacrifice, cut off Daksha's head and replaced it with that of a goat, as he restored him to life. Still crazed with grief, he picked up the remains of Sati's body, and danced the dance of destruction throughout the Universe. The other gods intervened to stop this dance, until finally Vishnu’s Sudarshan Chakra cut through the corpse of Sati, the various parts of which fell at several spots all over the Indian subcontinent, forming the sites that are known as X today.

• The sanctity of which places has been described in the following way.

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13. Identify the sport.• It is a traditional Indian sport in which a gymnast performs

feats and poses in concert with a vertical wooden pole or rope. The word also refers to the pole used in the sport.• The name can be translated to English as "pole

gymnastics".• The Madhya Pradesh government on April 9, 2013 declared

it as the state sport.

14.• On 9th August 2015, in a match between India A vs

South Africa A, 10 South African Players were down with food poisoning. Due to the absence of substitutes, Mandeep Singh, who had yet to make his international debut, took the field for South Africa A.

• Incidentally, 28 years before, in an exhibition match between India and Pakistan at the CCI Mumbai, an Indian youngster fielded for Pakistan for 25 odd minutes under Imran Khan. India won the match, and the youngster went unnoticed till he made his international debut a few years later against Imran Khan’s Pakistan. Identify the youngster.

15.• X has often been cited as the “Eton of the East” by media

outlets such as BBC, the Guardian, Financial Times, the Daily Telegraph, Forbes and the Economist. The best known alumnus of X is possibly former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi. It was founded in 1935 by Satish Ranjan Das, an advocate from Calcutta. • Vikram Seth used his experiences at X to model the

character of Tapan in his novel Y.• ID X and Y.

16.X is an experimental township in Viluppuram district in Tamil Nadu. It was founded in 1966 by Mirra Alfessa and designed by architect Roger Anger. It is meant to be a universal town where men and women of all countries live in peace and progressive harmony, above all creeds, politics and nationalities. The population of this township is 2345, from 50 nationalities with neighbourhoods named Aspiration, Arati, La Ferme and Isiambalam. Identify X.

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• During the samudra manthan (churning of the sea), when the urn containing the amrita appeared, a fight ensued between the gods and the asuras. For 12 days and nights they fought in the sky for the pot of amrita. It is believed that during the battle,the celestial bird, Garuda,the vehicle of Vishnu flew away with the pot of elixir and that is when drops of amrita fell on four places on earth. What mass event takes place in India in this context.

18. Identify the dish ubiquitous in Goan menus• This is a curry prepared in Goa, with complex spicing,

including white poppy seeds, sliced or grated coconut and large dried red chilies. It is usually prepared with chicken or lamb, although you can find vegetarian preparations as well.

19. Give reason for the omission• When the electoral rolls were being made for the first

general elections of India after independence the EC faced a unique problem.• CEC Sukumar Sen was outraged by this and directed his

officers to insert the names instead of mere descriptions. • Nonetheless 2.8 million names were omitted from the

voter’s list which CEC thought was good as it would help remove the prejudice by the time of next elections.

20.• X is a classical dance form of india that roughly

translates to ‘dance of the enchantress’. X is proposed to have a mythical connection with the female form of one of the deities of the Hindu religion. Padma Shree Dr. Kanak Rele is one of the most famous exponents of X.

• Identify the classical dance form depicted in the picture.