Incredible India Quiz

Aditya Shekhar Acharya

Ashwini Kumar Sahay

Finals

Round 1

• Infinite Bounce And Pounce

• +15/-10 on pounce

• +10/0 on bounce

• Team 1 to Team 8

1.

The story goes…

• The original image of X manifested in the form of Blue Jewel. It was sodazzling that it could grant instant moksha, so Yama wanted to hide it. KingIndradyumna wanted to find that mysterious image and performedharsh penances to obtain his goal. Vishnu then instructed him to go to Y andfind a floating log to make an image from its trunk. The King found the log ofwood. Vishnu himself appeared in the guise of a carpenter to make the idolson condition that he was to be left undisturbed until he finished the work.But just after two weeks, the Queen became very anxious. She took thecarpenter to be dead as no sound came from the temple. Therefore, sherequested the king to open the door. Thus, they went to see Vishnu at workat which the latter abandoned his work leaving the idols unfinished.

Answer

2.

Connect:

• Shubh Yatra

• Jet Wings

• Go-Getter

• Hello 6E

• Spice Route

Answer

In-flight magazines of Indian Airline Companies

3.

• On some days, Boa Sr would sit silently in the jungle surrounding herhome on one of India's Andaman Islands and gaze up at the sky.According to researchers who looked on, birds perched above woulddescend to the ground and inspect her; in turn Boa Sr spoke to them inher native tongue, calling them her ancestors and her friends. Herspeech was rich with words of the natural world, words of the forest andthe sea that some linguists suspect date back tens of thousands of yearsto the first migrations of man. Boa Sr was the last person alive to knowthem. In early February, she passed away, leaving behind no survivingsiblings or children. As she died, so too did the language of her people.The extinction of which Indian Language has been talked about. [pic nextslide]

Answer

Bo

4.

• The X rose is 'Saffron-Vermillion Red with Yellow River' and hasGerman parentage and has been carefully developed after nearlyfive years of research and development at the world-famous KSGRose, Bangalore. A new, specially-developed variety of rose hastaken birth at the Dombivli Rose Society. Id X.

Answer

• Modi Rose

5.

• 1st-Otis Davis

• 2nd-Carl Kaufmann

• 3rd-Malcolm Spence

• 4th-??

Answer

6.

• The Indians paid 12 villages to the Pakistanis in 1960s in exchange for the village of Hussainiwala, a small village in Punjab.

• What made this village so special for India to have?

Answer

Burial site of the three martyrs

7.The color scheme of which movie was inspired by the painting ‘Pratima Visarjan‘ by GaganendranathTagore?

Answer

8.

• In the 1984-85 season, India and Pakistan were playing the 2nd

ODI in Sialkot. Indian team was at 210/3 and Vengsarkar was at94*. At this point, the match was suddenly abandoned. Why?

Answer

• Assassination of Indira Gandhi

Round 2

• Infinite Bounce And Pounce

• +15/-10 on pounce

• +10/0 on bounce

• Team 8 to Team 1

1.

Whose timeline?• Born in Jaspur, near Nainital, on 21 May, 1857• In 1876, he joined Muir Central College at Allahabad• Passed the Vakil's Examination of the High Court in 1880 and was enrolled as a Vakil

on 21 December 1880• In 1896, Allahabad High Court raised him to the rank and status of Advocate• The distinction of 'Rai Bahadur' was conferred on him in 1905• Was appointed a CIE in 1907• In 1909 he accepted a seat on the Bench of the Judicial Commissioner's Court

at Lucknow for a few months and in 1914 officiated as a Judge of the Allahabad HighCourt

• In 1906, he became the first Indian Vice Chancellor of Allahabad University. He wasreappointed to that office in 1912 and 1916

• Died in Allahabad on 13 February 1918 at age 61

Answer

• Sir Sunderlal

2.

Answer

3.

• This village in Haryana, earlier known as Chuma Kheragaon, nowbears the name of someone who once memorably told Playboy:"I've looked on a lot of women with lust. I've committed adulteryin my heart many times. This is something that God recognizes Iwill do--and I have done it--and God forgives me for it." Who?

Answer

Jimmy Carter

4.

• Which company began as a joint venture agreement betweenPriya Exhibitors Private Limited and Village Roadshow Limited in1995 with 60:40 ratio & began its commercial operations in June1997?

Answer

5.A new place was started after the shutting down of these 2 places. What was the new place?

Answer

Cellular Jail

6.

• X was created by Sir Fredrick Lawley by combining and developing a few villages.

• X?

Answer

Malgudi

7.

• In 1904, Viceroy Lord Curzon, on behalf of the King Emperor,bestowed upon X the Kaisar-i-Hind Gold Medal. In 2013, thecrater _____ on Mercury was named in his honor. Considering hisvast contribution to Indian culture, the Government of Kerala hasinstituted an award called “X Puraskaram”. X’s representationof mythological characters has become a part of the Indianimagination of the epics. He is often criticized for being too showyand sentimental but his work remains very popular in India.

Answer

Raja Ravi Varma

8.

• What was founded in 2007 by Vishal Mehta, a Cornell and MITSloan alumni after working for Dell computers and Amazon.com inthe US for five years, along with a group of ex-Amazonemployees?

Answer

Round 3

• Pick Your Pill

• On direct: +20/-20

• Open to all: +10/0

Business Entertainment Literature Sports

Politics Geography F&B SurpriseMe

Surprise!!!

SURPRISE!!!

• X is a legendary winged warrior prince of a fictional fabledfairyland. He descended to earth on a private mission and landedin Vikasnagar, becoming a zealous defender of interests ofVikasnagar. His real name is Rajkumar Alop.

• X can summon the ‘X-Shakti’, by hailing his name in battle,shouting ‘Jai Mahaguru X’. He acquires super-human physicalattributes, apart from receiving the mystical Sword and Shield ofhis master.

Answer

Geography

GEOGRAPHY

• The city was founded as Mayarashtra by Maya, father ofMandodari, Ravana’s wife in Ramayana. It’s also known as ‘Ravanaka sasural’. In the Ramayana, Shravana Kumar carried his parentsto all the pilgrimage sites in India, but it’s believed that when hepassed through this city, he put down his parents for a while toget rest and water. It was here that King Dashratha mistookShravana for a deer and shot him with an arrow. Shravana’sparents declared that King Dashratha’s own first son wouldabandon him when he would need him the most.

• Which city?

Answer

Meerut

F & B

F & B

•The dish likely originated in the city of Puri about 2,000 years ago. It is

cooked to this day within the temple precincts there. Every single day,

hundreds of temple cooks work to cook this dish, enough to feed at

least 10,000 people.

•It’s more famous name is derived from the Sanskrit word for milk.

•Which dish is being mentioned here?

Answer

Kheer

Sports

SPORTS

• “I never dared to break the glass of his house while playing cricket as I used to be extremely scared of him.”

• Virender Sehwag talking about which former childhood neighbourof his from Najafgarh?

Answer

Sushil Kumar

Politics

POLITICS

• Suhasini Haidar is the Foreign Affairs Editor for CNN-IBN. Shehas also worked with CNN International, regularly reportingfrom the Indian sub-continent. She comes from a family withhigh political and judicial leanings.

• Who is her more famous father?

Answer

Subramaniam Swamy

Business

BUSINESS

• Identify this fast growing business house.

Answer

Entertainment

ENTERTAINMENT

• A tribute to which Indian movie?

Answer

Pyaasa

Literature

LITERATURE

• Whose tombstone?

Answer

Round 4

• The Pursuit Of Nihilanth

• +10/0

• Which of these are UNESCO World Heritage Sites?

Rani Ki Vav, Gujarat

Golconda Fort

Great Living Chola Temples

The Maharaja Railways of

India

Champaner-Pavagadh

Archaeological Park, Gujarat

Tomb of SherShah Suri, Sasaram

Nanda Devi and Valley of Flowers

National Parks

Jantar Mantar, Delhi

Churches and Convents of Goa

The KangraValley Railway

Great Himalayan

National Park

Chilika Lake

Group of Monuments at

Pattadakal, Karnataka

Mughal Gardens, J&K

KeoladeoNational Park

Sarnath, U.P

• Which of these are Jyotirlingas?

GrihneshwarTemple,

Aurangabad

Lingaraj Temple,Bhubaneswar

NageshvaraTemple,Dwarka

EkambareswararTemple,

Kancheepuram

BhimashankarTemple,

Maharashtra

PashupatinathTemple,

Mandsaur, M.P

Vaidyanath Temple,Deoghar,

Jharkhand

Amarnath,J&K

OmkareshwarTemple,

M.P

SrikantheshwarTemple,Mysore

TrimbakeshwarTemple,

Maharashtra

MarkandeswararTemple,Chennai

MahakaleshwarTemple,Ujjain

Nataraj Temple,Chidambaram

MallikarjunaSwami Temple,

Srisailam

NeelkanthMahadev Temple,

Near Rishikesh

Round 5

• Visual Connect

• Points only for the overall theme (indicated on the slides)

Set 1

• +40/-20

Set 2

• +30/-15

Set 3

• +20/-10

Set 4

• +10/0

Answer

They all died outside India (Think outside the box)

• Dewang Mehta: Sydney, Australia• Sir Dorabji Tata: Bad Kissingen, Germany• C.K. Prahalad: San Diego, California, United States• J.R.D. Tata: Geneva, Switzerland• G.D. Birla: London, United Kingdom• Dev Anand: London, United Kingdom• Homi J. Bhabha: Mont Blanc• M.F. Husain: London, United Kingdom• Pt. Ravi Shankar: San Diego, California, United States• Udham Singh: Pentonville, United Kingdom• P.C. Sorcar: Ashaikawa, Hokkaidō, Japan• Lal Bahadur Shastri: Tashkent, Uzbekistan