India Quiz - FINALS QUIZZATHON-λ & Δ

ROUND 1 5 QUESTIONS+10 for each correct answer, no negativesExchange Sheets at the end

Question 1 Just like the Maharajah is to Air India, X is to Air Deccan. X is described as a “witness to the making of democracy”. The creator of X, Y is also the subject of the Autobiography “The Tunnel of Time”. Y has also worked on his elder brother’s works of fiction

What is X?

Question 2 Recently Ola cabs deployed Xs in city Y and were hailed for practical thinking and awareness as the situation went south. This novel idea was welcomed by everyone as Ola used the information from Fire and Rescue Department in deciding the places where to deploy these. Give X and Y

Question 3 This is a tribute by Coca Cola to one of the most iconic villains in Bollywood History. Who?

Question 4This is a sporting entity founded in the year 1983 to improve the state of the concerned sport in its home state. The name of the entity has roots in the local Khasi language meaning “Our Own”. As of now this Team occupies a spot in the top tier of the Sport in India.

Which Sporting Entity are we talking about?

Question 5 Who is behind this idea? Hint: He came to the fore in 2015.

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Question 1 Just like the Maharajah is to Air India, X is to Air Deccan. X is described as a “witness to the making of democracy”. The creator of X, Y is also the subject of the Autobiography “The Tunnel of Time”. Y has also worked on his elder brother’s works of fiction

What is X?

X-The Common Man Y- R.K. Laxman

Question 2 Recently Ola cabs deployed Xs in city Y and were hailed for practical thinking and awareness as the situation went south. This novel idea was welcomed by everyone as Ola used the information from Fire and Rescue Department in deciding the places where to deploy these. Give X and Y

X-Boats Y-Chennai

Question 3 This is a tribute by Coca Cola to one of the most iconic villains in Bollywood History. Who?

Question 5 Who is behind this idea? Hint: He came to the fore in 2015.

Kailash Sathyarthi

Round 2 Infinite pounce (+10/-5) for each correct answer+10 for each direct answer and a passInfinite bounce

Question-1 X was a self-proclaimed socialist, but on a trip to Bulgaria (a communist nation) he was arrested for speaking against the Bulgarian Government. This drew him towards Capitalism and made him realize that only entrepreneurship and job creation can help in poverty alleviation. Thus leading to the founding of ______ in 1981.

Identify X.

N. R. Narayana Murthy

Question-2 Referring to this building, Jawaharlal Nehru gave an address in 1956: “Here in the place of that Hijli Detention Camp stands the fine monument of India, representing India's urges, India's future in the making. This picture seems to me symbolical of the changes that are coming to India.” What was he talking about?

The setting up of the IIT’s

Question-3 X is a military drill originating in 16th Century England. Originally known as 'watch setting' it was used to recall patrolling units back to base with the firing of a single shot from the 'evening gun'.

In India, it concludes a certain 3-day festive period. X in turn is also the basis of Y, a particular drill conducted by the BSF. Y has been going on since 1959 and has been filmed and broadcast by Michael Palin for one of his television around-the-world travel programs describing it as a display of "carefully choreographed contempt."

Identify X and Y.

X-Beat The Retreat Y- Wagah Border ceremony

Question-4 Located in the city of town of Chadayamangalm, Kerala. The upcoming _____________ Nature Park will be offering the following facilities:

6D theatre

Cable car

Digital Museum

Adventure zone (with 20 games)

Facility for Bird’s eye view

Ayurvedic and Siddha cave resort

FITB AND give significance of the location.

The Jatayu National Park. The place where Jatayu fell after his fight with Raavana

Question-5 12th January is celebrated as National Youth Day in the remembrance of Swami Vivekananda. Thus acting as a beacon of inspiration for the youth of the country. He represented Hinduism in the Parliament of Religions back in 1893.

Interestingly, in 1993 X attended The Parliament of Religion. He was also elected as a committee member at the Assembly of Global Religions. X is someone we’d rather not have an influence over the youth of today.

Who is X?

Asaram Bapu

Question-6 Connect the following with a single term:Gael Monfils, Pete Sampras, Fabrice Santoro, Sania Mirza

Indra Lal Roy who received the Distinguished Flying Cross in 1918 after his death at the young age of 19

Ace/Aces

Question-7 The picture on the left is an entity that finds it’s origin in a blood-stained shirt.

The shirt was found in a 1931 uprising against the local Dogra rulers.

What is it?

The official flag of Jammu and Kashmir

Question-8 This is a poster from the 90’s. What has been blanked out here?

Sanjay Dutt

Round 3 Infinite pounce (+10/-5) for each correct answer+10 for each direct answer and a passInfinite bounce

Question-1Back in 2009, a certain shift in marketing strategy, prompted PETA to award Vodafone the ‘Glitterbox’ award. What shift took place?

Changing the focus of it’s advertisements from the “Pug” to ZooZoos

Question-2 X is a form of Vishnu particularly worshipped in Odisha where during the ________ festival thousands of devotees pull temple carts some 14m (45 feet) tall, weighing hundreds of tons through the streets. These carts seat three images of the deity, meant to be brothers for a 'stroll' outside after the ritual worship session. They are fed by thousands and thousands of worshipers with holy food, as if the icons were living.

Early European visitors witnessed these festivals and returned with—possibly apocryphal—reports of religious fanatics committing suicide by throwing themselves under the wheels of the carts. Thus leading to a word which is a metaphor for unstoppable and immense.

What word?

Juggernaut from “Jagannath”

Question-3 What’s special about the location marked on the map?

(Picture on the next slide)

India’s only military installation outside it’s borders

Question-4 In 1982, at the age of 22, an Indian architect landed an assignment with the Italian edition of Vogue on Rajasthani jewellery. This young girl went on to star in two movies: "In which Annie gives it those ones" and "Massey Sahib".

Who am I talking about?

Arundhati Roy

Question-5 ______ is an original Marathi word meaning "blossomed“. Its evolution/progression (towards the dark side) in the Marathi language started as its application to someone with high youth elements or budding hormones and subsequent behavior of that animal/human to establish control, create mischief, attract attention of opposite sex and other such indulgences. Over time this word has come to be associated with the rather unruly side of society. Movies like “Rangeela” and “Chushme Baddoor” (the original one) are associated with this word.

What’s the word?

Tapori

Question-6 In August 2014, the Indian Minister for IT launched the first ever top-level domain name in the Devanagaari 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

Question-7 Who is the subject of this Google doodle?

Shakuntala Devi

Question-8 In 2015, Marathi writer Bhalchandra Nemade, who professes "Deshivaad", a somewhat controversial literary theory that asserts that writers should look inward and resist globalisation, got into a spat with writer Salman Rushdie after he criticised Rushdie's literary works. Rushdie then wrote: "Grumpy old man. Just take your prize and say thank you nicely. I doubt you’ve even read the work you attack“.

What "prize" was Rushdie referring to?

The Jnanpith award- India’s highest literary honour

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Question-1 X was first issued in 1975. This first issue featured the image of an extremely important building in India, albeit without the Indian flag. A bare flagpole was depicted instead, since the photo of the building that the artist worked with was clicked at night – when the flag was down.

However around 1980, the design was changed and the building was now depicted with the Indian flag adorning the flapole.

The design was again changed in later years, with a lake that was depicted in front of the building in earlier versions, getting removed.

From 2005 onwards, X also started bearing the year of issue on it.

147 mm by 73 mm in size, what is X?

Question-2 X is one of the most famous films in the history of parallel cinema. When the director of X lost his funds to complete the film, the chief minister of the state shown in the film asked the PWD to finance the film. This is because the chief minister believed that the film which literally translates to “The song of the road” should be financed by a department which looks after Roads. ID X.

Question-3 At the Bangabandhu Stadium in Dhaka, Bangladesh, left hander Mehrab Hossain was caught by Keeper Khaled Mashud off the bowling of Safiullah Khan, on the 20th of February 1998, batting for Mohammedan Sporting against Abahani Krira Chakra.

What rather infamous event resulted from this delivery?

Question-1 X was first issued in 1975. This first issue featured the image of an extremely important building in India, albeit without the Indian flag. A bare flagpole was depicted instead, since the photo of the building that the artist worked with was clicked at night – when the flag was down.

However around 1980, the design was changed and the building was now depicted with the Indian flag adorning the flapole.

The design was again changed in later years, with a lake that was depicted in front of the building in earlier versions, getting removed.

From 2005 onwards, X also started bearing the year of issue on it.

147 mm by 73 mm in size, what is X?

The Rs. 50 note

Question-2 X is one of the most famous films in the history of parallel cinema. When the director of X lost his funds to complete the film, the chief minister of the state shown in the film asked the PWD to finance the film. This is because the chief minister believed that the film which literally translates to “The song of the road” should be financed by a department which looks after Roads. ID X.

Pather Panchali

Question-3 At the Bangabandhu Stadium in Dhaka, Bangladesh, left hander Mehrab Hossain was caught by Keeper Khaled Mashud off the bowling of Safiullah Khan, on the 20th of February 1998, batting for Mohammedan Sporting against Abahani Krira Chakra.

What rather infamous event resulted from this delivery?

The death of Raman Lamba