India Kwij

Bharat mata ki jai

• 20 koschans.• No negatives.

1. This song has an unusual history to it: it cost 10lakh bucks to make, at a time when most movies were made at a lesser cost. It was written and re-written 105 times until the music director approved. It was shot at the Sheesh Mahal, and in those days there was no way to provide reverberation of sound. Lata Mangeshkar had to sing the song in the studio bathroom! This song was one of the three sequences to be shot in technicolour while the rest of the movie was in Black & white.

Song and Movie?

Pyaar Kiya toh darna kya- Mughal-e-Azam

2. X is the only Indian bowler to take a wicket off his first ball in ODI

cricket, the victim being Nixon McLean of WI. He made his test

debut against Pakistan, scoring a brisk 44 off 41 balls. At one point

of time, India thought it had found a natural opener in him, and

he often opened the innings with his partner Y. Both X and Y were

eventually dropped due to their inability to deal effectively with

fast bowlers. X was especially hounded by the Aussie critcics who

said that he can never get adjusted to Aus pitches. Sehwag rose to

fame as an opener around the time these guys were dropped. X

and Y?

• SS Das and Sadagopan Ramesh

•3.

•Matthur, a village located on the banks of river Tunga in Shimoga

district.

•Jhiri, a village in Rajgarh district in M.P.

•Both these villages are famous in the country for continuing a very

vital element of the Indian culture more faithfully than other places.

•What?

• Still speak in Sanskrit

4. Amul Ad for?

• Satyajit Ray

5.

Kachkadi, Bakkalnali and Pukari are all types of what?

• Kolhapuri Chappal

6.

• Started State Banks- Mysore, Travancore, Allahabad, Punjab etc.

7.

Allasani Peddana, Nandi Thimmana, Madayyagari Mallana, Dhurjati,

Ayyalaraju Ramambhadrudu, Pingali Surana, Ramarajabhushanudu

and __________ were the Asthadiggajas in Sri Krishnadevaraya’s

court.

FITB.

• Tenali Raman

• 8

• This work has been exclusively carried out by the Khatri community

of Kutchh. A meter length of cloth can have millions of tiny knots

known as "Bheendi" in the local language ("Kutchhi"). Four

bheendis are known as a "Kadi". These knots form a design once

opened after dyeing in bright colors. Traditionally, the final products

can be classified into "Khombi", "Ghar Chola", "Patori",

"Chandrokhani" etc.

• What is being described here?

• Bandhini work

• 9.

• During the Mughal period it occupied a unique place in the

emblem of the royalty of Oudh. This was usually used like a

cloth to wipe off the excess oil off the hands after the

completion of an oil rich food laden with meat and fat. In

short it served as a substitute for a ‘Handkerchief’ .

• What am I talking about?

• Rumali Roti

•10

• This genre of indian music is derived almost exclusively from a

collection called Gitabitan (garden of songs) which consists of

four major parts Puja(worship), Prem(love), Prakriti(Nature) and

Bichitra(Diverse) and Swadesh (patriotism).

• Name this genre of Indian Music.

• Rabindranath TAGORE.

11. FITB and Put funda

• The Big Lebowski

• Body and Soul

• Breaking Away

• Bull Durham

• Caddyshack

• The Damned United

• Downhill Racer

• Eight Men Out

• Field of Dreams

• Hoop Dreams

• Hoosiers

• The Hustler

• The Freshman

• ___________

• Major League

• Million Dollar Baby

• Million Dollar

Mermaid

• Olympia

• Raging Bull

• Rocky

• Shaolin Soccer

• Slap Shot

• Speed Racer

• Tokyo Olympiad

• When We Were Kings

• Lagaan

• 12

– Neel Kamal

– Tuta Hua Kaan

– Sunhare Panjon Wala Kekada

• These are the episode titles of which series?

• Tintin in Hindi

• 13.

• This radio show sponsored by Cadbury began airing on April

12, 1972 and was hosted first by Hamid Sayani and later, by

his brother Ameen Sayani. Cadbury have continued their

sponsorship till date.

• Which show?

• BQC Radio Show

• 14

• Anecdote recounts that the 11th century Hoysala king Veera

Ballala II, while on a hunting expedition, lost his way in the

forest. Tired and hungry, he came across a poor old woman

who served him boiled beans. The grateful king named the

place town of boiled beans, which eventually evolved into

_____________.

• FITB

• Bendakaaluru- Bengaluru

• 15

• The _________ ______endeavors to elevate the prestige of scientific

research in India and inspire young Indians to choose a vocation in scientific

research.

• The ________ Science Foundation, a not-for-profit trust, was set up in

February 2009 by the management of _______. The Foundation instituted

the _______ _______, an annual award, to honor outstanding

achievements of researchers and scientists across six categories :

Engineering and Computer Sciences, Humanities, Life Sciences,

Mathematical Sciences, Physical Sciences and Social Sciences, each carrying

a prize of a gold medal, a citation and a purse of 50 Lakh.

• FITB

• Infosys Science foundation

• 16

• Born in Calcutta in 1877, educated at the St. Xaviers

College, Calcutta. He was the first athlete from an Asian

nation to win an Olympic Medal. He also served as the

Secretary of the Indian Football Association from 1900 to

1902. He finally went into acting and started appearing in

Hollywood movies.

• Identify him.

• Norman Pritchard

• 17

• It is a Bangalore-based online retail store and has been

repeatedly referred to as “India’s answer to _______.”

• Two IIT Delhi graduates - Binny Bansal and Sachin Bansal,

started this enterprise in 2007. “We noticed that most online

e-commerce players in India didn’t get even the basics right.

Our customers can trust us. We provide them satisfaction and

unmatched usability”, says Binny.

• FITB and the company.

• Flipkart and Amazon

• 18

• The book “Wide Angle, Candid moments from my playing

days” is a coffee table book illustrating the author’s passions

of photography and wildlife. Chapters include Formative days,

the big league, land of isles, African adventure, wildlife

passion etc. Who wrote this book?

• Anil Kumble

19. This carving is found in Hoysaleswara temple, Halebid, India.

What is it depicting

• The Chakravyuh

20. Who and what is being spoofed?

• Anil and Mukesh Ambani, and spoofing Deewar’s ‘Mere paas maa hai’ scene