Sardar Patel Quiz Club (2012-2013)

- Aayur Kaul

- Sixth Quiz of this Semester

NEW RULE :

Pranit’s Team will start with (-10) marks. :-P

Abusive language to be used in case of emergencies only.

“I have had but one good Idea in my life”

Amul man X , who pioneered milk cooperative movement and steered India’s milk revolution, passed away in Gujarat on 9 september 2012.

ID X?

Dr. Verghese Kurien

Who is He? And what is he famous for?

D. Udaya Kumar

For the new Indian Rupee symbol.

The major biologically active compound in X is delta 9-

tetrahydrocannabinol, commonly referred to as THC.

Humans have been consuming X since prehistory, although in

the 20 century there was a rise in its use for recreational,

spiritual or religious and medicinal purposes. It is estimated

that about 4 percent of the world’s adult population use it

annually 0.6 percent daily.

Identify X.

Marijuana.

Who won the only Paralympics medal for India in London Paralympics this year?

Girisha Hosanagara

The largest city in Morocco is also the name of

an Oscar winning movie and has a famous port. Which city?

Casablanca

A plaque at a famous landmark in this city has an inscription saying “Urbs Prima in Indus”

(the landmark was founded 100 years ago)

Which city?

Mumbai

This plaque is at the Gateway of India, whose founding stone was laid in March 1911 to commemorate the arrival of George V that year

Which famous Hindi story begins thus:

The writer Dilip Chitre published a translation of this saint's poems from Marathi into English.Which saint?

Tukaram

He died in Bristol, England in 1833 while on a visit to that country.

This statue, sculpted by Calcutta-based sculptor Niranjan Pradhan, was erected in Bristol in 1997.

Whose statue?

Raja Ram Mohan Roy

A poster for which corporate entity?

5th November 2011 was declared a state holiday in Orissa by the state government to celebrate Presidential assent to two significant changes.

Name them?

Orissa → Odisha

Oriya → Odia

The Mullaiperiyar dam is located in Kerala, but has been leased to Tamil Nadu after a 1886 treaty between the then Travancore State and the Madras Presidency.

For how many years is this lease?

999 years.

Who are the only father-son pair to have each (i.e. independently) won the Dadasaheb Phalke award?

Prithviraj and Raj Kapoor

Singer Himanshu Joshi and percussionist TuheenChakraborty are the two most recent (though not fully permanent) members of which Indian group?

Indian Ocean “Band”.

This is a long-running popular show on Vividh Bharati, which features stories in radio play form. It shares its name with a Jaipur landmark.

What show?

Hawa Mahal

There are several Birla Mandirs in the country, each with a presiding deity. At which of these temples, in Rajasthan, is the deity the goddess Saraswati?

BITS Pilani

People of this North Eastern state speak 20+ different local languages, so a mixture has emerged as a link language. The name is a portmanteau word made of the main ethnic group in the state and a language of a neighbouring state.

What is this name?

Nagamese

A very famous Indian personality famous for his style of speaking, he won the 1999 Screen Award as the Best Lyricist in the Non film Music category for his album ‘Nai Disha’. Identify the person.

”In days of yore, it was compulsory for those in the services to have nonvegetarian food to allegedly increase their stamina to face the rigours of combat.” What did this practice eventually evolve into?

Military Hotels

____ is a form of folk theatre ,said to have originated in Maharashtra in the 18th century.The plays originated as entertainment for encamped armies.The word literally means drama in several Indian languages.Which word?

Tamasha

Gandhi told him to refrain from using big words and write in a simple language and transliterate what the `harijans' say. He rewrote the novel at Gandhi's ashram. Nineteen publishers in London rejected the script, but with E.M. Forster's preface, it was accepted by a publisher.. Identify the Novel that went on to become a classic and the Author

Mulk Raj Anand – the untouchable

X was considered a very tough leader. By his orders in 1960, a demonstration by the Samyukta Maharashtra Samiti was fired upon by the police resulting in the deaths of 105 demonstrators. This led to public outrage that shook the central government and eventually to the formation of the present State of Maharashtra.X’s reign introduced India to coalition politics.Accused India’s Research & Analysis Wing of being a guard of his main rival and closed down most of the agency. Despite all this, he is the only person to have received the highest civilian awards of both India (Bharat Ratna) and Pakistan (Nishaan-e-Pakistan).Who?

Moraji Desai

India is the only country to have won all the international paegents it participated in, (Miss Universe, Miss World and Miss Asia Pacific) in the same year (2000). Name all three winners.

Lara Dutta, Priyanka Chopra, Diya Mirza

This word has been discussed recently in the Bangkok Post, the Times of India and other Asian newspapers. A search suggests it has been in use in the USA for about the past year but is only now beginning to appear in print.It refers to people who have been laid off from a multinational because their job has been moved to India — a business practice designed to save money that is arousing passions in some countries, especially Britain and the United States. When this piece first appeared, in the newsletter, many subscribers immediately connected it with the X torpedo, a tube packed with explosive used by troops for blowing up wire entanglements, which got its name because it was invented in that city.One Web site is selling T-shirts with the slogan “Don’t Get Xed” as a way of telling people about the issue.

Bangaloored

What was introduced in 1988 and named to commemorate the 100th year of the birth Jawaharlal Nehru?

The Shatabdi Express

The popular Indian lore says that on pilgrimage to Mecca in the 16th century, Baba Budan, a revered Muslim holy man from India, discovered for himself the wonders of X. In his zeal to share what he’d found with his fellows at home, he smuggled seven ________ out of the Yemeni port of Y, wrapped around his belly. On his return home, he settled himself on the slopes of the Chandragiri Hills in Kadur district, Mysore State (present day Karnataka). This hill range was later named after him as the Baba Budan Hills and one can see his tomb even today near Chikmagalur.

X- Coffee, Y- Mocha

There is a wide range of products produced under this brand. This includes paper files, clothes, bread and furniture.It’s factory has amongst others, a carpentry, chemical and tailoring units. It even has a baking school. What brand?

Tihar Jail (TJ’s Brand)

The current squad of the club is as shown: Sanjib Sanyal (captain) Anustup Majumdar Suvomoy Das Abhijit Sikdar Eklak Ahmed Arindam Ghosh Rajkumar Pal Naved Ahmed Md. Sami Priyankar Mukherjee Abhlim Ghosh Ahbishek Jhunjhunwala Wridhiman Saha Iresh Saxena Sultan Ahmed Debabrata Das Bunty Gwala Coach: Palash Nandy Bowling coach: Satinder Singh Other players who have played for the club include Virat Kohli, Lakshmipathi Balaji and Chaminda Vaas.

Identify the club.

MohunBagan Cricket Club

Who is she?

Sunanda Pushkar

Naveen patnaik

Babri Masjid

The person on the left wrote a book about an Indian city called.. “Looking for X”. X is the guy on the right. ID X

2006 Farah Khan, Sanjay Leela Bhansali, Shilpa Shetty

2007 Urmila Matondkar, Jeetendra, Shiamak Davar

2009 Saroj Khan, Vaibhavi Merchant, Juhi Chawla

2010 Remo D‘Souza, Malaika Arora Khan, and who?

Madhuri Dixit

Just as Mumbai is said to have got its name from the goddess Mumbadevi (from “Mumba aai”),what suburb of Mumbai is associated with the goddess Padmavati?

Powai

Connect

Highest Run Getters in an Innings in Respective world cups.

If you work in these places, you may be operating under ‘bagan time’, an unofficial time zone introduced during British times. This is one hour ahead of Indian Standard Time. Where would you be working in?

Assam Tea Gardens

Which author made his feature film acting debut in the upcoming film “Saat Khoon Maaf” directed by Vishal Bhardwaj?

Ruskin Bond

If Benson, Flynn, Wesson, North, Yardley, Russell, Harrison, Brooks, Willis, Burton, and Smith made up the opposing XI, who captained the representative Indian side?

Bhuvan (Lagaan)

This daily activity involving the Pakistan Rangers and the Indian Border Security Force since 1959 has now been ‘toned down’ on the request of a top Rangers official. Where does this activity take place?

The Wagah Border

Also known as Meenakshi, the name of which mythological figure means “large or winnow-like nails” in Sanskrit?

“Shoorpanakha”

This is an image from a 1946 play. Who is the actor in the image?

Sivaji Ganesan

This Organization/Club/Group was started by three

individuals from a college in 2009. It is a non-profit

Organization/Club/Group. It has no exact records of how

many members it has and hosts an event every week for

its members. Its description says “We are a group of

miscreants who meet every _______ to share and spread

gyaan”

What are we talking about?

Our very own “SPQC”.

Which word, derived from the Urdu words for “tying” and “binding”, and meaning “organization” or “arrangement” is often used in relation to certain duties of Indian police forces?

Bandobast

The Paisley pattern is often used in designs across the world. Though it originated in the Middle East and India, it gets this name from the Scottish town of Paisley, because their weavers were once the leading producers of shawls bearing this pattern. In India, this motif is associated with a fruit which it closely resembles. Which fruit?

Mango

According to the Limca Book of Records 1991 and the Landmark Review, this book was the best-selling Indian hardcover for at least 3 months in 1990.

Its next edition featured the likes of V. Anand, UshaNarayan, Jasmin Arethna, Ghayab, and DakshinGangotri on its cover.

Which publication?

The outer gates of which fort are

Fateh, Bahmani, Mecca, Patancheru, Banjara, Jamali, Naya Qula and Moti?

Golconda

The livery of each coach is painted in bold primary colours and is based on the paintings of MamtaBanerjee.

Also seen are a pair of running legs in blue among greenery, to indicate “speed”. This was introduced in 2009.

What?

The Duronto

What is the joint venture between Priya Exhibitors Private Limited and Village Roadshow Limited called?

“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 neighbour of his from Najafgarh?

Sushil Kumar

Which radio show sponsored by Cadbury began airing on April 12, 1972 and was hosted first by Hamid Sayani and later, by Ameen Sayani, his brother?

Bournvita Quiz Contest

What happened for the first time in India on July 30, 1995, and involved the then West Bengal CM Jyoti Basu and the then Union Minister Sukh Ram?

First ever cellphone call in India

Sukumar Sen was a gold medal winning mathematician educated in Calcutta and London. A member of the Indian Civil Services, he rose to become Chief Secretary of West Bengal. In 1950, he was deputed to the Centre to become the head of which newly set up organisation?

Election Commision Of India

Two very prominent communities among the small Jewish population in India are usually named after two cities: one in India, one outside India.

Which two cities?

Cochin and Baghdad

This is the masthead of the Times of India on Dec 2nd

in 2010. What product was being advertised on the front and back pages that day?

In the 1983 Hindi film “Agar Tum Na Hote”, Rajesh Khanna played an industrialist, the owner of a cosmetic company. The film displayed products of a Calcutta-based company. The company thus claims to be one of the first in India to make product placements in films. Which company?

This is the logo of which government initiative that began in Tamil Nadu in the 60s?

Mid Day meal Scheme

In 1931, when M. K. Gandhi visited London to participate in the 2nd Round Table Conference, this famous person wanted to meet him. But Gandhi declined the offer as he had never heard of him or seen his work. However, on learning that the person originally came from a poor family in London’s East End, Gandhi received him. His first question to Gandhi was about his attitude to machinery. Journalist Louis Fischer describes it as an encounter ‘between toothless and toothsome smiling’. Which person?

Charlie Chaplin

The Sanskrit version of what resource is sub-titled as “swatantravishwavigyaanakoshaha”?

This author won The Hindu’s award for Best Fiction in 2010 for his book “Serious Men”. Identify him.

Manu Joseph, editor of Open Magazine

His description according to the official website:

“A bachelor bear of indeterminate age. Lives in the forests of India and loves to tell stories. Has a huge repertoire of tales, fables and myths from India and from all over the world. Not a trained musician, but can sing very well. A pure vegetarian, he loves honey. Good friends of Meera the monkey and Dhondu the donkey. Much loved by all forest animals and by children everywhere.”

Who is this?

Karadi the Bear

X born as Y has been an important figure in BollywoodIndustry. X studied in Don Bosco School and KhalsaCollege in Mumbai, supposed to have started his work as a waiter in Bangkok, X returned to India after learning Z there and started modeling. In 2008, the

university of Windsor conferred an Honorary Doctorate of

Law, in recognition of his contribution to Indian cinema.

The following year he was awarded the Padma Shri by

Govt. of India. Additionally, X is also the brand ambassador of Canada Tourism.

X= Akshay Kumar

Y= Rajiv Bhatia

Z= Taekwondo

Long Connect

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SET-II

+6O

SET-III

+40

SET-IV

+20

The Connect is names of Airport’s after famous personalities/religious persons.

Now The Answers :

BirsaMunda – Ranchi Airport

LokNayak JayPrakash – Patna Airport

Dr. B.R. Ambedkar – Nagpur Airport

Netaji S.C. Bose - Kolkata Airport

Devi Ahilyabai – Indore Airport

Rajiv Gandhi – Hyderabad Airport

Sardar VallabhBhai Patel – Ahemdabad Airport

Veer Savarkar – Port Blair Airport

Swami Vivekanada – Raipur Airport

Indira Gandhi – Delhi Airport

Guru Ram Das Ji – Amritsar Airport

Gopinath Bordoloi – Guwhati Airport

Biju Patnaik – Bhubneshwar Airport

Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj – Mumbai Airport

That’s All Folks !!!Hope you Enjoyed !!!