Chhattisgarh State Level Quiz ‘14

IIMRAIPUR

September 28th, 2014

School Prelims Answers

• Teams of Two Members each, both from the same institute.

• Filling in complete team details in the answer sheet is mandatory.

• No electronic/other material is allowed to be used during the conduct of the quiz.

• The quiz shall have in-built tie-breakers within the set of questions (Qns 16-20).

• The top six teams shall make it to the final round.

• Regarding any disputes, the discretion of the Quizmaster is final.

RULES

•What number does the 26th State of India contain in its name?

1

•36 (CHHATTISgarh)

1

•Which was the first Indian Bank to get ISO certification for “Total Branch Banking” in one of its branches?

2

•Canara Bank• In 1996, Canara Bank managed to do this, for its Seshadripuram branch in Bangalore.

2

• X was a devotional philosopher, born in 1479, in Champaran (present-day Raipur district).

• He founded the Pushti sect in India (devotion to Lord Krishna).

• He is widely considered as the last of the four great Vaishnava Acharyas, the other three being Ramanujacharya, Madhavacharya and Nimbarkacharya.

3

•Vallabhacharya

3

• Whose to-be-released autobiography is this?

4

• Sachin Tendulkar

• To be released on November 6th

4

•With which sport would you associate Mithali Raj?

5

• Cricket

• Captain of the Indian women’s cricket team

5

•The byline of which company (which came to limelight on 3rd December 1984) rather ironically went What we do will touch your lives in some way everyday?

6

•Union Carbide Corporation

6

• 'e-Vidhan' is the name of an e-Governance solution that has been used to implement India's first ever high-tech legislative house that automates the day to day functioning of the entire Legislative Assembly. Which state in India is the first to introduce this (last month)?

7

•Himachal Pradesh

7

• Composed of 700 verses what forms a major part of the Bhishma Parva in the Mahabharata?

8

•Bhagavad Gita

8

• There are nine ________ zones in India, including eight regional zones and one functional zone for the Indian Army. The first digit of __________ indicates the region, the second digit indicates the sub-region, and the third digit indicates the sorting district within the region. The number is 6 digits long.

9

• PIN Codes (Postal Index Number)

9

• Gujarat Vidyapith, been deemed university since 1963, was founded on 18th October, 1920. The main purpose of the institution was to promote educational institutions run by Indians for Indians and outside the financial and governing control of British authorities. Who was the founder of this University?

10

•Mahatma Gandhi

10

• If it is SENSEX for the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE), what is it for the National Stock Exchange (NSE)?

11

•NIFTY

11

• In the summer of 2000, the RSS journal Panchjanya complained that all the leading male actors in Bollywood were Muslim and saw it as a conspiracy that involved mafia dons such as Dawood Ibrahim.

• To thwart the conspiracy, Panchjanya called upon its readers to promote which up-and-coming actor as the Hindu challenge to the monopoly of the Khans?

12

•Hrithik Roshan

12

• Identify the person recently in the news

13

• M C Mary Kom

13

•Magnitogorsk is an industrial city in Russia, where the largest iron and steelworks in the country, is located.

•Nikita Khruschev, the Soviet Union leader during the Cold War, called which city as the ‘Magnitogorsk of India’?

14

•Bhilai

14

•Who is the only Indian to have been conferred India’s highest civilian honor, the Bharat Ratna, and its Pakistani equivalent, Nishaan-e-Pakistan?

15

•Morarji Desai

15

• It is a tactical innovation which can help batsmen score boundaries even off yorkers, and thus it is particularly useful in the death overs of limited overs games, when bowlers look to bowl full length balls. Explaining this is probably much more difficult than playing it - it is in essence a wristy whip shot, but uses a lot more bottom hand and has more pronounced bat swing after the shot is played. The quick rotation of the blade in the follow through of the shot also explains it’s name.

• What?

* 16

• The Helicopter Shot

* 16

• Raj Ghat: Mahatma Gandhi

• Vijay Ghat: Lal Bahadur Shastri

• Kisan Ghat: ____??

* 17

• Charan Singh• India’s 6th Prime Minister

* 17

•By what name is Bahai Temple in Delhi commonly known as?

* 18

• Lotus Temple

* 18

•Mohit Suri, the director of the musical blockbuster Aashiqui 2, has been recently in the news, as the director of which highly anticipated to-be-released book?

* 19

• Half Girlfriend

• Chetan Bhagat’s upcoming novel

* 19

•Upon whom the Bharat Ratna was posthumously conferred in 1992 but was withdrawn later controversially?

* 20

• Subhash Chandra Bose

• Since it is still a controversial matter as to whether Netaji is alive or not. 

* 20

Thank You!