INDIA QUIZ

INDIA QUIZKartheek RangineniAlok Kumar

ROUND 1

Q.1It was rumoured that United States Postal Service(USPS) will honour Legendary actor X by issuing a postage stamp on his 91st birth anniversary. X Foundation of America stated that the actor was going to be the first Indian Actor to be conferred such an honour. Later it turns out that these were indeed rumours. Id X who is known in 2014 for his 3G film

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ANR

Q.2According to the legend, X was one of the five cities founded by the Pandava brothers during the times of the Mahabharata; its historic name being Pandavaprastha (city of Pandavas). X is first recorded in the Mahabharata as one of the five villages that the Pandavas demanded from Duryodhana. X is known popularly for someother reasons in the medieval period considered turning point of Indian History. X is also known as City of WeaverId X

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Panipat

Q.3X is often considered the "Father of the India's nuclear program. Saddam Hussain invited the scientist X to his office and told him: "You have done enough for your country; don't go back. Stay here and take over our nuclear programme. I will pay you whatever you want." X was shocked and scared by the Iraqi proposal. He reportedly could not sleep that night, worried that he might never see his homeland again. He took the next flight out.ID X

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Raja Ramanna

Q.4A European traveler by the name of Jean Baptiste Tavernier who visited India in 1665 first mentioned the idea of X in his fanciful writings. The writings of Tavernier mention that Y began to build his own tomb on the other side of the river but could not complete it as he was deposed by Aurangzeb. However, many modern archeologists believe this story to be myth.ID X

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Kaala Taj

Q.5After Operation Blue Star in Punjab , the final examinations of Punjab Univesity were postponed. Irshad Kamil led a group of students demanding a month's notice as preparation. He made banners saying, "_______ _______" and went about raising this slogan. He used these lines in a bollywood film.

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Sadda Haq

Q.6 When X applied for Times of India fellowship, he spoke of his plans to report from rural India. When an editor in the interview asked him, "Suppose I tell you my readers aren't interested in this stuff", X answered, "When did you last meet your readers to make any such claims on their behalf?"ID X who is regarded as one of the world's great experts on famine and hunger

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Palagummi Sainath

Q.7 This is the Sagar Samrat oil exploration rig off the coast of Mumbai, that disappeared from our memories after 1994. How is this rig going to make a comeback, courtesy a recent announcement by a financial body?

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Q.8Name the mythical creature in the middle of the two pictures

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Gandaberunda

Q.9 ID himSome suggest that aspiring to become a world leader, he undermined the intelligence reports dating back to 1955 about Chinese preparations to defend its land claim on disputed areas. He was responsible for India's lack of military readiness and was forced to tender his resignation as minister of defence in spite of Nehru protecting him by first making him Minister of Defence production and then Minister without portfolio. On 23 January 1957 he delivered an unprecedented eight-hour speech defending Indias stand on Kashmir. To date, the speech is the longest ever delivered in the United Nations Security Council, covering five hours of the 762nd meeting on 23 January, and two hours and forty-eight minutes on the 24th.Indian media regarded him as Hero of Kashmir

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V.K. Menon

Q.10Which art-form?This performing art form became better known outside the region through the efforts of Rabindranath Tagore. In 1919 he was so impressed after seeing a composition, the Goshtha Lila in Sylhet (in present-day Bangladesh) that he invited Guru Budhimantra Singh to Shantiniketan. In 1926, Guru Naba Kumar also joined the faculty. Other celebrated Gurus, Senarik Singh Rajkumar, Nileshwar Mukherji and Atomba Singh were also invited to teach there and assisted Tagore with the choreography of several of his dance-dramas.

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Manipuri

Q.11 Gist of whose conversation with whom ??Such pure devotion is expressed in 9 ways. The ways are Bhajan, Kirtan, Japa, Satsang and so on. Total surrender in my faith is considered the highest form of Bhakti for me. Anyone who practises these 9 methods makes me very happy and reaches me without fail. That which is so difficult for saints to attain has been attained by you so easily, _____. This is because of your sincere devotion.

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Sabari

Q.12 Plancks Gesetz und LichtquantenhypotheseRespected Sir, I have ventured to send you the accompanying article for your perusal and opinion. I am anxious to know what you think of it. You will see that I have tried to deduce the coefficient 8 2/c3 in Planck's Law independent of classical electrodynamics, only assuming that the ultimate elementary region in the phase-space has the content h3. I do not know sufficient German to translate the paper. If you think the paper worth publication I shall be grateful if you arrange for its publication in Zeitschrift fr Physik. Though a complete stranger to you, I do not feel any hesitation in making such a request.Y agreed with him, translated X's paper "Planck's Law and Hypothesis of Light Quanta" into German, and had it published in Zeitschrift fr Physik under X's name, in 1924ID X and Y who laid foundations of modern day field(no part points)

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S N Bose and Einstein

Round 2

Q.13X Research Foundation(KaReFo) aimsTo spread awareness and inculcate among individuals and institutions, a passion for research in language computing. To function as a resource centre for training, research, documentation and consultancy, in the field of language computing and language literacyTo invent and design new modes of imparting language education and to enhance existing modes of language education. ID the founder of KaReFo known for popularising Lyrical Engineering in recent times

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Madhan Karky

Q.14In Jan 2016, the Indian government announced its annual list of "Padma" awards. 10 people were awarded India's second highest civilian honour, the Padma Vibhushan.Two of them have the word 'Rao' in their name and both are from the film world. Who are these two?

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Ramoji Rao & RajniKanth

Q.15 ID the founder

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Kailash Satyarthi

Q.16List(non-exhaustive) of what?CheetahGaruda Nav ShaktiPushpakPawanhansKirtimaanSukanyaIndraprastha Deshbandhu

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Locomotive names of Indian Railways

Q.17ID painting

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Draupadi by M.F.Hussain

Q.18 Benson, Flynn, Wesson, North, Yardley, Russell, Harrison, Brooks, Willis, Burton, and Smith made up the opposing XI, who captained the representative Indian side?

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Bhuvan

Q.19"Simian" is the name of a 2014 graphic novel by Vikram Balagopal. The story, based on myths and legends, begins with the old protagonist meeting his younger brother in a forest.Who are these brothers?

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Hanuman meets Bheem

Q.20This 2015 film was originally titled "Nyodda", for the place in which the events of the film are set. Its international release is called "Guilty", for what happens to some of the people in the film.The name of its mainstream Indian release partly refers to the real-life people that inspired the film.Which film?

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Q.21In 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 X after he criticised X's literary works. X then wrote: "Grumpy old man. Just take your prize and say thank you nicely. I doubt youve even read the work you attack"What "prize" was X referring to and also ID X

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Gnanapith Award , Salman Rushdie

Q.22According to Vana Parva in the Mahabharata, ______ was so absorbed in practising austerities that white ants started building their nests around his body and through his hair, leaving only his eyes. Sukanya, daughter of King Sharyati on a trip to the forest poked curiously through two eyes in an ant hill which caused ______ to burst out in fury. His anger was quelled only when the King offered Sukanya in marriage to him. The Ashvini Kumars arrived at their cottage and requested Sukanya to marry one of them. However Sukanya requested them to give _____ his youth back so that she could make an unbiased choice. They agreed to do so and made two products which restored ______s youth. Sukanya subsequently identified her husband and (re)married him. His ashram was on Dhosi Hill, an extinct volcano in modern day Mahendragarh, Haryana. What were the two products ?

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Chyawanprash and Kayakalp

Q.23

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Christopher Nolan

Q. 24

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Panini

Q.25Subhash Mukhopadhyay was a physician from Kolkata, India, who created X. Unfortunately, Dr. Subhash Mukhopadhyay was harassed by the state government, and not allowed to share his achievements with the international scientific community. Dejected, he committed suicide on 19 June 1981.His life and death has been the subject of countless newspaper reviews and inspired the Hindi movie Ek Doctor Ki Maut(Death of a doctor).

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Invitro Fertilisation

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1+40/-20X was a Naxalite before entering films, but tragedy struck his family when his only brother was electrocuted and killed in a freak accident. He returned to his family and left the Naxalite fold, even though this posed a grave risk to his own life.X then made his debut in the 1976 film Mrigaya, for which he won the National Film Award for Best Actor. He was particularly recognized as one of the best "dancing-heroes" in Bollywood.In 2010, Guinea-Bissau issued postal stamp in Xs honour

2ID X & Y+30/-15Xs father Y often regarded as Movie Moghul has made significant contribution to Indian cinema. Y has a place in the Guinness Book of World Records for the most films produced by an individual, having produced more than 150 films in 13 Indian languages. X is a renowned actor popularly known in Bollywood for Anari, Sooryavansham :P

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Q4.Id the actor in news recently with Arnold10/-5

Q.5+5/0Identify this famous actor from Kollywood who was also the most popular Keralite in an online poll conducted by CNN-IBN in 2006. In 2009, he became the first and the only Indian actor to receive the honorary rank of Lieutenant Colonel in the Territorial Army of India(Image if requested)

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1X was a Naxalite before entering films, but tragedy struck his family when his only brother was electrocuted and killed in a freak accident. He returned to his family and left the Naxalite fold, even though this posed a grave risk to his own life.X then made his debut in the 1976 film Mrigaya, for which he won the National Film Award for Best Actor. He is particularly recognized as one of the best "dancing-heroes" in Bollywood.In 2010, Guinea-Bissau issued postal stamp in Xs honour

2ID X & YXs father Y often regarded as Movie Moghul has made significant contribution to Indian cinema. Y has a place in the Guinness Book of World Records for the most films produced by an individual, having produced more than 150 films in 13 Indian languages. X is a renowned actor popularly known in Bollywood for Anari, Sooryavansham :P

Y:RamanaiduX: Venkatesh

Q.3Rajiv Hari Om Bhatia aka 'Akshay Kumar'

Q4.Id the actor in news recently with Arnold

Chiyaan Vikram

Q.5Identify this famous actor from Kollywood who was also the most popular Keralite in an online poll conducted by CNN-IBN in 2006. In 2009, he became the first and the only Indian actor to receive the honorary rank of Lieutenant Colonel in the Territorial Army of India(Image if requested)

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Mohan Lal

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