India quiz PDPM IIITDM JABALPUR

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Transcript of India quiz PDPM IIITDM JABALPUR

PRELIMS 20 QUESTIONS

RULES1 QUIZ MASTER IS YOUR GOD2 IN CASE OF ANY INCONSISTENCIES REFER TO RULE 1

Q 1* Connect this non exhaustive set of logos.

Q 2 In February 1967,X was watching a quiz contest on Doordarshan in which the participants were able to answer questions on Greek mythology but did not know who Ram’s mother in the Ramayana was. What did an appalled M do that we still remember him?

Q3* Ek Dil Sao Afsane is a Hindi romantic film, made in 1963 directed by R.C. Talwar with Raj Kapoor and Waheeda Rehman in the lead roles.Despite it’s star cast the movie didn’t do fairly well on box office but we all know this movie because of a particular reason . Explain why?

Q 4 M was featured wearing N on the Vogue magazine, which was then popularized by the Beatles . In 1994 the rock group Love battery released the song named N in which a man in bell bottoms and N unsuccessfully tries to get a date .

Q 5 FITB

Q 6 Connect

• Nandighosa

• Taladhwaja

• Debadalana

It attracts over a million of Hindu pilgrims who join the procession each year.

Q 7 Connect and FITB (non exhaustive)

Dehradun Jolly Grant

Bhuvneshwara Biju Puttnaik

Kolkata Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose

Lucknow ??

Hint : Historians and people alike frequently refer to him as the 'champion of India's peasants.

Q 8

Q 9* The M are medieval milestones along the Grand Trunk Road in northern Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan, that were made by the 16th-century Pashtun Ruler Sher Shah Suri. M Minars were erected to serve as markers of distance along royal routes from Agra to Ajmer, Agra to Lahore, and from Agra to Mandu in the south.

Q10 Contrary to what people think, this spice is not named after the word for sugar ,but instead is a corruption of an Arabic term for ‘Wood from China’.What favorite addition to Biryanis is this?

Q 11 A ‘M’ torpedo is an explosive charge placed within one or several connected tubes. It is used by combat engineers to clear obstacles that would otherwise require them to approach directly, possibly under fire. As Per United States Army Field Manual 5-250 section 1-14, page 1-12 "b. Use. The primary use of the torpedo is clearing paths through wire obstacles and heavy undergrowth. It will clear a 3- to 4-metre wide path through wire obstacles. Id M.

Q 12 Born Mahesh Das .He was given the title M which comes from Vir Var which means courageous and great, quite contrary for him since he was not known for his bravery or for his military skill.(Hint : He was only hindu to adopt Din-i-illahi)

Q 13 M is an area with a plateau and a valley, lying between Tibet's Chumbi Valley to the north, Bhutan's Ha Valley to the east and India's Sikkim state to the west. It has been depicted as part of Bhutan in the Bhutanese maps since 1961, but it is also claimed by China. To date, the dispute has not been resolved despite several rounds of border negotiations between Bhutan and China. The area is of strategic importance to all three countries.

Q 14 The word M came to English in the late 17th century, from the Turkish for roasted meat. Tradition has it that the dish was invented by medieval soldiers who used their swords to grill meat over open-field fires. According to Ibn Battuta, a Moroccan traveller, in India, M was served in the royal houses during the Delhi Sultanate period(1206-1526 AD), and even commoners would enjoy it for breakfast with naan.

Q 15 Put funda for this

• Saalam Bombay (1985)

• Rudaali (1993)

• Baandit queen (1994)

• 1947 Earth (1998)

• Laagan (2001)

• Water (2005)

• Peepli Live (2010)

• M (2017)

Q 16* Give me M(hint : exhaustive list of 8)

Q 17 In his youth M, the son of the founder, was unsuccessful in every thing he did, fifth grade of school, carpenter, soap making etc. After the partition of India, he moved to Delhi with Rs. 1500 . When he arrived in Delhi, he initially supported himself by running a Tanga from Connaught Place to Karol Bagh. Since he was not doing well with the tanga, he later opened a shop in a shack and started selling spices like his father. He later opened his shop at Ajmal Khan Road, Karol Bagh and expanded from there. In 1959 he bought a plot in Kirti Nagar to set up his own spice factory.He is currently the highest paid CEO of FMCG (Fast Moving Consumer Goods).ID M

(We all also know him for a completely different reason today)

Q 18* M is a Hindustani classical raga. Legends say that this raga has the power to bring out rains in the area where it is sung .A popular anecdote says that when Tansen went to Akbar's court in 1556 and soon became his favourite. A lot of Akbar's courtiers became jealous of Tansen's privileges. They schemed to burn Tansen while he sang raag Deepak. This raag when sung caused fire in the area of performance. So Tansen had an idea. He taught raga M - the raag of rain, to his daughter. If sung properly, this raag could bring rain.Id M

Q 19 Id this individual who served in the ambulance core in the boer war (October 1899) .

Q 20 M is in Seoni and Chhindwara districts of Madhya Pradesh. It derives its name from the river that flows through the park from north to south dividing the park into almost equal western and eastern halves, the well forested areas of Seoni and Chhindwara districts respectively. It was declared a sanctuary in 1977 but raised to the status of national park in 1983. In 1992, it was established as a tiger reserve. The under M has been described in Ain-i-Akbari, and is the setting of N. Id M and N.

• ANSWERS

Q 1* Connect this non exhaustive set of logos.

• FUNCTIONAL METROS ACROSS INDIA

Q 2 In February 1967,X was watching a quiz contest on Doordarshan in which the participants were able to answer questions on Greek mythology but did not know who Ram’s mother in the Ramayana was. What did an appalled M do that we still remember him?

• ANANT PAI (AMAR CHITRA KATHA)

Q3* Ek Dil Sao Afsane is a Hindi romantic film, made in 1963 directed by R.C. Talwar with Raj Kapoor and Waheeda Rehman in the lead roles.Despite it’s star cast the movie didn’t do fairly well on box office but we all know this movie because of a particular reason . Explain why?

• AISE KAISE MEMES

Q 4 M was featured wearing N on the Vogue magazine, which was then popularized by the Beatles . In 1994 the rock group Love battery released the song named N in which a man in bell bottoms and N unsuccessfully tries to get a date .

• NEHRU JACKET

Q 5 FITB

• VICKY DO NA

Q 6 Connect

• Nandighosa

• Taladhwaja

• Debadalana

It attracts over a million of Hindu pilgrims who join the procession each year.

• RATH YATRA (PURI)

• THESE ARE NAMES OF CHARIOTS OF LORD JAGANNATH,BALABHADRA AND SUBHADRA RESPECTIVELY

Q 7 Connect and FITB (non exhaustive)

Dehradun Jolly Grant

Bhuvneshwara Biju Puttnaik

Kolkata Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose

Lucknow ??

Hint : Historians and people alike frequently refer to him as the 'champion of India's peasants.

• CHAUDHARY CHARAN SINGH

• THESE ARE AIRPORT NAMES

Q 8

• CHANDANI CHOWK

Q 9* The M are medieval milestones along the Grand Trunk Road in northern Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan, that were made by the 16th-century Pashtun Ruler Sher Shah Suri. M Minars were erected to serve as markers of distance along royal routes from Agra to Ajmer, Agra to Lahore, and from Agra to Mandu in the south.

• KOS

Q10 Contrary to what people think, this spice is not named after the word for sugar ,but instead is a corruption of an Arabic term for ‘Wood from China’.What favorite addition to Biryanis is this?

• DAL CHINI

Q 11 A ‘M’ torpedo is an explosive charge placed within one or several connected tubes. It is used by combat engineers to clear obstacles that would otherwise require them to approach directly, possibly under fire. As Per United States Army Field Manual 5-250 section 1-14, page 1-12 "b. Use. The primary use of the torpedo is clearing paths through wire obstacles and heavy undergrowth. It will clear a 3- to 4-metre wide path through wire obstacles. Id M.

• BANGALORE TORPEDO

Q 12 Born Mahesh Das .He was given the title M which comes from Vir Var which means courageous and great, quite contrary for him since he was not known for his bravery or for his military skill.(Hint : He was only hindu to adopt Din-i-illahi)

• BIRBAL

Q 13 M is an area with a plateau and a valley, lying between Tibet's Chumbi Valley to the north, Bhutan's Ha Valley to the east and India's Sikkim state to the west. It has been depicted as part of Bhutan in the Bhutanese maps since 1961, but it is also claimed by China. To date, the dispute has not been resolved despite several rounds of border negotiations between Bhutan and China. The area is of strategic importance to all three countries.

• DHOKHLAM

Q 14 The word M came to English in the late 17th century, from the Turkish for roasted meat. Tradition has it that the dish was invented by medieval soldiers who used their swords to grill meat over open-field fires. According to Ibn Battuta, a Moroccan traveller, in India, M was served in the royal houses during the Delhi Sultanate period(1206-1526 AD), and even commoners would enjoy it for breakfast with naan.

• KEBAB

Q 15 Put funda for this

• TOI HEADLINES AFTER EMERGENCY

• Saalam Bombay (1985)

• Rudaali (1993)

• Baandit queen (1994)

• 1947 Earth (1998)

• Laagan (2001)

• Water (2005)

• Peepli Live (2010)

• M (2017)

Q 16* Give me M(hint : exhaustive list of 8)

• NEWTON (RAGHUBIR DAS’S 8TH MOVIE TO BE INDIAN RECOMMENDATION FOR OSCARS)

Q 17 In his youth M, the son of the founder, was unsuccessful in every thing he did, fifth grade of school, carpenter, soap making etc. After the partition of India, he moved to Delhi with Rs. 1500 . When he arrived in Delhi, he initially supported himself by running a Tanga from Connaught Place to Karol Bagh. Since he was not doing well with the tanga, he later opened a shop in a shack and started selling spices like his father. He later opened his shop at Ajmal Khan Road, Karol Bagh and expanded from there. In 1959 he bought a plot in Kirti Nagar to set up his own spice factory.He is currently the highest paid CEO of FMCG (Fast Moving Consumer Goods).ID M

(We all also know him for a completely different reason today)

• DHARAMPAL GULATI

Q 18* M is a Hindustani classical raga. Legends say that this raga has the power to bring out rains in the area where it is sung .A popular anecdote says that when Tansen went to Akbar's court in 1556 and soon became his favourite. A lot of Akbar's courtiers became jealous of Tansen's privileges. They schemed to burn Tansen while he sang raag Deepak. This raag when sung caused fire in the area of performance. So Tansen had an idea. He taught raga M - the raag of rain, to his daughter. If sung properly, this raag could bring rain.Id M

• MEGH MALHAR

Q 19 Id this individual who served in the ambulance core in the boer war (October 1899) .

• MAHATMA GANDHI

Q 20 M is in Seoni and Chhindwara districts of Madhya Pradesh. It derives its name from the river that flows through the park from north to south dividing the park into almost equal western and eastern halves, the well forested areas of Seoni and Chhindwara districts respectively. It was declared a sanctuary in 1977 but raised to the status of national park in 1983. In 1992, it was established as a tiger reserve. The under M has been described in Ain-i-Akbari, and is the setting of N. Id M and N.

• PENCH NATIONAL PARK (THE JUNGLE BOOK)

• WAIT FOR THE FINALS

FINALS

ROUND 1(POUNCE AND INFINE BOUNCE)+20/-10+10 ON DIRECT +5 ON PASS(QM LOVES TO POUNCE SO YOU CAN POUNCE ON DIRECT TOO)

AUDIENCE QUESTION 1M is a public sector bank with its corporate office in Bangalore, Karnataka, India. It is one of the nationalisedbanks in India. The bank offers a wide range of financial products and services to the customers through its various delivery channels. The bank has a network of 2031 branches (March 2017) throughout the country and over 4000 customer touch points including 2001 ATMs. M was established by a group of farmers led by Shri. AttavarBalakrishna Shetty on 23 October 1931 in Mangaluruin Dakshina Kannada District of Karnataka State. Since it was established on the auspicious Dasherra Day, it was named ‘M ‘. Its logo shows a person humbly bowing down.

• VIJAY BANK (VIJAY DASHMI)

Q 1 India is the only country in the world to win all three international beauty peagents(namely Miss Universe , Miss World, Miss Asia Pacific )in the same year (2000). Give names of all three winners?

• PRIYANKA CHOPRA

• DIA MIRZA

• LARA DATTA

Q 2

• CHANAKYA

Q3

• KISHORE KUMAR THIS LED TO HIS BAN IN ALL INDIA RADIO

Q 4 M is a cooked mixture of sugar, honey, ghee, Indian Gooseberry (amla), jam, sesame oil, berries, herbs and various spices. It is prepared as per the instructions suggested in Ayurvedic texts. M is widely sold and consumed in India as a dietary supplement. Various Indian holy books like Mahabharat, Puranas etc., relate that Ashwini Kumar brothers, the twins, who were Raj vaidya to Devas during Vedic times.The first historically documented formula for M appears in the CharakaSamhita, the ancient Ayurvedic treatise.

• CHAWANPRASH

Q 5 The most famous example of this method of dismissal involved the Indian bowler M . It occurred during India's tour of Australia on 13 December 1947 in the second Test at Sydney. Mr M ran out Bill Brown when, in the act of delivering the ball, he held on to it and removed the bails with Brown well out of his crease. This was the second time M had dismissed Brown in this fashion on the tour, having already done it in an earlier match against an Australian XI. On that occasion he had warned Brown once before running him out. The Australian press accused M of being unsportsmanlike, although some Australians, including Don Bradman, the Australian captain at the time, defended M’s actions. Since this incident, a batsman dismissed in this fashion is said to have been N.

• MANKANDING (VINOO MANKAN)

Q 6 Connect (till date exhaustive list of 4)

• PEOPLE TO WIN ALL THE PADMA AWARDS (PADMA BHUSHAN,PADMA VIBHUSHAN,PADMA SHREE AND BHARAT RATNA)

ROUND 2 AUDIO VISUALSAME RULES

ID the monument and put funda.

Q 1 Where would you find this famous political party rivalry?

• GANGS OF WASSEYPUR)

Q 2 Fill in the blanks and put funda.

• SATYAM (SATYAM SCAM)

Q 3 Where would you find this notice board by The Archaeological Survey Of India?

• BHANGARH

Q 4 Id the lyricist of the song ?

• VERGUESE KURIAN

Q 5 Id the monument and why is it in news lately.

• STONE CHARIOT HAMPI, ON THE BACKSIDE OF NEW 50 RS NOTE

Q 6 Id the movie from this minimalistic poster.

• TARE ZAMEEN PAR

ROUND 3 DIFFERENTIAL WRITTEN ROUND60/N FORMAT-20 IN CASE OF A WRONG ANSWER

AUDIENCE QUESTION 1

The origin of some of the important musical instruments

associated with Hindu culture is traced back to Shiva. M

which is named after Shiva is one of them.

Legend has it that the inspiration to create M came to

Shiva when he once saw goddess Parvati sleeping with

her hands on chest.

Hand of Parvati is the long handle of , her bangles the

frets and her bosom the Tumba or gourds.

It is said that Lord Shiva wanted to surprise Parvati with

the music of M when she woke up.

It is also believed that Shiva and Parvati used to dance

to the music that emanated from the M.

RUDRA VEENA

Q 1 In 1941, Lord Linlithgow, then Viceroy of India received a gift of £100,000 from a grateful Sudanese Government towards building a war memorial in recognition of the sacrifices of Indian troops in the liberation of Sudan in the East African Campaign during World War II. At the end of the war, Field Marshal Claude , then Commander-in-Chief of the Indian Army, drawing on experiences of the army during the war, led a committee to study various military establishments around the world and submitted a report to the Government of India in Dec. 1946.What did it lead to becoming one of the first’s in the world ?

NDA

Q 2 M is a semi classical Indian dance with martial, tribal and folk origins with origins in the eastern Indian states of Odisha, Jharkhand and West Bengal. It is found in three styles named after the location where they are performed, ie. Purulia M of Bengal, Seraikella M of Jharkhand, and Mayurbhanj M of Odisha.The dance ranges from celebrating martial arts, acrobatics and athletics performed in festive themes of a folk dance, to a structured dance with religious themes found in Shaivism, Shaktism and Vaishnavism. The costumes vary between the styles, with Purulia and Serakeilla using masks to identify the character. The stories enacted by M dancers include those from the Hindu epics the Ramayana and the Mahabharata, the Puranas and other Indian literature.

CHAU DANCE

Q 3 The M was a project which aimed to measure the entire Indian subcontinent with scientific precision. It was begun in 1802 by the infantry officer William Lambton, under the auspices of the East India Company. Under the leadership of his successor, George Everest, the project was made a responsibility of the Survey of India. Everest was succeeded by Andrew Scott Waugh and after 1861 the project was led by James Walker, who saw the first completion of it in 1871.

• Among the many accomplishments of the Survey were the demarcation of the British territories in India and the measurement of the height of the Himalayan giants: Everest, K2, and Kanchenjunga.

GREAT TRIGNOMETRIC SURVEY OF INDIA

Q 4 Mr M born on 4 May 1942 is a telecom engineer, inventor, entrepreneur and policymaker. He was born in Titilagarh, Odisha. M launched the Center for the Development of Telematics (C-DOT), and served as Advisor to the Prime Minister on Technology Missions related to water, literacy, immunization, oil seeds, telecom, and dairy. He is also the founding Chairman of India’s Telecom Commission . M holds around 100 technology patents, has been involved in several start-ups and lectures extensively. as technology Advisor to the Prime Minister, Rajiv Gandhi in 1984, M both heralded the telecom revolution in India, and made a strong case for using technology for the benefit of society through missions on telecommunications, literacy, dairy, water, immunization and oil seeds. Therefore he is widely regaerded as father of indiantelecom industry. Id M

SAM PETRODA

Q 5 Developed by Grey for Good ,philanthropic arm of advertising and marketing agency Grey Group,the idea for the iodine M project – named ‘life saving –’ was conceived and incubated in Singapore . Creators at grey were looking for a solution to address iodine deficiency in India when doctors told them that it can be absorbed through skin. So they decided to make an Iodine patch but to give it a wider appeal it was designed as M.Id M

IODINE BINDI

Q 6 Stephano , a successful builder , was an unrepentant fascist and kept a leather – bound edition of Mussolini’s speeches in his front room. He fought alongside the Wehrmacht against the Russians on the eastern front.During the war , he watched many Russian movies.Whenhe returned,he gave his children Russian pet names.What pet name did he give his daughter Antonia?

SONIA GANDHI

Round 4

Audience Question

Q 1 On being asked by M if he was ready to fight on the eve of the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 N replied “ I am always ready, sweetie”. Id M and N

SAM MANEKSHAW AND INDIRA GANDHI

Q 2 M’s efforts saw some 14 million people—roughly seven million from each side—flee across the border when they discovered the new boundaries left them in the "wrong" country. Some 500,000 people died in the violence that ensued after independence, and millions more were injured. After seeing the mayhem occurring on both sides of the boundary, Mr M refused his salary of 40,000 rupees (then 3,000 pounds). He was made a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire in 1948.

• CYRIL RADCLIF

Q 3 The Produnova is an artistic gymnastics vault consisting of a front handspring onto the vaulting horse and two front somersaults in a tucked position off it. Under the 2017 Code of Points (artistic gymnastics) the vault has a 6.4 D-score, and is considered the hardest vault performed in women's artistic gymnastics. This vault is also called the "vault of death" due to its difficulty and likelihood of injury.

•Yelena Produnova

•Yamilet Peña

•Fadwa Mahmoud

•Oksana Chusovitina

•M

FITB (exhaustive list of people who successfully performed it

on int. stage)

DEEPA KARMAKAR

Q 4 If the famous detective Sherlock Holmes lives at 221B Baker Street ,London then which famous Indian directive lives at lives at 21 Rajani Sen Road,Ballygunge, Kolkata?

FELUDA

Q 5 M (October 5, 1524 – June 24, 1564) was a ruling Queen of Gondwana from 1550 until 1564. She was born in the family of famous Rajput Chandel Emperor Keerat Rai. She was born at the fort of Kalinjar (Banda, Uttar Pradesh) in Chandel Dynasty, which is famous in the Indian history for the defense of king Vidyadhar who repulsed the attacks of Mahmud of Ghazni. Her love for sculptures is shown in the world famed temples of Khajuraho and Kalinjar Fort. (WE ALL SHOULD ATLEAST KNOW THIS ONE)

• RANI DURGAWATI

Q 6 This one of a kind temple in the world is located in Tamil Nadu, near Thilatharpanapuri(around 2 km away from Koothnur). It is known as Adi Vinayakatemple.What makes this temple unique?

• ONLY TEMPLE WHERE LORD GANESHA IS WORSHIPPED IN HUMAN FORM

• SVD

• BDF