Incredible India Quiz
Aditya Shekhar AcharyaAshwini Kumar Sahay
Finals
Round 1
• Infinite Bounce And Pounce• +15/-10 on pounce• +10/0 on bounce• Team 1 to Team 8
1.
The story goes…• The original image of X manifested in the form of Blue Jewel. It was so
dazzling that it could grant instant moksha, so Yama wanted to hide it. King Indradyumna wanted to find that mysterious image and performed harsh penances to obtain his goal. Vishnu then instructed him to go to Y and find a floating log to make an image from its trunk. The King found the log of wood. Vishnu himself appeared in the guise of a carpenter to make the idols on condition that he was to be left undisturbed until he finished the work. But just after two weeks, the Queen became very anxious. She took the carpenter to be dead as no sound came from the temple. Therefore, she requested the king to open the door. Thus, they went to see Vishnu at work at which the latter abandoned his work leaving the idols unfinished.
Answer
2.
Connect:• Shubh Yatra• Jet Wings• Go-Getter• Hello 6E• Spice Route
Answer
In-flight magazines of Indian Airline Companies
3.
• On some days, Boa Sr would sit silently in the jungle surrounding her home on one of India's Andaman Islands and gaze up at the sky. According to researchers who looked on, birds perched above would descend to the ground and inspect her; in turn Boa Sr spoke to them in her native tongue, calling them her ancestors and her friends. Her speech was rich with words of the natural world, words of the forest and the sea that some linguists suspect date back tens of thousands of years to the first migrations of man. Boa Sr was the last person alive to know them. In early February, she passed away, leaving behind no surviving siblings or children. As she died, so too did the language of her people. The extinction of which Indian Language has been talked about. [pic next slide]
Answer
Bo
4.
• The X rose is 'Saffron-Vermillion Red with Yellow River' and has German parentage and has been carefully developed after nearly five years of research and development at the world-famous KSG Rose, Bangalore. A new, specially-developed variety of rose has taken birth at the Dombivli Rose Society. Id X.
Answer
• Modi Rose
5.
• 1st-Otis Davis• 2nd-Carl Kaufmann• 3rd-Malcolm Spence• 4th-??
Answer
6.
• The Indians paid 12 villages to the Pakistanis in 1960s in exchange for the village of Hussainiwala, a small village in Punjab.
• What made this village so special for India to have?
Answer
Burial site of the three martyrs
7.The color scheme of which movie was inspired by the painting ‘Pratima Visarjan‘ by Gaganendranath Tagore?
Answer
8.
• In the 1984-85 season, India and Pakistan were playing the 2nd ODI in Sialkot. Indian team was at 210/3 and Vengsarkar was at 94*. At this point, the match was suddenly abandoned. Why?
Answer
• Assassination of Indira Gandhi
Round 2
• Infinite Bounce And Pounce• +15/-10 on pounce• +10/0 on bounce• Team 8 to Team 1
1.
Whose timeline?• Born in Jaspur, near Nainital, on 21 May, 1857• In 1876, he joined Muir Central College at Allahabad• Passed the Vakil's Examination of the High Court in 1880 and was enrolled as a Vakil on 21
December 1880• In 1896, Allahabad High Court raised him to the rank and status of Advocate• The distinction of 'Rai Bahadur' was conferred on him in 1905• Was appointed a CIE in 1907• In 1909 he accepted a seat on the Bench of the Judicial Commissioner's Court
at Lucknow for a few months and in 1914 officiated as a Judge of the Allahabad High Court• In 1906, he became the first Indian Vice Chancellor of Allahabad University. He was
reappointed to that office in 1912 and 1916• Died in Allahabad on 13 February 1918 at age 61
Answer
• Sir Sunderlal
2.
Answer
3.
• This village in Haryana, earlier known as Chuma Kheragaon, now bears the name of someone who once memorably told Playboy: "I've looked on a lot of women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times. This is something that God recognizes I will do--and I have done it--and God forgives me for it." Who?
Answer
Jimmy Carter
4.
• Which company began as a joint venture agreement between Priya Exhibitors Private Limited and Village Roadshow Limited in 1995 with 60:40 ratio & began its commercial operations in June 1997?
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5.A new place was started after the shutting down of these 2 places. What was the new place?
Answer
Cellular Jail
6.
• X was created by Sir Fredrick Lawley by combining and developing a few villages.
• X?
Answer
Malgudi
7.
• In 1904, Viceroy Lord Curzon, on behalf of the King Emperor, bestowed upon X the Kaisar-i-Hind Gold Medal. In 2013, the crater _____ on Mercury was named in his honor. Considering his vast contribution to Indian culture, the Government of Kerala has instituted an award called “X Puraskaram”. X’s representation of mythological characters has become a part of the Indian imagination of the epics. He is often criticized for being too showy and sentimental but his work remains very popular in India.
Answer
Raja Ravi Varma
8.
• What was founded in 2007 by Vishal Mehta, a Cornell and MIT Sloan alumni after working for Dell computers and Amazon.com in the US for five years, along with a group of ex-Amazon employees?
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Round 3
• Pick Your Pill• On direct: +20/-20• Open to all: +10/0
Business Entertainment Literature Sports
Politics Geography F&B SurpriseMe
Surprise!!!
SURPRISE!!!
• X is a legendary winged warrior prince of a fictional fabled fairyland. He descended to earth on a private mission and landed in Vikasnagar, becoming a zealous defender of interests of Vikasnagar. His real name is Rajkumar Alop.
• X can summon the ‘X-Shakti’, by hailing his name in battle, shouting ‘Jai Mahaguru X’. He acquires super-human physical attributes, apart from receiving the mystical Sword and Shield of his master.
Answer
Geography
GEOGRAPHY
• The city was founded as Mayarashtra by Maya, father of Mandodari, Ravana’s wife in Ramayana. It’s also known as ‘Ravana ka sasural’. In the Ramayana, Shravana Kumar carried his parents to all the pilgrimage sites in India, but it’s believed that when he passed through this city, he put down his parents for a while to get rest and water. It was here that King Dashratha mistook Shravana for a deer and shot him with an arrow. Shravana’s parents declared that King Dashratha’s own first son would abandon him when he would need him the most.
• Which city?
Answer
Meerut
F & B
F & B
•The dish likely originated in the city of Puri about 2,000 years ago.
It is cooked to this day within the temple precincts there. Every
single day, hundreds of temple cooks work to cook this dish,
enough to feed at least 10,000 people.
•It’s more famous name is derived from the Sanskrit word for milk.
•Which dish is being mentioned here?
Answer
Kheer
Sports
SPORTS
• “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?
Answer
Sushil Kumar
Politics
POLITICS
• Suhasini Haidar is the Foreign Affairs Editor for CNN-IBN. She has also worked with CNN International, regularly reporting from the Indian sub-continent. She comes from a family with high political and judicial leanings.
• Who is her more famous father?
Answer
Subramaniam Swamy
Business
BUSINESS
• Identify this fast growing business house.
Answer
Entertainment
ENTERTAINMENT
• A tribute to which Indian movie?
Answer
Pyaasa
Literature
LITERATURE
• Whose tombstone?
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Round 4
• The Pursuit Of Nihilanth• +10/0
• Which of these are UNESCO World Heritage Sites?
Rani Ki Vav, Gujarat
Golconda Fort
Great Living Chola Temples
The Maharaja Railways of
India
Champaner-Pavagadh
Archaeological Park, Gujarat
Tomb of Sher Shah Suri, Sasaram
Nanda Devi and Valley of Flowers
National Parks
Jantar Mantar, Delhi
Churches and Convents of Goa
The Kangra Valley Railway
Great Himalayan
National Park
Chilika Lake
Group of Monuments at
Pattadakal, Karnataka
Mughal Gardens, J&K
Keoladeo National Park
Sarnath, U.P
• Which of these are Jyotirlingas?
Grihneshwar Temple,
Aurangabad
Lingaraj Temple,Bhubaneswar
Nageshvara Temple,Dwarka
Ekambareswarar Temple,
Kancheepuram
Bhimashankar Temple,
Maharashtra
Pashupatinath Temple,
Mandsaur, M.P
Vaidyanath Temple,Deoghar, Jharkhand
Amarnath,J&K
Omkareshwar Temple,
M.P
Srikantheshwar Temple,Mysore
Trimbakeshwar Temple,
Maharashtra
Markandeswarar Temple,Chennai
Mahakaleshwar Temple,Ujjain
Nataraj Temple,Chidambaram
Mallikarjuna Swami Temple,
Srisailam
Neelkanth Mahadev Temple,
Near Rishikesh
Round 5
• Visual Connect• Points only for the overall theme (indicated on the slides)
Set 1
• +40/-20
Set 2
• +30/-15
Set 3
• +20/-10
Set 4
• +10/0
Answer
They all died outside India (Think outside the box)
• Dewang Mehta: Sydney, Australia• Sir Dorabji Tata: Bad Kissingen, Germany• C.K. Prahalad: San Diego, California, United States• J.R.D. Tata: Geneva, Switzerland• G.D. Birla: London, United Kingdom• Dev Anand: London, United Kingdom• Homi J. Bhabha: Mont Blanc• M.F. Husain: London, United Kingdom• Pt. Ravi Shankar: San Diego, California, United States• Udham Singh: Pentonville, United Kingdom• P.C. Sorcar: Ashaikawa, Hokkaidō, Japan• Lal Bahadur Shastri: Tashkent, Uzbekistan