India Quiz Alcheringa Quiz Fest, IITG 2016

India QuizPRATEEK RAISINGHANI

DHRUBOJIT BHATTACHARYA

PRELIMS

RULES FOR PRELIMS• +10 for each correct answer.• No Googling• Scores from the prelims will carry over to the Finals.

MAY ALL GLORY BE TO WIKIPEDIA

Q1To avoid polluting the elements (fire, earth, water, air), followers of Zoroastrianism don’t bury their dead, but instead leave bodies in buildings called “_________” for the vultures to pick clean. After the bones dry, they are swept into a central well.

Fill in the blanks

Q2 The company was started in 1923 as a paper and newsprint trading organization. It entered manufacturing in 1963 with the production of industrial oxygen. Today, it is a leading producer of industrial gases, fluorocarbons, multiplexes and cryogenic engineering. Name this conglomerate whose most famous company works in an entirely different sector.

Q3Identify the list:1.Kartarpur, Shakargarh, Narowal, Punjab, Pakistan2.Kochi, Kerala3.Palayur, Thrissur, Kerala4. Methala, Kodungallur Taluk, Thrissur, Kerala

Q4 

If Akshata is the first child, Rohan the last, who or what according to the father is the middle child?

Q5●_X__ Day is the official National Day of _X___. Celebrated annually on 26 January, it marks the anniversary of the arrival of the First Fleet of __Y__ Ships at _Y______, and the raising of the Flag of __Y___. In present-day_X___, celebrations reflect the diverse society and landscape of the nation, and are marked by community and family events, reflections on ___X__ history, official community awards, and citizenship ceremonies welcoming new immigrants into the ___X___ community. Identify X.

Q6●Thousands Flee Indian City In Deadly Plague Outbreak By JOHN F. BURNS, Published: September 24, 1994Which Indian City?

Q7According to legend, where (in which city) did Rani Laxmi Bai, jumped off a cliff in order to make an escape a lost battle and lost her life and her horse as a consequence?

Q8●Ram's two sons - Lava and Kush founded two cities in close proximity to each other. If Kush founded Kasur, what was the name of the city Lava founded.

Q9●Born in 1926 in Madras Presidency, ___ became the first celebrity gangster of the city of Bombay. As his influence in Bollywood grew, he began to produce films himself. Though he is infamous for training several gangsters such as Dawood Ibrahim, Chhota Rajan, Chhota Shakeel, Arun Gowli. He is credited of buiding a smuggling empire without firing a single bullet. (Hint : He inspired the famous role of Amitabh Bacchan in Deewar.)

Q10

●Etymology- Which city gets its name from the two tributaries of Ganga it is bounded by? Its ancient name means "The One that Enlightens".

Q11●___in his usual imperious manner, told her that there were millions of Muslim boys in India, and she could have anyone she chose. Reminding her father that his wife had also been a non-Muslim, a Parsi also coincidently, the young lady replied: 'Father, there were millions of Muslim girls in India. Why did you not marry one of them?' And he replied that, 'She became a Muslim'.This is a conversation between a famous father and his daughter. Identify the father and the family the daughter married into. 10 points for each correct answer

Q12What does ‘Bangalored’ mean?

Q13What Jain practice was in news last year for being outlawed by the Rajasthan High Court last August?

Q14Which Indian state receives the highest remittances from its overseas workers, amounting to nearly one- sixth of India’s total remittances?

Q15___ was a strong oponent of the All-India Muslim League's demand for the partition of India. When the Indian National Congress declared its acceptance of the partition plan without consulting him, he felt very sad and told the Congress "you have thrown us to the wolves." He spent most of the rest of his life either in jail or in exile. Despite the heavy fighting at the time of his death, both sides of the Soviet war in Afghanistan, the communist army and the mujahideen, declared a ceasefire to allow his burial.

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ANSWERS

Q1To avoid polluting the elements (fire, earth, water, air), followers of Zoroastrianism don’t bury their dead, but instead leave bodies in buildings called “_________” for the vultures to pick clean. After the bones dry, they are swept into a central well.

Fill in the blanks

TOWER OF SILENCE

Q2 The company was started in 1923 as a paper and newsprint trading organization. It entered manufacturing in 1963 with the production of industrial oxygen. Today, it is a leading producer of industrial gases, fluorocarbons, multiplexes and cryogenic engineering. Name this conglomerate whose most famous company works in an entirely different sector.

INOX

Q3Identify the list:1.Kartarpur, Shakargarh, Narowal, Punjab, Pakistan2.Kochi, Kerala3.Palayur, Thrissur, Kerala4. Methala, Kodungallur Taluk, Thrissur, Kerala

FIRST RELIGIOUS SITES IN INDIA

Q4 

If Akshata is the first child, Rohan the last, who or what according to the father is the middle child?

INFOSYS (AS SAID BY NARAYANA MURTHY)

Q5●_X__ Day is the official National Day of _X___. Celebrated annually on 26 January, it marks the anniversary of the arrival of the First Fleet of __Y__ Ships at _Y______, and the raising of the Flag of __Y___. In present-day_X___, celebrations reflect the diverse society and landscape of the nation, and are marked by community and family events, reflections on ___X__ history, official community awards, and citizenship ceremonies welcoming new immigrants into the ___X___ community. Identify X.

AUSTRALIA

Q6●Thousands Flee Indian City In Deadly Plague Outbreak By JOHN F. BURNS, Published: September 24, 1994Which Indian City?

SURAT

Q7According to legend, where (in which city) did Rani Laxmi Bai, jumped off a cliff in order to make an escape a lost battle and lost her life and her horse as a consequence?

GWALIOR

Q8●Ram's two sons - Lava and Kush founded two cities in close proximity to each other. If Kush founded Kasur, what was the name of the city Lava founded.

LAHORE

Q9●Born in 1926 in Madras Presidency, ___ became the first celebrity gangster of the city of Bombay. As his influence in Bollywood grew, he began to produce films himself. Though he is infamous for training several gangsters such as Dawood Ibrahim, Chhota Rajan, Chhota Shakeel, Arun Gowli. He is credited of buiding a smuggling empire without firing a single bullet. (Hint : He inspired the famous role of Amitabh Bacchan in Deewar.)

HAJI MASTAN

Q10

●Etymology- Which city gets its name from the two tributaries of Ganga it is bounded by? Its ancient name means "The One that Enlightens".

VARANASI

Q11●___in his usual imperious manner, told her that there were millions of Muslim boys in India, and she could have anyone she chose. Reminding her father that his wife had also been a non-Muslim, a Parsi also coincidently, the young lady replied: 'Father, there were millions of Muslim girls in India. Why did you not marry one of them?' And he replied that, 'She became a Muslim'.This is a conversation between a famous father and his daughter. Identify the father and the family the daughter married into. 10 points for each correct answer

MUHAMMAD ALI JINNAH, WADIA FAMILY

Q12What does ‘Bangalored’ mean?

LOST ONE’S JOB DUE TO OUTSOURCING OF JOB

Q13What Jain practice was in news last year for being outlawed by the Rajasthan High Court last August?

SANTHARA/SALLEKHANA•(EXPLANATION GETS HALF POINTS)

Q14Which Indian state receives the highest remittances from its overseas workers, amounting to nearly one- sixth of India’s total remittances?

Kerala

Q15___ was a strong oponent of the All-India Muslim League's demand for the partition of India. When the Indian National Congress declared its acceptance of the partition plan without consulting him, he felt very sad and told the Congress "you have thrown us to the wolves." He spent most of the rest of his life either in jail or in exile. Despite the heavy fighting at the time of his death, both sides of the Soviet war in Afghanistan, the communist army and the mujahideen, declared a ceasefire to allow his burial.

Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan

FINALSRULES1.First 14 clockwise

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Q1X was featured wearing Y on the Vogue magazine, which was then popularized by the Beatles. In 1994 the rock group Love Battery released the song named ‘Y’ in which a man in bell-bottoms and Y unsuccessfully tries to get a date.

What is ‘Y’, named after X?

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Nehru, Nehru Jacket

Q2This image pops up when you Google Image search for ‘________ young’. However, this in reality is the picture of a Hollywood actress. Give me both their names

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SONIA GANDHI, REESE WHITHERSPOON

Q3A banker by profession, X has written popular thrillers about banking and bankers, including award winning trilogy The Incredible Banker, The Bankster and Bankerupt. An alumnus of IIM Bangalore, batch of 1993, he has spent close to two decades in the financial services industry. Give me X.Photo follows on the next slide.

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RAVI SUBRAMANIAM

Q4What connects Karsanbhai Patel’s daughter Nirupama and music composer Ved Pal?

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THE NIRMA JINGLE

Q5According to historians of Odisha, this originated in Puri, as khira mohana. It has been traditionally offered as bhog to goddess Lakshmi at Jagannath Temple, Puri. According to the local legend, Laxmi gets upset because her husband Lord Jagannath goes on a 9-day sojourn (the ratha yatra) without her consent. So, she locks Jai Vijay Dwar, one of the temple gates and prevents his convoy from re-entering the sanctum sanctorum of the temple. To appease her, Jagannath offers her these. This ritual is part of the "Niladri Bije" (or "Arrival of the God") observance, which marks the return of the deities to the temple after the Ratha Yatra. What am I talking about?

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RASGULLA/ROSHOGULLA

Q6___________ plays an important and often integral role in the culture and ritual of certain sects of the Hindu religion, especially among the Shaivs and it is venerated by some as being one of the aspects of Lord Shiva. The Naga Sadhus, Aghoris and Tantric Bhairava sects ‘consume’ freely as an integral part of their religious practice.Despite this long history, it was made illegal in India under pressure from the United States in the 1980s and severe sentences were introduced. Even the mere possession had a mandatory ten-year prison sentence. These laws have been relaxed, but it remains a popular medium for police to extort money from consumers.FITB.

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CHARAS/GANJA/MARIJUANA

Q7What has been blanked out?

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Q8This surname is an ancient Sanskrit title denoting the head of a community or caste. It is the amalgamation of the Sanskrit terms for four-way and the burden of responsibility. The people having this surname were the heads of villages and landed estates. Indian kings and emperors conferred this title to local chiefs and officers of eminence, including zamindars and jagirdars. Which surname is this?

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CHOUDHARY/CHAUDHARY

Q9Syed Imtiaz Ali was a dramatist, who wrote many theater plays in Urdu. In the beginning of his writing days, he started using X as his last name. He is known for his famous play Y, that later inspired the famous Bollywood movie Z released in early 1960s. After the mutiny of 1857, his ancestors migrated to Pakistan. He was brutally murdered in early 1970. Identify X, Y and Z.

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X : TAJY : ANARKALIZ : MUGHAL-E-AZAM

Q10Urban dictionary entry for what?

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JUGAAD

Q11Established on 24 January 1857, it was the first institution in Asia to be established as a multidisciplinary and secular Western-style university. A 41-member Senate was formed as the policy making body of the university. When the university was first established it had a catchment area covering the area from Lahore to Rangoon (now in Myanmar), and Ceylon, the largest of any Indian university. Which university am I talking about?

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CALCUTTA UNIVERSITY

Q12FITB.In a bid to effectively manage the large empire, Peshwa Madhavrao I gave semi-autonomy to the strongest of his knights, which created a confederacy of Maratha states. They became known as the ______ of Baroda, the Holkars of Indore and Malwa, the ______ of Gwalior and Ujjain, the Bhonsales of the Nagpur and the Puars of Dhar & Dewas.Double the points.

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GAEKWAD, SCINDIA

Q13Give me X and Y.In the late 1960s, the Indian National Congress split nationally, with ______ breaking off from the party leadership and forming a party of their own. The breakway faction was named __X__ and the official party became known as ___Y_.

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INC O and R

Q14●France, UK, US and Russia have many,Turkey has 3,Italy has 4, Germany and Japan have 1 each, China is planning of having one. Also, India has one in Tajikistan. What am I talking about?

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FOREIGN MILITARY BASES

Q15X was born on 12 March 1991 in Banglore, India. Her father is Marc from France and her mother is Surekha and she is from Bangalore.AWARDS WON• Amateur - Lady golfer of the year (IGULS): 2007• Professional - Player of the year (WGAI): 2010• Pride of Karnataka Award by Roundtable 2013• Sports Excellence Award by Rotary Club 2013Give me X.

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SHARMILA NICOLLET

Q16Yusuf Khwaja Hamied (born July 25, 1936 in Vilnius, Lithuania) is an Indian scientist and chairman of ____, a generic pharmaceuticals company founded by his father Khwaja Abdul Hamied in 1935. He was awarded the Padma Bhushan, India's third highest civilian honour by Government of India in 2005. Hamied is best known outside India for defying large Western pharmaceutical companies in order to provide generic AIDS drugs and treatments for other ailments primarily affecting people in poor countries. Hamied has led efforts to eradicate AIDS in the developing world and to give patients life-saving medicines regardless of their ability to pay, and has been characterized as a modern-day Robin Hood figure  as a result.

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CIPLA

Q17The _______ is the narrow strip of territory in northeastern Afghanistan that extends to China and separates Tajikistan from Pakistan.The corridor was a political creation of The Great Game. It was left as left a narrow strip of land as a buffer between the British India and the Russian empire.Also, its border with China holds another distinction. Crossing that land border leads to the most time difference- three and a half hour.

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WAKHAN CORRIDOR

Q18_____ CIE, MVO (April 1851 – 10 July 1927) was born in Mangtanwala, a village of Punjab Province in British India. . He graduated from Thomason College of Civil Engineering (now IIT Roorkee) in 1873. He is credited for converting vast desert into smiling fields, irrigated by water lifted by a hydroelectric plant and running through a thousand miles of irrigation channels, all constructed at his own cost. A student hostel in IIT Roorkee was established in his memory. His statue in Lahore is mentioned in one of Saadat Hassan Manto's stories "The Garland",  based on a true incident on the frenzy of religious riots of 1947-an inflamed mob in Lahore, after attacking a residential area, turned to attacking the statue of ____. They first pelted the statue with stones; then smothered its face with coal tar. Then a man made a garland of old shoes climbed up to put it round the neck of the statue. The police arrived and opened fire. Among the injured were the fellow with the garland of old shoes.As he fell, the mob shouted: “Let us rush him to _______ Hospital” forgetting that ironically they were trying to obliterate the memory of the very person who had founded the hospital where the person was to be taken for saving his life

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SIR GANGA RAM

Q19Born in Agra on May 6, 1861, he was the posthumous son of the last  Kotwal of Delhi in the Mughal court. He is famous for chairing the _____ commission in 1928, that was a counter to the all-British Simon Commission and for coming up with the _____ Report, the first constitution written by Indians only, conceived a dominion status for India within the Empire, akin to Australia, New Zealand and Canada.

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MOTILAL NEHRU

Q20Which city derives its name from the  Pashtun dynasty which founded the city? Today it is Asia's largest hub for bicycle manufacturing and produces more than 50% of India's bicycle consumption . It also produces 60% of India's tractor parts and a large portion of auto and two-wheeler parts.

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LUDHIANA

Q21Identify the list.

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SOURCES OF INDIAN REMITTANCES

Q22Identify the tally.France-5, Bhutan-4, Russia-3,Mauritius -3,Indonesia-2,Brazil-2,Nigeria-2,Nepal-2,UK-2,Yugoslavia-2,Sri Lanka-2,Pakistan-2Several Countries-1

Q23Below is the list of top 5 Indian exports in 2012. The top 3 items have been blanked out. Identify.1. ______- $56B2. ______-$47B3. ______- $24B4. Transport Equipment- $21B5. Machinery -$14B

Q24Who said it?“I hate Indians. They are a beastly people with a beastly religion. The famine was their own fault for breeding like rabbits.”

Q25"We really slobbered over the old witch," he said. He later added ,“While she was a bitch, we got what we wanted too. She will not be able to go home and say that _____ didn't give her a warm reception and therefore in despair she's got to go to war."Who is the speaker and the witch/bitch in question?

Q26The Razakars were a private militia organized by Qasim Razvi to support the rule of Nizam Osman Ali Khan, Asaf Jah VII and resist the integration of Hyderabad State into the Dominion of India. They also attempted to make the Nizam accede his princely state to Pakistan instead of India. The Razakars were affiliated to the _____.

Q27Identify the building. At the time of its completion, it was the tallest building in India, although it has since lost that claim to newer buildings. It was given the present name in 1966.

Q28A committee was set up by Hon'ble Sir Jogendra Singh, Member of the Viceroy's Executive Council, Department of Education, Health and Agriculture. The 22 member committee headed by Sri N.R.Sarkar, in its report, recommended the establishment of four _______________ in the Eastern, Western, Northern and Southern regions. The report also urged the speedy establishment of all the four ________ with the ones in the East and the West to be started immediately. What did this committee eventually lead to?