India Quiz freshers 2015

Fresher’s I dia Quiz

PRELIMS

1#Firstinindia

• Who was the first indian to score a century in

ODIs?

Kapil Dev

2

• Name the organisation with which the indian

govt. recently signed a peace deal.

Nationalist Socialist Council of

Nagaland

3 ID.

Pingali Venkaiyya

4

• Salman Khan Hit and Run case

5

• X's first ever television interview was with Y,

when X faced a video camera for the first time

ever as a cricketer in between practice

sessions of his Ranji team Bombay in 1988.

• Id X & Y .

• X-Sachin Tendulkar

• Y-Tom Alter

• X is Y’s ar he e y. X has li ed 6000 years, a d is the sour e of evil in the world. He intends to rule the world by spreading

darkness, hatred, sin and evil.

• It is said that the source of his strength is one-half of the

"Shakti Punj" (the half which is referred to as "Paap Punj")

which he managed to retain after he originally obtained the

entire Shakti Punj by deceit from Shri Satya ,the founder of

the Suryavanshi.

• However, it is also mentioned that the source of his strength is

the evil that is committed by people in this world.

• X-Tamaraj Kilvish

• Y-Shaktiman

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• This Indian city was named after a boy called

'Aahlad', who was born to a virgin mother in a

village near Bisi. This boy later became a

handsome youth and was made the local

deity; and the place was named after him.

• Which city?(pic next slide)

• Shillong

• Suppression of Sepoy Mutiny

• Her tweets

recently caused a

spur.

• Explain

• #Selfie_with_daughter

What is the significance of this photo

in Indian history?

• The cropped photo of Gandhiji was uesd for

Indian Rupee Note.

Who’s fa e has ee la ked out?

• Narendra Modi

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• In the 1984-1985 season ,India and Pakistan

were playing an ODI at Sialkot.

• India was in a fairly strong position with the

score cad reading at 210/3.

• Duleep Vengasarkar was batting at 94*.

• But the match was suddenly abandoned.

• Why?

• Death of Indira Gandhi

13 #BombaynotMumbai

• 12 yr old Elaine D'lima stood first in a story

telling contest in Bombay on 14 Nov 1980.

She launched X in Bombay. ID X.

• Tinkle Series

X was born to a Assamese folk singer couple.

He spent most of his childhood in Assam and

he was introduced to music early on in his

childhood.

X’s father is popularly k o as The Ki g of Bihu Musi . Ide tify the prolifi si ger.

• Papon

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• Madhya

• Hardik Patel

Fresher s Quiz FINALS

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• Sofia Ashraf is an Indian Tamil rapper and singer who advocates for social causes like the Bhopal gas tragedy in India.

• I , she sa g Do t Work for Do hile wearing a hijab to criticize Dow for its response to the Bhopal disaster in 1984.

• She has also sung film songs for Academy Award-winning music director A. R. Rahman.

• How did she make news recently?

• “he sa g a so g Kodaikanal o t protesti g against the soil pollution(mercury) caused by

HUL in the area.

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• Sometimes a batsman, whilst backing up, leaves the popping crease before the bowler has actually delivered the ball. Where this has happened, the bowler may attempt to run the non-striking batsman out. Getting a batsman out this way, though legal, is generally considered to be against the spirit of the game as the non-striker usually accidentally leaves the crease.

• Give the term named after an Indian bowler used for this.

Vinoo Mankad

3 Connect

• Prativindhya

• Satanika

• Sutasoma

• Srutasena

• Srutakarma

Up pandavas

• X was one of the co-authors (with Larry

Page and Sergey Brin, and Terry Winograd) of

an influential early paper on

thePageRank algorithm.

• He was a winner of the Gödel Prize in 2001

for his work on the PCP theorem and its

applications to hardness of approximation.

• Sergey Brin wrote about X that ''Today,

whenever you use a piece of technology, there

is a good chance a little bit of X is behind it.

• Give me X.

Rajeev Motwani

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• X is a Hindu deity considered to be an avatar (incarnation) of the three Hindu gods Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva, collectively known as Trimurti. The sage Atri is considered to be the physical father of X. He was known as the One who gave Himself to Atri and over eons that became his name. In reality he is verily the personification of the Maha Sankalpa who is the cause for the manifestation of Aadi Parashakti to emerge and the Trimutris to emerge from Her.

• Dattatreya

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• What in india as ter ed as the Biggest “e Cha ge Operatio E er Made ?

• Changing the name of Victoria terminus to

Chhatrapati Sivaji Terminus

#IndianSoccerLegends

• X(born 15 January 1938) commonly known by his nickname Y is an Indian international footballer and first class cricketer. He was born in Kishoreganj District of undivided Bengal (now in Bangladesh). As a striker, he played 50 international matches representing India. As a first class cricketer, he played Ranji Trophy for Bengal.X holds the distinction of playing for a single club, Mohun Bagan, throughout his club career despite numerous offers from other clubs including one reported offer from Tottenham Hotspur. X made his international debut for India in 1956 during the team's 1-0 victory over the Chinese Olympic team.He went on to play for India in 50 international matches including in Olympics, Asian Games, Asia Cup and Merdeka Cup. He captained India to the Asian Games Gold Medal in 1962 and a Silver in the 1964 Asia Cup in Tel Aviv.

• X-Subimal Goswami

• Y-Chuni Goswami

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• Amrit Singh and Upinder Singh are daughters of this person.

• Amrit Singh is the author of Globalizing Torture: CIA Secret Detention and Extraordinary Rendition. The 216-page report, is the most comprehensive account to date of the human rights abuses asso iated ith the CIA s post / se ret dete tio a d the large number of foreign governments implicated in these operations.

• Upinder Singh is the Head of the History Department ] at the University of Delhi. She is also the recipient of the inaugural Infosys Prize in the category of Social Sciences (History).

• Name the guy.

• Manmohan Singh

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• Oupnek'hat, id est, Secretum tegendum: opus ipsa in

____ rarissimum, continens antiquam et arcanam,

seu theologicam et philosophicam doctrinam, e

quatuor sacris Indorum libris Rak

• baid, Djedjer baid, Sam baid, Athrban baid

excerptam; ad verbum, e Persico idiomate,

Samkreticis vocabulis intermixto

• Latin translation of the name of which text?

Upnishads

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• X spent a week at Koenig Solutions in Moti

Nagar, New Delhi in 2010 New Delhi training

in core Java programming and ethical hacking.

Id X who made waves globally recently.

Edward Snoden

• Upon receiving the Ramon Magsaysay Award, he

returned the cash portion of the award on being

challenged to do so by a Philippines newspaper for

his earlier remarks describing America as "the

biggest terrorist state in the world." _________ later

clarified that he had never meant to criticize the

people of the United States but its government.

• He is an IIT Kanpur alumni. Name the guy.

Sandeep Pandey

• A pioneer in treating HIV patients since the 80s at

a time when many physicians were reluctant, she

founded the first voluntary HIV testing and

counselling centre, Y R Gaitonde Center for AIDS

Research and Education (YRG CARE), a premier

HIV/AIDS care and support centre, in Chennai.

She was also the Professor of Microbiology at the

Madras Medical College.

• Which lady who recently passed away?

Suniti Solomon

Put Fundae.

Housing.Com

• Their ha ked e site s ho epage.

Connect

• The Whistleblowers of the Vyapam Scam.

Connect

• Love aaj kal

• Highway

• Rockstar

• Jab we Met

Imtiyaj Ali

• The directors of these movies is Imitiyaj Ali.

• He played the role of Yakub Menon in Anurag

Kash ap s Bla k Frida .

• The type species of _________ was collected on 18 May 2012 from bushes at the periphery of a temple compound, Arippa, near Kulathupuzha Reserve Forest, Kollam district, Kerala, India.

• The generic name was derived as a tribute to X. The s ie tists hose X' e ause X's " i ra t usi as inspiring", in the author's own account.

• Further, X was of an Indian-Parsi origin and spent majority of his childhood in Panchgani, which is located in the northern part of the mountain range from where the frog was discovered.

• Freddie Mercury

• Amitabh

Shahrukh

Modi

Aamir

Salman.

• Explain the order.

Number of twitter followers in decreasing order

• In the movie Legend of Prince Rama who

dubbed for ra a s voice in english?

Bryan Cranston

• What does this image signify?

• Image on next slide.

• Dabbawallas of Mu ai • They use this coding scheme on the dabbas

•

• This year 2 indian movies were screended at

Cannes.One was Cauthi Koot the other one is

???

Masaan

Connect

• Nights of cabiria

• Ba ette s feast

• Crouching tiger , Hidden Dragon

• These movies won the Oscar for the best

movie in Foreign Language Category in the

years in which Indian movies were nominated

• Mother India

• Saalam Bombay

• Lagaan(respectively)

ID Y

• One interesting, perhaps apocryphal X legend relates the course of the initial meeting between Jadi Rana and the newly landed emigrants: When the Y requested asylum, Jadi Rana motioned to a vessel of milk filled to the very brim to signify that his kingdom was already full and could not accept refugees. In response, one of the Y priests added a pinch of sugar to the milk, thus indicating that they would not bring the vessel to overflowing and indeed make the lives of the citizens sweeter. Jadi Rana gave shelter to the emigrants and permitted them to practice their religion and traditions freely.

• X-Zorastrianism

• Y-Parsi

ID X

• During the Mughal period, X was used like a

cloth to wipe off the excess oil off the hands

after the completion of an oil-rich food laden

with meat and fat.

• Rumali Roti

• X is damaged by______ to such an extent that

a technical inspection in 2011 revealed that

the thickness of the steel hoods protecting the

pillars has decreased from 6mm to less than

3mm.So, a new project to cover the base with

fiberglass casing has been proposed as

damage to the hoods can jeopardise the

safety of X.

• X-Howrah Bridge

• Blank- Spitting

• All these animals appear on 10 rupee note.

• All have airports named after them.

• Birsa Munda(Ranchi)

• Lal Bahadur Shastri(Varanasi)

• Ahilya Bai Holkar(Indore)

• Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel(Ahmedabad)

Puneet Issar

• He acted i a ovie a ed Super a 1 . • He was the guy who had hit Amitabh

Bachchan in Coolie.

• He was a contestant in Big Boss Season 8.

Cricketers who have played cricket for

both India and Pakistan

• Abdul Kardar

• Amir Elahi

• Gul Mohammad

Musical Gharanas

• (In order)

• Gwalior

• Agra

• Jaipur Atrauli

• Holkar

• Kirana

Chief Guest at Republic day Parade

• Sushilo Bambang

Yudhoyono(Indonesia)(2011)

• Yingluck Shinawatra(Thailand)(2012)

• Jigmey Khesar Namagyal Wangchuk

Thinley(Bhutan)(2013)

• Shinzo Abe(Japan)(2014)

• Barack Obama(U.S.A.)(2015)