General Quiz Finals

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 The Beating Retreat dates back to 16th century England when
troops were called back inside the castle at sunset but in India it
denotes the official end of the Republic Day festivities. The
buggy itself has a history of its own. At the time of Partition,
regiments under the Governor General’s Bodyguards (now known
as the President’s Bodyguards) were divided in a 2:1 ratio.
 However when it came to the viceroy’s buggy, neither country
was willing to give up its claim. Partition anecdote has it that
the first commandant of the GGBG and his Muslim deputy (who
went on to join the Pakistani forces) finally solved the problem
and India won the buggy.
 Give me the way with which ownership of buggy was given to
India ?
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 Following the recommendation of the 10
member-Acworth Committee in 1920-21,
headed by British economist William
Acworth The "Acworth Report" led to
reorganisation of _______. A practise
which continues in independent India till
date.
 What was started by Acworth
Committee?
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 It is one of the most famous incidents in the Indian
Independence struggle. A ‘smarak’ was made in the
names of the peasant martyrs only in 1993, Sampat
Chamar, Abdullah, Vikram Ahir, Meghu Tiwari, Lal
Muhammed, Sahdeo Kahar being some of them.
 However, the British made a memorial in the name of
the policemen who died and a famous revolutionary
couplet by poet Jagdamba Prasad Mishra now adorns
the place:
 Shahidon ke chitaaon par lagenge har baras mele,
watan pe marne walon ka yahi baki nishan hoga
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Which German app was started by this
Group ?
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 The current Governor of Rajasthan Kalyan
Singh recently made a few comments on
the national anthem that kicked up some
controversy.
 Citing that its lyrics were outdated, he
called for the replacement of a word that
referred to the erstwhile British rulers and
felt the anthem should not be honouring
them.
 Which word?
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 One of the rare occasions when Amul got into
trouble for its tongue-in-cheek ads , this 1979
print ad is remembered for the huge uproar it
caused at home , prompting Amul to issue a
public apology in form of a follow-up ad.
 The original print ad referred to something
followed by the UK Government , at places such
as Heathrow Airport.
 What was the practice?
 Why was the UK govt. following such a
practice?
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 UK authorities conducting virginity tests
on Indian women arriving at London
airport.
 To check whether Indian women claiming
to be brides or fiancées of British subjects
were indeed so.

The picture shows the ruins of a palace which is
called Namak Haram Deorhi.
Whose palace was it?
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 X was an Indian politician who served as the Speaker of
the Lok Sabha from 1996 to 1998 and Chief Minister of
Meghalaya from 1988 to 1990.
The NCP general secretary was expelled from the
Congress on 20 May 1999, along with Sharad Pawar and
Tariq Anwar for raising the banner of revolt against
Sonia Gandhi over her foreign origin issue.
 He was one of the founders of Nationalist Congress
Party (NCP) along with Sharad Pawar and Tariq Anwar in
1999, after their expulsion.
He contested against Pranab Mukherjee for the post of
the President. On 5 January 2013, He launched National
People's Party on national level.
ID X ?
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 A Brighton-based chocolatier has
created a 400g ‘_______bunny’
Available in white, milk and dark
chocolate each ‘______bunny'
comes complete with an edible
22 carat gold bow-tie and lustre
dust.
 Chocolatier Jen Lindsey-Clark
says she created the figures
after creating a full-size
chocolate sculpture of the actor
with Plunge productions last
year for a TV channel.
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_________is a traditionally agricultural community in Northern India
and Pakistan. Originally pastoralists in the lower Indus river-valley of
Sindh.
The __________community saw radical social changes in the 17th
century, the Hindu ______ took up arms against the Mughal Empire
during the late 17th and early 18th century.The Hindu _________
kingdom reached its zenith under Maharaja Suraj Mal of Bharatpur
(1707–1763).
The ________ community of the Punjab region played an important role
in the development of the martial Khalsa Panth of Sikhism; they are
more commonly known as the ____ Sikhs.
By the 20th century, the landowning_______became an influential group
in several parts of North India, including Haryana, Punjab, Western
Uttar Pradesh,Rajasthan, and Delhi Over the years, several ______
abandoned agriculture in favour of urban jobs, and used their dominant
economic and political status to claim higher social status.
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 One of the earliest known references to paperwork that
served in a role similar to that of a _____is found in the
Hebrew Bible. Nehemiah 2:7-9, dating from approximately
450 BC, states that Nehemiah, an official serving King
Artaxerxes I of Persia, asked permission for ______; the
king granted leave and gave him a letter "to the governors
beyond the river" requesting safe passage for him as he
traveled through their lands.
 King Henry V of England is credited with having invented
what some consider the first true __________, as a means
of helping his subjects prove who they were in foreign
lands. The earliest reference to these documents is found
in a 1414 Act of Parliament.
 FITB ?
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 The album, Jaane Aanjane has six songs,
written and composed by the winners of
_______Idols.
 Each song was composed with a video.
 The tabla player Harnam Singh says, “Love
landed me in this mess, now love has
inspired me to pursue music”
 FITB
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 __________on Monday moved the UN's International Court
of Justice in The Hague against India accusing it of
accusing it of failing to halt the nuclear arms race.
 "The Republic of the ________has instituted proceedings at
the International Court of Justice against all nuclear
weapon states, including India, contending breach of
customary law obligations on nuclear disarmament flowing
from Article VI of the Non-Proliferation Treaty(NPT).
 The ___________filed cases against all nine nations that
have declared or are believed to possess nuclear weapon.
But only the cases against the UK, India and Pakistan got to
this preliminary stage as the other six declined to take
part, according to the ___________' legal team.
 FITB
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 _________ Upanishad is a book of dubious origin supposedly from
Atharvaveda and believed to be written during Mughal Emperor Akbar's
reign.
 Swami Dayananda Saraswati's book Satyarth Prakash (The Light of
Truth) argues that the _______ is not part of the Upanishad canon. It
does not even appear in the Atharvaveda.
 The Upanishad describes Akbar as a messenger or prophet of God.
 In an issue of The Theosophist, R. Ananthakrishna Sastri wrote that the
work was written by "Aryan Pandits to escape persecution" during the
time of Muslim rule in India. He further remarked that the work was
"not in the style of ordinary Upanishads" and its words "appear to
sound more like Arabic“
 Charles Eliot suggested that the work may have been written in
connection with the Din-i-Ilahi movement, and wrote that the work
"can hardly be described as other than a forgery".
 FITB
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 ______have long played an important role in war. Due to
their homing ability, speed, and altitude, they were often
used in military.
 Racing Homer breed were used in World War I and World
War II, and 32 such _______ were presented with the Dickin
Medal.One ________, named "The Mocker," completed 52
missions before he was wounded. Another, named "Cher
Ami," lost her foot and one eye, saving a large group of
surrounded American infantrymen.
 The UK maintained the Air Ministry ______ Section during
World War II and for a while thereafter. A ______Policy
Committee made decisions about the uses of _______ in
military contexts. The head of the section, Lea Rayner,
reported in 1945 that ______ could be trained to deliver
small explosives or bioweapons to precise targets.
 FITB
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 Harikrishna Giri Goswami was born in Abbottabad, a town in the
North-West Frontier Province (now Khyber Pakhtunkhwa),
Pakistan, then part of British India. When he was 10, his family
had to flee to Delhi due to the partition.
 In 1992, he was honoured with the Padma Shri by the Government
of India.
 Before the 2004 general election in India, it was announced that
he had officially joined the ranks of the Shiv Sena.
 In recognition of the devotion of Goswami towards Shri Sai Baba,
the Shri Saibaba Sansthan Trust in Shirdi renamed "Pimpalwadi
Road" in Shirdi as “X Goswami Road”
 How do we know Mr. Goswami ?
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 Its name comes from the _________Forest of Uganda,
where it was first isolated in 1947 from a rhesus macaque
monkey that had been placed in a cage in the ______
Forest of Uganda, near Lake Victoria, by the scientists of
the Yellow Fever Research Institute.
 __________had been known to infect humans from the
results of serological surveys in Uganda and Nigeria.
 A 1952 research study conducted in India had shown a
"significant number" of Indians tested for _________ had
exhibited an immune response to the _________, suggesting
it had long been widespread within human populations.
 FITB ?
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 X who also uses the Anglicised name Pradosh C. Mitter,
is a fictional private investigator starring in a series of
Bengali novels and short stories written by Indian
Bengali film director and writer Satyajit Ray.
 Satyajit Ray had deep interests in crime fiction and he
read all of Sherlock Holmes fictions in his school days.
And when Ray himself started writing crime fictions,
unsurprisingly, the character Sherlock Holmes inspired
his writings.X's character resembles Sherlock Holmes.
 Ray directed two movies— Sonar Kella (1974) and Joi
Baba X(1978) based on this character. Ray made a series
of telefilms and serials on X's adventures. He also made
a few full-length Bengali films on the character.
 Give me X ?
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 Potti Sreeramulu (16 March 1901 – 15 December 1952), was
an Indian revolutionary. A devout follower of Mahatma
Gandhi, he worked for much of his life for humanitarian
causes, including support for the "Dalit community.’’
 Sreeramulu is revered as Amarajeevi ("Immortal being") in
the X region for his self-sacrifice for the X cause.
 He became famous for undertaking a hunger strike in
support of the formation of X he lost his life in the process.
His death sparked public rioting, and Indian prime
minister Jawaharlal Nehru declared the intent to form X
State three days following.
 Give me the X ?
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 The reason Frank Neuhauser was often sought
for his autograph was because he was the first
winner of something in 1925, where he won a
bike, some gold, and a trip to the White House.
That experience also began a life-long
associated with the gladiolus flower: he was
greeted with bouquets of gladioli athome after
his win, and raised them later in life. What was
he the first winner of?
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America’s first Spelling bee winner

 Which hollywood star's shoulder?
 What do the coordinates represent?
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Angelina Jolie
Tattoo coordinates are adopted
children's location

Noma Dumezweni is an acclaimed British stage
actress of South African heritage who has won
an Olivier Award for her role in ‘A Raisin in the
Sun’.
However, she became quite known and famous
because of a role she’ll be playing in an
upcoming play written by Jack Thorne.
Identify the play and the role she bagged?
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 Harry Potter and the Cursed
Child
 Hermione Granger

 He was an Indian lawyer, who's father was a
doctor in Cuttack. He went to England to
prepare himself for the bar but was attracted
to something else, there.
 Upon his return to India he was awarded
the Padma Shri in 1959 by Prime Minister
Jawaharlal Nehru and Padma Bhushan in 1967
by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi
 Who was he and what first did he achieve in
1958?
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Mihir Sen – crossed English Channel
(first Indian)

The Nassak diamond also known as the
Eye of the Idol was considered one of the
30 great stones of the world. It was
bought by Harry Winston, re-cut and sold
for $500,000 in 1970 making it the second
most expensive diamond ever auctioned in
the world. Where was the diamond
originally from?
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Triambakeshwar shiva Temple, Nasik

When the Y brothers first approached Warner
Bros studio about this movie project they had a
projected budget of over $80 million. The
studio balked at the idea of giving them that
much and instead offered them $10 million to
shoot the film. The brothers spent the entire
$10 million on the film’s opening sequence and
impressed the studio so much that they were
given the initial asking budget to finish the
movie and bring their vision to life.
 Which iconic movie project is being talked
about ?
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FIFA series vice-president and general manager David
Rutter claims that his team has been working to
overcome the technical challenges for this addition.
“It’s been in the pipeline for a few years, and really it
was just a case of making sure that the game was in a
good enough state for it the work properly,” said Rutter.
“We needed to have tools and technology in place that
could differentiate ______. Plus, we had to factor in the
time and effort required for travelling around the world
to scan faces and heads, record motion capture, etc. It’s
been on the to-do list for a while.”
What will be this major addition to FIFA-16 ?
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FIFA 16 TO ADD WOMEN'S TEAMS FOR THE FIRST
TIME. IT WILL INCLUDE 12 INTERNATIONAL TEAMS

 X was a Thracian gladiator, who along with
the Gauls Crixus, Oenomaus, Castus
and Gannicus, was one of the escaped slave
leaders in the Third Servile War, a major slave
uprising against the Roman Republic
 This rebellion, interpreted by some as an
example of oppressed people fighting for their
freedom against a slave-owning oligarchy, has
provided inspiration for many political thinkers,
and has been featured in literature, television,
and film.
 Identify X
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Avani Chaturvedi
Bhawana Kanth
Mohana Singh
 These three names are
about to make a history
 What is the history am
talking about?
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India's first three women fighter pilots

 Woe betide the Oscar winner who tries to
sell their statuette on eBay! Since 1950,
each Oscar has been encumbered by the
stipulation that if the recipient wishes to
sell the award, he/she must sell it to the
____________… for ________(price). When
one of producer Mike Todd's heirs
attempted to sell Todd's best picture Oscar
for Around the World in 80 Days in 1989,
the Academy successfully blocked the sale.
 FITB.
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