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INDIA QUIZ
Kartheek Rangineni
Alok Kumar

Q.1
It was rumoured that United States Postal Service(USPS) will honour Legendary
actor X by issuing a postage stamp on his 91st birth anniversary.
X Foundation of America stated that the actor was going to be the first Indian
Actor to be conferred such an honour. Later it turns out that these were indeed
rumours.
Id X who is known in 2014 for his “3G” film

Q.2
According to the legend, X was one of the five cities founded by the Pandava
brothers during the times of the Mahabharata; its historic name being
Pandavaprastha (city of Pandavas). X is first recorded in the Mahabharata as one
of the five villages that the Pandavas demanded from Duryodhana. X is known
popularly for someother reasons in the medieval period considered turning point
of Indian History. X is also known as “City of Weaver”
Id X

Q.3
X is often considered the "Father of the India's nuclear program”.
Saddam Hussain invited the scientist X to his office and told him: "You have done
enough for your country; don't go back. Stay here and take over our nuclear
programme. I will pay you whatever you want." X was shocked and scared by the
Iraqi proposal. He reportedly could not sleep that night, worried that he might
never see his homeland again. He took the next flight out.
ID X

Q.4
A European traveler by the name of Jean Baptiste Tavernier who visited India in
1665 first mentioned the idea of X in his fanciful writings. The writings of
Tavernier mention that Y began to build his own tomb on the other side of the river
but could not complete it as he was deposed by Aurangzeb. However, many
modern archeologists believe this story to be myth.
ID X

Q.5
After Operation Blue Star in Punjab , the final examinations of Punjab Univesity
were postponed. Irshad Kamil led a group of students demanding a month's
notice as preparation. He made banners saying, "_______ _______" and went about
raising this slogan. He used these lines in a bollywood film.

Q.6
When X applied for Times of India fellowship, he spoke of his plans to report from
rural India. When an editor in the interview asked him, "Suppose I tell you my
readers aren't interested in this stuff", X answered, "When did you last meet your
readers to make any such claims on their behalf?"
ID X who is regarded as “one of the world's great experts on famine and hunger”

Q.7
This is the Sagar Samrat oil exploration rig off the coast of Mumbai, that
disappeared from our memories after 1994.
How is this rig going to make a comeback, courtesy a recent announcement by a
financial body?
(image on next slide)

Q.8 Name the mythical creature in the middle of the two pictures

Q.9 ID him
Some suggest that aspiring to become a world leader, he undermined the intelligence reports dating back
to 1955 about Chinese preparations to defend its land claim on ‘disputed areas.’
He was responsible for India's lack of military readiness and was forced to tender his resignation as
minister of defence in spite of Nehru protecting him by first making him Minister of Defence production
and then Minister without portfolio.
On 23 January 1957 he delivered an unprecedented eight-hour speech defending India’s stand on
Kashmir. To date, the speech is the longest ever delivered in the United Nations Security Council, covering
five hours of the 762nd meeting on 23 January, and two hours and forty-eight minutes on the 24th.
Indian media regarded him as “Hero of Kashmir”

Q.10 Which art-form?
This performing art form became better known outside the region through the
efforts of Rabindranath Tagore. In 1919 he was so impressed after seeing a
composition, the Goshtha Lila in Sylhet (in present-day Bangladesh) that he invited
Guru Budhimantra Singh to Shantiniketan.
In 1926, Guru Naba Kumar also joined the faculty. Other celebrated Gurus, Senarik
Singh Rajkumar, Nileshwar Mukherji and Atomba Singh were also invited to teach
there and assisted Tagore with the choreography of several of his dance-dramas.

Q.11 Gist of whose conversation with whom ??
Such pure devotion is expressed in 9 ways. The ways are Bhajan, Kirtan, Japa,
Satsang and so on. Total surrender in my faith is considered the highest form of
Bhakti for me. Anyone who practises these 9 methods makes me very happy and
reaches me without fail. That which is so difficult for saints to attain has been
attained by you so easily, _____. This is because of your sincere devotion.

Q.12 “Plancks Gesetz und Lichtquantenhypothese”
“Respected Sir, I have ventured to send you the accompanying article for your perusal and opinion. I am
anxious to know what you think of it. You will see that I have tried to deduce the coefficient 8π ν2/c3 in
Planck's Law independent of classical electrodynamics, only assuming that the ultimate elementary region
in the phase-space has the content h3. I do not know sufficient German to translate the paper. If you think
the paper worth publication I shall be grateful if you arrange for its publication in Zeitschrift für Physik.
Though a complete stranger to you, I do not feel any hesitation in making such a request.”
Y agreed with him, translated X's paper "Planck's Law and Hypothesis of Light Quanta" into German, and
had it published in Zeitschrift für Physik under X's name, in 1924
ID X and Y who laid foundations of modern day field(no part points)

Q.13
X Research Foundation(KaReFo) aims
To spread awareness and inculcate among individuals and institutions, a passion for research in
language computing.
To function as a resource centre for training, research, documentation and consultancy, in the field of
language computing and language literacy
To invent and design new modes of imparting language education and to enhance existing modes of
language education.
ID the founder of KaReFo known for popularising Lyrical Engineering in recent
times

Q.14
In Jan 2016, the Indian government announced its annual list of "Padma" awards.
10 people were awarded India's second highest civilian honour, the Padma
Vibhushan.
Two of them have the word 'Rao' in their name and both are from the film world.
Who are these two?

Q.16 List(non-exhaustive) of what?
Cheetah
Garuda
Nav Shakti
Pushpak
Pawanhans
Kirtimaan
Sukanya
Indraprastha
Deshbandhu

Locomotive names of Indian Railways

Q.18
Benson, Flynn, Wesson, North, Yardley, Russell, Harrison, Brooks, Willis, Burton,
and Smith made up the opposing XI,
who captained the representative Indian side?

Q.19
"Simian" is the name of a 2014 graphic novel by Vikram Balagopal. The story,
based on myths and legends, begins with the old protagonist meeting his younger
brother in a forest.
Who are these brothers?

Q.20
This 2015 film was originally titled "Nyodda", for the place in which the events of
the film are set. Its international release is called "Guilty", for what happens to
some of the people in the film.
The name of its mainstream Indian release partly refers to the real-life people that
inspired the film.
Which film?

Q.21
In 2015, Marathi writer Bhalchandra Nemade, who professes "Deshivaad", a
somewhat controversial literary theory that asserts that writers should look inward
and resist globalisation, got into a spat with writer X after he criticised X's literary
works. X then wrote: "Grumpy old man. Just take your prize and say thank you
nicely. I doubt you’ve even read the work you attack"
What "prize" was X referring to and also ID X

Gnanapith Award , Salman Rushdie

Q.22
According to Vana Parva in the Mahabharata, ______ was so absorbed in practising austerities that white
ants started building their nests around his body and through his hair, leaving only his eyes.
Sukanya, daughter of King Sharyati on a trip to the forest poked curiously through two eyes in an ant hill
which caused ______ to burst out in fury. His anger was quelled only when the King offered Sukanya in
marriage to him.
The Ashvini Kumars arrived at their cottage and requested Sukanya to marry one of them. However
Sukanya requested them to give _____ his youth back so that she could make an unbiased choice. They
agreed to do so and made two products which restored ______’s youth. Sukanya subsequently identified
her husband and (re)married him. His ashram was on Dhosi Hill, an extinct volcano in modern day
Mahendragarh, Haryana.
What were the two products ?

Q.25
Subhash Mukhopadhyay was a physician from Kolkata, India, who created X.
Unfortunately, Dr. Subhash Mukhopadhyay was harassed by the state government,
and not allowed to share his achievements with the international scientific
community. Dejected, he committed suicide on 19 June 1981.
His life and death has been the subject of countless newspaper reviews and
inspired the Hindi movie Ek Doctor Ki Maut(Death of a doctor).

1 +40/-20
X was a Naxalite before entering films, but tragedy struck his family when his only
brother was electrocuted and killed in a freak accident. He returned to his family
and left the Naxalite fold, even though this posed a grave risk to his own life.
X then made his debut in the 1976 film Mrigaya, for which he won the National
Film Award for Best Actor. He was particularly recognized as one of the best
"dancing-heroes" in Bollywood.
In 2010, Guinea-Bissau issued postal stamp in X’s honour

2 ID X & Y +30/-15
X’s father Y often regarded as ‘Movie Moghul’ has made significant contribution to
Indian cinema. Y has a place in the Guinness Book of World Records for the most
films produced by an individual, having produced more than 150 films in 13 Indian
languages.
X is a renowned actor popularly known in Bollywood for Anari, Sooryavansham :P

Q4. Id the actor in news recently with “Arnold”
10/-5

Q.5 +5/0
Identify this famous actor from Kollywood who was also the most popular Keralite
in an online poll conducted by CNN-IBN in 2006.
In 2009, he became the first and the only Indian actor to receive the honorary rank
of Lieutenant Colonel in the Territorial Army of India
(Image if requested)

“VISUALS CAN BE DECEIVING”

1
X was a Naxalite before entering films, but tragedy struck his family when his only
brother was electrocuted and killed in a freak accident. He returned to his family
and left the Naxalite fold, even though this posed a grave risk to his own life.
X then made his debut in the 1976 film Mrigaya, for which he won the National
Film Award for Best Actor. He is particularly recognized as one of the best
"dancing-heroes" in Bollywood.
In 2010, Guinea-Bissau issued postal stamp in X’s honour

2 ID X & Y
X’s father Y often regarded as ‘Movie Moghul’ has made significant contribution to
Indian cinema. Y has a place in the Guinness Book of World Records for the most
films produced by an individual, having produced more than 150 films in 13 Indian
languages.
X is a renowned actor popularly known in Bollywood for Anari, Sooryavansham :P

Q.3
Rajiv Hari Om Bhatia aka 'Akshay Kumar'

Q4. Id the actor in news recently with “Arnold”

Q.5
Identify this famous actor from Kollywood who was also the most popular Keralite
in an online poll conducted by CNN-IBN in 2006.
In 2009, he became the first and the only Indian actor to receive the honorary rank
of Lieutenant Colonel in the Territorial Army of India
(Image if requested)

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