India quiz, ZHDC weekly session #15

India Quiz
18th JULY 2021 | 4:30 PM | QM: Roshni R.
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● There are 16 questions
● +10/0 on Bounce and Direct rounds
● +10/-5 on Pounce

1. After his death, it was found that on the office table of X, there lay a
piece of paper bearing the following four lines written by his own
hand from a famous poem, although he mis-wrote the name of the
poet as ‘Richard’.
“The woods are lovely, dark and deep.
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.”
Having died at 74, after dodging death 4 times, X had gone miles in life
as an influential lawyer, activist and politician. More than a million
people flooded the streets to mourn his death.
ID X.

2. This fictional work tells the history of the independence of India and further history till
1970s.
Featuring characters named Ved Vyas, Ganapati, Kanika, Pandu, Vidur and more, the
satirical novel recasts and resets characters from a major Indian epic. In the book, the
story of Indian democracy is shown as a struggle between groups and individuals
closely related by their personal and political histories.
The name of this work is a pun on an Indian epic.
What is the name of the book/what’s the pun?

3. A former National Institute of Design (NID)
student, he scribbled a design in the 70s,
beginning with the human eye, as part of a
classroom exercise. He drew two curves
around it, depicting, as he says, “the yin and
the yang”.
The symbol created by him was selected by
Indira Gandhi for a specific purpose.
“A symbol means different things in different
cultures and India has a wide variety of
cultures. So the _______ could not have
idiosyncrasies of meaning. An eye means the
same thing to the south as to the north-east.
Which iconic symbol did he create?

4. “All history becomes
subjective”
This 1971 watershed event is
remembered wildly differently in
different places. In India, it is
celebrated. In the neighbouring
Pakistan, however, it is brushed
off as a failure and a loss.
Which event is being referred to
here? And what is called as in
Pakistan?

Vijay Diwas/Liberation of Bangladesh
And
The Fall of Dhaka

5. “They pray for thy blessings and sing thy praise
The saving of all people waits in thy hand.”
This was an extract from an English translation of a song that has
5 stanzas though people are more likely to be familiar only with
the first stanza.
This uplifting song was originally written in Bengali but has since
been known in its Hindi translation.
The lyrics were only turned into a song, having being given a tune,
nearly 8 years after it was first written.
ID the song.

6.
This popular Indian series shares its name
with a Nicholas Cage starrer fantasy drama
film, about about an unmarried and
successful businessman who wakes up one
day and suddenly finds that he has a wife
and 2 children and that he was now a tire
salesman.
Cage’s character’s career is taken over by
his personal life and household.
ID the movie and the Indian series which
share the same name.

7. Identify these significant events in modern history through these posters.
2.

1. Assasination of Gandhiji
2. Mangalyaan - India reaches Mars

8.
ID these films -
1. Two young men help a handicapped old man get rid of a dance
connoisseur
2. Think of Lion King, but with humans.
3. A woman is really bad at playing spot the difference.
4. Rich people have an existential crisis, do rich people things and
live happily ever after.

1. Sholay
2. Baahubali
3. Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi
4. Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara

9. X was an Indian painter who was born in Hungary and
died in Pakistan. X’s entire collection of art was declared
as “National art treasures”, thus joining the ranks of
Rabindranath Tagore, Raja Ravi Varma and more.
Very few of X’s works have been sold globally due to a
stipulation by the government that whenever the works
are to be sold, they must stay in India because they are
an important part of Indian culture. Recently, this artist’s
work was sold for a record price.
X’s works were considered revolutionary because they
blended elements of the traditional Indian and western
style.
ID X.

10.
Shaikh Imam Bakhsh Sahba'i was a Teacher, Scholar, Poet, and
Puzzle-master. Several of Sahba'i's writings deal with the art of word-
puzzles. He seems to have been very fond of the genre, and
took much pride in his expertise in it.
He taught at the same place for 17 years, eventually dying a gruesome
death in the 1857 riots. His grave is at a place that was of great
importance to him (and us).
His grave is on the main steps of the mosque in__(5)__ ___(7)___.
The solitary grave is prominent and yet nameless and crumbling.
FITB.

11.
Every year, without fail, this image shows
up on Whatsapp groups and Facebook
feeds.
This image claims to be the an image of
India captured by NASA during Diwali.
It is not.
It is actually a 2003 map that was meant to
showcase an issue that is always on too
many Indian citizens’ mind. What does
this image actually show?

Shows population
growth over time

12.
Born as Krishna Pandit, this actor has English and Gujrati ancestry. He gained
worldwide fame for his starring role as one of the most influential Indian leader in
Academy award winning film in the 1980s.
The actor had changed his name when he became an actor but had found fame due
to the role playing an Indian, a role which he was able to bag due to his partly Indian
heritage.
Name this actor, who has made an appearance in an Iron Man movie.

13.
After a victorious 2008 ICC Under-19 Cricket World Cup, X was one of the
most talked-about talents in Indian cricket. But,Y, instead of taking their local
boy went on with an upcoming fast bowler.
X was then picked by another team and has been retained every season since
then. He is one of the very few players who has never been auctioned in IPL
history.
Who is the Player?
Which was the team that didn’t pick him?

Virat Kohli & Delhi Daredevils

14.
Election king, Padmarajan, a homeopathic doctor turned businessman, entered the
Guinness Book of World Records for a feat.
He has stood up against some of the biggest names in the political circles including
Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Manmohan Singh and A P J Abdul Kalam.
In the 1996 elections he filed nominations for five Lok Sabha seats. It was because
of him that the Representation of People Act, 1951, was amended to allow a
candidate to contest only from two seats.
What record does this election king hold?

The record for the most
unsuccessful candidate in
India. He contested over 195+
constituencies and lost all of
them.

16. Kotak Mahindra bank launched a new category of accounts
titled 811. This is a zero balance with zero charges account which
can be opened with one’s PAN card and offers users an interest rate
of up to 6 per cent.
‘811’ is a tribute to an event that boosted opening and usage of
bank accounts. What is the logic behind the 811 tribute?

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