This document contains 20 multiple choice questions from a Karnataka quiz. It covers topics related to famous restaurants, landmarks, movies, snacks, and other aspects of Karnataka culture and history. The questions are part of a preliminary quiz round presented by RV QuizCorp and include images, videos, and audio to accompany some of the questions.
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VIDYARTHI BHAVAN
6. Q 2)
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❏The St. Aloysius College X, is situated in Mangaluru.
❏Built in 1880 along with the main college building, it
captivating for its architecture and series of paintings,
seen in the image on the next slide.
❏Painted by an Italian Antonio Moscheni between March
1899 and August 1901, this part of the college is
nicknamed the YX as it resembles that which is in
Vatican City.
❏Simply give YX.
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PABBAS/IDEAL ICE
CREAM
13. Q 4)
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❏This movie X (2019) was one of the last big Kannada blockbusters to be
released before the pandemic started.
❏Like most modern day South Indian movies, this movie was dubbed in
all the 4 south languages as well as Hindi and released simultaneously.
❏The title of this movie is inspired by a scene in Bhakta Prahlada, where
Puneeth Rajkumar says "X”.
❏The Hindi version of this movie however, had to undergo a change in
the first word of the title so that the filmmakers could use the same
three letter abbreviated form across all languages.
❏Which movie?
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AVANE SRIMANNARAYANA
The Hindi title was changed to
Adventures of Srimannarayana to
keep ASN as the short form
16. Q 5)* This is a photo clicked at the Indian Institute
of Comics.
The person on the left is Nimish Thaker, the
artist of this caricature. Simply identify whose
caricature it is, the last Kannadiga to win
Jnanapitha award.
(Image on the next slide)
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CHANDRASHEKHARA KAMBARA
Won the Jnanapitha award in 2010
20. Q 6)
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According to Kannada legend a Jain guru Sudatta was
saved by his disciple, Sala striking dead a tiger/lion that
he encountered near the temple of Vasantika. This was
called “Sala slaying the lion”, which has also inspired the
logo of organisation such as the Karnataka Rakshana
Vedike (KaRaVe).
This the story behind the naming of what?
(Images on the next slide)
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HOYSALA KINGDOM
Hoy-Slay/strike
Sala
24. Q 7) ❏After the fall of Tipu Sultan in the IV Anglo-Mysore
war, many new taxes and tolls were levied by the
British. To protest the newly imposed toll on
agricultural produce that was brought to Bangalore
Fort, some farmers of a village called Sunkenahalli
started a practice that persists to this day. What did
they start, which is a popular fair in Bengaluru?
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KADLEKAI PARISHE
27. Q 8)
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❏In Danish Sait’s big screen debut Humble Politician Nograj,
Danish is a politician that works for a party called One Big
Party.
❏OBP is a party filled with corrupt and opportunistic
politicians who will change with the times as and when
required and it’s almost impossible for people to know their
true colours.
❏As a result, what is their apt party symbol?
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CHAMELEON
30. Q 9)* ❏ Mr. Shankar, the owner of Bindu, who is from Puttur, Karnataka said the idea for
X came after a trip to North India. “After tasting ____, I decided to experiment
and carbonate it. I don’t think anyone had attempted this on a large-scale before."
❏ Initially the company had to incur a lot of losses as nearly half their crates would
be returned by shopkeepers, claiming that no one was interested in their
unfamiliar products.
❏ Due to lack of capital for advertising, Bindu had to rely on word-of-mouth
publicity, and would coerce shoppers to taste X for free.
❏ The strategy clicked, and the rest, as they say, is history.
❏ Identify X
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X- FIZZ JEERA
33. Q 10)
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During the recently concluded IPL, RCB unveiled
blue colour jersey after a successful green colour
jersey promoting “Go Green” movement. Put
funda behind the blue color jersey.
(Image on the next slide)
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BKS IYENGAR
40. Q 12)
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The 1896-1897 plague originated in China during the early 19th century and
spread further southeast killing 70,000 on its way.It finally reached india via
naval routes and spread to north India. In order to escape ,a Thakur family
from Uttar Pradesh migrated to certain part of karnataka.To earn a living, Ram
Singh Thakur started making something using a secret formula which also
needed milk.The X was thus created.The ‘browning process’ distinguishes it
from others which are prepared using the same cooking style. The ‘secret
formula’ is a family trade secret and you can now find the original X prepared
by the Thakur family at line road bazar in Northern Karnataka.
ID X.
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X - DHARWAD PEDA
43. Q 13) The Department of Posts released the first-ever one of a
kind commemorative stamps. Speaking on the occasion,
the then Karnataka Chief Post Master General Meera Datta
said they was printed at the high security currency
printing press in Nashik.
How are these stamps different from regular stamps?
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INDIA’S FIRST SCENTED STAMPS,
THIS ONE WAS SANDALWOOD
SCENTED
47. Q 14)*
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❏R. Nagarathnamma was a noted theatre personality in Karnataka. She
worked in professional theatre troupes such as Sri Chamundeshwari
Nataka Sabha, Hirannaiah’s Mitra Mandali and Gubbi Company. She
shot to fame by performing mythological characters such as Kamsa,
Krishna, Ravana, Bheema. She has also acted in over 15 Kannada films
that include Kamanabillu with Dr. Rajkumar.
❏However, she is more popular for starting something in Karnataka
that attracted large audience. One can see a snap from one of their
acts in the next slide. Looking at the image, what is so unique about
this drama troupe?
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KARNATAKA’S FIRST ALL WOMEN DRAMA
TROUPE, MALE ROLES PLAYED BY THEM.
51. Q 15) This is a print ad by the Karnataka State Tourism,
from 2016 to promote a particular event that
happens every year at a city of rich heritage and
history.
Identify the event.
(Image on next slide)
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HAMPI UTSAV
55. Q 16)*
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❏One of the popular stories behind the naming of the snack X is
because of the main ingredient being split while others reckon that
important chits were hidden in boxes containing these for X
meetings.
❏A similar snack which is red and unsplit is a prominent product of
Chintamani town and following the origins, are aptly named after the
place.
❏ID the snack X.
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CHANNAPATNA TOYS
61. Q 18)
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❏Several historians have raised objections in naming
of the X empire as it was actually called Karnataka
Samrajya.
❏Underlining the need to reconstruct post-colonial
history, they say there is a tendency to blindly
follow Robert Sewell’s ‘A Forgotten Empire, X’,
despite Sewell actually mentioning that the empire
was called Karnataka.
❏ID X.
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X - VIJAYANAGARA
64. Q 19) Visitors are welcomed with an inspiring binary sculpture
upon arriving at this place in North Bangalore.
Created by DPA Lighting Design, the Binary Sculpture is a
4-meter cube structure made of steel with “0” and “1”
cut-outs symbolizing the binary numeral system in
mathematics and digital electronics.
Which place is it aptly situated in?
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MANYATA TECH PARK
68. Q 20)*
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This is a scene from the 1975 movie, “Mayura”, (Video on next slide)
starring Dr Rajkumar, portraying the role of prince Mayurasharma.
a) Identify the location at which this was shot.
KV Vijayendra Prasad, the storywriter of a hit movie Y directed by his
own son, revealed that he was inspired by this movie while writing.
He mentions that the core of the story Y is about the hero not
knowing his birth secret that he belongs to a royal family and lives in
isolation in a village – was also inspired by “Mayura”.
b) Identify the movie Y.