UTPT 2020 Indi-Genius finals

Swaad – e – Bahaar
Round 1

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• 8 Questions
• Bounce : +10/0
• Pounce : +10/-10
• QM is God
• Google = DQ

Q1
X is a cuisine sweet and savoured mostly on Teej and Raksha Bandhan. Believed to
herald the moments of nuptial bliss, X is fondly gifted to newly married girls following
a traditional ritual.
This honeycomb sweet is known to have its highest sale value during sawan. The
moisture that Xs absorb from the vapour-laden atmosphere is essential in giving it a
good rise. First showers help in the fermentation process and the ‘jaali’ comes out
beautifully due to the effect of the absorbed moisture. Much of the X’s rich taste is
lost when it is prepared in the other seasons but it is a hit nonetheless.
Id X.

Q2
Jhumri Telaiya in Jharkhand is a small town from where India exported most of its
mica. Although, the mineral lost its importance after the discovery of cheaper
synthetic substitutes and the collapse of USSR (which was its biggest importer),
Jhumri Telaiya, however, has still managed to retain its uniqueness through the X
which gave it a new identity.
Said to have originated in Alwar, Rajasthan, X found its way to this town after Bhati
brothers migrated Jhumri Telaiya after the partition and started selling the creamy
version of X. With the passage of time, the demand of X soared high which made
Jhumri Telaiya a gastronomical destination for people.
ID X.

Q3
According to Jashbhai B. Prajapathi in the book , ‘ The history of fermented foods’,
‘X’ was originated in ancient India around 400 BC , and soon became a dessert
relished by both the rich and the poor.
Till date , it is prepared using hung-curd , sweetened with sugar and flavoured with
tinge of cardamom and saffron .
It is also known that the etymology of the word X comes from the words for
‘thickened milk’ in Sanskrit and ‘sweet’ in Parsi.
ID ‘X’.

Q4
This dessert derives its name from the two words translated to mean "ghee" and
"pancake".
It is served as a tea time snack usually in the evenings and is also served as
offering in many traditional Saint Thomas Christian (Syrian Christian) churches and
Hindu temples .
During 2016, it became a topic of discussion as its name was shown on the home
page of the Android naming campaign.
ID this dessert.

Q5
It is said that a Goldsmith was trying to make an idol of Lord Ganesha but each time,
the idol ended up with a ______’s head. He tried melting and remolding the idol a
number of times but the idol still ended up with ________’s head. Ultimately he got
tired of the ordeal and threw the idol away.
On the same night Lord X appeared in Sri Vadiraja’s dream, and asked him to retrieve
the idol that was thrown away by the goldsmith and worship it. Lord X also appeared
in the goldsmith’s dream and asked him to become the disciple of Sri Vadiraja.
Since bengal gram is the favorite of _________, Sri Vadiraja made an offering of
chana dal cooked with jaggery and coconut. In Kannada, this mixture of lentils and
jaggery is called as maddi.
Since then, this type of maddi came to be known as X maddi . ID X and FITB

X – Hayagreeva
Blank - horse

Q6
It is less known to the people that the thriving cottage industry behind X once
originated in the royal kitchens of the Mughal Empire. The story goes that Emperor
Shah Jahan once ordered his royal chefs to prepare a dessert that would be as pure
and as white as the marble-clad Taj Mahal which resulted in X.
It is said that during the 17th-century reign of Shah Jahan, this soft sugary sweet
provided instant energy to the thousands of workers involved in building the Taj
Mahal.
Interestingly, the ________ X is traditionally complemented by the _______ dalmoth,
a lip-smacking spicy and salty snack prepared from gram flour and dry fruits.
ID X and FITB

Q7
The first reference to this dessert is in the Rig Veda where it is called as Apupa.
The apupa is mentioned throughout the Rig Vedic period as a sweet served to
welcome guests. There is even a reference of ghee in which the apupa was fried and
mixed with intoxicating Soma rasa .
Over centuries, apupas incorporated varied cultural influences and took the form of
X and a version of this dessert with eggs and mawa was a popular sweet in the
various Islamic courts. On the other hand, X is one of the chappan bhoga, the
traditional food offered daily to Lord Jagannath in Puri, Orissa.
ID X

Q8
X is believed to be originated in Mathura and is made by heating sweetened milk in a
large open vessel (kadhai). As X travelled to the shores of Varanasi, it went to a
completely new level altogether and became a poor man’s delight after a glass of
bhang lassi.
Being very much connected with Mathura, Vrindavan and Varanasi, the Bengalis fell
in love with X and it became so popular that when it was banned in Kolkata in 1965
during an economic recession for its excessive use of milk, lawsuits from independent
sweet shops were made to overturn the ban placed by the Calcutta High Court.
ID X

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• Overall connect pts on Q
• QM is God
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Q1
According to mythology, Somakasura, having stolen the Vedas from the yawning mouth of
Brahma, fled to hide in the deep waters of the ocean.The Devas went to ____________
pleading him to salvage the Vedas as they were indispensable for the creation of the new
kalpa (aeon). ______________obliged and recovered the Vedas in time for the renewal of
creation after the pralaya.
This event formed the basis for the worship at the Vedanarayana Swamy Temple. The
distinct feature of this temple is the Surya Pooja during which the sun rays reach the Lord in
the sanctum sanctorum during the sunset, not through the ceiling or any opening in the
temple but from the entrance of the temple.
It is believed that this event signifies Lord Surya’s pooja to the deity to warm up his chilled
body as he has been underwater for many years during his war against the demon
Somakasura.
Which specific deity is worshipped in this temple?
+80/-70

Q2
Elaeocarpus ganitrus is an evergreen tree whose medicinal and curative properties are
described in ancient literature. The dried fruit of this tree known as bead is reported to
possess electrical and electromagnetic properties.
The Elaeocarpaceae family includes about 350 species distributed in the area from the
Gangetic plain in the foothills of Himalayas to South-East Asia. Generally associated with
Lord Shiva, the plant is traditionally used by the local people for its medicinal properties to
cure various ailments.
Phytochemical screening has led to the isolation of various indolizine alkaloids from the
Elaeocarpus family. One such newly discovered alkaloid, X, isolated from the leaves of
Elaeocarpus ganitrus, is believed to have potent chemotherapeutic properties.
Which deity lends its name to this alkaloid ?
+70/-60

Q3
‘X’, a Telugu novel authored by journalist Ch. Srinivasa Rao, is based on the epic
Mahabharata. Considered as a literary accomplishment, it highlights the role of an
apparently minor character of the same name in Mahabharata. The author said that
the Nirbhaya incident prompted him to write the novel. Speakers stated that the
character X is the right role model for youth and that he is worthy of emulation in
the present context of rising atrocities against women.
The word X is made of two words and means “large-eared”. In the epic. when
Draupadi’s Vastra Harana began before the court, X was the lone voice of dissent
among the noblest of men. His protests were met with silence and he was later
rebuked and taunted for his outburst by a “cousin unknown to him”.
Name the novel
+60/-50

Q4
The name X is granted to the poison of the Nagas in Bhogivarga (The section about
snakes) by the ancient Indian scholar in his Sanskrit thesaurus ‘Amarakosha’.
Also known as Kalakoota, X is the name of the poison created from the sea when the
Devas and the Asura churned the Ksheer Sagar to obtain Amrit or the nectar of
immortality whose lethal fumes began to asphyxiate both the sides.
Commenting on the etymology of X, Lingayasuri in his Amarapadavivritti describes it
as that which ploughs and twists through the stomach while simultaneously
straightening it i.e. in short torturing and re-torturing a person.
Id X.
+50/-40

Q5
According to some stories, after Indra killed Vritrasura, son of the brahmin Tvashta, with the
Vajra, a ghastly woman emerged from his mouth as he died. She had wild hair, fangs and a
terrifying demeanour. She chased Indra through the three worlds and paralysed him by
enveloping him.
When gods pleaded Lord Brahma, to secure Indra’s release from this terrible creature, he
told them that the woman was X, the personification of the most heinous sin committed in
Hinduism, which was now attached to Indra due to his slaying of Vritra. Since she could not
go back to where she had come from, X said she would release Indra if Brahma gave her a
place to stay.
Therefore,when Indra’s sin was distributed as cracks on the earth, waves in the ocean, milk
oozing out of trees and menstruation in women, he returned to the Indralok.
Who was X?
+40/-30

Q6
Pseudo-hypothyroidism (PHP) is a rare genetic disorder that manifests itself in the
form of disturbances of phosphorus and calcium metabolism due to parathyroid
hormone (PTH) resistance. This condition is characterized by short, thick- set stature,
rounded facies and anomalies of the metacarpals and metatarsals. The latter
become manifest as abnormal shortening of one or more of the fingers or toes.
Epilepsy was also observed to be a symptom of PHP in most of the patients.
Lenticular opacities are present and the teeth may have transverse ridges or may
not erupt at all. Mental retardation is present in the majority of patients. Another
specific feature of PHP is obesity. Growth hormone (GH) deficiency due to resistance
to GH-releasing hormone has also been reported in a large subset of these patients,
seeming more frequent in adults than in children.
Which entity does this disorder give a plausible explanation for?
+30/-20

Q7
The _____________ temple in Pangul galli, Belagavi houses the idol of the cursed
mythical warrior.
During Holi celebrations every year, devotees perform ‘lotangan’ (urulu seve) while
water is thrown on the devotees from all the houses to pay their respects to the epic
character of the Mahabharata at the temple. A special pooja is also performed and
the prasad is distributed.
However, not many people visit this shrine during the rest of the year thanks to the
curse of ‘3000 years of wandering with a pus filled and diseased body all lonely with
no access to accommodation’ given to ___________ by Lord Krishna as it is believed
that seeing this idol brings bad luck.
FITB
+20/-10

Q8
In the Mahabharata, X & Y were two rakshasa brothers who ruled the area of Badami presently in
Karnataka and were infamous for devouring travellers. X, also known Ilvala, knew the ‘Mritasanjivani’
mantra to bring back the dead and used to lure in travellers to their den. Y, who had the power of
transformation, would transform himself into a goat to be killed and served later. Then, Y would
recollect in the stomach and tear himself out from the inside of the victim, killing the victim.
Encountering Rishi Agastya, they played the same trick on him. Sensing their malice, the sage killed Y
by muttering a phrase and digesting the meal as soon as he ate and reduced X to ashes.
This phrase is very commonly used in households by young mothers while feeding their infants. As
soon as they finish feeding the child, the utterance of this phrase signifies the mother’s wish to let
the child be able to digest the hardest of the foods.
Who are X & Y?
+10/0

Answers
1. Matsya
2. Rudra
3. Vikarna
4. Halahala
5. Brahmahatya
6. Apasmara
7. Ashwatthama
8. Atapi & Vatapi

Overall connect
Titles of Sacred Games
episodes

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• 5 Questions
• 5*10 = 50 POINTS
• Written
• QM is God
• Google = DQ

Q1
Iznogoud (pronounces “Is no good” in a french accent) ) is a French comics series
featuring an eponymous character, created by the comics writer René Goscinny of
Asterix fame. The comic series chronicles the life of Iznogoud, the Grand Vizier of the
Caliph of Baghdad at an undefined period in the past. His greatest desire is to replace
the Caliph, leading him to repeatedly utter the phrase "I want to be Caliph in the place
of the Caliph", a phrase that has been adopted in certain European languages to
characterize overly ambitious people. Iznogoud is supported by his faithful servant,
Wa'at Alahf. Across the Hindu Kush mountains in India this comic strip served as the
inspiration to X.
ID the character X

Q2
Sean D’Mello, the cartoonist for Tinkle’s newest edition, believes X will be a
“reflection” of the modern Indian kid. “They choose to map their own way. They
prefer to scrape their knees and bruise their elbows before accepting that they might
be wrong. He (X) makes no excuses about who he is and doesn’t hide how he feels,”
he says
X, a bengaluru boy, is brash, unapologetic and most of all incredibly strong-minded.X
has a very simple life motto – “Don’t ask ___. Ask ___ ___!”
ID X which is a true namma ooru corruption on the last two blanks.

Q3
_____ _______ (alias Wingstar) is a superhero, created by Sean D′mello and
Vineet Nair. The name _____ is a popular pet name among the Mizo people. The
character originates from Aizawl. She is the first female superhero from northeast
India in Tinkle. Her father, is an inventor working for the Space Development Arm
of the government. She became a superhero after testing the inventions of her
father. Her gadgets are rocket thrusters that can make a speed of 110 km per
hour, iron fists that can break brick walls, and reinforced robotic arms that can lift
a ton of weight. The signals of criminal activity are indicated by a special
wristwatch, which allows her to receive notification at the same time as the
police. Name this “reluctant superhero”.
If it helps her name sounds similar to a Chapana Bhoga of Lord Jagannath.

Q4
In 1998, Tinkle’s biggest rival that time was another children magazine named
Target, run by Living Media. Unlike Tinkle, Target was more of a narrative magazine,
with a few pages of comics. Their flagship character that time was Detective
________ ( "the man with a ______") by Ajit Ninan. T. Subba Rao and Dhruva, two
of the creators at Tinkle, came up with the proposal for a competing character.
They decided to base this new character on a boastful but cowardly ______ in the
then famous television drama, I Love Lucy.
Who did they come up with and what was the name of the competing detective?

Q5
“The Moor's Last Sigh” is a novel by Salman Rushdie, published in 1995 set in the
cities of Bombay and Cochin and titled after the story of Boabdil, the last Moorish
king of Granada. The spot from which Boabdil last looked upon Granada after
surrendering is known as Puerto del Suspiro del Moro ("Pass of the Moor's Sigh").
The book traces four generations of the narrator's, Moraes Zogoiby, family and the
ultimate effects upon the narrator. Moraes, also called “Moor”, traces his family's
beginnings down through time to his own lifetime. Moor, is an exceptional
character, whose physical body ages twice as fast as a normal person's does and
also has a deformed hand. The book also focuses heavily on the Moor's
relationships with the women in his life, his mother, Aurora, his three older sisters
___, _____ and _____. The siblings mentioned together sound like a variation of a
famous counting rhyme, quite similar to sisters in an evergreen Tinkle classic. Name
the Tinkle siblings.

Answers
1. Tantri the Mantri
2. Wai Knot
3. Maoui Kawlim
4. Shikhari Shambu &
Detective Moochwala
5. Ina, Mina, Mynah,
Mo

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• 9 BLANKS
• 5*9 = 45 POINTS
• Written
• QM is God
• Google = DQ

Our story begins "In an antique land" an ethnography by A and chronicles A's visits
to villages in X, a country , while he was writing his doctoral dissertation. Citizens of
X are called ___________, which coincidentally was the nickname of B in school
when he spent his childhood in France. A prolific man, B would go on to literally fly
far and wide in India. B founded C, a research institution located in Mumbai, India
that is dedicated to basic research in mathematics and the sciences. D was
instrumental in setting up research departments in C and worked alongside Homi
Bhabha and then Dirac. D, is also the name of a legendary Indian king of the
Ikshvaku dynasty, one known to be the most truthful, and one who gave everything
away, including himself.

D is featured in a first-of-its-kind work; the struggle which E underwent to produce
it is depicted in India's 2009 submission to the Academy. F, another Indian, a Padma
Bhushan no less, was also awarded twice for his work in the very same year. F's
initials would remind you of a term in technology quite on the rise recently. G, a
Delhi based company seeks to utilise this technology as a feature to help you "try
out" their product on your face before you purchase it. What drink comes to your
mind if you were a South Indian and were to refer to the owners of G's products?

A - Amitav Ghosh
X -Egypt
B - JRD tata
C - TIFR
D-Harish Chandra
E- Dadasaheb Phalke
F- A R Rahman
G - Lenskart
Soda buddi
Soda

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• 5 Questions
• Written - +10/0
• QM is God
• Google = DQ

Q1
This region has long been known to sailors, as indicated by an anonymous
reference to the region in Periplus of the Erythraean Sea. Islam was established in
this region when Muslims arrived around the 7th century. During the medieval
period, the region was ruled by the Chola dynasty and the Kingdom of
Cannanore.The rule then switched to the Muslim house of Arakkal.
In 1783, the administration was passed on to the ruler X of a neighbouring region.
After the battle of Srirangapatna in 1799, this region was annexed to the dominion
of the British East India Company.
Identify X and this region.

Lakshadweep Islands
X – Tipu Sultan

Q2
During the 1990s, while the Uttarakhand movement was rising to its peak, the
Congress government raised a rather valid question asking the people, if they were
to get their state- what would be their capital? This lead to grave contemplation,
and eventually the Uttarakhand Kranti Dal chose X as the capital. In 1993–1994 the
Kaushik Committee was setup by the government to look into the eligibility of X
becoming the state capital and the committee gave it a green flag.
X did not have proper facilities, was far away and was prone to natural calamities.
To which the solution proposed was letting Dehradun become the temporary
capital, in the meantime, measures will be taken in the work towards the
development of X so that it may become sufficient enough become the permanent
capital. However, what rather followed was development of the city Dehradun as if
it has become the state capital, permanently.
Id X.

Q3
Before the death of Vallabhbhai Patel’s elder brother, Vithalbhai, in 1933 X had
nursed Vithalbhai during his last illness. In his will, the elder Patel left three-fourths
of his estate to X, to be used ‘preferably for publicity work on behalf of India’s
cause in other countries’. Upon seeing the copy of the will Vallabhbhai Patel
questioned the authenticity of the will. A long legal battle ensued that lasted more
than a year, the courts judged that Vithalbhai’s estate could only be inherited by his
legal heirs, that is, his family. Patel promptly handed the money over to the
Vithalbhai Memorial Trust.
Id X.

Q4
X, one of the most popular songs of the Chilean Movement, was initially composed
as an anthem for the popular unity government. It reflected the spirit behind the
mass mobilization of working-class people who elected Salvador Allende for Chile’s
social transformation in 1970.
In the 2016 JNU student protests, X was raised as a slogan against the sedition case
filed by the BJP government by the JNUSU president Kanhaiya Kumar.
Id X.

El Pablo Unido Jama Cera Vencido
(The people, united, shall always be victorious)

Q5
The 1908 Musi floods had a devastating impact on Hyderabad in the form water-
borne ailments. Fatalities such as fevers and communicable diseases like cholera
and typhoid were spreading like epidemics and large number of patients were
dying everyday giving little time for health workers to take preventive measures or
provide treatment. The then Nizam had the idea of having specialised isolation
facilities in Hyderabad and thus the Fever Hospital was established in Erranagatta
but was later shifted to Nallakunta as it was considered the city outskirts then.
Although now the official name of the Fever Hospital has been changed to Sir
Ronald Ross Institute of Tropical Diseases, the locals know this facility by the more
common name which is the Koranti Hospital.
What is the word ‘Koranti’ a Telugu/Urdu corruption of ?

Q6
X was the Queen of Ullal who fought the Portuguese in the latter half of the 16th
century and is regarded as the ‘first woman freedom fighter of India’. She belonged
to the Chowta dynasty who ruled over parts of coastal Karnataka (Tulu Nadu),
India.
In 1555, X managed to repulse the attack of the Portuguese Admiral Dom Álvaro da
Silveira after she refused to pay them tribute. She managed to do so yet again in
1568 when the Portuguese turned their attention to Ullal after plundering
Mangalore.The Portuguese fleet managed to capture the city of Ullal but X escaped
and took refuge in a mosque. She gathered around 200 of her soldiers the same
night and mounted an attack on the Portuguese and was triumphant in driving
them away.
The Portuguese mounted attacks on Ullal with the help of the queen’s estranged
husband a year later which led to her loss and arrest. For her bravery, she came to
be known as Abhaya Rani (The fearless queen). Id X

Q7
Artisans belonging to Viswabrahmana caste were brought from Sankarancoil in
Tamil Nadu to Aranmula by the king for the construction work at the X
Parthasarathy Temple. Before leaving they gifted the King a crown with a metal
_______ at the centre. Impressed by their metallurgical skills, the king proclaimed
that they need not go back to Tamil Nadu and arrange for their stay nearby the
temple (theke nada). Unlike the normal "silvered" ________, it is a metal-alloy
_______ or front surface reflection _______, which eliminates secondary
reflections and aberrations typical of back surface ________. The exact metals used
in the alloy are maintained as a Vishwakarma family secret. Metallurgists suggest
that the alloy is a mix of copper and tin. It is polished for several days to achieve the
_______'s reflective surface. What is being talked about here?

Q8
X was a duodecennial (every 12 years) medieval fair held on the bank, and on the
dry river-bed, of Bharathappuzha at Tirunāvāya, southern India. As per some
sources, the nature of the fair underwent tragic changes after the capture of
Tirunāvāya by the chief of Kōzhikōde. From that day forth, the Vaḷḷuvanāṭu chiefs
started to send warriors to kill the Sāmūtiri (who was personally present at the fair
with all his kith and kin) and regain the honor of conducting the festival. These men
were then termed as suicide warriors trying to kill the Sāmūtiri in vain.
Author William Logan asserted that X literally translates to "Great Sacrifice".
ID X.

Mamankam festival
(Maha Makam)

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