The document discusses a Karnataka quiz competition called KQA Karnataka Quiz. It provides answers to 10 quiz questions related to Karnataka's history, culture and politics. Some of the notable answers identified include Ullas Karanth and the Balavana experiment, the General Post Office building in Bangalore, B.S. Kesavan's role in segregating books during the Partition of India, and prominent politicians like A. N. Krishnarao, Bhimsen Joshi and Mallikarjun Mansoor.

1. KQA Karnataka Quiz
Lingaraj, Naresh Keerthi, Kaustuba Venugopal

2. Identify the gentlemen
and what are they talking
about?
Q1
2

3. • Lakshman Savadi, CC Patil -- former
ministers of BJP who were caught
watching porn on their mobile phone, inside
the assembly

4. Q2
This person was the first
student of a unique
experiment in Primary
education with an emphasis
on outdoor
activities, independence, and
explorative mindset.
Identify the person and the
experiment?

5. • Ullas Karanth , the Balavana experiment of
Shivarama Karanth.

6. Q3
In 1977 a European style classical building was pulled down as it
was “too small” for a growing city like Bangalore. In its place, a
larger, more ‘oriental’ building was proposed by TP Issar of the
Bangalore Urban Arts Commission.
This move was contested keenly by many city architects who
were committed to an idiom of modernism. Issar retorted that
the proposed ‘oriental’ design was necessary as it would soften
the shock of the Charles Correa Tower - which he felt was
inappropriate for a street like Ambedkar Veedhi.
• Which building ?

7. • General Post Office. Charles Correa Tower also
known as Visweswraiah Tower

8. Q4
A hassled Mysorean featured in the Time Magazine. Who, and
what's going on?

9. • B.S.Kesavan, father of Mukul
Kesavan, segregating the book collection of
the national library during the Partition.

10. Where and what's it about ?Q5

11. • A stone depiction of a snake shading a
pregnant frog. This scene is supposed to have
inspired Shankaracarya to choose Shringeri as
a site for his monastery.

12. • X (see picture) remarked ‘Idu Karnataka
sangeeta all, idu tamilara sangeeta’; in light of
the poor representation of Kannada
compositions and artistes in the Rama Seva
mandali music festival at
Chamarajapet,Bangalore.
• He urged popular musicians Y and Z to bring the
Kannada vacanas and haridasa padas into
circulation, by singing them in their concerts. Y
refused to sing vacanas, claiming that they
lacked musical potential. Z was hailed as
kannadada rayabhari – ambassador of Kannada
for his efforts in taking vachanas and dasara
padas to larger audiences.
• Identify X,Y and Z.
Q6

13. • X – Aa Na Kru or A N Krishnarao
• Y – Bhimsen Joshi
• Z – Mallikarjun Mansoor

14. Part of a larger list including footballer Lionel Messi . Indians include, Sania Nehwal, Virat Kohli. What is the
list about? Who is the only Kannadiga in the list?
Q7

15. Herbalife, a global nutrition company has
sponsored all these sports persons
Paralympics silver medalist Girisha
Hosanagara Nagarajegowda

16. • X is a small, bespectacled man, frail, but despite his years, incurably active and like my
wife, incurably talkative. As soon as we arrived, he deposited me in a chair and pointed
triumphantly at a blackboard. “Nineteen,” he said, “is your number. Look. It is also
mine.” Chalked on the blackboard was a series of dates, the first of which was 1919.
“That,” he said, “was the ear of my marriage.” The next date was 1938. “That,” he
said, “was the year of your birth. You will notice that 38 is 19 multiplied by two.” I told
him that I had been born on the 19th of July. “There,” he said, “you see?”
• The date after this was 1957. “In this year you won the biggest literary award in
England,” he told me, “and 57 is 19 multiplied by three.” The date under this was 1976.
“In this year we met,” he said triumphantly, “and 76 is 19 multiplied by four.” He
therefore clearly supposed our meeting to be one of the most important points in my
life. The next date was 1995. “This,” said X , “is 19 multiplied by five, and this will be the
acme of your career.”
• By this time I was feeling extremely bemused. “I come from an old Vedic family, and for
60 years I have pursued the science of numerology.” He added, “Apart from the number
19, I was born with the number four.” Excrpts from the book "The Open Eyes, a journey
through Karnataka" by Y, illustrations by Mario Miranda.
• X and Y.
Q8

17. • X- Da Ra Bendre, Y - Dom Moraes
• Bendre became excessively interested in
numerology in his old age and would belt out
such fundaes to anyone he met.

18. Q9
God ___ ____ with Gora
drove cattle with Chokha.
cut grass with Samvata,
wove garments with Kabir,
coloured hide with Ravidas
sold meat with the butcher Sajana,
melted gold with Narahari,
carried cow-dung with Janabai,
and even became the Mahar messenger of Damaji
-- Translation of Ekanath’s poem
Fill in the blanks

19. • Baked pots / made pots / stomped clay all
acceptable. Rajkumar played Gora in the
popular Kannada film Bhakta Kumbara

20. 09-11-1965
Dear friend ,
Your kind letter.
My book in question called A .What wonder that it does not win a prize! What wonder if it won one! Since
you have taken it rather seriously, let me add that the little book contains a series of metrical lubrications on
life and destiny in a semi-mocking vein. It was first published in 1943, in a cheap unpretentious form, and I
did not either seek or expect any tremendous reception for it. The idea of competitive prizes for literature is
basically absurd. My whole nature raises in revolt against it. Valmiki and Vyasa and Potana and Tyagaraja are
our ideals. Did they compete for anybody's favors?
I was a Government-nominated member of the Central executive of the Sahitya Akka Dummy of Delhi for 3
or 4 years, and then I resigned from it out of disgust. When in it, I protested against the proposal of annual
rewards to writers. That would demoralize writers, creates bad blood, and bring falsehood into the book-
world. I protested also against the Madras scheme of national poets for every year. C.R. scrapped it when he
took charge as chief minister.
……………………………………………..............Where are you going to find judges whose competence may not be
questioned and whose vote will be convincing to others? The best way in which a Government or
_______can help literature materially is for it to buy a thousand copies of a book of merit and distribute the
copies among schools etc. Competitive prizes bear the odor of politics.
Affectionately yours
Q10 An elderly Kannada statesman’s letter dated
1965 to the editor of Hindu. Identify A

21. • DVG’s letter to Mr Ranganathan, editor of the
newspaper Hindu responding to his outrage --
at him not winning Jnanapeetha.

22. Q11
Minimalist Kannada poster of which film ?

23. • Bhakta Kanakadasa.
• Kanakadasa is the only one who passed the
test as he didn’t eat the banana saying there is
no place where God isn’t present.

24. Connect
1
Q12

25. • Inspired by Bierces Devil’s dictionary Na
Kasturi wrote Anartha Kosha that was
serialized in the popular Kannada humor
magazine Koravanji. Sample this anartha
• Agasa: Bandeyannu odeyalu batteyannu
balasuvava

26. Q13
Fill in the banks
A
B
C

27. • A: Hemavathi
• B: Harangi
• C: Kabini

28. Many people consider this incomplete work to be a
classic in Karnataka’s History. This work was the first
to critically assess the role of Wodeyars in the
making of modern Mysore. Among other things, this
work drew attention to Wodeyars supplying infantry
to the British to assist them in quashing Kittur
Chennamma.
Identify the author who died in Menasinahadya in
Chikamagalur district in 2005 ?
Q14

29. • Saketh Rajan, Mysore University and IIMC gold
medalist turned Naxalite

30. • This sketch of an Indian royal was made when he visited London mid 1800s. His turbulent
life was subject of a critically acclaimed Kannada Novel which in turn was adapted for TV
by M S Sathyu. MP Dananjaya Kumar urged the Lok Sabha to stop the telecasting of this
TV serial Antim Raja in response to mounting protests from his constituents. Identify the
personality.
Q15

31. • Chikkaveerarajendra by Masti Venkatesha
Iyengar

32. • The ‘myriad mindedness’ of this person has inspired a proverb
in Kannada which loosely translates to ‘there may be a herb
unbrowsed by the goat, but there is no field that X hasn’t
tried his hand at’.
Ramachandra Guha suggested in a 1995 Kolkata newspaper
article that X bore comparison with Rabindranath Tagore, and
called this the bravest act of his (own) writing career. Who?
Q16

33. • Shivarama Karanth

34. This feast of first fruits is a harvest festival, celebrated in the
Margashira month, when the Sun enters Scorpio. It is marked by
much song, dance, wining and dining. The name of this seven
day festival is said to be derived from the local phrase for ‘new
rice’.
Which festival ?
Q17

35. • Huttari
• Pudi+Ari new rice

36. • Pliny the Elder called this place Nitrias in his
book The Natural History, and Ptolomey
referred to it as Nitra.
• What place? and what is the probable logic
behind naming it so?
Q18

37. • Mangalore. Name possibly comes from Netravati
river, the main source of water for the town.
• Although this theory (Nitra/Nitrias from Netravati) is
widely accepted, some, like Tulu historian Ravi
Mundkur, believe "Netravati" itself could have come
from "Nettara" and hence Nitrias could also have been
derived from it. Only once Sanskrit began taking roots
in the region, people might have corrupted "Nettara"
from the native tongue to sound like the more familiar
Sanskrit word "Netra".

38. A type of ashtanga yoga focusing on the correct alignment of the
body, making use of straps, wooden blocks, and other objects as
aids to achieving the correct postures.
What (noun/adjective) term is this the (incongruous) Oxford
dictionary entry for?
Q19

39. • Iyengar

40. This work was based on the authors’ PhD research in Egypt when he chanced
upon letters written in 1130s between -- Abraham Ben Yiju, a Jewish
merchant living in Mangalore and Khalaf ibn Ishaq an Egyptian trader. The
work reconstructs a fictionalized history of BenYiju and his slaves Ashu and
Bomma, providing valuable insights on 12th century coastal Karnataka.
Identify the work and the author
Q20

41. • Amitav Ghosh, In an antique land

42. In 1951, the tenants of the village A in
Sagara taluk,Shimoga protested, among
other things, against the unjust measure
used by landlords to calculate rent paid
in kind. This was the first movement of
its kind in post independent India.
Initially the movement was restricted to
tenants, from lower-caste Deewar
community. Later the movement was
backed by the socialist party and
attracted supporters from many student
bodies all over the state.
Among the many students involved in
this event, as many as four went on to
become chief ministers of Karnataka.
Identify A
Q21

43. • Kagodu (Kagodu Satyagraha)

44. X always bought Y in batches of seven. So fond was Y of its esteemed
customer (X) that its executives coined a term "doing a Z” (Z being the
name of a place associated with X) which meant to sell seven at the same
time.
Even today the term is in use in company parlance. X, Y, Z?
Q22

45. • Krishna Raja Wodeyar IV, Rolls Royce, Doing a
Mysore

46. • In 1930s Sir Mirza Ismail noted in a report:
– People will wash themselves with __A_ soap, dry
themselves with __B_ towels, clothe themselves in
____C__ silks, ride ____D___ horses, drink ___E__
coffee with ____F___ sugar, furnish their houses with
____G___ furniture, light them with ___H____ lamps
and write letters on ____I___ paper”
– Fill in all blanks. (No points for partially correct
answers)
Q23

47. • Mysore. A-I 

48. Q24
Selection of a 1780s
treaty with the British
brokered by Tirumal and
Narayan Row.
Fill in the blanks.

49. • Hyder.

50. • Derived from the Sanskrit name for bell
metal, this is the name of a musical
instrument, the associated musical genre and
dance form. The songs are generally dedicated
to the deity Mahadeswara of the hill.
• Identify.
Q25

51. • Kamsale pada, kamsale kuNita/nrtya. kamsa

52. Variously known to botanists as Dolichos lablab and Lablab
purpureus, this legume is adored in Karnataka for its distinctive
fragrance, which is at best an acquired taste. It is also the subject of
an apocryphal song of Purandara dasa –
“_____ ____ beku ”
Which can be interpreted as ‘He alone must protect us’ or as a
demand for the legume in question.
Identify/ fill in the blanks.
Q26

53. • Avare kai beku / AvarE kaaya beku [Avare
kaalu also acceptable]

54. • These women belong
to the X tribe and hail
from town Y in Bellary
district. In 2010 their
craftwork became the
28th product in state
to receive GI tag. X,Y?
Q27

55. • Lambani, Sandur,

56. This 11th century Veerasaiva poet from Sonnalige (todays
Sholapur in Maharashtra) was a mason. To this day, there
are functional ponds and canals in many parts of Karnataka
and Maharashtra, said to have been made by him. A firm
believer of Kayaka, was won over to Allama’s path of
devotion, he sang –
Because I aimed at tanks, canals and temples,I found You,
Like one who trips on a stone to find a brilliant treasure,
I thought god could be contained in sculpture,
My ignorance was the very pit of darkness, rent apart by the grace of
Prabhu Deva,
I was reborn brighter, O lord of the faultless jasmines.
Identify the mason-poet, who gave his name to a Kannadiga
currently in the news.
Q28

57. Siddharama, Siddharameswara, Siddharamayya.
CM Siddharamiah

58. _________ Prabhu
(15th -16th C.E)
(Avatar of Balarama)
Bhagavan _____________
(1897-1961)
(Author of Chidakasha Gita)
Swami ________________
(1978 - _____)
Author of
‘Open the door and let the
breeze in’
Q29

59. • Nityananda

60. A famously litigious artist
sued the Ramakrishna
Mission for Re 1, when
this reproduction of his
painting appeared in the
1935 Durga Puja special
issue of their Bengali
periodical Udbodhan .
Who was the person and
why did he sue?
Q30

61. • K. Venkatappa,
• The print was laterally inverted from the
original and Venkatappa felt “Not just
aesthetic principles had been violated” but
religious senibilities , for the reproduction
showed rama giving the ring with left hand
and wearing the sacred thread on the right.