India/travel and linving quiz. (Rendezvous-2013,IIT Delhi)

1. prelims

2. 1.
 A fourth century legend, often told to explain the birth
of X, states that the pirate king, Raktabahhu, planned
to attack Puri with a huge fleet of ships. To avoid
detection, he stealthily anchored out of sight, off the
mouth to the sea. The deception was revealed by ships'
refuse floating to the shore, thus warning the town’s
people, who escaped with all their possessions.
Raktabahu felt betrayed when he found an abandoned
town and directed his fury towards the sea that had
betrayed him. The sea parted to let the army march in,
then surged back, drowned the army and formed the X

3. Ans
 Chilka Lake

4. 2.
 ______ ______ is rock or pop music with a heavy Indian
influence, either in its construction, its timbre, or its use
of instrumentation, such as the sitar and tabla. More
recently, scholars have included British rock music from
the 1960s and 1970s that utilizes South Asian
musical materials and instruments and Western ideas
of South Asia.
 Recently, a revival of sorts has been heralded by Western
bands such as The Black Angels and The Brian Jonestown
Massacre and Indian bands such as The Raghu Dixit
Project, Agam and Swarathma, with an increasing blend of
Western instruments with the traditional Indian ones-the
flute and the sitar.

5. Ans
 Raga rock

6. 3.
Connect the countries shown in the map with an event in 2012.(Maldives
is not visible)

7. ans
 Nehru Cup participants in 2012. India won

8. 4.
 The area enclosed by western ghats, eastern ghats,
satpura and vindhya ranges gets its name from a word
for a specific direction in prakrit language.
 What is it called?

9. Ans
 Deccan

10. 5.The Mughal emperor Babur noted that "[while] the flesh of

the leg of some fowls, and of the breast of others is
excellent; the flesh of every part of the Kharchal is
delicious". _______ was however a cryptic and wary bird
making it a challenge for sportsmen, who had to stalk
carefully (sometimes using covered bullock carts) to get
within range. British soldiers in India considered it a
delicacy and the species was among the top gamebirds. William Henry Sykes notes that they were common
in the Deccan region where a "gentleman" had shot a
thousand birds.
 How is the bird, Kharchal orArdeotis nigriceps, better
known to us?

11. Ans
 Great Indian Bustard

12. 6.
What is being mocked by this meme?

13.  Apple maps

14. 7.________ means King of Darkness, which is the title of X.

He lived 6000 years, and was the source of evil in the world.
He intended to rule the world by spreading darkness,
hatred, sin and evil. It was said that the source of his
strength is one-half of the "Shakti Punj" which he managed
to retain after he originally obtained the entire Shakti Punj
by deceit from Shri Satya (Satya means truth). However, it
is also mentioned that the source of his strength is the evil
that is committed by people in this world.
 He was killed by Shri Satya (who was the only person
capable of killing him) who is reborn 6000 years later to
fulfil his purpose
 Id X

15. Ans
 Tamraj Kilvish

16. 8.anunay ke pyaare pyaare

uttar men jab ek naad bhee
uthaa naheen ______ se
uthee adheer dhadhak paurush kee
aag raam ke shar se
_____ deh dhar traahi traahi
kartaa aa giraa sharan men
...
kshamaa shohtee us bhujang ko
jiske paas garal ho
usko kyaa jo dantheen, vishrahit,
vineet saral ho
 Lines from Ramdhari singh dinkar’s poem “Shakti aur
kshama” depicting which incident from Ramayana?

17. Ans
 The sea does not respond to Rama’s requests of
granting him a passage to Lanka angered by which
Rama threatens to destroy the sea itself

18. 9.
connect

19. Ans
 Nuclear tests by India
 Shakti
 Smiling Buddha

20. 10.
 Since the flower of Ficus carica is invisible, there are
various idioms related to it in languages around the
world. In Hindi, this has inspired an idiom used for
something rare or invisible

21. Ficus carica

22. ans
 Gular ka phool

23. 11.
 In March 1849, the area was annexed by the British
after the Second Anglo-Sikh War, and soon a
subsidiary cantonment for the troops stationed
at ______ was established on the slopes of Dhauladhar,
on empty land, with a Hindu resthouse or X; hence the
name for the new cantonment, X.
 ID X

24.  Dharamshala

25. 12.
 The K family of missiles is a series of submarine-
launched ballistic missiles (SLBM) developed
by India to boost its second-strike capabilities and
thus the nuclear deterrence. Information about this
family of missiles has mostly been kept classified. "The
classified 'K' missile family" is known as the "Black
Project" which DRDO officials are covertly working on.
It is reported that "the top secret indigenous "K"
missiles are faster, lighter and stealthier.
 What does the ‘K’ in K-series stand for?

26.  Kalam

27. 13.
 X died in a plane crash on 17 August 1988. After witnessing
a US M1 Abrams tank demonstration, X had left the small
town in Punjab by C-130B Hercules aircraft. Shortly after a
smooth takeoff, the control tower lost contact with the
aircraft. Witnesses who saw the plane in the air afterward
claim it was flying erratically, then nosedived and exploded
on impact.
 A number of intelligence agencies have been blamed for
engineering the crash.
 A book by mohammed Hanif, written in dark satirical style,
was released in 2008 having a fictitious story behind the
real life plane crash as its central theme
 ID the book

28. Ans
 A case of exploding mangoes

29. 14.
 Identify the minimalist poster

30. Ans
 Ab Tak Chappan

31. 15.
 X was used, and dyed random colors, in some of
the costumes for the Star Wars prequels, such as Mace
Windu's (Samuel L. Jackson) attire
 ID X which a kind of fabric
 Hint: Chandi ka peekdan

32. Ans
 Khadi

33. 16.
 A born vegetarian, X, the book says, became non-
vegetarian in 2005 while in China.
According to her coach ____, when they found no
vegetarian fare at a restaurant they were in, he told X
to eat fish and crab.
 ID X who has continued with her non vegetarian diet
as only vegetarian food was not nutritional enough for
training

34. Ans
 Saina Nehwal

35. 17.
 Tanmay Bhat along with Gursimran Khamba started X
which is similar to Arunabh Kumar’s Y
 In September 2013, a satirical Youtube Video made by
Tanmay titled It's Your Fault featuring Z and Juhi
Pandey went Viral with over 1.5 Lakh views in just 2
days.
 Give X and Z for 1 point each

36.  All India Bakchod (AIB) and Kalki

37. 18.
 2. The figure 90% is not a mathematical figure, it
simply means that in my opinion a large proportion of
_______ __ _______.
3. I never named you, nor any community, caste, or
sect, and I never said that you are in the category of
90%. Hence I do not see how you are defamed.
 The above text is from a letter written by X to some
people who threatened to move court after he gave a
certain statement
 Who is the man and what is the controversy?

38. ans
 Markandey katju and 90% of Indians are stupid

39. 19.
 Indeed, some Indians seem to harbour a maleficient
sense of entitlement that extends to calls demanding
the ‘X*' in ‘X' be capitalised.
 The above is an excerpt from an article in The Hindu
bearing the headline “Would you just calm down
about the ____ in the X?”
 Recently in news. ID X

40.  boson

41. 20.
 Often during early summer, dusty squalls followed by
spells of thunderstorm and heavy rains lash the area,
bringing relief from the humid heat. These
thunderstorms are convective in nature, and is locally
known as ___ _____
 These convective thunderstorms are particularly
common in Aw type of climatic regions in India
 FITB

42.  Kal Baisakhi

43. This is the cover of Asterix and the magic carpet in which Asterix’s village is
visited by an Indian fakir. What’s his name?

44. ans
 Watziznehm

45. 22,
 Baaz, Shamsheer, Gajraj, Vajra, Bison, Chetak
 What are these?

46. ans
 Indian names of imported IAF aircraft

47. 23.
 X is the conscious policy of liquidating indigenous
culture through the planned substitution of the alien
culture of a colonizing power via the education system.
The term is derived from the name of British
politician _____ (1800-1859), an individual who was
instrumental in the introduction of English as the
medium of instruction in the higher
education of India

48. Ans
 Macaulayism

49. 24.
 The X is a geologic structure, which is hypothesized
by Sankar Chatterjee and colleagues to be a 500 km in
diameter impact structure. This geologic structure
consists of the Bombay High and Surat Depression.
They lie beneath the Indian continental shelf and
the Indian Ocean west of Mumbai, India. The impact
causing its formation has been associated with the
extinction of dinosaurs.
 What apt name has been given to it?

50. Ans
 Shiva crater

51. 25.
 In 2001, Deepti Bhatnagar ventured into television
production with the travel shows X, a religious travel
guide show and Y, an around the world travel guide
show, both aired on STAR Plus. She also hosted both
the shows. She visited around 80 countries in 6 years
for Y.
 ID X and Y

52.  X- yatra
 Y- musafir hu yaaron