WEEKLY THEME QUIZ JOURNEY- THEME QUIZ SPECIAL- FULL SET-7.3.2021

1. Special Theme Quiz
Compiled by- PG Quizhouse (Partha Gupta)
Date:7th March, 2021
Time: 10 pm onwards
Hello, this is your quiz-friend Partha Gupta. Over the years I have conducted
so many quiz contests and got your illustrious presence and appreciation. In
this grim situation of Lockdown due to Covid- 19, I have started an online quiz
series in my Facebook page titled ‘Theme Quiz Journey’ which has been going
on since 10th May, ‘20 the birthday of ‘Father of Indian Quiz’- Neil O’Brien.
So, I am going to place a Special Theme Quiz (10 qsn.) in my FB link:
https://www.facebook.com/partha.gupta.56. Time- 10 pm. Onwards.
Plz give your answer only through WhatsApp-7687842417 or SMS-
9830318721 or in my Messenger. Answering time- 1 hour.
So friends, gear up to answer the questions as the earliest!

2.  In this set you will get 10 questions. Firstly, try to answer them. All the answers have a
centralized connection. When you connect the answers, will automatically get the theme or
centralized answer. For each correct answer of the regular question you will get 5 points each. If
you crack the theme, will be rewarded with the same bonus points i.e; 50 points. Make sure about
the 100% correctness of the theme answer otherwise, your score sheet will be nullified! Read
through the questions first and try to answer them and finally check out the explanations of the
theme.
 +50/-25, +40/-20, +30/-15, +20/-10 & +10/-5 for Theme answer after the 2nd, 4th , 6th , 8th & 10th
question.
 Single attempt.
Time: 10 pm onward.
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“X’ is a world famous educational institution. ‘X’ was formed by King
Henry VIII in 1564. Two members of the British royal family and six
British prime ministers have studied at ‘X’. 32 people have won Nobel
prizes from ‘X’. Famous people who have studied there included
Isaac Newton and Ludwig Wittgenstein. ‘X’ has more students than
any other college and the wealthiest in UK. The first time that the
rules of association football were written down was at ‘X’ in 1848.
Identify ‘X’.

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‘X’ was only 27 years old when the first issue of ‘Y’ came out in
1953. ‘X’ wanted to name the ‘Y’ as 'Stag Party' but then
(thankfully!) realised that the same name already existed.
Marilyn Monroe was on the cover of the first issue of ‘Y’.
Identify both the ‘X’ and ‘Y’.

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7. Answer
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After ‘X’s separation with her husband over religious issues, she
became a famous writer and a speaker for the National Secular
Society (NSS). She was the leading speaker for the Fabian Society as
well as the Marxist Social Democratic Federation (SDF). She was
actively involved in the London match girls strike in 1888. She set up a
committee seeking better pay and conditions for the women. She came
to India in 1898 with her theosophy work. In 1902, she helped
establish the Central Hindu College. After a few years, she was able to
establish various lodges in several parts of the British Empire. She was
declared a World Teacher after her lecture on Theosophy in 1926.
Identify ‘X’.

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In 1952 the brand ‘X’ was founded by JRD Tata as a 100%
subsidiary of Tata Oil Mills. JRD named it after the French
opera ‘X’, by Leo Delibes, a tragic love story set in 19th
Century. British India. The word ‘X` is the French
pronunciation of Sanskrit word for a Hindu goddess.
Identify ‘X’.

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 Don Quixote, by Miguel de Cervantes, Pisan Cantos, by Ezra
Pound, Conversations with Myself, by Nelson Mandela, The
Travels of Marco Polo, by Rustichello da Pisa, Profundis, by Oscar
Wilde and History of the World Volume 1 by Sir Walter Raleigh.

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This multi-sport event was the successor of the Far Eastern
Championship Games. It was originally scheduled to be held in 1950,
but postponed until 1951 due to delays in preparations. It was celebrated
from 4 to 11 March 1951. A total of 489 athletes representing
11 countries participated in 57 events from eight sports and discipline.
Name this sports event.

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17. Answer
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‘X’ was born on August 18, 1900, in Allahabad and later became one of the world’s
leading women in the 20th century. In 1921, after receiving a private education in
India and abroad, she got married to Ranjit Sitaram Pandit and changed her
name. She was arrested and imprisoned thrice by the British in the years 1932-
1933, 1940 and 1942-1943 in connection with civil disobedience movements. In
1953, she became the first woman to be elected president of the UN General
Assembly and she headed the eighth session. In the late 1960s, though she left
politics due to personal reasons, her commitment brought her back in 1970s by
protesting against the Emergency rule (1975) imposed by Indira Gandhi. Her own
writings include -- 'So I Became a Minister' (1939) and 'Prison Days' (1946).
Identify ‘X’.

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Drawing on the principles agreed at the Bandung Conference in
1955, ‘X’ was established in 1961. After the United Nations, ’X'
is the largest group worldwide including 120 states from
developing world. Currently every African country
(except South Sudan and Western Sahara) is a member of it.
Identify ‘X’.

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This train was introduced in 1988, by then Railways
Minister Madhavrao Scindia. This all-air-conditioned
superfast train clocks a maximum speed of 150km/hr. on the Faridabad-
Agra section. It also has the highest commercial speed - 89.87 km/hr. and
covers the 704 km. New Delhi - Bhopal stretch in 7 hours 50 minutes.
Can you name this train?

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‘X’s father was a Kotwal in Delhi during Bahadur Shah Zafar's rule but
when the Revolution of 1857 took place, he left Delhi and moved to Agra
where ‘X’ was born in 1861. When ‘X’s father was died prior to his birth,
his elder brother Nandlal, the Diwan of Khetri in Rajasthan and had
taken care of him as his own heir, financing his education by sending him
to the University of Cambridge where he graduated with a Law degree,
becoming one of the first Indians to get 'Western education’.
Identify ‘X’.

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27. Answer
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30. 1. Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru went to Trinity College, Cambridge in October 1907
and graduated with an honors degree in natural science in 1910.
2. Pandit Nehru was featured in the October, 1963 issue of the Playboy magazine.
3. He was a great admirer and supporter of Annie Beasant and became a member
of the Home Rule League founded by Annie Beasant in 1916.
4. In 1952, Tatas started the Lakme brand of cosmetics as an outcome of a
request from Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru’s Office.

31. 6. Pandit Nehru presented his speech from which organisers of the 1951’s Asian
Games adopted the official motto of the Games— "Play the game, in the spirit
of the game".
7. Pandit Nehru had two more siblings, both of whom were girls. The name of her
elder sibling was Vijay Lakshmi Pandit and the other was Krishna Hutheesing.
5. ‘An Autobiography’, also known as Toward Freedom (1936), is
an autobiographical book written by Jawaharlal Nehru while he was
in prison between June 1934 and February 1935, and before he became the
first Prime Minister of India.

32. 9. The name "Shatabdi" means centenary in Sanskrit. The first Shatabdi Express
This train was introduced in 1988, by then Railways Minister Madhavrao
Scindia to commemorate the birth centenary of Jawaharlal Nehru the first Prime
Minister of India, between New Delhi and Jhansi Junction.
10. Motilal Nehru was the father of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru.
8. In the 60s, Pandit Nehru played a key role in the formation and operation of
the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM).

33. Thank U for participating in this session.
Congratulation! Today’s podium finishers are—
:Result:
1st: Ankit Padmanabhan.
2nd: Dilwar Hussain.
3rd: Bhaibhav Rai.
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