Pantheon 17- BIT MESRA

3. With you, all the way
This is one of the earliest logo of which institution?

4. The usual was not enough for this
• X is said to have originated in Nizam’s Restaurant, Kolkata. There are
many theories to its birth.
• Some suggest that hurried office commuters wanted something
quick and portable to eat, some mention British babus who were too
fastidious to touch the kebab.
• The first part of the name came later when Nizam’s realized that the
iron skewers in which they made the kebabs would not be enough. So
they used bamboo sticks as skewers.
• What is X?

5. The shots that shook the nation
• Raghu Nayak was a gardener from Odisha, recognized as a hero by
the then president Rajendra Prasad in 1952 with a reward of Rs. 500
and a letter for his heroics a few years back. He continued with his job
in Delhi till he retired in 1968, and by the time he died in 1983, he
had been consumed by both obscurity and hardship.
• But, in June 2016, the CM of Odisha, Naveen Patnaik, announced an
assistance of Rs 5 lakh to his widow Mandodari. With panchayat polls
due next year, many analysts opined that the BJD was just trying to
get maximum mileage by honoring Raghu.
• What act, where his khurpi came in handy, was he honored for?

6. Gilli Gilli Choo
• Traditionally a Spanish tune, it is intro to a song called "En Er Mundo
Pepe El Trompeta“.
• The sound is the beginning of a famous Spanish ‘paso-doble’.
Pasodoble (two step) being a typical piece of Spanish music played by
wind instruments and suited to the sound, drama, and movement of
the Spanish bullfight. It has traditionally been played in the
bullfighting.
• Context to India?

7. Lt. Colonel after all
• Brooks is a sports clothing company in Australia that landed one of
its most high profile clients in 2008.
• The requirement was to make a specially customized equipment that
would bear the colours of green or navy blue in patches with white –
an unusual combination for these items, intended for personal
reasons.
• What were these which has been held the by the sport’s governing
body as being wrong?

8. Name too long, Man too humble
• In 2007, X asked a question on Yahoo! Answers ‘What should we do
to free our planet from terrorism?’.
• The question he asked ended up garnering reactions from across the
country like nothing before ever had. It not only evoked reactions
from renowned Indian personalities like Sri Sri Ravishankar, Kiran Bedi
and Leander Paes.
• It also got over 31,000 responses which was also reportedly one of
the highest responses on Yahoo! Answers.
• Who is X?

10. Hum mei Kabiliyat h, Taqat h
• NRI couple Aravinda Pillalamarri and Ravi Kuchimanchi returned to
India in 1998 after quitting their jobs in the US.
• The duo first visited the villages affected by the Sardar Sarovar dam in
1998 after reading about the Narmada Bachao Andolan. They came
upon the village of Bilgaon in Maharashtra. For 55 years after
Independence, Bilgaon had not seen electricity.
• What Aravinda and Ravi did notice was a 9-metre high waterfall of
sorts which could very well have been utilised to generate electricity.
The Bilgaon Project started in May 2002 and done by January 2003.
• This is the inspiration behind what?

11. The Boss-Employee Feud
• Which company’s logo is actually the cross sectionof the motor it
uses?
• The logo is referring to the main body as representing one of the
poles that stick out of a motor's rotor, with the second line
representing a section of the stator.
• This logo is designed by RO-Studio, a design firm.
• Hint on next slide

14. The line of Five weeks
• Following is an excerpt of a poem written by X:
• ID the person to whom “he” is referred to.

15. The “Daru” – Not for consumption!
• The Sudarshan Chakra standing at the top of temple is 20 feet in
height and weights a ton. It said to be visible from every corner of the
city and it is installed in such a way that it makes you feel that it is
facing toward you irrespective of the place you are in.
• The chakra was installed around 2000 years ago. Take any place on
earth, on daytime the breeze from sea comes to land and the
opposite occurs in the evening but In this city it is observed to be just
the reverse.
• Where exactly can you find this structure?

16. Minimum Government, Maximum Governance
Mr Ajay Singh is co-founder of Spicejet. He was in news few years back
for investing 500 crores in Spicejet, thus giving it a new life. He was
also in news for a “crappy yet famous” creation of his which became
extremely popular and created ripples in the country.
Identify the creation.

17. Universal Adult Franchise
• IDENTIFY X AND Y:
• X IS THE DIRECTOR OF FILM Y. NEWTON STARRING RAAJKUMAR RAO
WAS CRITICIZED FOR ITS STRIKING SIMILARITIES WITH AN IRANIAN
MOVIE Y. THOUGH IN DEFENCE, FILMMAKER ANURAG KASHYAP HAS
VOICED HIS SUPPORT TO THE TEAM OF NEWTON STATING "Newton is
as much a copy of Y as The Avengers is of Watan Ke Rakhwale“. LATER
ON THE IRANIAN DIRECTOR X STATED "I saw the film and there is no
sign of plagiarism.”

19. Dangal
• On 16th December, 2016, his biography which was written by
Saurabh Duggal was released. Name of his biography?

20. Truly Indian!!
• The first logo of the company was a centaur, a stylised version of
Sagittarius shooting an arrow in a circle representing the wheel of
Konark.
• The logo was chosen by founder of the company was introduced in
1948 and represented the the company until 2007.
• This company changed its logo in 2007.
• ID the company.

22. • Sports
• Business
• Technology
• Entertainment
• Politics

23. • SPORTS

24. • This word has been widely reported to have originated from an
Argentine dialect of Spanish. In popular phrase, it means “skipping
school”. Argentine sports magazine El Grafico used this word for the
first time referring to a shot by Estudiantes de la Plata player Ricardo
Infante in the headline “El Infante que se hizo la ........” , the idea
being that Infante “skipped” the use of his wrong foot in hitting the
shot.
• Give the word.

26. • The Bombay duck or bummalo, Harpadon nehereus is, despite its
name, not a duck but a lizardfish. Adults may reach a maximum
length of 40 cm, but the usual size is around 25 cm. However, a
cricketer earned this nickname due to his ‘remarkable’ feat against
Australia. Who and what feat did he achieve?

28. BUSINESS

29. This great gentlemen was extremely fond of sports, and was a pioneer
in the Indian Olympic movement. As President of the Indian Olympic
Association, he financed the Indian contingent to the Paris Olympics in
1924.
Identify this great gentlemen.

30. • In his book Breaking Cover, Bill Gulley, the former director of the
White House Military Office described the Football in some detail.
“There are four things in the Football,” he wrote. “The Black Book
containing the options, a book listing classified site locations, a manila
folder with eight or ten pages stapled together giving a description of
procedures and a three-by-five inch card with authentication codes.”
• What is the significance of the Football?

31. • A X bomb or cookie was any of several of the largest conventional
bombs used in World War II by the Royal Air Force (RAF). The term X
was originally a name coined by the press and referred to a bomb
which had enough explosive power to destroy an entire street or
large building through the effects of blast in conjunction with
incendiary bombs.
• Today in its modern context it is used to measure the success of of a
movie in the box office.
• Give me the word.

32. TECHNOLOGY

33. • The photograph was taken by the professional photographer Charles
O’Rear, a resident of St. Helena in Napa County, for digital-design
company HighTurn. O’Rear has also taken photographs of Napa Valley
for the May 1979 National Geographic Magazine article Napa, Valley
of the Vine.
• Why is this photograph famous? Think Happiness.

34. • ...a system, method and computer program product for providing
links to remotely located information in a network of remotely
connected computers. A uniform resource locator (URL) is registered
with a server. A shorthand link is associated with the registered URL.
The associated shorthand link and URL are logged in a registry
database. When a request is received for a shorthand link, the
registry database is searched for an associated URL. If the shorthand
link is found to be associated with an URL, the URL is fetched,
otherwise an error message is returned.
• It is an early reference to what?

35. Connect

36. Entertainment

37. Minimalist Posters

38. • The late Indian actress introduced the X style in Indian film industry in
her first film Love in Shimla. R.K. Nayyar, the director of the film,
suggested her to go for the style as was then sported by the
Hollywood actress Audrey Hepburn.
• The style soon became a fashion fad in the 1960s.
• ID X.

39. • On Nov 24 1973, the US Navy airplane - a Douglas Super DC-3 - was
forced to crash land on Sólheimasandur beach. The crew all
survived the impact, but the plane was abandoned rather than
recovered - and lies there still. Where have we seen this Douglas
Super DC3 in Bollywood?

40. POLITICS

41. Put Funda

42. • Identify this person shown
alongside.
• He is theson of N. Dharmalingam,
a former DMK MLA Tamil Nadu.
• His areas of interest
include graphic
design, typography, type
design and design research with
special focus
on Tamil typography (the subject
of his doctoral research). Udaya
Kumar was awarded prize money
of ₹ 250,000 for his efforts.
• He is currently a professor at IIT
Guwahati.

43. • The X is a welfare program of the government of
India, launched by Indian Prime Minister Narendra
Modi in 2016. The stated objective of the program
is providing 50,000,000 LPG connections to
women from families below the poverty line.
• As of 3 April 2017, twenty million LPG connections
had been completed. It is guided by a strong
commitment to bring in changes in lives of poor
women.
• Name X.