General quiz at the inter-faculty festival at BHU where IIT-BHU also gets invited.

1. Shobhit Shubhankar

2.  The Quizmaster is God.
 The Quizmaster is the only God.
 Sleep deprived quizmasters are liable to be irritable
and violent. DO NOT mess around! You have been
warned.
 25 questions, 6 *red ones for resolving ties.
 No negative marking. Unless you do not heed God’s
will.

3. 1) Who is featured on this postal stamp released to
commemorate 100 years of Indian cinema?

4. 1) Bhupen Hazarika

5. 2) Until 2011, the official criteria stated "for the highest
degrees of national service. This service includes artistic,
literary, and scientific achievements, as well as recognition
of public service of the highest order.” In December 2011,
this was modified to simply read "for performance of
highest order in any field of human endeavour.” What was
the subject of this modification?

6. 2) Bharat Ratna

7. 3) Differing from other Indian deer species in that
the antlers carry more than three branching spikes or tines,
it gets its name from the number of tines supposed to be
generally present. Once widespread in the Indo-Gangetic
plain, the species is now considered vulnerable. Name?

8. 3) Barasingha

9. 4) Author?

10. 4) Arvind Kejriwal

11. 5) Which much awaited event’s logo?

13. 5) FIFA World Cup 2014, Brazil

14. 6) In September 1730, a royal party led by Giridhar
Bhandari, a minister of the Maharajah of Marwar, arrived at
the village with the intention of felling some Khejri trees for
the construction of a new palace.
A local woman named Amrita Devi protested against the
tree-felling because such acts were prohibited by the
Bishnois’ religion. Both her and her three daughters were
killed by the party. The news of these deaths galvanised
other villagers, who decided that one volunteer would
sacrifice his or her life in preventing a tree from being cut
down. The feudal party left for Jodhpur with their mission
unfulfilled and the Maharaja subsequently ordered that no
more trees should be felled. Which larger movement was
this the first instance of?

15. 6) Chipko Movement

16. 7) Connect.

17. 7) Devdas

18. 8) While in ancient times, this region was called Dakshin
Kosala, its present name was popularized during the
Maratha period and was first used in an official document in
1795. Although numerous theories exist as to its
etymological origin, the most widely accepted one traces it
to the 36 pillars in a Devi temple. Which region?

19. 8) Chattisgarh

20. 9)
Ibrahim Lodhi : Babur
Hemu : Akbar
Marathas : ?

21. 9) Ahmad Shah Abdali

22. 10) Which place? After which event?

24. 10) Akal Takht, Operation Bluestar

25. 11) Who?

27. 11) Bill & Hillary Clinton

28. 12) “A weapon all fighters love. An elegantly simple 9
pound amalgamation of forged steel and plywood. It
doesn't break, jam, or overheat. It'll shoot whether it's
covered in mud or filled with sand. It's so easy, even a child
can use it; and they do. The Soviets put the gun on a coin.
Mozambique put it on their flag. Since the end of the Cold
War, the X has become Russian people's greatest export.
After that comes vodka, caviar, and suicidal novelists.”
-Nicolas Cage, “Lord of War”
X?

29. 12) AK-47

30. 13) Which immensely significant event in which apart from
the person popularly associated with it, 80 others took part,
happened along this route ?

32. 13) Dandi March

33. 14) What is being assembled here?

35. 14) Statue of Liberty

36. 15*) Which instrument?

37. 15*) Sarangi

38. 16*) What do these constitute?
Śṛngāram
Hāsyam
Raudram
Kāruṇyam
Bībhatsam
Bhayānakam
Vīram
Adbhutam
Śāntam

39. 16*) Navras

40. 17*) It is believed to have originally been composed in the 3rd
century BCE. According to the prelude, there was once a
powerful scholarly king who despaired of his three sons’ inability
to learn, and approached his ministers for counsel. One of them
said that the sciences, politics and diplomacy were limitless
disciplines that took a lifetime to master formally. Instead of
teaching the princes scriptures and texts, they should somehow
be taught the wisdom inherent in them, and the aged scholar
Vishnu Sharma was the man to do it.
It is divided into five parts titled "The Loss of Friends", "The
Winning of Friends", "Of Crows and Owls", "Loss of Gains" and
"Imprudence”. It is "certainly the most frequently translated
literary product of India”, and these stories are among the most
widely known in the world. Which literary work?

41. 17*) Panchatantra

42. 18*) This is the Royal Standard of Thailand, the official flag
of the King of Thailand, adopted in its present form in 1910
under King Vajiravudh, or Rama VI. Which figure from
Hindu mythology is depicted on the flag?

44. 18*) Garuda

45. 19*) The name of this fruit derives from the medieval Latin
for “seeded apple”. This has influenced its common name
in many languages, for instance, granada in Spanish,
Granatapfel or Grenadine in German, and grenade in
French. Interestingly, the French term grenade has also
given its name to the military grenade since soldiers
commented on the similar shape of early grenades and the
name entered common usage. Which fruit am I talking
about?

46. 19*) Pomegranate

47. 20*) Which famous monument, captured here by Scottish
photographer John Murray in 1858?

49. 20*) Humayun’s Tomb

50. 21) Whose flag?

51. 21) Tibet

52. 22) Singer?

53. 22) Piyush Mishra

54. 23) Who is this beautiful lady?

55. 23) Lara Dutta

56. 24) Which language?

57. 24) Tamil

58. 25) Which product?

59. 25) Google Glass