Quiz-o-philia, by chanakya quiz club PGGC11 chandigarh.

2. of
in association with
THEIR BRAINS
PRESENTS…
 QUIZ-O-PHILIA
 Thought up by: Sumedha , Tanya,
Shruti .

3. No direct questions
Infinite pounce
+20/-20 for each pounce
No cyber investigation allowed
Decision of the quizmaster is FINAL and
abiding!

4. Our brains ( that work sometimes)
Chai and Chugli sessions (that kept us
alive)
How can we forget
GOOGLE
YOUTUBE
LUCENT’S

5. Choose your team names..
 PRITHVI
 DHANUSH
 AGNI
 PRAHAAR
 PRAGATI
 BRahMos
 NIRBHAY
Tribute to :- INDIA’s MAJOR MISSILE
SYSTEMS

6. Kumar
isliye…
kripya shanti bnaye rkhe!

7. ROUND 1:-

8. Ques no. 1
 Attacked by Ahmed Shah Abdali’s General, Jahan
Khan , this building has four entrance doors that
symbolize openness towards all.
 Name the building.

9. Answer-
 Harmandir Saheb

10. Ques no. 2
 Considered to be the bass version of the Sitar, this is
Ustad Imrat Khan playing what instrument?

11. Answer
 Surbahar ( known as bass sitar)

12. Ques no. 3
 Which medal has the state emblem appearing in the
center, with four replicas of Vajra, the weapon of
Indra surrounding it?

13. Answer
 Paramveer chakra

14. Ques no.4
 Krishna shifted his capital from Mathura to Dawarka
to avoid destruction due to war with Jarasandha.
This led to him being given a name that came into
popular consciousness due to a 2009 film. What
name?

15. Answer
 Ranchhod

16. Ques no. 5
 Which town, housing the HQ of Survey of India,
developed over time around Guru Ram Rai Darbar
Saheb Gurudwara?

17. Answer
 Dehradun

18. Round 2

19. Ques no. 1

20. Answer
 All films are inspired by Shakespeare's plays.
 Ramleela- Romeo and Juliet
 Omkara- Othello
 Maqbool- Macbeth
 Angoor- Comedy of Errors

21. Ques no. 2
 Identify the film and what was so special about it.

22. answer
 Yaadein
 The film holds the Guiness Book of world record for
the fewest actors, with Sunil Dutt appearing in the
whole film and Nargis Dutt’s special appearance in
the end scene.

23. Ques no.3
 Directed by:Tinnu Anand
 Produced by:Bittu Anand,Tinnu Anand,Naresh
Malhotra
 Written by:Inder Raj anand
 Screen play by:Santosh Saroj
 Story by:?
 Starring :Amitabh Bachchan,Meenakshi
Seshadri,Amrish Puri

24. Answer
 Jaya Bachchan

25. Ques no. 4
 Located in Pune, Maharashtra; this is one of the
most famous of its kinds.
 It is aided by Ministry of Information and
Broadcasting, GoI.
 Notable alumni of this include John Abrahm,
Mithun Chakraborty, Om Puri.
 Identify the logo.

26. Answer
 Film and Television Institute of India.

27. Ques no. 5
 The marketing team of Excel Entertainment for the
film was in talks with Google. They wanted to replace
one word in the Google system with the name of the
movie for 24 hours, for the promotion of the film.
This would have been one of the best promotion
strategy used by any Indian movie. The lead actor
even said that they had contracted Google about it.
 The promotion strategy didn’t work out, as Google
declined the proposal.
 Which movie was this?

28. Answer
 Talaash.

29. ROUND 3

30. QUES NO 1
 ‘ PAISA BOLTA HAI’ is the official portal of which
organization?

31. Answer

32. QUES NO. 2
 X is first of its kind project started by Seymour Durst
in 1989 in NYC. In 2008, the project had to be
modified as it ran out of digits when the U.S.
national debt exceeded Dollar 10 trillion for the first
time.
 This project has inspired many similar projects and
highlights rising national debt.
 Identify X.

33. Answer
 U.S. national debt clock

34. Ques. No. 3
 It is said that the Mendip miners of the Mendip
mountains were responsible for the origin of this
term.
 Through strict mining laws, had any of the miners
stole lead or ore – their fate would lie with the action
of “ bring him to his house or work and where all his
instruments and tools are --- and set fire all together
and banish him !”
 Which term originates from this practice?

35. Answer
 “ you are fired”

36. Ques no. 4
 Chandrabhan Prasad ,an entrepreneur has started an
e-commerce food business under the name of X .
Name X which he states as a social experiment and a
challenge to the social caste ceilings.

37. Answer
 Dalit foods private limited

38. Ques no. 5
 Rene x was a French tennis player and business man.
He was nick named ‘ the y’ by fans because of his
tenacity in the court. In the world of business he is
also known as the creator of the X, which he
introduced in 1929. Y is the logo of X.
 Identify X and Y.

39. Answer
 X-LACOSTE
 Y- CROCODILE

40. ROUND 4

41. QUES NO. 1
 Identify the memorial:-

42. Answer
 Bhopal gas tragedy memorial

43. Ques no. 2
 “ Yes the surface is fine and powdery. I can kick it up
loosely with my toe. It does adhere in fine layers, like
powdered Charcoal, to the sole and sides of my
boots. I only go in a small fraction of an inch, maybe
an 8th of an inch, but I can see the footprints of my
boots and the treads in the fine, sandy particles”.
 Who said these words and what is being described?

44. Answer
 Neil Armstrong about his first step onto the surface
of the moon.

45. Ques no. 3
 Identify the Google doodle

46. Answer
 Seven exoplanets were discovered in a compact solar
system only 39 light years away from us

47. Ques no. 4
 This is an inspiration for which engineering marvel?

48. answer
 Burj khalifa
 Flower name –dessert flower ( hymenocallis)

49. Ques no. 5
 What does the tweet mean ?
 Google’s first ever Tweet read.

50. Answer
 I’m feeling lucky.

51. SCORES……

52. ROUND 5

53. Ques no.1
 X graduated in B.A. politics from Lady Shri Ram
College Delhi.
 Her famous speech began with the words “ it is not
power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power
corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of
power corrupts those who are subject of it”.
 Identify X.

54. ANSWER
AUNG SAN SUU KYI

55. Ques no. 2
CONNECT

56. ANSWER
 Gul Panag

57. Ques no. 3
 What is her claim to fame?

58. Answer
 She is the first person to get adhar card

59. Ques no. 4
 Identify the lady who was India's first woman
commercial pilot ( 1956 ) , and who became a captain
on the F27s in 1966

60. Answer
 Captain Durba Banerjee

61. Ques. No. 5
 Recently the legal department of SBI alerted mrs.
Arundhati Bhattacharya for some reason, state the
reason.

62. Answer
 When Arundhati bhattacharya got her visiting card
with chairperson printed on it, the legal department
alerted her that there is no provision of chairperson
in the SBI act, hence she is called the Chairman.

63. ROUND 6

64. QUES NO. 1
 Identify

65. answer
 Zero mile , Nagpur( geographical centre of colonial
India)

66. Ques no. 2
 Identify the logo

67. answer
 RTI

68. Ques no. 3
Link the person
on the left to the image (or code)

69. answer
 The dabbawala code
 The person is Mahadeo Haveji Bachcha

70. Ques no. 4
 There are only three instances of this
 Green– Earth day, April 2008
 Silver– Sept 2011, tribute in light memorial
 Black- sept 2001
 What are these instances?

71. Answer
 Time magazine covers not to have a red border.

72. Ques no.5
 What is this qantas 737-800 plane, first revealed in
nov. 2011 , nicknamed?

73. Answer
 The Movember Plane ( no shave november plane) in
support of the movember initiative in which men
wear moustaches to draw attention to men’s health
issues.

74. Ques no. 6
 This is the Chaturbhuj Temple in Gwalior Fort.
 The temple has earned a world wide fame for the
inscription which bears a particular aspect, which is
believed to be used for the first time in the world.
The oldest recorded version of what is found in this
small temple in Gwalior Fort?

75. Answer
 First recorded written version of Zero.

76. Ques no. 7
 Whose self portrait?

77. Hint!
 He wrote, about Einstein, “There was nothing stiff
about him - there was no intellectual aloofness. He
seemed to me a man who valued human relationship
and he showed toward me a real interest and
understanding.”

78. Answer
 Rabindra nath tagore

79. Ques no. 8
 X was a noted Indian conman known for having
repeatedly ‘sold’ the Tajmahal, Red Fort, and The
Rashtrapati Bhavan, and also the parliament along
with its five forty five sitting members. He is said to
have cheated the Tatas and the Birlas and also Dhiru
Bhai Ambani.
 X was wanted in more than 100 cases and he was
wanted by 8 state police and was sentenced to 113
years in prison ,however he made daring escapes
from different jails 8 times in his life .
 The last of them on a wheel chair. Identify X.

80. Answer
 Mithilesh Kumar Shrivastav aka Natwarlal

81. Ques no. 9
 What does this world map represent?

82. Answer
 Red – right driving countries
 Blue- left driving countries.

83. Ques no. 10
 “I measure the progress of a community by the
degree of progress which women have achieved!”
 Whose statement is this?

84. Answer
 B.R. Ambedkar