India Quiz: Prelims

ID X, Y. Give context.
• The film Ek Dil Sau Afsane starred X and Y in titular roles. Inspite of a
stellar star cast, the film did not fare well at the box office. All in all, it
wasn’t a remarkable film in any aspect. It was therefore impossible
for anyone associated with the film to ever realise that it would
become so popular almost 54 years after its release.
• Why has it become so popular so suddenly?

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ID the addressor and addressee

Give funda
• Technically, there is no provision for referendums in the Indian
constitution. That is one reason why experts dismissed Arvind
Kejriwal’s demand for a referendum on full statehood for Delhi. There
is however, one instance of a referendum in India that is sometimes
quoted as a precedent. Why was this referendum held?

ID the place
• The discovery of Mica deposits in the region brought economic
prosperity to this village. With prosperity came new entertainment
sources like radio which became an instant hit in the region. People
used to send across multiple song requests to radio channels daily
just to hear their names. As the pastime became a passion for the
people of X, the name of their village became famous among Vividh
Bharti listeners across India. However, thanks to the town’s unusual
name and the humongous number of song requests it sent, many
listeners were sceptical about its existence. This led to the rise of use
of X’s name in pop culture.

ID X
• Khushwant Singh in his autobiography talks about X as being a “tall,
handsome Bihari who had an hour with Indira behind closed doors
every morning. Yoga lessons may have ended up with lessons from the
Kamasutra.”
• This apparent closeness between X and Indira Gandhi has been
covered by several biographers over the years with some even
claiming X for the death of Sanjay Gandhi.
• X’s proximity to Indira and his penchant for influence-peddling earned
him the sobriquet of “Indian Rasputin”.

Who Tweeted this? Also name the company.

Failed merger of Flipkart and Snapdeal

Give the context of the story
• A lesser known story from the Mahabharata describes an incident
where Lord Krishna and Arjun see a farmer leading water to his fields.
In order to direct the flow, he needs a large stone. When he can’t find
any suitable stone, he cuts his son’s head with a sword and puts the
head to obstruct the flow of water. The father who was cutting and
the son whose head was being cut, do not have any emotions. Lord
Krishna on seeing this tells Arjun that the place was cursed and all
emotions had died in the place. What was the direct consequence of
this incident in the Mahabharata?

Choice of Kurukshetra for Mahabharata War

ID X
• At the 2012 Coachella Music festival, Tupac came back to life using
the 3D hologram technology. A similar technology was used to great
effect by X in 2013 – 2014. The novelty of the technology in India
reinforced X’s perception in public as being tech savvy.

FITB
_______ follows its own financial accountability principle. There is no
credit method for running operations in the organization. Every
payment is done on a daily basis, except for the outside supply of raw
material. Profits and losses are shared equally among the members of a
given branch. In the initial days of _____, the profits of the first six
months were shared equally among all members in the form of gold.
This sharing practice is still in effect, but now the decision whether to
share the profits in gold or in cash is made at the branch level.
Which organization?

ID the person
Back in the 1960s, a big Hollywood casting director called Harvey Wood
came and selected me for a ____'s role. Although I had done many
films before as hero and villain, I don't know why I found popularity
only as ______. I got a lot of acting assignments, but all as ______.
Twenty years later, I bumped into Harvey Wood again. He looked at me
and said, "Bloody hell! You're still in the same uniform." He asked me to
mail him the details of all my films as I was onto a world record for the
most occupational role. Later the Guinness book people sent a team to
Bombay to verify facts before they entered my name in their book.
FITB and identify the guy.

Which buildings are being referred here.
He complained about it to his wife Emily early on: “I am having
difficulty with Baker. You remember the perspective showing the
secretariats with Government House beyond. Well, he has designed his
levels so that you will never see Government House at all (!) from the
Great Place. You will see the top of the dome!”.

Edwin Luytens complaining about Rashtrapati
Bhawan and the North Block & South Block.

Name this Khan?
At the age of one, his family immigrated to Bombay and started living in the
slums there. He enrolled in school and later graduated from Ismail Yusuf
College. Between 1970 and 1975, he taught at M. H. Saboo Siddik College of
Engineering in Byculla as professor of civil engineering.
On the college's annual day function, Khan took part in a play and it was
acclaimed by all present. Dilip Kumar came to know about it; he called him
and showed keenness in watching the play. Khan made special arrangements
and acted the play for him. Kumar was so impressed that he signed him for
his next two films: Sagina Mahato and Bairaag.
He is hardly known for being the man behind most of Amitabh Bachchan’s
famous dialogues.

Identify X & Y.
In 1930, India was swept over by Gandhi’s Satyagraha which had an
effect on football. Indian clubs boycotted the ongoing Calcutta Football
League midway through the season due to this. Amidst much
confusion, Royal Regiment was declared winners in the first division.
However, X, in spite of being well ahead in the second division, was not
allowed to be promoted to the First Division. They suspected Y’s hand
behind the league boycott to thwart X’s promotion to the First Division.
Thousands of X fans and officials decided to hold a protest march. It
was at this march that flaming torches were carried by the protestors.
This gave the club officials the idea of a torch being the club emblem,
which has stuck to this day.

Id X.
As per the wishes of the song writer, Saregama(HMV) is required to
contribute a certain amount to the Army Welfare Fund for the disabled
and war widows from the royalty proceeds of sale of records of the
song X.

Name this scheme.
The programme was introduced in a large scale in 1960s under the Chief
Ministership of Kamaraj. However, the first major thrust came in 1982 when
the then Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, Dr. M. G. Ramachandran, decided to
universalise the scheme for all children in government schools.
Although the programme in Tamil Nadu was initially termed as an act of
"populism", the success of the scheme made the project hugely popular. The
success was so spectacular that in 1995, the then Indian Finance minister
Manmohan Singh hailed the success of the project and suggested that the
scheme be implemented all over the country.

ID the town
Located 23 km from Kolkata and 115 km from the border with
Bangladesh. The first British cantonment in India was built in this town
in 1772, hence providing the town with its name. Prior to that time, it
was known as Chanak. Two rebellions against British authority took
place here in the 19th century; the first of these came in 1824, under
Sepoy Binda Tiwary and then the more famous one involving Mangal
Pandey. Which township?
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Id the shrine
The XY is the name of a Muslim shrine located in the Khanyaar quarter of the city of
Srinagar in Kashmir with the graves of two men. The word X means tomb, the word
Y means place, often a landing place by a lake, hence "place of the tomb." Locals
have traditionally referred to the main sage buried there as Yuzasaf, more recently
Yuz Asaf . The other man buried is Mir Sayyid Naseeruddin.
The shrine was relatively unknown until the founder of the Ahmadiyya Muslim
Community, Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, claimed in 1899 that it is actually the tomb of
Jesus.

FITB and ID X
X had been fond of using voice-overs to establish themes. Nikaah, which dealt with
the laws of divorce in Muslim society, began with the image of a nude woman
taking up the centre of the screen, before a female voice began an extended
commentary on the many roles of a woman. The opening words were: “_______”.
The narrator in X’s Bahadur Shah Zafar, a personification of Delhi’s Red Fort, was
introduced itself in a familiar manner as “_____”.
When it came to decide upon the opening lines for this famous work of his, X again
followed the same formula and went with “________”. What was it?

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