Samhita | Crowdsourced Quiz By Team Atulya Nari

Samhita
By Team Atulya Nari
Host - Ishita Das

Viktor Grabovskyy and team planned to start
an analytics company in 2014, but as they
were short of funding, they decided to market
something as a modern piece of nostalgia to
improve focus, creativity and challenge
oneself. Which company was thus founded in
February?
1

Just for safety, the beautiful eyes are watching you!

1973 - A single piece of
paper is all it took to
represent this.
What am I talking about ?
2

Answer
These were the connected University labs ARPA
NETWORK - foundation of Internet as we know it today

In 1955, which smart term was first used in a
proposal for a "2-month, 10 man study"
submitted by 4 researchers from Dartmouth,
Harvard Universities, IBM and Bell Labs.
3

Answer
Artificial Intelligence or AI

In 1994 this job ad was first posted for which company?
4

The idea for writing a novel on his grandmother’s house hit the author while
driving his family to Acapulco. He turned the car around, returned home, quit
his job and began writing.
He went on writing, while the family lived on the money that came from selling the
car. However writing the novel took 18 months. The family lived on credit.
When the book was finally published in 1967, it became his most commercially
successful novel. Name the novel and the author who went on to win the Nobel
Prize for literature in 1982.
5

Answer
Gabriel García Márquez
One Hundred Years of Solitude

What do the devotees of the Chemmakuthu Sree Subramanya
swami temple in Alappuzha, Kerala offer to their principal deity,
Lord Balamurugan?
What is he (also) therefore known as?
6

Answer
The deity is called Munch Murugan as the devotees offer
chocolates. Particularly Munch.

Identify the 'Shero' seen receiving the
Padma Shri, bearing a surname
uncannily related to her journalistic
genre, her claim to fame came when
she literally 'tamed' which financial
Bull in an explosive expose?
7

Answer
Sucheta Dalal
Exposed Harshad Mehta

ID this brilliant Engineer cum Cartoonist whose wit in his cartoons is matched
only by his brilliant ideas turned into machines.
8

‘X’ is a non fictional Sanskrit-language play by Vishakhadatta that
narrates the ascent of the king Chandragupta Maurya (r. c. 324 – c.
297 BCE) to power in India.
A film in Sanskrit was made in 2006 by Dr Manish Mokshagundam,
using the same plot as the play but in a modern setting.
ID this celebrated play ‘X’ which translates to ‘The Signet of the Minister’ ?
9

Who was the choreographer of the 1927 film Indrasabha, who was also a
kathak exponent and introduced the Lakhnavi Gharana?
10

This plant has with a connect to the movie in the
poster.
It produces a number of active compounds, many
of which find use in pharma today.
But the clssical symptoms of poisoning by this
plant have been described as 'hot as a hare, dry
as a bone, red as a beet, blind as a bat, mad as a
hatter.' Which plant?
11

Answer
Dhatura
Widely used by the Thugs to poison their victims

X worked among an indigenous population which suffered a peculiar
disease.
The disease shares it's name with a great Indian mythological
dynasty.
He studied this disease and was successful in eradicating it, earning a
Nobel for medicine in 1976. But his later years till his death were
marred by his other scandalous activities. Name X.
12

Answer
Daniel Gajdusek
He discovered how the disease ‘Kuru’ spreads

As the former capital of the ancient Mushika Kingdom, X was one of the major
battlefields of the Chola-Chera wars in the 11th Century . The etymology of this
place in the two main languages spoken are Seven Hills, land of beauty, and even
land of rats.
Y, a defence training initiative was established here in 2009 and has won the
President's colours in 2019. Identify X and Y
13

Answer
X –Ezhimala
Y-indian naval academy
The etymology is as follows
Ezhumalai -7 hills
Ezhilmalai- land of beauty
Elimalai-land of rats

A new YouTube channel is getting lot of eyeballs due to its initiative to
promote a traditional art form ,a daily early morning ritual pursued
especially by women folk and which is supposed to bring prosperity to
the household.
This name of which initiative is a pun on the CSK’s popular catchphrase?
14

Answer
The Seven Wonders of Portuguese Origin in the World
Significant landmarks across the world which were built by
the Portuguese during 1415-1999.

This polymath X, was a diplomat, administrator, poet ,
theologian,scholar and minister who served an Indian
Kingdom Y from 1259 to 1274.
He introduced the pearl millet as a staple crop. However we
remember him more due to the architectural style of temples
named after him.
16

Answer
X : Hemadpant
Y : Seuna Yadava of Devagiri

AnEuceritbasedglobalskinandbody-carebrandwhichliterallymeans“Snow
White”,wasexpropriatedinmanycountriesduringWWII.
IdentifythisbeautyproductownedbytheGermancompanyBeiersdorf,which
completedabuyingbacktheconfisticatedtrademarkin1997.
18

This 'Land of Black Magic‘, derives its name from the Sanskrit word – ‘maya’.
The word also means ‘Elephant’ in Dimasa language.
A third source says that it used to be the habitat of the Moirang clan from
Manipur.
Ghatotkach is said to have derived his magical powers from here. Identify this
place
19

Thefounderofafamouscompanycaughta socialiteandspyduringtheCivilwarby
spottingherthroughawindow!
Thecompanywhichhefoundedwasawardedthelargestsinglesecuritycontracton
recordin1964.
Identifythesocialite,thecompanyfounderandthecompany
20

Answer
Rose Greenhow
Alan Pinkerton
Pinkerton's National Detective Agency

Identify this hero of 1965 Indo-Pak War, who was commemorated with
Param Vir Chakra posthomously.
21

22
Identify this Atulya Nari and her claim to fame

Answer
Subhangi Swaroop
One of the first three women pilots inducted in Indian navy

Literally meaning 'Stepping Beyond' or 'Courageous', what played the
key role in the blockade of East Pakistan during the 1971 war?
23

TheoriginofthewordcanbetracedtoPersia.
ObservingthenatureofcommercialconductofbusinessinMughalIndia,the
prolificFrenchtravellerandphysicianFrancoisBerniermentionedthisas
“PlacewhereIndiancraftsmendowork”.
Identifythisword/termthatiswidelyusedtilldate.
24

Identify this ancient board game of Indian
subcontinent developed by the Jain saints
The movement of the players depict the movement
of ‘jiva’ (soul) across the various ‘lokas’ (worlds)
before they attain ‘siddha’ (enlightenment)
Precursor to a very popular modern day board
game
25

Answer
Gyan Chaupar
precursor to Snakes and Ladders

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