This Google Doodle featuring Satyajit Ray was the first to appear globally on google.com, not just locally on google.co.in like previous Indian-themed doodles.
3. First 20 questions
IB= +10
Pounce= +15/-15
Passing= -10
First 10 clockwise
Next anticlockwise…………
4. Chanderi is a town in Madhya Pradesh, whose weaving
tradition is very famous. The weaving community
became associated with an event held in India, by
supplying something that was used in large numbers
during the event, usually in groups of three. The design
was by Mohammad Furqan, using a software
application meant for creating weaving patterns.
What event and what was supplied?
5.
6. The angavastrams or scarves presented to
the medal winners during the Delhi
Commonwealth Games
7. • Dr. Vipin Gopal is currently the Vice President, Clinical
Analytics at Humana, a Fortune 500 company that
markets and administers health insurance in the
United States.
• What is considered as his famous contribution to
Tourism in India, but the origins of which have
actually been traced back to early 19th Century in
Ireland?
8.
9. Kerala: God’s Own Country
• He’s credited with coining the tagline “God’s Own
Country” in 1993 when he created the first Web
page about Kerala, on CMU website.
• But, the phrase was first used to describe Wicklow
Mountains of Ireland by Edward du Bois in a book in
1805.
10. Id Who?
• He was born in Uganda, and his current
residence is in San Francisco.
• He is owner of a bungalow worth $ 3.5
million, with a heated swimming pool and
maple wood flooring in the living room.
• He owns a 6496 cc Lamborghini.
• His business card reads- Vice President,
Rockledge Corporation.
19. •While most sports goods get made in Jalandhar or
Meerut ; one particular item has been dominated
by the merchants of Uluberia; West Bengal.
•This was because of the ready availability of a raw
material .
•The industry is now under threat because water
bodies in the country side are getting filled to
promote real estate.
• Identify the principal raw material and the item.
22. Identify both X and Y
X sent Y a greeting card on his birthday on September 21,
2011 with hand-written message stating – “The foundation
of our relations is eternal and soon we shall be just
ourselves.”. It got leaked out and fuelled wild speculations
about an extra marital affair between X and Y.
While X is a co-owner of a restaurant chain named : Polo
Lounge, her husband and father-in-law owns a controversial
company called Galaxy Textile Mills.
Y originates from the Arabic word meaning “saint” or
alternatively means “one without an equal”.
25. In January 2014, it was revealed
that the Indian government
commissioned the development
of an internet surveillance
project designed to analyze
online messages for use by
intelligence agencies. It has
been jointly developed by
the Defence Research and
Development
Organisation's Research and
Development
Establishment (R&DE), and
IdeaForge, a Mumbai-based
private firm. It was featured in
the hit movie 3 Idiots. What is
the apt name of the network
traffic analysis software, which
aims to be an all-seeing system?
34. What connects the words Jambudvipa ,
Nabhivarsha ,Tianzhu with reference to
India?
35.
36. Ancient names of India
Jambudvipa
Jambudvipa was used in ancient scriptures for the name of India
before Bharata became the official name scriptures began using.
Nabhivarsha
According to the Bhagavata Purana, before India was called
Bharatvarsha, it was known as Nabhivarsha after Nabhi Rajah, the
son of Agnidhara (ruler of India) and father of Rishabha.
Tianzhu
Tianzhu (天 竺) Chinese name for ancient India, translates roughly to
"heaven centre(of)" (i.e. spiritual centre); used especially during the
Tang dynasty in reference to the Indian origins of Buddhism.
37. Recently Australian Prime Minister Tony Abott handed over
to his Indian Counterpart two antique statues of Hindu
Deities. The statues
_____________&_____________________ were allegedly
stolen from temples in Tamil Nadu and their return was
sought by India in March.
Be Specific
Pounce if you Know Both…
40. This image on the left is of the "Menara Kuala Lumpur" or the "KL
Tower". One of the twenty-most tallest buildings in the world, it is a
telecom tower whose antenna significantly contributes to its height. A
smaller replica of this tower functions as a TV tower in Delhi, and is
named after the Pitampura area.
This Tower (on right) featured in the news around 2010.Why?
41.
42. It was the site for India's first ever BASE jump, by Lt. Col. Satyendra Verma.
43. For NetJets fractional ownership private jets co , _________ had
appeared in an ad, as he is the largest shareholder in the co ?
48. Mensa International
Mensa is the largest and oldest high IQ
society in the world. It is a non-profit
organization open to people who score at
the 98th percentile or higher on a
standardized, supervised IQ or other
approved intelligence test.
52. The system was based on a method of
communication originally developed by Charles
Barbier in response to Napoleon’s demand for a
code that soldiers could use to communicate at
night called night writing. Barbier’s system was
too complex for soldiers to learn, and was
rejected by the military. In 1821 he met a very
famous person X, who identified the major
failing of the code and added his modifications
including the representation of characters in 6
bits.
Identify the system
53.
54.
55. In early 2013, the Indian Ministry of Environment and
Forests issued a circular banning the use of these
"government servants". The Ministry of Urban
Development was trying to get it implemented in New
Delhi, where these are primarily used.
Who are these 'government servants'?
56.
57. Buildings in New Delhi, especially government buildings, are
particularly plagued by monkeys who are known to run amok.
To counter them, langur monkeys have been trained to scare
them away and have been used for many years. The practice has
been somewhat officially sanctioned, but after protests by
environmental activists, this has been put an end to.
58. In 1964 Paris saw a sudden increase in
number of road accidents. Despite
doubling the police force the number of
road accidents doesn’t reduced much.
What was the reason for such a sudden
increase?
61. Samoa Air is a small airline from Samoa that operates
scheduled flights between the domestic islands as well
as to American Samoa. It also provides charter flights
and medical transfer flights.
Recently Samoa Air gained global press coverage by
becoming the first airline in the world to
_______________________________.
Although some regarded the decision as novel but it
also faced a lot of criticism to which airline claims that
it is a fair model.
62.
63. Charge customers by body weight plus luggage
*wiki says
The fare is calculated by multiplying a base fare (depending on
the route flown) by the total weight of the passenger plus their
luggage. So a passenger flying from Apia to Asau weighing 80 kg
and carrying 20 kg of luggage would pay US$ 132 for the flight
(100 kg x US$ 1.32 base fare), while another passenger weighing
60 kg and traveling without luggage would pay US$ 79.20 (60 kg x
US$ 1.32 base fare) for the same flight.
64. This group of hotels promoted and managed by
the Indian Tourism Development Organization
considered several names for their premier
chain of hotels. Finally they took a name from
Indian History when Hospitality was at its best.
Name the famous Hotel chain.
Be Specific
67. When Richard Brandson visited India he quoted a
statement
“ The Taj Mahal Hotel is a fantastic place and
they(builders) found a beautiful location to build it
in front of gateway”.
He later had to say sorry for the statement!!!!
Where did he go wrong?
68.
69. Actually Taj Hotel was built much earlier than Gateway of
India
Taj hotel -Opening - 16 December 1903
Gateway of India - Opening: December 4, 1924
70. The coffee pot was located in the corridor just outside the
so-called Trojan Room within the old Computer
Laboratory of the University of Cambridge.
What is so special about this Trojan room coffee pot?
73. • Deng Senshan, 15, died in less than a day after his parents sent him to the camp in
southern Guangxi province, Xinhua News Agency reported.
• Deng was found vomiting and was taken to a clinic where he died. Fellow students said a
teacher beat him, Xinhua reported.
• The report quoted the local government as saying several marks were found on the boy's
body. It said four trainers from the Qihang Salvation Training Camp in Nanning city have
been detained.
• Controversy over the methods used in these camps led the Ministry of Health to issue a
notice last month banning the use of electric shock therapy at one hospital in eastern
China.
• Tao Ran, director of the country's first of such treatment clinic under a military hospital in
Beijing, told The Associated Press that such deaths are bound to happen because few
camps employ scientific methods, with most opting for crude military-style discipline.
• Tao said 40% of these patients suffer from attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, and
find it difficult to obey orders at training camps.
STATE the disease from which he and many others in china as well as in whole world
suffers?
79. Called the Syamantaka
Owned by:
• Rajas of Malwa,
• Kākatīya king Prātaparuḑra
• Ghiyāth al-Dīn Tughluq
• Bābur
• Shāh Jahān
• Nadir Shah
• Ahmad Shāh Durrānī
• Shujāh Shāh Durrānī
• Ranjit Singh
What am I talking about?
83. The largest and most luxurious palace in the world... Consists of 1788 rooms with some
furnished in gold and diamond-encrusted 257 bath inlaid with gold and silver and a garage to
accommodate 110 cars The palace has 650 suites ... each furnished at not less than 150,000
thousand euros.
This guy has also a Boeing 747 worth a hundred million dollars, and then re-designed as a home at
a cost of more than one hundred and twenty million dollars. Featured add-ons such as a whirlpool
bath of pure gold
He also has six small aircraft and two helicopters.
At the special request of him, the Rolls Royce company combined their car designs with that of
Porsche. This vehicle is currently in London for use during his stay in Britain.
He has got --
531 Mercedes-Benzes 367 Ferraris 362 Bentleys 185 BMWs 177 Jaguars 160 Porsches 130 Rolls-
Royces And 20 Lamborghinis
Well he is like ALLADIN…………….
Identify………
89. The sixteenth edition of this sporting event was held in
Guadalajara in October 2011. Like other events of a similar
nature, it follows a four-year cycle. The next edition will be in
Toronto, in 2015.
So what multi-sport event is this?
90.
91. The Pan-American Games, the equivalent of the Asian
Games in the Americas. (Guadalajara is in Mexico.)
92. We can all recognize this famous Indian on the Google Doodle
below. But Indians (like Sir Rabindrabath Tagore) had already
featured on Google Doodles before this one. Why was this
Google Doodle unique among the other Indo-centric doodles?
93.
94. • This was the first Global Google Doodle that
was Indian-Centric. Till then, all Indian-related
Google Doodles were restricted to
“www.google.co.in” pages. This was the first
Indian Doodle to feature on the global
“www.google.com” page.