Farkon- The General Quiz

1. FARKON

2. PRELIMS

4. Rules for the preliminary ● A total of 20 questions ● +1 for correct answer ● No negatives ● Questions with * carry 2 marks ● No partial markings unless specified

5. X was under the rule of Yadava Naidus for about three centuries and came under the control of the Vijayanagara rulers in 1367. It came into prominence during the reign of Saluva Narasimha Rayalu. Later, the most famous Vijayanagara emperor Sri Krishnadevaraya, was kept restricted in this fort as a prince, till his coronation at Penukonda. It is also said that he met his future queen Chinna Devi at this fort. X was the 4th capital of Vijayanagara Empire, Rayas shifted their capital to here when the Golconda sultans attacked Penukonda. In 1646 the fort was annexed to the Golkonda Territory and subsequently came under Kingdom of Mysore rule. It went into oblivion from 1792 onward.The Raja Mahal Palace there now is an archaeological museum. The palace is an example of Indo-Sarcen architecture of Vijayanagara period. The crowning towers represents the Hindu architectural elements. The palace was constructed using stone, brick, lime mortar and devoid of timber.Give me the place X.

6. X was an Indian cricketer who is best known for his world record opening partnership of 413 runs with Pankaj Roy in 1956, a record that stood for 52 years.He hit 231 against New Zealand at Chennai in that match. His score was a Test record for India at the time and would remain so until it was broken in 1983 by Sunil Gavaskar. Playing for Tonge in the Bolton Cricket League, X picked up 54 wickets in the 1961 season, becoming the ﬁrst player to claim more than 50 wickets in a season in the league. But he recently came to the limelight due to someone who did what was actually ﬁrst done by X. Identify X.

7. What does this painting by Peter Paul Rubens dated 1636 - 1638 depict?

8. The credit for giving land for the stadium goes to the Xs of the Maratha Confederacy. The ruling Maratha family of the state encouraged and pioneered cricket in this part of the country. The X cricket team appeared in ten Ranji Trophy season's, reaching the final eight times and winning the title four times. The Stadium hosted its first ever IPL match on 13 May 2011. The Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, Kochi was the home venue for the IPL team Kochi Tuskers Kerala and officially hosted 5 home-matches of the franchise. The remaining 2 home matches were played at the X Cricket Stadium. In 2017, Kings XI Punjab selected the X stadium as one of their home grounds for three IPL matches. The Stadium was selected to host the final of the 2016-17 edition of the Ranji Trophy from 10 January 2017. It was earlier known as Maharani Usharaje Trust Cricket Ground. The state cricket association renamed it after the X dynasty of the Marathas that ruled the city where the stadium is. Give me the name of the stadium.

9. X was originally eaten by Nawabs in the Mughal Empire as a breakfast item after their morning prayers (Fajr). The origin of X dates back to the 17th-18th century. Historians claim that X was developed in Old Delhi, while some say it was a product of the finest Awadhi khansamas and took its final shape in the kitchens of old Delhi. It is actually a stew consisting of slow-cooked meat mainly shank meat of beef or lamb and mutton, goat meat and chicken, along with bone marrow. X is a traditional dish of Muslims of Delhi, Bhopal and Lucknow. After the creation of Pakistan in 1947, many Urdu speaking Muslims from northern India migrated to Karachi and Dhaka, and established restaurants. In Karachi, X became a roaring success and soon all over Pakistan. Now X is available in Pakistani restaurants around the world.In some restaurants, a few kilos from each day's leftover X is added to the next day's pot. This re-used portion of X is called taar and is believed to provide the unique flavor. Some X outlets in old Delhi boast of an unbroken taar going back more than a century. Identify the dish X.

10. * On 29th May 1985, approximately an hour before the European Cup ﬁnal was due to kick off, X supporters charged at Y fans and breached a fence that was separating them from a "neutral area". The cause of the rampage is disputed: many accounts attribute blame to the Y fans for sparking the violence, but this claim is contested by other eyewitnesses and has been criticized for being unsubstantiated. Y fans ran back on the terraces and away from the threat into a concrete retaining wall. Fans already standing near the wall were crushed; eventually the wall collapsed, allowing others to escape. Many people climbed over to safety, but many others died or were badly injured. The game was played despite the disaster, with Y winning 1–0. Fourteen X fans were found guilty of manslaughter and each of them were sentenced to three years' imprisonment. The disaster was later described as "the darkest hour in the history of the UEFA competitions". This is also known as the Heysel Stadium Disaster. What was the consequence or decision taken by UEFA after this incident? Also identify X and Y.

11. Connect all these to an event.

12. * 1. He was Minister of state(I/C) for X which has been held by MS Gill, Sunil Dutt and Mamata Banerjee. 2. He also held another ofﬁce of Minister of state(I/C) for Y which has been held by former ministers like Indira Gandhi, I K Gujral and Arun Jaitley. 3. He held both the ofﬁces during the 2014-19 BJP Goverment. 4. He has won a Gold in 2003 Commonwealth Games and had set a record of 192 out of 200. 5. He defended his title in 2006 in Melbourne Commonwealth Games. Guess the person and sport he plays. Bonus points if someone guesses X and Y correctly.

13. Nandighosa, Taladhwaja and Darpadalana. What are these?

14. Year Teams 1975 India, Australia, England, West Indies, South Africa, New Zealand, Pakistan, X 1979 Canada 1983 Zimbabwe 1987 None 1992 Y 1996 Kenya, Netherlands, United Arab Emirates 1999 Bangladesh, Scotland 2003 Namibia 2007 Bermuda, Ireland 2011 None 2015 Afghanistan 2019 None The list on the left is of the debutant teams in the ICC Cricket World Cup. Find X and Y. Explicitly mention what is X and what is Y. No points will be awarded in case only the names are provided.

15. "Without consultation or weighting the pros and cons, he brought ruin on Delhi which for 170 to 180 years had grown in prosperity and rivaled Baghdad and Cairo. The city with its Sarais and suburbs and villages spread over four or ﬁve leagues, all was destroyed (i.e., deserted). Not a cat or a dog was left.” This is an excerpt from the famous ancient scholar Ziauddin Barani’s account of one of the most historical ventures undertaken by an Indian ruler. What venture dating back to the 14th century is being referred to here?

16. What record was set by this Croatian footballer in the ﬁnal of the FIFA Football World Cup ﬁnal held last year?

17. Manzil (or Destination) is a 1979 Indian Bollywood film directed by Basu Chatterjee. The story of the movie starts with a young man (Amitabh Bachchan) having big dreams. This movie is the remake of a 1965 Bengali film X which was directed by Y who directed films primarily in Bengali and Hindi. Along with his contemporaries, Y pioneered the New Wave cinema in India. Y was an ardent Marxist. Y’s earlier films are characterized by their left-leaning, often Marxist approaches to Indian society. Identify Y.

18. Regarded as one of the most successful test captains of all time, X captained his side from 1974 to 1985 and oversaw their rise to become the dominant Test-playing nation, a position that was only relinquished in the latter half of the 1990s. During his captaincy the side had a run of 27 matches without defeat, which included 11 wins in succession. He was the ﬁrst player from his side to earn 100 international caps. He wore his famous glasses as a result of being poked in the eye with a ruler. His Test match debut came in 1966. He scored 7,515 runs at Test level, at an average of 46.67. He hit 70 sixes in his Test career, which is the 14th highest number of any player. Since retiring as a player, he has remained heavily involved in cricket, managing his home side in the late 1990s, and coaching and commentating. He was an ICC Match referee from 2001–2006. In 2005, he offered his patronage to Major League Cricket for their inaugural Interstate Cricket Cup in the United States, to be named the Sir X Cup. His son is a goalkeeper for the Guyana National Football Team. In 2007, X's authorised biography, Supercat, written by cricket journalist Simon Lister was published. Identify X.

19. * The river X which flows in Chhattisgarh is the longest tributary of Mahanadi and flows through a distance of about 290 kms.But what brought this river to much debate was the action of the then Madhya Pradesh govt. of 1998 to sell a 23 km stretch of this river to Radius Water Limited (RWL). This was our country’s first experiment with the privatisation of rivers that was widely criticised for its ecological and social damages.According to the deal, RWL was given a concession to build a barrage across X for supplying up to 40 million litres (mld) of water per day to the Borai industrial estate in Durg district. The contract has been for a period of 22 years. The issue was also discussed by Y in his 2012 book Swaraj.In 2006, Y was awarded the Ramon Magsaysay Award for Emergent Leadership in recognition of his involvement in the grassroots level movement Parivartan using right to information legislation in a campaign against corruption. Parivartan addressed citizens' grievances related to Public Distribution System(PDS), public works, social welfare schemes, income tax and electricity. It was not a registered NGO - it ran on individual donations, and was characterised as a jan andolan ("people's movement") by its members. In 2005, Y and Z launched Kabir, a registered NGO named after the medieval philosopher Kabir. Like Parivartan, Kabir was also focused on RTI and participatory governance. However, unlike Parivartan, it accepted institutional donations. According to Y, Kabir was mainly run by Z.Identify X and Y.

20. Connect these 4 images to ﬁnd the name of a Football club.

21. X is a 2018 biographical thriller film directed by Anthony Maras and co-written by Maras and John Collee. It is inspired by the 2009 documentary Surviving Mumbai about the Mumbai attacks 2008 at the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel in India. The film stars Dev Patel ,Armie Hammer,Nazanin Boniadi,Anupam Kher, Tilda Cobham-Hervey,Jason Isaacs,Suhail Nayyar, and Natasha Liu Bordizzo.The film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on 7 September 2018, and had its Australian premiere at the Adelaide film festival on 10 October 2018. It was theatrically released in Australia on 14 March 2019 and in the United States on 22 March 2019.The movie was pulled from cinemas in New Zealand due to the Christchurch mosque shootings on 15 March 2019, with showings suspended until 28 March.Netflix was set to distribute the film in India and other South and Southeast Asian territories.However, Netflix later dropped the film, after a contractual dispute arose with Indian distributor Plus Holdings.Gimme X.

22. The following list is of Host countries of a certain Football competition: 1. 1991 - China 2. 1995 - Sweden 3. 1999 - United States of America 4. 2003 - United States of America 5. 2007 - China 6. 2011 - Germany 7. 2015 - Canada 8. 2019 - France What is the competition and who are the current champions?

23. “The initial idea came out of some gorgeous, rich images that Arundhati sent me: they were simply photographs of beautiful old gravestones.One of the novel’s core settings is a graveyard – it becomes very important in the story and it speaks to many of its themes and ideas – so it felt right to reference that setting on the jacket.I spent some time examining the gravestone photos Arundhati sent. One in particular sang out at me, and that became the starting point for constructing the front cover panel.Overlaid on the gravestone, I added the core motifs. Each of these details was created as a standalone element, because I knew that foreign publishers would need to be able to move them around. For example, the rose slightly overlaps the title text, and the length and position of that text will change on foreign language editions – so it has to be able to move, to be adaptable for every edition of the book across the world.” These are the words of David Eldridge,a renowned book cover designer, regarding his work on something.What work does he hint us to?

24. Someone whose name is always immortalised when we think of another famous athlete from India.He was one of the fastest athletes during his time that Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru called him the ﬂying bird of Asia.Identify him.

25. ANSWERS

26. X was under the rule of Yadava Naidus for about three centuries and came under the control of the Vijayanagara rulers in 1367. It came into prominence during the reign of Saluva Narasimha Rayalu. Later, the most famous Vijayanagara emperor Srikrishna Devaraya, was kept restricted in this fort as a prince, till his coronation at Penukonda. It is also said that he met his future queen Chinna Devi at this fort. X was the 4th capital of Vijayanagara Empire, Rayas shifted their capital to here when the Golconda sultans attacked Penukonda. In 1646 the fort was annexed to the Golkonda Territory and subsequently came under Kingdom of Mysore rule. It went into oblivion from 1792 onward.The Raja Mahal Palace there now is an archaeological museum. The palace is an example of Indo-Sarcen architecture of Vijayanagara period. The crowning towers represents the Hindu architectural elements. The palace was constructed using stone, brick, lime mortar and devoid of timber.Give me the place X.

27. Chandragiri

28. X was an Indian cricketer who is best known for his world record opening partnership of 413 runs with Pankaj Roy in 1956, a record that stood for 52 years.He hit 231 against New Zealand at Chennai in that match. His score was a Test record for India at the time and would remain so until it was broken in 1983 by Sunil Gavaskar. Playing for Tonge in the Bolton Cricket League, X picked up 54 wickets in the 1961 season, becoming the ﬁrst player to claim more than 50 wickets in a season in the league. But he recently came to the limelight due to someone who did what was actually ﬁrst done by X. Identify X.

29. Vinoo Mankad

30. What does this painting by Peter Paul Rubens dated 1636 - 1638 depict?

31. The Martyrdom of St. Thomas, the apostle in 72 AD at present day Chennai.

32. The credit for giving land for the stadium goes to the Xs of the Maratha Confederacy. The ruling Maratha family of the state encouraged and pioneered cricket in this part of the country. The X cricket team appeared in ten Ranji Trophy season's, reaching the final eight times and winning the title four times. The Stadium hosted its first ever IPL match on 13 May 2011. The Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, Kochi was the home venue for the IPL team Kochi Tuskers Kerala and officially hosted 5 home-matches of the franchise. The remaining 2 home matches were played at the X Cricket Stadium. In 2017, Kings XI Punjab selected the X stadium as one of their home grounds for three IPL matches. The Stadium was selected to host the final of the 2016-17 edition of the Ranji Trophy from 10 January 2017. It was earlier known as Maharani Usharaje Trust Cricket Ground. The state cricket association renamed it after the X dynasty of the Marathas that ruled the city where the stadium is. Give me the name of the stadium.

33. Holkar Stadium, Indore

34. X was originally eaten by Nawabs in the Mughal Empire as a breakfast item after their morning prayers (Fajr). The origin of X dates back to the 17th-18th century. Historians claim that X was developed in Old Delhi, while some say it was a product of the finest Awadhi khansamas and took its final shape in the kitchens of old Delhi. It is actually a stew consisting of slow-cooked meat mainly shank meat of beef or lamb and mutton, goat meat and chicken, along with bone marrow. X is a traditional dish of Muslims of Delhi, Bhopal and Lucknow. After the creation of Pakistan in 1947, many Urdu speaking Muslims from northern India migrated to Karachi and Dhaka, and established restaurants. In Karachi, X became a roaring success and soon all over Pakistan. Now X is available in Pakistani restaurants around the world.In some restaurants, a few kilos from each day's leftover X is added to the next day's pot. This re-used portion of X is called taar and is believed to provide the unique flavor. Some X outlets in old Delhi boast of an unbroken taar going back more than a century. Identify the dish X.

35. Nihari

36. * On 29th May 1985, approximately an hour before the European Cup ﬁnal was due to kick off, X supporters charged at Y fans and breached a fence that was separating them from a "neutral area". The cause of the rampage is disputed: many accounts attribute blame to the Y fans for sparking the violence, but this claim is contested by other eyewitnesses and has been criticized for being unsubstantiated. Y fans ran back on the terraces and away from the threat into a concrete retaining wall. Fans already standing near the wall were crushed; eventually the wall collapsed, allowing others to escape. Many people climbed over to safety, but many others died or were badly injured. The game was played despite the disaster, with Y winning 1–0. Fourteen X fans were found guilty of manslaughter and each of them were sentenced to three years' imprisonment. The disaster was later described as "the darkest hour in the history of the UEFA competitions". This is also known as the Heysel Stadium Disaster. What was the consequence or decision taken by UEFA after this incident? Also identify X and Y.

37. All English football clubs being placed under an indeﬁnite ban by UEFA from all European competitions (lifted in 1990–91), with Liverpool being excluded for an additional three years, later reduced to one. (1 mark) X- Liverpool (0.5 mark) Y- Juventus (0.5 mark)

38. Connect all these to an event.

39. The Chittagong Armoury Raids(or uprising) of April 1930

40. 1. He was Minsiter of state(I/C) for X which has been held by MS Gill, Sunil Dutt and Mamata Banerjee. 2. He also held another ofﬁce of Minister of state(I/C) for Y which has been held by former ministers like Indira Gandhi, I K Gujral and Arun Jaitley. 3. He held both the ofﬁces during the 2014-19 BJP Goverment. 4. He has won a Gold in 2003 Commonwealth Games and had set a record of 192 out of 200. 5. He defended his title in 2006 in Melbourne Commonwealth Games. Guess the person and sport he plays. Bonus points if someone guesses X and Y correctly.

41. Colonel Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore(0.5 marks) Shooting(0.5 marks) X - Youth Affairs & Sports (Sports)(0.5 marks) Y - Information and Broadcasting(0.5 marks)

42. Nandighosa, Taladhwaja and Darpadalana. What are these?

43. The 3 chariots used in the Rath Yatra procession in Puri

44. Year Teams 1975 India, Australia, England, West Indies, South Africa, New Zealand, Pakistan, X 1979 Canada 1983 Zimbabwe 1987 None 1992 Y 1996 Kenya, Netherlands, United Arab Emirates 1999 Bangladesh, Scotland 2003 Namibia 2007 Bermuda, Ireland 2011 None 2015 Afghanistan 2019 None The list on the left is of the debutant teams in the ICC Cricket World Cup. Find X and Y. Explicitly mention what is X and what is Y. No points will be awarded in case only the names are provided.

45. X - East Africa Y - South Africa

46. "Without consultation or weighting the pros and cons, he brought ruin on Delhi which for 170 to 180 years had grown in prosperity and rivaled Baghdad and Cairo. The city with its Sarais and suburbs and villages spread over four or ﬁve leagues, all was destroyed (i.e., deserted). Not a cat or a dog was left.” This is an excerpt from the famous ancient scholar Ziauddin Barani’s account of one of the most historical ventures undertaken by an Indian ruler. What venture dating back to the 14th century is being referred to here?

47. The shift of capital of the Delhi sultanate from Delhi to Daulatabad(or Devagiri) by Muhammad bin Tughlaq.

48. What record was set by this Croatian footballer in the ﬁnal of the FIFA Football World Cup ﬁnal held last year?

49. The first footballer in history to score an own goal in a FIFA world cup final.

50. Manzil (or Destination) is a 1979 Indian Bollywood film directed by Basu Chatterjee. The story of the movie starts with a young man (Amitabh Bachchan) having big dreams. This movie is the remake of a 1965 Bengali film X which was directed by Y who directed films primarily in Bengali and Hindi. Along with his contemporaries, Y pioneered the New Wave cinema in India. Y was an ardent Marxist. Y’s earlier films are characterized by their left-leaning, often Marxist approaches to Indian society. Identify Y.

51. Mrinal Sen

52. Regarded as one of the most successful test captains of all time, X captained his side from 1974 to 1985 and oversaw their rise to become the dominant Test-playing nation, a position that was only relinquished in the latter half of the 1990s. During his captaincy the side had a run of 27 matches without defeat, which included 11 wins in succession. He was the ﬁrst player from his side to earn 100 international caps. He wore his famous glasses as a result of being poked in the eye with a ruler. His Test match debut came in 1966. He scored 7,515 runs at Test level, at an average of 46.67. He hit 70 sixes in his Test career, which is the 14th highest number of any player. Since retiring as a player, he has remained heavily involved in cricket, managing his home side in the late 1990s, and coaching and commentating. He was an ICC Match referee from 2001–2006. In 2005, he offered his patronage to Major League Cricket for their inaugural Interstate Cricket Cup in the United States, to be named the Sir X Cup. His son is a goalkeeper for the Guyana National Football Team. In 2007, X's authorised biography, Supercat, written by cricket journalist Simon Lister was published. Identify X.

53. Clive Lloyd

54. * The river X which flows in Chhattisgarh is the longest tributary of Mahanadi and flows through a distance of about 290 kms.But what brought this river to much debate was the action of the then Madhya Pradesh govt. of 1998 to sell a 23 km stretch of this river to Radius Water Limited (RWL). This was country’s first experiment with privatisation of rivers that was widely criticised for its ecological and social damages.According to the deal, RWL was given a concession to build a barrage across X for supplying up to 40 million litres (mld) of water per day to the Borai industrial estate in Durg district. The contract has been for a period of 22 years. The issue was also discussed by Y in his 2012 book Swaraj.In 2006, Y was awarded the Ramon Magsaysay Award for Emergent Leadership in recognition of his involvement in the grassroots level movement Parivartan using right to information legislation in a campaign against corruption. Parivartan addressed citizens' grievances related to Public Distribution System(PDS), public works, social welfare schemes, income tax and electricity. It was not a registered NGO - it ran on individual donations, and was characterised as a jan andolan ("people's movement") by its members. In 2005, Y and Z launched Kabir, a registered NGO named after the medieval philosopher Kabir. Like Parivartan, Kabir was also focused on RTI and participatory governance. However, unlike Parivartan, it accepted institutional donations. According to Y, Kabir was mainly run by Z.Identify X and Y.

55. X - Sheonath(Shivnath) Y -Arvind Kejriwal

56. Connect these 4 images to ﬁnd the name of a Football club.

57. FC Barcelona

58. X is a 2018 biographical thriller film directed by Anthony Maras and co-written by Maras and John Collee. It is inspired by the 2009 documentary Surviving Mumbai about the Mumbai attacks 2008 at the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel in India. The film stars Dev Patel ,Armie Hammer,Nazanin Boniadi,Anupam Kher, Tilda Cobham-Hervey,Jason Isaacs,Suhail Nayyar, and Natasha Liu Bordizzo.The film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on 7 September 2018, and had its Australian premiere at the Adelaide film festival on 10 October 2018. It was theatrically released in Australia on 14 March 2019 and in the United States on 22 March 2019.The movie was pulled from cinemas in New Zealand due to the Christchurch mosque shootings on 15 March 2019, with showings suspended until 28 March.Netflix was set to distribute the film in India and other South and Southeast Asian territories.However, Netflix later dropped the film, after a contractual dispute arose with Indian distributor Plus Holdings.Gimme X.

59. Hotel Mumbai.

60. The following list is of Host countries of a certain Football competition: 1. 1991 - China 2. 1995 - Sweden 3. 1999 - United States of America 4. 2003 - United States of America 5. 2007 - China 6. 2011 - Germany 7. 2015 - Canada 8. 2019 - France What is the competition and who are the current champions?

61. FIFA Women’s World Cup United States of America

62. “The initial idea came out of some gorgeous, rich images that Arundhati sent me: they were simply photographs of beautiful old gravestones.One of the novel’s core settings is a graveyard – it becomes very important in the story and it speaks to many of its themes and ideas – so it felt right to reference that setting on the jacket.I spent some time examining the gravestone photos Arundhati sent. One in particular sang out at me, and that became the starting point for constructing the front cover panel.Overlaid on the gravestone, I added the core motifs. Each of these details was created as a standalone element, because I knew that foreign publishers would need to be able to move them around. For example, the rose slightly overlaps the title text, and the length and position of that text will change on foreign language editions – so it has to be able to move, to be adaptable for every edition of the book across the world.” These are the words of David Eldridge,a renowned book cover designer, regarding his work on something.What work does he hint us to?

63. The design of Arundhati Roy’s second novel THE MINISTRY OF UTMOST HAPPINESS cover.

64. Someone whose name is always immortalised when we think of another famous athlete from India.He was one of the fastest athletes during his time that Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru called him the ﬂying bird of Asia.Identify him.

65. Abdul Khaliq

66. ROUND 1

67. The Fifth Doctor from the famous British Sci-Fi Doctor Who, materialised the TARDIS in Calcutta on 31st of December 1926 with an intention of taking his companions to the second Unofﬁcial Test Match between X and Y, which started on that day. Y won the match by four wickets. It is one of the match from Y's visit to India, 1926-27.Identify X and Y.

68. 1. Ashkenazi in Cochin 2. New Christians or Portuguese in Goa 3. Syrian or Musta'arabi in Nagercoil 4. Spanish and Portuguese, Paradesi and British of Sephardi in Madras 5. Bene X or as called by people of Sindh, Punjab and Pathan areas as Bani X in Karachi(and other areas of Pakistan) and now in Mumbai 6. Baghdadi in Surat 7. Bnei Menashe of Mizo and Kuki in Manipur and Mizoram 8. Bene Ephraim in Chebrolu, Guntur District and in Machilipatnam, Krishna District The list is exhaustive. Guess what it is about?

69. The race was invented to boost the circulation of L'Auto, after its circulation started to plummet from competition with the long-standing Le Vélo. Originally scheduled to start in June, the race was postponed one month, and the prize money was increased, after a disappointing level of applications from competitors. The 1903 edition was the first stage road race, and compared to modern editions, it had relatively few stages, but each was much longer than those raced today. The competitors did not have to compete in all six stages, although this was necessary to qualify for the general classification. The pre-race favourite, Maurice Garin, won the first stage, and retained the lead throughout. He also won the last two stages, and had a margin of almost three hours over the next competitor. The circulation of L'Auto increased more than sixfold during and after the race, so the race was considered successful enough to be rerun in 1904, by which time Le Vélo had been forced out of business. Which world famous annual sporting event’s first edition is being accounted here?

70. This tweet is from 10th of July, 2019. Guess whom our PM is congratulating and for which event.

71. X printing, or X painting, is an art of cloth printing practiced in the Kutch district of Gujarat. In this craft, paint made from boiled oil and vegetable dyes is laid down on fabric using either a metal block (printing) or a stylus (painting). The craft nearly died out in the late 20th century, with X painting being practiced by only one family.The word X comes from Persian, meaning varnish or oil.The process of applying this oil-based paint to fabric began among the Khatris, a Muslim community who came to India from Sindh, Pakistan.Although the name, X (and some of the traditional designs) suggests an origin in Iran, there are no reliable historic records to prove this.X painting was initially practiced in several locations in the Kutch region. The painted fabric was mostly purchased by women of the lower castes who wanted to decorate clothing and bed coverings for their weddings.Therefore, it was a seasonal art, with most of the work taking place during the several months when most weddings take place. During the rest of the year, the artisans would switch to other forms of work, such as agriculture. With the rise of cheaper, machine-made textiles in the late 20th century, X-painted products became relatively more expensive, and many artists turned to other occupations. Ultimately, only one family, the Khatris of Nirona,Gujarat, continued the craft.Identify X.

72. One ﬂag makes this list Exhaustive, what’s the ﬂag?

73. Paltan is a 2018 Indian Hindi-language action-war ﬁlm written, directed and produced by J. P. Dutta, based on 1967 Nathu La and Cho La clashes along the Sikkim border after 1962 Sino-Indian War. It stars an ensemble cast with Jackie Shroff, Arjun Rampal, Sonu Sood, Harshvardhan Rane, Esha Gupta, Sonal Chauhan and many more. The ﬁlm was theatrically released on 7 September 2018 .Whose role was brought back to life by Harshvardhan Rane(image in the next slide) in the movie?

75. The X is a 150,000 person capacity motorsports complex located in Nürburg ,Germany. It features a Grand Prix race track built in 1984, and a much longer Nordschleife "North loop" track which was built in the 1920s around the village and medieval castle of Nürburg in the Eifel Mountains. The north loop is 20.8 km (12.9 mi) long and has more than 300 metres (1,000 feet) of elevation change from its lowest to highest points. Jackie Stewart nicknamed the old track "The Green Hell".Originally, the track featured four conﬁgurations: the 28.265 km (17.563 mi)-long Gesamtstrecke ("Whole Course"), which in turn consisted of the 22.810 km (14.173 mi) Nordschleife ("North Loop"), and the 7.747 km (4.814 mi) Sudschleife ("South Loop"). There also was a 2.281 km (1.417 mi) warm-up loop called Zielschleife ("Finish Loop") or Betonschleife ("Concrete Loop"), around the pit area. Between 1982 and 1983 the start/ﬁnish area was demolished to create a new GP-Strecke, and this is used for all major and international racing events. However, the shortened Nordschleife is still in use for racing, testing and public access.Give me X which is the name of the racing circuit.

76. Humpy Koneru is an Indian chess grandmaster who in October 2007, became the second female player, after Judit Polgar, to exceed the 2600 Elo rating mark, being rated 2606.She was originally named "Hampi" by her parents (Koneru Ashok and Mrs Latha Ashok) who derived the name from the word "champion". Her father later changed the spelling to Humpy.What was the reason behind this?

77. 1936 1952 & 1956 1992 2000 2008 Connect.

78. ______ _________ born on 23rd of June, 1875/77 in Calcutta also known by his stage name ______ Trevor, was British-Indian sportsperson and actor. He became ﬁrst Asian-born athlete to win an Olympic Medal when he won two silvers in athletics at ____ _____ Olympics. He served as Secretary of Indian Football Association from 1900 to 1902. He permanently moved to Britain in 1905, where he became a stage actor, and later moved to US to work in Hollywood. He was the ﬁrst Indian to participate in the olympics. Fill in the blanks.

79. Give that one word connecting these.

80. For me, this is not just about makeup. This is about the message that we're trying to send out to the world.These were the words that X told viewers while revealing her foray into the world of cosmetics this July with her brand HAUS LABORATORIES ,adding that it was something that she wanted to do for a long time. Identify X.

81. * In 2008, X refused to bear the olympic torch during its India leg of the run showing his solidarity for a section of people who are still struggling for overcoming an obstacle.Even the then French president Nicolas Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel showed their recognition to the issue by indicating to boycott the 2008 olympic games which was held in Beijing,China.X is a prominent Indian sportsperson who has now retired from his sport.What was the issue and also identify X.

82. * The X is a character on the British motoring television show Top Gear. The character is a play on the anonymity of racing drivers' full-face helmets, with the running joke that nobody knows who or what is inside the X's racing suit. The X's primary role is setting lap times for cars tested on the show. Previously, he would also instruct celebrity guests, off-camera, for the show's "Star in a Reasonably Priced Car" segment.The identity of the original "Black" X, Perry McCarthy, was exposed by a Sunday newspaper in January 2003, and conﬁrmed by McCarthy later that year. The black-suited X was subsequently "killed off" that October in the series 3 premiere, and replaced in the following episode by a new White X who lasted through to the end of series 15.In series 13 episode 1, the show jokingly unmasked the X as Y. In the hiatus following series 15, racing driver Ben Collins was revealed to be the X in a court battle over Collins' impending autobiography, titled The Man in the White Suit. In series 16, debuting in December 2010, Collins was replaced by a second White X, whose identity has so far remained secret.Gimme X and Y.

83. * This is a very famous restaurant in NYC ,USA.The name of this restaurant is said to have been inspired from the name of a ﬁctional city which is the centrestage of all events mentioned in the novel X by the late Colombian Writer Y.Macondo is often supposed to be drawn from Y’s childhood town, Aracataca. Aracataca is located near the north (Caribbean) coast of Colombia, 80 km south of Santa Marta.In June 2006, there was a referendum to change the name of the town to Aracataca Macondo.Gimme X and Y.

84. Alfredo De Mello is a historian who was born and educated in British India and Portugal. He has written three books about the Portuguese Nationality of Cristovão Colon (misnomer of Columbus). He wrote two books in English and one in Spanish. The following lines are taken from his chapter titled ‘Memoirs of Goa.’ In another chapter dealing with the nefarious, ﬁendish, lustful, corrupt religious orders which pounced on Goa for the purpose of destroying paganism and introducing the true religion of Christ ( poor X , if He only knew what was done in His name!), I have dwelt brieﬂy on the Y, which was introduced in 1560 and lasted until the year 1812, that is a span of 252 years, during which period it held its sway with a power that Stalin and other tyrants would have liked to hold. Stalin was a tyrant, murderer, but at least he was not a hypocrite.Which terrorising excerpt from the history of a part of our country is the writer referring to?

85. Give the name of the automaker which was ﬁned an amount of 256000 USD for using Chinese artist Ai Weiwei’s artwork (for advertising one of their car models) without his permission. ?

86. ● Appointed as the new Overseas Affairs Secretary of our country in July. ● Member of 1986 IFS Batch. ● A renowned writer. ● Known mostly for penning something whose story went onto win the oscars. ● Author of Six Suspects, Q&A, The Accidental Apprentice, etc.,

87. Shown in the adjacent picture is a district in the state of Assam. A ﬁne India metal craftsmanship gets its name after this district, it’s description is given below: Brass and Bell Metal products of ______ are famous for their beauty and strength of form and utility. The principal items of brass are the kalah, sarai, kahi, bati, lota and tal. Name the District or the Craftsmanship.

88. ROUND 2

89. Painted by…?

90. For commemorating…?

91. Identify the man at the middle alongside Nehru and Indira Gandhi in Switzerland. He was awarded the 1972 honorary oscars.

92. What makes this video game cover unique?

93. Who is Mary Westmacott?

94. ROUND 3

95. In 2011, a Bollywood ﬁlm X was released loosely based upon the Bowler in the video who is a left-arm spinner. In the movie there are two selectors, one of them is Mr. Bedi, played by Tinu Anand, the other selector Y plays himself, Y is a British Commentator and a former Cricketer, who captained the English team between 1999 and 2003. Name X and Y. Bonus: Where was Y born? Entertainment! Entertainment! Entertainment!

96. Controversies! Audio Guess the commentator who issued the controversial statement and match.

97. Identify the famous Indian Sportsperson who is playing the role of Auto driver in this scene.

98. Audio This was the ofﬁcial song of a sports tournament. Identify this song and also the tournament.

99. Audio Identify the anthem and also name the part of the world represented by this anthem.

100. Where Kashmiri carpet makers featured Durga, and Hindu craftsmen create the Muharram tazia. Garib Khana Nazeer Akbarabadi Mir Taqi Mir Hosts: “Nosh Farmaiye” Guests: “Aap Bismillah Kijiye” Connect to a an Indian Culture. Koi jape rahim rahim Koi jape hai ram Das Kabir hai prem pujari Dono ko parnaam - Kabir

101. THE FINALE

102. ROUND 1

103. The Fifth Doctor from the famous British Sci-Fi Doctor Who, materialised the TARDIS in Calcutta on 31st of December 1926 with an intention of taking his companions to the second Unofﬁcial Test Match between X and Y, which started on that day. Y won the match by four wickets. It is one of the match from Y's visit to India, 1926-27.Identify X and Y.

104. X - All India Y - the MCC (Marylebone Cricket Club, England)

105. 1. Ashkenazi in Cochin 2. New Christians or Portuguese in Goa 3. Syrian or Musta'arabi in Nagercoil 4. Spanish and Portuguese, Paradesi and British of Sephardi in Madras 5. Bene X or as called by people of Sindh, Punjab and Pathan areas as Bani X in Karachi(and other areas of Pakistan) and now in Mumbai 6. Baghdadi in Surat 7. Bnei Menashe of Mizo and Kuki in Manipur and Mizoram 8. Bene Ephraim in Chebrolu, Guntur District and in Machilipatnam, Krishna District The list is exhaustive. Guess what it is about?

106. Jewish Communities of India

107. The race was invented to boost the circulation of L'Auto, after its circulation started to plummet from competition with the long-standing Le Vélo. Originally scheduled to start in June, the race was postponed one month, and the prize money was increased, after a disappointing level of applications from competitors. The 1903 edition was the first stage road race, and compared to modern editions, it had relatively few stages, but each was much longer than those raced today. The competitors did not have to compete in all six stages, although this was necessary to qualify for the general classification. The pre-race favourite, Maurice Garin, won the first stage, and retained the lead throughout. He also won the last two stages, and had a margin of almost three hours over the next competitor. The circulation of L'Auto increased more than sixfold during and after the race, so the race was considered successful enough to be rerun in 1904, by which time Le Vélo had been forced out of business. Which world famous annual sporting event’s first edition is being accounted here?

108. Le Tour de France

109. This tweet is from 10th of July, 2019. Guess whom our PM is congratulating and for which event.

110. Dutee Chand for winning Women’s 100m ﬁnals at Universiade, the World University Games, Naples.

111. X printing, or X painting, is an art of cloth printing practiced in the Kutch district of Gujarat. In this craft, paint made from boiled oil and vegetable dyes is laid down on fabric using either a metal block (printing) or a stylus (painting). The craft nearly died out in the late 20th century, with X painting being practiced by only one family.The word X comes from Persian, meaning varnish or oil.The process of applying this oil-based paint to fabric began among the Khatris, a Muslim community who came to India from Sindh, Pakistan.Although the name, X (and some of the traditional designs) suggests an origin in Iran, there are no reliable historic records to prove this.X painting was initially practiced in several locations in the Kutch region. The painted fabric was mostly purchased by women of the lower castes who wanted to decorate clothing and bed coverings for their weddings.Therefore, it was a seasonal art, with most of the work taking place during the several months when most weddings take place. During the rest of the year, the artisans would switch to other forms of work, such as agriculture. With the rise of cheaper, machine-made textiles in the late 20th century, X-painted products became relatively more expensive, and many artists turned to other occupations. Ultimately, only one family, the Khatris of Nirona,Gujarat, continued the craft.Identify X.

112. Rogan Printing.

113. One ﬂag makes this list Exhaustive, what’s the ﬂag?

114. Ofﬁcial Hosts of Cricket World Cup!

115. By the way Background image is of Kensington Oval. Disclaimer: For 1999, Netherland, Ireland and Scotland aren’t included as the sole designated host was England & Wales Cricket Board. For 2003, Zimbabwe and Kenya aren’t include as the sole designated host was Cricket South Africa West Indies Flag

116. Paltan is a 2018 Indian Hindi-language action-war ﬁlm written, directed and produced by J. P. Dutta, based on 1967 Nathu La and Cho La clashes along the Sikkim border after 1962 Sino-Indian War. It stars an ensemble cast with Jackie Shroff, Arjun Rampal, Sonu Sood, Harshvardhan Rane, Esha Gupta, Sonal Chauhan and many more. The ﬁlm was theatrically released on 7 September 2018 .Whose role was brought back to life by Harshvardhan Rane(image in the next slide) in the movie?

118. Baba Harbhajan Singh(“Hero of Nathula”)

119. The X is a 150,000 person capacity motorsports complex located in Nürburg ,Germany. It features a Grand Prix race track built in 1984, and a much longer Nordschleife "North loop" track which was built in the 1920s around the village and medieval castle of Nürburg in the Eifel Mountains. The north loop is 20.8 km (12.9 mi) long and has more than 300 metres (1,000 feet) of elevation change from its lowest to highest points. Jackie Stewart nicknamed the old track "The Green Hell".Originally, the track featured four conﬁgurations: the 28.265 km (17.563 mi)-long Gesamtstrecke ("Whole Course"), which in turn consisted of the 22.810 km (14.173 mi) Nordschleife ("North Loop"), and the 7.747 km (4.814 mi) Sudschleife ("South Loop"). There also was a 2.281 km (1.417 mi) warm-up loop called Zielschleife ("Finish Loop") or Betonschleife ("Concrete Loop"), around the pit area. Between 1982 and 1983 the start/ﬁnish area was demolished to create a new GP-Strecke, and this is used for all major and international racing events. However, the shortened Nordschleife is still in use for racing, testing and public access.Give me X which is the name of the racing circuit.

120. Nürburgring(also famous for Niki Lauda’s crash)

121. Humpy Koneru is an Indian chess grandmaster who In October 2007, became the second female player, after Judit Polgar, to exceed the 2600 Elo rating mark, being rated 2606.She was originally named "Hampi" by her parents (Koneru Ashok and Mrs Latha Ashok) who derived the name from the word "champion". Her father later changed the spelling to Humpy.What was the reason behind this?

122. To more closely resemble a Russian-sounding name.

123. 1936 1952 & 1956 1992 2000 2008 Connect.

124. 1936 1952 & 1956 1992 2000 2008 Flag Bearers for India at Summer Olympics. In years: 1936 - Major Dhyan Chand 1952 & 1956 - Balbir Singh, Sr. 1992 - Shiny Abraham - Wilson 2000 - Leander Paes 2008 - Col. Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore

125. ______ _________ born on 23rd of June, 1875/77 in Calcutta also known by his stage name ______ Trevor, was British-Indian sportsperson and actor. He became ﬁrst Asian-born athlete to win an Olympic Medal when he won two silvers in athletics at ____ _____ Olympics. He served as Secretary of Indian Football Association from 1900 to 1902. He permanently moved to Britain in 1905, where he became a stage actor, and later moved to US to work in Hollywood. He was the ﬁrst Indian to participate in the olympics. Fill in the blanks.

126. Norman Pritchard 1900 Paris Olympics

127. Give that one word connecting these.

128. Bugatti

129. For me, this is not just about makeup. This is about the message that we're trying to send out to the world.These were the words that X told viewers while revealing her foray into the world of cosmetics this july with her brand HAUS LABORATORIES ,adding that it was something that she wanted to do for a long time. Identify X.

130. Lady Gaga

131. * In 2008, X refused to bear the olympic torch during its India leg of the run showing his solidarity for a section of people who are still struggling for overcoming an obstacle.Even the then French president Nicolas Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel showed their recognition to the issue by indicating to boycott the 2008 olympic games which was held in Beijing,China.X is a prominent Indian sportsperson who has now retired from his sport.What was the issue and also identify X.

132. Issue:Chinese rule over Tibet X:Baichung Bhutia

133. * The X is a character on the British motoring television show Top Gear. The character is a play on the anonymity of racing drivers' full-face helmets, with the running joke that nobody knows who or what is inside the X's racing suit. The X's primary role is setting lap times for cars tested on the show. Previously, he would also instruct celebrity guests, off-camera, for the show's "Star in a Reasonably Priced Car" segment.The identity of the original "Black" X, Perry McCarthy, was exposed by a Sunday newspaper in January 2003, and conﬁrmed by McCarthy later that year. The black-suited X was subsequently "killed off" that October in the series 3 premiere, and replaced in the following episode by a new White X who lasted through to the end of series 15.In series 13 episode 1, the show jokingly unmasked the X as Y. In the hiatus following series 15, racing driver Ben Collins was revealed to be the X in a court battle over Collins' impending autobiography, titled The Man in the White Suit. In series 16, debuting in December 2010, Collins was replaced by a second White X, whose identity has so far remained secret.Gimme X and Y.

134. X -Stig Y -Michael Schumacher

135. * This is a very famous restaurant in NYC ,USA.The name of this restaurant is said to have been inspired from the name of a ﬁctional city which is the centrestage of all events mentioned in the novel X by the late Colombian Writer Y.Macondo is often supposed to draw from Y’s childhood town, Aracataca. Aracataca is located near the north (Caribbean) coast of Colombia, 80 km south of Santa Marta.In June 2006, there was a referendum to change the name of the town to Aracataca Macondo.Gimme X and Y.

136. X -One Hundred Years of Solitude. Y -Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

137. Alfredo De Mello is a historian who was born and educated in British India and Portugal. He has written three books about the Portuguese Nationality of Cristovão Colon (misnomer of Columbus). He wrote two books in English and one in Spanish. The following lines are taken from his chapter titled ‘Memoirs of Goa.’ In another chapter dealing with the nefarious, ﬁendish, lustful, corrupt religious orders which pounced on Goa for the purpose of destroying paganism and introducing the true religion of Christ ( poor X , if He only knew what was done in His name!), I have dwelt brieﬂy on the Y, which was introduced in 1560 and lasted until the year 1812, that is a span of 252 years, during which period it held its sway with a power that Stalin and other tyrants would have liked to hold. Stalin was a tyrant, murderer, but at least he was not a hypocrite.Which terrorising excerpt from the history of a part of our country is the writer referring to?

141. ROUND 2

142. Painted by…?

147. ROUND 3

154. Answers

155. Alfredo De Mello is a historian who was born and educated in British India and Portugal. He has written three books about the Portuguese Nationality of Cristovão Colon (misnomer of Columbus). He wrote two books in English and one in Spanish. The following lines are taken from his chapter titled ‘Memoirs of Goa.’ In another chapter dealing with the nefarious, ﬁendish, lustful, corrupt religious orders which pounced on Goa for the purpose of destroying paganism and introducing the true religion of Christ ( poor X , if He only knew what was done in His name!), I have dwelt brieﬂy on the Y, which was introduced in 1560 and lasted until the year 1812, that is a span of 252 years, during which period it held its sway with a power that Stalin and other tyrants would have liked to hold. Stalin was a tyrant, murderer, but at least he was not a hypocrite.Which terrorising excerpt from the history of a part of our country is the writer refering to?

156. The Goan Inquisition.

158. Volkswagen

160. Vikas Swarup.

162. Kamrup OR Kamrupi Crafts

163. ROUND 2

164. Painted by…?

165. Pablo Ruiz Picasso Arthur Brand(in the picture), who has been dubbed the Indiana Jones of the art world said that he was passed in conﬁdence the 1938 Buste de Femme, which portrays Picasso’s fellow artist and lover Dora Maar.

167. Minamata disaster Minamata disease was first discovered in Minamata City in Kumamoto prefecture, Japan in 1956. It was caused by the release of methylmercury in the industrial wastewater (point source pollution) from the Chisso Corporation's chemical factory, which continued from 1932 to 1968.

169. Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin.

171. The only referee to be featured on a PES game cover

173. Agatha Christie

174. ROUND 3

176. Bowler - Monty Panesar.(0.5marks) Movie - Patiala House(0.5marks) Selector - Nasser Hussain (0.5marks) Nasser was born in Madras, he is half Indian with an English mother and sharing a lineage with Nawab of Arcot through his father.(0.5marks) Entertainment! Entertainment! Entertainment!

178. Controversies! Audio Michael Holding on Bad Umpiring and intimidating actions of Australian Players during the World Cup match between Australia and West Indies.

180. Vijay Amritraj - Tennis Player

182. Audio Standby - Loryn Ft. Rudimental ICC Cricket World Cup - 2019

184. Audio Arirang Korea [North + South]

186. Where Kashmiri carpet makers featured Durga, and Hindu craftsmen create the Muharram tazia. Garib Khana Urdu Poets: Nazeer Akbarabadi Mir Taqi Mir Hosts: “Nosh Farmaiye” Guests: “Aap Bismillah Kijiye” Communal harmony, respect and love for each other! Awadh Delhi Hyderabad Centers where the culture ﬂourished! Koi jape rahim rahim Koi jape hai ram Das Kabir hai prem pujari Dono ko parnaam - Kabir Ganga - Jamuni Tehzeeb Poetry and Poets

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