1.
Thirsty Crows League 5.0
Quiz-3
SSS quiz

2.
1. One of the five great lakes, formed by meteorite
impact in the world, is in Maharashtra, India. This is the
only lake to be formed by hypervelocity impact crater
in basaltic rock which happened 35000 years ago.
Identify the lake.

3.
◈ Lonar Lake

4.
2. This Moroccan traveller has travelled in the 13th century
and mentioned his itinerary in his autobiography. He
travelled from the western parts of Asia including parts
around Istanbul (then Constantinople) to Guangzhou in
China while travelling through various countries in between.
Identify the traveller. Who was the ruler of the major part
of the Indian subcontinent when he arrived India?

5.
IbnBatuta, Mohammad bin Tughlaq

6.
3. Connect the following non-exhaustive list :
- Cristiano Ronaldo
- Lionel Messi
- Alessandro Del Piero
- Steven Gerrard
- Thierry Henry
- Andres Iniesta

7.
◈ Players to receive standing ovation in
opposing team’s stadium

8.
*4.Born in the Republic of Florence, X became a
naturalized citizen of the Crown of Castile in 1505.X
was known for the first successful demonstration in
about 1502 that Brazil and the West Indies did not
represent Asia's eastern outskirts as initially
conjectured from Columbus' voyages, but instead
constituted an entirely separate landmass Y unknown
to people of the ‘Old World’. Colloquially referred to as
the New World, Y was later termed as derived from the
Latin version of X’s first name. Identify X and Y.

9.
◈ X: Amerigo Vespucci, Y: America

10.
5. The Constituent Assembly of India was made to make the
constitution of India in 1946 and it ratified the constitution
on 26th of November, 1949. Who was the president of the
Constituent assembly? What is the ‘The Constitution (One
Hundred and First Amendment) Act, 2016’.

11.
◈ Dr. Rajendra Prasad, GST

12.
*6. The following scoring criteria is used in which sport ?
● if a hand-stand is required, the length of time and quality of the hold.
● the height at the apex of the movement.
● the distance of the participant from the apparatus throughout the motion (a
participant must not be dangerously close, should not be too far away).
● the properly defined body position according to the motion being performed.
● he proper amounts of rotation and revolution upon completion of the motion
and entry
• the properly defined body position according to the motion being performed.

13.
◈ Diving

14.
7. This ruler from the Haryanka dynasty grabbed
forcefully Magadha kingdom from his father and
was known for his policies of conquest and
expansion. He is known for developing the concept
of a weaponised chariot which had knives and
spikes called as Rathamushala. Identify the ruler.

15.
◈ Ajatashatru

16.
8. X was a city, both factual and legendary, located in
northwest Anatolia in what is now Turkey, southeast of
the Dardanelles and beside Mount Ida. It is best known
for being the focus of the war described in the Greek
Epic Cycle and especially in the Iliad, one of the two
epic poems attributed to Homer.
Identify X.

17.
◈ Troy

18.
9. Connect these
- Andorra
- Guatemala
- Luxembourg
- Singapore
- Mexico
- Kuwait

19.
◈ City States

20.
10. Isthmus is a narrow neck which connects two land masses. X is one
such isthmus which has a great strategic importance in the world.
In 1967, a war broke out among a group of countries called as Y
war which resulted in the capture of Z peninsula associated with X.
The war led to complete dominance of one side over the other in
which the air force of one country was completely destroyed in 4
hours. Identify X, Y and Z.

21.
◈ X-Suez Canal,Y- Seven Day War,
Z-Sinai peninsula

22.
*11. Widely considered as the best all-rounder of his generation,
X made his first- class debut for Sussex in 1845 aged 18 as a fast
round arm bowler. In 1850, playing for the South against the
North at Lords, he took all 10 wickets in the second innings, all
clean bowled which is still the only instance of all ten wickets
being taken "bowled" in any first-class match. After retiring from
cricket in 1863, he started publishing his annual Cricketers'
Almanack the following year. The business grew into a major
international sports brand, receiving a Royal Warrant in 1911 as
"Athletic Outfitters to the King".
Identify X

23.
◈ John Wisden

24.
12. Identify the highlighted region which also shares its
name with the name of a colour and a wine

25.
Burgundy

26.
13. X has been accused for winning champions league
titles either due to cheating or bending of rules. The
first European cup won by the club was through a
goal which should have been ruled offside. There
were questions raised against the team for fouling
players and scoring offside goals in finals of various
champions league campaigns.
Y said after losing to X that "A human being cannot
destroy dreams like that at the end of an
extraordinary comeback," to the referee. "Clearly
you cannot have a heart in your chest, but a bin.”
Identify X and Y

27.
◈ X : Real madrid
◈ Y : Gianluigi Buffon

28.
◈ 14. Identify the exhaustive list given below

29.
◈ World heritage sites in India

30.
15. At age 19, X joined the Bengal Engineers and spent 28
years in the British service in India, retiring as major general in
1861. Early in his career, X met James Prinsep, a British
numismatist and Indian scholar, who ignited his interest in
Indian history. In 1837, X excavated at Sārnāth, outside
Vārānasi , one of the most sacred Buddhist shrines, and
carefully prepared drawings of the sculptures. In 1850,X
excavated the site of Y consisting of some of the oldest
surviving buildings. Later, Y was Selected as the logo of ASI to
commemorate X.
Identify X and Y.

31.
◈ Sir Alexander Cunningham, Sanchi
Stupa

32.
16. An example of the fatal effects of procrastination, the defeat of
the Mughals by the Persians in this battle X, fought just 110 kms
from Delhi resulted in a plunder of the city of Delhi by the victorious
Persians who under the command of their leader Y killed 30000
civilians. The Persians took the Peacock throne, the Kohi-noor and
Darya-e -Noor diamonds. The plunder seized from India was so rich
that Y stopped taxation in Iran for a period of three years following
his return. The Mughal ruler, Muhammad Shah kept delaying the
Mughal response to Y’s approach towards Delhi and acted only
when he was 110 kms away. This delay in action is often cited as the
main reason for Mughal defeat. When asked to act, Muhammad
Shah repeated the phrase Z. This phrase is used till date to scare
Indian procrastinators.
Identify X,Y,Z

33.
◈ X: Battle of Karnal; Y: Nadir Shah; Z:
Abhi Dilli door hai

34.
17. Facts about what?
- Slowest corner in F1 is turn 6 of the track
- Senna is the current holder of most number of wins
- The track requires 2 months of setting up
- Unlike other Grand Prix, the practice day for the race is
held the Thursday before the event instead of Friday

35.
◈ Monaco Grand Prix

36.
*18. In 1513, Spanish explorer Ponce de León,
discovered and named X, famously seeking the
mythical "Fountain of Youth. Also nicknamed as the
‘Sunshine State’, X is the homestate of Y which is also
known as the cruise capital of the world and the place
of invention of sun tan lotion.
Identify X and Y.

37.
◈ X : Florida Y: Miami

38.
19. FUNDA?
EARLIER :
- Egypt
- Babylon
- Olympia, Greece
- Ephesus, Greece
- Halicarnassus, Greece
- Rhodes, Greece
- Alexandria, Egypt
Now:
- Jordan
- India
- China
- Peru
- Mexico
- Rome
- Brazil

39.
◈ 7 Wonders of the World

40.
20. He was a football player when he was young, later became a
FIFA referee in the match between El Salvador and Netherlands
Antilles in 1998. Soon after this he had to retire from being a
football referee as the age limit was lowered to 45 years. However
this allowed him to start as umpire in cricket.
- He was known for his long deliberations before making a decision
which led to a nickname called ‘slow death’ for him.
- He was also a high school mathematics teacher.
Identify this all-rounder.

41.
◈ Steve Buckner

42.
LONG CONNECT
Qs. Born as Rolihlahla meaning ‘pulling the branch of a tree’
or ‘troublemaker’, X was given his more famous name by his
teacher on his first day of elementary school. It was the
1920s, and African children were given English names so that
the colonial masters could pronounce them easily. Even being
considered as an inspirational leader in US, he was placed on
the U.S. terror watch list until 2008 for the militant fight of his
organisation against oppression.
Identify X.

43.
Nelson Mandela

44.
Qs. A former intelligence officer, X is so popular in his home
nation that his name and image has been used to advertise
several products like caviar, T-shirts, Canned food etc. X has also
an online comic strip named ‘SuperX’, which portrays X fighting
terrorists by judo- chopping them, preventing a bus from bomb
blast and even killing an army of zombies!
Identify X

45.
◈ Vladimir Putin

46.
Qs. Duke of Normandy
Queen of Jamaica
Lord of Mann
Queen of Australia
Duke of Lancaster
To whom/what these titles point to?

47.
◈ Queen Elizabeth II

48.
Qs. Identify him

49.
◈ Nicolas Sarkozy

50.
Long Connect- Chief Guests in
Republic Day Parade

51.
LONG CONNECT
“In 19xx, I gave up women and alcohol- it was the worst 20 minutes of my life”

52.
◈ George best

53.
◈ Sir garfield Sobers

54.
◈ Boris Becker

55.
◈ Shaquille O’Neal

56.
◈ Niki Lauda

57.
◈ Long Connect:
Hall of Fame of their respective sports

58.
Thanks!