Sharing the set of The Himalayan Quiz by Rahul Preman

1. The Ultimate ( well, not quite) Himalayas Quiz
RP

2. THE DEAL
– 17 QUESTIONS
– +10/-10 ON POUNCE
– NO PART POUNCE ALLOWED
– FOLLOWS BANGALORE BOUNCE
– FIRST 8 QUESTIONS GO CLOCKWISE
– LAST QUESTION IS FREEHIT

3. What are we talking about?
– Psychological wellbeing
– Health
– Education
– Time use
– Cultural diversity and resilience
– Good governance
– Community vitality
– Ecological diversity and resilience
– Living standards
These 9 domains that are further classified into 33 indicators, constitute a certain system based on
the Alkire-Foster method of multidimensional measurement and has been in existence since 1972.

6. What led to the prominence of
this establishment?
– This particular establishment named ‘Rudra’ is a stone’s throw away from a
popular place of worship. It short into popularity after a certain “stunt”
occurred here in mid-2019. The property is maintained by the Garhwal Mandal
Vikas Nigam (GMVN).
– The area received a storm of tourists since. It’s services can be availed for rates
ranging from ₹999- ₹1500 depending upon the duration of its use.
– This establishment is a sharp contrast to its ancient counterparts in its
infrastructure, as it includes many modern amenities that you would not expect
to witness in these kinds of establishments.

9. What are these a hindrance to?
– The presence of mountains higher than 20,000 feet, including Mt. Everest
standing at 29,035 feet above sea-level.
– Chances of high speed Mountain winds and absense of flat surfaces
– almost non-existent technology that could facilitate the happening of these
– Presence of invisible evil force, ghosts of the fallen warriors and even the
abominable Yeti
These are the scientific and superstitious reasons that prevent the happening of a
common event all around the world but not in the Himalayan region

12. What was this particular item,
whose lose made the British to fret?
– In 1936,a British-American expedition group consisting Eric shipton,Bill Tillman
and others attempted to summit the Nanda Devi.They had figured a route to
the summit in their earlier visits and decided to stick to it.
– Camp one was at 19,200 feet, and unfortunately some important cargo fell off
the cliff and disappeared into the snow , they spent several days looking for it
but in vein. This upset the British and they refused to ascend further, they said
you couldn't have an expedition with out that thing.The Americans managed to
persuade them by offering alternatives .And as they say rest is history.

14. TEA

15. What object was put into use?
– According to the work Everest 1951 by Eric Shipton , he observed that an object
that had served its purpose was retrieved by the sherpas from the East Rongbuk
glacier
– It is was being used as a gong in the Thyangboche Monastery - sounded each
evening at 5 o’clock,as a signal for all the women who were there to leave the
monastery.

17. An Empty Oxygen Cylinder

18. What kind of an animal is Singhi
Chham?
What does it signify?
– Singhi Chham is a folk dance form from Sikkim, whereby the dancers perform in
the costumes of a certain animal that is considered an important cultural
symbol of the state and is elaborately depicted in the dance form.
– The entire dance form signifies an entity that is sacred to the people of Sikkim
as their guardian deity. They believe the entity guard over the land, holding
within it the sacred Five Treasures.

20. Snow Lion and Kangchenjunga

21. What was this laconic answer by
Mallory?
– During a speaking tour of the United States, after a failed attempt
to climb Mt. Everest and a subsequent 3-month fundraiser tour,
George Mallory was famously asked by an unnamed reporter in
Philadelphia,why he was attempting to scale the world’s highest
peak

23. Because it is there :p

24. What is said to have been noticed by
Smythe that he kept a secret?
– While on an Everest expedition in 1936,Frank Smythe discovered something
through his high-powered telescope.This prompted him to write a letter to a
certain Edward Norton stating-
– "I was scanning the face from base camp through a high-powered telescope last
year," his letter read, "when I saw something queer in a gully below the scree
shelf. Of course it was a long way away and very small, but I've a six/six eyesight
and do not believe it was a rock.
– Smythe was right to be concerned, when American climber Conrad Anker
rediscovered the same in 1999 and photographs of it appeared on newspaper
front pages around the world.

26. Body of George Mallory

27. What were they trying to
accomplish?
– In 1933, Lord Clydesdale,David McIntyre and photographer S.R Bonnet
assembled a crew of around 30 people and established their base at Purnia,
which earlier wa a center of Indigo cultivation in Bihar. It was said an
unquestionable act of bravery, and a technological achievement.
– They were financially backed by Lady Lucy Houston and had a stay at the
bungalow of the Maharaja of Darbhanga where they planned
– It was a first of its kind, which eventually became successful and resulted in
Bonnet winning an academy award

29. They were the RAF pilots who
successfully flew over Mt.Everest

30. What quandary was he
attempting to resolve?
– One of the first things that Geoffrey Corbett,the first secretary of The Himalayan
Club,went about doing after the formation of the club was to talk to experts
such as Colonel CL Pert, A. B. Dhruva of Benares Hindu University, Pandit Madan
Mohan Malaviya and Pandit Brijlal Nehru to resolve a dilemma about a certain
usage by by people of various cethnicities like the British, the Tibetans, the
Hindus and the Urdu speaking persons among others.
– He published an article in this context in the Vol #1 of the Himalayan Journal
(1929)

32. How to pronounce ‘Himalaya’

33. Identify the work of literature
and the author
– Kendra Sahitya Academy Award (2010)
– Vayalar Award (2008)
– Moortidevi Award (2016)
– Ezhuthachan Award (2009)
– Dr Sivaram Karant Award (2010)
– It became one of the first literary works in its genre to bag all these awards

36. What is the statement, about something deemed impossible
until then?
What is the factual inaccuracy?
– In Dark S1 (2017),Ulrich Nielsen ends up travelling back in time to November
1953 and is absolutely dazed by the time paradox and meeting his family at a
younger age than he knew them. He walks into one HG Tannhaus’ shop and
then asks for the year.
– In order to establish that its 1953,Tannhaus says 3 things, Stalin is dead ,England
still has a queen and something that happened earlier that year.
– However the third statement, Tannhaus makes a factual inaccuracy.

38. The first successful ascent of Mt
Everest, instead of Everest tannhaus
mentions Nanga Parbat

39. Which product is sourced from
this village?
– The locals claim it to be one of the oldest democracies of the world with a well-
organized parliamentary system. This solitary village in the ______ Nala, a side
valley of the Parvati Valley to the north-east of Kullu Valley, is isolated from the
rest of the world.
– The village has been the subject of various documentaries pertaining to their
ethnicity and culture, speak Kanashi/Raksh (supposedly the dialect of devils
residing there long ago).
– The village boasts of a certain product which is considered as the purest variety
of something. Thanks to this product the village has became a destination for a
certain kind of tourism since 1980s

42. Identify this organization with a
seemingly cool acronym?
– This governmental organization formed in 1960, maintains operations in
twenty-one states, one UT and friendly neighboring countries. It operates in 18
Projects few of which are Chetak, Himank, Shivalik .Its motto is Shramena
Sarvam Sadhyam.
– The organization is also staffed by officers and troops drawn from the Indian
Army and the executive head of the organization holds the rank of Lieutenant
General. played a vital role in reconstruction work in the aftermath of the
devastating 2004 tsunami in Tamil Nadu, the 2005 Kashmir earthquake, and
the 2010 Ladakh flash floods.

44. Border Roads Organisation
(BRO)

45. Which Animal and why is it
forced to live in higher altitudes?
– All the animals living in the Himalayan region have fully adapted to withstand
extreme climates.
– Some of the animals ,particularly the carnivores are altitudinal migrates by
habit. The animals often move down to the lower slopes of the mountains in
search of food and temporary habitat in the harsh winter seasons.
– All this is not applicable to a certain animal, as it is forced to live at a particular
altitude

47. Red Pandas and the variant of Bamboo
which it eats grows only at a certain
Altitude

48. Who is this Hindu god and why
is he hated by the villagers?
– The people of ‘Bhutia’ tribe, residing in the village of Dronagir isituated at an
altitude of 11,800 feet, near Almora, in Uttarakhand are ardent followers of
Hinduism.
– But, incidently the people of this village hate a Hindu god.He has still not been
forgiven by the guardians of the holy mountain and temples in the area even
today refuse to house an idol of the god.
– All this is due to a ‘failed promise’ and because the god vandalized a certain
entity the villagers considered sacred.

50. Hanuman because he disfigured the
mountain on which the mrutasanjivani
grew.

51. What was the third objective of
the expedition?
– In 1960, Sir Edmund Hillary led a 9-month expedition to the Everest region. The
expedition, funded by the World Book Encyclopedia, had three objectives
– 1. to study the physiology of acclimatization in human lowlander subjects at
extreme altitude over a prolonged period
– 2. to make an attempt on Makalu, an 8470-m peak

53. To find Yeti

54. Adios
Hasta laVista