Here is the Prelims of the India Quiz conducted at Loyola College,Chennai on 03/03/2018.

1. India Quiz-03/03/18
PRELIMS
Researched and conducted by RITHWIK K

2. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
ASHWIN MENON
ABDUL VAHID
SHIBIN AZAD

3. Rules :-
25 questions – 30 points
Q11-Q20 will be starred** questions
Q21-Q25 carry 2 points each
Top 8 teams to the finals

4. 1.  The name of this train has come into current relevance because of a change
brought to a multimillion dollar project through the efforts of a group started in
2006 by a group of unemployed youngsters from Jaipur, to strive for a certain
solution that they believed would help them get jobs. They undertook similar
efforts in 2008 and 2010 with different projects, but were ineffective in forcing a
change.
 Name the train and the group.

5. Padmavat Express
Shri Rajput Karni Sena

6. 2.
 My mother was a practising Hindu… My mother had always been
spiritually inclined. We had Hindu religious images on the walls of
the Habibullah Road house where we grew up. there was also an
image of Mother Mary holding Jesus in Her arms and a
photograph of the sacred sites of Mecca and Medina.
 In 1986, ten year after my father died, we happened to meet Qadri
Saaheb. The peer was unwell and my mother looked after him. He
regarded her as a daughter. There was a strong connection
between us.
 Whose words and What did he do later?

7. AR Rahman

8. 3.What has been blanked out from this
list?

9. Funeral of C. N. Annadurai

10. 4.
 At its greatest extent, the Bombay Presidency comprised the
present-day state of Gujarat, the western two-thirds of
Maharashtra state, including the regions of Konkan, Desh, and
Kandesh, and northwestern Karnataka state of India; it also
included Pakistan's Sindh Province (1847–1935) and _________
(1839–1939).
 FITB.

11. Aden,Yemen

12. 5.
 Built in 1832, ''Park House,'' is located in Park Estate about 6
kilometers west of Gandhi Chowk / Library Bazaar in Mussoorie. This
historical house under the authority of the Tourism Department until
recently was in bad shape.
 Who was its most famous occupant?

13. Sir George Everest

14. 6.What connects?
 The Viscount Cecil of Chelwood (1937)
 Nansen International Office For Refugees (1938)
 No award (1939)
 Friends Service Council (The Quakers) and American
Friends Service Committee (The Quakers) (1947)
 No award (1948)

15. Peace Nobel winners when Gandhi was
nominated.

16. 7.
 Lucknow Charbagh railway station is one of the two main railway
stations of Lucknow city for broad gauge trains, other one is "Lucknow
Jn" .
 The Charbagh railway station building's foundation stone was laid in
1914 and the building was completed in 1923.A major role in its design
and planning was carried out by Chaubey Mukta Prasad, a counsulting
engineer for Ms Lanebrown and Hulett. It has a large garden in front of
the building. It incorporates the mix of Rajput and Mughal architecture.
 An aerial view of the Charbagh railway station resembles what?

18. A chessboard

19. 8.
 Gopal Purushottam Phadke was an Indian sports coach from Pune.He
was a specialist of several disciplines such as swimming, Mallakhamb
and Kabbadi.
 He received the Dronacharya Award, the highest Indian award for
sports coaching, in 2000, the only coach from a certain sport to
receive the award.
 Which sport?

20. Kho kho

21. 9.
 The sweet originated in Kolkata in the middle of the 19th century. There are
various legends regarding the origin of the sweet. According to the most
popular legend, a special sweetmeat was prepared by Bhim Chandra Nag in
the honour of a lady who stayed in India from 1856 till her death in 1861.
 Some variations of the tale state that it became her favourite dessert, which
she would demand on every occasion.According to another legend, the
sweet was prepared by the confectioners of Baharampur in 1857, after the
mutiny, to commemorate the visit by a couple.
 Identify the lady and the sweet.

22. Lady Canning
Ledikeni

23. 10.
 "It underlines the fact that he is a very modern cricketer," Lawrence
Booth told ESPNcricinfo. "It felt like the right time to get some
unorthodoxy onto the cover. People often think of ______ as a bastion
of orthodoxy, but cricket is changing so rapidly that it felt like the
right time to reflect that, and ______ was the right man for the job.“
 Lawrence Booth speaking about what choice?

24. Kohli's reverse-sweep in the cover of
Wisden 2017

25. Q11 to Q20 are starred mark questions

26. 11.
 The Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIMA) is working on a case study
on a movie franchise to highlight how art, business and technology are combined
to deliver a hugely successful film franchise.
 Being authored by IIMA alumnus and visiting faculty Bharathan Kandaswamy, the
case study is part of an elective course on movie business offered to the second
year students of the institute’s flagship programme in management.
 The course has produced three case studies so far related to the film industry
including one on the film “Roja” and another one based on the success of a
1990s movie in overseas markets like Japan.
 Identify the movie franchise.
 Identify the 1990s movie.

27. Baahubali
Muthu

28. 12.
 There have been several attempts to create film adaptations of this
literary work, beginning with an attempt in 1958 by M. G. Ramachandran.
Mani Ratnam also attempted to film a complete adaptation of the book
for a 2012 release, but had to shelve the project due to issues with the
potential budget for the film and difficulty locating financiers to back the
project.A 32-hour animation film was created by Rewinda Movie Toons, a
Chennai-based animation studio. The project was started in 2008 and
took seven years to complete.
 The novel was written by an author who visited Sri Lanka three times to
gather information.
 Identify the novel.

29. Ponniyin Selvan

30. 13. What connects the following?
 Prosecco, Asiago cheese, Tequila,Porto Wine, Napa Valley Wine,
Champagne , Cognac etc

31. Registered Geographical Indications in India

32. 14.
 Mr.Santosh Gaikwad was upset when a devastating fire at India’s
natural history museum in New Delhi on April 2016 destroyed rare
specimens of flora and fauna, lamenting the damage done as “a great
loss to education”.
 He sees his work as important to preserving knowledge of India’s
wildlife particularly if it’s an endangered species.
 Santosh Gaikwad is the only person authorized by the Indian
government to do what?

33. Taxidermy

34. 15.  Najre Hasan, who was trying to leave the city was arrested for
this crime. During interrogation he confessed that he had
stolen them to repay the money he had borrowed from some
people. He sold them to jewelers Shankarlal Seth and Sujit
Seth of Piyari locality. Later the jewelers were arrested and the
melted silver was recovered from them.
 Three of them were recovered and was gifted to its original
owner by former Prime Minister Narasimha Rao, Lalu Prasad
and Kapil Sibal.
 What was thus recovered from the jewelers?

35. Ustad Bismillah Khan’s Shehanais

36. 16.In the years after independence, many Indian business houses had
become close to the political leaders, and now some of them started
various financial irregularities. In a case exposed by him in December
1955,he revealed how Ram Kishan Dalmia, as chairman of a bank and an
insurance company, used these companies to fund his takeover of
Bennett and Coleman and started transferring money illegally from
publicly held companies for personal benefit.
 He also raised the Haridas Mundhra scandal involving the government
controlled LIC insurance company. This was a huge embarrassment to
the clean image of Nehru's government and eventually led to the
resignation of the Finance Minister T.T. Krishnamachari.
 Who?

37. Feroze Gandhi

38. 17.Connect.
 Salvadora persica Vachellia nilotica

39. Dabur
 Mumbai Magicians (Hockey India League team)
 Pune Pistons (Indian Badminton League team)
 Babool (brand) of toothpaste
 Meswak brand of toothpaste

40. 18.
 Born in 1924 in Karapur, Kingdom of Mysore and raised as a Muslim,he was the son
of an Indian mahout.
 His brother managed his career.His brother was killed in a robbery of his furniture
store, a failing business jointly owned by the two men.
 After becoming an American citizen in 1944, he joined the United States Army Air
Forces and served as a tail gunner and ball turret gunner on B-24 Liberators. He flew
several dozen missions with the 370th Bombardment Squadron of the 307th Bomb
Group in the Pacific, and was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for his valor
and bravery.
 Who was this Elephant boy?

41. Sabu Dastagir
 When he was 13, Sabu was discovered by documentary film-maker
Robert Flaherty, who cast him in the role of an elephant driver in the 1937
British film Elephant Boy.

42. 19.
 Some Pakistani politicians and experts have demanded that this entity is to be
"returned" to Pakistan.In 2016 Pakistani barrister, Javed Iqbal Jaffery, petitioned
the Lahore High Court for the return of the entity, claiming that it had been
"taken from Pakistan 60 years ago on the request of the National Arts Council in
Delhi but never returned.“
 Identify this entity which was discovered by a British archaeologist Ernest Mackay
in 1926.

43. Dancing Girl

44. 20.
 During the examination time, anxious parents and students have
flooded Chemmoth Sree Subramaniya Swami Temple in Aleppey,Kerala
with chocolates to propitiate the deity. The chocolate of a particular
brand is the reigning offering, and hence the deity is affectionately
known as _____ ______.
 FITB with an alliterative nickname.

45. Munch Murugan

46. TWO POINTERS

47. 21.Identify the movie and the director.
Who is the old chap seen in the video? He won an
Academy award few years later.

48. Shatranj Ke Khilari by Satyajit Ray Richard Attenborough
(played the role of General James Outram)

49. 22.
 Identify the book/the author.
 Identify the photographer.

50. Khushwant Singh
Margaret Bourke-White

51. 23.
 Nicknamed "the Bombay Tiger",he was a three-time Amateur World Champion. He
participated in the Indian National Billiards Championship in 1960 for the first time.
 Currently he is associated with Qnet, a network marketing company. He holds 80 percent
shareholding in Vihaan Direct Selling India Private Limited, which is the franchise for the
Qnet brand in India. He faces accusations of misconduct in connection with his investment in
Qnet, and was ordered to surrender to the police.
 He was awarded the Padma Shri in 1981, after he had won his second world amateur title.
But he refused to accept this and contended that another Sporting legend was offered the
more prestigious Padma Bhushan award, he too should be awarded the same.
 ID the Billiards player,who was nicknamed as ‘The Bombay Tiger’.
 Who was the sole recipient of the Padma Bhushan award in 1980?

52. Michael Ferreira
Sunil Gavaskar

53. 24.
 An initial search by PN Thapar and PL Varma, the two bureaucrats
deputed to lead the project, turned down few Indians, compelling them
to look to Europe.
 This person only came into the picture when his name was suggested by
the Britishers Maxwell Fry and Jane Drew, his colleagues at CIAM. To
Thapar and Varma’s surprise, he signed on to the project, accepting an
annual retainer fee of £3,000, ten times below his usual price.
 Who? What project?

54. Le Corbusier
Chandigarh

55. 25.  The Moon of Baroda is a 24.04 carats cut diamond discovered in
Vadodara (Baroda).The diamond, canary yellow in colour, is cut in a
pear shape. The diamond was originally owned by the Maharajas of
Baroda. The royal family of Gaekwad Maharajas was in possession
of the diamond for almost 500 years.
 The diamond resurfaced in the 1940s,and in 1943, the diamond was
purchased by Meyer Rosenbaum of Detroit, President of the Meyer
Jewelry Company. Rosenbaum later gave the diamond to an
individual who famously used it in 1953.
 Who was it given to?
 Where was this diamond most famously featured?

56. Marilyn Monroe
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

57. Thank you