Quiz

1. Round 4
LQC

2. 60/-50
I) The group X was formed in 1942, in the
background of the Second World War,
with Bengal famine of 1943 and starvation deaths
in India on the one hand and repression by the
colonial masters in the wake of the Quit India
Movement and the aggression by the fascist
powers on the Soviet Union on the other.
First Conference was held in Mumbai in 1943
where the group presented its idea and objective
of representing the crisis of the time through
plays and to help people understand their rights
and duties.

3. 50/-40
II) X is the largest city in the U.S. state of Maryland,
and the 29th-most populous city in the country.
Founded in 1729, X is the second-largest seaport in
the Mid-Atlantic. With hundreds of identified districts,
X has been dubbed a "city of neighborhoods." Famous
residents have included writers Edgar Allan Poe, Edith
Hamilton, Frederick Douglass, and H.L. Mencken; jazz
musician James "Eubie" Blake; singer Billie Holiday;
actor and filmmaker John Waters; and baseball
player Babe Ruth.

4. 40/-30
IV) Set in the background of the last days of
the British Raj in Calcutta, the film explores
the lives of a number of characters,
including the platonic relationship between
an immigrant peddler, and the main female
character called Basanti. The film had overt
political overtones and was the first film to
be banned by the Government of India. The
ban was effective for two years.

5. 30/-20
III) If Bombay : Asmita &
Sangbadika,
then Kolkata : ?

6. 20/-10
V) X is a city in Uttar Pradesh, 320
kilometers (200 mi) south-east of the state
capital, Lucknow, and 121 kilometers
(75 mi) east of Allahabad. Buddha is
believed to have founded Buddhism here
around 528 BCE when he gave his first
sermon. Tulsidas wrote his epic poem on
Rama's life called Ram Charit Manas in X.

7. 10/00

9. The great Hemanta Da

10. Audience Questions

11. Music Director?

13. Sanjay Leela Bansali.

14. After Lord Krishna
defeated Kangsa who
ascended the throne
of Mathura?

16. Ugrasena.

17. She is Chokila
Iyer,a 1964
Batch IAS
Officer, and a
native of
Darjeeling,
West Bengal.
What was her
claim to fame?

19. She is India’s 1st female
Foreign Secretary
(2001-2002).

20. Round 5
Audio/Visual
(Written round)
Stake is available for this round.
With stake for each correct answer +10,for wrong
answer -5.
Without stake for each correct answer +5,no negative
for wrong answer.

21. ID the 1977 unreleased
film and the MD.
1.

22. Identify both the actors
who lip-synced the song
in the film.
2.

23. This film has 2 distinctive
records as far as winning
a prestigious award is
concerned. What records?
(Be Specific with your
answer.)
3.

26. Story and the author.
4.

27. From where this song
is taken.
5.

28. Film?
6.

29. Film and MD.
7.

30. Martin Scorsese directed film X continues the
story of a pool hooker and stakehorse Edward
‘Fast Eddie’ Felson from Walter Tevis' first
novel, Y (1959), with Paul Newman reprising
his role from the 1961 film adaptation of Y. It
begins more than 25 years after the events of
the previous film. Paul Newman won the
Academy award for best actor for his role in
this film.
So give X and Y.
8.

32. ID this film and Big B
starrer its Hindi remake.
9.

34. ID this devil may care and famous
Singer of her nation
10.

35. Which legendary actor’s only
directed film is this whose
climax ends with an
infamous incident? Tell me
the incident too.
11.

37. The film and the author
whose story the film is
based on.
12.

38. sachin

39. + Prem
Chopra
Naam
Hay
Mera. +
= ?
13.
Solve the equation.

40. Just identify the movie.
14.

42. Identify
their joint
venture.
(If you
love to
download
pictures,
you will
definitely
have an
answer.)
15.

43. Please exchange
your sheets.

45. 1.Tansen,Ravindra Jain.
2.Ranjit Mallick,Kalyani Mondal.
3.Katherine Hepburn won her record
4th Oscar and Henry Fonda won
oldest ever best actor Oscar award.
4.Ranir Ghater Brittanto,Sayed Mustafa
Siraj.
5.The Lion King.
6.Baat Ek Raat Ki.
7.Anpadh,Madan Mohan.

46. 8. X- The Colour of Money, Y- The Hustler.
9. The Apartment, Raaste Ka Patthar.
10. Aryana Sayed.
11. Nasiruddin Shah,9/11.
12. Khandhar,Premendra Mitra(story
Telenapota Abishkar.)
13. Virat (Prem) Kohli.
14. Hasuli Baker Upokatha.
15. Getty Images. (Mark Getty & Jonathan
Klein)

47. Audience Questions

48. In 1998, the Google search engine
founders Larry Page and Sergey
Brin drew a stick figure behind the
second 'o' of Google as a message
to that they were out of office at the
Burning Man festival and with
that _______ were born.
FITB.

50. Google Doodle.

51. Id the
character

53. Obelix.

54. Round 6
Miscellaneous

55. X is a Graeco-Egyptian syncretic god. The cult of
X was introduced during the 3rd century BC on
the orders of Ptolemy I of Egypt as a means to
unify the Greeks and Egyptians in his realm.
The god was depicted as Greek in appearance,
but with Egyptian trappings, and combined
iconography from a great many cults, signifying
both abundance and resurrection.
The cultus of X was spread as a matter of
deliberate policy by the Ptolemaic kings, who also
built an immense temple of X in Alexandria.
(Pic in next slide)
1.

58. Serapis/Sarapis.

59. The first biographical works to be written by
______(46 AD- 120 AD) were the Lives of the Roman
Emperors from Augustus to Vitellius. Of these, only
the Lives of Galba and Otho survive. The Lives
of Tiberius and Nero are extant only as fragments.
_______’s best-known work is the ‘Parallel Lives’, a
series of biographies of famous Greeks and Romans,
to illuminate their common moral virtues and vices.
As is explained in the opening paragraph of his ‘Life
Of Alexander’, ________ was not concerned with
history so much as the influence of character, good
or bad, on the lives and destinies of men.
FITB.
2.

61. Plutarch

62. One of the founders of the Hindustan
Republican Association, X was sentenced
to life for his involvement in the Ghadar
conspiracy and was imprisoned at Cellular
Jail in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands,
where he wrote his book titled Bandi
Jeevan (A Life of Captivity, 1922).
(More info in next slide)
3.

63. He was briefly released from jail but when
he continued to engage in anti-British
activities, he was sent back and his
ancestral family home in Benaras was
confiscated.
X and Mahatma Gandhi engaged in a
famous debate published in ‘Young
India’ between 1920 and 1924. He argued
against Gandhi's gradualist approach.
So who is X here?

65. Shachindra
Nath Sanyal

66. ________ is a 1988 Hindi drama film written and directed
by Gulzar. It is about married couples of urban India having
extramarital relations and adultery. The film won critical
acclaim in international film festivals but never got released
in India till date. It was also the last film, until Dus
Kahaniyaan got released in 2007, where Shabana Azmi and
Naseeruddin Shah, the lead pair of Parallel Cinema in the
1980s appeared together.
On 22 November 2014, film was shown at the International
Film Festival of India in Goa after a gap of 22 years since its
screening at the International Film Festival at Bangalore in
January, 1992.
Film?
4.

68. Libaas

69. X was elected to the Lok Sabha in 1952, 1957, 1963 and
1967 as a member of Praja Socialist Party. He moved
the first-ever No confidence motion on the floor of the
Lok Sabha in August 1963, immediately after the
disastrous India-China War. However his wife since
1938, remained in Congress and went from strength to
strength in the Congress Party. His wife was twenty
years junior to him and their marriage was opposed by
both families, as well as by Gandhi himself, although he
eventually relented. The husband-wife debate in the
parliament in the 50s and 60s was worthwhile. He also
joined hands with Jayprakas Narayan in the agitation
against the emergency imposed by Indira Gandhi.
Give X.
5.

71. Jivatram
Bhagawandas
Kripalani.

72. The man in the picture was a captain in
the French Army during the early 19th
century. "Ecriture Nocturne" was invented by
him in response to Napoleon's demand for a
certain convenience for the French soldiers in
the battlefield. X who was a student
then,when learned about the Invention from
a newspaper suggested him to improve his
method which was turned down by
the man as his ego became a hindrance. However X worked tirelessly
on his ideas, and his system was largely completed by 1824, when he
was fifteen years old. He innovated by simplifying its form and
maximizing its efficiency. Id this man and X.
6.

74. Louise Braille.
Charles
Barbier
&

75. Giuseppe Mazzini was an Italian politician, journalist
and activist for the unification of Italy and
spearheaded the Italian revolutionary movement in
the nineteenth century. X an Indian revolutionary
leader was very much influenced by his writings and
in 1906,while in London,he compiled a volume called
‘Mazzini Charitra’, a translation of the Italian
revolutionary Mazzini's writings. Mazzini's techniques
of secret societies and guerilla warfare were fully
embraced by X. He also formed an organization called
Y taking after Mazzini’s ‘Young Italy’.
So give me X and Y.
7.

77. X- Vinayak
Damodar
Savarkar
Y- Abhinav
Bharat.

78. In 1952, he travelled to India for the first time. In
India, he completed several works, including El
mono gramático (The Monkey Grammarian)
and Ladera este (Eastern Slope). While in India,
he met numerous writers of a group known as
the Hungry Generation and had a profound
influence on them.
He won Nobel in Literature in 1990.
Later he came to India as Mexico’s official
Ambassador.
Who is he referred to here?
8.

80. Octavio
Paz.

81. It is a part of human anatomy,large,visivble and dip. It
appears in the 1941 Alfred Hitchcock thriller Suspicion, where
it is given by screenwriter Samson Raphaelson the whimsical
name "ucipital mapilary".
This neologism is repeated by Count Dracula in Mel
Brooks' 1995 satire Dracula: Dead and Loving It, played
by Leslie Nielsen.
It also appears in the novel and 1996 film The English
Patient as an erogenous zone and focal point of amorousness.
In the novel it is given the whimsical name "vascular sizood",
but it is correctly named in the film. So what is the part
called.
9.

83. The suprasternal notch
or jagular notch

84. Warren Hastings, along with X,
were impeached by Parliament. They were
accused by Burke (and later by Macaulay)
of committing judicial murder of Y; but Sir
James Stephen, who examined the trial in
detail, states that the indictment for forgery
arose in the ordinary course, was not
brought forward by Hastings, and that X
maintained fairness and impartiality.
X and Y?
10.

87. Audience Questions

88. According to X Tales, X is a bachelor bear
of indeterminate age. Lives in the forests of
India and loves to tell stories. Has a huge
repertoire of tales, fables and myths from
India and from all over the world. Not a
trained musician, but can sing very well. A
pure vegetarian, he loves honey. Good
friends of Meera the monkey and Dhondu
the donkey. Much loved by all forest
animals and by children everywhere.
Nasiruddin Shah is very fond of X. So who
is X.

90. Karadi,the bear.

91. ID this
cartoon
character.
Student Question.

93. Captain Haddock.

94. Back to mainstream quiz

95. 11.
The Saint X, originally hailing from Uzbekistan,
spent most of his religious life in India spreading
the knowledge of Islam to the people. According
to the legends, before his death he advised his
followers that they should not bury him at any
proper place or graveyard and should drop his
shroud ('kafan') in the ocean such that it should
be buried by the people where it is found. His
followers obeyed his wish. His disciples made a
shrine at the very place where his remains
floated. Id X.

97. Pir Haji Ali Shah Bukhari

98. In the film Mission Impossible II,
bio-chemical expert Dr. Vladimir
Nekhorvich invented a virus and
an anti-virus of the former. He
named them after two Greek
mythological characters. Name
the both.
12.

100. Chimera.
Bellerophon

101. This man was a pioneering
American nuclear scientist and
winner of the Nobel Prize in
Physics in 1939 for his
invention of the cyclotron. He
is known for his work
on uranium-isotope
separation for the Manhattan
Project. Chemical element
number 103 was named in
his honor after its discovery at
Berkeley in 1961. ID him and
the element.
13.

103. Ernest Lawrence.
Lawrencium.

104. It was discovered in July 1799 by a French soldier
named Pierre-François Bouchard during the Napoleonic
campaign in Egypt. It was the first Ancient Egyptian bilingual
text recovered in modern times, and it aroused widespread
public interest with its potential to decipher this previously
untranslated hieroglyphic language. Meanwhile, British
troops defeated the French in Egypt in 1801, and the object
came into British possession under the Capitulation of
Alexandria and was transported to London. It has been on
public display at the British Museum almost continuously
since 1802, and is the most-visited object there. The
term used for the object is now used in other contexts as the
name for the essential clue to a new field of knowledge.
14.

106. The Rosetta
Stone.

107. Twenty years ago, he would not have been able to write a
poem but now his verses are going to be part of the syllabus
for students at Odisha’s Sambalpur University. Ironically, he
never completed schooling as he had to drop out after class
three to work as a labourer. His father passed away when he
was 10 years old. Soon, he was pulled out of school and put
to work as a dishwasher at a local shop. He was very fond of
folk songs from his childhood. After sometime it was his folk
songs that had made him famous in the locality and he was
asked to write poems. Clueless about writing, he turned to
an anthology written by Jnanpith Award winner
Sachidananda Routray for help. Soon after, he wrote his first
poem ‘Dhodo Bargachh’ (The Old Banyan Tree), which was
published in a local magazine. He was awarded Padma Shri
in 2016. Just name him. (pic in the next slide)
15.

110. Haaldhar Nag.

111. This Person is believed to be the father of the genre
‘Gothic Story’ with ‘The Castle of Otranto’ which was
published in 1764 in England. Identify him and his
more famous father.
16.

113. Robert Walpole.
Horatio/Horace
Walpole, 4th Earl
of Orford.

114. Danda is a frequently featured region in Hindu
mythology, as in Dandaka, a kingdom and a forest
bearing the same name. It was a colonial state
of Lanka under the reign of Lord Ravana. Ravana's
governor X,also the former’s cousin, ruled this
province. It was the stronghold of all
the Rakshasa tribes living in the Dandaka Forest. It is
roughly the Nashik District, Maharashtra
with Janasthana (Nashik city) as its capital. It was
from here that the X attacked Raghava
Rama of Kosala, who lived with his wife and brother
at Panchavati (modern day Nashik), not far away.
17.

116. Khara.

117. During the coronation of Rama, Vibishana was
presented a sacrosanct gift,an idol. He was carrying
it all the way to his kingdom of Sri Lanka and
midway, to rest, he placed the image on the banks of
Kaveri. After performing his routine pooja, he tried
to lift the idol, but it could not be lifted. Then
Mahavishnu appeared to him and said that he
desired to stay as X in the place, which went on to
become Y. Vishnu also desired to watch the
Brahmotsavam at Tirucherai. X is considered the
abode of Vishnu on earth and the primary temple of
Vishnu on earth. ID X & Y.
18.

119. X- Ranganath.
Y- Srirangam,Tiruchirapalli.

120. X melanogaster is a species of _____ (the taxonomic order
Diptera) in the phylum Arthopoda,family _________. The
species is known generally as the common _________.
Starting with Charles W. Woodworth's proposal of the use of
this species as a model organism, X melanogaster continues
to be widely used for biological research in genetics,
physiology, microbial pathogenesis, and life history evolution.
As of 2017, eight Nobel prizes had been awarded for research
using X melanogaster. It is typically used in research because
it can be readily reared in the laboratory, has only four pairs
of chromosomes, breeds quickly, and lays many eggs. Its
geographic range includes all continents, including islands.
Give me just X.
19.

122. Drosophila,commonly known as
fruit fly or vinegar fly.

123. The picture left on your
screen,the son of
Ganganath Jha,was a
former VC of BHU,the
1st chairman of UP PSC
and later also served as
the chairman of Bihar
PSC.
The person beside him
was one of the most
20.
Celebrated "Progressive" left-wing 20th century poets of the
Hindi language and was known for romanticism in his poems
which were inspired by nature, people and beauty within.
How can be the two associated with each other with regard
to a stalwart of another field?

125. The first one is Amarnath Jha,former
VC of Allahabad University,gave
Amitabh the name Inqilub because he
was born in 1942 after the Quit India
Movement.
The second one is Sumitra Nandan
Pant,the eminent yesteryear’s Hindi
writer ,who changed his name to
Amitabh.
So the answer is the persons who gave
Amitabh the names.

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