OPEN TO ALL QUIZ @ JIAGANJ BOOK FAIR DATE - JANUARY 22, 2018 VENUE - JIAGANJ BOOK FAIR @ JIAGANJ B.S.S. HIGH SCHOOL (H.S.)

1. ROUND – 2
THEMATIC MIXED BAG ROUND
RULES:
 12 QUESTIONS
 ANTI-CLOCKWISE INFINITE BOUNCE / POUNCE
 +10/0 FOR BOUNCE
 +10/-10 ON POUNCE (RAISE HANDS IMMEDIATELY)
 20 SEC. FOR DIRECT / 10 SEC. FOR FIRST BOUNCE / NO TIME HENCEFORTH
 NORMAL QUIZZING ETIQUETTES SHOULD BE FOLLOWED
 DECISION OF THE QUIZ MASTER IS FINAL
1) It is said that after reading ‘Matrirupena Kali’ written by this person, Abanindranath
Tagore got inspired and drew the famous ‘Bharatmata’. Numerous Colleges and Schools
have been named after this person. The Indian Government has released a stamp in
honour of this person in 1968. The West Bengal Board of Secondary Education has named
its building in this person’s name. Who is being talked about?
Sister Nivedita
2) In Santiniketan Indra Dugar's father Hira Chand Dugar trained rigorously under X and
took to landscape in right earnest. X was by then moving away from Abanindranath
Tagore's Schooling of Wash Painting and beginning to experiment with Gouache, Tempera
and large Frescoes and mural on walls of Santiniketan. Hira Chand however preferred
transparent watercolours. Identify X.
Nandalal Bose
3) During the last decade of the 1960s, Premendra Mitra suggested that the Rabindra
paksha should be observed as ‘Grantha Parvana’ to honour the literary giant Tagore. He
proposed that a ritual should be followed during ‘Grantha Parvana’. What ritual did he
propose?
He proposed that each Bengali should gift a Bengali book to another

2. 8) ‘Tsundoku’ is a Japanese word widely used in English, which means a habit – hopefully
no one should be indulged during or after this book fair. What does the word ‘Tsundoku’
mean?
Tsundoku is the act of acquiring books or other reading materials and not reading them.
9) Which common bad habit is meant by ‘dysania’?
The bad habit of finding it hard to get out of bed in the morning!
10) In an office of the state government in the district of Champaran, Bihar, the employees
are going wearing helmets every day. They wear the helmets throughout their working
hours and only removes them after returning home. Why this peculiar habit is in the
vogue?
The office building is in almost ruins and could collapse any time. Thus the workers wear the
helmets to protect themselves against any such accident!
11) In the Jadavpur University, it has almost become a habit of the students and all to ask
for ‘Dhoper Chop’ from the equally famous Milan Da’s Canteen. What is exactly a ‘Dhoper
Chop’ there?
Bread pakora
12) Kashundi – the Bengali mustard sauce and taste enhancer is used for a long.
Traditionally, kashundi making starts from which particular auspicious day of the Bengali
calendar?
Akshay Tritia