This document contains the details of the finals of the Chhattisgarh State Level Quiz '13 held at IIM Raipur on October 2nd, 2013. It describes the rules of the quiz which included 12 questions with 10 marks for each direct answer. It then provides the questions and answers for 3 rounds - Round 1 on general knowledge, Round 2 on visual connects, and Round 3 as another round of general knowledge questions. The questions cover a wide range of topics on history, culture, and current events related to India.

1. Chhattisgarh State Level Quiz ‘13
IIM
RAIPUR
October 2nd, 2013
Finals

2. • RULES
– Total of 12 Questions.
– Marks for Each Question (Direct & Pass) – 10.
– Regarding any disputes, the discretion of the Quizmaster
is final.
ROUND 1 – Infinite Bounce (Clockwise)

3. • The organization X was founded on
November 1, 1957 to create a federation to
cater to the need and growth of khadi and
other village industries.
• The annual turnover of X is about
Rs.1.5 crore, as of 2007.
• Identify X, and What is it renowned for?
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4. • X - Karnataka Khadi Gramodyoga
Samyuktha Sangha in Hubli, Karnataka.
• It’s the only unit in India that is authorised to
manufacture and supply the Flag of India.
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5. • When the West German stand at the Delhi
Industrial Exhibition of 1959 collapsed, parts
of their equipment were offered to the
Govt. of India. Using this small transmitter
and a makeshift studio, what was started on
Sep 15, 1959 within a 25km radius of New
Delhi?
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6. • Doordarshan
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7. • X is used to clear obstacles that would otherwise
require them to approach directly, possibly under
fire.
• X was first devised by the Madras Engineers
Group at Bangalore, India, in 1912.
• Many films set in WWII like Saving Private Ryan
etc., show the device X used to clear barbed wire
obstacles during D-Day invasion scenes.
Identify X.
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8. • X – Bangalore Torpedo/Bangalore Mine
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9. • His name, little known, is Prem Behari
Narain Raizada (Saxena), son of Brij Behari
Narain Raizada of Delhi. He wrote
something in his
own hand, using a
flowing italic style in the
best calligraphic
traditions of India.
What did he write?
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10. • The Constitution of India.
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11. • Palmiers are a traditional French puff pastry
made from rich, buttery dough.
• Their name, derived from the French word
for the palm tree, refers to a supposed
resemblance to palm fronds. They are also
called Elephant-Ears on account of their
shape.
• For the past twenty years, what is the
product marketed in India as?
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12. • Britannia Little Hearts
5

13. • What’s this category of rupee known as, and
what is its significance?
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14. • Gulf Rupee.
• The middle east followed the Indian rupee as
their standard currency till mid 1960s.
• To reduce the strain put on India's foreign
reserves by gold smuggling caused by this
external use of the rupee, a separate currency
was created, to be used exclusively outside
India called the Gulf Rupee.
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15. • The Urdu writer Krishan Chander based the
novel Jab Khet Jaage on a peasant rebellion
that began in 1945. The novel inspired the
film Maabhoomi, directed by Gautam
Ghosh.
• By what name is this peasant movement
commonly known?
7

16. • Telangana Rebellion / Vetti Chakiri
Movement
7

17. • Before the advent of Bollywood, X was the
single most popular form of entertainment in
the villages and towns of northern India
since the latter half of the 19th century.
• The main akharas (or schools) of the art form
are at Hathras, Muzafar
Nagar, Saharanpur, Kanpur & Kanauj.
Identify X.
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18. • Nautanki 
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19. • A Bollywood legend, X was born in
Lucknow in 1919, when World War I ended
and he was therefore given a name meaning
'New Happiness'.
• X was conferred the Dadasaheb Phalke
Award in 1982, and the Padma Bhushan in
1992.
• X is well-known for rechristening another
colossus of the Indian Film Industry, Y.
Identify X and Y.
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20. X – ‘Naushad’Ali Y – A R Rahman
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21. • The recipe for a Japanese Dish, Tempura was
introduced to Japan by Portuguese Jesuit
missionaries during the sixteenth century.
• The word "tempura", or the technique of
dipping fish and vegetables into a batter and
frying them, comes from "tempora", to refer
to the time period when Catholics avoid red
meat and instead eat fish or vegetables.
Identify the popular Indian snack to which
it probably owes its origin to.
10

22. • Pakora/Bajji
10

23. • In the year 1996, Outlook described an
incident as the ‘biggest sex change operation
in the history of Independent India’. What
was it?
11

24. • Renaming of Victoria Terminus to
Chattrapati Shivaji Terminus in Mumbai
11

25. • In the Davis Cup of 1974, India were on a
dream run, defeating Australia at
Calcutta, followed by the USSR in the semis
at Pune. They were considered to be the
favorites to win the final, but
unfortunately, they were deprived of the
trophy in the best chance they ever had to
win it. Why?
12

26. • The final was scratched and South Africa
was awarded the Davis Cup after India
refused to travel to South Africa for the final
in protest of the South African government's
apartheid policies.
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27. • RULES
– Marks given on each slide (+/-)
– If any team gets the theme, they should write on a paper
and show it to the Quizmaster; and not shout it out.
– Regarding any disputes, the discretion of the Quizmaster
is final.
ROUND 2 – Long Visual Connect

28. +24/-12

29. +22/-11

30. +20/-10

31. +18/-9

32. +16/-8

33. +14/-7

34. +12/-6

35. +10/-5

36. +8/-4

37. +6/-3

38. +4/-2

39. +2/0

40. ANSWERS – Long Visual Connect

41. • The music group Xtreme
+24/-12

42. • Red Dawn
+22/-11

43. • Deluxe Corporation
+20/-10

44. • Kamasutra Condoms – Pleasure Series
+18/-9

45. • Ignitor
+16/-8

46. • Maestro
+14/-7

47. • Impulse Perfume
+12/-6

48. • Glamour magazine
+10/-5

49. • Karizma Kapoor
+8/-4

50. • Bollywood Hunk Salman Khan
+6/-3

51. • 2012 movie Passion
+4/-2

52. • Gregg Araki’s 1999 rom-com Splendor
+2/0

53. Connect – Motocycles of Hero Motocorp.

54. • RULES
– Total of 12 Questions.
– Marks for Each Question (Direct & Pass) – 10.
– Regarding any disputes, the discretion of the Quizmaster
is final.
ROUND 3 – Infinite Bounce (Anti-Clockwise)

55. • Connect to a place, and put funda
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56. • Connect is Bharuch.
– The Broachas hail from Bharuch
– Munaf Patel is called Bharuch Express
– The city derived its name from ‘'Bhr̥gukachchha’
"Bhrigu's riverbank"
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57. • Javed Akhtar, in love with actress Honey
Irani, requested his partner Salim Khan to
meet her mother Perin Irani on his behalf.
The conversation that took place between
Salim and Perin was incorporated into which
film’s script?
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58. • Sholay
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59. • Vaman Shivram Apte's dictionary gives
seventeen other definitions of this Sanskrit
term X. Some of them are :
– A false or unreal mark; a disguise
– A symptom or mark of disease
– A spot or stain
– A means of proof, a proof, evidence
– Sex
• X has been used in Kama Sutra and its use has
been debated by many scholars due to a
particular reason. Id X.
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60. • Lingam
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61. • It is a well known fact that Mendeleev's
landmark achievement with the periodic
table was that he left out spaces for the
elements to be discovered in future, because
he saw a pattern in the atomic weights.
Hence, he named these provisional elements
using a particular standard. What was it?
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62. • Usage of Sanskrit Number Prefixes.
• To give provisional names to his predicted
elements, Mendeleev used the prefixes eka-
, dvi-, and tri-, from the Sanskrit names of
digits 1, 2, and 3, depending upon whether
the predicted element was one, two, or three
places down from the known element of the
same group in his table.
• For example, germanium was called
ekasilicon until its discovery in 1886.
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63. • He’s a bangalore-based Marketing specialist
who has started an online radio station in
April 2011, with his college-buddy
Madhukar Jha. ID the person, and What’s his
claim to fame?
5

64. • Fake IPL Player – Anupam Mukherjee
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65. Now or Never; Are We to Live or
Perish Forever?
• What’s the significance of this statement
with respect to Pre-Independent India?
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66. • Coinage of the word ‘Pakistan’ for the first
time, in The Pakistan Declaration of
1933, by Choudhary Rahmat Ali.
– Punjab
– North-West Frontier (Afghan)
Province
– Kashmir
– Sind
– Baluchistan
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67. • He is the founding member of the 360
Digital Influence group at Ogilvy and author
of the best selling new marketing book
Personality Not Included. What is the term
related to economics that was termed by
him?
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68. • Likeonomics
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69. • Who’s missing in the list? Give full funda.
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70. • Raghuram Rajan, winner of the Fifth
Deutsche Bank Prize for Financial
Economics on 26th September 2013.
• Past Winners - From Left to Right:
– 2005 – Eugene F. Fama
– 2007 – Michael Woodford
– 2009 – Robert Shiller
– 2011 – Kenneth Rogoff
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71. • Connect.
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72. • Only two Indian movies to feature in the
TIME’s All time 100 best movies list.
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73. • Identify the couple, and how do we better
know them as?
10

74. • Suzanne and Jesse Joseph moved into Tamil
Nadu post-Tsunami to work with the NGOs.
• They’re also the parents of the Bollywood
Celebrity, Katrina Kaif.
10

75. • How is the brand on the left connected to the
organization on the right?
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76. • TJ’s – Brand of the products produced in
Tihar Jail, and the logo on the right is that of
Tamil Nadu Police.
• Personnel of the Tamil Nadu Special Police
are posted inside Tihar, guarding high
security cells. The rationale is to ensure that
local undertrials and convicts do not get too
friendly with the guards because of the
perceived Tamil Chauvinism.
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77. • Connect the exhaustive list.
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78. • Only 3 recipients honored with all the four
civilian awards of India — Bharat Ratna,
Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan and the
Padma Shri.
– Ustad Bismillah Khan
– Bhimsen Joshi
– Satyajit Ray
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79. THANK YOU!
IIM
RAIPUR