This document contains the questions and answers from a school quiz prelims competition held in Raipur, India on September 28th, 2014. It lists 20 multiple choice questions testing knowledge about Indian history, politics, culture and current events. The rules state that teams consist of two members who must fill out an answer sheet, and no outside materials are allowed. The top six teams will advance to the final round.

1. Chhattisgarh State Level Quiz ‘14
IIM
RAIPUR
September 28th, 2014
School Prelims Answers

2. RULES
• Teams of Two Members each, both from the same institute.
• Filling in complete team details in the answer sheet is mandatory.
• No electronic/other material is allowed to be used during the conduct of
the quiz.
• The quiz shall have in-built tie-breakers within the set of questions
(Qns 16-20).
• The top six teams shall make it to the final round.
• Regarding any disputes, the discretion of the Quizmaster is final.

3. 1
•What number does the 26th State of India contain
in its name?

4. 1
•36 (CHHATTISgarh)

5. 2
•Which was the first Indian Bank to get ISO
certification for “Total Branch Banking” in one of
its branches?

6. 2
•Canara Bank
•In 1996, Canara Bank managed to do this, for its
Seshadripuram branch in Bangalore.

7. 3
• X was a devotional philosopher, born in 1479, in Champaran (present-day
Raipur district).
• He founded the Pushti sect in India (devotion to Lord Krishna).
• He is widely considered as the last of the four great Vaishnava
Acharyas, the other three being Ramanujacharya, Madhavacharya and
Nimbarkacharya.

8. •Vallabhacharya
3

9. 4
• Whose to-be-released autobiography is this?

10. 4
• Sachin Tendulkar
• To be released on November 6th

11. 5
•With which sport would you associate Mithali Raj?

12. 5
• Cricket
• Captain of the Indian women’s cricket team

13. 6
• The byline of which company (which came to limelight
on 3rd December 1984) rather ironically went What we
do will touch your lives in some way everyday?

14. 6
• Union Carbide Corporation

15. 7
• 'e-Vidhan' is the name of an e-Governance solution that has been used
to implement India's first ever high-tech legislative house that
automates the day to day functioning of the entire Legislative
Assembly. Which state in India is the first to introduce this (last
month)?

16. • Himachal Pradesh
7

17. 8
• Composed of 700 verses what forms a major part of the
Bhishma Parva in the Mahabharata?

18. •Bhagavad Gita
8

19. 9
• There are nine ________ zones in India, including eight
regional zones and one functional zone for the Indian Army.
The first digit of __________ indicates the region, the second
digit indicates the sub-region, and the third digit indicates the
sorting district within the region. The number is 6 digits long.

20. 9
• PIN Codes (Postal Index Number)

21. 10
• Gujarat Vidyapith, been deemed university since 1963, was founded on
18th October, 1920. The main purpose of the institution was to promote
educational institutions run by Indians for Indians and outside the
financial and governing control of British authorities. Who was the
founder of this University?

22. •Mahatma Gandhi
10

23. 11
• If it is SENSEX for the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE), what
is it for the National Stock Exchange (NSE)?

24. •NIFTY
11

25. 12
• In the summer of 2000, the RSS journal Panchjanya complained that all
the leading male actors in Bollywood were Muslim and saw it as a
conspiracy that involved mafia dons such as Dawood Ibrahim.
• To thwart the conspiracy, Panchjanya called upon its readers to promote
which up-and-coming actor as the Hindu challenge to the monopoly of
the Khans?

26. • Hrithik Roshan
12

27. 13
• Identify the person recently in the news

28. • M C Mary Kom
13

29. 14
• Magnitogorsk is an industrial city in Russia, where the largest
iron and steelworks in the country, is located.
• Nikita Khruschev, the Soviet Union leader during the Cold
War, called which city as the ‘Magnitogorsk of India’?

30. •Bhilai
14

31. 15
• Who is the only Indian to have been conferred India’s highest
civilian honor, the Bharat Ratna, and its Pakistani equivalent,
Nishaan-e-Pakistan?

32. • Morarji Desai
15

33. * 16
• It is a tactical innovation which can help batsmen score boundaries
even off yorkers, and thus it is particularly useful in the death overs of
limited overs games, when bowlers look to bowl full length balls.
Explaining this is probably much more difficult than playing it - it is in
essence a wristy whip shot, but uses a lot more bottom hand and has
more pronounced bat swing after the shot is played. The quick rotation
of the blade in the follow through of the shot also explains it’s name.
• What?

34. • The Helicopter Shot
* 16

35. * 17
• Raj Ghat: Mahatma Gandhi
• Vijay Ghat: Lal Bahadur Shastri
• Kisan Ghat: ____??

36. * 17
• Charan Singh
• India’s 6th Prime Minister

37. * 18
•By what name is Bahai Temple in Delhi
commonly known as?

38. • Lotus Temple
* 18

39. * 19
• Mohit Suri, the director of the musical blockbuster Aashiqui 2,
has been recently in the news, as the director of which highly
anticipated to-be-released book?

40. * 19
• Half Girlfriend
• Chetan Bhagat’s upcoming novel

41. * 20
• Upon whom the Bharat Ratna was posthumously conferred in
1992 but was withdrawn later controversially?

42. * 20
• Subhash Chandra Bose
• Since it is still a controversial matter as to whether Netaji is alive or
not.

43. Thank You!