This document contains a fun quiz with general rules and 26 multiple choice questions about holidays, famous people, movies, and food items from India. The questions cover topics like International Women's Day celebrations in Colombia, Junko Tabei being the first woman to summit Everest, the movie Mother India, India's first female fighter pilots, tweets by Sushma Swaraj, popular Indian sweets like jalebi, actor Puneeth Rajkumar, the spring festival of Ugadi, ingredients in Ugadi pachadi representing the six tastes of life, A.R. Rahman composing Holi songs, the unique marriage proposal of Infosys co-founder N.R. Narayana Murthy,

1. Fun Qui– March ‘23

2. General Rules
• Bid goodbye to browsing google for the next 1 hour.
Three very important rules should be remembered:-
• The quiz master is always right.
• In case of any discrepancy, revert back to rule number 1.
No guess is silly enough.

3. Question 1
• In 2001 and 2002, the women in Bogota, Columbia did something special and
unique to celebrate International Women’s Day. What did they do ?

4. Answer

5. Question 2
To whom this Google Doodle is dedicated? What is her achievements?

6. Answer
• Junko Tabei’s 80th Birthday
celebration GOOGLE Doodle
• She was the first woman to
reach the summit of Mount
Everest and the first woman
to ascend the Seven
Summits, climbing the
highest peak on every
continent.

7. Question 5

8. Question 5
• The title of this 1957 film, ______ _____ was inspired by Katherine
Mayo’s book, in which she attacked the Indian culture, religion and
society.
• Mahboob Khan, the director, took this title to show the power of a
woman in India.
• Which Movie?

9. Answer
Mother India

10. Question 6
• Who all are these beautiful ladies? Why they are famous?

11. Answer
Indian Air Force's
(IAF) first women
fighter pilots.
Mohana Jitarwal,
Bhawana Kanth and
Avani Chaturvedi
(left to right)

12. Question 9
• Who had tweeted this witty tweet, who is known for
her wit, passion & energy to serve Indians?

13. Answer
Sushma Swaraj.
An Indian lawyer,
politician, and
diplomat who
served as the
Minister of External
Affairs of India from
2014 to 2019.

14. Question 10
• ‘JERI’, from the word Jangiri (coined after the Mughal Emperor
Jahangir) and ‘Jalballika’ were two of the alternate names of a
sweet food-item that is very popular in India.
• Name this food item which is an essential part of the celebration
like Holi, Ramzan and other happy occasions.

15. Answer
• JALEBI

16. Question 13
• This not so popular Holi
song ‘Terikere’ is from a
2015 Kannada Movie
‘Jaathre’.
• Identify is the male
singer, who is one of the
famous actor of
Sandalwood. He won 1
National Film Award, 4
Kannada State Film
Awards, 6 Filmfare
Awards South. He also
got ‘Karnataka Ratna’ –
the state’s highest
civilian award. He’s also
known for his
philanthropy.

17. Answer
Dr. Puneeth
Rajkumar – Appu

18. Question 14
• Sindhis call it ‘Cheti Chand’, Manipuris know it as ‘Sajibu
Cheiraoba’. In Kashmir this is known as ‘Navreh’. Hindu community
from Bali and Indonesia called it ‘Nyepi’. What I am talking about?

19. Answer
• UGADI / YUGADI
/ GUDI PADWA

20. Question 17
• Connect this exhaustive list and give funda as to why these
particular items are in this list.
• Neem Buds/Flower
• Jaggery and ripe banana pieces
• Green Chilli/Pepper
• Salt
• Tamarind Juice
• Unripened Mango

21. Answer
• These are the ingredients used to make ‘Ugadi Pachadi’, which is
one of the first food people consume on the day of ‘UGADI’.
• They represent six tastes of the life.
• Sadness- Neem Buds/Flower for its bitterness
• Happiness- Jaggery and ripe banana pieces for sweetness
• Anger- Green Chilli/Pepper for hit hot taste
• Fear- Salt for saltiness
• Disgust- Tamarind Juice for its sourness
• Surprise- Unripened Mango for its tang

22. Question 18

23. Question 18
• Holi Re – Mangal Pandey
• Aalaporan Thamizan – Mersal
• Tum Tak – Raanjhanaa
• What is common between all these 3 songs which represented
‘Holi’ beautifully?

24. Answer
• A R Rahman –
Music Composer
of all these 3
songs

25. Question 21

26. Question 21
• The picture in the previous slide shows one of the most iconic couples of
INDIA. Their marriage proposal was as unique as their marriage.
• “I am 5’4″ tall. I come from a lower middle class family. I can never become
rich in my life and I can never give you any riches. You are beautiful, bright,
and intelligent and you can get anyone you want. But will you marry me?”
• The girl was impressed by his honesty however her father did not want them
to get married because the guy didn’t have a stable job and he wanted to be
communist leader who would open orphanages. Little did the girl’s father
know that the groom to would go on to become one of the richest man of
India and the girl would engrave her name into people’s hearts as a great
teacher and philanthropist.

27. Answer
• Infosys Co-
founder N.
R. Narayana
Murthy &
his wife
Sudha
Murty

28. Question 22
• The movie X went through a series of titles starting with ‘Taap’,
then ‘Raand, Saand, Seedhi, Sanyasi’, then ‘Duhera’, then ‘Ud
jaayega’ and ‘Hans Akela’ and then finally ‘X’. The idea of the title
came from the song by Chhannulal Mishra ji's ‘Khele __ Mein Holi
Digambar’.
• We all know Y today as India’s finest actors but what we might not
know is that one of the most famous and important scenes from
the movie was improvised by him where he insisted to drink alcohol
to perform the scene. In the script, the character wasn’t supposed
to seek closure until the end but Y cried while performing which
created a great impact and gave us the scene. (This scene you had
scene in many Memes)
• ID the Movie X and Actor Y.

29. Chhannulal Mishra ji's ‘Khele Masane Mein Holi Digambar

30. Answer
X- Masaan
Y- Vicky Kaushal

31. Question 25
Guess the occasion of this Amul girl cartoon

32. Answer
Harmanpreet Kaur led the Mumbai Indians women’s team
to victory in the maiden WPL

33. Question 26
• On the occasion of International
Day of Girl Child (11 October
2020), Barbie celebrated ‘X’ and
her achievements by modelling a
one-of-a-kind Barbie doll to her
likeness to inspire young girls.
• Who is the inspiration for this
version of Barbie ?
• Hint: She’s an Indian.

34. Answer
Manasi Joshi.
She is an Indian
para-badminton
player. She is a
former world
champion in the
women's singles
SL3 category.

35. Thank you!