The document describes the schedule and questions for India Quiz 2012. It includes two rounds of 12 questions each called "Infinite Bounce" with a theme, as well as a written round of 10 questions. Sample questions are provided about terms like kallakkadal, dishes like undhiyu, places like Baramulla, people like Menaka Gandhi and Sanjay Gandhi, events like the 1971 war, organizations like ECIL, and phrases like "jai hind". Pictures are also included to be identified and connected.

3. Finals
India Quiz 2012

4. India Quiz 2012
Infinite Bounce – 12 questions
Theme round 1
Infinite Bounce – 12 questions
Theme round 2
Written round – 10 questions

5. Infinite Bounce - 1
12 Questions
Clockwise

6. 1. What’s the good word ?
• _________ is a term used by fishermen in
Kerala to describe when the sea creeps in
stealthily like a thief, was adopted by UNESCO
in March this year to describe a specific kind
of freak tidal surge that occurs in good
weather. This is caused when swells generated
by storms elsewhere get carried and amplified
by coastal currents, resulting in large waves
and flooding of low-lying areas.

7. The Answer is …

8. Kallakkadal

9. 2. Which dish ???
• X is a Gujarati mixed vegetable dish. The name of this
dish comes from the Gujarati words "matlu" meaning
earthen pot and “______" meaning upside down since
they have been traditionally cooked upside down
underground in earthen pots fired from above.
• The dish is a seasonal one, comprising the vegetables
that are available on the South Gujarat coastline during
the winter season, including (amongst others) green
beans, unripe banana, muthia, and purple yam. These
are cooked in a spicy curry that sometimes
includes coconut.

10. The Answer is …

11. Undhiyu

12. 3.
FITB(All blanks are same)
• The Indo-Bangladesh ________, also known as the chitmahals are the
__________ along the border of India and Bangladesh in the Indian state
of West Bengal. There are 104 Indian ________ inside Bangladesh and 90
Bangladeshi ones inside India with a combined population between
50,000 to 100,000. Inside those _________ are also 25 (4 Indian and 21
Bangladeshi) counter-_________ and Indian 1 counter-counter
_________.The _________were part of the high stake card or chess games
centuries ago between two regional kings, the Raja of Cooch Behar and
the Maharaja of Rangpur. The little territories were the result of a
confused outcome of a treaty between the Kingdom of Koch Bihar and the
Mughal Empire.

13. The Answer is …

14. Enclaves

15. 4.What’s the good Word ???
• Persian _______, from old persian words for “every or all” and
“work or deed”,
• While in the ancient times ________hailed from families of
_________of Punjabi Jat or even peasant origin, they were
carefully selected in the East Indian Company times. A
number of locals were carefully interviewed, and selected
after a review of references to their honesty, their physique &
endurance, and of course courage. This was because by the
last decade of the 18th century, the ________had to carry in
his leather pouch, not just letters, but money to far flung
places and important parcels. And so they had to be very
honest.

16. The Answer is …

17. Harkara

18. 5.
• The name ________ meaning "Boar's Place,"
According to Hindu teaching, the valley of Kashmir
was once a lake called "Satisaras," the lake of Parvati.
The ancient Hindu texts state that the lake was
occupied by a demon, Jalodbhava, until Lord Vishnu,
assumed the form of a boar and struck the mountain
at _________ boring an opening in it for the water to
flow out. As such, the town is located on the banks
of river Jehlum at the highest point of the river. The
river forms a delta just in the outskirts of the town.

19. The Answer is …

20. Baramulla

21. 6.
• This year in May the PM of India visited the tomb
of the late Bahadur Shah Zafar in Yangon to
present a chadar from the dargah of Khwaja Chisti.
Now there has been frequent calls to shift his
remains to India, in order to address to one of the
verses of his epitaph:
Kitnâ hai badnaseeb Zafar dafn ke liye; do gaz
zameen bhi na mili ku-e-yar mein
But there are two reasons for which the leaders of
the two countries have decided against it. One is
Zafar is regarded as a saint by some in Yangon.
What's the other reason?

22. The Answer is ….

23. • Myanmar's anti-British King Thibaw, was
exiled to Maharashtra, where he died. It is felt
that both shrines are part of a shared historic
and cultural legacy, and should be maintained
at their present locations.

24. 7. Id X and Y

25. Contd….
• "This was justly X’s(aged 22), first claim to fame.
As an aspiring model, she had signed up with
DCM to model for their entire campaign of towels
that were launched in 1973. But her success on
the modelling scene was short-lived. When she
became engaged to Y, the advertising agency
MCM was summarily commanded to withdraw
the campaign and clam up all possible remaining
records of it."

26. The Answer is ….

27. X:Menaka Gandhi Y: Sanjay Gandhi

28. Connect
8.
How do you connect the following two temples?
• _____ ____ temple located in Mahatma Gandhi Kashi Vidyapeeth campus,
Varanasi, which was inaugurated by Mahatma Gandhi in 1936.
• _____ ____ temple was founded by Swami Satyamitranand Giri, on the
banks of the Ganges in Haridwar. It was inaugurated by Indira Gandhi in 1983.
**** These are the only two temples of its kind

29. The Answer is ….

30. Bharat Mata Temples

31. 9. Give Fundaes ….
Branch Count
Army 54,154
Air Force 833
Navy 1,381
Paramilitary including police 22,000
Civilian personnel 12,000
Total 90,368

32. The Answer is ….

33. 1971 War
A Pakistan stamp depicting the
90,000 POWs in Indian camps. This
stamp was issued by Pakistan with
the political aim of raising global
support to help secure their
release. The POWs were released
by India after the signing and
ratification of the Simla
Agreement.

34. 10. Id
• X hailing from an average income
family of West Godavari district went
on to pursue his Masters in Stanford.
He was famous for “Self Reliance”
mantra and upon returning to India
he got recognition for his role in
indigenously designing the control
systems of the first Indian Nuclear
reactor, Apsara. Dr Homi Bhaba sent
him to Hyderabad with 200
technicians to set up this organisation
,which later went on to design the
first indigenously manufactured
colour television. Person and
Organisation.

35. The Answer is ….

36. Ayyagari Sambasiva or A.S Rao
who estd. ECIL

37. 11.
• Born in 1911 in the city of Hyderabad, Abid Hasan ___
went to Germany to pursue his higher education. It is
there where he met S.C Bose and got inspired to join
the freedom struggle. He left his studies and joined the
INA. Netaji when he wanted a way of greeting for his
army and for independent India, Abid Hasan among
many suggested “Hello” for which he was snubbed. He
later suggested X-Y which was picked by Netaji and
later was even used by Nehru in his Independence Day
address to the nation. He also picked up a surname
when there was a dispute on the colour of the National
flag. The surname i.e. _____ and also X-Y please.

38. The Answer is ….

39. Surname—Safrani and XY—Jai Hind

40. 12. ID and Connect the two pictures

41. Contd…
• Tachyon condensation refers to a process in
particle physics in which the system can lower
its energy by spontaneously producing
particles. The end result is a "condensate" of
particles that fills the volume of the system.
Tachyon condensation is closely related to
second-order phase transitions.

42. The Answer is ….

43. Ashok Sen, Yuri Milner
Fundamental Prize

44. Audience Questions

45. 1. What has been blocked out ?

46. Mass-ka

47. 2.Id
• Founder of Bhartiya Jana Sangh

48. Shyama Prasad Mukherjee Founder of
Bhartiya Jana Sangh (a.k.a RSS)

50. Theme Round 1

51. 13. ID and Connect the two pictures