General quiz

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• QM hates lot of noise
• QM hates chaos
• QM is God

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+10 for each correct answer
Connect has 50, 40, 30, 20, 10, 5 points
No negatives
Theme: Identify the flags

Write Bros. II
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Theme: Amul Girl posters

2.
Mandira Bedi and her fashion sense during the 2003 CWC

5.
Bilawal Bhutto – Hina Rabbani Khar love affair

6.
Parthiv Patel’s keeping performances

7.
Mallika Sherawat’s ‘Happy Birthday’ for Narendra Modi

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Pounce on questions from #11
+10 for getting direct right
+20/-10 on the pounce
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One part of the word X is taken from the Nagavanshis, who were
supposed to have ruled the area.
The other part however comes from Y, a village in the outskirts of
Ranchi. The corrupted form of the word Y when joined with X gives the
name of this geographical and political entity.
X and Y ?
1.

X= Chotanagpur, Y= Chutia village

Give funda.
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slide)
2.

The last mile-post (9288 km) on the Trans-Siberian
Railway at Vladivostok station

Zog I, King of Albania, was the King (of course!) and later President of
Albania when it became a republic. Apart from his discharging of royal
duties with decent efficiency, he is also remembered to have about 600
blood feuds against him of which he survived more than 55
assassination attempts.
However, what connects him with the world of comics ?
(Take the hint and play for +5)
3.

Reputedly the inspiration behind King Muskar in Tintin comics

When Niels Bohr was awarded the highest civil honour in Denmark, The
Order of the Elephant, in 1947, he was asked to create a family coat of
arms/ crest- as custom demanded.
Thus he chose his crest staying true to his motto ‘contraria sunt
complementa’.
The thing chosen supposedly represented two incoming colliding ions
with quarks in the nuclei.
What did he choose for his crest ?
4.

This is widely believed to have been based on an ancient Roman custom.
Jacques-Louis David’s painting Oath of the Horatii has widely been speculated to
the beginning of its association with said Roman culture.
It has been ridiculed by some people and been the butt of jokes with the
respondent sometimes saying, “Is he sick?”, “Am I a Doctor?” or “You heal him!”.
Sometimes the number 88 is used as a reference to it, since doing it has become
illegal.
In 2013, Giorgios Katidis was handed a life ban from the Greek Football team for
doing this after scoring a goal.
What is all this about ?
5.

Celebrity guests of this place established in 1977 include Bill Clinton and
Vladimir Putin. The ‘Hillary platter’ came into existence based on what
was ordered by Hillary Clinton on a state visit. Similarly a ‘Presidential
platter’ (for Bill Clinton) and ‘Chelsea platter’ also finds a place in its
menu. Arnold Schwarzenegger is known to have visited this place and
enjoyed among many others, its giant naan.
Which place am I talking about ?
(Hint: It shares its name with a Central Asian city)
6.

Bukhara, ITC Maurya, New Delhi

In 1938, after the Japanese invasion of China, the communist general requested
Nehru for a team of physicians to help their army. Netaji Subhash Bose appealed
through a press statement for doctors to volunteer and ultimately arranged for a
team of them to leave for China, which included Dr. X.
X worked tirelessly in China along with Dr. Norman Bethune and many others and
because of this, they are revered by the Chinese even today.
Upon his death Mao Zedong said, “The army has lost a helping hand. The nation
a friend. Let us always bear in mind his internationalist spirit”
V. Shantaram directed and played X in the 1946 Hindi movie based on his life and
also contained X’s name in the title.
X ?
7.

“Wherever I live, I shall feel homesick for X. I often think I can still hear
the cries of wild geese and cranes and the beating of their wings as they
fly over Lhasa in the clear, cold moonlight. My heartfelt wish is that my
story may create some understanding for a people whose will to live in
peace and freedom has won so little sympathy from an indifferent
world.”
Words attributed to whom ? He is also a recipient of the ‘Light of Truth
Award’ bestowed upon by someone this person mentored in the ways
of the world outside. Other famous recipients of this award include
Desmond Tutu, Martin Scorsese, Richard Gere and The people of India.
8.

Heinrich Harrer (played by Brad Pitt in ‘Seven years in Tibet’)

Tarantino named this character after a repeat customer he had when
working at the Video Archive, a defunct rental store in Manhattan
Beach. This customer, X, an Austrian immigrant; bonded with Tarantino
over their love for foreign films. Upon hearing of X’s death, Tarantino
decided to name the seemingly ‘unplayable’ character in the film after
him and pay his respects.
Hunter Stephenson of Slashfilm believes that his Calabash is an unsubtle
metaphor of masculinity and his love for milk a remnant of the
innocence as a child and a primal link.
X ???
9.

Col. Hans Landa in The Inglorious Basterds

___ ___ ___ is a musical comedy written, produced and directed by
Oscar Asche, based on the story of Ali Baba and the Forty thieves. In
fact, the title refers to the robber chief when impersonating one of his
victims. It premiered at His Majesty’s Theatre in 1916 and ran for five
years straight and a total of 2,238 performances, a record unheard of
those days, especially given the gloom of the Great War.
This inspired something in Bollywood in a movie named after one of
Colonial India’s best engineering marvels standing proud even today.
The initial guitar piece was created by S Hazara Singh, the Hawaiian
guitarist of the music director. There is also a reference in this to Aladin
and the Arabian Nights, which is the original theme for the ___ ___ ___.
What am I talking about ? (Take hint and play for +5)
10.

Chu Chin Chow, inspiration behind
Mera Naam Chin Chin Chu !
Movie: Howrah Bridge (1958)

Sumerian texts refer to three important centres with which they traded: Magan,
Dilmun and _____.
Magan is usually accepted to be the Egyptian civilization while Dilmun is believed to
have been the Persian Gulf civilization encompassing modern Bahrain, Kuwait and
Qatar among other territories. _____ is a reference to the Harappan civilization,
items of which, including seals and artifacts have been found in excavation sites at
Ur.
The word _____ could have originated from the Dravidian word for ‘High country’ or
the Sanskrit word for ‘Barbarian, Foreigner’, something used also regularly in Vedic
texts by Aryans to describe the lowest class of their Varna-based society.
What name was the IVC known to the Sumerians back then ?
11.

Meluha (from Mel Akam or Mleccha)

Henri Didon was a French Dominican writer,
educator and reputedly the greatest French
preacher of his day. He was educated at Grenoble
and at the age of 18, left for the seminary of
Grenoble to enter the Dominican order.
His lasting contribution is something he suggested
to a more famous friend in 1894 and official since
1924. He had coined this for a Paris Youth
gathering in 1891 as something that could inspire
people from all walks of life to achieve and gain
purpose for their existence.
What was his contribution ?
12.

Citius, Altius, Fortius
(The Olympic Motto)

The Hartman brothers developed ______ _____ as a mixer as they had difficulty in
Knoxville obtaining their preferred effervescent to mix with whiskey.
______ _____ was originally a Southern/ Scottish slang for Moonshine or Poitin as it
was called by the Irish. Using this as a name for the invention was first suggested by
Carl E. Retzke in Toledo, Ohio. This name was subsequently trademarked in the
1940s.
Early signages carried the reference forward by showing a cartoon-styled hillbilly.
The first sketches of the original labels were developed by John Brichetto in 1948
and have been changes multiple times in its history.
FITB.
13.

The Bagua (lit. “Eight Symbols”) are trigrams used in Taoist cosmology to represent
the fundamental principles of reality, seen as 8 inter-related concepts.
Each trigram consists of three horizontal lines, either broken or unbroken thus
representing Ying and Yang.
The eight trigrams represent Heaven, Lake, Fire, Thunder, Wind, Water, Mountain
and Earth.
Where in the vexillological world have we seen these trigrams ?
14.

Members of this group use(d) questions like, “Does a Mr. Ayak live in this
neighbourhood?” to which similar members replied generally something like, “Yes, a
Mr. Akia does.”
What are Ayak or Akia ? OR identify the group ?
15.

AYAK- Are You a Klansman ?
AKIA- A Klansman I am !
KU KLUX KLAN

When cars rolled on to India for the first time, there was only one company which
made one particular component back then. The good part being that it was named
after a street in Llanelli, Wales.
This name is used today as a generic for the product type.
What am I talking about ?
16.

This word, X is used today only in combination with two of its prefixes.
Its usage in medieval times as a standalone word referred to its meaning as an
English nautical term meaning ‘to capsize’. Thus it came to be mean being covered
by water or drowning. It was also used by Sir Charles Lyell in his Principle of Geology:
“Marsh land has at last been overflowed, and thousands of inhabitants Xed in the
waves.”
It could also mean to turn a hollow vessel upside down to cover something
X ?
17.

In Economics, a Veblen good is a member of a group of commodities whose demand
is proportional to its price, a contradiction in the law of demand.
The X effect is a similar phenomenon. It states that ceteris paribus, a commodity
generates more demand when its price is set higher than it was before. A lower
priced version of it with similar quality has lesser demand.
X is a famous brand, whose sales, according to as story, sucked despite it being a
very good tasting liquor. After a brainstorming session in the boardroom, officials
decided to jack up prices and so, with it went up the demand.
What is this effect known as ?
18.

What has been blanked out in this (very apt) Kolkata Police effort to curb a bad
practice on the roads ?
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19.

Tomb of which
(witty?) person,
locked from one
side but otherwise
open from
everywhere else ?
It is located in
Aksehir town, in
modern day Turkey.
20.

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Pounce on questions from #31
+10 for getting direct right
+20/-10 on the pounce
Pounce open for 10 seconds

“I just sat there for a moment and pondered the courage and tenacity that is part of
our very recent history, but is part of that long line of folks- sometimes nameless,
oftentimes did not make the history books, but who constantly insisted on their
dignity, their stake in the American Dream.”
Words uttered by President Obama during a visit to the Henry Ford museum in
Dearborn, Michigan in April 2012.
What is the significance of this ?
(Take hint and play for 5 points)
21.

Rosa Parks incident during the height of Black-white tension in
the US

The original:
“Majdoor paida hue, majdoor hi maroge
vote na diya hamein, to zinda jaloge”
In response, the rival says:
“Jal kar hum shola bane hai,
kaun jalayega zinda aapko,
jab hum aapke saath khade hai”
Slogans from which famous political rivalry ?
22.

As a child, X attended an exclusive school in Switzerland, despite being born with all
the world's knowledge already inside his brain. In addition to excelling academically,
he was extremely popular and by age 14 he'd had consensual sex with over 40
students and 7 teachers. After graduating at the top of his and all other classes in
the school, he then continued his education in Y, where he earned 118 PhDs – not
just from the University of X, but also from X University and Northwest X State.
During his university years, X did pioneering work for the Y Space Program. His
projects were a success without rival, killing more astronauts than both the Russian
and American space programs combined. Part of his research managed to confirm
that there's not enough oxygen for a political opponent to survive at altitudes higher
than 45,000 feet. In the same experiment, he confirmed that there is enough gravity
at 45,000 feet for a political opponent's body to return to Earth when thrown from
an aircraft.
X and Y ?
23.

X- Admiral-General Aladeen, Y- Republic of Wadiya

The seal of the Philippine National Police has
a figure of a certain person named Lapu-
Lapu. He is considered to be the first Filipino
hero and was a ruler of the island of Mactan.
The reason why his status in Philippines is
similar to that of Birsa Munda in Jharkhand is
because he was the first native to stand up
against Spanish colonization.
What exactly did he do ?
24.

He was the native who killed Ferdinand Magellan

Nathan Bedford _____ is often erroneously quoted as saying his strategy was to ‘git
that fustest with the mostest’. Now often recast as ‘Getting there firstest with the
moistest’, this misquote appeared in the front page of the NY Tribune in an article
written to provide colourful comments in reaction to European interest in Civil War
generals.
However, after the civil war he was seen as one the earliest members of a group that
had sinister intentions against African Americans and was involved in incidents which
saw Negro voters being whipped for going to vote.
His line of descendants includes one, among many perhaps; famously claimed by a
person Y, born on June 6, 1944 near the town of Greenbow, Alabama and brought to
public light in 1994.
FITB and who is Y ?
25.

Nathan Bedford Forrest, Y= Forrest Gump

The name of this clan of people means “ripping off roots”. Reputedly, during
medieval times, when they used to fight wars in Afghanistan, they would not rest
until they had ripped the enemy tribes of its root.
Today many of this clan live in Gardez, FATA and India and are invariably muslims,
divided along Shia and Sunni. One family in this clan has achieved fame in a totally
different field altogether, claiming to have invented X.
Members of this family are world renowned as exponents of the X and have the clan
name as the surname.
What is this clan name, also lending its name to a station on the Red line in the Delhi
metro ?
26.

This tweet by a person named John Brennan on 10 Feb, 2015- the
day of vote counting in Delhi, appeared on the live feed of
firstpost.com.
What is the funda behind this ?
27.

The first recruits into this group were young men who had graduated from schools.
They fanned out into the rural areas in order to find new recruits and served behind
their officers with dedication and discipline, wearing a simple white over-shirt.
However, the founder realised that they were soon getting dirty, and insisted on the
members to maintain discipline by cleaning shirts everyday. A couple of members
decided the dye the shirt in a certain colour to avoid having to wash it everyday. As it
turned out, the colour proved to be a breakthrough and so the movement was also
known by the colour of shirts worn by its members.
What group am I talking about ?
28.

THE PLEDGE
1. In the name of God who is Present and Evident, I am a _____ _______.
2. I will serve the nation without any self-interest.
3. I will not take revenge (badla) and my actions will not be a burden for anyone.
4. My actions will be non-violent.
5. I will make every sacrifice required of me to stay on this path.
6. I will serve people without regard to their religion or faith.
7. I shall use nation-made goods.
8. I shall not be tempted by any office.

Khudai Khidmatgar (Red Shirts movement)

The label of this product contains the following
verse from the poem Weidmannsheil by the
famous hunter-cum-ornithologist Oskar von
Riesenthal, who has been uncredited.
“Das ist des ____ Ehrenschild,
daß er beschützt und hegt sein Wild,
weidmännisch jagt, wie sich’s gehört,
den Schöpfer im Geschöpfe ehrt.“
A loose translation of this:
“This is the hunter’s badge of glory,
That he protect and tend his quarry,
Hunt with honour as is due,
And through the beast the God is true”
29.

30.
“Yes I was leading and today I can admit it. It was important for me to not come out
in the open because this is a very confidential exercise. I would have wasted half my
time talking to the media about it.”
“Individuals don’t matter on projects like this. People like Anuraag Khandelwal, Satish
deSa, Nilesh Jain, Rajkumar Jha, Pawan Bhatt worked day and night on this; 30
people in Soho Square Mumbai and 20 in Delhi.”
“Anuraag and Nilesh Jain and their team wrote ____ ___ ____ ____ ____. There are
some other people who helped me get this work done — Shoojit Sirkar has been my
biggest partner, when we were making almost 10 films every night. Manish
Sherawat, an animation expert, made the cricket films.”
The creator of a certain something talking about the something. What ?

31.
Graphological analysis of what ?

32.
Batik is a technique of wax-resist dyeing applied to the whole cloth, or cloth made
using this technique. This method generally results in a freedom of choosing
patterns of different kinds without hampering the quality of shirts.
This tradition is maintained even today in many countries in SE Asia and Sri Lanka as
well as India.
On October 2009, UNESCO designated Indonesian Batik as a ‘Masterpiece in Oral
and Intangible heritage of humanity’.
However, which great man made famous this shirt print and always exclusively wore
Batik shirts in public appearances, the first of which was designed by Desre Buirski in
1994 ?

33.
“Be it known that I, _____ ______, of Springfield, in the county of Sangamon, in
the state of Illinois, have invented a new and improved manner of combining
adjustable buoyant air chambers with a steam boat or other vessel for the
purpose of enabling their draught of water to be readily lessened to enable them
to pass over bars, or through shallow water, without discharging their cargoes.”
Patent #6,469 registered by a famous person who had experiences in ferrying
travellers and carrying freight on the Great Lakes and some Midwestern rivers.
This man was associated with wood-cutting in the earlier part of his life until he
became famous for other reasons.

34.
The three men are dipping their fingers into a vat of X. One man reacts with a
sour expression, one with a bitter expression and one with a sweet expression.
Each man’s expression represents his primary attitude towards life and its
happenings. Since this painting shows all three men in a single place, it means,
allegorically, that the ‘three teachings’ are one.
This painting was analysed and featured as the theme for the book ‘The ___ of
Pooh’ by American writer Benjamin Hoff. The title of the book is a throwback to
a 1975 USA bestseller written by a physicist that has been translated into 23
languages and is considered a seminal text in the understanding of Eastern
thoughts with the help of science.
What is the painting about OR who are the three persons ?

VINEGAR TASTERS
Confucius, Buddha,
Lao Tzu

35.
These actors are not exactly well known, perhaps they never will be. How have
they captured our hearts since 2009 specifically during the summer.

36. _____ was first produced by Edmund McIlhenny in 1868, a Maryland born
former banker who moved to Louisiana around 1840. McIlhenny used discarded
cologne bottles to distribute his product to family and friends. He subsequently
started selling it to other customers until resignation from the business in order
to join Theodore Roosevelt’s volunteer cavalry force.
His son took over the business and has made this a famous as a brand that
never compromises on quality and gets its name from a region in the largest
Central American country.
McIlhenny is one of the limited number of American companies to have a Royal
Warrant as a supplier of goods to HM Queen Elizabeth II.
The raw material needed for making this product is aged for upto 3 years in
barrels that have been previously used for aging Jack Daniels Tennessee
whiskey.
What famous product ?

37.
“The blue sign welcoming you into Vaarsveld is written in Korean. This might
seem a little strange, after all the village is nestled in Gelderland, a southern
region of Holland…
If it was not for ______, Vaarsveld would be your average Dutch village. It is
completely flat, with two churches, a school and a smattering of small shops at
its centre, a couple windmills on the outskirts and more than a few bicycles.
Kings Road it is not.
It is immensely popular, by all accounts. The Koreans flocked here in droves,
eager to see the house where _____ was born and the place he played his first
competitive game….”
Dailymail article about what ? Who is this dedicated to ?

Guuseum dedicated to Guus Hiddink, the coach of the South Korean football team in
the 2002 FIFA World Cup

38.
The technical parts of the Pakistani Air Force operations in the 1971 war were
supervised by a certain retired Major General.
He was supplied with a twin engine Beechcraft plane to keep track of all
equipment that kept appearing from destroyed planes. This aircraft was
however destroyed in a daring air raid by then Lt. Arun Prakash, who would go
on to become an Admiral in the Indian Navy.
He thought this was an Indira Gandhi ploy and an Indian way of showing the
finger, thus retiring into Islamabad till the war ended.
This person is however known for being the first person to do something-
related to aircrafts.
Who am I talking about ? What is his record ?

Chuck Yeager, First to break the sound barrier

39.
This proverb has come down in many variations over the centuries. It describes
a situation in which a failure to anticipate or correct some initially small
dysfunction leads by successively more critical stages to an egregious outcome.
The rhyme thereby relates a conjectural example of the "butterfly effect", an
effect studied in chaos theory, involving sensitive dependence on small
differences in initial conditions. The rhyme's implied small difference in initial
conditions is the lack of a spare _______ ____, relative to a condition of its
availability.
At a more literal level, it expresses the importance of military logistics in
warfare.
What is being talked about ?

40.
The Battle of Monte Cassino was a costly series of four assaults by the Allies
against the Germans and Italians in the WW2. The intention was to reach Rome.
The American forces attempted first, but were withdrawn due to heavy
casualties. They were thus replaced by the Kiwi Forces. If British author Fred
Majdalany is to be believed, the codename given to the Kiwis was devised by a
British Staff Officer- apparently because he did not know the difference
between the Australians and the New Zealanders.
What was the code used by the Allies to signal the troops to attack Cassino ?

Don Bradman will be batting tomorrow- Attack
Don Bradman will not be batting tomorrow- Hold

CONNECT # 1
Points on each slide
Non-exhaustive. Definitely.

1. (+100,-50)
Maharani ____ ___ was a queen of the Maratha ruled Malwa state from 1767
to 1795. Her husband was killed in battle in 1754. Twelve years later her father-
in-law died as well following which she was crowned queen of the kingdom. She
is remembered in India’s history and especially in the kingdom’s capital city as a
brave woman who led troops to battle and also as a temple builder, the most
notable of which was one she built at Somanath, having been disheartened at
the dilapidated condition it was in.
Indore, the capital city of her kingdom, a major city today in Central India is
sometimes called ____nagari in her honour.
Who ?

2. (+90,-45)
________ is a pilgrim town and hill station in the Anuppur District of Madhya
Pradesh. Also called ‘Teerthraj’- The King of pilgrimages, _____ it is a unique
heritage site and is the meeting point of the Vindhyas, Satpuras and the Maikal
hill ranges in Central India.
The name of the town comes from the Sanskrit word meaning literally
‘immortal obstruction’.
The river Narmada originates from here.
Which town ?

3. (+80,-40)
The term ____ ______ is a collective term used pejoratively to refer to
members of the new black middle class. The term was not originally derogatory,
having come to describe the development of South Africa and its fast growing
affluent middle-class.
The people referred to by this term have come to be known as gauche noveau
riche, flaunting their western accessories in a gaudy way and indulging in
conspicuous consumption of certain substances.
This term can also refer to a certain mineral which is considered very critical to
the growth of a country.
What term ?

4. (+70,-35)
Wikipedia details about something
important in India’s struggle for
independence.
What ?

5. (+60,-30)
Literally meaning ‘The gift of a cow’, it was first published in 1936 and is
considered to be the greatest Hindustani novels in modern Indian literature.
The author of this book was named Dhanpat Rai Srivastava originally and has
many great works to his credit.
It focuses on the socio-economic deprivation as well as exploitation of the rural
poor and has characters by the name Hori, Dhania, Gobar, Dattadin, Matadin
etc.
Which great work of literature ?

6. (+50,-25)
__________ is an anglicized form of the word by which the ‘realm of the
Cholas’ was known in Tamil. It is generally used for the South Eastern coast of
India, especially that of Tamil Nadu and a part of Andhra Pradesh.
It is also the name of a cement brand in India.

7. (+40,-20)
“Kar chale hum fida jan-o-tan sathiyon
ab tumhare hawale watan sathiyo
zinda rahne ki mausam bahut hai magar
jaan dene ki rut roz ati nahi
husn aur ishq dono ko ruswa kare
wo jawani jo khume nahati nahi
aaj dharti bani hai dulhan sathiyo
Kkar chale hum fida jano tan Sathiyo”
Who famous exponent of Urdu literature is the writer of these lines ?
His daughter, son-in-law, grandson and grand-daughter are pretty famous in
Bollywood too.

8. (+30,-15)
An excerpt from Pg. 46, Kim by Rudyard Kipling:
“And truly the ____ ____ is a wonderful spectacle. It runs straight, bearing
without crowding India’s traffic for fifteen hundred miles- such a river of life as
nowhere else exists in this world.”
What is being talked about ?

9. (+20,-10)
Which famous palace in Hyderabad, the name of which literally means ‘like the
sky’ in Urdu ?

10. (+10)
Sitter.
It is a collection of poems by the Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore. The name
literally means ‘an offering of songs’ and its English translation was perhaps the
pivotal reason for Tagore winning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913, the first
Non-European to do so.
What ?

11. (+5)
Ab to connect bata do. It cant be easier than this..

1. (+100,-50)
Maharani ____ ___ was a queen of the Maratha ruled Malwa state from 1767
to 1795. Her husband was killed in battle in 1754. Twelve years later her father-
in-law died as well following which she was crowned queen of the kingdom. She
is remembered in India’s history and especially in the kingdom’s capital city as a
brave woman who led troops to battle and also as a temple builder, the most
notable of which was one she built at Somanath, having been disheartened at
the dilapidated condition it was in.
The capital city of her kingdom, a major city today in Central India is sometimes
called ____nagari in her honour.
Who ?

Ahilyabai Holkar
Indore is also called ‘Ahilyanagari’

7. (+40,-20)
“Kar chale hum fida jan-o-tan sathiyon
ab tumhare hawale watan sathiyo
zinda rahne ki mausam bahut hai magar
jaan dene ki rut roz ati nahi
husn aur ishq dono ko ruswa kare
wo jawani jo khume nahati nahi
aaj dharti bani hai dulhan sathiyo
Kkar chale hum fida jano tan Sathiyo”
Which famous exponent of Urdu literature is the writer of these lines ?
His daughter, son-in-law, grandson and grand-daughter are pretty famous in
Bollywood too.

11. (+5)
Another sitter. This restaurant chain is famous for unlimited food.

CONNECT ?
Express Train names in India

VISUAL CONNECT # 2
Points on each slide
Non-exhaustive

1. (+50/-25)
The main protagonist of ‘The
Tempest’. He is the rightful Duke of
Milan, who was put to sea (along
with her daughter, Miranda) “on a
rotten carcass of a butt (boat)” to
die by his treacherous brother,
Antonio.
His final soliloquy and epilogue is
considered to be the best in
Shakespearean literature.

2. (+40/-20)
Sanskrit: Vat Vriksha
Telugu: Marri Vrikshamu
Tamil: Ala Maram
Odia: Bara Gacha
Bengali: Bot Gaach
Hindi: Bargad, Vatvriksha
English: ______

3. (+30/-15)
The first battle battle during the American struggle for
independence happened in ______, Kentucky.
The shot fired here was described by Ralph Waldo
Emerson as ‘the shot that was heard round the world’.

4. (+20/-10) The Father of computers..

5. (+10) Considered to be the Father of Europe. One of the greatest ‘King of
Franks’. Famously over 7 feet in height. Reigned from 800 AD to 814 AD

6. (+5) Strange looking tree. Famously native of Madagascar.

1. (+50/-25)
The main protagonist of ‘The
Tempest’. He is the rightful Duke of
Milan, who was put to sea (along
with her daughter, Miranda) “on a
rotten carcass of a butt (boat)” to
die by his treacherous brother,
Antonio.
His final soliloquy and epilogue us
considered to be the best in
Shakespearean literature.
PROSPERO

2. (+40/-20)
Sanskrit: Vat Vriksha
Telugu: Marri Vrikshamu
Tamil: Ala Maram
Odia: Bara Gacha
Bengali: Bot Gaach
Hindi: Bargad, Vatvriksha
English: ______
BANYAN

3. (+30/-15)
The first battle battle during the American struggle for
independence happened in ______, Kentucky.
The shot fired here was described by Ralph Waldo
Emerson as ‘the shot that was heard round the world’.
LEXINGTON

4. (+20/-10) The Father of computers..BABBAGE

5. (+10) Considered to be the Father of Europe. One of the greatest ‘King of
Franks’. Famously over 7 feet in height. Reigned from 800 AD to 814 AD
CHARLEMAGNE

6. (+5) Strange looking tree. Famously native of Madagascar.
BAOBAB

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