Grade 7 quiz

Question 4. This is Vajubhai Rudabhai Vala.
What post does he hold?

Answer 4.
!Governor of
Karnataka

Question 6 Identify this famous
virtual currency.

Q.7. Who is Google paying tribute to?

Answers
!R K NARAYAN (1906 – 2001)

Answer 8.
!M F HUSSAIN (1915 – 2011)

Answer 9.
!B R Ambedkar (1891 –
1956)

Q10. Who is Google paying tribute to?

Answer 10
!C V RAMAN (1888 – 1970)

Answer 14.
!Bhaag Milkha Bhaag
(2013)

Answer18
!English Vinglish (2012)

Round 3. Buzzer Round. Fastest Bang
on the table gets to answer first
!Now its get a little tough ;)

Question 19
! The flower of this plant
blossoms once only in 12
years. The Paliyan tribal
people living in Tamil
Nadu used it as a
reference to calculate
their age. The flower is
called Neelakurinji.
! The _________ hills are
named after this flower.

Question 20 These 2 men represent a
community in the Lok Sabha for which they
have reserved entry since they don’t have a
native state of their own. Which community?

Answer 20
!Anglo – Indian Community

Question 21
!This dish was introduced in 1965 at the
Buhari Hotel restaurant in Chennai by
its founder A.M.Buhari. He also put up
dishes with the suffix 78, 82 and 90;
based on the years he introduced
them. But the first dish has become a
cult Indian starter. Name the dish.

Question 22
!This Father- Daughter duo have two
touristy locations in Bangalore
named after them. Lying on
opposite sides of the same road,
one is a planetarium and the other
is a musical fountain. Name both
people.

Ans.22. Jawaharlal Nehru & Indira Gandhi

Question 23
! Krantivira Sangolli Rayanna (15 August
1798 – 26 January 1831)was a prominent
warrior from Karnataka, India. He was the
army chief of the Kingdom of Kittur ruled at
the time by Rani Chennamma and fought
the British East India Company till his death.
What prominent landmark in Bengaluru
was renamed after him in 2016?

Answer 23. Bangalore City Railway
Station in Majestic.

Q. 24. Identify where this couple would
be from or their community name?

Answer 24.
!Coorgi/Madikeri/Kodava

Q 25. Where in India will you find this
unusual structure?

Answer 25
!Auroville, Pondicherry

Q 26 Buzz Edwin Aldrin
tweeted this. He was the
second man to walk on the
moon.

Q 27.
!This is Chakravarti
Rajagopalachari
(1878 – 1972). He is
India’s First and
Last Indian
___________-
General of India.

Ans to Q 27.
!Governor General of
India (1948 – 1950)

Q 28. What is so special about Rafflesia
arnoldii, the flower below?

Ans. 28
!It is the largest
flower in the world.

Q 29. Identify this temple, rumoured to
be possessing more wealth than
Tirupati?
! ,

Answer 29.
!Sri Anantha Padmanabha Temple,
Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala.

Q 30. Called by Shivaji as the most impregnable fortress in India and
Troy of the East by the British. Which fort and where would you find it.

Ans 31
!Gingee Fort, Tiruvanamalai,
Tamil Nadu

Round 4. Rapid round. 7 questions to each
team. To be answered in one minute

Team 1.
1. Which was the capital
of the Vijayanagar
empire?

Team 1.
!2. In which cartoon series
would you find Homer,
Marge, Bart, Lisa?

Team 1.
!3. Where is the United
Nations Headquarters?

Team 1.
!4. Who was the first Vice
President of India?

Team 1.
!5. How many players on
a beach volleyball
team?

Team 1.
!6. What is sodium
carbonate otherwise
known as?

Team 1.
!7. What is the diameter of an
official TT ball?

Answers.
!1. Hampi
!2. Simpsons
!3. New York
!4. Sarvepalli
Radhakrishnan
5. Two
6. Washing
Soda
7. 40 cm

Team 2.
!1. To which sport is
Baichung Bhutia
associated?

Team 2.
!2. Which is naturally
the hardest substance
available on Earth?

Team 2.
!3. Whose famous speech is
known as “Tryst with Destiny”,
was delivered on 14 August
1947?

Team 2
!4. Which item of India’s
national pride was based upon
a design by Pingali Venkayya?

Team 2.
!5. The highest waterfall in the
world is ?

Team 2.
!6. The food dish “Mudde” in
Karnataka is commonly made
from which millet?

Team 2.
!7. Which famous university of
India was destroyed by
Bakhtiyar Khilji in 1200?

Answers for team 2.
!1. Soccer
!2. Diamond
!3. Jawaharlal
Nehru
!4. India’s
National Flag
5. Angel Falls
6. Ragi/Finger
Millet
7. Nalanda

Team 3.
!1. What is 3.14159
commonly known as?

Team 3.
!2. If a dozen is twelve,
then how many is a
Baker’s dozen?

Team 3.
!3. Who was Chandragupta
Maurya’s famous advisor?

Team 3.
!4. M S Visvesvaraya built which
famous dam that opened in
1938?

Team 3.
!5. Which express train service
always ends or starts from New
Delhi?

Team 3.
!6. ___________ program, a
series of American space
missions that ultimately
landed men on the Moon.

Team 3.
!7. Which Christian Saint from
Macedonia lived in Calcutta and
won the 1978 Nobel Peace Prize?

Team 3 Answers
!1. Pi
!2. Thirteen
!3. Kautilya/
Chanakya
4. Krishna Raja
Sagara (KRS)
5. Rajdhani
6.Apollo
7. Mother Theresa

Team 4.
!1. Its mathematical term is 1
followed by a 100 zeroes. But if
misspelt is also the most
popular search engine?

Team 4.
!2. Alex Fergusson was
associated most famously with
the club _____________________
United.

Team 4.
!3. Which famous folk/blues/
rock musician won the 2016
Nobel Prize for Literature?

Team 4.
!4. Which famous book
series is J K Rowling the
author of ?

Team 4.
!5. What is the full form of the
D/L method, a
mathematical formula used
in cricket?

Team 4
!6. The United States
Department of Defence
headquarters is named after
the shape of the building it
houses. What shape?

Team 4.
!7. When did Goa become a
part of India?

Team 4.
!8. Bombyx mori is an insect that
feeds only on the leaves of the
mulberry tree which finally
gives rise to which cloth
material?

Team 4 Answers
!1.Googol/google
! 2. Manchester
!3. Bob Dylan
!4. Harry Potter Series
!5. Duckworth/Lewis
6. Pentagon
7.1961
8. Silk

Team 5.
!1. Last month Nirmala
Sitharaman became the
second female defence
Minister of India. Who was the
first?

Team 5.
!2. What is the full form of
the BJP?

Team 5.
!3. C N Rao was awarded
the Bharat Ratna along with
______________ in 2013.

Team 5.
!4. Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen (usually
abbreviated) stands for which
famous Indian?

Team 5.
!5. How many rings in
the Olympic flag?

Team 5.
!6. Rabindranath Tagore is the
author of National Anthems for
two countries. One is India, the
other is _____ .

Team 5 .
!7. Whose first court statement
was this in South Africa 1962,
“Black man in a white man’s
court.”

Answers to Team 5
!1. Indira Gandhi
!2. Bharathiya Janata Party
!3. Sachin Tendulkar
!4. APJ Abdul Kalam
!5. Five
!6. Bangladesh
!7. Nelson Mandela

Team 6.
!1. The length of term for the
President of the US of A.

Team 6.
!2. Which religion did BR
Ambedkar convert to in the
last year of his life?

Team 6.
!3. The 101st Amendment to the
Constitution changed the
entire tax system of India this
year. What is the name of this
tax?

Team 6.
!4. Mandya is known as the
_________ city.

Team 6.
!5. What is the famous children’s
book series written by Enid Blyton?

Team 6
!6. How many holes in a
standard round of golf?

Team 2.
!7. What is the breed of
Scooby Doo?

Answers to team 6
! 1. Four years
! 2. Buddhism
! 3. Goods and Services Tax
! 4. Sugar
! 5. Famous Five
! 6. Eighteen
! 7. Great Dane

Round 5
!Final Round Questions.

FRQ 1. What connects these images?

Answer to FRQ 1
!Names of Sports awards in
India
!1. Drona
!2. Arjuna
!3. Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna

FRQ 2. Peter Brueghel the Elder painted this in 1559.
Identify the parts of the painting here to know the
idea behind his masterpiece.

PROVERBS(1559)
a.Count your
chickens before
they hatch
b.Don’t cry over
spilt milk
c.Bang your
head against
the wall.

FRQ 3 . What connects these three
people?

Answer to FRQ 3
! 1. Jayalalitha
! 2. N T Rama Rao
! 3. M G Ramachandran
! ALL THREE WERE FILM ACTORS WHO WENT ON TO BECOMES CHIEF
MINISTERS FOR THEIR RESPECTIVE STATES.

FR – 4. Find the common theme
! Answer the common answer connecting the
five clues.
Answer it with the first clue– 50 points
Answer it with the second clue– 40 points
And so on till you answer it with the fifth clue to
get 10 points
Answering each question will give you 10 points
as well.

Question 1. Clue 1.
!The Battle of ****** of 1944 is often
referred to as the "Stalingrad of the
East". In 2013, the British National
Army Museum voted the Battle of
Imphal and the Battle of ****** to be
"Britain's Greatest Battle”.
!Q.a. Who were the two countries
that fought in this Battle?

Question 1. Clue 2.
John Maxwell
Edmonds is credited
with authorship of
this epitaph.
Q.b. What is the
name of this place

Which famous festival happens in
December in this state?

Question 1. Clue 4.
!Well Dimapur may be the
largest city in this state and
also boast of a railway
station, I’m still the capital
city.
!Q.e. Which city.

Clue 5. Well if your not from this State, you need X to
enter this State. State X. (Hint, look at the photo
closely). I want the Full Form.

Answer to FR3
!Q.a. Britain and Japan
!Q.b. Kohima war cemetery
!Q.c. Hornbill Festival
!Q.d. Kohima
!Q.e. Inter Line Permit
!The binding theme answer: NAGALAND

Open question: What is the profession of the men
in black sitting in Ibadat Khanna at Fatehpur Sikri

Answer
!Christian Priests. Jesuits to be
precise.
!Jerome Xavier SJ &
!Emmanuel Pinheiro SJ

For Fr. Benny, Fr. Lijo and other
Fathers.
!Jesus’ and John the Baptist’s
birthdays fall approximately on
important events in Astronomy.
What events?

Answer for the Fathers question
!Winter Solistice(NH) for Jesus
!Summer Solistice(NH) for John the Baptist.
!The philosophy behind this according to St. Augustine:
!Hence it is that He was born on the day which is the
shortest in our earthly reckoning and from which
subsequent days begin to increase in length. He,
therefore, who bent low and lifted us up chose the
shortest day, yet the one whence light begins to
increase."

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