History Quiz

PRELIMS
Marks carrying forward to the mains.

1. THAT ETYMOLOGY
QUESTION
_________ is a reminder of the days when
Indian slaves from the Indian subcontinent
died in the harsh weather typical of the
Afghan mountains while being transported
to Central Asia. It refers to the unofficially
worst *something-something*.

2.
X is an Indian made liquor, blended and aged for 7
years (though there is also more expensive, 12 year old
version). It is produced by Mohan Meakin, based in
Mohan Nagar, Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, available in all
parts of India. There is no advertising whatsoever for the
brand, its popularity depends on word of mouth and
loyalty of customers. It is the third largest selling liquor
of its category in the world. X has been the biggest
Indian Made Foreign Liquor (IMFL) brand for many
years. X?

3.
Many methods were proposed to stabilise it:
-One of them was the addition of 800 tonnes of lead
counterweights to the raised end of the base.
-next the bells were removed to relieve some weight, and
cables were cinched around the third level and anchored
several hundred meters away.  
-The final solution was to slightly straighten it to a safer angle,
by removing 38 cubic metres of soil from underneath. 
None of them worked. What am I talking about?

4.
Towards the afternoon his turn came. Though initially nervous, he
bowed to Saraswati, the Hindu goddess of learning, and he felt he
got new energy in his body; he felt someone or something else had
occupied his body– "The Soul of India, the echo of the Rishis, the
voice of Ramakrishna, the mouthpiece of the resurgent Time spirit".
[3]
Then began his speech with salutation, X To these words he got a
standing ovation from a crowd of seven thousand, which lasted for
two minutes. When silence was restored he began his address. He
greeted the youngest of the nations on behalf of "the most ancient
order of monks in the world, the Vedic order of sannyasins, a
religion which has taught the world both tolerance and universal
acceptance.!“ Who is he and what was the world famous salutation
X?

5.
Professor P.N. Oak claims this structure Y to be actually
a hindu temple dedicated to Lord Shiva. He says that the
pinnacle of the structure is a Kalash. He further claimed
that the octagonal shape of the structure has special
significance because the number 8 is considered
auspicious in Hindu mythology. Oak’s claim to declare Y
as a temple dedicated to Lord Shiva was rejected by the
Supreme Court. Things of world wide fame and wonder
such as Y are bound to generate conspiracy theories.
Aren’t they?

6.
The construction of X was started by the French.
However, the French effort went bankrupt after
reportedly spending US$ 287000000 and losing
22000 lives. The construction was taken over by the US
in 1904 and the project was completed in a decade by
1914. The project is still an engineering marvel and a
testimony to the strength of human will power.. What?

7.
Soon after, the authorities rounded up anyone who
might have been associated with the X. Mary Surratt
was arrested on April 30. Surratt’s son, John, Jr., was
also thought to be involved in the conspiracy, but he
fled to Canada. Although she claimed to be innocent,
she was tried and convicted by a military commission.
Mary Surratt was hanged. She was the first woman to
be executed in history of America.  
What‘d she do?

8.
The X has been in at least two Bollywood movies -
Satyakam - where it was supposedly the Medical College
Dharmendra's character went to, and more recently Y. 
Information on Y- 
While dying, 
“Any rajput here who could please give me some water";
Hawaldar Tribhuwan started walking towards _____
with some water but the Circle inspector shouted at
him: "Tribhuwan, dacoit has no caste".

10.THE FENDER BENDER
_________ had two rare forms of cancer,
liposarcoma and Waldenström's macroglobulinemia,
dying shortly after a ﬁnal attempt at surgery for the
former, aged 69. His last words are noted as, "I'd
hate to die twice. It's so boring."

11.
The first myth about X is that in the first half of the 17th century, Madho Singh of Amber
built his capital here with the sanction of an ascetic Baba Balanath, who meditated here, but
said: “The moment the shadow of your palace touches me, you are undone. The
city shall be no more!" In ignorance, Ajab Singh, one of the dynasty's later descendants,
raised the palace to such a height that the shadow reached the forbidden place. Hence the
devastation. The samādhi where Balanath is said to be buried is still there.  
The second myth is that the charm of princess Ratnavati was said to be matchless in all of
Rajasthan. In the same region there was a tantrik Singhia Sevra who was desperately in
love with her. One day, he saw the princess' maid in the market buying scented oil for her. He
used his black magic and put a spell on the oil which would hypnotize the princess by her
merely touching the oil, and she would surrender herself. The princess was herself well trained
in magic. She threw the bottle away and it rolled over a stone. As soon as the oil touched the
stone, it started rolling towards the tantrik and crushed him. Concentrating all his powers, he
spat his dying curse: "I die! But thou too, thou Ratnavali shall not live here anymore.
Neither thou, nor thine kin, nor these walls of the city. None shall see the
morning sun!” The night was spent transferring the palace treasures to Ajabgarh. In the
morning came the tempest leveling everything to the ground. 
X and its significance??

12.
Krishna placed a curse on X that "he will carry the burden of all people's sins
on his shoulders and will roam alone like a ghost without getting any love and
courtesy till the end of Kaliyuga. He will have neither any hospitality nor any
accommodation; He will be in total isolation from mankind and society; His
body will suffer from a host of incurable diseases forming sores and ulcers that
would never heal". X had to surrender the gem that he had on his forehead
which used to protect the wearer from any diseases, weapons, snake bites,
attack from demigods and demons. Krishna further stated that "the wound
caused by the removal of this Gem will never heal; The blood will always ooze
out from it forming puss with foul smell and thereby causing lots of pain to
him till the end of Kaliyuga". Thus, X will suffer to such an extent that he will
be in search of death every moment, and yet he will never die. There are
various reports of sightings by people of a tall, strong, ailing man with a
wound on his forehead begging for medication till today.

14.
The first temple is said to have existed before the beginning of the common era.
The second temple, built by the Yadava kings of Vallabhi, replaced the first one on the same site
around 649.  
In 725, Junayad, the Arab governor of Sind, sent his armies to destroy the second temple.
Nagabhata II constructed the third temple in 815, a large structure of red sandstone. 
In 1024, it was once again destroyed by Mahmud of Ghazni. It was rebuilt by the King Bhoj of
Malwa and Bhimadev I of Anhilwara between 1026 and 1042. The wooden structure was replaced
by Kumarpal (1143-72), who built the temple of stone. 
In 1296 CE, it was once again destroyed by Sultan Allauddin Khilji's army. The temple was rebuilt
by Mahipala Deva in 1308 and the Linga was installed by his son Khengar sometime between 1326
and 1351. 
 
In 1375, it was once again destroyed by Muzaffar Shah I.  
In 1451, it was once again destroyed by Mahmud Begda.  
In 1701, it was once again destroyed by Aurangzeb. He built a mosque on the site of the
temple, using some columns from the temple, whose Hindu sculptural motifs remained visible.  
Later on a joint effort of Peshwa of Pune, Raja Bhonsle of Nagpur, Chhatrapati Bhonsle of
Kolhapur, Queen Ahilyabai Holkar of Indore & Shrimant Patilbuwa Shinde of Gwalior rebuilt the
temple in 1783 at a site adjacent to the ruined temple.

HINDU KUSH
which takes literal derivation from “slaughter of
hindus”, it is the worst human genocide in the history
with almost as 20%? of the Hindu population wiped out
of the earth.

4.
Excerpt from Wikipedia:
Towards the afternoon his turn came. Though initially nervous, he bowed
to Saraswati, the Hindu goddess of learning, and he felt he got new energy
in his body; he felt someone or something else had occupied his body– "The
Soul of India, the echo of the Rishis, the voice of Ramakrishna, the
mouthpiece of the resurgent Time spirit".
[3]
Then began his speech with
salutation, X To these words he got a standing ovation from a crowd of
seven thousand, which lasted for two minutes. When silence was restored he
began his address. He greeted the youngest of the nations on behalf of "the
most ancient order of monks in the world, the Vedic order of sannyasins, a
religion which has taught the world both tolerance and universal
acceptance.!“ Who is he and what was the world famous salutation X?

Swami Vivekanand;
X= Sisters and brothers of America

ABRAHAM LINCOLN
ASSASSINATION PLOT

James Thomason Building 
Paan Singh Tomar

Mercator Projection wala banda 
Mercator

Bhangarh, Rajasthan 
 
The most haunted place in India. 
 
The Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) has put up a
signboard stating (among others): 
 
"Entering the borders of Bhangarh before sunrise and
after sunset is strictly prohibited”.

Ashwaththama, one of the Chiranjeevis according to
the Hindu Puranas

Hyderabad issues: The Government of Hyderabad had made
several efforts to organise private bankers to set up a banking
company which could issue paper money. The British, however
resisted the attempts of Indian princely states to issue paper currency.
The acute shortage of silver during the First World War and the
contributions of Hyderabad State to the British war effort led them to
accept, in 1918, paper currency in denominations of Rs.10/- and Rs.
100/- issued under the Hyderabad Currency Act. The currency was
designated the Osmania Sicca (OS). Rupee One and Rupees Five
notes were issued subsequently in 1919 and Rupees One Thousand
notes were issued in 1926. After the setting up of the India Currency
Notes Press at Nasik, Hyderabad notes came to be printed there.

1.
In the latest episode of Sherlock, The Abominable Bride.
John Watson notes that Lestrade is a man who does not want a
drink, he needs one, and Sherlock replies “my Boswell is learning.
They do grow up so fast.” This is. of course, a reference to James
Boswell, diarist, biographer and companion of the English literary
giant X. He occupied such a unique position in X’s life that his
surname has become a noun describing a constant, loyal companion
and observer (Sam Gamgee in The Lord of the Rings is an excellent
Boswell for Frodo Baggins). It’s a nod to the moment in Sir Arthur
Conan Doyle’s A Scandal in Bohemia in which Holmes affectionately
says of Watson, “I am lost without my Boswell.”

2.
Their hats and cloaks, of fashion new,
Are made of oilcloth, dark of hue,
Their caps with glasses are designed,
Their bills with anEdotes all lined,
That foulsome air may do no harm,
Nor cause the ______ man alarm,
The staﬀ in hand must serve to show
Their noble trade where'er they go
Above is a porEon of a 17th century poem that describes the X's costume.
The costume worn by X was usually consisted of a full head-to-toe protecEve garment. This
consisted of not only the bird-like mask, but of a long leather or waxed-canvas gown which
was from the neck to the ankle. The over-clothing garment, as well as leggings, gloves, boots,
and a hat, were made of waxed leather. The garment was impregnated with similar fragrant
items as the beak mask.
Give me X or what is their role in the community?

3.
X has been branded the greenest king in history -due to his
monumental efforts huge swathes of culEvated land returned to
forest. X helped remove nearly 700 million tons of carbon from
the atmosphere. The nature of his acEviEes meant that large
areas of culEvated land grew thick once again with trees, which
absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Although his
methods may be difficult for environmentalists to accept,
ecologists believe it may be the first ever case of successful
manmade global cooling.
Give me X.

4. 2 SLIDE QUESTION
Y was a king in ancient India. He was a valiant warrior and the great-grandson of a great
king named Kusha. On one of his exploits, he and his soldiers took rest in the ashram of
Rishi Vasishta. There, his whole army was well fed and taken care of. This caused a doubt in
the king's mind as to how it was possible for this simple ashram to take care of all the
arrangements to feed an entire army. He expressed his surprise to the sage. Vasishta replied,
"O king, this feast that you have partaken with your kinsmen, has been provided by my calf
Nandini , who was gifted to me by Indra. You must know that she is the daughter of Indra's
cow Kamadhenu. She provides me with everything I need.“ Y was filled with wonder when he
heard this. He felt that the sage did not need a calf that could feed an army and asked
Vasishta to give him the calf. Vasishta was polite, but steadfast in his refusal. The king grew
exceedingly angry. He insulted the Brahmarishi with harsh words, and ordered his soldiers
to seize the cow, and drive it to his kingdom. By his yogic powers, the great sage Vasishta,
called forth an entire army of fierce warriors. They fought the army of Y and defeated it
thoroughly. Y was captured and presented before Vasishta. The sage pardoned the king and
sent him away with words of advice.

Y seeks to attain the same spiritual power as Vasishta, to become his equal, a brahmarishi. He
undertakes a fierce penance for one thousand years, after which Brahma names him a Rajarishi, or
royal sage. After many more thousands of years of penance, Brahma names him maharishi, but also
tells him that he hasn't become a jitendriya yet, lacking control over his passions. This is brought to
light to Y when he angrily curses Rambha, an apsara sent by Indra to seduce Y, to become a stone
for a thousand years. After cursing Rambha, Y goes to the highest mountain of the Himalayas to
perform an even more severe tapasya for over a thousand years. He ceases to eat, and reduces his
breathing to a bare minimum.
He is tested again by Indra, who comes as a poor Brahmin begging for food just as Y is ready to
break a fast of many years by eating some rice. Y instantly gives his food away to Indra and resumes
his meditation. Y also finally masters his passions, refusing to be provoked by any of Indra's testing
and seductive interferences.
At the penultimate culmination of a multi-thousand year journey, Y's yogic power is at a peak. At
this point, Lord Brahma, at the head of the Devas led by Indra, names Y a brahmarishi, and names
him X, or ‘Friend of All’ for his unlimited compassion. He is also embraced by Vasishta, and their
enmity is instantly ended. X?

X – VISHWAMITRA
Y – KAUSHIKA, HIS ORIGINAL NAME.

5.
James Montgomery Flagg was anAmerican artist and illustrator. He
worked in media ranging from fine art painting to cartooning. He
was enthusiastic about drawing from a young age, and had
illustrations accepted by national magazines by the age of 12 years.
By 14 he was a contributing artist for Life magazine, and the
following year was on the staff of another magazine, Judge.  
However, when Flagg was looking for a model for his most famous
work, his search proved futile.Therefore, he simply used his own
face, aged a little for effect, and added a goatee beard.What?

6.
Some scholars have postulated that these structures were borrowed
from Islamic nations, probably from the Khanate of Kazan, whose
conquest was commemorated by the erection of St. Basil's
Cathedral –the most famous example of such structures.
Others argued that these structures first appeared in the country’s
wooden architecture, above tent-like churches. According to this
theory, they were strictly utilitarian, as they prevented snow from
piling on the roof.  
What structures?

7.
King Prithvi Narayan is said to have offered a saint
called Baba Gorakhnath a bowl of curd. The saint spat
the curd back into the bowl and told the king to drink it
as prasad.
The offended king dropped the cup, such that the curd
splashed all over his toes. The angry saint t cursed him.
What was the curse, and how did it take effect?

MASSACRE OF THE
NEPALESE ROYAL FAMILY

8.
What does the following shloka from the Isha
Upanishad of the Yajurveda explain?
“Om poornamadah poornamidam
Poornaat Poornamudachyate
Poornasya poornamaadaya Poornamevaavashishyate
Om shantih shantih”

THE CONCEPT OF
INFINITY
"If you remove a part from infinity  
or add a part to infinity, 
what remains is infinity..."

10.
An example of the fatal effects of procrastination, the defeat of the
Mughals by the Persians in this battle X, fought just 110 kms from Delhi
resulted in a plunder of the city of Delhi by the victorious Persians who
under the command of their leader Y killed 30000 civilians. The
Persians took the Peacock throne, the kohi-noor and darya-ye noor
diamond s. The plunder seized from India was so rich that Y stopped
taxation in Iran for a period of three years following his return. The
Mughal ruler, Muhammad Shah kept delaying the Mughal response to
Y’s approach towards Delhi and acted only when he was 110 kms away.
This delay in action is often cited as the main reason for Mughal defeat.
When asked to act, Muhammad Shah repeated the phrase Z. This phrase
is used till date to scare Indian procrastrinatots. X,Y,Z?

X= BaVle of Karnal; Y= Nadir Shah;
Z= Abhi Dilli duur hai

11.
These silver objects were built under the direction of
Maharaja Madho Singh II. They were created over a
two year period between 1894 and 1896. Over 14,000
silver coins were used, and these objects hold the
record of the largest single objects constructed from
silver.
What were they, and how were they used ?

The Silver Urns which he carried to UK for
coronation of the Prince to carry the Ganga water. He
didn’t want to drink another country’s water.

12.
The new claim would prove wrong earlier evidence that the first train
started its journey in 1853 from Mumbai to Thane.
The new fact came to light in an old book published in 1860 in which its
author, P.T. Cautley, revealed that the engine of the first train was brought
from Britain in 1851 and it began its first journey in the same year.
It may change the track of history of the Indian Railways, claiming that
the first train in the country had run between X and Y on December 22,
1851 and not two years later as widely known.

13.
"Chaar baas, chaubees gaj, angul ashta pramaan, ta
upar sultaan hai, mat chuke X".
These are the lines composed by the court poet of
famous Indian ruler X. X's court poet and X died on the
same day.It's also said that they were born on the same
day."
Who is X and his court poet?

Prithviraj Chauhan
Poet : Chand Bardai

14. THE GREAT
___ WAR
X were threatening Australian
farmland, so the government sent in
the army to machine gun the X. The
troops were recalled after a series of
embarrassing failures, which resulted
in "only a few" X being killed.

15.
And then later that day X’s convoy took a wrong turn
somewhere onto a street where one of Čabrinović's
cohorts, Gavrilo Princip, just happened to be hanging
out, so he just walked up and shot him.
Princip, then attempted to commit suicide by cyanide,
but like Čabrinović, it just induced vomiting. So he tried
to shoot himself, but he was prevented from doing so by
by another crowd who severely beat him before he was
taken into custody.

16.
Former members of the X are continuing, for the seventh straight year, to kill Y, hypnotist,
healer, and counsel to former Z. "In the first year, we commenced with our plan to poison him,
shoot him, stab him, and then drown him in the Neva River," said Prince Felix Yusupov, leader
of the aristocrats charged with killing the charismatic mystic. "But those efforts met with fair to
middling success, as Y continued to stay alive."
AN INVOLVED PROJECT!
In 1917 alone, the Kill Y Project conceived of attempts to speed up the process, such as
encasing his head in solid iron, repeated electrocutions, two beheadings, and a burial.
Yusupov recalls: "It was in 1919, at the Kill Y Project holiday staff party, that someone came up
with the idea of chopping his body into hundreds of little pieces and scattering them across the
X (part of X) countryside."
The chopping up of Y, for a short time, seemed to be succeeding, until word reached the
project's headquarters that Y had been seen cavorting with Russian farm ladies, coercing them
into unsavoury relations using his strange and irresistible charm.
ALMOST DEAD!
In later years, Y was set on fire, dissolved in acid, boiled alive, flensed, fed molten lead,
ground beneath the wheels of a freight train, thrown from the top of ______, impaled on
sharpened stakes, buried under 10 tons of hot gravel, struck at high speeds by an automobile,
strapped to the mouth of a great cannon which was then fired several times, bolted to the keel
of an icebreaking ship which was repeatedly run aground, drawn and quartered, crucified, run
through with a cavalry spear from bowel to gullet, vivisected, and eviscerated. Furthermore,
throughout the process, he was continually re-poisoned, re-stabbed and re-shot.
"We're making excellent progress," Yusupov said. "This trickster's mysterious influence over
the now-dead will soon come to an end. It is only a matter of time."
The team expects Y’s death to take place no later than 1925.

X- Russian Aristocracy
Y- Rasputin
Tsar Nicholas II

17.
Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address starts with
the phrase, “Four Score and Seven Years ago”. What
does it refer to?

Outbreak of the American Revolution.

1. ‘W’ GOES TO THE
CONNECT
In 800 AD Charlemagne was crowned emperor of a territory which covered much
of western and central Europe; this created an institution that would remain for a
long time, in one form or another. The Empire was reinvigorated by Otto I in the
tenth century, and his imperial coronation in 962 has also been used to define the
start of both the X. By this stage Charlemagne's empire had been divided, and the
remainder was based around a set of core territories.

The geography, politics and strength of this empire continued to fluctuate
massively over the next eight hundred years, but the imperial ideal, and the
heartland, remained.

In 1806 the Empire was abolished by the then Emperor Francis II, partly as a
response to the Napoleonic threat. Allowing for the difficulties in summarising the
X - it was generally a loose confederation of many smaller, almost independent,
territories, with little desire to vastly expand across Europe.

THE ANSWER ‘Z’ GOES TO
THE CONNECT

‘Z’ (SAME AS BEFORE),
GOES TO THE CONNECT

X GOES TO THE CONNECT
The dissolution of the X, combined with a growing feeling of German
nationalism, led to repeated attempts at unifying the multitude of German
territories, before a single state was created almost solely by the will of
_____________. Between 1862 and 1871 this great Prussian politician
used a combination of persuasion, strategy, skill and outright warfare to
create a German Empire dominated by Prussia, and ruled by the X (Part of
X). This new state, the X, grew to dominate European politics at the close of
the 19th, and start of the 20th, century. In 1918, after defeat in the Great
War, a popular revolution forced the X (part of X) into abdication and exile;
a republic was then declared. The X was the largely the opposite of the W,
despite having the X (part of X) as a similar imperial figurehead: a
centralised and authoritarian state which, after the dismissal of ________
in 1890, maintained an aggressive foreign policy.

2. THE ANSWER ‘Z’ GOES
TO THE CONNECT

2. ’Z’ (SAME AS BEFORE),
GOES TO THE CONNECT

Kaiser Reich and the ______ being Otto Von

LEGENDARY ONE BALLED
PEOPLE
including

-Jane Doe
“The four legendary German Reichs”

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