Inaugural India Quiz - Semis
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The Semis for Inaugural India Quiz hosted at XLRI on 15th August 2019
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Inaugural India Quiz - Semis
- 3. Each team chooses one state or UT ( question topic ) to drop on another unsuspecting team ( only once ) Each team can drop or be dropped on ,only once. If the receiving team gets it right , they get +10 and the choosing team gets a -5 If the receiving team gets it wrong , they get -5 and the choosing team gets a +10 If the receiving team does not respond , they get 0 and the choosing team gets a +10 Question rebounds back to the choosing team if unanswered If the choosing team gets it right they get +10 If they get it wrong, they get a -10 If they don’t answer it’s a 0 Questions don’t pass to anyone else . Only to the audience. Do not shout out the answers and wait for the QM’s instructions Rules
- 4. Hari Singh Nalwa ,the Sikh commander-administrator of Maharaja Ranjit Singh, built a fort in this place , on the banks of the Jhelum . The fort served as a very important lookout point since the place was situated on the Rawalpindi – Baramulla - Srinagar road and was strategically important during the Anglo-Sikh wars. Which place are we talking about? JoKa
- 10. What are we talking about? •Khoya-Paya location tracker •24x7devotional content streaming •Real time schedule of trains , buses •Daily quizzes •Emergency contact pre-stored
- 11. Jio Kumbh
- 13. BHOJPURI
- 14. Which UNESCO world heritage ‘site’?
- 16. Railway engineers extending the Dibrugarh-Sadiya railway line to Ledo for the Assam Railways and Trading Company (AR&TC) in 1882 were using elephants for haulage and noticed that the mud on one pachyderm’s feet smelled of oil. Retracing the trail of footprints, they found oil seeping to the surface. One of the engineers, an Englishman William Lake was an ‘oil enthusiast’ and persuaded the company to drill a well. And thus this place gets its name from the relentless persuasion by him on the workers to do some “physical activity” at that place.
- 17. DIGBOI from “Dig boy!, Dig!”
- 19. Birsa Munda
- 20. Azad WP 7200 , Alwar, Bharatpur, Bikaner, Bundi, Dholpur, Dungargarh, Jaisalmer, Jaipur, Jhalawar, Jodhpur, Kishangarh, Kota, Sirohi , Udaipur
- 21. Palace On Wheels
- 22. GUJARAT
- 23. Bhavai
- 24. MAHARASHTRA
- 25. LONAR Crater
- 27. Kakatiya Toranam
- 28. ANDHRA PRADESH X is a place famous for its Chillies and to us cuz ITC. While observing the solar eclipse of 18 August 1868, at X, Pierre Janssen noticed bright lines in the spectrum of the chromosphere, showing that the chromosphere is gaseous. Present in the spectrum of the Sun , was a bright yellow line later measured to have a wavelength of 587.49 nm. This was the first observation of this particular spectral line, and one possible source for it was an element not yet discovered on the earth. Which element? Which place is X?
- 32. DAMAN & DIU • What geographical feature separates Daman and Diu?
- 34. DADRA & NAGAR HAVELI Capital?
- 35. SILVASSA
- 36. PUDUCHERRY Why was Yanam known as Kalyanapuram? “City of Weddings/Marriages”
- 37. The Venkanna Babu Temple had been very famous for performing Child Marriages during the pre-independence days. Due to the dedicated efforts of the Social Reformer, Shri Raja Ram Mohun Roy, the Sarada Act (prevention of Child Marriages) was implemented by the then British Government in India. As the Yanam Region was under French rule, the people from the nearby State, used to come to this Temple for performing child marriages. Even people from Madras, Hyderabad and other distant places used to come to Yanam for conducting child marriages. In the past, some hundreds of marriages were performed daily in this temple. Hence, Yanam was also called "KALYANA PURAM".