Quiz based on India

1. India quiz
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DIGANTO SARKAR

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3. 1.Who was born as Robindro Shankar Chowdhary on
7 April,1920 in Varanasi?

4. Pt. Ravi Shankar

5. 2.Who travelled with the Italian passport with the
name- ‘Count Orlando Mazzotta’?

6. Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose

7. 3.Recently, which state became the first to switch to Jan-
Dec financial year replacing the existing April-March cycle?

8. Madhya Pradesh

9. 4.Who was the only player to have played both 1st and
500th IPL game?

10. Zaheer Khan

11. 5.Doordarshan was broadcasted in black and white only
till PM Indira Gandhi ordered officials to switch it to
colour so that Indians could enjoy a certain occasion.
Which occasion?

12. 1982 Asian Games,Delhi

13. 6.Connect.
SAPPHIRE
NEOSS
AAUSAT3
BRITE
UniBRITE
STRaND

14. Foreign satellites launched by ISRO

15. 7.Which is Asia’s largest residential university?

16. Benaras Hindu University

17. 8. Few months ago, the left parties in West Bengal decided
to fly the red flag at half mast for 3 days at their
respective offices across the state. Why was this done?

18. Death of Fidel Castro

19. 9.These were introduced accidentally here by members
of British Indian civil service. The first such one was
named ‘Victory’ and was designed by M T Kenhard in
1888. There are over 500 of them here?
What is being talked about?

20. Houseboats in Srinagar

21. 10.Where is India’s only mythological theme park
located?

22. Tirupati

23. 11. Connect
Jamshed Patel
Prasad Sinha
Dattatreya Naik
T A Ramachandran
Bapu Joshi
Balkrishna Mohoni
MysoreVijaysarathi

24. First 7 Indian test umpires

25. 12.Who is known as the ‘Missile woman of India’?

26. Tessy Thomas

27. 13. No.6 Maulana Azad Road,New Delhi is the official
residence of whom?

28. Vice President of India

29. 14.Connect.
•February 24,2010-Gwalior
•December 8,2011-Indore
•November 2,2013-Bengaluru
•November 13,2014-Kolkata

30. Double centuries by Indian cricketers(men)

31. 15. Which is the first product indigenous to the state to
have made it to the GI list?

32. Uttarakhand Tejpatta

33. 16.Which state railway built the first narrow gauge
line(2ft 16inches) in 1862?

34. Baroda State Railway

35. 17. K V Sampath Kumar is the editor of the Mysuru based
newspaper, “Sudharma” which reaches 3000 subscribers by
post and 1.5 lakh readers internationally. What is its unique
dinstinction?

36. World’s only Sanskrit newspaper

37. 18.Which state railway became first to introduce
electric lights as standard fixture?

38. Jodhpur State Railway

39. 19.Through which gate are tourists allowed entry into
Agra Fort?

40. Amar Gate

41. 20. Veerandar Singh Bias, son of a jagirdar at Khajrana
Kothi, Indore and Jai Singh Rao Kalevar of Pindari warrior
clan and a vegetable farmer died in relative obscurity. How
did one of their college friends immortalized them?

42. Jai-Veeru were created

43. 21.It was acquired by Maharajah Bhojraj Singh of
Gondal in 1952, took on a 999 year lease. The
foundation stone was laid in 1909 and inaugurated by
King George V in 1911. It is only surviving of its kind.
What is being talked about?

44. Royal Opera House, Mumbai

45. 22.Badruddin Jamaluddin Kazi is his real name. His
screen name was given by Guru Dutt after he was
impressed by his impersonation of a ____.
What was the screen name?

46. Johnny Walker

47. 23. Connect
• Arya
• Avon grove
• Badamtam
• HappyValley
• Puttabong
• Phoobsering
• Pussimbing
• VahTukvar

48. Tea estates of Darjeeling given only rights to
produce Darjeeling Tea (Among 87)

49. 24.Shree Shiv Chattrapati Sports Complex in
Pune,hosted the 2015 rollball world cup, and
athletes of the Netherlands national rollball team
and Slovenia women’s national team were recruited
to be part of an entity, on which the work had
started around that time.
Why were they recruited?

50. Background athletes for Dangal

51. 25. Connect.
Uttaravedam
Poyyamozhi
Vayurai Vazhthu
Deyvanool
Pothumarai
Muppal
Tamil Marai

52. Other names of Thirukkural by Thiruvalluvar

53. 26. As per Indian puranas,once upon a time there lived
3 ferocious asuras—
Vidyunmali,Tarakakshas and Viryavana.
After their death, where can they be supposedly
found?

54. 3 rows of ashes on Lord shiva’s forehead

55. 27. Connect.
Til(Sesame)
Gachchak
Crystal Sugar
Gur(jaggery)
Moongphali(Peanuts)
Phuliya(Popcorn)

56. Collections gathered by children during Lohri

57. 28. The poem ‘Vir ko Parichay’, contributed by a then
unknown X was published in local weekly
‘Kanchendzonga’ in 1968. This was his first published
poem.
He wrote 3 volumes of poetry namely ‘Early Poems’,
‘Perennial Dream: My Reality’ and ‘Mo Ko Hun’ (Nepali).
Whom are we talking about?

58. Pawan Chamling

59. 29. Who is the only ‘First Gentleman of India’ till
date?

60. Devisingh Ranisingh Shekhawat

61. 30. Put funda
9 weddings
A heart attack
A kidnapping
A song and dance sequence
14 heroes
12 heroines
A villain
Crew of 3,026
24 hours

62. Swayamvaram, fastest full length feature film to
be made

63. 31. Gauhar Ara Begum was born on 17 June,1631
and died in 1706. Why is her birth significant?

64. Mumtaz Mahal died during childbirth

65. 32. Nandalal Bose’s famous illustrations which
represent styles from different civilisations of
subcontinent, ranging from prehistoric
Mohenjodaro to present.
Where have these been immortalized?

66. Pages of Indian Constitution