India Themed Quiz

1. AKHIL SACHAN

2. All questions have standard score of +10.
Question ke tukde ho sakte hain, par har ek tukde ke 10 points
hain.
QM ki boldness nahi, hint ki boldness pe dhyaan dein.
Aap QM ko communist maan sakte hain but wo sabko marks ni
baatega.
Safety slide ke liye Ayush Singh ka aabhar.
Enjoy the quiz or -50.

3. If you don’t know the answer, at least don’t
make this face.

4. X was established in Lucknow on 9 September 1938.
The X is an Indian newspaper published by The Associated Journals Ltd. It
was founded by Y in 1938 as a tool to win independence. It was banned
by British government in 1942 during the Quit India movement.
The X also had Hindi and Urdu editions named Navjeevan and Qaumi Awaz
The newspaper is an accused in the X corruption case along with two
other personalities filed in Delhi court by Subramanian Swamy.
Id X and Y. (Bonus +5 on naming all those accused. No bonus if original
answer is not given)

5. National Herald
Founder: Jawahar Lal Nehru
Accused: National Herald, Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi

6. Chronology Samajhiye aur pehchaniye:
1. Started his professional career as a lawyer in 1939.
2. Worked at Lahore High Court.
3. Joined IFS in 1947.
4. Joined All India Radio as a journalist in 1951.
5. Worked in Department of Mass Communication of the UNESCO at Paris
from 1954 to 1956.
6. He founded and edited Yojana, an Indian government journal in 1951 -
1953.
7. From 1980 to 1986, he was a member of Rajya Sabha.
8. Died of natural causes in 2014 at his Delhi residence, at the age of ___.

7. If you don’t know the answer, at least don’t
make this face.

8. Kushwant Singh

9. Sir ________ Vibhaji Jadeja, GCSI GBE (10
September 1872 – 2 April 1933), often known
as ______________, was the ruler of the
Indian princely state of Nawanagar from 1907
to 1933, as Maharaja Jam Saheb.
_______ became Maharaja Jam Saheb of
Nawanagar in 1907. He was later Chancellor of
the Indian Chamber of Princes, and represented
India at the League of Nations. His official title
was Colonel H. H. Shri Sir ________ Vibhaji II,
Jam Saheb of Nawanagar, GCSI, GBE.
However, he is more popular in today’s
context due to an annual “event” which is
taking place right now and is the biggest of
its kind.
Who or what is being talked about?

10. If you don’t know the answer, at least don’t
make this face.

11. Ranjitsinhji
Ranji Trophy

12. When 1967 Loksabha elections results were announced, former two times union minister S K
Patil faced defeat on Bombay South seat from X who was representing Sanyukt Socialist
Party, thus earning him the sobriquet, X – The Giant Killer. S K Patil never won an election
again in his life.
After Independence, three pay commissions had been launched but the wages of railway
workers were not increased, so when X became All India Railways Men’s Federation President,
he decided to call the famous 1974 Railway Strike. Amnesty International reports that
more than 30,000 trade union leaders were arrested in order to break the efforts.
During emergency, X conspired with Kirti Bhatt and Vikram Rao to blow up toilets of
government buildings nearby the location of Indira Gandhi’s rally. The intent was to not
harm anyone and only cause scare. He was later arrested in Kolkata and the arrest caused
international scare over fears of further actions that international community feared Indira
might take.
Id X

13. If you don’t know the answer, at least don’t
make this face.

14. George Fernandes

15. Straight up!
Why is it that the height of Statue of
Unity is specifically kept 182 metres?

16. If you don’t know the answer, at least don’t
make this face.

17. Gujarat assembly has 182 seats

18. A little known film critic for the Sunday supplement of the Times
of India, Claire Mendonca was honored after her death by the
Times when a very popular entity, X in her field of expertise was
briefly named after her when it was introduced in 1954.
Though she is still a part of film history her name faded into
obscurity as X was soon referred to with a generic name based on
its appearance.
Id X. (+10 for giving the original name)

19. If you don’t know the answer, at least don’t
make this face.

20. Filmafare awards or the black lady were originally called The
Clares.

21. X is a Public Sector Undertaking of
the Ministry of Textiles, Government of India.
The company produced textiles for use by
civilians and the Indian armed forces. It
manufactured the popular “Y" and
"Dhariwal" brands of woollen products.
The company was established in 1920
by Sir Alexander ___________, a Scottish
self-made millionaire as a public limited
company when he combined his six
companies into one enterprise.
In 1981, it was nationalised and taken over
by the Government of India. It has not
generated profit since 1989.
The manufacturing ceased in 2005 but
the company still has 1800 employees.
Id X and Y.

23. If you don’t know the answer, at least don’t
make this face.

24. British India Corporation (BIC)
Limited
Lal Imli

25. Megan Ellison is an American film producer who has
produced Oscar nominated films like Zero Dark Thirty,
Her and American Hustle.
In 2011 she found her film company which she named
after a mountain range of the Himalayan circuit she
hiked in 2006.The mountain derives it name from one of
the many names gives to goddess Parvati.
Which company?

26. If you don’t know the answer, at least don’t
make this face.

28. X's ancestors migrated towards the end of the 18th century from their
original home in Nishapur, Khorasan Province, for a short stay, to
the Kingdom of Awadh – a region in the modern state of Uttar
Pradesh, India – whose rulers were Twelver Shia Muslims of also Nishapur
origin.
X's paternal grandfather, Seyyed Ahmad Musavi Hindi, was born in Kintoor,
Lucknow. He left Lucknow in 1830, on a pilgrimage never returned.
X even used Hindi as a pen name in some of his ghazals.
However, X’s claim to fame is more political and religious in nature
than literary. His greatest/worst contribution to the literary world
could possibly be when he issued a fatwa forcing a Man Booker Prize
winner, Y and his publishers to go into hiding.
Id X whom you know from the Ottoman region and Y.

29. If you don’t know the answer, at least don’t
make this face.

30. Ayatollah Khomeini
1st Supreme Leader of Iran

31. X is said to have originated in Nizam’s Restaurant, Kolkata.
There are many theories to its birth.
Some suggest that hurried office commuters wanted
something quick and portable to eat, some mention British
babus who were too fastidious to touch the kabab.
The first part of the name came later when Nizam’s realized
that the iron skewers in which they made the kebabs would
not be enough. So they used bamboo sticks as skewers.
What is X?

32. If you don’t know the answer, at least don’t
make this face.

33. Kathi Rolls

34. X, is a state-owned holding company under the Ministry of Heavy Industries and
Public Enterprises in India.
In its heyday, X Watches was the largest supplier of wrist watches in India. It was
closed in 2016, largely due to mismanagement of the company, leading to heavy
losses.
In the year 1961, X set up a watch manufacturing Unit at Bangalore in
collaboration with M/s Citizen Watch Co., Japan. The first batch of Hand Wound
Wrist Watches manufactured here was released by the then Prime Minister of
India, Jawaharlal Nehru.
The most popular mechanical hand-wound watch is X Janata. There are also other
mechanical watches like X Pilot, X Jhalak (Semi Skeletal), X Sona, X Braille.
Id X.
(Although the full name of X contains three words, it is most popularly known by its
3 letter acronym)

35. If you don’t know the answer, at least don’t
make this face.

36. HMT
HINDUSTAN MACHINE TOOLS

37. The ancient name of the X was _____________, meaning the river on whose
banks leather is dried.
The epic Sanskrit narrative the Mahabharata, refers to the X river as
the _______________ : originating from the blood of thousands of animals
sacrificed by the Aryan King Rantideva.
____________ was the southern boundary of Panchala Kingdom.
King Drupada ruled the southern Panchalas up to the bank of the X river.
According to folklore the X area was part of Shakuni’s kingdom and the dice-
game played thereabouts. After the attempted disrobing of Draupadi (the
daughter of Drupada) she cursed any one who would drink the water of the X
river. Thus it is believed that due to the curse by Draupadi, have helped the X
to survive unpolluted by man, and its many animal inhabitants to thrive
relatively untouched. The X remains one of India’s most pristine rivers.
Id X

38. If you don’t know the answer, at least don’t
make this face.

39. Chambal

40. X was born in Delhi, India. In Delhi, she studied under Ustad Sabri Khan of
the Delhi gharana, an expert in all kinds of pure classical and light classical
forms of vocal music.
In recent times, X was all over social media. Id X and give context.

41. If you don’t know the answer, at least don’t
make this face.

42. Iqbal Bano

43. • Green - noble characters and sages
• Red - someone with an evil streak
• Green with red highlights - Heroic with evil inner nature
• Black - forest dwellers, hunters, and middle ground character.
• Black with red patches - Demonesses and treacherous characters.
• Yellow - monks, mendicants, and women
• White Beard - a divine being
CONNECT

44. If you don’t know the answer, at least don’t
make this face.

45. Kathakali Faces

46. CONNECT

47. If you don’t know the answer, at least don’t
make this face.

48. Mile Sur Mera Tumhara

49. This small town was known as “Little England ” by the British, due to its
more temperate Weather and a landscape more similar to Britain`s. India’s
Second Hydro electric power plant was built in the Cauvery River to use in
this town.
A large group of British citizens and Anglo Indians were settled here and
engaged in industrial activities. Most of the Success achieved by this town
from the last quarter of 19th century to mid 20th century can be attributed
to the might of John Taylor & Sons firm.
It is widely believed that the first Prime minister of India, Pandit Jawaharlal
Nehru offered the resources of this town as a pledge to world bank to get
financial assistance when India was in need of her first five year plan.
Probably, this must be the only town in India the name of which is called
in English abbreviations. Name the Town or What is its recent relevance ?

50. If you don’t know the answer, at least don’t
make this face.

51. K G F

52. The XY is the name of a muslim shrine located in the
Khanyaar quarter of the city of Srinagar in Kashmir with the
graves of two men. The word X means tomb, the word Y
means place, often a landing place by a lake, hence "place of
the tomb." Locals have traditionally referred to the main sage
buried there as Yuzasaf, more recently Yuz Asaf . The other
man buried is Mir Sayyid Naseeruddin. The shrine was
relatively unknown until the founder of the Ahmadiyya
Muslim Community, Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, claimed in1899
that it is actually the tomb of Jesus.
Give XY

53. If you don’t know the answer, at least don’t
make this face.

54. Roza Bal

55. From 1954 to 1961, the territory was
administered by a citizen’s council called the
Varishta Panchayat. In 1961, it was merged
with the rest of the country and made a
Union Territory.
Which territory in the news to be merged with
another as per a bill introduced in the
Parliament?

56. If you don’t know the answer, at least don’t
make this face.

57. Dadra Nagar Haveli and Daman & Diu will become one

58. Isisaurus is a genus of
dinosaur from the Late
Cretaceous Period.
Isisaurus was a
sauropod(specifically a
titanosaur), which
lived in what is now
India. What was the
dinosaur named after?

60. If you don’t know the answer, at least don’t
make this face.

61. Indian Statistical Institute

62. X was commissioned in 1974 as a wholly owned subsidiary of
the National Dairy Development Board (NDDB). It was an
initiative under Operation Flood.
Y is the fruit and vegetable arm of X. It operates a large number
of fruit and vegetable stores in the NCR, and also has a
significant presence in Bengaluru. Y also has a plant in
Bengaluru, which produces around 23,000 MT of aseptic fruit
pulp and concentrates annually. It supplies to food processing
companies such as Coca-Cola, Pepsi, Unilever, Nestle, etc.
Id X and Y.

63. If you don’t know the answer, at least don’t
make this face.

64. Mother Dairy and Safal

65. Which entity in India had this as their logo earlier?

66. If you don’t know the answer, at least don’t
make this face.

68. X is an award-winning Scottish historian and writer, art historian and
curator, as well as an broadcaster and critic.
His books have won numerous awards and prizes, including the Duff Cooper
Memorial Prize, the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award, the Sunday Times
Young British Writer of the Year Award, the Hemingway, the Kapuściński
and the Wolfson Prizes.
He is also one of the co-founders and co-directors of the annual Y, the other
two being Namita Gokhale and Sanjoy Roy.
X's interests include the history and art of India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, the
Middle East, the Muslim world, Hinduism, Buddhism, the Jains and early
Eastern Christianity. All of his eight books have won literary prizes.
Give X and Y.

69. If you don’t know the answer, at least don’t
make this face.

70. William Dalrymple
Jaipur Literary Festival

71. A CIRCLE OF BOLLYWOOD
A 4 part series of Bollywood minimalist posters made out of vector circles by Raj Khatri
(Note down your answer and number them correctly)

72. Sample

77. If you don’t know the answer, at least don’t
make this face.

80. LVC

81. +100/-100

82. +90/-90

83. +80/-80

84. +70/-70

85. +60/-60

86. +50/-40

87. +40/-30

88. +30/-20

89. +20/-10

90. +10/-0

91. If you don’t know the answer, at least don’t
make this face.

92. IPL Home Grounds
• M A Chidambaram
• Sawai Man Singh
• Holkar
• Wankhede
• Chinaswamy
• Eden Gardens
• IS Bindra
• MCA, Pune
• Feroz Shah Kotla
• Rajiv Gandhi International