This document summarizes an India quiz with the following key details: 1. The quiz is hosted by Saqib Javed and has rules of +15/-10 points and not upsetting the quizmaster. 2. The first two questions identify the first two UNESCO world heritage sites in India (Ajanta Caves and Agra Fort) and the practice of clicking group photos of MPs done for the past 60 years in India. 3. The document continues with multiple choice and fill in the blank questions about people, places, and events related to India seeking to identify specific answers.

1. INDIA QUIZ
HOSTED BY- SAQIB JAVED

2. FINALS

3. RULES
• All questions on infinite bounce and pounce.
• +15/-10
• Don’t upset the quizmaster!!!

4. • Which were the first two sites
in India that were given the
status of Unesco world
heritage sites.
• Both of them start with the
same alphabet.

6. • AJANTA CAVES
• AGRA FORT

7. • G K Dutt who currently owns the AR
studio in New Delhi is entrusted with
what responsibility for the past 60
years, at a gap of every 5 years and 2
years, a practice started by his father AR
Dutt.
• What practice?

9. CLICKING A GROUP PHOTO OF MP’S AT THE
CULMINATION OF EVERY LOK SABHA’S TERM
AND RAJYA SABHA MP’S.

10. A
• X got a street named after him in
Markham, Ontario, Canada and the
board having the street's name reads ‘X
street'.
• A delighted X posted a picture of him
holding the board and tweeted
"Welcome to my street!
IDENTIFY X?

13. B
• X was built as a modern city, designed by
German architect Otto Königsberger with wide
roads, gardens and parks.
• X derived its name from TriX, which literally
means the Lord of the Three World , which
refers to Shiva.
• X has been known by names such as Toshali,
Ekamra Kanan, Ekamra Kshetra and Mandira
Malini Nagari.
• IDENTIFY X?

15. BHUBNESHWAR

16. C
• Sukumar Sen was the first in this list
that started in 1950.
• Nasim Zaidi is the present.
• T.N. Seeshan brought major reforms
when he was a part of the list.
• What thing of immense important to
the nation are they linked to?

18. CHIEF ELECTION COMMISSIONER

19. IDENTIFY X?
D
• Mahatma Gandhi wrote to X in a letter of 1894 that "The
Indians look up to you as children to the father. Such is really
the feeling here.". He was a member of parliament (MP) in
the United Kingdom House of Commons between 1892 and
1895, and the first Asian to be a British MP.
• X is also credited with the founding of the Indian National
Congress, along with A.O. Hume and Dinshaw Edulji Wacha.
His book Poverty and Un-British Rule in India brought
attention to the draining of India's wealth into Britain.
• The manners and customs of the Parsees (Bombay, 1864)
• The European and Asiatic races (London, 1866)
• Admission of educated natives into the Indian Civil
Service (London, 1868)

21. DADA BHAI NAOROJI

22. IDENTIFY X?
E
• X (born 16 August 1989, Madras, Tamil Nadu, India) is an
Indian cricketer. He is a right-handed opening batsman. He plays
in the Indian Premier League for the Chennai Super Kings.
• XY personal explanation of his unusual name. "My grandfather
was a scientist. He wrote a letter to him and even got a reply
from him. I've got no idea [what the letter was about] even though
I've read it. My mother was a physics graduate and she teaches
Physics in one of the schools. So I'm X. Y is my father's name.“
• "We don't believe in God. In our family, we're rationalists. Other
people are named Krishna and Ram after Gods, so we were named
X and Y after great people."

24. EINSTEIN NAPOLEAN

25. H
• There are two observation towers on the dam one at
each side. One is "Gandhi Minar" and the other one is
"Nehru Minar".
• X is built across the Mahanadi River, about 15 km
from Sambalpur in the state of Odisha in India.
• It is one of the first major multipurpose river valley
projects started after India's independence.
• X was formally inaugurated by Prime
Minister Jawaharlal Nehru on 13 January 1957.
• It is the longest major earthen dam in Asia.
• IDENTIFY X?

28. HIRAKUD DAM

29. I
WHAT’S THE HIDDEN PART?

31. IRCTC

32. J
• The first Shatabdi train was started in
1988 to commemorate
the centenary of Pandit Jawahar Lal
Nehru's Birthday by Madhav Rao
Scindia, the then minister for railways.
• Between which two cities did it
operate?

34. DELHI AND JHANSI

35. K
• There are two unique towers built at
different times on the famous fort of
Chittorgarh in Rajasthan.
• The tower of fame or _______ was built in he
12th century by a Jain merchant named Sah
Jija to pay tribute to Adinatha the first Jain
Tirthankara.
• Which tower?

37. KIRTI STAMBH

38. IDENTIFY X?
L
• The director submitted the film as an
independent entry for the 2007
Academy Award for Best Foreign Film.
• X was the first Hindi film to be shown at
the United Nations.
• X is the recipient of four National Film
Awards.

40. LAGE RAHO MUNNABHAI

41. IDENTIFY X?
• "My Country My Life" is an autobiographical
book by X. The book has 1,040 pages and
narrates autobiographical accounts and events
in the life of X. The book became a best seller in
the non-fiction category.
• The book includes mentions of events in Indian
politics and India's history from 1900 till 2007.
• In 2015 X was awarded the Padma Vibhushan,
India's second highest civilian honor.

43. L.K. ADVANI

44. N
• X Enterprises Private Limited was founded way
back in 1962 by Shri Suresh B. Sanghavi as a
cottage industry. From a humble beginning, X
has today become the largest producer of
_______, Tooty-Fruity and Roasted Vermicelli.
• Managed by a professional and dynamic team, X
is now among the fastest growing processed
food suppliers in India.
• X is the largest producer and marketer of
_______ in the world.

46. NILON’S

47. O
• Odhavji Raghavji Patel the
founder of the world’s biggest
clock company Ajanta transistor
clock manufacturing company in
1970.
• What is the name of his second
most popular brand?

49. ORPAT

50. IDENTIFY X?
Q
• X (“Axis of the Faith, Moon Prince“) was of Turkic
descent from Central Asia, the first Sultan of Delhi and
founder of the Mamluk Dynasty of India.
• He died while playing polo in Lahore . He built the
Quwwat-ul-Islam mosque in Delhi and the dhai-din-ka-
Jhonpra mosque in Ajmer. He started the construction
of _______ in Delhi, which is dedicated to a famous Sufi
saint of the time. After he died, ________was completed
by his successor, Iltutmish.
• He is also remembered as lakhbaksh "giver of lakhs"
because of his generosity.

52. QUTUBUDDIN AIBAK

53. R
• Francisco Esteban Acuña de
Figueroa (September 3, 1791 – October 6,
1862) was an Uruguayan poet and writer.
He was born in Montevideo, on September
3, 1791 and died on October 6, 1862.
• He has achieved a rare feat which is
attributed to only two persons in the
world.
• Who is the other person and what feat?

56. RABRINDRANATH TAGORE
• NATIONAL ANTHEM OF TWO NATIONS

57. IDENTIFY X?
• X originated in India as part of a family of ______
_______, that included Gyan chauper and pachisi. X
made its way to England and was sold as X. The basic
concept was introduced in the United States by game
pioneer Milton Bradley in 1943.
• Known as Moksha Patam, it was popular in ancient
India and emphasized the role of fate or karma.
A Jain version, Gyanbazi or Gyan chauper, dates to the
16th century.
• It was also called Leela and reflected
the Hinduism consciousness surrounding everyday life.

59. SNAKES AND LADDERS

60. V
• Designed by Frederick William Stevens with
influences from ________ Italianate Gothic
Revival architecture and traditional Mughal
buildings, X was built in 1887 to commemorate
the Golden Jubilee of ____________.
• In 1996, the Minister of Railways, Suresh
Kalmadi did something that’s was dubbed by
the Outlook magazine in 1996 as "the
biggest sex change in the history of
modern India"?

62. VICTORIA TERMINUS
• NAME CHANGE FROM VICTORIA TERMINUS
TO CST.

63. Surekha Yadav (born 2 September
1965) is the first female ________ for
the ___________ in India and also in
Asia.
The momentous event in her career
was on 8 March 2011, on
the International Women's Day,
when she became Asia's first woman
____________.
FITB.

65. INDIA’S FIRST WOMAN RAILWAYS
DRIVER
• She became India's first female train driver in
1988. She drove the first "Ladies Special" local
train for Central Railways when it was first
introduced in the four metro cities by Mamata
Banerjee the then Railway Minster, in April
2000.

66. •The Musalman is the oldest Urdu-language daily
newspaper published from Chennai in India.
•According to Wired and The Times of India, The
Musalman is possibly the only
___________________ in the world. The
newspaper was founded by Syed Azmathullah in
1927.
•It was inaugurated by Dr. Mukhtar Ahmed
Ansari, the president of the Madras session of
the Indian National Congress.
WHAT’S UNIQUE ABOUT THIS NEWSPAPER?

68. WORLD’S ONLY
HANDWRITTEN
NEWSPAPER

69. •P. Sheshadri (born 23 November 1963) is an
Indian film director who works in Kannada
cinema.
•He is known for his films Munnudi,
Atithi, Beru, Tutturi, Vimukthi, Bettada
Jeeva, Bharath Stores and December-1.
•He is the only director to have achieved this
rare feat.
What?

71. ALL HIS FILMS HAVE WON A NATIONAL
FILM AWARD.

72. IDENTIFY THE CONTEXT?

74. INDIAN ARMY ATTACK ON
INSURGENTS FROM
MYAMMAR.

76. •In August 2014, the Indian Minister for IT
launched the first ever top-level domain
name in the Devanagari script (which is used
to write languages such as Hindi).
•This provides an option of registering
domain names ending in a word related to
the country written in this script (akin to .in
or .co.in).
•What does this launched domain name end
in?

78. .bharat

79. •The Narendra Modi-led Indian government
is an acronym-friendly one.
•An acronym used during the 2015 budget is
"JAM", used to denote ways to help deliver
financial benefits to the poor.
•In "JAM", if "M" is for "Mobile", what do
the letters "J" and "A" stand for?

81. J" is for "Jana Dhan Yojana",
the banking inclusion project,
and "A" for "Aadhar", the UID
project.

82. •The Hindi and Urdu word X originally derives from Persian,
literally meaning "three strings.“
•In his Bharatiya Sangeet Vadya Dr. Lalmani Misra traces the
instrument's development from the Tritantri veena.
•The X saw use in popular music after the Beatles featured the X
in their compositions "Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)”,
"Within You Without You", "Tomorrow Never Knows" and "Love
You To".
• Brian Jones of the Rolling Stones also used a X in "Paint It
Black”
IDENTIFY X?

84. SITAR

85. ON WHOM IS THIS BOOK BASED?

88. THE GAMBLE ROUND

89. SPORTS
MONUMENT
BOOKS
FOOD
GEOGRAPH
Y
TRY YOUR
LUCK

90. TESTS – LALA AMARNATH
ODI-X
T20-SURESH RAINA

92. •A private business house in Lucknow had attempted
to create a world recorded of something with
1,21,653 staff and workers on 6th May ,2013.
•The attempt made its way into the Guinness book
of world records overtaking the previous record set
by Pakistan.
•The event took place with all its employees at the
same point and dress.
•What am I talking about?

94. •A 920 CE kannada language work by Shivakoticharya
mentioned the preparation of this.
•The western Chalukya king and scholar someshwar III,
Chavundraya II author of the earliest available Kannada
encyclopedia also the mention the recipe of this dish.
•The earliest extant Tamil work to mention X is
Maccapuranam.
•It is also described as non-fermented version of dhokla.
•The main ingredients include black lentils and rice.
IDENTIFY X?

96. •The Link Global Group was established in 2004 and in a short span of 9
years has become one of the fastest growing business in the UAE. With
its enormous resources and professional set up it has been able to
expand its interests in real estate, energy and commodities trading,
power generation, construction and oil and gas.
•The Group with a combined net worth of more than US$ 250 million
Group is currently in the process of setting up on of its most ambitious
project called as _________ with a total cost of US$ 300 million.
•The ___________shall be developed as a themed, luxurious mixed use
development and wedding destination in the shape of the
___________.
•The said project will be undertaken in the Falcon City of Wonders
coming up in Dubai, UAE.
•Why in a India quiz?

98. IDENTIFY THE
AUTHOR?

100. Apart from Chandigarh which serves as
the capital city of both Punjab and
Haryana, name the two State/Union
Territory capital cities which are closest
to each other in India?
To give an idea they are 20-30
kilometers apart.

101. THANK YOU!