India Quiz - Grand Finale

GRAND FINALE
Rules
* 4 Rounds
* Round 1 : Write Bros. (6)
* Round 2 : Mixed Bag (14)
* Round 3 : Write Again Bros. (6)
* Round 4 : Mixed Bag 2.0 (14)

What’s in Offer….
 Written Round
 This round is on a Particular Theme
(Inexhaustive List)
 Marks for identifying the theme :--
+ 15/-15 : After first 3 Clues
+ 10/-10 : After the 5th Clue
+ 5/-5 : After the last Clue
 Marks for every correct answer :--
+ 10

A proposed International Airport Project in Kerala was
abandoned after the State Biodiversity Board submitted a
report to the govt. in March 2013, expressing its
reservations over ‘the ecological imbalance that the
project will entail’. Interestingly, 19 registered families
benefitted the most from this abandonment.
What, that owes it’s origin to this holy shrine, is said to
have an important role in the entire drama?
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The Maharaja Quiz - 2018 Quiz Master : Somnath Chanda

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Probably the best in the Indian Sub-continent, the entity
received Gold and Silver medals at International
conventions held in London and Amsterdam in 1886 and
1895, respectively, after being introduced in the mid 1800s.
The destruction caused by the earthquake in 1905 caused
a great hiccup. But presently, it has been revived.
Which entity is this?
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Conventionally used as an educational-tool for the
unlettered villagers and also one of the earliest forms of
audio–visual entertainment, now they make for gorgeous
gifts that are very Indian. Each of these entities are said to
last over 300 years, provided they don’t come in contact
with water. But lack of patronage has already made it a
dying form.
Resembling modern-day comic strips, what exactly is
being described?
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Kautilya’s ‘Arthashastra’ and books by Hiuen Sang made
ample references to a certain art/craft/trade. The existence
of traders-community Kiratas (an early Mongoloid race
whose name is derived from the Mongolian word ‘sirkek’ -
from which Indian word ‘sari’ is probably derived too) also
corroborates the fact.
Having the potential of bio-engineering applications, what
is being described?
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Noted scholar and social reformer Mahadev Govind
Ranade helped to establish organiations like – the Poona
Sarvajanik Sabha and the Prarthana Samaj, and edited
a Bombay Anglo-Marathi daily paper, the Induprakash.
But as per popular belief, he also introduced something that
really became a household name after
the Marathi play, Ghashiram Kotwal.
What is being described that also introduced a
specialised profession in the society?
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It owes it’s origin to the crisis-management skill of a
person named Kakasura Madappa. It’s name was also
coined by him in that opportune moment. Today the
legacy is still continued (legally) by the descendants of
Madappa who run a small establishment in the Sayaji Rao
Road, Mysore.
What is being talked about?
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‘Aranmula Kannadi’ or ‘Aranmula Mirror’

This is the explanation…..
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Kangra Tea

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Cheriyal Scroll Paintings

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Muga Silk of Assam

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Puneri Pagadi

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Mysore Pak

The THEME

This is one of the
popular varieties of Ikat.
The signature design that
gave the variety it’s name,
is based on something that
has been greatly
associated with one of
our main epics.
Name this variety.
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Pasapalli Ikat

 14 Questions
 Infinite Bounce + Pounce
 Marks for each correct answer :--
+ 10 marks : (Bounce)
+ 10 / - 05 : (Pounce)
 Half Points available as and when
specified by QM

Out of the three possible occasions, only twice these
medals were awarded. One and a half inches in diameter
& one and a quarter inches wide, these were made in two
varieties - gold and silver.
During the first occasion, 140 gold medals were awarded
to ruling chiefs and 2,567 in silver to other dignitaries,
government officials and members of the armed forces.
On what occasions these medals were awarded?
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Delhi Durbars

This 1978-number came into bigtime news in the recent
past after being performed during the ‘Freshers’ Welcome
Ceremony’ in one particular Don Bosco Higher
Secondary School. The entire episode resulted in a court-
case, too.
What was the issue?
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_________

This 16th century fort built by the chieftains of Sadashiv
Raya of the Vijayanagara, saw lot of actions. British
finally got hold of it in 1760. It would become the base for
Lord Cornwallis’ march on Bangalore to defeat Tipu
Sultan. Just a day after the marriage of one of the
daughters’ of Tipu Sultan in 1806, something happened
here which is considered to be the first of it’s kind in
India.
a) Which fort?
b) What happened there in 1806?
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a) Vellore Fort

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b) Sepoy Mutiny

The epic poem ‘Kamala’ was originally scribbled on the
walls as there was paucity of proper writing materials.
Ramhari, a simpleton from Bihar learned the lines by
heart. Few months later, with his help, Dr. Narayanrao
published it using the pseudonym ‘Vijanavasi’.
Where it was originally composed?
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Cellular Jail

While this one-upmanship scene was initially conceived,
the director was at a fix regarding it’s picturisation. His
knowledge of Indian mythology came in handy at that
moment.
What acted as the basic inspiration behind this scene?
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Hanuman sat on his tail in Ravana’s Court

This book by Sangeeta Talwar tells
about the journey of a popular
entity in India. Started as the
Bouillon (‘broth’ in French)
Cubes, it was launched in it’s
present avatar on 6th Jan, 1983 in
Delhi. A school-quiz was also
organised as part of the
promotional strategy.
With which entity, this
‘revolution’ is associated?
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Maggi

The youngest of five sons of a village sportsman, he was
noticed for his prowess since his very childhood. Like
many others, he took part in Freedom Movement and
also vowed on August 15, 1947 to unfurl the national flag
in the global stage. Few years later, he fulfilled his
promise. After serving the State Police without
promotions for 22 years, he tragically died in a road
accident.
What was his claim to fame?
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K.D. Jadhav won the first individual
Olympic medal for independent India

In a jocular sense, the elderly gentleman (C) could have
used a combo-pic. of (A & B), instead of the original one,
if he had to design something in the present times.
What had been designed by the gentleman (C)?
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A B C

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The Royal Flag of Nizam

Nicknamed ‘Ace of Clubs’, this regiment was founded in
the early 1600s. Between 1781 and 1784, the regiment
joined the army of Hyder Ali in his fight against British
troops.
How did this regiment create history in 2016?
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First foreign regiment to take part
in the Indian Republic Day Parade
This is the 35th Infantry Regiment of France

College-quizzers are pretty much aware about the ‘Quiz on
the Beach’, organised by TAPMI on the beautiful beaches
of Manipal.
The Basilica of Our Lady of Good Health (vis) in
Velankanni Town, Tamilnadu was associated with
the ‘Miracle on the Beach’ that took place in the last
decade.
What ‘miracle’ happened there?
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Saved during 2004-Tsunami
Over 2000 pilgrims sheltering in the church (325 ft. from
the sea) were saved while over 5000 people just outside it
were washed away by 5m high waves during the 2004
tsunami.

After a strict selection process by the Muzaffarpur
administration, a retired history prof. Bhojnandan Prasad
Singh was chosen. As part of a bigger celebration in April
2017, he was supposed to go to Motihari on a special
train. But on the D-Day, he met the ‘doppleganger’ –
Rajendra Rathore, a Delhi-based actor at the station. Much
to the amusement of the local public, the drama continued
for a bit. In the same vein, at Motihari another theatre
actor Adil Raseed did his bit to entertain the crowd.
For what ‘role’ were they all chosen?
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They played Mahatma Gandhi
(It was part of the Centenary Celebration of
Champaran Satyagraha)

Identify this Delhi-born genius who won medals at both
the International Physics Olympiad and International
Mathematical Olympiad, which he did at the age of 12.
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Akshay Venkatesh

Saikhom Sanatomba Meitei, along with his brothers and
sisters, used to go to a nearby hill to collect firewood.
One day, he was having a little trouble to carry the heavy
load. Making everyone astonished, his sister picked it up
pretty easily and carried to their home which was around 2
kms away from the hill.
a) Whose hidden talent was thus unearthed?
b) What recent development associated with her caused
newspaper headlines like – ‘Bajrangi Bhaijaan ko gussa
kyu aata hain’?
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a) Mirabai Chanu

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b) She got the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna
Award but Bajrang Punia was snubbed

The 3D-stone carvings of local species of flora and fauna,
symbols, arched tympana, portrait roundels of human faces
and stone mesh works took almost 10 years to make. The
structures made of Burma teak wood and intricate works by the
yellow malad stones blending with Italian marble and polished
granite created quite an effect. It also features gargoyles,
allegorical grotesques carrying standards and battle-axes and
figures representing the different castes and communities of
India. The entrance carry two crowned columns, one with a lion
(representing the UK) and the other with a tiger (representing
India).
What is being described that created news for it’s ‘Sex
Reassignment Surgery’ in the mid 1990s?
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Victoria Terminus /
Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus

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This two-word term is referred to a person whose record
is maintained in a particular register prescribed under the
rules made under the Indian Police Act, 1861. Such a
person (a habitual offender) is required by law to report at
regular intervals to the local police station.
Which term is best used to describe such offenders?

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Dus Numbari

 Written Round
 The round is about Some renowned
Family and their Family Members
 Marks for each correct answer :--
+ 10 marks : (without stake)
+ 15 / - 05 : (with stake)

As per the available records, whose family tree is this?
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Mausa Ram’s family was part of the Mughal court for
several generations and had some zamindari rights over a
few villages. Mausa Ram’s son, Lakshmi Narayan,
shifted his loyalty and became the first vakil of the East
India Company. His son, Ganga Dhar, became a kotwal
(chief constable) in the police and held that job when the
Mutiny reached Delhi in 1857.
Which family is being talked about?
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Shiv Narayana, son of a local trademan of modest means,
ventured outside from their own land. During that period,
Ahmedabad was a thriving place which serviced trade
from a large region of northwest India. He was one of the
early Indian traders to participate in cotton trade. Later,
he made an enormous fortune by trading opium with
China.
Which highly trusted name, since generations, in the
world of business, thus started it’s journey?
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Noted IIT-K alumni, T.M. Ravi is a successful Silicon
Valley entrepreneur. Founder of companies like The Hive
& Peakstone Corporation, he was not the most well
known member of his family. That credit goes to his
grandfather - Sir K.S. Krishnan who became the ‘Fellow
of the Royal Society’ in 1941 and was also the first
recipient of the Bhatnagar Award in 1958.
Despite all these glorious achievements, why Sir Krishnan
was considered an ‘unsung hero’?
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X is a Sahitya Akademi Award winner for a novel
adapted to DD and wrote a biography on Y who was once
employed as a teacher in Shanti Niketan. X’s early
writings were in English, though later in life he switched
to Punjabi and became a writer of repute in Punjabi
literature. Y, originally named Yudhisthir, apart from
writing a few novels also wrote an autobiography that
was first published on 1979.
Identify both X and Y, illustrated members of an
expatriate family.
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With which family, very important to India, would you
connect these two sets of zoological specimens?
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It is a tale of two sisters – Narmada & Shevanti.
Daughters of a Gujarati businessman and landlord Seth
Haridas Ramdas Lad of Thalner, they both were
culturally inclined. Narmada got married to a Karhade
Brahmin priest family. But after her untimely demise,
Shevanti (renamed Shudhamati) married that same
person.
Which illustrated family’s story is this?
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Nehru Family

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Birla

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He had a great role in the discovery of
the Raman Effect that gave India its first
Nobel Prize in Science in 1930 but was not
given any proper recognition for that

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X – Bhisham Sahni; Y – Balraj Sahni

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Hume Family
(Named after A.O. Hume & his wife Mary Ann
Grindall)

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Mangeshkar

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Considering the storyline, lyricist Gulzar wanted to pay
tribute to someone through these lines.
Who was thus being paid tribute to?

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Mohd. Iqbal

Said to have originated from the caste of cowherds and
milkmen who used to sing this raga early in the morning,
it has made sporadic forays into Hindi film music. One
prime example is this number from ‘Hum Dil De Chuke
Sanam’.
Identify the raga.
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Ahir Bhairav

One of India’s oldest Princely States, X became a
household name during it’s mention in the case of the ‘Heir
of Maharani Beni Kuwari’ in the early 1900’s. As a
princely state, its boundaries were the rivers Ganges &
Son and included part of Uttar Pradesh. The members of
this royal family sued Chetan Bhagat few years back for
providing factually incorrect information about them.
Which erstwhile state?
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Dumraon
(it became Simraon in the movie ‘Half Girlfriend’)

Possibly the most hyped by-election in
post-independent India.
a) Who has been depicted in this Amul ad?
b) Which constituency?
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a) V.P. Singh

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b) Allahabad

In his autobiography, several anecdotes are mentioned that
can rival the most uncanny adventures of any common
man. He is tormented by gamblers who are convinced
they can see lucky numbers concealed in his works,
mistaken for a Mexican and debarred from attending an
invitation dinner on Park Avenue because he was carrying
a raincoat, and charged with importing obscene literature
into the country because a friend has sent him a copy of
Playboy.
Who?
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R. K. Laxman

In 1809, William Sleeman joined the Bengal Army and
later served in the Nepal War between 1814 – 1816. In 1820,
he was selected for civil service and became junior assistant
to the Governor-General’s agent in the
Saugor and Nerbudda territories. He also became the
earliest discoverer of dinosaur fossils in Asia (in 1828 -
the Narmada valley region).
a) What’s his contribution to the world of children’s
literature?
b) He is mostly remembered for ‘what’ that has recently
seen a resurged interest in the subject?
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a) Mowgli in Jungle Book
Sleeman’s studies about some wild children
who had been raised by wolves had been
mentioned in his notes. This was first
published in the first volume of his Journey
through the Kingdom of Oude in 1848-
1850 (1858) and reprinted in 1852 as An
Account of Wolves Nurturing Children in
Their Dens, by an Indian Official.This
caught the imagination of many and
ultimately inspired Rudyard Kipling to
create Mowgli in Jungle Book.

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b) Suppression of Thugees

Manindra, the son with a photo of his father presenting
some bulky documents to the then President Giani Zail
Singh……Identify the documents that were being
exchanged.
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BP Mandal submitting the Report on the
Upliftment of SC/ST, prepared by the
Commission headed by him

As per folklore, King Trishanku became suspended
between heaven and earth because of ego hassles
between Viswamitra and Indra. But, Vishwamitra
knowing that Trishanku would eventually fall to earth
unless held up by physical means, propped him up with a
long pole. The pole eventually turned into the stem of a
tree and Trishanku’s head became its fruit. The fibre
around the fruit is his beard. After peeling the fruit, one
can see his eyes peering at him.
This is supposedly the origin of which tree?
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Coconut

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Pawan Kumar, the director of Samantha Akkineni’s ‘U-
Turn’ was searching for a suitable actor to fill in the shoe
of a character of one homeless man. While casting, a real-
life vagabond named Ranga Nayak came to his mind
whom he used to see on his way to school in J.P. Nagar.
Considering Ranga’s physical appearance, he devised an
unique strategy which proved successful in finding him.
How did Pawan’s team tracked Ranga?

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Showing the photograph of
Peter Dinklage

Unveiled at a nearby land of Nalanda Public Shiksha
Niketan in the village of Banka in Lakhimpur Khiri, UP, the
temple had a unique goddess. Looking like a Statue of
Liberty knock-off, she wore a hat and a gown. She held a
keyboard and a pen. She was atop a computer on the screen
of which was the chakra of the Buddhist faith. She also
held the Constitution of India to cement her bond with the
Dalit community.
Introduced as the saviour of Dalits, which goddess is this?
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English

Justifying the founder’s concept of ‘wannabeism’,
London, Paris, Tokyo, New York, San Francisco and few
others are put under the same roof in a particular
destination in Sector 5, Noida. Symbolising ‘built in India,
built for the world’, it has been done to inspire the
employees to develop products and solutions that have
universal appeal.
Put funda.
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Conference Rooms in Paytm HQ are
named after noted foreign cities

This is the present-day remains of an ‘akhara’ in
Rajgir where a certain person used to practise wrestling.
As per legend, he met a gory end in a fierce wrestling bout
that took place in the nondescript village of Jarachua in
Chandipur, Odisha.
Who?
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Jarasandha

On a wall of Gwalior’s Chaturbhuj Temple, dedicated to
Lord Vishnu, is a plaque which dates back to 875 CE. It
mentions a land grant of 270 Hastas (a unit of
measurement of land) for a flower garden as well as a daily
grant of 50 garlands.
What is the significance of that plaque?
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The oldest mention of Zero in India

Deepika Padukone made quite a statement at the 2018
Cannes Red Carpet with this dramatic pink gown. But
this stunning origami dress from the Ashi Studio’s
Summer Collection was heavily mocked by the twitteratis
for it’s resemblance to something that reminds us of our
good old schooldays. A prominent hindu deity or some
beautiful heavenly ladies were also referred prominently
in those mocking tweets.
What was the dress compared with?
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Pencil Shavings

Evanna Lynch, best known for her portrayal of Luna
Lovegood in the HP franchise, is an animal rights
activist. On an undercover trip to India, she has spoken
about the cruelty meted out to animals purposefully kept
at a certain place. The entire expose came out in an article
titled – ‘Chained and Beaten’.
Which animals are being spoken about?
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Elephants at Guruvayur

‘Hamrahi’ is a 1945 social drama film through which
Bimal Roy, after working as a cinematographer for
years, made his debut as a hindi-film director. Much
appreciated for it’s social message, the music for the film
was given by Raichand Boral barring one more-than-3-
minute long song. It also marked a certain first
considering the OSTs of Indian films.
Which song provided that interesting bit of trivia?
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