India Quiz was organised on 29th January 2014 in IITJ. QuizMaster:- Gaurav Shastri and Shreyas Srivastava

1. QUIZ CLUB IITJ
Shreyas
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Gaurav

2. 28 States28 Questions!!
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3. If Navjot Siddhu is Sherry and Harbhajan is Bhajji then,
who is “Chiku” ?

5. On October 11, 1980, the Indian Express published a news
item:
"10 undertrials blame police for losing sight.“
This led to a petition being moved in the Supreme Court on behalf of
undertrial prisoners in Bhagalpur jail in Bihar who "alleged that the police
deprived them of their eyesight by using acid".
Which National award winning
movie directed by Prakash Jha
starring Ajay Devgn took inspiration
from this incident?

7. While British Chef Gordon Ramsay could only manage one before
giving up, Anandita Dutta Tamuli went through 51 of them in minutes
which measured 1,001,304 units on the Scoville scale.
The occasion took place in Jorhat, Assam.
What did she do?

8. Known as Indian Chilli Queen, she ate 51 Bhut Jolokia
chillies in a minute.

9. X studied in Loyola High School, Margao.
He completed his education in Marathi and
graduated in metallurgical engineering from
IIT Bombay. He earned the IIT-B
Distinguished Alumnus Award in 2001.
X and Nandan Nilekani, Chairman of UIDAI
graduated together from IIT Bombay in the
year 1978.
He is the first one among IITians to achieve something.

10. Manohar Parrikar

11. Unity in Diversity!!
Bloopers from what?
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The Kashmiri boatman topples over.
The tractor develops engine trouble.
The elephant with the mahout decides to sit down and roll in the mud.
All of the Bengalis walking out of the metro are smoking Charminar
cigarettes.
• One of the kids in the white colored dress is wearing a “Che Guevara” shirt
while running in to form the tricolour.

13. According to a theory, the name of the islands derives
from the Sanskrit language as the Malay form of the
monkey deity, Hanuman.
The islands are prominently featured in Arthur Conan
Doyle's Sherlock Holmes mystery, The Sign of the Four.
Identify X.

14. ANDAMANS

15. In the mid-19th century, most of cotton for British textile mills
came from North America. India produced a large quantity of
raw cotton. However, the failure of the American cotton crop
in 1846 followed by the Civil War from 1861 to 1865 created
an urgent need for an alternative supply.
In India lay the answer.
Which famous organization resulted thereof?

17. This place is Asia’s largest wholesale market.
Built by a king for his favourite daughter in 1650 AD so that she could
shop all she wanted to, this market place derives its name from the
canals filled with water that sparkled like silver in the moonlight.
Id the place.

18. Chandni Chowk

19. “I never dared to break the glass of his house while playing
cricket as I used to be extremely scared of him.”
Virender Sehwag talking about which former childhood
neighbour of his from Najafgarh?

20. Sushil
Kumar

21. In the 1984-85 season, India and Pakistan were playing the 2nd
ODI of the series at Sialkot, on 31/10. India were at a fairly strong
position with the score being at 210/3 with Dilip Vengsarkar at 94*.
At this point the match was suddenly abandoned.

22. 31st October (Assassination of Indira Gandhi)
She was killed by two of her bodyguards, Satwant Singh and Beant Singh, in
the aftermath of Operation Blue Star, the Indian army's June 1984 assault on
the Golden Temple in Amritsar which left the temple heavily damaged.

23. The residents had been advocating for naming the place previously
known as “Shadman Chowk” in Lahore after X for many years and
only on X‟s 105th birth anniversary (September 28), the demand has
been accepted by the government of Punjab (Pakistan).
It is the place where X
was hanged to death.
Who is X??

25. What tree?
It is a leguminous tropical tree in
the family Fabaceae , native to India and it was
apparently from India that it reached the Persians.
The Arabs called it ‘Date of India’.

26. Tamarind
(from tamar-a-hind)

27. This is a clip of a famous song composed
by A. R. Rahman, Identify the place
related to one of the world's most
famous Sufi saint where this was shot.

29. During the time of British Raj, the children of British Officers studied
in Indian schools built by the Englishmen. With the lack of quality
books available by Indian authors on the subject, __X__ and
__Y__ wrote these books and published it in 1935.
These books were widely adopted by Indian and Pakistani schools in the post
British era and missionary schools in Burma and has still got a iconic status
and used as a standard textbook in the subject in many schools in India.
The Samosapedia describes __X__ and __Y__ as:
“Two firangi goras, who torture school-children and
JAMmers in India with their arcane rules”

31. The Sanskrit name for this syllable is Pranava, attested as
“to make a humming or droning sound” in the Brahmanas.
The Mandukya Upanishad is entirely devoted
to the explanation of the syllable.
Which syllable are we talking about?

33. In News Recently…
X was an businessperson and spouse of Y. She
was a sales director in the Dubai-based TECOM
Investments, and a co-owner of Rendezvous
Sports World.
Id X and Y.

35. He was born in 1973 in the Etawah district in Uttar Pradesh. He
studied at Sainik School in Dhaulpur, Rajasthan. He then did his
B.E. and Masters in Civil Engineering fromUniversity of
Mysore, Karnataka. He later obtained a Masters in Environmental
Engineering from the University of Sydney. He is married to his
childhood sweetheart Dimple with two kids.
Technically speaking, he has covered 2.5 times the length
of Tour de France track on bicycle.

37. The flag consists of a deep red field, representing
labour, charged with a plough to represent agriculture. Three
stripes are found on the hoist side and represent the three
geographic regions .

38. Jammu and Kashmir
Jammu and Kashmir is the only Indian state permitted to
fly its own state flag though Jammu and Kashmir has a
separate constitution.
This is due to the state's special status under the Indian
Constitution.

39. Hrithik Roshan : Maharashtra
Preity Zinta : Himachal Pradesh
Saina Nehwal : Andhra Pradesh
Hema Malini : Uttarakhand
Prachi Desai : Goa
Shahrukh Khan : West Bengal
Amir Khan : Chattisgarh
Amitabh Bacchan : ??????

40. Gujarat
Brand ambassadors of Tourism

41. India is the only country to have won all the international
paegents it participated in, (Miss Universe, Miss World
and Miss Asia Pacific) in the same year (2000).
Name all three winners.

42. Lara Dutta
Priyanka Chopra
Diya Mirza

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Mahama Gandhi
Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose
Jawahar Lal Nehru
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
Lal Bahadur Shashtri
Mother Teresa
Parveen Babi
Indira Gandhi
Rajiv Gandhi
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Sachin Tendulkar
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
Sonia Gandhi
Shahrukh Khan
Sania Mirza
Manmohan Singh
Narendra Modi
Aamir Khan

45. This group is owned by Kasturi and Sons Limited and is headquartered in
Chennai.
Its logo consists of:
divine cow Kamdehnu on left
divine elephant Airawat on right
the map of India and conch in center
Which group?

46. THE HINDU

47. Non-exhaustive
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Agra Fort (1983)
Ajanta Caves (1983)
Churches and Convents of Goa (1986)
Elephanta Caves (1987)
Buddhist Monuments at Sanchi (1989)
Champaner-Pavagadh Archaeological Park
(2004)
• Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus(2004)

49. Tarānah-e-Hindī is the formal name of a song which
became India’s 1st ringtone.
The song was written by Iqbal.

51. This scientist did his undergraduate studies from
MSU Vadodra, and began his work on Ribosomes at
Yale University. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in
Chemisty in 2009, and the Padma Vibhushan in 2010

52. Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

53. X was born a Chitpavan Brahmin at the nativity mission center, Pune
District, into a Marathi family. At birth, he was named Ramachandra.
X was given his name because of an unfortunate incident. Before he
was born, his parents had three sons and a daughter, with all three boys
dying in their infancy. Fearing a curse that targeted male
children, young Ramachandra was brought up as a girl for the first few
years of his life, including having his nose pierced and being made to
wear a nose-ring. It was then that he earned the nickname "X".
But we know him for something he did in 1948 after Independence.

54. Nathu Ram Godse

55. This Indian practice is ancient, going back to around 400-750 BC. An actual
mention appears in the Ayodhya Kaand of Ramayana in section 103.
Bharata has gone to ask exiled Rama to come back and
rule the kingdom. Bharata tries many arguments, none of
which work, at which point he decides to do a ________.
Rama, however is quickly able to persuade him to
abandon the attempt. Rama mentions it as a practice of
Brahmanas.
It is very prevalent in India.

57. Students from the Indian Institute of Technology- Bombay (IIT-B) fell prey to
what could be termed as one of the most successful mass pranks played on
April Fool's Day, in 2011. At midnight on March 31, the students received an
e-mail stating that the institute had X. The mail solicited applications asking
students to write a 250-word essay on why they deserved X. In less than an
hour, 675 of the country's brightest youngsters sent in detailed requests. "I
have secured All India Rank 30 in IIT-JEE and state rank 1 in MP-PET. My
Cumulative Point Index is 9.36," said an applicant's essay. The techies
weren't shy to boast. "I have designed three add-ons for the Mozilla Firefox,
which has had over 60,000 downloads so far," said an essay.