The document contains 20 quiz questions about topics ranging from Indian history to mythology to movies. It includes questions that require connecting terms, identifying people or things, and explaining certain events or concepts. The questions are for a quiz competition with 1 quiz master and rules including that the quiz master is to be treated as god and any inconsistencies should refer back to that first rule.

2. PRELIMS
20 QUESTIONS
RULES
1 QUIZ MASTER IS YOUR GOD
2 IN CASE OF ANY INCONSISTENCIES REFER TO
RULE 1

3. Q 1* Connect this non exhaustive set of logos.

4. Q 2 In February 1967,X was watching a quiz contest
on Doordarshan in which the participants were able to
answer questions on Greek mythology but did not
know who Ram’s mother in the Ramayana was. What
did an appalled M do that we still remember him?

5. Q3* Ek Dil Sao Afsane is a Hindi romantic film, made in 1963
directed by R.C. Talwar with Raj Kapoor and Waheeda Rehman in
the lead roles.Despite it’s star cast the movie didn’t do fairly well on
box office but we all know this movie because of a particular reason
. Explain why?

6. Q 4 M was featured wearing N on the Vogue
magazine, which was then popularized by the Beatles .
In 1994 the rock group Love battery released the song
named N in which a man in bell bottoms and N
unsuccessfully tries to get a date .

7. Q 5 FITB

8. Q 6 Connect
• Nandighosa
• Taladhwaja
• Debadalana
It attracts over a million of Hindu pilgrims who join
the procession each year.

9. Q 7 Connect and FITB (non exhaustive)
Dehradun Jolly Grant
Bhuvneshwara Biju Puttnaik
Kolkata Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose
Lucknow ??
Hint : Historians and people alike frequently refer to
him as the 'champion of India's peasants.

10. Q 8

11. Q 9* The M are medieval milestones along the Grand
Trunk Road in northern Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan,
that were made by the 16th-century Pashtun Ruler Sher
Shah Suri. M Minars were erected to serve as markers of
distance along royal routes from Agra to Ajmer, Agra
to Lahore, and from Agra to Mandu in the south.

12. Q10 Contrary to what people think, this spice is not
named after the word for sugar ,but instead is a
corruption of an Arabic term for ‘Wood from China’.
What favorite addition to Biryanis is this?

13. Q 11 A ‘M’ torpedo is an explosive charge placed within one or
several connected tubes. It is used by combat engineers to clear
obstacles that would otherwise require them to approach directly,
possibly under fire. As Per United States Army Field Manual 5-250
section 1-14, page 1-12 "b. Use. The primary use of the torpedo is
clearing paths through wire obstacles and heavy undergrowth. It will
clear a 3- to 4-metre wide path through wire obstacles. Id M.

14. Q 12 Born Mahesh Das .He was given the title M which
comes from Vir Var which means courageous and great,
quite contrary for him since he was not known for his
bravery or for his military skill.
(Hint : He was only hindu to adopt Din-i-illahi)

15. Q 13 M is an area with a plateau and a valley, lying
between Tibet's Chumbi Valley to the north, Bhutan's Ha
Valley to the east and India's Sikkim state to the west. It has
been depicted as part of Bhutan in the Bhutanese maps since
1961, but it is also claimed by China. To date, the dispute has
not been resolved despite several rounds of border
negotiations between Bhutan and China. The area is of
strategic importance to all three countries.

16. Q 14 The word M came to English in the late 17th
century, from the Turkish for roasted meat.
Tradition has it that the dish was invented by
medieval soldiers who used their swords to grill meat
over open-field fires. According to Ibn Battuta,
a Moroccan traveller, in India, M was served in the
royal houses during the Delhi Sultanate period(1206-
1526 AD), and even commoners would enjoy it for
breakfast with naan.

17. Q 15 Put funda for this

18. • Saalam Bombay (1985)
• Rudaali (1993)
• Baandit queen (1994)
• 1947 Earth (1998)
• Laagan (2001)
• Water (2005)
• Peepli Live (2010)
• M (2017)
Q 16* Give me M
(hint : exhaustive list of 8)

19. Q 17 In his youth M, the son of the founder, was
unsuccessful in every thing he did, fifth grade of school,
carpenter, soap making etc. After the partition of India, he
moved to Delhi with Rs. 1500 . When he arrived in Delhi, he
initially supported himself by running a Tanga from
Connaught Place to Karol Bagh. Since he was not doing well
with the tanga, he later opened a shop in a shack and
started selling spices like his father. He later opened his
shop at Ajmal Khan Road, Karol Bagh and expanded from
there. In 1959 he bought a plot in Kirti Nagar to set up his
own spice factory.He is currently the highest paid CEO of
FMCG (Fast Moving Consumer Goods).ID M
(We all also know him for a completely different reason
today)

20. Q 18* M is a Hindustani classical raga. Legends say that this
raga has the power to bring out rains in the area where it is
sung .
A popular anecdote says that when Tansen went to Akbar's
court in 1556 and soon became his favourite. A lot of Akbar's
courtiers became jealous of Tansen's privileges. They
schemed to burn Tansen while he sang raag Deepak. This
raag when sung caused fire in the area of performance. So
Tansen had an idea. He taught raga M - the raag of rain, to
his daughter. If sung properly, this raag could bring rain.
Id M

21. Q 19 Id this individual who served in the ambulance
core in the boer war (October 1899) .

22. Q 20 M is in Seoni and Chhindwara districts of Madhya
Pradesh. It derives its name from the river that flows
through the park from north to south dividing the park
into almost equal western and eastern halves, the well
forested areas of Seoni and Chhindwara districts
respectively. It was declared a sanctuary in 1977 but
raised to the status of national park in 1983. In 1992, it
was established as a tiger reserve. The under M has
been described in Ain-i-Akbari, and is the setting of N.
Id M and N.

23. • ANSWERS

24. Q 1* Connect this non exhaustive set of logos.

25. • FUNCTIONAL METROS ACROSS INDIA

26. Q 2 In February 1967,X was watching a quiz contest
on Doordarshan in which the participants were able to
answer questions on Greek mythology but did not
know who Ram’s mother in the Ramayana was. What
did an appalled M do that we still remember him?

27. • ANANT PAI (AMAR CHITRA KATHA)

28. Q3* Ek Dil Sao Afsane is a Hindi romantic film, made in 1963
directed by R.C. Talwar with Raj Kapoor and Waheeda Rehman in
the lead roles.Despite it’s star cast the movie didn’t do fairly well on
box office but we all know this movie because of a particular reason
. Explain why?

29. • AISE KAISE MEMES

30. Q 4 M was featured wearing N on the Vogue
magazine, which was then popularized by the Beatles .
In 1994 the rock group Love battery released the song
named N in which a man in bell bottoms and N
unsuccessfully tries to get a date .

31. • NEHRU JACKET

32. Q 5 FITB

33. • VICKY DO NA

34. Q 6 Connect
• Nandighosa
• Taladhwaja
• Debadalana
It attracts over a million of Hindu pilgrims who join
the procession each year.

35. • RATH YATRA (PURI)
• THESE ARE NAMES OF CHARIOTS OF LORD
JAGANNATH,BALABHADRA AND
SUBHADRA RESPECTIVELY

36. Q 7 Connect and FITB (non exhaustive)
Dehradun Jolly Grant
Bhuvneshwara Biju Puttnaik
Kolkata Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose
Lucknow ??
Hint : Historians and people alike frequently refer to
him as the 'champion of India's peasants.

37. • CHAUDHARY CHARAN SINGH
• THESE ARE AIRPORT NAMES

38. Q 8

39. • CHANDANI CHOWK

40. Q 9* The M are medieval milestones along the Grand
Trunk Road in northern Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan,
that were made by the 16th-century Pashtun Ruler Sher
Shah Suri. M Minars were erected to serve as markers of
distance along royal routes from Agra to Ajmer, Agra
to Lahore, and from Agra to Mandu in the south.

41. • KOS

42. Q10 Contrary to what people think, this spice is not
named after the word for sugar ,but instead is a
corruption of an Arabic term for ‘Wood from China’.
What favorite addition to Biryanis is this?

43. • DAL CHINI

44. Q 11 A ‘M’ torpedo is an explosive charge placed within one or
several connected tubes. It is used by combat engineers to clear
obstacles that would otherwise require them to approach directly,
possibly under fire. As Per United States Army Field Manual 5-250
section 1-14, page 1-12 "b. Use. The primary use of the torpedo is
clearing paths through wire obstacles and heavy undergrowth. It will
clear a 3- to 4-metre wide path through wire obstacles. Id M.

45. • BANGALORE TORPEDO

46. Q 12 Born Mahesh Das .He was given the title M which
comes from Vir Var which means courageous and great,
quite contrary for him since he was not known for his
bravery or for his military skill.
(Hint : He was only hindu to adopt Din-i-illahi)

47. • BIRBAL

48. Q 13 M is an area with a plateau and a valley, lying
between Tibet's Chumbi Valley to the north, Bhutan's Ha
Valley to the east and India's Sikkim state to the west. It has
been depicted as part of Bhutan in the Bhutanese maps since
1961, but it is also claimed by China. To date, the dispute has
not been resolved despite several rounds of border
negotiations between Bhutan and China. The area is of
strategic importance to all three countries.

49. • DHOKHLAM

50. Q 14 The word M came to English in the late 17th
century, from the Turkish for roasted meat.
Tradition has it that the dish was invented by
medieval soldiers who used their swords to grill meat
over open-field fires. According to Ibn Battuta,
a Moroccan traveller, in India, M was served in the
royal houses during the Delhi Sultanate period(1206-
1526 AD), and even commoners would enjoy it for
breakfast with naan.

51. • KEBAB

52. Q 15 Put funda for this

53. • TOI HEADLINES AFTER EMERGENCY

54. • Saalam Bombay (1985)
• Rudaali (1993)
• Baandit queen (1994)
• 1947 Earth (1998)
• Laagan (2001)
• Water (2005)
• Peepli Live (2010)
• M (2017)
Q 16* Give me M
(hint : exhaustive list of 8)

55. • NEWTON (RAGHUBIR DAS’S 8TH MOVIE TO BE
INDIAN RECOMMENDATION FOR OSCARS)

56. Q 17 In his youth M, the son of the founder, was
unsuccessful in every thing he did, fifth grade of school,
carpenter, soap making etc. After the partition of India, he
moved to Delhi with Rs. 1500 . When he arrived in Delhi, he
initially supported himself by running a Tanga from
Connaught Place to Karol Bagh. Since he was not doing well
with the tanga, he later opened a shop in a shack and
started selling spices like his father. He later opened his
shop at Ajmal Khan Road, Karol Bagh and expanded from
there. In 1959 he bought a plot in Kirti Nagar to set up his
own spice factory.He is currently the highest paid CEO of
FMCG (Fast Moving Consumer Goods).ID M
(We all also know him for a completely different reason
today)

57. • DHARAMPAL GULATI

58. Q 18* M is a Hindustani classical raga. Legends say that this
raga has the power to bring out rains in the area where it is
sung .
A popular anecdote says that when Tansen went to Akbar's
court in 1556 and soon became his favourite. A lot of Akbar's
courtiers became jealous of Tansen's privileges. They
schemed to burn Tansen while he sang raag Deepak. This
raag when sung caused fire in the area of performance. So
Tansen had an idea. He taught raga M - the raag of rain, to
his daughter. If sung properly, this raag could bring rain.
Id M

59. • MEGH MALHAR

60. Q 19 Id this individual who served in the ambulance
core in the boer war (October 1899) .

61. • MAHATMA GANDHI

62. Q 20 M is in Seoni and Chhindwara districts of Madhya
Pradesh. It derives its name from the river that flows
through the park from north to south dividing the park
into almost equal western and eastern halves, the well
forested areas of Seoni and Chhindwara districts
respectively. It was declared a sanctuary in 1977 but
raised to the status of national park in 1983. In 1992, it
was established as a tiger reserve. The under M has
been described in Ain-i-Akbari, and is the setting of N.
Id M and N.

63. • PENCH NATIONAL PARK (THE JUNGLE BOOK)

64. • WAIT FOR THE FINALS

65. FINALS

66. ROUND 1
(POUNCE AND INFINE BOUNCE)
+20/-10
+10 ON DIRECT
+5 ON PASS
(QM LOVES TO POUNCE SO YOU
CAN POUNCE ON DIRECT TOO)

67. AUDIENCE QUESTION 1
M is a public sector bank with its corporate office in
Bangalore, Karnataka, India. It is one of the nationalised
banks in India. The bank offers a wide range of financial
products and services to the customers through its various
delivery channels. The bank has a network of 2031
branches (March 2017) throughout the country and over
4000 customer touch points including 2001 ATMs. M was
established by a group of farmers led by Shri. Attavar
Balakrishna Shetty on 23 October 1931 in Mangaluru
in Dakshina Kannada District of Karnataka State. Since it
was established on the auspicious Dasherra Day, it was
named ‘M ‘. Its logo shows a person humbly bowing down.

68. • VIJAY BANK (VIJAY DASHMI)

69. Q 1 India is the only country in the world to
win all three international beauty peagents
(namely Miss Universe , Miss World, Miss
Asia Pacific )in the same year (2000). Give
names of all three winners?

70. • PRIYANKA CHOPRA
• DIA MIRZA
• LARA DATTA

71. Q 2

72. • CHANAKYA

73. Q3

74. • KISHORE KUMAR THIS LED TO HIS BAN IN
ALL INDIA RADIO

75. Q 4 M is a cooked mixture of sugar, honey, ghee, Indian
Gooseberry (amla), jam, sesame oil, berries, herbs and
various spices. It is prepared as per the instructions
suggested in Ayurvedic texts. M is widely sold and
consumed in India as a dietary supplement. Various
Indian holy books like Mahabharat, Puranas etc., relate
that Ashwini Kumar brothers, the twins, who were Raj
vaidya to Devas during Vedic times.The first historically
documented formula for M appears in the Charaka
Samhita, the ancient Ayurvedic treatise.

76. • CHAWANPRASH

77. Q 5 The most famous example of this method of dismissal
involved the Indian bowler M . It occurred during India's
tour of Australia on 13 December 1947 in the second Test
at Sydney. Mr M ran out Bill Brown when, in the act of
delivering the ball, he held on to it and removed the bails
with Brown well out of his crease. This was the second time
M had dismissed Brown in this fashion on the tour, having
already done it in an earlier match against an Australian XI.
On that occasion he had warned Brown once before
running him out. The Australian press accused M of being
unsportsmanlike, although some Australians, including Don
Bradman, the Australian captain at the time, defended M’s
actions. Since this incident, a batsman dismissed in this
fashion is said to have been N.

78. • MANKANDING (VINOO MANKAN)

79. Q 6 Connect (till date exhaustive list of 4)

80. • PEOPLE TO WIN ALL THE PADMA AWARDS
(PADMA BHUSHAN,PADMA
VIBHUSHAN,PADMA SHREE AND BHARAT
RATNA)

81. ROUND 2 AUDIO VISUAL
SAME RULES

82. ID the monument and
put funda.

83. Q 1 Where would you find this famous political party
rivalry?

84. • GANGS OF WASSEYPUR)

85. Q 2 Fill in the blanks and put funda.

86. • SATYAM (SATYAM SCAM)

87. Q 3 Where would you find this notice board by The
Archaeological Survey Of India?

88. • BHANGARH

89. Q 4 Id the lyricist of the song ?

90. • VERGUESE KURIAN

91. Q 5 Id the monument and why is it in news lately.

92. • STONE CHARIOT HAMPI, ON THE BACKSIDE OF
NEW 50 RS NOTE

93. Q 6 Id the movie
from this minimalistic
poster.

94. • TARE ZAMEEN PAR

95. ROUND 3 DIFFERENTIAL
WRITTEN ROUND
60/N FORMAT
-20 IN CASE OF A WRONG
ANSWER

96. AUDIENCE QUESTION 1
The origin of some of the important musical instruments
associated with Hindu culture is traced back to Shiva. M
which is named after Shiva is one of them.
Legend has it that the inspiration to create M came to
Shiva when he once saw goddess Parvati sleeping with
her hands on chest.
Hand of Parvati is the long handle of , her bangles the
frets and her bosom the Tumba or gourds.
It is said that Lord Shiva wanted to surprise Parvati with
the music of M when she woke up.
It is also believed that Shiva and Parvati used to dance
to the music that emanated from the M.

97. RUDRA VEENA

98. Q 1 In 1941, Lord Linlithgow, then Viceroy of
India received a gift of £100,000 from a
grateful Sudanese Government towards building a war
memorial in recognition of the sacrifices of Indian troops
in the liberation of Sudan in the East African
Campaign during World War II. At the end of the war, Field
Marshal Claude , then Commander-in-Chief of the Indian
Army, drawing on experiences of the army during the war,
led a committee to study various military establishments
around the world and submitted a report to
the Government of India in Dec. 1946.What did it lead to
becoming one of the first’s in the world ?

99. NDA

100. Q 2 M is a semi classical Indian dance with martial, tribal
and folk origins with origins in the eastern Indian states
of Odisha, Jharkhand and West Bengal. It is found in three
styles named after the location where they are performed,
ie. Purulia M of Bengal, Seraikella M of Jharkhand, and
Mayurbhanj M of Odisha.
The dance ranges from celebrating martial
arts, acrobatics and athletics performed in festive themes of
a folk dance, to a structured dance with religious themes
found in Shaivism, Shaktism and Vaishnavism. The costumes
vary between the styles, with Purulia and Serakeilla using
masks to identify the character. The stories enacted by M
dancers include those from the Hindu epics
the Ramayana and the Mahabharata, the Puranas and other
Indian literature.

101. CHAU DANCE

102. Q 3 The M was a project which aimed to measure the
entire Indian subcontinent with scientific precision. It was
begun in 1802 by the infantry officer William Lambton,
under the auspices of the East India Company. Under the
leadership of his successor, George Everest, the project
was made a responsibility of the Survey of India. Everest
was succeeded by Andrew Scott Waugh and after 1861
the project was led by James Walker, who saw the first
completion of it in 1871.
• Among the many accomplishments of the Survey were
the demarcation of the British territories in India and
the measurement of the height of
the Himalayan giants: Everest, K2, and Kanchenjunga.

103. GREAT TRIGNOMETRIC SURVEY OF
INDIA

104. Q 4 Mr M born on 4 May 1942 is a telecom engineer, inventor,
entrepreneur and policymaker. He was born
in Titilagarh, Odisha. M launched the Center for the
Development of Telematics (C-DOT), and served as Advisor to
the Prime Minister on Technology Missions related to water,
literacy, immunization, oil seeds, telecom, and dairy. He is also
the founding Chairman of India’s Telecom Commission . M holds
around 100 technology patents, has been involved in several
start-ups and lectures extensively. as technology Advisor to
the Prime Minister, Rajiv Gandhi in 1984, M both heralded the
telecom revolution in India, and made a strong case for using
technology for the benefit of society through missions on
telecommunications, literacy, dairy, water, immunization and oil
seeds. Therefore he is widely regaerded as father of indian
telecom industry. Id M

105. SAM PETRODA

106. Q 5 Developed by Grey for Good ,philanthropic arm of
advertising and marketing agency Grey Group,the idea
for the iodine M project – named ‘life saving –’ was
conceived and incubated in Singapore . Creators at grey
were looking for a solution to address iodine deficiency
in India when doctors told them that it can be absorbed
through skin. So they decided to make an Iodine patch
but to give it a wider appeal it was designed as M.Id M

107. IODINE BINDI

108. Q 6 Stephano , a successful builder , was an unrepentant
fascist and kept a leather – bound edition of Mussolini’s
speeches in his front room. He fought alongside the
Wehrmacht against the Russians on the eastern front.
During the war , he watched many Russian movies.When
he returned,he gave his children Russian pet names.
What pet name did he give his daughter Antonia?

109. SONIA GANDHI

110. Round 4

111. Audience Question

113. Q 1 On being asked by M if he was ready to fight on
the eve of the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 N replied
“ I am always ready, sweetie”. Id M and N

114. SAM MANEKSHAW
AND INDIRA
GANDHI

115. Q 2 M’s efforts saw some 14 million people—roughly seven
million from each side—flee across the border when they
discovered the new boundaries left them in the "wrong"
country. Some 500,000 people died in the violence that
ensued after independence, and millions more were
injured. After seeing the mayhem occurring on both sides
of the boundary, Mr M refused his salary of 40,000 rupees
(then 3,000 pounds). He was made a Knight Grand Cross of
the Order of the British Empire in 1948.

116. • CYRIL RADCLIF

117. Q 3 The Produnova is an artistic gymnastics vault consisting of a
front handspring onto the vaulting horse and two front
somersaults in a tucked position off it. Under the 2017 Code of
Points (artistic gymnastics) the vault has a 6.4 D-score, and is
considered the hardest vault performed in women's artistic
gymnastics. This vault is also called the "vault of death" due to
its difficulty and likelihood of injury.
•Yelena Produnova
•Yamilet Peña
•Fadwa Mahmoud
•Oksana Chusovitina
•M
FITB (exhaustive list of people who successfully performed it
on int. stage)

118. DEEPA KARMAKAR

119. Q 4 If the famous detective Sherlock Holmes lives at 221B
Baker Street ,London then which famous Indian directive
lives at lives at 21 Rajani Sen Road,Ballygunge, Kolkata?

120. FELUDA

121. Q 5 M (October 5, 1524 – June 24, 1564) was a ruling
Queen of Gondwana from 1550 until 1564. She was
born in the family of famous Rajput Chandel Emperor
Keerat Rai. She was born at the fort of Kalinjar (Banda,
Uttar Pradesh) in Chandel Dynasty, which is famous in
the Indian history for the defense of king Vidyadhar who
repulsed the attacks of Mahmud of Ghazni. Her love for
sculptures is shown in the world famed temples of
Khajuraho and Kalinjar Fort.
(WE ALL SHOULD ATLEAST KNOW THIS ONE)

122. • RANI DURGAWATI

123. Q 6 This one of a kind
temple in the world is
located in Tamil Nadu,
near Thilatharpanapuri
(around 2 km away from
Koothnur). It is known as
Adi Vinayaka
temple.What makes this
temple unique?

124. • ONLY TEMPLE WHERE LORD GANESHA IS
WORSHIPPED IN HUMAN FORM

125. • SVD

127. • BDF