India Quiz, the first quiz of the Quarantined Quiz Series hosted on dare2compete on 24th March 2020 hosted jointly by IIT Patna Quiz Club and Quizmaniac Beings (IIEST, Shibpur).

1. India Quiz
The Quarantined Quiz Series
- Quizmaniac BEings(IIEST, Shibpur)
- Quiz Club(IIT, Patna)

2. 1. Which historical place is being described here ?
Moreover, the whole establishment is surrounded by a brick wall, which encloses the entire
convent from without. One gate opens into the great college, from which are separated eight
other halls standing in the middle . The richly adorned towers, and the fairy-like turrets, like
pointed hill-tops are congregated together. The observatories seem to be lost in the vapours
(of the morning), and the upper rooms tower above the clouds.

3. Nalanda University

4. 2. Which person do the images describe ?

5. Abhinav Bindra

6. 3. What is the Ad About?Put Funda.

7. India's Supreme Court’s order for permanent commission for all women
officers in the Indian Army

8. 4.
Connect these three structures
located in 3 different cities - Kolkata,
Patna & Varanasi

9. Darbhanga
Darbhanga House in Kolkata
Darbhanga Fort in Varanasi
Darbhanga House in Patna

10. 5.
The community of ivory crafters of India now use Sandalwood or a less expensive Kadam wood in
place of scarce ivory.
A major breakthrough in their profession came with the introduction of a specific handheld device.
Craftsmen begin by cutting the pieces of wood into uniform blocks with a hack saw. Then they
make a drawing of the motif to be carved on the piece and start chiseling out the material using
this device. Different kinds of heads are used for different tasks, and some of the tools’ heads are so
fine that they can reach inside extremely small grooves.
This tool actually is made to be used in a completely different profession. Thus, this tool is named
after that profession. Which profession?

11. Dentist’s drill

12. 6.
These coins made of silver were popularly called as “chaandi sawaar” by the
Indian masses. Who minted these coins?

13. Dutch EIC

14. 7.
The contract for this structure in North East India was given to the British
company Martin and Burns.
This structure blends Medieval Hindu and Rajput traditions and cultures.
The structure has two parts, one of them, the Andar Mahal was made for the
Royal family as their summer residence. While the other side is an open air
amphitheatre where events were held for the enjoyment of the royal family. The
structure has 24 rooms in total.
The structure has two stairways leading down. The entry to this palace is through
hand held powered boats.
The structure also has a beautiful terrace gardens on the ceiling.
The only other one of its kind is in Rajasthan, though much smaller than this.

15. Neermahal

16. 8. Which Organisation?

18. 9.
One of the early concepts of the Google doodle made for which Indian?

19. PC Mahalanobis

20. 10.
Reference
to which
event?

21. Republic Day Parade

22. 11. Whose ad?

23. Air India
In the picture the man shown is Maharaja,
Air India's Mascot

24. 12.
Which place currently in news is
named after this non-migratory bird
found mainly in Indian subcontinent?

25. Shaheen Bagh

26. 13. Which location/structure?
Named after a Roman
goddess.(pictured below)
Most book-enthusiasts would
have heard about this place.

27. Flora fountain, Mumbai

28. 14.
FITB

30. 15. Following names were proposed for which state ?
Hind
Bhagirath Pradesh
Himalaya Koshalam
Hindustan

31. Uttar Pradesh

32. 16.Which IPL Feat Connect These 2 Players?(These 2
form an exhaustive list )

33. Only Indians To Win The IPL MVP Award

34. 17.Give The Connect Between these People.(They
form an exhaustive list)

35. All of them Won the Padma Vibhushan in 2020 and
after their deaths.

36. 18. Which king who lived in the first half of the first millenia
is being described here ?
● “This lofty column, (is) the raised arm of the earth, proclaiming as it
were, that the fame having pervaded the entire surface of the world
with (its) rise caused by the conquest of the whole earth, has acquired
an easy and graceful movement in that it has repaired from here to the
abode of (Indra) the lord of the gods—(the fame) of that prosperous
___________ the Mahārājādhirāja, son of the prosperous Chandragupta,
the Mahārājādhirāja, born of the Mahādēvī Kumāradēvī, (and)
daughter's son of the Lichchhavi...”

37. Samudragupta

38. 19. Which person do the images describe ?

39. Kamal Nath

40. 20.
This sanskrit author has his mention in other works including Kavyamimasa
by Rajashekhara and Malavikagnimitram by Kalidasa. In Malavikagnimitram,
Kalidasa refers to him as an illustrious author alongwith Saumilla & Kaviputra.
Thirteen works have been credited to him, most of which don’t have the name
of the author. Name this author whose plays go against the rules of Natya
Shashtra.

41. Bhasa