The document outlines the rules and structure of the Indophile Quiz finals organized by QM Hitesh Mahato. It consists of five rounds with a variety of question types, including visuals and trivia, and encourages audience participation. Points are awarded based on correct answers and engaging audience questions, with a focus on quick responses and accurate identification.

1. The Indophile Quiz(FINALS)
-QM
Hitesh Mahato

2. Rules
5 rounds in total…
Round 1-Differentials
Round 2-21 Q’s Infinite bounce CW
Round 3-SVC
Round 4-21 Q’s Infinite bounce ACW
Round 5-LVC
-Funny guesses welcome 
-Keep your answers precise & since the Finals is long so plz
‘answer jaldi dena’ 
-Part points at QM’s discretion…
-Plenty of Audience Q’s(& Prizes too)
-The QM is always Right 

3. Round 1- Differential Round
10 visuals on screen…
Identify/Answer the Q’s related to it..
Written Round
Differential Scoring.
Scoring is 5 X ( No. of teams that answer wrong)

4. 1)This is the pic of a monarch before he died in Rangoon..
This is probably the only camera picture of any Monarch of his dynasty.
Identify…

5. 2)A newspaper clipping sometime in 1972…Who’s being
talked of??

6. 3) The __X__ Express was since long the train traversing the longest
distance in India before being overtaken recently by the
__Y__Express….
Name both trains

7. 4)A really old Ad from the 70’s…Who’s looking for models??

8. 5)Innovative advertising in a very ‘Indian’ way……

9. 6)A show on SAB TV which is a tribute to an iconic storyteller
from the world of Hindi literature…Gimme his name

10. 7)Just identify the stadium……

11. 8)
The 1st ever Amar Chitra
Katha(pic alongside) had
something anomalous about
its numbering…
What & why??
(Probably most of us would
have dismissed it as a
printing mistake,if at
all,noticed)

12. 9)Festival being celebrated??(be precise for full points)

13. 10)Identify this organisation..

14. TeamsExchange sheets

15. Answers
1)Bahadur Shah Zafar
2)LED ZEPPELIN
3)X-Himsagar Express,Y-Viveka Express
4)Debonair
5)Simplymarry.com
6)Sharad Joshi
7)SMS stadium,JAIPUR
8)Its numbering started from 11 as the previous 10
were all translations of popular English classics
9)Latthmaar HOLI
10)DRDO

16. Audience Question
Born & brought up in a poor family who couldn’t
afford to send him to school,__X___ regularly
wandered off to the Puri golden beach as a child
which was only 3 kilometers from his house.
Fiddling with sand,he used to create sand
sculptures to pass his time…
When 12,he started going to the beach before
dawn,made some sand art and disappeared
( fearing reprimand or rejection) before morning. .
Having done this for 2-3 years,he once went back
to the beach one afternoon & was pleasantly
surprised to see people appreciate his creations…
Thus started a journey which has now made him
India’s most recognisable face in SAND-ART….
Just name him

17. Another Audience Q
Which Bollywood dialogue are we dwelling upon here??

18. The 
question
And Some other answers… 

19. Round 2-WHAT GOES AROUND..
•INFINITE BOUNCE clockwise…
•21 questions
•10 points per correct answer,no negatives
•**Pounce-In case you know an answer even though
its not ur turn,U can simply raise ur hand and show
me the answer in writing
**(+10 if u get it correct,-5 if u get it wrong)on the
pounce
**4 pounces per team in this round…

20. 1)Snippet from the website of a college__X___ in Dhaka,BANGLADESH…
(bigger picture next slide)
Googling for this entity without mentioning the place’s name throws up only two
prominent results-the 1st one is an Indian college ranked amongst the top 3 nationally
in its stream & the 2nd one is the above mentioned college…
Call it plagiarism or mere coincidence,not only has much of the designing of the
student strata & administration of X been based on that of this prestigious Indian
College,it also shares its name with it…
Gimme X/above-mentioned Indian college….

24. Here’s the Real one…my Alma-mater 
Photo courtesy….SAGAR IYER Sir,S2 batch

25. 2)The Brow-antlered
deer,the state animal of
MANIPUR,has an interesting
history attached to it…
First discovered at Manipur
in 1839,it was reported
extinct in 1951..It was re–
discovered at a RESERVE
PARK in 1975,an occurrence
which led to that park being
given NATIONAL PARK
status…
The said National Park is
unique & one of its kind in
the world…
Name & speciality plz…..

26. Keibul lamjao Nat. park(the only
floating national park in the world)

27. 3)The word ‘Archi’ derives from the local word for
bamboo grove or stave.
According to legend, after an altercation with a
spirit, a farmer beat the spirit with his bamboo stave
or archi.
The spirit shouted “archi, archi, archi” and
vanished.....
The word ‘archi’ subsequently underwent changes
and transformed into what a place is presently
known as….
Which place??

28. Ranchi

29. 4)
“#_______is appropriately inserting witty and famous
movie dialogues in between conservations.”
“#_______is taking a ticket to Dubai and reaching Marina
beach in Chennai,”
“#_______ is your driver pulls the seat belt on when
there's a traffic warden and then takes it off.
“#________will make you addict to salt mango tree at
breakfast”
“#_________is world's biggest busybodies.Love to make
fun of themselves and others.”
#FITB#

31. 5)OM,Sarve Bhavantu Sukhinah,
_____ ______ ________,
Sarve Bhadraani Pashyantu,
Maa kaschidh duhkhbhaag Bhavet.
(Translated as--May everybody be blessed with happiness,
______ ______ ______ ________,
May everybody be assured of well-being,
May there be no mental thought that could arouse sorrow or grief.)
Complete the above shloka to get the motto of the ARMY entity whose flag’s been shown below
Also identify the said entity…

32. Sarve santu niramaya(everyone
should be free from disease)
Army Medical corps

33. 6)A view of the Angkor Vat Temple in Cambodia…
Which place from Indian mythology is its design a supposed
tribute to??

34. Meru parvat

35. 7)Quoting Alan Watts(English philosopher)
“To the philosophers of India,Relativity is no new
discovery,just as the concept of light years is no matter
for astonishment to people used to thinking of time in
millions of ___X’s___, (1 X=4,320,000 years).
The fact that the wise men of India have not been
concerned with technological applications of this
knowledge arises from the circumstance that technology
is but one of innumerable ways of applying it.”
What is X??

37. Kalpa
The concept is first mentioned in the Mahabharata.
The definition of a kalpa equalling 4.32 billion years is
found in the Puranas (specifically Vishnu
Purana and Bhagavata Purana).

38. 8)The story dates back to the mid-1930s when Tseng, a Chinese
editor of a Singaporean newspaper,visited the Sabarmati ashram to
meet Mahatma Gandhi.He was called “Shantidoot” by the Mahatma,
who urged him to adopt Gandhian principles of non-violence during
the Civil War that was raging in China between the two World Wars.
After Gandhi's assassination,Tseng returned to China,but came back
in 1977 and stayed at Sevagram in Wardha where he translated
Gandhiji's autobiography and other works in Chinese..He died at
Acharya BINOBA BHAVE’s ashram leaving behind a Grand-daughter
called YELAN …
Yelan met Kranti, who was studying MBBS at a medical college at
Sevagram in Wardha, Maharashtra and they got married in 1982…
One of their children is now one of the most prominent figures in a
certain sport in INDIA…
Who’s being talked of??

40. JWALA GUTTA

41. 9)This is the building of MODERN SCHOOL,Barakhamba Road,NEW
DELHI…This building makes an appearance in a cult Bollywood movie
as a more famous building because of an uncanny resemblance to it..
Which movie & what resemblance??

42. Rang de basanti
AIR station

43. 10)__X__ is a special squad of select
commandoes who’ve gained a fearsome
reputation among terrorists who refer to
them as the 'Dadhiwali Fauj'(Bearded Army)
since they are the only non-Sikh personnel
allowed to grow beards…
Other nicknames include 'Jal Murgi‘ and
'Magarmachh‘…
Who’s being referred to??

44. MARcos(marine commandoes)

45. 11)Lines from a famous
Rabindranath Tagore poem
titled __X___...
The title __X__ is the same
as the disciple of Buddha
mentioned in the poem…
Who’s X??

46. upagupta

47. 12)Famous words these,first used on this epitaph & then
reproduced the world over…
On which epitaph will you find these written??

50. 13)What (in)famous thing began thus??
“The Government of India has given consideration
to the statement made by the Foreign Minister of
Pakistan before the Security Council on 16th
January,(761st meeting) that is, a statement coming
from a neighbouring country with which it is our
desire to establish, maintain and continue the most
intimate friendship, and made by a person who has
been associated with the service of India for well
over generation and who today occupies a place of
prominence in his government”

52. The longest
speech ever
delivered at
the UN
by India’s then
Defence
Minister
V.K. Menon

53. The "Seringapatam medal" which
14) depicted a Lion overcoming a prostrate
tiger was awarded by the BRITISH to
those who had participated in the 1799
fall of Seringapatnam where TIPU
SULTAN was killed….
The reverse had a frieze of the
storming of the fort while the obverse
showed “a LION subduing the TIGER”
and the following words 'ASSUD OTTA-
UL GHAULIB',signifying the Lion of God
is the conqueror,or the conquering
Lion of God.
However,many considered it an
attempt on part of the BRITISH to
counter an Iconic representation against
them by an Indian ruler…
What was this iconic representation??

55. TIPU THE
TIGER….
Tipu Sultan identified himself with tigers;his personal epithet was
'The Tiger of Mysore‘,his soldiers were dressed in 'tiger' jackets,his
personal symbol invoked a tiger's face through clever use of
calligraphy and the tiger motif is visible on his throne….
Tipu the tiger striking down the European in the organ represented
his symbolic triumph over the British…
So,the Seringapatnam medal was started as a counter to this..

56. 15)The sport of XY has had an ancient history with evidence
ranging from the Mahabharata to Sambhaji maharaj..
Inspite of this XY gained importance during the Peshwa’s rule by
Balambhat Dada Devdhar when he was challenged for a wrestling
competition by Gulab and Ali – two wrestlers from North India.
Balambhatdada Devdhar started practicing for the tact’s of
wrestling on a hillock near the saptashrungi temple in Nasik.
However,he faced problems as he had never seen or faced Gulab
& Ali before…
It was then that Lord Hanuman came into Balambhatdada’s
dreams and taught him some tacts for practicing wrestling
without an actual opponent using a Y…
Gimme this sport,XY…

59. 16)When Amit Burman-promoted Natures Bounty Wines & Allied
Products Pvt Ltd were deciding to launch a new whisky in India last
July,they wanted its name to be unique,something which could
generate a smile,bringing humour to the image of whisky drinking…
So they zeroed in onto the question that’s part of the traditional
hospitality generously offered to visitors in India
" Ki Pivon Ge?",which translates as "What would you like to drink?".
The traditional answer to the above question was taken as the name
of this scotch brand as it inflicted a deliberate pun on the answers
Indians give to such Q’s…
Gimme the name of this scotch brand…

62. 17)Instances of ‘reported’ sighting of __X___
Marco Polo
Ibn Batuta in 1346
Repeatedly in the Indian subcontinent during the Mughal
reign(16th-19th centuries).
During the British Raj around 1850 and 1900
__X__ however caught the public eye only in 1890,when The Chicago
Tribune published an article about __X__ written by a journalist John
Elbert Wilkie under the pseudonym of Fred S. Ellmore.
'Elmore's' story was repeated in several other newspapers without its
authenticity being verified…
Later Elmore’s story turned out to be a hoax..
Even though the primary purpose of The Chicago tribune was to boost
sales by attaching itself to something sensational,the hoax story later
kept getting used as a possible explanation of __X__
Whether __X__ ever existed for real or was just a Figment of
Imagination of the public is still unclear…
What is __X__?

64. The great Indian Rope Trick….

65. 18)This is the Indian PRESIDENT’s Flag…
If the lions & the Lotus vase are taken from
Sarnath…
Which place/places have the Elephant and scales
been taken from??

67. The elephant from Ajanta Caves
&
The scales from the Red Fort…

68. 19)Snapshot from the movie,I am KALAM….

70. Karni mata
temple at
BIKANER
70

71. 20)
-the first is for nourishment
-the second for success,
-the third for loyalty,
-the fourth for bliss,
-the fifth for the good of all animals,
-the sixth for prosperity,
-the seventh for illumination.
What is being spoken of??

73. The saat pheras in a Hindu vedic marriage

74. 21)Connect these gentlemen to Madhya Pradesh &
Kolkata using a phrase each….

76. MP=Hindustan ka Dil dekho/MP ghazab hai…
KOLKATA=let Kolkata/calcutta surprise you

77. Audience Q
The mascot for military intelligence in
Indonesia is a character from Indian
mythology…
Who??
77

79. Audience Q
Taking its name from an attendant of Shiva,______
symbolizes the cosmic cycles of creation and destruction,as
well as the daily rhythm of birth and death.
_____ is also considered a pictorial allegory of the five
principal manifestations of eternal energy:
'Shrishti' - creation,evolution
'Sthiti' - preservation,support
'Samhara' - destruction,evolution
'Tirobhava' - illusion
'Anugraha' - release,emancipation,grace
FITB..

80. `TANDAVA

81. ROUND 3-SVC
5 slides,every slide containing two or more images….
The images to the left on each slide lead to someone real…
The images to the right on each slide lead to someone
fictitious
The above mentioned people are connected by something
common…
No points for individual identification,I need you to name
the two people mentioned above….
Points mentioned on slide….
Answers only in written form…

82. +25/-16

83. +20/-12

84. +15/-8

85. +10/-4

86. +5/0

87. SUSHIL KUMAR’s last five Jamaal Malik’s last five
answers on way to winning 5 answers on way to
crores becoming a millionaire
-Rahul Dravid -Benjamin Franklin
-National Investigation -Samuel Colt
Agency -London
-Shakuntala -Jack Hobbs
-Charkha -Aremis
-Denmark

88. Audience Q
Snippet from
the wiki page of
an entity…
Identify this
epochal brand
which we all
love …

90. AUDIENCE Q
This is an image from the banks of a
lake in Unnao district of Uttar
Pradesh…
According to a former Pradhan of the
village, the 19th century British
Gazetteer states: “It is said that there
lies a stone statue of ____X _____and
as he died of unquenched thirst and if
water is poured into the navel of the
stone figure,the hole never gets filled
up.”
Villagers visit the spot every Monday
to offer prayers to__X____
Shown in the picture is the Rough
__X__memorial….
Which story from mythology would this correspond to??...

91. SHRAVAN KUMAR’s story….
This is supposedly the place where King DASHRATH
accidentally shot SHRAVAN KUMAR mistaking him for
a deer….
The village’s called SARWAN,perhaps named after the
incident

92. Round 4-COMES AROUND…..
•INFINITE BOUNCE anticlockwise…
•18 questions
•10 points per correct answer,no negatives
•**Pounce-In case you know an answer even though
its not ur turn,U can simply raise ur hand and show
me the answer in writing
**(+10 if u get it correct,-5 if u get it wrong)on the
pounce
**4 pounces per team…

93. 22)__X___was the first follower and longtime companion
of __Y__,the founder of the religion ___Z___
It is said that X first contacted Y to seek help as many
people in his family were dying at a young age
Y gave him the assurance that henceforth people in his
clan will not die early.
It is said that the name X came from this assurance &
meant
‘one who Does not die'.
X,Y & Z plz..

94. X=mardana
Y=guru nanak
Z=sikhism

95. 23)The person in the pic
served as the treasurer
of Baghdad from 1817 to
1829 & was the leader of
the Baghdadi jewish
community who had
migrated there…
• In the context of
Pune,why would he be
considered important ??

97. He’s David Sasoon who had made significant
contibutions towards the Establishment of Sasoon
Rugnalaya ,Pune’s largest Government hospital

98. 24)According to Arabic literature, there are seven stages of
love..
1. - Hub - Attraction
2. - Uns - Infatuation
3. - Ishq - Love
4. - Aqeedat - Reverence
5. - Ibaadat - Worship
6. - Junoon - Obsession
7. - Maut – Death
A famous Bollywood Song supposedly commemorates the 7
stages of Love….
Which one??

99. Satrangi re from DIL Se

100. 25)This place in Eastern India is of special religious value for followers
of a certain sect…
However,one of its lesser known specialities is its name….
With a name which can be used as (1)the name of a person,(2)the name
of a place and (3)a verb,it can constitute a sentence of its own using
only its name in a sentence thrice in succession…
Eg:If X be the name of the place then ‘X X X’ constitutes a full
sentence with a meaning where the 1st X is a person’s name,the 2nd a
place & the 3rd X a verb
Often been used by locals to baffle outsiders and have some fun at
their expense,this would perhaps be the sole such example in India…
Name this place X
***Q derived from personal experience  

101. Gaya gaya gaya

102. 26)Based on the bestselling
mobile game of all time,this
game ___X____ was launched
by the webportal __Y___ to
highlight the menace of
dowry…
Available as a free application
on Facebook,where it has
already attracted close to
3,00,000 likes,__X__ is
described by the company as
a way of throwing light on the
nuisance of dowry in a manner
that it connects with the
younger audience.
X & Y please….

104. X-Angry Brides
Y-Shaadi.com

105. 27)XZ and YZ are two often confused Indian cities in Uttar
Pradesh…
Contrary to popular perception,the name XZ has actually been
derived from the names of two princes named Bansaldev &
Baraldev(sons of the local ruler) and not from a commodity it is
famous for…
XZ is seldom used nowadays and simply saying Z is good enough to
denote XZ…
The prefix “Y" in YZ represents the common title of the Kayasths
who were masters of the town for a considerable period of time…
While XZ is located North of the state capital,YZ lies to the
Southeast of the state capital…
XZ & YZ please…

106. XZ=bans bareilly
YZ=Rai bareilly

107. 28)The instrument on the left __X__is of Afghan Origin & is
believed to be a precursor to the Indian instrument __Y__
Gimme X and Y

109. X-Rubab
Y-Sarod

110. 29)Excerpts from a recent interview of a famous mother-son duo at
the Jaipur Literature festival…
In the words of the mother,a former HIGH court judge…
“My colleagues thought mine was a strange family and one of them
once asked my driver ‘bacchhey kya kartey hain??’ (what do the
children do??).
So he said, ‘ek to jo ladki hai woh der se aati hai aur telephone pe
rahti hain’ ,‘ek ladka mitti ke ghar main baithkey kuchh karta hai’ , ‘aur
doosra ladka upar baithkey likhta rahta hai ….
‘koi kucch nahin karta..Khali saab aur memsaab kaam kartey hain ”
As time was to tell,the girl went on to work in films like WATER &
EARTH,her first brother went on to become an arranger for
BUDDHIST discourses & her other brother,the one who wrote went
on to become a famous writer,a name we are all familiar with…
Identify this famous mother-son duo…

111. Leela seth-vikram seth

112. 30)
These are Facebook stats for an Indian page…
Data for 16th August,2011: Data for 27th August,2011:
•17.8 million page impressions for • 25 million page impressions for
news feed news feed
•209194 active users • 280017 active users
•28108 new likes • 530683 active users for last seven
•159053 likes of news feed days
•35041 comments • 168209 likes of news feed
• 28294 comments

113. These numbers were unprecedented for a 16 day
period for Facebook anywhere in the world.
For the whole August month as per booshaka.com,the
page in question got 3.3 million booshaka points.
This made it the leader amongst all Facebook pages
across the world for August 2011 ahead of Facebook
pages for Manchester United, WWE, Joyce Meyer
ministries, Cristiano Ronaldo and Barack Obama.
Which is the facebook page being referred to??
(be precise for full points)

116. Existing
31) •Bareilly
•Gwalior
•Hisar
•Kota
•Patiala
Newer ones
•Ambala
•Dehradun
•Kanpur
•Moradabad
•EXHAUSTIVE list…..CONNECT

118. Counter-magnet towns
(are identified as those that can be developed as alternative
centres of growth and attract migrants to them rather than Delhi
hence reducing both migration and the population explosion in
the Delhi metropolitan area.)
Criterion
-they should not be within approximately. 250 km. from Delhi
--should have their own established roots and potential of
growth
and
-should not be centres of either religious, strategic or
environmental importance.

119. 32)Identify the Poet from these ‘much quoted’ lines of his..

120. SHREE Atal bihari vajpayee

121. 33)
What exactly does this painting depict??

123. Copying the murals on the Ajanta cave paintings
This is a painting by William Simpson shows an
artist, Robert Gill, at work.
Gill had dedicated 30 years of his life to this
particular project, taking measurements and
keeping records,apart from painting.
The same project was later undertaken by John
Griffiths….

124. 34)Pic left:-Men at Pushkar,Rajasthan playing a board game __X__
Right:-(Image from Fatehpur Sikri) Akbar loved the game of __X__ & in a truly regal manner
he got the Court itself,divided into red and white squares,making it the board and an
enormous stone raised on four feet,representing the central point. It was here that Akbar
and his courtiers played this game; sixteen young slaves from the harem wearing the players'
colours represented the pieces & moved to the squares according to the throw of the dice ..
It is said that the Emperor took such a fancy to playing the game that he had a court for
__X___constructed in all his palaces, and traces of such are still visible at Agra and Allahabad.
The game in Question please??

126. Pachisi

127. (35)

128. Originally initiated as temple art,its products are used during the festival Dola Jatra
as well as during the ceremonies of Lord Jagannath.
For making different art forms they used coloured cloths which they cut and fold in
different shapes like leaves, flowers, animals, birds, and other motifs that are
stitched in the piece of cloth…
These deigned cloths are used to cover furniture or hung on the wall as a
showpiece, beach umbrella or lamp shades.
This craft form which also shares its name with the place shot
to national fame due to a rather ununsual reason some 2
years ago….
What unusual reason??

131. 36)The Rajput Regiment (war cry: “Bol Bajrang Bali ki jai!”)
The Punjab Regiment (“Boley so nihaal, Sat Sri Akal!”)
The Madras Regiment (“Veer Madrassi adi kollu, adi kollu, adi kollu!”),
The Maratha Light Infantry (“Bol Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj ki jai!”)
The Dogra Regiment (“Jawala Mata ki jai!”).
Gorkha Rifles (“Ayo Gorkhali!”)
Jat Regiment (“Jat balwan, jai Bhagwan!”)
The Kumaon Regiment’s (“Kalika Mata ki jai!”)
The ______Regiment’s war cry (“Bol Hindustan ki jai!”) stands out in
stark contrast to the other Regiments of the Indian Army(which have
a strong regional touch to their war cries) as the _____ Regiment is
the only Indian Regiment to have a patriotic war cry which involves
India/Hindustan…
Identify

132. Mahar regiment

133. 37)Quoting Mr. Nanda Kishore Chaudhary(pic above)
“In 2008, CK Prahalad (late management guru) called me up and asked if I knew who
he was. My jaw dropped. Of course, I knew who he was.He said he wanted to do a case
study on my company since we were connecting the rural poor with some of the
richest people on earth..”
Mr. Prahlad also included a case study of Mr. Chaudhary’s company in his book The
Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid citing it as an example of a social
business which helps in tackling world poverty..
His company has recently been picked by Harvard University as a case study…
With which traditional industry’s revival would he be associated??

134. The Carpet industry

135. 38)Shrivardhan Dwivedi,an alumnus of the National School
of Drama,has acted in a few serials and TV shows…
Among other things,he also runs an organisation called
‘Literacy India’ & trains poor children at the drama school of
his….He also has a ‘Limca book of world records’
nomination to his name for hosting the maximum
consecutive shows of a tv production…
However,these aren’t the reasons why he would be familiar
to us…
Because of what/how do we know him better??

137. “chain se
sona hai
toh jaag
jaaiye” 

138. 39)
Snippet from the DABUR website,showing an ayurvedic product called the XY
churna…
Used to treat indigestion & loss of apetite ,the X in its name comes from the hindi
name of one of its active constituents,Sodium Chloride,which softens food and aids
in secretion of saliva & gastric juices..
The Y part in its name comes the sage who first prepared it,Acharya Y…
Name this product…

141. 40)A 2004 ADIDAS commercial series
featured Mohammad Ali,Rugby star Johnny
Wilkinson,David Beckham and an Indian
sportsperson __X____ with its customary
tagline “Impossible is nothing”…
Who’s this Indian sportsperson??

144. 41)Mother India,
Lady X,
Iceberg,
First Prize,
Eiffel Tower,
Careless Love,
Just Joey.
What are these & where would you find
them??

146. Rose varieties at Mughal gardens,Rashtrapati Bhavan
(The pic shows tulips…Nevermind) 

147. 42)The Fort on the left lends its name to the CRICKETing venue
whose entrance is shown in the picture on the right…
Which Cricketing venue??

148. Barabatio stadium,cuttack

149. One for the audience
In christianity,__X__is the cry of praise or adoration shouted in
recognition of the Messiahship of Jesus on his entry into Jerusalem,
In Judaism, __X___ is interpreted as a Hebrew word meaning please
save or save now.
In the liturgical context,__X___ refers to a shout of praise and
worship and adoration or referring to a cry expressing an appeal for
divine help..
However,most of us would have heard __X___because of its usage by
A.R Rahman in a recent song where it means "an exclamation of joy
when a man sees his beloved"
What's the good word??

150. hosanna

151. Another Audience Q:-Just
name this superhero…

152. Suprema-created by Gulzar

153. ROUND 5-LVC
9 images, all connected by a common theme
A correct answer after the first 3 means 30/-15
A correct answer after the first 6 means 20/-10
A correct entry at the end means 10/0.
All entries to be submitted in written...
All clues generic…
Quite an easy connect…

157. +30/-15 at this stage….
Anybody trying??

161. +20/-10 at this stage
Who’s game??

165. Obvious now….
No negatives….So do give it a shot…

166. Has anybody in the audience
figured it out already??

167. STATE & Union territory name origins
1)Buddhist VIHARAS’BIHAR takes its name from VIHARAS
2)The AHOM dynastyASSAM
3)HANUMANAndamans
4)GOA gets its name from a place mentioned in the
Mahabharata as Gomanta which means the region of cows
5)The GURJAR dynastyGUJARAT gets its name from it
6)TRIPURA SUNDARI-the deity lends her name to TRIPURA
7)CENTRAL PROVINCES & BERARPre-independence name
for the cluster of provinces in central India…Changed to
MADHYA PRADESH post-independence
8)NAGAsNAGALAND
9)CHANDI mataCHANDIGARH

168. Audience Q’s
Ratnagiri in the south,
• Nilgiri in the north,
• Sanchoora in the west,
• Suryagiri in the east
• Interestingly, the TCS chief recently
compared the placement process at the IIMs
to a famous fair this place hosts ….
Which place??

169. PUSHKAR….

170. Another
Audience Q
Who’s been
tormenting
them??


172. Final scores please

173. That was a presentation by
SULCI & GYRI-the AFMC QUIZ CLUB