This is the question and answer set of the inaugural edition of Pragya Champions Chalice, 2024. The genre of the quiz was general. Both the prelims and final sets are clubbed into one.

2. Prelims
15 Questions
1, 5, 10, 15 star marked

3. 1. Welcome to Pragya Champions Chalice - the Annual intra
Pragya Championship QUIZ
There are four world capital cities that begin with the
letters Q, U, I, Z.
Name all four.
(0.25 marks for each correct answer)

4. 2. Established in 1927, on the advice of Mahatma Gandhi by
Indian businessman G.D. Birla and Purshottamdas Thakurdas.
It is the largest, one of the oldest and the apex business
organisation in India. It is a non-government, not-for-profit
organisation. X draws its membership from the corporate
sector, both private and public, including SMEs and MNCs. The
chamber has an indirect membership of over 250,000
companies from various regional chambers of commerce.
What is X, often drawing both derision and cheer from UEMK
students ? (No hints)

5. 3. X is a traditional South American caffeine-rich infused herbal drink. It is
also known as chimarrão or cimarrón and ka’ay in Guarani. It is made by
soaking dried _ _ _ _ _ X leaves in hot water and is traditionally served
with a metal straw (bombilla) in a container typically made from a
calabash gourd (also called the X ), but also made from a cattle horn
(guampa) in some areas. A very similar preparation, known as X cocido,
removes some of the plant material and sometimes comes in tea bags.
Today, X is sold commercially in tea bags and as bottled iced tea.
X was consumed by the Guaraní and Tupi peoples. Its consumption was
exclusive to the natives of Paraguay, more specifically the departments of
Amambay and Alto Paraná. It is the national beverage of Argentina,
Paraguay and Uruguay and is also consumed in the Bolivian Chaco, Brazil,
Northern and Southern Chile, Lebanon and Syria, where it was brought
from Paraguay and Argentina by immigrants.
ID X.

7. 4.
Spanish : Fulano, Sicrano, y Zutano
Italian : Tizio, Caio e Sempronio
Russian : Ivanov, Petrov, or Sidorov
English : _ _ _, _ _ _ _, and _ _ _ _ _
What term, something which is used by an Economist,
your English teacher, and anyone who wants to compare
you to the world ?

8. 5.
The shown passport (image next slide) was issued when X
travelled to France for an anti-fungal treatment.
The place of birth of this gentleman is also unknown ; perhaps
more interesting is the fact that he is one of the very few people
in the world with a <redacted> profession on their passport.
Despite all these unusual qualities, X was actually greeted at Le
Bourget Airport in Paris with full military honours, befitting his
profession.
ID X.

10. 6.
Connect :

11. 7.
People from the Indian subcontinent utilized the Mohur, a gold
coin, for trade and business purposes. Mohur was introduced in
India during the reign of Sher Shah Suri and continued in the
British Raj as well. The Calcutta Mint produced double Mohur
coins during the British Raj in 1835 whose value was set at 30
rupees. The coin’s reverse featured a lion walking leftward under
a palm tree, while the front side featured a portrait of King
William III. Even though these coins’ manufacture ceased in
1836, their significance can be seen in Modern India.
What is the significance of this coin ?

12. 8. X is a breast cancer awareness campaign and CSR
initiative by Mahindra. The campaign aims to help
women in rural India diagnose breast cancer early by
teaching them simple self-examination techniques.
The campaign uses the traditional Indian women's
purse, the batua, as a symbol of protection from both
financial and health dangers. The purses are made
from skin-friendly cloth and designed using nine
famous Indian folk art styles.
#RiseForGood

14. 9.These are the linkedin credentials of a major entrepreneur from Kolkata.
Identify this person, who still has a major role in our college lives ?

15. 10. X by Verve, the first soap that acts a as timer to help people wash
their hands properly.
The creative idea by Verve was to help combat the spread of the
COVID–19 pandemic and share the message of hand hygiene with the
main goal of this campaign always being to raise awareness about the
importance of clean hands.
Handwashing is something that we do every day without giving it a
second thought, but during a global pandemic, it could also be the
one thing that saves our lives – if it’s done correctly. Research has
shown that only 5% of us are washing our hands for the _ _ seconds
that it takes to get them thoroughly clean.

17. 11. During the years 1901-1902 Erik Lindberg was living in Paris. He
was influenced by modern French masters of that period, such as
Roty, Chaplain, Tasset, and Vernon. In the early part of his stay in
Paris he was entrusted with the task of making three objects.
Another person Gustav Vigeland was asked to make a fourth one.
Lindberg's work was "reduced" in October 1901 at Janvier's in
Paris. It was completed only in September 1902 as the approval
process took a long time. In the meanwhile, the people who
placed the order had to be content with a few temporary pieces.
Lindberg also had to step in and complete Vigeland's work for
him. Vigeland only made the basic design.
What were they making? Why was Vigeland unable to complete
his work?

18. 12. When it was completed, at
380 metres across the River
Dourou, the Maria Pia was the
longest single arch span in
the world.
Which historic city do you
have to travel to see this
bridge?
What is considered as its
"Fraternal Twin"?

19. 13. A leading brand has launched
#MOMentsTogether, a social media
campaign, to encourage kids to
give their moms a much deserved
break from all the trivial questions,
and direct them, instead, to X’s Ask
A-आई(AAI) chatbot.
From “Mom, what’s for dinner
tonight?” to “Have you seen my
keys?”, mothers are often our go-to
people, when it comes to
answering questions, no matter
how obvious or unnecessary they
may be.
Id X.

20. 14. These are nicknames from a controversy from more than a
decade ago, and the controversy was one of the first major
internet scandals when it first came up. All of these unfortunate
nicknames are from an ‘insider source’, as the controversy’s
author has claimed multiple times in the past.
What controversy ?
Who shares the unfortunate moniker ‘Lord Almighty’ ?

21. 15. Which famous brand ?

22. ANSWERS !!!!!!!

23. Round 1 :
THE DRY ROUND (20/10/-10)
adjective
adjective: dry; comparative adjective: drier; superlative adjective: driest
1.
without liquid in it or on it; not wet
सूखा, शुष्क
The paint is dry now.
Rub your hair dry with a towel.
2.
having little or no rain
3.
a state where your President will never go.

24. 1. The design feature on X is probably one of the most common
things we notice, but pay little attention to : The design feature
actually serves the purpose of equalizing pressure. One common
speculation is that it reduces the lifespan of the product, thereby
prompting people to buy it more often.
However, the design serves another simple, yet important feature
- it reduces the risk of deaths by choking. Turns out, multiple
people, especially kids have been choking on it since it invented,
and the large hole in it prevents that.
What am I talking about ?

25. PEN CAPS

26. 2. The _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ of Calcutta was a dungeon in Fort William,
Calcutta, measuring 14 by 18 feet (4.3 m × 5.5 m), in which troops of
Siraj-ud-Daulah, the Nawab of Bengal, held British prisoners of war
on the night of 20 June 1756.
According to accounts, conditions at this place were apparently so
bad that John Zephaniah Holwell, one of the British prisoners and
an employee of the East India Company, said that, after the fall of
Fort William, the surviving British soldiers, Indian sepoys, and
Indian civilians were imprisoned overnight in conditions so
cramped that many people died from suffocation and heat
exhaustion, and that 123 of 146 prisoners of war imprisoned there
died.
What is this place/incident called ?

27. BLACK HOLE OF CALCUTTA

28. 3. Hagia Sophia, officially the Hagia Sophia Grand Mosque
(Turkish: Ayasofya-i Kebir Cami-i Şerifi), is a mosque, a former
church, and a major cultural and historical site in Istanbul, Turkey. It
has also hosted some notable burials, some of them being :
● Selim II (1524–15 December 1574)
● Murad III 1546–1595
● Mustafa I (c.1600–20 January 1639), in the courtyard.
● Enrico Dandolo (c.1107–June 1205), in the east gallery.
● Gli (c.2004–7 November 2020), in the garden.
Who is Gli ?

29. Gli is a cat.

30. 4. These are famous paintings by a Japanese painter known as
Tatsuo Horiuchi. What is common among these similar looking
paintings ?
Hint : look at eerie, ‘computerness’ of the picture.

31. These paintings are Excel generated.

32. 5. Google Images (previously Google Image Search) is a search engine
owned by Google that allows users to search the World Wide Web for
images.
In 2011, reverse image search functionality was added.
In 2000, Google Search results were limited to simple pages of text with
links.
Google's developers worked on developing this further, and they realized
that an image search tool was required to answer "the most popular search
query" they had seen to date.
It was introduced on July 12, 2001 due to a demand for pictures of
something/somebody seen in Feb 2000.
What/who ?

33. JLo Versace dress

34. 6. Anil Kapoor made his Bollywood debut with Hamare Tumhare (1979) in a
supporting role.
He later tried acting in Tollywood and Sandalwood, and appeared in X's
directorial debut Kannada film Y released in 1983.
The movie starred Anil Kapoor in his first leading role and deals with an
unconventional plot of a male in love with an older female played by the
popular actress Lakshmi.
Another South Indian director, Balu Mahendra, was the cinematographer
for this movie. The soundtrack was composed by Ilaiyaraaja.
The songs of this movie turned out to be chartbusters and the song
Naguva Nayana formed the basis song for Idea Mobile's theme music.
Who is X ? I don’t need Y.

35. Mani Ratnam

36. 7. Y is a promise made by X in 1984 in US. It served as the backbone of X’s
rapid growth into the largest, one of a kind in the US. However, a large
number of lawsuits arose due to Y, which led to its discontinuation in some
places in 1993. Y is still in effect in some brands in India.
The final trigger for its discontinuation was when a jury awarded a Woman
affected from Y with a compensation amounting to more than 78 million
USD. What is X, and the promise ?

37. X - Dominos
Y - Free 30 min delivery

38. 8. Dilip K Basu traveled to India in March 1992 on a first class plane
ticket, with something valuable in his hand luggage,
accompanied by a cameraman. On his trip he spoke to someone,
handed out the valuable item in his hand luggage and the
cameraman took a video where we see Basu supporting the other
person holding the valuable object.
Who was the person to whom he handed the object? What was
the object?

39. Satyajit Ray Oscar

40. Round 2

41. 1. This is the famous poem Kandari Hnushiar.
ID the voice.

43. 2. ID this iconic duo.

44. Amar Singh Chamkila & Amarjot

45. 3

46. Equality

47. 4

49. 5

50. HAKA

51. 6

53. 7. siuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu

54. mule kick

55. 8. Id the voice of an eminent personality

56. Florence Nightingale

57. Round 3 :
PICK YOUR POISON (20/10/-10)
1. Sports
2. Business
3. Mythology
4. History
5. Geopolitics
6. Bangaliyana
7. Chirag er daabi
8. Shayak er daabi

58. 1. Sports
Often during international breaks, some major
players miss international tournaments due to
their national teams not qualifying or being
Injured just before the tournament.
Taking advantage of this, a non league side,
Ashton United made a cheeky attempt sometime
back.
What did they exactly do ?

59. 1. They tried to sign Erling Haaland.

60. 2. Business

61. Coal India

62. 3. Mythology
Raghava Yadhaveeyam is a short Sanskrit poem of 30 stanzas, composed by Veṅkaṭādhvarin in
Kanchipuram around 1650 CE.
It is composed in the anuloma-pratiloma-akṣara-kāvya structure of Sanskrit.
There is something, amazingly spectacular about this poem which makes it immortal.
What ?

64. 4. History
The Tomb of X is located in Khuldabad, Aurangabad district, Maharashtra, India.
In notable contrast to other Mughal tombs, which are large monuments of Mughal architecture, including the Taj
Mahal, at his own direction X is buried in an unmarked grave at the complex of the dargah or shrine of Sheikh
Zainuddin.
There is a platform over the tomb made of red stone, less than three yards in length. There is also a "cavity" in the
middle which measures a "few fingers". Inspired by the grave of his sister Jahanara Begum, the tomb has been
covered with soil on which herbs grow. After his burial, X was given the posthumous title of "Khuld-makan" ("he
whose abode is in eternity").
Whose humble grave ?

65. Tomb of Aurangzeb

66. 5. Politics
Launched by Samajwadi Party in 2022, this was
Infamous for having a ‘special scent’ which was
bashed by netizens.
What did Samajwadi Party claim the perfume
Smelled ?

67. They claimed it contained the smell of ‘socialism’

68. 6. Bangaliyana

70. 7. Chirag er Daabi
The bird 'Turkey' generally known as English is infamous for different names in different languages :
In Portuguese, it is called 'Peru'
Scottish Gaelic people call it 'French Chicken'
Malaysian people call it 'Dutch Chicken'
However, Turkish people interestingly call it X instead of 'Turkey'.
What is x ?

71. It is called Hindi in Turkish.

72. 8. Shayak er Daabi
This brand was launched in 2002 with a range of nine Ayurvedic treatments, developed in partnership
with the 75-year-old Arya Vaidya Pharmacy in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu. These remedies are developed to
help treat existing skin and hair concerns, and to prevent future ones – effective, authentic, time-tested
and balanced.
These four bright young minds, having recently graduated from some of the most revered educational
institutions abroad - Harvard, Parsons, Columbia, Pratt – reunited in India came together to rediscover a
jewel from their country’s history - Ayurveda.
In the year 2020, this brand reaches the milestone of having 50 stores in India – all across the expansive
and diverse nation.

73. Kama Ayurveda