Barak hostel, IITG, MIB quiz

1. MYTHOLOGY INDIA BOLLYWOOD QUIZ
QUIZ MASTERS –
PRAJWAL JAIN KEVIN PANDYA

3. Rules of the Game :
• Quiz Master is the God.
• Quiz Maser is the only God.
• Sleep deprived Quiz Masters are liable to
be irritable and violent. DO NOT mess
around! You have been warned.

4. 1.
*X’s original name is K.K.Vohra.
*X made her first mainstream appearance in
MTV Video Music Award 2005.
*In 2009 X married to Daniel Weber, a
member of a rock band “The Disparrows”.
*X came to fame in India in 2011 from a TV
show.
Identify X.

6. 2. .* X is an Irish saint who was known
as the founder and first abbot
of Glendalough in County Wicklow,
Ireland.
X’s Feast day in Roman Catholic and
Eastern Orthodox Churches is 3rd
June.
Identify X.

7. Saint KEVIN
(Hint – You should know the QM)

8. 3.Indian Cricket Team played its First test
match in 1932 against England. King of
Porbandar ‘Maharaja’ Natwar Singh
was the captain of the team. The
interesting fact about the tour was that
the captain bought more Rolls Royce
than the runs he scored. Name the
‘Maharaja’ who owned the most and
the least number of Rolls Royce during
that period?

9. MOST --- Maharaja BHUPINDER SINGH
LEAST --- Nizam of Hyderabad

10. 4.In 1941 Subhash Chandra Bose set up
Free India Center(FIC) in Germany.
Following its formation, the FIC
adopted four key resolutions –
*Jai Hind would be official salutation
*Jana Gana Mana would be national
anthem
*Hindustani would be national
language.
What was the fourth resolution?

11. ‘NETAJI’ SUBHA CHANDRA BOSE

12. 5. Till 2005 LPG Gas cylinders were used for
this purpose. Around 16 cylinders were
stocked at a time with one cylinder lasting
around 1.5 days. Since 2006 PNG replaced
LPG and Indraprastha gas limited has been
providing the supply through a 500 m
pipeline, thus giving cost benefit of 20%.
How does this useless bit of information find
relevance on a Republic Day?

13. Amar Jawan Jyoti

14. 6.Jyoti Prasad Saikia an Indian
Journalist , former civil servant from
Assam. Saikia started his career as
a journalist in 1970-72. Later he
joined government of Assam.
However his claim to fame comes
from the radio show in 1972.
Put funda!!!

15. SEVEN SISTERS

16. 7."Fault Lines : How Hidden Fractures
Still Threaten The World Economy"
published in 2010 has won the
Financial Times-Goldman Sachs
Business Book of the year award. It is
also included in the U.S. Marine
Corps Professional Reading list.
Which eminent Indian personality is
the author of this book?

17. Dr. Raghuram Rajan (Governor of RBI)

18. 8. This tree was supposedly brought
to India from Sri Lanka by Hanuman
when he was carrying messages
from Sita. He felt so delighted by it
that he threw the seeds on what is
presently Maharashtra. Which tree?

19. Mango Tree

20. 9.This is a picture of the
famous Italian actress, Gina
Lollobrigida, a Golden
Globe winning Italian
actress. Her credits include
Come September and Hotel
Paradiso. Being the favorite
actress of a person, she has
inspired which name?

21. She was Babita Kapoor's favorite
actress and inspired her to name
Karishma as Lolo.

22. 10. What is special about this
question from the 1994 Miss India
contest:
“What do you know about the
textile heritage of India & what’s
your wardrobe like?”

23. 1994 was the only time the Miss India
contest ended in a tie (between Ms.
Sen and Ms. Rai). This was the tie-
breaker question, which Ms. Sen had
the less worse answer to.

24. 11.* Wikipedia :
“Originally chartered as the ‘Governor and
Company of Merchants of London trading into
the -----------’, the company rose to account for
half of the world's trade, particularly trade in
basic commodities that included cotton,
silk, indigo dye, salt, saltpetre, tea and opium”.
Name the company(+1) and its current
owner(+3).

25. Flag of the company:

26. East India Company
Sanjiv Mehta

27. 12. Amrita devi, a member of the
Bishnoi tribe was killed by the
soldiers of the Maharaja of
Jodhpur. What was she doing at
the time of her death and what did
It trigger?

28. She was hugging a tree preventing
it from being cut and it started the
Chipko movement

29. 13. They can originate from only one place in India.
In April 2004, to mark a 400th anniversary, about 150
of them made journey from this place to Canada, to
be distributed to various organizations across the
country. On the journey each one was provided with
its own linen-draped seat and pillow on the airplane.
Something similar happened in 2011, this time about
450 of them making the journey to Italy.
What are we talking about?

30. Guru Granth Sahib

31. 14. Outside the PMs from the Nehru
– Gandhi family, name the only 2
Prime Ministers of India to have
airports in India named after them.

32. Lal Bahadur Shastri(Varnasi)
Charan Singh(Lucknow)

33. 15. Indian team made history
in Melbourne Olympics 1956 by
reaching the semi final of the
certain sport. Which was the first
and last instance of that kind. Write
the name of sport.

34. Football

35. 16. Connect and Fill the blanks
*Tractor tilling the land.
*one Horned Rhino, Indian Elephant and Royal
Bengal Tiger
*Palm and Coconut trees on a beach with a
lighthouse.
*The Indian Parliament House
*The Himalayas
*----------------------
*The Indian Industries: Oil Rig, Computer, Metal
Casting, Satellite, Wheat.

37. 17. The duo married in India in the
resort which is near to a national
park. A four-member committee
was set up to check noise
pollution from the wedding
celebration and ensure that
animals in the wildlife reserve
are not disturbed.
What is the name of the ‘national
park’?(Extra point for mentioning
name of the resort.)

38. Ranthambore National Park

39. 18. The first environmentally
conscious community are found in
Rajasthan and get their name from
the fact that they follow 29
commandments?

40. The Bishnois

41. 19. Connect

42. Indian Express
*Ramnath Goenka(founder of
Indian Express)
*Leander paes
Mahesh Bupati

43. 20. What is the original name of
Mahabharata?

44. JAI SAMHITA

45. 21. X is the capital city of the state
whose legislative building was built
by the British East India company
during 17th century. In 2010 the
legislative building was moved to a
new building but was again shifted
to the same old building in 2011.
Identify X and its Birthdate.

46. X- Mardas(chennai)
Birthdate : 22nd August.

47. 23.

49. 24.

51. 22.

53. 25.