TOWN CLUB FINAL SKP.pptx

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• 20 Questions including AV.
• 1 Written Round.
• 10 for Direct & Bonus.
• 10/-5 for Pounce.
• Part marks available.
• No Blocking.
• Best of Luck.

Free Pounce
• In the mid 1880s, Eden Garden was around 20 years & hosting a cricket
match between Calcutta Cricket Club & X. X was established in 1884 by
Bengalis, among them was Saradaranjan Roy.
• It is documented that Y was a member of this club & he took 7 wickets on
that match. Y also played football & encouraged his friends to exercise.
• Id X & Y.

Answer
• Calcutta Town Club
• Swami Vivekananda

Question 1.
• Name the Movie & the Writer.

Question 2.
• Known as the ‘Tragedy Queen’ X is a Pakistani actress who
also worked in Bollywood. Actor- director Nazir Ahmed Khan
was her husband. This duo were considered among the pioneers
of the early Pakistani Film Industry.
• Sabira Begum better known as Y, was the 1st heroine of Pak
Films. She made her debut in 1942 & in 1945 she signed her 1st
hindi film. Dilip Kumar’s brother Nasir Khan was her co-actor.
• The Title of X & the Name of Y reminds us two Musical
siblings of India.
• Name these actresses.

Answer
• Swaran Lata
• Asha Posley

Question 3.
For Females
• Choli, Kumin, Pasuan, Khangol,
Khaon, Thabret, Koknam.
For Males
• Dhoti/Dhotra, Leittreng, Chura
with peacock feather, Shawl.
• Put funda.

Answer
• Parts of Manipuri Dance costume

Question 4.
• 178 people attend a gathering in Tokyo on
29 October, 2022. It was an attempt to break
a certain Guinness World Record which
previously held by 164.
• Those 178 sat in a packed theatre for 5
minutes, as per the Guinness rules, until the
new record was declared.
• What was the new Record?

Answer
• Largest gathering of people with Nameshake ‘Hirokazu Tanakas.’

Question 5.
• Id the Singer.
• This song inspired 2 Bollywood songs, also identify them. (4+3+3)

Question 6.
• X is an professional baseball player & wrestler. He was signed by the
Pittsburgh Pirates organization after he won a pitching contest on a 2008
reality TV show The Million Dollar Arm.
• He was the 1st Indian to play professional baseball & spent several seasons in
the minor leagues, reaching the Single-A level. The Million Dollar Arm, an
American movie is based on him.
• Id Him.

Question 7.
• X came to Calcutta during the WWII. When the Japanese bombed
Calcutta during the war, X started its work across the city mainly as a
precaution. Then again the X returned shortly before the Indo-Pak war of
1971. Since then, the X continued in Kolkata for 25 years consecutive years.
• Although it is not in vogue today, but a certain love story of late 90’s
immortalized it to us.
• What is X? How it is known to us?

Question 8.
• The Moscow sculpture of X, holding aloft a cross &
clutching a sword, is the work of Russian artist
Salavat Scherbakov. According to the Guardian it
was the subject of Considerable debate & protest.
• A namesake of X attend the opening ceremony of
the monument in Kremlin. After that news headline
was be like ‘X unveiles X.’
• Id Them.

Answer
• St. Vladimir
• Vladimir Putin

Question 9.
• MS Sethi joined his office in 1950 & retired in 1992. During his working
days he made pencil sketches of some pictures, which is the common
people’s daily needs or natural scenery that can be seen easily. Sethi
painted 100 such pictures during his career.
• What pictures am I talking about?

Question 10.
• Id this Bolly Movie, which literally means ‘One Who Bears.’
• Also name the Lyricist of this song.

List It
• Till date there are 6 Jnanpith Awardee from Bengal.
• Make a list of all 6 personalities.
• 2 marks for each correct answer.
• 6x2= 12
• +8 for Full House.
• No Negative.
• Time 3 minutes.

Answer
• Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay 1965
• Bishnu Dey 1971
• Ashapoorna Devi 1976
• Subhas Mukhopadhyay 1991
• Mahasweta Devi 1996
• Sankha Ghosh 2016

Question 11.
• X wished to be an author but his family advised him to choose a profession such as
the ministry. He enrolled at the University of Edinburgh where he wrote drama
reviews for the Edinburgh Evening Courant. For a year he worked as a staff
journalist in Nottingham Journal. As a novelist he is remembered as the creator
of Y.
• Up to his death (1937), he was one of the most famous men of his day. When
Charlie Chaplin on a trip to London in 1921, was asked ‘whom he most wanted
to meet?’ the answer was X.
• Id this Novelist.

Question 12.
• It is a 1983 movie song written by Gauriprasanna Majumder. The
composer was Bappi Lahiri & sung by the maestro Lata Mangeskar. A
line in the song’s antara has a word i.e. Nelumbo Nucifera.
• Recently a certain person sang the song by skipping the line & making it
her own.
• Id the song & Put Funda.

Question 13.
• In August 2015 a public interest litigation was filed in the
Karnataka High Court by X. He mentioned that his
performance was ignored by a certain Award Committee.
He claimed to be a top contender for the Award with 90
points.
• The court withheld the conferment & sought replies from
the Ministry about the selection process. The Ministry
nevertheless presented the award to Y, who was nominated,
on 29 August 2015 amidst the case processing.
• Id X, Y & the Award. (4+3+3)

Question 14.
• Harvard University neurobiologists have created mice that can smell X,
providing a new tool that could help researchers better understand the neural
basis of olfaction. Prof. V. N. Murthy & his colleagues use X to study
smell.
• This work has implications for the study of complex perception systems that
do not lend themselves to traditional methods of research.
• How we connect a certain novelist Chakraborty with the research topic?

Question 15.
• Who is this Folk Artist- Singer?

Question 16.
• X literary meaning ‘that which hangs from the
back’. The X painting portryed mainly Srinathji, a
700+ years old form of Krishna. They are hung
behind the idol of Srinathji.
• The purpose of X, other than artistic appeal, is to
narrate tales of Krishna to the illiterate.
• Name this Painting.

Question 17.
• This is a Google search result of a
certain place which is a meme
material nowadays. The red
marked area in the map is in
Indore, MP is called X.
• Identify this area where anyone
roam without any work.

Question 18.
• Going to the bathroom without asking.
• Having a drink on the hill.
• Watching a match.
• Eat strawberries on the hill.
• Those was the reason behind which funny decision?

Question 19.
• Due to a particular reason, the trees are suffering a lot. This practice can
damage the bark & disrupt the tree’s ability to transport water &
nutrients. Additionally, it can also leave the tree more vulnerable to disease
& pests. In some cases, trees are prone to fall during storms.
• But in the recent past we heard this in a conversation between two friends
that ‘if you love, you have to do it’.
• Put Funda. (5+5)

Question 20.
• As per BBC, X was created in a curious manner: cows were allegedly restricted to a
diet of mango leaves, leaving them almost on the verge of starvation. From such
cow’s urine came the rare yellow pigment. After which the excreta of the beasts
was caught in terracotta pots. Clarified over an open flame, filtered & clenched into
pigment in the from of powdery ‘piuri’.
• In 2022, on Twitter, the Paperclip traced the origins of the pigment from a village
of Bihar how it became the part of world’s most celebrated painting.
• Id X & the Painting.

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