general quiz
TRANSCRIPT
THE QUIZ
GROUND RULES
• Long Quiz. Sit tight. Enjoy the flight.
• QM hates lot of noise
• QM hates chaos
• QM is God
Write Bros. I
+10 for each correct answerConnect has 50, 40, 30, 20, 10, 5 points
No negativesTheme: Identify the flags
1. (SE Asia)
2. (W Europe)
3. (SE Asia, again)
4. (N. Central Europe)
5. (W Europe)
6. (N Europe)
EXCHANGE PAPERS !!
INDONESIA
THE NETHERLANDS
THAILAND
POLAND
FRANCE
FINLAND
CONNECT ??
NORWAY- Mother of Flags !
Write Bros. II
+10 for each correct answerNo negatives
Theme: Amul Girl posters
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EXCHANGE PAPERS !!
1.
Ashok Kumar’s demise
2.
Mandira Bedi and her fashion sense during the 2003 CWC
3.Peshawar school killings
4.The hanging of Ajmal Kasab
5.Bilawal Bhutto – Hina Rabbani Khar love affair
6.Parthiv Patel’s keeping performances
7.Mallika Sherawat’s ‘Happy Birthday’ for Narendra Modi
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10.Madhu Koda, Coal Scam
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One part of the word X is taken from the Nagavanshis, who were supposed to have ruled the area.
The other part however comes from Y, a village in the outskirts of Ranchi. The corrupted form of the word Y when joined with X gives the name of this geographical and political entity.
X and Y ?
1.
X= Chotanagpur, Y= Chutia village
Give funda.
(Bigger image next slide)
2.
The last mile-post (9288 km) on the Trans-Siberian Railway at Vladivostok station
Zog I, King of Albania, was the King (of course!) and later President of Albania when it became a republic. Apart from his discharging of royal duties with decent efficiency, he is also remembered to have about 600 blood feuds against him of which he survived more than 55 assassination attempts.
However, what connects him with the world of comics ?
(Take the hint and play for +5)
3.
Reputedly the inspiration behind King Muskar in Tintin comics
When Niels Bohr was awarded the highest civil honour in Denmark, The Order of the Elephant, in 1947, he was asked to create a family coat of arms/ crest- as custom demanded.
Thus he chose his crest staying true to his motto ‘contraria suntcomplementa’.
The thing chosen supposedly represented two incoming colliding ions with quarks in the nuclei.
What did he choose for his crest ?
4.
Yin-Yang symbol
This is widely believed to have been based on an ancient Roman custom. Jacques-Louis David’s painting Oath of the Horatii has widely been speculated to the beginning of its association with said Roman culture.
It has been ridiculed by some people and been the butt of jokes with the respondent sometimes saying, “Is he sick?”, “Am I a Doctor?” or “You heal him!”.
Sometimes the number 88 is used as a reference to it, since doing it has become illegal.
In 2013, Giorgios Katidis was handed a life ban from the Greek Football team for doing this after scoring a goal.
What is all this about ?
5.
Heil Hitler !
Celebrity guests of this place established in 1977 include Bill Clinton and Vladimir Putin. The ‘Hillary platter’ came into existence based on what was ordered by Hillary Clinton on a state visit. Similarly a ‘Presidential platter’ (for Bill Clinton) and ‘Chelsea platter’ also finds a place in its menu. Arnold Schwarzenegger is known to have visited this place and enjoyed among many others, its giant naan.
Which place am I talking about ?
(Hint: It shares its name with a Central Asian city)
6.
Bukhara, ITC Maurya, New Delhi
In 1938, after the Japanese invasion of China, the communist general requested Nehru for a team of physicians to help their army. Netaji Subhash Bose appealed through a press statement for doctors to volunteer and ultimately arranged for a team of them to leave for China, which included Dr. X.
X worked tirelessly in China along with Dr. Norman Bethune and many others and because of this, they are revered by the Chinese even today.
Upon his death Mao Zedong said, “The army has lost a helping hand. The nation a friend. Let us always bear in mind his internationalist spirit”
V. Shantaram directed and played X in the 1946 Hindi movie based on his life and also contained X’s name in the title.
X ?
7.
Dr. Dwarkanath Kotnis
“Wherever I live, I shall feel homesick for X. I often think I can still hear the cries of wild geese and cranes and the beating of their wings as they fly over Lhasa in the clear, cold moonlight. My heartfelt wish is that my story may create some understanding for a people whose will to live in peace and freedom has won so little sympathy from an indifferent world.”
Words attributed to whom ? He is also a recipient of the ‘Light of Truth Award’ bestowed upon by someone this person mentored in the ways of the world outside. Other famous recipients of this award include Desmond Tutu, Martin Scorsese, Richard Gere and The people of India.
8.
Heinrich Harrer (played by Brad Pitt in ‘Seven years in Tibet’)
Tarantino named this character after a repeat customer he had when working at the Video Archive, a defunct rental store in Manhattan Beach. This customer, X, an Austrian immigrant; bonded with Tarantino over their love for foreign films. Upon hearing of X’s death, Tarantino decided to name the seemingly ‘unplayable’ character in the film after him and pay his respects.
Hunter Stephenson of Slashfilm believes that his Calabash is an unsubtle metaphor of masculinity and his love for milk a remnant of the innocence as a child and a primal link.
X ???
9.
Col. Hans Landa in The Inglorious Basterds
___ ___ ___ is a musical comedy written, produced and directed by Oscar Asche, based on the story of Ali Baba and the Forty thieves. In fact, the title refers to the robber chief when impersonating one of his victims. It premiered at His Majesty’s Theatre in 1916 and ran for five years straight and a total of 2,238 performances, a record unheard of those days, especially given the gloom of the Great War.
This inspired something in Bollywood in a movie named after one of Colonial India’s best engineering marvels standing proud even today. The initial guitar piece was created by S Hazara Singh, the Hawaiian guitarist of the music director. There is also a reference in this to Aladinand the Arabian Nights, which is the original theme for the ___ ___ ___.
What am I talking about ? (Take hint and play for +5)
10.
Chu Chin Chow, inspiration behindMera Naam Chin Chin Chu !
Movie: Howrah Bridge (1958)
Sumerian texts refer to three important centres with which they traded: Magan, Dilmun and _____.
Magan is usually accepted to be the Egyptian civilization while Dilmun is believed to have been the Persian Gulf civilization encompassing modern Bahrain, Kuwait and Qatar among other territories. _____ is a reference to the Harappan civilization, items of which, including seals and artifacts have been found in excavation sites at Ur.
The word _____ could have originated from the Dravidian word for ‘High country’ or the Sanskrit word for ‘Barbarian, Foreigner’, something used also regularly in Vedic texts by Aryans to describe the lowest class of their Varna-based society.
What name was the IVC known to the Sumerians back then ?
11.
Meluha (from Mel Akam or Mleccha)
Henri Didon was a French Dominican writer, educator and reputedly the greatest French preacher of his day. He was educated at Grenoble and at the age of 18, left for the seminary of Grenoble to enter the Dominican order.
His lasting contribution is something he suggested to a more famous friend in 1894 and official since 1924. He had coined this for a Paris Youth gathering in 1891 as something that could inspire people from all walks of life to achieve and gain purpose for their existence.
What was his contribution ?
12.
Citius, Altius, Fortius(The Olympic Motto)
The Hartman brothers developed ______ _____ as a mixer as they had difficulty in Knoxville obtaining their preferred effervescent to mix with whiskey.
______ _____ was originally a Southern/ Scottish slang for Moonshine or Poitin as it was called by the Irish. Using this as a name for the invention was first suggested by Carl E. Retzke in Toledo, Ohio. This name was subsequently trademarked in the 1940s.
Early signages carried the reference forward by showing a cartoon-styled hillbilly. The first sketches of the original labels were developed by John Brichetto in 1948 and have been changes multiple times in its history.
FITB.
13.
Mountain Dew
The Bagua (lit. “Eight Symbols”) are trigrams used in Taoist cosmology to represent the fundamental principles of reality, seen as 8 inter-related concepts.
Each trigram consists of three horizontal lines, either broken or unbroken thus representing Ying and Yang.
The eight trigrams represent Heaven, Lake, Fire, Thunder, Wind, Water, Mountain and Earth.
Where in the vexillological world have we seen these trigrams ?
14.
The Flag of South Korea
Members of this group use(d) questions like, “Does a Mr. Ayak live in this neighbourhood?” to which similar members replied generally something like, “Yes, a Mr. Akia does.”
What are Ayak or Akia ? OR identify the group ?
15.
AYAK- Are You a Klansman ?AKIA- A Klansman I am !
KU KLUX KLAN
When cars rolled on to India for the first time, there was only one company which made one particular component back then. The good part being that it was named after a street in Llanelli, Wales.
This name is used today as a generic for the product type.
What am I talking about ?
16.
This word, X is used today only in combination with two of its prefixes.
Its usage in medieval times as a standalone word referred to its meaning as an English nautical term meaning ‘to capsize’. Thus it came to be mean being covered by water or drowning. It was also used by Sir Charles Lyell in his Principle of Geology: “Marsh land has at last been overflowed, and thousands of inhabitants Xed in the waves.”
It could also mean to turn a hollow vessel upside down to cover something
X ?
17.
overWhelm
In Economics, a Veblen good is a member of a group of commodities whose demand is proportional to its price, a contradiction in the law of demand.
The X effect is a similar phenomenon. It states that ceteris paribus, a commodity generates more demand when its price is set higher than it was before. A lower priced version of it with similar quality has lesser demand.
X is a famous brand, whose sales, according to as story, sucked despite it being a very good tasting liquor. After a brainstorming session in the boardroom, officials decided to jack up prices and so, with it went up the demand.
What is this effect known as ?
18.
Chivas Regal effect
What has been blanked out in this (very apt) Kolkata Police effort to curb a bad practice on the roads ?
(bigger image next slide)
19.
Abbey Road cover
Tomb of which (witty?) person, locked from one side but otherwise open from everywhere else ?
It is located in Aksehir town, in modern day Turkey.
20.
MullaNasruddin
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“I just sat there for a moment and pondered the courage and tenacity that is part of our very recent history, but is part of that long line of folks- sometimes nameless, oftentimes did not make the history books, but who constantly insisted on their dignity, their stake in the American Dream.”
Words uttered by President Obama during a visit to the Henry Ford museum in Dearborn, Michigan in April 2012.
What is the significance of this ?
(Take hint and play for 5 points)
21.
Rosa Parks incident during the height of Black-white tension in the US
The original:
“Majdoor paida hue, majdoor hi marogevote na diya hamein, to zinda jaloge”
In response, the rival says:
“Jal kar hum shola bane hai,kaun jalayega zinda aapko, jab hum aapke saath khade hai”
Slogans from which famous political rivalry ?
22.
Ramadhir Singh vs Faizal Khan
As a child, X attended an exclusive school in Switzerland, despite being born with all the world's knowledge already inside his brain. In addition to excelling academically, he was extremely popular and by age 14 he'd had consensual sex with over 40 students and 7 teachers. After graduating at the top of his and all other classes in the school, he then continued his education in Y, where he earned 118 PhDs – not just from the University of X, but also from X University and Northwest X State.
During his university years, X did pioneering work for the Y Space Program. His projects were a success without rival, killing more astronauts than both the Russian and American space programs combined. Part of his research managed to confirm that there's not enough oxygen for a political opponent to survive at altitudes higher than 45,000 feet. In the same experiment, he confirmed that there is enough gravity at 45,000 feet for a political opponent's body to return to Earth when thrown from an aircraft.
X and Y ?
23.
X- Admiral-General Aladeen, Y- Republic of Wadiya
The seal of the Philippine National Police has a figure of a certain person named Lapu-Lapu. He is considered to be the first Filipino hero and was a ruler of the island of Mactan.
The reason why his status in Philippines is similar to that of Birsa Munda in Jharkhand is because he was the first native to stand up against Spanish colonization.
What exactly did he do ?
24.
He was the native who killed Ferdinand Magellan
Nathan Bedford _____ is often erroneously quoted as saying his strategy was to ‘git that fustest with the mostest’. Now often recast as ‘Getting there firstest with the moistest’, this misquote appeared in the front page of the NY Tribune in an article written to provide colourful comments in reaction to European interest in Civil War generals.
However, after the civil war he was seen as one the earliest members of a group that had sinister intentions against African Americans and was involved in incidents which saw Negro voters being whipped for going to vote.
His line of descendants includes one, among many perhaps; famously claimed by a person Y, born on June 6, 1944 near the town of Greenbow, Alabama and brought to public light in 1994.
FITB and who is Y ?
25.
Nathan Bedford Forrest, Y= Forrest Gump
The name of this clan of people means “ripping off roots”. Reputedly, during medieval times, when they used to fight wars in Afghanistan, they would not rest until they had ripped the enemy tribes of its root.
Today many of this clan live in Gardez, FATA and India and are invariably muslims, divided along Shia and Sunni. One family in this clan has achieved fame in a totally different field altogether, claiming to have invented X.
Members of this family are world renowned as exponents of the X and have the clan name as the surname.
What is this clan name, also lending its name to a station on the Red line in the Delhi metro ?
26.
Bangash ClanX- Sarod
This tweet by a person named John Brennan on 10 Feb, 2015- the day of vote counting in Delhi, appeared on the live feed of firstpost.com.
What is the funda behind this ?
27.
@bjp
The first recruits into this group were young men who had graduated from schools. They fanned out into the rural areas in order to find new recruits and served behind their officers with dedication and discipline, wearing a simple white over-shirt.
However, the founder realised that they were soon getting dirty, and insisted on the members to maintain discipline by cleaning shirts everyday. A couple of members decided the dye the shirt in a certain colour to avoid having to wash it everyday. As it turned out, the colour proved to be a breakthrough and so the movement was also known by the colour of shirts worn by its members.
What group am I talking about ?
28.
THE PLEDGE
1. In the name of God who is Present and Evident, I am a _____ _______. 2. I will serve the nation without any self-interest.3. I will not take revenge (badla) and my actions will not be a burden for anyone.4. My actions will be non-violent.5. I will make every sacrifice required of me to stay on this path.6. I will serve people without regard to their religion or faith.7. I shall use nation-made goods.8. I shall not be tempted by any office.
Khudai Khidmatgar (Red Shirts movement)
The label of this product contains the following verse from the poem Weidmannsheil by the famous hunter-cum-ornithologist Oskar von Riesenthal, who has been uncredited.
“Das ist des ____ Ehrenschild,daß er beschützt und hegt sein Wild,weidmännisch jagt, wie sich’s gehört,den Schöpfer im Geschöpfe ehrt.“
A loose translation of this:
“This is the hunter’s badge of glory,That he protect and tend his quarry,Hunt with honour as is due,And through the beast the God is true”
29.
Jagermeister
30.
“Yes I was leading and today I can admit it. It was important for me to not come out in the open because this is a very confidential exercise. I would have wasted half my time talking to the media about it.”
“Individuals don’t matter on projects like this. People like Anuraag Khandelwal, SatishdeSa, Nilesh Jain, Rajkumar Jha, Pawan Bhatt worked day and night on this; 30 people in Soho Square Mumbai and 20 in Delhi.”
“Anuraag and Nilesh Jain and their team wrote ____ ___ ____ ____ ____. There are some other people who helped me get this work done — Shoojit Sirkar has been my biggest partner, when we were making almost 10 films every night. Manish Sherawat, an animation expert, made the cricket films.”
The creator of a certain something talking about the something. What ?
Ab ki baar Modi Sarkar
31.
Graphological analysis of what ?
32.
Batik is a technique of wax-resist dyeing applied to the whole cloth, or cloth made using this technique. This method generally results in a freedom of choosing patterns of different kinds without hampering the quality of shirts.
This tradition is maintained even today in many countries in SE Asia and Sri Lanka as well as India.
On October 2009, UNESCO designated Indonesian Batik as a ‘Masterpiece in Oral and Intangible heritage of humanity’.
However, which great man made famous this shirt print and always exclusively wore Batik shirts in public appearances, the first of which was designed by Desre Buirski in 1994 ?
Nelson Mandela, Rest in Peace
33.
“Be it known that I, _____ ______, of Springfield, in the county of Sangamon, in the state of Illinois, have invented a new and improved manner of combining adjustable buoyant air chambers with a steam boat or other vessel for the purpose of enabling their draught of water to be readily lessened to enable them to pass over bars, or through shallow water, without discharging their cargoes.”
Patent #6,469 registered by a famous person who had experiences in ferrying travellers and carrying freight on the Great Lakes and some Midwestern rivers.
This man was associated with wood-cutting in the earlier part of his life until he became famous for other reasons.
Abraham Lincoln
34.
The three men are dipping their fingers into a vat of X. One man reacts with a sour expression, one with a bitter expression and one with a sweet expression. Each man’s expression represents his primary attitude towards life and its happenings. Since this painting shows all three men in a single place, it means, allegorically, that the ‘three teachings’ are one.
This painting was analysed and featured as the theme for the book ‘The ___ of Pooh’ by American writer Benjamin Hoff. The title of the book is a throwback to a 1975 USA bestseller written by a physicist that has been translated into 23 languages and is considered a seminal text in the understanding of Eastern thoughts with the help of science.
What is the painting about OR who are the three persons ?
VINEGAR TASTERS
Confucius, Buddha, Lao Tzu
35.
These actors are not exactly well known, perhaps they never will be. How have they captured our hearts since 2009 specifically during the summer.
ZooZoo actors
36. _____ was first produced by Edmund McIlhenny in 1868, a Maryland born former banker who moved to Louisiana around 1840. McIlhenny used discarded cologne bottles to distribute his product to family and friends. He subsequently started selling it to other customers until resignation from the business in order to join Theodore Roosevelt’s volunteer cavalry force.
His son took over the business and has made this a famous as a brand that never compromises on quality and gets its name from a region in the largest Central American country.
McIlhenny is one of the limited number of American companies to have a Royal Warrant as a supplier of goods to HM Queen Elizabeth II.
The raw material needed for making this product is aged for upto 3 years in barrels that have been previously used for aging Jack Daniels Tennessee whiskey.
What famous product ?
Tabasco Sauce
37.
“The blue sign welcoming you into Vaarsveld is written in Korean. This might seem a little strange, after all the village is nestled in Gelderland, a southern region of Holland…
If it was not for ______, Vaarsveld would be your average Dutch village. It is completely flat, with two churches, a school and a smattering of small shops at its centre, a couple windmills on the outskirts and more than a few bicycles. Kings Road it is not.
It is immensely popular, by all accounts. The Koreans flocked here in droves, eager to see the house where _____ was born and the place he played his first competitive game….”
Dailymail article about what ? Who is this dedicated to ?
Guuseum dedicated to Guus Hiddink, the coach of the South Korean football team in the 2002 FIFA World Cup
38.
The technical parts of the Pakistani Air Force operations in the 1971 war were supervised by a certain retired Major General.
He was supplied with a twin engine Beechcraft plane to keep track of all equipment that kept appearing from destroyed planes. This aircraft was however destroyed in a daring air raid by then Lt. Arun Prakash, who would go on to become an Admiral in the Indian Navy.
He thought this was an Indira Gandhi ploy and an Indian way of showing the finger, thus retiring into Islamabad till the war ended.
This person is however known for being the first person to do something-related to aircrafts.
Who am I talking about ? What is his record ?
Chuck Yeager, First to break the sound barrier
39.
This proverb has come down in many variations over the centuries. It describes a situation in which a failure to anticipate or correct some initially small dysfunction leads by successively more critical stages to an egregious outcome.
The rhyme thereby relates a conjectural example of the "butterfly effect", an effect studied in chaos theory, involving sensitive dependence on small differences in initial conditions. The rhyme's implied small difference in initial conditions is the lack of a spare _______ ____, relative to a condition of its availability.
At a more literal level, it expresses the importance of military logistics in warfare.
What is being talked about ?
‘For want of a nail….’
40.
The Battle of Monte Cassino was a costly series of four assaults by the Allies against the Germans and Italians in the WW2. The intention was to reach Rome.
The American forces attempted first, but were withdrawn due to heavy casualties. They were thus replaced by the Kiwi Forces. If British author Fred Majdalany is to be believed, the codename given to the Kiwis was devised by a British Staff Officer- apparently because he did not know the difference between the Australians and the New Zealanders.
What was the code used by the Allies to signal the troops to attack Cassino ?
Don Bradman will be batting tomorrow- AttackDon Bradman will not be batting tomorrow- Hold
CONNECT # 1
Points on each slideNon-exhaustive. Definitely.
+10 for each correct answer
1. (+100,-50)
Maharani ____ ___ was a queen of the Maratha ruled Malwa state from 1767 to 1795. Her husband was killed in battle in 1754. Twelve years later her father-in-law died as well following which she was crowned queen of the kingdom. She is remembered in India’s history and especially in the kingdom’s capital city as a brave woman who led troops to battle and also as a temple builder, the most notable of which was one she built at Somanath, having been disheartened at the dilapidated condition it was in.
Indore, the capital city of her kingdom, a major city today in Central India is sometimes called ____nagari in her honour.
Who ?
2. (+90,-45)
________ is a pilgrim town and hill station in the Anuppur District of Madhya Pradesh. Also called ‘Teerthraj’- The King of pilgrimages, _____ it is a unique heritage site and is the meeting point of the Vindhyas, Satpuras and the Maikalhill ranges in Central India.
The name of the town comes from the Sanskrit word meaning literally ‘immortal obstruction’.
The river Narmada originates from here.
Which town ?
3. (+80,-40)
The term ____ ______ is a collective term used pejoratively to refer to members of the new black middle class. The term was not originally derogatory, having come to describe the development of South Africa and its fast growing affluent middle-class.
The people referred to by this term have come to be known as gauche noveauriche, flaunting their western accessories in a gaudy way and indulging in conspicuous consumption of certain substances.
This term can also refer to a certain mineral which is considered very critical to the growth of a country.
What term ?
4. (+70,-35)
Wikipedia details about something important in India’s struggle for
independence.
What ?
5. (+60,-30)
Literally meaning ‘The gift of a cow’, it was first published in 1936 and is considered to be the greatest Hindustani novels in modern Indian literature. The author of this book was named Dhanpat Rai Srivastava originally and has many great works to his credit.
It focuses on the socio-economic deprivation as well as exploitation of the rural poor and has characters by the name Hori, Dhania, Gobar, Dattadin, Matadinetc.
Which great work of literature ?
6. (+50,-25)
__________ is an anglicized form of the word by which the ‘realm of the Cholas’ was known in Tamil. It is generally used for the South Eastern coast of India, especially that of Tamil Nadu and a part of Andhra Pradesh.
It is also the name of a cement brand in India.
7. (+40,-20)
“Kar chale hum fida jan-o-tan sathiyonab tumhare hawale watan sathiyozinda rahne ki mausam bahut hai magarjaan dene ki rut roz ati nahihusn aur ishq dono ko ruswa karewo jawani jo khume nahati nahiaaj dharti bani hai dulhan sathiyoKkar chale hum fida jano tan Sathiyo”
Who famous exponent of Urdu literature is the writer of these lines ?
His daughter, son-in-law, grandson and grand-daughter are pretty famous in Bollywood too.
8. (+30,-15)
An excerpt from Pg. 46, Kim by Rudyard Kipling:
“And truly the ____ ____ is a wonderful spectacle. It runs straight, bearing without crowding India’s traffic for fifteen hundred miles- such a river of life as nowhere else exists in this world.”
What is being talked about ?
9. (+20,-10)
Which famous palace in Hyderabad, the name of which literally means ‘like the sky’ in Urdu ?
10. (+10)
Sitter.
It is a collection of poems by the Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore. The name literally means ‘an offering of songs’ and its English translation was perhaps the pivotal reason for Tagore winning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913, the first Non-European to do so.
What ?
11. (+5)Ab to connect bata do. It cant be easier than this..
EXCHANGE PAPERS !!
1. (+100,-50)
Maharani ____ ___ was a queen of the Maratha ruled Malwa state from 1767 to 1795. Her husband was killed in battle in 1754. Twelve years later her father-in-law died as well following which she was crowned queen of the kingdom. She is remembered in India’s history and especially in the kingdom’s capital city as a brave woman who led troops to battle and also as a temple builder, the most notable of which was one she built at Somanath, having been disheartened at the dilapidated condition it was in.
The capital city of her kingdom, a major city today in Central India is sometimes called ____nagari in her honour.
Who ?
Ahilyabai Holkar
Indore is also called ‘Ahilyanagari’
2. (+90,-45)
________ is a pilgrim town and hill station in the Anuppur District of Madhya Pradesh. Also called ‘Teerthraj’- The King of pilgrimages, _____ it is a unique heritage site and is the meeting point of the Vindhyas, Satpuras and the Maikalhill ranges in Central India.
The name of the town comes from the Sanskrit word meaning literally ‘immortal obstruction’.
The river Narmada originates from here.
Which town ?
Amarkantak
3. (+80,-40)
The term ____ ______ is a collective term used pejoratively to refer to members of the new black middle class. The term was not originally derogatory, having come to describe the development of South Africa and its fast growing affluent middle-class.
The people referred to by this term have come to be known as gauche noveauriche, flaunting their western accessories in a gaudy way and indulging in conspicuous consumption of certain substances.
This term can also refer to a certain mineral which is considered very critical to the growth of a country.
What term ?
Black Diamond
4. (+70,-35)
Wikipedia details about something important in India’s struggle for
independence.
What ?
Azad Hind Fauj
5. (+60,-30)
Literally meaning ‘The gift of a cow’, it was first published in 1936 and is considered to be the greatest Hindustani novels in modern Indian literature. The author of this book was named Dhanpat Rai Srivastava originally and has many great works to his credit.
It focuses on the socio-economic deprivation as well as exploitation of the rural poor and has characters by the name Hori, Dhania, Gobar, Dattadin, Matadinetc.
Which great work of literature ?
Godaan
6. (+50,-25)
__________ is an anglicized form of the word by which the ‘realm of the Cholas’ was known in Tamil. It is generally used for the South Eastern coast of India, especially that of Tamil Nadu and a part of Andhra Pradesh.
It is also the name of a cement brand in India.
Coromandel
7. (+40,-20)
“Kar chale hum fida jan-o-tan sathiyonab tumhare hawale watan sathiyozinda rahne ki mausam bahut hai magarjaan dene ki rut roz ati nahihusn aur ishq dono ko ruswa karewo jawani jo khume nahati nahiaaj dharti bani hai dulhan sathiyoKkar chale hum fida jano tan Sathiyo”
Which famous exponent of Urdu literature is the writer of these lines ?
His daughter, son-in-law, grandson and grand-daughter are pretty famous in Bollywood too.
Kaifi Azmi
8. (+30,-15)
An excerpt from Pg. 46, Kim by Rudyard Kipling:
“And truly the ____ ____ is a wonderful spectacle. It runs straight, bearing without crowding India’s traffic for fifteen hundred miles- such a river of life as nowhere else exists in this world.”
What is being talked about ?
Grand Trunk Road
9. (+20,-10)
Which famous palace in Hyderabad, the name of which literally means ‘like the sky’ in Urdu ?
Falaknuma Palace
10. (+10)
Sitter.
It is a collection of poems by the Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore. The name literally means ‘an offering of songs’ and its English translation was perhaps the pivotal reason for Tagore winning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913, the first Non-European to do so.
What ?
Gitanjali
11. (+5)
Another sitter. This restaurant chain is famous for unlimited food.
CONNECT ?
Express Train names in India
VISUAL CONNECT # 2
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1. (+50/-25)
The main protagonist of ‘The Tempest’. He is the rightful Duke of Milan, who was put to sea (along with her daughter, Miranda) “on a rotten carcass of a butt (boat)” to die by his treacherous brother, Antonio.
His final soliloquy and epilogue is considered to be the best in Shakespearean literature.
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Sanskrit: Vat VrikshaTelugu: Marri VrikshamuTamil: Ala MaramOdia: Bara GachaBengali: Bot GaachHindi: Bargad, VatvrikshaEnglish: ______
3. (+30/-15)The first battle battle during the American struggle for independence happened in ______, Kentucky.
The shot fired here was described by Ralph Waldo Emerson as ‘the shot that was heard round the world’.
4. (+20/-10) The Father of computers..
5. (+10) Considered to be the Father of Europe. One of the greatest ‘King of Franks’. Famously over 7 feet in height. Reigned from 800 AD to 814 AD
6. (+5) Strange looking tree. Famously native of Madagascar.
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1. (+50/-25)
The main protagonist of ‘The Tempest’. He is the rightful Duke of Milan, who was put to sea (along with her daughter, Miranda) “on a rotten carcass of a butt (boat)” to die by his treacherous brother, Antonio.
His final soliloquy and epilogue us considered to be the best in Shakespearean literature.
PROSPERO
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Sanskrit: Vat VrikshaTelugu: Marri VrikshamuTamil: Ala MaramOdia: Bara GachaBengali: Bot GaachHindi: Bargad, VatvrikshaEnglish: ______
BANYAN
3. (+30/-15)The first battle battle during the American struggle for independence happened in ______, Kentucky.
The shot fired here was described by Ralph Waldo Emerson as ‘the shot that was heard round the world’.
LEXINGTON
4. (+20/-10) The Father of computers..BABBAGE
5. (+10) Considered to be the Father of Europe. One of the greatest ‘King of Franks’. Famously over 7 feet in height. Reigned from 800 AD to 814 AD
CHARLEMAGNE
6. (+5) Strange looking tree. Famously native of Madagascar.
BAOBAB
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