mood indigo 2011 - india quiz - prelims with answers

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Mood Indica19.12.2012

prelims + answers

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A plaque at a famous landmark in this city has an inscription saying “Urbs Prima in Indus”

(the landmark was founded 100 years ago)

Which city?


Mumbai

This plaque is at the Gateway of India, whose founding stone was laid in March 1911 to commemorate the arrival of George V that year


This is the logo of the Indian Federation for which sport?


Carrom


Which famous Hindi story begins thus:

Translated as:“It was the time of Wajid Ali Shah. Lucknow was

immersed in self-indulgence.”


Shatranj ke Khiladi


The writer Dilip Chitre published a translation of this saint's poems from Marathi into English.

Which saint?


Tukaram


He died in Bristol, England in 1833 while on a visit to that country.

This statue, sculpted by Calcutta-based sculptor Niranjan Pradhan, was erected in Bristol in 1997.

Whose statue?


Raja Ram Mohan Roy


A poster for which corporate entity?


5th November 2011 was declared a state holiday in Orissa by the state government to celebrate Presidential assent to two significant changes.

Name any one of them


Orissa → Odisha

Or

Oriya → Odia


The Mullaiperiyar dam is located in Kerala, but has been leased to Tamil Nadu after a 1886 treaty between the then Travancore State and the Madras Presidency.

For how many years is this lease?


999 years.


Soundtrack for which film?


Quick Gun Murugan


Part of Harper Collins' Film Series books, which film is this book about?


A very old ad for which company?


Who are the only father-son pair to have each (i.e. independently) won the Dadasaheb Phalke award?


Prithviraj and Raj Kapoor


This is the flag of which Indian political party, which was formed in 2001 and has two MPs in the current Lok Sabha?


Telangana Rashtra Samiti. It shows the map of the state demanded by them.


Sharing its name with a 2011 Hindi film, this district court in Delhi is located in the former residence of a Maharaja of a former Indian princely state.

What is this place called?


The place is “Patiala House”, where among others, the 2G case is being heard.


Singer Himanshu Joshi and percussionist Tuheen Chakraborty are the two most recent (though not fully permanent) members of which Indian group?


The band “Indian Ocean”


An image from the National Highways Authority of India. What is this a map of?


Golden Quadrilateral Project


A person undergoing the navjote ceremony will, for the first time ever, wear the sudreh (an undershirt) and the kushti (a girdle of 72 threads).

Which community would this person belong to?


Parsi/Zoroastrians/Iranis


In the 18th century, this group of islands was called “Frederiksøerne” by its administrators.

In 2011, this place made a climactic appearance on a TV programme.

Which place?


Nicobar Islands, the 5-crore winning question on KBC-5 for Sushil Kumar.


During the Rashtrakuta empire that ruled from Manyakheta in the 8th to 10th centuries, agriculture, textile and mining were important sources of industry and income.

During those times, diamonds were mined in Cudappah, Golconda, Kurnool and which other place?


Bellary


A famous Raja Ravi Varma painting.

Which mythological story, also featured in the Mahabharata, is this a scene from?


Nala-Damayanti. This is called “Hamsa Damayanti”.


This is a long-running popular show on Vividh Bharati, which features stories in radio play form. It shares its name with a Jaipur landmark.

What show?


Hawa Mahal


These seeds are from the “finger millet”, a popular cereal used in cooking in many parts of India.

Known by several names, one of its names comes from the Sanskrit for “red” (from its red colour).

What name?


Ragi.

(The cereal also known as “naachni” or “kezhvarugu” or “maddua”)


This former Indian Chief Minister's family had the following custom:

Soon after a woman gave birth to a child, they were asked what they would like to eat. The newborn was then named after that foodstuff.

Over the years, the Chief Minister's mother had chosen the likes of paan and rasgulla.

Name this former CM.


Rabri Devi


There are several Birla Mandirs in the country, each with a presiding deity. At which of these temples, in Rajasthan, is the deity the goddess Saraswati?


The one at BITS Pilani


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People of this North Eastern state speak 20+ different local languages, so a mixture has emerged as a link language. The name is a portmanteau word made of the main ethnic group in the state and a language of a neighbouring state.

What is this name?


Nagamese


In an interview to the Indian Express in November 2011, he said:

“After Operation Blue Star in Punjab, the final examinations were postponed. [I] led a group of students demanding a month’s notice as preparation.

We made banners saying, “____ ____”.

and went about raising this slogan.”

He used these lines in a film.

Which lines?


“Sadda Haq”

The interviewee was Irshad Kamil


XXIX

XXVIII

XXVII

XXVI


Indian Flag-bearers at the Olympics(at the opening ceremony, to be precise)

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