THE POLITICAL SCIENCE QUIZ

ECCLESIA 2017

By-Ananya Upadhyay and Aanchal Manuja

PRELIMS

• The preliminary Round consists of 20 questions.• Questions 5,10, 14 and 20 are star-marked questions.• Not more than 45 seconds will be given per question.

1. During the cold war, the Bering Strait marked the border between the Soviet Union and the United States. The Diomede Islands- Big Diomede (USSR) and Little Diomede (USA)- are only 3.8 km apart. The indigenous people in the area were used to frequently crossing the border back and forth for routine visits, festivals, etc but were prevented from doing so during the Cold War.

What was the border called?

2. What is shown in the picture?

3. Find the connection

4.Give the funda

Soviet Union- 1991Ghana – 1982Britain – 1971Myanmar– 1987Nigeria – 1984North Korea - 2010India - 2016

*5. In February 1988, what happened for the first and only time in Indian political history in Meghalaya concerning Robert Sangma of Congress and Chamberlain Marak?

6. This company was established in 1937 by Nalwadi Krishnaraja Wadiyar and is currently state-owned. It is the largest producer in Asia of a certain product that it started making in 1962 and is exported to many developing countries in Asia and Africa. The product has a very short shelf life and is therefore made-to-demand.

Name the company and the product.

7. “ The idea for a novel based around the dark political arts came to me shortly after the 1987 general election campaign, which had been particularly bruising. It inspired me to begin work on a plot- entirely fictional- to get rid of a Prime Minister.” – Michael Dobbs

The book was dramatised by the BBC. It has been one of the best-selling TV series ever made by BBC.

What work is being talked about here?

8. X was the name of a Thembu chief who ruled in the Transkei in the 18th century and also gives its name to the Xhosa clan. Besides being a term of endearment, respect and familiarity, it is considered very polite to use someone’s clan name.

Identify X or the person who is the most famous one to have been referred to as X.

9. Who is the girl shown in the picture?

*10. What was the name of the smartphone that was launched in May 2016 by a company called NaMotel priced at Rs 99 and available to only those with an aadhaar card?

11. X is a Pakistani political party formerly known as the Pakistani Mujahir League until its name change on 1 January 2014. The party is led by Arsian Ul Mulk, a human rights activist from Gujranwala. It aims to campaign on issues relating to political imprisonment and police torture. Mulk said it would strive to make Pakistan a country as dreamt of by its founder, Md. Ali Jinnah.

Name the party.

12. Which spicy person as Republican Party of India’s state vice president and president of women’s wing?

13. He was an authority in geology, agriculture and also an educationist who set up an educational institution in Machilipatnam. He, however, died in poverty in 1963 and was largely forgotten by the society and by his own party, the Congress. A postage stamp was issued to commemorate him in 2009 and in 2011 it was proposed that he be posthumously awarded the Bharat Ratna.

Identify the famous person.

*14. “Why is that we have never heard voice in connection with the freedom of people under the suppression and tyranny of Pakistan authorities on the other side of the cease-fire line. Why is it that we have not heard here that in ten years these people have not seen a ballot paper? With what voice can either the Security Council or anyone coming before it demand a plebiscite for a people on our side who exercise franchise, who have freedom of speech, who function under a hundred local bodies?”

This is an excerpt from a very famous speech. Name the speaker and the context in which this speech was delivered.

15. X has served as union minister under 5 different PM. X is also the only minister to resign from the NDA govt in protest of godhra riots. Identify X.

16. Many analysts and participants of the protests against President of X, Gjorge Ivanov and the government of X refer to it as a “Y Revolution", due to the demonstrators throwing paint balls at government buildings in the capital.

Identify X and name the revolution.

17. This man is very famous for something concerning elections. Identify him and name his constituency.

18. X was the highest elected office of the appointive officer under the Roman Empire. The title was also used in other city states and revived in modern states notably in the First French Republic.

In modern terminology, X is a type of diplomat. Identify X.

19. Identify both.

*20. He operated a boutique, the Psychedelhi, at the Oberoi Hotel with Martand Singh in the 1960s. The clientele included the Beatles and it ended up supplying clothes to such London outlets as Mr. Fish and Annacat.

Which political figure is being referred to here?

1. During the cold war, the Bering Strait marked the border between the Soviet Union and the United States. The Diomede Islands- Big Diomede (USSR) and Little Diomede (USA)- are only 3.8 km apart. The indigenous people in the area were used to frequently crossing the border back and forth for routine visits, festivals, etc but were prevented from doing so during the Cold War.

What was the border called?

Ans- The Ice Curtain

2. What is shown in the picture?

Ans- The Treaty of Versailles

3. Find the connection

Ans- Longest serving Chief Minsiters1. Chandrababu Naidu 2. Sheila Dixit3. Jyoti Basu4. Narendra Modi

4.Give the funda

Soviet Union- 1991Ghana – 1982Britain – 1971Myanmar– 1987Nigeria – 1984North Korea - 2010India - 2016

Ans- Demonetization

*5. In February 1988, what happened for the first and only time in Indian political history in Meghalaya concerning Robert Sangma of Congress and Chamberlain Marak?

Ans- Electoral Tie (2198 votes each)

6. This company was established in 1937 by Nalwadi Krishnaraja Wadiyar and is currently state-owned. It is the largest producer in Asia of a certain product that it started making in 1962 and is exported to many developing countries in Asia and Africa. The product has a very short shelf life and is therefore made-to-demand.

Name the company and the product.

Ans- Mysore Paints and Varnishes

Product- Indelible ink used in elections

7. “ The idea for a novel based around the dark political arts came to me shortly after the 1987 general election campaign, which had been particularly bruising. It inspired me to begin work on a plot- entirely fictional- to get rid of a Prime Minister.” – Michael Dobbs

The book was dramatised by the BBC. It has been one of the best-selling TV series ever made by BBC.

What work is being talked about here?

Ans- House of Cards

8. X was the name of a Thembu chief who ruled in the Transkei in the 18th century and also gives its name to the Xhosa clan. Besides being a term of endearment, respect and familiarity, it is considered very polite to use someone’s clan name.

Identify X or the person who is the most famous one to have been referred to as X.

Ans- Nelson Mandela

9. Who is the girl shown in the picture?

Ans- Indira Gandhi

*10. What was the name of the smartphone that was launched in May 2016 by a company called NaMotel priced at Rs 99 and available to only those with an aadhaar card?

Ans- Achhe Din

11. X is a Pakistani political party formerly known as the Pakistani Mujahir League until its name change on 1 January 2014. The party is led by Arsian Ul Mulk, a human rights activist from Gujranwala. It aims to campaign on issues relating to political imprisonment and police torture. Mulk said it would strive to make Pakistan a country as dreamt of by its founder, Md. Ali Jinnah.

Name the party.

Ans- Aam Aadmi Party

12. Which spicy person as Republican Party of India’s state vice president and president of women’s wing?

Ans- Rakhi Sawant

13. He was an authority in geology, agriculture and also an educationist who set up an educational institution in Machilipatnam. He, however, died in poverty in 1963 and was largely forgotten by the society and by his own party, the Congress. A postage stamp was issued to commemorate him in 2009 and in 2011 it was proposed that he be posthumously awarded the Bharat Ratna.

Identify the famous person.

Ans- Pingali Venkayya, designer of the Indian National Flag

*14. “Why is that we have never heard voice in connection with the freedom of people under the suppression and tyranny of Pakistan authorities on the other side of the cease-fire line. Why is it that we have not heard here that in ten years these people have not seen a ballot paper? With what voice can either the Security Council or anyone coming before it demand a plebiscite for a people on our side who exercise franchise, who have freedom of speech, who function under a hundred local bodies?”

This is an excerpt from a very famous speech. Name the speaker and the context in which this speech was delivered.

Ans- VK Menon at the UN General Assembly in 1955It is the longest speech ever recorded (almost 8 hours). Also considered a classic example of filibustering

15. X has served as union minister under 5 different PM. X is also the only minister to resign from the NDA govt in protest of godhra riots. Identify X.

Ans- Ram Vilas Paswan

16. Many analysts and participants of the protests against President of X, Gjorge Ivanov and the government of X refer to it as a “Y Revolution", due to the demonstrators throwing paint balls at government buildings in the capital.

Identify X and name the revolution.

Ans- X : Macedonia Y : Colourful Revolution

17. This man is very famous for something concerning elections. Identify him and name his constituency.

Ans- Mahant Bharatdas, constituency- Junagarh

18. X was the highest elected office of the appointive officer under the Roman Empire. The title was also used in other city states and revived in modern states notably in the First French Republic.

In modern terminology, X is a type of diplomat. Identify X.

Ans- The Consulate General

19. Identify both.

Ans- Jawaharlal Nehru (Right) Che Guevera (Left)

*20. He operated a boutique, the Psychedelhi, at the Oberoi Hotel with Martand Singh in the 1960s. The clientele included the Beatles and it ended up supplying clothes to such London outlets as Mr. Fish and Annacat.

Which political figure is being referred to here?

Ans- Naveen Patnaik

ROUND 1

RULES

1. DIRECT: +152.BOUNCE: +103.CORRECT POUNCE: +204.INCORRECT POUNCE: -105. QM IS ALWAYS CORRECT

1. Find the connection

Ans - Leaders overthrown by a military coup-

1. Salvador Allende; Chile ( overthrown by General Augusto Pinochet)2. Nawaz Sharif; Pakistan (overthrown by General Pervez Musharraf)3. William Tolbert; Liberia (ovethrown by Samuel Doe)

2. This famous personality is responsible for one of the major events in 20th century world politics.

Ans- Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, his death is believed to have started the First World War

- dough made from boiled and ground plantain or cassava, used as a staple food in parts of West and central Africa.

3. Connect.

Ans- Foo foo

Pet poodle of the Royal Thai family who served as the Air Chief Marshall of Thailand.

4. What does the cartoon depict?

Ans- Mamta Bannerjee’s constant threats of leaving the alliance

5. Identify the person who is reading out the Memorandum presented by students on September 5, 1977 to Indira Gandhi demanding her resignation as Chancellor of JNU.

Ans- Sitaram Yechuri

6. Many observers have called this a ‘war crime’ and a violation of Geneva convention. Give the moniker which resembles the name of a famous song by AC/DC.

Ans- Highway of Death, a road between Kuwait and Basra where the retreating Iraqi army was attacked by an American aircraft during First Gulf War.

ROUND 2

1. Cracking, packing, hijacking and kidnapping are tactics of which election process widely used in the United States?

Ans- Gerrymandering

2. X is yet another Looney Tunes short dedicated to World War II propaganda.Ironically, the cartoon is introduced as a recently released Japanese propaganda film designed to show off advanced Japanese technology and skill. It follows with Japanese characters with obnoxious accents displaying their innovations—except all their demonstrations end in disaster or are utterly ridiculous.Like the Popeye cartoon, the Japanese are caricaturized with buck teeth, glasses, and an overall sinister manner.X is named after an extremely famous city of Japan and the two terms in X are rhyming.

Ans- Tokio Jokio

3. Ancient Indian kings were supposed to follow the concept of Rajdharma however X inspite of his many conquests got motivated to abandon it. In 2002, Y, who was the head of the country, advised Z to follow rajdharma in a press conference leading to Z snapping back at him in the middle of the conference. This incident is popular till date.

Give X, Y and Z.

Ans- X : King Ashok Y : Atal Biharee Vajpayee Z : Narendra Modi

4. He attended St Columba's School , Delhi before entering The Doon School.

He also worked at the monitor group, a management consulting firm in London, before

establishing the Mumbai based technology outsourcing firm, Backops Services Private Ltd.

Who?

Ans- Rahul Gandhi

5. In 1963 , the former CM of Tamil Nadu proposed that all senior congressmen should

resign from office to make way for younger party workers.

This proposal was famous with his name. Give name of CM and proposal

Ans- K. Kamaraj and the Kamaraj Plan

6. What did congress MLA Jaivardhan Singh call Madhya Pradesh CM Shivraj Chauhan over an adulteration scandal?

Hint: Character played by a veteran actor who passed away in 2005 Hint 2: Shivraj chauhan ye sunke khush nahi hua

Ans- Mogambo

7. The Vajpayee government was defeated in a historic vote on the floor of the Lok Sabha in 1998 by a margin of just one vote! Who was the one MP who violated his party whip and voted against the government thus probably being the one member who caused the fall of the government?

Ans- Saifuddin Soz

8.The four junzis of Tiananmen square were named so for persuading students to leave and thus saving hundreds of lives. The junzi is a Chinese philosophical term often translated as "gentleman" or "superior person“. The recruits of the first Junzi who became the other three junzis are Hou Dejian, Zhou Dou, and Gao Xin.

The first Junzi is a Chinese literary critic ,professor and writer who is currently incarcerated as a political prisoner in Jinzhou. He was also awarded the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize.

Name the first Junzi

Ans- Liu Xiaobo

9. Connect

Ans- Symbols of Parties that contested in the First General Election

10. Prior to its release , Shorgul created a lot of buzz on social media, despite not having a big name in its star cast.

It piqued the interest of many, thanks to the lyricist of this particular song.

The lyricist’s face has also often been feature in many memes alongside the face of a famous antagonist from Harry Potter.

Who is the lyricist?

Ans- Kapil Sibbal

11. The name of this book by B. Raman is a pun on a spymaster who also served as a chief of RAW. The pun was used to refer to the first batch of officers to join under him.Name the book.

Ans- The Kaoboys of R&AW

12. The 1960 presidential election between Senator John F. Kennedy and Vice President Richard Nixon is notable for being the first election where television played a decisive role in determining the winner since they had agreed to a series of debates, the first ever aired on live TV.

Prior to the first debate, the candidates had agreed on something. However both of them broke the agreement.

Nixon’s team knew that their candidate broke a sweat easily, so they set the thermostat keep the studio nice and cool. But Kennedy’s team also knew about the Vice President’s hyperhidrosis and secretly turned the temperature up a few degrees. When the cameras began to roll, the difference between the candidates was striking to audiences watching at home. Political scientists still argue that a few degrees on the thermostat may have made all the difference.

What had the candidates agreed on and how did they break the agreement?

Ans- Both had agreed not to wear make up. But Kennedy had a layer of professionally applied makeup put on before the debate and Nixon used an over-the-counter product called “Lazy Shave” to conceal his five-o’clock shadow.