Questions based on current Indian news and India.

1. India Quiz
PARTHIBEN
5.15 PM, 18-Dec-2014
Pisa, B5Note: Please carry a Pen.

2. Rules
• Clock wise Round – 10 questions
• Anti-Clockwise Rounds - 10 questions
• 2 Written Rounds – 5 + 10 Questions
• All questions are open on pounce except written rounds.
• Quiz Master decision is final.

3. Pounce – for Newbies
If you know the
answer, raise your
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Do not shout out the answers !!!
Write the answer on the
given sheet of paper
If it is CORRECT
+15
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- 5
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during normal round.

4. Bounce
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question
correct
Next question
comes to me
directly
1 3 42

5. Sudarsan Pattnaik’s Sand Art
WRITTEN ROUND
5 QUESTIONS
10 POINTS EACH

6. 1.

7. 2.

8. 3.

9. 4.

10. 5.

11. Answers
EXCHANGE SHEETS

12. 1.

13. i) Homage to 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks victims
ii) Hanging of Ajmal Kasab

14. 2.

15. Irom Sharmila
• Iron Lady of Manipur
• The world's longest hunger striker

16. 3.

17. Sachin Tendulkar's 200th and last test match at Mumbai

18. 4.

20. 5.

21. 8 Oscar awards for 'Slumdog Millionaire'

22. Clockwise Round
10 QUESTIONS

23. 1. Modeled on which temple ?
• Thennangur is a village located in the
Tiruvannamalai district in the state of
Tamil Nadu. The village was earlier known
as Dakshina Halasyam, and it is famous for
a uniquely designed Hindu temple,
Raghumayi Sametha Pandurangan Kovil.
According to the Hindu puranas (myths),
this village is the birthplace of the Hindu
Goddess Lakshmi.
• The temple was built with a combination
of northern and southern styles of
architecture.

25. Puri Jaganath temple in Orissa

26. 2. What happened next ?
• World Athletics Final event held in Monte Carlo, Monaco in 2005.
• In the long jump event, Russia's Tatyana Kotova won the gold.
• Kotova was found last year to have been caught for doping after her
samples collected during the 2005 World Athletics Championships
in Helsinki was found to contain traces of banned substance.
• International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF)
disqualified her gold medal for doping charges in 2014.

27. Anju’s silver medal turns gold.

28. 3. Funda
• ‘Tandoor’, a restaurant in Allahabad is
offering its customers the unlikely
choice of food.
• It has created an entire menu dedicated
to something.
A
B

30. 4. World Heritage Centres
• UNESCO has established World Heritage centres in South Africa,
Spain, Italy, China, Bahrain, Brazil, Mexico and Norway.
• Recently foundation stone of Heritage Centre laid at Wildlife Institute
of India (WII), in Dehradun.
• What’s unique about the Indian Heritage Centre ?

31. World’s first and only ‘Natural World Heritage Centre’
• Others are only for the conservation of cultural heritage.

32. 5. Identify X
• India's Ministry of Environment and Forests just approved the building of
the ‘Indian X Observatory’ in the Bodi West Hills, located in Tamil Nadu.
It is a ridiculously ambitious project that dwarfs CERN, requiring 50,000
tons of magnetized iron to study X.
• X are basic elements of the universe that can tell us about the origin of
matter, energy and stars. They are the elusive miniscule particles that are
able to travel at tremendous speeds and pass through ordinary matter
undetected, which of course makes it hard as hell to detect them.
• The world’s largest magnet, weighing 50,000 tons, is being designed at
the Bhabha Atomic Research Center (BARC) in Trombay, India, and will be
part of the Iron Calorimetric (ICAL) detector for trapping atmospheric X
produced by cosmic rays in Earth’s atmosphere.
• In 2012 movie the same X heats up the Earth’s inner core, making it boil.
That in turn destabilizes the overlying layers (outer core and mantle),
making the crust buckle, rise and shift by thousands of kilometres.

33. X – Neutrino
Indian Neutrino Observatory (INO)

34. 6. Identify X and what exemption they have ?
• The Kodavas , also known as X are ethnic minority from Karnataka.
• The local Kodava people, believed to be descendants of Alexander the Great’s Indo-Greek soldiers who
mingled with the natives, have a distinct warrior-like upbringing: instead of praying with the fires and
chants common among Hindus, Kodava rituals have strong war-like elements, including the symbolic
use of a sword to chop banana stems during weddings. Legend holds that back in the 1800s, young boys
were fed tiger meat in the hope that they would grow up to be ferocious warriors – and men who were
brave enough to kill a tiger were given the privilege of growing a unique curled moustache called a galle
meesey.
• Their contribution to countries defense sector is outstanding. Field Marshal Kodandera ‘Kipper’
Madappa Cariappa, the first Indian Chief of Army Staff of the Indian Army, was a Kodava. General KS
Thimmayya was another brave soldier, who led the army during crucial conflicts with China and brought
laurels to his homeland in the hills.
• Kodavas worship fire arms during festivals, they are used to fire shots in the air to herald the birth of
baby boys, and some use it during house warming too.
• The privilege to carry arms was originally granted by Kodagu kings, who did not maintain a standing
army, but called on the people to fight when an invasion threatened. Since it is a part of their culture the
British gave a special exemption for them which is still existing today.

35. Coorgis can own guns without license
• Coorgis from which the name of the place Coorg comes.
• Exemption certificates (ECs) to the ‘Coorg by race’ (Kodava) people and ‘Jamma’ (land
tenure) holders to keep weapons without license, a privilege existing since the days of
the British

36. 7. Launch of what and who is on the other end ?

37. National RTI helpline & N.R. Narayana Murthy
• Arvind Kejriwal receives the
first call from N. R. Narayana
Murthy of Infosys at the
launch of a national RTI
helpline, in New Delhi on
Nov. 19, 2006

38. 8. Why did they increased the height ?
• Plans for a giant statue of warrior king Shivaji off the Mumbai coast - a
project loaded with political implications in Maharashtra - have been
cleared by the union environment ministry.
• The earlier design of the statue, approved by the Ashok Chavan
government, was 98-metre high.
• Recently, it was redesigned with an increased height of 190 metres.

39. • Because their target
shifted from Statue
of Liberty to Unity.

40. 9. Indian film school Whistling Woods International, released
this powerful PSA on Dec 16th, 2013. Why on that date ?
• Video

41. Answer

42. One year after New Delhi's gang-rape incident
• December 16 marks the day when the victim was brutally raped,
following which she succumbed to her injuries on December 29.

43. 10. Tell me the question
• When discussing Indians there is often confusion about who you're
talking about (esp. in USA), native Americans or people from India.
• To clarify the matter one can ask,
“X or Y ?”
• X referring to Indians
• Y referring to native Americans / Red Indians
Clue Pic

44. Clue

45. Dot or Feather ?
45

46. Indian CITIES
WRITTEN ROUND

47. RULES
• Illustrations of the 10 popular cities in India created for the Times
Group for their web/print experience.
• Each monument has a very high historic and cultural importance in
the cities they are located and have been icons for the city.
• The visual language was to capture the essence of the monument in the
most minimal, simplified way using only geometric shapes.
• Identify the city and monument.
Points:
- City (5 Points)
- Monument (5 Points)

48. 1

49. 2

50. 3

51. 4

52. 5

53. 6

54. 7

55. 8

56. 9

57. 10

58. Answers

59. 1

60. 1

61. 2

62. 2

63. 3

64. 3

65. 4

66. 4

67. 5

68. 5

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70. 6

71. 7

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79. Anti-clockwise
10 QUESTIONS

80. 11. Identify the Lyricist and Theme
• ‘Aa Bhi Jaa’ is a song from ‘Raunaq: Conversation of Music and Poetry’
album composed by A. R. Rahman in 2014.
• The lyrics are penned by X, which is his second lyrical attempt after a
Bollywood movie.
• In 2013, Rahman was gifted with a book, from which the visuals are
based for this song.
• Identify the lyricist and What's the inspiration for visuals ?

81. Video

82. Lyricist: Kapil Sibal

83. Paintings of
RAJA Ravi Varma

84. 12. Funda

86. 13. Identify the logo
• This logo is a "rebus" or visual pun.
• On the one hand, it depicts a tree, which is significant as a symbol of
nature, significant because of the Bodhi tree's importance to the story
of ______, and significant because the tree is a metaphor for life and of
giving.
• On the other hand, it shows interlinked figures of the people who have
come together to create this.

88. • Nalanda university has reopened 800
years after it was destroyed in an
invasion.

89. 14. Etymology of which word ?
• _____ is derived from Hindi / Sanskrit word.
• ______, member of a well-organized confederacy
of professional assassins who travelled in gangs
throughout India for several hundred years.
• The earliest authenticated mention of the this
word is found in Ẓiyāʾ-ud-Dīn Baranī, History of
Fīrūz Shāh, dated about 1356.
• It originally described a specific group of thieves
in India and was only used on the subcontinent. It
caught on in England in the 19th century, though,
when Victorian novels about murderous Indian
_____ became bestsellers. From there the word
came to describe a criminal more generally.

91. 15. Reply to ?
• Hindustan Times came
up with this cartoon
when The Orbital
Sciences Corporation’s
Antares rocket exploded.

92. • New York Times
cartoon when India
joined
• The cartoon has been
described as “racist”.

93. 16. Art installation about ?
• “You can almost feel the night as the chirp of crickets surrounds you.
The city's sunk in deep sleep. In the distance, one can hear the hum of a
factory. Into this soundscape, a slow hissing seeps in and grows strong.
As the lethal orchestra ends, one can hear a human voice gasping for
breath.”
• Artist Samar Singh Jodha's unnerving multimedia installation which
has travelled to Rome in a 40-ft-long cargo container.
• The container was parked at the Piazza della Repubblica in Rome for
the 4 days (December 2 to 6). The show will open in Italy at 7:35 p.m.

97. The exhibit opened to the public at exactly 12.05am IST (7.35pm in
Rome), representing the intervening night of December 2 and 3, when
the tragedy occurred 30 years ago.

98. 17. FITB
• Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who had proposed holding an
‘International ____ Day’ in his UN General Assembly speech on Sept 27
this year.
• UN General Assembly (UNGA) has declared June 21 as ‘International
____ Day’, recognising the ancient Indian science's "holistic approach
to health and well-being.“
• In a major cabinet reshuffle in which Modi added 21 ministers to his
government, formation of the AAYUSH ministry is done as part of
promoting _____
• Why June 21 ? (+5 points)

99. June 21 has a cultural and
cosmic significance as it is the
day of the Summer Solstice in
the northern hemisphere
when the daylight hours are
the longest.

100. 18. What record ?
• Dehradun twin sisters Tashi and Nungshi Malik created history
on Wednesday by becoming the first ever siblings to achieve
certain feat.

101. First ever siblings to scale Seven tallest peaks in
Seven continents
1. Mt Kilimanjaro (Africa)
2. Mt Everest (Asia) (World's first twin sisters to summit mountain
Everest)
3. Mt Elbrus (Europe)
4. Mt Aconcagua (South America)
5. Mt Carstensz Pyramid (Australia & Oceania)
6. Mt McKinley (North America)
7. Mt Vinson Massif (Antarctica)

102. Complete the List
WRITTEN ROUND

103. Rules
• You will be shown a list of something
• Identify what's the list about (5 Points)
• Give the missing ones (5 Points)

104. 19.
Year Language
2004 Tamil
2005 Sanskrit
2008 Telugu
2008 Kannada
2013 Malayalam
2014 ?

105. Odia becomes 6th Classical Language in India

106. 20.
• Muslims
• Christians
• Sikhs
• Buddhists
• Zoroastrians (Parsis)
• __________

107. Minorities of India
Jains (added this year)

108. THANK YOU !