Mood Indigo 2011 - India Quiz - Prelims with Answers
1. j. ramanand
Mood Indica
19.12.2012
prelims + answers
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2. A plaque at a famous landmark in this city has an inscription
saying âUrbs Prima in Indusâ
(the landmark was founded 100 years ago)
Which city?
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3. 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
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4. This is the logo of the Indian Federation
for which sport?
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6. Which famous Hindi story begins thus:
Translated as:
âIt was the time of Wajid Ali Shah. Lucknow was
immersed in self-indulgence.â
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10. 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?
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14. 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
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16. 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?
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26. This is the flag of which Indian
political party, which was formed in
2001 and has two MPs in the current
Lok Sabha?
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27. Telangana Rashtra Samiti. It
shows the map of the state
demanded by them.
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28. 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?
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29. The place is âPatiala Houseâ, where
among others, the 2G case is being
heard.
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30. Singer Himanshu Joshi and percussionist
Tuheen Chakraborty are the two most
recent (though not fully permanent)
members of which Indian group?
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34. 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?
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36. In the 18th century, this group of islands was
called âFrederiksĂžerneâ by its administrators.
In 2011, this place made a climactic appearance
on a TV programme.
Which place?
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37. Nicobar Islands, the 5-crore
winning question on KBC-5 for
Sushil Kumar.
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38. 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?
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40. A famous Raja Ravi
Varma painting.
Which mythological
story, also featured in
the Mahabharata, is
this a scene from?
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42. 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?
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44. These seeds are from the âfinger milletâ, a
popular cereal used in cooking in many parts of
India.
Known by several names, one of its names comes
from the Sanskrit for âredâ (from its red colour).
What name?
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45. Ragi.
(The cereal also known as ânaachniâ or âkezhvaruguâ or
âmadduaâ)
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46. 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.
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48. 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?
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49. The one at BITS Pilani
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52. 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?
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54. In an interview to the Indian Express in
November 2011, he said:
âAfter Operation Blue Star in Punjab, the final
examinations were postponed. [I] led a group of
students demanding a monthâs notice as
preparation.
We made banners saying, â____ ____â.
and went about raising this slogan.â
He used these lines in a film.
Which lines?
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