Prahelika Quiz, as part of release of the Prahelika Quiz Book (Assamese)

1. LONEWOLF WRITTEN QUIZ
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2. 1) The phenomenon created by
Peter Thompson, a professor of
Psychology at the University of
York, came into news again
recently when a famous Singer and
Songwriter posted a photo on her
Instagram account creating a flurry
on social media. Name the
phenomenon ?

3. 2) The first known instance of its use occurred in
a letter sent from Seville to Rome by a
Florentine merchant Francesco Lapi on May 4,
1536 that describes the arrival in Spain of
three ships bearing treasure from Latin
America. It was used to denote a unit of a
measure of weight or volume. In this letter,
he used it to denote a unit of measure for clay
jar of wine, which is equivalent to about
1/13th of a barrel. During 16th Century its
being used in Spain for a unit of unit of
measure called an arroba, then equivalent to
11.3kg (25 lb) or 22.7 litres (six gallons). What
is it ?

4. 3) Connect the following exhaustive list.

5. 4) The base of the leaf of this
rare tree is rolled up to form
a cup like structure.
According to Indian
mythology, Lord Krishna was
responsible for the cup shape
of the leaves thus the tree
getting the scientific name
Ficus Krishnae. Now the
question is , according to
popular belief how the leaves
of the tree got cup shaped ?

6. 5) This famous personality's birthday was
put as 2nd February, 1915 by his father
while filling up his school admission form
for Modern School in Delhi. But later
when his grandmother told him that he
was born in some time in August, he
decided to fix it in the middle of the
month i.e. 15 August 1915. Who is that
famous personality.

7. 6) His name is Harish Chandra Mehra. What is
his claim to fame ?

8. 7) Shankar Maharaj, a village Gandhian village
school teacher worked among the people of a
tribe classified as criminal by the British
Administration on Gandhiji's advice. Through
Gandhiji he arranged for some land to be
allocated to the tribe, which than abandoned
dacoity as a way of life. A Gujrati book by
Kanhaiyalal Munshi about the work of
Shankar Maharaj inspired Arjun Dev Rashk to
write a screenplay for a film. Which Film ?

9. 8) Jim Laker is the only bowler to take X's wicket
in X's only first class match. The first batsman
to score 1000+ runs in a single Ranji Trophy
season was X's ADC when X was the Governor
of Bombay. X's younger sister was the first
woman to hold Cabinet rank in Jawaharlal
Nehru's first Cabinet. X holds a unique record
in First Class cricket. Id X and what record ?

10. 9) Give me a Cricketing Term

11. 10) Angus Finlay Hutton, a British-Indian tea
planter, while working in the High Wavy
Mountains in the western ghats of Theni
district, Tamil Nadu in 1948 collected a new
genus of bat which was later named after
after a famous Indian Personality. The bat is
considered as one of the rarest fruit bats in
the world and even entered the Guinness
Book of World Records in 1993 for its rarity.
Name the bat OR after whom it is named ?

12. 11) The following song "Na Bole Tum Na" from the film “Baaton
Baaton Mein”(1979) copied from the same tune used by both
i) a military marching song and ii) an anti-war protest song .
The tune was also used as background score in the film "Dr.
Strangelove“(1964). Listen the song and give me that immensely
popular Military Marching Song, which was sung by both sides
of the American Civil War.

13. 12) This place in India was originally named by
the Captain Charles Pratt Kennedy, who was
one of the first explorers to come to this
valley and was very struck by its beauty, after
his sweetheart in the boyhood days. The
place is now misnamed, and will remind you
of a famous place from Scotland, which was
associated with a Legendary King, who was
immortalized by Sir Walter Scott's "Tales of a
Grandfather". Name the place in India.

14. 13) Connect the following railway stations
 Deula
 Gondia Junction
 Venkatagiri Kote Halt
 Jalna
 Raipur Junction
 Shrirangapatna
 Yeliyur

15. 14) This composed sub-atomic particle was initially
named wrongly, had two sources who said that
two different persons pointed out about the fault
in its name. According to one source it was a
famous German physicist and another source
says it was an Indian Scientist. The fault in the
name pointed out by them was that the Greek
word for "intermediate", after which it was
named, has no "tr" in it, so the "tr" should be
dropped from the previous name of the particle.
If the German physicist was Werner Heisenberg
then who was that Indian Scientist ?

16. 15) She got married to a person who not just
belong to a different faith, him being a Muslim
while she belonged to a Bengali Brahmo
family, but was 22 years elder to her. Their
marriage took place with Muslim rites in
September 1928 against severe opposition,
which was attended by only two relatives of
her and few common friends. Post marriage
her name was changed to Kulsum Zamani, but
she became popular by another name during
the Quit India movement of 1942. Name her ?

17. 16) He has a temple in his honor in Khera Rathore, Uttar
Pradesh. His side-kick Roopa also has a temple to his
name not far away. At the peak of his work, his actual
followers numbered a mere 17. He was shot dead on
7th May, 1955 in Lavan village in Madhya Pradesh.
Amitabh Bachchan once said that during his younger
days he was in awe of him. There are many folk songs
and nautanki plays based on his life. In 1971 a movie
based on his life starring Dara Singh in the lead was
released. Identify him ?

20. ANSWERS

21. ANSWERS

22. 1) Answer: Thatcher Effect

23. 2) Answer : @ Sign

24. 3) Answer: Dennis Amiss and
Desmond Haynes, only players to
score century in their first and
final ODIs.

25. 4) Answer: Ficus Krishnae is commonly
known as Makhan Katori. It is said that
once while stealing butter, Krishna was
caught red-handed by Mata Yashoda. To
escape from punishment, Krishna rolled the
butter in a leaf of Ficus Krishnae. It is
believed that the leaves of the tree took
the shape of a cup after this incident and
ever since it remained in the same shape as
Krishna had rolled it.

26. 5) Answer: Khushwant Singh

27. 6) Answer: He was India's first bravery
award-winning child. On February 4,
1958, at a special programme, he was
presented the first National Bravery
Award by India’s first Prime Minister
Jawaharlal Nehru.

28. 7) Answer:
Jis Desh Mein Ganga Behti Hai (1960)

29. 8) Answer: X - Raja Maharaj Singh. Oldest
cricketer to make his first class debut at the age
of 72 years.

30. 9) Answer: “Mankading”. Bill Brown was
the first player to be out Mankaded and
the character Tipu in Lagaan (played by
Amin Gazi) also was out in the same
fashion.

31. 10) Answer: Salim Ali's Fruit bat, named
after Indian ornithologist Salim Ali.

32. 11) Answer: The military song is "When
Johnny Comes Marching Home“.
The anti war song is “Johnny I Hardly Knew
Ye”.

33. 12) Answer: Annandale (Shimla). Its original
name was Annadale (Anna, the name of the girl
and "dale" meaning a valley). The Legendary
King of Scotland is Robert the Bruce, 7th Lord
of Annandale.

34. 13) Answer: Railway Stations with Single Alphabet
Station Codes.
 Deula ( D )
 Gondia Junction ( G )
 Venkatagiri Kote Halt ( H )
 Jalna ( J )
 Raipur Junction ( R )
 Shrirangapatna ( S )
 Yeliyur ( Y )

35. 14) Answer: Homi Jehangir Bhabha. The
particle name changed from "Mesotron" to
"Meson“.

36. 15) Answer: Aruna Asaf Ali

37. 16) Answer: Daku Man Singh. He was among
the dreaded dacoits of Chambal region and
had 1,112 robberies and 185 murders to his
credit between 1939 and 1955.