Intra School Quiz Championship organised in Jalpaiguri Zilla School by Mrinmay Mandal & Jyotiraditya Chanda, students of class XI.

1. Intra- school Quiz
Championship ’18
JALPAIGURI ZILLA SCHOOL
GR A ( CLASS VI TO VIII)

2. PRELIMS

3. RULES TO BE FOLLOWED:
 10 questions will follow.
 Among them 1, 4, 7, 9, 10 are * marked
questions. In case of tie, the team
answering more * marked questions
correctly will be qualified for the finals.
 8 teams will be qualified for the Mains
tomorrow.

4. Let’s play
the game!

5. # Question 1 *
Reaction of
Sachin
Tendulkar over
which incident?

6. # Question 2

7. # Question 3
 In Lahore Session of Congress, 1929. Among
the decisions taken were Poorna Swaraj as
ultimate goal, and on 31st December the
first Tricolor flag was hoisted and the X Date
of Next Year was fixed and announced as
‘First Independence Day’.
 Identify X.

8. # Question 4
 In Greek mythology, X is a divine hero whose homeland
was Troy. He was the son of Tros of Dardania, from whose
name "Troy" was supposedly derived, and of Callirrhoe,
the daughter of the river god Scamander. His brothers
were Ileus and Assaracus. In one version of the myth, X is
abducted by Zeus, in the form of an eagle, to serve as
cup-bearer in Olympus.
 X is one of the first things you’ll hear of when you discuss
of amazing stuffs in astronomy.
 It was Discovered by Galileo Galilei.
 Identify X.

9. # Question 5
 Identify what is
being shown in
the image.

10. # Question 6*
 Identify the
character created
by Narayan
Debnath.

11. # Question 7 *
 The Times of India, on 31st July 2013,
published an article with the title:
 “At 66, Mother India gets ready for her 29th
baby”.
 The ‘baby’ finally came into life on 2 June
2014.
 What is referred here?

12. # Question 8
 X is a contemporary Bengali author who is most
famous for a quartet, whose 2nd part Y earned
him the Sahitya Academy Award. The month of
September 2017 marked 50 years of his literary
career.
 He created a detective character by the name
Z based on North Bengal.
 Identify X, Y, Z.

13. # Question 9 *
 How are the countries
in the list connected
geographically?

14. # Question 10 *
 It is a very known Bengali rural game, which has
variations of it’s name all over India.
 e.g. It is known as Tip cat in English, Itti Dakar in
Sindhi, Dandi- Biyo (डण्डी बियो) in Nepali, Guli-
badi (ଗୁଲି ବାଡି) in Odia, Chirragonay in Telugu
and Lappa- Duggi in Pashto.
 So, how do we know this game in Bengali ?

15. END OF THE PRELIMS
Submit your sheets
and wait for the
answers.

17. # Question 1 *
Reaction of
Sachin
Tendulkar over
which incident?

18. Ball tampering in Cape Town by Steve
Smith, David Warner, Cameron Bancroft

19. # Question 2

21. # Question 3
 In Lahore Session of Congress, 1929. Among
the decisions taken were Poorna Swaraj as
ultimate goal, and on 31st December the
first Tricolor flag was hoisted and the X Date
of Next Year was fixed and announced as
‘First Independence Day’.
 Identify X.

22. 26th January, 1930

23. # Question 4 *
 In Greek mythology, X is a divine hero whose homeland
was Troy. He was the son of Tros of Dardania, from whose
name "Troy" was supposedly derived, and of Callirrhoe,
the daughter of the river god Scamander. His brothers
were Ileus and Assaracus. In one version of the myth, X is
abducted by Zeus, in the form of an eagle, to serve as
cup-bearer in Olympus.
 X is one of the first things you’ll hear of when you discuss
of amazing stuffs in astronomy.
 It was Discovered by Galileo Galilei.
 Identify X.

24. Ganymede
The largest
satellite of the
solar system

25. # Question 5
 Identify what is
being shown in
the image.

26. Taj Mahal

27. # Question 6
 Identify the
character created
by Narayan
Debnath.

28. Hatiram Pati

29. # Question 7 *
 The Times of India, on 31st July 2013,
published an article with the title:
 “At 66, Mother India gets ready for her 29th
baby”.
 The ‘baby’ finally came into life on 2 June
2014.
 What is referred here?

30. Telangana, the 29th State

31. # Question 8
 X is a contemporary Bengali author who is most
famous for a quartet, whose 2nd part Y earned
him the Sahitya Academy Award. The month of
September 2017 marked 50 years of his literary
career.
 He created a detective character by the name
Z based on North Bengal.
 Identify X, Y, Z.

32. X= Samaresh Majumder
Y= ‘Kalbela’
Z= Arjun who is based on
Jalpaiguri

33. # Question 9 *
 How are the countries
in the list connected
geographically?

34. Greenwich Meridian

35. # Question 10 *
 It is a very known Bengali rural game, which has
variations of it’s name all over India.
 e.g. It is known as Tip cat in English, Itti Dakar in
Sindhi, Dandi- Biyo (डण्डी बियो) in Nepali, Guli-
badi (ଗୁଲି ବାଡି) in Odia, Chirragonay in Telugu
and Lappa- Duggi in Pashto.
 So, how do we know this game in Bengali ?

36. Danguli

37. WAIT FOR THE
UPCOMING RESULTS.
8 teams will be
selected from here.

38. LIST OF ANSWERS
 1*. Ball tampering
 2. Shakespearean
phrases
 3. 26th January
 4*. Ganymede
 5. Taj Mahal
 6. Hatiram Pati
 7*. Telangana
 8. X= Samaresh Basu
Y= Kalbela
Z= Arjun
 9*. Greenwich
Meridian
 10*. Danguli