A quiz related to travel and tourism

1. TRAVEL & TOURISM QUIZ

2. Welcome to the Travel & tourism quiz of 31 questions

3. 1. The Malaysian nationals Ken, a dentist, and
Kelwan, a businessman learnt about the X
museum through internet and came to India
on a five-day tour. They met Mr. Santosh Rai
and got to know the rules to be followed in the
X and wanted to spend two days in X, for
which they spent `500 per day. This is what
they said about their two day experience, “It is
our first visit to India. We wanted to know how
a person spends his time in a X.”
Identify X or tell me the unique tourism
initiative of government of Telangana.

5. JAIL(X) TOURISM

6. 2. Charles Baudelaire, a French poet
in his book "The Painter of Modern
Life“ gave a positive definition of
“flâneur”. In English this French
origin word has a negative
connotation.
This term has a very positive meaning
today & had acquired importance in
art, Urban planning, literature,
tourism & photography.
Identify the modern meaning of
Flaneur whose female equivalent is
flâneuse & a near synonym is
boulevardier. Paul Gavarni, Le Flâneur, 1842
Charles Baudelaire

8. OBSERVING CITY STROLLER

9. 3. Ministry of Crab, a high profile restaurant converted from an old
Dutch hospital in Colombo specializes in crabs and other sea food. It is
owned by two cricketing greats. X is Sri Lanka's highest ever ODI run
scorer. Y ‘s 374 against South Africa is the highest test score by a right
handed batsman in the history of test cricket. Both X and Y had record
breaking partnerships.
Identify X and Y

11. X Kumar Sangakkara
Y Mahela Jayawardene

12. 4. Dinesh K.S., an engineer, started a company in 1990s because at that
time he had to buy things from abroad to satisfy his hobby. Later he
was joined by Gaurav and Siddharth who left lucrative careers because
of the passion they shared with Dinesh. Identify the company that was
born in a small garage in Jayanagar, Bengaluru and now have hundreds
of stores across the country.
Dinesh
Siddharth
Gaurav

15. 5. Recently ,Mithun, 22, a final-
year B Tech student in automobile
engineering from ottapalam lost
his life in a road accident Pune-
Bengaluru National Highway.
He was attempting a riding
challenge, given by the US-based -
----- ------ Association, that
involves long distance endurance
motorcycle riding .The name of
the association is in reference to
the need for a strong body part
required to complete such
challenges.
Fill in the blanks.

18. 6.These three Indians (From left : Ritika Singh, Shradha
Prasad and Taranjeet Singh Bhatia)were selected from the
initial 202,586 applicants to a list of 100 in an international
contest . Identify the controversial futuristic project for
which they were selected.

20. One-way trip to Mars in 2024

21. 7. The company X was
formed in 1911 through the
merger of two Swedish
companies.
The company’s logo shows a
griffin, from the coat of arms
of the province of X.
Identify X which came into
news in Kerala because of
state government incurring a
loss of around Rs 4 crore due
to the frequent repairs.

23. SCANIA

24. 8. Every day morning in Shillong, in state
of Meghalaya people select any number
between 1 and 99. In the evening a
certain activity is done by professionals. If
the last two digits of the total number
related to the activity matches one’s
number, they win.
Identify the traditional sport with which
this traditional form of lottery (betting) is
played.

26. Archery (Teer lottery)

27. 9. People with common interest in X
come together for a series of events that
happen across the world. The goal of
these gatherings is to promote X and is
self-organised among travellers. Online
resources like ------Wiki serve as a one-
stop-shop to all things related to X.
Identify X which is seen by these
enthusiasts as a statement of frugal values
rather than lack of money.

29. HITCHHIKING

30. 10. Certain stretches in Bengaluru were notorious for this.
When Benedict Jebakumar a Tamilian from Tuticorin used
to travel on his two wheeler in Bengaluru, he also faced
similar problem that inspired him to do something to save
others from this. Every day he used to ride his cycle to do
something for one hour on these roads before going to his
office. He did this for 5 years until he was working in
Bengaluru. He also documented his work on social media
and ended up collecting 75 kg of something as a result of
his work and conducted a exhibition on it. Because of his
social work he was affectionately called as
“namma ------man by Bengaloreians.
What did he do?

32. Collected nails from the road using
magnet stick (Nail-man)

33. 11. An American Channel planned to build a water theme park in an
island called Palawan in Philippines. The announcement triggered
fierce criticism from environmental campaigners who said it would
destroy the area’s world-famous marine ecosystem, and an online
petition calling for the project to be scrapped attracted more than
260,000 signatures. Finally the channel dropped the plan.
Identify the TV channel.

36. 12. Earlier the governments of Andhra Pradesh and
Madhya Pradesh had started a novel tourism
initiative. The previous government of Kerala also
proposed the same but never got started partly
because of lack of infrastructure and partly because
of lack of such a culture domestically. The central
government is mulling to make this initiative as part
of tourism initiative because it gives an cost effective
alternative to 5 star hotels and resorts.
Identify this initiative which is very popular across
the developed world but not in India because of lack
of amenities like water and safety issues.

38. CARAVAN TOURISM
(CAMPER VANS SAFARI)

39. 13. X was founded by married couple Maureen and Tony Wheeler. The
company name originated from Tony Wheeler's appreciation of a
misheard line in "Space Captain” in which the original words were
“lovely -----------”. Identify X, the largest travel guide book publisher in
the world which was earlier bought over by BBC worldwide and later
by American Billionaire Brad Kelly.

42. 14. The ------- --------- movement
began in 1909 when Richard
Schirrmann, a German
schoolteacher, and Wilhelm
Münker, a conservationist, saw
a need for overnight
accommodation for school
groups wanting to experience
the countryside. This initiative
had today resulted in an world
wide organization having
associations in different
countries serving the needs of
travellers and tourists.
Fill in the blank.
Richard Schirrmann

44. YOUTH HOSTEL

45. 15. TruJet is an Indian regional airline based at Rajiv
Gandhi International Airport in Hyderabad which
was launched in 2015. Identify the Indian movie
actor-owner whose father is also a “megastar” actor
and politician.

47. RAM CHARAN

48. 16. Jetro Raphael an artist who
suffered from bipolar disorder
experimented and came up with
“cuckoo diet” that contains
dishes which lightened up his
mood.
Then he started this restaurant
“---------------- is bipolar” to make
others happy too.
Identify the complete name of
the restaurant by filling the
blank which refers to a world
famous artist who suffered a
similar mental condition.

51. 17. When you travel to japan you will
come across blue (instead of green)
traffic light. Why is it so?

53. In Japanese the word for both blue
and green are “ao” which means
blue

54. 18. World over in different tribal cultures,
even today people don’t like to be
photographed. The earlier western
explorers found this behaviour very
perplexing and though it to be the result
of ignorance about technology. What
belief led to these behaviours on the part
of tribals.

56. “Photographing will steal their souls”

57. 19.
Identify
this
person

59. Najeeb Benyamin

60. 20. The Lamborghini Huracán RWD donated to the X was produced by
Ad Personam, the Company’s customization department. It is painted
Bianco Monocerus (white) with Giallo Tiberino (yellow) stripes that
run along the body in homage to the colours of the flag.
X with the help of Sotheby's auctioned it for $950,000 and donated it
for social causes. Identify X.

62. POPE FRANCIS

63. 21. Founded in 2015 by a small group of students from BITS Pilani,
Team India is the first and only one to win the world challenge in
making the transportation project promoted by X as a reality. Richard
Branson in late 2017 invested in a X promoted start-up developing a
futuristic high-speed transportation system that was described by X as
a cross between a Concorde, a railgun & an air hockey table.
Identify X or the project

66. 22. The Genographic Project, launched on April 13, 2005 by X, is a
genetic anthropology study that aims to map historical human
migration patterns by collecting and analyzing DNA samples. The
project is a privately funded, not-for-profit collaboration between X,
IBM and the Waitt Foundation.
Identify X

69. 23. Nattukkottai Chettiar Thendayuthapani Temple was built in 1854 by
Nagarathar chettiars. Kannagi and Kovalan, the prime personalities of the
epic Silappatikaram were born in Nagarathar community. This Lord Murugan
temple was built in the chokkattan-style (a layout similar to a plus sign) and
is mostly made of Burmese teak, from its roof to its pillars. It is the centre of
the annual Thaipusam festival (which is attended by over 100,000 people),
with a gate leading up to Waterfall Hilltop Temple, the destination of the
procession from Sri Mariamman Temple in Little India.
Identify the place where you will find this temple.

72. 24. For the first time in India, in
2016, Government of Goa
launched a new tourist attraction X
which is an eco-friendly vehicle
popularly known as ‘----bus’ in
Europe and the USA. Id X which
encourages eco-friendly group
activity.

74. Group cycle (Party bike) - PEDIBUS
‘cycle party’ a 10-seater pedal-powered vehicle

75. 25. The Ford ------------, known as the Ford Endeavour in the
Indian market, is a mid-sized to semi-full sized sport utility
vehicle (SUV) produced by Ford since 2003.
Identify the name by which Ford endeavour is known in
other countries by filling the blank.

78. 26.These type of festivals are celebrated in many parts of
the world like in Boryeong in South Korea, in Louisiana in
USA, in Brunsbuttel in northern Germany.
Similarly Marcela (Ponda, Goa) celebrates the festival in mid
July. The temple where it is celebrated is only one of its kind
in the whole of India, as it is dedicated to the mother and
the child (Devaki and Krishna).
The festival is a recreation of games played by Lord Krishna
at Mathura. This festival is strongly linked to mother nature
and the monsoon rains creates the ideal condition for the
festival.
Identify the festival (game played by devotees)

80. MUD FESTIVAL (Chikal kalo)

81. 27. Bibingka is a type of rice cake from Philippines and Indonesia.
Some authors have proposed a connection between the bebinca &
bibingka due to the similarity in names. They believe that the X may
have introduced it to Southeast Asia from Y. But this is unlikely given
that Philippines, where bibingka is most widely known, was never a X
colony.
Identify X (PEOPLE BELONGING TO A CULTURE OR COUNTRY) and Y
(PLACE IN INDIA)
Bibingka
Bebinca

83. X – Portuguese
Y - Goa

84. 28. X was originally developed by native
inhabitants of Central - South America for
sleeping.
It was later used in ships by sailors to
enable comfort and maximize available
space, and by explorers or soldiers
travelling in wooded regions.
Today X has come to symbolise leisure,
relaxation and simple, easy living.
Identify X

86. HAMMOCK

87. 29. Russian cosmonauts Anton Shkaplerov and
Oleg Artemyev showcased their X skills in zero-
gravity at the International Space Station (ISS).
Because of the zero gravity conditions the
cosmonauts were able to showcase skills that
professionals on earth would envy. The video
was also shot using RT360 panoramic cameras
and released recently by the Russian space
agency.
Identify the activity demonstrated by the
cosmonauts.

89. Football

90. 30.Fill in the blank:
1. Osaka - Japan
2. Ljubljana – Slovenia
3. Penang - Malaysia
4. Cajica - Colombia
5. ---------- - -----------

92. ALLEPEY – INDIA
Among five global cities that have successfully tackled
solid waste management according to the UN report

93. 31. (A) Elizabeth Thomas Tharakan (Bina), native of Thrissur born in Baroda moved
into Trivandrum after marrying John Samuel, the CEO of the Geneva-based Forum
Asia International Organization. She pioneered X, based on her observation of like
minded people coming together for a particular kind of activity in Vadodara and
Pune. ID X
(B) Archana Gopinath, a civil engineer born to doctor parents in Indian Army, has
come up with Y based on her experiences of volunteering in a summer camp and
seeing positive changes in her own son after he picked up a habit. ID Y
A B

95. HERITAGE WALK TRIVANDRUM
X
Y