2. This Quiz has following format---
Clockwise pounce(9)
Written round(5)
Anticlockwise pounce(9)
Party round(8)
Long connect
3. Total of nine questions.
On pounce +20/-10.
On bounce +10/0.
4. Starting with a simple one.
The LegislativeAssembly of this state has 111
seats of which 24 seats are kept officially
vacant.
Which state and why this curious
configuration?
5.
6. J&K
These seats are designated for the territorial
constituencies of the state that lies in Pakistan-
administered Kashmir.
7. Which type of election uses either Potassium
perchlorate,Anthracene, Sulphur OR
Potassium chlorate, Lactose / milk sugar,
Colophony / pine rosin at the time of result
declaration.
The winner is declared as the leader of 1.2
Billion people.
8.
9. White/black smoke during Pope’s election
Leader of Roman Catholic Church.
10. Liberia is a west African Country. In 1927, Charles
D.B. King won re-election to the presidency
with 2,34,000 votes. But he was forced out of
office a few years later when the League of
Nations published a report implicating King and
his party in the use of slave labor to build roads
and public works.
But this election was so unique that it found its
mention in the Guinness Book ofWorld Record.
What was so special about the election?
11.
12. Liberia only had 15,000 registered voters at
the time.
Guinness Book ofWorld Records dubbed the
election as most fraudulent ever.
13. Kadhim used to repair the motorcycles of
deposed Iraqi President Saddam Hussein before
falling out of favour and being jailed for a year and a
half and says that 14–15 members of his family were
killed by the Ba'athist regime. When the Americans
reached the outskirts of Baghdad, he did something
to aid Americans.
Kadhim says that after the invasion, "Things started
to get worse every year. Saddam has gone, but now in
his place we have 1,000 Saddams. Bush and Blair are
definitely liars".
He now says, " I feel pain and shame. I ask myself, why
did I _______. " What did Kadhim Sharif regrets
playing a part in ?
14.
15. The destruction
of the Firdos
Square
statue was started
by kadhim that
marked the
symbolic end of
the Battle of
Baghdad.
16. Graça Machel was the first lady of
Mozambique having married to President
Samora Machel from 1975 to 1986.
But it was the second marriage ofGraça
Machel which made her the only women to
achieve some record.
Whom did she married and what was the
record ?
17.
18. Graça Machel is the only woman to have been
the first lady of two different countries,
having once been married to President
Samora Machel of Mozambique and
President Nelson Mandela of South Africa
19. The X is a label given to the various U.S.-backed
and funded right-wing militant groups that were
active from 1979 to the early 1990s in opposition
to the left-wing, socialist Sandinista Junta of
National Reconstruction government
in Nicaragua. Among the separate X groups,
the Nicaraguan Democratic Force(FDN)
emerged as the largest by far.
A game has been named X ,the ending theme of
the original game was titled "Sandinista" ,after
the adversaries of the real-life X.
22. Jeremiah Denton, a pilot with the rank of U.S. Navy
Commander during theVietnamWar was Captured
by the NorthVietnamese, he was a prisoner of war in
Hanoi for seven years and seven months. About ten
months after his capture, Denton became part of a
propaganda campaign for NorthVietnam. On the
2nd of Mary, 1966, a Japanese journalist interviewed
him for a television broadcast.(video)
Although his captors had instructed Denton to answer
the journalist’s questions in a particular way. He said
that he was treated well. But after the video, USA
came to know the torture faced by their captive
soldiers inVietnam.
23.
24. He managed to convey the truth by blinking
“TORTURE” in Morse code.
25. On March 30, 1981 there was an assassination
attempt on President Reagan. Jerry Parr
(pictured on the left) was one of the Secret
Service agents on duty. His decisions no doubt
saved President Reagan’s life.
Agent Parr had wanted to be in the Secret
Service since a young boy, when he watched a
1939 movie called “Code of the Secret Service”,
with a ‘X’ playing the part of Agent Brass
Bancroft.
Who was ‘X’?
26.
27. Ronald Reagan himself !!!
Ronald Reagan played a role in a movie which
caused a young boy to make a career choice
and then save the actor president’s own life
42 years later.
28. A warlord and nobleman during the 14th
Century_____ was renowned as a military
tactician whose warfare killed some 17 million
people. In 1941, Joseph Stalin sent a team of
archaeologists to open _____’s tomb in
Samarkand, Uzbekistan, much to the alarm of
local residents. Upon opening the tomb, the
team discovered an inscription: “Whoever opens
my tomb shall unleash an invader more terrible
than I.”
What event happened the next day? Whose
tomb was opened by Stalin?
29.
30. Adolf Hitler’s troops invaded Russia; an
estimated 26 million people died as a result.
Warlord was Timur the Lame orTimurlane
31. This round consists of 5 questions.
+10 for every right answer.
Bonus +10 for full house.
32. This slogan was coined by Devraj Urs, a veteran
Congress leader and Karnataka CM in 1978, for
Indira Gandhi's by-election from ________. But
soon after the Janta Party government fell in
1980, it became Indira's slogan for the general
election. She won handsomely to mark her
comeback to power.
Some say that this political one-liner, mocking
the opposition, was created by Congressman
poet SrikantVerma. Identify the slogan.
33. Amitabh Bachchan gave a clean chit to
Samajwadi Party by suggesting that
________ was low in the Uttar Pradesh,
during 2007 elections. He was served a notice
by the Uttar Pradesh Information
Commission seeking explanation for this.
Identify this slogan.
34. A popular slogan during the 1998 elections,
“Hai re Lucknow kya hua teri shaan ko, Ek
brahmachari ke khilaaf khada kar diya
Umrao Jaan ko”.
Which two political opponents are being
described here?
35. Mile X Y, hawa ho gaye Jai Shree Ram
This was the slogan popular in the 1993 UP
assembly election where 2nd and 3rd position
parties formed coalition and denied BJP
chances to form government.
Identify X and Y.
36. ‘X’ is a Bengali political slogan, coined by AITMC
chief and current Chief Minister ofWest
Bengal Mamata Banerjee. It became very
popular inWest Bengal during the 2009 General
election and 2011 state assembly election.
Later, Mamata Banerjee wrote a book in Bengali
with the same title. Multiple Bengali theatre
groups produced dramas with this slogan in the
title.According to a report published in June
2011, it was one of the six most popular political
slogan of India at that time.
37.
38. This slogan was coined by Devraj Urs, a veteran
Congress leader and Karnataka CM in 1978, for
Indira Gandhi's by-election from ________. But
soon after the Janta Party government fell in
1980, it became Indira's slogan for the general
election. She won handsomely to mark her
comeback to power.
Some say that this political one-liner, mocking
the opposition, was created by Congressman
poet SrikantVerma. Identify the slogan.
39. Ek sherni sau langoor, Chikmagalur bhai
Chikmagalur
40. Amitabh Bachchan gave a clean chit to
Samajwadi Party by suggesting that
________ was low in the Uttar Pradesh,
during 2007 elections. He was served a notice
by the Uttar Pradesh Information
Commission seeking explanation for this.
Identify this slogan.
42. A popular slogan during the 1998 elections,
“Hai re Lucknow kya hua teri shaan ko, Ek
brahmachari ke khilaaf khada kar diya
Umrao Jaan ko”.
Which two political opponents are being
described here?
44. Mile X Y, hawa ho gaye Jai Shree Ram
This was the slogan popular in the 1993 UP
assembly election where 2nd and 3rd position
parties formed coalition and denied BJP
chances to form government.
Identify X and Y.
46. ‘X’ is a Bengali political slogan, coined by AITMC
chief and current Chief Minister ofWest
Bengal Mamata Banerjee. It became very
popular inWest Bengal during the 2009 General
election and 2011 state assembly election.
Later, Mamata Banerjee wrote a book in Bengali
with the same title. Multiple Bengali theatre
groups produced dramas with this slogan in the
title.According to a report published in June
2011, it was one of the six most popular political
slogan of India at that time.
48. Total of nine questions.
On pounce +20/-10.
On bounce +10/0.
49. Kim Jong-nam , who was recently murdered in
February this year, was the eldest son of Kim
Jong-il, leader of North Korea. From roughly
1994 to 2001, he was considered the heir
apparent to his father. Following a series of
actions showing dissent to the North Korean
regime, including _______ in May 2001 by
entering Japan with a false passport, he was
thought to have fallen out of favour with his
father.
What did he wanted to do after entering japan
and show his leanings towards the west world.
50.
51. He wanted to visit theTokyo Disneyland as a
symbolic support to America and Democracy.
52. Russian scientists have kept ‘X’ on display at the
Moscow’s Red Square every year, carefully
preserved since 1924.This year, the Russian
government will spend up to 13 million rubles of
federal funds, or about $198,000, for
maintaining and washing ‘X’, according to a
notice published recently on the country’s
procurement agency’s website.
The agency says it has contracted a supplier of
biomedical work for the conservation of ‘X’ .
What is ‘X’ ?
53.
54. Vladimir Lenin’s embalmed body. He died in
1924 and was preserved on orders of Stalin.
55. LeopoldV, Duke of ______(a.k.a Leopold the
Virtous) is credited with the design back in
1230,the legend stating that upon returning
from war his white battle dress was soaked in
blood.When he removed his belt, the cloth
underneath was still white.
58. In November 1940, a teenage ‘X’—aged twelve, wrote
a somewhat cheeky letter to the then president of the
United States, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and asked him
for some money: a $10 bill, to be precise.He even said,
“If you want iron to make your ships I will show to you
the biggest (minas) of iron of the land.They are in
Mayari province of my country.”
Some time later, he received a standard reply from
officials. His request for cash had fallen on deaf ears.
But the US could not ignore him in 13 years later.
Young X's priceless letter was rediscovered in 1977 by
specialists at the National Archives and Records
Administration.
59.
60.
61.
62. “_____ _____” statue was placed in front of Japanese
embassy in Seoul, South Korea.
In December 2015, Japan and South Korea signed a
landmark agreement. Japan apologized and
contributed 1 billion yen (approximately $8.3 million)
to _____ _____.In return, Korea would consider the
issue settled remove the statue.
However, the agreement has fierce resistance in
Korea. On December 28, 2016, protesters placed a
new _____ _____ statue outside the Japanese
consulate in Busan. Japan responded by temporarily
withdrawing its ambassador and consul general.
63.
64.
65. ComfortWomen
Comfort women were women and girls
forced into sexual slavery by the Imperial
JapaneseArmy in occupied territories before
and duringWorldWar II.
66. After Indonesian independence in 1945,the Dutch
tried to regain control over territories of Indonesia by
launching a large scale attack on Indonesia on July 21,
1947.
President Sukarno consulted Prime Minister Sjahrir
and ordered him to leave the country. But, Sjahrir
couldn’t succeed as Dutch had attained absolute
control over Indonesian sea and air routes. It was in
this critical moment, that Nehru asked X to fly to
Jakarta and bring the Indonesian leader safely to India
which he did successful.
For this act of bravery X awarded the ‘Bhoomi Putra’,
the highest Indonesian award, rarely granted to a
foreigner.
He also named the Daughter of Sukarno, as Megawati
Sukaroputri.
69. What is the
significance of this
telephone?
This type of phone
was recently in news
in India
70.
71. First HOTLINE between the president of US
and the leader of USSR.
Recently a hotline has been started between
the president of US and PMO in India.
72. He holds the record of winning every election
he has contested in his entire political career.
He named one of his sons, born on March 1st,
1953, after a famous world leader who died
just four days later, on March 5th.
Name both father and son, very much in the
news in victory and defeat.
75. X was a major political scandal that occurred in
the United States in the 1970s, following a
break-in at the Democratic National Committee
(DNC) headquarters at the X office complex in
Washington, D.C. in 1972 and President Richard
Nixon's administration's attempted cover-up of
its involvement.
The name “X" and the suffix “Y” have since
become synonymous with political and non-
political scandals in the United States.
78. There are 8 question in this round.
Teams will choose the question for themselves in
ascending order of scores.
Scoring +30/-10 for specific team.
After a team chooses and a party is displayed, any
team can raise their point system to +30/-10.
Simple Pounce and bounce for other teams.
83. The Russian military is building a replica of
Berlin's Reichstag building. The sprawling
theme park also has hosted arms exhibits,
military shows and other events.
Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said the
replica at the Patriot Park just outside Moscow
will be smaller than life size.
The Reichstag in central Berlin, first opened in
1894, in 1999 became the home of the German
parliament.
Why replica of Berlin’s Reichstag been made?
84.
85. The Russian military is building a replica
of Berlin’s Reichstag building as a
playground for teenagers to attack at a
patriotic theme park, As done by Soviet army
in 1945.(index)
87. The old new Synagogue in Prague was built in
13th century and was a prominent place of
worship for Jews.
Soon after Germany occupied Bohemia and
Moravia on March 15, 1939,Germany started
liquidating the Jewish communities and
removing all the synagogue in the area
barring this one.
Why was this Synagogue left ?
88.
89.
90. Hitler’s proposed “Museum of an Extinct
Race”
Hitler ordered the collection of 200,000
Jewish artifacts , which were photographed
and catalogued to be displayed at the end of
the war as a trophy case of archaeological
remains. It was to be calledThe Museum of
an Extinct Race.
(index)
92. Pandit Deendayal Upadhyay was an Indian
philosopher, economist, sociologist, historian,
journalist, and political scientist. He was one of
the most important leaders of the BJS, the
forerunner of the present day BJP.
His ideology of integral humanism ,meaning
upliftment up to the last poor in the queue of
development, was taken as official doctrine of
BJP.
How was his ideology implemented in the
railways sector as mentioned in rail budget
2016 by the ruling party?
93.
94. Antyodaya Express will be a fully
unreserved Superfast Express class of trains
which will run on dense routes.
A few unreserved additional coaches called
"Deen Dayalu" coaches will added at the end
of long distance trains.
(index)
96. In Commonwealth countries, an election called right
after a victory in a war is called a X election.The aim of
the ruling party is to cash in on prevailing patriotic
wartime or postwar sentiment.
The first use of the term was in the 1900 British
General Election called by the ruling Conservative
party.
The reason for this name is that the main issue of that
election was the Second BoerWar, and “X" had been
universally adopted by both sides in that war as part
of the new _________of the day.
100. When the former US President Harry S
Truman, who was a staunch democrat ,visited
the Disneyland in 1957, he politely refused to
ride one of the star attractions of Disneyland,
based on the character of _____ which was
also made into a 1941 movie.Why?
101.
102. Character was Dumbo, the elephant.
He was a Democrat and didn't want to sit on
the Republican symbol.
(index)
104. Bindheshwari Prasad _______(1918–1982)
was an Indian parliamentarian, social
reformer and Chief Minister of Bihar from the
congress party . He was a big
landlord from Saharsa in Northern Bihar.
He headed a five member group, whose
actions in 1980 had serious affect on the
Indian Political history in the next decades to
come.
105.
106. Mandal Commission
BP Mandal giving the
report on OBCs
upliftment made by
the commission named
after him to Gyani Zail
Singh, the President.
(index)
108. In the years since Mao Zedong’s communist
revolution in 1949, relations between the People’s
Republic of China and the United States had been
clouded by ColdWar propaganda, trade embargos
and diplomatic silence. By 1971, however, both
nations were looking to open a dialogue with one
another.
On April 10, 1971, the U.S. table tennis team arrived in
China for a 10-day visit, becoming the first group of
Americans in over 20 years to get a peek behind the
“Bamboo Curtain.”Their trip led to a renewed
dialogue between the two nations, opening the door
for President Richard Nixon’s own China visit in 1972.
112. Despite being hugely successful in his own field, X
joined the (CPSU) in 1984. After his retirement in
2005, X turned to politics and created the United Civil
Front, to "work to preserve electoral democracy in
Russia.”
An outspoken critic ofVladimir Putin, In October 2007,
X announced his intention of standing for the Russian
presidency as the candidate of the Other Russia
coalition.
However, on 12 December 2007, X withdrew his
presidential candidacy due to inability to rent a
meeting hall where at least 500 of his supporters
could assemble to endorse his candidacy, as is legally
required. Identify X.
115. Each Question will be on pounce +20/-10.
Answer will be shown after each Question.
Points for connect will be mentioned at each
slide.
116. The Affordable Care Act (ACA), is a United
States federal statute.
Under the act, hospitals and primary physicians
would transform their practices financially,
technologically, and clinically to drive better
health outcomes, lower costs, and improve their
methods of distribution and accessibility.
The law requires insurers to accept all applicants,
cover a specific list of conditions and charge the
same rates regardless of pre-existing
conditions or sex.
How do we better know the ACA ?
119. This US president has a dubious record for
having the highest approval ratings (about
86%) and the lowest approval ratings (about
24%) in the history of US, during the Start
and end of his 8 year term of presidency.
Before becoming president, ‘X’ bought the
Texas Rangers for $800,000. Five years later,
he sold the team for $14.9 million.
Id this President.
122. According to X's account, on May 8, 1991, she was
escorted toY's room in the Excelsior Hotel in Little
Rock, Arkansas, where he propositioned and exposed
himself to her.
X filed a sexual harassment suit againstY on May 6,
1994, two days before the three-year statute of
limitations, and sought $750,000 in damages.
Eventually, the court dismissed the X harassment
lawsuit, before trial, on the grounds that X failed to
demonstrate any damages. However, while the
dismissal was on appeal,Y entered into an out-of-
court settlement by agreeing to pay X $850,000.
Identify X andY.
123.
124. X: Paula Jones
Y: Bill Clinton, goes into connect
125. The X Center is non-governmental, not-for-
profit organization founded in 1982 by ______ and his
wife through a joint-partnership with Emory
University.The X Center's stated goal is to advance
human rights and alleviate human suffering, including
helping improve the quality of life for people in more
than 80 countries.
In 2007, ______ wrote an autobiography
entitled Beyond the White House:Waging Peace,
Fighting Disease, Building Hope, which chronicles the
first 25 years ofThe X Center.
Fill in the blank and Identify ‘X’
129. Identify the president played by Kevin Spacey
in the given trailer.
The photograph of ______ with Elvis ( as
shown in video) went on to become the most
requested photo from the national photo
archives of United States.
132. X was a theory prominent from the 1950s to the
1980s, that speculated that if one country in a
region came under the influence of communism,
then the surrounding countries would follow in
a ______ effect.
X was used by successive US administrations
during the ColdWar to justify the need for
American intervention around the world.
The theory was first proposed by
President HarryTruman , but it became popular
in the 1950s when ‘Y’ applied it to South-east
Asia, especially SouthVietnam.
What is X ?Who was ‘Y’?
133.
134. Y= President Eisenhower, goes into connect
X= domino effect
135. Barack Obama
GeorgeW Bush
Bill Clinton
Jimmy Carter
Richard M. Nixon
Dwight D. Eisenhower