The last quiz I conducted as a part of Gnosis Quiz Club, NIT Allahabad.

1. करेंगे वार , आखरी बार !
जनरल कु इज़ - अनुग्रह अग्निहोत्री

2. • QMIG
• Saqib and Samarth should not be in the same team
• Bas itna hi

3. 1) Built in 1857, under the supervision of Cuthbert Bensley Thornhill, it was the
largest town-planning project carried out in India before the establishment
of New Delhi.
X was built a few months after the end of the Rebellion of 1857, when
around eight villages were seized to form a new township.
During the early period of its development it was referred to as the White
Town of the city as it was predominated by the British people and a very
few Indians were allowed.

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5. Civil Lines, Allahabad

6. कु इज़

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8. AIB

9. 3) List of what ?
• Amir Elahi – (1947), (1952-53)
• Gul Mohammad – (1946–55), (1956)
• Abdul Hafeez Kardar – (1946–48), (1948–58)

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11. Cricketers who have played
for both
India and Pakistan

12. The NM Railway train will soon cease to chug and is set to give way to diesel locomotives to
meet the increasing flow of tourists.
A series of tests and trials of the diesel locomotive with five coaches was held between
Mettupalayam and Hillgrove stations on Saturday, Southern Railway officials said.
Use of diesel locomotives on NMR would help in operating more number of coaches between
Mettupalayam and Coonoor, about 20 km downhill from Udhagamandalam, than in steam
operated trains, thereby catering to more tourists and locals.
4) Claim to fame ?

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14. Chaiyya Chaiyya train

15. 5) X Small Arms started out
with the productions of
guns.
However it is today known
for a very different field of
production.

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17. Birmingham Small Arms =
BSA

18. 6) A British engineer, Robert Maitland Brereton, was responsible for the expansion of
the railways from 1857 onwards.
The opening of the Yamuna bridge at Allahabad, made it possible to travel directly
from Bombay to Calcutta by railway.
This route officially opened on 7 March 1870, and it was part of the inspiration for the
author’s book X.

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20. Around the world in 80 days
– Jules Verne

21. 7) In a particular field, Pakistan and not India, was the pioneer
in the subcontinent.
In fact, Pakistan was a full 8 year ahead of India. (1961 vs
1969)
As a result of Abdus Salam and President Ayub Khan’s efforts,
SUPARCO was set up.
What is SUPARCO ?

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24. 8)

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26. Charles Darwin

27. 9)

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29. Darsheel Safary

30. 10)
The earliest known reference to X is in the play Agamemnon by Aeschylus, written in 458 BC.
When the title character returns from Troy, he is greeted by his vengeful wife who offers him to X :
“Now my beloved, step down from your chariot, and let not you my lord, touch the Earth.
Let Justice leads him in, a crimson trail.”

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32. Red Carpet

33. 11) ID this deceased writer

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35. Tarak Mehta

36. 12)

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38. Anushka Sharma

39. 13)
• A BJP MP, Nishikant Dubey, has moved a private member's bill in the
Lok Sabha, seeking reservation of five seats in the lower House as well
as one in the Rajya Sabha for residents of X.

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41. Gilgit / PoK

42. 14)

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44. Female centric films

45. 15)
• In the early 1800s, French army officer Charles Barbier developed a
method of ‘night-writing’ for battlefield communication between
soldiers.
• However it was rejected for its complexity.

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47. Braille system

48. 16)
• X is a product of DS Group, makers of Rajanigandha pan masala.
• Last month, X clocked Rs 300 crore in sales, beating MNC blue chip
brands such as Oreo (Rs 283 crore in sales) and Mars bars (Rs 270
crore in sales) and Coke Zero (120 crores in sales).

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50. Pulse

51. 17)
• In order to boost global economy through tax income, amidst the
2009 financial crisis, local government officials of Hubei province in
China forced civil servants and teachers to buy/use locally made X.
• 2,30,000 units of the product were to be consumed every year.
• It was a much criticized move and was later withdrawn.

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53. Cigarettes

54. 18) X Used Beheaded Politicians to Create Her
Original ‘products’.

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56. Madam Tussauds

57. 19)
• In 1969, the International Latex Corporation in Dover, Delaware, the
makers of the Playtex bra received a special order.
• They invented a bellows like joint called a convolute out of neoprene
reinforced with nylon tricot that allowed more flexibility.
• They were a blend of cutting-edge technology and Old World
craftsmanship. Each of it was hand-built by seamstresses who had to
be extraordinarily precise.
• Order by/for whom ?

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59. Neil Armstrong spacesuit

60. 20)

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62. Lakshadweep

63. 21)
• During one session, Veach pointed out to Larry Page that not all
countries commonly used credit cards.
• Page proposed taking payments appropriate to the home country—
in Uzbekistan, he suggested, Google could take its payment in X.
• “Maybe we can get to that,” Veach responded, “but first let’s make
sure we can take Visa and MasterCard.”

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65. Goats

66. 22)

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68. Questions asked to Aishwarya Rai
and Sushmita Sen at Miss India final round

69. 23)

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71. Adolf Hitler mock up disguise

72. 24)

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74. Grand Trunk Road

75. 25)
• The sale of dictionaries have increased manifold recently.
• And that is thanks, in good part, to X.
• X made the lookups spiking for: alt-right, braggadocio, temperament,
hombre.

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77. Donald Trump Is Making Dictionaries Great
Again

78. 26)
• Muslim Rashtriya Manch (MRM) .
• Friends of Tribals Society
• They are a part of which group/society ?

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80. Rashtriya Swamsevak Sangh

81. • THANK YOU !