This document contains the questions and answers from multiple quiz rounds. It begins with a 15 question round about various cities in India associated with Gandhi's ashes. Another question identifies Rakeysh O P Mehra and discusses his movie Rang De Basanti. A third question is answered as Indian housewives holding 11% of the world's gold reserves.

2. Dry Round
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• 15 Questions
• Questions pasand aaye toh taaliyaan, warna gaaliyaan

3. • 1) Which city of India renowned for giving us Safeda, Sukhna and Arka
Mridula, is often referred to as the "City of Green Gold“ ?

4. Allahabad

5. 2) Who ?
• X entered the Lok Sabha for the first time during the 2nd general
elections of 1957.
• X remained a member of parliament for 47 years, elected 11 times to
the Lok Sabha, and twice to the Rajya Sabha.
• The then PM Jawaharlal Nehru, while introducing X to a visiting foreign
dignitary once said " This young man one day will become the country's
Prime Minister".
• The issue of Jammu & Kashmir always remained foremost in his mind.
He was a staunch critic of Nehru's Jammu & Kashmir policy.

6. Atal Bihari Vajpayee

7. 3) In X, 15 out of the last 19 winners (from 1999 to 2015),
including all champions for the most recent 8 years (from
2008-2015, including 2014 and 2015's pair of co-
champions), have been Indian Americans.
This is despite Indian Americans making up less than 1% of
the U.S. population.

8. Spelling Bee Competition

9. 4)
• The marketing of X was noted for its uniqueness. Gamchha, a thin
traditional East Indian towel was taken to Cannes, the X team danced
on the streets wearing red gamchhas, after the Cannes Film Festival.
• While most music launches in India happen with a big party in a 5-
star banquet hall in Mumbai, the music of this film, was launched
in Patna.
• In another effective way of promoting X to the audience, a fictitious
newspaper was made available online which was named X Patrika.

10. Gangs of Wasseypur

11. 5)
All the X have the following characteristics:
• They are south facing.
• Left leg of X is made such that it looks injured. This is the leg on which
people offer edible oil as a cure for the injury.
• Mostly X will be covered in Sindoor.
• Generally, ladies and girls are not allowed to touch X because X is a
Bal-brahmachari.

12. Hanuman Mandir

13. 6) X is an Indian journalist, author, storyteller,
Bollywood director, lyricist and photographer.
He is the cofounder-editor of Gaon Connection,
India's rural newspaper.
For his reportage from India's insurgency
lands, he received the Ramnath Goenka Award For
Excellence in Journalism.
He has written five books, including the well
received The Absent State (2010).
He was married to the NDTV anchor Nidhi Razdan.
However X is known to all of us for a different
reason.

14. Neelesh Misra – Yaadon ka Idiot Box

15. 7)
• The world famous ‘X theme song’ is actually inspired from the song -
'Good sign, Bad Sign' sung by Indian characters in the novel 'A House
for Mr. Biswas '. The song is composed with Tabla.
Audio follows .

16. James Bond Theme

17. 8) XY is the name of a town in
Jharkhand. The word Y is the Hindi
language word for a small lake (the
Y Dam reservoir). X is said to be a
local folk dance.
XY was once a major mica mining
center and also came to be known
as Abrak Nagri.
Originally a little-known town, XY
became famous in India in the
1950s owing to its connection with
the radio channel Vividh
Bharati.The largest number of
requests for film songs addressed
to the channel came from XY.

18. Jhumri Telaiya

19. 9) What was so special about this quiz ?
• India's premier quiz company QuizWorks conducted a quiz on
29th June, 2012 in Delhi.
• The quiz competition, or 'Prashnotri Pratiyogita' is an annual event
funded by NGO Samarpan Foundation. This year Quizworks got this
special opportunity to hold the event, titled 'Hum Kisi Se Kam Nahi'.
• It was a nail biting finish with three teams tied at the same score with
the last question left on buzzer. The winning team was awarded Rs.
5000 each, Rs. 2500 for each runners-up, Rs. 1000 for the second
runners-up and the same was deposited in their bank accounts.

20. Quiz conducted in Tihar Jail

21. 11) Which match ?
• During the final match, one of the English players, Smith, got run out.
As the batsman ran back to the crease he fell, landing on his cricket
bat and dislocating his left shoulder.
• Had this unfortunate run-out not occurred, the English team would
have perhaps won this elite match.
• The final scorecard read : Cantonment 322 (Russell 100, Brooks 54,
Wesson 51) lost by 1 wicket.

22. Teen Gunaa Lagaan

23. 12)
• When this man was in college around 1972-73, he was disappointed
by the fact that whenever a meeting is scheduled to be held earlier
than usual, you have to use the word 'advanced' which
sounded weird to Indian ears.
He claimed to have invented a word (can’t really prove) to solve this
problem.
• Which word ? And who is this person ?

24. Prepone, Shashi Tharoor

25. 13) Who ?
• C.S. Tiwari was born on 23 July 1906 in Bhavra village of Madhya
Pradesh.
• He built a hut near to a Hanuman temple on the banks of the Satar
River and lived there under the alias of Pandit Harishankar
Brahmachari for a long period.
• However we know him by another name and for other aliases that he
adopted over his life time.

26. Chandra Shekhar Azad

27. 14) Print
Ad for ?

28. IPL

29. 15) ID X
• X was originally named ‘Namgyal Wangdi’, but as a child his name was
changed on the advice of the head lama.
• X’s name translates as "wealthy-fortunate-follower-of-religion”.
• He ran away from home twice in his teens, first to Kathmandu and
later Darjeeling.
• He was once sent to Tengboche Monastery to become a monk, but he
decided that religion was not for him and departed once again and
created history.

30. Tenzing Norgay

31. • English words that have been derived from Hindi, Sanskrit or some
other Indian languages.
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• 8 Questions
शब्द-साधन (Etymology)

32. 1)
• The word ‘X' actually comes from the X who were a group of
professional assassins which roamed in the northern part of India for
around 600 years ago. They used to murder travelers and then rob
them completely. They were world's largest murderous cult.
• This cult came to an end when Lord William Bentinck vowed to
terminate them. According to Guinness book of world records, X had
killed around 2,000,000 people.

33. Thug

34. 2)
• ‘X’ comes from Sanskrit X which means "copper's enemy“.
• X readily reacts with copper after which the copper loses its metallic
properties.
• X is also a city in Louisiana, United States. Perhaps it is named so
because of the abundance of X found in and around the city.

35. Sulphur

36. 3)
• ‘X’ from Sanskrit, which means "one associated with well-being, a
lucky charm" or Good, god fearing being. It is said to be the form of
the Sun.
• However, it now generally has a negative connotation associated with
it.
• (Random fact – Before uploading any Apps on the Play Store, Google
asks the developers whether their App contains any ‘X’ or not.)

37. Swastika

38. 4)
• X comes from Odia and ultimately from Sanskrit, which means "lord
of the world“.
• Usually used for any large, heavy vehicle, especially an articulated
lorry.
• ‘X’ is also a comic character, who debuted as an antagonist of the
titular mutant superhero team in X-Men #12.

39. Juggernaut

40. 5)
• X, partial translation of Old French XY, ultimately from Arabic sukkar
qand.
• X is loved by people of all ages, especially kids.
• X is also a part of the name of a very popular recent mobile game.

41. Candy

42. 6)
• X comes from the Sanskrit word for "a bond".
• The popularity of X may vary by culture or religion, as among
Orthodox Jewish and Christian, Amish, and Muslim women.
• Colorful X can be worn as a means of communication or
identification, as with the prominent California criminal gangs,
the Bloods, the Crips, the Norteños, and the Sureños.

43. Bandana

44. 7)
• A word ‘X’- is also found in the Sanskrit of ancient India, with the
primary meaning of "stammering“, or “chattering” implying someone
with an unfamiliar language.
• ‘X’ is now used primarily used in a derogatory sense.

45. Barbaric

46. 8)
• ‘X’ via Sanskrit word meaning "five". The original ‘X’ was made from
five ingredients: alcohol, sugar, lemon, water, and tea or spices.
• ‘X’ is more popularly used to denote something else, other than the
definition used above.

47. Punch

48. Back to the 90’s
• 12 Questions, written round
• +5/0 scoring
• Products that we all have used during our childhood.

49. 1)

50. 2)

51. 3)

52. 4)

53. 5)

54. 6)

55. 7)

56. 8)

57. 9)

58. 10)

59. 11)

60. 12)

61. Answers :
1. Ulta Perk
2. Pepsi Blue
3. Harnik, Phantom
4. Discman
5. Onida
6. Cadbury Bytes
7. Guru Chela
8. Marbels
9. Orkut
10. Rol-a-Cola
11. Aam Chaska
12. Center Shock

62. Final Round
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• 15 Questions

63. 1) Connect (Exhaustive)
• Sangam, Allahabad
• Nile river, Uganda
• Chowpatty, Mumbai
• Aga Khan Palace, Pune
• Lake Shrine, Los Angeles

64. Places where MK Gandhi’s ashes were
kept/immersed

65. 2) ID X and the topic of discussion
• When X was questioned about the same in a scriptwriter's conference
conducted by the Film Writers Association in the year 2008, he said
the following, "So, in 2005, in Allahabad, a bunch of 4 students took
the TV station there, and they were shot dead. Everything I did, it was
kind of was kind of borrowed, as I said right here. After all, the
establishment did come down on the innocent, innocent students
in Mandal Commission. ”

66. Rakeysh OP Mehra , RANG DE BASANTI

67. 3) Indian X hold
11% of world's
gold, i.e., more
than the reserves
of USA, IMF,
Switzerland and
Germany put
together.

68. Housewives

69. 4)
• This is a cabinet of a particular government. However unlike other governments
in the country it does not function out of a capital of the region it is said to be
governing.
• Which particular government is this and where is this based in?
• Lobsang Sangay - ______ ___________
• Ven Karma Gelek Yuthok - Minister for Religion & Culture
• Sonam Topgyal Khorlatsang - Minister for Home
• Karma Yeshi - Minister for Finance
• Ngodup Tsering - Minister for Education
• Phagpa Tsering Labrang - Minister for Security
• Dhardon Sharling - Minister for Information & International Relations
• Choekyong Wangchuk - Minister for Health

70. Beef ban

71. 6) Towels for what?
• "For over 35 years,these towels have been licenced by the AELTC. This year the
towels have been made at Welspun's towel manufacturing facility at
Vapi,Gujarat" says BK Goenka, chairman of Welspun Group.
• The towel's design changes every three years.Towels are always in the iconic
colours of dark green and purple, enhanced by gold.",said B B Sharma, director
(operations), Welspun.
• Such is the quality control that its accounts manager Karthryn Keogh regularly
visits the factory at Vapi. The towels cost between £5-25. Each entity is given two
towels whenever needed. Almost half of them are not returned.Entities are
requested to give them back but many of them like to keep them as mementoes.

72. Wimbledon

74. Taj Mahal

75. 8) ....... ... ........ .. ......, (FITB)
• It fills my heart with joy unspeakable to rise in response to the warm and cordial
welcome which you have given us. I thank you in the name of the most ancient order
of monks in the world.
• My thanks, also, to some of the speakers on this platform who, referring to the
delegates from the Orient, have told you that these men from far-off nations may
well claim the honor of bearing to different lands the idea of toleration.
• I am proud to tell you that we have gathered in our bosom the purest remnant of the
Israelites, who came to Southern India and took refuge with us in the very year in
which their holy temple was shattered to pieces by Roman tyranny.
• They have filled the earth with violence, drenched it often and often with human
blood, destroyed civilization and sent whole nations to despair. Had it not been for
these horrible demons, human society would be far more advanced than it is now.
But their time is come;

76. Brothers and sisters of America!

77. 9)
• One of Anurag Kashyap’s earliest movies ‘Paanch’ was never allowed
to be screened by the Censor Board.
• In a public statement Mr. Kashyap said – “The Censor Board has
blown away my dream into smoke, but this fact will not be forgotten
by those who have a keen ear and watch my movies.”
• In a song in the movie Dev D in 2009, Mr. Kashyap reminds his fans of
this.
• Put Funda.

78. 1,2,3,4,6…Video follows

79. 10)

80. CPI-M, India

81. 11) Harvard Business research on ?
• Between 2000 and 2010, the population of Shanghai swelled from 14
to 20 million. Compare that to the recent rise of an impromptu city in
India.
• Here, the population rose from zero to 10 million, give or take a few
million, in just a week’s time.
• An enormous amount of urban planning, civil engineering,
governance and maintenance of public goods and plans to deal with
unexpected events goes into the creation of this city.
• There will also be a reasonably efficient dissolution of the city in late
February, but that’s another story.

82. Kumbh Mela !

83. 12) Which group/society ?
• X is a society which was registered in Tamil Nadu in the 1930s under
the then Madras Societies Act and it continues to be an entity
controlled by the TN Societies Registration Act, 1975.
• R E Grant Govan was elected as its first president.
• X’s logo is derived from the emblem of the ’Order of the Star of India’,
the British Raj emblem during the colonial period.
• There were even attempts to shift the X registered office from
Chennai to Mumbai. It was, however, challenged and foiled.

84. BCCI

85. 13) ID the two people who are a part of this
infamous BBC interview.
• After the interview, X literally banged the microphone on the table
and walked out in a huff. Y was surrounded by top officials of the
government and was requested to record the interview again.
• After it was aired, the TV channel was flooded with requests from the
rivals, to give them a cassette of the interview. They were thrilled.
They thought Y had demolished the iconic X in the interview and it
may help them electorally.
• Audio follows.

86. Jayalalitha and Karan Thapar

87. 14) What was chosen as the mascot?
• If the mascot of Air India is the Maharajah, what was the mascot of
Air Deccan ?
• Following the merger with Kingfisher Airlines, the mascot, was
incorporated into the old livery.
• It was chosen in May 2005 to emphasise Simplifly Deccan's goal to
make air travel more accessible.

88. Common Man by R.K. Laxman

89. • Alongside is a Christian hymn by
Scottish Anglican Henry Francis Lyte.
• Lyte wrote the poem in 1847 and set it to
music while he lay dying from tuberculosis;
he survived only a further three weeks after
its completion.
• What is this hymn doing in an India Quiz ?
15 )

90. Beating Retreat, Republic Day

91. THANK YOU !!