Here is the second quiz of ENQUEST QUIZZING PREMIER LEAGUE conducted by Loyola Debating Society and Quiz club.A politics quiz,MERE PYARE DESH WASIYO will lead you to interesting political fundas and facts.Highest point scored was 24 out of a possible 31. The first quiz of the league was an India quiz,which was shared earlier. #happyquizzing
4. Rules
• 26 questions, 31 points at stake.
• This quiz is based on the assumption that
Wikipedia is correct, ceteris paribus
• For the time being, let Google rest
• Questions 11-15 are * rated in order to resolve
ties.
• Quiz Master is the Ozymandias, the king of
kings. Decisions are final and binding
5. Q.1(A)ID X
• 'Passive Resistors Soccer Club' ,founded by X
was the first step for Independence of the
'Rainbow Nation'.
• Hint:X sprouted Independence struggle of this
country.
• #simple
8. People whose sobriquet is ‘Gandhi’
• K.Kelappan- Kerala Gandhi
• Jomo Keniyata- Kenyan Gandhi
• A.Ariaratna-Sri Lankan Gandhi
• Baba Amte- Modern Gandhi
• Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan- Frontier Gandhi
9. Q.2 What's all this commotion about?!
• On 24 December 2014, Sony Pictures Entertainment
released a film for online rental and purchase, followed
by a limited release at select cinemas the next day. This
happened as major cinema chains opted not to release
the film due to terrorist attack threats against cinemas
that showed the film.
• Earlier in November, the computer systems of Sony
Pictures Entertainment were hacked by the group "
Guardians of Peace".
• The film grossed $40 million in digital rentals, making it
Sony's most successful digital release, and earned an
additional $11.2 million worldwide at the box office on a
$44 million budget.
13. Q.4 Whose Pledge?
Feb 3 1966
"I pledge to surrender my rice ration for the people of Kerala and authorise the central
save rice for Kerala committee to send my pledge to the rationing authorities. My ration
of rice may be utilised to meet the rice shortage in Kerala. I also pledge not to eat rice or
serve rice till the food situation in Kerala is normal."
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1, Safdarjung Road
New Delhi
Ration Card NO:23/5/ND/52685
15. Q.5 ID X.
• Imtiaz Rashid Qureshi,a Lahore based lawyer recently
filed a fresh petition to prove the innocence of X.
• X was hanged for killing John P Saunders, but the FIR
registered with Anarkali police station, written in Urdu
on December 17, 1928 was against two ‘unknown
gunmen'. Though his name was not in the FIR,
eventually he was handed down the death sentence for
the murder.
• Imtiaz wanted to exercise the principles of review and
order the government to honour X with a state award
and erect a statue at Shadman Chowk in central Lahore
where X was hanged.
17. Q.6 What am I talking about?
• Conceptualised by
Ma.Ramamurthy in 1960s,
initial form of this was a
mixture of yellow colour and a
map of an entity with a paddy
crown in the center, which was
later simplified to its current
form- symbolizing
auspiciousness and well-
being.
19. Q.7
• Big brother Vishwanathan Anand (ex-Loyolite) was playing
Magnus Carlson on 9th November 2014,Sochi in the second
game of World Chess Championship. Anand was determined
not to make the errors committed in the third hour of first
game and started second game with a solid defensive weapon.
But,unforced errors in the third hour of play, again allowed
Carlsen to pile pressure on him and demolished Anand to take
an early lead in the championship.
• Critics evaluated that the defensive weapon used by Anand-
which owes name to something important in the political
history of the world, was a bad omen on the same day because
of a certain event that happened exactly 25 years prior to the
match.
• What event?
• What was the defensive move by Anand?
21. Q.8
• C.P joshi, former union minster, was the then CM
candidate during the 2008 Rajasthan assembly
polls.But he lost the election to BJP's Kalyan Singh
Chouhan and earned a dubious distinction in the
election history only to be the second after
A.R.Krishnamoorthy.(Image slide follows)
• What rare distinction is owned by C.P Joshi and A.R
krishmoorthy in the electoral history of India?
24. Q.9 What Act?
• Taxi Driver is a 1976 American neo-
noir psychological thriller film directed by Martin
Scorsese. Set in New York City following
the Vietnam War, the film stars Robert De Niro,
and Jodie Foster.
• The reason for this to be in today’s quiz is that,
John Hicknley Jr. in order to impress
actress Jodie Foster, over whom he had developed
an obsession after seeing her in the film,
committed a (in)famous act that gained
worldwide attention in the early 1980s.
27. Q.10 Put Funda.
•On 5th August 2017, two Chinese tourists were
spotted by police officers on a routine patrol,
snapping smartphone pictures of each other posing
with a gesture outside the historic landmark
Reichstag in the heart of the German capital city
Berlin.
•They were arrested and a probe on suspicion of
using the symbols of anti-constitutional
organisations was opened against these
two Chinese men, aged 36 and 49.
29. Q.11* Gimme the term
• The term was coined by
Edward Everett Hale in his
1863 book 'The children of the
public'. The term refers to the
government spending that is
targeted to benefit the
residents of a certain
constituency in return for their
political support and as a
result of competitive populism.
• Boston's Big Dig highway
tunnel and Alaska's Bridge are
few examples of the term
31. Q.12*
• Dola Indidis, a lawyer and former spokesmen of
the Kenyan judiciary recently came into limelight
after suing Republic of Italy and State of Israel
with certain other non existing people for a
particular act.
• Italy and Israel were sued because they followed
the laws of the then entity which led to the
particular act that violated all the human rights
through judicial misconduct, abuse of office, bias
and prejudice.
• Why did he sue or What is the particular act?
33. Q.13* What effect/What alternate
name?
• During early 1980s,a news was spread that Nelson
Mandela had died in prison and many people
believed.The problem with that memory is that it
never happened; Mandela died in 2013
• This phenomenon- False memory was initially
investigated by psychological pioneers Pierre Janet
and Sigmund Freud.
• This can be traced as the collective misremembering of
the classic children's book characters the "Berenstain
Bears".The cause of this effect is unknown, but one
factor may be that people consider their memories to
be more reliable than they actually are.
35. Q.14*Put Funda
• The process for this particular act is as such; There is a
cast-iron stove that is about 3-feet high and about 19
inches in diameter. Certain after use things are made
to burn in the older stove, which triggers an electronic,
smoke-producing device outfitted on a second, more
modern stove, which came into effect from 2005.
• The device releases a cartridge holding five "containers
of one of the two chemical mixtures which joins with the
by-product of old stove and resultant symbolizes hope
or despair.
• Hint: last seen in 2013
37. Q.15* What am I talking about?
• It was represented as a "Christ-like" visage, with
some of the last visitors even surreptitiously
clipping locks of his hair as divine relics.
• British art critic John Berger later observed that it
resembled two famous paintings: Rembrandt's
The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp and
Andrea Mantegna's Lamentation over the Dead
Christ.[Image follows in the next slide]
40. Q.16 ID X?
• During the 2015 same-sex marriage referendum . X
became the first openly gay Irish government minister
and is the first minister of Indian origin.Following the
retirement of Enda Kenny, X was elected as Leader of the
Fine Gael Party on 2 June 2017. On 14 June, X was
nominated as Taoiseach ( prime minister ) by Dáil
Éireann and this nomination was approved by
the President of Ireland. Upon his election as the Prime
Minister, X aged 38, became the youngest person to hold
the office, as well as the first person from a minority
ethnic background to do so. X is also Ireland's first and
the world's fourth openly gay head of government in
modern times.
42. Q.17 Who is the “person”?
• Vir Bhumi features a huge, stone-carved lotus in
full bloom. It is surrounded by 46 lotuses. They
connote something related to the person who is
immortalised through this memorial. The site
also features rocks from different states of India
spread around it.
• Every year, prayer service is held on August
20th, the birth anniversary of the person, and
on May 21st which commemorates the person's
death anniversary.
44. Q.18
• In August 2012, the Australian Parliament debated a motion
to provide a posthumous apology to Peter Norman(silver
medalist,200m,1968 olympics). They apologised to Peter
Norman for the wrong done by Australia in failing to send him
to the 1972 Munich Olympics, despite repeatedly qualifying;
and belatedly recognising the powerful role that Norman
played in furthering Human rights and equality. Also
apologising for the treatment he received upon his return to
Australia, and the failure to fully recognise his inspirational
role before his untimely death in 2006.
• What was the subject for all these which made an end to
Norman's sports career and turning him to be a hero for
Human Rights activists
46. Q.19
• In 1974, this venue was renamed in honour of the
late dictator X of an African country following a
speech he gave at the 2nd Organisation of the
Islamic Conference meeting held in this country in
favour of it's right to pursue nuclear weapons. The
venue was very much in news last month following it
hosting something after 8 long years.
• What did the venue play host to and gimme
X ?
48. Q.20 What condition?
• Trashigang Dzong, situated at the confluence of the
Ghamri and Drangme rivers in Bhutan, has been a
religious centre as well as an administrative area
since 17th century, and fortified monasteries known
as Dzongs were constructed to protect people from
Tibetan invaders.
• After the 1962 Indo-China war, Bhutan due to its
diplomatic relations allowed Indian troops returning
home to pass through East Bhutan subject to a
single and simple condition which matters their
internal security and confines to the sanctity of the
Dzong.
• Image slide follows.
51. Q.21 Gimme X and FITB.
• During the ________ ____protests of 1989, X
played an important role in changing the course
of events, especially its April 26 Editorial that
provoked great tension between the government
and the students when the movement was slowly
abating after Hu Yaobang’s memorial on April
25. This week, X which is the mouth piece of the
ruling party went online after launching its app
in english.
53. Q.22 Volumes of whose autobiography?
• The Dramatic Decade: The Indira Gandhi
Years (2014)
• The Turbulent Years: 1980 - 1996 (2016)
• The Coalition Years: 1996-2012 (2017)
57. Q.24
• During his long career in politics, he held many
important posts in government such as: Chief Minister of
Bombay State, Home Minister, Finance Minister and
2nd Deputy Prime Minister of India. X's unmatched
achievements and distinctions in the annuals of history
got him the highest civilian awards from both India and
Pakistan i.e. the Bharat Ratna and the Nishaan-e-
Pakistan. X had stated that urine therapy was the perfect
medical solution for the millions of Indians who cannot
afford medical treatment.He also attibuted his longevity
to drinking urine - which he called "the water of life" . In
a statistical or pure sense, X would have celebrated only
23 birthdays in his entire life. Who is this former Prime
minister of India?
59. Q.25 ID X?
• The Mughalsarai railway station is the largest
marshalling yard in Asia and considered as one of
the oldest railway stations was constructed in 1862
when the East India Company linked Howrah to
Delhi by rail. On 14th October 2017, the UP
government renamed the station after X. The state
government had pointed to the mysterious death of
X at this very railway station as a reason for
renaming the station. Who is X?
• Hint: His name can be seen in the commerce
building of Loyola College .
61. Q.26 Put Funda
• Several Municipalities in the United States started
doing this in June 2015, in the wake of Charleston
Church Shooting. But this gained further
momentum in August 2017 as a Rally in
Charlottesville turned violent.
• This decision of municipalities were driven by the
belief that 'X' glorify white supremacy and
memorialize a government whose founding
principle was the perpetuation and
expansion of slavery.