India Quiz (Quiz Meet 71)

1. ALANKRIT TOMAR
DTU

2.  +10/0 on the bounce
 +20/-10 on the pounce
 Italicized hints in few questions.
 Unruly behavior shall lead to negs.

4. Vijitha Rohana Wijemuni now is an astrologer owns a shop
where he sells stationary and Music products.
On asking about a particular incident which is his claim to fame,
he said:
"When I was told to join the parade I expressed my reluctance.
But I was ordered to take part in it and I did not chose to be in
the front line.Someone dropped from the parade and I was made
to stand in the front line.
While I was waiting ,I was restless and angry over what ____ had
done to our country.
I was thinking how ____ was helping the ____ with money, arms
and military training.
The idea (of doing what he did) struck me when ___ was two-
three feet away from me"
What is this person's Claim to Fame?

7. The areas near the town of Jerez De La Frontera Jerez
de in Andalusia, Spain are home to white grapes which are
used to make a type of a fortified wine.
The name of the wine is an anglicisation of the Xerez(Jerez).
Also the wine is said to be many by as “underrated” and a
“neglected wine treasure”.
What is this name of the wine ?
Also tell me the Indian who goes by the same name and is in
news these days given the political scenario.
The person in question is a prominient feature on Indian T.Vs
during the weekends and has often been compared to a
showpiece often found in many houses.

10.  Mayank Bhaskar of Daily Bhaskar rated the film 4/5
saying that “This is India's equivalent of Sergio
Leone's Once Upon A Time in America (1984), or
Robert Rodriguez's Once Upon A Time in Mexico
(2003), though I suppose it could possibly be better
than both.”
 On the other hand, Martin D'Souza of Glamsham gave
the movie 1.5/5 stars, concluding that "In short, the
movie definitely does not have a perpendicular rise. It
is off tangent!“
 Which movie is this and also give me the name of the
next installment.

13.  Anthony De Mello who was then the Secretary of the Cricket
Club of India(CCI) used the name of a painter from Goa to seek a
meeting with X.
 At the end of the meeting, de Mello asked X : 'Your excellency,
which would you prefer to accept from sportsmen, money for
your Government, or immortality for yourself?'.
 X chose immortality and the CCI was allotted 90,000 square
yards at a price of ₹ 13.50 per square yard to build something
which was to emulate a popular sporting destination in England.
 What structure is this which was named after X?
 Also this place was also where a popular story heard by Indians
took place wherein a young 14 year old boy had his first exposure
to international cricket. What story is this?

16.  This particular locality of Bombay derives its name from
two old Shiv Temples which go by the name X-leshwar an
Y-leshwar.
 X can be worked out from the name of an Air Force pilot
who was imprisoned in Pakistan and was repeatedly
referred to people as “Allah Ka Banda” because of his
prisoner number in prison being 786.
 Y can also be worked out as this locality has a very
significant Business connect where a particular company
whose name has Y in it had its first factory. Also Y is a
terminology often used in golf.
 Id the locality whose name is slight modification of X-Y.

19.  The particular philosophical organisation in question is based
on the spiritual teachings of all religions and dedicated to a
process of inner development under the guidance of a spiritual
teacher.
 The organization's policy also believes in vegetarianism ,
abstaining from alcohol and recreational drugs, and are expected
to lead a life of high moral values.
 Ironically, a particular member of this organization did
something in 2015 which is in total disagreement with the
philosophy explained above.
 The organization came into the limelight in 2014 when the
person talked above met his wife through this organization.
 Identify this organization which also has a river in North India
in its name.

22.  The Musion Eyeliner is a proprietary high definition video
projection system that allows moving images to appear within a
live stage setting. The system was created and patented by Uwe
Maass.
 The technology has been used across the world in various events
such as for a magical show by David Blaine, for a comedy event
by Les Dawson and also as a resurrection concert for Michael
Jackson.
 The technology came into limelight in India a few years back
when it was used for something for which there is also a
Guinness WR to its name.
 What was the technology used for in which a particular
organization had spent 60 crores but would not have minded
the expenditure as it fulfilled the aim it had to accomplish?

25. Hyderabad is said to be the first princely state in India to start the
culture of _____.
History has it that Hyderabad had as many as 17 _____ grounds
during the British Raj.
Not only were there good grounds, but also many great
____players emerged from Hyderabad itself.
Hyderabad also had a women's’ ____ team back in 1929 called the
Golconda Fairies.
Such was the culture of ____ in Hyderabad that Lord Kitchener, Sir
Winston Churchill, the Duke of Windsor, then Prince of Wales
and Earl Mountbatten have played ____in Hyderabad.
This popular ____ culture in Hyderabad led to naming of
something which is considered to be one of the most significant
events in Indian History.
What event?

28.  Beef tongue refers to the tongue of a cow and is used in
many cuisines in countries such as America,Japan,France.
 Very ironically in political terms, a very popular locality was
earlier known by another name for Beef’s tongue because
of the shape of the locality.
 This locality harbors a very popular institute of the country
named after a person whose house was in news last year
due to its demolition in June 2016.
 Name this locality which also has a residential complex
called “Anushakti Nagar” for the employees of the institute
mentioned above.

31.  The person in question was working in NDTV with Arnab
Goswami when the latter quit and joined Times Now as the
Editor-in-Chief.
As soon as Arnab joined his new job , he asked his former
colleague to join him on board Times Now.
 As soon as he agreed to join Arnab, he was given the task of
hosting a 20 part series about the Indian Army, called ‘Line Of
Duty’ whose one of the episodes awarded a prize at the Rome
Film Festival in 2005 – in the military documentary section.
 This show was also awarded a Limca Record for being India’s
First Military Show.
 Identify this athletic , tall and lanky host of the show , the
picture of whom is shown on the next slide at his alma mater,
St.Stephen’s College.

35.  During a recent testing of an American airport security
scanning machine, two problems came forward.
 The first being that when women wearing saris having
glass knitting passed through the scanner, it raised an
alarm due to the embroidery work on the saris.
 The second problem would not have an easy solution
to it as it might lead to hurting of religious sentiments
of women of a particular section of the society who
believe that a certain aspect of the woman in their
society is never to be detached from them.
 What exactly is this problem?

38. What is the following an exhaustive list of which is/are
based on two people?(Exhaustive list)
 She as a taxi driver, He as a tourist.
 She as a receptionist, He as a tourist again, .
 She as the bride’s younger sister, He as a florist.
 Both of them as a _____ couple.

47.  In literal terms the word , ‘X’ means "ever upward" or "still
higher“.
 For the literature fans, the word might refer to the name of
a short story by P.G.Wodehouse.
 For the Star Trek fans, it is was dubbed as ‘The Great
Experiment’ in ‘The Search for Spock’.
 The word is also the official motto for the state of New
York.
 For the comic fans in the house, the word was the the
catchphrase of Stan Lee, who used it at the end of every
"Bullpen Bulletins" column in Marvel Comics.
 For the football fans , it is also the name of a popular
Dutch club, the logo of which is shown in the following
slides.

48.  Question is that this particular word lent its name to
something which is one of the oldest of its kinds in
Delhi.
 What is being talked about ?

52.  This is the picture of Khurshed Premji _____ who was
the mayor of Bombay from 1935 to 1936.
 The person’s surname lends its name to something
which was occupied by some foreigners who shifted
back to their home country after an incident in the
previous decade.
 Give his very popular surname which when broken
consists of two words, one in Hindi ,other in English
which are the opposites of one another.

55.  Everyone here has heard about the feud in the Yadav
family which resulted in Akhilesh retaining the ‘Cycle’
symbol as well as the party name and the subsequent
tie up with the Congress Party.
 Question is who defended Akhilesh Yadav in the court
courtesy whom many of us are able to sit where we are
sitting?

58.  The following is a paragraph from the 28th Law
Commission Report that puts an end to an age old
practice which is still wrongly followed in Bollywood
movies.

61.  The word in question has been derived from the
Sanskrit word, Pakvawat which is a compound of two
words, Pakva(‘cooked’) and vat(‘lump’).
 This word contains a consonant which is called a
retroflex flap and thus has led to two spellings in
English ,one with a ‘r’ and the other with a ‘d’.

64.  The regiment in question is the senior-most regiment of
the Indian Army and was raised by Governor-General
Warren Hastings in September 1773.
 The regiment recruits equal number of Sikhs, Jats and
Rajputs from the different states. The height requirement
for the men of this regiment is 6 feet.
 Due to the personality of these men, the regiment was
known as ‘God's Gift to Beautiful Girls‘(GGBG) in the
British times.
 Incidentally, the regiment was known by the same
acronym mentioned above in the British era and hence the
phrase above has been derived from that acronym.

67.  The L1A1 Self-Loading rifle is a rifle widely used across
the world and is prepared by the Belgian armaments
manufacturer Fabrique Nationale de Herstal.
 A modified version of this rifle is still in use by
the Central Armed Police Forces, some law
enforcement bodies and also used during parades by
the National Cadet Corps (India).
 Apart from its current use, the identity of the soldiers
who used this rifle is not known.
 Just tell me for what is special about this rifle(Image
follows).