Finals of the India Quiz organised on the eve of 66th Republic Day at IIT Guwahati (2015)

1. Himanshu Upreti

2. FINALS

3. WRITE IT DOWN ROUND
Write down the answers in your sheet
Exchange with the other team on your side
on my signal
+10 for each correct entry and -10 for
incorrect
Bonus of +30 for getting all correct

4. • World Heritage Sites in India are the places
of importance of cultural or natural heritage that
are recognized by the United Nations
Educational, Scientific and Cultural
Organization (UNESCO) .
• Name all such World Heritage Sites in North
East India (seven sisters + West Bengal)
(as of 2014)

5. Answer
• Kaziranga National Park
• Manas Wildlife Sanctuary
• Mountain Railways Darjeeling
• Sundarbans

6. INFINITE POUNCE
• Usual round which I am sure many of you
are already aware of
• +10/-10 on pounce
• +10/0 on bounce
• 6 questions in total – clockwise

7. 1. Francisco Esteban Acuña de Figueroa was an Uruguayan
poet and writer. He achieved a rare feat – a feat which till now can
be attributed to only two persons in the world .
Who is the other person and what feat am I talking about ?
Put funda .

8. National anthem of two
countries

9. 2. Put funda .

10. Print ad for Joint Account by Union
Bank of India

11. 3. Just give me the name of the
structure.
• In the video that follows , you will see Waheeda
Rehman (Aaj phir jeene ki tamanna hai song from movie
Guide) dancing against the backdrop of a certain
imposing structure .
• The structure is located in Chittorgarh
fort in Rajasthan and commemorates something.

13. Vijay Stambha or "Tower
of Victory"

14. 4.
• When the first Air India Maharaja poster
was launched in 1939 , it led to a huge
outcry among a certain Indian community.
• The poster which had a turbaned
character being carried aloft by four
eagles was a take on a Persian legend.
• Whom did the poster offend and why ?
(Partial points are there but not on pounce)

15. Bombay parsi
community took
offence and its
members protested
to JRD Tata saying
that the poster
insulted a much
revered Zoroastrian
figure Kai Kaus .

16. 5. “Once lord Shiva was going to Varanasi
along with one crore god and goddesses
including him. On the way they thought of
taking rest and shelter on this hill for the
night. Before going to bed Lord Shiva strictly
warned them to get up at dawn before the
sun rises and leave for Varanasi.The
following morning only Lord Shiva got up
and nobody else woke up. In anger Lord
Shiva cursed them to become stone
sculptures or images and stay there forever.
Since then there have been one less than a
crore stone sculptures on the hill.”
So is the legend associated with this
ancient Shaivite place of worship with
huge rock-cut images and stone idols - It is
the prime tourist spot of Tripura.
Name this place, whose literal meaning is,
one less a crore in Bengali .

17. Unakoti

18. 6.
What was shown for the first time on August
15, 1988, during the coverage of the Prime
Minister's speech on the occasion of India's
independence?

19. mile sur mera tumhara

20. INFINITE POUNCE
• Usual round which I am sure many of you
are already aware of
• +10/-10 on pounce
• +10/0 on bounce
• 6 questions in total – anticlockwise this
time

21. 1. The opening verse of a poem by W.H.Auden is as
follows …
Whom is this poem based on ?

22. Cyril Radcliffe

23. 2. Name this second largest town of the
Assam in terms of population and municipal
area.
• This town in Assam was called 'Island of Peace' by the then prime
minister Indira Gandhi for it being politically stable in the otherwise
disturbed Northeast India.
• During the British rule, ships were docked at the bank of the
river Barak . Gradually, a market developed at the bank and
became a major place of economic activity. The bank was covered
with stones to help dock ships and vessels, and the market was
developed at a place that was fully covered with stones. People
started to refer to the place as something that meant a bank of
stones.
• The place also boasts of having the oldest Polo club in the world.

24. "Shiler Chor" became "Silchar"

25. 3.
Mystic India is a 2004 large format film (commonly known as
the IMAX format) about India's culture, people, and traditions. It is told
through the 12,000 km barefoot journey throughout 18th century India
undertaken by the Hindu adolescent ascetic Nilkanth, later known in life
as Swaminarayan by his followers.
The film is available in Hindi, English, French and Spanish. The
question is – who was the narrator for the English version of the film ?
(Video follows)

28. 4. In 1976 , he was
awarded the
Magsaysay Award for
International
Understanding in
recognition of his
contribution to India’s
industrial development
Who ?

29. Henning Holck-Larsen was a Dane who
co-founded the Indian engineering firm
Larsen & Toubro.

30. 5.
• In 2005, there were calls to delete word “X” from our national
anthem and substitute it with the word “Y”. The argument was that
“X” was no longer a part of India after 1947. Opponents of this
proposal held that “X” referred to a geographical feature and to a
community's culture and that this community is an integral part of
India's cultural fabric.
• The Supreme Court of India declined to change the national anthem
and the wording remains unchanged.
• ID “X”and “Y”.

31. X - Sindh
Y - Kashmir

32. 6.
• This Indian martial art , which originated
in the state of Kerala, is considered to be
the oldest fighting system in existence.
• It is now practiced in Kerala, in
contiguous parts of Tamil Nadu and
among the Malayali community
of Malaysia.
• Just give me the name of this art .

34. Kalaripayattu

35. Long Connect Question
• +10 / 0 for individual questions
• Trying for Long Visual Connect
• in first two slides : +50/-25
• in next two slides : +40/-20
• in next two slides : +30/-15
• in further slides : +20/0

36. 1.
Mr. Daniel L Miller worked for the United
State Information Service in the 1960s.
Why is his name important to the whole
of India including us as well ?

37. • Credited with organising the first ever quiz
competition in India at Cotton College
• AEC were the champions

38. 2.
Father of the composer’s song was from the
royal family of _______

39. • S.D.Burman’s father was from the royal
family of Tripura

40. 3.
• Name this traditional dance form that has
Krishna Radha love as its central theme -
the dance also incorporates the
characteristic cymbals (kartal or manjira)
and double-headed drum (pung or
mrdanga) of sankirtan into the visual
performance.

42. Ras Leela (Manipuri dance)

43. 4. Just name the city.
The name of this place comes from the
flower the wild flowering plant
called Kewhi, found in the mountains.
The anglicised current name was
officially given by the British as they
could not pronounce the original name
that meant "the land where the
flower Kewhi grows“.

44. Kohima (Nagaland)

45. 5.
• Founded by Mera Lama Lodre Gyatso, it belongs to the Gelgpa sect
and is the largest of its kind in India.
• Its name literally means, ‘Horse Chosen’ , as its site was chosen by
the horse of Merag Lama. As the story goes, one day he was
praying in cave, seeking divine guidance. When he came out after
the prayers, he found his horse missing. On searching, the horse
was located standing quietly on a hilltop. Considering this as a sign
of divine blessing, he decided to construct something at the very
spot. It was built with the help of volunteers from the neighbouring
villages.
• It is also known by a Tibetan name, Galden Namgey Lhatse, which
means 'celestial paradise in a clear night'.
• What is being talked about here?

47. • Tawang monastery , arunachal pradesh

48. 6.
• The name of this Indian state capital comes from the fact that there
were abundant turmeric fields there in the past.
• Its name is literally derived from the local words for Turmeric and
Fields.
• Its state name literal meaning is "land of the hill people“ .
• Bara Bazaar, Solomon’s temple and Durtlang hills are the major
tourist attractions here.
• Which Indian state capital are we talking about?

49. Aizawl (Mizoram)

50. 7. What am I talking about ?
• Nickname : The Shiny Eight
• Motto : Kafar Hunu Bhanda Marnu Ramro (Better to die
than live like a coward)
One of the most celebrated regiments of the Indian Army,
having received numerous citations for bravery in the
field of battle, and even producing one of the two field
marshals, Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw, of the Indian
Army.

51. 8 Gorkha Rifles
(Meghalaya)