Special Theme Quiz by Partha Gupta-Full Set

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Compiled by- PG Quizhouse (Partha Gupta)
Date: 15th August, 2020
Time: 8 pm onwards
Hello, this is your quiz-friend Partha Gupta. Over the years I have conducted so many
quiz contests and got your illustrious presence and appreciation. In this grim situation of
Lockdown due to Covid- 19, I have started an online quiz series titled ‘Theme Quiz
Journey’ which has been going on since 10th May 2020, the birthday of ‘Father of Indian
Quiz’- Neil O’Brien. On this Saturday (Independence Day), I am going to place a Special
Theme Quiz (10 qsn.) in the FB link of ‘Quizzing With Qmind’
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2321134021300813/?ref=share. It will come
simultaneously in my FB link: https://www.facebook.com/partha.gupta.56
Time- 8 pm. Onwards.
So friends, gear up to answer the questions as the earliest!

2.  In this set you will get 10 questions. Firstly, try to answer them. All the answers have a
centralized connection. When you connect the answers, will automatically get the theme or
centralized answer. For each correct answer of the regular question you will get 5 points each. If
you crack the theme, will be rewarded with the same bonus points i.e; 50 points. Make sure about
the 100% correctness of the theme answer otherwise, your score sheet will be nullified! Read
through the questions first and try to answer them and finally check out the explanations of the
theme.
 +50/-25, +40/-20, +30/-15, +20/-10 & +10/-5 for Theme answer after the 2nd, 4th , 6th , 8th & 10th
question.
 For Theme Answer, Single attempt.
Time: 8 pm onwards. For the every regular qsn. -3 minutes. For Theme Answer-Instantly.
 Give the Ans. only through SMS 98 30 31 87 21 or WhatsApp- 76 87 84 24 17
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E-mail: parthagupta_dmq@yahoo.co.in

3. I am talking of a person who published his memoirs and wrote a book
about the life of Julius Caesar. Before he met and married his wife
Joséphine de Beauharnais in 1795, he was a romance novelist. His
novel ‘Clisson et Eugénie’ told a fictionalized version of his affair with
Bernardine Eugénie Désirée Clary, whose sister married his brother.
The book was never published during his lifetime. After his death the
book was serialized and sold as souvenirs. It was translated into
English in 2009 and you can purchase it today as e-book on Amazon.
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Can you identify the person?

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This country is bordered by Switzerland to the west and south and Austria to the
east and north. It is Europe's fourth-smallest country, with an area of just over 160
square kilometres (62 square miles) and a population of 38,557. It is one of only
two doubly landlocked countries in the world, along with Uzbekistan. Economically,
it has one of the highest gross domestic products per person in the world when
adjusted for purchasing power parity. It was once known as a billionaire tax haven,
but is no longer on any blacklists of un-cooperative tax haven countries. It
gained independence from German rule in 1866. It has one of the world’s lowest
crime rates, with its last murder occurred in approximately 1997 and its prison
holding very few inmates. As an Alpine country, it is mountainous, making it a
winter sport destination.
Name this country.

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7. Answer
Please !
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When my wife was only three and I was 13, our marriage had been
fixed by elders in the family. Interestingly, both of us were cousins.
In 1973, at the non-aligned summit in Algiers, I met Fidel Castro.
Embracing me, he remarked, “I have not seen the Himalayas. But
I have seen you. In personality and in courage, this man is the
Himalayas. I have thus, had the experience of witnessing the
Himalayas.” On 24 September, 1974 – I addressed the General
Assembly of the United Nations. My historic March 7, 1971 speech
recognised as “world's all-time best”.
Identify me.

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‘X’ was born in 1872 at Konnagar in the Hoogly district, West Bengal. His father
was a surgeon and a big fan of the British way of living. ‘X’ was sent to boarding
school in Loreto House, Darjeeling along with his other siblings in order to learn
the ways of the British. At the tender age of seven, he was sent to England and did
not return for another fourteen years. But despite the hardships, he made books
his best friends and went on to get a degree from the King’s College in
Cambridge. At his father’s insistence; he had also cleared the Indian Civil Service
exam. He returned to India in 1893 to work for the royal family of Baroda. He
spent twelve years as a teacher and secretary to the Maharaja of Gaekwad. His
date of birth coincides with the date given in the Feast of Assumption of the
Catholics, who believe that the last avatar of the Virgin Mary will be born.
Identify ‘X’.

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12. Answer
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I am talking of a football match that played between team ‘X’ and
Eden Hindu Hostel. Team ‘X’ had the members that read- Girin
Basu, Pramatha Nath Chattopadhyay, Sachin Bandyopadhyay,
Ram Goswami, Sarat Mitra, Hem Nath Sen, Nalin Basu, Upen
Ghosh, Mahindra Nath Basu, Manomohan Pandey, Probhas
Mitra and Manilal Sen. Manilal Sen, the captain of the team ‘X’s
historic match was also an accomplished cricketer.
Identify the team ‘X’.

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The then Mohun Bagan Sporting Club.
 The newly founded team played its first
ever match at the ‘Mohun Bagan Villa’.

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I have grown up in London but my mother was from a Jammu family. My father had the distinction of serving
three Pakistani presidents — Ayub Khan, Yahya Khan and Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. He was a Flight Lieutenant
who was part of the raid by Pakistan Air Force that destroyed Pathankot air base during 1965 war. I began
taking lessons in Indian classical music from the santoor maestro Pandit Shivkumar Sharma when visiting
India during school vacations. At the age of sixteen, I was approached to write a song for famine-hit Ethiopia,
for which I won a special award from UNICEF. As a teenager when I was performing on the piano on a TV
program in Stockholm, described by the US-based Keyboard magazine as “the fastest man on keyboard in the
world and the keyboard discovery of the nineties’’. I sang for India at the ICC World Cup in 2003. In 2003, I
achieved the distinction of being the only Asian to play in a fully sold out “Wembley Stadium” in London for
two nights straight which was recorded in the Limca Book of World Records. I have achieved the “Lifetime
Achievement Award” from the Prime Minister of Pakistan and the “Glory Of India Award” by the government
of India. On the 350th anniversary of the completion of the Taj Mahal, I gave a solo concert performance in
front of the Taj Mahal.
Identify me.

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Adnan Sami Khan

17. Answer
Please !
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Near the end of the World War II, a geographical demarcation
was chosen by the U.S. military planners at the Potsdam
Conference in July, 1945. It runs for about 150 miles (240 km)
across the peninsula, from the mouth of the Han River. It was
intended as a temporary division of a country, but the onset
of the Cold War led to the establishment of two countries.
Which two countries formed then?
(No part marking, please!)

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‘X’- 38th Parallel,
‘Y’- South Korea,
‘Z’- North Korea.

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The screenplay of the Bollywood film ‘X’ was originally a 4-line snippet
created by the film’s script writers. It was only after this film,
scriptwriters began to get respect and paid well in Bollywood. One of ‘X’s
famous sequence was inspired by the 1939 Hollywood movie ‘Stagecoach’.
One of the heroes of ‘X’ married the its actress 4 months before the film
went on floors and she was even pregnant during the filming, which
resulted in shooting delays many times! While the original film was made
with a budget of Rs. 3 crores, Rs. 25 crores were spent on the 3D version.
‘X’ was the first film in India to celebrate a silver jubilee at over 100 theatres.
Identify ‘X’.

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22. Answer
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This English language novel ‘X’ was selected from a long-
list of 41 previous 'Booker Prize' in 1981 and 'Booker of
The Bookers' in 1993. ‘X’ also won a public vote in 2008,
on the prize’s 40th anniversary, "The Best of the Booker".
Identify the novel ‘X’.

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She was born in a Bengali family at Ranaghat in the Nadia
district of West Bengal. In 1967, this 20-year-old actress
acted in her first Bengali film. In four decades of acting, this
actress has won three Filmfare Awards and one National
Film Award, apart from many other awards. At Filmfare,
she has been nominated 16 times in all (8 times for Best
Actress and 8 times for Best Supporting Actress), making
her the second most-nominated performer in the female
categories, behind Madhuri Dixit and Rani Mukerji.
Identify this actress.

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27. Answer
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30. 1. Napoleon was born on 15th August, 1769.
2. Liechtenstein celebrates its Independence Day on 15th August.
3. Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was assassinated on 15 August, 1975 in
his home in Dhanmondi, Dhaka.
4. Aurobindo Ghosh was born on 15th August, 1872.
5. Mohun Bagan Athletic Club was founded on 15th August, 1889.

31. 6. Adnan Sami was born on 15th August, 1971.
7. Both South & North Korea got their independence on 15th August, 1945.
8. Sholay was released on 15th August, 1975.
9. In ‘Midnight's Children’, the protagonist and narrator of the story Saleem
Sinai born at the exact moment when India became an independent country
('Zero-Hour') of 15th August, 1947.
10. Rakhee Gulzar was born in the early hours of 15 August 1947, just hours
after the declaration of independence of India.

32. Thank U for participating in this session.
Congratulation! Today’s podium finishers are—
:Result:
1st: Suraj Bhowmik
2nd: Ananta Raut
3rd: Sabyasachi Chatterjee
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