An India-centric quiz, conducted on the 15th of August 2013, at IIT Guwahati

1. Question-E-Hind.
- The India Quiz

2.  “Lajong” in this football club's name means “our own” in
the local language. As can be seen from its logo, the
club seeks to represent the entire North-East. Which city
is this club from?
Q1.

3. Shillong

4.  A world cloud is a bunch of text, generated from a text
provided by the user. The clouds give greater
prominence to words that appear more frequently in the
source text. The image is a word cloud created from a
piece of text.
 What is the source text for this word cloud (image on the
next slide)
Q2*.

6. The Tryst With Destiny speech by Nehru.

7.  Sherlyn Chopra is a little known Bollywood starlet.
However, recently(as of 2012) she got the peculiar
distinction of being the first indian to do something.
What?
Q3.

8. First Indian to appear on the Playboy
Centerfold

9.  This confectionary is usually made with condensed milk
and sugar. Other varieties include that of besan, cashew
and pista. It’s name is derived from the Persian word for
ice or snow.
 It came into news for a completely different reason in
2012.
 What am I talking about?
Q4.

10. Barfi!

11.  A B, a poor Indian boy, lives in Mumbai with his Auntie
Maya and Uncle Bhim. His parents died some years ago.
Other boys at the school tease him and beat him. Only
Meera, a girl from school, befriends him. Meanwhile,
Nalin Oberoi, a local crime lord, uses an amulet to
perform an ancient ritual, where he gets possessed by a
demon committed to opening the gate for other
demons to get back to Earth. While being chased by
other kids, A B encounters an ancient yogi who gives
him the power to fight the evil that threatens the world.
 ID A B.
Q5*.

12. Pavitr Prabhakar (the Indian version of
Peter Parker / Spiderman)

13.  These ads featured a bunny made by Ramdas Padhye
and Aparna Ramdas. The bunny was long eared and
jumped on the screen extolling X, "eh he he". The voice
over in the ad is that of Ramdas himself who is renowned
as India’s leading ventriloquist and this ad made him a
household name in India.
 Name the brand for which this ad was created?
 PS: You can still sometimescatch these ads on
Doordarshan!
Q6.*

14. Lijjat Papad

15. What does this sculpture at the Indira Gandhi
International Airport depict(larger imager on
next slide) ?
Q7.

17. The Surya Namaskar

18.  Name this universal ‘Maa’ of the Indian Cinema.Q8.

19. Nirupa Roy

20.  The upcoming adventure of Asterix will, reportedly, be
set in “old time India‟. It will also feature a new Gaul
character who is named after “the most famous Indian‟,
according to Jean-Yves Ferri, the present author of
Asterix Comics.
 Either name that new member of the Gaul village or
identify the famous Indian after whom he is named
Q9.

21. Gandhix / Mahatma Gandhi

22. What is happening
here?
Q10.

23. To make Priyanka Chopra look like the
Olympic medal winner Mary Kom.
 Mary Kom biopic being produced by Sanjay Leela Bhansali and
directed by Omung Kumar.

24.  One name is missing from this list of people related to a
major annual entertainment event (held in May 2013):
• Steven Spielberg
• Ang Lee
• Christoph Waltz
• Daniel Auteuil
• Naomi Kawase
• Lynne Ramsay
• Nicole Kidman
• Cristian Mungiu
Q11.*

25. Vidya Balan
 This was the jury for the 2013 Cannes film festival.

26.  Mahindra & Mahindra's two-wheelers company has a
fondness for brand names ending in "-O", with products
such as Rodeo, Duro, Stallio, and now Centuro and
Panturo.
 Later in 2013, the company will be launching its 300cc
bike. The name for this vehicle is a word that primarily
came from African folk culture, and is now English slang
for a form of personal confidence. What word is this?
Q12.

27. Mojo

28.  This Priyanka Chopra film releases in August 2013, and
has her character "Ishani" flying over the Taj Mahal along
with "Dusty". The background music plays "Tere Bina"
(composed by A.R.Rahman) from the film "Guru".
 Which film?
Q13.

29. Planes

30.  J. Jayalalitha once brusquely ended their conversation
by saying: “I must say it wasn’t a pleasure talking to you.
Namaste”.
 The Indian equivalent of Tim Sebastian, he was President
of the Cambridge Union debating society in 1977.
 He now appears in a TV show on CNN IBN. Who?
Q14.

31. Karan Thapar

32.  This is the logo of the Indian Federation of which sport
Q15.

33. Carrom

34.  This former Indian Chief Ministers family had the following
custom:
Soon after a woman gave birth to a child, they were
asked what they would like to eat. The newborn was
then named after that foodstuff.
Over the years, the Chief Minister’s mother had chosen
the likes of paan and rasgulla.
 Name this former CM.
Q16.

35. Rabri Devi

36.  In an interview to the Indian Express in November 2011,
the lyricist Irshad Kamil said:
“After Operation Blue Star in Punjab, the final
examinations were postponed. [I] led a group of
students demanding a month’s notice as preparation.
We made banners saying, “____ ____”.and went about
raising this slogan.”
He used this slogan in a 2011 Indian musical romantic
drama film.
 Which slogan?
Q17.*

37. Sadda Haq, Aithe Rakh

38.  He asked for one rupee for providing permission to the
project. The makers added a touch of symbolism by
finding a rupee note printed in 1958 - in many ways, this
was a golden and breakthrough year not just for him,
but also for Indian athletics because of the
Commonwealth and Asian Games.
 Who is he, and what did he thus bless?
Q18.

39. Milkha Singh.
The movie Bhaag Milkha Bhaag.

40.  Identify this 1979
Bollywood classic.
Q19.

41. Golmaal

42.  This place is Asia’s largest wholesale market. Built by a
king for his favorite daughter in 1650 AD so that she
could shop all she wanted to, this market place derives
its name from the canals filled with water that sparkled
like silver in the moonlight.
 Id the place?
Q20.

43. Chandni Chowk

44.  Identify the person depicted
Q21.

45. Shashi Tharoor

46.  The categories for awards are:
Lajja Award for worst treatment of a Serious Issue.
Dara Singh Award for Worst Accent.
Black Award for Emotional Blackmail.
Bas Kijiye Bahut Ho Gaya Award.
 Which Awards?
Q22.*

47. The Golden Kela Awards.

48. Q23.

49. Starbucks, Mumbai.
The first Starbucks to be opened in India

50.  He protested against Draupadi’s cheerharan during that
ill-fated game of dice. In the novel ‘Immortals of
Meluha’ by Amish Tripathi, his name has been used to
describe people who have been cursed for their deeds
in their previous birth.
 Identify this mythological character.
Q24.

51. Vikarna

52.  Identify the context.Q25.*

53. Smile Pinki / Pinki Sonkar.
Pinki tossed the coin at the start of the 2013
Wimbledon men’s final.