India Quiz by Rashmeet Kaur at Quiz Forum, AMU Quiz Club. Rashmeet is pursuing Law at Aligarh Muslim University and is interested in India, Mythology and polity.

1. India Quiz
Quiz Master-
Rashmeet Kaur

2. Rules
•Infinite Pounce +15/-10
•Infinite Bounce +10
•Direct Question +10

3. 1. His claim to fame

5. 'Kingdom Of Dixit': Indore Man
Declares Himself King of Unclaimed
Land Between Egypt And Sudan

6. 2. Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Ivanka Trump,
launched an indigenous robot which declared
the Global Entrepreneurship Summit2017 open on
Tuesday in Hyderabad.
It walked up to Modi and Ivanka, who were
requested to launch the summit logo by the flags of
their respective countries on the display one after the
other. The robot was programmed to welcome them
The 'Made in India' robot has been developed by a
Bengaluru based company Invento Robotics, which
is going to work on facial recognition technology
to identify customers. The Company’s website also
claims that the humanoid can become a
photographer and a DJ and can live tweet from an
event.

8. Mitra

9. 3. Connect this non-exhaustive list
and give X
• Ganesh Vasudev Mavalankar (1952-1956)
• Sardar Hukam Singh (1962-1967)
• Gurdial Singh Dhillon (1969-1975)
• Bali Ram Bhagat (1976-1977)
• GMC Balayogi (1998-2002)
• Somnath Chatterjee ( 2004-2009)
• X ( 2014- Till date)

11. Speakers of Lok Sabha,
Sumitra Mahajan

12. 4. Connect these festivals
•Sarang (2017)
•India by Nile (2015)
• Bonjour India (2017)
•Ganges – Danube Cultural
Festival (2016)
• Rhythm of India (2016)
• Namaste France (2016)

14. Festivals organized by
Indian Embassy in
abroad

15. 5. Margaret Elizabeth Noble (28 October 1867 – 13
October 1911) was a Scots-Irish social worker,
author, teacher and a disciple of X. She spent her
childhood and early days of her youth in Ireland.
She met X in 1895 in London and traveled to
Calcutta in 1898. X gave her the name Y (meaning
"Dedicated to God") when he initiated her into the
vow of Brahmacharya on 25 March 1898. In
November 1898, she opened a girls' school
in Bagbazar area of Calcutta. In1962 Bengali film
directed by Bijoy Basu, based on her life, won a
national film award in best films category and a
presidential medal.
Identify X and Y

18. X- Swami Vivekanand
Y- Sister Nivedita

19. 6.After first war of Independence, the poet was
accosted by an English officer who asked him if he
was a Muslim, to which he replied- “Half”. The
officer sought an explaination to which he said-
“In paradise it is true that I shall drink at dawn the
pure wine mentioned in the Qur'an, but where in
paradise are the long walks with intoxicated
friends in the night, or the drunken crowds
shouting merrily? Where shall I find there the
intoxication of Monsoon clouds? Where there is
no autumn, how can spring exist? If the
beautiful hours are always there, where will be the
sadness of separation and the joy of union? Where
shall we find there a girl who flees away when we
would kiss her?”

21. Mirza Ghalib

22. 7. The word literally means "a ford, a "crossing
place" in the sense of "transition or junction“,
Junction between "worlds that touch and do not
touch each other"
Earliest source of the word can be found in Rigveda
and are of three kinds-
•1st is to a place movable
•2nd is to a place immovable
•3rd is to a place of mind
There are many reasons of performing it but
according to Skanda Purana, it is a popular way for
redemption of sins in the case of all classes of men
and women.

24. Tirath

25. Father- Scientist at the Defence Research and
Development
 Mother- Associate professor and department
head of neurochemistry at the Institute of Human
Behavior and Allied Sciences
 Education- St. Thomas' School Bhagat Phool Singh
Medical College
 A trained Kuchipudi dancer
 Run’s campaign Project Shakti whose objective was
to spread awareness about menstrual hygiene
Identify the personality

27. Manushi Chillar

28. 9. From a mention in the Kalpsutra, a 2000-year-
old Jain holy book, to carvings in the Ajanta caves,
and numerous folk tales in different languages from
Gujrati to Telgue, X make for a fascinating subject.
In fact, it took 34 years of constant research for
two Swiss writers, Alfred Buhler and Eberhard
Fischer, to pen a book The ______of Gujarat. The
book was published in 1979. The art of Ikat which
is integral to X has been popular in many
countries across the world, especially in South East
Asia and Central Asia. Thus there have been many
variations in the technique of Ikat, but X is counted
among the most exquisite and is considered as the
‘ultimate manifestation of weaving perfection’
because the displacement of even one thread can
result in a deform pattern.

30. Patan Patola

31. 10. Kailash Katkar, was Born in a small village at
Rahimatpur in Maharashtra. He started with a job
at local radio and calculator repair shop and later
went ahead in 1990 to start his own calculator
repair business. In 1993 he started a new venture,
CAT computer services where around that time his
younger brother Sanjay developed a basic model
which was later in 2007 was renamed as X.
.
He achieved all this without any formal education.
A few months later , he also managed to break-in to
the corporate world by winning the annual
maintenance contract for New India Insurance,
which was soon followed by another group a
month later. And by the end of the first year, the
company had made a more-than-decent turnover
of Rs. 1 lakh.

34. 11. In its recently-launched ad film 'Da Da Ding', a part
of ‘______ Just Do It' campaign, features Bollywood
actor Deepika Padukone and other female cast . The ad has
been conceptualized by Wieden+Kennedy Delhi.
The ad was initially launched on the digital platform, but
from July 11, the same film was rolled out as a TVC on the
English entertainment channels such as Comedy Central
and Romedy.
The campaign aims to inspire young women to take up
sports, and has something peculiar about it, an ad film
first of its kind in India, which aims to break stereotypes
of society perceiving girls as soft and delicate.

36. Nike, featuring 10 Indian
sportswomen on a single screen

37. 12. The logo has been registered in the name of the
Ministry of Tourism, Government of India, under
the Trademark Act 1999, on 29 March, 2011.The
Ministry of Tourism has launched extensive media
campaigns in the international and domestic
markets under the logo’s byline and it is today one
of the most established and recognized brands
worldwide.
However, the logo was designed as a part of campaign
in 2002, by Department of Tourism team involving
V.K. Duggal, Rathi Vinay Jha and Amitabh Kant, gained
no popularity or appreciation due to its zero level
creativity in marketing initiative.

39. Ans.

40. 13. It is historical account of the Indian National
Army published in 1959 by Col Hugh Toye. The book
was published in London by Cassell Publishers, and is
considered one of the first Sympathetic Western
accounts of the army.
This book presents the little known facts about the
World War II and the Anglo-Indian relations
during those periods. The author vividly describes
the life, philosophy, idealism, nationalism and
political astuteness of Subhash Chandra Bose.

43. 14. X is a 2012 Indian historical war drama film
directed by Bedabrata Pain. It stars Manoj Bajpayee in
the lead role and is based upon events of British
India's of a place in undivided Bengal(now in
Bangladesh)
It is the story of a diffident 14-year-old boy,
Jhunku (Subodh Roy) who gets arrested and is beaten
badly by Britishers during questioning however he
stays’ determined and gets sentenced to Kaala-Paani
for life custody, making him the worlds’ youngest
rebel leader, This movie won the 60th National Film
Award for the Best Debut Film of a Director.

44. Chittagong (2012)

45. 15. Founded in 1969 by Vishwanath, it competed
with Chandamama, one of the best selling magazines
of that time. It is fortnightly magazine for children
published by the Delhi Press Group.
Available in 8 different Indian languages, the
magzine is named after the tropical flower with
same name.
The magzine unlike others did not focus on a single
comic character but a character named Cheeku
gained wide popularity because of its witty nature.

48. 16. Founded in 1948, by Raghunandan Saran, an Indian
freedom fighter , who was persuaded by Nehru to invest in
a modern industrial venture. it is the 2nd largest commercial
vehicle manufacturer in India
Today the company is the flagship of the Hinduja
Group, a British-based and Indian originated trans-
national conglomerate.
In 2016, it initiated the ‘Road to School’ programme
for 4,108 students at 36 government schools in
remote locations of India.
(Hint on next slide)

51. Ashok Leyland

52. 17. Who coined these slogans ( 5 marks each)
• Jai Jawaan, Jai Kisaan
•Satyamev Jayathe
•Inquilab Zindabad
• Sare Jahan Se Acha, Hindustan Hamara
•The more we sweat in peace, the less we
bleed in war

54. •Jai Jawaan, Jai Kisaan- Lal Bahadur Shastri
• Satyamev Jayathe- Madan Mohan Malviye
•Inquilab Zindabad- Hasrat Mohini
•Sare Jahan Se Acha, Hindustan Hamara-
Allama Iqbal
•The more we sweat in peace, the less we bleed
in war- Vijaylaksmi Pandit

55. 18. “I promise to pay the bearer the sum of one rupee”
is not written on Re.1 note, Why?

57. The Coinage act 2011 includes "necessary
provisions for inclusion of Government of India one
rupee note within the meaning of ‘Coin’
Hence according to the act One Rupee Note is a
'coin'. Also, in accordance with the RBI Act 1934, RBI
can not mint coins. One rupee note is signed by the
finance secretary of India and it does not have the
words " I promise to pay the bearer" since it is
already an asset as it is considered as a coin.

58. 19. In the 1700s, during the invasion of Nadir Shah,
his troops passed through Punjab after plundering
Delhi and massacring thousands of Hindus and
Muslims and taking women captive along the way.
The Sikhs strategized to attack Shah's camp and free
the captive women. But since they were grossly
outnumbered by his huge army, the Sikhs refrained
from a frontal attack.
Instead, they used to surprise them with guerrilla
raids on their settlements and free as many women
as they could, and return them to safety.
Although, this event did not found any place in
history textbooks but gave a sarcastic phrase that is
widely used in a negative connotation. What
pharse?

60. Sardar ke 12 baj gye

61. 20. What has been blanked out?

64. Thank You!!