First India Quiz I conductive around one and a half years ago

1. FINALS

2. Scoring
 Direct Answer, bounce +10 -0
 Pounce- +15 -10

3. 1.
 Mohammad Chaman, a trader in Sadar
Bazaar in Delhi was irritated with his customer
during their first encounter (in May 2013). His
customer had wanted 300 units of an item at a
discounted price. From December 2013, the
item has become a rage and Chaman sold as
many as 3 lakh units. There is also a YouTube
video detailing how to make this item. What is
this item?

4. And the answer is….

5. Aam Aadmi topis
customer was Arvind Kejriwal

6. 2. FITB
 Born Margaret Elizabeth Noble was a Scots-
Irish social worker, author, teacher and a
disciple of Swami Vivekananda.
 From her father, from her college professor
etc. she learned many valuable lessons like –
service to mankind is the true service to God.
 Swami Vivekananda gave her the
name ________ (meaning "Dedicated to
God") when he initiated her into the vow
of Brahmacharya on 25 March 1898.

8. And the answer is….

9. Sister Nivedita

10. 3
 Being billed as "India's largest public arts
programme", it is in Mumbai and consists of a 3
km long display wall with works by over a
thousand artists curated by Rajeev Sethi.
 Called "Jaya He", it is part of a space
inaugurated by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh
in January 2014.
 Where exactly is this in Mumbai?

11. And the answer is….

12. At the new T2 terminal at Chhatrapati
Shivaji International Airport in
Mumbai.

13. 4.
 A bypoll was held for the Noksen assembly
constituency in Nagaland on Sept. 4, 2013.
This became the first major Indian election to
use the VVPAT system, which brings an
innovation to Indian elections.
 What is this system about?

14. And the answer is….

15. "VVPAT" stands for Voter Verifiable
Paper Audit Trail, allowing voters to
check that the EVM has recorded the
right vote, and generating a paper
trail that can be counted later if
needed.

16. 5. Id X.
 The name of this place X was coined following
the acquisition of land from 300 families from
local villages. 4000 acres of land was acquired
under the ‘1894 Land Acquisition Act’ to begin
the construction of the Viceroy’s house.
 This is a slightly elevated portion about 18 metres
higher than the surrounding area.
 This became the prime venue for protest against
series of gang rape incidents in Delhi
including 2012 Delhi gang rape case, where the
protesters made allegations of mis-governance
which had made the city highly unsafe for
women.

17. And the answer is….

18. Raisina Hill

19. 6. Id the depiction.
 The upper right hand holds a damaru. A specific hand
gesture (mudra) called is used to hold the drum. It
symbolizes sound originating creation or the beat of
the drum is the passage of time.
 The upper left hand contains Agni or fire, which
signifies destruction. The opposing concepts in the
upper hands show the counterpoise of creation and
destruction or the fire of life.
 The second right hand shows the Abhaya mudra
(meaning fearlessness ), bestowing protection from
both evil and ignorance to those who follow the
righteousness of dharma.
 The second left hand points towards the raised foot
which signifies ‘moksha’. It also points to the left foot
with the sign of the elephant which leads the way
through the jungle of ignorance.

20. And the answer is….

21. Lord Shiva as Natraja

22. 7.
 What is the collective name for the states
Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and
Bihar pointing towards backward economic
condition?
 This acronym was coined by Ashish Bose in the
mid 1980s, but now this depiction has started to
become outdated as some of these states are
growing faster than some of the more developed
states.

23. And the answer is….

24. Bimaru States

25. 8. Id him.
 Some suggest that aspiring to become a world leader,
he undermined the intelligence reports dating back to
1955 about Chinese preparations to defend its land
claim on ‘disputed areas.’
 He was responsible for India's lack of military
readiness and was forced to tender his resignation as
minister of defence in spite of Nehru protecting him by
first making him Minister of Defence production and
then Minister without portfolio.
 On 23 January 1957 he delivered an unprecedented
eight-hour speech defending India’s stand
on Kashmir. To date, the speech is the longest ever
delivered in the United Nations Security Council,
covering five hours of the 762nd meeting on 23
January, and two hours and forty-eight minutes on the
24th.

26. And the answer is….

27. V K Krishna Menon

28. 9. Who was Draupadi in this epic
‘cheerharan’?

29. And the answer is….

30. Satish Shah

31. 10. Id the singer(and lyricist) of this
lullaby from Life of Pi

32. And the answer is….

33. Bombay Jayshree

34. 11.
 He was born a Chitpavan Brahmin in Pune District to
a Marathi family. His father, Vinayak Vamanrao
_______, was a post office employee and his
mother was Lakshmi .
 At birth, he was named Ramachandra. Before he was
born, his parents had three sons and a daughter, with
all three boys dying in their infancy. Fearing a curse
that targeted male children, young Ramachandra was
brought up as a girl for the first few years of his life,
including having his nose pierced and being made to
wear a nose-ring .
 It was then that he earned his present name. ( Think
about nose-ring)
 After his younger brother was born, they switched to
treating him as a boy.

35. And the answer is….

36. Nathuram Godse

37. 12.
 As of October 1st 2013, there have been 95 men
and 22 women in this list. Among the men, the
first was the Indian Zeeshan Ali in 1990, while the
95th, an Italian named Daniele Bracciali, entered
the list in the last week of September 2013. The
most famous in this list is an Indian at 36th. As for
the women, the first was an Indonesian named
Yayuk Basuki in 1994, while the most well known
was a Czech-American at 9th.
 The person with whom this list is associated,
became the oldest to achieve something in 2013.
 What is this a list of?

38. And the answer is….

39. Leander Paes' doubles partners
(mens and mixed).

40. Exchange the sheets
 6 google earth images
 +5 for each correct identification
 +10 to the score if all corect

41. 1

42. 2

43. 3.

44. 4.

45. 5.

46. 6.

47. Exchange the sheets

48. And the answers are

49. Answers
 1. The Taj Mahal Palace Hotel, Mumbai
 2. Red Fort
 3. Pamban Bridge
 4. Meenakshi Temple
 5. Gomukh
 6. Supreme Court of India

50. Connect

51. 1. +40 -30 / +5 -0

52. 2. +30 -20 / +5 -0
 She made her film debut in Sevasadan in
1938. F.G. Natesa Iyer was the lead actor,
opposite to her.
 She also played the male role of Narada in
"Savitri" (1941) to raise money for
launching Kalki, her husband's nationalist Tamil
weekly
 Lata Mangeshkar called her Tapaswini.
Ustad Bade Ghulam Ali Khan termed
her Suswaralakshmi

53. 3. +25 -15 / +5 -0
 Rammanohar Lohia called her Gungi Gudiya,
which means 'Mute Doll'.
 Sam Manekshaw replied “ Anything for you my
sweetie” to her question whether he was ready to
fight on the eve of
IndoPak war of 1971.
 Married a Parsi
 ________ Awaas Yojana

54. 4. +20 -10 / 0
 Was born named Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu.
 Birthplace was Skopje, now capital of
the Republic of Macedonia, but at the time part of
the Ottoman Empire, to ethnic Albanian parents.
 Went on record saying, "By blood, I am Albanian.
By citizenship, an Indian. By faith, I am a Catholic
nun. As to my calling, I belong to the world. As to
my heart, I belong entirely to the Heart of Jesus."

55. 5. +10 -0 / 0
 She has recorded songs for over a
thousand Hindi films and has sung songs in over
thirty-six regional Indian languages and foreign
languages, though primarily in Hindi and Marathi.
 She is the elder sister of singers Asha
Bhonsle, Hridaynath Mangeshkar, Usha
Mangeshkar and Meena Mangeshkar.
 She was featured in the Guinness Book of World
Records from 1974 to 1991 for having made the
most recordings in the world.

56. Answers

57.  1. Aruna Asaf Ali +5
 2. M S Subbulakshmi +5
 3. Indira Gandhi +5
 4. Mother Teresa
 5. Lata Mangeshkar
Connect : the only 5 female Bharat Ratna
awardees.