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1. .
6. This structure is called Deekshabhoomi and wads
erected as a tribute to an event that took place on 14
April 1956. Indian Railways named a train
Deekshabhoomi Express after the event. What
event?

2. Answers in the next slide

3. ANSWERS
Ambedkar led several thousands
of his followers in a mass-
conversion to Buddhism at this
place.

4. .
7
What name familiar to all of
us was originally a term used
in the communications
industry to denote the
redistribution of radio and
television signals through
wired relay networks?

5. Answers in the next slide

6. ANSWERS
Rediffusion

7. .
8
This industry came to India via two
sources—Sweden and Japan. In the early
20th century, Iya Nadar and Shanmugha
Nadar travelled to Kolkata and figured
out how the Japanese model worked.
They transplanted it to their hometowns.
The industry they seeded is now
controlled by 18 families based out of two
small towns in South India. Name either
the industry or one of the small towns

8. Answers in the next slide

9. ANSWERS
Match Industry
The towns are Sivakasi and
Kovilpatti

10. .
9. This assembly resulted in a now ubiquitous
technique or practice. The effort won the
experimenter the Nobel Prize in Physics for 1971.
Name person or technique/ practice.

11. Answers in the next slide

12. ANSWERS
Denis Gabor and the
hologram/holography
equipment

13. .
10
In the early 1900s, the use of this
fashion accessory started to become
more widespread, especially among the
pioneering stars of silent movies. This
was because they often needed
shielding from the powerful arc lights
that were used due to the extremely
slow speed film stocks of those times.
Which accessory?

14. Answers in the next slide

15. ANSWERS
Wearing ‘cooling-glasses’ or
sunglasses

16. PHASE III
THEME

17. The Rules
6 questions
Answer in writing
10 points for every correct answer
25 points for cracking the theme on the first three
questions.
15 points for cracking the theme on Qns 4, 5 and 6.
Negatives of -5 for wrong guess on theme. No negatives
for wrong answers to individual questions
Raise your hand at any point to attempt theme: WRITE
down your guess.

18. 1.Which river was formed
when Lopamudra threw
herself off a peak named
Brahmagiri after a
disagreement with her
husband, the sage
Agastya?
25/-5

19. 2.
The Tamil epic Silappathikaram
begins in this once-famous port
city before moving on to events in
Madurai and thence to events in
the Chera country. Which port
city?
25/-5

20. 3. The 15th century X is a monument to the
love of Raja Mansingh Tomar for his
intrepid consort Y. Identify X and Y.
25/-5

21. 4. Seen below is the temple complex X, built by the
Vijayanagar kings. It takes its name from the small
village in which it is located, in Anantapur District .
Identify.
20/-5

22. 5
This Bollywood movie
tells a story that was
narrated in the Hindi
novel Vaishali ka
Nagarvadhu. The same
story also inspired an
Amar Chitra Katha
comic. Identify.
20/-5

23. 6. The source that this temple celebrates is
actually ten miles away. It was built late in the
19th century by a Jaipur king. Identify the place.
20/-5

24. Answers in the next slide

25. ANSWERS
1. The River Kaveri
2. Poompuhar
3. Gurjari Mahal and Mrignayani
4. Lepakshi in A.P.
5. Amrapali
6. Gangotri

26. THEME: Handicrafts Emporiums
of various Indian states.
1. Kaveri, Karnataka
2. Poompuhar, TN
3. Gurjari Mahal and Mrignayani, Gujarat and
MP
4. Lepakshi in A.P.
5. Amrapali, Bihar
6. Gangotri, UP

27. PHASE IV
Anticlockwise

28. The Rules
10 Questions
Infinite Bounce
10 points

29. .
1
This sporting accessory was made
available in a fluorescent shade
known as optic yellow after
research proved that it was more
visible on TV. The only other
allowed shade is white. Which
accessory that takes its name from
the sport?

30. Answers in the next slide

31. ANSWERS
The tennis ball

32. 3. What are they talking about: concentrate on Panel 2!
2. What questionable business practice are they
discussing?

33. Answers in the next slide

34. ANSWERS
Ponzi Schemes

35. 3. This idea was applied for the first time in
1988 to coffee, originating from the UCIRI
cooperative in Mexico that was imported by the
Dutch company Van Weely. What idea?

36. Answers in the next slide

37. ANSWERS
The Fairtrade label, indicating that
no questionable business
practices were followed.

38. 4. Ad for?

39. Answers in the next slide

40. ANSWERS
Ad for Red Bull

41. .
5. Which 20th century American
president is caricatured here? Also
identify the bald man in the suit.

42. Answers in the next slide

43. ANSWERS
Harry S Truman in the towel
and George Gallup who
predicted that Truman would
lose the elections.

44. .6. Richard Stephen Heyser died in
2008 October. Of his moment of
fame in 1962, he later said that he
was relieved that it didn’t cause
World War III. What did he do to
become so famous?

45. Answers in the next slide

46. ANSWERS
He was the U-2 pilot whose
photographs of secret Soviet
missile sites in Cuba caused the
Cuban Missile Crisis in the
1960s

47. .
7. Which country in Africa takes its
name in tribute to this ancient empire
(area in green)? The word translates to
‘warrior king’.

48. Answers in the next slide

49. ANSWERS
Ghana

50. 8
The family that made a fortune of
this product now runs Granta
magazine. It advertises under the
slogan “Protects What’s Good”
and uses the logo of a Greek
alpha within a triangle. What?

51. Answers in the next slide

52. ANSWERS
Tetrapak

53. .
9
What process, patented by Kusuma
Rangaiah, works by extracting
material after the Bombyx mori pupa
has outgrown its chrysalis rather
than by extracting it beforehand?

54. Answers in the next slide

55. ANSWERS
Ahimsa Silk

56. .
10.
This psychological disorder is a
hyphenated phrase often
abbreviated to a three letter form.
The first two words are often used
by themselves to dismiss people
who tend to be perfectionists.
What disorder?

57. Answers in the next slide

58. ANSWERS
OCD or Obsessive-Compulsive
Disorder.