Pakistan Themed quiz conducted by Abhishek Upadhya for KQA in October 2015

1. Jinnah Tonic
Pakistan Open Quiz 2015
Logik urf Abhishek Upadhya
25th Oct

4. Rules
• Teams of up to 2 members
• Use of mobile phones, and any other Internet connectivity devices during the duration of this
quiz, is strictly discouraged, at risk of disqualification. So is collaborative efforts with people not
belonging to your team. 
• Write your names and team names on the answer sheet.
• ‘Star and Crescent’ questions will be used to arbitrate ties. Mentioned on the slides. Please
mark them on the answer sheet.
• Answers only on the paper, please. No need to shout it out. 
• Part points as mentioned on the slides.

5. 1.
• Like how a certain composer is known by the alliterative epithet “Mozart of Madras”, a
world-famous singer is known by an alliterative epithet that references the country and
another powerful-voiced singer from a different country.
• “The Independent” called him “The Fourth and the Largest”.
• Give the Epithet in the alliterative X of Y format. (1 point)

6. Blank Slide

7. 2.
• Predominantly found in Afghanistan, and areas bordering Afghanistan-Pakistan, these
trucks are flat-bed vehicles painted with intricate patterns and bright colours. They get their
name from the chimes that dangle and ring from base of the vehicle whenever it moves. What
are they called?

8. 2.

9. Blank Slide

10. 3.
• NYTimes bestseller for four years from 2006.
• “One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time”
is a book by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin.
• Story is of Greg who tries to climb K2, fails and lands in a
Village of Korphe and gets inspired to build schools. Many
Sources later called him a fraud saying he fabricated the
whole thing.
• The title of the book comes from a Baltistan saying
The first time you share ____ with a Balti, you are a stranger
The second time, you are an honoured guest.
The third time, you become family.
Name the Book.

11. 3.

12. Blank Slide

13. 4.
• Spike Milligan’s 1969 sitcom “Curry and Chips”.
He put on a blackface to play the role of
Kevin O’ Grady, a “foreigner” from Pakistan
who says that he is Irish. Although the show’s
creators claimed that this show fought against
prejudice, many of their laughs came from racist
jokes.
On the show, Kevin O’Grady was mocked by a
two-word alliterative name that was doubly racist,
using an offensive demonym for each country.
Give the alias. (1 point)

14. Blank Slide

15. 5.
• After Partition, this ethnically diverse group of Muslim, Urdu-speaking Immigrants
shifted to Sindh. They became politically dominant in Sindh, and found the X Quami
Mahaz ( Immigrant People’s movement).
• Prominent members include Pervez Musharaff, Nazia Hassan, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
etc.
• What word that means Refugee in Urdu is used to refer to this group?

16. Blank Slide

17. 6.
• The annual tournament is held on Shandur Top.
• The field – the highest polo field in the world at 12,000 feet – was used for centuries in a
traditional form of the sport with the two sides playing beneath the moon, until the contest
was formalised by Major Evelyn Cobb, a British officer, in 1936.
• The event marks the annual rivalry between two polo teams. Shandur Pass lies nearly
equidistant between the two towns/regions.
• Michael Palin covered this tournament in his
2004 travel series Himalaya. A map follows in
the next slide.
• Which two towns/regions?(2 points)

18. 6.

19. 6.

20. Blank Slide

21. 7.
• With the tagline, "Like, Share & Eat“, these snacks have become very popular, a viral sensation
of sorts in the Swat valley.
• Name the snack.

22. Blank Slide

23. 8.
• This is known as Kashmiri Chai/Pink Chai and is made using special tea leaves, milk, salt, baking
soda, pistachios, almonds, cardamom, and cinnamon and cooked in a samovar.
• One popular/proper name for it is Noon Chai, and an ingredient change to the original recipe in
recent times might render this name
pointless.
• Why Noon Chai?

24. Blank Slide

25. 9.
• Jinnah went to Dhaka in March 1948 and delivered two speeches, and these were to finally
address a raging debate that was happening in the Muslim League about a decision. Even
though the decision was in favour of less than 10% of Pakistanis, it became official anyway.
Protests in Dhaka about this decision.
• Put Funda/What Decision?

26. Blank Slide

27. 10.
• Rumour has it that Field Marshal Ayub Khan’s autobiography was largely ghost-written by his
trusted information secretary Altaf Gauhar. It was first published by Oxford University Press in
1967. The book discusses the army, his
Diplomacy and Foreign Policy with USA and China, and lots of
Internal Politics.
• The title of the book is reinforced through his quote
“People in Developing Countries seek assistance,
but on the basis of mutual respect, they want to have
_____ not ______”
• Title?

28. Blank Slide

29. 11.
• Excerpts from Kuldip Nayar’s book Scoop!
• Who?
• “I had no alternative; the time at my disposal was so short that I could not do a better job.
Given the same period I would do the same thing. However, if I had two to three years, I might
have improved on what I did”.
• “It was impossible to undertake the field survey in June because of the heat”
• Four more people involved were Mehar Chand Mahajan, Teja Singh, Din Mohammed and
Mohammed Munir – all judges.

30. Blank Slide

31. 12.
• Sabir Nazar’s (Editorial cartoonist for 'The Friday Times' and daily 'Pakistan Today‘)
interpretation of what?

32. Blank Slide

33. 13.
• In an interview to the BBC, this chap recounted an eventful match.
• [ “Every session I went in, he was padded up. Sleeping somewhere in the corner, reading or
watching TV”.
• He asked “How long should I be padded up”. I said “Just wait”. ]
• He waited, padded, for some 7 hours, for a non-show. And everybody laughed at him later.
• Who he?

34. Blank Slide

35. 14.
• View from which Railway Station in India?

36. Blank Slide

37. 15.
• The basic tune was composed by her, and he was so taken by her rendering of his words that
he symbolically gifted her the poem. Asif Siddiqi, a chartered accountant whose family migrated
to Sindh from Varanasi, recalls in his book Mani & I: Memoirs of a Banarasi Karachiite that when
he asked him to recite the verse at an Annual All India-Pakistan Mushaira, the poet replied,
“Bhai, ab who geet mera kahan raha? Unka ho gaya.” That song is no longer mine. It belongs to
her.
• Who and Who?(2 points)
• http://www.nospoiler.com/y/iaVI4U1Trtw

38. Blank Slide

39. 16.
• He was a Pashtun poet, warrior and scholar, and a Khattak tribe-chieftain. The National Poet of
Afghanistan, he is considered the father of Pashto Literature. An express train that runs
between Karachi and Peshawar is known by his name (KKK Express). Id this chap whose first
name means Happy in Pashtun (and in Hindi ).

40. Blank Slide

41. 17.
• “Teri hai zameen, Tera aasmaa”, “Ae malik tere bande hum”, and one song that also featured in
an early 70s Bollywood/Hindi film are stereotypical variants of this in India.
• In Pakistan, it is "Lab pe aati he dua" - played in the audio. This was composed by a poet who
also composed Taraana-e-Hind.
• http://www.nospoiler.com/y/kBzXqfwqgjo
• (2 points)
• What is the stereotype/occasion associated with these songs?
• Which is the early 70s Bollywood/Hindi film song?
• Lyricist/Poet of Lab pe aati he dua?
• By What name do Indians know Taraana-e-Hind?

42. Blank Slide

43. 18.
• Id the two, one on a state visit and the other hosting him (who was soon exiled)
• Ok, give what you may think are their surnames – but are actually honorific titles.
• (2 points)

44. Blank Slide

45. 19.
• Despite their lack of background in the game, the project was quite inclusive. Mohinder
Amarnath, recruited as their national coach had persuaded nine football clubs to set up cricket
teams in the previous three years, which had attracted some 400 active players. Leaflets
explaining the lbw law in French were handed out in the city. Which ICC venue that played host
to a tournament involving Pakistan, with their home matches effectively shelved after a blast
involving NZ team?

46. Blank Slide

47. 20.
• Cricketer mourning the Death of the first Squash legend from Naway Kalli’s Squash dynasty. He
was a seven time British Open champion, and his cousin’s son was Jahangir Khan.
• Name the cricketer who hails from the same village, and this Squash legend. (2 points)

48. Blank Slide

49. 21.
• For the 25th anniversary of this event, Mikko Hypponen, Chief Research Officer at F-Secure,
travelled to the city of Lahore in Pakistan to find the authors.
• Today they run a successful Internet Service Provider business called ___Telecommunication
Ltd.
• FITB.

50. 21.

51. Blank Slide

52. 22.
• U.S Embassy building while under construction in the late 50s. This $2mn building was almost
immediately used as the U.S Consulate General’s office, U.S Information office, and Military
Assistance Mission etc, instead of the original purpose. This building has gone through multiple
bombings and burnings etc.
• Why wasn’t it used for its original purpose as the Embassy?

53. Blank Slide

54. 23.
• L.A Times Cartoon showing a dark ballet interpretation of
which event?

55. Blank Slide

56. 24.
• Since the mid-1980s, this town/city has had its own customs office, which means the
manufacturers don't have to transport their goods to the port of Karachi. They call the freight
center their "dry port.“. The city opened a modern airport to allow folks from Adidas, Nike,
Puma and Co to fly straight to the town and to receive particularly urgently needed supplies per
air freight.
• According to legend, the success story of this town as world capital of this production started
with a man, a poor cobbler, who repaired for British colonial military officers about a century
ago, and then began making his own.
• Which city?

57. Blank Slide

58. 25.
• Who describing the inspiration behind what? (1 point)
• “Sacchi Mohabbat jo hoti hai, woh aankhon zariyan bayaan hoti hai, aur dil mein utar thi hai”
• “True Love starts from the Eyes and transcends to the Heart”

59. Blank Slide

60. 26.
• In the “50 years of Pakistan” series published in 1998, by Federal Bureau of Statistics, who was
officially declared as the “First Citizen of Pakistan”? The idea was to give a proper Islamic
foundation to the existence of Pakistan, that was independent and much older than 1947.

61. Blank Slide

62. 27.
• Three words all starting from the same letter. Name all. (2 points. 2 out of 3 for 1 pt)
• English : A) In Arabic Old and Contemporary Poetry, the _ _ _ _ _ _ _ (7) is a symbol of female
beauty. Its comparison with the beloved is “one of the major topoi of traditional Arabic Love
Poetry”. The virgins of paradise, Houris, are by definition girls with large eyes similar to those of
A)
• Arabic : B) Some linguists even relate the Arabic origin word of A) with the arabic word B) _ _ _
_ _ _ (6) meaning Love Poetry. So such
Love poems exist.
• English: C) The Antilopinae Subfamily’s endangered
species subgutturosa in Pakistan has a common name
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ (8) refers to the male
having an enlargement of the neck and throat during the
mating season. Though it doesn’t have the
disease, it looks like it.

63. Blank Slide

64. 28.
• Who? Or What incident is this once-unfortunately-turned-celeb, but now-truly-celeb talking
about?
• Whose movie appearance propelled the above chap to become a proper-celeb now, after his
initial moment of infamy? (2 points)
• “Many bigwigs in journalism have made mistakes, but they enjoyed impunity. I was targeted
because I am a junior. When politicians participate in TV shows, they break glasses, hurl abuses
and punch each other, the rating goes up. The same politicians are invited again on TV.”
• “It is unfortunate that nothing has been done to train our journalists. I entered the profession
after obtaining a Masters degree. I am fluent in many languages spoken in this country,
including Urdu, Sindhi, Punjabi, Balouchi, Persian and Arabic, but the right to be hired on merit
was denied to me.”
• “Today, almost all Pakistani TV channels have offered me a job. I am also being asked to act in
Bollywood movies. Some foreign TV channels have sent me contract letters, saying they would
be pleased to hire me.”

65. Blank Slide

66. 29.
• Zohaib Hassan Khan,born and raised in Lahore, is from a long lineage of Sarangi Ustads dating
to the 17th century. Trained under the Amritsari Gharana, his extended family includes legends
like Ustad Peeru Khan, Ustad Nathu Khan and Ustad Hussain Baksh Amritsari.
• The Amritsari Gharana uses a different approach to Sarangi playing compared to other
gharanas. An approach said to be its Khasusiyat/Speciality. Here are two renditions of Megh,
• By Zohaib Khan : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZ_ccZZGERI
• By Sabir Khan from the Sikar Gharana in Rajasthan :
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPadQ1yFl_Y
• What’s this difference in approach that is said to create more combinations?

67. Blank Slide

68. 30.
• This is Zia Ul Haq’s tomb at Shah Faisal Mosque in Islamabad. The bus-stand next to this tomb is
referred to by locals/cabbies as Jabda/Jabra Chowk.
• Put funda for the name Jabra chowk.

69. Blank Slide

70. 31.
• The oldest continuing industrial enterprise of Pakistan is Murree Brewery. It has been brewing
at various locations since 1860, chief of them being the hillstation of Murree. The first General
Manager of this company is well-known to us from another brewing context. His son, infamous
in History, was born in Murree.
• Name the father/General Manager.(1 point)
• Although Pakistan has strict Prohibition laws, the legal definition allows for two sets of people
to be non-punishable consumers. Who are these? (1 point. part pts available)

71. 31.

72. Blank Slide

73. 32.
• This dish which is originally called ‘Tawa Gurda Kapoora’ is favourite of Lahorites. It is prepared
by frying the kidneys and testicles of sheep or goat in a large pan.
• The name of the dish refers to the special sound which comes from the pan in which the organs
are fried, when it is hit in a special rhythm and pattern by the chef. On the big frying pan, the
typical items for are also kept on one side. The eater can select any item of his or her choice
from kidney, testicles, heart and brain.
• Additional clue is that a Pakistani Death Metal band has the same name as the dish – They used
to be known as Brain Masala earlier but changed it because another Pakistani pop-rock band
had the same name. Clearly the dish connection runs strong.
• http://www.nospoiler.com/y/pVYElxUXuB4
• Give the 7-letter onomatopoeic name.

74. 32.

75. Blank Slide

76. 33.
• Punjab government (of Pakistan)/Lahore has banned this activity since 2005, on the basis that it
resulted in deaths when throats were slit — most notably involving people riding on
motorbikes. Festivals, petitions to cancel the ban etc have had no impact, and the ban is still
active. Chemicals, Metals, Stiff Competition and Rivalries, Electrocutions, Stray Celebratory
Gunshots have been blamed as well.
• Paranoid Drivers even keep arched bows on their bikes to prevent such throat-slitting.
• What common activity?

77. Blank Slide

78. 34.
• In 2008, When the controversial video clip showing cartoons of Muhammad was aired in
Pakistan, as part of its effort to block YouTube within the country, Pakistan Telecom created a
dummy route that essentially discarded YouTube traffic, sending it into what Internet experts
call a black hole.
• Pakistan Telecom then announced that dummy route to its telecommunications partner, PCCW,
based in Hong Kong, since PCCW had to reroute Pakistani Youtube traffic to this dummy route.
• What happened next for a short-period of two hours?

79. Blank Slide

80. 35.
• “Abdul Bari had run out of luck. Like thousands of other people in East Bengal, he had made the
mistake - the fatal mistake - of running within sight of a Pakistani patrol. He was 24 years old, a
slight man surrounded by soldiers. He was trembling because he was about to be shot.”
• So starts one of the most influential pieces of South Asian journalism of the past half century.
• Written by a Pakistani reporter, and printed in the UK's Sunday Times, it exposed for the first
time the scale of the Pakistan army's brutal campaign to suppress its breakaway eastern
province in 1971.
• Either name him, or the hard-hitting one-word English title
he used as the headline of his Exposé.

81. 35.

82. Blank Slide

83. 36.
• Identify these two Pakistani official Seals/Logos?( 2 points)

84. Blank Slide

85. 37.
• Screengrab from the Passport application form in Pakistan.
• Whose name has been blanked out? (1 point) [ Name of followers for part points]

86. Blank Slide

87. 38.
• Developed by the Pakistani Economist Mahbub Ul Haq and influenced by some theories from
Amartya Sen, this was created to emphasize that people and their capabilities should be the
ultimate criteria for assessing the development of a country, not economic growth alone. What
Ranking metric is this?

88. Blank Slide

89. 39.
• From “Around the World on Pan Am” advertisement series. This featuring Karachi.
• Whose work?

90. Blank Slide

91. 40.
• Independence Day Stamps:
What is commonly indicated by some old Pakistani stamps
like these, that was eventually changed after a year of
Independence.

92. Blank Slide

93. Answers Follow

94. https://www.facebook.com/kqaquizzes
https://twitter.com/kqaquizzes
KQA on the Interwebz.

95. 1.
• Like how a certain composer is known by the alliterative epithet “Mozart of Madras”, a
world-famous singer is known by an alliterative epithet that references the country and
another powerful-voiced singer from a different country.
• “The Independent” called him “The Fourth and the Largest”.
• Give the Epithet in the alliterative X of Y format. (1 point)

96. Blank Slide

97. 1.
• Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
• Pavarotti of Pakistan

98. 2.
• Predominantly found in Afghanistan, and areas bordering Afghanistan-Pakistan, these
trucks are flat-bed vehicles painted with intricate patterns and bright colours. They get their
name from the chimes that dangle and ring from base of the vehicle whenever it moves. What
are they called?

99. 2.

100. Blank Slide

101. 2.
• Jingle Trucks

102. 3.
• NYTimes bestseller for four years from 2006.
• “One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time”
is a book by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin.
• Story is of Greg who tries to climb K2, fails and lands in a
Village of Korphe and gets inspired to build schools. Many
Sources later called him a fraud saying he fabricated the
whole thing.
• The title of the book comes from a Baltistan saying
The first time you share ____ with a Balti, you are a stranger
The second time, you are an honoured guest.
The third time, you become family.
Name the Book.

103. 3.

104. Blank Slide

105. 3.
• Three Cups of Tea

106. 4.
• Spike Milligan’s 1969 sitcom “Curry and Chips”.
He put on a blackface to play the role of
Kevin O’ Grady, a “foreigner” from Pakistan
who says that he is Irish. Although the show’s
creators claimed that this show fought against
prejudice, many of their laughs came from racist
jokes.
On the show, Kevin O’Grady was mocked by a
two-word alliterative name that was doubly racist,
using an offensive demonym for each country.
Give the alias. (1 point)

107. Blank Slide

108. 4.
• Paki-Paddy
• The show was cancelled after just 6 episodes, we wonder why.

109. 5.
• After Partition, this ethnically diverse group of Muslim, Urdu-speaking Immigrants
shifted to Sindh. They became politically dominant in Sindh, and found the X Quami
Mahaz ( Immigrant People’s movement).
• Prominent members include Pervez Musharaff, Nazia Hassan, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
etc.
• What word that means Refugee in Urdu is used to refer to this group?

110. Blank Slide

111. 5.
• Muhajir/Mahajir/Mohajir
• (All Qaddafi variant spellings are acceptable)

112. 6.
• The annual tournament is held on Shandur Top.
• The field – the highest polo field in the world at 12,000 feet – was used for centuries in a
traditional form of the sport with the two sides playing beneath the moon, until the contest
was formalised by Major Evelyn Cobb, a British officer, in 1936.
• The event marks the annual rivalry between two polo teams. Shandur Pass lies nearly
equidistant between the two towns/regions.
• Michael Palin covered this tournament in his
2004 travel series Himalaya. A map follows in
the next slide.
• Which two towns/regions?(2 points)

113. 6.

114. 6.

115. Blank Slide

116. 6.
• Chitral and Gilgit

117. 7.
• With the tagline, "Like, Share & Eat“, these snacks have become very popular, a viral sensation
of sorts in the Swat valley.
• Name the snack.

118. Blank Slide

119. 7.
• Facebook snacks

120. 8.
• This is known as Kashmiri Chai/Pink Chai and is made using special tea leaves, milk, salt, baking
soda, pistachios, almonds, cardamom, and cinnamon and cooked in a samovar.
• One popular/proper name for it is Noon Chai, and an ingredient change to the original recipe in
recent times might render this name
pointless.
• Why Noon Chai?

121. Blank Slide

122. 8.
• Noon means Salt in multiple languages (Kashmiri, Rajasthani, Bengali etc)
• Making a sugary variant of this will make the name useless.

123. 9.
• Jinnah went to Dhaka in March 1948 and delivered two speeches, and these were to finally
address a raging debate that was happening in the Muslim League about a decision. Even
though the decision was in favour of less than 10% of Pakistanis, it became official anyway.
Protests in Dhaka about this decision.
• Put Funda/What Decision?

124. Blank Slide

125. 9.
• Urdu becoming the National Language of Pakistan.
• Protests happened when a road-sign in Dhaka was changed from Bengali to Urdu.
Incidentally, Jinnah delivered both his speeches in English.

126. 10.
• Rumour has it that Field Marshal Ayub Khan’s autobiography was largely ghost-written by his
trusted information secretary Altaf Gauhar. It was first published by Oxford University Press in
1967. The book discusses the army, his
Diplomacy and Foreign Policy with USA and China, and lots of
Internal Politics.
• The title of the book is reinforced through his quote
“People in Developing Countries seek assistance,
but on the basis of mutual respect, they want to have
_____ not ______”
• Title?

127. Blank Slide

128. 10.
• Friends Not Masters

129. 11.
• Excerpts from Kuldip Nayar’s book Scoop!
• Who?
• “I had no alternative; the time at my disposal was so short that I could not do a better job.
Given the same period I would do the same thing. However, if I had two to three years, I might
have improved on what I did”.
• “It was impossible to undertake the field survey in June because of the heat”
• Four more people involved were Mehar Chand Mahajan, Teja Singh, Din Mohammed and
Mohammed Munir – all judges.

130. Blank Slide

131. 11.
• Lord Cyril Radcliffe
• More gems from the interview
• “I nearly gave you Lahore.But then I realised that Pakistan would not have any large city. I had
already earmarked Calcutta for India.“
• "If aspirations of some people had not been fulfilled, the fault must be found in political
arrangements with which I am not concerned."
• One Muslim member hailing from East Bengal, Radicliffe told me, came to him in private and
pleaded for Darjeeling’s inclusion in Pakistan. ‘My family goes to Darjeeling every summer and
it would be hard on us if the place went to India.’

132. 12.
• Sabir Nazar’s (Editorial cartoonist for 'The Friday Times' and daily 'Pakistan Today‘)
interpretation of what?

133. Blank Slide

134. 12.
• Arab Spring

135. 13.
• In an interview to the BBC, this chap recounted an eventful match.
• [ “Every session I went in, he was padded up. Sleeping somewhere in the corner, reading or
watching TV”.
• He asked “How long should I be padded up”. I said “Just wait”. ]
• He waited, padded, for some 7 hours, for a non-show. And everybody laughed at him later.
• Who he?

136. Blank Slide

137. 13.
• Wasim Akram talking about Waqar Younis during the match against Zimbabwe in
which Wasim hit 257*. Waqar waited for 7 hours and eventually got out for a duck.

138. 14.
• View from which Railway Station in India?

139. Blank Slide

140. 14.
• Attari Railway Station, the last Indian railway station before Pakistan borders.

141. 15.
• The basic tune was composed by her, and he was so taken by her rendering of his words that
he symbolically gifted her the poem. Asif Siddiqi, a chartered accountant whose family migrated
to Sindh from Varanasi, recalls in his book Mani & I: Memoirs of a Banarasi Karachiite that when
he asked him to recite the verse at an Annual All India-Pakistan Mushaira, the poet replied,
“Bhai, ab who geet mera kahan raha? Unka ho gaya.” That song is no longer mine. It belongs to
her.
• Who and Who?(2 points)
• http://www.nospoiler.com/y/iaVI4U1Trtw

142. Blank Slide

143. 15.
• Madam Noor Jehan, and Faiz Ahmed Faiz

144. 16.
• He was a Pashtun poet, warrior and scholar, and a Khattak tribe-chieftain. The National Poet of
Afghanistan, he is considered the father of Pashto Literature. An express train that runs
between Karachi and Peshawar is known by his name (KKK Express). Id this chap whose first
name means Happy in Pashtun (and in Hindi ).

145. Blank Slide

146. 16.
• Khushal Khan Khattak

147. 17.
• “Teri hai zameen, Tera aasmaa”, “Ae malik tere bande hum”, and one song that also featured in
an early 70s Bollywood/Hindi film are stereotypical variants of this in India.
• In Pakistan, it is "Lab pe aati he dua" - played in the audio. This was composed by a poet who
also composed Taraana-e-Hind.
• http://www.nospoiler.com/y/kBzXqfwqgjo
• (2 points)
• What is the stereotype/occasion associated with these songs?
• Which is the early 70s Bollywood/Hindi film song?
• Lyricist/Poet of Lab pe aati he dua?
• By What name do Indians know Taraana-e-Hind?

148. Blank Slide

149. 17.
• Sung at School Prayer/Assemblies
• Hum ko Monkey Shakti dena
• Muhammad Iqbal/ Allama Iqbal
• Saare Jahan se Accha

150. 18.
• Id the two, one on a state visit and the other hosting him (who was soon exiled)
• Ok, give what you may think are their surnames – but are actually honorific titles.
• (2 points)

151. Blank Slide

152. 18.
• Shah of Iran (Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi)
• Iskander Ali Mirza (Mirza is a title not a surname)

153. 19.
• Despite their lack of background in the game, the project was quite inclusive. Mohinder
Amarnath, recruited as their national coach had persuaded nine football clubs to set up cricket
teams in the previous three years, which had attracted some 400 active players. Leaflets
explaining the lbw law in French were handed out in the city. Which ICC venue that played host
to a tournament involving Pakistan, with their home matches effectively shelved after a blast
involving NZ team?

154. Blank Slide

155. 19.
• National Cricket Stadium, Tangier, Morocco

156. 20.
• Cricketer mourning the Death of the first Squash legend from Naway Kalli’s Squash dynasty. He
was a seven time British Open champion, and his cousin’s son was Jahangir Khan.
• Name the cricketer who hails from the same village, and this Squash legend. (2 points)

157. Blank Slide

158. 20.
• Umar Gul
• Hashim Khan

159. 21.
• For the 25th anniversary of this event, Mikko Hypponen, Chief Research Officer at F-Secure,
travelled to the city of Lahore in Pakistan to find the authors.
• Today they run a successful Internet Service Provider business called ___Telecommunication
Ltd.
• FITB.

160. 21.

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162. 21.
• Brain, one of the earliest Computer Viruses. Written in Pakistan in 1986 and spread worldwide,
they put their Office address in the code – The same address where they still run their company
from.

163. 22.
• U.S Embassy building while under construction in the late 50s. This $2mn building was almost
immediately used as the U.S Consulate General’s office, U.S Information office, and Military
Assistance Mission etc, instead of the original purpose. This building has gone through multiple
bombings and burnings etc.
• Why wasn’t it used for its original purpose as the Embassy?

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165. 22.
• Pakistan’s capital shifted to Rawalpindi that year, and eventually to the newly designed Capital-
city of Islamabad.
• This Embassy building in Karachi(non-capital city) would become useless.

166. 23.
• L.A Times Cartoon showing a dark ballet interpretation of
which event?

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168. 23.
• Zia Ul Haq executing former Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

169. 24.
• Since the mid-1980s, this town/city has had its own customs office, which means the
manufacturers don't have to transport their goods to the port of Karachi. They call the freight
center their "dry port.“. The city opened a modern airport to allow folks from Adidas, Nike,
Puma and Co to fly straight to the town and to receive particularly urgently needed supplies per
air freight.
• According to legend, the success story of this town as world capital of this production started
with a man, a poor cobbler, who repaired for British colonial military officers about a century
ago, and then began making his own.
• Which city?

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171. 24.
• Sialkot, hub of the global soccer/football production industry

172. 25.
• Who describing the inspiration behind what? (1 point)
• “Sacchi Mohabbat jo hoti hai, woh aankhon zariyan bayaan hoti hai, aur dil mein utar thi hai”
• “True Love starts from the Eyes and transcends to the Heart”

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174. 25.
• Taher Shah, of Eye-to-Eye fame.

175. 26.
• In the “50 years of Pakistan” series published in 1998, by Federal Bureau of Statistics, who was
officially declared as the “First Citizen of Pakistan”? The idea was to give a proper Islamic
foundation to the existence of Pakistan, that was independent and much older than 1947.

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177. 26.
• Muhammad bin Qasim, who defeated the Pirates of Sindh and brought Islam to the
subcontinent.

178. 27.
• Three words all starting from the same letter. Name all. (2 points. 2 out of 3 for 1 pt)
• English : A) In Arabic Old and Contemporary Poetry, the _ _ _ _ _ _ _ (7) is a symbol of female
beauty. Its comparison with the beloved is “one of the major topoi of traditional Arabic Love
Poetry”. The virgins of paradise, Houris, are by definition girls with large eyes similar to those of
A)
• Arabic : B) Some linguists even relate the Arabic origin word of A) with the arabic word B) _ _ _
_ _ _ (6) meaning Love Poetry. So such
Love poems exist.
• English: C) The Antilopinae Subfamily’s endangered
species subgutturosa in Pakistan has a common name
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ (8) refers to the male
having an enlargement of the neck and throat during the
mating season. Though it doesn’t have the
disease, it looks like it.

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180. 27.
• Gazelle
• Ghazal
• Goitered (Goitered Gazelle, Gazella subgutturosa)

181. 28.
• Who? Or What incident is this once-unfortunately-turned-celeb, but now-truly-celeb talking
about?
• Whose movie appearance propelled the above chap to become a proper-celeb now, after his
initial moment of infamy? (2 points)
• “Many bigwigs in journalism have made mistakes, but they enjoyed impunity. I was targeted
because I am a junior. When politicians participate in TV shows, they break glasses, hurl abuses
and punch each other, the rating goes up. The same politicians are invited again on TV.”
• “It is unfortunate that nothing has been done to train our journalists. I entered the profession
after obtaining a Masters degree. I am fluent in many languages spoken in this country,
including Urdu, Sindhi, Punjabi, Balouchi, Persian and Arabic, but the right to be hired on merit
was denied to me.”
• “Today, almost all Pakistani TV channels have offered me a job. I am also being asked to act in
Bollywood movies. Some foreign TV channels have sent me contract letters, saying they would
be pleased to hire me.”

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183. 28.
• Chaand Nawab of Cantonment station viral video fame.
• “karachi se apno mey eid manane k lea log androoni mulk ja rahe hai, kamera man Muhammad
Abdullah k saath CHAND NAWAB KARACHIiii !” fame.
• Nawazuddin Siddiqui playing a character based on him in Bajrangi Bhaijaan

184. 29.
• Zohaib Hassan Khan,born and raised in Lahore, is from a long lineage of Sarangi Ustads dating
to the 17th century. Trained under the Amritsari Gharana, his extended family includes legends
like Ustad Peeru Khan, Ustad Nathu Khan and Ustad Hussain Baksh Amritsari.
• The Amritsari Gharana uses a different approach to Sarangi playing compared to other
gharanas. An approach said to be its Khasusiyat/Speciality. Here are two renditions of Megh,
• By Zohaib Khan : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZ_ccZZGERI
• By Sabir Khan from the Sikar Gharana in Rajasthan :
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPadQ1yFl_Y
• What’s this difference in approach that is said to create more combinations?

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186. 29.
• Zohaib Khan is part of the rare breed who still use the four-fingered approach to Sarangi
playing. Almost everyone else have switched to the three-fingered approach.

187. 30.
• This is Zia Ul Haq’s tomb at Shah Faisal Mosque in Islamabad. The bus-stand next to this tomb is
referred to by locals/cabbies as Jabda/Jabra Chowk.
• Put funda for the name Jabra chowk.

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189. 30.
• Jabra/Jabda means Jawbone. The only body part that could be identified as clearly belonging to
the dictator following the plane crash, this is said to be placed in his tomb as the only remaining
piece of him.

190. 31.
• The oldest continuing industrial enterprise of Pakistan is Murree Brewery. It has been brewing
at various locations since 1860, chief of them being the hillstation of Murree. The first General
Manager of this company is well-known to us from another brewing context. His son, infamous
in History, was born in Murree.
• Name the father/General Manager.(1 point)
• Although Pakistan has strict Prohibition laws, the legal definition allows for two sets of people
to be non-punishable consumers. Who are these? (1 point. part pts available)

191. 31.

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193. 31.
• Edward Dyer (Of Mohan-Meakin Breweries and Old Monk fame), and responsible for the birth
of General Reginald Dyer.
• Non-Muslim Foreigner
• Non-Muslim Citizens of Pakistan
• Bonus question: Who is this?

194. 32.
• This dish which is originally called ‘Tawa Gurda Kapoora’ is favourite of Lahorites. It is prepared
by frying the kidneys and testicles of sheep or goat in a large pan.
• The name of the dish refers to the special sound which comes from the pan in which the organs
are fried, when it is hit in a special rhythm and pattern by the chef. On the big frying pan, the
typical items for are also kept on one side. The eater can select any item of his or her choice
from kidney, testicles, heart and brain.
• Additional clue is that a Pakistani Death Metal band has the same name as the dish – They used
to be known as Brain Masala earlier but changed it because another Pakistani pop-rock band
had the same name. Clearly the dish connection runs strong.
• http://www.nospoiler.com/y/pVYElxUXuB4
• Give the 7-letter onomatopoeic name.

195. 32.

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197. 32.
• Takatak

198. 33.
• Punjab government (of Pakistan)/Lahore has banned this activity since 2005, on the basis that it
resulted in deaths when throats were slit — most notably involving people riding on
motorbikes. Festivals, petitions to cancel the ban etc have had no impact, and the ban is still
active. Chemicals, Metals, Stiff Competition and Rivalries, Electrocutions, Stray Celebratory
Gunshots have been blamed as well.
• Paranoid Drivers even keep arched bows on their bikes to prevent such throat-slitting.
• What common activity?

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200. 33.
• Kite-flying. The ban was temporarily lifted during Basant in 2007, but resulted in 11 deaths.

201. 34.
• In 2008, When the controversial video clip showing cartoons of Muhammad was aired in
Pakistan, as part of its effort to block YouTube within the country, Pakistan Telecom created a
dummy route that essentially discarded YouTube traffic, sending it into what Internet experts
call a black hole.
• Pakistan Telecom then announced that dummy route to its telecommunications partner, PCCW,
based in Hong Kong, since PCCW had to reroute Pakistani Youtube traffic to this dummy route.
• What happened next for a short-period of two hours?

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203. 34.
• PCCW accepted that dummy route for YouTube and relayed it to other Internet providers
around the world, resulting in a Global Youtube outage for 2 hours.
• The BGP chooses longer routes, and around 97 major ISPs and thousands of smaller ones chose
the dummy route instead.

204. 35.
• “Abdul Bari had run out of luck. Like thousands of other people in East Bengal, he had made the
mistake - the fatal mistake - of running within sight of a Pakistani patrol. He was 24 years old, a
slight man surrounded by soldiers. He was trembling because he was about to be shot.”
• So starts one of the most influential pieces of South Asian journalism of the past half century.
• Written by a Pakistani reporter, and printed in the UK's Sunday Times, it exposed for the first
time the scale of the Pakistan army's brutal campaign to suppress its breakaway eastern
province in 1971.
• Either name him, or the hard-hitting one-word English title
he used as the headline of his Exposé.

205. 35.

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207. 35.
• Genocide, by Anthony Mascarenhas

208. 36.
• Identify these two Pakistani official Seals/Logos?( 2 points)

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210. 36.
• Government of Punjab ( Five rivers in the logo)
• Government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (Kabuli Gate in the logo)

211. 37.
• Screengrab from the Passport application form in Pakistan.
• Whose name has been blanked out? (1 point) [ Name of followers for part points]

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213. 37.
• Hadrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad / Mirza Ghulam Ahmad Quadiani
• Founder of Ahmaddiya movement in Pakistan

214. 38.
• Developed by the Pakistani Economist Mahbub Ul Haq and influenced by some theories from
Amartya Sen, this was created to emphasize that people and their capabilities should be the
ultimate criteria for assessing the development of a country, not economic growth alone. What
Ranking metric is this?

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216. 38.
• Human Development Index/ HDI

217. 39.
• From “Around the World on Pan Am” advertisement series. This featuring Karachi.
• Whose work?

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219. 39.
• Norman Rockwell

220. 40.
• Independence Day Stamps:
What is commonly indicated by some old Pakistani stamps
like these, that was eventually changed after a year of
Independence.

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222. 40.
• The date of Independence for Pakistan was also 15th August.
Around 1948, it got shifted to 14th August for multiple reasons.

223. Khuda Hafiz
• Insha’Allah, हम अगले साल फिर ममलेंगे