quiz on Vigilance

1.  Vigilance Quiz
 Organised by CVC in NIT Durgapur..
 Quiz-Masters:-Vishal Anand Gupta
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Pathik Ghosh.

2.  Prelims
 10 questions.
 **marked questions are for tie breaker.

4.  X was a Gandhian who participated in the Indian
Independence Movement. He was the Chief
Justice of India of the High Court of Mysore
State (now Karnataka) and also the first chief of
the Central Vigilance Commission of India. He
was also chosen as the acting Governor of the
Mysore state and was the first person to translate
Mahatma Gandhi's autobiography to the Kannada
language.

5.  Pradeep Kumar is 1972 Haryana cadre IAS officer.
 He graduated in Electrical Engineering from Indian
Institute of Technology, Delhi and has done Masters in
Economics and Social Science from the University of
Wales, United Kingdom. He became an IAS officer in 1972
and from then has been secretary of three major central
government's ministries. He served as the head of National
Highways Authority of India. He has also served on the
boards of a number of companies, including Bharat Heavy
Electricals, Maruti Udyog, Andrew Yule Ltd, Hindustan
Paper Corporation Ltd, Coal India Ltd and Neyvelli Lignite
Corporation. Which Office does he hold now?

6.  X is an authority, established by the Constitution of India ,
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who audits all receipts and expenditure of the Government
of India and the state governments, including those of
bodies and authorities substantially financed by the
government.
X has played an important role in exposing major scams of
the country including 2G, Coalgate and fodder scam.
X is ranked 9th and enjoys the same status as a judge
of Supreme Court of India in Indian order of precedence.
The last person to hold this office was Vinod Rai and the
current one is Shashi Kant Sharma.
Which office am I talking about?

7.  What is the name of the monthly newsletter published
by CVC to highlight its achievements and initiatives?

8.  **Which is the only Indian state where the Right to
Information Act does not apply?

9.  X is social activist who graduated from IIT KGP .
 He is a former Indian revenue service officer and
former Joint-commissioner in income tax department.
 He won the Ramon Magsaysay award 2006 for his
contribution for enactment of RTI act.
 Identify X.

11.  **For the year 2011 Foreign Policy magazine named X
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among top 100 global thinkers.
Also in 2011 he was ranked as the most influential
person in Mumbai by a national daily newspaper.
As a soldier, He was the sole survivor of an enemy
attack—variously claimed to have been a bomb,
an aerial assault and an exchange of fire at the
border—while he was driving a truck.
Which activist am I talking about?

12.  Which was the first state in India to enact RTI in
India?

13.  Answers:-

15.  Whistleblower

16.  X was a Gandhian who participated in the Indian
Independence Movement. He was the Chief
Justice of India of the High Court of Mysore
State (now Karnataka) and also the first chief of
the Central Vigilance Commission of India. He
was also chosen as the acting Governor of the
Mysore state and was the first person to translate
Mahatma Gandhi's autobiography to the Kannada
language.

17.  Nittoor Srinivasa Rao

18.  Pradeep Kumar is 1972 Haryana cadre IAS officer. He
heads the Central Vigilance Commission. He assumed the
office from 31 July 2011.
 He graduated in Electrical Engineering from Indian
Institute of Technology, Delhi and has done Masters in
Economics and Social Science from the University of
Wales, United Kingdom. He became an IAS officer in 1972
and from then has been secretary of three major central
government's ministries. He served as the head of National
Highways Authority of India. He has also served on the
boards of a number of companies, including Bharat Heavy
Electricals, Maruti Udyog, Andrew Yule Ltd, Hindustan
Paper Corporation Ltd, Coal India Ltd and Neyvelli Lignite
Corporation. Which Office does he hold now?

19.  Central Vigilance Commissioner

20.  X is an authority, established by the Constitution of India ,
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who audits all receipts and expenditure of the Government
of India and the state governments, including those of
bodies and authorities substantially financed by the
government.
X has played an important role in exposing major scams of
the country including 2G, Coalgate and fodder scam.
X is ranked 9th and enjoys the same status as a judge
of Supreme Court of India in Indian order of precedence.
The last person to hold this office was Vinod Rai and the
current one is Shashi Kant Sharma.
Which office am I talking about?

21.  Comptroller and Auditor General of India.

22.  What is the name of the monthly newsletter published
by CVC to highlight its achievements and initiatives?

23.  VIGEYE VANI

24.  **Which is the only Indian state where the Right to
Information Act does not apply?

25.  Jammu and Kashmir.

26.  X is social activist who graduated from IIT KGP .
 He is a former Indian revenue service officer and
former Joint-commissioner in income tax department.
 He won the Ramon Magsaysay award 2006 for his
contribution for enactment of RTI act.
 Identify X.

27.  Arvind Kejriwal.

29.  Central Vigilance Commission

30.  **For the year 2011 Foreign Policy magazine named X
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among top 100 global thinkers.
Also in 2011 he was ranked as the most influential
person in Mumbai by a national daily newspaper.
As a soldier, He was the sole survivor of an enemy
attack—variously claimed to have been a bomb,
an aerial assault and an exchange of fire at the
border—while he was driving a truck.
Which activist am I talking about?

31.  Anna Hazare

32.  Which was the first state in India to enact RTI in
India?

33.  Tamilnadu

34.  Scam Round.

35.  X graduated from St Stephens College Delhi and thereafter
went on to pursue higher education from IIM Ahmedabad.
He joined the Indian Administrative Services in 1985.
While dealing with shortage of funds in the state's
finances, he stumbled upon huge bills relating to
withdrawals under the heads of Animal Husbandry and
Fisheries. The cash trails led directly to the office of Z, a
powerful politician. Immediately, X was transferred to the
state leather corporation. However, the case was
relentlessly pursued by Y, who was a joint director in CBI at
that time. The investigation yielded results after the
passage of nearly two decades. Y is currently serving as a
politician himself . Identify X,Y and Z.

36.  X= Amit Khare
 Y= Upen Bishwas
 Z= Lalu Prasad Yadav

37.  He served in the Indian Air Force as a pilot. He also took part in
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both Indo-Pak wars between 1965 and 1971 and was also a
recipient of eight medals in his career as a pilot.
He ran a small fast food joint (Pune Coffee House) in Pune
before his foray into politics.
He was the Minister of State for Railways and presented the
Railway Budget during 1995-96. He is the only MoS to have
presented the Railway Budget.
He had been the president of the Asian Athletics Association
(AAA) since 2001 till recently when on July 1st, 2013 he lost his reelection bid.
* He was a student of Pune's most reputable institutions -- St
Vincent's, Fergusson College and the National Defence Academy
at Khadakwasla.
Which famous scam-tainted personality are we talking about?

38.  Suresh Kalmadi

40.  COALGATE

41.  X is a former Founder-Chairman of Satyam Computer
Services which he founded in 1987 and chaired till
January 7, 2009 when he stepped down admitting to
faking financial figures of the company to the tune of
Rs 7,136 crore (approximately $1.5Billion USD),
including Rs 5,040 crore (approximately $1 Billion
USD) of non-existent cash and bank balances. ID this
scamster.

42.  Ramalinga Raju

43.  X was an Indian celebrity stockbroker, well known for his
wealth and for having been charged with
numerous financial crimes that took place in 1992. Of the
27 criminal charges brought against him, he was only
convicted of one, before his death at age 47 in 2001. It was
alleged that he engaged in a massive stock
manipulation scheme financed by worthless bank receipts.
He was convicted by the Bombay High Court and Supreme
Court of India for his part in a financial scandal valued
at 5000 crore (US$770 million) which took place on
the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE). In reality he actually
exposed the loopholes in the Bombay Stock Exchange
(BSE) transaction system and SEBI further introduced new
rules to cover those loopholes. He was tried for 9 years,
until he died in the late 2001.

44.  Harshad Mehta

45.  X was a major corruption scandal in India in the 1980s and 1990s,
initiated by Congress politicians and implicating the prime
minister, Rajiv Gandhi and several others who were accused of
receiving kickbacks from a swedish company for winning a bid to
supply India's 155 mm field howitzer, a type of canon. The scam led to
the defeat of Gandhi's ruling Indian National Congress party in the
November 1989 general elections.The journalist who secured the over
350 documents that detailed the payoffs was Chitra
Subramaniam reporting for The Hindu. Later the articles were
published in The Indian Express and The Statesman when The
Hindu stopped publishing stories about X under immense government
pressure and Chitra Subramaniam moved to the two newspapers. In an
interview with her, published in "The Hoot" in April 2012 on the 25th
anniversary of the revelations[4] Sten Lindstrom, former chief of
Swedish police discussed why he leaked the documents to her and the
role of whistle-blowers in a democracy. This scandal had also roped in
Amitabh Bachchan who was eventually given a clean chit though. ID X

46.  Bofors scandal.

47.  X financial scandal is a financial scam that was
caused by the collapse of a Ponzi scheme run by X, a
consortium of Indian companies that was believed to
be running a wide variety of collective investment
schemes in Eastern India. The group collapsed in April
2013, causing an estimated loss of INR 200–300 billion
(US$4–6 billion) to over 1.7 million depositors. In the
aftermath of the scandal, the state government of West
Bengal set up an inquiry commission to investigate the
collapse and also set up a fund of INR 5 billion (92
million USD) to ensure that low-income investors are
not bankrupted.

48.  Sardha Group (popularly but incorrectly called
“Sardha Chit Fund”)

50.  Cash for Votes Scandal

52.  Railway promotion scam (Railgate)
 Pawan Kumar Bansal and Vijay Singhla

53.  In 2011, Time magazine listed this scam at number two
on their "Top 10 Abuses of Power" list after watergate
scandal.
 The then communications and IT minister was the
prime accused of the scam.
 Which scam am I talking about?

54. 2G scam

55.  Dry Round

56.  X is a Sam Adams award winner American computer
specialist and former CIA employee
and NSA contractor. He disclosed classified details of
several top-secret United States, Israeli, and British
government mass surveillance programs such as
metadata, PRISM, XKeyscore and Tempora to the
press. Which famous whistleblower are we talking
about?

57.  Edward Joseph Snowden

58.  Satyendra Dubey (1973–2003) was a project director
at the National Highways Authority of India(NHAI).
He was murdered in Gaya, Bihar after fighting
corruption in the X highway construction project.
 This project was a dream of former prime minister Atal
Bihari vajpayee.
 Identify ‘X’.

59.  **Golden Quadrilateral.

60.  X created by Y, became internationally well known in
2010 when it began to publish U.S. military and
diplomatic documents with assistance from its
partners in the news media.
 Identify X and Y. Y’s logo has been given below:

61.  X=Wikileaks.
 Y=Julian Paul Assange.

63.  Aruna Roy

65.  CBI

66.  X is an Indian weekly magazine founded by Tarun
Tejpai. Created with the motto, “Free-Fair-Fearless”, X
mixes hard-core investigative journalism with strong
perspective pieces on politics and major debates in
modern India including the tribal issue, Northeast
India and Kashmir conflict. In 2012, former BJP
President Bangaru Laxman was sentenced to
imprisonment after the court found X’s sting was valid
and Laxman had taken a bribe. Identify this
“sensational “ magazine.

67.  Tehelka

68.  The word ‘X' was coined by Dr L.M.Singhvi in 1963. The
first bill related to X was proposed by Y’s father Z, both
being prominent lawyers of the country, in 1968 and passed
in the 4th Lok Sabha in 1969, but did not pass through
the Rajya Sabha. Subsequently, ‘X bills' were introduced in
1971, 1977, 1985, again by Ashoke Kumar Sen, while serving
as Law Minister in the Rajiv Gandhi cabinet, and again in
1989, 1996, 1998, 2001, 2005 and in 2008, yet they were
never passed. Fifty two years after its first introduction, the
X Bill is still not enacted in India. Y is also one of the
prominent agitators for this bill. Couple of years back Y was
widely condemned for his remarks in support of a
referendum in Kashmir. ID X, Y, Z.

69.  X=LOKPAL
 Y= Prashant Bhushan
 Z= Shanti Bhushan

71.  Durga Shakti Nagpal

72.  X is an Indian movie.
 X release faced stiff resistance from the Indian Defence
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Ministry
and the Animal Welfare Board due to parts that
depicted the use of
MiG-21 fighter aircraft and a banned Indian horse race.
X was a very influencial movie in the field of fight
against corruption
in India.
Id X.

73.  Rang De Basanti

74.  The X scandal was a political scandal that occurred in
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the United States in the 1970s
as a result of the June 17, 1972 break-in at the
Democratic National Committee headquarters
at the X
office complex in Washington, D.C.
The scandal eventually led to the resignation of Y,
the President of the United States, on August 9,
1974—the only resignation of a U.S. president to date.
Id X & Y.

75.  X=watergate.
 Y=Richard Nixon.

76.  THE END