Yatra 2018 : The India Quiz

Yatra - The India Quiz
Integration 2018, Indian Statistical Institute Kolkata
1© Sheyal Pundits 2018

Prelims
✓ 24 Questions.
✓ Each correct answer fetches you 2 points. Questions with 2 parts carry 1 point for each part.
✓ Multiples of 4 are starred. If stars alone are insufficient to break a tie, we’ll use first strike.
✓ 8 Teams going into the Final.
✓ And of course, switch off any smart/unsmart device(s) you carry!

Q 1
❏ This three-word phrase is nothing but a deliberate oxymoron, combining two opposite
senses in one. Among other things, it is the officially adopted motto of European Union.
Finding a place in almost every ancient civilization’s socio-cultural set-up, it has been
used across almost all the continents.
❏ Notwithstanding all these relevant information, this phrase is furthermore pertinent for
another obvious reason as well. What is it?

Q 2
❏ It was originally a tomato. A heart sign with a fork took its place in a major rebranding
step. However, what is the current version that we see post a much-talked-about
acquisition 2 years back?

Q 3
FITB. Straight Outta Textbooks!

Q 4*
❏ Sassoon Docks is one of the oldest docks in Mumbai, and one of the few docks in the
city open to the public. The place is close to one of the largest fish market of the city,
and is usually very congested throughout the year.
❏ However, following a two-month project in November 2017, this 142 years old place has
been attracting all the photographers from the city.
❏ Name/Describe the project.

Q 5
❏ According to the hugely famous group who started this just a day ago, their social media
team’s very reliable source of information suggests a constant rise in the population that
opted for ______ ______ instead of Old Monk to get over the breakup stage.
❏ It talks about how somebody has dared not to fix someone else’s magic-wandish
instrument, which apparently violates the Break Ups Act, 1860. They end with a request
which reads, “DESH BAAD MEIN SURAKSHIT HOGA, PEHLE ______ KA ___ SURAKSHIT
KARAO!”.
❏ Fill in the last two blanks. We’ll be strict about the last one.

Q 6
❏ Clad in a white outfit and a traditional Gandhi cap, these group of five thousand men
have been carrying a legacy which is more than 125 years old.
❏ Their fluent service rate has an astounding error rate of 1 in 16 million, and they have
earned numerous international recognitions for the same.
❏ Who are they?

Q 7
❏ One of the reasons the company wanted to name this in-house product of them thus
because it sounded phonetically similar to the phrase “Hello Sexy!”.
❏ Added to that, the name would also contain a part which is the IATA code, something
very synonymous with the company’s service. Just name the company.

Q 8*
❏ When people were trying to play, the monkeys would be a nuisance and scurry across
the field, seize the balls and throw them wherever they wished.
❏ The strategy to build high fences soon proved to be futile to the ambitious monkeys,
who found nothing as amusing as watching humans go wild whenever the balls were
disturbed.
❏ The maddening players gave in to reality and developed a rather novel ground rule for
the game. What originated thus?

Q 9
❏ What are the following possible explanations of?
❏ This area is locally known as Sairandhrivana. Perhaps the British lost it in
translation.
❏ Some noisy insects, known for their exceptionally loud songs, are absent here.
❏ It is home to a monkey with a silver-white mane which surrounds the head from
the cheeks down to its chin, and a tail that ends in a black tuft.

Q 10
❏ The logo of this company originally consisted of a flower in black and white, correctly
describing the company’s original focus on vegetable products. With time, the company
diversified into soaps, and later into industrial products and hydraulic cylinders.
❏ However, it was only in the 1990’s that they became what we know them today. The
logo now changed to a multicolor flower, the colors signifying the integrity and diversity
of the company.
❏ Which one?

Q 11
❏ Originally known as Mankal, this city and the fortress were built by the Kakatiya dynasty
on a 120 meters high granite hill. Around the same time, people realized the importance
of this town for other reasons, and the brilliance kept growing henceforth. Later, the
name of the town entered the Oxford English Dictionary and was defined as: ‘a source of
wealth, advantages, or happiness’.
❏ Identify this, which gained fame in the west in 1953 thanks to a poet called Louis
Scutenaire & one of his friends.

Q 12*
❏ During Nadir Shah's invasion of India in 1739, X also accompanied him and stayed some
days in the Red Fort. When he was standing "outside the Jali gate near Diwan-i-Am",
Asaf Jah I saw him and predicted that X was "destined to become a king".
❏ This prophecy was later fulfilled when X famously returned to India more than a decade
later. Identify X, who used to be called the ‘Pearl of Pearls’ by Nadir Shah.

Q 13
❏ He has been honoured with all of the following.
❏ The title Ambassador of Interlaken.
❏ A suite named after him at the Victoria Jungfrau Grand Hotel & Spa.
❏ A train named after him by Jungfrau Railways.
❏ All these are from the Swiss government for influencing tourism to Switzerland. Which
famous Indian is this?

Q 14
❏ “No one knew what was being made, honestly,” says was the production controller on
the film.
❏ “We all were like Dhritarashtra. We were all the time thinking to ourselves that what
was happening. Everyone was just shooting but not knowing what they were shooting,”
adds the associate screenplay writer.
❏ “He (the director) used to believe that there was grace in nonsense”. Which 1983 film,
named after a song which was ultimately deleted?

Q 15
❏ Originally from Sialkot, his family migrated to Delhi in 1947, where he worked as a tonga
driver. The meagre income was not enough to sustain the family, and led him to revive
the family’s old FMCG business.
❏ The modest start soon transformed into a large empire, and this man became the
epitome of longevity in this part of the world. Which truthful business outfit are we
talking about?

Q 16*
❏ Identify the Band performing. Also, two performers not belonging to it are seen in the video. One is
of course Clinton Cerejo. Who is the lady?
❏ [The video in the following slide was played from 0:31 to 1:32.]

Q 17
❏ The first female record of this was in the voice of Purabi Mukhopadhyay in 1999 from a Raga
Music Label titled “Amra Korbo Joy” [We Shall Overcome]. She recorded the same number
again in 2003 for an Album named “Agrogotir Pothe” [On The Road], this time with a pertinent
Paul Robeson Number in the same track.
❏ However, in May 2017, an internet post began to change hands, spreading a well-curated but
false story, and depriving the actual performer of her due credit. The hullabaloo raised over
this, with people mistakenly applauding how a non-Indian performer took the pain to achieve
perfection in Hindi pronunciation, indicated the ever-existence of our colonial mentality.
❏ Put funda.

Q 18
❏ On January 9, 2017, Adarsh Vinay wrote an article on ScoopWhoop. It talked about someone who
“did not live to celebrate” his last deed.
❏ The article contained remembrances from multiple people who knew the person being talked about
very closely. For example, his first guide in India had famously said, “My job was at stake. ______
proved to be my saviour.” It also pointed out his love for animals, mentioning how he would mostly
be spotted at the Alipur Zoo when he was not training.
❏ In fact, someone who achieved a certain first in his career thanks to this guy revealed how he still
carries a photo of ______ in his wallet. According to him, "That guy lives in my heart. There will never
be another ______."
❏ FITB. All blanks are same & refer to the person’s surname.

Q 19
❏ In 1941, _____ & Jacques Van Melkebeke wrote a 3-Act Play. It dealt with the mysterious
events surrounding a Blue Diamond. Directed by Paul Riga, it became a major stage success.
Unfortunately, there is no current copy of the full script, & only a synopsis is available on the
web.
❏ The central character X was played by a girl named Jeanne Rubens. Now, the climax of the play
is shown to take place in a country which earlier awarded their highest civilian award to this
person. However, the Blue Diamond in question, belongs to another nation Y. The play was,
hence, quite logically titled as : X in Y : The Mystery of The Blue Diamond.
❏ What are X & Y?

Q 20*
❏ The ‘Liberation Struggle’, also known as the ‘Vimochana Samaram’, consisted of organised
demonstrations, meetings & protests, which went, quite unintuitively, peaceful enough. These were
largely led by the Catholic Church, the Nair Service Society & the Indian Union Muslim League.
❏ The primary reasons behind this onset were a set of unprecedented decisions & reforms, including
the Agrarian Relations Bill & the Education Bill. It was later revealed how the CIA too played an
important hand, as outlined in Daniel Moynihan’s 1978 book titled ‘A Dangerous Place’.
❏ As an immediate effect, a certain article of the Indian Constitution was brought into action for the
first time, which led to a premature end of something iconic in Indian political history, allowing it only
to span a few months over two years.
❏ What ended in such an abrupt fashion?

Q 21
❏ Four months after Pandit Ravi Shankar’s demise, in an article titled ‘Love Is Skin Deep’, Soumyadipta Banerjee
of Bangalore Mirror wrote the following :
❏ “Panditji had lost his speech due to an infection and was communicating with Anoushka through short
handwritten messages. One day, Panditji spotted an extremely tense and nervous Anoushka. He sat her next
to his bed and scribbled a line in Bengali script– “__ _____ __ ____”[2 5 2 4], which means: Will Be, Will Be,
___ ____, ____[3 4 4].”
❏ “Anoushka got the last few words of Panditji tattooed on her arm. She scanned the piece of paper and got the
exact image reproduced on her arm.”
❏ The first set of blanks refers to a Rabindra Sangeet, while the latter set refers to one originally from a
Hitchcock film of 1956. Give me both of them.

Q 22
❏ In July 2014, someone, who was at the receiving end of the event that we’ll be talking about,
recalled how he was rightly paid back by the one whom he originally took a dig at.
❏ He remembers that as the other person was coming in & passing by, he shouted, “Come on
guys, they’ve sent the bus driver in, we’ve got a chance here!”. However, the stout young boy,
after having played the most crucial role in his nation’s moment of pride, did not let go the
chance of whipping back a repartee, uttering “Not bad for a bus driver!”.
❏ One edition of the magazine Chandamama in 2002 put this event in contrast with the Godhra
Riots, pointing out how people belonging to different religions stuck together for the cause of
India. What event, still cherished by almost all of us, are we talking about?

Q 23
❏ The clip that you’ll see on the next slide is from A Tribute To Classic Indian Ads (Full Version feat. AIB
& Voctronica). Made completely without the usage of any instruments, it contained references to 60+
classic & recent Indian ads, with witty mash-ups everywhere.
❏ Enjoy the part of the clip shown, and simply tell me what follows exactly after where the clip ends.
The answer is a necessary evil for the concerned organizations, which they can neither drop nor allow
for long, as it would cost them a lot due to increased ad duration.
❏ As a hint, this occurs at the end of the original video as well, followed by a little “Ting Ting Ti Ding”!
❏ [The video in the next slide was played from 4:18 to 5:14.]

Q 24*
❏ On the next slide you’ll see an Amul Hit from the days when Smriti Irani used to be the
HRD Minister, & had falsely claimed to have a degree from an Ivy League University.
❏ The creators of Amul Hits, never reluctant to grab the chances of playing with words,
changed one letter in the name of the university to create a situation where Mrs. Irani is
supposedly punishing the journalist who raised the question regarding her education.
She is saying something like, ”Here, take the university degree.”
❏ Give me the name of the university & the blanked out punny word.

Q 24*

Q 1

Q 2

Q 3

Q 4*

Q 5
KARAO!”.

Q 6
❏ Who are they?

Q 7

Q 8*
disturbed.

Q 9
translation.

Q 10
of the company.
❏ Which one?

Q 11

Q 12*

Q 13

Q 14
the film.

Q 15
talking about?

Q 16*

Q 17
❏ Put funda.

Q 18
be another ______."

Q 19
web.
❏ What are X & Y?

Q 20*

Q 21
___ ____, ____[3 4 4].”

Q 22

Q 23

Q 24*

Q 1

A 1 : Unity In Diversity

Q 2

A 2 : A Spoon

Q 3

A 3 : Amoeba

Q 4*

A 4* : Sassoon Dock Art Project

Q 5
KARAO!”.

A 5 : Arijit, Mic

Q 6
❏ Who are they?

A 6 : The Mumbai Dabbawalas

Q 7

A 7 : Indigo Airlines

Q 8*
disturbed.

A 8* : Play The Ball Where The Monkey
Drops It

Q 9
translation.

A 9 : Silent Valley National Park

Q 10
of the company.
❏ Which one?

A 10 : WIPRO

Q 11

A 11 : Golconda

Q 12*

A 12* : Ahmad Shah Abdali/Durrani

Q 13

A 13 : Yash Chopra

Q 14
the film.

A 14 : Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro

Q 15
talking about?

A 15 : MDH

Q 16*

A 16* : Swarathma, Bianca Gomes

Q 17
❏ Put funda.

A 17 : Fake Post : Shakira Singing Hindi
Song

Q 18
be another ______."

A 18 : Cristiano Junior

Q 19
web.
❏ What are X & Y?

A 19 : X : Tintin, Y : India

Q 20*

A 20* : EMS Namboodiripad’s Kerala
Government

Q 21
___ ____, ____[3 4 4].”

A 21 : Ja Hobar Ta Hobey, Que Sera Sera

Q 22

A 22 : India Winning Natwest Trophy

Q 23

A 23 : Mutual Fund Investments Are...

Q 24*

A 24* : Yale, Yele

The Final
✓ 45 Questions, 3 Sets of 15 each : 10 on Infinite Pounce & Rolling Bounce, 5 Written.
✓ The 30 P/B Questions carry 15 points max each. The Written Rounds have a max of 50 each to be
scored. So, you can reach a max score of 600!
✓ Other relevant things will be explained before each round.
✓ May the best Team on stage win!

Monda Club
✓ 5 Questions on Indian foods and the stories related to them.
✓ You have the option to Stake. +5/-0 without Stake & +10/-5 with it.
✓ Make sure to mention your Team Number on top of the sheet.

Q 1
❏ Due to a recently arrived peter, the origin story of Pav Bhaji is probably quite well-known to everyone
present here. The story goes that every day, numerous mill workers would have lunch breaks that
were too short for a full meal. As they had to return to rigorous physical labour immediately after, a
light lunch was preferred to a heavy one. Noticing the plight of the workers, a local vendor created
the dish using leftover ingredients of other dishes available on the menu.
❏ Now, the first stalls are supposed to have been located near the old ______ exchange. This was so
because traders waited for the New York ______ prices (in the ’60s, these were carried prominently
in all Bombay papers) that came in late into the night and early in the morning.
❏ FITB with something quite important to the industrial scenario of western India.

Q 2
❏ References found at Cairo’s Al-Azhar University Library suggest that Arab traders brought in ‘____
balls’ to India when they married and settled down in the southern belt of the country.
❏ The Arab settlers were strict in their dietary preferences; many of them came here when Mohammed
was still alive and they were neo-converts to Islam from Paganism. They insisted on halaal food, and
Indian food was quite alien to their palate.
❏ To avoid all such confusion regarding what is halaal or haraam in food, they began to make ____ balls
as it was easy to make and was the safest option available. After making the ____ balls, they would
slightly flatten them and eat with some condiments.
❏ What is this one possible origin theory of?

Q 3
❏ It is an Odia sweet dish that gets multiple references in the Indian mythology, including
one where Laxmi serves Vishnu & Madhusudan wit an ocean full of ____.
❏ It consists of marble-sized balls of chhana soaked in sweetened, condensed milk. It is
one of the predecessors of Rasmalai, with a thicker base equivalent to that of Raabri.
❏ Incidentally, an Indian Statistician, who is currently a Professor Emeritus at UMich
School of Public Health shares his surname with this.
❏ What?

Q 4
❏ One word to connect these, taken from an exhaustive list of 36.
❏ Maithi Maaz, Rista, Lahabi Kabab, Daeni Phoul, Doudha Ras, Rogan Josh, Tabak Maaz,
Daniwal Korma, Aab Gosh, Marchwanagan Korma, Gushtaba, Yakh’n, Ruwangan
Chhaman, Dum Aloo, Muji Chetin, Phirni.

Q 5
❏ Cafe Leopold was one of the earliests to be attacked on 26/11. It was reopened four
days after the attack, but closed again by the police after two hours to block the gushing
inflow of curious people. However, the place still remains in everyone’s mind as a
flagbearer of defiance against the destruction.
❏ Unlike Taj & Trident, the owners of this decided to do(or not to do) something to keep
the bloodbath in memoriam, for which it has received significant quantities of applause
from people of different socio-economic status.
❏ What?

Q 1

Q 2

Q 3
❏ What?

Q 4

Q 5
❏ What?

Q 1

A 1
❏ Cotton

Q 2

A 2 : Idli

Q 3
❏ What?

A 3 : Khir Sagar

Q 4

A 4 : Wazwan

Q 5
❏ What?

A 5 : Didn’t Fully Repair The Injuries

Journey Begins
✓ 10 Questions on Infinite Pounce & Clockwise Rolling Bounce.
✓ +15/-10 on Pounce & +10 on Bounce. No Part Points on Pounce of course. Part Points on Bounce only if
no team gives a full answer. Obviously, you can Pounce on your own direct question.
✓ We’ll only accept the pounces on writing!

Q 1
❏ “I approached the sultan, who took my hand and shook it, and continuing to hold it
addressed me most affably, saying in Persian, ‘This is a blessing; your arrival is blessed;
be at ease; I shall be compassionate to you and give you such favors that your fellow-
countrymen will hear of it and come to join you’. Then he asked me where I came from
and I said to him, ‘From the land of the _______’.”
❏ Who’s speaking? Also, fill in the blanks.

A 1
❏ Ibn Battuta
❏ Maghrib

Q 2
❏ Spiridione Roma was an Italian painter, mostly known for his works in England. The
Corfu-born artist created an allegorical piece, with quite a mouthful of a name, which is
currently held in the British Library at London. It was commissioned in 1778 by an
organization for the Revenue Committee Room in their London Headquarters.
❏ No need to identify the company. Rather, what is the name of this painting?

A 2 : The East Offering Its Riches To
Britannia

Q 3
❏ The St. Pancras station in London, and GG Scott’s plans for the Berlin parliament have been identified as major
inspirations behind the architecture of which 19th century Indian construction?

A 3 : Victoria/Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus

Q 4
❏ It was felt that people tend to associate the XY, from where this location earlier got its
name, with Gandhiji’s monkeys. In reality, this was meant to commemorate the XY’s
valor at a distant place Z, eight decades ago.
❏ To set the record straight, the administration has very recently added Z to the name XY.
Identify Z.

A 4 : Haifa

Q 5
❏ This community from Rajasthan claims its origins from the Surya or Chandra lineage of
Kshatriyas. However, they converted to Islam during the Mughal rule, and still identify
themselves as Muslims.
❏ Most of their rituals are a mixture of Hindu and Muslim customs. In present India, they
can be found in some districts of Haryana, Rajasthan, and the community name derives
from the name of this area.
❏ What two-word name?

A 5
❏ Meo/Mewati Muslims

Q 6
❏ While checking out Trikuta, a massive triangular rock rising more than 75 metres out of the
surrounding sands, as a more secure location for a new capital, the founder of this city met a
sage called Eesul.
❏ Upon learning that the newcomer was of Yaduvanshi descent, Eesul told him that according to
ancient mythology, Krishna and Bhima had come to this location for a ceremony, where
Krishna had prophesied that a descendant of his Yaduvanshi clan would one day establish a
kingdom here.
❏ Encouraged by this meeting, the newcomer moved his capital there. Which city was thus
founded?

A 6 : Jaisalmer

Q 7
❏ Founded in 2014 and currently based out of USA, ______ uses voice and speech
recognition to authenticate users for digital payments. Users simply have to speak out
their crypto-token into the mobile app.
❏ Voice identities and biometric authentication can resolve some of the problems of text-
based authentication and payments in markets like India with low bandwidth areas and
users not adept with text.
❏ What app with a rhyming ‘Think It, Do It’ name?

A 7 : Saypay

Q 8
❏ ___ ________ is an annual 10-day(from 18 to 27 February) event at Shilpgram in Uttar
Pradesh. This festival invokes the memories of the old Mughal era and nawabi style prevalent
in Uttar Pradesh in the 18th and 19th centuries. About 400 artisans from different parts of
India get an opportunity to display their works of art.
❏ The festival starts with a road procession with decorated elephants and camels like the victory
processions of Mughal emperors and warlords. Drum beaters, trumpet players, folk dancers,
skilled craftsmen and artisans also join the procession. Artists from all over India come here to
display their art and craftsmanship.
❏ What’s it called?

A 8 : Taj Mahotsav

Q 9
❏ Nigel Hankin has been living in Delhi ever since he was sent to India as a soldier in 1945. In his
over five decades in India, Hankin worked for many years with the British High Commission in
Delhi and as a freelance guide for foreign visitors.
❏ A newly arrived doctor at the High Commission in India gave Hankin a list of 20 Indian words
he said he had read in an Indian English-language newspaper but couldn't comprehend. “I
explained the words to him and that set me thinking that if he wanted it, so would others.”
That's how the first edition of a glossary came out in 1992 as a take-off on its famous
predecessor published over a century ago.
❏ Name the new version.

A 9 : Hanklyn-Janklin

Q 10
❏ An eminent chemist in his own right, he is remembered as one of the pioneers of science and
technology in modern India. His research interests included emulsions, colloids, and industrial
chemistry, but his fundamental contributions were in the field of magneto-chemistry.
❏ He played a significant part along with Homi Jehangir Bhabha and others in building of India's
post-independence science and technology infrastructure and policies. The first industrial
research organisation in India was developed as a Board of Scientific and Industrial Research,
which later grew into an autonomous body in his hands.
❏ His name comes into mass attention each year in the late September due to seven different
disciplines. Who?

A 10 : Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar

Happy Feet
✓ 5 Questions on popular tourist destinations across India.

Q 1
❏ ID the city.

Q 2
❏ Which place?

Q 3
❏ From takeoff to landing : a location which hosted the world championship of the concerned sport in
2015. Identify.

Q 4
❏ Such a big balancing ball! Name the town.

Q 5
❏ This is Keibul Lamjao, world’s only floating national park, in Manipur. Which lake is it an integral part
of?

Q 1
❏ ID the city.

Q 2
❏ Which place?

Q 3
2015. Identify.

Q 4

Q 5
of?

Q 1
❏ ID the city.

A 1 : Aurangabad

Q 2
❏ Which place?

A 2 : Rann Of Kutch

Q 3
2015. Identify.

A 3 : Bir Billing

Q 4

A 4 : Mahabalipuram

Q 5
of?

A 5 : Loktak

U-Turn
✓ 10 Questions on Infinite Pounce & Rolling Bounce.
✓ The first 5 go Clockwise, while the next 5 will be Anti-Clockwise.

Q 1
❏ Connect. Or, what set of cultural nuisances do these refer to?

A 1 : Dhinchak Pooja Songs

Q 2
❏ As very popularly known to the quizzers, Shashi Tharoor’s The Great Indian Novel includes
transformations which are based on similarities between the characters of Mahabharat &
people of India who played important roles in the political history of the country.
❏ These include V. V. Giri as Vyas, Gandhi as Bhishma, Indira as Duryodhan, Nehru as
Dhritarashtra, Sardar Patel as Vidur. In addition, two groups of people were presented
respectively as Bheem & Arjun, due respectively to their ‘sheer demonstrations of strength &
power, sometimes quite indecisively’ & ‘acute, pin-pointed attempts at unearthing truth’.
❏ Who are they?

A 2
❏ Army
❏ Press

Q 3
❏ Among Indian people in a certain profession, this is considered to be an extremely
significant as well as rare achievement, as this involves putting up unmistakable proofs
of one’s capabilities & clearing a level without contesting.
❏ Till date, only five people have been able to do it. Four of them are Subimal Roy(1971),
Santosh Hegde(1999), Gopal Subramanium(2014), Rohinton Nariman(2014). The last in
the list, who also happens to be the first woman to achieve this, is Indu Malhotra, who
was bestowed upon with her new responsibilities on 12.01.2018.
❏ What are we talking about?

A 3
❏ Lawyers who have directly been promoted to judges of supreme court by presidential
reference.

Q 4
❏ This book was penned by Shobha Bondre & published in 2013. Sub-titled ‘How Gujratis
Do Business’, it talked about famous & successful entrepreneurs from the state. Quite
fittingly, our current PM wrote the forewords for this book.
❏ However, soon after the book came out, a lot of people started crying over the possible
negative connotations associated to the word in the title. However, as noted by the
Google Books Review of the book, “There is no other community that fully embodies
what the term stands for than the Gujaratis”.
❏ What one-word title does the book have?

A 4 : Dhanda

Q 5
❏ Q+A from an interview. Enjoy the golden responses the interviewee makes(with his
unique style of speaking in english), and identify him!
❏ Q : You are the first Indian to be a part of the Grammy (2012) jury. How does it feel?
❏ A : I’m not proud. It is a proud of India because I am a part of Indians. First-time Grammy
member of the jury, they have accepted me because last year I have done one album
called World Peace Love & Harmony with Gerald Albright. Big saxophone player from
USA.

A 5 : Bappi Da!

Q 6
❏ Bombay Dost was launched in 1990. After attending a conference in Montreal, Ashok Row Kavi, founding
editor of ‘Bombay Dost’, spoke to his friends about the development of a supportive network, and ‘Bombay
Dost’ was started as a newsletter. It aimed to reach out to target people, help them network, make friends &
empower them.
❏ In those pre-Internet days, the only way to reach out to others was through print, and post & telegraph. The
readership was many times the circulation of the newsletter, and it started receiving a flood of letters, not just
from the metros but also far-flung corners of the country, about their feelings of alienation and other psycho-
social concerns. However, beset by issues like lack of advertising support and paucity of funds, Bombay Dost
suspended publication in 2002. But in 2011, it was back in a new, bolder-than-ever avatar.
❏ In what way is this magazine a first in India ?

A 6 : First LGBTQ Magazine In India

Q 7
❏ This Amul ad was released after Ramesh Krishnan led India to the Davis Cup Final in 1987 after a win
over Australia. Taking hints from the reference, simply tell me what was the surname of the player he
defeated?

A 7 : Masur(Wally)

Q 8
❏ Twin towns or sister cities are a form of legal and social agreement between cities to promote
cultural and commercial ties. The modern concept of town twinning, conceived after the Second
World War in 1947, was intended to foster friendship & understanding between different cultures
and between former foes as an act of peace and reconciliation and to encourage trade and tourism.
❏ Famous India-related examples of town twinning include almost all the important cities you can
name. Most of them are twinned with multiple other cities & hence the twinning is not unique.
However, there is a reason behind asking the following question.
❏ The Portuguese cities of Coimbra and Loures are twinned with which Indian city/cities?

A 8 : Daman & Diu

Q 9
❏ ID the voice. #ThinkDifferent
❏ [The video in the next slide was played from the beginning.]

A 9 : Mohan Kannan

Q 10
❏ This person turned up for India in two olympics, Rome 1960 & Tokyo 1964. Though coming close to
the podium both times, he could never make it to the medal tally. However, he is still remembered
due to another reason. What he did was, & is till date, unique for persons from his community
playing his sport. It is quite usual for the people in this sport to have to let go of any religious
sentiment & change their facial features.
❏ This guy, on the other hand, stuck to what he believed right. He was honoured by the Shiromani
Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee in 2003 for this deed. His greatest regret, however, is not to have
been opportune enough to play on the kind of surface used in olympic, barring which he believed he
would have had a better shot at glory.
❏ No need to tell me his name. Simply tell me what he decided to do(or not to do)?

A 10 : Wrestled With Beards & Long
Hair(Madho Singh)

Pai The Piper
✓ 5 Questions on ACK Covers. Simply identify the titles.

Final Frontier
✓ 10 Questions on Infinite Pounce & Anti-Clockwise Rolling Bounce.

Q 1
❏ In 11th Century, the ruler of Anhilwara (modern day Patan) Solanki King Karandev I, named Ashapalli to X, post
his victory over Bhil King Ashapall or Ashaval. Solanki rule lasted until the 13th century, when the state came
under the control of the Vaghela dynasty of Dwarka. Then, in 14th Century, a certain Sultan rechristened the
city X to its presently known name Y.
❏ The Municipal Corporation of Y had already passed a resolution & forwarded it to the government to baptize
the city back to X in 1990. However, things haven’t worked out as it should have, & the inhabitants of Y still
are divided in their opinions regarding the suitability of this change.
❏ Moreover, a significant number of people have apparently mistaken the name X to be a reference to a
different king Z from the Indian Epics, & have been trying to point out that Z’s kingdom was not here but
towards east.
❏ Just give me X & Y.

A 1
❏ X : Karnavati
❏ Y : Ahmedabad

Q 2
❏ The origin of this custom, followed by someone throughout his musical career, which is an oft
repeated funda in quizzes these days, lies in the events that took place while the recording for
K. Amarnath’s Mehbooba[1954] was going on. Through a midway change in responsibilities,
the ‘someone’ we talked about took over the charges.
❏ However, things didn’t remain peaceful as that ‘someone’ was called an upstart by the queen,
who refused to work with him, as written by Sonal Pandya of Cinestaan. The riposte came
soon, both verbally & in action, as our upstart & stubborn replacement decided to let go of the
creeper & embrace hope instead.
❏ Put funda with three proper nouns.

A 2 : O. P. Naiyar Decided To Work With
Asha Only Instead Of Lata

Q 3
❏ On April 11, 2013, a tweet from this Spaniard, X, initiated the first buzz. People were
curious & at the same time decisive as always, as they tried to connect a certain naming
somehow to the reason they thought of.
❏ Parallels were drawn soon using examples of people from other countries. Two years
later, one South African, famous in his own rights, did the same thing as X. However,
this time there was a specific reason behind doing this. For X, on the other hand, it was a
usual thing that many Spaniards do.
❏ Who’s X, & what did he do?

A 3 : Santi Cazorla Named His Daughter
India

Q 4
❏ When he returned, among other queries, he was asked by a fan if he had met god there. The reply
was an absolute no. However, he believes what he had seen is more divine than anything a mortal
can imagine. Therefore, when in March last year he was asked whether he would like to return there
again or not, he joyously exclaimed an ‘Yes!’. He adds on, “But this time I would like to go as a tourist
and savour the beauty of _____. There was too much work when I went up there.”
❏ However, it seems he is not very happy with how media & politicians overhyped what he did, and the
way people mix up fact & fiction while talking about him agonizes him a lot. "It was completely over
the top. It left me irritated and tired. I had to keep a smile on my face all the time," he recounts.
❏ Who, who said about his training, “It was very Dr Zhivago!”?

A 4 : Rakesh Sharma

Q 5
❏ Till date, Aniruddha Bahal is the only Indian to have won this for his 2003 novel ‘Bunker
13’, which talks about an Indian journalist posted in Kashmir.
❏ However, it came to news in India a lot more in 2005, when it became known that the
first novel penned by Bahal’s friend & co-founder of a 1999 ‘sensation’ was nominated
for it, alongside other works including Salman Rushdie’s ‘Shalimar The Clown’. The
award for that year, however, went to ‘Winkler’ by Giles Coren.
❏ What are we talking about?

A 5 : Bad Sex Award

Q 6
❏ Connect to a person.

A 6 : J. B. S. Haldane

Q 7
❏ The following excerpt is from the text accompanying an Instagram post by someone
called Tathagata Mahajan :
❏ “While roaming on the streets of Kolkata I found them. The immortal _____ _____, a
shear triumph of pride, glory, integrity, honour, unity and respect to yourself, to believe
in yourself. A great inspiration to me, we and all youngsters. Though not the _________
__ ___ ____, but that didn’t hold me back from sharing the best inspirational chapter of
Indian independence.”
❏ Tell me what he is talking about.

A 7 : Mohun Bagan AC

Q 8
❏ This is a part from the Rabindranath-Einstein conversation in Captuh on July 14, 1930. Read, enjoy &
simply fill in the blanks for me.
❏ E : Are the words of a song also free? I mean to say, is the singer at liberty to add his own words to
the song which he is singing?
❏ R : In Bengal we have a kind of song – ______, we call it – which gives freedom to the singer to
introduce parenthetical comments, phrases not in the original song. This occasions great enthusiasm,
since the audience is constantly thrilled by some beautiful, spontaneous sentiment freshly added by
the singer.

A 8 : Kirtan

Q 9
❏ When asked about the inspiration behind this, the creator said, “Each family has its own
wise old man. He solves his problems with common sense, but with a touch of humor”.
According to him, it was his pleasure to bring relief to common man suppressed by
multidimensional socio-economic pressure of that era.
❏ People have tried to note similarities to the storyline of Asterix, & one can’t deny there
can be found some obvious synergies. Identify this character, who shares a place in
Raghubir Yadav’s career beside Hitler & Manto.

A 9 : Chacha Chaudhary

Q 10
❏ In an article from The Hindu, dated 29.11.2002, Ratna Rajaiah writes about ‘The Magic of X’. She exclaims :
“The black stone murti of Shani Bhagwan being lovingly anointed with oil by an eager rain of hands, the morning sun
rising behind the marble statue of Sai Baba, turning his ears into a delicate, translucent orange, almost as if they were of
flesh and bone not marble, a creamy mound of white butter plopped on a gleaming black lingam becoming moulded into
the head of Shiva, eyes blazing with vermilion eyeballs, the mouth of Kaal Bhairav open ever so slightly to receive an
offering of a little earthen cup of madira.”
❏ She talks about how one begins “to understand that it is not without reason that there are 33 crore gods and goddesses
in the Hindu pantheon. Because, in their collective divinity, there seems to be a cure for every disease, a mantra for
every malady, a divine avatar to heed and take care of every unfulfilled mortal desire.” In her opinion, “Finally at the end
of each of these Xs, you are left with a strange, comforting feeling — that if you knock on the door of Hinduism, you will
never go away disappointed.”
❏ What is X?

A 10 : Yatra!

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