The document contains a 20 question general quiz with questions about current affairs related to India, Kashmir and the Indian military. It includes multiple choice and identification type questions about people, places, events and movies. The questions cover topics like the Indian Air Force's surgical strikes on Pakistan, famous Indian war films, leaders related to Kashmir's accession to India and other historical and geographical information about the region.

1. FEBRUARY
26, 2019
A THEME-BASED LONE-WOLF
GENERAL QUIZ

2. FORMAT:-
 WRITTEN QUIZ
 20 QUESTIONS OF 2 MARKS EACH
 4 STAR-MARKED (*) QUESTIONS TO RESOLVE TIES
 NO NEGATIVE MARKING

4. 01
The person in the Tweet-frame is the first Indian
official to declare about the outcome of today’s
surgical strike.
IDENTIFY THE PERSON.

5. 01

6. 02
The lady pilot in the picture has created history
by becoming the first Indian woman fighter pilot
to fly solo. She is the first Indian lady-pilot to fly
a MiG-21.
IDENTIFY THE ACHIEVER.

7. 02

8. 03
The Dassault Rafale is a French twin-engine, canard delta
wing, multirole fighter aircraft designed and built
by Dassault Aviation. Equipped with a wide range of
weapons, the Rafale is intended to perform air
supremacy, interdiction, aerial reconnaissance, ground
support, in-depth strike, anti-ship strike and nuclear
deterrence missions. The Rafale is referred to as an
"omnirole" aircraft by Dassault.
WHAT IS THE LITERAL MEANING OF ‘RAFALE’?

9. 03

10. 04
‘X’ is a border village in Hattian Bala District of Azad
Kashmir, Pakistan. It is located 52 kilometers from
Muzaffarabad near Pakistan-India border on bank of
Jhelum River. ‘X’ is the check post to Muzaffarabad-Srinagar
bus service for immigration and customs.
IDENTIFY ‘X’.

11. 04
‘X’ is a border village in Hattian Bala District of Azad
Kashmir, Pakistan. It is located 52 kilometers from
Muzaffarabad near Pakistan-India border on bank of
Jhelum River. ‘X’ is the check post to Muzaffarabad-Srinagar
bus service for immigration and customs.
IDENTIFY ‘X’.

12. 05*
Soon after today’s Surgical Strike, a video got viral
showing the destruction of some buildings and
killing of many men, claiming to be the views from
the IAF planes. Soon it was discovered that the clip
is taken from a 2015 video game.
WHAT IS THE NAME OF THE VIDEO GAME?

13. 05*

14. 06
CONNECT:
 Cervus elaphus hanglu
 Grus nigricollis
 Nelumbo nucifera
 Platanus orientalis

15. 06
CONNECT:
 Cervus elaphus hanglu
 Grus nigricollis
 Nelumbo nucifera
 Platanus orientalis

16. 07
The man in the picture was the last ruling Maharaja of
the princely state of Jammu and Kashmir in India. He
signed the Instrument of Accession on 26 October 1947,
joining the whole of his princely state (including Jammu,
Kashmir, Northern Areas, Ladakh, Trans-Karakoram
Tract and Aksai Chin) to the Dominion of India. These
events triggered the first Indo-Pakistan War.
IDENTIFY THE ‘KING’.

17. 07

18. 08
‘Bhumbro’ is a delightful little folk song from the valley of
Kashmir. The original composition is from the first Kashmiri
opera ever written, ’Bombur ta Yemberzal’.
WHAT IS THE LITERAL MEANING OF ‘BHUMBRO’?

19. 08

20. 09
The X Temple is a Kashmiri temple dedicated
to Surya and built during the 8th century CE. Now in
ruins, the temple is located five miles from Anantnag in
Jammu and Kashmir. It was destroyed during the
sultanate of Sikandar Butshikan.
IDENTIFY THE TEMPLE.

21. 09

22. 10*
According to a legend, Kashmir derives its name from Kash Tribe. Kash or Cush was the
son of Ham and a grandson X. He was the founder of the Kash or Cush tribe, which
settled in the east. This tribe founded Kash, a village near Bagdad. These people named
rivers, mountains, cities and countries after the name of their ancestor Kash or Cush. In
Mesopotamia, they founded a kingdom, and the Kashan river in that country is a
testimony of this fact. Kashmar, a village near Nishapur in Iran, was also founded by
them. This tribe also proceeded towards Central Asia and founded many settlements.
Kashmohra, a village in Merv; Kash, a village in Bokhara; Kashband and Kashania,
villages in Samarkand, Kashgar, in the Chinese Turkistan, were their settlements in
central Asia. In Mesopotamia, the tribe founded the towns of Kashan, Kashaf and Kashi.
They also moved towards Afghanistan and founded settlements at Kashkar, Kashhil,
Kashek and Kashu. While the Hindu-Kush mountains are named after them, they also
founded a settlement south of this mountain range known as Kashmor.
IDENTIFY X.

23. 10*
According to a legend, Kashmir derives its name from Kash Tribe. Kash or Cush was the
son of Ham and a grandson X. He was the founder of the Kash or Cush tribe, which
settled in the east. This tribe founded Kash, a village near Bagdad. These people named
rivers, mountains, cities and countries after the name of their ancestor Kash or Cush. In
Mesopotamia, they founded a kingdom, and the Kashan river in that country is a
testimony of this fact. Kashmar, a village near Nishapur in Iran, was also founded by
them. This tribe also proceeded towards Central Asia and founded many settlements.
Kashmohra, a village in Merv; Kash, a village in Bokhara; Kashband and Kashania,
villages in Samarkand, Kashgar, in the Chinese Turkistan, were their settlements in
central Asia. In Mesopotamia, the tribe founded the towns of Kashan, Kashaf and Kashi.
They also moved towards Afghanistan and founded settlements at Kashkar, Kashhil,
Kashek and Kashu. While the Hindu-Kush mountains are named after them, they also
founded a settlement south of this mountain range known as Kashmor.
IDENTIFY X.

24. 11
The Mirage-2000, used in today’s air-strikes is
undoubtedly one of the Indian Air Force's (IAF) most
versatile and deadliest aircraft. It was first
commissioned in 1985. Soon after inducting
the Mirage, IAF gave it a special name ‘X’.
IDENTIFY X.

25. 11

26. 12
The video clip from a Bollywood movie shows four
Mirage-2000 aircrafts on a particular mission.
IDENTIFY THE FILM.

27. 12

28. 13
Aditya Dhar, the director of the film ‘Uri: The Surgical Strike’ has
remarked that he had some friends from defence background, so with
them he used to go to a lot of Army clubs. There was one in Delhi where
they used to go for Christmas or New Year parties. There used to be a
retired Brigadier who would line up all the kids in front of him and have a
chocolate in his hand. He would utter the phrase ‘X’ and the kids were to
respond. The kid who was the loudest got the chocolate.
IDENTIFY THE PHRASE ‘X’.

29. 13
Aditya Dhar, the director of the film ‘Uri: The Surgical Strike’ has
remarked that he had some friends from defence background, so with
them he used to go to a lot of Army clubs. There was one in Delhi where
they used to go for Christmas or New Year parties. There used to be a
retired Brigadier who would line up all the kids in front of him and have a
chocolate in his hand. He would utter the phrase ‘X’ and the kids were to
respond. The kid who was the loudest got the chocolate.
IDENTIFY THE PHRASE ‘X’.

30. 14
WHICH FAMOUS INDIAN MOVIE
HAD THIS FAMOUS DIALOGUE ?

31. 14

32. 15*
‘X’ was a 2018 Bollywood movie that went quite
unsung. The film featured Deepraj Rana, Mir Sarvar,
Lakha Lakhwinder Singh, Jimmy Sharma, Sanjay
Singh, Amit Pathak and Vedita Pratap Singh as army
officers. The movie was about the price our
armymen has to pay for the safety of our country.
IDENTIFY X.

33. 15*

34. 16
This song was written in 1979, and the title of the song alludes to a
promise by the poet of a day when mountains of injustice would be
blown away like cotton, an imagery of the end of repressive and
authoritarian rule. It was first sung as a nazm in 1985 in front of a
national crowd and resulting in an instant ban of the artist, it was
recreated in early 2010s and used by the Tehreek-e-Insaaf in the 2013
Pakistan General Elections, and again in the Azadi March in 2014. The
latest recreation was directed and produced by Zohaib Kazi and Ali
Hamza and has garnered close to seven million views on YouTube.
IDENTIFY THE SONG.

35. 16
This song was written in 1979, and the title of the song alludes to a
promise by the poet of a day when mountains of injustice would be
blown away like cotton, an imagery of the end of repressive and
authoritarian rule. It was first sung as a nazm in 1985 in front of a
national crowd and resulting in an instant ban of the artist, it was
recreated in early 2010s and used by the Tehreek-e-Insaaf in the 2013
Pakistan General Elections, and again in the Azadi March in 2014. The
latest recreation was directed and produced by Zohaib Kazi and Ali
Hamza and has garnered close to seven million views on YouTube.
IDENTIFY THE SONG.

36. 17
X & X is an Indian company. It was originally set up as a
steel trading company in 1945 in Ludhiana as X &
Mohammad by brothers Kailash Chandra X and J.C. X
and Malik Ghulam Mohammed. After India gained
independence and Pakistan was formed, Mohammed
emigrated to Pakistan where he became that country's
first finance minister.
NAME ‘X’.

37. 17
X & X is an Indian company. It was originally set up as a
steel trading company in 1945 in Ludhiana as X &
Mohammad by brothers Kailash Chandra X and J.C. X
and Malik Ghulam Mohammed. After India gained
independence and Pakistan was formed, Mohammed
emigrated to Pakistan where he became that country's
first finance minister.
NAME ‘X’.

38. 18
‘X’ is a disputed border area between China and India. It is
largely part of Hotan County, which lies in the south-western
part of Hotan Prefecture of Xinjiang Autonomous Region in
China, with a small portion on the southeast and south sides
lying within the extreme west of the Xizang Autonomous
Region. But it is also claimed by India as a part of
the Ladakh region of the state of Jammu and Kashmir. In 1962,
China and India fought a brief war in ‘X’ and Arunachal Pradesh,
but in 1993 and 1996, the two countries signed agreements to
respect the Line of Actual Control.
NAME ‘X’.

39. 18
‘X’ is a disputed border area between China and India. It is
largely part of Hotan County, which lies in the south-western
part of Hotan Prefecture of Xinjiang Autonomous Region in
China, with a small portion on the southeast and south sides
lying within the extreme west of the Xizang Autonomous
Region. But it is also claimed by India as a part of
the Ladakh region of the state of Jammu and Kashmir. In 1962,
China and India fought a brief war in ‘X’ and Arunachal Pradesh,
but in 1993 and 1996, the two countries signed agreements to
respect the Line of Actual Control.
NAME ‘X’.

40. 19
‘X’ is situated just northeast of the point NJ9842, where
the Line of Control between India and Pakistan ends. The
name ‘X’ refers to a land with an abundance of roses.
NAME ‘X’.

41. 19
‘X’ is situated just northeast of the point NJ9842, where
the Line of Control between India and Pakistan ends. The
name ‘X’ refers to a land with an abundance of roses.
NAME ‘X’.

42. 20*
The storyline of one of the finest Indian war-film goes thus:
In July, 1962, China's Red Army started their propaganda that Chinese and
Indians are brothers (Hindi-Chini bhai bhai) and at the same time threatened
dire consequences if the Indian soldiers did not withdraw from the disputed
land near Ladakh in Northeastern India. Ram Singh, Ram Swarup, Major Ranjit
Singh, Major Pratap Singh, Captain Bahadur Singh, and his dad Brigadier Singh
are amongst the many soldiers that have been deployed to protect India's
border with strict instructions that the first shot must come from the Chinese.
Bahadur is in love with a Ladakhi/Kashmiri belle by the name of Angmo and has
just secured his mother's blessings and permission to marry her. It is at this
time that the Chinese launch their attack on all Indian positions and camp. The
Indian army soldiers must fight to keep their borders safe, knowing fully well
that they may not survive to tell this tale to their loved ones.
NAME THE INDIAN WAR-FILM.

43. 20*
The storyline of one of the finest Indian war-film goes thus:
In July, 1962, China's Red Army started their propaganda that Chinese and
Indians are brothers (Hindi-Chini bhai bhai) and at the same time threatened
dire consequences if the Indian soldiers did not withdraw from the disputed
land near Ladakh in Northeastern India. Ram Singh, Ram Swarup, Major Ranjit
Singh, Major Pratap Singh, Captain Bahadur Singh, and his dad Brigadier Singh
are amongst the many soldiers that have been deployed to protect India's
border with strict instructions that the first shot must come from the Chinese.
Bahadur is in love with a Ladakhi/Kashmiri belle by the name of Angmo and has
just secured his mother's blessings and permission to marry her. It is at this
time that the Chinese launch their attack on all Indian positions and camp. The
Indian army soldiers must fight to keep their borders safe, knowing fully well
that they may not survive to tell this tale to their loved ones.
NAME THE INDIAN WAR-FILM.

44. >>SUBMIT

45. >>ANSWER

46. 01
The person in the Tweet-frame is the first Indian
official to declare about the outcome of today’s
surgical strike.
IDENTIFY THE PERSON.

47. 01
VIJAY GOKHALE
The Foreign Secretary

48. 02
The lady pilot in the picture has created history
by becoming the first Indian woman fighter pilot
to fly solo. She is the first Indian lady-pilot to fly
a MiG-21.
IDENTIFY THE ACHIEVER.

49. 02
AVANI CHATURVEDI

50. 03
The Dassault Rafale is a French twin-engine, canard delta
wing, multirole fighter aircraft designed and built
by Dassault Aviation. Equipped with a wide range of
weapons, the Rafale is intended to perform air
supremacy, interdiction, aerial reconnaissance, ground
support, in-depth strike, anti-ship strike and nuclear
deterrence missions. The Rafale is referred to as an
"omnirole" aircraft by Dassault.
WHAT IS THE LITERAL MEANING OF ‘RAFALE’?

51. 03
“GUST OF WIND”
or,
“BURST OF FIRE”

52. 04
‘X’ is a border village in Hattian Bala District of Azad
Kashmir, Pakistan. It is located 52 kilometers from
Muzaffarabad near Pakistan-India border on bank of
Jhelum River. ‘X’ is the check post to Muzaffarabad-Srinagar
bus service for immigration and customs.
IDENTIFY ‘X’.

53. 04
CHAKOTHI

54. 05*
Soon after today’s Surgical Strike, a video got viral
showing the destruction of some buildings and
killing of many men, claiming to be the views from
the IAF planes. Soon it was discovered that the clip
is taken from a 2015 video game.
WHAT IS THE NAME OF THE VIDEO GAME?

55. 05*

56. 06
CONNECT:
 Cervus elaphus hanglu
 Grus nigricollis
 Nelumbo nucifera
 Platanus orientalis

57. 06
STATE SYMBOLS OF
JAMMU & KASHMIR

58. 07
The man in the picture was the last ruling Maharaja of
the princely state of Jammu and Kashmir in India. He
signed the Instrument of Accession on 26 October 1947,
joining the whole of his princely state (including Jammu,
Kashmir, Northern Areas, Ladakh, Trans-Karakoram
Tract and Aksai Chin) to the Dominion of India. These
events triggered the first Indo-Pakistan War.
IDENTIFY THE ‘KING’.

59. 07
MAHARAJA HARI SINGH

60. 08
‘Bhumbro’ is a delightful little folk song from the valley of
Kashmir. The original composition is from the first Kashmiri
opera ever written, ’Bombur ta Yemberzal’.
WHAT IS THE LITERAL MEANING OF ‘BHUMBRO’?

61. 08
BUMBLEBEE

62. 09
The X Temple is a Kashmiri temple dedicated
to Surya and built during the 8th century CE. Now in
ruins, the temple is located five miles from Anantnag in
Jammu and Kashmir. It was destroyed during the
sultanate of Sikandar Butshikan.
IDENTIFY THE TEMPLE.

63. 09
MARTAND SUN TEMPLE

64. 10*
According to a legend, Kashmir derives its name from Kash Tribe. Kash or Cush was the
son of Ham and a grandson X. He was the founder of the Kash or Cush tribe, which
settled in the east. This tribe founded Kash, a village near Bagdad. These people named
rivers, mountains, cities and countries after the name of their ancestor Kash or Cush. In
Mesopotamia, they founded a kingdom, and the Kashan river in that country is a
testimony of this fact. Kashmar, a village near Nishapur in Iran, was also founded by
them. This tribe also proceeded towards Central Asia and founded many settlements.
Kashmohra, a village in Merv; Kash, a village in Bokhara; Kashband and Kashania,
villages in Samarkand, Kashgar, in the Chinese Turkistan, were their settlements in
central Asia. In Mesopotamia, the tribe founded the towns of Kashan, Kashaf and Kashi.
They also moved towards Afghanistan and founded settlements at Kashkar, Kashhil,
Kashek and Kashu. While the Hindu-Kush mountains are named after them, they also
founded a settlement south of this mountain range known as Kashmor.
IDENTIFY X.

65. 10*

66. 11
The Mirage-2000, used in today’s air-strikes is
undoubtedly one of the Indian Air Force's (IAF) most
versatile and deadliest aircraft. It was first
commissioned in 1985. Soon after inducting
the Mirage, IAF gave it a special name ‘X’.
IDENTIFY X.

67. 11
VAJRA

68. 12
The video clip from a Bollywood movie shows four
Mirage-2000 aircrafts on a particular mission.
IDENTIFY THE FILM.

69. 12

70. 13
Aditya Dhar, the director of the film ‘Uri: The Surgical Strike’ has
remarked that he had some friends from defence background, so with
them he used to go to a lot of Army clubs. There was one in Delhi where
they used to go for Christmas or New Year parties. There used to be a
retired Brigadier who would line up all the kids in front of him and have a
chocolate in his hand. He would utter the phrase ‘X’ and the kids were to
respond. The kid who was the loudest got the chocolate.
IDENTIFY THE PHRASE ‘X’.

71. 13

72. 14
WHICH FAMOUS INDIAN MOVIE
HAD THIS FAMOUS DIALOGUE ?

73. 14

74. 15*
‘X’ was a 2018 Bollywood movie that went quite
unsung. The film featured Deepraj Rana, Mir Sarvar,
Lakha Lakhwinder Singh, Jimmy Sharma, Sanjay
Singh, Amit Pathak and Vedita Pratap Singh as army
officers. The movie was about the price our
armymen has to pay for the safety of our country.
IDENTIFY X.

75. 15*

76. 16
This song was written in 1979, and the title of the song alludes to a
promise by the poet of a day when mountains of injustice would be
blown away like cotton, an imagery of the end of repressive and
authoritarian rule. It was first sung as a nazm in 1985 in front of a
national crowd and resulting in an instant ban of the artist, it was
recreated in early 2010s and used by the Tehreek-e-Insaaf in the 2013
Pakistan General Elections, and again in the Azadi March in 2014. The
latest recreation was directed and produced by Zohaib Kazi and Ali
Hamza and has garnered close to seven million views on YouTube.
IDENTIFY THE SONG.

77. 16

78. 17
X & X is an Indian company. It was originally set up as a
steel trading company in 1945 in Ludhiana as X &
Mohammad by brothers Kailash Chandra X and J.C. X
and Malik Ghulam Mohammed. After India gained
independence and Pakistan was formed, Mohammed
emigrated to Pakistan where he became that country's
first finance minister.
NAME ‘X’.

79. 17

80. 18
‘X’ is a disputed border area between China and India. It is
largely part of Hotan County, which lies in the south-western
part of Hotan Prefecture of Xinjiang Autonomous Region in
China, with a small portion on the southeast and south sides
lying within the extreme west of the Xizang Autonomous
Region. But it is also claimed by India as a part of
the Ladakh region of the state of Jammu and Kashmir. In 1962,
China and India fought a brief war in ‘X’ and Arunachal Pradesh,
but in 1993 and 1996, the two countries signed agreements to
respect the Line of Actual Control.
NAME ‘X’.

81. 18
AKSAI CHIN

82. 19
‘X’ is situated just northeast of the point NJ9842, where
the Line of Control between India and Pakistan ends. The
name ‘X’ refers to a land with an abundance of roses.
NAME ‘X’.

83. 19

84. 20*
The storyline of one of the finest Indian war-film goes thus:
In July, 1962, China's Red Army started their propaganda that Chinese and
Indians are brothers (Hindi-Chini bhai bhai) and at the same time threatened
dire consequences if the Indian soldiers did not withdraw from the disputed
land near Ladakh in Northeastern India. Ram Singh, Ram Swarup, Major Ranjit
Singh, Major Pratap Singh, Captain Bahadur Singh, and his dad Brigadier Singh
are amongst the many soldiers that have been deployed to protect India's
border with strict instructions that the first shot must come from the Chinese.
Bahadur is in love with a Ladakhi/Kashmiri belle by the name of Angmo and has
just secured his mother's blessings and permission to marry her. It is at this
time that the Chinese launch their attack on all Indian positions and camp. The
Indian army soldiers must fight to keep their borders safe, knowing fully well
that they may not survive to tell this tale to their loved ones.
NAME THE INDIAN WAR-FILM.

85. 20*

86. FEBRUARY
26, 2019
A THEME-BASED LONE-WOLF
GENERAL QUIZ