Mood Indigo India Quiz Finals - II

2o dec 2010 . Mood Indica . j. ramanand

20 december 2010

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Section II of questions from my Mood Indigo 2010 India quiz.

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Annona Squamosa

Annona Reticulata

Annona Cherimola

Annona Atemoya

Connect the scientific terms (the associated pictures are clues to these)


Answer

4 members of the Custard Apple family who have Indian names after characters from the Ramayana

In order:

Ramphal (clue: “Ramprasad Sharma” in the film Golmal)

Laxmanphal (clue: “Laxmanprasad Sharma” in the film Golmal)

Sitaphal (clue: “Sita” in the film Fire)

Hanumanphal (clue: Dara Singh in the TV series Mahabharata)


On 14th/15th Aug 1947 midnight session of the Constituent Assembly:

Mrs. Hansa Mehta (Bombay, General constituency) presented this to the nation for the first time

She did so on behalf of the women of India

What?


Answer

The national flag of India


Logo adopted in 1933 – it features William

Place also named after him

He lived on the society premises from 1894 till his death in 1920.

Length: 4.25 feet

Special Skills: catching tennis balls thrown towards him.

Death: swallowing a piece of wire


Answer

The hornbill in the logo of the Bombay Natural History Society

The location is called Hornbill House


According to the people on the left, the person on the right is the answer to the question “Who is ___”

Pandit Ved Prakash Upadhyay: Prophet Muhammad

Ismaili Khojas: Imam Ali, the son-in-law of prophet Muhammad

Bahá'í : Bahá'u'lláh

Ahmadiyya Muslim Community: Mirza Ghulam Ahmad

Samael Aun Weor: himself

Carolyn Lee and Georg Feuerstein: Adi Da

Guru Gobind Singh: Vivek Budhi/Gurmat (an abstract concept, not even a person)


Answer

The answer to “Who is Kalki” according to various people.


Technological progress has shrunk the size of these scannersAlso more commercially viable

As a result, these scanners are now being used to - check the quality of a pharmaceutical raw material.- by police at airports for drug scanning

Compares molecular structure with a database of patterns

Led to efforts of reclassification of various substances to build these databases

Named after?


Answer

“Raman Scanners” after C. V. Raman as they use the principle of the Raman effect


19th century writer, satirist, caricaturist

20th century writer, activist, changed part of his name inspired by the man on the left. Who are they?


Answer

William Makepeace Thackeray and Keshav S. “Prabodhankar” Thackeray. The latter changed the spelling of his name to match that of the writer.


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What does this

infographic represent?

(the colour coding is

irrelevant; just use the numbers

and the associated regions)


Answer

The number of Param Vir Chakras won for action in various regions.

The regions are Kashmir, West Pakistan, Punjab, NEFA, East Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and the Congo.


World

Harsha Chawda : Anand Kumar

India

Two slide question


Kanupriya Agarwal

Subhash Mukherjee

India (alternative)

Movie based on Mr. Mukherjee on the left


Answer

The first cases of In-vitro fertilization.

Set 1: Louise Brown was born thanks to the efforts of Dr. Robert Edwards in 1978

Set 2: Considered to be the first IVF in India

Set 3: Later, Dr. Anand Kumar (of Set 2) found that Dr. Mukherjee had in fact been the first Indian to achieve this, but due to a combination of office politics and that the parents of the child so conceived feared a social taboo and so didn’t come forward, he failed to receive official recognition. Eventually, he took his own life. The film “Ek Doctor ki Maut” is based on his life.


The estimate of 25000 seems to have been made by journalist Raju Bharatan. This eventually found its way to the Guinness Book of World Records for a while. This led to some ill-will among some people and letters were written to the book compilers. Eventually the entry was removed.

Now Raju Bharatan claims 25000 is a preposterous figure, that it could not have been more than a few thousand then and the highest number should be 13000 today.

What?


Answer

The number of songs sung by Lata Mangeshkar, which was once added to the record books for being the most songs sung by a playback singer. The likes of Mohd. Rafi complained and it was withdrawn.


Members of the IAS/IFS/IPS are allotted state cadres, mostly by allotment

Change of cadre is very difficult unlessthreat to life in the home statehealth reasons

There is a third, more easily attainable method. What?


Answer

To get married to an officer of another (perhaps more plum) state cadre and request for a transfer. This is a significant reason for many intra-services marriages.


Unveiled on June 23, 2007 in TorontoSundial, oriented in the direction of IrelandCentral design evokes the Dharma ChakraSupport stones donated by organisations from Canada, India, Ireland, Japan and the USAMemorial for?


Answer

Memorial to the victims of the Kanishka air disaster in 1985


“Marble Palace” – a mansion in North KolkataBuilt in 1835 by Raja Rajendra Mullick

Also known as ____ _____ Villa

Group took its name from this

Due to smaller premises, moved to Shyampukur

What group?


Answer

Mohun Bagan football club


End-credits begin as follows:'For our parents who gave us everything‘For Ritwik Ghatak and Satyajit Ray, the

gurus of cinema, with love and salaams.

The names of the cast and crew are preceded by their parents’ names.

The lead actor is credited twice - once in his original name, once in his screen name

Which film?


Answer

The Namesake by Mira Nair


This festival occurs four times a year, however only one of them is best known by this name

Known as Vasanta, Ashad, Sharada, Poushya/Magha

Sharada is the most important

Vasanta is also associated with Ram

Festival’s name derives from the worship of a certain number of forms of a deity

Which festival?


Answer

Navaratri


This strangely named instrument is a fret-less veena.One end is shaped like a peacock’s headThe musician doesn’t hold it – placed in front of himSome speculation that it inspired the Hawaiian guitar


Answer

The Vichitraveena


They are Kalpana Swaminathan and Ishrat Syed – Mumbai doctors

Select Bibliography:A compendium of family healthA history of epidemics in IndiaReviews and articles togetherMysteries such as The Quarantine PapersFavourite Tales series

Under what pseudonym do they collaborate?Acc. to Penguin, it means in Persian/Sanskrit: ‘the pleasures of imagination’


Answer

“Kalpish Ratna”

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Mood Indigo India Quiz Finals - II