Incredible India Quiz

Aditya Shekhar AcharyaAshwini Kumar Sahay

Finals

Round 1

• Infinite Bounce And Pounce• +15/-10 on pounce• +10/0 on bounce• Team 1 to Team 8

1.

The story goes…• The original image of X manifested in the form of Blue Jewel. It was so

dazzling that it could grant instant moksha, so Yama wanted to hide it. King Indradyumna wanted to find that mysterious image and performed harsh penances to obtain his goal. Vishnu then instructed him to go to Y and find a floating log to make an image from its trunk. The King found the log of wood. Vishnu himself appeared in the guise of a carpenter to make the idols on condition that he was to be left undisturbed until he finished the work. But just after two weeks, the Queen became very anxious. She took the carpenter to be dead as no sound came from the temple. Therefore, she requested the king to open the door. Thus, they went to see Vishnu at work at which the latter abandoned his work leaving the idols unfinished.

Answer

2.

Connect:• Shubh Yatra• Jet Wings• Go-Getter• Hello 6E• Spice Route

Answer

In-flight magazines of Indian Airline Companies

3.

• On some days, Boa Sr would sit silently in the jungle surrounding her home on one of India's Andaman Islands and gaze up at the sky. According to researchers who looked on, birds perched above would descend to the ground and inspect her; in turn Boa Sr spoke to them in her native tongue, calling them her ancestors and her friends. Her speech was rich with words of the natural world, words of the forest and the sea that some linguists suspect date back tens of thousands of years to the first migrations of man. Boa Sr was the last person alive to know them. In early February, she passed away, leaving behind no surviving siblings or children. As she died, so too did the language of her people. The extinction of which Indian Language has been talked about. [pic next slide]

Answer

Bo

4.

• The X rose is 'Saffron-Vermillion Red with Yellow River' and has German parentage and has been carefully developed after nearly five years of research and development at the world-famous KSG Rose, Bangalore. A new, specially-developed variety of rose has taken birth at the Dombivli Rose Society. Id X.

Answer

• Modi Rose

5.

• 1st-Otis Davis• 2nd-Carl Kaufmann• 3rd-Malcolm Spence• 4th-??

Answer

6.

• The Indians paid 12 villages to the Pakistanis in 1960s in exchange for the village of Hussainiwala, a small village in Punjab.

• What made this village so special for India to have?

Answer

Burial site of the three martyrs

7.The color scheme of which movie was inspired by the painting ‘Pratima Visarjan‘ by Gaganendranath Tagore?

Answer

8.

• In the 1984-85 season, India and Pakistan were playing the 2nd ODI in Sialkot. Indian team was at 210/3 and Vengsarkar was at 94*. At this point, the match was suddenly abandoned. Why?

Answer

• Assassination of Indira Gandhi

Round 2

• Infinite Bounce And Pounce• +15/-10 on pounce• +10/0 on bounce• Team 8 to Team 1

1.

Whose timeline?• Born in Jaspur, near Nainital, on 21 May, 1857• In 1876, he joined Muir Central College at Allahabad• Passed the Vakil's Examination of the High Court in 1880 and was enrolled as a Vakil on 21

December 1880• In 1896, Allahabad High Court raised him to the rank and status of Advocate• The distinction of 'Rai Bahadur' was conferred on him in 1905• Was appointed a CIE in 1907• In 1909 he accepted a seat on the Bench of the Judicial Commissioner's Court

at Lucknow for a few months and in 1914 officiated as a Judge of the Allahabad High Court• In 1906, he became the first Indian Vice Chancellor of Allahabad University. He was

reappointed to that office in 1912 and 1916• Died in Allahabad on 13 February 1918 at age 61

Answer

• Sir Sunderlal

2.

Answer

3.

• This village in Haryana, earlier known as Chuma Kheragaon, now bears the name of someone who once memorably told Playboy: "I've looked on a lot of women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times. This is something that God recognizes I will do--and I have done it--and God forgives me for it." Who?

Answer

Jimmy Carter

4.

• Which company began as a joint venture agreement between Priya Exhibitors Private Limited and Village Roadshow Limited in 1995 with 60:40 ratio & began its commercial operations in June 1997?

Answer

5.A new place was started after the shutting down of these 2 places. What was the new place?

Answer

Cellular Jail

6.

• X was created by Sir Fredrick Lawley by combining and developing a few villages.

• X?

Answer

Malgudi

7.

• In 1904, Viceroy Lord Curzon, on behalf of the King Emperor, bestowed upon X the Kaisar-i-Hind Gold Medal. In 2013, the crater _____ on Mercury was named in his honor. Considering his vast contribution to Indian culture, the Government of Kerala has instituted an award called “X Puraskaram”. X’s representation of mythological characters has become a part of the Indian imagination of the epics. He is often criticized for being too showy and sentimental but his work remains very popular in India.

Answer

Raja Ravi Varma

8.

• What was founded in 2007 by Vishal Mehta, a Cornell and MIT Sloan alumni after working for Dell computers and Amazon.com in the US for five years, along with a group of ex-Amazon employees?

Answer

Round 3

• Pick Your Pill• On direct: +20/-20• Open to all: +10/0

Business Entertainment Literature Sports

Politics Geography F&B SurpriseMe

Surprise!!!

SURPRISE!!!

• X is a legendary winged warrior prince of a fictional fabled fairyland. He descended to earth on a private mission and landed in Vikasnagar, becoming a zealous defender of interests of Vikasnagar. His real name is Rajkumar Alop.

• X can summon the ‘X-Shakti’, by hailing his name in battle, shouting ‘Jai Mahaguru X’. He acquires super-human physical attributes, apart from receiving the mystical Sword and Shield of his master.

Answer

Geography

GEOGRAPHY

• The city was founded as Mayarashtra by Maya, father of Mandodari, Ravana’s wife in Ramayana. It’s also known as ‘Ravana ka sasural’. In the Ramayana, Shravana Kumar carried his parents to all the pilgrimage sites in India, but it’s believed that when he passed through this city, he put down his parents for a while to get rest and water. It was here that King Dashratha mistook Shravana for a deer and shot him with an arrow. Shravana’s parents declared that King Dashratha’s own first son would abandon him when he would need him the most.

• Which city?

Answer

Meerut

F & B

F & B

•The dish likely originated in the city of Puri about 2,000 years ago.

It is cooked to this day within the temple precincts there. Every

single day, hundreds of temple cooks work to cook this dish,

enough to feed at least 10,000 people.

•It’s more famous name is derived from the Sanskrit word for milk.

•Which dish is being mentioned here?

Answer

Kheer

Sports

SPORTS

• “I never dared to break the glass of his house while playing cricket as I used to be extremely scared of him.”

• Virender Sehwag talking about which former childhood neighbour of his from Najafgarh?

Answer

Sushil Kumar

Politics

POLITICS

• Suhasini Haidar is the Foreign Affairs Editor for CNN-IBN. She has also worked with CNN International, regularly reporting from the Indian sub-continent. She comes from a family with high political and judicial leanings.

• Who is her more famous father?

Answer

Subramaniam Swamy

Business

BUSINESS

• Identify this fast growing business house.

Answer

Entertainment

ENTERTAINMENT

• A tribute to which Indian movie?

Answer

Pyaasa

Literature

LITERATURE

• Whose tombstone?

Answer

Round 4

• The Pursuit Of Nihilanth• +10/0

• Which of these are UNESCO World Heritage Sites?

Rani Ki Vav, Gujarat

Golconda Fort

Great Living Chola Temples

The Maharaja Railways of

India

Champaner-Pavagadh

Archaeological Park, Gujarat

Tomb of Sher Shah Suri, Sasaram

Nanda Devi and Valley of Flowers

National Parks

Jantar Mantar, Delhi

Churches and Convents of Goa

The Kangra Valley Railway

Great Himalayan

National Park

Chilika Lake

Group of Monuments at

Pattadakal, Karnataka

Mughal Gardens, J&K

Keoladeo National Park

Sarnath, U.P

• Which of these are Jyotirlingas?

Grihneshwar Temple,

Aurangabad

Lingaraj Temple,Bhubaneswar

Nageshvara Temple,Dwarka

Ekambareswarar Temple,

Kancheepuram

Bhimashankar Temple,

Maharashtra

Pashupatinath Temple,

Mandsaur, M.P

Vaidyanath Temple,Deoghar, Jharkhand

Amarnath,J&K

Omkareshwar Temple,

M.P

Srikantheshwar Temple,Mysore

Trimbakeshwar Temple,

Maharashtra

Markandeswarar Temple,Chennai

Mahakaleshwar Temple,Ujjain

Nataraj Temple,Chidambaram

Mallikarjuna Swami Temple,

Srisailam

Neelkanth Mahadev Temple,

Near Rishikesh

Round 5

• Visual Connect• Points only for the overall theme (indicated on the slides)

Set 1

• +40/-20

Set 2

• +30/-15

Set 3

• +20/-10

Set 4

• +10/0

Answer

They all died outside India (Think outside the box)

• Dewang Mehta: Sydney, Australia• Sir Dorabji Tata: Bad Kissingen, Germany• C.K. Prahalad: San Diego, California, United States• J.R.D. Tata: Geneva, Switzerland• G.D. Birla: London, United Kingdom• Dev Anand: London, United Kingdom• Homi J. Bhabha: Mont Blanc• M.F. Husain: London, United Kingdom• Pt. Ravi Shankar: San Diego, California, United States• Udham Singh: Pentonville, United Kingdom• P.C. Sorcar: Ashaikawa, Hokkaidō, Japan• Lal Bahadur Shastri: Tashkent, Uzbekistan