- 1. BY, Pradeepa Gopinath Amruth C.K
2. Round-1 3. Unlimited bounce and pounce. +10 for every correct
answer and -5 if wrong answer is given on pounce. 4. 1) ________ is
a well known Kannada humorist who had a bilingual pen name and was
motivated towards Kannada literature after reading A.N.Krishna Raos
novel Sandhyaraga on a long train journey. He said, "I started
reading Sandhyaraga by placing the book inside the folds of the
Illustrated Weekly paper. I remember only that I started to read. I
don't know how many times my eyes went moist and how many times my
heart skipped beats Who is this? 5. Rayasam Bheemasena Rao - Bechi
6. 2) Salim Khan and Javed Akthar (Salim-Javed duo) fathers of
Salman Khan and Fahran Akthar respectively provided the story for a
Kannada movie in 1976. The movie was a thriller released under
Jayadevi Films and Poornima Rajkumar won the best child actress
award. Name the movie. 7. Premada Kanike 8. 3)Arehally(Hassan
district) has around 1,600 coffee growers .A brand in 2007 which
promised to be "Direct from the growers was initiative of Arehally
Coffee Cooperative Society which had 300 members. Society's
President K M Raje Gowda said When prices were ruling low for a
long-time, we asked ourselves how can we help ourselves as we cant
rely on government always." Members contributed Rs 1,000 each and
two bags of coffee each, which enabled them to raise around Rs 26
lakh. 9. Copsy coffee 10. 4) X is an 64 acre island formed by river
Kaveri near Kushalnagara in the district of Kodagu. It is place
with lush foliage of thick bamboo groves,sandalwood and teak trees.
The island is accessible through a hanging rope bridge. Name X. 11.
Kaveri Nisarga Dhama 12. 5) Kannada University also called as Hampi
Kannada University is a research oriented public university. The
University confers _______ awards, every year, which is equivalent
to the Honorary Doctor of Letters degree. The award which has been
instituted by the University is given to eminent personalities for
their contribution in various fields. Name the award. 13. Nadoja
14. 6) X was an Indian motorcycle company based in Mysore, sold
motorcycles in 1960 under the brand name _____ and later Yezdi They
exported many of their models to over 61countries around the world.
The company was forced to shut down because of increasing levels of
pollution control norms which were making the two stroke bikes
produced by the company obsolete. Company? 15. Ideal Jawa 16. Round
-2 17. +5 for each correct answers. Written round 18. 1) 19. 2)This
was set up in 1937 by the maharaja of Mysore, Krishnaraja Wodeyar
IV. It is very much relevant now because of some event taking place
throught the country. How? 20. 3) 21. 4) 22. 5) 23. 6) 24. 1)
Yashwanth Halebandi 2) Mysore paints and varnish Limited . They
provide the voters ink. 3) S.V Sunil. 4) Dubare Elephant camp. 5)
Dr.Devi Prasad Shetty. 6) Chandrashekhar Kambaar. 25. Round-3 26.
+5 for every correct answer -2 for every wrong answer Bonus of +10
if all the answers are correct. 27. 1) Name all the national parks
in Karnataka. 28. Kudremukh National Park Bannerghatta National
Park Bandipura National Park Nagarhole National Park (Rajiv Gandhi)
Anshi National Park 29. 2) List all the districts that is taken by
this route.This route is a part of NH 4. 30. (+5/-2) 1)Bangalore
Urban 2)Bangalore Rural 3)Tumkur 4)Chitradurga 5)Davanagere
6)Haveri 7)Dharwad/Hubli 8)Belgaum 31. Round-4 32. Unlimited bounce
and pounce. +10 for every correct answer and -5 if wrong answer is
given on pounce. 33. 1)World space radio launched first ever 24
hours Kannada channel on 3rd September,2004. Chaitanya Hegde, an
enthusiastic young creative person was behind ________ as program
director who gained an immense popularity as RJ through his program
'Chow Chow Bath' on Bangalore's FM radio station Radio City. Name
this add free Radio channel. 34. Sparsha radio channel. 35.
2)Traditional Borders of X include (i) Chikki, (ii) Gomi, (iii)
Jari and (iv) Gadidadi, and modern Gayathri and the width ranging
from 2.5 to 4. The people from X town are very industrious and are
backed by good background of business. The pure X costs anywhere
between Rs.4000 12000. X enu? 36. Ilkal silk sarees. 37. 3) As a
child, X once saw the Y being played in the Mysore palace band set.
Upon hearing the vibrant tone of the instrument,he decided to
master it. It took him nearly 20 years to conquer the complex
western instrument, and he was eventually crowned as the Y
Chakravarthy". 38. Kadri Gopalnath and Saxophone 39. 4) Logo of
which music company? 40. Lahari music company 41. 5) This event was
started in the year 2006. It was a very popular program with the
slogan Back to the village. It was held every second Saturday and
Sunday in front of the Vidhana Soudha, and every fourth Saturday
and Sunday at another place in Bangalore. It was stopped abruptly
in 2007. Which is this event? 42. Janapada Jaatre 43. 6) Do not
come up, I will handle them, were the last words told by X to his
men as he was hit by bullets while engaging terrorists in Operation
Black Tornado. X was a major in Indian Army. His bravery was
honoured with the Ashoka Chakra. Name him. 44. Major Sandeep
Unnikrishnan 45. Round-5 46. A-Z round +2 for each correct answer
and bonus of +18 if at least 24 answers are correct. 47. A made
news by contesting unsuccessfully as an independent candidate in
the 2009 Lok Sabha elections. He started a low cost airline in
2003,B and has written the only book C. As father D was renowned
Kannada writer known for his humour and satire. Ds short story
which was based on true events was made into a movie E which saw F
and G square off against each other. F actor has the longest road
to have an actors name. G is son of first Kannada hero H. Gs son I
hosts many reality show with Maja with J being one of them. E movie
was directed by E. However Es most famous work is in the movie K
(1972) which ran in the theatres continuously for 2 years and made
a record. L was the leading actor in K. L also acted in a 1960
movie M about the poet N who belonged to the Dasa Sect. Ms
screenplay was written by O.N was Ps young contemporary who
addressed social issues in addition to worship in his
compositions.Q made a documentary film titled, N- P(English, 1988)
on the two medieval Bhakti poets of Karnataka.Ns keerthane was used
in the starting of another movie R which won the audience choice
award at 4th Indian Film Festival in London (2013). 48. S was as a
notable engineer, scholar, statesman and the Diwan of Mysore during
1912 to 1918. He was responsible for starting an Industry T which
in now under the jurisdiction of SAIL in the city of U. U is in V
district. Vs most popular tourist spot is W . W is the second
highest plunge waterfall in Indian,formed by the river X. A dam Y
of length 2.4 kms was constructed stretching across the river X. Ss
memorial is in his birthplace Y.Ss most famous work is Z dam. 49.
A-Z answers 50. A: Capt G R Gopinath B: Deccan Airlines C: Simply
Fly D: Gorur Ramaswamy Iyengar E: Bhootayyana Maga Ayyu E:
Siddalingayya F: Vishnuvardhan G: Lokesh H: Subbaiah Naidu I:
Srujan Lokesh J: Sruja K: Bangaarada Manushya L: Dr. Rajkumar M:
Bhaktha Kanakadasa N: Kanaka Dasaaru ( Song is Nee MaayeyoLago
Maaye ninollago) O: Hunsur Krishnamurthy P: Purandara Dasaru Q:
Girish Karnad R: Lucia 51. S: Bharatha Ratna Sir M Vishweshwaraiah
T: Visvesvaraya(Bhadravathi) Iron and Steel Plant U: Bhadravathi V:
Shimoga ( Shivamogga) W: Jog Falls X: Sharavathi Y: Linganamakki
Dam Y: Muddenhalli. Z : Krishna Raja Sagara Dam
