1. Freshers India Quiz2014

2. QUIZMASTERS1. ABHINAV RAJ2. SAMVIT KUMAR3. AMIT GUPTA 3. PRELIMSRULES:1. NO ELECTRONIC DEVICES ARE ALLOWED.2. THE DECISION OF THE QUIZMASTERS IS FINAL.3. IN CASE OF A DOUBT REFER TO THE PREVIOUS RULES. 4. 1Name the son of a diwan of a small princelystate in the Kathiawar region and his fourthwife? 5. M K Gandhi 6. 2Name themonument. 7. BiBi ka Makbara(Aurangzeb Ki)Aurangabad (Maharashtra) 8. 3In the year 1919, the British government passedan act under which the government had thepower to arrest and keep a person in prisonwithout trial. Which was this act? 9. Rowlett Act 10. 4Identify thelogo. 11. Aadhar Card 12. 5Which fictional town is situated on the bank ofthe river Sarayu and the journey to this villagefrom madras takes few hours? 13. Malgudi 14. 6Started illegally in 1957 on government land by agovt. employee in Chandigarh. Name this famousmonument. 15. Rock Garden 16. 7Originally built as Baku and commissioned in 1987, the carrier servedwith the Soviet (until the dissolution of the Soviet Union) andRussian Navies before being decommissioned in 1996 as she was tooexpensive to operate on a post-Cold War budget. It was laterrenamed Gorshkov. The carrier was purchased by India on 20January 2004 after years of negotiations at a final price of $2.35billion. The ship successfully completed her sea trials in July 2013and aviation trials in September 2013. She was formallycommissioned on 16 November 2013 at a ceremony held atSeverodvinsk, Russia.Name the aircraft carrier after its induction in the Indian Navy. 17. INS Vikramaditya 18. 8Identify. 19. Pranab Mukherjee. 20. 9In Mahabharata, Ashwatthama was the son ofDronacharya. Ashwatthama was killed duringbattle, to enable the assassination ofDronacharya, Ashwatthamas father.Ashwatthama , after the end of fighting triedkilling Arjuns unborn grandson. How is thatpossible? 21. One was an Elephant and other was theson of Dronacharya. 22. 10Connect 23. Parle-G Girl 24. 11Fill in the blank.This Bridge is an arch bridge under construction in India. It spans the_____ River between Bakkal and Kauri, in Reasi district of Jammuand Kashmir. It is being built as a part of Kashmir railway. Whencompleted, the bridge will be 1,263 m (4,144 ft.) long, with a 480 m(1,570 ft.) trussed arch span, 359 m (1,178 ft.) above the river and a650 m (2,130 ft.) long viaduct on the Kauri side. When completed, itwill be the worlds highest railway bridge. 25. Chenab Bridge 26. 12*In 1947, what name was given to theborder between India and Pakistan? 27. Redcliff Line 28. 13*Toshi Namgyal is a goatherd living in the _____regionof Kashmir. One day, many years ago, he went lookingfor his yak. Instead he found _______.This led to animportant event of the Indian Subcontinent. He waspromised big rewards for his discovery which hehasnt received yet. 29. Kargil War 30. 14*This gate is called namak haramdarwaza as it was theresidence of _____________ .It is locatedin Murshidabad, West Bengal. 31. Mir Jafar 32. 15Who is Director General (Joint Secretary level Officer)in the Department of Archives and Archaeology in theGovt. Of Haryana? Hint: A 1991 Batch Haryana CadreIAS officer.49 yrs old. 33. Ashok Khemka 34. 16In 1719,he was a witness to a noisy discussion in the court ofMughal Emperor Muhammad Shah about how to determine anauspicious date when the emperor could start a journey.This led him to think about on the need to improve knowledge on aparticular subject.It is a marvel that in midst of local wars and foreign invasions, hefound the energy to do so much about it.What did he do? 35. Jantar Mantar 36. 17Grandson of Pulatsya, son of a rishi father and rakshasamother, a maestro of Veena and hailed as a great scholar,which mythological character has a beautiful templededicated to him at Mandore near Jodhpur? His statue canbe found in the Meenakshi Temple in Madurai. 37. Ra.one 38. 18In 1591, which monument was built byMohammad Quli Qutub Shah to commemoratethe end of plague in this south Indian city? 39. Char Minar 40. 19*Here lies one who spared neither man nor GodWaste not your tears on him, he was a sodWriting nasty things he regarded as great funThank the Lord he is dead, this son of a gun.Who wrote these lines for himself? 41. Khuswant Singh 42. 20Google founder, Brin, described him as his friendand teacher and said that ... his legacy andpersonality lives on in the students, projects, andcompanies he has touched. Today, whenever you usea piece of technology, there is a good chance a littlebit of ___________ is behind it.Identify this alumnus of IIT Kanpur 43. Rajeev Motwani 44. 21CONNECT. 45. Engine 145 cc four-stroke(after 2002), two-stroke(before 2002)Top speed 80 km/hPower 7.5 BHPTorque 1.1kgm@ 3500 rpmTransmission 4 speed, manual withshifter in the left handgripSuspension SwingarmBrakes DrumTires 3.50X10Wheelbase 1230 mmWeight 103 kg (dry)Fuel capacity 6 Litres 46. Bajaj Chetak 47. 22Identify the Singer. 48. Akshay Kumar 49. 23Who held the seat of Phulpur in the parliament for 12years till his death. He was also the first MP from theseat.? 50. Chacha Nehru 51. 24 52. Indira Canal 53. 25*Through these pictures published in Peoples war, theofficial mouthpiece of Communist Party of India,which event heavily censored and covered up byauthorities was brought to the attention of nationand world by photographer Sunil Janah? 54. The Great Bengal Famine(1943-44) 55. Freshers India Quiz2014(The Final) 56. QuizmastersAmit GuptaAbhinav RajSamvit Kumar 57. RulesThe Quizmasters are always right .Any kind of cheating is frowned upon.Kudos and chocolates for the audience if they answer thequestions meant for them. 58. Round I(infinite bounce and infinite pounce)For answering correctly in turn+10For pounce+15/-5 59. 1.Identify the flag 60. 2Identify this young man 61. 3This song is from the 1967 Dev Anand hit Jewel Thief.The film was shot in a landlocked countrywhich does not exist in that form any more.ID 62. 4.What was shown for the first time on 15th Aug1988 during the coverage of the PMs speech onthe occasion of independence day? 63. 5She died in 1997.She was awardedthe Bharat Ratna in1980.ID 64. 6What began in mourning on 27 may 1964 and ended on 9thjune for the first and began again in mourning on 11jan1966 and ended on 24th jan 1966 for the second time? 65. Round 2(in Uniform)Dedicated to(IC-521 22356 SS-14246 27373 2831592 IC-8947 IC-7990 J-4547 IC-7990 2639885IC-5565 4239746 10877 F(P) IC-25067 IC-14608 JC-155825 IC-32907 IC-56959 269057213760533 IC-57556) 66. 1________ had an arranged marriage inMarch 1985 and joined her husband in theGulf. However, the marriage turned sourfollowing dowry pressure and she returnedto her parents' home in Mumbai within twomonths. She then applied for a flightattendant job with Pan Am, and uponselection, went to Miami for training as aflight attendant but returned as purser. IDher and what is her claim to glory? 67. 2How can a Man die Better than facing Fearful Odds,For the Ashes of His Fathers and the Temples of His Gods,To the sacred memory of the Heroes of __________,114 Martyrs of 13 Kumaon who fought to the Last Man,Last Round, Against Hordes of Chinese on 18 November 1962.Built by All Ranks 13th Battalion, The Kumaon Regiment.These words are inscribed upon the memorial at ___________The site of one of the most heroic successful last stands of Indian history.An extra 5 points for the name of the commanding officer of the post 68. 3General characteristicsType: Ballistic missile submarineDisplacement: 6,000 tonnes (5,900 long tons;[1]surfaced6,600 short tons)[1]Length: 112 m (367 ft)Beam: 11 m (36 ft)Draft: 10 m (33 ft)Installed power: 1 pressurized water reactor[2]83 MW (111,000 hp)Propulsion: 1 propeller shaftNuclearSpeed: Surfaced: 1215 knots (2228 km/h)Submerged: 24 knots (44 km/h)Range: unlimited except by foodsuppliesTest depth: 300 m (980 ft)Connect 69. 4Designed by Savitri Khanolkar (born Eva Yuonne Linda Maday-de-Maros to a Hungarian father and Russian mother) it is a circularbronze disc 1.375 inches (3.49 cm) in diameter. The state emblemappears in the centre, on a raised circle. Surrounding this, fourreplicas of Indra's Vajra .The decoration is suspended from a straightswivelling suspension bar. It is named on the edge. It is worn using apurple ribbon.On the rear, around a plain center, are two legends separated bylotus flowers. The words _____________ are written in Hindi andEnglish. What? 70. 5The last time when Nehru donned his lawyers robeswas in a trial in 1945 along with four other lawyers.Who were the accused he was defending? 71. 6Connect 72. Round 3-Mini Connect 73. 1Connect 74. 2 75. HINT? 76. 3 77. 4 78. 5 79. 6 80. Round 3 81. 1Over the past few week, bottles of Sosyo and otherregionally marketed beverages such as the MASST rangeof Indore-based UNO Foods, and the Big Cola, marketed byPeruvian company AJE have replaced Coca Cola and Pepsiin many restaurants across Mumbai. What has led to suchan action from traders? 82. 2Emilie Schenkl was born in Vienna on 26 December 1910 in an Austrian Catholicfamily. Paternal granddaughter of a shoemaker and the daughter of aveterinarian, she started primary school latetowards the end of the Greatwaron account of her father's reluctance for her to have formal schooling. Herfather, moreover, later became unhappy with her progress in secondary schooland enrolled her in a nunnery for four years. However, Schenkl decided againstbecoming a nun, and went back to school, finishing finally when she was 20.TheGreat Depression had begun in Europe; consequently, for a few years she wasunemployed. She later worked as a secretary to someone. Schenkl never visitedIndia, though she lived until 1996. According to her daughter, Schenkl was a veryprivate person Who is she? 83. 3Dear @_________ your ad is wrong & totallymisleading. Shahtoosh shawls aren't supposed topass a ring test, that's a Pashmina shawl OmarAbdullah tweeted few months back. Fill the blanks. 84. 4Identify the place where India had an embassy till 1962 andnow again it proposed to have an embassy there. Howeverthe request was turned down. Only Nepal has embassythere. Name the Place(city). 85. 5On 6th August at about 11:30AM a Strategicconsultant jumped into a well and accused anadvocate of bias and partiality. Identify both. 86. 6He began his career as a small town photographer in Godhra but had to leavebusiness after the death of his first wife and child in an outbreak of the bubonicplague. He soon met the German magician Carl Hertz, Soon after, he had theopportunity to work with the Archaeological Survey of India as a draftsman.However, restless with his job and its constraints, he turned to the business ofprinting. He specialized in lithography and oleograph, and worked for painterRaja Ravi Varma. He later started his own printing press, made his first tripabroad to Germany, to learn about the latest technology, machinery and for artalso. Following a dispute with his partners about the running of the press, hegave up printing and turned his attention to ______________.He died in 1944 atthe age of 74.Who and FITB 87. Round 4(Ghar) 88. Identify the movie fromthe poster. 89. 1 90. 2Born 27 November 1973Died 27 November 2003(aged 30)Gaya, IndiaCause of death AssassinationNationality IndiaEducation B. Tech (Civil 1994), M. Tech (Civil 1996)Alma mater IIT Kanpur, IIT BHUOccupation Project DirectorEmployer Govt. of IndiaOrganization IES, NHAIKnown for Killed for exposing corruption in NHAI projectNotable work(s) Exposed corruption in Government systemHome town Siwan DistrictID 91. 3A significant moment in the struggle against British ruleoccurred at here in 1931 when two unarmed detainees,Kumar Mitra and Tarakeswar Sengupta, were shot dead bythe Brititish police. Santosh Subhas Chandra Bose camehere to collect their bodies. Many national leaders,including Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore, voicedstrong protests against the British Raj over thisincident.What is this place now? 92. 4Most Members of Parliament spend their MP Local AreaDevelopment Scheme funds on a mix of roads, children'splaygrounds and other do-good projects. _____________, however,had a completely different idea about what should be done with themoney. The result was the new Biological Sciences andBioengineering (BSBE) department at the Indian Institute ofTechnology in Kanpur. 93. 5iss sawaal ka aadhar kya hai?These two chaps were team matesrepresenting IITB in the quiz inMood Indigo 1975.Before theelections, they were also part of thesame government. Who are they? 94. 6Listed by Forbes magazine as an American billionaire, ___________ made hisearly fortune as one of the co-founders of Sun Microsystems, a company whichcreated the Java programming language and Network File System (NFS) .