Akhand Bharat 2.0 - Open India Quiz

Akhand Bharat 2.0
(Open India Quiz)

Acknowledgements
● Lucky Kaul
● Preetham Upadhya
● Anmol Singh Bhanderhal
● Abhinav Dhar

Prelimns
● 20 questions in the prelims
● Total points = 25.
● 6 star marked questions that will be used as tie breakers
●Quizmaster is sleep deprived Yogi Adityanath. Pange mat
lena, quiz karna.

Q1
●The first mention of this word is found in an inscription found at
Persepolis in Iran, which was the capital of Achaemenid empire of Darius
1.
●The word is said to have been derived from Sanskrit for River.
● Jinnah was furious when he came to know that Nehru and Congress
party have decided to use the name despite it being geographically
inconsistent with the historical use and it being a result of colonial rule.
Give me the good word.

Q2
Afcons was awarded a 1724 crore project and began work last June with
a team of 250 engineers looking to replace cantilever arms with steel
truss.
What 1982 structure, that recently lost its crown to a leader of thousand
soldiers and has been the face of state’s apathy towards development,
were they working on?

Answer
Mahatma Gandhi Setu, Patna

Q3
When he moved from Malwa to Mumbai, Jayantrao Salgaokar had a job
creating crossword puzzles for Loksatta. The business fared well for some
time with those solving the crossword winning in lakhs but soon the
government started lottery and people migrated to it.
With the family now in financial trouble, Jayantrao and his son decided to
put on eof his skills, that had put him in contact with prominent
politicians and film stars, to use and came up with something that has
been helping people make timely decisions since 1973.
What publication, that according to Ratan Tata was always carried by his
father Naval in his suitcase and is the largest selling of its kind in the
world, was started thus?

Q4*
Hemali Vadalia is an engineer turned animator from Mumbai and has
studied at the Angel academy of Art and The Russian academy of Art in
Florence.
Along with Suchi Mulley, another software engineer turned artist (from
Bangalore), she spent seven months between May and November 2016,
at a studio in Gdansk, Poland as a part of a group of 125 artists (45 of the
125 were not from Poland and were called in when it was realized that
there were not enough artists around to finish the project).
Look at Hemali and Suchi’s picture from Gdansk and tell me the project
they were working on.

Q5
“Before _______ there was Pai” was the title of an article published by
livemint last year.
The article focussed on how TMA Pai, the founder of Syndicate bank
implemented a theory which was made famous by the person in question
through his Pigmy depositors who would go door to door reminding
people to save and collect their deposits, as he realised that people need
to be reminded and pushed to do the right thing.
Give me the blank or tell me whose theory was Pai said to have
implemented 90 years ago?

Q6
Manoj Muntashir, in Sahitya Aaj Tak 2017 recalled the origin of one of his most famous
works.
He says the story goes back to 2001 when he was in Kashmir, by Dal Lake, the lines came to
him:
ये हरे दरखतों के पत्ते जब शाखों से गिर जाएँिे
जब झील का पानी सूखेिा और सारे कमल कुम्हलाएँिे
ये वागदयाँ जब सो जाएँिी और आवाज़ें खो जाएँिी
मेरी जान मैं उस खामोशी म़ें भी प्यार के निमे िाऊं िा
_ __ _ ___ ___
FITB.

Q7
The Congress Party (Indira) in an interesting coincidence of sorts shared
the number of seats it won in the 1971 General Elections with the article
that it used to impose emergency in 1975.
Give me the number of seats/ Article number.

Q8*
Dharmendra Pradhan, the Union petroleum and skill development
minister courted controversy with his statement last year when he said:
“Odissa is having an indifferent, incompetent and corrupt government.
People have made up their mind to throw it to the Bay of Bengal. People
have decided for a ____________ of the government. Puri will do the
biggest ___________.”
What event of change and rebirth, that last happened in 2015 (after a
gap of 19 years) and usually happens every 12 years, did he refer to in the
statement?

Q9*
It is said that the ruler of this fort, who was a Doda Rajput, was married to
Gangabai who happened to be a Khinchi Rajput. One day the King and
Queen were playing Chausar when the king, after beating one of the
pieces, said “Khinchi maar diya”.
The queen took offense to this and said it was not that easy to kill a
khinchi and called her brother to duel with the king. The queen’s brother
did not want to fight his brother in law but had to and ended up killing
him in the duel.
Queen Gangabai committed Sati after her husband’s death and the
Khinchi Rajputs came to rule the fort. What name did they give to the
fort, now a UNESCO world heritage site, to commemorate their sister?

Q10
In early 16th century, after the decline of Vijayanagara empire, Thirumalaraja, a viceroy under
the empire, looked after and ruled Srirangapatnam. He had a queen named Alamelamma
who was an ardent devotee of god Ranganayaka of Srirangapatnam and used to lend her
jewels to decorate goddess Ranganayaki twice every week.
It so happened that Thirumalaraja fell ill and went to Talakkad to pray at the Vaidyanath
temple but his condition worsened and he passed away there. A vassal under him then
attacked and took control of Srirangapatnam and sent his soldiers after Alamelamma to take
her jewels as he wanted to keep them for the temple.
Alamelamma refused to part with her jewels and jumped in Kaveri, but not before cursing
them. As a result of the curse it is said that Talakkad became covered in sand and whirlpools
started forming at Malngi in Kaveri. What is the other effect of the curse that has haunted
the said vassal’s family for last 400 years?

Answer
Wodeyar King of Mysore will be childless

Q11
On the next slide is a clip from a short film that Ram Madhvani made after
he was constantly troubled by a poem by WH Auden. When asked if he
had forgotten history, Madhvani said “No. We haven’t forgotten history.
We know our history. But, we have forgotten to look at it from a humane
point of view. The message you take from the film depends on how one
sees the film”.
Watch the video and identify the character being played by Martin
Bishop.

Q12
Major Ramswamy Parmeshwaran is one of the two PVC awardees to have
been martyred outside India (the Other being Captain Gurbachan Singh
Salaria).
Major Parmeshwaran lost his life when his column was ambushed while
returning from a search operation late at night, in Sri Lanka in 1987.
Which regiment, whose war cry is “Bolo Hindustan Ki Jai”, was he a part
of?

Q13
On the occasion of India’s 70th Independence anniversary
India Today published a special issue titled “Movers and
Shapers” containing the profiles of 70 people who have
shaped the nation.
a) What appropriate title, that would remind you of
Santiago’s journey to pyramids and back home, was
given to Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar’s profile, was given to
his field of expertise?

Q13
B) Titled “Rockstar Gone Wrong”, whose profile began with these lines? :
I remember ________ clearly. Anyone who met him, talked to him, will
never forget him. I remember his piercing eyes, like that of ancient
mariner in Coleridge’s poem, that grabbed you in its stare and refused to
let go. The shining bald pate and the long white beard, carefully groomed
to look impossibly careless, reached out wherever you looked.

Answer
a) The Alchemist
b) Osho Rajneesh

Q14
What entity, that has returned to the food delivery sector through a
recent acquisition, had ventured in the same sector almost three years
ago through this ?

Q15
After a sudden decision towards the end of 2016 that left people looking pale with anxiety, a
series of recent steps have bought some colour back.
In ascending order of value, these would be:
Chocolate Brown
Bright Fluorescent Blue
Bright Yellow
Stone Grey
Pink/Magenta.
What is being talked about?

Q17
Among the peninsular rivers, this water body in India ranks second only to
Godavari in flood producing capacity.
As a result of this quality it was given a term appending the name of state
it mostly flowed through, like different rivers causing similar devastation
are. However, a 9-year old effort that culminated in 1957 has proved to
be a blessing and thus somewhat helped ward off the said term
Which river? What effort am I talking about?

Answer
● Mahanadi
● Hirakund Dam

Q18.
● One of the stories of the origin of this dish goes that it was created by
Bhima during the exile of Pandavas. It is said that when he assumed his
duties as cook in the kitchen of Virata he did not know how to cook and
hence decided to cut many vegetables, boil them together and top the
dish with grated coconut.
●Another story goes that after Bhima was poisoned by the Kauravas and
believed to be dead, a mourning feast was held. Bhima unexpectedly
turned up and the feast was cancelled but this upset him and he decided
to chop all the vegetables and boil them for himself.
What dish is believed to have been created thus?

Q19.
Shilpa Gupta is an Indian artist whose work, among others, has been
bought by Guggenheim museum and is known for her series of
collaborations titled “Aar Paar”.
One of her most famous pieces is “998.9” which features 3,394 m of
cloth handwoven by people of Phulia in West Bengal.
What does the said work symbolize? Why was choosing the residents of
Phulia apt for it?

Answer
Length of barbed wire fencing on India-Bangladesh
border
These weavers migrated during partition from places in
Bangladesh

Q20*
In the summer of 1839 Queen Victoria heard of a soon-to-be-published novel by a
certain “Captain” Phillip Meadows Taylor that exposed the gruesome aspect of
her Indian dominions. Intrigued, she summoned Richard Bentley, “Publisher in
ordinary” to the crown and demanded to see page proofs.
How would this novel that went on to become the biggest Anglo-Indian seller
before Kipling’s Kim come back to popular conscience later this year?
One of the people assigned with the responsibility to stop these gruesome
criminals was Colonel William Linneaus Gardner (of 2nd Lancer’s fame).
Just tell me in which city, in news for all the wrong reasons, did he spend the last
part of his life ?

Thugs of Hindoostan (is based on Taylor’s Confessions of a Thug)
Kasganj

Finals
● 36 questions in the finals.
● 2 written rounds, 2 rounds on Pounce Bounce

Round 1
● This is a themed written round.
● 8 entities, that form a part of an exhaustive list of 9 (there are 10 but
these 9 are subsets of 10th)
● +10 for each correct answer.
● No extra points for getting the theme, however it will help you
getting other answers.

Q1.
● As mentioned in a late 2016 interview to The Hindu, there are two ways
to do it. As the interviewee says “I am sure there are underground ways
also. One- They use really long PVC pipes, stuff them with it and push it
with a stick and there is something to pull it from the other side.”
● The other way is used to transport really small quantities. The person in
question reasons that a normal person can’t throw 1.5 Kgs that far and
hence Pehelwan’s are used.
●What are we talking about/ What by the person in question did this
form the basis of? Who is the person in question?

Q2
●Ernest Trumpp was a German philologist who was posthumously
awarded the Latif award (awarded every year on the Urs of Shah Abdul
Latif Bhittai) for his compilation of Shah Jo Risalo, a collection of the Sufi
saint’s poems in 1860s. A few years after he did this, Trumpp also became
the first person to write a book on the grammar of a certain language
that was made compulsory for British officers in the region to learn (by
Bartle Frere). Which language?
● On the next slide is an image of a building from the region Trumpp is
mostly associated with. Name the building/ What is it’s significance?

Q3
Indian Sports Fans is a purely non-cricketing whatsapp group that boasts
in it’s ranks some of India’s biggest sportspersons including Karnam
Malleswari, Anju Bobby George among other notable people.
One of the group members is a certain Gaurav Wankhede, a sports
enthusiast and a former player. One day, almost by accident someone on
the group mentioned that they were on the lookout for one of their
teams for the upcoming third season. This got Gaurav really excited and
he decided to contact his friend Ranjit Saxena. One thing led to the other
and this whatsapp group gave birth to a new team in just 48 hours.
Which “Brave” debutant was formed thus?

Q4
Bangaram, a part of the union territory of Lakshadweep, is an almost
uninhabited Island. The small island saw a resort, the only constructed
property on the island, being opened here in 1974. However it took 14
years for the resort to gain traction and start earning profits. The resort
was taken over by the Lakshadweep government a few years ago and
currently remains closed.
What event in 1988 led to rise in tourist influx to Bangaram?
Bangaram is also the only island in Lakshadweep where you can carry out
a certain activity that was first banned by Bombay state in 1948. What
activity? Which state still uses the act implemented in 1948, with certain
modifications?

Q5
Tamil politics has always been dominated by actors, and conversely their
films have carried a certain political tone, none more than MGR’s films.
In early 1950s when MGR was rising fast in the political circles and was at
the peak of his popularity he started using his films to convey his political
beliefs. One of the ways in which he did was (apart from always playing
the good guy) wearing Black and Red coloured clothes.
Explain the choice of colours/ what image did that colour combination
evoke?

Q6
One of the many states ceased to exist after the 1956 states
reorganization act, this state was created in 1948 with Martand Singh,
the last ruler of the princely state of Rewa, as it’s Rajpramukh.
The first elections to state assembly were won by INC with SN Shukla
serving as it’s chief minister, whose term ended when it merged with it’s
neighbouring state to form what is now known as Madhya Pradesh.
Just name the state for full points.

Q7
A lawyer who learnt his practise in England, he turned into a businessman in the later part of
his life. As a silk exporter in Calcutta his business was going fine till he was asked by Jyoti
Basu to join the Communist party and campaign for them, which being anti-communist, he
vehemently refused.
This did not go down well with Jyoti Basu who attacked him with all his influence leading to
his business being shut down eventually.
He would later pass far away from the limelight he once was in, succumbing to Alzhiemer’s
and Parkinsons disease in 1997.
Who is this, whose most famous moment came when he did something inspired by Florence
May Chadwick’s achievement from 1951? (image follows)
What university, the oldest in its state and in news over campus sharing, did he graduate
from?

Q8
Abdul Kashem Mollah, a tea vendor in Rooppur Village in modern day
Bangladesh could not participate in the liberation movement actively
because of poverty. But he decided to help the liberators by passing any
news related to struggle that he came through on his radio. The Pakistani
army found this out and broke his radio, after mercilessly beating him up.
Abdul repaired his radio after they went and soon his shop became the go
to place for revolutionaries if they had to know anything. What now
popular name, alluding to the channel of information, was thus given to
the region?
What brotherly epithet is given to Sheikh Muzibur Rehman, the leader of
Bangladesh Freedom Movement?

QWR1.
● As mentioned in a late 2016 interview to The Hindu, there are two ways
to do it. As the interviewee says “I am sure there are underground ways
also. One- They use really long PVC pipes, stuff them with it and push it
with a stick and there is something to pull it from the other side.”
● The other way is used to transport really small quantities. The person in
question reasons that a normal person can’t throw 1.5 Kgs that far and
hence Pehelwan’s are used.
●What are we talking about/ What by the person in question did this
form the basis of? Who is the person in question?

Answer
● Opening Scene of Udta Punjab
● Abhishek Chaubey

Answer
● Sindhi
●Muhammad Ali Jinnah’s Tomb

Answer
● The opening of Agatti Airstrip
●Drinking alcohol, Gujarat

Answer
● Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam Flag

Answer
●Mihir Sen
●Utkal University

Answer
● BBC Bazar
● Bangabandhu
●The theme was places named in National Anthem (Punjab, Sindh,
Gujarat, Maratha, Dravida, Utkal, Banga, Vindhya)

Round 2
●11 questions on pounce/bounce
●+10/0 for bounce
●+10/-5 for pounce

Q1
The V Renaissance is a Delhi based leather apparel design company started by designer duo
Vipul Amar and Harsheen Arora (who also happens to a psychologist).
In their latest design project, where it was important for them to maintain the authenticity
and mobility of pieces they created, they also had to see that the contrasting moods were
conveyed well.
To do so they made a careful choice of colours, with blood red depicting honour, love and
eagerness to serve ones land and deep gold for courage, generosity and passion.
On the other hand, they used reptile scales on leather lions to enhance the darkness
depicted.
What was created thus?

Answer
Shahid Kapoor (Ratan Singh) and Ranveer Singh (Allauddin Khilji)’s
armour in Padmaavat

Q2
Dark Horse Records is a record label started by George Harrison in 1974
when Beatles’ Apple Records was winding down it’s operations. The label
produced some albums by Pandit Ravi Shankar and also produced
collaborations between Shankar and Harrison, among other albums and
records.
On the next slide is the logo of Dark Horse, which is said to have been
inspired from an image Harrison saw on a tin can during his to India.
Which mythical being is depicted in the logo of Dark Horse Records?
Also, how is the depiction inconsistent with the said being’s depiction in
Indian mythology?

Answer
● Uchhaisravas
● In Indian mythology the Horse is while and not Black

Q3
While one of the recent controversies surrounding this poem has been
RSS ideologue Dinanath Batra’s call to remove it from NCERT textbooks
(it is included in class XI Hindi textbook), it has also been alleged of
having been plagiarised from Pablo Neruda’s Die Slowly (on next slide).
Which poem, widely read in revolutionary circles and meets, are we
talking about? Also, who, dubbed a ‘Naxalie’ by Sushma Swaraj and killed
by Khalistan, wrote the said poem?

Q3
He who becomes the slave of habit,
who follows the same routes every day,
who never changes pace,
who does not risk and change the color of his clothes,
who does not speak and does not experience,
dies slowly.
He or she who shuns passion,
who prefers black on white,
dotting ones "it’s" rather than a bundle of emotions, the kind that make your eyes glimmer,
that turn a yawn into a smile,
that make the heart pound in the face of mistakes and feelings,
dies slowly.

Q4
Back in 1948 when Raj Kapoor was making Aag, he decided to shoot in the
recently built Famous Studio at Mahalaxmi. He wanted to be sure about the
quality of acoustics and hence decided to ask Jaddanbai, who was shooting
Romeo-Juliet there about it.
When Raj went to her home and rang the bell, Jaddanbai’s daughter Nargis
opened the door.
Now it so happened that Nargis was working in the kitchen and when she opened
the door, she smudged dough across her forehead trying to remove the strand of
hair that fell over her eye.
How did Raj Kapoor immortalize this first meeting of his with Nargis about
quarter of a century later?

Q5
Cricketcountry.com, in an article published on 1st September 2014, given
the occasion, named an all time greatest XI where all the players shared a
certain characteristic. The side had legendary Kapil Dev as it’s captain.
Among other players included were Debbrata Das (played for KKR and
India U19), Avnish Seth (played 20 matches for services in 1980s),
Pramod Arya (played 21 FC matches for Rajasthan in 70s and 80s) and
Delhi’s Amit Mishra.
Perhaps the best bowler in the side (after Kapil) was a Karnataka mainstay
who took 365 FC wickets and participated in Bigg Boss Kannada in 2016.
What was the qualification for this all time greatest XI?

Answer
The entire team was:
Vinayak Mane Debabrata Das
Avnish Seth Pramod Arya
Vinayak Samant Pitambar Dutt
Kapil Dev Ganapathi Vignesh
Gajanan Patwardhan Amit Mishra
Dodda Ganesh Chaturbhuj

Q6
Towards the end of 16th century, Manipur was faced with a lot of wars
and hence most men were busy fighting in different regions. Added to
that was the practice of ‘Lallup’ where all able bodied men had to serve
for free for the kingdom for a particular duration of time.
What, perhaps the only and the largest of its kind, providing around
5,000 homes with bread and butter is believed to have come into
existence as a response to this?

Answer
● Ima Keithel, the all women warket in Imphal

Q7
Sabitri Heisnam is a Sahitya Akademi and Padma Shri awardee theatre
personality from stage and is known for her collaborations with her now
belated husband Heisnam Kanhailal.
In 2000, during a play directed by her husband, she proceded to rip off
her clothes and proceded to utter the now legendary lines in theatre
circles- “Counter Me, Encounter Me”.
Which character from Indian mythology was Sabitri playing?
What sad but now iconic event did this act of her inspired 4 years later?

Q8
There are various theories about what actually happened. Some people believe
that the entire incident was orchestrated by Bakhshi Ghulam Muhammad to force
his return to power. Others said that it was staged to pressurize the Indian
government to release Sheikh Abdullah who had been languishing in jail for a long
time. On the other hand the government of India accused Pakistan of doing it to
start trouble in the valley.
What is being talked about?
Few months after this happened Sheikh Abdullah was released from jail and Nehru
sent him to Pakistan to discuss the Kashmir issue. However, Abdullah had to
return to India mid way due to another emergency in India. What forced
Abdullah’s return?

Answer
● Theft of Prophet Muhammad’s Hair from Hazrat Bal Mosque
● Jawahar Lal Nehru passed away.

Q9
In July 2012, Samar Jodha, an Indian artist, installed a container at the
Amnesty International headquarters at London. The 40 feet long and 10
feet high black container contained a row of 10 sepia toned 3-D
photographs (next slide).
The black box was at an angle and brought to life a train carriage in
Jodha’s words.
What was the installation about?
Why did Jodha chose to install it there at that particular time?

Answer
● Bhopal Gas Tragedy (Titled- Bhopal: A Silent Picture)
● Dow Chemicals were the sponsors of London Olympics

Q10
V Ramachandran is a metallurgist from IISc Bangalore who worked on a ship
named Kreuzturm from where he shuttled to another ship John Cabot, which had
a scarab- a submersible vehicle used to lay undersea cable, in the rough waters of
Atlantic in 1985.
Among various other things, he found a square tube of Aluminium. When a
microstructure of the piece was examined, it was found to have a feature known
as deformation twins. Under usual rates of strain, planes of Aluminium crystal
merely slip past each other, while under high rates of strains aluminium deforms
by twinning- parallel bands appear in microstructure, cutting across it’s grains.
What conclusion did this observation, that excess strain was applied, lead to?

Answer
● Air India Kanishka (Air India Flight 182) went down due to bomb
explosion.

Q11
1963 was an year when India knew the feeling of desperation and hopelessness
and the cost of violence too well, having lost a war recently.
It was thus apt that ______ ______ chose to stage a play that depicted the cost
of violence since it was based on the happenings of the last day of Mahabharata
war.
Among those watching the first performance were Jawahar Lal Nehru and his
family. Nehru quipped “This fort is known for cobras, not theatre” to which the
director replied “We did not meet any”.
Which play, written for radio in 1952, was being staged? What place, whose ruins
are said to have increased the dramatic effect, was the play being staged at? Also,
FITB with the director’s name.

Answer
● Dharamvir Bharati’s Andha Yug
● Staged at the Ferozshah Kotla Fort.
● Directed by Ebrahim Alkazi

Round 3
● written Round
●6 questions, connected by a theme (Padma Awardees- 2018)
●+10 for each correct

Q1
Morrant is an iconic company, with its product being used by some of the
greatest in the field.
One of those, probably the most famous name associated with Morrant
for last few years, decided to shed the lighter Morrants in favour of
regular heavier version used by others. This ight cost him a shade of his
quickness but is expected to help with better body movement, with
results becoming evident immediately after the change was made.
What product of Morrant is being talked about? Who is the person in
question?

Q2
After the abolition of slavery in British and other European countries in
1830s the colonisers started bringing indentured labourers from India,
mainly from Bihar and Uttar Pradesh on “Agreement” with respect to the
length of stay. However, most of these labourers could never return, with
the result being the high Indo-Carribean population in the area.
What term is used to refer to these labourers brought on “Agreement”?
Listen to this folk song where a woman is asking her husband (who is
leaving to work) to bring various things for her and give me the singer.

Q3
Everglades National Park, Florida has been facing the problem of growing
number of the invasive Burmese Python for quite some time now. To
counter this and to catch snakes who could then be removed from the
park, the scientists have started radio tagging them. These radio tagged
snakes then go to the others of their kind, leading to their capture.
What name is given to such snakes who “betray their kind” and lead
them to capture?
When the authorities discovered that this method was not yielding the
desired level of result, they got two men from the Irula tribe led by
someone who has spent his life working for their benefit, to do the task
to much acclaim. Who led these men from Irula tribe?

Q4
Bhajju Shyam is a Gond artist who once worked as a security guard.
Things changed for Bhajju when his uncle Jangarh Singh Shyam (renowed
artist and creator of Jangarh Kalam School of art) took him as his
apprentice. Soon, Bhajju started gaining fame and reputation and in 2001
he went to his first foreign tour. The tour also formed the subject of his
first book “The ______ Jungle Book”.
Look carefully at a picture from the book and tell me what- that he
compared to the Gond belief of “a world below our world” has been
depicted.

Q5
When he joined the regiment that has given us sportspersons like Milkha Singh, he readily
took to sports. Starting out with hockey, he soon switched to boxing and became known as
“Chotu Tiger” in Bangalore.
Good performances continued and when his seniors asked him what reward he wanted, he
promptly replied “Mere ko Kashmir dekhna hai” and was posted there.
He was later caught in the crossfire during the Indo Pak war of 1965 and would soon find
himself at INHS Asvini where he saw the Navy team prepare for nationals and started
practising with them.
He would soon be spotted by Vijay Merchant and the rest as they say is history. Who are we
talking about?
Which regiment, with the motto “Karm Hi Dharm” was he a part of?

Q6
One of the Major problems that Germany has been facing with the influx
of refugees has been that of educating the refugee children, with
language being the biggest barrier.
Looking for ways to bypass this barrier, some German science teachers
came across the YouTube channel of a certain Arvind Gupta and went on
to use the methods popularized by him to teach scientific concepts to
kids. How does Arvind Gupta teach the Kids?
Also, tell me which DD Show, that might remind you of a south campus
college fest, did you see him in?

Q1
Morrant is an iconic company, with its product being used by some of the
greatest in the field.
One of those, probably the most famous name associated with Morrant
for last few years, decided to shed the lighter Morrants in favour of
regular heavier version used by others. This might have cost him a shade
of his quickness but is expected to help with better body movement, with
results becoming evident immediately after the change was made.
What product of Morrant is being talked about? Who is the person in
question?

Answer
● Girmitiya Mazdoor
● Sharda Sinha

Answer
● Judas Snakes
● Romulus Whitaker

Qwr5
When he joined the regiment that has given us sportspersons like Milkha Singh, he readily
took to sports. Starting out with hockey, he soon switched to boxing and became known as
“Chotu Tiger” in Bangalore.
Good performances continued and when his seniors asked him what reward he wanted, he
promptly replied “Mere ko Kashmir dekhna hai” and was posted there.
He was later caught in the crossfire during the Indo Pak war of 1965 and would soon find
himself at INHS Asvini where he saw the Navy team prepare for nationals and started
practising with them.
He would soon be spotted by Vijay Merchant and the rest as they say is history. Who are we
talking about?
Which regiment, with the motto “Karm Hi Dharm” was he a part of?

Answer
● Murlikant Petkar
● Corpse of Electronic and Mechanical Engineers

Answer
● Toys from Trash
● DD Tarang

Round 4
●11 questions
●+10/0 on bounce
●+10/-5 on pounce

Q12
Chandrabhan Prasad of Nalanda Public School believes that Dalits can go
forward in the new era only if they had her on their side and hence
decided to create a temple dedicated to her in Banka village of Lakhimpur
Khiri (UP).
Among those who advocated this goddess and her role in dalit
emancipation were Savitribai Phule and Baba Saheb Ambedkar, with mny
crediting Ambedkar’s success to goddess’ blessings.
What goddess is this, the way to whose blessings has been a Pustak
Mahal publication for many?

Q13
In 1992 Dario Mitidieri, an Italian photojournalist, spent an year
photographing street children in Bombay. The plight of these children,
often orphaned or neglected, was shown through various pictures. One
of these pictures was that of Savita, a two and half year old from North
Bombay performing a balancing trick for Arab tourists.
Where did this picture appear 3 years later, leading to it’s now instant
recognition?
One of the recent projects undertaken by Dario was photographing
families from Syria and highlighting the effects of war. How did Dario
show the losses suffered by these families in the family portraits he
captured?

Q14
Bajaj launched Platina Comfortec more than an year ago, with its USP
being its ability to absorb the jerks from pot hole filled roads and reduce
the effect that it would produce on pillion. To demonstrate this they
needed something that would respond to these jerks in such a manner
that would give a fair measure of their intensity and at the same time
would stay stable.
What GI tagged product, that can generate a dance like continuous
oscillation without falling over (due to its very low centre of gravity), did
they chose as the pillions?

Answer
● Thanjavur Dancing Dolls

Q15
While the spices are bought from the commodity and spices exchange in
Kochi, a tender is given out every six months for the supply of around
1700 tonnes of ghee.
For more than a decade an important contributor to the taste remained
the ghee supplied by Karnataka Milk Federation (with about 20% being
supplied by Kolar Milk Union). This relationship came to an end when
Govind Milk and Milk products, a Maharastra based dairy quoted the
lowest price and got the conract in 2015.
What is the ghee used to make?

Q16
Back in 1984 Rajiv Gandhi felt that the country was gripped by a unanimous
feeling that they were not proud of being Indians. Suresh Mullick and Kailash
Surendranath were to do something that would make the Indian population
proud. Suresh and Kailash both were passionate about sports and loved the
movie “Chariots of Fire” and this led to them zeroe-ing in on the idea. Louis Bank
was asked to create the score and he ended it with the tune of Jaya He. PT Usha,
Tiger Pataudi and other sportsmen were roped in out came one of the most
admired advertisements in Indian history.
What ad was created thus? What project, that was created as a sequel to this,
went on to gain even more fame?

Answer
● The Torch of Freedom
● Mile Sur Mera Tumhara

Q17
In Alyque Padmasee’s words:
“My parents were wealthy individuals. I remember, once my mother had bought a Mercedes,
which was clear indication that my mother was capable of high priced indulgence. But the
same afternoon I saw another really weird side of hers. That afternoon a sabjiwali was at our
doorstep and I hear her say- Panch Rupaya nahi milega, teen rupaya me dena hai toh do.”
Alyque could not resist himself and asked- “Mother you just bought a Mercedes worth
fifteen lakh and now you are arguing over mere two rupees”. “Alyque ek cheez samajh le,
sasti chij aur achi chij me farak hota hai. You buy value not price” came the reply.
What did Alyque Padmasee later base on this incident and his mother?

Q18
About more than an year ago, police in the region, it seemed, was really troubled
by Bollywood and cricket stars as these were the aliases being used prominently.
Two of the more famous ones were named Bret Lee and Googly, because of their
delivery action. While there was also a Narsimha, the most famous alias was
taken by Parvez Kalu. While the intended logic behind Kalu taking the said alais
was probably because of his hits and his power to draw an young crowd in the
fold, he did not know that he shared the mutual love of his weapon of choice with
the his more famous alias, although for her it was a non-demanding, non-
judgemental companion she had in a world full of demanding people where
everyone wanted something from her.
Who used these aliases? What was the alias used by Parvez Kalu?

Q19
Subhash Kak, in his article for Swarajya in late 2015 went on to draw
parallels between a scientific achievement from the later half of 19th
century and a linguistic achievement from about 2300 years before that.
Kak cited professor Paul Kiparsky of Stanford University who pointed out
that the scientist wanted to honour the Indian scholar when he used the
word Eka before the names of entities that he postulated would fill the
gaps.
Kak also goes on to draw parallels between their works stating both of
their works were based on certain patterns with two dimensional
schemes of classification being systematic (rows and columns).
Who was thus inspired by whom, according to Kak?

Q20
In 1891, an Amrita Bazar Patrika journalist, in what is one of the earliest instances of
investigative journalism in India, went through the waste paper basket of Viceroy Lansdowne
and pieced together a torn up letter detailing one of viceroy’s most ambitious plans.
ABP published the plan on their front page next day where the persona against whom it was
made read it. He immediately departed for England and worked out an agreement in his
favour.
This scandal led to strict laws against disclosing confidential government communication,
but the damage was already done since Lansdowne’s plan was foiled.
What was Lansdowne planning, which in hindsight, if successful, would have saved us a lot
of trouble as a nation?

Answer
● Annexation of Kashmir

Q21
It is said that the triangular upward representation symbolizes the male
procreativity (Lingam), while the downward round representation
symbolizes the female procreativity (the Yoni). Symbolically, the creation
of universe begins when the lingam and yoni meet at the mid point and
destruction takes place when they separate from each other.
What musical instrument’s symbolism is explained thus?

Q22
Rubia Cordifolia, also known as common madder or Indian madder has
been cultivated for a red pigment derived from roots since ancient times.
In fact, woven and madder dyed cotton fragments and dye have been
used as vegetable red dye for leather, wool, cotton and silk. For dye
production, the roots are harvested in the first year. The outer brown
layer gives the common variety of dye, while the lower yellow layer gives
the refined variety. The dye is fixed to the cloth with a mordant.
Which group of people, with the colour associated with their clothes also
being a stand-in term for their ideology now, have been using Indian
Madder to dye their clothes since ages?

Answer
● Sadhus dying their clothes saffron.

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