India Quiz conducted by DBQC - The VIT Quiz Club as a part of the Oktoberfest week for internals in October 2015.

1. Prelims India Quiz
Abhishek Balaji
Surya Shekhar Chakraborty
Varun Gajendragadkar

2. Prelims
Answers

3. *Q1
This is a list of companies which are the most valuable
companies in history adjusted for inflation. FITB.
• Exxon-Mobil 2007
• Apple 2012
• Microsoft 1999
• Petro China 2007
• IBM 1967
• Saudi Aramco 2012
• The South Sea Company 1720
• The Mississippi Company 1720
• _____________________

4. The Dutch East India Company
Exxon-Mobil 2012 U.S. $572.9 billion
Apple 2012 U.S. $661.6 billion
Microsoft 1999 U.S. $851 billion
PetroChina 2007 U.S. $1.12 trillion
IBM 1967 U.S. $1.3 trillion
Saudi Aramco 2012 U.S. $3.6 trillion
The South Sea Company 1720 U.S. $4 trillion
The Mississippi Company 1720 U.S. $6 trillion
The Dutch East India Company 1637 $7.4 trillion

5. Q2
Some say X was first created in the kitchens by
a palace cook named Kakasura Madappa out of
some ingredients. The cook simply made a
concoction of besan, ghee and sugar. The
sweet that was formed delighted the royalties
so much that it became a 'Royal Sweet'. When
asked its name, Madappa obviously didn't have
its name, so he simply called it the X.

6. Mysore Pak

7. Q3
X was sued in 1986 for violations of the Gold Control
Act, for illegal production of Gold. However, he
wasn't sued because the court was afraid how the
public would react to it. Later in December 2000,
the magazine India Today published a cover story
about X with allegations of fakery made by the
magician P. C. Sorcar Jr.
ID X who is known to be a great influence and the
guru of Isaac Tigrett who started the Hard Rock Cafe
chain.

8. Puttaparthi Sai Baba

9. *Q4
Mumbai Irani cafes occupy prime ‘corner’
locations. In fact most if not all the Irani hotels in
Mumbai are built on street corners, now
considered prime real estate so much so that
unscrupulous builders even hire gangsters to
scare away the café owners. Why were these
plots originally very cheap to buy?

10. These were seen as having poor vastu so the
landowners would earlier sell them cheaply and the
Irani hotel owners, being Muslims, of course did not
believe in Vastu so bought them up Even today,
houses built on corner plots or facing a crossroads
have a Ganesha idol installed on the wall to avoid bad
luck

11. Q5
Cloudtail is a joint venture by Amazon Asia and Catamaran
Ventures, India. Cloudtail is one of the largest sellers on
Amazon, with products in almost all categories. Y, a famous
Indian IT billionaire, owns Catamaran Ventures and has a
51% stake in Cloudtail.
ID Y

12. Narayana Murthy

13. Q6
The etymology of the word X can be traced
back to Sanskrit, from Dravidian (Tamil
compound of (nāram) and (kāy); also Telugu,
Malayalam,and Kannada).
There are no commonly used English dictionary
words that rhyme exactly with X.

14. Orange

15. *Q7
X’s al-Shabaab group banned Y sometime ago because
they felt that it was too westernized and too anti-islam.
• The extremist group in fact offered no official
explanation for the ban, which are commonly cooked
up and served across the Horn of Africa.
• They refused to relax the ban even after being warned
that more than a 100,000 people might have to die of
starvation.
• The reason for the ban is that Y resembles the holy
trinity too much.
X= country
Y= food item

17. Somalia and the Samosa

18. Q8
_________ was born as Gnanadesikan in
Pannaipuram, Theni district, Tamil Nadu, on
June 2, 1943. But when he joined the school his
father changed his name as "Rajaiya" but his
village people used to call him as "Raasayya".
He studied under Dhanraj Master and the
master used to call him as just “X".
In his first movie Annakili, Tamil film producer
Panchu Arunachalam added “Y" (which means
younger in Tamil) as a prefix.
• ID YX

19. ‘Ilaiya’ ‘raaja’

20. Q9
Silver nitrate, on exposure to NaCl and proteins
with exposed sulphur atoms, forms salts that
are largely pale. But light soon reacts with the
silver and removes it from its compounds,
depositing it as a metal.
This chemical, is authorized for manufacture by
only one company in India sees huge demand
once in about every 4 years. It has been
exported to Thailand, Singapore, Nigeria,
Afghanistan, Malaysia and South Africa. It was used
in Cambodia in 2012.
Name the application of this chemical

21. Mysore Paints and Varnishes Ltd.
and Indelible Ink

22. Q10
The myth goes that X married 27 daughters of Daksha
but truly loved only one of them.
• His other wives complained about his negligent
behaviour to Daksha , who cursed him that he would
become ugly forever. As a penance X prayed to lord
Shiva to remove the curse.
however lord Shiva said that he could not completely
remove the curse , but said that whenever X lost his
beauty completely , he would again gradually gain his
beauty and the cycle would go on.
• Who is X and what resulted thus?

23. Chandra, Lunar Cycle

24. Q11
X is an American television thriller series created by Joshua
Safran, that premiered on ABC on Sunday September 27,
2015. The series' protagonist is Alex Parrish played by Y, who
is suspected of committing a terrorist attack. Flashbacks tell
her story and the ones of her fellow recruits at the FBI
Academy in X.
The actor Y has come under a lot of criticism for her voice
modelling, especially her accent. In fact, the actor has faced
a lot of criticism in the past, when Bollywood actress
Kareena Kapoor commented “Why does she have that
accent?” on a famous talk show, Y replied with “I got it from
the same place that her boyfriend got it from”.
ID X, Y

25. Quantico, Priyanka Chopra

26. Q12
The introduction of ____ in India, is associated with a
significant decrease in the reported acceptability of
domestic violence towards women and female foeticide,
as well as increase in women’s autonomy and
decrease in infertility. There were a number of
hypotheses, from rising incomes to growing female
literacy. Those are all moderately correlated with the
decline in birthrates and could help explain the shift.
But, curiously enough, nothing seems to match up with
the trends as neatly as the introduction of ____.

27. Television

28. Q13
When Jai Singh, the ruler of the now Rajasthan,
visited the showrooms of Rolls-Royce in
London, he was affronted when the salesman
implied that he couldn't afford to purchase one
of the sleek new models -- he promptly
purchased 10, shipped them home, tore their
roofs off, and used them to ______________.

29. He told the Municipal Corporation
to use the 10 Rolls Royce cars for
garbage collection

30. Q14
• Put funda. It’s bigger on the inside next slide.

32. India-Bhutan border. India is on the
right.

33. Q15
• Haryana CM Manohar Lal Khattar has recently
proposed to replace X with an electric version
• He said “Everybody should work hard to earn
their livelihood, but pulling the weight of
others is like exploitation”
• X?

34. Hand pulled Rickshaws

35. Q16
Identify this famous Indian Social Media Personality.
Photo on next slide. He has over 122k tweets to his
name and 203k followers on Twitter.

37. Tinu Cherian Abraham

39. Finals

40. Theme round- Place name origins
India quiz

41. • Named after the sage Kashyap
• It was initially called Kashyapmeru
Q1

42. Kashmir

43. • X means “Water tank” and Y means “Royal”, so XY means “Royal
Water Tank”.
• XY was built by Alauddin Khilji to supply water for Siri fort
• When Chris Martin performed in Delhi, he chose a café in XY Village,
which is arguably the most “happening” place in Delhi.
Q2

44. Hauz khas

45. • Although the most obvious guess says otherwise, Ain-i-Akbari
suggests that the name of this town comes from Barbakpur.
• The most obvious guess is that it comes from an English word the
British brought when this town was chosen to be the site of the first
cantonment of the British.
Q3

46. Barrackpore

47. • Early British texts mention this place as Brodera
• It is a corrupted form of the word Vatodar (heart of the banyan)
which comes from Vatpatrak (leaf of the banyan).
• Give me the new name of this place.
Q4

48. Q4 Hint: In the news in 2014

49. Vadodara (do not accept baroda)

50. • The name derives from the Sanskrit words for angle and for Surya.
• Apart from what it’s almost synonymous with, X also hosts an X
Dance Festival, where Odissi is one of the prime dances on display.
Q5

52. DRIES

53. 1
• X meaning abode of springs and lakes, also called Islamabad, is a city
in Jammu and Kashmir.
• The name X is probably derived from the Sanskrit term for "Land of
countless springs”.
• According to a Sir A. Stein, the name of the city comes from the great
spring X issuing at the centre of the city.
• Mehbooba Mufti represents X constituency in Lok Sabha. Identify X

54. Safety Slide

55. Answer
• Anantnag

56. 2
• X’s real name is Sukhvinder Kaur. She was born in 1965 in Dorangala village
of Gurdaspur district in Punjab.
• X studied till Class X, she married Mohan Singh at age 17
• She used to stitch clothes to supplement her husband's small income
• After her husband left for Doha (Qatar) in search of a better job, X
embraced a total new outlook and became known to the world by a
different name altogether
• How do we better know X ?

57. Safety Slide

58. Answer
• Raadhe Maa

59. 3
• The company X was founded in 1971 and was one of the very few private
industries given permissions which was largely due to the managing director’s
“close” relations to PM Indira Gandhi.
• It went into liquidation in 1977. It was nationalised in 1981 to revive the
company and in 1982 Y entered into a Joint Venture Agreement with 60:40
sharing.
• Production of their most iconic product began in 1983.XY became a huge success
with the launch and continues to be a market leader in the segment.
• In 2006 govt. sold all its shares in JV to private investment group and the
company became a subsidiary of the parent Y.
• In 2015 XY became the first subsidiary in the world to valued more than its parent
company when its value crossed $19.1 billion.
• ID X&Y

60. Safety

61. Answer
• X: Maruti
• Y: Suzuki

62. 4
• X party was formed by Punjabi Indians in the United States and
Canada for liberating India from the British Rule
• X is an Urdu word meaning “revolt” or “rebellion”
• The party was started by Kartar Singh Sarabha and Sohan Singh. Lala
Har Dayal and Rashbehari Bose were prominent members
• The members started their own newspaper and urged the people of
Punjab to start armed revolution against the British
• The party was an inspiration to many future freedom fighters
• Also, X is a name of a super hit Bollywood movie

63. Safety

64. Answer
• Ghadar

65. 5
• X was born in Agra, he was the eldest son of Shaikh Mubarak of Nagaur in
Rajputana, India. His father, Shaikh Mubarak, was a scholar in the philosophy and
literature of Greece as well as in Islamic theology.
• In 1566, he reached Akbar's court. Akbar subsequently appointed him tutor for
his princes, Salim, Murad and Daniyal. In 1581, he was appointed sadr of Agra,
Kalpi and Kalinjar.
• In 1588, he became poet laureate of Akbar's court. In 1591, he was sent to
Khandesh and Ahmednagar as Mughal envoy
• Both he and his brother Abu’l Fazl were a part of Akbar’s “Navratnas”
• X?

66. Safety

67. Answer
• Faizi

68. 6
• On 31st October 1984 ,India and Pakistan were playing an ODI at
Sialkot.
• India was in a fairly strong position with the scorecard reading 210/3.
• Dileep Vengasarkar was batting at 94*.
• What happened next and why?

69. Safety

70. Answer
• Match was abandoned as Indira Gandhi was assassinated

71. 7
• Lalita ke Aansoon is a book of poems by Krant Lal Verma.
• It depicts a fictional narrative by Lalita, the wife of a famous Indian
personality “X”, describing her suspicions regarding X’s death.
• Till this day, many people believe that X, who died in 1966, was
poisoned, possibly due to his actions, and this book promoted this
theory. X?

72. Safety

73. Answer
• Lal Bahadur Shastri

74. 8
• Moti Mahal is a chain of restaurants, present all over India
• The restaurant serves authentic Punjabi food and the first branch of
this restaurant was started in 1920 in Peshawar by Mokha Singh
• Singh’s two cooks, Kundan Lal Gujral and Kundan Jaggi fled to New
Delhi after the partition in 1947 and started their own restaurant here
• Gujral is said to have invented this popular dish which every non veg
eater in India absolutely adores, a dish which British Foreign Secretary
in 2001, Robin Cook claimed as a “perfect national British dish”
• What dish?

75. Safety

76. Answer

77. Theme – Chief Ministers

78. 1
• X was the first CM of Maharashtra who later on became the deputy Prime
Minister of India under Charan Singh
• He was a staunch supporter of Nehruvian socialism and after the split in
the Congress party joined Congress(Socialist), before joining
Congress(Indira) in 1981
• He was well known throughout India for his pro-farmer policies and
decentralization of power
• His popularity in Maharashtra was boundless and was called Prati-Shivaji
(new Shivaji) there
• Many landmarks including a prominent Engineering College in Nagpur and
the Mumbai-Pune expressway is named after him

79. Answer
• Yashwantrao Chavan

80. 2
• X was the CM of his state from 1977 to 2000, making him the longest serving CM in
any state in India
• An ardent communist, he became familiar with the communist movement while
studying in Great Britain where he regularly followed the activities of the Communist
party there
• He was a founder member of the Communist Party of India(Marxist)
• In 1996, he was expected to become the Prime Minister of India representing the
United Front but the CPI(M) decided against participating in the government, and HD
Deve Gowda became the PM instead
• His role as CM has been criticized by many for initiating a steady industrial decline in
his state

81. Answer
• Jyoti Basu

82. 3
• X was the Prime Minister of Jammu and Kashmir from 1947 to 1948
under Raja Hari Singh of Kashmir
• He played a key role in the accession of J&K to India and worked
closely with Jawaharlal Nehru and Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
• He was also the one who decided to annex Gurdaspur over Lahore to
India when he had the choice
• After serving as the PM of J&K, he served as one of the first Supreme
Court judges of India and later in 1954, became the 3rd Chief Justice of
India

83. Answer
• Mehr Chand Mahajan

84. 4
• X was the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh from 1991 to 1992 and
again from 1996 to 1997
• He was the CM during the Babri Masjid demolition and later said that
he takes full responsibility for that incident
• During his second tenure, he planned to replace “Yes Sir” with “Vande
Mataram” in roll calls and promised to create Uttarakhand
• In 2009, he left BJP and joined SP. Mulayam Singh Yadav blamed him
for the poor performance in 2009 elections, saying he drove away
Muslim support of SP.
• Currently, he’s the Governor of Rajasthan

85. Answer
• Kalyan Singh

86. 5
• X was the CM of Orissa from 1961 to 1963 and again from 1990 to
1995
• He had dropped out of college to become a pilot and subsequently
joined the Royal Indian Air Force and fought in WW2, during which
he started gaining interest in nationalist activities
• A trusted friend of Jawaharlal Nehru, he played an important role in
the Indonesian freedom struggle by smuggling out former
president of Indonesia, Sultan Sjahrir out of Indonesia to change
the international public opinion against the Dutch, an act for which
he was given Indonesia’s highest civilian award in 1995
• The current CM of Orissa is his son and the party the son
represents has X’s first name in it

87. Answer
• Biju Patnaik

88. 6
• X was the CM of Assam from 1985 to 1990 and from 1996 to 2001
and is also the youngest CM in India: he was 33 when he became CM
• He came into prominence during the Assam movement as a youth
leader, protesting against the influx of Bangladeshi and Burmese
people in Assam
• He has got allegations against him for secretly killing the family
members of ULFA leaders, which he has vehemently denied
• He was the president of the Asom Gana Parishad until 2005 when his
membership of AGP was terminated. He then started his own party,
AGP(Progressive)

89. Answer
• Prafulla Kumar Mahanta

90. Thank You!