India Quiz finals of Anandotsava 2013, NMAMIT, Nitte

1. NMAMIT, Nitte
Presents
India Quiz
Finals
A quiz by –Dhanraj and Raghavendra Special thanks to – Dany James
Kamath and Krishnananda Baliga

2. Round 1
• Clockwise
• +10 direct/ +10 pass
• Infinite
• Pounce on buzzer in 5 seconds. +10/-5

3. 1.1
O'Cracy,D.E.M beloved husband of
T.Ruth, father of L.I.Bertie, brother of
Faith, Hope and Justica expired on 26 June
1975.
Put Funda.

4. Answer
This was printed on the Times of India on 27
June 1975 as a novel protest against the
declaration of emergency.

5. BUFFER
SLIDE

6. 1.2
X was a popular comedy sitcom, written by comedy writer
Sharad Joshi aired for the first time in 1984. It was one of
the first sitcoms and one of the biggest hit shows on Indian
television after the state owned
television, Doordarshan, started sponsoring its programs.
The title song was sung by Kishore Kumar and the show had
such actors as Shafi Inamdar, RakeshBedi and Tiku
Talsania. A trademark of the show was Satish Shah, who
portrayed a different character in every episode of the show.
In later episodes, Anjan Srivastav also joined the
show, playing different characters.
X?

7. Yeh Jo Hai Zindagi

8. 1.3
• h/h, also known as Oh or the X Blood group, is a rare blood
type. This blood phenotype was first discovered in X, by Dr.
Y.M. Bhende in 1952.
• Individuals with the rare X phenotype (hh) do not express H
antigen, the antigen which is present in blood group O. As a
result, they cannot make A antigen or B antigen on their red
blood cells, whatever alleles they may have of the A and B
blood-group genes, because A antigen and B antigen are
made from H antigen; For this reason people who have X
phenotype can donate RBCs to any member of the ABO
blood group system.
• In the 2012 Hindi film Y the main antagonist has X Blood
Group and this fact was one of the evidence in the thriller
film.

9. Answer
X – Bombay
Y -- Kahaani

10. 1.4
X Express is a category of long distance trains
run by the Indian Railways. The special feature of
these trains is that they run non-stop from
source to destination, barring technical halts. All
X Express trains can be easily recognized by the
characteristic yellow-green livery of their
passenger coaches. Several X Express services
connect the metros and major state capitals of
India. The X Express trains are projected to be
the fastest trains between the particular pair of
cities they serve.

11. Answer
Duronto Express

12. 1.5
In September 1997 Texas, USA company RiceTec was
granted U.S. Patent on "X―. The patent secures lines of
X and X-like rice and ways of analyzing that rice.
RiceTec, owned by Prince Hans-Adam of
Liechtenstein, faced international outrage over
allegations of biopiracy. It had also caused a brief
diplomatic crisis between India and United States with
India threatening to take the matter to WTO as a
violation of TRIPS which could have resulted in a major
embarrassment for the United States. Both voluntarily
and due to review decisions by the United States
Patent and Trademark Office, RiceTec lost or withdrew
most of the claims of the patent, including, most
importantly, the right to call their rice lines "X."A more
limited varietal patent was granted to RiceTec in 2001
on claims dealing with three strains of the rice
developed by the company.

13. Answer
Basmati Rice

14. 1.6
The XY is the name of a muslim shrine located in
the Khanyaar quarter of the city of Srinagar in
Kashmir with the graves of two men. The word X
means tomb, the word Y means place, often a
landing place by a lake, hence "place of the
tomb." Locals have traditionally referred to the
main sage buried there as Yuzasaf,more recently
Yuz Asaf . The other man buried is Mir Sayyid
Naseeruddin.
The shrine was relatively unknown until the
founder of the Ahmadiyya Muslim
Community, Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, claimed in
1899 that it is actually the tomb of Jesus.

15. Answer
Roza Bal

16. Audience
What is Pandit Gangadhar Vidhyadhar
Mayadhar Omkarnath Shastri better known
as?

17. Shaktimaan

18. Round 2
• Anti clockwise
• +10 direct/ +10 pass
• Infinite
• Pounce on buzzer in 5 seconds. +10/-5

19. 2.1
Now written in Devanagari in India.
Intellectuals in the court of Maharaja Ranbir
Singh of Jammu and Kashmir, described X as
a distorted form of the word "Dwigart", which
means ―two troughs‖, a possible reference to
the Mansar and Sruinsar Lakes.On 22
December 2003, X was recognized as one
ofthe national languages of India. X?

20. Dogri Language

21. 2.2
X is a company based in Pune, India. It has nine
manufacturing plants in India, Germany, Sweden,
United States, Scotland, United Kingdom and
mainland China. The company's international
operations are carried out by its subsidiary Carl Dan
Peddinghaus GmbH.
In 2006, X had total sales of US$ 659 million and has
a market value of US$ 1.8 billion. It was rated as one
of the best companies in Asia by the Forbes magazine
because of its high growth rate. The company
increased its sales by more than 50% in 2005.
The company was founded by Nilkanthrao Kalyani in
1961.
X?

22. Answer
Bharat Forge

23. 2.3
Born in a small town in Tamil Nadu, India, X grew from humble
beginnings. From a nearly age, X was different. He loved to sing, to
dance and to entertain his parents and the local community. He
pursued his dreams while working in traditional Indian jobs. Yet these
jobs would not hold his future. His need to entertain and
educate, overwhelmed his career so he quit his day jobs to carve out
his dream. Now, X is taking the world by storm and bringing his
unique combination of dance, drumming and musical humor to fans
around the globe. His approachable nature has allowed many to find
him as not only an inspiration, but a friend. Now with an increasing
passion to make the common man, woman, child and cause, an
object of extraordinary importance and significance, X has created a
growing movement of social media buzz around the concepts of
Cultural Intelligence. His desire to bring not only equality to the
globe, but unity has not been matched in recent history. Watch out for
X as he takes the world by storm from Chennai to L.A and from Tamil
Nadu to Tokyo! This man is really one of a kind! This is from X’s
website. His fame has reached the ears of such people as Roger
Ebert, who tweeted : X wants a Love Marriage. Dare you not to like
this Indian music video with its smiling bride. Who is X

25. Answer
Wilbur Sargunaraj

26. 2.4
On being asked by X if he was ready to fight
on the eve of the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971:
―I am always ready, sweetie."
Who did X ask this question?
___________ and ____________

27. Sam Manekshaw and Indira Gandhi.

28. 2.5
Which famous phrase signifying unbounded
optimism was inspired by a phrase coined by
Prof. Samuel Beerand used in a 1936
Democratic National Convention speech by
Franklin D Roosevelt? ―There is a mysterious
cycle in human events. To some generations
much is given. Of other generations much is
expected. This generation of Americans has a
rendezvous with ______.‖

29. Answer
Tryst with destiny.

30. 2.6
I remember once going to see him when he
was ill at Putney. I had ridden in taxi cab
number XXXX and remarked that the number
seemed to me rather a dull one, and that I
hoped it was not an unfavorable omen. "No,"
he replied, "it is a very interesting number; it
is the smallest number expressible as the
sum of two cubes in two different ways.

31. Answer
1729- Hardy-Ramanujan Number

32. Audience
• The island of ________ is modeled after the
island of Dr. No; it is a self-contained
colony, having advanced
communications, weapons, and laboratories to
build various high-tech devices. ______ sits on
his throne in the island, monitoring the evil
perpetrated by his henchmen all over India and
hoping to someday conquer India entirely. All
his subordinates know the formal salute ―Hail
_______!‖ (with an accompanying ―Heil Hitler‖
style gesture). This emphasizes his complete
authority over his minions.

33. Answer

34. Round 3
• Buzzer
• +10/-5
• If first attempt is wrong by one team, the
other teams can try the same one on buzzer
after we say ―NOW‖.

35. Excerpts from a famed 1958 report. Who about what?
3.1
Of all the objects we have seen and admired during our visit to India, the X, that simple vessel of everyday
use, stands out as perhaps the greatest, the most beautiful. The village women have a process which, with the use of
tamarind and ash, each day turns this brass
into gold.
But how would one go about designing a X? First one would have to shut out all preconceived ideas on the subject
and then begin to consider factor after factor:
The optimum amount of liquid to be fetched, carried, poured and stored in a prescribed set of circumstances.
• The size and strength and gender of the hands (if hands) that would manipulate it.
• The way it is to be transported — head, hip, hand, basket or cart.
• The balance, the center of gravity, when empty, when full, its balance when rotated for pouring.
• The fluid dynamics of the problem not only when pouring but when filling and cleaning, and under the
complicated motions of head carrying — slow and fast.
• Its sculpture as it fits the palm of the hand, the curve of the hip.
• Its sculpture as compliment to the rhythmic motion of walking or a static post at the well.
• The relation of opening to volume in terms of storage uses — and objects other than liquid.
• The size of the opening and inner contour in terms of cleaning.
• The texture inside and out in terms of cleaning and feeling.
• Heat transfer — can it be grasped if the liquid is hot?
• How pleasant does it feel, eyes closed, eyes open?
• How pleasant does it sound, when it strikes another vessel, is set down on ground or stone, empty or full — or
being poured into?

36. Answer
Ray and Charles Eames in their 1958 India
Report which recommended a national design
institute which became NID. They considered
the humble LOTA as a shining example of
excellent design.

37. 3.2
In 1965, there was only one X in India. In
November 1966, one more X got added. It
remained this way, till in November 2000, two
more X's got added within a gap of 15 days.
Hence, India now has 4 X's.
What is the X I am talking about?

38. Answer
X- Indian States that do not touch the sea or
any international border. (or landlocked
states)
These are: Madhya
Pradesh, Haryana, Chattisgarh and
Jharkhand.

39. 3.3
Connect the following states:
Gujrath, Rajasthan, Madhya
Pradesh, Chattisgarh, Jharkhand, West
Bengal, Mizoram, Tripura.

40. Answer
Tropic of Cancer

41. 3.4 What have I blanked.

42. Shankar
(K. Shankar Pillai)

43. 3.5
Who? And he is the co-
founder of what?

44. Answer
Naveen Selvadurai.
Co-Founder of Foursquare

45. 3.6
As per Hindus, this day is ruled by god Vishnu. It is
traditionally celebrated as the birth day of the Hindu
sage Parashurama. It is also believed that on this day
the Treta Yuga began and the river Ganga, the most
holy and sacred river of India, descended to the earth
from the heaven. According to Hindu mythology, this
was also the day when VedaVyasa started dictating the
epic Mahabharata to Ganesha.It falls on the third Tithi
(Lunar day) of Bright Half (Shukla Paksha) in the
month of Vaishakha. Unless you live in a vacuum, it is
impossible to be unaware of this day in India because
it has been turned into a marketing gimmick. What
day am I talking about?

46. Answer
Akshaya Tritiya.

47. Round 4
• Buzzer
• +10/-5
• If first attempt is wrong by one team, the
other teams can try the same one on buzzer
after we say ―NOW‖.

48. 4.1
Vedre Ramachandra Reddy got his title " X " as
he was the first donor and initiator of the X
movement in early 1950s in Andhra Pradesh at a
village called Pochampally in the Nalgonda
district of Andhra Pradesh. He was a great social
worker and noble man. Y started the land
donation movement in Pochampally village in
April 1951 with initiation of donation of 100
acres, of land from Vedre Ramachandra
Reddy, which led to a total of 1 million acres of
land donation and distribution among the poor in
post independence Era in India.

49. Answer
X- Bhoodhan
Y- Acharya Vinoda Bhave

50. 4.2

51. Answer

52. 4.3
ID.

53. Answer
William Dalrymple

54. 4.4
Which word was coined in
this book?

55. Answer
Bollywood

56. 4.5 ID

57. Ruskin Bond.

58. 4.6
ID.

59. Suraj Sharma.

60. The Taste of India
• Buzzer
• +10/-5

61. Audience

62. Answer
Dr. Verghese Kurien passes away.

63. Audience

64. Answer
Robet Vadra’s Banana Republic comment.

65. 1

66. Answer
Air- Asia’s proposed low-cost airline with the
Tata group.

67. 2

68. Answer
British Prime Minister Mr. David Cameron’s
2013 visit to India.

69. 3

70. Answer
Under threat, Kashmir girl band calls it quits.

71. 4

72. Answer
Abhijeet Mukerjee's comments on women
protestors.

73. 5

74. Answer
'Guns N Roses' rock band performs for the
first time ever in India.

75. 6

76. Ajmal Kasab finally hanged.

77. Long Visual Connect
• On buzzer
• Write down the answers and one of the quiz
masters will check them.

78. +40/-20

79. +30/-15

80. +20/-10

81. +5

82. Answer
Slide 1- Jawaharlal Nehru,Dr.
M.A.Chidambaram
Slide 2- Rajiv Gandhi, Firoz Shah Tughlaq
Slide 3- Sardar Vallabhbhai
Patel, Dr.M.A.Chidambaram
Slide 4- Subrata Roy, Dr. D. Y. Patil

83. Thank You.