India Quiz - Finals - Debuzz 2018

India Quiz-03/03/18
FINALS
Researched and conducted by RITHWIK K

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
ASWIN MENON
ABDUL VAHID
SHIBIN AZAD

FORMAT
Round 1: Written Round (6 questions)
Round 2: Infinite Pounce (18 questions)
Round 3: Written Round (6 questions)
Round 4: Infinite Pounce (18 questions)

Round 1
 Written Round
 6 questions
 10 point for every right answer
 Topic :- Locations (featured in movies)

1.
 Screenshot from the 2005 movie Parineeta.
 Constructed in memory of an eminent Anglo-Indian scholar
and was designed by W. Fitzgerald in 1843.
 ID this popular recreational spot which a also has a railway
station named after it.

2.
 Screenshot from Rang de Basanti.
 Along with Amer Fort and Jaigarh Fort, the fort once formed a strong
defense ring for the city. The fort was originally named Sudarshangarh,
but later got its present name which means 'abode of tigers’.
 Just identify the fort built in 1734 by Maharaja Sawai Jai Singh II, the
founder of Jaipur.

3. Identify the 1974 movie and the director.

4.
 In 2016, Film shootings was temporarily banned at this location by
the Department of Archaeology and Museums (DAM) following a
request by the State Minorities Commission (SMC).
 All India Shia Organisation (AISO), a socio-religious organisation,
complained that film shoots, especially songs at the royal necropolis,
was 'hurting' religious sentiments of the community. They also
pointed out that the walls and graves are engraved with verses from
the Quran.
 ID the location,which is situated next to a much famous monument.
 (Video next slide)

5.  Featured in Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani.
 Surrounded by a cedar forest at the foot of the Himālayas. The sanctuary is
built over a huge rock jutting out of the ground which was worshiped as an
image of the deity. The structure was built in 1553.
 Identify the structure in the background.

6.
 Junun is a 2015 documentary film directed by Paul Thomas
Anderson. It documents the making of the album of the same
name in a certain location, by the Israeli composer Shye Ben Tzur,
English composer and Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood,
Indian ensemble the Rajasthan Express, and Radiohead producer
Nigel Godrich.
 Identify the location.
 The particular site was in the news during 2011-12 because it was
featured in a famous movie sequence. Which movie?

4.
 In 2016, Film shootings was temporarily banned at the location by
the Department of Archaeology and Museums (DAM) following a
request by the State Minorities Commission (SMC).
 All India Shia Organisation (AISO), a socio-religious organisation,
complained that film shoots, especially songs at the royal necropolis,
was 'hurting' religious sentiments of the community. They also
pointed out that the walls and graves are engraved with verses from
the Quran.
 ID the location,which is situated next to a much famous monument.

5.  Featured in Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani.
 Surrounded by a cedar forest at the foot of the Himālayas. The sanctuary is
built over a huge rock jutting out of the ground which was worshiped as an
image of the deity. The structure was built in 1553.
 Identify the location.

Mehrangarh Fort
The Dark Knight Rises

ROUND 2
 18 questions
 Infinite Bounce/Pounce (+10/-5)
 Most of the questions have multiple parts,Be careful on Pounce.
 If No team answers, the next questions goes to the next team

1.  The director picked up the basics of sound recording from an American
expert, Wilford Deming, who had come in to assemble the recording
equipment for Imperial at the astronomical sum of Rs 100 a day. Filming was
done mostly between 1 am and 4 am in the night as the studio was close to
the railway tracks and the noise of the trains was unavoidable during the day.
 The hero part of the movie was offered to an actor who was nicknamed as the
Douglas Fairbank of India.In his eagerness to play the lead role, he broke his
contract with Sharada and signed on with the director. Sharada, however,
refused to take this lying down and filed a case against the actor for breach of
contract.
 Identify the movie/director. (3 points)
 Identify the actor. (4 points)
 The actor was represented by Bombay’s leading legal expert at the time. Who?
(4 points)

Alam Ara/Ardeshir Irani
Master Vitthal
Mohammad Ali Jinnah

2.
 He was the earliest discoverer of dinosaur fossils in Asia when in 1828,
serving as a Captain in the Narmada valley region, he noticed several
basaltic formations which he identified as having been "raised above the
waters". By digging around in the Bara Simla Hills, part of the Lameta
formation near Jabalpur, he unearthed several petrified trees, as well as
some fragmentary dinosaur fossil specimens.
 Subsequently he sent these specimens to London and to the Indian
Museum in Calcutta.He wrote about wild children who had been raised
by wolves with his notes on six cases.
 Who?
 He was mostly known for something he did during the 1830s. What was
his most famous claim to fame?

William Sleeman
Suppressing the Thuggees

3.  Radhanath Sikdar, along with his friend Peary Chand Mitra started the Bengali
journal Masik Patrika, for the education and empowerment of women. He used
to write in a simple and uncluttered style that was rather atypical for the age.
 It is also on record that Sikdar was fined a sum of 200 rupees by the British
court in 1843 for having vehemently protested against the unlawful
exploitation of survey department workers by the Magistrate Vansittart.
 The German Philosophical Society made him a Corresponding Member in
1864, a very rare honour those days.
 He was actually discredited for his most famous work.
 What did he do in the mid 19th century?

Calculated the height of Mount Everest and showed it to be the
tallest mountain above sea level.

4.
 Claude Alvares is an environmentalist based in Goa.
 He is the editor of the Other India Press publication.He is also
known as the author of a famous article published in the
Illustrated Weekly of India in 1986.
 The article’s name can be derived by replacing a word from
the name of a 1903 reel life creation or a 1963 real life event
both sharing the same name.
 What was the title of the article?

5. It was given to the Asiatic Society of Mumbai by the then governor of
Bombay and President of the Society from 1819–1827 and bears his
signature.
 In 1930, the Italian government under Benito Mussolini offered the
society one million pounds, calling it a national treasure.Mussolini
believed that the offer could not be refused, but to his shock, the
Society turned down his request stating that it was donated by an ex-
member of the Society and hence it was their property.
 What was this so called ‘National Treasure’?
 Who was this President of the Asiatic Society after whom a College is
named? His nephew also lends his name to a Railway Station which was
the site of an unfortunate incident in 2017.

Manuscript of Divine Comedy
Mountstuart Elphinstone

6.  He played a leading role as adviser to Emir Feisal during the
Arab revolt against Turkish rule (1916–1918) was clearly torn
between his British and Arab sympathies. He suffered a huge
setback, a stinging humiliation that plunged him into a phase of
depression. To recover from this he accepted an invitation from K.
Govinda Menon (Conservator of Forests, Cochin State), his
classmate at Oxford, to travel to Trichur.
 He stayed for 21 days in Trichur for an elaborate Ayurveda
treatment which was supervised by the famous Thaikkattu Moos.
He went on his mandatory evening walks, ate home-made food
and left a cheerful man. This was his only visit to India.
 Who?

7.  The regiment was involved in a number of campaigns on the Asian
sub-continent, notably the First Afghan War, the Second Afghan
War, the First Sikh War and the Second Sikh War.
 It was the first Indian Army regiment sent overseas during the Boxer
Rebellion and participated in the Battle of Peking. During this
campaign the regiment clashed with Tartar cavalry and served
alongside United States units – the first occasion where British Indian
and US troops served together.
 Identify this cavalry regiment founded by an East India Company
officer who was nicknamed as "Sikander Sahib“.
 They were well-known for their yellow uniforms, a rare thing in those
days. What was the reason for the Yellow uniforms?

Skinner's Horse established by James Skinner
James Skinner was Half British and Half Rajput.
 James Skinner, being half Rajput, selected this colour keeping the Rajput
traditions in mind. It was said that a Rajput sardar going out to war would
vow that either he will come back victorious or will die fighting. His men
would honour his spirit & tie a yellow or saffron cloth around their heads
& ride off into war to earn victory or martyrdom.

8.  Historically, Valsad was a small town covered with forest, with
teak production as a major regional industry. It was a part of
regional kingdom before colonial era. It was made a district
during the Bombay Presidency.Today, Valsad is a town
inhabited by Gujarati people.
 Valsad is also known by another name ,from which the family
name of a legend was derived. He was born in Stone Town in
1946.
 What was the other name of Valsad?
 Who was this legend?

Bulsar
Freddie Mercury aka Farrokh Bulsara

9.  He was the head of the ________ Reform Committee under the Council of
Scientific and Industrial Research. It was his effort, which led to the
formation of the Committee.
 The task before the Committee was to prepare an accurate ________ based
on scientific study, which could be adopted uniformly throughout India. It
was a mammoth task. The Committee had to undertake a detailed study
of different ________ prevalent in different parts of the country.
 There were thirty different ________. The task was further complicated by
the fact that religion and local sentiments were integral to those ________.
 Identify him, who was repeatedly and unsuccessfully nominated for the
Nobel Prize in Physics.
 FITB and tell me what was finally selected.

10.  He was a 19th-century Indian businessman known as the "Cotton King"
and "Bullion King’. Recorded as the first Indian broker to speak, read
and write English, he entered the lists as a stock broker in 1849. He was
the founding member of The Bombay Stock Exchange. He was also the
founder of the Bank of Bombay.
 He once made a single pay-in of Rs 115 million, which would equal Rs
10 billion today.
 A structure, named after his mother, was built from a donation of
Indian Rupees 200,000 by him.
 Who was this broker?
 Identify this structure which was named after his mother.

Premchand Roychand
Rajabai Clock Tower

The modern version of this item is said to have originated from Japan, where it is called Zori, and
was made using rice straw or similar plant fibres. When peasants from rural Japan migrated to
another island in 1880s they took Zori with them, and it became popular there. It then spread to
different parts of the world, through American soldiers, during and after World War 2. Barack
Obama was the first US president to be snapped while using them, during his vacation, back
home (Quite appropriately).
Although the global name for it is an onomatopoeia of the sound it makes while being used, the
Indian name comes from a brand launched in the country by a Switzerland based multinational
company, around 1950. The brand name itself is a nod to the place mentioned above, where the
Japanese peasants migrated to. The brand was an instant hit, and came to be associated with the
common man. So much so that while announcing the UDAN scheme for low cost air travel, PM
Narendra Modi was heard using a clever word play while mentioning that he wants to see people
using this particular item, flying in airplanes.
What is the onomatopoeic name? Also give the Indian name that is back in news in a very
different context due to a 1987 claim to fame, and a recent unfortunate event.
11.

12.
 He was a Russian merchant of Tver and one of the first Europeans (after Niccolò de'
Conti) to travel to and document his visit to India. He described his trip in a narrative
known as The Journey Beyond Three Seas.
 In 1955, the local authorities of Tver erected a bronze monument to commemorate
him on the banks of the Volga River. There is a folk legend that this statue was raised
because Nikita Khrushchev, upon visiting India, told Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru
that there was a statue honoring him when Nehru asked whether the Russians had
honored the first Russian to visit India. But there was no such statue and Khrushchev
phoned back to Russia demanding that a statue should be built immediately, before
Nehru's state visit to Russia.
 Who was this Russian merchant?
 His travelogues served as the basis for a 1957 Indian-Soviet popular film, jointly
directed by KA Abbas and Vasili Pronin. Identify the movie.(Hindi Title)

13. Constructed by master architect, Gerard da Cunha. It had even won
the Best Rural Architecture' award in 1991. To raise funds to run this
organization, a tourist resort Kuteeram was built in 1992.
 This was also the venue of an annual festival Vasanta Habba, which
was first started in 1994 and had 40,000 visitors when it was last
held in 2004. It has not been held from 2005–2007, due to the
advent of the 2004 tsunami and a shortage of funds.
 Identify the organization. (3 points)
 Who was the founder? (3 points)
 A temple was built in 1998 that welcomes people to this institute.
Whose image is depicted in the temple? (4 points)

Nrityagram
Protima Bedi
Kelucharan Mohapatra

14.
 In the 1940s, the 18th Raja of ______ State, Raja Sir Joginder Sen
Bahadur built this residence. The estate was later sold and divided in
the 1970’s.
 The old palace was demolished to make way for large, modern offices
which were constructed in the 1990s. The state house of Himachal
Pradesh, Himachal Bhawan, is now located here.
 Identify the building.
 Which organization also have its headquarters here?

15.  The story was written by him in 1965, when he was studying at the University of
Birmingham for his Ph.D.. He saw the film The Seventh Seal by Ingmar
Bergman and was deeply moved by it. His tutor Malcolm Bradbury suggested he
write about his experiences in India concerning the multilayered structure of
time in Indian society.
 After completing the story, he sent the manuscript to his friend in India who got
in touch with Pattabhirama Reddy. Impressed by the theme of the story, Reddy
decided to produce and direct it. The film required a localized dwelling of
Brahmins as the setting and one was found in Vaikunthapura, near Sringeri
.Despite intervention from the Sringeri Sharada Peetham, the makers received
cooperation from the locals during filming.
 Identify the film. (4 points)
 Who wrote the story? (3 points)
 Who wrote the Screenplay and played the lead role in the film? (3 points)

Samskara
U. R. Ananthamurthy
Girish Karnad

16.  Since regular vehicles could not reach, Kawasakis were used
to transport the equipments across rugged and remote
locations.
 Around 400 fresh engineers were provided with these
specially made Kawasakis to conduct this survey as part of a
project.
 Fuel for the bikes, and an allowance of Rs 100 a day kept this
young battalion going. The Bikees completed the task much
earlier than anticipated.
 Identify this project which became functional in 1993.

17.  He visited the only public utility thermal power station in the State, at that
time located at Shapur Sorath, near a village Vanthly (near Junagadh). As
this power station was using crushed coal as fuel for boilers and chlorination
for the cooling water system, which normally polluted the local atmosphere;
he wanted to see personally the working conditions and the amenities
provided for the villagers housing and the recreation facilities.
 Identify this person who is known for his exploits in another field and is
also honored in a similar manner like his great uncle.

18. According to the Gettysburg Compiler and The Baltimore Sun, in
India, towards the end of the 19th century, the Gaekwad of
Baroda, Sayajirao III,arranged a unique fight.
 The fight took place in an amphi theatre. It had heavy logs, was
open to the sky, and its arena was circular, with a diameter of
about 50.0 feet.Within the arena was a belt about 6.0 feet
wide, lined by sheet iron. The arena had seats or boxes for
spectators. The Gaekwad was on a Royal box with other
dignitaries.
 Who were the two fighters involved? Explanation will do.

Atlas the Barbary lion versus the Bengal tiger of Simla
 It was to determine whether the lion or the tiger should be called
"King of the Cat Family“.

Round 3
 Written Round
 6 questions
 10 point for every right answer
 Topic :- Geographical Indications in India

1.
 The company claims that each product features up to 41 separate wood panels,
and each wood panel is made by compressing up to 29 layers of wood with two
layers of foil and four of aluminium for strength and safety.
 In the company's Goodwood factory in UK where every product is made
traditional craftsmen are drawn from among the finest boat builders and cabinet
makers.
 Which company?
 Which GI Tagged product is used for the panels?

2.FITB.Who is behind this artwork?

3.Name the artform featured in this Coke Ad.

4.  In 2016, Horlicks launched its first-ever special edition packs inspired by the traditional art
forms of India. The new range, which sports colourful and intricate two different styles of
paintings on the packaging, was aimed at making the brand culturally relevant.
 Identify both.
 Only one of them is GI Tagged and the other one was introduced by a painter who
wanted to convey the simplicity of folk life and culture through them.

5.  The ____________ pomelo is a variety of the citrus fruit pomelo (Citrus maxima)
of the family Rutaceae. It is exclusively grown in the region around ____________
taluk,as an exotic crop variety.
 Mahatma Gandhi tasted this fruit when offered one by a local farmer during
his visit to Nandi Hills. He liked its taste and suggested that the authorities
conserve this variety. The fruit enjoys a strong market demand. Its sweet taste
and flavour are considered to be better than the other varieties in the market.
 FITB.
 What was the reason for the decline in the cultivation for this fruit over the
past decade?

6.  X Leather Goods are leather products made in X and surrounding villages.
 The material used is vegetable tanned leather with art work done by touch
dyeing.Its artistic leather bags are popular in foreign markets and are exported to
many countries including Japan and the U.S.
 The craftsmen of the villages were trained under a Rural Development
Programme.
 X?
 They are generally made of a type of leather which got its name from an entity
which popularized this in Trichy and Dindigul.
 After which entity is this type of leather named?

1.
 The company says that each product features up to 41 separate wood panels,
and each wood panel is made by compressing up to 29 layers of wood with two
layers of foil and four of aluminium for strength and safety.
 In the company's Goodwood factory in UK where every product is made to order,
traditional craftsmen, drawn from among the finest boat builders and cabinet
makers, hand-fashion dashboards.
 Which company?
 Which GI Tagged product is used?

Rolls-Royce
Malabar Teak (Nilambur)

2.FITB.Who created this artwork?

Madhubani/Mithila paintings
Jamini paintings/Jamini Roy

5.  The ____________ pomelo is a variety of the citrus fruit pomelo (Citrus maxima)
of the family Rutaceae. It is exclusively grown in the region around ____________
taluk,as an exotic crop variety.
 Mahatma Gandhi tasted this fruit when he was offered one by a local farmer
during his visit to Nandi Hills. He liked its taste and suggested that the
authorities conserve this variety. The fruit enjoys a strong market demand. Its
sweet taste and flavour are considered to be better than the other varieties in
the market.
 FITB.
 What was the reason for the decline in the cultivation for this fruit over the
past decade?

Devanahalli pomelo
Construction of Kempegowda
International Airport

Santiniketan Leather Goods
East India Company(EI Leather)

ROUND 4
 18 questions
 Infinite Bounce/Pounce (+10/-5)
 Most of the questions have multiple parts,Be careful on Pounce.
 If No team answers, the next questions goes to the next team.

1.  Wieslaw Stypula and Roman Gutowski are 2 among the near
1000 kids who reached Nagpur more than 70 years ago. They
couldn't adjust with the new environment and struggled a lot.
To their rescue came the then Jamsaheb of Nawanagar
Digvijaysinghji who stationed them in a place called
Balachadi. He started a school for them as well as recruited
chefs from Goa to make less spicy food for them. As a result,
now Balachadi is called 'little ______ in India’.
 Who were those kids?

Polish refugees from World War II

2.
 In his first book, Chariots of the Gods?, Erich von Däniken
mentioned that the unknown nature of this creation as an
evidence of extraterrestrial visitation.
 When informed by an interviewer, in 1974, that the method of
construction was well understood, von Däniken responded
that he no longer considered its creation to be a mystery.
 What centuries old creation is referred here?

3.  In the 1990s, Vivek Menon and Ashok Kumar realized the great
cruelty behind a popular fashion trend of that time.
 Their efforts to curb this garnered international attention, with
Vanity Fair proclaiming in 1999 - OK Lady, Drop The Shawl.
 At one point, all of India’s then Miss Universes and Miss
Worlds Sushmita Sen, Aishwarya Rai, Yukta Mookhey and
Nafisa Joseph were faces for the ‘Alternatives for ________’
parade.
 What was this campaign against?

4.  India’s first president Dr Rajendra Prasad visited Motihari in 1950 and was
greeted by a huge crowd that had gathered at the Railway Station to
welcome him. Just then, he witnessed a commotion near the entrance as a
old cook named Batak Mian tried to make his way towards him.
Recognizing him instantly, Prasad walked up to him, hugged him and gave
him a chair next to his. On learning about the hardships faced by the cook’s
family, he also ordered the collector of the region to give 24 acres of land to
Batak Mian and his three sons as a token of appreciation from the nation.
 If it weren’t for Batak Mian, India’s history would have been different.
 What was his claim to fame?

He refused to Poison Mahatma Gandhi

5.  Viraf Sarkari ,the founder of Wizcraft International
Entertainment Pvt. Ltd in Mumbai received a fax in the
mid 1990s . Sarkari thought that fax was a prank and
ignored the request. A few days later, he received
another fax with the same message he took the matter
seriously.Few days later, Sarkari and his partner Andre
Timmins went to Los Angeles for a meeting and a deal
was finalized.
 What was the outcome of the meeting?

Michael Jackson’s concert in Mumbai

6.  He became the youngest Mayor in the history of Bombay’s municipal
corporation. During his tenure, he became immensely popular among
the public due to his dedication towards ensuring effective civil service.
 In October 1949, he organised a one-of-its-kind exhibition that
displayed more than 200 pictures and paintings that traced the
evolution of India’s freedom struggle since 1857. He also organised
several cultural and literary events at Bombay’s famed Kala Ghoda,
inviting Indian personalities who were legends in their respective fields.
 Who? (4 points)
 Also Identify the two slogans coined by him.(3 + 3)

Yusuf Meherally
Quit India and Simon Go Back

7.  In August of 1997, Time magazine reprinted the photo in a
commemorative issue for the fiftieth anniversary of Indian
independence.
 The photo has been the subject of considerable confusion. In
recent years it has gained prominence on the internet, where it is
often incorrectly described as having been taken in the National
Library, in Kolkata—not the Imperial Secretariat Library, which is in
Delhi. Y Avanindranath Rao, an information officer, confirmed that
the photograph was taken in the Imperial Secretariat Library (now
called the Central Secretariat Library).
 Which famous photograph? Explanation will do.

8.  In August 1898, a tea garden manager was murdered in the
Dooars. The Criminal Investigation Department of Bengal Province
investigated the case.
 After four months of investigation,detectives arrested a former
servant, Kangali Charan. Though Charan was charged with
burglary and was acquitted of murder because the court felt
"unsafe to convict, as no one had seen the deed committed“.
 The case was solved thanks to a system developed by Hem
Chandra Bose, Azizul Haque and X in the late 19th century.
 What was this case,a first instance of?
 Identify the system which was named after X, who is also credited
with having introduced police dogs and typewriters at the New
Scotland Yard. (Visual next slide)

Fingerprinting
Henry Classification System

9.  The idea for this institution was proposed in 1869 by Colonel
Walter. It was founded in 1875 and Colonel Sir Oliver St John
became its first principal.The founder's intention was to create
an 'Eton of India’.
 The 1st Earl of Lytton, Viceroy of India, said in a speech on
campus in 1879: "The idea was well expressed long ago by
Colonel Walter in an excellent and most suggestive report
which may have influenced X when he founded the present
college. In that very sensible report Colonel Walter pointed
out that what was then most needed for the education of
India's young rulers and nobles was an Indian Eton.“
 Which institute? Who designed their coat of arms?

Mayo College
John Lockwood Kipling

10.  Sir John Strachey described this as "a monstrous system, to which it
would be almost impossible to find a parallel in any tolerably civilized
country".
 Madeleine Bunting, who wrote in The Guardian in February 2001
mentioned this was "one of the most grotesque and least well known
achievements of the British in India“.
 At its greatest extent it ran from the Punjab in the northwest until it
reached the princely state of Orissa, near the Bay of Bengal, in the
southeast. More than 14000 staff were employed here by 1872.
 Identify this entity which was compared to the Great Wall of China.
 Identify the Commissioner of Inland Customs from 1869–70,who came
up with this amazing solution. (Visual next slide)

Great Hedge of India (or Indian Salt Hedge)
AO Hume
 Hume had noticed that along various sections of the Line, thorny hedges had
taken root. In 1869 he began to experiment with different shrubs. As a result of
his work, the British were able to grow a thorny barrier that stood in for rock,
bricks and other traditional materials. A green alternative had been found!

11.  Daulatpur Nasirabad in Gurgaon was a sleepy nondescript village
on the outskirts of Delhi but it found a prominent place on the
global map after a certain individual paid a visit to this village
along with his wife, Eleanor.
 Its commonly believed that his mother, Bessie Lillian, used to
frequently visit this village during the Second World War while
working as a nurse and many say that it is because of this reason,
he wanted to visit the village. While officials did not deny the
facts, they maintained that he had expressed a desire to visit a
typical Indian village, and since this was closest to Delhi, he was
brought here. This village was later renamed after him.
 Who was this Nobel laureate?
 What’s the present name of the village?

12.  The ________ ________ is an ivory statuette that was
founded by Amedeo Maiuri, an Italian scholar in
1938.The statue has been dated to the first-century
A.D.The statue is thought of representing an Indian
goddess of feminine beauty and fertility. It is possible
that the sculpture originally formed the handle of a
mirror.
 The figure is now in the Secret Museum in the Naples
National Archaeological Museum.
 FITB.
 The first blank refers to the place where it was found
and the second blank being the name of an Indian
Goddess.

13.  The ___________ pigeon is a pigeon found on small islands and in coastal
regions of a certain location in India, east through the Malay Archipelago, to
the Solomons and Palau.
 It is the only living member of the genus Caloenas and the closest living
relative of another bird which achieved widespread recognition from its
role in a 1865 novel.
 FITB.
 Which bird is this a closest relative to?

The snapshot is of a news headline from the Times of India website. The article was about an
announcement by the Karnataka government, regarding the formation of two new districts.
One of them was Chikballapur in Kolar, and the other one was supposed to be carved out of
the erstwhile Bangalore rural district. This demarcated area is also home to the Closepet
granites, some of the oldest rock formations in India, estimated to be 2.5 billion years old.
These rock formations are what put this small rural area on the world map, not once but twice
in a span of less than a decade from 1975 to 1985. The first reason is why TOI came up with
this tagline, completely ignoring Chikballapur, and the second reason is why there are
rectangular entries carved into some of the boulders, as you can see in the image on the next
slide. While the reason behind the headline usually features on top of various lists, the second
reason, albeit historic, proved to be the last in a list of masterpieces. The first blank is a
nickname that the district got because of the 1975 association. Which district? (4 points)
What are the two reasons? (3 + 3 points)
14.

15.
 In 1977, this Communist leader requested a certain lawyer to join and campaign
for the Communist Party of India (Marxist), in return for a high-profile government
post. Being strongly anti-communist, he refused and instead filed his papers as an
independent candidate against the leader. With the CPI(M) victory, the leader
vindictively attacked his business and steadily undermined its functioning, till it
was forced to shut down permanently.
 Identify this leader who also made a certain ‘first’ to Sukh Ram in 1995.
 Name the lawyer, who is known to us for his exploits in a different field.
 His most famous claim to fame happened after he read an article in a local
newspaper about Florence Chadwick.

16.  When this American came to India in 1952 as a guest of Pandit
Jawaharlal Nehru, he got the chance to meet an individual for the
first time,who was then largely unknown outside India. Their first
meeting was intended to be brief but turned into a three and a half
hour session. He described the trouble he was having with
sleeping and his feeling of constant fatigue to the individual. In
1954,he brought the Indian chap to Europe as well. The close
friendship between the two men developed over decades lasting
until the American’s death in 1999.
 Identify both. (3 +3)
 In 1982, the American did something unusual while at work.
 What did he do? (4)

17.  The project was shut down initially upon the intervention of
the forest guards but was revived and carried on by
volunteers and artists from all over the world. Miles Toland
was among four artists who were invited to revive this
abandoned location with a history of its own. In February
2016, Toland visited the location transforming the cracking
walls into beautiful pieces of art. A globe-trotting artist,
Toland’s no stranger to India, having visited and even lived
here on a number of occasions, and it was his wall murals in
Pune that really caught the attention of Indian audiences.
 What location, which was widely in the news 5 decades ago?
(Visuals next slide)

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi’s ashram in Rishikesh

The flat area shown in the image (on next slide) amongst the mighty Himalayan hills
of Uttarakhand is the location of Drongiri village. The villagers are known to be
extremely friendly and welcoming, as the accounts of various trekking enthusiasts
state. This inherent virtue in their ancestors was probably exploited by a certain ill-
informed well-wisher many years ago. The state government, in 2016, even
announced an INR 25 crore government funded expedition to find the truth behind
the incident. The grudge held by the villagers on account of that incident, although
fading, is most evident during the 9 days of Navratri, when a part of the festivities,
declared as an ‘Intangible cultural heritage of humanity’ by UNESCO, is done
differently here compared to the rest of the country. What is done differently here
during Navratri?
A similar change, bringing about the exact same effect was noticed by a number of
moviegoers in India, when they came across a discontinuity in a scene centered upon
the Tobagonian actor, Winston Duke. Put funda.
18.

They omit the parts with Hanuman from Ramleela, because they blame him for
not returning the mountain peak that he had uprooted, to get Mrit Sanjeevani,
hence leaving their village flat.

Hanuman was edited out of the scene. At the domestic screening of the Black Panther, fans were quite
enraged that the word “Hanuman” was muted from the film. The Jabari tribe in the film, that enters the
first death challenge, worships Hanuman as per the comic books. But this reference was omitted from the
screening. While many felt that this was CBFC’s doing, later it was confirmed “it is not CBFC who muted
the word Hanuman but it’s the producers of the movie in India who decided to do this.”

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