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Part 2 of Finals of India Quiz done by J. Ramanand at Mood Indigo 2010
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2o dec 2010 . Mood Indica . j. ramanand
20 december 2010
Mood
Indica
Quiz
IndiaA quiz by J. Ramanand
II of II
2o dec 2010 . Mood Indica . j. ramanand
Section II of questions from my Mood Indigo 2010 India quiz.
If you’d like to re-use these questions, please provide credit in an appropriate way.
Got any comments or errors to point out? Please write to [email protected]
Thanks again for your time.
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2o dec 2010 . Mood Indica . j. ramanand
Annona Squamosa
Annona Reticulata
Annona Cherimola
Annona Atemoya
Connect the scientific terms (the associated pictures are clues to these)
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Answer
4 members of the Custard Apple family who have Indian names after characters from the Ramayana
In order:
Ramphal (clue: “Ramprasad Sharma” in the film Golmal)
Laxmanphal (clue: “Laxmanprasad Sharma” in the film Golmal)
Sitaphal (clue: “Sita” in the film Fire)
Hanumanphal (clue: Dara Singh in the TV series Mahabharata)
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On 14th/15th Aug 1947 midnight session of the Constituent Assembly:
Mrs. Hansa Mehta (Bombay, General constituency) presented this to the nation for the first time
She did so on behalf of the women of India
What?
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The national flag of India
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Logo adopted in 1933 – it features William
Place also named after him
He lived on the society premises from 1894 till his death in 1920.
Length: 4.25 feet
Special Skills: catching tennis balls thrown towards him.
Death: swallowing a piece of wire
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The hornbill in the logo of the Bombay Natural History Society
The location is called Hornbill House
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According to the people on the left, the person on the right is the answer to the question “Who is ___”
Pandit Ved Prakash Upadhyay: Prophet Muhammad
Ismaili Khojas: Imam Ali, the son-in-law of prophet Muhammad
Bahá'í : Bahá'u'lláh
Ahmadiyya Muslim Community: Mirza Ghulam Ahmad
Samael Aun Weor: himself
Carolyn Lee and Georg Feuerstein: Adi Da
Guru Gobind Singh: Vivek Budhi/Gurmat (an abstract concept, not even a person)
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Answer
The answer to “Who is Kalki” according to various people.
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Technological progress has shrunk the size of these scannersAlso more commercially viable
As a result, these scanners are now being used to - check the quality of a pharmaceutical raw material.- by police at airports for drug scanning
Compares molecular structure with a database of patterns
Led to efforts of reclassification of various substances to build these databases
Named after?
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“Raman Scanners” after C. V. Raman as they use the principle of the Raman effect
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19th century writer, satirist, caricaturist
20th century writer, activist, changed part of his name inspired by the man on the left. Who are they?
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William Makepeace Thackeray and Keshav S. “Prabodhankar” Thackeray. The latter changed the spelling of his name to match that of the writer.
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1
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What does this
infographic represent?
(the colour coding is
irrelevant; just use the numbers
and the associated regions)
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The number of Param Vir Chakras won for action in various regions.
The regions are Kashmir, West Pakistan, Punjab, NEFA, East Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and the Congo.
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World
Harsha Chawda : Anand Kumar
India
Two slide question
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Kanupriya Agarwal
Subhash Mukherjee
India (alternative)
Movie based on Mr. Mukherjee on the left
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The first cases of In-vitro fertilization.
Set 1: Louise Brown was born thanks to the efforts of Dr. Robert Edwards in 1978
Set 2: Considered to be the first IVF in India
Set 3: Later, Dr. Anand Kumar (of Set 2) found that Dr. Mukherjee had in fact been the first Indian to achieve this, but due to a combination of office politics and that the parents of the child so conceived feared a social taboo and so didn’t come forward, he failed to receive official recognition. Eventually, he took his own life. The film “Ek Doctor ki Maut” is based on his life.
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The estimate of 25000 seems to have been made by journalist Raju Bharatan. This eventually found its way to the Guinness Book of World Records for a while. This led to some ill-will among some people and letters were written to the book compilers. Eventually the entry was removed.
Now Raju Bharatan claims 25000 is a preposterous figure, that it could not have been more than a few thousand then and the highest number should be 13000 today.
What?
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Answer
The number of songs sung by Lata Mangeshkar, which was once added to the record books for being the most songs sung by a playback singer. The likes of Mohd. Rafi complained and it was withdrawn.
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Members of the IAS/IFS/IPS are allotted state cadres, mostly by allotment
Change of cadre is very difficult unlessthreat to life in the home statehealth reasons
There is a third, more easily attainable method. What?
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To get married to an officer of another (perhaps more plum) state cadre and request for a transfer. This is a significant reason for many intra-services marriages.
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Unveiled on June 23, 2007 in TorontoSundial, oriented in the direction of IrelandCentral design evokes the Dharma ChakraSupport stones donated by organisations from Canada, India, Ireland, Japan and the USAMemorial for?
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Answer
Memorial to the victims of the Kanishka air disaster in 1985
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“Marble Palace” – a mansion in North KolkataBuilt in 1835 by Raja Rajendra Mullick
Also known as ____ _____ Villa
Group took its name from this
Due to smaller premises, moved to Shyampukur
What group?
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Answer
Mohun Bagan football club
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End-credits begin as follows:'For our parents who gave us everything‘For Ritwik Ghatak and Satyajit Ray, the
gurus of cinema, with love and salaams.
The names of the cast and crew are preceded by their parents’ names.
The lead actor is credited twice - once in his original name, once in his screen name
Which film?
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Answer
The Namesake by Mira Nair
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This festival occurs four times a year, however only one of them is best known by this name
Known as Vasanta, Ashad, Sharada, Poushya/Magha
Sharada is the most important
Vasanta is also associated with Ram
Festival’s name derives from the worship of a certain number of forms of a deity
Which festival?
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Answer
Navaratri
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This strangely named instrument is a fret-less veena.One end is shaped like a peacock’s headThe musician doesn’t hold it – placed in front of himSome speculation that it inspired the Hawaiian guitar
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The Vichitraveena
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They are Kalpana Swaminathan and Ishrat Syed – Mumbai doctors
Select Bibliography:A compendium of family healthA history of epidemics in IndiaReviews and articles togetherMysteries such as The Quarantine PapersFavourite Tales series
Under what pseudonym do they collaborate?Acc. to Penguin, it means in Persian/Sanskrit: ‘the pleasures of imagination’
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“Kalpish Ratna”