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“India Unplugged – The India Quiz”, 2011 (Chennai) on 6th February, 2011

“India Quiz”, Mukti, NIT Durgapur, 2011, 5th February, 2011

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Question 1Question 1Logo of what?

And the answer is…And the answer is…

Question 2Question 2 113 years of punishment, and over 10

mysterious jailbreaks credited to his name, Mithilesh Kumar Srivastava, who is said to have sold Taj Mahal thrice, the Red Fort twice and the Rashtrapati Bhavan once to foreigners, is said to have died on July 25, 2009.

Keeping him in jail was a real challenge for the police. He walked out of Kanpur jail dressed as a Sub-Inspector, handed out an attaché case of money to the guards, hailed a taxi and drove away.

In 1996, at the age of 84, he slipped at the New Delhi Railway station. Interestingly, he was on wheelchair and was so old, ill, and disabled that he was on his way to AIIMS Hospital for treatment. By what name do we know him?

And the answer is…And the answer is…Natwarlal, the noted con man

Question 3Question 3Connect this image, and the ones in the

next 2 slides, to an Indian personality

And the answer is…And the answer is… The images are that of

Hoover MedalSmiling Buddha and Portrait of Goddess Shakthi

– they were the code-names of the Pokhran-1 and Pokhran-2 nuclear blasts respectively

Bharat RatnaLogo of ISRO

 Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam – He was been awarded the Hoover Medal and the Bharat Ratna, his work was instrumental for a successful Pokhran-2 blast, and he is associated with ISRO.

Question 4Question 4 The Kerala Government in association with

Thiruvananthapuram Doordarshan Kendra initiated a unique developmental programme titled Green Kerala Express to select the best panchayat in Kerala which has developed sustainable development models. This daily 40 minute interactive show which involves all the 999 Grama Panchayts, 57 Municipalities and five corporations in Kerala. After the telecast of each Panchayat the viewers were requested to give SMS marks and votes for the selected developmental model. The final winners were Elappully Panchayat (Palakkad) & Ottapalam Muncipality, (Palakkad) . What was so unique about this show w.r.t Indian television?

And the answer is…And the answer is…It was the first social reality show

in Indian television history.

Question 5Question 5Logo of which “Export Promotion Council of India” (EPC) established by the Government of India in the year 1955?

And the answer is…And the answer is…The Cashew Export Promotion

Council of India

Question 6Question 6 In 1890 pharmacist Lunsford Richardson took

over the retail drug business of his brother-in-law Dr. Joshua and began marketing “X” Family Remedies. The most popular remedy was Croup and Pneumonia Salve, which was first compounded in 1891 in Greensboro and rebranded as “Y” in 1912. The flu epidemic of 1918 increased sales of “Y” from $900,000 to $2.9 million in just one year. In 1985, the entire company was sold to Procter & Gamble and P&G has since marketed the product as “The only thing more powerful than a mother's touch”. “Y” is currently manufactured and packaged in India and Mexico.

Identify the name “X” and the brand name “Y”.

And the answer is…And the answer is…That was Dr. Joshua Vick X = Vicks and Y = VapoRub.

Question 7Question 7He is the

Chairman and Managing Director of which troubled Indian firm?

And the answer is…And the answer is…Mr. Arvind Jadhav, Chairman &

Managing Director, National Aviation Company of India (Air India)

Question 8Question 8A project, which makes use of satellite

imaging system for rail navigation, has been developed to provide online train running information to public/passengers through Internet, Short Message Service (SMS), Interactive Voice Response System (IVRS), station display board and to Onboard Passengers. 18 rakes of Rajdhani Express train, 6 rakes of Shatabdi Express train and a Sealdah Duronto Express train were equipped with it in its initial stages.

How do we know it as?

And the answer is…And the answer is…Satellite Imaging for Rail

Navigation i.e. SIMRAN

Question 9Question 9India’s youngest billionaire, enough said

And the answer is…And the answer is…Sameer Gehlaut - India's

youngest billionaire and Head of IndiaBulls

Question 10Question 10This Indian language is also spoken in

Guyana, Suriname, Fiji, Trinidad and Tobago and Mauritius. In Suriname, it is called “Sarnami” and has experienced considerable Creole and Dutch lexical influence. Which language?

And the answer is…And the answer is…Bhojpuri

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