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National Inter DPS Quiz 2008

QUARTER FINALS

Rules

There will be five rounds of question, including a visual round.

10 points will be awarded for a direct and five for a pass.

Time allotted to answer a direct is 10 seconds and 5 for a pass

The decision of the quizmaster is final and binding.

ROUND - 1

1. What is common between Ravi Shastri and Yuvraj Singh except for the fact that they are Cricketers?

They hit six sixes in an over.

2. Recently Robin Cook came to India for the purpose of medical research for which best seller of his work?

FOREIGN BODY

3. Which famous personality got the Ramon Magsaysay Award for his work on Right to Information?

ARVIND KEJRIWAL

4. Who was the narrator of the famous Satyajit Ray film ‘Shatranj Ke Khiladi’

AMITABH BACHCHAN

5. Which cricketer sponsors 200 underprivileged children through the NGO Apnalya?

SACHIN TENDULKAR.

6. Which organization has announced ‘Jana Gana Mana’ as the best National Anthem?

UNESCO.

ROUND - 2

1. Name the author of the book “Why good Economics work for everyone”

P. CHIDAMBARAM

2. Which magazine is the first and only Children’s magazine in a tribal language?

CHANDAMAMA

3. It covers a 760km stretch connecting Roha in Maharashtra with Mangalore in Karnataka of which 382kms are in Maharashtra, 105kms in Goa and 273kms in Karnataka .It crosses 146 rivers has 2000 bridges and 92 tunnels. What are we talking about ?

KONKAN RAILWAYS

4. The States of Jharkhand, Chattisgarh and Uttaranchal were created in the year 2000 by which amendment of the constitution?

84th AMENDMENT.

5. Who was the first Prime minister who did not belong to the Indian National Congress?

MORARJI DESAI

6. Which Indian Author is credited with having written the longest single volume of novel ever published in English ?

VIKRAM SETH –A SUITABLE BOY (1349 PAGES)

ROUND - 3

VISUAL

JAYA JAITELY

MUZAFFAR ALI

HAMPI

JATIN DAS

BIDDU

AKSHARDHAM TEMPLE

TINA AMBANI

SUHAIB ILYASI

NEETA LULLA

PRATEEK BABBAR

DABBOO RATNANI

NESS WADIA

ROUND – 4

1. What was the code name of the first nuclear test explosion by India?

THE BUDDHA HAS SMILED.

2. Who wrote the lyrics for the songs of the film ‘Rang De Basanti’

PRASOON JOSHI

3. Which Indian bowler has taken the most wickets in 20-20 internationals?

S. SREESANTH

4. What is common between Rina Dhaka, Surily Goel and Kavita Bhartia ?

THEY ARE ALL FASHION DESIGNERS

5. He is a novelist and journalist best known for his column ‘With Malice Towards One And All’ Who is he?

KHUSHWANT SINGH

6. Sushmita Sen and Aishwarya Rai won their respective beauty pageants in the Year 1994. Name the other pair of the beauty queens to have won Miss Universe and Miss World in the same year.

LARA DUTTA AND PRIYANKA CHOPRA (2000)

ROUND - 5

1. Whom did Saina Nehwal defeat to win the world junior badminton championship?

SAYAKA SATO OF JAPAN

2. The Prime Minister and the Railway Minister recently inaugaurated train services in the Kashmir Valley, linking Qazigund in South Kashmir to which place in North Kashmir?

BARAMULLA

3. For which form of Indian classical music has music maestro Bhimsen Joshi been awarded the Bharat Ratna?

DHRUPAD

4. India’s largest drug maker Ranbaxy is now subsidiary of which Japanese drug maker?

DAIICHI SANKYO

5. Name the political party floated by Southern Superstar Chiranjeevi.

 

PRAJA RAJYAM

6. Name the Governor of Reserve Bank Of India.

DR D. SUBBARAO

HE WAS EARLIER FINANCIAL SECRETARY IN THE MINISTRY OF

FINANCE