India QuizPARTHIBEN

5.15 PM, 18-Dec-2014

Pisa, B5 Note: Please carry a Pen.

Rules

• Clock wise Round – 10 questions

• Anti-Clockwise Rounds - 10 questions

• 2 Written Rounds – 5 + 10 Questions

• All questions are open on pounce except written rounds.

• Quiz Master decision is final.

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Sudarsan Pattnaik’s Sand Art

WRITTEN ROUND5 QUESTIONS

10 POINTS EACH

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Answers

EXCHANGE SHEETS

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i) Homage to 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks victimsii) Hanging of Ajmal Kasab

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Irom Sharmila

• Iron Lady of Manipur

• The world's longest hunger striker

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Sachin Tendulkar's 200th and last test match at Mumbai

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8 Oscar awards for 'Slumdog Millionaire'

Clockwise Round

10 QUESTIONS

1. Modeled on which temple ?

• Thennangur is a village located in the Tiruvannamalai district in the state of Tamil Nadu. The village was earlier known as Dakshina Halasyam, and it is famous for a uniquely designed Hindu temple, Raghumayi Sametha Pandurangan Kovil. According to the Hindu puranas (myths), this village is the birthplace of the Hindu Goddess Lakshmi.

• The temple was built with a combination of northern and southern styles of architecture.

Puri Jaganath temple in Orissa

2. What happened next ?

• World Athletics Final event held in Monte Carlo, Monaco in 2005.

• In the long jump event, Russia's Tatyana Kotova won the gold.

• Kotova was found last year to have been caught for doping after her samples collected during the 2005 World Athletics Championships in Helsinki was found to contain traces of banned substance.

• International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) disqualified her gold medal for doping charges in 2014.

Anju’s silver medal turns gold.

3. Funda

• ‘Tandoor’, a restaurant in Allahabad is offering its customers the unlikely choice of food.

• It has created an entire menu dedicated to something.

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4. World Heritage Centres

• UNESCO has established World Heritage centres in South Africa, Spain, Italy, China, Bahrain, Brazil, Mexico and Norway.

• Recently foundation stone of Heritage Centre laid at Wildlife Institute of India (WII), in Dehradun.

• What’s unique about the Indian Heritage Centre ?

World’s first and only ‘Natural World Heritage Centre’

• Others are only for the conservation of cultural heritage.

5. Identify X• India's Ministry of Environment and Forests just approved the building of

the ‘Indian X Observatory’ in the Bodi West Hills, located in Tamil Nadu. It is a ridiculously ambitious project that dwarfs CERN, requiring 50,000 tons of magnetized iron to study X.

• X are basic elements of the universe that can tell us about the origin of matter, energy and stars. They are the elusive miniscule particles that are able to travel at tremendous speeds and pass through ordinary matter undetected, which of course makes it hard as hell to detect them.

• The world’s largest magnet, weighing 50,000 tons, is being designed at the Bhabha Atomic Research Center (BARC) in Trombay, India, and will be part of the Iron Calorimetric (ICAL) detector for trapping atmospheric X produced by cosmic rays in Earth’s atmosphere.

• In 2012 movie the same X heats up the Earth’s inner core, making it boil. That in turn destabilizes the overlying layers (outer core and mantle), making the crust buckle, rise and shift by thousands of kilometres.

X – NeutrinoIndian Neutrino Observatory (INO)

6. Identify X and what exemption they have ?

• The Kodavas , also known as X are ethnic minority from Karnataka.

• The local Kodava people, believed to be descendants of Alexander the Great’s Indo-Greek soldiers who mingled with the natives, have a distinct warrior-like upbringing: instead of praying with the fires and chants common among Hindus, Kodava rituals have strong war-like elements, including the symbolic use of a sword to chop banana stems during weddings. Legend holds that back in the 1800s, young boys were fed tiger meat in the hope that they would grow up to be ferocious warriors – and men who were brave enough to kill a tiger were given the privilege of growing a unique curled moustache called a galle meesey.

• Their contribution to countries defense sector is outstanding. Field Marshal Kodandera ‘Kipper’ Madappa Cariappa, the first Indian Chief of Army Staff of the Indian Army, was a Kodava. General KS Thimmayya was another brave soldier, who led the army during crucial conflicts with China and brought laurels to his homeland in the hills.

• Kodavas worship fire arms during festivals, they are used to fire shots in the air to herald the birth of baby boys, and some use it during house warming too.

• The privilege to carry arms was originally granted by Kodagu kings, who did not maintain a standing army, but called on the people to fight when an invasion threatened. Since it is a part of their culture the British gave a special exemption for them which is still existing today.

Coorgis can own guns without license

• Coorgis from which the name of the place Coorg comes.

• Exemption certificates (ECs) to the ‘Coorg by race’ (Kodava) people and ‘Jamma’ (land tenure) holders to keep weapons without license, a privilege existing since the days of the British

7. Launch of what and who is on the other end ?

National RTI helpline & N.R. Narayana Murthy

• Arvind Kejriwal receives the first call from N. R. NarayanaMurthy of Infosys at the launch of a national RTI helpline, in New Delhi on Nov. 19, 2006

8. Why did they increased the height ?

• Plans for a giant statue of warrior king Shivaji off the Mumbai coast - a project loaded with political implications in Maharashtra - have been cleared by the union environment ministry.

• The earlier design of the statue, approved by the Ashok Chavangovernment, was 98-metre high.

• Recently, it was redesigned with an increased height of 190 metres.

• Because their target shifted from Statue of Liberty to Unity.

9. Indian film school Whistling Woods International, released this powerful PSA on Dec 16th, 2013. Why on that date ?

• Video

Answer

One year after New Delhi's gang-rape incident

• December 16 marks the day when the victim was brutally raped, following which she succumbed to her injuries on December 29.

10. Tell me the question

• When discussing Indians there is often confusion about who you're talking about (esp. in USA), native Americans or people from India.

• To clarify the matter one can ask,

“X or Y ?”

• X referring to Indians

• Y referring to native Americans / Red Indians

Clue Pic

Clue

Dot or Feather ?

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Indian CITIES

WRITTEN ROUND

RULES

• Illustrations of the 10 popular cities in India created for the Times Group for their web/print experience.

• Each monument has a very high historic and cultural importance in the cities they are located and have been icons for the city.

• The visual language was to capture the essence of the monument in the most minimal, simplified way using only geometric shapes.

• Identify the city and monument.

Points:- City (5 Points)

- Monument (5 Points)

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Anti-clockwise10 QUESTIONS

11. Identify the Lyricist and Theme

• ‘Aa Bhi Jaa’ is a song from ‘Raunaq: Conversation of Music and Poetry’ album composed by A. R. Rahman in 2014.

• The lyrics are penned by X, which is his second lyrical attempt after a Bollywood movie.

• In 2013, Rahman was gifted with a book, from which the visuals are based for this song.

• Identify the lyricist and What's the inspiration for visuals ?

Video

Lyricist: Kapil Sibal

Paintings of RAJA Ravi Varma

12. Funda

13. Identify the logo

• This logo is a "rebus" or visual pun.

• On the one hand, it depicts a tree, which is significant as a symbol of nature, significant because of the Bodhi tree's importance to the story of ______, and significant because the tree is a metaphor for life and of giving.

• On the other hand, it shows interlinked figures of the people who have come together to create this.

• Nalanda university has reopened 800 years after it was destroyed in an invasion.

14. Etymology of which word ?

• _____ is derived from Hindi / Sanskrit word.

• ______, member of a well-organized confederacy of professional assassins who travelled in gangs throughout India for several hundred years.

• The earliest authenticated mention of the this word is found in Ẓiyāʾ-ud-Dīn Baranī, History of Fīrūz Shāh, dated about 1356.

• It originally described a specific group of thieves in India and was only used on the subcontinent. It caught on in England in the 19th century, though, when Victorian novels about murderous Indian _____ became bestsellers. From there the word came to describe a criminal more generally.

15. Reply to ?

• Hindustan Times came up with this cartoon when The Orbital Sciences Corporation’s Antares rocket exploded.

• New York Times cartoon when India joined

• The cartoon has been described as “racist”.

16. Art installation about ?

• “You can almost feel the night as the chirp of crickets surrounds you. The city's sunk in deep sleep. In the distance, one can hear the hum of a factory. Into this soundscape, a slow hissing seeps in and grows strong. As the lethal orchestra ends, one can hear a human voice gasping for breath.”

• Artist Samar Singh Jodha's unnerving multimedia installation which has travelled to Rome in a 40-ft-long cargo container.

• The container was parked at the Piazza della Repubblica in Rome for the 4 days (December 2 to 6). The show will open in Italy at 7:35 p.m.

The exhibit opened to the public at exactly 12.05am IST (7.35pm in Rome), representing the intervening night of December 2 and 3, when the tragedy occurred 30 years ago.

17. FITB

• Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who had proposed holding an ‘International ____ Day’ in his UN General Assembly speech on Sept 27 this year.

• UN General Assembly (UNGA) has declared June 21 as ‘International ____ Day’, recognising the ancient Indian science's "holistic approach to health and well-being.“

• In a major cabinet reshuffle in which Modi added 21 ministers to his government, formation of the AAYUSH ministry is done as part of promoting _____

• Why June 21 ? (+5 points)

June 21 has a cultural and cosmic significance as it is the day of the Summer Solstice in the northern hemisphere when the daylight hours are the longest.

18. What record ?

• Dehradun twin sisters Tashi and Nungshi Malik created history on Wednesday by becoming the first ever siblings to achieve certain feat.

First ever siblings to scale Seven tallest peaks in Seven continents

1. Mt Kilimanjaro (Africa)

2. Mt Everest (Asia) (World's first twin sisters to summit mountain Everest)

3. Mt Elbrus (Europe)

4. Mt Aconcagua (South America)

5. Mt Carstensz Pyramid (Australia & Oceania)

6. Mt McKinley (North America)

7. Mt Vinson Massif (Antarctica)

Complete the List

WRITTEN ROUND

Rules

• You will be shown a list of something

• Identify what's the list about (5 Points)

• Give the missing ones (5 Points)

19.Year Language

2004 Tamil

2005 Sanskrit

2008 Telugu

2008 Kannada

2013 Malayalam

2014 ?

Odia becomes 6th Classical Language in India

20.

• Muslims

• Christians

• Sikhs

• Buddhists

• Zoroastrians (Parsis)

• __________

Minorities of IndiaJains (added this year)

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