Shobhit Shubhankar

Spandan 2014General Quiz Prelims

The Quizmaster is God.The Quizmaster is the only God.Sleep deprived quizmasters are liable to be

irritable and violent. DO NOT mess around! You have been warned.

25 questions, 6 *red ones for resolving ties.No negative marking. Unless you do not heed

God’s will.

Rules of the Game

1) Who is featured on this postal stamp released to commemorate 100 years of Indian cinema?

1) Bhupen Hazarika

2) Until 2011, the official criteria stated "for the highest degrees of national service. This service includes artistic, literary, and scientific achievements, as well as recognition of public service of the highest order.” In December 2011, this was modified to simply read "for performance of highest order in any field of human endeavour.” What was the subject of this modification?

2) Bharat Ratna

3) Differing from other Indian deer species in that the antlers carry more than three branching spikes or tines, it gets its name from the number of tines supposed to be generally present. Once widespread in the Indo-Gangetic plain, the species is now considered vulnerable. Name?

3) Barasingha

4) Author?

4) Arvind Kejriwal

5) Which much awaited event’s logo?

5) FIFA World Cup 2014, Brazil

6) In September 1730, a royal party led by Giridhar Bhandari, a minister of the Maharajah of Marwar, arrived at the village with the intention of felling some Khejri trees for the construction of a new palace.

A local woman named Amrita Devi protested against the tree-felling because such acts were prohibited by the Bishnois’ religion. Both her and her three daughters were killed by the party. The news of these deaths galvanised other villagers, who decided that one volunteer would sacrifice his or her life in preventing a tree from being cut down. The feudal party left for Jodhpur with their mission unfulfilled and the Maharaja subsequently ordered that no more trees should be felled. Which larger movement was this the first instance of?

6) Chipko Movement

7) Connect.

7) Devdas

8) While in ancient times, this region was called Dakshin Kosala, its present name was popularized during the Maratha period and was first used in an official document in 1795. Although numerous theories exist as to its etymological origin, the most widely accepted one traces it to the 36 pillars in a Devi temple. Which region?

8) Chattisgarh

9)

Ibrahim Lodhi : BaburHemu : AkbarMarathas : ?

9) Ahmad Shah Abdali

10) Which place? After which event?

10) Akal Takht, Operation Bluestar

11) Who?

11) Bill & Hillary Clinton

12) “A weapon all fighters love. An elegantly simple 9 pound amalgamation of forged steel and plywood. It doesn't break, jam, or overheat. It'll shoot whether it's covered in mud or filled with sand. It's so easy, even a child can use it; and they do. The Soviets put the gun on a coin. Mozambique put it on their flag. Since the end of the Cold War, the X has become Russian people's greatest export. After that comes vodka, caviar, and suicidal novelists.” -Nicolas Cage, “Lord of War”

X?

12) AK-47

13) Which immensely significant event in which apart from the person popularly associated with it, 80 others took part, happened along this route ?

13) Dandi March

14) What is being assembled here?

14) Statue of Liberty

15*) Which instrument?

15*) Sarangi

16*) What do these constitute?

Śṛngāram HāsyamRaudram Kāruṇyam Bībhatsam Bhayānakam Vīram Adbhutam Śāntam

16*) Navras

17*) It is believed to have originally been composed in the 3rd century BCE. According to the prelude, there was once a powerful scholarly king who despaired of his three sons’ inability to learn, and approached his ministers for counsel. One of them said that the sciences, politics and diplomacy were limitless disciplines that took a lifetime to master formally. Instead of teaching the princes scriptures and texts, they should somehow be taught the wisdom inherent in them, and the aged scholar Vishnu Sharma was the man to do it.

It is divided into five parts titled "The Loss of Friends", "The Winning of Friends", "Of Crows and Owls", "Loss of Gains" and "Imprudence”. It is "certainly the most frequently translated literary product of India”,  and these stories are among the most widely known in the world. Which literary work?

17*) Panchatantra

18*) This is the Royal Standard of Thailand, the official flag of the King of Thailand, adopted in its present form in 1910 under King Vajiravudh, or Rama VI. Which figure from Hindu mythology is depicted on the flag?

18*) Garuda

19*) The name of this fruit derives from the medieval Latin for “seeded apple”. This has influenced its common name in many languages, for instance, granada in Spanish, Granatapfel or Grenadine in German, and grenade in French. Interestingly, the French term grenade has also given its name to the military grenade since soldiers commented on the similar shape of early grenades and the name entered common usage. Which fruit am I talking about?

19*) Pomegranate

20*) Which famous monument, captured here by Scottish photographer John Murray in 1858?

20*) Humayun’s Tomb

21) Whose flag?

21) Tibet

22) Singer?

22) Piyush Mishra

23) Who is this beautiful lady?

23) Lara Dutta

24) Which language?

24) Tamil

25) Which product?

25) Google Glass