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Q1. Simply id the instrument being played.

Jaltarang

Q2.

• There are only two airports in India named after women.Name both.

• Also, other than the Nehru-Gandhi family, only two Prime Ministers have airports named after them.Name both.

• Indira Gandhi International Airport, New Delhi• Devi Ahilya Bai Holkar Airport, Indore

• Lal Bahadur Shastri Airport, Varanasi• Charan Singh Airport, Lucknow

Q3.• Isisaurus is a genus of dinosaur from the Late

Cretaceous Period. It lived in what is now India.• It had a "bizarre" appearance with a short,

vertically directed neck and long forelimbs, making it considerably different from other sauropods.

• The skeletal material was found between 1984 and 1986 by Sohan Lal Jain and Saswati Bandyopadhya.

• It was named in honour of a certain entity in India. What was it named after?

HINT:

Indian Statistical Institute

Q4.

The route from Kargil to Leh is one of the most dramatic anywhere in the world. The stretch from the Lamayuru monastery (4000 mtrs) to Khalste (3100 mtrs) takes one through a series of 23 hairpin bends in just 32 kms and is officially called the Gata loops / Hangru loops.What is the unofficial / affectionate name by which this stretch is known?

Jalebi Bends

Q5.• X is an Indian basketball player born in Kerala.• She played in the 2006 to 2008 Australian Big V seasons for

the Ringwood Hawks, in the process becoming the first Indian woman basketball player to play for an Australia club as a professional.

• In April 2011 WNBA teams, Chicago Sky, Los Angeles Sparks, and San Antonio Silver Stars invited her for tryouts.

• She was MVP and top scorer, rebounder and best shot-blocker prizes in the Melbourne (2006) Commonwealth Games.

• She is currently the captain of the Indian national basketball team.

• She is also on the verge of becoming the first basketball player to get the Arjuna Award after 13 years.

• Give me X.

Geethu Anna Jose

Q6.• This house in Peshawar was named

as a Pakistani national heritage monument on 13 July 2014 by Nawaz Sharif.

• It was the house of X in the pre-independence days.

• "The PM's decision is testimony to the enormous importance Pakistan attaches to promoting art and culture and paying tribute to living legends like X, whose contributions to the sub-continent cinema are unparalleled" .

• Some think that move was intended to promote India-Pakistan relations.

• X please?

Dilip Kumar

Q7.

• The MPs Dr. Charles Dias and Ingrid McLeod were nominated by the President to make sure minorities are adequately represented.

• What “constituency” did they serve as representatives of in the 15th Lok Sabha?

• Hint: The constitutional provisions grants nomination to two members from among them to the Lok Sabha and one to the Vidhan Sabha in the States where they have a presence.

Anglo Indian Community

• They did not actually contest from any particular constituency.

Q8.• This is the Poruvazhy Peruviruthy Malanada

Temple in Kerala's Kollam district.• This is one of the only temples where X is

worshipped as the primary deity.• It is deemed to be unjust by many Hindus as it

clashes with their pre-formed views and that X is an extremely negative character in their eyes.

• Har-Ki-Doon Valley in Uttarakhand is another place where X is worshipped, just as any other deity. He, in fact, rules supreme there.

Duryodhana

Q9.

• Some of the world-famous Xs are present in the following places:Michigan, USA; Wisconsin, USA; Manitoba, Canada; Electric Brae, Ayeshire, Scotland; Victoria, Australia; South of Rome, Frascati, Italy; Athens, Greece.

• Of the two Xs in India one is near Tulsi Shyam, Amreli, Gujarat.

• What is this X and where is the most famous one in India found?

Magnetic Hill and Leh-Ladakh

Q10.• X is a dish, which has its origin in Odisha, now very

popular all over India especially the eastern part. It is said to have been introduced by Haradhan Moira in Bengal during the 19th century. It was also one of the traditional offerings to Goddess Lakshmi.

• Haradhan Moira is said to have introduced the traditional X in Bengal. In 1868, Nobin Chandra Das simplified the traditional recipe, after which it became popular.

• His son, K.C.Das started canning the product leading to wider accessibility.

• Identify it.

Rosogolla

Q11.

• In an acidic solution, the “lawsone” molecule can react via a process called Michael addition with keratin to create a stain. What do we know this process as?

• Hint: Lawsone molecule is also known as hennotannic acid.

Mehendi (Henna)

• Lawsone reacts chemically with the protein known as keratin in skin and hair in Michael process, resulting in a strong permanent stain that lasts until the skin or hair is shed.

Q12.• These four literaries are considered as the four

pillars of X school of Hindi literature. Other important figures of this literary movement were Ramdhari Singh 'Dinkar', Harivansh Rai Bachchan and Makhanlal Chaturvedi.

• X refers to the era of Neo-romanticism in Hindi literature particularly poetry, 1922–1938, and was marked by an upsurge of romantic and humanist content.

• X is preceded by Bharatendu Yug (1868–1900), and Dwivedi Yug (1900–1918), and is in turn, followed by the Contemporary Period, 1937 onwards.

Chhayavaad(छा�यां�व��)

• They are Jaishankar Prasad, Suryakant Tripathi 'Nirala', Sumitranandan Pant and Mahadevi Varma.

Q13.• To take advantage of early sunrise, a system is

established in eastern parts of India to increase the productivity in certain part in particular.

• These places give the name to the system which has been established.

• What is the system called and what is it actually?

Bagan Time which is an hour ahead of the IST.

Q14.• These are two paintings by M.F. Hussain.

• The painting on the left is a recreation of a very famous painting by one of the foremost painters of the Renaissance.

• The other one is a very controversial one where he has depicted one of the modern symbols in the nude.

• i) Id the original painting.ii) What symbol?

The Last Supper and Bharat Mata• Hussain did apologize for the Bharat Mata

painting later.

Q15. Give me the building X.• According to some theories and evidences, X is actually

about 300 years older than its supposed builder. New Delhi professor P.N. Oak, the man behind this theory, claimed that the building was originally not what it has been made to be at all. He suggests it is actually an ancient Hindu temple known as ____ _______ dedicated to the worship of Shiva.

• Some proofs which have been given are:Oak says that the term X does not occur in any of the dynasty’s courts.European travelers and writers who visited India in the period of its assumed construction mad no note of it being built.

• He says the story behind this building is a fairy tale created by court sycophants, blundering historians and sloppy archaeologists.

Taj Mahal• Oak claims that the Taj Mahal was originally a Shiva temple

and a Rajput palace named Tejo Mahalaya seized by Shah Jahan and adopted as a tomb. He says that Mahal is a word to describe a royal palace and not a tomb and after seizure by Shah Jahan, the name was changed to Taj Mahal.

• He goes on to propose Hindu origins for the tombs of Humayun, Akbar and Itmiad-u-Dallah and "all historic buildings" in India as well as the Vatican,

the Kaaba and Stonehenge.• Other respected western authorities on architecture

like E.B. Havell, Mrs. Kenoyer and Sir W.W.Hunter have gone on record to say that the Taj Mahal is built in the Hindu temple style.

Q16.

• India has only one military base outside its territory.

• What is it called and where is it located?

Farkhor Air Base near Farkhor in Tajikistan

• It is operated by the IAF in collaboration with the Tajikistan Air Force.

• 30 kilometers South East of the Dushanbe

Q17.• Dams like the Tehri Dam in Uttrakhand have an

auxiliary water flow to the main flow called ‘Aviral Dhara’.

• In the Tehri dam, 35 Cusecs of water flows through this drain uninterrupted due to a particular reason.

• That amount of water cannot be stopped or used to generate power under any circumstances.

• What is the reason behind the creation of such a system?

• Religious sentiments of religious Hindus dictates that if the flow of Ganga is barred in any way, it hampers the purity of the river.Hence, a system of Aviral Dhara was established so as to retain some part of this divinity and not hurt religious sentiments.

• The Committee constituted by Government of India in April, 2001 under the Chairmanship of Dr. Murli Manohar Joshi, the then Minister of HRD and Science & Technology, had recommended uninterrupted flow of 35 Cusecs of water of the river Bhagirathi.

Q18. • One anecdote goes as such described by Y:

“I remember once going to see him (X) when he was ill at Putney. I had ridden in taxi cab number 1729 and remarked that the number seemed to me rather a dull one, and that I hoped it was not an unfavourable omen. "No", he replied, "it is a very interesting number; it is the smallest number expressible as the sum of two cubes in two different ways."“

• In an interview by Paul Erdős, when Y was asked what his greatest contribution to mathematics was, Y unhesitatingly replied that it was the discovery of X. He called their collaboration "the one romantic incident in my life."

• Who are the two mathematicians?

Ramanujan–Hardy numberX- Srinivas Ramnujan

Y- Godfrey Harold Hardy• The two different ways are:

1729 = 13 + 123 = 93 + 103.