Chaos India Quiz 2017

PrelimsDhanraj B

Tauseef Warsi

Welcome to the Prelims• 26 Questions, 29 points• 5, 10, 14, 18, 23 starred with 6 points on star• Quizmasters’ decisions are final and binding• Adhere to the Quizzers’ Code – No unfair means• Best of Luck!

1. The movie please• Author Y.B Satyanarayana's book “My father Baliah” is a

family autobiography and one of the most celebrated books in Telangana Dalit literature.• It was published by Harper Collins in 2011.• The book saw a huge jump in sales after being featured in the

opening scenes of the 2016 movie X where the protagonist is seen reading the book.• The author says, “Though my book is already being

researched by one student in HCU and another in Pune University and has found a place in libraries of Yale and Harvard Universities, I hope that the book will now come into drawing rooms and not just stick to academic circles,”

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Kabali

2. Name the chain• On the next slide is the first shop, now

permanently shuttered, of a very successful chain started by Ganga Bhisen Agrawal and located in Bikaner, Rajasthan

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Haldiram Bhujiawala

3. The Movie• Searching on Google Images for this renowned 1965 Malayalam

movie leads to, among others, the following images on the next slide.

• The movie is a classic of Indian cinema and was directed by Ramu Kariat. It was based on a 1956 book of the same name by Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai.

• The film tells the story of a pre-marital and later extra-marital relationship between Karuthamma, the daughter of an ambitious Hindu fisherman, and Pareekutty, the son of a Muslim trader.

• The original score and songs were composed by Salil Chowdhury, with lyrics by Vayalar, and featuring the voices of K. J. Yesudas, P. Leela, Manna Dey and Santha P. Nair.

• Name the movie.

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Chemmeen

4. Who is he?• His real name was Ghulam Muhammad Butt.• How do we know him better?

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Gama Pehelwan

5. What was invented?• According to Mavalli Tiffin Rooms, the supply of rice

fell short during World War II. The staple food item in the region used rice as the primary ingredient.• To overcome this problem, Semolina was added to

rice and the staple food item was made. Semolina is coarse, purified wheat middlings of durum wheat used in making pasta, breakfast cereals, puddings, and couscous.• What did they end up inventing?

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Rava Idli

6. Connect 2 Dev Anand movies

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A J Cronin Books

7. The movie X• The movie X, starring Raj Kapoor and Waheeda

Rehman, is based on the Hindi short story Mare Gaye Gulfam by Phanishwarnath Renu.• Released in 1966, it was directed by Basu

Bhattacharya and was set to music by Shankar – Jaikishan. It was awarded the National Film Award for Best Feature Film at the 14th National Film Awards.• The film focuses on the love story between a

bullock cart driver and a dancer in a nautanki.

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Teesri Kasam

8. The Sweet• XY was invented in the kitchens of Maharaja

Krishna Raja Wadiyar IV by a palace cook called named Kakasura Madappa.• X was the name of the kingdom ruled by the king• Y means sweet in the local vernacular.• Story holds that on being unable to come up with a

name for the sweet, Madappa said XY.• Recently in news because of the nationalism

debate.

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Mysore Pak

9. The festival dish• The root word from which the name of the dish is

derived means “boil over” or “spill over” in Tamil and Telugu.• There are two major varieties – chakkara meaning

sweet and venn meaning white.• The dish is eaten throughout the year even though

it is a tradition of the major festival of the region.

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Pongal

10. The name of the village• X is a village in Jalandhar, Punjab.• Popular for producing a large number of hockey

Olympians, this village is called the hockey village of India.• Name please.

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Sansarpur

11. The Language?

• Till the nineteenth century it remained an oral language and all collective traditional knowledge, history, stories, songs etc. were transmitted by word of mouth from generation to generation.• There is no single script which is uniformly accepted by all. Devanagari

remains the script recognized for teaching and learning of the language in Jharkhand, Bengali script in West Bengal. A major share of the original documented corpus as well as the most authentic and scientific research efforts are available in the Roman Script.• A need for the separate script was felt as none of the existing scripts

was sufficient to communicate the language phonetically. Pandit Raghunath Murmu popularly known as Guru Gomke was the inventor of the "Ol Chiki" script. • Which language is the "Ol Chiki" script used for?

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Santhali

12. The product

The company X was founded in the year 1972 by HK Firodia. X Y was introduced in 1972 and was a licensed copy of Piaggio Ciao. Besides conventional advertising featuring actors such as Shabana Azmi and Smita Patil in the 1970s, they gave X Y as a trophy to the “Man of the Match” winner at key domestic cricket tournaments and to toppers of the State Secondary School Certificate, or SSC board examination, in states such as Maharashtra. But the brand is probably remembered for the 1980s marketing where characters such as Ram Murari, a government employee, Ravi Kumar, a trader, and Radha, a medical student, who were part of the campaign, were people viewers could relate to. It was inspired from a popular children’s song from the 1959 movie Chirag Kahan Roshni Kahan.Give X Y.

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Kinetic Luna - Chal Mere Ghode Tick Tick Tick

13. State and personSidi Mohammad Abdul Karim Khan established the state of X (no relation to a popular sportsperson with the same name) in Gujarat during 1791, after it was granted to him in lieu of Janjira by the Peshwa. Gaining the title of Nawab from Gujarat's Sultan, Khan founded the state of X comprising 27 villages. X, a 9 gun salute state had its own cavalry and state band that included Africans (Sidis are descendants of African slaves), its coats of arms, currency, and stamped paper. In 1948, when the princely states were incorporated into India X ceased to exist. Fatma Begum often considered the first female film director of Indian cinema, was supposedly married to Nawab Sidi Ibrahim Muhammad Yakut Khan III of X State. Her daughter Y was a popular actress and starred in and as Alam Ara in India’s first talkie along with Master Vithal. Y is also the grandmother of popular model Rhea Pillai. Give me X and Y

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Answer

• X – Sachin• Y - Zubeida Begum Dhanrajgir (Alam Ara)

14. The documentary and the place

There are multiple legends about the origin of the place, with all involving an earring. According to one, Lord Vishnu dug a pit by using his Chakra whilst Lord Shiva observed him. An earring fell inside the pit unnoticed while both were preoccupied. In another story, Mata Sati’s earring fell down at this place. In a third tale, Lord Vishnu struggled to please Lord Shiva for centuries and pleaded with him to reconsider the destruction of the holy city. Lord Shiva arrived with his consort Parvati, to grant Vishnu’s wish. On the banks of the Ganges he dug a well for bathing and it was during his bath that a precious ear ornament fell into the well. Which place?‘X' is a documentary film by Rajesh Jala which is a real-life, self-narrative of seven extraordinary children who make their living out of the dead at this place. They collect, snatch or steal used shrouds and sell them for petty amounts in order to ensure their own and their family's survival. The film was awarded "Best Documentary" at the 2008 Montréal World Film Festival, 2008 São Paulo International Film Festival, 2008 Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles, 2009 Asiatica Film Mediale, 2009 IDPA, and the "Silver Lotus Award" for "Best Audiography" at the 56th National Film Awards. Give me X.

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Place – Manikarnika GhatX – Children of the Pyre

15. The person

Elected as Member of Parliament for Falmouth and Camborne in 1992, for the Conservative Party, he has a strong India connect through his mother, Tina Angela Lal, who was of half Indian descent, born to a Punjabi father, Sardari Lal Malhotra, and an English/Irish mother, Vera (née Swan). Interestingly, in 1988 he was offered an opportunity to represent the land of his maternal grandfather which was refused. Who is he?

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Sebastian Coe

16. What exactly

Traditionally it is believed that X was developed by Hemadpant (who is also credited with a specific temple architecture called “Hemadpanti temples”) , a well-known administrator in the service of the kings of Yadav dynasty (1187-1318) at Devgiri. The general use of X in administration is however seems to be introduced by Balaji Avaji Chitnis, a minister in Chhatrapati Shivaji’s court who while attending Durbar (Mogul Court) at Delhi recognized the importance of speed in conduct of administrative affairs and thus introduced the X in Maratha administration The term X seems to be literal translation of Persian term Shikasta. The use of X in administration was common in Maharashtra till the end of 19th century. The British Government of Bombay Presidency in the beginning of 20th century for the sake of convenience and uniformity with the other areas of the presidency decided to discontinue using X. With the time however the use of X diminished and now it has become almost extinct. What is X?

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Modi script

17. What?

X was started in the early 1940s, during the British rule. In the mid 1950's the Board closed down several units in different cities throughout India. At that time the Board had decided to dismiss the employees. A large number of employees lost their jobs. The communist leader A.K.G (Ayillyath Kuttiari Gopalan Nambiar) took over the leadership of the said employees and organized Societies all over India in various states with support from the then PM Nehru. The first Society was formed in Bangalore on 19 August 1957. Today there are more than 400 outlets in the chain spread across at least 18 states. What is X?

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Indian Coffee House

18. What is X?

If we go by the definition as defined by an act of Parliament from 1977, Ram Subhag Singh was the first person to be recognized as X from 17 December 1969 to 27 December 1970. He was followed by Shri Y.B. Chavan from 1 July 1977 to 11 April 1978. We have had 11 different people recognized as X with the last leaving office on 18 May 2014. What is X?

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Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha

19. Identify the person

Widely thought to be the largest funeral attendance in history, an estimated 15 million people took to the streets for the funeral after he died on 3 February 1969. Among other things, an university, a political party, a residential neighbourhood, a road and a library are named after him. Writer, politician and powerful orator, who is he?

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C N Annadurai

20. Who is He?

• Identify the author of the book (only surname won’t do)• Civil Servant. • Represented India in the 'Sterlings balances' negotiations with

Britain at the post-Second World War reparations conference.• The Indian Ambassador to the United States between 1961 and

1968. Indian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom between 1973 and 1977.

• Governor of 7 different states of India. Famously transferred overnight as the Governor of Jammu & Kashmir to Gujarat after he refused to help in destabilising the Farooq Abdullah government (1984).

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Braj Kumar Nehru

21. The Project

A feat of engineering that the British had contemplated a century ago and abandoned as being too formidable, the company to take up this task was flagged off by Mr. George Fernandes on his first day in office in 1989. This project brought Roha, a small city and taluka in the Raigad district of the Maharashtra located 120 km southeast of Mumbai and Thokur, a small village in Dakshina Kannada (South Canara) district of Karnataka to prominence. What am I speaking about?

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Konkan Railway

22. Put FundaThe Bnei Menashe are a small group within the indigenous people of North-Eastern states of Manipur and Mizoram made up of Mizo, Kuki and Chin people. In the late 20th century, Eliyahu Avichail of the group Amishav named them Bnei Menashe, based on a certain claim of ancestry that DNA tests have failed to substantiate. What claim?

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Descent from one of the ten Lost Tribes of Israel – Menasseh

23. Put Funda

The May 14, 2004 edition of the New York Times reports about the fallout of a ruling by Rabbi Yosef Shalom Elyashiv with bonfires and a shift among Orthodox Jewish women to snoods, cloth head coverings and synthetics. Which activity in India which has 650 people employed on 6 hour shifts working on about 1 Crore people every year is this ruling connected to?

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Tonsuring at Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams

24. Temple and Ruler

The temple was built on top of a plateau from where one can view whole of the Valley, blending the Gandharan, Gupta, Chinese, Roman, Syrian-Byzantine and Greek forms of architecture. (Iconic photograph by John Burke taken in 1868 on next slide)It was completed by the third ruler of the Karkota Dynasty, ______ ______, in the 8th century CE (during 725-756 CE). The foundation of the temple is said to have been around since 370-500 CE. The temple was completely destroyed on the orders of Sikandar Butshikan in the early 15th century, with demolition lasting a year. A song sequence in a 2014 movie was shot here and this was criticized for its depiction of the temple’s ruins as a den of the devil.For full points, name the temple and the ruler.

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Martand Temple in Anantnag, Lalitaditya Muktapida

25. Company

Dharampal Gulati is the largest shareholder in the Rs. 1500 Crore company with a 80% stake. Founded by Chuni Lal in Sialkot, the company now has 15 factories and supplies to 1000 dealers in India and also has branches in Dubai and London. Which company?

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MDH (Mahashian Di Hatti)

26. What? Pop Cult• It was in 1989 at a national integration camp for

youth from border areas that Jassi who was from a border village , Dhalia in Gurdaspur met her from Bhuj, Kutch. The two probably fell in love but things didn't work out and she married someone else. He traced her in 1998 and in the same year on the way to Gwalior, upset n depressed, he told Sham Buteja of Rohtak "______________________" Bhuteja latched on to it and this was to launch Jassi into fame. What?

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Dil le gayi kudi Gujarat di