YOUTH PARLIAMENT

QUIZ CONTEST PROGRAMME

ON CHARACTER BUILDING -

2016

YOUTH PARLIAMENT QUIZ CONTEST

PROGRAMME ON CHARACTER BUILDING

YOUTH PARLIAMENT QUIZ CONTEST

PROGRAMME ON CHARACTER BUILDING

QM: SASWATA CHAKRABORTY

FORMAT4 ROUNDS

ROUND 1 – FULL HOUSEROUND 2 – MY COUNTRY, MY PRIDEROUND 3 – FULL HOUSEROUND 4 – MIXED BAG

ROUND – 1

(FULL HOUSE)WRITTEN ROUND WORDS OF 5 GREAT PERSONS OF INDIAIDENTIFY THE SPEAKERS+5 FOR EACH CORRECT ANSWERBONUS 5 FOR FULL HOUSENO NEGATIVE / 30 MARKS AT STAKE

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

(5)

EXCHANGE YOURANSWER-SHEETS

ROUND – 2(MY COUNTRY, MY PRIDE)

CW /8 QUESTIONS ON BOUNCE +10 / NO NEGATIVES20 SECONDS FOR DIRECT / NO EXTRA TIME FOR BOUNCES

(1)

At these shops, vegetables, fruits, flowers and other produce are kept for selling with a rate list and a container into which customers can put the money. People can be seen going through these items nonchalantly and then grabbing whatever they need before putting the money they owe into the containers lying beside the items.

In which Indian state these shops are very common in practice?

Mizoram

(2)

There is no door on the houses of Shani Shingapur. Houses and buildings here do not have entrance doors at all, only curtains adore the houses. no body dares to break into the houses and takes other's belongings.

Why ?

It is believed that Shani, the 'Lord of Justice' is the protector here and no body dares to break into the houses and takes other's belongings.

(3)

What is so unique about the TJ’S Products?

All these products are manufactured inside the Tihar Jail,

by the convicted prisoners.

(4)

Identify this ex-convict who has turned out to be

a first grade actor.

Nigel Akkara

(5)

Identify the athlete who has won India's first-ever gold in World Paralympic

Championships in Rio 2016

Devendra Jhajharia

(6)

Identify the athlete, mother of two, who overcame a spinal tumor,

31 surgeries and 183 stitches to win India Silver medal at the Rio Paralympics 2016

– a very first for an Indian lady.

Deepa Malik

(7)

Name world’s largest selling brand of biscuit.

Parle-G

(8)

On 21st September 2016, Tamil Nadu State of India linked a 648 MW solar power project to

the national grid. It is the world’s largest solar plant at a single location.

Name the Project.

Kamuthi Solar Power Project

ROUND – 3

(FULL HOUSE)WRITTEN ROUND QUESTIONS ON 5 GREAT WOMEN OF INDIA+5 FOR EACH CORRECT ANSWERBONUS 5 FOR FULL HOUSENO NEGATIVE / 30 MARKS AT STAKE

(1)

Savitri Bai Phule is supposed to be the ‘first’ in a particular field for being a woman.

Which particular field?

(2)

Identify the lady, who was India's first woman Chief Minister, serving as the head of the Uttar Pradesh government from 1963 to 1967.

(3)

Identify the lady, who was India's first woman commercial pilot (1956), and who became a captain on the F27s in 1966.

(4)

Identify the lady, who was India's first woman Judge of the Supreme Court.

(5)

Identify the lady, who was India's first woman to win an Olympic Medal.

EXCHANGE YOURANSWER-SHEETS

Sucheta Kriplani

Capt. Durba Banerjee

Justice M. Fatima Bibi

Karnam Malleswari India's First Female Bronze Medalist

at Sydney 2000 Olympics

ROUND – 4(MIXED BAG)

ACW /8 QUESTIONS ON BOUNCE +10 / NO NEGATIVES20 SECONDS FOR DIRECT / NO EXTRA TIME FOR BOUNCES

(1)

To be a good citizens, we have to abide by the Fundamental Duties recorded in the Constitution. Fundamental Duties of the citizens of India are mentioned in which Article of the Indian Constitution?

Article 51A

(2)

Among the basic 6 (six) Fundamental Rights of the citizens of India, one particular Right is blanked out here.

Fill in the blank.

Right to Freedom of Religion

(3)

Logo of which important organisation of India?

ECI (Election Commission of India)

(4)

‘Paisa Bolta hai’ is the official portal of which

Organisation?

RBI (Reserve Bank of India)

(5)

Designed by Atul. S. Pande, this motif of a sun in red and yellow with a fingerprint across it’s centre represents equal opportunity of each individual. Name the national brand name/logo

we are referring to.

AADHAAR

(6)

This is the Chaturbhuj temple on Gwalior fort. The temple has earned a worldwide fame for the inscription which bears a particular aspect, which is believed to be used for the first time in the world.The oldest recorded version of what is found in this

small temple in the Gwalior fort?

The oldest record of "zero" in the world was found here.

The inscription is around 1500 years old.

(7)

Identify the Logo.

RTI (Right to Information)

(8)

What do you understand by ‘Lame Duck Session’ in

Parliament?

This session is held when a new Parliament has been elected but the old Parliament

meets for the last time before it is dissolved. The lame-ducks are the members of the Parliament who have not got re-elected.

YOUTH PARLIAMENT

QUIZ CONTEST PROGRAMME

ON CHARACTER BUILDING -

2016