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India Quiz 2012

Infinite Bounce – 12 questionsTheme round 1

Infinite Bounce – 12 questionsTheme round 2

Written round – 10 questions

India Quiz 2012

Infinite Bounce - 1

12 Questions

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1. What’s the good word ?

• _________ is a term used by fishermen in Kerala to describe when the sea creeps in stealthily like a thief, was adopted by UNESCO in March this year to describe a specific kind of freak tidal surge that occurs in good weather. This is caused when swells generated by storms elsewhere get carried and amplified by coastal currents, resulting in large waves and flooding of low-lying areas.

The Answer is …

Kallakkadal

2. Which dish ???

• X is a Gujarati mixed vegetable dish. The name of thisdish comes from the Gujarati words "matlu" meaningearthen pot and “______" meaning upside down sincethey have been traditionally cooked upside downunderground in earthen pots fired from above.

• The dish is a seasonal one, comprising the vegetablesthat are available on the South Gujarat coastline duringthe winter season, including (amongst others) greenbeans, unripe banana, muthia, and purple yam. Theseare cooked in a spicy curry that sometimesincludes coconut.

The Answer is …

Undhiyu

3.FITB(All blanks are same)

• The Indo-Bangladesh ________, also known as the chitmahals are the__________ along the border of India and Bangladesh in the Indian stateof West Bengal. There are 104 Indian ________ inside Bangladesh and 90Bangladeshi ones inside India with a combined population between50,000 to 100,000. Inside those _________ are also 25 (4 Indian and 21Bangladeshi) counter-_________ and Indian 1 counter-counter_________.The _________were part of the high stake card or chess gamescenturies ago between two regional kings, the Raja of Cooch Behar andthe Maharaja of Rangpur. The little territories were the result of aconfused outcome of a treaty between the Kingdom of Koch Bihar and theMughal Empire.

The Answer is …

Enclaves

4.What’s the good Word ???

• Persian _______, from old persian words for “every or all” and “work or deed”,

• While in the ancient times ________hailed from families of _________of Punjabi Jat or even peasant origin, they were carefully selected in the East Indian Company times. A number of locals were carefully interviewed, and selected after a review of references to their honesty, their physique & endurance, and of course courage. This was because by the last decade of the 18th century, the ________had to carry in his leather pouch, not just letters, but money to far flung places and important parcels. And so they had to be very honest.

The Answer is …

Harkara

5.

• The name ________ meaning "Boar's Place,"According to Hindu teaching, the valley of Kashmirwas once a lake called "Satisaras," the lake of Parvati.The ancient Hindu texts state that the lake wasoccupied by a demon, Jalodbhava, until Lord Vishnu,assumed the form of a boar and struck the mountainat _________ boring an opening in it for the water toflow out. As such, the town is located on the banksof river Jehlum at the highest point of the river. Theriver forms a delta just in the outskirts of the town.

The Answer is …

Baramulla

6.

• This year in May the PM of India visited the tomb of the late Bahadur Shah Zafar in Yangon to present a chadar from the dargah of Khwaja Chisti. Now there has been frequent calls to shift his remains to India, in order to address to one of the verses of his epitaph:Kitnâ hai badnaseeb Zafar dafn ke liye; do gazzameen bhi na mili ku-e-yar meinBut there are two reasons for which the leaders of the two countries have decided against it. One is Zafar is regarded as a saint by some in Yangon. What's the other reason?

The Answer is ….

• Myanmar's anti-British King Thibaw, was exiled to Maharashtra, where he died. It is felt that both shrines are part of a shared historic and cultural legacy, and should be maintained at their present locations.

7. Id X and Y

Contd….

• "This was justly X’s(aged 22), first claim to fame. As an aspiring model, she had signed up with DCM to model for their entire campaign of towels that were launched in 1973. But her success on the modelling scene was short-lived. When she became engaged to Y, the advertising agency MCM was summarily commanded to withdraw the campaign and clam up all possible remaining records of it."

The Answer is ….

X:Menaka Gandhi Y: Sanjay Gandhi

Connect

8.

How do you connect the following two temples?

• _____ ____ temple located in Mahatma Gandhi Kashi Vidyapeeth campus, Varanasi, which was inaugurated by Mahatma Gandhi in 1936.

• _____ ____ temple was founded by Swami Satyamitranand Giri, on the banks of the Ganges in Haridwar. It was inaugurated by Indira Gandhi in 1983.

**** These are the only two temples of its kind

The Answer is ….

Bharat Mata Temples

9. Give Fundaes ….Branch Count

Army 54,154

Air Force 833

Navy 1,381

Paramilitary including police 22,000

Civilian personnel 12,000

Total 90,368

The Answer is ….

1971 WarA Pakistan stamp depicting the 90,000 POWs in Indian camps. This stamp was issued by Pakistan with the political aim of raising global support to help secure their release. The POWs were released by India after the signing and ratification of the SimlaAgreement.

10. Id

• X hailing from an average income family of West Godavari district went on to pursue his Masters in Stanford. He was famous for “Self Reliance” mantra and upon returning to India he got recognition for his role in indigenously designing the control systems of the first Indian Nuclear reactor, Apsara. Dr Homi Bhaba sent him to Hyderabad with 200 technicians to set up this organisation ,which later went on to design the first indigenously manufactured colour television. Person and Organisation.

The Answer is ….

Ayyagari Sambasiva or A.S Raowho estd. ECIL

11.

• Born in 1911 in the city of Hyderabad, Abid Hasan ___went to Germany to pursue his higher education. It isthere where he met S.C Bose and got inspired to jointhe freedom struggle. He left his studies and joined theINA. Netaji when he wanted a way of greeting for hisarmy and for independent India, Abid Hasan amongmany suggested “Hello” for which he was snubbed. Helater suggested X-Y which was picked by Netaji andlater was even used by Nehru in his Independence Dayaddress to the nation. He also picked up a surnamewhen there was a dispute on the colour of the Nationalflag. The surname i.e. _____ and also X-Y please.

The Answer is ….

Surname—Safrani and XY—Jai Hind

12. ID and Connect the two pictures

Contd…

• Tachyon condensation refers to a process in particle physics in which the system can lower its energy by spontaneously producing particles. The end result is a "condensate" of particles that fills the volume of the system. Tachyon condensation is closely related to second-order phase transitions.

The Answer is ….

Ashok Sen, Yuri MilnerFundamental Prize

Audience Questions

1. What has been blocked out ?

Mass-ka

2.Id

• Founder of Bhartiya Jana Sangh

Shyama Prasad Mukherjee Founder of Bhartiya Jana Sangh (a.k.a RSS)

Theme Round 1

13. ID and Connect the two pictures