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IITG Quiz Club presents

Republic Day Quiz 2017

Prelims QuizmastersManas Daruka&Vaibhav Vishal

Rules:No negatives. So guesses are welcome.

There is one mark each for every thing to identify. i.e. some questions are of more than 1 mark.

**marked question will decide in case of tie-breakers.

Lets begin!!

Question 1. A Postal Index Number or PIN or Pincode is a code in the post office numbering or post code system used by India Post,the Indian postal administration. As we all know, the code is six digits long. The first digit of the PIN code indicates the region as shown in the next slide. What is number 9 used for?

Question 2The Sudarshan Chakra standing at the top of temple is 20 feet in height and weights a ton. It said to be visible from every corner of the city and it is installed in such a way that it makes you feel that it is facing toward you irrespective of the place you are in.

The chakra was installed around 2000 years ago. Take any place on earth, on daytime the breeze from sea comes to land and the opposite occurs in the evening but In this city it is observed to be just the reverse.

Where exactly can you find this structure?

Question 3What is common among these personalities?Rajeev Gandhi Gopinath Bordoloi Sardar Patel B.R.Ambedkar Madan Mohan Malviya Vinoba Bhave K.Kamraj( non-exhaustive list)

**Question 4

X was developed in Kerala; gets its name from the seductress form of Vishnu, who uses her charm to help the good prevail in the battle with evil.

It follows the Lasya style described in Natya Shastra, that is a dance which is delicate, eros-filled and feminine.

Give X.

Question 5This controversial person was born a Brahmin in Pune to a Marathi family. He was named Ramachandra.His family feared that there was a curse in the family that targeted male children because three of them died in their infancy.Hence he was brought up as a girl, including having his nose pierced and wearing a nose-ring.Identify this person.

Question 6: Identify the personality

Question 7

Oxford dictionary defines this word as A type of ashtanga yoga focusing on the correct alignment of the body,making use of straps, wooden blocks, and other objects as aids to achieving the correct postures.

What is the word?

Question 8Shree Sant Kripa Group of companies was started under the guidance of Mr. Jeevan Uttamchandani.The company took off with the distribution of T-series audio cassettes and Cds for Maharashtra.It has now diversified and is a big player in Electronic Appliances.What is the companys most recent and best known product which is a word play on the parent companys name?

Question 9During Shah Jahan's Rule, X was also known as Id-e-Gulabi and Aab-e-Pashi.

Jam-e-Jahanuma", an Urdu daily, said in 1844 that during the days of the Moghul Emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar, special arrangements were made for X, a major part of which included sprinkling of yellow colour, prepared from Tesu ke Phool.

Quli Qutab Shah, a renowned south Indian poet, wrote about X in his inimitable Hyderabadi Urdu, describing X in the Braj and Bundelkhand regions in India's north.

What is this X we are talking about.

Question 10

Narinder Singh Kapany is an Indian-born American Sikh physicist known as "Father of X", He was named as one of the seven 'Unsung Heroes' by Fortune in their 'Businessmen of the Century' issue (1999-11-22).The term X was coined by Singh Kapany in 1956.NASA also used X in the TV cameras that were sent to the moon. At that time, the use in the cameras was classified confidential.Give X.

Question 11"X's free kicks used to swerve and dip at the last moment.""Pradip da also gave me a lot of extra training before the Y (i.e. team name) match."However, I got the greatest recognition from him in 1990. 13 years later during the 1990 FIFA World Cup, eminent journalist Shyam Sundar Ghosh who had gone to cover the World Cup asked X whether he remembers the game against Z(team name). X's answer was, "Yes, I very much remember. How can I forget that save made by Shibaji." The greatest footballer of the World remembering me after 13 years was a big award for me. Gimme X, Y, Z.

Question 12

What does this image depict?

Question 13Benzaiten is the 'kami' of everything that flows: water, time, words, speech, eloquence, music and by extension, knowledge.

The original characters used to write her name read "Biancaitian" in Chinese and "Bensaiten" in Japanese () and reflect her role as the kami of eloquence.

Because the Sutra of Golden Light promised protection of the state, in Japan she became a protector-deity, at first of the state and then of people.

Lastly, she became one of the seven gods of fortune.

Name the Indian connect of this Shinto-Buddhist deity.

Question 14Identify this company which has recently been in news.

Question 15Many speculate that it may be Coimbatore, with a river on one side and a forest on the other. Many speculate that it may be a town on the river Kaveri or Yadavgiri in the erstwhile state of Mysore. But as per the writings of the author, he loved the towns of Basavanagudi and Malleshwaram and they could had an influence in the creation of this fictional town. Id the town.

Question 16

ID this product. being promoted by Tata Motors

Question 17

Vijay Mehras record was broken by Maninder Singh.

Maninder Singhs record was broken by Lakshman Sivaramakrishnan.

1. Who broke LSRKs record?

2.What is this record?

**Question 18The cricketer has Test matches through the year, the tennis player has four Grand Slam events in twelve months, the golfer has the same number of majors annually.

Constantly, there is an opportunity for redemption, a chance to stake a claim for greatness. Not for me. My only chance is seventy shots in 125 minutes every four years .

Whose words?

Question 19In the Great Trigonometric Survey carried out in British India in the 19th Century, a policy was established to use local names whenever possible.

When Thomas Montgomerie made the first survey of the Karakoram range from Mount Haramukh in 1865, he used a provisional notation for two of the most prominent peaks.

Subsequently, one of these peaks was named Masherbrum, taking the local name. However, as the other peak was not visible from the nearest inhabited area, it had not acquired a local name, and the provisional name is used till today. Name the peak. (Provisional as well as the other name)

**Question 20

Rajiv Motwani (1962-2009), who completed his BTech in computer science from IIT Kanpur and PhD in computer science from University of Berkeley was a professor at Stanford University.

He co-authored X alongwith Terry Winograd and two other then PhD students (one of whom X is named after) as a part of their research project in the year 1996.

ID X.

SAFETY SLIDE

ANSWERS AHEAD!

Question 1. A Postal Index Number or PIN or Pincode is a code in the post office numbering or post code system used by India Post,the Indian postal administration.

As we all know, the code is six digits long. The first digit of the PIN code indicates the region as shown in the next slide.

What is number 9 used for?

Army Post office (APO) and Field Post office (FPO)

Question 2The Sudarshan Chakra standing at the top of temple is 20 feet in height and weights a ton. It said to be visible from every corner of the city and it is installed in such a way that it makes you feel that it is facing toward you irrespective of the place you are in.

The chakra was installed around 2000 years ago. Take any place on earth, on daytime the breeze from sea comes to land and the opposite occurs in the evening but In this city it is observed to be just the reverse.

Where exactly can you find this structure

Jagannath Temple, Puri

Question 3What is common among these personalities?Rajeev Gandhi Gopinath Bordoloi Sardar Patel B.R.Ambedkar Madan Mohan Malviya Vinoba Bhave K.Kamraj( non-exhaustive list)

All received Bharat Ratna Awards posthumously

**Question 4

X was developed in Kerala; gets its name from the seductress form of Vishnu, who uses her charm to help the good prevail in the battle with evil.

It follows the Lasya style described in Natya Shastra, that is a dance which is delicate, eros-filled and feminine.

Give X.

Mohiniyattam

Question 5This controversial person was born a Brahmin in Pune to a Marathi family. He was named Ramachandra.His family feared that there was a curse in the family that targeted male children because three of them died in their infancy.Hence he was brought up as a girl, including having his nose pierced and wearing a nose-ring.Identify this person.

Nathuram Godse

Question 6: Identify the personality

Shahrukh Khan

Question 7

Oxford dictionary defines this word as A type of ashtanga yoga focusing on the correct alignment of the body,making use of straps, wooden blocks, and other objects as aids to achieving the correct postures.

What is the word?

Iyengar after BKS Iyengar

Question 8Shree Sant Kripa Group of companies was started under the guidance of Mr. Jeevan Uttamchandani.The company took off with the distribution of T-series audio cassettes and Cds for Maharashtra.It has now diversified and is a big player in Electronic Appliances.What is the companys most recent and best known product which is a word play on the parent companys name?

Syska LED

Question 9During Shah Jahan's Rule, X was also known as Id-e-Gulabi and Aab-e-Pashi.

Jam-e-Jahanuma", an Urdu daily, said in 1844 that during the days of the Moghul Emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar, special arrangements were made for X, a major part of which included sprinkling of yellow colour, prepared from Tesu ke Phool.

Quli Qutab Shah, a renowned south Indian poet, wrote about X in his inimitable Hyderabadi Urdu, describing X in the Braj and Bundelkhand regions in India's north.

What is this X we are talking about.

Holi

Question 10

Narinder Singh Kapany is an Indian-born American Sikh physicist known as "Father of X", He was named as one of the seven 'Unsung Heroes' by Fortune in their 'Businessmen of the Century' issue (1999-11-22).The term X was coined by Singh Kapany in 1956.NASA also used X in the TV cameras that were sent to the moon. At that time, the use in the cameras was classified confidential.Give X.

Fiber Optics

Question 11"X's free kicks used to swerve and dip at the last moment.""Pradip da also gave me a lot of extra training before the Y (i.e. team name) match."However, I got the greatest recognition from him in 1990. 13 years later during the 1990 FIFA World Cup, eminent journalist Shyam Sundar Ghosh who had gone to cover the World Cup asked X whether he remembers the game against Z(team name). X's answer was, "Yes, I very much remember. How can I forget that save made by Shibaji." The greatest footballer of the World remembering me after 13 years was a big award for me. Gimme X, Y, Z.

X- PeleY- Peles CosmosZ- Mohun Bagan

Question 12

What does this image depict?

The Dabbawala code

Question 13Benzaiten is the 'kami' of everything that flows: water, time, words, speech, eloquence, music and by extension, knowledge.

The original characters used to write her name read "Biancaitian" in Chinese and "Bensaiten" in Japanese () and reflect her role as the goddess of eloquence.

Because the Sutra of Golden Light promised protection of the state, in Japan she became a protector-deity, at first of the state and then of people.

Lastly, she became one of the seven gods of fortune.

Name the Indian connect of this Shinto-Buddhist deity.

Goddess Saraswati

Question 14Identify this company which has recently been in news.

One 97, Parent company of PayTM

Question 15Many speculate that it may be Coimbatore, with a river on one side and a forest on the other. Many speculate that it may be a town on the river Kaveri or Yadavgiri in the erstwhile state of Mysore. But as per the writings of the author, he loved the towns of Basavanagudi and Malleshwaram and they could had an influence in the creation of this fictional town. Id the town.

Malgudi

Question 16

ID this product. being promoted by Tata Motors

Dipper Condoms

Question 17

Vijay Mehras record was broken by Maninder Singh.

Maninder Singhs record was broken by Lakshman Sivaramakrishnan.

1. Who broke LSRKs record?

2.What is this record?

1.Sachin tendulkar2.Youngest test cricketer

**Question 18The cricketer has Test matches through the year, the tennis player has four Grand Slam events in twelve months, the golfer has the same number of majors annually.

Constantly, there is an opportunity for redemption, a chance to stake a claim for greatness. Not for me. My only chance is seventy shots in 125 minutes every four years .

Whose words?

Abhinav Bindra

Question 19In the Great Trigonometric Survey carried out in British India in the 19th Century, a policy was established to use local names whenever possible.

When Thomas Montgomerie made the first survey of the Karakoram range from Mount Haramukh in 1865, he used a provisional notation for two of the most prominent peaks.

Subsequently, one of these peaks was named Masherbrum, taking the local name. However, as the other peak was not visible from the nearest inhabited area, it had not acquired a local name, and the provisional name is used till today. Name the peak. (Provisional as well as the other name)

1. K22.Mt. Godwin Austen or chhogori

**Question 20

Rajiv Motwani (1962-2009), who completed his BTech in computer science from IIT Kanpur and PhD in computer science from University of Berkeley was a professor at Stanford University.

He co-authored X alongwith Terry Winograd and two other then PhD students (one of whom X is named after) as a part of their research project in the year 1996.

ID X.

Pagerank Algorithm