independence day quiz 2015

INDEPENDENCE DAY QUIZ

Identify this Indian freedom fighter to the left of Pt. Nehru ?1


Maulana Abul Kalam Azad1


Whose famous words are these?“Never talk to me about profit, Jeh, it is dirty word”

2


Jawaharlal Nehru to JRD Tata2


In 1833, nearly 100 tons of a commodity X is imported from New England to Calcutta that fire up a market for Y in a country

that was not accustomed to such a luxury. These imports stopped after an Indian company started producing X

domestically in 1878.

Identify X and Y !

3


X -> Ice blockY -> Cold drinks

3


In 45 AD, Hippalus, a Greek captain discovered that M could sail ships from Alexandria to Western India in just a 40 days

period. This discovery tremendously increased the Roman sea trade.

What is M?

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Monsoons4


Name the author ! 5


Verghese Kurien5


Identify this ‘fishy’ building !6


National Fisheries Development Board6


This appeared in the obituary section of The Times of India. “O'Cracy, D.E.M., beloved husband of T. Ruth, loving father of L.I. Bertie, brother of Faith, Hope and Justicia, expired on June

26”.Why and when did it appear ?

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June 28, 1975: Protesting the declaration of National Emergency

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Which famous establishment started as a gathering of Gujarati and Parsi businessmen under banyan trees in front of the

Bombay Town Hall ?

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Bombay Stock Exchange8


This term was coined by Indian economist Raj Krishna and popularized by Robert McNamara is a derogatory term referring

to the low annual growth rate of the planned economy of India before the liberalizations of 1991, which stagnated

around 3.5% from 1950s to 1980s.

What is the term?

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Hindu Growth Rate9


PIN code is a code in the post code system used by the Indian

Postal Administration. It is a six-digit code. The first digit indicates the zone.

How is the 9x series different from the other pin-codes of India?

10


Reserved exclusively for the

Army Post office (APO) &

Field Post office (FPO)

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Identify this great personality !

He was a Bengali polymath, physicist, biologist, botanist, archaeologist, as

well as science fiction writer.He was the first to use semiconductor

junctions to detect radio signalsHe is the author of Response in the

Living and Non-Living.

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Jagdish Chandra Bose 11


The name of this short range supersonic cruise missile is a portmanteau formed from the names of two rivers in India and

the partner country.

Identify the weapon !

12


BrahMosBrahmaputra from India and Moskva from Russia

12


Name the programme under which food grains were supplied to India by the United States of America in the 1960s. This was

later renamed the 'Food for Peace' programme by President Kennedy !

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PL-48013


This widely acclaimed intellectual founded Indian Statistical Institute at Kolkata and the Second Five Year plan was based on his model. Identify !

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Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis1

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What is common to Indra, Malabar, Varuna and Simbex !15


Joint Military and Naval Exercises

Indra – India & RussiaMalabar – India & United States of AmericaVaruna - India & FranceSimbex - India & Singapore

15


What distinction do the places Venkatanarasimharajuvaripeta in Andhra Pradesh and Ib in Odisha have in context of India ?

16


Railway stations with the longest & smallest names16


What is common to the distinguished gentlemen pictured below ?

17


Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan, Zakir Hussain and Abdul Kalam received their respective Bharat Ratna before becoming the President of India

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What is the significance of the event pictured below ?18


Lieutenant-General A K Niazi on behalf of West Pakistani forcessigning and submitting

the Instrument of Surrender after the Bangladesh Liberation War to

Lieutenant General Jagjit Singh Aurora on behalf of Bangladesh-India Allied Forces

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If you were to travel from Chennai to Pondicherry via the East Coast Road (SH 49), what is the colour combination of the milestones that are present along the road?

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Green and White

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I am a state of India present in the east. I am bisected by the Tropic of Cancer. As per the last census, people of my state have the third highest literacy rate among the states in the

country.

Who am I ?

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Mizoram20


What is the significance of this event !21


Halwa ceremony - The printing of the Annual Budget starts ahead

of presenting it in the Parliament with a customary 'Halwa ceremony‘

21


There was a time when there were two national currencies circulating in India. One was the Indian Rupee. Name the other !

22


Hyderabadi Rupee22


The late Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam was given this prestigious

American engineering prize, established in 1930 for "outstanding extra-career services by engineers to humanity". The elite list of recipients also includes Steve Wozniak (Apple),

N R Narayana Murthy(Infosys) and David Packard (HP). Name the award !

23


Hoover Medal23


Identify this board game !24


Chaturanga - Ancient Indian strategy game - Ancestor of chess, shogi, makruk, xiangqi and janggi.- Developed in the Gupta Empire around the 6th century AD. - Adopted as Shatranj in Sassanid Persia the 7th century AD

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Located in city of Patiala, name this institution dedicated to sports. This is the largest of its kind in Asia !

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Netaji Subhash National Institute of Sports25


Name the author !26


Mir Ranjan Negi - field hockey player and former goalkeeper of the Indian national Hockey team

- Later involved with the development of the Chak De India !

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What is the significance of this monumental event !27


Chipko Movement - Started in the 1970s- Organized resistance to the destruction of forests- The name of the movement comes from 'embrace', as the villagers hugged the trees, and prevented the contractors' from felling them.

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What is the national game of India ?28


Hockey - The Union ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports has replied to a RTI query that Hockey in not the national game of India. - Our nation does not have a national game !

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Two common words fit for both the institutes. What are those two words:1. ---------- -------- Institute, Darjeeling2. Western ----------- -------- Centre, Manali

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1. Himalayan Mountaineering Institute, Darjeeling2. Western Himalayan Mountaineering Centre, Manali

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This picturesque city in Himachal Pradesh serves as the seat of the Tibetan government-in-exile.

Identify !

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Dharamshala30


Thank you

folks !

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