-- an India themed hub quizQM- Simanta Barman Date: 19.07.2015

Q10

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1. 10 questions.2. +10/0 on direct and pass.3. +10/-10 on pounce.

1. Identify him.He was born to a poor Assamese peasants family of Hajo, near Guwahati, on April 24, 1888. He studied at Cotton Collegiate School in Gauhati(now Guwahati) and completed his matriculation in 1905. He then joined Presidency College, affiliated with the University of Calcutta, and completed his post graduation in organic chemistry from Dhaka University in 1911. He joined the Indian National Congress in the 1920s and participated in the Non-Cooperation Movement. In 1926, he was appointed Joint-Secretary of the Reception Committee of the Pandu session of the Indian National Congress. In 1930, he was elected President of the Assam Provincial Congress.

Ans: Bisnuram Medhi, 1st Assamese governor of an Indian state.

2.This noted scholar, litterateur from Odisha was editor of the Odia daily Prajatantra Odia and English weekly Eastern Times. He was also the founder-editor of the Paurusha monthly magazine. His book on Gautam Buddha was his maiden literary work followed by a short story collection Masanira Phula O Ananya Galpa. He has also penned a collection of poems called Sindhu Upatyaka. His translation of Bairagya Shataka won him the Odisha Sahitya Akademi award. He had received a Sahitya Akademi award for translating all the novels of Bankim Chandra Chatterjee from Bengali to Odia. Whom am I talking about?

Ans: Janaki Ballabh Patnaik

3. Whose statue and where?

Ans:

Jamsedhji Nusserwanji Tata or J. N. Tata in front of Indian Institute of Science(IISc)

4. Id X.• X is an ex-captain of Indian hockey team from Odisha. He made his debut in 1995 against England. His father Vincent was also a hockey player.

•X is India's highest capped (412 matches) hockey international and third highest in the world.

•X is the only Adivasi to represent India in 3 Olympic Games-  1996 Atlanta, 2000 Sydney and 2004 Athens Olympics.

•X is the first-ever tribal to get Padma Shree Award.

Ans: Dilip Tirkey

5. The Emerald Route is a travelogue published by Indian Thought Publications in 1980. The book was commissioned by the Government of Karnataka, and the initial non-commercial version was published in 1977 as part of a government publication. The book is focused on local history, culture and heritage. This book is the author’s account of his travels across Karnataka.

Who are the author & the illustrator of the book? Both parts. No half points.

Ans:

Author: R. K. Narayan & Illustrator: R. K. Laxman

6.He is a prominent Bangalore-based biker who won many national racing championships including the MRF National Supercross championship. Recently, he is in news for achieving a certain feat for which he won the Men of the Year award along with Mercedes-Benz India CEO, Eberhard Kern in the 7th BBC TopGear India Magazine Awards, 2015. Identify him and his claim to fame.

Ans: CS Santosh, 1st Indian to compete in Dakar Rally.

7. The festival in the picture is known as Kang Chingba which took place for the first time in CE 1832. It belongs to Imphal, Manipur. It holds a great religious significance among the people of Manipur.

How do we know this festival?

Ans: Rath Yatra

8. X, also known as the Peruvudaiyar Koyil or Rajarajesvaram temple, was completed in 1010 A.D. and is considered to be one of the best specimens of South Indian Architecture and is the world’s first complete granite temple (More than 1, 30,000 tons of granite has been used in the temple’s construction).

In 2010, RBI came up with a special cupro-nickel commemorative coin in the denomination of Rs.5/- to commemorate 1000 years of this temple. X?

Ans: Brihadisvara Temple

9.Along with her husband, X set up Vidya Bharati Shikshan Prasarak Mandal, an educational institute which runs a chain of schools and colleges in Amravati, Jalgaon and Mumbai. X also set up Shram Sadhana Trust, which runs hostels for working women in New Delhi, Mumbai and Pune.

However, she is famous for creating history for being the first woman to do something.

Who is this lady or X?

Ans: Pratibha Devisingh Patil

10.

X is a popular bi-monthly magazine for children published by the Delhi Press Group since 1968 in India. It was founded by Vishwa Nath. X rose to fame in its first year of publication and is now a popular name among children. It holds various contests for children across the country. X?

Ans: Champak

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