quiz 22.8.2015

MYTHOLOGY INDIA BOLLYWOOD

QUIZ QUIZ MASTERS –

PRAJWAL JAIN KEVIN PANDYA

Rules of the Game :

• Quiz Master is the God.• Quiz Maser is the only God.• Sleep deprived Quiz Masters are liable to be irritable and violent. DO NOT mess around! You have been warned.

1. *X’s original name is K.K.Vohra. *X made her first mainstream appearance in MTV Video Music Award 2005.*In 2009 X married to Daniel Weber, a member of a rock band “The Disparrows”.*X came to fame in India in 2011 from a TV show.

Identify X.

2. .* X is an Irish saint who was known as the founder and first abbot of Glendalough in County Wicklow, Ireland. 

X’s Feast day in Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Churches is 3rd June.

Identify X.

Saint KEVIN(Hint – You should know the QM)

3.Indian Cricket Team played its First test match in 1932 against England. King of Porbandar ‘Maharaja’ Natwar Singh was the captain of the team. The interesting fact about the tour was that the captain bought more Rolls Royce than the runs he scored. Name the ‘Maharaja’ who owned the most and the least number of Rolls Royce during that period?

MOST --- Maharaja BHUPINDER SINGH

LEAST --- Nizam of Hyderabad

4.In 1941 Subhash Chandra Bose set up Free India Center(FIC) in Germany. Following its formation, the FIC adopted four key resolutions – *Jai Hind would be official salutation *Jana Gana Mana would be national anthem *Hindustani would be national language. What was the fourth resolution?

‘NETAJI’ SUBHA CHANDRA BOSE

5. Till 2005 LPG Gas cylinders were used for this purpose. Around 16 cylinders were stocked at a time with one cylinder lasting around 1.5 days. Since 2006 PNG replaced LPG and Indraprastha gas limited has been providing the supply through a 500 m pipeline, thus giving cost benefit of 20%.

How does this useless bit of information find relevance on a Republic Day?

Amar Jawan Jyoti

6.Jyoti Prasad Saikia an Indian Journalist , former civil servant from Assam. Saikia started his career as a journalist in 1970-72. Later he joined government of Assam.However his claim to fame comes from the radio show in 1972. Put funda!!!

SEVEN SISTERS

7."Fault Lines : How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten The World Economy" published in 2010 has won the Financial Times-Goldman Sachs Business Book of the year award. It is also included in the U.S. Marine Corps Professional Reading list.

Which eminent Indian personality is the author of this book? 

Dr. Raghuram Rajan (Governor of RBI)

8. This tree was supposedly brought to India from Sri Lanka by Hanuman when he was carrying messages from Sita. He felt so delighted by it that he threw the seeds on what is presently Maharashtra. Which tree?

Mango Tree

9.This is a picture of the famous Italian actress, Gina Lollobrigida, a Golden Globe winning Italian actress. Her credits include Come September and Hotel Paradiso. Being the favorite actress of a person, she has inspired which name?

She was Babita Kapoor's favorite actress and inspired her to name Karishma as Lolo.

10. What is special about this question from the 1994 Miss India contest:

“What do you know about the textile heritage of India & what’s your wardrobe like?”

1994 was the only time the Miss India contest ended in a tie (between Ms. Sen and Ms. Rai). This was the tie-breaker question, which Ms. Sen had the less worse answer to.

11.* Wikipedia :“Originally chartered as the ‘Governor and Company of Merchants of London trading into the -----------’, the company rose to account for half of the world's trade, particularly trade in basic commodities that included cotton, silk, indigo dye, salt, saltpetre, tea and opium”.

Name the company(+1) and its current owner(+3).

Flag of the company:

East India Company

Sanjiv Mehta

12. Amrita devi, a member of the Bishnoi tribe was killed by the soldiers of the Maharaja of Jodhpur. What was she doing at the time of her death and what did It trigger?

She was hugging a tree preventing it from being cut and it started the Chipko movement

13. They can originate from only one place in India. In April 2004, to mark a 400th anniversary, about 150 of them made journey from this place to Canada, to be distributed to various organizations across the country. On the journey each one was provided with its own linen-draped seat and pillow on the airplane. Something similar happened in 2011, this time about 450 of them making the journey to Italy.

What are we talking about?

Guru Granth Sahib

14. Outside the PMs from the Nehru – Gandhi family, name the only 2 Prime Ministers of India to have airports in India named after them.

Lal Bahadur Shastri(Varnasi)Charan Singh(Lucknow)

15. Indian team made history in  Melbourne Olympics 1956 by reaching the semi final of the certain sport. Which was the first and last instance of that kind. Write the name of sport.

Football

16. Connect and Fill the blanks*Tractor tilling the land.*one Horned Rhino, Indian Elephant and Royal Bengal Tiger*Palm and Coconut trees on a beach with a lighthouse.*The Indian Parliament House*The Himalayas*----------------------*The Indian Industries: Oil Rig, Computer, Metal Casting, Satellite, Wheat.

17. The duo married in India in the resort which is near to a national park. A four-member committee was set up to check noise pollution from the wedding celebration and ensure that animals in the wildlife reserve are not disturbed.

What is the name of the ‘national park’?(Extra point for mentioning name of the resort.)

Ranthambore National Park

18. The first environmentally conscious community are found in Rajasthan and get their name from the fact that they follow 29 commandments?

The Bishnois

19. Connect

Indian Express*Ramnath Goenka(founder of Indian Express)*Leander paes Mahesh Bupati

20. What is the original name of Mahabharata?

JAI SAMHITA

21. X is the capital city of the state whose legislative building was built by the British East India company during 17th century. In 2010 the legislative building was moved to a new building but was again shifted to the same old building in 2011.Identify X and its Birthdate.

X- Mardas(chennai)

Birthdate : 22nd August.

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