India QuizAnnual Day

CSE Department

Rules• 15 questions everybody writing.• No negative markings for wrong answer.

ANSWERS

Q1.

If Akshata Murthy is the first child, Rohan Murthy the last, who or what according to the father is the middle child?

Answer

• Infosys (according to N.R.Narayanamurthy)

Q2.

• In 1969, X , a chemist at the Gujarat Government's Department of Mining and Geology manufactured phosphate free Synthetic Detergent Powder, and started selling it locally. • The new yellow powder was priced at Rs. 3.50 per kg, at a time when

HUL's Surf was priced at Rs 15. • Soon, there was a huge demand for Y in Ruppur (Gujarat), X's

hometown. • He started packing the formulation in a 10x10ft room in his house. X

named the powder as Y, after his daughter .• Id Y.

Answer

Q3.

• X is mentioned in the epic, The Mahabharata, when Lord Krishna stopped there on his way from Mathura to Dwarka. The Parsis began to settle there in the 8th century.• Local Hindu traditions state that the city was founded in the last years

of the fifteenth century by a Brahman named Gopi, who called it Suryapur (City of the Sun).• Which City i.e X?

Answer

SURAT

Q4.

Name of the Artist has been blanked out from this playlist of this artist courtesy gaana.com.Image follows on the next slide.

Id the Artist

Answer

• Jagjit Singh

Q5.

• Id the backdrop from this poster of a movie starring Sonam Kapoor and Dhanush.• Image on next slide.

Answer

• Varanasi Ghats

Q6.

• Chaman Lal is a 39 year old small time seller of a certain form of low cost apparel accessories in Delhi’s dingy Sadar Bazaar.• His small business, Aroma traders has been the nerve centre for a

supply of 6-7 lakhs of these accessories being distributed in Delhi since October,2013.He makes a profit of 25 paisa per accessory• Business however has pulled down significantly since then,• What is his accessory that had such a wave of demand?

Answer

Q7.

• Connect

Answer

Q8.• It wasn't mere coincidence that X served as a setting for conflict between

the protagonist and the antagonist in Agneepath. • The 1883 'Colaba Gazetteer' of the Bombay Presidency describes the

place: “X, about 12 miles north of Alibag on the north coast right across from Bombay, is a landing place of some importance. The village is hid in a grove of cocoa-palms at the head of a short broad bay with a shallow sandy beach.... “• Records show the British had a clear understanding of the importance of

the place. So did Kancha in old Agneepath. Which Place?

Answer

• Mandwa

Q9.

Exhaustive list of what?• Chennai• Mumbai• Pune• Goa• Kolkata• Delhi• Kochi,Kerala• Guwahati,Assam

Answer

• ISL TEAM CITIES

Q10.

• New Delhi: In 1953, a cricket match took place between the Prime Minister’s XI and the President’s XI teams in Delhi.

The spectators saw a thoughtful looking X, wearing a spotless white cricket kit, padded up and sitting with his chin resting on his cricket bat.

Image to followID X

Answer

• Jawaharlal Nehru

Q11.• Indian educator, engineer and author. He is

currently the Chairman of EBG Foundation in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India and the President of the Coimbatore Academy of Sciences.• Holds an ME (Hons) in Electrical

Engineering, Ph.D. in Systems Engineering, both from IIT Roorkee, and a Diploma in Education from U.K.• Connect him to the world of CSE• Hint : C

Answer

• E Balagurusamy

Q12.

Non-exhaustive list• NUDT Tianhe-2 Guangzhou, China• Cray Titan Oak Ridge, USA• Fujitsu K computer Kobe, Japan• Tianhe Tianjin, China• X Pune, India.Hint:SuperComputers

Answer

• PARAM

Q13.

• The First :Between the Mughal Babur and the Delhi Sultan Ibrahim Lodi, resulting in a Mughal victory• The Second :Between the Mughal Akbar and Hemu, resulting in a

Mughal victory• The Third :Between the Durrani Empire of Afghanistan and the

Maratha Empire, resulting in a Durrani victory• First, Second and Third of what?

Answer

• Battle of Panipat

Q14.

• The real reason behind X being on 6th October wasn’t chosen randomly. • Actually, 6-10 date marks the number of the flat from where Y

operations were started 7 years back, a great way to pay a nice tribute to roots from where it all started.

• Which event i.e X?

Answer

Q15.

Our PM met the man on the left on 11th october, 2014.(Image on the next Slide)Hint: He is from Vidisha,Madhya Pradesh who received a very prestigious award along with another person forr their struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education

Answer

• Kailash Satyarthi