Incredible India Quiz

Finals
Aditya Shekhar Acharya
Ashwini Kumar Sahay
 Round 1

• Infinite Bounce And Pounce

• +15/-10 on pounce
• +10/0 on bounce
• Team 1 to Team 8
 1.
The story goes…
• The original image of X manifested in the form of Blue Jewel. It was so
dazzling that it could grant instant moksha, so Yama wanted to hide it. King
Indradyumna wanted to find that mysterious image and performed
harsh penances to obtain his goal. Vishnu then instructed him to go to Y and
find a floating log to make an image from its trunk. The King found the log of
wood. Vishnu himself appeared in the guise of a carpenter to make the idols
on condition that he was to be left undisturbed until he finished the work.
But just after two weeks, the Queen became very anxious. She took the
carpenter to be dead as no sound came from the temple. Therefore, she
requested the king to open the door. Thus, they went to see Vishnu at work
at which the latter abandoned his work leaving the idols unfinished.
Answer
 2.

Connect:
• Shubh Yatra
• Jet Wings
• Go-Getter
• Hello 6E
• Spice Route
Answer
In-flight
magazines
of Indian
Airline
Companies
 3.
• On some days, Boa Sr would sit silently in the jungle surrounding her
home on one of India's Andaman Islands and gaze up at the sky.
According to researchers who looked on, birds perched above would
descend to the ground and inspect her; in turn Boa Sr spoke to them in
her native tongue, calling them her ancestors and her friends. Her
speech was rich with words of the natural world, words of the forest and
the sea that some linguists suspect date back tens of thousands of years
to the first migrations of man. Boa Sr was the last person alive to know
them. In early February, she passed away, leaving behind no surviving
siblings or children. As she died, so too did the language of her people.
The extinction of which Indian Language has been talked about. [pic next
slide]
Answer
Bo
 4.

• The X rose is 'Saffron-Vermillion Red with Yellow River' and has

German parentage and has been carefully developed after nearly
five years of research and development at the world-famous KSG
Rose, Bangalore. A new, specially-developed variety of rose has
taken birth at the Dombivli Rose Society. Id X.
Answer
• Modi Rose
 5.

• 1st-Otis Davis
• 2nd-Carl Kaufmann
• 3rd-Malcolm Spence
• 4th-??
Answer
 6.

• The Indians paid 12 villages to the Pakistanis in 1960s in exchange

for the village of Hussainiwala, a small village in Punjab.
• What made this village so special for India to have?
Answer
Burial site of the three martyrs
7.
The color scheme of which
movie was inspired by the
painting ‘Pratima Visarjan‘
by Gaganendranath
Tagore?
Answer
 8.

• In the 1984-85 season, India and Pakistan were playing the 2nd
ODI in Sialkot. Indian team was at 210/3 and Vengsarkar was at
94*. At this point, the match was suddenly abandoned. Why?
Answer
• Assassination of Indira Gandhi
 Round 2

• Infinite Bounce And Pounce

• +15/-10 on pounce
• +10/0 on bounce
• Team 8 to Team 1
 1.
Whose timeline?
• Born in Jaspur, near Nainital, on 21 May, 1857
• In 1876, he joined Muir Central College at Allahabad
• Passed the Vakil's Examination of the High Court in 1880 and was enrolled as a Vakil
on 21 December 1880
• In 1896, Allahabad High Court raised him to the rank and status of Advocate
• The distinction of 'Rai Bahadur' was conferred on him in 1905
• Was appointed a CIE in 1907
• In 1909 he accepted a seat on the Bench of the Judicial Commissioner's Court
at Lucknow for a few months and in 1914 officiated as a Judge of the Allahabad High
Court
• In 1906, he became the first Indian Vice Chancellor of Allahabad University. He was
reappointed to that office in 1912 and 1916
• Died in Allahabad on 13 February 1918 at age 61
Answer
• Sir Sunderlal
2.
Answer
 3.

• This village in Haryana, earlier known as Chuma Kheragaon, now

bears the name of someone who once memorably told Playboy:
"I've looked on a lot of women with lust. I've committed adultery
in my heart many times. This is something that God recognizes I
will do--and I have done it--and God forgives me for it." Who?
Answer
Jimmy Carter
 4.

• Which company began as a joint venture agreement between

Priya Exhibitors Private Limited and Village Roadshow Limited in
1995 with 60:40 ratio & began its commercial operations in June
1997?
Answer
 5.
A new place
was started
after the
shutting down
of these 2
places. What
was the new
place?
Answer
Cellular Jail
 6.

• X was created by Sir Fredrick Lawley by combining and developing

a few villages.
• X?
Answer
Malgudi
 7.

• In 1904, Viceroy Lord Curzon, on behalf of the King Emperor,

bestowed upon X the Kaisar-i-Hind Gold Medal. In 2013, the
crater _____ on Mercury was named in his honor. Considering his
vast contribution to Indian culture, the Government of Kerala has
instituted an award called “X Puraskaram”. X’s representation
of mythological characters has become a part of the Indian
imagination of the epics. He is often criticized for being too showy
and sentimental but his work remains very popular in India.
Answer
Raja Ravi Varma
 8.

• What was founded in 2007 by Vishal Mehta, a Cornell and MIT

Sloan alumni after working for Dell computers and Amazon.com in
the US for five years, along with a group of ex-Amazon
employees?
Answer
 Round 3

• Pick Your Pill

• On direct: +20/-20
• Open to all: +10/0
Business Entertainment Literature Sports

Politics Geography F&B SurpriseMe

Surprise!!!
 SURPRISE!!!

• X is a legendary winged warrior prince of a fictional fabled

fairyland. He descended to earth on a private mission and landed
in Vikasnagar, becoming a zealous defender of interests of
Vikasnagar. His real name is Rajkumar Alop.
• X can summon the ‘X-Shakti’, by hailing his name in battle,
shouting ‘Jai Mahaguru X’. He acquires super-human physical
attributes, apart from receiving the mystical Sword and Shield of
his master.
Answer
Geography
 GEOGRAPHY

• The city was founded as Mayarashtra by Maya, father of

Mandodari, Ravana’s wife in Ramayana. It’s also known as ‘Ravana
ka sasural’. In the Ramayana, Shravana Kumar carried his parents
to all the pilgrimage sites in India, but it’s believed that when he
passed through this city, he put down his parents for a while to
get rest and water. It was here that King Dashratha mistook
Shravana for a deer and shot him with an arrow. Shravana’s
parents declared that King Dashratha’s own first son would
abandon him when he would need him the most.
• Which city?
Answer
Meerut
F&B
 F&B

•The dish likely originated in the city of Puri about 2,000 years ago. It is
cooked to this day within the temple precincts there. Every single day,
hundreds of temple cooks work to cook this dish, enough to feed at
least 10,000 people.

•It’s more famous name is derived from the Sanskrit word for milk.

•Which dish is being mentioned here?

Answer
Kheer
Sports
 SPORTS

• “I never dared to break the glass of his house while playing cricket
as I used to be extremely scared of him.”
• Virender Sehwag talking about which former childhood neighbour
of his from Najafgarh?
Answer
Sushil Kumar
Politics
 POLITICS

• Suhasini Haidar is the Foreign Affairs Editor for CNN-IBN. She

has also worked with CNN International, regularly reporting
from the Indian sub-continent. She comes from a family with
high political and judicial leanings.

• Who is her more famous father?

Answer
Subramaniam Swamy
Business
 BUSINESS

• Identify this fast growing business house.

Answer
Entertainment
 ENTERTAINMENT

• A tribute to which Indian movie?

Answer
Pyaasa
Literature
 LITERATURE

• Whose tombstone?
Answer
 Round 4

• The Pursuit Of Nihilanth

• +10/0
• Which of these are UNESCO World Heritage Sites?
Rani Ki Vav, Churches and
Sarnath, U.P Chilika Lake
Gujarat Convents of Goa
The Maharaja Jantar Mantar, Tomb of Sher
Mughal
Railways of Shah Suri,
Gardens, J&K Delhi
India Sasaram
Group of
Nanda Devi and Great Living Golconda Monuments at
Valley of Flowers
National Parks Chola Temples Fort Pattadakal,
Karnataka
Champaner- Great
The Kangra Keoladeo Pavagadh
Himalayan
Valley Railway National Park Archaeological
Park, Gujarat National Park
• Which of these are Jyotirlingas?
 Pashupatinath Mahakaleshwar Omkareshwar
Lingaraj Temple, Temple, Temple, Temple,
Bhubaneswar Mandsaur, M.P Ujjain M.P
Trimbakeshwar Nageshvara Vaidyanath Temple, Neelkanth
Temple, Temple, Deoghar, Mahadev Temple,
Maharashtra Dwarka Jharkhand Near Rishikesh

Mallikarjuna Grihneshwar EkambareswararMarkandeswarar

Swami Temple, Temple, Temple, Temple,
Srisailam Aurangabad Kancheepuram Chennai
Bhimashankar Nataraj Temple, Srikantheshwar
Amarnath, Temple, Temple,
J&K Chidambaram
Maharashtra Mysore
 Round 5

• Visual Connect
• Points only for the overall theme (indicated on the slides)
 Set 1

• +40/-20
 Set 2

• +30/-15
 Set 3

• +20/-10
 Set 4

• +10/0
Answer
They all died outside India (Think outside the box)
• Dewang Mehta: Sydney, Australia
• Sir Dorabji Tata: Bad Kissingen, Germany
• C.K. Prahalad: San Diego, California, United States
• J.R.D. Tata: Geneva, Switzerland
• G.D. Birla: London, United Kingdom
• Dev Anand: London, United Kingdom
• Homi J. Bhabha: Mont Blanc
• M.F. Husain: London, United Kingdom
• Pt. Ravi Shankar: San Diego, California, United States
• Udham Singh: Pentonville, United Kingdom
• P.C. Sorcar: Ashaikawa, Hokkaidō, Japan
• Lal Bahadur Shastri: Tashkent, Uzbekistan