India ‘Couldn’t find a punny

name’ Quiz
 Rules and Format
1. Total 34 questions.
2. Questions 11-20 are starred-to resolve tie.
3. Teams of at most 3.
4. Top 8 teams in the final.
5. Full names of people are required unless specified
otherwise.
6. No googling, binging etc. and all the general rules of
disqualification apply here.
 1. First to achieve?
Neecha Nagar (English: Lowly City) is a 1946 Hindi
film directed by Chetan Anand. Written by Khwaja Ahmad
Abbas and Hayatullah Ansari , it was a pioneering effort
in social realism in Indian cinema and paved the way for
many such 'parallel cinema' films by other directors, many
of them written by Abbas. It starred Chetan Anand's
wife Uma Anand, Rafiq Ahmed,Kamini Kaushal, Rafi Peer
and Zohra Sehgal.
 Answer :

First Indian movie to win Best film at Cannes (palm

d’or also will do).
 2. SITTER ONE.
This ever”green” character was a response to Target
Magazine’s
Detective Moochwala .
This character was also partly based on the 50s sitcom “I Love
Lucy” .
Enough clues in qn..
Answer : Shikari Shambhu
3. Name of the Ad campaign.
The advertising campaign was spearheaded by Madison
Advertising and the father-daughter duo of Sam and Lara
Balsara.Raj Nair was the creative head for the campaign. The
tongue-in-cheek, fantastically witty lines were dreamed up by
good friend and ad whiz Rayomand J. Patell. Shyam Samant
art-directed the campaign and Farzan Randelia shot it. The
GOI launched it in November 2014.
Answer: JiYO Parsi
 4. #Kolstylz

If Air India had the Maharaja ; then who was it for Air Deccan ?
Ans : R.K.Laxman’s common man
 5.Owned and Operated
by ?
There are nearly 100 of them around the world. The
pic is of that in Philadelphia.
Ans : ISKCON
 6.What is number 9 used for?
A Postal Index Number or PIN or Pincode is a code
in the post office numbering or post code system used
by India Post, the Indian postal administration. As we
all know, the code is six digits long. The first digit of the
PIN code indicates the region as shown in the next
slide. What is number 9 used for?
6.What is number 9 used for?
Ans :
Indian Army Post Office (APO)
or Field Post Office(FPO)
 7.Who was the
chauffer?
In September, 2015, Ola cabs launched a special
campaign in Bengaluru called ‘Ola Prime Time with X’
where select customers where driven to their
destinations by a special person in a White Jaguar.
Ans :
Narain Kartikeyan
 8. What is this exceptional feat?
R Ashwin is the fastest Indian bowler to reach 50-,100-
and 150 wickets in Test cricket. In his career spanning
32 matches (9224 balls) he has another track record
which he shares only with 3 other Indian bowlers- E A
S Prasanna, S Venkatraghavan and Shivlal Yadav.
Ans :
Zero No Balls by overstepping.
 9. Which state?
Out of all the 29 states in India there is only one state
which has NO airport (defence or civil). The first airport
will come up in the near future after overcoming
several bureaucratic red tapes, political pressures, civil
unrest and engineering and environmental problems.
Punjlloyd is handling the project.
Ans :
Sikkim
 10. What unique record?
This is Surendra Rajan, Marathi actor and composer
who has been in the art and cinema industry for long.
In terms of artistic depictions on screen, Rajan has got
a unique record of doing something thrice in feature
films, twice in short films and once in a TV movie. The
actor closest to him is Dilip Prabhavalkar (2 times).
Ans :
Playing the role of Mahatma Gandhi
maximum number of times
 11*. Which website?
Rashmi Sinha grew up in India and earned a PhD in
cognitive neuropsychology at Brown University. She
took a course in designing educational software. She
later went to University of California, Berkeley for a
postdoc where she switched her focus to human-
computer interaction. She co-founded Uzanto, a user
experience consulting company and worked on
projects for companies like eBay, Blue Shield, AAA etc.
In 2006, she along with her brother and husband co-
founded a website which has received 9 million
uploads and is very familiar to us quizzers.
Ans :
Slideshare.com
 12*.Name the fort.
This fort in Tamil Nadu is so fortified, that Shivaji, the
Maratha king, ranked it as the "most
impregnable fortress in India" and it was called the
"Troy of the East" by the British. The complex has a
seven-storeyed Kalyana Mahal (marriage
hall), granaries, prison cells, and a temple dedicated to
its presiding Hindu goddess after whom the fort is
named.
Ans :
Gingee Fort or Senji Fort
 13*.Name of the party.
The party was founded by Punjabi Indians in
the United States and Canada in 1913 with the aim of
securing India's independence from British rule.
Though predominantly Sikh, the party included
members and leaders of many religions,
demonstrating an accepting and democratic attitude
towards all people as they united in their
patriotism. After the conclusion of the war, the party in
America split into Communist and Anti-
Communist factions. The party was formally dissolved
in 1948. The name of the party is an Urdu word
meaning ‘revolt’ or ‘rebellion’.
Ans :
Ghadar Party
 14*.Who on earth is
this guy?
Debuting in the Hindi film industry as the producer of
the movie Hathkadi in 1982, he has had his ups and
downs in his production career. He is known for
introducing Govinda to the movie industry through his
1986 movie Ilzam. The last film he produced was
‘Khushboo’ which bombed in the box office.

Lately he has been in the news for ‘entertaining’ us

by making tribute videos of a person among other
things. He is a constant target for social media trolls.
Ans :
Pahlaj Nahlani

CBFC Chairman
 15*. Which art form?

This performing art form became better known outside the

region through the efforts of Rabindranath Tagore. In 1919
he was so impressed after seeing a composition, the
Goshtha Lila in Sylhet (in present-day Bangladesh) that he
invited Guru Budhimantra Singh to Shantiniketan. In 1926,
Guru Naba Kumar also joined the faculty. Other celebrated
Gurus, Senarik Singh Rajkumar, Nileshwar Mukherji and
Atomba Singh were also invited to teach there and
assisted Tagore with the choreography of several of his
dance-dramas.
Manipuri
 16*.Which place?
This township was founded in 1968 by Mira Alfassa
and designed by architect Roger Anger. The place is
governed by an autonomous body under the Ministry
of Human Resources and Development through an act
of the Indian Parliament. It works on the principle of
service of Truth, beyond all social, political and
religious conviction. The community is divided up into
neighborhoods with English, Sanskrit, French and
Tamil names like Aspiration,Arati, La
Ferme,and Isaiambalam.
Ans :
Auroville
 What is17*
his.claim
to fame ?
This is Mahant Bharatdas Darshandas , a temple priest
in Gir , Gujarat. Every few years, his name will pop up in
the media.
Lone Wolf in India’s Largest
Quiz

He is the only voter in his booth which is in the

middle of the forest.
Since law requires that no person should have
to walk more than 2km to go to a polling booth ,
Election officials set up a booth specially for
him.
18*. Where in India
would you find these ?
Ans :
Bhimbetka Rock Shelters
 19*. Gimme the title X
as well as the person
XY.
is a persian word, used as a respected title for persons who
have acheived mastery over languages. It became a surname
for people whose ancestors had received this title. In modern
Persian, this word is also used to address Clerks and
secretaries
Abdul Karim was a valued Indian servant of Queen Victoria who
was often known as the “X”. The close relation between
him and the queen led to friction in the royal household and he
was sent back to India after her death.
X Y , was an Indian writer famous for his modern Hindustani
literature. He is considered the first Hindi writer whose writings
prominently featured realism. He wrote on social issues
such as poverty and the Zamindari system.
Ans :
Munshi ; Munshi
Premchand
 20*. What meter is this?
An X-meter is a non-imaging radiometer installed on
satellites and used to determine the yield of a nuclear
weapon.
X is an Indian preparation traditionally used in food and
drink in India .
The name was given as a pun by Nobel Prize winning
physicist and detector of the neutrino Fred Reines as a
person would have to have consumed X to believe that the
X-meter would actually work.
If you remove one letter from X-meter you would get
another name which you could immediately associate with
nuclear weapons.
Ans :
Bhang ; Bhang
Meter
 21.What is the name of
town?
In June 2011, Shiv Nagar, a village located in
Muzaffarnagar, UP, named after the Hindu god Shiva,
became . Nagar, after an e-commerce
company had installed 15 hand pumps, so villagers no
longer have to walk for miles to fetch drinking water.
There was no source of potable water in the village
before. The villagers voted to name their hamlet after
to express their gratitude.
Ans :
Snapdeal
 22. Who?
‘Kingdom of the Soap Queen’ is a book written about
an Indian celebrity chronicling her rise from her initial
days as a 17 year old working from a home Garage.
Ans :
Ekta Kapoor
 23. Indian T V Show
Hello X
Maya - very rich girl who runs away to avoid marrying
a dentist her dad likes
Penny - An aspiring singer
Sanjana - A serious level headed fashion designer
Cyrus - A businessman
Rahul - A struggling model/actor
Ans :
Hello Friends
 24. Which place?

It is believed that this place is one of the 64 Shakthi

Peeths where parts of the charred body of Sati fell on
the earth while being carried by Shiva.
It is believed that Sati’s eyes fell here.
Another myth says that the water here was originally
from the Manasarovar lake.
Ans :
Nainital
25.
Designed by Ram Chander Sharma of the Sawai Man
Singh College in Rajasthan, this was designed to be
inexpensive ,water resistant and quick to fit and
manufacture. The material used is polyurethane ,
which was quite different from the material traditionally
used to make similar items at that time.
It played a prominent role in the 1986 Hindi film,
Naache Mayuri .
What ?
Ans :
The Jaipur Foot
26. Painting.Painter.
Ans :
Mother India by M F Husain
 27. How do we better
know him?
He was born in the British protectorate of Zanzibar,
East Africa. His parents were parsis from Gujarat. His
family’s surname was derived from the town of Bulsar
in Gujarat. He spent most of his childhood in India,
studying at St Peters School in Bombay. He was
influenced a lot by Lata Mangeshkar
Some time after he returned to Zanzibar, war broke out
on the Island, turning the place to hell. People were
being killed right and left. Then , a magician told him
that the “star” Y would always watch over him and he
could count on it.
Ans :
Freddie Mercury, Farrokh Bulsara
 28.Name of the athlete.
This athlete was in news last year when he got a stay
from the Karnataka High Court against the
Government’s decision to award Sania Mirza Rajiv
Gandhi Khel Ratna.

Full Name not required.

Ans :
H N Girisha
 29. Which language?
Since the language does not have its own script, it is
mainly written in the scripts of South Indian
Languages, Devanagari and Roman. Nirmon is the
first movie in this language to be recognized at the
National Awards. Nachom-ia-Kumpasar, another movie
which was crowd funded won rave reviews and was
recognized at the 62nd national awards, last year
Ans :
Konkani
 30. What dish is this?
The dish originated in the 1850s as a fast lunchtime
dish for textile mill workers in Mumbai. The need arose
due to the American Civil War when the global supply
of cotton was affected by Lincoln’s blockade due to
which the workers and traders had to work day and
night to meet the demands. This was later served
at Udupi restaurants throughout the city. It is also a
dish where the Portuguese contribution is unheralded
as Lizzie Collingham points out in her authoritative
‘Curry – A Biography’.
Ans :
Pav Bhaji
31. Who founded this?
Ans :
Kailash Sathyarthi
 32.
Vodafone India won the 2009 PETA Glitterbox
award.
What was the reason PETA decided to give them the award ?
 Ans :

For replacing the pug with the zoozoo

 33. #TCQ in a way..
Rahul Dravid’s reply to a question by an MTV
interviewer some years back is classic- leaping
up in embarrassed anger and proceeding not
merely to distance himself from her but actually
admonishing her in no uncertain terms on her
skewed priorities.
“You should concentrate on your studies”
What was her question ?
Ans : “Will you marry me ?”

No, this is not the quizmaster’s fancy way of proposing someone in

the
audience.
That’s for another day , another quiz .
34 . Maharana Pratap’s
horse. Why the fancy
accessory ?
Ans : So
that elephants of the enemy thought the
horse was a baby elephant and didn’t attack.