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ROUND 1:-

PARAMPARA(INDIAN HERITAGE)

Ques no. 1

Attacked by Ahmed Shah Abdali’s General, Jahan Khan , this building has four entrance doors that symbolize openness towards all.

Name the building.

Answer-

Harmandir Saheb

Ques no. 2

Considered to be the bass version of the Sitar, this is Ustad Imrat Khan playing what instrument?

Answer

Surbahar ( known as bass sitar)

Ques no. 3

Which medal has the state emblem appearing in the center, with four replicas of Vajra, the weapon of Indra surrounding it?

Answer

Paramveer chakra

Ques no.4

Krishna shifted his capital from Mathura to Dawarka to avoid destruction due to war with Jarasandha. This led to him being given a name that came into popular consciousness due to a 2009 film. What name?

Answer

Ranchhod

Ques no. 5

Which town, housing the HQ of Survey of India, developed over time around Guru Ram Rai Darbar Saheb Gurudwara?

Answer

Dehradun

Round 2

BOLLY QUIZ

Ques no. 1 CONNECT

Answer

All films are inspired by Shakespeare's plays. Ramleela- Romeo and Juliet Omkara- Othello Maqbool- Macbeth Angoor- Comedy of Errors

Ques no. 2

Identify the film and what was so special about it.

answer

Yaadein

The film holds the Guiness Book of world record for the fewest actors, with Sunil Dutt appearing in the whole film and Nargis Dutt’s special appearance in the end scene.

Ques no.3

Directed by:Tinnu AnandProduced by:Bittu Anand,Tinnu

Anand,Naresh MalhotraWritten by:Inder Raj anandScreen play by:Santosh SarojStory by:?Starring :Amitabh Bachchan,Meenakshi

Seshadri,Amrish Puri

Answer

Jaya Bachchan

Ques no. 4

Located in Pune, Maharashtra; this is one of the most famous of its kinds.

It is aided by Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, GoI.

Notable alumni of this include John Abrahm, Mithun Chakraborty, Om Puri.

Identify the logo.

Answer

Film and Television Institute of India.

Ques no. 5

The marketing team of Excel Entertainment for the film was in talks with Google. They wanted to replace one word in the Google system with the name of the movie for 24 hours, for the promotion of the film. This would have been one of the best promotion strategy used by any Indian movie. The lead actor even said that they had contracted Google about it.

The promotion strategy didn’t work out, as Google declined the proposal.

Which movie was this?

Answer

Talaash.

ROUND 3

QUES NO 1

‘ PAISA BOLTA HAI’ is the official portal of which organization?

Answer

QUES NO. 2

X is first of its kind project started by Seymour Durst in 1989 in NYC. In 2008, the project had to be modified as it ran out of digits when the U.S. national debt exceeded Dollar 10 trillion for the first time.

This project has inspired many similar projects and highlights rising national debt.

Identify X.

Answer

U.S. national debt clock

Ques. No. 3

It is said that the Mendip miners of the Mendip mountains were responsible for the origin of this term.

Through strict mining laws, had any of the miners stole lead or ore – their fate would lie with the action of “ bring him to his house or work and where all his instruments and tools are --- and set fire all together and banish him !”

Which term originates from this practice?

Answer

“ you are fired”

Ques no. 4

Chandrabhan Prasad ,an entrepreneur has started an e-commerce food business under the name of X . Name X which he states as a social experiment and a challenge to the social caste ceilings.

Answer

Dalit foods private limited

Ques no. 5

Rene x was a French tennis player and business man. He was nick named ‘ the y’ by fans because of his tenacity in the court. In the world of business he is also known as the creator of the X, which he introduced in 1929. Y is the logo of X.

Identify X and Y.

Answer

X-LACOSTEY- CROCODILE

ROUND 4

SCIENTIFICA

QUES NO. 1

Identify the memorial:-

Answer

Bhopal gas tragedy memorial

Ques no. 2

“ Yes the surface is fine and powdery. I can kick it up loosely with my toe. It does adhere in fine layers, like powdered Charcoal, to the sole and sides of my boots. I only go in a small fraction of an inch, maybe an 8th of an inch, but I can see the footprints of my boots and the treads in the fine, sandy particles”.

Who said these words and what is being described?

Answer

Neil Armstrong about his first step onto the surface of the moon.

Ques no. 3

Identify the Google doodle

Answer

Seven exoplanets were discovered in a compact solar system only 39 light years away from us

Ques no. 4

This is an inspiration for which engineering marvel?

answer

Burj khalifa Flower name –dessert flower ( hymenocallis)

Ques no. 5

What does the tweet mean ?Google’s first ever Tweet read.

Answer

I’m feeling lucky.

SCORES……

ROUND 5

SHE THE PEOPLE

Ques no.1

X graduated in B.A. politics from Lady Shri Ram College Delhi.

Her famous speech began with the words “ it is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject of it”.

Identify X.

ANSWER

AUNG SAN SUU KYI

Ques no. 2

CONNECT

ANSWER

Gul Panag

Ques no. 3

What is her claim to fame?

Answer

She is the first person to get adhar card

Ques no. 4

Identify the lady who was India's first woman commercial pilot ( 1956 ) , and who became a captain on the F27s in 1966

Answer

Captain Durba Banerjee

Ques. No. 5

Recently the legal department of SBI alerted mrs. Arundhati Bhattacharya for some reason, state the reason.

Answer

When Arundhati bhattacharya got her visiting card with chairperson printed on it, the legal department alerted her that there is no provision of chairperson in the SBI act, hence she is called the Chairman.

ROUND 6

QUES NO. 1

Identify

answer

Zero mile , Nagpur( geographical centre of colonial India)

Ques no. 2

Identify the logo

answer

RTI

Ques no. 3

Link the personon the left to the image (or code)

answer

The dabbawala code The person is Mahadeo Haveji Bachcha

Ques no. 4

There are only three instances of this Green– Earth day, April 2008 Silver– Sept 2011, tribute in light memorialBlack- sept 2001 What are these instances?

Answer

Time magazine covers not to have a red border.

Ques no.5

What is this qantas 737-800 plane, first revealed in nov. 2011 , nicknamed?

Answer

The Movember Plane ( no shave november plane) in support of the movember initiative in which men wear moustaches to draw attention to men’s health issues.

Ques no. 6

This is the Chaturbhuj Temple in Gwalior Fort.

The temple has earned a world wide fame for the inscription which bears a particular aspect, which is believed to be used for the first time in the world. The oldest recorded version of what is found in this small temple in Gwalior Fort?

Answer

First recorded written version of Zero.

Ques no. 7

Whose self portrait?

Hint!

He wrote, about Einstein, “There was nothing stiff about him - there was no intellectual aloofness. He seemed to me a man who valued human relationship and he showed toward me a real interest and understanding.”

Answer

Rabindra nath tagore

Ques no. 8

X was a noted Indian conman known for having repeatedly ‘sold’ the Tajmahal, Red Fort, and The Rashtrapati Bhavan, and also the parliament along with its five forty five sitting members. He is said to have cheated the Tatas and the Birlas and also Dhiru Bhai Ambani.

X was wanted in more than 100 cases and he was wanted by 8 state police and was sentenced to 113 years in prison ,however he made daring escapes from different jails 8 times in his life .

The last of them on a wheel chair. Identify X.

Answer

Mithilesh Kumar Shrivastav aka Natwarlal

Ques no. 9

What does this world map represent?

Answer

Red – right driving countries Blue- left driving countries.

Ques no. 10

“I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved!”

Whose statement is this?

Answer

B.R. Ambedkar