India Quiz- NUTech -2018

NUTECH-2018
India Quiz
By:-
Mantraraj Naik &
Raj Pandey

QUALIFIERS
20 Questions. +1 each.
Top 12 teams will be selected into
the MAIN QUIZ.
No Negatives, so attempt all.
Star-marked questions will be used
in case of a TIE between teams.
Quizmaster will decide all disputes
and ties.

1-Give X & Y.
● The (X) are a sub-group of Brahmins of India who trace their ancestry to the banks of
the ______ River.
● In Kalhana's Rajatarangini (12th century CE), the X are mentioned as one of the five
Pancha Gauda Brahmin communities residing to the north of the Vindhyas. They
were spread over a wide area in northern part of the Indian subcontinent. One
group lived in coastal Sindh and Gujarat. This group migrated to Bombay State after
the partition of India in 1947. One group was found in pre-partition Punjab and
Kashmir and most of these migrated away from Pakistan after 1947. Another
branch, known as (Y), are now found along the western coast of India and have
given us personalities like Lata Mangeshkar and Sachin Tendulkar.

2-Give me X, Y, Z. No part marks.
This particular food dish “Z” was a bone of contention between two states “X” and “Y”
for quite a while. Government of “X” claimed that it is being offered to the god of a
famous temple of “X” for a long time. So “X” is the origin of this particular food dish.
However, “Y” decided to apply for Geographical Indication Tag stating the reason that
“Y”’s variant of “Z” is different in colour, texture, taste, juice content and method of
manufacturing and hence the government of “Y” decided to move ahead with filing the
application for GI Tag. The GI ag was awarded to “Y” but after a riot like situation in “X”,
GI Registry clarified that it was only for the state specific variant of state “Y” of dish “Z”.

3-Which Company?
● The logo of this company with a punch-line “Nothing like Anything” reflects the
young company’s innovative, dynamic, bold, yet fun elements.
● The fist in the logo does not only represent the company’s aggressive plans to knock
all its competitors out of its way to become the leader, but also has its name’s first
two letters – The M and the I.
Which company am I talking about?

4-Which River?
● This river is called Vitastā in the Rigveda and Hydaspes by the ancient Greeks.
● It known to be one of the seven rivers (Sapta sindhu) mentioned several times in the
Rigveda.
● The name survives in the Kashmiri name for this river as Vyeth.
● According to the major religious work Srimad Bhagavatam, it is one of the many
transcendental rivers flowing through land of Bharata, or ancient India.
● The river was regarded as a deity by the ancient Greek.
● One of India’s neighbour gets the water of this river according a treaty.

6-Which company’s advertisement?

7-What is his claim to fame?
This social entrepreneur from Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu was recently in news. Why?

8-Which App? Why?
Four rating of this popular image messaging and multimedia sharing mobile app took a dip in April 2017
and came down to just one rating. Which app? Why?

9-What am I talking about?
The government argued that the new orange coloured ones for laborers and unskilled
employees are supposed to protect vulnerable them from exploitation abroad, but critics
argue that the orange and blue color coding could lead to discrimination against poor
and illiterate workers and effectively render millions of Indians second-class citizens.

10-Identify X
X= A Bengali Sweet resembling to Peda
X= A Gujarati newspaper started in 1923
Kamal X= A biweekly by BJP

11-Give me X.
● The ___X___ is the "knowledge storehouse of the procedures for everyday life".
● __X__ is a collection of 20 books, with a total of 730 hymns of about 6,000 stanzas.
● One of the layers of __X__ text includes three primary Upanishads, influential to
various schools of Hindu philosophy. These include the Mundaka Upanishad, the
Mandukya Upanishad and the Prashna Upanishad.
● The __X__ Samhita contains hymns many of which were charms, magic spells and
incantations meant to be pronounced by the person who seeks some benefit, or
more often by a sorcerer who would say it on his or her behalf. The most frequent
goal of these hymns charms and spells were long life of a loved one or recovery
from some diseases. Some magic spells were for soldiers going to war with the goal
of defeating the enemy, others for anxious lovers seeking to remove rivals or to
attract the lover who is less than interested, some for success at a sporting event, in
economic activity, for bounty of cattle and crops, or removal of petty pest bothering
a household.

12-What is (?) ?
Mumbai- Bombay Stock Exchange
Delhi- National Stock Exchange
Gandhinagar- (?)

14-Which goddess?
According to Vedic religion, X was a minor Goddess and also the wife of God Agni.
The word X means ‘oblation’. She was originally a nymph but became mortal after
marrying Agni. She is considered to be daughter of Daksha. She is thought topreside over
burnt offerings. The Gods to whom the offerings are made refuse the offerings if the
word X is not uttered after each offering. Identify X.

15-16-First and Latest GI tagged Indian
products?
● To safeguard the sanctity of this Indian heritage brand, (X) came under the the
enactment of Geographical Indicators for the first time in India, through the
Geographical Indications of Goods (Registration & Protection) Act, 1999.
● This happened in 2003 and (X) became first Indian product to receive a GI tag 2004-
05 through the Indian Patent Office. Since then until 2017, a total of 295 articles
have taken GI tag. Identify the product.
● Also, another product (Y) is expected to get it soon and hence, is in news recently.
Which product?

17-What is being lost?
900 of them exist (according to People’s Survey of India) as opposed to 1,652 (in
the 1961 census). Every fortnight, there is a loss of one. Every decade we lose
about 100 of them. What are we talking about?

18-What is the connection?(Non Exhaustive
List))
Surabhi the cow
Uchchhaishrava the horse
A bevy of apsaras
The Parijata tree
Varuni, the goddess of wine
Halahala, a poison.
Dhanvantari, the divine physician.

19-What am I talking about?
● It all started in 2014.
● Initially, there were eight sides.
● In 2017, Jamshedpur and Bangluru were added.
● What am I talking about?

20-Number of principal laws passed between
2016 and 2017 to enact something. What?
Particulars Number of Acts
Central __________ Act 1
Integrated __________ Act 1
State ________ Act -
States 29
Union Territories 2
Total 33

End of Qualifiers.
Put away your pen and hand over your sheets.

X – Saraswat Brahmins
Y – Gaud Saraswat Brahmins

X- Odisha
Y- West Bengal
Z- Rosogulla

Snapchat because its CEO called India a poor country.

Colour coding for Indian passports

India International Stock Exchange

Kamal Hassan’s new political party Makkal Needhi
Malam (MKM)

15 – Darjeeling Tea
16 – Araku Coffee (AP)

Items churned during Samudra Manthan

_“A”_ was born in Antwerp, Belgium and has a family background of diamond business. _“A”_ himself went to
Mumbai to work in his uncle_“B”_’s business at the age of 19 and later on went on to Wharton to study but could
not complete. _“A”_’s younger brother is married to Isheta Salgaocar, who is the niece of _“C”_, the elder brother
and _“D”_, the younger brother. Father of _“C”_ and _“D”_ , _“E”_ is considered one of the people to lead the
_“F”_ sector, with the said vision of _“C”_, in its early days._”F”_ sector witnessed the _“G”_ scam of almost 1.69
lac crore, one of the possible reasons of the defeat of Manmohan Singh government. In connection with the scam,
there were some leaked audio tapes of _“H”_ who worked as the Public Relation Officer of _“I”_, the then
chairman of a famous conglomerate _“J”_ which has the biggest software company of India under its belt. The
founder of _“J”_, _“K”_ was born in the town of Navsari district(which was just a town back then), famous for a
Satyagrah known as _“L”_ which was done in 1930. _“I”_ came with a product in the _“F”_ sector with a Japanese
company _“M”_ in a joint venture in 2008 which failed miserably. A couple of years back from now, the _“F”_
sector in India was disrupted by the entry of _“N”_, a wholly owned subsidiary of _“O”_. Two close competitors of
_“N”_, _“P”_ and _“Q”_ announced merger. _“R”_ is the chairman of the company whose subsidiary is _“P”_.
_“R”_’s great grandfather _“S”_ was a close associate of a great political leader _“T”_ who was the first leader of
_“L”_. _“R”_ is also the chairman of the company which owns the _“U”_, the biggest cement manufacturing
company of India which was acquired from _“V”_ in 2004 which was awarded Hyderabad Metro railway project.
_“R”_, who is also the Chancellor of _“W”_ and chairperson of _“X”_, the two of the premier institutes of India,
announced to invest 25,000 crore in the state of _“Y”_, whose CM is _“Z”_, on 21st February in a recently
concluded investors’ summit.

A=Nirav Modi B=Mehul Choksi C=Mukesh Ambani
D=Anil Ambani E= Dhirubhai Ambani F=Telecom
G=2G H= Nira Radia I= Ratan Tata
J=Tata Sons K= Jamsetjee Tata L= Dandi March/Salt Satyagrah
M=Docomo N= Jio O= Reliance Industries
P= Idea Q= Vodafone R= Kumar Mangalam Birla
S= Ghanshyamdas Birla T= Gandhiji U= Ultratech Cement
V= L & T W=BITS X= IIT Delhi
Y= Uttar Pradesh Z=Yogi Adityanath

Write Brothers-I
Round-2
● Autobiographies/Memoirs/
Biographies

Answers
1) Lal Krishna Advani
2) Sourav Ganguly
3) Dev Anand
4) Khushvant Singh
5) Abhinav Bindra
6) Phoolan Devi

List It
Round-3
List it (5 points for each correct.)
Score from this particular round
will be doubled if all are correct.

Which landlocked states of India do not have any
international border?

Answer
● MP
● Haryana
● Delhi
● Telangana
● Chhattisgarh
● Jharkhand

Write Brothers-
II
Round-4
Famous Quotes/Speeches

1
“Chaar haath chaubees gaj,
Angul ashth praman,
Taa upar sultan hai,
Mat chuko Y”
- These are the lines of poem by X which he was reciting to Y.

2
“The only son of prosperous parents is apt to be spoilt, and especially so in
India.”
- This is the first line of X’s autobiography.

3
“When a big tree falls, the earth shakes.”
- X after the death of Y, a few weeks later at a public rally.

4
“With all due respects, it would be really worthy of an Indian commentator to
speak more about our players than others all the time.”
- A Cricket Fan X Via a tweet allegedly against Y on March 23, 2016.

5
“There will be no withdrawal without written orders and these orders shall
never be issued. “
– X as Core Commander in 1962.
“I wonder whether those of our political masters who have been put in charge of
the defense of the country can distinguish a mortar from a motor; a gun from a
howitzer; a guerrilla from a gorilla, although a great many resemble the latter.”
- Elsewhere

6
“Yeh Dil Maange More”
- Param Vir Chakra awardee X. It

1
“Chaar haath chaubees gaj,
Angul ashth praman,
Taa upar sultan hai,
Mat chuko Y”
- These are the lines of poem by Chand bardai which he was reciting to
Prithviraj Chauhan.

2
“The only son of prosperous parents is apt to be spoilt, and especially so in
India.”
- This is the first line of Nehru’s autobiography.

3
“When a big tree falls, the earth shakes.”
- Rajiv Gandhi after the death of Indira Gandhi, a few weeks later at a public
rally.

4
“With all due respects, it would be really worthy of an Indian commentator to
speak more about our players than others all the time.”
- A Cricket Fan Amitabh Bachchan Via a tweet allegedly against Harsha
Bhogle on March 23, 2016.

6
“Yeh Dil Maange More”
- Param Vir Chakra awardee Vikram Batra. It inspired the Pepsi Ad campaign
during Cricket World Cup 2003

Bounce-Pounce
Round 5
Pounce = +15/-10
Bounce = +10/0
Direct = +10/0

1-Identify X.
● First appearing in the story “Satyavanshi”, this is arguably the best character of
Sharadindu Bandhopadhay(Let’s say “X”).
● In the stories written in Bengali language, Sharadindu Bandhopadhay appears as the
companion of the protagonist __X__.
● A movie based on this character was released in the year of 2015, sequel of which is
scheduled to be released in 2018.
● Give me “X”.

2-Pehchan kaun.
● The memoir of this person was released in 2017 named “An Ordinary Life” .
However, it was later withdrawn because according to the people who were
mentioned in that memoir, the memoir shows them in a bad light.
● Niharika Singh slammed the writer of his memoir because the writer had mentioned
some personal details between him and Niharika Singh without her explicit consent.
This had invited widespread criticism from a number of people of the nation.
● Identify the person from the modest background whose memoir is being discussed.

3- Who is X? Who is Y?
● _X_, who has two dogs named “Laptop” and “Facebook”, is a fan of Lata
Mangeshkar songs.
● He used one of the Lata Mangeshkar songs “kya miliya aise logo se jinki surat chupi
rahe nakli chehra saamne aye, asli surat chupi rahe” to attack his opponent _Y_.
Allegedly, because of this, “X” was attacked by “Y”’s supporters twice. Once in
Dhanpur and once in Gomti.
● According to a report in Economics Times, “X” speaks Kokborok even better than
“Y”, the domicile.

X= Sunil Deodhar
Y= Manik Sarkar

4-Kaun he woh?
● Padma Vibhushan “X”, the famous physicist for his research in the field of Cosmic
Rays and the Secretary General of the second United Nations Conference on
Peaceful Uses of Outer Space is admired for taking science to the people of our
country by his weekly TV program called “______ _____(Y)” on Doordarshan.
● “Y” is also the name of a short story written by Isaac Asimov in 1988. Give me “X”.

5-Give me the name of this cricketer.
● Even though he played only 10 tests for India in his entire cricket career, he has
scored 13470 runs in 1st class cricket which spanned from 1929 to 1953.
● He has a career average of 71.66, second highest in the world only after Sir Donald
Bradman.
● He used to hold the Indian record for scoring the highest number of double
centuries until 2017 when his record was broken by Cheteshwar Pujara who scored
his twelfth double hundred.
● He used to appear in the radio show on Vividh Bharti which was considered one of
the most sought after radio programs of that time.
● Who is this cricketer?

6-Which phrase?
Ghiyas ud din Tughluq wanted to shift the capital from Delhi to a new city Tughluqabad.
His soldiers approached Nizam Ud Din Aulia, the sufi saint, who refused to lend laborers
for building this city. Tughluq promised to deal with Aulia when he returned from his
Bengal campaign. Aulia refused to flee stating that "____ ___ ___". Tughluq never
reached Delhi. He attended a reception in his honour and the platform on which he was
seated collapsed. He was crushed to death.
Which often used phrase in the Hindi belt is derived from here?

Dilli Door Ast (Dilli Door hai)

7-Who is being talked about here?
Since _____ Singh used to practice a lot during the night after his duty hours, he used to
wait for the moon to come out so that the visibility in the field (during his era there were
no flood lights) improved. He was hence called "_____”, by his fellow players, as his
practice sessions at night invariably coincided with the coming out of the moon.
Eventually the name stuck on and he came to be known as “____ ____”

8-Which work?
● In a very famous Indian work of fiction, Mahendra, a young zamindar, leaves his
drought affected village Padachihno for a nearby town, but he is taken a captive by
the soldiers. Bhavananda frees him and takes him to a secret hideout. What is the
name of the hideout?
● The answer gives the title of the work itself, based on the Sannyasi rebellion and
famous for giving us “_______”.

9-Which historic building?
In a corner of the courtyard lies a wooden cabinet with five relics of the Prophet known
as Dargah Asar Sharif. These were inherited by the Mughals from Timur who in turn got
them them from Sultan Bayazid Yaldaram from Turkey. Kept safely, are a treasure trove
that includes a set of two Arabic writings in Kufic script on deerskin. which is the
handwritten Quran of Hazrat Ali, son-in-law of the Prophet and excerpts of Quran Sharif
translated by Imam Hasan-grandson of the Prophet.

10-Which business institution?
The British companies invested nearly 100 million pounds in this business by 1875. A
number of networks sprung up as a result of Guaranteed System by 1868 including East
India, Oudh, Rohilkhand, North-Western, Central Indian, Great Indian Peninsula and
South India. Under the system investors got around 5 percent of fixed interest on their
investment. By 1870, the figure had reached 4,771 miles.

11-Identify the actor.
This famous actor led a group of film personalities against the Emergency. He actively
campaigned against Indira Gandhi with his supporters in Indian parliamentary elections
in 1977. He also formed a party called the "National Party of India", which he later
disbanded.
It is believed that he was banned from wearing Black or Dark clothes during his heydays,
because of his immense fan following amongst the female audience. At one point, female
fans started sending him letters in their blood and jumping off buildings after seeing him
in a black suit.

Maximize the
Greed
Round-5
Bid on the number of questions you think you
will answer correctly
If you answer less than the bid then you lose
-10 for each
If you answer more than the bid then you will
get marks for what you have bidden.
Total number of points you will get from this
round is 20*correct answers(Not more than
number of questions you have bidden)
Each question will be displayed for 10
seconds first so that you can bid. After you
bid, you will be given sufficient time to think
and answer.

1-Which maid can make your answer correct
here?
According to the Telugu version of the story, when the protagonist was playing ball with
maid, the maid threw the ball far away. The protagonist got angry because of it and
kicked the maid on her leg. Maid complained about this to protagonist’s step-mother
who complained to his husband. Because of this, the father of the protagonist thought of
sending his children to Gurukula. However, the maid felt that the protagonist was not
punished properly. She had the antagonist tendencies against the protagonist because of
this. However, she had her opportunity years after. Because of this maid, the protagonist
had to wait for so many years to get something which his father had decided to give him
years back. According to some other version of the story, this maid was not a maid but
was one of the richest person of the country. Who is this made?

2-Give me the name of the company.
● Registered under Indian Companies Act in 1894, this company’s first board meeting
was held on May 23, 1894.
● The founding board was drawn from different parts of India professing different
faiths and of varying background with, the common objective of creating a company
of a certain sector that would work in the economic interest of the country.
● Founders of the company included several leaders of the Swadeshi movement such
as Dyal Singh Majithia and Lala Harkishen Lal, Lala Lalchand, Kali Prosanna Roy, E. C.
Jessawala, Prabhu Dayal, Bakshi Jaishi Ram, and Lala Dholan Dass.
● Some of the famous customers of the company included Gandhiji, Jawaharlal Nehru,
Indira Gandhi, Lal Bahadur Shastri, the famous Jalianwala Committee etc.

3-These seven seats are for which region?
● Currently, the maximum number of members of Lok Sabha can be 552.
● At the moment, there are 543 elected members and 2 members of Anglo Indian
community appointed by the President.
● So there are 545 members in Lok Sabha in total.
● It means that these 7 constituencies are not being represented in Lok Sabha.
● Which region do these constituencies belong to?

4-Kya aap jante he woh kon he?
● Abhinav Kumar, subject of number of trolls lately, is one company’s Company
Development Head for India.
● He lives in Germany and is originally from Jharkhand.
● He has a Quora thread all to himself and has been at the receiving end of a number
of Twitter trolls and memes. There are several questions on Quora that poke fun at
him and people have also come up with the truth of his identity. People love to hate
him mainly because of his irritating appearances on one of the mediums of
entertainment and for looking unkempt and ordinary in a crumpled gray shirt,
skinny, baggy jeans and a blazer. (On a side note, these two can be just a couple of
reasons of many.)
● How do we better know this guy?

5-Which important entity?
● The (X) was composed by Pydimarri Venkata Subba Rao, a noted author in Telugu
and a bureaucrat, while he was serving as the District Treasury Officer of
Visakhapatnam District in 1962. He presented it to the senior Congress leader
Tenneti Viswanadam who forwarded it to the then Education Minister P.V.G. Raju. It
immediately became popular and was adapted by many schools in 1963.
● Subba Rao was an expert in Telugu, Sanskrit, Hindi, English, Arabic languages. Unlike
other entities of similar importance whose creators are well known, this one is
almost unknown in the public sphere at least.
● Subbarao himself is thought to have been unaware of its status as the (X) with a
position on par with the _____ and the _____. Apparently, he came to know about
this when his granddaughter was reading the (X) from her textbook.

6-Which sacred Cow?
A legend narrates that the celestial cow ______ resided with sage Jamadagni. The
earliest version of the legend, which appears in the epic Mahabharata, narrates that the
thousand-armed Haihaya king, Kartavirya Arjuna, destroyed Jamadagni's hermitage and
captured the calf of Kamadhenu. To retrieve the calf, Jamadagni's son Parashurama slew
the king, whose sons in turn killed Jamadagni.
Parashurama then destroyed the Kshatriya race of Yadu 21 times and his father is
resurrected by divine grace. Similar accounts of the abduction of the celestial cow or her
calf, the killing of Jamadagni by Kartavirya Arjuna, and the revenge of Parashurama
resulting in the death of Kartavirya Arjuna, exist in other texts.

7-Which Festival?
This Hindu festival is celebrated in the Indian state of Kerala and in certain districts of
Karnataka, usually in the second week of April.
It marks the New Year in accordance with the Hindu Solar calendar. This occasion
signifies the sun's transit into the first zodiac sign according to Indian astrological
calculations, and represents the vernal equinox. The Sanskrit term for the festival means
equal. Which Festival are we referring to?

Mega Connect
Round-6
Answer the sub-slides and earn +5
each
Go for the connect on RISK.

Which State? (80/-70)
● When a particular politician from Gujarat was made the Governor of this state in
2015, he created quite a controversy. The reason for this controversy was that he
spent 4.5 crore on the renovation of Raj Bhavan.
● This state was also in news during one of the verdicts of the honorable Supreme
Court about the distribution of the water of one river.
● This is not the only water river distribution problem with which this state in
association.
● Which state am I talking about?

Which state?(+70/-60)
● The northern and southern parts of the state are hilly, while the central part is a
fertile plain.
● The highest point in the state is the Gaurlata.
● Deciduous forests of the Eastern Highlands Forests cover roughly 44% of the state.
● The state animal is the van bhainsa, or wild asian buffalo.
● The state bird is the pahari myna, or hill myna.
● The state tree is the Sal (Sarai).

Which state has all these five mountain
ranges?(+60/-50)
● Boromura
● Atharamura
● Longtharai
● Shakhan
● Jampui Hills

Which state?(+50/-40)
● Graduate of the 77th course of National Defence Academy, this person went on to
join Indian Army and worked in Jammu and Kashmir where he was a part of counter
terrorism operation.
● Later on, he went on to achieve a special feat at the global level in the field of
sports.
● Currently, he is a part of the Government of India.
● From which state does this person come from?

Give me Y.(+40/-30)
● Person “X” from state “Y” was one of the politicians to leave the Congress Party
after Sonia Gandhi was made the president stating the reason of her foreign origin.
● X contested the Presidential election against Pranab Mukharjee in 2012.
● Son of X is recently in news.

Which state is having people from all these tribes
as its inhaitants?(+20/-10)
● Angami
● Ao
● Chakhesang
● Chang
● Kachari
● Khiamniungan
● Konyak
● Kuki
● Lotha
● Phom
● Pochury
● Rengma
● Sangtam
● Sumi
● Yimchunger
● Zeme-Liangmai (Zeliang)

Identify the state(+10/0)
In the grounds of which state did Sehwag and Sachin scored their ODI Double century?
This is also the state which consists the constituency from where the current speaker of
Lok Sabha is elected.

States having general elections in
2018

Answers of Individual Slide
● Karnataka
● Chhattisgarh
● Tripura
● Rajasthan
● Meghalaya
● Mizoram
● Nagaland
● Madhya Pradesh

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