Round 4

LQC

60/-50

I) The group X was formed in 1942, in the

background of the Second World War,

with Bengal famine of 1943 and starvation deaths

in India on the one hand and repression by the

colonial masters in the wake of the Quit India

Movement and the aggression by the fascist

powers on the Soviet Union on the other.

First Conference was held in Mumbai in 1943

where the group presented its idea and objective

of representing the crisis of the time through

plays and to help people understand their rights

and duties.

50/-40II) X is the largest city in the U.S. state of Maryland, and the 29th-most populous city in the country. Founded in 1729, X is the second-largest seaport in the Mid-Atlantic. With hundreds of identified districts, X has been dubbed a "city of neighborhoods." Famous residents have included writers Edgar Allan Poe, Edith Hamilton, Frederick Douglass, and H.L. Mencken; jazz musician James "Eubie" Blake; singer Billie Holiday; actor and filmmaker John Waters; and baseball player Babe Ruth.

40/-30IV) Set in the background of the last days of

the British Raj in Calcutta, the film explores

the lives of a number of characters,

including the platonic relationship between

an immigrant peddler, and the main female

character called Basanti. The film had overt

political overtones and was the first film to

be banned by the Government of India. The

ban was effective for two years.

30/-20III) If Bombay : Asmita & Sangbadika,then Kolkata : ?

20/-10

V) X is a city in Uttar Pradesh, 320

kilometers (200 mi) south-east of the state

capital, Lucknow, and 121 kilometers

(75 mi) east of Allahabad. Buddha is

believed to have founded Buddhism here

around 528 BCE when he gave his first

sermon. Tulsidas wrote his epic poem on

Rama's life called Ram Charit Manas in X.

10/00

The great Hemanta Da

Audience Questions

Music Director?

Sanjay Leela Bansali.

After Lord Krishna

defeated Kangsa who

ascended the throne

of Mathura?

Ugrasena.

She is Chokila

Iyer,a 1964

Batch IAS

Officer, and a

native of

Darjeeling,

West Bengal.

What was her

claim to fame?

She is India’s 1st female

Foreign Secretary

(2001-2002).

Round 5

Audio/Visual(Written round)

Stake is available for this round.With stake for each correct answer +10,for wrong answer -5.Without stake for each correct answer +5,no negative for wrong answer.

ID the 1977 unreleased film and the MD.

1.

Identify both the actors who lip-synced the song in the film.

2.

This film has 2 distinctive

records as far as winning

a prestigious award is

concerned. What records?

(Be Specific with your

answer.)

3.

Story and the author.

4.

From where this song is taken.

5.

Film?

6.

Film and MD.

7.

Martin Scorsese directed film X continues the story of a pool hooker and stakehorse Edward ‘Fast Eddie’ Felson from Walter Tevis' first novel, Y (1959), with Paul Newman reprising his role from the 1961 film adaptation of Y. It begins more than 25 years after the events of the previous film. Paul Newman won the Academy award for best actor for his role in this film.So give X and Y.

8.

ID this film and Big B

starrer its Hindi remake.

9.

ID this devil may care and famous

Singer of her nation

10.

Which legendary actor’s only directed film is this whose climax ends with an infamous incident? Tell me the incident too.

11.

The film and the author whose story the film is based on.

12.

sachin

+ PremChopra

NaamHay Mera. +

= ?

13.

Solve the equation.

Just identify the movie.

14.

Identify their joint venture.(If you love to download pictures,you will definitely have an answer.)

15.

Please exchange your sheets.

1.Tansen,Ravindra Jain.2.Ranjit Mallick,Kalyani Mondal.3.Katherine Hepburn won her record

4th Oscar and Henry Fonda won oldest ever best actor Oscar award.

4.Ranir Ghater Brittanto,Sayed Mustafa Siraj.

5.The Lion King.6.Baat Ek Raat Ki. 7.Anpadh,Madan Mohan.

8. X- The Colour of Money, Y- The Hustler.9. The Apartment, Raaste Ka Patthar.10. Aryana Sayed.11. Nasiruddin Shah,9/11.12. Khandhar,Premendra Mitra(story Telenapota Abishkar.)13. Virat (Prem) Kohli.14. Hasuli Baker Upokatha.15. Getty Images. (Mark Getty & Jonathan Klein)

Audience Questions

In 1998, the Google search engine

founders Larry Page and Sergey

Brin drew a stick figure behind the

second 'o' of Google as a message

to that they were out of office at the

Burning Man festival and with

that _______ were born.

FITB.

Google Doodle.

Id the

character

Obelix.

Round 6

Miscellaneous

X is a Graeco-Egyptian syncretic god. The cult of

X was introduced during the 3rd century BC on

the orders of Ptolemy I of Egypt as a means to

unify the Greeks and Egyptians in his realm.

The god was depicted as Greek in appearance,

but with Egyptian trappings, and combined

iconography from a great many cults, signifying

both abundance and resurrection.

The cultus of X was spread as a matter of

deliberate policy by the Ptolemaic kings, who also

built an immense temple of X in Alexandria.

(Pic in next slide)

1.

Serapis/Sarapis.

The first biographical works to be written by ______(46 AD- 120 AD) were the Lives of the Roman Emperors from Augustus to Vitellius. Of these, only the Lives of Galba and Otho survive. The Lives of Tiberius and Nero are extant only as fragments._______’s best-known work is the ‘Parallel Lives’, a series of biographies of famous Greeks and Romans, to illuminate their common moral virtues and vices.As is explained in the opening paragraph of his ‘Life Of Alexander’, ________ was not concerned with history so much as the influence of character, good or bad, on the lives and destinies of men.FITB.

2.

Plutarch

One of the founders of the Hindustan Republican Association, X was sentenced to life for his involvement in the Ghadar conspiracy and was imprisoned at Cellular Jail in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, where he wrote his book titled Bandi Jeevan (A Life of Captivity, 1922).(More info in next slide)

3.

He was briefly released from jail but when he continued to engage in anti-British activities, he was sent back and his ancestral family home in Benaras was confiscated.X and Mahatma Gandhi engaged in a famous debate published in ‘Young India’ between 1920 and 1924. He argued against Gandhi's gradualist approach.So who is X here?

Shachindra

Nath Sanyal

________ is a 1988 Hindi drama film written and directed by Gulzar. It is about married couples of urban India having extramarital relations and adultery. The film won critical acclaim in international film festivals but never got released in India till date. It was also the last film, until Dus Kahaniyaan got released in 2007, where Shabana Azmi and Naseeruddin Shah, the lead pair of Parallel Cinema in the 1980s appeared together.On 22 November 2014, film was shown at the International Film Festival of India in Goa after a gap of 22 years since its screening at the International Film Festival at Bangalore in January, 1992. Film?

4.

Libaas

X was elected to the Lok Sabha in 1952, 1957, 1963 and

1967 as a member of Praja Socialist Party. He moved

the first-ever No confidence motion on the floor of the

Lok Sabha in August 1963, immediately after the

disastrous India-China War. However his wife since

1938, remained in Congress and went from strength to

strength in the Congress Party. His wife was twenty

years junior to him and their marriage was opposed by

both families, as well as by Gandhi himself, although he

eventually relented. The husband-wife debate in the

parliament in the 50s and 60s was worthwhile. He also

joined hands with Jayprakas Narayan in the agitation

against the emergency imposed by Indira Gandhi.

Give X.

5.

Jivatram Bhagawandas Kripalani.

The man in the picture was a captain in the French Army during the early 19th century. "Ecriture Nocturne" was invented by him in response to Napoleon's demand for a certain convenience for the French soldiers in the battlefield. X who was a student then,when learned about the Invention from a newspaper suggested him to improve his method which was turned down by

the man as his ego became a hindrance. However X worked tirelessly on his ideas, and his system was largely completed by 1824, when he was fifteen years old. He innovated by simplifying its form and maximizing its efficiency. Id this man and X.

6.

Louise Braille.

Charles Barbier

&

Giuseppe Mazzini was an Italian politician, journalist and activist for the unification of Italy and spearheaded the Italian revolutionary movement in the nineteenth century. X an Indian revolutionary leader was very much influenced by his writings and in 1906,while in London,he compiled a volume called ‘Mazzini Charitra’, a translation of the Italian revolutionary Mazzini's writings. Mazzini's techniques of secret societies and guerilla warfare were fully embraced by X. He also formed an organization called Y taking after Mazzini’s ‘Young Italy’.So give me X and Y.

7.

X- Vinayak Damodar SavarkarY- Abhinav Bharat.

In 1952, he travelled to India for the first time. In

India, he completed several works, including El

mono gramático (The Monkey Grammarian)

and Ladera este (Eastern Slope). While in India,

he met numerous writers of a group known as

the Hungry Generation and had a profound

influence on them.

He won Nobel in Literature in 1990.

Later he came to India as Mexico’s official

Ambassador.

Who is he referred to here?

8.

Octavio

Paz.

It is a part of human anatomy,large,visivble and dip. It appears in the 1941 Alfred Hitchcock thriller Suspicion, where it is given by screenwriter Samson Raphaelson the whimsical name "ucipital mapilary". This neologism is repeated by Count Dracula in Mel Brooks' 1995 satire Dracula: Dead and Loving It, played by Leslie Nielsen.It also appears in the novel and 1996 film The English Patient as an erogenous zone and focal point of amorousness. In the novel it is given the whimsical name "vascular sizood", but it is correctly named in the film. So what is the part called.

9.

The suprasternal notch or jagular notch

Warren Hastings, along with X,

were impeached by Parliament. They were

accused by Burke (and later by Macaulay)

of committing judicial murder of Y; but Sir

James Stephen, who examined the trial in

detail, states that the indictment for forgery

arose in the ordinary course, was not

brought forward by Hastings, and that X

maintained fairness and impartiality.

X and Y?

10.

Audience Questions

According to X Tales, X is a bachelor bear

of indeterminate age. Lives in the forests of

India and loves to tell stories. Has a huge

repertoire of tales, fables and myths from

India and from all over the world. Not a

trained musician, but can sing very well. A

pure vegetarian, he loves honey. Good

friends of Meera the monkey and Dhondu

the donkey. Much loved by all forest

animals and by children everywhere.

Nasiruddin Shah is very fond of X. So who

is X.

Karadi,the bear.

ID this cartoon character.

Student Question.

Captain Haddock.

Back to mainstream quiz

11.The Saint X, originally hailing from Uzbekistan,

spent most of his religious life in India spreading

the knowledge of Islam to the people. According

to the legends, before his death he advised his

followers that they should not bury him at any

proper place or graveyard and should drop his

shroud ('kafan') in the ocean such that it should

be buried by the people where it is found. His

followers obeyed his wish. His disciples made a

shrine at the very place where his remains

floated. Id X.

Pir Haji Ali Shah Bukhari

In the film Mission Impossible II,

bio-chemical expert Dr. Vladimir

Nekhorvich invented a virus and

an anti-virus of the former. He

named them after two Greek

mythological characters. Name

the both.

12.

Chimera.

Bellerophon

This man was a pioneering American nuclear scientist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1939 for his invention of the cyclotron. He is known for his work on uranium-isotope separation for the Manhattan Project. Chemical element number 103 was named in his honor after its discovery at Berkeley in 1961. ID him andthe element.

13.

Ernest Lawrence.

Lawrencium.

It was discovered in July 1799 by a French soldier named Pierre-François Bouchard during the Napoleonic campaign in Egypt. It was the first Ancient Egyptian bilingual text recovered in modern times, and it aroused widespread public interest with its potential to decipher this previously untranslated hieroglyphic language. Meanwhile, British troops defeated the French in Egypt in 1801, and the object came into British possession under the Capitulation of Alexandria and was transported to London. It has been on public display at the British Museum almost continuously since 1802, and is the most-visited object there. The term used for the object is now used in other contexts as the name for the essential clue to a new field of knowledge.

14.

The Rosetta

Stone.

Twenty years ago, he would not have been able to write a poem but now his verses are going to be part of the syllabus for students at Odisha’s Sambalpur University. Ironically, he never completed schooling as he had to drop out after class three to work as a labourer. His father passed away when he was 10 years old. Soon, he was pulled out of school and put to work as a dishwasher at a local shop. He was very fond of folk songs from his childhood. After sometime it was his folk songs that had made him famous in the locality and he was asked to write poems. Clueless about writing, he turned to an anthology written by Jnanpith Award winner Sachidananda Routray for help. Soon after, he wrote his first poem ‘Dhodo Bargachh’ (The Old Banyan Tree), which was published in a local magazine. He was awarded Padma Shri in 2016. Just name him. (pic in the next slide)

15.

Haaldhar Nag.

This Person is believed to be the father of the genre ‘Gothic Story’ with ‘The Castle of Otranto’ which was published in 1764 in England. Identify him and his more famous father.

16.

Robert Walpole.

Horatio/Horace Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford.

Danda is a frequently featured region in Hindu mythology, as in Dandaka, a kingdom and a forest bearing the same name. It was a colonial state of Lanka under the reign of Lord Ravana. Ravana's governor X,also the former’s cousin, ruled this province. It was the stronghold of all the Rakshasa tribes living in the Dandaka Forest. It is roughly the Nashik District, Maharashtra with Janasthana (Nashik city) as its capital. It was from here that the X attacked Raghava Rama of Kosala, who lived with his wife and brother at Panchavati (modern day Nashik), not far away.

17.

Khara.

During the coronation of Rama, Vibishana was presented a sacrosanct gift,an idol. He was carrying it all the way to his kingdom of Sri Lanka and midway, to rest, he placed the image on the banks of Kaveri. After performing his routine pooja, he tried to lift the idol, but it could not be lifted. Then Mahavishnu appeared to him and said that he desired to stay as X in the place, which went on to become Y. Vishnu also desired to watch the Brahmotsavam at Tirucherai. X is considered the abode of Vishnu on earth and the primary temple of Vishnu on earth. ID X & Y.

18.

X- Ranganath.

Y- Srirangam,Tiruchirapalli.

X melanogaster is a species of _____ (the taxonomic order Diptera) in the phylum Arthopoda,family _________. The species is known generally as the common _________. Starting with Charles W. Woodworth's proposal of the use of this species as a model organism, X melanogaster continues to be widely used for biological research in genetics, physiology, microbial pathogenesis, and life history evolution. As of 2017, eight Nobel prizes had been awarded for research using X melanogaster. It is typically used in research because it can be readily reared in the laboratory, has only four pairs of chromosomes, breeds quickly, and lays many eggs. Its geographic range includes all continents, including islands.Give me just X.

19.

Drosophila,commonly known as fruit fly or vinegar fly.

The picture left on your screen,the son of Ganganath Jha,was a former VC of BHU,the 1st chairman of UP PSC and later also served as the chairman of Bihar PSC.The person beside him was one of the most

20.

Celebrated "Progressive" left-wing 20th century poets of the Hindi language and was known for romanticism in his poems which were inspired by nature, people and beauty within. How can be the two associated with each other with regard to a stalwart of another field?

The first one is Amarnath Jha,former

VC of Allahabad University,gave

Amitabh the name Inqilub because he

was born in 1942 after the Quit India

Movement.

The second one is Sumitra Nandan

Pant,the eminent yesteryear’s Hindi

writer ,who changed his name to

Amitabh.

So the answer is the persons who gave

Amitabh the names.

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