India Quiz! KNOWLEDGE SOLUTIONS : QUIZROOTS

The year was 1924. Who wrote this, and to whom?

“If only you can help me with an amount of Rs 22,000 for the purchase of a special type of instrument which has to be imported. I may assure you that I may be able to get the Nobel Prize for my discovery”

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Identify this product which was the first to get GI Tag.

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How do you better know Oscar winning actor “Krishna Bhanji Pandit”?

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Tollywood :: Andhra PradeshSandalwood :: ?

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What was the motive behind this operation?

• In late October 2013, 1000 trucks carrying 3 lakh empty boxes were commissioned to visit 7 lakh villages in India to collect specimen of soil and scrap iron farm implements.

• Several volunteers accompanied these trucks carrying the message “Unity despite disparity”.

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The 2013 movie Bandook was X’s debut as a lyricist.

X’s second venture as a lyricist is the album “Raunaq”, composed by AR Rahman.

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Identify the logo.

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An inscription from the Bible found in the X serves as a testament to Akbar’s secularism. Attributed to Jesus, it reads:

“The world is a Bridge, pass over it, but build no houses upon it. He who hopes for a day may hope for eternity, but the World endures but an hour. Spend it in prayer for the rest is unseen.”

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person.

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This particular form of clothing originated from Achkan, which used to be the court dress of nobles of Turkish/Persian origin in the Delhi Sultanate and Mughal Empire.

It is also the national dress of Pakistan for men.

What?

Where in India would you find this policeman?

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12This was a sketch made by a very famous person when someone had died. Who made the sketch and who died?

Which is the only UNESCO World Heritage Site which is shared by two countries?

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Who was the first Indian occupant of the Rashtrapati Bhavan?

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Connect these countries

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Wild Card Round

It was designed by Sir William Emerson and was built in white Makrana marble, the monument that has a symbolic representation of India’s four great rivers: Ganga, Indus, Krishna & Yamuna.

Which monument?

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Answer is…

Victoria Memorial in Kolkata

The first of these were used in Assyrian times and later went into widespread use in the Middle East. This item of clothing was also worn as a high-fashion garment in Western Europe in the early to mid 1800s. Some of its variants in India include Kanikar, Dourukha, Shatoosh, and Jamiavar.

Identify.

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Answer is…

Kashmiri Shawl

Connect the following fictional names from the world of entertainment:• Raj Malhotra• Karan Joglekar• Inspector Vijay Kumar• Akshay Malhotra• Raja• Rahul Devraj• Dev Kumar / Anand Kumar Malhotra• Bahattar Singh

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Answer is…

Names of Akshay Kumar’s characters in his Khiladi series.

Identify the logo

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Answer is…

Mumbai Monorail

The Oriya version is known as ‘bhat payasa’ and likely originated in the city of Puri about 2000 years ago. It is cooked to this day within the temple precincts there. Every single day hundreds of temple cooks work to cook to serve this dish, enough to feed 1000 people.The Hindi variant, the more popular one gets its name from Sanskrit translation of ‘milk’.Which dish is being mentioned here.?

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Answer is…

Kheer!

Named after Prince Arthur, first duke of _____ and Strathearn, the third son on Queen Victoria, its Georgian architecture, is modeled after Royal Crescent in Bath, England. Today the fourth most expensive office destination in the world according to global property consultant, CBRE Group, and fifth high priced market in the world according to 2013 Forbes list. FITB.

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Connaught Place in New Delhi

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Connect these temples

• Martand in Jammu & Kashmir• Katarmal Temple near Almora in

Uttarakhand• Dakshinaarka Temple in Gaya, Bihar• Punark & Deo Barunark in Bihar• Bhramanya Dev Temple in Madhya

Pradesh• Temple at Kumbakonam in Tamil

Nadu• Temple at Arasavalli in Andhra

Pradesh

Answer is…

Sun Temples throughout India.

Who launched this brand of headphones?

Answer is…

Mika Singh

He was born as Mahesh Das in 1528, in a village near Kalpi, Uttar Pradesh, India. According to folklore, it was at Tikawanpur near the banks of river Yamuna. He was the third son in a Hindu Brahmin family which had previous associations with poetry and literature. He was educated in Hindi, Sanskrit and Persian languages and specialized in music and poetry in the Braj language. The name by which he’s more commonly known is derived from Vir Var which means courageous and great, quite contrary for him since he was not known for his bravery or for his skills as a soldier.

Who is being talked about here?

Answer is…

Birbal

“I knew that I will be transferred when I decided to lift Indira Gandhi’s car (for wrong parking). I gave a thought to it and decided to do what was right then. I was transferred to Goa the next day but that did not deter me from doing right things because of my strong foundation of knowledge and value system.”

Whose words?

Answer is…

Kiran Bedi

Saifee Villa, a house located in a village in the Navsari district, was home to the head of the Dawoodi Bohras. It was given a facelift by the Archaeological Survey of India in June 2013 and 15 acres of land opposing it was acquired by the Government of India for a cultural-cum-architechtural complex. This complex includes 70-metre high solar-illuminated pyramid topped by white crystals, a small lake, and human figurines.

What was its actual purpose?

Saifee Villa

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Dandi March Memorial

Which famous location in Mumbai is named after Khurshed Framji ______, also known as Veer_____, a Parsi member of Indian National Congress, who was famous for his proposal to reclaim the land from the sea in the year 1940? One time mayor of Bombay, he complained of a communal bias to the party high command, after being passed over for the post of Chief Ministership of Bombay Presidency. He was later expelled from the Congress party due to his vociferous but unsubstantial charges.

Answer is…

Nariman Point

Which was the third and the more famous one?

First Logo Second Logo

Answer is…

Indian NationalCongress Logo

This is the Zero Mile Pillar which is believed to be the geographical center

of India. Where is it located?

Answer is…

Nagpur

The Bania (otherwise known as Baniya, Vani and Vania) is an occupational community traditionally comprising of merchants, bankers, money lenders, dealers in grains and spices, and in modern times owners of numerous commercial enterprises. They are predominantly concentrated in the regions of Gujarat and Punjab.

A few of them started selling perfumes and what evocative term/word evolved because of this?

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The term/surname “Gandhi”

Thoda is a martial art form in Himachal Pradesh based on the Indian epics relying on archery skills. The name is derived from the round piece of wood fixed to the arrow head used to blunt its wounding potential

A handful of villagers, called Saathi, challenge a rival clan Pashi to a fight. The game works on a points system based on defense/attack role play. Pashis and Saathis are of the lineage of famous rivals from Hindu mythology

Who do they represent?

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Kauravas and Pandavas

Which article of clothing, that has gone from Asia to the rest of the world, gets its name from Persian for “foot” and “clothing”?

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Pyjama

Put Funda!

Answer is…

Image of Mahatma Gandhi as seen on Indian Currency notes!

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