Alhamdulillah

DHYANA 2015RESEARCHED AND CONDUCTED BY :

ABDUL VAHID. P. A

ANSWERS

20 QUESTIONS : 1 POINT FOR EACHPART POINTS ACCORDING TO QM’S

DISCRETIONQM IS NOT GOD, BUT THE MASTER.

This is a still from a Monkey Training School in Thailand. Such schools were opened to train monkeys to do a specific job. Circumstances that lead to this were laziness of people to do this risky job and high wages of the workers who were ready to do. Nowadays monkeys are employed for this purpose in Thailand, Sri Lanka, Java etc.

What job?

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Sanjay Singh, a food safety officer from UP argued that he did all the work himself, but ultimately his boss VK Pandey took the credit.

When some newspapers lauded Singh for this, some lauded Pandey. According to Pandey, Singh only did the primary work, all the analysis were done by him.

What’s the matter of dispute here?

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Exposing potentially harmful content in Maggi that triggered its ban.

Maggi will fetch you points.

This is Order of The Star of India introduced by Queen Victoria in 1861.

Which iconic logo did it inspire?

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BCCI Logo

The Great Impact Hypothesis, also known as the Big Splash Theory or Theia Impact, explains the formation of X.

According to this theory, millions of years ago, Theia, a celestial body about the size of mars collided with the Earth. The debris thus formed fused together to form X.

In Greek mythology, Y is the daughter of Theia. Hence the Greek term for X is Y.

Identify X or Y.

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X – MoonY - Selene

Legend has it that Santanu, an ancient Indian sage started a long meditation in an ashram with his beautiful wife Amodha. She was so beautiful that even Lord X became enchanted by her beauty and requested her to make love with him to which she refused. However by the time X became so excited that his semen discharged at that place. When Santanu came to know about this, he inseminated X’s semen in the womb of Amodha and subsequently she gave birth to a son. The son took the form of water and was named Y.

This is the mythological explanation for the name of which Indian river? Or identify Y.

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BrahmaputraX – Brahma, Y – BrahmaputraThis is the only Indian river with a male name.

Film director Hariharan considers Yesudas’s songs as ornaments to a film. Yesudas has sung for all Hariharan films except Amrutham Gamaya.

Amrutham Gamaya was a 1987 film written by MT and says how a doctor tries to atone for his mistake as a student that destroyed a family. Mohanlal, while being a medical student kills Vineeth in ragging. This incident haunts his guilty mind and he ultimately helps Vineeth’s sister to become a doctor.

Why didn’t Yesudas sing for the film?

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The film had no songs.

Identify the cartoonist

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OV Vijayan

He was born in Jalandhar, Punjab in 1971. He is a graduate in law from University of Trivandrum and postgraduate from NSS College, Ottappalam.

His published works include Charithram Avare Kuttakarennu Vilikkum, Agolavatkaranathinte Virudha Lokangal, Agola Sampathika Prathisandhiyude Manangal.

Who?

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MB Rajesh

Her debut as a playback singer came in the Telugu film Rakhi, singing the title song under music director Devi Sri Prasad. She went on to win Filmfare Award for Best Female Playback Singer for that song. Subsequently, she was asked to sing several songs by Devi Sri Prasad and did really well. Her first song in Malayalam came in the 2010 Amal Neerad film Anwar.

Who?

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Mamta Mohandas

This was a stamp issued by Liberia in 1968 to congratulate Rev Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. for winning the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1964.

Why is the stamp ridiculous?

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JFK was assassinated on November 22, 1963 before King won the prize.

In ancient Rome this name was given to someone who worked with lead. These men began to smelt lead and make various products with it.

What occupation gets its name from this fact?

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Plumber

Identify the man!

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Jawaharlal Nehru

When King Trisanku desired for heaven, his guru sage Viswamitra created a parallel heaven for him between the Earth and original heaven. He also devised X in the new heaven to fulfil the king’s nutritional requirements. Later Siva blessed Trisanku with original heaven. Thereupon X was shifted to Earth.

Identify X in this popular myth.

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Coconut Tree

This is a ______ brick.

It can be made into beverages or eaten as food.

In the past, Mongolians used such bricks as currencies.

Name the brick/FITB.

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Tea Bricks

X recently signed a licensing deal with ScreenYug Creations Pvt Ltd allowing India’s first girl superhero series to be modelled on her.

“Parents are usually not keen on fighting games for their girl child but with all the crime going around, their eyes are now open and this will help”, said X after the programme.

Just identify X.

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MC Mary Kom

This is a sculpture by Constantin Brancusi, who is known as the Patriarch of Modern Sculpture.

Just name it.

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The Kiss

This is Olav Bjortomt. What tournament did he win exactly two weeks ago?

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World Quizzing Championship

X was introduced on 2nd January,1954.

Initially X was classified into 3, Pahela Warg (Class I), Dusra Warg (Class II) and Tisra Warg (Class III).

Later on 15th January, 1955, Pahela Warg became X, Dusra Warg became Y and Tisra Warg became Z.

Solve for X, Y and Z.

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X – PadmavibhushanY – PadmabhushanZ – Padmashri

This is the flag of Nauru.

The Star represents the country and the blue field represents the Pacific Ocean.

What does the golden horizontal stripe represent?

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EquatorNauru lies one degree below the equator.

Sometime in November 2014, X got a new friend Minnu, the honeybee. It was an initiative by the Energy Management Centre to spread electricity conservation messages to the public. Minnu asks us to save energy just like a honeybee saves energy for the future as food. The union of X and Minnu came after X performed in more than 350 stages.

Just identify X.

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AMMU