Final Round

Citius

Welcome to the Jungle.

Q-1 The flag of which country?

South Sudan

*Q-2. X wrote only one opera, Fidelio, a fiercely humanistic opera. He worked on it for 11 years, revising it over and over again. It was produced in 1805. ID X.

Beethoven

Q-3. Originally a sleepy mining town, X became famous in India in owing to its connection with a nationally broadcast radio service Y.

A large number of song requests on the Y programmes would come from X. Young listeners from this town would compete among themselves to send out the most song requests in a day or month.

Identify X and Y.

X: Jhumri Telaiya

Y: All India Radio

*Q-4. X was a leading politician and Journalist. X was publishing leading newspapers from Lucknow. He was an alumni of London School of Economics.

X married Y in 1942.

Y's father opposed their marriage and approached Z to dissuade the young couple but to no avail. Both the sons of X are immortalized in Mumbai.

Identify X, Y, Y's father and Z.

X: Feroze Gandhi

Y: Indira Gandhi

Y’s Father: Jawarharlal

Nehru

Z: Mahatma Gandhi

Q-5. The logo and mascots of what event?

Asian Games 2014

*Q-6. "Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne, and I have founded empires. But on what did we rest the creations of our genius? Upon force. Jesus Christ founded his empire upon love; and at this hour millions of men would die for him. " Identify the speaker.

Napoleon Bonaparte

*Q-7. Identify this cricketer.

Eric Hollies - an English cricketer, who is remembered for taking the wicket of Don Bradman for a duck when 4 runs were required by him to have a test average of 100.

Don Bradman is bowled for a duck by Eric Hollies

Q-8.

Schindler’s ListLetters from Iwo JimaSaving Private RyanThe Colour PurpleRaiders of the Lost ArkMunichClose encounters of the Third KindThe Sugarland Express

(An in-exhaustive list)

All these movies have been directed by?

Steven Spielberg

*Q-9. Apart from being our independence day, 15th August is also the birth day of a very eminent philosopher, teacher and freedom fighter. Name him.

Aurobindo Ghosh

Q-10. X originated when ingredients for the production of Coca-Cola became difficult to import into Nazi Germany during World War II. As a result, Max Keith, the man in charge of Coca-Cola Deutschland during the Second World War, decided to create a new product for the German market, using only ingredients available in Germany at the time, including ’whey’ and ’pomace’ – the "leftovers of leftovers", as Keith later recalled. The name was the result of a brief brainstorming session, which started with Keith exhorting his team to "use their imagination" , to which one of his salesmen, Joe Knipp, immediately retorted “X!”

Fanta