1. Presents India Quiz By Sathvik Ashok

2. Each team can have no more than three people. 30 Questions, written prelims. Please attempt all questions.There is no negative marking. Please do not Google.This is a quiz. Please switch off your cell phones/put them on silent mode. Good luck! 3. X India is the Indian subsidiary of X Corporation. OriginallyYX, the business was derived from a joint venture formed between Dr Bhupendra KumarY throughY Corp (now Spice Group) and X in September 1983. YX is a very common phrase one would find on Indian footpaths or on shop boards (at least in the late 90s and early 2000s). YX ? 4. Neha Kapur (born 1984) is an Indian who won Femina Miss India in 2006 and represented India at the Miss Universe pageant that year. She represented India at the Miss Universe 2006 pageant held on July 23 in Los Angeles, California, United States and reached the top 20. However us geeks who dont closely follow the pageants know her for another reason. Give funda. (Pic next slide) 5. The Retreat Building was built in 1850 and it was a part of theViceroy of India property. Located on the hill top of the Mashobra, the building was taken over during 1895 by theViceroy. It is located 10 km away from Shimla and is a thousand feet higher than the Shimla RidgeTop. The architecture and the picturesque surrounding of the place make it a major tourist attraction inShimla. The outstanding feature of this building is that it is purely a wooden structure with dajji wall construction. This building is the official residence of whom ? 6. The President of India 7. Her recent rise to stardom has nothing to do with those good looks or her celebrity boyfriend. Who ?What did she achieve of late ? 8. Dipika Pallikal Won a gold medal at the Commenwealth Games. 9. "Darshan The Embrace" a film on the life of X, was officially selected for showcasing at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival. Jan Kounen, an award winning filmmaker who was born in Netherlands and is based in France, directed the film. Manuel De La Roche of France, is the producer. The crew began shooting the footage for the film in 2003 during the fiftieth birthday of X. 10. MataAmritanandamayi 11. She is the author of over 100 books and sold more than 3 million copies. A Padma Shri Awardee, she was also awarded Women of the Year by Indian Merchants' Chamber in 2005. Which famous author ? 12. Tarla Dalal 13. Set up in 1844, X is currently Indias oldest surviving bookshop. "Among the many elusive and indescribable charms of life in Madras City is the existence of my favorite bookshop, X on Mount Road. Altogether a delightful place for the casual browser and a serious book lover," said Lord Trevelyan, Governor of Madras, to Lord Macaulay in 1859. X was appointed as the "Official booksellers to His Royal Highness, the Prince ofWales" during the latters visit to India in 1875. It is now a part of the Amalgamations Group, and consists of a chain of 22 outlets spread across South India. 14. A BlackBerryTorch A SamsungTab A box of chocolates from the Grand Hyatt A box of Lindt Swiss thins A box of mini cupcakes Vicenzi's Mini Snack puff pastry rolls filled with hazelnut cream A maroon ______________ mug Gourmet ground coffee A small bottle of Nescafe Classic Bailey's Irish Cream A scented candle A small bottle of Leonidas chocolate spread A bottle of Burberry Sport for women These items are collectively found inside the _____________ . 15. Koffee with Karan Gift Hamper 16. For someone like H D Deve Gowda or S.Bangarappa or S.M.Krishna, it would be Chamarajnagar. For someone like Kiran Reddy orYSR Reddy, it would be Guntakal. For someone like AkhileshYadav or Mulayam SinghYadav, it is Noida. For someone like Jayalalithaa or K.Karunanidhi, it would be a part of the Thanjavur BrihadeeswaraTemple. What? 17. Inauspicious locations These politicians consider it unlucky to visit these places before an election. 18. The only recognised ( by the constitution ) flag of an Indian state. Which one ? 19. Jammu and Kashmir 20. Only two people to have a certain privilege in India. X --- > Because of the relationship between India andTibet Y --- > On the recommendation of the ministry as a special case as he is married to a SPG protectee, in consultation with central security agencies. Who are X andY and What privilege is accorded to them ? 21. X Dalai Lama Y RobertVadra 22. Govindas is a chain of pure vegetarian restaurants, found in different cities around the world, offering a variety of cuisines such as Indian, Italian, Mexican, Chinese andThai. Which international owns this restaurant chain?? 23. The coding scheme ( in pic ) is used by which organisation ? 24. Dabbawallas 25. Sociologist M.N. Srinivas [born in Mysore in 1916] did his Ph.D. at Oxford, for his thesis did his fieldwork in a peasant village not far from Mysore, which he named Rampura. In a long essay he wrote for a seminar organised by the University of Chicago. The Social System of a MysoreVillage: The word party has become a Kannada word. Every administrator and politician speaks of party politics in villages, and even villagers are often heard saying, There is too much party in such and such a village.The coming of elections gives fresh opportunities for the crystallization of parties around patrons. Each patron may be said to have a ____________ which he can place at the disposal of a provincial or national party for a consideration which is not mentioned but implied.The secret ballot helps to preserve the marginal affiliation of the marginal clients. 26. Vote Bank 27. Identify this famous singer. 28. Vennu Mallesh 29. I'm a chilled out dude.When I was younger I did some pretty wild things with the limited options I had. I had some crazy friends, girlfriends too.We had our share of parties and drunken escapades as well. Once when in college I ran out of money and had to sleep at a bus stop. It was fun as all of us on Delhi's Hindu College campus, were happy children of the Beatles' generation. Now, I spend my evenings with the children, watch movies, go for holidays and have a few drinks on the side. 30. Alok Nath 31. He was the first person from his state to stake claim to an achievement. Who is he andWhat did he achieve ? 32. Parvez Rasool Is the first cricketer from Jammu and Kashmir to represent India. 33. This is a 2005 book of fiction.The book has 13 chapters. Each chapters name is prefixed with a number, which are: 1000 2000 5000 10000 50000 100000 200000 500000 1000000 10000000 100000000 1000000000 Which book? 34. When the name was changed in 1996, Outlook Magazine called it The biggest sex change in the History of Modern India. What am I talking about? 35. Change of name fromVictoriaTerminus to Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus 36. The ________ Express is a category of long distance trains run by the Indian Railways.The special feature of these trains is that they run non-stop from source to destination, barring technical halts. All ________ Express trains can be easily recognized by the characteristic yellow-green livery of their passenger coaches.The _________ Express trains are projected to be the fastest trains between the particular pair of cities they serve. ( pic on the next slide ) 37. Duronto Express 38. "We have the math, finance and data skills that are extremely important for this trade, says Rohit _______. As a sub-sect of the Aggarwal community, the _______ are known for running a tight ship when it comes to business and entrepreneurship. The five ______ with their four companies that have set up shop within the last seven years control about 85% of this industry in India. 39. Catering to the nation, this is the logo of which corporation ? 40. The only time that the Ashok Chakra, the peacetime equivalent of the ParamVir Chakra, has been awarded to foreigners was on April 11th, 1984 when Yuri Malyshev and Gennady Strekalov were honoured. Who was the third award presented to, along with them? 41. Squadron Leader Rakesh Sharma 42. When asked why she had returned her _____ , this octogenarian replied, " Im not the first one to do this! Besides, we have seen how things get stolen or misplaced in India. Over the past years, famous paintings have been stolen that have never been retrieved. Even RabindranathTagores Nobel medal wasnt spared. Not many people can claim to have held ______ in their hands and I want that feeling to stay alive." 43. Bhanu Atthaiya 44. In 2003, this Bangalore resident and writer of such books as "TheWorld of Homosexuals" and mystery stories such as "Perfect Murder" caused a ruckus by claiming some doctors had admitted her to hospital to steal her brain. Who? 45. Shakuntala Devi 46. They can originate from only one place in India. In April 2004, to mark a 400th anniversary, about 150 of them made the journey from this place to Canada, to be distributed to various organizations across the country. They were carried on the head on a four-km journey to the airport, and each one was provided with its own linen-draped seat and pillow on the airplane. Something similar happened in 2011, this time about 450 of them making the journey to Italy. What are we talking about? Why separate seats on the plane for each one? 47. Guru Granth Sahib Every book is treated as an individual, and hence the seats. 48. Beaches in Gokarna 49. In the beginning, in 1975, just how big a star he was, todays generation does not know. He was an even bigger star in 1975 than he is now. I had just entered the cinema industry then. For those (my early hits) films, if he had said, Dont cast him, nobody would have taken me. I got Ilamai Oonjal Aadukirathu solely on his recommendation. So I acted in all these films and then, after I became a big actor, one day he called me and said -Only if you act alone will you get your own space. If you say no, the cinema world will use us, and you wont be able to grow. After that I worked on my own. Who (A) about whom (B) ? 50. A Kamal Hassan B- Rajnikanth