LSD’s The Independence Day India QuizBy Yogesh

Mains

Design• List It –I (40 points)• Infinite Pounce (8 Questions Clockwise)• List It-II (40 points)• Infinite Pounce (8 Questions Counter Clockwise)• List It-III (40 points)• Long Connect • Tie Break (If Required)

List It-I (40 points)List the Names of the people you see in the next picture (4 points per name, Extra 6 on all names correct)The collective name by which they were known (10 points)

Infinite Pounce 8 questions Clockwise

Identify the OlympianX was one of the first athlete from India who has won a medal in Olympics.The medal which was given to X was the first to be won by any Indian in that sports category. Since 1900 when Norman Pritchard won two silver medals in athletics, India had won gold medals only in field hockey, a team sport. X is the only Indian Olympic medallist to have never received a Padma Award. X was fleet footed, which made him different from other athletes of his time. English coach Rees Gardner saw this trait in him and trained him prior to 1948 Olympic gamesIn 1955, X joined the police force as a sub-inspector where he won several competitions held within the Police department and also performed National duties as a sports instructor. Despite serving the police department for twenty-seven years and retiring as an Asst. Police Commissioner, X had to fight for pension later on in his life. For years, he was neglected by the sports federation and had to live the final stages of his life in poverty. X died tragically in a road accident in 1984.

Khashaba Dadasaheb Jadhav

Give X.X is a revered name and has been deified by many groups, especially in the Shaivite bhakti tradition. It is claimed by some that X is an incarnation of the mythical serpent Ananta. This X oeuvre comprises of Yogasūtra and the commentary integral to the sutras, called the Bhāṣya. In the past, the sutras and the Bhaṣya have been considered by some to have had different authors, the commentary being ascribed to "an editor" (Skt. "vyāsa"). However, a recent comprehensive re-examination of all the evidence has confirmed the view of many older Sanskrit authors in the period before 1000 that one and the same person composed the sutras and the Bhāṣya commentary.The same study also confirms the date of composition of this work as falling in approximately 400 BC.

X,Y,Z ?X is a 1958 Hindi drama film produced and directed by Y, and written by Ritwik Ghatak and Rajinder Singh Bedi. Its music was composed by Z with lyrics written by Shailendra. The film stars Dilip Kumar and Vyjayantimala in the lead roles with Pran and Johnny Walker. It was one of the earliest films to deal with reincarnation and had a gothic noir feel to it. The first and only collaboration between Roy and Ghatak, it was one of their most commercially successful and influential films. X won the National Film Awards for Best Feature Film in Hindi and nine Filmfare Awards, including Best Film, Best Director, Best Music Director, Best Female Playback Singer, Best Dialogue, Best Art Direction, and Best Cinematographer.

Janam Janam, the 1988 Hindi film starring Rishi Kapoor, is a remake of X. In 2007, Farah Khan made Om Shanti Om using some plot elements from X but did not credit the earlier film.

X= MadhumatiY= Bimal RoyZ= Salil Chowdhury

Name A & BBud Collins in his book, ‘History of Tennis’ describes the match as follows:

“Wimbledon ’69 had barely begun, and the defending champion, A, was under siege, losing in the second round on Court 4, a patch of grass hardly fit for the emperor. I rushed out and saw this anonymous Indian B was killing my mate, serving at 6-3, 6-4, 3-3. On this trembling occasion, A said he felt like he was holding a skillet. He can still recollect the momentary fear, “Losing wasn’t the worst thing that could happen, so I loosened up.” But B tightened up. He bungled an overhead that would have taken him to 4-3, and A began taking over”

A won that set and the next two sets 6-0.

Rod Laver and Premjit Lall

Give X and Y.• X was a Majestic-class aircraft carrier of the Indian Navy. The ship was commissioned as

HMS Hercules for the British Royal Navy during World War II, but construction was put on hold after the war's end, and she never entered British service. India purchased the incomplete carrier from the United Kingdom in 1957, and construction was completed in 1961.

• X was commissioned as the first aircraft carrier of the Indian Navy and played a key role in enforcing the naval blockade on East Pakistan during the Indo-Pakistan War of 1971.

• The ship was decommissioned in January 1997 and from 1997 to 2012, she was preserved as a museum ship in Cuffe Parade, Mumbai, until it was closed in 2012 due to safety concerns. In January 2014, the ship was sold through an online auction and was scrapped for metal.

• In February 2016, Indian auto manufacturer _____ unveiled a new bike made with metal from X’s scrap and named it Y in honour of X.

INS Vikrant and Bajaj V

Who was X and what was this consignment all about?In 1965, after approvals, a 450 ton consignment of Lerma Rojo & Sonora 64 left to Pakistan and India but was stopped at Mexico, then went by a 30 truck convoy to Los Angeles, reaching LA after a detour due to the Watts riots.At LA, a Mexican bank refused to honour the Pakistani payment of US $100,000 due to a misspelling on the cheque, but still the shipment was loaded on a freighter and shipped to Bombay and Karachi. 12 hours into the ship’s journey, war broke out and X received a telegram from Pakistan minister Malik Bucha “I’m sorry to hear you are having trouble with my check, but I've got troubles, too. Bombs are falling on my front lawn. Be patient, the money is in the bank ...”

Norman Borlaug The first dwarf spring wheat strains that started the Green Revolution in India & Pakistan

Give X ?X was a popular 19th-century Bengali poet and dramatist. He was born in Sagordari, a village in Keshabpur Upazila, Jessore District of Undivided Bengal (now Bangladesh). He was a pioneer of Bengali drama. His famous work Meghnad Bodh Kavya, is a tragic epic. It consists of nine cantos and is exceptional in Bengali literature both in terms of style and content. He also wrote poems about the sorrows and afflictions of love as spoken by women.X is widely considered to be one of the greatest poets in Bengali literature and the father of the Bengali sonnet. He pioneered what came to be called Amitrakshar chhanda (blank verse). Although his first love remained poetry, X showed prodigious skill as a playwright. He was the first to write Bengali plays in the English style, segregating the play into acts and scenes. He was also the pioneer of the first satirical plays in Bengali – Buro Salik er Ghare Row.In the words of Sri Aurobindo:

All the stormiest passions of man's soul he [X] expressed in gigantic language.

Michael Madhusudan Dutt

Initially two envoys – Ali Mardan Khan and Muhammad Ali Khan were sent to the court of Muhammad Ali with a request to close the Mughal frontiers around Kabul so that the Afghan rebels X was fighting against, may not seek refuge in Kabul.that certain Afghan rebels who were troubling the eastern provinces not be sheltered.

When no concrete response was received, another envoy, Muhammad Khan Turkman was sent to deliver a more strongly worded protest, but Muhammad Ali’s court wasted time in discussing how best to address this new envoy respectfully.

The last straw was the murder of two courtiers, who were sent to gain news of Turkman’s whereabouts.

What retributive action happened next?

Nadir Shah Pillaged Delhi

List It-II (40 points)List the Names of the people you see in the next picture (5 points per name, Extra 10 on all names correct)

Doordarshan Anchors•Sarla Maheshwari•Nidhi Ravindran•Shobhna Jagdish•Shammi Narang•Ved Prakash•Salma Sultan

Infinite Pounce

Counter Clockwise+15 on correct-10 on incorrect

X ?•  After independence, Bhopal was one of the last states to sign the Instrument of

Accession as Nawab Hamidullah Khan made an effort to retain Bhopal as a separate unit which ignited agitations against him in December 1948, leading to the arrest of prominent leaders including X on 23 January 1949.

• X was sentenced to eight months imprisonment for violating restrictions on public meetings. Later, the political detainees were released as the Nawab signed the agreement for merger on 30 April 1949.

• X became the Chief Minister (1952–1956) of Bhopal, and later Union Cabinet Minister (1956–1967), holding the portfolios of Education, Law, Public Works, Industry and Commerce, National Resources and Separate Revenue.

• He was the President of the Indian National Congress in 1972–1974 and returned to the government as Union Minister for Communications from 1974 to 1977.

Dr. Shanker Dayal Sharma

Give XX was the leader of the agnostics (ajnanavada). Upanishads over millenniums had proposed opposing theories of body, soul, karma and transmigration. X rejected all the contradictory theories of body and soul. His followers circumvented and avoided speculative questions rather than trying to answer them, hence were accused of being ignorant (ajnana). X lived around the 6th or 5th century BCE, contemporaneous with Mahavira and the Buddha.In the Samannaphala Sutta, X is recorded as saying:'If you ask me if there exists another world [after death], if I thought that there exists another world, would I declare that to you? I don't think so. I don't think in that way. I don't think otherwise. I don't think not. I don't think not not. If you asked me if there isn't another world... both is and isn't... neither is nor isn't... if there are beings who transmigrate... if there aren't... both are and aren't... neither are nor aren't... if the Tathagata exists after death... doesn't... both... neither exists nor exists after death, would I declare that to you? I don't think so. I don't think in that way. I don't think otherwise. I don't think not. I don't think not not.'

Sanjaya Belatthiputta

Who is X ?

Laxmi Sahgal/Captain Laxmi• A revolutionary of the Indian

independence movement• An officer of the Indian National Army• Minister of Women's Affairs in the Azad

Hind government• Sahgal is commonly referred to in India as

"Captain Lakshmi", a reference to her rank when taken prisoner in Burma during the Second World War.

Give me X?“Dear Mr X, Namaste from India, we are sending you lots and lots of natural green tea. It fights against harmful free radicals. It helps purify mind and body and regain a healthy balance. It has also proven to make people smarter. Please Mr X drink the tea. For your sake and for the world’s sake,” Kolkata-based Te-A-Me Teas said in a video explaining the idea of sending green tea to X.“The message is simple: Mr X, it’s never too late to cleanse yourself,” the company said a day after its representatives delivered a consignment of some 6,000 green tea bags to the ____ in New York.Picture on next slide

X & Y?X is an intricately constructed stepwell situated in the town of Patan in Gujarat, India. It is located on the banks of Y River. X was built as a memorial to an 11th century AD king. It was added to the list of UNESCO's World Heritage Sites on 22 June 2014. Stepwells are a distinctive form of subterranean water resource and storage systems on the Indian subcontinent, and have been constructed since the third millennium BC. X was built in the complex Maru-Gurjara architectural style with an inverted temple and seven levels of stairs and holds more than 500 principle sculptures.(Picture on next slide)

Rani Ki Vav, Saraswati River

What was the occasion? Who was X and what was X’s gift misinterpreted as? (3 parts)

From a 2007 article in The Telegraph by Pamela Hicks, daughter of Lord Mountbatten : “It was 1947 and I received a letter asking to be by her side and was honoured to accept. I nearly did not make it as my father had just become the Governor General. With the riots, there was a lot of anxiety but eventually we were allowed to go to Britain for 10 days. Before we left, my parents saw X, who wanted to give a present but had no possessions to give. My father, however knew he still had something with him and requested if it could be used to make a gift, that would be the equivalent of the Crown Jewels. This was done and when we took it to Britain, the Queen wrongly thought it was a ________ and hence “a most indelicate gift and horrible thing.”

Princess Elizabeth’s wedding Mahatma Gandhi gifted her hand spun khadi, which was misinterpreted as a loincloth

X ?As the 10th Chief Election Commissioner of India, X’s name became synonymous with transparency and efficiency. When he managed to stamp his authority on the country's electoral system by conducting the cleanest elections in living memory. An Indian Administrative Service officer, he earlier served as the 18th Cabinet Secretary in 1989. He won the Magsaysay award for government service in 1996.He contested for the post of President of India in 1997 and lost to K.R. Narayanan. He is often known for his crisp one-liners, be it during his service to his superiors and ministers or while facing the media.A Delhi journalist who watched X conduct a “town hall” meeting in election days remembers that he handled the audience with great skill. Dressed in a loose kurta and pyjama, he was direct and crisp, and impatient with long-winded questions. His punch line for the evening was: “Tu cheez badi hai bhrasht bhrasht”

TN Seshan

What ?It is believed that the sage Dhadichi, tired of safeguarding the Devas’ weapons, dissolved them in water and drank it. When the Devas required the weapons to fight the Asuras, Dhadichi realised that the weapons were part of his bones, and so he willingly gave up his life, so that Brahma could fashion weapons to defeat the Asuras.According to legend, he made this sacrifice, to help fight a righteous war, at a particular place in India. For this reason among others, the site was chosen for something else in 1917. What?

Mahatma Gandhi situated the Sabarmati Ashram here.

List It-III (Max Points 40)Identify Every Picture for 4 points.Take Additional 8 points if all correct

Long Connect Max Points 40

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Formerly (Ministry of Education)Currently (MHRD)