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Quiz Questions

QUESTION 1: In his hey days, Kapil Dev was called the 'Haryana Hurricane'. Who gave him the
nickname?

ANSWER 1: The Guinness Book of World Records

QUESTION 2: What was the village that survived the tsunami largely undamaged and why?

ANSWER 2: Naluvedapathy village. They made a Guinness record planting 80,244 saplings on December 2, 2002. That helped them avoid disaster.

QUESTION 3: What's unique about the North Bengal Lok Sabha constituency in 1952?

ANSWER 3: It was a 3 member seat. (i.e 3 MPs were to be elected from the constituency)

QUESTION 4: Which famous place in India gets its name from the local name for "mangrove trees"

ANSWER 4: Sundarban. It's from "Sundari"— the local name of a particular kind of mangrove tree.

QUESTION 5: In 1991, a fire-accident burnt down "Star Theatre"—an old theatre in Calcutta. In the
same year, in a separate fire-accident, the priceless historical collection of a company was gutted in Calcutta. What is the company/institution? And what sort of collection it had?

ANSWER 5: Bourne & Shepherd Photographic studio, established by Samuel Bourne and Charles Shepherd. It contained lots of Raj era photos.

QUESTION 6: Considered among the most influential personalities in the Bombay film industry,
this gentleman's name means "new happiness" as his year of birth also saw the conclusion of a major war. Who is being referred to?

ANSWER 6: Naushad

QUESTION 7: What is the common characteristic between Drona, Dhristadyumna, Jarasandha
and Sita?

ANSWER 7: All had unnatural births. Sita was got from a furrow when ploughing a field, daughter of earth; Drona was born a brahmin, son of sage Bharadwaja, in modern day Dehradoon (a modification of dehra-dron, a clay pot), which implies that he was not gestated in a womb, but outside the human body in a Droon (earth pot); Drupada aka Drishtadyumna was got from doing a yagnam, born out of the fire. Jarasandha was born in two halves in 2 mothers. Each half was dead and were thrown away. A rakshasi named Jara collected the 2 pieces and joined those. That's why the name: Jara sandha.

QUESTION 8: Which Indian revolutionary was a founding member of the Mexican Communist Party?

ANSWER 8: M.N. Roy

QUESTION 9: Name the state in India that does not have a public seat at the Lok Sabha.

ANSWER 9: Mizoram

QUESTION 10: Who is the director of the Indian film that won the award for Best Film Live Action
6–12 category in the 2005 Kids for Kids festival, Naples? What is the name of the film in English and in vernacular language?

ANSWER 10: Sahiful Mandal, for "We are"/"Aamra".

QUESTION 11: During World War II, Country A was under the colonial rule of Country B. Country B
was at war with Country C. Faced with attack from C, B had to withdraw from A. Now, in A, there was a freedom struggle going on to free the country from B. The leader of this struggle was Person D. So when C drove B out of A, D welcomed C as its deliverer and joined his forces with C’s armies. But C treated A so badly that within a couple of years, D switched sides and allied himself with B once again. The Country A got its freedom a few years after WWII. Name A, B, C and D.

ANSWER 11: A is Burma; B is British Empire; C is Japan and D is Aung San and the Burmese National Army.

QUESTION 12: Once when a soldier said 'I'm proud be in the Forgotten Army', which army he was
referring to.

ANSWER 12: The British Fourteenth Army

QUESTION 13: Which actor turned politician was also a nominee for a Nobel prize?

ANSWER 13: Jayalalitha. She is a nominee for the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize.

QUESTION 14: Who was the first actor in India to get elected as a member of LokSabha, from
which place and which year?

ANSWER 14: Kongara Jaggayya (also transliterated as Jaggaiah). He was an MP from Ongole.

QUESTION 15: In Mahabharata, we get the ancient names of many regions of modern India. Which
modern state of India was mentioned in Mahabharata in its present day name?

ANSWER 15: Manipur

QUESTION 16: Connect Sakuntala, Narada in the story of Savitri and Meerabai.

ANSWER 16: All played by M. S. Subbulakshmi.

QUESTION 17: Psychoanalysis is a type of psychodynamic therapy or insight-oriented
therapy, a therapeutic technique for the treatment of neuroses and some psychoses. Sigmund Freud was one of the first proponents of this method/ theory. Which Indian scientist/clinician is generally believed to be the first proponent of this theory in India?

ANSWER 17: Girindrasekhar Bose

QUESTION 18: What he wrote is remembered especially today (i.e. on 25 April). Who is he, and
how does he relate to the clue?

ANSWER 18: Pudhumaipithan. 25 April 2006 happens to be the centennial of Pudhumaipithan's birth.

QUESTION 19: This poet wrote a sathaka (anthology of 100 or more poems) on an eatable. Who is
this writer and what is the name of the sathaka? What is the story of how it came to be written?

ANSWER 19: Chilakamarthi. Apart from being a famous poet, he was also a playwright with one of the popular theater troupes in which Tanguturi Prakasam was also a member. The story goes that, one day after rehearsals, some one brought hot pakoras and when Chilakamarthi wanted to have them, some one said, one pakodi (Telugu for Pakora) for one poem! Then, Chilakamarthi said, "Gone are the days of akshara lakshalu (A lakh for each alphabet in the poem) and we have the days where we get only a pakodi for a poem." and then recited several poems on the spot on the greatness of pakodi. The collection is titled pakodi satakam

QUESTION 20: There is a place in India, of which it is said, that a river passes through a mountain
and emerges on the other side. This is not just a river that travels underground, and emerges some time later at a lower elevation. This river is said to pass through a mountain! What is the name of the mountain? Where is it located?

HINT
Hint 1: The river flows into a valley which is surrounded on all sided by mountains. According to a legend of some local inhabitants, at one time the valley was filled with water. However, a giant fish bored a hole through the mountain, allowing the valley to drain and become inhabitable.
Hint 2: An alternate legend to the giant fish, is that the drainage hole was created by Siva with his trishul.
Hint 3: The giant fish was called Hutunga.

ANSWER 20

Chingnunghut mountain, Manipur valley, and Imphal river. Its tributaries and it flows into chindwin river through 3 tunnels.

QUESTION 21: There were 2 Sahadevas, one the Pandav, who was the other?

ANSWER 21: Sahadeva Thera, an arahant who accompanied the Thera Majjhima to the region of Himavā, who was also the son of Jarasandha.

QUESTION 22: What term or phrase is often used in USA to differntiate Indians of India origin from
Native Indians?

ANSWER 22: "Indians of dot"(Asian Indian) as opposed to "Indians of feather" (Native Indians).

QUESTION 23: Recognising the gravity of the HIV/AIDS situation, the head honcho of this Indian
Company started awareness programmes and developing a workplace policy back in 1990, before even the Government was fully aware of the problem. Which Company?

ANSWER 23: Bajaj Auto

QUESTION 24: Connect James Bond and 2006 Commonwealth Games.

ANSWER 24: "Goldfinger" Samresh Jung.

QUESTION 25: Which Indian city did Robert Napier, 1st Baron Napier of Magdala lay the foundation
of?

ANSWER 25: Darjeeling