The IISc Quiz Club IQC The INDIA Quiz OCT 30 2011 QM: Sumeer For feedback : sumeer.kumar@gmail.

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Rules
Infinite Bounce Each question carries 6 points. Some rounds have different scoring which will be mentioned before the round. Some questions have 2 parts and some are 3 parts. For 2 part answers - each part carries 3 points For 3 part answers - each part carries 2 points. No negatives ! So feel free to Guess, Guess and Guess. Only one answer per team per question. In case of multiple answers, ONLY the first answer will be accepted. The Quiz Master's decision is FINAL !

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About Clues
Most questions carry some clue(s). Clue(s) will be provided only as long as no team has an objection . If any team does NOT want a clue they can use their veto power to say so, and no clue shall be provided to anyone.
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 May 07, 2009 Rabindranath Tagore's birthday

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 Mar 14, 2011 Alam Ara's 80th Anniversary first Indian Talkie

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 Sep 17, 2011 Anant Pai's 82nd Birthday

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 What is common to the rivers Mahi, Narmada and Tapti ?

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 These are the only major rivers in India that flow from east to west.

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The _________ Rebellion was a peasant revolt which was later supported by the Communists that took place in the former princely state of Hyderabad between 1946 and 1951,led by the Communist Party of India. The revolt began in the Nalgonda district and quickly spread to the Warangal and Bidar districts. Peasant farmers and labourers revolted against the local feudal landlords (jagirdars and deshmukhs) and later against the Osman Ali Khan, Asif Jah VII. The initial aims were to do away with illegal and excessive exploitation meted out by these feudal lords in the name of bonded labour (Vetti Chakiri). The most strident demand was for all debts of the peasants to be written off. Among the well-known individuals at the forefront of the movement were leaders like Ravi Narayan Reddy, Nalla Narasimhulu, Sateesh Arjula, Anabheri Prabhakar Rao, Puchalapalli Sundaraiah, Chandra Rajeswara Rao, Suddala Hanumanthu, the Urdu poet Makhdoom Mohiuddin, Hassan Nasir, Bhimreddy Narasimha Reddy, Mallu Venkata Narasimha Reddy, Mallu Swarajyam. The violent phase of the movement ended after the central government sent in the army. In 1951, the CPI shifted to a more moderate strategy of seeking to bring communism to India within the constraints of Indian democracy. Fill blanks.
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 Telangana The Telangana region comprise of 10 districts: Adilabad, Hyderabad, Khammam, Karimnagar, Mahbubnagar, Medak, Nalgonda, Nizamabad, Rangareddy, and Warangal. The Musi River, Krishna and Godavari rivers flow through the region from west to east.
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 Karni Mata was a female Hindu sage born in the Charan caste and is worshiped as the incarnation of the goddess Durga by her followers. She is an official deity of the royal family of Jodhpur and Bikaner. During her lifetime, she laid the foundation stone of two of the important forts in Rajputana. She lived an ascetic life, and most of the temples dedicated to her were dedicated during her lifetime. The most famous of her temples is the temple of Deshnoke,near Bikaner and Nokha,which was created following her mysterious disappearance from her home. What is this temple famous for ?
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 RATS !!! The temple is famous for its rats, which are treated as sacred and given protection in the temple. A temple dedicated to her during her lifetime differs from others in that it does not contain an image or idol of her but rather contains a foot-print to symbolize her visit to that place.
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 From 197577 _________ was banned under the state of emergency imposed by the Indian government of Indira Gandhi. Over 400 of its schools in India were closed down, and numerous ministers and adherents were imprisoned. In 1978 three _______ were found guilty of conspiring to murder the Indian High Commissioner in London the previous year and were sentenced to a total of 12 years. What sect ? (symbol on next slide) (clue?)
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 The events surrounding the 1978 World Chess Championship title match between Anatoly Karpov of the USSR and the veteran Viktor Korchnoi were among the most bizarre that a world championship match has ever seen. After defecting from the USSR,Korchnoi was a man without a country and was living in the Netherlands. Korchnoi beleived that some members of Karpov's contingent were directing negative rays at him during the matches. To counter this,Korchnoi asked his orange robed _______ gurus to counter them and to help him chant for victory.
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 Ananda Marga is a social and spiritual movement founded in Jamalpur, Bihar, India in 1955 by Shrii Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar (1922 1990). nanda Mrga followers describe nanda Mrga as a practical philosophy for personal development, social service and all around transformation of society. Through its meditation centers and service projects around the world, Ananda Marga offers instruction in meditation, yoga and other selfdevelopment practices on a non-commercial basis.
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It was an ancient city of Mithila, lying between the lower ranges of the Himalayas and the Ganges River,the Nepalese border cutting across the top fringe of this region. It is assumed that the gates of the city's Qila were broken (by cannons or elephants) in 1326 AD when Tughlak's forces attacked the last independent North Indian Hindu king Harisinghdeva who ruled over North Bihar and most of Nepal.This is given as one reason for its name. Another reason given is that it is the gateway to another neighboring region located in the eastern part of the Indian Subcontinent,which was a seafaring nation of Ancient India. Today,it is a twin city and a municipal corporation and the capital city of the district of the same name in Bihar. Which city are we talking about?

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 Darbhanga Some scholars say that Darbhanga was named after Dar (Dwar) and Bhangaa which means broken gates. Vanga (also known as Banga) was a kingdom comprising part of West Bengal, India and present-day modern Bangladesh. The Gandak and Kosi River form the rough western and eastern boundaries of Mithila.
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This artwork has been done traditionally by the women of villages around the present town of ____ and other areas of Mithila. The painting was traditionally done on freshly plastered mud wall of huts, but now it is also done on cloth, hand-made paper and canvas. The paintings are made from the paste of powdered Rice. The paintings use two dimensional imagery, and the colors used are derived from plants. Ochre and lampblack are also used for reddish brown and black respectively. The paintings mostly depict nature and Hindu religious motifs, and the themes generally revolve around Hindu deities like Krishna, Ram, Shiva, Durga, Lakshmi, and Saraswati.Natural objects like the sun, the moon, and religious plants like tulsi are also widely painted, along with scenes from the royal court and social events like weddings. Generally no space is left empty; the gaps are filled by paintings of flowers, animals, birds, and even geometric designs. Name the artwork. (see next slide for clue)
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 Madhubani painting Madhubani - literally meaning forests of honey.

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 According to the Jahangir Nama, the emperor was impressed by the performance of certain performers from Bengal. Their leader Krishna Chandra Dev was presented an entire village called Sutigram near Dhaka and the Dev family became the landlords of the village. Being landlords they were called _________ , a term that became their family name. Currently, the eighth generation of this family still continues the tradition of entertainment. Fill in the blank. Which form of entertainment ?
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 Sarkar as in PC Sorcar. Magicians Sarkar was a title initially used in the Mughal period to denote persons of political authority. P.C. Sorcar was the stage name of Protul Chandra Sorcar a famous magician active internationally throughout the 1950s and 1960s, performing his Indrajal show before live audiences and on television. Sorcar died of a heart attack at the age of 58 in Ashaikawa, Hokkaid, Japan, on January 6, 1971, where he was performing. He was succeeded by sons Manick Sorcar,P.C. Sorcar, Jr., and P.C. Sorcar,Young.
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It is believed that X was started by Karna, the son of Surya who ruled over the Anga Desh during the Mahabharat Age. The Maga Purohits (now known as Shakya Dwipi Brahmins) were invited by local kings for their expertise in Sun worshiping who started the tradition of X. Today X is celebrated specially in those places where Shakya Dwipi Brahmins are found. The ritual of X may even predate the ancient Vedas texts, as the Rigveda contains hymns worshiping the Sun god and describes similar rituals. The rituals also find reference in the Sanskrit epic poem Mahbhrata in which Draupadi is depicted as observing similar rites. X is performed in order to thank Surya for sustaining life on earth and to request the granting of certain wishes.The Sun, considered the god of energy and of the life-force, is worshiped during the X to promote wellbeing, prosperity and progress. In Hinduism, Sun worship is believed to help cure a variety of diseases, including leprosy, and helps ensure the longevity and prosperity of family members, friends, and elders. Id X ? (Clue?)
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X - Chhath / Chhat Puja. The rituals of the festival are rigorous and are observed over a period of four days. They include holy bathing, fasting and abstaining from drinking water (Vratta), standing in water for long periods of time, and offering prashad (prayer offerings) and aragh to the setting and rising sun. Although it is observed most elaborately in Bihar, Jharkhand and the Terai regions of Nepal in modern times, and is more prevalent in areas where migrants from those areas have a presence. Chhath puja is performed on kartika Shukala Shashti, which is the sixth day of the month of Kartika in the Hindu Calendar. The word Chhath is also a compound of two words: "Chah" meaning "six stages", and "Hath" refers to the science of Hath Yog (austerity). The word Chhath refers to the process of consciously obtaining the solar energy through six stages involving the methods of Hath Yog. "Hath" here refers to the austerities such as fasting and standing in water.
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Rowdy Rathore is an upcoming Bollywood action film directed by X starring Akshay Kumar and Sonakshi Sinha in the lead roles. Produced by Sanjay Leela Bhansali and Ronnie Screwvala,scheduled for release on 15 June, 2012.
It is the third remake of the hit Telugu film Vikramarkudu which was released in 2006 and was directed by S.S. Rajamouli with Ravi Teja and Anushka Shetty in the main roles with Ravi Teja playing a double role, for the first time. Y was the first Hindi directorial debut of X starring Salman Khan and Ayesha Takia in the lead roles. It was the second remake of 2006 Telugu film Z about a young IPS officer, who goes undercover as a gangster to finish the underworld. After Z's impact on commercial cinema, the film was remade in multiple languages. The film was screened at the IIFA film festival held in Dubai in 2006.The film ultimately claimed to be the highest-grossing Telugu film of all time after its theatrical run.

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 X - Prabhu Deva Y - Wanted Z - Pokiri Pokiri was remade in Tamil as Pokkiri (2007),in Hindi cinema as Wanted (2009),in Kannada as Porki (2010).
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 It is a multi-domed mosque located near Anna flyover in Chennai built in 19th century in the ground donated by Nawab Wallajah and renovated in 1981. It is so called because of the more than ________ that are ______in the Assembly Hall of this mosque. It has two big minarets around 64 feet tall. The mosque encloses a beautiful library, a burial ground and convenient guesthouses. This multi-domed mosque, with sayings from the Holy Koran painted on its walls, attracts many visitors and comes alive during the annual Moharram festival. Name? (see pic)
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 Thousand Lights Mosque blanks = one thousand lamps It lends its name to the Thousand Lights area nearby.

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 X,a ruler of the Qutb Shahi dynasty, was the founder of Y city. In the year 1591, when the Moon was in the constellation of Leo, Jupiter in its own abode and all celestial planets favourably placed, he laid the foundation of a new city which he called Bhagyanagar after his beloved queen Bhagmati. Bhagmati embraced Islam and took the name _____ Mahal and consequently Bhagynagar was renamed Y after her. X and Y ?
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 X - Muhammad Quli Qutb Shah Y Hyderabad He modelled the city of Hyderabad on the then legendary city of Esfahan of Persia, in his words unparalleled in the world and a replica of heaven itself. He also built Hyderabad's architectural centerpiece, the Charminar.He ascended to the throne in 1580 at the age of 15 and ruled for thirty-one years.
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 1921 or Ayirathi Thollayirathi Irupathi Onnu is a 1988 Malayalam film directed by I. V. Sasi, written by T. Damodaran, and starring Mammootty, Madhu, Parvathy, Seema, and Urvasi. Mammootty plays the role of Kadhir, a leader. The film won the Kerala State Film Award for Best Film with Popular Appeal and Aesthetic Value of that year. What historical 1921 event is the movie based on? (see pic)
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 The movie deals with the Malabar rebellion or Moplah Rebellion (Mappila Lahala in Malayalam). This was an armed uprising against British authority in the Malabar region by Mappila Muslims and the culmination of a series of Mappila revolts that recurred throughout the 19th century and early 20th century. The 1921 rebellion began as a reaction against a heavy handed crackdown on the Khilafat Movement by the British authorities in the Eranad and Valluvanad taluks of Malabar.
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Babu Jagjivan Ram known popularly as Babuji, was a freedom fighter and a social reformer. It was during his tenure as the minister of Defence that the IndoPakistani War of 1971 was fought, and Bangladesh achieved independence. While loyal to Prime Minister Indira Gandhi for most of the Indian Emergency, in 1977 he along with five other politicians resigned from the Cabinet and formed the Congress for Democracy party, within the Janata coalition.

A few days before the elections, on a Sunday, Jagjivan Ram addressed an Opposition rally at the famous Ram Lila Grounds in Delhi. Doordarshan allegedly attempted to stop crowds from participating in the demonstration by telecasting a blockbuster movie. In spite of this,the rally drew large crowds. So a newspaper headline the next day ran "______ _______ _______" ?
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 "Babu beats Bobby" State controlled DD,apparently telecast the 1973 hit film Bobby in an effort to keep the crowds from attending the rally!

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X Y Book Award is an Indian sponsored by X and Y . It is India's biggest private sector award instituted in 1998 with the intention of competing with The Booker Prize, Commonwealth Writers' Prize or The Pulitzer Prize. The award consists of a cash prize of Rs. three lakhs (300,000) and is awarded in four or five categories viz. English Fiction,English Non Fiction,Indian Language Fiction Translation,Children's Literature,Popular Award.

"While several Indian writers have won awards abroad, we had observed that there was no equivalent award in India. We therefore decided to take on the role of encouraging and promoting good Indian writing and instituted the Book Awards, in 1998. It is the only Indian award that not only recognizes and rewards good writing but also actively promotes the authors and their books."
Past winners include: The Last Mughal by William Dalrymple, Shalimar the Clown by Salman Rushdie The Hungry Tide by Amitav Ghosh. Name the award.

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 Vodafone Crossword Book Award (formerly Hutch-Crossword Book Award)

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 The Battle of the Hydaspes River was fought between X and Y on the banks of the Hydaspes River that resulted in a complete Macedonian victory and the annexation of the ____,which lay beyond the confines of the defeated Persian empire, into the Alexandrian Empire. Xs tactics to cross the monsoon-swollen river despite close surveillance to catch Y's army in the flank has been referred as one of his "masterpieces".Although victorious, it was also the most costly battle fought by the Macedonians. The resistance put up by Y and his men won the respect of X who returned Y his kingdom. Id X and Y ? Fill blanks.
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X - Alexander the Great Y - King Porus of the Hindu Paurava kingdom Blanks = Punjab

Hydaspes is the Greek name for the Jhelum River. The Battle of the Hydaspes River was fought by Alexander the Great in 326 BC against King Porus of the Hindu Paurava kingdom on the banks of the in the Punjab near Bhera in what is now modern-day Pakistan. The Macedonian army refused to continue its march after an escape to victory from a small Punjabi kingdom and getting the news of inner Indian kingdoms of Gujarat and Haryana preparing for war. The battle is historically significant for opening up India for Greek political (Seleucid Empire, Indo-Greeks) and cultural influence (Greco-Buddhist art) which was to continue for many centuries.
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 Some of the traditional designs of this include Kachkadi, bakkalnali, and pukari and are available in various sizes, patterns and colors. Not a single iron nail is used in the entire manufacturing process. In _____ , these are called Pie-taan. The craft of ______ is prevalent not only in ______ but also in neighboring areas of Kapashi and Dongari. What ? (Clue?)
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 Many new designs have been incorporated over the years including thong-like straps or even pink or maroon colored pom poms that are stitched into thong like straps.

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 Kolhapuri chappals - the famous handcrafted footwear made in Kolhapur town in Maharashtra. Kolhapuri chappals are made from processed leather. Hides of buffalo are processed and grazed. Grazing of leather makes the leather hard enough for daily wear and tear use.

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Mohammad Osman Haji started this now 100-year old enterprise with the special spices and ingredients that his ancestors had developed that were close to the gastronomic secrets of the kitchens of Nawab Wajid Ali Shah - the last of the kings, who was high on art, culture and music. Haji was disabled and had only one arm. What makes the _________ unique is the masala which is a zealously guarded family secret and prepared by women in the family. and is said to incorporate 160 spices. The original is in the Chowk area of Aminabad,Lucknow. Recently one of their outlets has opened in Koramangla. Which food enterprise ?

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 Tunde ke Kabab Legend has it that a rich Lucknowi nobleman once lost all his teeth, yet couldnt give up his love for kababs. So he ordered his master chef to whip up a kabab that he could eat without missing his teeth, meaning, the kabab had to just melt in his mouth.

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Connect this bio to the next slide. X (1725 1795) also known as the Philosopher Queen, was a Queen of the Malwa kingdom.She is often compared with Catherine II of Russia, Elizabeth I of England, Margaret I of Denmark.Born in the village of Chaundi in Jamkhed, Ahmednagar, Maharashtra. She moved the capital to Maheshwar south of Indore on the Narmada River.

She was a great builder and patron of many Hindu temples which embellished Maheshwar and Indore. She also built temples and Dharmshalas at sacred sites outside her kingdom, at prominent religious places like Dwarka in Gujarat east to the Kashi Vishwanath Temple at Varanasi on the Ganges, Ujjain, Nasik and Parali Baijnath in Maharashtra. Seeing the destroyed and desecrated temple in Somanath, Rani Ahilyabai built a temple where Lord Shiva is still worshipped by Hindus.

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 Punyashlok Rajmata Devi Ahilyabai Holkar of the Holkar Dynasty. Devi Ahilyabai Holkar International Airport is a public airport that principally serves Indore.

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 It is a barrier island that separates the Pulicat Lake from the Bay of Bengal, and is home to the town of Pulicat. The nearest town is Sullurpeta, which has the nearest railway station. It is 80 km (50 mi) from Chennai. What is its claim to fame ? (see map)

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 Sriharikota It houses India's only satellite launch centre in the Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SHAR) and is used by the Indian Space Research Organisation ISRO to launch satellites using multi-stage rockets such as the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) and the Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV).
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She lives in Dublin, Ireland with her husband, endocrinologist David Powell, whom she married in 1971.They have two children and five grandchildren. Who is she and what is her claim to fame ?

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 Reita Faria Powell became the first Indian to win the Miss World title, in 1966. Reita was a judge at Femina Miss India in 1998, and has come back to judge the Miss World competition on a few occasions.

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 Lieutenant General Sir Richard Hieram Sankey. The high court building in Bangalore, Attara Kacheri, was designed and built by him. Water-colour painting showing the head of the Ganges Canal at Haridwar in Uttar Pradesh (Now Uttarakhand), drawn by Sir Sankey. He constructed the Sankey Tank in Bangalore to meet the water demands of the city in 1882 at the cost of Rupees 575000. It was linked to the Miller's tank and Dharmambudhi tank and was built as a safeguard against water shortages.
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 Lieutenant General Sir Richard Hieram Sankey KCB (1829 1908) was an officer in the Royal (Madras) Engineers in the East India Company's army in British India. In 1856, he was promoted as the Superintendent of the East Coast Canal at Madras. In May 1857, he was promoted as the Under-Secretary of the Public Works Department under Col. William Erskine Baker in Calcutta. During the Indian Rebellion of 1857, he was commissioned as the Captain of the Calcutta Cavalry Volunteers, but was soon despatched to Allahabad where he led the construction of several embankments and bridges across the Yamuna and Ganges.
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 If the woman on your left is on top of a list with 2701,who is at #2 spot with 2614 ?

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 Koneru Humpy (born 1987) is an Indian chess Grandmaster. The nos are FIDE Elo ratings. In 2007 she surpassed the rating of 2577 set by Susan Polgar to become the second-highest ranked female player in history and the second female player ever, after Judit Polgr, to exceed the 2600 Elo mark. From 2002 through 2008, Humpy held the record as the youngest woman ever to become a grandmaster (not merely a Woman Grandmaster), which she achieved at the age of 15 years, 1 month, 27 days, beating Judit Polgr's previous mark by three months.
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 A new movie,due out this year,is being directed by Rakeysh Mehra (of Rang De Basanti fame) ; Prasoon Joshi is writing the story, screenplay and dialogues. It will be the first ever biographical film to be made on a sports icon in India. He lost his parents in the Partition of India and after a horrific childhood, he went against all odds to become an International sports icon Name the movie ? Who will play the lead role ?
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 BHAG MILKHA BHAG Farhan Akhtar Padma Shri Milkha Singh who created the 1958 Asian Games Record in 400 meters, won the 1958 Commonwealth Games in Cardiff, set the world record in 400 meters in 1960 and participated in the 400 meters final in the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome. Popularly known as The Flying Sikh.
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It was written by Mallanaga _______ in the 2nd century CE. Although Richard Burton published the most widely known English translation, he was not the author of the translation, although he did provide footnotes and the introduction. The bulk of the translation was performed by an Indian archaeologist, Bhagvanlal Indraji and civil servant Foster Fitzgerald Arbuthnot, with the assistance of a student, Shivaram Pashuram Bhide. It is largely in prose, with 1250 verses, distributed in 36 chapters, which are further organized into 7 parts. Some chapters include: On the Study of the Sixty-Four Arts ; On the Arrangements of a House, and Household Furniture; and About the Daily Life of a Citizen, His Companions, Amusements, etc. Observations on the Three Worldly Attainments of Virtue, Wealth, and Love. Which work ? Fill Blanks.

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 Kama Sutra Vatsyayana Contrary to popular perception, especially in the western world, Kama sutra is not an exclusive sex manual; it presents itself as a guide to a virtuous and gracious living that discusses the nature of love, family life and other aspects pertaining to pleasure oriented faculties of human life.
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X is a brand of curry pastes and spices now owned by Associated British Foods. The company supplies 75% of British curry houses with sauces and mixed spices, and sells ready meals to all the major UK supermarkets and other major retailers throughout Europe and North America. The company was started in 1957 by a Gujarati Brahmin after he arrived in London from Kenya with only 5 in his pocket with his wife, four sons and two daughters. He could not get authentic Indian food locally. From his own kitchen he and his wife started making authentic Indian foods to sell to the local Indian immigrant population, and in 1958 opened a shop in London selling Indian goods and groceries. 123

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Questions on NRIs or PIOs or people with some Indian blood in them who made a name for themselves - enuff to figure in this quiz.

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Narinder Singh Kapany (born 1926 in Punjab) is an Indian born American physicist named as one of the seven 'Unsung Heroes' by Fortune magazine in their Businessmen of the Century issue (1999).

A graduate of Agra University in India, he completed advanced studies in _____ and a Ph.D. degree at Imperial College London in 1955. His career has spanned science, entrepreneurship and management, academia, publishing, lecturing, and farming. He was a Regents Professor at the University of California, Berkeley (UCB), and at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC). He was also Director of the Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurial Development (CIED) at UCSC for seven years. At Stanford University, he was a Visiting Scholar in the Physics Department and Consulting Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering. In 1952, his earlier work led Kapany to conduct studies that led to the invention of _________ ? (see pic)
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 Optical fibers His popular article on Fibre optics in Scientific American in 1960 established the new term (Fibre optics); the article constitutes a reference point for the subject even today. As an author and lecturer, Kapany has published over 100 scientific papers and four books on opto-electronics and entrepreneurship.
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What or who is this Doodle celebrating?

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 Sep 05, 2011 Freddie Mercury's 65th Birthday

Freddie Mercury (born Farrokh Bulsara) - musician, singer and songwriter, best known as the lead vocalist of the rock band Queen. Born in the British protectorate of Zanzibar, East Africa (now part of Tanzania) to Bomi and Jer Bulsara,Parsis from Gujarat.The family surname is derived from the town of Bulsar (also known as Valsad) in southern Gujarat. In 1954, at the age of 8, Mercury was sent to study at St. Peter's School, a Britishstyle boarding school for boys in Panchgani near Bombay. At the age of 17, Mercury and his family fled from Zanzibar to England for safety 135 reasons due to the 1964 Zanzibar Revolution.

 Viram Jasani (born 1945) is a Kenyanborn Indian sitar and tabla composer and musician. He was awarded an honorary degree from the University of York in March 2007. He is best known for doing something in 1969 that shot him to instant fame in the immediate years following 1969. What ?
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 He played tabla drums on the song "Black Mountain Side" from Led Zeppelin's 1969 dbut album.

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He spent part of his youth in London but returned to his homeland in 1957.

After receiving primary and commencing secondary education at the Doon School in Dehradun in India, he returned to England to Tonbridge School. He studied philosophy, politics, and economics at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, where he developed an interest in poetry and learned Chinese. After leaving Oxford, he moved to California to work on a graduate degree in economics at Stanford University. He now maintains residences near Salisbury, England, where he is a participant in local literary and cultural events, having bought and renovated the house of the Anglican poet George Herbert in 1996,and in Delhi, where he lives with his parents and keeps his extensive library and papers. His younger brother, Shantum, leads Buddhist meditational tours. His younger sister, Aradhana, is a film-maker married to an Austrian diplomat, and has worked on Deepa Mehta's movies Earth and Fire.
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 Vikram Seth (born 1952) - Indian poet, novelist, travel writer, librettist, children's writer, biographer and memoirist. Author of works like The Golden Gate (1986),A Suitable Boy (1993),An Equal Music (1999)

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He read about the founding of Intel in Electronic Engineering Times at the age of 14 and this inspired him to pursue technology as a career. In 2004,he formed his own firm, _____ Ventures, which focused on venture investments in various technology sectors, most notably clean technology. He is also known for his witty but controversial statements, for example: "If it doesn't scale, it doesn't matter. Most of what we talk about todayhybrid, biodiesel, ethanol, solar photovoltaics, geothermalI believe are irrelevant to the scale of the problem." He was a major proponent of the "Yes on 87" campaign to pass California's Proposition 87, The Clean Energy Initiative, which failed to pass in November, 2006. In 2006, his wife Neeru co-founded the CK-12 Foundation that aims to develop open source textbooks and lower the cost of education in America and the rest of the world. He and his wife are also donors to the Wikimedia Foundation, in the amount of $500,000. Who he ?

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 Vinod Khosla is an Indian-born American venture capitalist and an influential personality in Silicon Valley. Khosla was one of the co-founders of Sun Microsystems, where he served as its first CEO and Chairman in the early 1980s. In 1986, he became a general partner of the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, where he remained through the early 2000s.
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Discovery of India - how well do you know her? Id these WH sites in India by the data given. Id the site as well the exact place it is located city/area. 3 pts for iding site and 3 pts for location
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 Nanda Devi and Valley of Flowers National Park, Uttaranchal (1988)

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 Sundarbans National Park, West Bengal (1987)

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 The Jantar Mantar, Jaipur, Rajasthan (2010)

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 Agra Fort, Agra, Uttar Pradesh (1983)

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 Elephanta Caves, Mumbai, Maharashtra (1987)

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Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus (CST) or Victoria Terminus (VT), Mumbai, Maharashtra (2004)

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 Mountain Railways of India, including: Darjeeling Himalayan Railway, Kalka-Shimla Railway, and Nilgiri Mountain Railway (1999)

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 The Great Living Chola Temples Brihadisvara Temple at Thanjavur, the Temple of Gangaikondacholisvaram and the Airavatesvara Temple at Darasuram.

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 Fatehpur Sikri, Uttar Pradesh (1986)

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 Kaziranga National Park, Assam (1985)

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 Group of Monuments at Hampi, Karnataka (1986)

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 Buddhist Monuments at Sanchi, Madhya Pradesh (1989)

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CITY GUIDE (Written Round)

Id these Indian cities from the given info. 3 Clues/pieces of info will be provided serially. 6 pts if you get it on the first clue, 4 if on 2nd and 2 pts if on the 3rd.
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 Jodhpur Umaid Bhavan Palace Mehrangarh Fort and Jodhpur city as seen from the Mehrangarh Fort blue-painted houses around the Fort giving it the moniker "Blue City" !
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 A. Shaniwarwada B. National War Memorial Southern Command C. The Aga Khan Palace

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Shaniwarwada is a palace fort in the city built in 1736,it was the seat of the Peshwa rulers of the Maratha Empire until 1818 when the Peshwas surrendered to the British. It was named Shaniwarwada from the Marathi words Shaniwar (Saturday) and Wada (a general term for any residence complex). The opening ceremony was performed according to Hindu religious customs, on January 22, 1732, a Saturday chosen for being auspicious.

National War Memorial Southern Command is a war memorial in Pune Cantonment,dedicated to Post Independence war martyrs. This is the only war memorial in South Asia which has been erected by citizens contributions. A Mig 23 BN, which was used in the Kargil War, has been kept on display at the memorial.A replica of the now decommissioned frigate INS Trishul, which served in the Portuguese-Indian War and the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971, is also kept on display.

The Aga Khan Palace was built in the year 1892 by Sultan Muhammed Shah, Aga Khan III as an act of charity by the Sultan who wanted to help the poor in the neighboring areas of Pune who were drastically hit by the famine. It was the prison for Mahatama Gandhi, his wife Kasturba and his secretary Mahadev Bhai Desai and the last two died away in between their captivity at this Palace.Both of them have memorials in their name in the same complex near Mula river.

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 AMRITSAR Jalianwalla Bagh Massacre memorial. Harmandir Sahib in the Golden Temple Complex. Golden Temple
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Id the place that the phrase is normally used to describe. (2 pts each)

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 The Sorrow of Bihar

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 The Kosi River

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 Manchester of South India"

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 Coimbatore

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 Manjal Maanagaram (Turmeric city) and Javuli Nagaram (Textile city)

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BANGALORE(BENGALURU) ROUND

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What connects these images? (6 slides)

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A modern apartment complex in Binnypet - the area behind Bangalore City Railway station.

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A famous temple and a famous school in Basavangudi.

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 "I am packing my belongings in the shawl my mother used to wear when she went to the market. And I'm going from my valley. And this time, I shall never return. I am leaving behind me my fifty years of memory. Memory. Streams that the mind will forget so much of what only this moment has passed, and yet hold clear and bright the memory of what happened years ago - of men and women long since dead..."
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How green was my valley!

Actual view of Hesserghatta Lake as it exists today!

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 The lost lakes of Bangalore ! Binnypet Tank Karanji Tank Siddikatte Sampangi Tank Dharmambudhi Tank Millers Tank
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Binnypet Tank The lake behind old Binny Mills was once a big tank erected in 16th century by Gidde Gowda, the elder son of Kempe Gowda I. Now the southern part of the lake is getting filled up making way for high-rises. Karanji Tank Once a big tank existed attached to the Karanji Anjaneya temple.It covered parts of Chamrajapet and Gandhi Bazar areas of Basavanagudi. Decades ago the tank dried and new residential layouts sprang up on its bed as did The National High School. Siddikatte Flanked between the two forts once existed a trivial tank built at the disbursement of Siddi, a member of Kempe Gowda kindred. When the tank got withered in the latter part of 19th century, it was transformed to a well-organised market known as Siddikatte Santhe. The locale was once habited by many Brahmin officials and now a major part of the land is occupied by the new K R Market. Sampangi Tank Excavated by Kempe Gowda II during the latter part of 16th century to provide water to the NE part of the township inside the fort. The tank is also linked with the Karaga festival as the festival starts off from here. Few decades back it was just an idyllic marshland amidst a sylvan surrounding where boys brought their buffaloes for bathing. There was even a kind of bull fighting at the old tank bund. Today, the tank has been transformed into the Kanteerava Stadium.A tiny puddle from where the karaga festival commences is all that remains of the original lake.
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 Dharmambudhi Tank Once a significant tank, now extinct and transformed into the City Bus Station (Majestic). The Big Tank of Vengaluru as mentioned in the Hoysala inscription dated 1247 AD was enlarged and renamed as Dharmambudhi by Kempe Gowda I in 16th century to provide water to the western part of the township inside the fort he erected. The tank extended till Subedar Chatram Road where Annamma temple was located on its bed.It irrigated the park and the fields of Thulasithota area. Millers Tank On its bund now stands the AF,Ambedkar Bhavan, Jain Hospital,UNI building,marriage halls...

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