Nehru-Jinnah

An Indian Subcontinent Quiz

Written Round
12 questions
+5 for each correct answer with no negatives

1
On October 11, 1980, the Indian Express published a
news item "10 under trials blame police for losing
sight."
It concerned a habeas corpus petition moved in the
Supreme Court on behalf of undertrial prisoners in
Bhagalpur jail in Bihar who "alleged that the police
deprived them of their eyesight by using acid".
Bollywood connect.

2.
Currently there are 30 full members, 4 associate
members, 3 affiliate members, 6 future members and 3
non-members.
If the Supreme Court appointed Panel
recommendations come into force, this is bound to
change with a one-state: one-vote system coming into
force and second and third member from each state
being relegated to associate status.
Which organization?

3
In the top terrace of the Shalimar Bagh, has the famous
inscription in Persian, which says
Agar Firdaus bar ry-e zamin ast, hamin ast-o hamin asto hamin ast.
This is a couplet by the Persian poet Amir Khusrau, What
it means?

4
This song is featured in the opening chapter of Salman
Rushdie's 1998 novel The Satanic Verses in English.
It is also featured in the movie Gravity, when the Indian
astronaut Shariff, sings the first line of the song while
taking a break from his duties in space, as well as
Deadpool?

5.Funda

6. I dont want to blur his face

7.
Truck painting is a popular form of indigenous art in
Pakistan and other South Asian countries, featuring
floral patterns and poetic calligraphy.
Known by slang term _______ trucks.
The term comes from United States military slang,
coined by servicemen in Afghanistan, although it may
date to the British colonial period. The term came to be
because of the ______ sound that the trucks make due to
the chains hanging from the bumpers of the vehicles

8
West Bengal and Odisha been fighting over this for
some time. The bone of contention has been to get GI
tags for this.
The Bengal Science and Technology Department earlier
started the process to approach its central counterpart
for a GI authentication. Odisha responded by setting up 3
panels with 3 distinct goals for this.
The first panel will look into evidence regarding its
origin in Odisha, the second will study the grounds for
West Bengal staking claim to it, the third will collect
necessary documents to validate Odishas stand.

9
X was the most valuable company ever in the world
history. With a value Adjusted to inflation $7.4
trilliondollars in 2012.

10.Who and Why.

11
Capital of Mizoram?

12
It was founded in 2011 by Vikram Bhaskaran, Arun
Ranganathan, Braxton Robbason and Arvind
Thyagarajan.
_______ is the South Asian answer to UrbanDictionary.
It is a crowd-sourced South Asian language and culture
website which provides a guide to the English words
and phrases of South-East Asia

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1.Who? And Author?

2.IPL nahi hai

X was a former Indiancricketer, and an aggressive Test
batsman. X holds the distinction of scoring the first Test
century by any Indian overseas, when he hit a ton for
the team in 1936 atManchesterinEngland.
A Wisden Special Award winner, he scored four first
class hundreds in the 1936 tour. He was an opening or
middle order right-hand batsman and a slow left-arm
bowler.
Id X

3
In 1977, X wrote The World of Homosexuals, the first
study of homosexuality in India. In the documentary For
Straights Only, she said that her interest in the topic
came out of her marriage to a homosexual man and her
desire to look at homosexuality more closely to
understand it.
X is better known as child prodigy in some totally
different area.

4.
According to 2007 census, 37.6% citizens of ______ were
fully or partially of North Indian descent, which includes
descendants who trace their heritage from various parts
of the Indian subcontinent.
____ ____ is the third official language and is a variety of
Awadhi that was influenced by Bhojpuri and other Bihari
languages.

5.
Set in the background of the Sannyasi Rebellion in the
late 18th century, it is considered one of the most
important novels in the history Indian literature. Its
importance is heightened by the fact that it became
synonymous with the struggle for Indian independence
from the British Empire. The novel was banned by the
British. The ban was lifted later by the Government of
India after independence.
The national song of India, Vande Mataram, was first
published in this novel.
Id both.

6.
A notable ornithologist, He is called "the Father of Indian
Ornithology" and, by those who found him dogmatic,
"the Pope of Indian ornithology.
Probably the very first bird watcher in India
Also a civil servant, political reformer and very strongly
related to Indian independence movement.
?

7.

8.
X is a fictional superheroine appearing in comic books
published by Marvel Comics. Created by editors Sana
Amanat and Stephen Wacker, writer G. Willow Wilson
and artist Adrian Alphona, _____ is Marvel's first Muslim
character to headline her own comic book. _____ made
her first appearance in Captain Marvel #14 (August
2013) before taking over the Ms. Marvel comic book
series in February 2014.
Within the Marvel Universe, _____ is a teenage Pakistani
American from New Jersey with shapeshifting abilities,
who discovers that she has Inhuman genes in the
aftermath of the "Inhumanity" storyline and assumes

9.
After Partition, this ethnically diverse group of Muslim,
Urdu-speaking Immigrants shifted to Sindh. They
became politically dominant in Sindh.
Prominent members include Pervez Musharaff, Nazia
Hassan, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan etc. What word means
refugee in Urdu refers to this group of people?

10.
Jinnah went to Dhaka in March 1948 and delivered two
speeches, and these were to finally address a raging
debate that was happening in the Muslim League about
a decision. Even though the decision was in favour of
less than 10% of Pakistanis, it became official anyway
triggering huge protests in Dhaka
What decision?

Train ke naam Batao

4 questions
Team at the lowest score will get direct.

Train Number: 12615/12616 Delhi Sarai Rohilla and

Chennai Central.

_________ Express was Introduced by Madras and

Southern Mahratta Railway, with its headquarters in
erstwhile Madras (now Chennai) in 1929, to run
between Peshawar, then part of British India and capital
of North West Frontier province in present-day Pakistan
and Mangalore, then part of Madras province, almost
the entire length of the country and beyond.
________ is one of Asia's oldest and longest major roads.
For more than two millennia, it has linked the eastern
and western regions of the Indian subcontinent,
connecting South Asia with Central Asia.

Train Number: 12225/6 Azamgarh New Delhi

______ Express
______ is an interesting lafz in the Urdu which means
intoxication or refers to state of mind or condition being
intoxicated

Train Number 12619/20 LTT and

Mangalore Central
________ Express.
______ means smell of fish.
Satyawati, the queen of the Kuru king Shantanu of
Hastinapur and the great-grandmother of the Pandava
and Kaurava princes was a fisherman daughter. Due to
the smell emanating from her body she was known as
_______ .

Train Number: 12401/2 New Delhi Islampur

_______ formed one of the sixteen Mahajanapadas of
ancient India with Rajgir (Rajagriha) as its first capital.
The ancient kingdom of _____ is heavily mentioned in
Jain and Buddhist texts. It is also mentioned in the
Ramayana, the Mahabharata and the Puranas. A state
of ____, possibly a tribal kingdom, is recorded in Vedic
texts much earlier in time than 600 BCE.

Words wala round

3 questions

Slang for a conservative Indian guy who glorifies and

protects Indian culture and doesn't appreciate anything
that is not a part of it.

 An ______ is an earnest eager beaver who is able to

muster up inordinate amounts of energy, inspiration and
enthusiasm towards a variety of things.
Good ______ organize parties, arrive early at a movie
theatre to buy everyone tickets while bad become
politicians and local demagogues.

 This word in current English usage, is a literal or

metaphorical force regarded as mercilessly destructive
and unstoppable.
This usage originated in the mid-nineteenth century as
an allegorical reference to the Hindu temple cars of
Jagannath Temple in Puri, which apocryphally were
reputed to crush devotees under their wheels.

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1
X is the self-styled Pakistani superhero. Sporting a handle bar moustache
popular with the land-owning classes and kitted out in the dark green of the
national colour, the crime fighter is set on the path of heroism after the brutal
murder of his parents. Assisted by his mentor, Sultan Rahi, the character
comes to assume superhuman abilities from a mystical power.
Once he is fully trained and ready, Pakistan Man emerges from the wilderness
as a champion against tyranny to fight against villains like The Corrupter and
The Banner, an evildoer intent on upholding the countrys infamous
restrictions on YouTube.
when Siddiqui began university, like many young Pakistani artists he started
publishing his work on the internet via Facebook. His page, HS Comics, soon
grew to have more than 10,000 likes and the popularity of his cartoons gave
him the impetus to re-launch the X character for a wider audience.

2
The video was shot in October 2015 at various Indian
cities including Varanasi Worli Village, Mumbai and
Kolkata. The fort showcased at the start and in between
is Bassein Fort aka Saint Sebastian's Fort located in
Vasai, Mumbai. The video is themed on the Indian
festival of Holi.
It reignited the debate on cultural appropriation and
some even found it offensive while the rest enjoyed!

3.I want a very specific name

It is the state animal of two states. They are not milked
or put to work but given supplementary care while
grazing in the woods, until they are ritually slaughtered
or killed for local consumption. They also play an
important role in the social life of the people. Marriages
are not fixed until the bridegroom's family gives at least
one of these to the bride's household

4.

5.Public grand staircase, Art

Institute Chicago

6.
In Pakistans Lahore the renaming of Fawara Chowk or
Shadman Chowk after X in 2012 resulted in extremist
groups, including the Jamaat-ud-Dawah led by 26/11
mastermind Hafiz Saeed calling it a heretical move and
filed a case in Lahore High Court to prevent it
Recently Manohar Lal Khattar suggested to the Centre
that Y be christened after late Dr Mangal Sein, a former
Haryana deputy chief minister and a leader of the RSS
which led to protests from Punjab who wanted it to be
named after X.

7.
More than 2,000 miles long and tended by 12,000
workers, X was considered the Indian equivalent of the
Great Wall of China.
The line had its beginnings in a series of customs
houses that were established in Bengal in 1803
At its greatest extent it ran from the Punjab in the
northwest until it reached the princely state of Orissa,
near the Bay of Bengal, in the southeast.
Reason and Name

8.
Mangalagaur is a festival very significant for young
brides in Maharashtra. It includes doing pooja, making
and having good food, and several other activities and
rituals.
One of them involved the women standing with their
legs apart and then performing dances that looked like
going round and round.
The thing we are talking about may literally mean the
same going round and round. What?

9.
In the 50 years of Pakistan series published in 1998,
by Federal Bureau of Statistics, who was officially
declared as the First Citizen of Pakistan? The idea was
to give a proper Islamic foundation to the existence of
Pakistan, that was independent and much older than
1947.

10.
X was a British architect who is known for imaginatively
adapting traditional architectural styles to the
requirements of his era. He designed many English
country houses.
He has been referred to as "the greatest British
architect and is known best for having an instrumental
role in designing and building a section of the
metropolis of Delhi, known as New Delhi, which would
later on serve as the seat of the Government of India.
He was also the main architect of several monuments in
New Delhi such as the India Gate; he also designed
Viceroy's House, which is now known as the Rashtrapati
Bhavan

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