7. Question 3 25/6/2011 Focus India National Quiz 2011 Abanindranath Tagore portrayed X as a four-armed Hindu goddess wearing saffron-colored robes, holding a book, sheaves of rice, a mala, and a white cloth. The image of X was an icon to create nationalist feeling in Indians during the freedom struggle. Which goddess am I talking about???
9. Question 5 Quizzigans Mahapini in Burma, Dhotakar in Mongolia, Sokaprak in Tibet, Prahakness in Cambodia, Kalantak on Java island. In Japan he can be found in a Kangiten. How do we know him in India?
10. Question 6 Quizzigans Mattur / Mathur, a village located on the banks of the river Tunga in Shimoga district. Jhiri, a village in Rajgarh District of Madhya Pradesh Both these villages are famous in the country for a continuing a vital element of Indian culture more faithfully than most other places in India. What?
11. Question 7 Quizzigans The world found him on Dec. 2, 1957. A balding, befuddled, bespectacled, tooth-brush moustached, middle-aged gentleman blinking at a school boy reading out of a text book, "The greatest Russian revolutionary is The Sputnik. It has revolved around the Earth more than 4267801000 times". Who?
15. Question 11 Quizzigans He is widely known as India's first YouTube sensation. And he comes with the added promise of “Quality, First Class, ________ Trademark”. He's been seen singing to “Mummy, Daddy” that he wants “the Love Marriage”, expounding the virtues of “Chicken 65”, and donning a Chennai Super Kings jersey to explain the rules of cricket, in rhyme, no less. He has also been touring the world with an aim of “making the ordinary man extra-ordinary.” Who am I talking about?
25. Question 5 Quizzigans Come, come, ye saints, no toil nor labor fear; But with joy wend your way. Though hard to you this journey may appear, Grace shall be as your day. Tis better far for us to strive Our useless cares from us to drive; Do this, and joy your hearts will swell - _________!________! Why should we mourn or think our lot is hard? 'Tis not so; all is right. Why should we think to earn a great reward If we now shun the fight? Gird up your loins; fresh courage take. Our God will never us forsake; And soon we'll have this tale to tell- ______!_______! Connect to a phrase
27. Question 7 Quizzigans I started when I was six. My mother taught me how to play. In fact, my mother used to do a lot for my _______. We moved to the Philippines shortly afterward. I joined the club in India and we moved to the Philippines for a year. And there they had a TV program that was on in the afternoon, one to two or something like that, when I was in school. So she would write down all the games that they showed and the puzzles, and in the evening we solved them together. Of course my mother and her family used to play some ______, and she used to play with her younger brother, so she had some background in ________, but she never went to a club or anything like that. So we solved all these puzzles and sent in our answers together. And they gave the prize of a book to the winner. And over the course of many months, I won so many prizes. At one point they just said take all the books you want, but don't send in any more entries. X talking about his introduction to ________. Just tell me who is X
28. Question 8 Quizzigans The different people who featured in X are Kamal Hassan, Amitabh Bachchan, Mammootty, Mithun Chakraborty, Tanvir Ashai , K. R. Vijaya, Revathi, Jeetendra, Waheeda Rehman, Hema Malini, Tanuja, Sharmila Tagore, Shabana Azmi, Deepa Sahi, Om Puri, Dina Pathak, Meenakshi Seshadri (Actors: Film and T.V.) Mallika Sarabhai (Dancer) Mario Miranda (Cartoonist) Mrinal Sen (Filmmaker) Sunil Gangopadhyay, Annadashankar Ray (Authors) Bhimsen Joshi, M Balamuralikrishna, Lata Mangeshkar, Suchitra Mitra (Singers) Narendra Hirwani, S Venkataraghavan, Prakash Padukone, Ramanathan Krishnan, Arun Lal, P. K. Banerjee, Chuni Goswami, Syed Kirmani, Leslie Claudius, Gurbux Singh (Sportsmen), Pratap Pothan, AV Ramanan The song's lyrics are unique. A single phrase meaning “When my musical note and your musical note merge, it becomes our musical note” is repeated in 14 Indian languages basically stressing on the unity of India. Id the song.
32. Question 1 Quizzigans _________ is Sanskrit for "Great Soul" it is similar in usage to the modern Christian term saint. Vedas say, that association of great soul is very rare: "the association of a ________ is very rare, and yet it is available to a sincere seeker." Krishna also speaks about this in Bhagavad-Gita: "After many births and deaths, he who is actually in knowledge surrenders unto Me, knowing Me to be the cause of all causes and all that is. Such a great soul is very rare.“ The term is also used to refer to adepts, or liberated souls. Fill in the blanks.
33. Question 2 Quizzigans X yet to be published comic book created by Virgin Comics. It will be illustrated by Jeevan Kang. The series will feature him as a protagonist, battling demons, using a sword that resembles a ________, and which was handed down to him across the ages. The same sword gives him magical armour, which allow him to produce superhuman feats, and allows him to become a superhero. Give me X or the person on whom it is based
53. Question 2 Quizzigans This is the cart used to carry lord jagannath during rath yatra . Due to the huge crowds during rath yatra many people would inevitably be crushed under the huge wheels of this cart. This lead to an English word meaning a literal or metaphorical force regarded as mercilessly destructive and unstoppable. Which word???
59. Question 8 Quizzigans In the authors own words X is a combination of recession, unemployment, cricket-craziness, psychotropic substances and a lifetime of stupidity. The idea is said to have been inspired from the Richard Gere movie The Hoax. Id X or Y??
60. Question 9 Quizzigans Amita __________ is a fictional character from the TV series Numb3rs .she is an said to have she received a doctorate in computational mathematics with Charlie Eppes as her thesis adviser at California Institute of Science, the same institution where she currently holds a faculty position. Which famous Indian is she based on??