CSLQ (Chhattisgarh State Level Quiz) 2.0- Wildcard round questions

1. Chhattisgarh State Level Quiz ‘14
IIM
RAIPUR
September 28th, 2014
College Wildcard

2. Written Relative Round
• There will be a total of six questions.
• Each team on stage should write their answers on a sheet of paper.
• The marking scheme for the questions will be:
+10 if only one team out of six gets the answer right.
+8 if two teams out of six get the answer right.
+6 if three teams out of six get the answer right.
+4 if four teams out of six get the answer right.
+2 if five teams out of six get the answer right.
Zero if all the teams/no team gets the answer right.

3. 1
• The car in pic was designed by
automobile designer Dilip Chhabria.
It was first showcased at the 2008
Delhi Auto Expo. It has a Rolls
Royce-developed V12 engine and a
3-seat configuration with doors that
open skywards. Three 7” LCD
screens with internet, satellite
navigation, camera output and video
conference dominate the interiors.
Name the car on which its design is
based.

4. • Emperor Harshavardhana ruled northern India from 606 to
647 from this capital city X. X, now, a district in Uttar Pradesh
is popularly known as Perfume capital of India.
• Identify.
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5. 3
• What happened for the first time in independent India in the
little region of Chini in Himachal Pradesh on 25 October
1951?
• It happened this early as a precaution against possible snow
later in the winter.

6. • Lal Bahadur Shastri passed away on 11 Jan 1966 in
Tashkent. Indira Gandhi was sworn in as Prime
Minister on the 24th of January. The ceremony was
affected by news of someone's untimely death in
Europe. Indira Gandhi remarked that she had hoped to
bring in that person into the Cabinet.
• Who?
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7. 5
•Known as Moksha Patam, this game emphasized
the role of karma. The game was taught in ancient
India as a tool for teaching the effects of good V/s
bad. The Y represented virtues while X
represented vices. Identify the game.

8. 6
•Tuzk-e-Jahangiri, the autobiography of Jahangir,
doesn't mention X at all. Neither the Akbarnama (the
biography of Akbar commissioned by Akbar himself),
nor any historical text from the period refer to X.
• According to Professor Shirin Moosvi, a historian of
Aligarh Muslim University, X was first used only in
the 18th and 19th centuries. It is said Lieutenant-
Colonel James Tod was the first to mention X in one
of his books.
•Who is X?

9. ANSWERS
1. Ambassador
2. Kannauj
3. Casting of votes in Independent India’s 1st general elections
in 1952
4. Homi J Bhabha
5. Snakes and Ladders
6. Jodha Bai/Heer Kunwari, Akbar’s Hindu wife

10. Thank You!