The document is a quiz about India with multiple choice questions covering topics like famous people, places, history, and culture. It contains 3 rounds of questions - a prelims round with 12 questions and no negative marks, a finals round with 18 questions and scoring parameters, and it ends by thanking the participants. The questions test knowledge about people like Mukesh Khanna, Akash Chopra, and Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore, places like Nagpur, Ballia, and Nanda Devi, events like the 1971 election of Indira Gandhi, and concepts like planned cities in India and objects represented on currency notes.

1. India Quiz
BHARAT ADHYARU NITIN SHARMA MANDAR JANI
S01E01: THE PILOT
PRESENTS

2. Prelims Round

3. Rules-Prelims
▶ 12 Questions
▶ No negative marks. Do attempt all.
▶ Refrain from using mobile phone. Usage of
phone will lead to expulsion from session.
▶ Enjoy!

4. 1.
Mukesh Khanna is an
Indian television and
film actor, best known
for his portrayal of
Bhishma Pitamah and X.
He is also the chairman
of Children's Film
Society of India. What’s
X?

5. Answer
Shaktimaan

6. 2.
These books are written by a well known sports
commentator, who recently became a meme
material on social media.

8. Answer
Akash Chopra

9. 3.
As per the founder 197 was the
telephone directory number of
BSNL in Delhi. Since he was
building something completely
based on telecom industry, he
decided to name it as “One97
Communications Ltd”.
One97 is the company that runs
X. What’s X?

10. Answer
Paytm

11. 4.
Naturally produced by several species of large
evergreen Elaeocarpus tree, these are said to be the
result of someone's deep pain and sorrow.
It is a combination of 2 words. The first being a
name for Lord Shiva and the second meaning an eye
in Sanskrit.
Identify X.

12. Answer
Rudraksha

13. 5.
The Indian city of X, well-known for Y fruit, got a GI
tag on Y in 2014. Its scientific name is Citrus
Reticulata.
X also serves as the headquarters of a nationalist
organization founded in 1925.
Identify X and Y.

14. Answer
X-Nagpur
Y-Orange

15. 6.
Here are some achievements of X.
Arjuna Award in 2003.
Silver medal in 2004 Olympic Games.
Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award in 2004.
Padma Shri in 2005.
Ati Vishisht Seva Medal
Ex-colonel in Indian Army
X is currently serving as Information & Broadcasting
minister in Government of India.
Identify X.

16. Answer
Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore

17. 7.
X was developed as a herbal tonic by Hakim
Hafiz Abdul Majid in 1906 in Delhi. The Urdu
word translates to nourishment for the soul.
Hamdard Laboratories manufacture them
even today.
What are we talking about?

18. Answer
Rooh-Afza

19. 8.
Whose autobiography is aptly named “Ace
Against Odds”?
The person has been more successful playing
in a team rather than solo.

20. Answer
Sania Mirza

21. 9.
Atal Bihari Vajpyee : Bharatiya Janata Party
Arvind Kejriwal : Aam Aadmi Party
AO Hume : ?

22. Answer
Indian National Congress

23. 10.
What is common between these films, except
they have Raj Kapoor as lead?

24. Answer
Only indian films to have 2 intervals

25. 11.
Indira Gandhi wanted to name her son Rahul,
but a very famous businessman had named
his son Rahul already. Not to create an
impression of copying the name, Indira named
her son Rajiv, whose son recently hugged
Narendra Modi in Lok Sabha.
Who’s that businessman?

26. Answer
Jamnalal Bajaj

27. 12.
1st : The beginning.
18th (last) : The ascent to heaven
Put funda.

28. Answer
Mahabharat

29. Final Round

30. Rules-Finals
▶ 18 Questions
▶ +10/0 on bounce.
▶ +15/-10 on pounce.
▶ QMs will have the final discretion, if & when
required.
▶ Enjoy!

31. 1
Ballia (also known as Bagi Ballia) is a district in
Uttar pradesh. The well known freedom
fighter Mangal Pandey was from here.
This is the only place in India where
something happened twice. Keeping the
current month in mind, what do you think
what rare thing Ballia has done twice?

33. Answer
It got freedom twice.
1st in 1942 & 2nd with India.

34. 2
This is an older logo for X.
The newer logo now in use
was designed by Shekhar
Kamat, an alumni of National
Institute of Design,
Ahmedabad. It’s design has
several interpretations one of
them being that it was
inspired by something from
Ahmedabad. Which logo?

36. Answer
SBI logo. Thought to be inspired from Kankaria
Lake

37. 3.
R.D. Burman, one of the most
influential music directors of
the Indian film industry took
inspiration from this Latin
American percussion instrument
called Guiro and used an object
of daily use for similar sound
this song.
• What’s that object of daily use?

40. Answer
A comb.

41. 4.
He was a pro-masculine figure, for him a woman was
born to serve and a man to be served. His vision of
the perfect wife is one that is one who serves her
husband in the morning like a mother does, loves
him in the day like a sister does and pleases him like
a prostitute in the night.
Apart from his views against women, he was a man
of immense intelligence, his works founded the
basis of political theory.
He was born around 370 BC. Give his name.

43. Answer
Chanakya

44. 5.
This is a standard
marking system of an
organization, which has
attracted many
business schools for
management studies.
Where can you see
this?

46. Answer
Mumbai Dabbawalas

47. 6.
A boy sat under a tree and opened the bundle of chapatis.The
smell attracted several nearby houseflies. Frustrated, the boy
slapped his hand on the chapati. When he lifted his palm, he
saw several dead black flies. He began to count: One, two,
three…thirty! He had managed to kill thirty houseflies with
one strike of his hand!
The next morning, the boy went to a nearby village and
boasted to the first person he saw, Impressed, the person
passed it on.
A phrase is said to have this origin story. What phrase also a
title which was also given to 6th Nizam of Hyderabad?

49. Answer
Tees Maar Khan

50. 7.
In 1975, Indira Gandhi contested and got
elected in Lok Sabha from _____ constituency
in Uttar Pradesh. However, the Supreme
Court of India debunked the verdict and
barred her from election process for 6 years
after the opposition candidate’s appeal.
Fill in the blank.

52. Answer
Rae Bareilly

53. 8.
On which famous mountain in Himalayas CIA
and RAW placed a radioactive device to
measure nuclear experiments of China?
It is the highest among the mountains which
are entirely located within the country. Valley
of flowers, a world heritage site is located
near it.

55. Answer
Nanda Devi

56. 9.
A joint military operation in Arabian Sea, led
by NATO and having more than 20 countries
involved, lasted between 2009 to 2016,
witnessed India and Pakistan fighting against a
common enemy.
Who were the enemy?

58. Answer
Somalian Pirates

59. 10.
According to a legend, there were 18 forts on
either side of river Shivanth in the area of
southern Kaushal in central India.
What entity gets its name from the above
fact?

61. Answer
Chattisgarh

62. 11. Connect
JRD Tata
Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan
Mother Teresa
Nelson Mandela
These foreign-born personalities have achieved
something which only 41 people born in India
have achieved. What is it?

64. Answer
They are all Bharat Ratna awardees

65. 12.
Here Jawaharlal Nehru and Le Corbusier should
be given major credit for inspiring future
generations. These cities have something in
common.
• Chandigarh
• Jamshedpur
• Bhubaneswar
• Gandhinagar
What’s common?

67. Answer
Planned cities of India

68. 13.
‘Hero of the Soviet Union’ was the biggest
distinction in Soviet Union. Who is the only
Indian to win it?
In India, this person’s beautiful answer to
Indira Gandhi’s question is more popular than
this honour.

70. Answer
Rakesh Sharma

71. 14.
• Konark Sun Temple, Orissa
• Garuda Shrine, Karnataka
• Rani ki Vav, Gujarat
• Sanchi Stupa, MP
• Red Fort, Delhi
• Mangalyaan
Connect?

73. Answer
All are present on the new currency notes of India.

74. 15.
Which famous personality is in this doodle?

76. Answer
Dadasaheb Phalke

77. 16.
Mr. Harpal Singh won the 1st X in a lucky draw.
On 14 Dec. 1983, X was presented to him by
then PM Indira Gandhi.
X was the vision of her son, Sanjay Gandhi.
Id X.

79. Answer
Maruti-800

80. 17.
Bhanu Athaiya won an Oscar for best costume
for movie ‘____’, in which an actor, born as
Krishna Bhanji, played the main role and won
an Oscar for best actor. Which movie?
A single scene from the movie had around
300,000 extras, which is a world record.

82. Answer
Gandhi

83. 18.
______ Gazette is the first newspaper in India,
started in 1777.
______ is also a geographical region, once
ruled by Nawab Siraj ud-Daulah.
Fill in the blank.

85. Answer
Bengal

86. THANK YOU!