India Quiz Prelims with Answers

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Identify the singer

The Gosaikunda area has been delineated as
a religious site. Hindu mythology attributes
Gosaikunda as the abode of deites Lord Shiva
and goddess Gauri. It’s holy waters are
considered of particular importance during
Gangadashahara and the sacred thread
festival Janai Purnima when thousands of
pilgrims from Nepal and India visit the area.
What is the mythological reason given to be
the origin of this lake? (PIC ON NEXT SLIDE)

During Samudra Manthan, when
the heat of the poison finally
became unbearable for Lord
Shiva, he used his trishul to dig
for water, thus forming the
Gosaikund A lake.

This Indian practice is ancient, going back
to around 400-750 BC. The actual mention
appears in the Ayodhya Kaand of Ramayana
in section 103. Bharata has gone to ask
exiled Rama to come back and rule the
kingdom. Bharata tries many arguments
, none of which work, at which point he
decides to do a ________. Rama, however is
quickly able to persuade him to abandon the
attempt. Rama mentions it as a practice of
Brahmanas.

FITB. It is very prevalent in India.

X and Y fought 2 wars. X showed mercy and released
Y after he won the first battle. Later Y defeated X and
kept him as a captive. Angered by X's refusal to not
look Y in the eye, Y had X, blinded using red hot iron
bars.

Later X made a request to enter an archery
competiton. Y was amused, he agreed.
At the competiton, when his turn came , X turned to Y
who was laughing in mockery and being assisted by
his friend/advisor Chand Bardai "Char baans, chaubis
gaj, angul ashta praman, Ete pai Sultan khada hai. Ab
mat chuko ________." , X shot dead Y. X was killed
shortly after by Y's people.

ID X & Y.

X- PRITHVIRAJ CHAUHAN

Y- MOHAMMAD GHORI

_____________ was introduced to Indian troops under British
colonization in 1856. The _______ rifle-musket was a contributing
cause of the Indian rebellion of 1857. Sepoys in the British East
India Company's armies in India were issued with the new rifle in
1857, and rumours began to spread that the cartridges were
greased with either pig fat or beef tallow - an abhorrent concept to
Muslim and Hindu soldiers, respectively, for religious reasons. The
idea of having anything which might be tainted with pig or beef fat
in their mouths was totally unacceptable to the sepoys, and when
they objected it was suggested that they were more than welcome
to make up their own batches of cartridges, using a religiously
acceptable greasing agent such as ghee or vegetable oil. This
seemed to prove that the issued cartridges were, in fact, greased
with pig and/or beef fat.

FITB.

 PATTERN 1853 ENFIELD REIFLE, WHICH
REQUIRED THE SEPOYS TO BITE THE
CARTRIDGE. THE GREASE USED ON THESE
CARTRIDGES INCLUDED TALLOW, DERIVED
FROM BEEF.

 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.

X‘s 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

X is a fictional detective in bengali literature
created by Shardindu Bandopadhyaya. X is
highly inspired from Arthur Conan Doyle’s
Sherlock Holmes. His faithful sidekick is Ajit
Bandyopadhyaya, whose character is based
on Dr. Watson. He got popular in Indian
culture in 1993 when Doordarshan started
this detective series featuring Rajit Kapur.
Identify X.

The core of the ________, meaning the 'Blissful
ceremony' is the 'Lavan', wherein shabads are
sung with the bride and groom circumambulating
the Guru Granth Sahib. The ceremony serves to
provide the foundational principles towards a
successful marriage and also places the marriage
within the context of unity with God. Guru Ram
Das Ji, composed the four stanzas of 'Lavan'. In
1579, the fifth Guru, Guru Arjan Dev Ji and Mata
Ganga were the first couple to be married
through the __________ ceremony. The ceremony
is now universally observed by the Sikhs.

The first school based on the original teachings
of the elders, teaches personal liberation as
the road to salvation. The other school based
on larger influences, teaches that personal
liberation and service to human beings can
lead you to salvation. Apart from that, the
differences are extremely fine. What are thse
2 schools?

 Son of an Indian father from the state of
Kerala and an Italian mother, X was born and
brought up in the Himalayas. X resides and
trains in the north Indian state of Himachal
Pradesh, on the foothills of the Himalayas and
the home of winter sports in India. X was (in
his words), "offered to represent Italy" in
2002, but refused because "I am an Indian
and want to contribute to the country that I
was born in". Identify X.

If you won Vallam Kali(Boat Race) held in the
Punnamada Lake near Alappuzha, Kerala then
what would you win?

His name stems from the combination of two
sanskrit words for "hairless" and "pot".
He had received the ultimate boon from Shri
Krishna that nobody in all the worlds could
match his magical capabilities except the god
himself.
There's a shrine dedicated to him in
Manali, next to his mother's temple.

Who is he?

The real cause of X's death is unknown and disputed.
According to a legend, Subandhu, one of Bindusara's
ministers, did not like X. One day he told Bindusara that X was
responsible for the murder of his mother. Bindusara asked the
nurses, who confirmed the story of his birth. Bindusara was
horrified and enraged. X, who was an old man by this
time, learnt that the King was angry with him, X decided to
end his life. In accordance with the Jain tradition,X decided to
starve himself to death. By this time, the King learnt the full
story: X was not directly responsible for his mother's
death, which was an accident. He asked Subandhu to
convince X to give up his plan to kill himself. Subandhu tried
to kill X by deceit and the king knowing this asked him to sit
on pyre where he died. X later abandoned politics and retired
to jungle where he is supposed to have died a natural death.

ID X.

THE LAST WHOLE QUIZ
WAS NAMED AFTER ME
GUYS!!!!!!!!

X, meaning "The River of Kings" is a metrical
historical chronicle of north-western Indian
subcontinent, particularly of Kashmir, written in
Sanskrit by _________ between 1148 and 1149.
The work generally records the heritage of
Kashmir, but some 120 verses describe the
misrule prevailing in Kashmir during the reign of
King Kalash, son of King Ananta Deva of Kashmir.
This book states that the valley of Kashmir was
formerly a lake which was drained by the great
sage, Kashyapa. Give X.

Which ancient treatise title can be translated in
English as "A compendium of Theatre or a A
Manual of Dramatic Arts"?

 His father was a wrestler. His mother died when
he was 6. He had to learn music without his
father's knowledge, for his father wanted him to
become a wrestler. He did go to the Akhada and
train with his father for some time, although he
also started learning music, and practising at his
friend's house. He often credits his wrestling
training for giving him the immense stamina and
lung power that are the hallmarks of his flute
playing, stating that,
“I was not any good at wrestling. I went there
only to please my father. But maybe because of
the strength and stamina I built up then, I'm able
to play the ______________ even to this day."

 X (born 1959), is an Indian
poet, novelist, librettist and musician. X was
given the the Sahitya Akademi Award for
English for his poem collection ‘These Errors
are Correct’ . X was short-listed for the Man
Booker Prize 2012 and The Hindu Literary
Prize (2013) for his debut novel _________ . X
also became the first Indian author to win
the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature, in
2013, for the same novel. Give X

Allama Iqbal, in his poetry wrote about
X in these words, "X az
________, Sadiq az Deccan; nang-e-
deen, nang-e-millat, nang-e-watan"
which mean X of ________ and Sadiq
of Deccan are a disgrace to the
faith, a disgrace to Nation, a disgrace
to Country.
Id X

"Yes, I first took training in Pakistan. I went to
PoK (Pakistan Occupied Kashmir) in 1990. I
stayed there for 15 days and took training
from a Pakistan's Army retired officer. I
stayed in Kashmir for 20 days. There I saw
the entire business. There was no freedom
fight. There was no logic. There was lot of
bloodshed. They were trying to earn money
over there."

X runs across most of central
India, extending 1,050 km. The average
elevation of X is 3,000 m. They are believed
to have been formed by the wastes created by
the weathering of the ancient Aravali
mountains. Geographically, it
separates northern India from southern India.
The western end of the range lies in eastern
Gujarat, near its border with Madhya
Pradesh, and runs east and north, almost
meeting the Ganges at Mirzapur. Give X.

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