Quiz Session by MSIT Quiz Soc!!

1. MSIT QUIZ SOCIETY
QUIZ SESSION
WARS AND BATTLES
By : ARUN YADAV

3. 1
When Robert Clive wished to pay thanks for
his victory in the Battle of Plassey, he was
unable to do so in a Church because the only
church in Calcutta at that time was destroyed
by Siraj-ud-Daulah. What was organised for
the first time by Raja Nabakrishna Deb of the
Shobhabazar Rajbari of Calcutta in honour of
Lord Clive in the year 1757?

5. FIRST DURGA POOJA WAS ORGANISED

6. 2
X was the North American conflict that was
part of a larger imperial conflict b/w Great
Britain and France known as the Seven Years
War. X in Canadian history is referred to as the
War Of The Conquest. It started in 1754 and
ended with the Treaty of Paris on 1763. Id X.

8. THE FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR

9. 3
In June 1984, the then-Prime Minister Indira
Gandhi ordered an attack on Sikh separatists
belonging to the Khalistan movement who
had holed up in the Golden Temple in
Amritsar. This operation resulted in 500-1,500
civilian deaths and heavy damage to the Akal
Takht. What was this operation called ?

11. OPERATION BLUE STAR

12. 4
(Pretty Simple :P)
During the Great War, the Americans called it
cyclonite, the Germans called it hexogen, the
Italians called it T4.How is it known these days
?

14. RDX

15. 5
On August 15, India crossed the Line of Control
(LOC) in Pakistan,occupied Kashmir, shelling
Pakistani divisions. On 1 September 1965,
Pakistan launched a counterattack, Operation X,
to capture the vital town of Akhnoor in Jammu.
On 6 September, India crossed the international
border in Punjab, officially marking the start of
the Indo Pak war of 1965. Pakistan had to
relocate troops from Jammu to defend Punjab
and X failed to capture Akhnoor, though some Pir
Panjal peaks and the strategic Haji Pir pass were
taken. Simply give me X.

17. OPERATION GRAND SLAM

18. 6*
This man is a legend. He led
the French resistance to Hitler’s
German occupation of France
during WW II. After the war he
set up a provisional French Govt
which he led till 1946. He was
President of France again in 1958
and lasted through much of the
1960s.

20. CHARLES DE GAULLE

21. 7
ID :)

23. HAL MARUT

24. 8
X was the leader of the ‘February Revoultion’
(also known as Iranian Revolution) in 1979
that brought down the monarchy in Iran and
established an Islamic State. Iran has had an
Islamic Govt since then. He died in June 1989.

26. AYATOLLAH KHOEMINI

27. 9
The name of this article of clothing is taken from
a town in Ukraine. These were sent to the British
troops to help protect them from the cold during
the Crimean war. A form of cloth headgear that
covers the whole head, exposing only part of the
face. Often only the eyes or eyes and mouth are
left exposed. A.k.a Uhlan cap or Templar cap in
19th Century.
Name this article of clothing.

29. BALACLAVA

30. 10
X was the first supersonic fighter jet to enter
service with the IAF. It played a very limited
role for defensive sorties during the 1965
Indo-Pak war but played the most significant
role in the 1971 war. Id X.
(Was on the front page of every newspaper
recently !! *enough said* )

32. MiG-21 BISON

33. 11
Who are 'nijū hibakusha' in Japan?
The last of ‘nijū hibakusha’ died in 2010.

35. PEOPLE WHO SURVIVED THE EFFETCTS OF
BOMBINGS OF HIROSHIMA AND NAGASAKI

36. 12*
• During World War II, Ogilvy worked for the British
Intelligence Service at the British embassy in Washington,
DC. There he analyzed and made recommendations on
matters of diplomacy and security
• In 1989, The Ogilvy Group was bought by WPP Group, a
British parent company, for US$864 million in a hostile
takeover made possible by the fact that the company group
had made an IPO as the first company in marketing to do so
• One of his greatest successes was the phrase “____ X __
___ _______ ____________ ______”, which made X the
top selling soap in the US
• Identify the phrase/soap.

38. DOVE
Only Dove is one-quarter moisturizing cream

39. 13
X was the first Indian to be trained at the Daly
Cadet College, Indore. He was the first Indian
officer to command an army unit. After his
retirement from Indian Army in 1953, X served
as the High Comissioner to Australia and
NewZealand for 3 years. He was conferred
‘Order of the Chief Commander of the Legion
of Merit’ by US president Harry S Truman.
Name X.

41. Kodandera Madappa Cariappa

42. 14
Which is the only Ghat in Banaras that is
named after an event in the freedom
struggle?

44. DANDI GHAT
(Dandi March)

45. 15
The Battle of the ____ ___ fought during 4-8
May,1942 was a major naval battle in the
pacific theatre of World War II between the
Imperial Japanese Navy and naval and air
forces from the United States and Australia.
The battle was the first action in which aircraft
carriers engaged each other, as well as the
first in which neither side’s ships sighted or
fired directly upon the other.

47. BATTLE OF THE CORAL SEA

48. 16
• 1/11 Gorkha Riflles
• Operation Vijay
• Param Vir Chakra
• “Na chhodnu”
• _____ ____ Block in NDA
• Ajay Devgan
Whom am I talking about ?

50. CAPTAIN MAJOJ KUMAR PANDEY

51. 17

53. An - 32

54. 18
Between whom was the Battle of Haldighati
fought and who won it ?

56. • Akbar and Maharana Pratap Singh of Mewar
• Akbar won the battle

57. 19
He was a general of the Russian army during
the Napoleonic Wars. He features in Tolstoy‘s
War and Peace. He led the left wing at the
Battle of Borodino, where he constructed a
number of fleches. He was mortally wounded
in this battle. An operation in WW2 which
cleared the German forces from Belorussian
SSR and eastern Poland is named after him.

59. General Peter Bagration

60. 20
During the Kargil conflict IAF Mirage 2000Hs,
along with MiG-27s carried out strikes against
enemy positions. On 11 May 1999, the Indian
Air Force was called in to provide close air
support to the Indian Army at the height of
the ongoing Kargil conflict with the use of
helicopters. This IAF strike was code named
Operation _____ ____.

62. OPERATION SAFED SAGAR

63. 21*
In 1956, around two hundred thousand Hungarians gathered
in Budapest to demonstrate in sympathy for the Poles who
had just gained political reform during the Polish October. The
Hungarians broadcast sixteen demands over the radio, one of
them being the dismantling of X's statue in Memento Park.
A hundred thousand Hungarian revolutionaries demolished
the statue, leaving only his boots, in which they planted a
Hungarian flag. The bronze inscribed name of the Hungarians'
leader, teacher and "best friend" was ripped off from the
pedestal. Before the toppling of the statue, someone had
placed a sign over X's mouth that read "RUSSIANS, WHEN YOU
RUN AWAY DON'T LEAVE ME BEHIND!"

65. JOSEPH STALIN

66. 22
She was the last of the postwar conventional
aircraft carriers commissioned into the Royal
Navy. Served as one of four Royal Navy strike
carriers mainly in the Indian Ocean area until
1970 and was made the flagship of the British
forces during the Falkland wars. Paid off in
1985 and refitted and sold to another navy.

68. HMS Hermes

69. 23
Which Indian fighter aircrafts are also known
as “ Sabre Slayers” and why ?

71. Folland Gnat

72. THAT’S
ALL
FOLKS
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