Quiz Questions
QUESTION 1: Which Indian town is also known as the little Japan?[hide]
ANSWER 1: Sivakasi, because of the printing industry.

QUESTION 2: Legend has it that this temple was formed when Vibhishana placed the idol ofrecumbent Mahavishnu on the ground. The idol could not be moved thereafter, and still lies facing the south, unlike in most other temples where the deity faces east. The main gopuram is one of the tallest (if not the tallest) in India, and the temple complex is almost a city in itself. Name the temple and the city.[hide]
ANSWER 2: The Sri Ranganathaswamy Temple in Srirangam with the Raja Gopuram reaching a height of 236 feet.

QUESTION 3: Which Kargil war martyr has 3 Kargil-related movies been partially based on.[hide]
ANSWER 3: Anuj Nayyar. The movies are Dhoop, LOC Kargil and Lakshya.

QUESTION 4: This person is famous as a freedom fighter and is known for introducing appleplantations in Himachal Pradesh in a big way. Who?[hide]
ANSWER 4: Satyananda Stokes aka Samuel Evan Stokes.

QUESTION 5: What is the caste of Manmohan Singh, the Prime Minister of India?[hide]
ANSWER 5: Khatri

QUESTION 6: The rulers of this ancient kingdom had to slit their throats at the end of their reignper tradition. Name the kingdom, the name by which the rulers were known, and the name of this suicide ritual.[hide]
HINTThe ritual was carried out on the banks of a river in South India.
ANSWER 6[hide]
Zamorin or Samoothris of Kozhikode, the derivative festival ritual was called Mamankam and the suicide squads were called chaver.

QUESTION 7: Connect the DC comics universe with a God of the Hindu trinity.[hide]
ANSWER 7: Lady Shiva

QUESTION 8: According to the legend, A decided that his daughter B would get married only if ithappened at a particular auspicious moment. But this moment went unnoticed because B disturbed the ingenious device he had made to tell the time. To console her, A wrote a book in her name, which is considered a seminal book in that subject. Identify A and B.[hide]
ANSWER 8: A is Bhaskaracharya. B is Lilavati

QUESTION 9: The legend goes that he once predicted that the young son of a king would die on acertain day by a certain animal. The King built a tall building and made the boy sit alone on the top floor so that the animal could never get to him. When the appointed time came and went, he went with the king to check whether the boy was alright. There they found him dead - there was a flag pole (dhwaj) on top of the building which carried a bronze figure of that animal, this figure had fallen on the head of the boy killing him. The King gave him a title after the name of that animal, and it is now part of the name by which we now know him. Who?[hide]
ANSWER 9: Varahamihira

QUESTION 10: A sub-atomic particle initially got a defective/wrong name due to certain reasons.Later it was pointed out that the name was wrong. A famous German physicist is believed to be the person who pointed out the fault in the name. However, according to other sources, an Indian suggested the new name in a publication in Nature. Name the particle and the Indian scientist.[hide]
ANSWER 10: Meson by Homi Jehangir Bhabha?

QUESTION 11: Two wacky professors from Kerala were awarded the ________ prize for their"ambitious" project involving the estimation of the area of an elephant. Interestingly, a European nation also won the same prize a few years later, for outsourcing ________ to India.[hide]
ANSWER 11: Ig Nobel prize. Vatican got the economics prize for outsourcing prayer.

QUESTION 12: Why did Rupert Brooke get a mention in the Indian cricket circles in 2002?[hide]
ANSWER 12: Ramachandra Guha wrote A Corner of a Foreign Field - An Indian History of a British sport (2002), which was named based on "the Soldier" by Rupert Brooke (which has the line "If I should die, think only this of me: That there's some corner of a foreign field That is forever England")

QUESTION 13: What does India have in common with all of the following countries: Pakistan,Myanmar, Canada, United States, Brazil, Morocco, China, Sudan, Switzerland, Australia?[hide]
HINTThe list is non-exhaustive. Some countries not on the list are: Mexico, Japan, South Korea, United Kingdom, France, Italy, Egypt, Russia, Argentina, Bangladesh, and Belgium.
ANSWER 13[hide]
Their capitals are not their biggest cities.

QUESTION 14: Who connects the music group U2 and the movie Bridget Jones's Diary?[hide]
ANSWER 14: Salman Rushdie wrote the lyrics to a U2 song called "The Ground Beneath Her Feet" (also the name of his book), and also made a cameo in Bridget Jones's Diary.

QUESTION 15: Where in India would one ask starred and unstarred questions?[hide]
ANSWER 15: Lok Sabha.

QUESTION 16: Link Bayer to Amitabh Bachchan.[hide]
ANSWER 16: Adalat. It is the Bayer brand name for nifedipine and the drug used in the INSIGHT and ACTION trials. Adalat was also a 1976 film with Amitabh Bachchan and Kader Khan.

QUESTION 17: Tanuja Desai Hidier and Sophie Kinsella are two of them. Name the other two andgive the connection.[hide]
ANSWER 17: Meg Cabot and Salman Rushdie? Kaavya Viswanathan is alleged to have plagalarised her novel How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild and Got a Life from the works of the above four authors.

QUESTION 18: In the 17th century, the British East India Company selected members of thiscommunity to keep sea piracy at bay. Over the next 100 years, they were sucessful and as a result, piracy moved on to SE Asia. Name the community and the location in India.[hide]
ANSWER 18: Bhandaris and Bombay

QUESTION 19: What connects Fort St. George in Madras and Henry VIII of England?[hide]
HINTThink about a building/structure inside Fort St George that is the first of its kind in India.
ANSWER 19[hide]
Henry is buried at St George's Chapel in Westminster Abbey, while St. mary's Church is known as the Westminster of the East. The church of St Mary at Fort St George in Madras is the oldest Anglican church outside of England.

QUESTION 20: Connect band Rammstein to Lobsang Samten.[hide]
ANSWER 20: Dalai lama—It is the title of a song by Rammstein. Lobsang Samten's brother Tenzin Gyatso was the 14th Dalai Lama.

QUESTION 21: I was born/invented/discovered in the country that first analysed infinite seriesexpansions of trigonometric functions. My original name, was in Sanskrit. The Arabs translated my name into Arabic, and the Arabic translation was in turn transliterated by the Europeans into Latin. And in Europe, I was responsible for nullifying the glory of a God. So, who/what am I?[hide]
ANSWER 21: Zero

QUESTION 22: Which concern holds the sole right to manufacture our National Flag?[hide]
ANSWER 22: Karnataka Khadi Gramodyoga Samyukta Sangha (Federation) (KKGSS)

QUESTION 23: This property is linked to the British, Kapurthala dynasty and the Afghans. Name theproperty.[hide]
HINTIt is a piece of land that was owned by two of the three parties mentioned above and is now a heritage property.
ANSWER 23[hide]
Secretary’s Lodge, now called Chapslee Hotel and owned by the Maharaja of Kapurthala in Simla.

QUESTION 24: Which major species is found in India but not in Sri Lanka. This has caused whichparticular species to dominate Sri Lankan wildlife? Name both the species.[hide]
ANSWER 24: Tiger and leopard

QUESTION 25: The name of which Carnatic and Hindustani raaga translates to "Sound of theswan"?[hide]
ANSWER 25: Hansadwani