India ‘Couldn’t find a punny name’ Quiz

Rules and Format

1. Total 34 questions.2. Questions 11-20 are starred-to resolve tie.3. Teams of at most 3. 4. Top 8 teams in the final.5. Full names of people are required unless specified

otherwise.6. No googling, binging etc. and all the general rules of

disqualification apply here.

1. First to achieve?

Neecha Nagar (English: Lowly City) is a 1946 Hindi film directed by Chetan Anand. Written by Khwaja Ahmad Abbas and Hayatullah Ansari , it was a pioneering effort in social realism in Indian cinema and paved the way for many such 'parallel cinema' films by other directors, many of them written by Abbas. It starred Chetan Anand's wife Uma Anand, Rafiq Ahmed,Kamini Kaushal, Rafi Peer and Zohra Sehgal.

Answer :

First Indian movie to win Best film at Cannes (palm d’or also will do).

2. SITTER ONE.

This ever”green” character was a response to Target Magazine’s Detective Moochwala . This character was also partly based on the 50s sitcom “I Love Lucy” .Enough clues in qn..

Answer : Shikari Shambhu

3. Name of the Ad campaign.The advertising campaign was spearheaded by Madison Advertising and the father-daughter duo of Sam and Lara Balsara.Raj Nair was the creative head for the campaign. The tongue-in-cheek, fantastically witty lines were dreamed up by good friend and ad whiz Rayomand J. Patell. Shyam Samant art-directed the campaign and Farzan Randelia shot it. The GOI launched it in November 2014.

Answer: JiYO Parsi

If Air India had the Maharaja ; then who was it for Air Deccan ?

4. #Kolstylz

Ans : R.K.Laxman’s common man

5.Owned and Operated by ?

There are nearly 100 of them around the world. The pic is of that in Philadelphia.

Ans : ISKCON

6.What is number 9 used for?

A Postal Index Number or PIN or Pincode is a code in the post office numbering or post code system used by India Post, the Indian postal administration. As we all know, the code is six digits long. The first digit of the PIN code indicates the region as shown in the next slide. What is number 9 used for?

6.What is number 9 used for?

Ans : Indian Army Post Office (APO) or Field Post Office(FPO)

7.Who was the chauffer?

In September, 2015, Ola cabs launched a special campaign in Bengaluru called ‘Ola Prime Time with X’ where select customers where driven to their destinations by a special person in a White Jaguar.

Ans : Narain Kartikeyan

8. What is this exceptional feat?

R Ashwin is the fastest Indian bowler to reach 50-,100- and 150 wickets in Test cricket. In his career spanning 32 matches (9224 balls) he has another track record which he shares only with 3 other Indian bowlers- E A S Prasanna, S Venkatraghavan and Shivlal Yadav.

Ans : Zero No Balls by overstepping.

9. Which state?Out of all the 29 states in India there is only one state which has NO airport (defence or civil). The first airport will come up in the near future after overcoming several bureaucratic red tapes, political pressures, civil unrest and engineering and environmental problems. Punjlloyd is handling the project.

Ans : Sikkim

10. What unique record? This is Surendra Rajan, Marathi actor and composer who has been in the art and cinema industry for long. In terms of artistic depictions on screen, Rajan has got a unique record of doing something thrice in feature films, twice in short films and once in a TV movie. The actor closest to him is Dilip Prabhavalkar (2 times).

Ans : Playing the role of Mahatma Gandhi maximum number of times

11*. Which website?Rashmi Sinha grew up in India and earned a PhD in cognitive neuropsychology at Brown University. She took a course in designing educational software. She later went to University of California, Berkeley for a postdoc where she switched her focus to human-computer interaction. She co-founded Uzanto, a user experience consulting company and worked on projects for companies like eBay, Blue Shield, AAA etc. In 2006, she along with her brother and husband co-founded a website which has received 9 million uploads and is very familiar to us quizzers.

Ans : Slideshare.com

12*.Name the fort.This fort in Tamil Nadu is so fortified, that Shivaji, the Maratha king, ranked it as the "most impregnable fortress in India" and it was called the "Troy of the East" by the British. The complex has a seven-storeyed Kalyana Mahal (marriage hall), granaries, prison cells, and a temple dedicated to its presiding Hindu goddess after whom the fort is named.

Ans : Gingee Fort or Senji Fort

13*.Name of the party.The party was founded by Punjabi Indians in the United States and Canada in 1913 with the aim of securing India's independence from British rule. Though predominantly Sikh, the party included members and leaders of many religions, demonstrating an accepting and democratic attitude towards all people as they united in their patriotism. After the conclusion of the war, the party in America split into Communist and Anti-Communist factions. The party was formally dissolved in 1948. The name of the party is an Urdu word meaning ‘revolt’ or ‘rebellion’.

Ans : Ghadar Party

14*.Who on earth is this guy?

Debuting in the Hindi film industry as the producer of the movie Hathkadi in 1982, he has had his ups and downs in his production career. He is known for introducing Govinda to the movie industry through his 1986 movie Ilzam. The last film he produced was ‘Khushboo’ which bombed in the box office.

Lately he has been in the news for ‘entertaining’ us by making tribute videos of a person among other things. He is a constant target for social media trolls.

Ans : Pahlaj Nahlani

CBFC Chairman

15*. Which art form?

This performing art form became better known outside the region through the efforts of Rabindranath Tagore. In 1919, he was so impressed after seeing a composition, the Goshtha Lila in Sylhet (in present-day Bangladesh) that he invited Guru Budhimantra Singh to Shantiniketan. In 1926, Guru Naba Kumar also joined the faculty. Other celebrated Gurus, Senarik Singh Rajkumar, Nileshwar Mukherji and Atomba Singh were also invited to teach there and assisted Tagore with the choreography of several of his dance-dramas.

Manipuri

16*.Which place?This township was founded in 1968 by Mira Alfassa and designed by architect Roger Anger. The place is governed by an autonomous body under the Ministry of Human Resources and Development through an act of the Indian Parliament. It works on the principle of service of Truth, beyond all social, political and religious conviction. The community is divided up into neighborhoods with English, Sanskrit, French and Tamil names like Aspiration,Arati, La Ferme,and Isaiambalam.

Ans : Auroville

17* . What is his claim to fame ?

This is Mahant Bharatdas Darshandas , a temple priest in Gir , Gujarat. Every few years, his name will pop up in the media.

He is the only voter in his booth which is in the middle of the forest.

Since law requires that no person should have to walk more than 2km to go to a polling booth , Election officials set up a booth specially for him.

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18*. Where in India would you find these ?

Ans : Bhimbetka Rock Shelters

19*. Gimme the title X as well as the person Y.

X is a persian word, used as a respected title for persons who have acheived mastery over languages. It became a surname for people whose ancestors had received this title. In modern Persian, this word is also used to address Clerks and secretariesAbdul Karim was a valued Indian servant of Queen Victoria who was often known as the “X”.  The close relation between him and the queen led to friction in the royal household and he was sent back to India after her death. X Y , was an Indian writer famous for his modern Hindustani literature. He is considered the first Hindi writer whose writings prominently featured realism.  He wrote on social issues such as poverty and the Zamindari system.

Ans : Munshi  ;  Munshi Premchand

20*. What meter is this?

An X-meter is a non-imaging radiometer installed on satellites and used to determine the yield of a nuclear weapon.X is an Indian preparation traditionally used in food and drink in India .The name was given as a pun by Nobel Prize winning physicist and detector of the neutrino Fred Reines as a person would have to have consumed X to believe that the X-meter would actually work.If you remove one letter from X-meter you would get another name which you could immediately associate with nuclear weapons.

Ans : Bhang  ;  Bhang Meter

21.What is the name of town? In June 2011, Shiv Nagar, a village located in

Muzaffarnagar, UP, named after the Hindu god Shiva, became ________.___Nagar, after an e-commerce company had installed 15 hand pumps, so villagers no longer have to walk for miles to fetch drinking water. There was no source of potable water in the village before. The villagers voted to name their hamlet after _________ to express their gratitude.

Ans : Snapdeal

22. Who?

‘Kingdom of the Soap Queen’ is a book written about an Indian celebrity chronicling her rise from her initial days as a 17 year old working from a home Garage.

Ans : Ekta Kapoor

23. Indian T V Show Hello X Maya - very rich girl who runs away to avoid marrying a dentist her dad likesPenny - An aspiring singerSanjana - A serious level headed fashion designerCyrus - A businessmanRahul - A struggling model/actor

Ans : Hello Friends

24. Which place?

It is believed that this place is one of the 64 Shakthi Peeths where parts of the charred body of Sati fell on the earth while being carried by Shiva.It is believed that Sati’s eyes fell here. Another myth says that the water here was originally from the Manasarovar lake.

Ans : Nainital

25.

Designed by Ram Chander Sharma of the Sawai Man Singh College in Rajasthan, this was designed to be inexpensive ,water resistant and quick to fit and manufacture. The material used is polyurethane , which was quite different from the material traditionally used to make similar items at that time.It played a prominent role in the 1986 Hindi film, Naache Mayuri .What ?

Ans : The Jaipur Foot

26. Painting.Painter.

Ans : Mother India by M F Husain

27. How do we betterknow him?He was born in the British protectorate of Zanzibar, East Africa. His parents were parsis from Gujarat. His family’s surname was derived from the town of Bulsar in Gujarat. He spent most of his childhood in India, studying at St Peters School in Bombay. He was influenced a lot by Lata Mangeshkar Some time after he returned to Zanzibar, war broke out on the Island, turning the place to hell. People were being killed right and left. Then , a magician told him that the “star” Y would always watch over him and he could count on it.

Ans : Freddie Mercury, Farrokh Bulsara

28.Name of the athlete.

This athlete was in news last year when he got a stay from the Karnataka High Court against the Government’s decision to award Sania Mirza Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna.

Full Name not required.

Ans : H N Girisha

29. Which language?

Since the language does not have its own script, it is mainly written in the scripts of South Indian Languages, Devanagari and Roman. Nirmon is the first movie in this language to be recognized at the National Awards. Nachom-ia-Kumpasar, another movie which was crowd funded won rave reviews and was recognized at the 62nd national awards, last year

Ans : Konkani

30. What dish is this?

The dish originated in the 1850s as a fast lunchtime dish for textile mill workers in Mumbai. The need arose due to the American Civil War when the global supply of cotton was affected by Lincoln’s blockade due to which the workers and traders had to work day and night to meet the demands. This was later served at Udupi restaurants throughout the city. It is also a dish where the Portuguese contribution is unheralded as Lizzie Collingham points out in her authoritative ‘Curry – A Biography’.

Ans : Pav Bhaji

31. Who founded this?

Ans : Kailash Sathyarthi

32.

Vodafone India won the 2009 PETA Glitterbox award.

What was the reason PETA decided to give them the award ?

Ans :

For replacing the pug with the zoozoo

33. #TCQ in a way..

Rahul Dravid’s reply to a question by an MTV interviewer some years back is classic- leaping up in embarrassed anger and proceeding not merely to distance himself from her but actually admonishing her in no uncertain terms on her skewed priorities.

“You should concentrate on your studies”

What was her question ?

Ans : “Will you marry me ?”

No, this is not the quizmaster’s fancy way of proposing someone in the audience.

That’s for another day , another quiz .

34 . Maharana Pratap’s horse. Why the fancy accessory ?

Ans : So that elephants of the enemy thought the horse was a baby elephant and didn’t attack.