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TEACHERS DAY QUIZ - PRELIMS
SEPTEMBER 5, 2013
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1. Identify the sports personality.
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ANSWER 1
• DHYAN CHAND. • His birthday is celebrated as National Sports
Day all over India on August 29.
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2. Identify this Mahendra Sandhu acted movie, which had a remake.
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ANSWER 2
• The movie is AGENT VINOD. Remade and released with SAIF ALI KHAN as the protagonist.
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• The national sport of Bangladesh gets it’s name from the Tamil words for hand (kai) and catch/hold(puddi).
• Identify the game.
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ANSWER 3
• The game is KABBADDI
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4. Code written on something regularly transported and used in Mumbai.
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ANSWER 4
• The coding used by the DABBA WALLAHS on the dabbas transported by them
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5. Which sports association does this logo represent?
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ANSWER 5
• ALL INDIA CARROM FEDERATION
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6. Identify
• This former Chief Minister’s family had a tradition in which after a baby was born, the mother was asked what delicacy she would like to eat, which would become her name.
• Her sisters, therefore, are named after the Jalebi, Paan and the Rasgula.
• Who is being mentioned here?
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ANSWER 6
• MS. RABRI DEVI, FORMER CHIEF MINISTER OF BIHAR
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7. Fill in the blank, with a place.
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ANSWER 7
• BITS, PILANI
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8.
• In March 1941, after assuming the guise of a Pashtun insurance agent called Ziaudddin to reach Afghanistan, he changed his guise and travelled to Moscow on the Italian passport of an Italian nobleman "Count Orlando Mazzotta“, using a diplomatic car. From Moscow, he reached Rome, and from there he travelled to Germany.
• What Bond like person are we talking about?• Later in his life, he had also adopted a Japanese
alter-ego called Ichiro Okuda.
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ANSWER 8
• SUBHASH CHANDER BOSE
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• This was created in 1874, by an English bakery to commemorate the marriage of the Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia to the Duke of Edinburgh. It became popular throughout Europe, and also has a great fan base among the young and old of India. After the Spanish Civil War, this became an icon of Spain’s economic recovery after bakers made these in large numbers to finish the surplus of wheat.
• What was so created?
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ANSWER 9
• MARIE BISCUITS
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10. Don’t underestimate this question.
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ANSWER 10
• HALWA
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11.
• Each year, particularly during the period of Makar Sankrant, you will hear this exclamation from the rooftops of Gujarat.
• If you cut a kite, you can shout this Gujarati phrase to indicate your achievement.
• What Gujarati phrase, made famous by a 2013 Bollywood movie, is this?
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ANSWER 11
• KAI PO CHE
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• This place is(was?) Asia’s largest market square.• This was built by Princess Jahanara, the
daughter of Shah Jahan.• The marketplace derives it’s name from the
canals filled with water that sparkled brightly in the moonlight.
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ANSWER 12
• CHANDANI CHOWK IN DELHI