India Quiz Finals Round 1

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In an analysis of mAtrA-vrittas - combinations that obtain certain meters or mAtrAs, Virhanka analyzes a mixture of short (laghu) and long (guru) syllables that appear in a meter. For example, the gAyAtri mantra contains \the string sa-vi-tur-vareN-yam, in which tur and reN are long or guru, the others being short or laghu. Using G and L for guru and laghu, we can write this meter as LLGLGL, which is the kernel of the famous gAyAtri chhanda. In the mAtrA-vritta analysis, G is taken to be twice as long as an L syllable, and Virahanka considers the question: in how many ways can we form meters of length n? The answer emerges as follows: L G, LL LG, GL, LLL GG, LLG, LGL, GLL, LLLL LGG, GLG, LLLG, GGL, LLGL, LGLL, GLLL, LLLLL

• Fibonacci Series

• Kapany was born in Moga and is of Punjabi Sikh origin, he was educated in England and has spent over 45 years in the United States. He was named as one of the seven 'Unsung Heroes' by Fortune magazine in their ‘Businessmen of the Century’ issue.He has received many awards including 'The Excellence 2000 Award' from the USA Pan-Asian American Chamber of Commerce in 1998.His work on V changed the entire telecommunication industry.He is regarded as The father of V...wats V??

• Optical Fibres

• This word is one of many words of Indian origin that passed into common English, or at least the British English dialect of it, during the British Imperial rule of India.As travellers at the time would be part of a caravan, the term V referred to the killing of a large number of people in a single operation.There is some question as to the extent of the religious dimension of V. Most contemporary sources described V as being a religious cult but some modern sources feel it was merely a specialised form of organised crime or paramilitary

• Thug

• According to a legend, the birth of V was prophesized by Pir Bhikan Shah, a fakir from Thaksa village (now in Karnal District of Haryana). One day, Bhikan Shah bowed towards the east during his prayers, contrary to the standard Islamic practice of bowing in the direction of Qibla. When the villagers questioned his strange act, he stated that a special child, the savior chosen by the God, would be born in Patna, which lay to the East. He then traveled to Patna with a group of his followers to see the child. He placed two bowls of sweets before the newborn; one bowl was purchased from a Hindu's shop, and the second from a Muslim's shop, thus signifying the two major contemporary religions in India. The baby placed his hands on both the bowls, thus indicating that both Hindus and Muslims will be treated equally by him. According to another legend, the fakir Araf Din of Lakhnaur (now in Ambala District) also bowed to the boy, and proclaimed him as divine

• Guru Gobind Singh

• every year beginning on paush poornima and ending on basant panchami malajpur village in MP becomes populated with about 65,000 to 100000 people turning up for the fair.This fair is being held for the past 250 years and is regarded as the biggest fair pertaining.............id fair

• Bhoot Mela

• He started his career as a wicketkeeper, playing for cricket clubs (including his college team) and had once made a double-century.He joined his father's firm • and made it into one of India's top construction firms. His firm constructed Calcutta's M.P.Birla Planetarium in 1963.He joined his father's firm • and made it into one of India's top construction firms. His firm constructed Calcutta's M.P.Birla Planetarium in 1963.In 2005 he was awarded the International Journal of the History of Sports Achievement award for administrative excellence in global sport.On March 26, 2008, he was arrested in connection with misappropriation of funds and later released on bail.Id

• Jagmohan Dalmiya

• V was born as Srivastava. His father Sharada Prasad was a poor school teacher. When V was three months old, he slipped out of his mother's arms into a cowherd's basket at the ghats of the Ganges. The cowherd, who had no children, took the child as a gift from God and took him home. His parents lodged a complaint with the police, who traced the child, and returned him to his parents. • While in Varanasi, the boy once went with his friends to see a fair on the other bank of the Ganges. On the way back he had no money for the boat fare. Instead of borrowing from his friends, he jumped into

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In 1927, V married Lalita Devi of Mirzapur. In spite of the prevailing hefty dowry tradition, V accepted only a charkha and a few yards of khadi as dowry. In 1930, he threw himself into the freedom struggle during Mahatma Gandhi's Salt Satyagraha. He was imprisoned for two and a half years. Once, while he was in prison, one of his daughters fell seriously ill. He was released for fifteen days, on the condition that he not take part in the freedom movement. However, his daughter died before he reached home. After performing the funeral rites, he voluntarily returned to prison, even before the expiry of the period. A year later, he asked for permission to go home for a week, as his son had contracted influenza. The permission was given, but his son's illness was not cured in a week. In spite of his family's pleadings, he kept his promise to the jail officers and returned to the prison V served as the Minister of Railways and Transport in the Central Cabinet for independant India. In 1956, he offered his resignation after a railway accident at Mahbubnagar it led to 112 deaths. However, Nehru did not accept his resignation. Three months later, he resigned accepting moral and constitutional responsibility for a railway accident at Ariyalur in Tamil Nadu that resulted in 144 deaths. While speaking in the Parliament on the incident, the then Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, stated that he was accepting the resignation because it would set an example in constitutional propriety and not because Shastri was in any way responsible for the accident[3]. V's unprecedented gesture was greatly appreciated by the citizens.He was the first person to be posthumously awarded the Bharat Ratna,

Lal Bahadur Shastri

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V was a legendary figure of Indian motorsports. Apart from being a successful formula car racer, was also a designer and constructor of several formula cars, his most famous design being the Formula Maruti open wheeled race car. His low cost cars helped other racers,to their entry into motorsports. A wealthy industrialist, he was later killed in an air crash, aged 41.One of his early complete in-house designs was the 300 BHP Formula Monoposto based on the Formula Atlantic Chevron B40 model nicknamed “Black Beauty”. But until the late 80's, motorsports was only for wealthy drivers. In an effort to make racing more affordable in India and improve grassroots level racing he designed and tested a small single seater, dubbed as India's Formula Ford, with a Maruti 800 engine, and adapting easily available parts, sometimes made inhouse. His second design was a two seater car named McDowell 1000 using a Maruti Gypsy 1.0 liter engine.Later years saw future national champions making their debut races in a Formula Maruti series,He died on 24th of August 1995 while flying a Puspak trainers aircraft. The purpose of flying was to log some additional flying time as required to retain his flying license. The accident was widely mourned by the racing sceneHis demise almost created a vacuum in Indian Motorsports with dwindling crowds in the Chennai track and after the 1997 season made the MMSC scrap the All India Grand Prix Meet altogether.A small airstrip in

• Sundaram Karivardhan---aka Kari