India Quiz Finals Round 4

The Amma talks

_______ _______ owns a jewelry export firm known as Artex for which X has designed jewelry in the past. He is the son of Rajinder and Maureen from Mordabad. Rajinder, a Punjabi married to a Christian, runs a brass and wood handicrafts business in his hometown. His daughter Michelle died in a car crash in 2001. His other son Richard died two years later in Delhi. In a legal notice, _______ ______ said Rajinder and Richard were 'not authorised' to use his “name” nor had “any access to him”. The notice said the father and brother were using his relationship with X and accused him of duping people. Dismissing the allegations as a figment of his imagination, Rajinder challenged his son to produce at least one witness in support. He claims he has no political affiliation and describes as rubbish the talk about the family's possibly controversial links with the RSS.

Robert Vadra and Priyanka Gandhi

What is ___ ______ ______ _______ This campaign has been started as a response to some self righteous and progressive people who started the Pink Chaddi campaign. Their chaddi campaign ends on Valentine’s Day of 2009, but this is just a beginning for us. Why ________? _________ are necessary to save yourself from ______ and to lead a progressive and secular life. The Pink Chaddi walas claim themselves to be pubgoing, loose and forward – a _______ will help them maintain being that. Who are we? We are the ordinary Hindus, who don’t bark on television channels to defend our faith, but we definitely get hurt when some people bark against our faith. We don’t need self-righteous sickular (so-called seculars) to reform us.

_______ ______ was a 17year-old commerce student when she became the winner of Femina Look of the Year in Miss India Pageant in 1996. She walked the catwalk for numerous high-end fashion shows, including Yves SaintLaurent, Roberto Cavalli, Hugo Boss, Cynthia Rowley, Diane von Furstenberg, Dolce & Gabbana, Betsey Johnson, Gucci, Valentino, Oscar de la Renta, and Emilio Pucci.

Ujjwala Raut

Excerpt from a book : The incident: ______chose not to relax or go to a movie as his colleagues had done. Instead, he volunteered to shop for them essential items, like undergarments. _______had done a lot of shopping for himself and his colleagues before stepping on to ______ and _______ on Oxford Street. He purchased several small articles as also ______. He kept all the articles on the counter for payment when the salesgirl found two ______ lying under trouser. She felt he had deliberately concealed them. The more he tried to convince them that it was sheer lapse, the less they were listening to him. The matter was reported and Adhikari summoned. Instead of arguing against their allegation, he accepted it and even convinced _____ to plead guilty. Funda?

Sudhir Naik, accused of stealing socks at Marks and Spencer during the 1974 India tour of England

X was born on September 13, 1980 in Bandra, Mumbai. ______did his schooling in St. Stanislaus High School Bandra and was 13th in SSC merit list Mumbai 1996. He made his debut with the Junior India Team in August, 1999. Won 1st major title –the junior World Cup in Hobart, Australia in 2001. He made his debut with the senior team in 2002, for the tour to Australia. Since then, he has played over 50 international matches for the Indian team. They won 4 tournaments in 1 year and besides, they beat Pakistan 3 times in a row for the 1st time in over 3 decades. Recently won the Asia cup in Malaysia in September for the 1st time ever and also the inaugural Afro Asian games in Hyderabad, India. Both the times they beat Pakistan in the final. He recently quit the game and is currently enrolled in an MBA program at Indian School of Business, Hyderabad.

When Khan Kluay is born, his grandmother notes that his back is "gently sloped like a banana stalk ... I suppose that is what I should name you". "Khan kluay" is Thai for "banana stalk". Khan Kluay is taunted by the others because he is fatherless. Naturally, Khan Kluay is curious about his father, and he's told that his father is a war ______ for the king. So Khan Kluay wants to find his father. Still young, he wanders off to begin his search. He is soon captured by a Burmese raiding party. In trying to escape from the Burmese camp, he is befriended by a Siamese prince, Naresuan, who has been ransomed to the Burmese. Naresuan has the ability to calm Khan Kluay into thinking clearly, and Khan Kluay makes his escape. Forms the beginning of which original story?

Nature has so designed us that we are compelled to spend at least eight hours out of twenty-four with eyes shut in sleep or in an attempt to sleep. It is compensatory arrangement, perhaps, for the strain the visual faculty undergoes during our waking hours, owing to the glut of images impinging upon it morning till night. One who seeks serenity should, I suppose, voluntarily restrict one's range of vision. For it is mostly through the eye that the mind is strained or disturbed. Man sees more than what is necessary or good for him. If one does not control one's vision, nature will do it for one sooner or later.

The branch of a Margosa tree provided shade and shook down on his head tiny whitish-yellow flowers all day. ‘Only the gods in heaven can enjoy the good fortune of a rain of flowers’, thought the hippie, observing him from the temple steps, where he had stationed himself since the previous evening. No need to explain who the hippie was, the whole basis of hippieness being the shedding of identity and all geographical associations. He might be from Berkeley or Outer Mongolia or anywhere. If you developed an intractable hirsuteness, you acquired a successful mask; if you lived in the open, roasted by the sun all day, you attained a universal shade transcending classification or racial stamps and affording you unquestioned movement across all frontiers…..

MALGUDI

God And The Cobbler A Breath Of Lucifer

Friends, our dear sister is departing for the foreign in two three days, and we are meeting today to wish her bon voyage. You are all knowing, friends, what sweetness is in Miss Pushpa. I don't mean only external sweetness but internal sweetness. Miss Pushpa is smiling and smiling even for no reason but simply because she is feeling. Miss Pushpa is coming from very high family. Her father was renowned advocate in Bulsar or Surat, I am not remembering now which place. Surat? Ah, yes, once only I stayed in Surat with family members of my uncle's very old friend--his wife was cooking nicely ... that was long time ago. Coming back to Miss Pushpa she is most popular lady with men and ladies also.

Whenever I asked her to do anything, she was saying, 'Just now only I will do it.; That is showing good spirit. I am always appreciating the good spirit. Pushpa Miss is never saying no. Whatever I or anybody is asking she is always saying yes, and today she is going to improve her prospects and we are wishing her bon voyage. Now I ask other speakers to speak and afterwards Miss Pushpa will do the summing up.

Vyjantimala (1954)

Reena Roy (1976)

X=??? (2009)

Sreedevi (1986)

Jennifer Lynch’s Nagin

Carl Walther or Walther is a German arms manufacturer, the oldest in the world. The PPK and the P99 – were both pistols carried by James Bond – and the P38 was the standard-issue sidearm of the German military in World War II. The company will now market their arms to India's law enforcement agencies and aims at a turnover of Rs 100 crore by the year 2010 from this venture. "We will now be marketing the Walther brand of fire arms to the country's police departments as state governments are now rapidly modernizing their ammunitions and weapons and it offers immense opportunities to us to exploit in this internal security field," said _______ _______ ,chairman about the company’s sole distribution rights in India. The German PC peripheral and gaming hardware major, Saitek, has decided to launch its products in the Indian market in association with Indian company _______ ________ Ltd. Gary Kasparov has been personally associated with Saitek and endorses their range of chess computers.

Abhinav Futuristics

1986

2 1

4

3

5

6

7

5.2. Naradiya Shiksha (1.5.3; 1.5.4) explains that each sama-svara was derived from the sounds made by a bird or an animal in its appropriate season. For instance, bulls roar was Rishabha; kraunchaka’s (heron) cry was Madhyama; elephant’s trumpet was Nishadha; and koel’s (cuckoo) melodious whistle was Panchama and so on. Please see the table below.

Stage 2

Take a look at Exhibit 1. It is a moment of rare quality. Three men have reduced themselves to a classic abjectness in the face of the formidable Indira Gandhi. One in particular shines through, the man in dark glasses, with the Gandhi topi. He has hit the critical mass of sycophancy: one jot more and he is in danger of dissolving into a puddle of slime. “Exhibit 2. More than a decade-and-a-half has passed. But with the stamina and resolve of the finest long distance runner, the man—topi still in place—has saved up enough sycophantic energy for a strong kick down the last stretch. His head is at P.V. Narasimha Rao’s knees, and Rao is holding on to his hands to keep him from plummeting to the ground. “ Exhibit 3. The glasses are no longer opaque, and the slit eyes visible through them have the casual menace of an alligator’s. The liquid lower lip for once has coagulated into some fuzzy kind of determination. And the wagging finger has the authoritarian quality of an executioner, condemning those at his mercy to the electric chair.” ID

Connect

The company was founded by Dr. S. K. Burman in 1884 as a small store. Its name is said to be a portmanteau. It has now grown into a much larger enterprise with international operations. It is the co-owner of the IPL team Kings XI Punjab. Amongst many others, one of its most popular products amongst non-resident and internet-shopping sites is ______ ____, a safe, herbal cure– for long recognised by the green bitter liquid contained in a glass bottle.

Reacting to the defeat Mrs Gandhi said: Who says _____ has won. It is X who has won.

X=?

Video

In a judgment the Indian Supreme Court ruled that "no precise meaning can be ascribed to the terms '________', '________' and '_______'; and no meaning in the abstract can confine it to the narrow limits of faith alone, excluding the content of Indian culture and heritage." The Supreme Court also ruled that "Ordinarily, _______ is understood as “a way of life” or a state of mind and is not to be equated with or understood as fundamentalism. A ____ may embrace non-________ ideas without ceasing to be a ____ and since the ____ is disposed to think synthetically and to regard other forms of worship, strange gods and divergent doctrines as inadequate rather than wrong or objectionable, he tends to believe that the highest divine powers complement each other for the well-being of the world and mankind.

Part of the thuggee cult, ______ tries to stop the coming of Kali and thereby the Kali Yuga, the Age of Chaos. By killing, he delays the coming of Kali another thousand years. It is through this practice that he both prevents and worships Kali. In this, his primary enemy is the villain Kobra who wishes to bring forth that same Age. _____ joins the Suicide Squad, so he can continue these efforts while actually being sponsored by the American Government.

The name _____ is an anglicised form of the Prakrit word _______, itself derived from the Sanskrit word _______, meaning "south"

Answers

Take a look at Exhibit 1. It is a moment of rare quality. Three men have reduced themselves to a classic abjectness in the face of the formidable Indira Gandhi. One in particular shines through, the man in dark glasses, with the Gandhi topi. He has hit the critical mass of sycophancy: one jot more and he is in danger of dissolving into a puddle of slime. “Exhibit 2. More than a decade-and-a-half has passed. But with the stamina and resolve of the finest long distance runner, the man—topi still in place—has saved up enough sycophantic energy for a strong kick down the last stretch. His head is at P.V. Narasimha Rao’s knees, and Rao is holding on to his hands to keep him from plummeting to the ground. “ Exhibit 3. The glasses are no longer opaque, and the slit eyes visible through them have the casual menace of an alligator’s. The liquid lower lip for once has coagulated into some fuzzy kind of determination. And the wagging finger has the authoritarian quality of an executioner, condemning those at his mercy to the electric chair.” ID

Connect

EXPRESS

The company was founded by Dr. S. K. Burman in 1884 as a small store. Its name is said to be a portmanteau. It has now grown into a much larger enterprise with international operations. It is the co-owner of the IPL team Kings XI Punjab. Amongst many others, one of its most popular products amongst non-resident and internet-shopping sites is ______ ____, a safe, herbal cure– for long recognised by the green bitter liquid contained in a glass bottle.

Dabur Pudin Hara

Reacting to the defeat Mrs Gandhi said: Who says _____ has won. It is X who has won.

X=?

Ramoji Rao

Video

AB Vajpayee

In a judgment the Indian Supreme Court ruled that "no precise meaning can be ascribed to the terms '________', '________' and '_______'; and no meaning in the abstract can confine it to the narrow limits of faith alone, excluding the content of Indian culture and heritage." The Supreme Court also ruled that "Ordinarily, _______ is understood as “a way of life” or a state of mind and is not to be equated with or understood as fundamentalism. A ____ may embrace non-________ ideas without ceasing to be a ____ and since the ____ is disposed to think synthetically and to regard other forms of worship, strange gods and divergent doctrines as inadequate rather than wrong or objectionable, he tends to believe that the highest divine powers complement each other for the well-being of the world and mankind.

Hindutva, Hindu, Hinduism

Part of the thuggee cult, ______ tries to stop the coming of Kali and thereby the Kali Yuga, the Age of Chaos. By killing, he delays the coming of Kali another thousand years. It is through this practice that he both prevents and worships Kali. In this, his primary enemy is the villain Kobra who wishes to bring forth that same Age. _____ joins the Suicide Squad, so he can continue these efforts while actually being sponsored by the American Government.

Ravan

The name _____ is an anglicised form of the Prakrit word _______, itself derived from the Sanskrit word _______, meaning "south"

Deccan Plateau