India Quiz

1.Connect the two ladies.

Ans.: Indira Gandhi (IGI,Delhi) and Ahilya Bai Holkar (Indore) are the only two airports in India named after females.

2. Put Fundaez.

Ans.: This is a book written by Sir Edmund Hillary which gives account of his Jet Boat expedition from the mouth of the Ganges to the source of the Ganges, i.e. against the flow of the river in 1977.

3. Identify the gent on the TIME Cover.

Ans.: V. K. Krishna Menon

4. Connect

Ans.: Nagin.

Vyjantimala, Reena Roy, Sri Devi, Mallika Sherawat. All have played Nagins in movies

5. Print Ad for?

Ans.: Kleenex Tissues

6.These four ladies are the only ones who have done this. Put Fundaez.

Ans.: Jaddan Bai, Saraswarti Devi, Usha Khanna, Sneha Khanwalkar are the only four females to have composed music in Bollywood.

7. A sponsored an All India Beauty Contest for hunting a new face for Bollywood and was won by B. C is a photograph from the sets of the movie D, where B is seen along with the lead male star and the director.

Solve for A,B,C & D.

Ans.: 'For Talat's film 'DIL E NADAAN' [D], famous producer A.R. Kardar launched an 'All India Beauty Contest' to hunt for a new heroine to act opposite this immensely popular and much sought after Singing Star. The contest was sponsored by "Kolynos" [A] the then leading brand of toothpaste. The winner was beautiful Peace Kanwal [B] and she did the romantic lead opposite Talat. It was a dream come true for her ! Which girl in those days would not have given her right ear to come face to face with this handsome King Of Ghazals !!!

8. Connect

Ans.: Founders of the different State Banks which were later nationalised.

Mir Osman Ali Khan,Nizam of Hyderabad (State Bank of Hyderabad)

Maharaja Bhupinder Singh of Patiala (State Bank of Patiala)

M. Visvesvaraya (State Bank of Mysore)

C.P.Ramaswamy Iyer (State Bank of Travancore)

Maharaja Tukoji Rao Holkar III (State Bank of Indore)

9. Look at the painting carefully and weave a story in connection with the stone shown alongside.

Ans.: Katha of Syamantaka Mani and Kohinoor Diamond.

Syamantaka Mani is perhaps the most famous jewel in Indian Mythology. The painting shows Lord Krishna with Jambavanta and the Syamantaka Mani. According to Hindu mythology, Lord Krishna fought with Jambavanta to get the Syamantaka Mani. It is speculated that the Kohinoor is indeed the Syamantakamani passed down through the ages.

10. Lateral Thinking. Specific Connect

Ans.: NDTV

NDTV India

NDTV Imagine (Imagine by John Lenon)

NDTV Profit

NDTV Lumiere (Lumiere Brothers)

NDTV Imagine Showbiz (Showbiz, Mukesh Bhatt movie)