Kings, Elephant & Bronze: A quiz based on Indian History

2. Rules
• Total 30 Questions
• 4 Rounds (2 bounce & pounce, 2 written)
• 40 sec for calling pounce
• If pouncing we need the complete answer
• No GOOGLING
• QM’s decesion is Final

3. Sample
The coinage of the empire was initially derived
from the coinage of Kushan Empire, adopting
it’s weigh standards, techniques& designs. They
even adopted the name of Dinara for their
coinage which ultimately came from the Roman
name Denarius Aureus. After Kushanas they
were most important dynasty.
Which dynasty?

4. Answer
The Gupta Empire

5. ROUND 1
Rules
• Pounce & Bounce
• 10 Questions 10 mark each
• Pounce +10/-10
• No negative for direct & pass question
• Clockwise

6. 1
It was the 1st movie that premiered in the USA.
It is 1943 hindi historical film, directed by Vijay
Bhatt. The incidents happening after the coming
back of Lord Rama to his Kingdom Ayodhya
after defeating Ravana is the story of the movie.
It has a relation to a national icon.
Id the film & relation.

7. Answer
Film: RamRajya
1st & last movie seen by Mahatma Gandhi

8. 2
There was a misunderstanding that this slogan
was coined by X. But Narendra Luther , said in
his researchbook ‘Legendotes of Hyderabad’
that : It was coined by Zain-ul Abideen Hussain
a man from Hyderabad who later joined the
Indian National Army. He gave the slogan to X
when X was searching for a good slogan.
Identify X & the very famous Slogan

9. Answer
X- Subash Chandra Bose Slogan - Jai Hind

10. 3
X was the last acharya of the undivided Jain
sangha. There is a myth that on the night of full
moon in the month of karthik Y saw 16 dreams,
which were then explained to him by Acharya X.
It is believed that X was the person who inspired
Y to became a jain .
Id X & Y

11. Answer
X- Bhadrabahu Y- Chandraguptha Mauryan

12. 4
The term X is known to derive from 2 Persian
words meaning horse & cavalrymen. X was
used by John Lawrence to describe something
happened in Indian History, but we generally
not using it. X is still used in Nepalese &
Pakistan army. But after independence Indian
army dropped the term X and replaced with Y
which means Young in Persian.
Id X & Y

13. Answer
X- Sepoy Y-Jawan

14. 5
• 2nd deepest mine in the world.
• Britishers fondly called Mini England.
• 2nd city to be electrified in Asia.
• 1st hydro electric station in Asia, Shivasamudra
providing electricity here.
• Its name is same as the name of a 2018
blockbuster movie.
Id the city?

15. Answer
K G F

16. 6
The idea of this venture in India had been
floated 12 years earlier by Willam Bolts, a Dutch
merchant. But it was implemented by another
Irishman in 1780, who had spent 2 years in jail
for debt. He used this as a weapon to criticize
activities of Warren Hastings & other British
leaders. After 4 dramatic trails he was again
sent to jail 1781.
Who & what was the venture?

17. Answer
James Augustus Hickey &1st Newspaper

18. 7
X was an industrialist, philanthropist & an Indian
freedom fighter. He founded Y group of
companies in the 1920s & the group now has 24
companies. He was also a close and beloved
associate of Mahatma Gandhi, who is known to
often declare that X was his 5th son. He was also
dubbed as the ‘merchant of the prince’ by
Gandhi
Id X & Y

19. Answer
X- Jamnalal Bajaj Y- Bajaj

20. 8
W Hirachand, N Morarjee, K Devachand, L B
Samaldas are 4 Gujarati businessman started a
venture together in march which took shape in 5th
April 1919 marking its beginning in Mumbai, but
late after reaching London. The venture also marks
first for the country and it is commemorated on
April 5 every year in our country since 1964.
What are we talking about & which day ?

21. Answer
1st Indian owned ship
National maritime day

22. 9
Gangadhar Tilak along with Mummohandaa
Ramji & industrialist X concieved the Bombay
Swadeshi Co-op stores Co. Ltd. In favour of
swadeshi goods & boycotting foreign goods in
early 1900s. The store is known today as Bombay
Store.
Id X

23. Answer
J R D Tata

24. 10
X is a national park situated 137 kms away from
Kanha National Park, got its name by river X. X
was started as sanctuary in 1977, in 1983 became
National Park, in 1992 became a tiger reserve.
Turiya & Karmajhiri are its famous entry gates.
It is depicted in Ain-i-Akbari & BBC’s Spy in the
Jungle was also filmed here. Moreover X inspired
Y who born in 1865 in Mumbai to write Z.
Id X, Y & Z

25. Answer
X- Pench National Park Y-Rudyard Kipling
Z- The Jungle Book

26. ROUND 2
Rules
• Written Round
• 5 Questions 10 mark each
• Answers after the 5 questions

27. 11
X was the son of Maratha ruler Chatrapti Rajaram
I & his wife Tarabai. He is the grandson of Y.
Upon the death of his father the infant X was
installed as the Chatrapati of Maratha Empire
with his mother Tarabai serving as the regent in
1700. He has died of smallpox on 14 March 1726.
Id X & Y

28. Answer
X- Shivaji Bhonsle II
Y- Chatrapati Sivaji

29. 12
By the Regulation XI of 1809, East India company
banned the entry of Lolee, Kalal & some other
castes to here. After Independence B P Mandal
told that: Lord Mountbatten, accompanied by
Ambedkar, the Governor General’s executive
council member once visited here, he was given
a grand welcome. But entry of Ambedkar was
denied.
Which place that was recently in news?

30. Answer
Puri Jagathnath Temple

31. 13
Firishta/Fereshta was a Persian historian. Based
on the inquiries he made at Lahore, reviled that
Ghazi Malik who later known as X was a Turkish
slave of the earlier emperor Balban. X was the
fonder of a sultanate empire in India. His reign
was cut short after 5 years, when died by falling
the wooden pavilion upon him.
Id him

32. Answer
Ghiasuddin Tughlaq

33. 14
X was the son of Bishu Maharana, a great
architect. Narasimha Deva I deided to built Y.
1200 craftsmen were found to work on Y led by
Bishu Maharana. When X at age of 12 reached to
his father at his worksite he knew that the king
threatened the 1200 workers that if they doesn’t
complete Y on next morning, they will be killed.
So X did the task lonely by sacrificing his life.
Id X & Y

34. Answer
X- Dharmapada Y- Konark Sun Temple

35. 15
Mir Taj Muhammed Khan was a Indian freedom
fighter who became a part of frontier Gandhi Khan
Abdul Gaffar Khan’s movement & hade even
contested election against another national icon,
Maulana Abdul Kalam Azad & lost. He was also a
part of Quit India movement, while his father-in-
law served in Mangalore as the chief engineer of
the port in 1960. But their son/grandson is famous
in & entirely different field.
Id this personality

36. Answer
Shah Rukh Khan

37. Answers 11-15
11. X- Shivaji Bhonsle II -- Y- Chatrapati Sivaji
12. Puri Jagathnath Temple
13. Ghiasuddin Tughlaq
14. X –Dharmapada -- Y –Konark Sun Temple
15. Shah Rukh Khan

38. ROUND 3
Rules
• Pounce & Bounce
• 10 Questions 10 mark each
• Pounce +10/-10
• No negative for direct & pass question
• Anti-clockwise

39. 16
In 1776 the site of demolished St.Anne’s church
& adjoining plot was given to X to accommodate
Junior Clerks of English East India Company. In
1800 Fort William Collage was moved here with
a hostel for 32 students & exam hall. It host the
assassination of Colonel N S Simpson by Benoy,
Badal & Dinesh in the last of 1930. Their statues
are situated there.
What are we talking about? Id X

40. Answer
X- Thomas Lyon Y-Writers Buildng

41. 17
Hemu also known as Hemu Vikramadithyan
was a hindu king who previously served as a
general & chief minister of X of the Suri
dynasty. He was the last hindu emperor of
Delhi. He was the successor of X. X was the
brother of Sikander Shah Suri who was
defeated by Humayun in 1555.
Id X

42. Answer
Adil Shah Suri

43. 18
Id the house in Bihar now which is a mueseum.
The house looks like one of the name of the
novel penned by him.
Whose house?

44. 18

45. Answer
George Orwell

46. 19
The ancient site at X was the forerunner of the
Indus valley civilization. Its now in Pakistan. At
the earliest layer copper & bronze were not
used. The houses & fortification were made
from unbaked mud bricks. Later bronze was
used, but only for ornmental purposes.
Unfortunately the city was destroyed in a fire
broke out.
Id X

47. Answer
Kot Diji

48. 20
The king had no male heir after 12 years since
being king. His astrologer Chishti he had to shift
his entire capital to another place to get a male
child. Based on this he built a new capital city
with courtyards, well built balconies & palaces.
He named it as ‘the place of victory’ in his
language. He got 2 sons soon after. After just 14
years the whole place was abandoned.
Id King & the abandoned capital.

49. Answer
Akbar & Fatehpur Sikri

50. 21
Owen Meridith is a pseudonym used by a poet
in England during 19th century. He is also a
statesman & a politician. His most popular work
is “Lucile” was published in 1800. He under
esteemed his poetic ability: in his ‘Chronicles &
Characters’ (1868), the poor response distressed
him. But other literacy personalities highly
esteemed his ability. Oscar Wilde dedicated the
play “Lady Windermere’s Fan’ to him.
Id him who was a former viceroy in India?

51. Answer
Lord Lytton

52. 22
It is wonderful, the power of a faith like that,
that can make multitudes upon multitudes of
the old and weak and the young and frail enter
without hesitation or complaint upon such
incredible journeys and endure the resultant
miseries without repining. It is done in love, or
it is done in fear; I do not know which it is. No
matter what the impulse is, the act born of it is
beyond imagination marvelous to our kind of
people, the cold whites.
Mark Twain describing which mega event?

53. Answer
Kumbh Mela

54. 23
X was a noted Indian painter of Mughal School
of painting. He was one of the illustrators of
Baburnama. He joined the imperial service
during the reign of Akbar & continued his work
till the reign of Shah Jahan.
Id X.

55. Answer
Govardhan

56. 24
The company X was founded in 1971 & one of
the few private industries given permissions due
to MD’s close relation to Indira Gandhi. It was
nationalised in 1981. In 1982 Y entered into a
joint venture agreement with 60:40 sharing.
Production of their most iconic product began in
1983. In 2000 it became 1st in its kind in India to
launch call centre for customer service, in 2006
govt. sold all its share to a private group.
Id X & Y

57. Answer
X- Maruti Y-Suzuki

58. 25
• Jai Gopal
• Hans Raj Vohra
• Phaninder Ghosh
• Sobha Singh
The above people are the cause of a famous
martrydom in India’s history. Which was that?

59. Answer
Execution of Bhagath Singh, Rajguru, Sukhdev

60. ROUND 4
Rules
• Written Round
• 5 Questions 10 mark each
• Answers after the 5 questions

61. 26
On 10 December 1948 H V Kamath, a member
of constituent assembly asked B R Ambedkar
why a particular word deleted from constitution.
The word was a honor of the long tradition of
INC. But Ambedkar explained that it wasn’t used
in English version of constitution as Hindi &
Hindusthani versions of it were being prepared
separately.
Which word?

62. Answer
Rashtrapathi

63. 27
Guru Gobind Singh was the son of Guru Tegh
Bahadur. He was the 10th Sikh guru. He started
the X tradition after his Tegh Bahadur had been
beheaded during Islamic sharia rule of
Aurangzeb. Guru Gobind Singh created &
initiated X as a warrior duty to protect the
innocent from any form of religious persecution.
Id the religious organisation?

64. Answer
Khalsa

65. 28
Nellore is one of the 9 districts in Andhra
Pradesh where the island of Sriharikotta is
situated. Its name was Vikrama Simhapuri till
13th century. It is belived that the place got
name from the amla( nelli ) tree as the ‘land of
nelli trees’. In 4 June 2008 the official name was
changed in the honor of an Indian revolutionary
much important for Telungu people.
Who was that revolutionary?

66. Answer
Potti Sriram Ulu

67. 29
She is made of bronze. Aged 4500 years. The
name was given by the assumption of her
profession which was clear from her position.
She was founded in 1926 by an archeologist
from Bristol named Ernest J H Mackay.
Name her & find from where she is.

68. Answer
The Dancing Girl from Mohenjedaro

69. 30
This magazine has been created by Ian Cardozo
a retired major general, based on his previous
book named, _________ ___ _______: Our Real Heroes.
It was illustrated by Rishi Kumar. The 1st 2
issues released in 2013 December are base on
the careers of Major Somnath Sharma &
Lieutenant Manoj Kumar Pandey who got that.
Which Series?

70. Answer
Param Vir Chakra

71. Answers 26-30
26. Rashtrapathi
27. Khalsa
28. Potti Sriram Ulu
29. The Dancing Girl from Mohenjedaro
30. Param Vir Chakra

72. Thank You!!!