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QUESTION 1: Which mythological character's name means 'steadfast in battle'.However this particular character fled from the battle on more than one instances.

ANSWER 1: Yudhisthira

QUESTION 2: Give a single word connecting Chess and Jain people.

ANSWER 2: Ashtāpada. An old Sanskrit name for chess is Ashtapada, and the Jains know Mount Kailash as Ashtapada, the center of the universe

QUESTION 3: Which Indian mythological king was killed by a worm in a fruit?

ANSWER 3: Parikshit

QUESTION 4: Identify this Indian who created a record of sorts in the year 2006 in adventure sports. His surname matches that of one of the very well known business family's surnames.

ANSWER 4: Ajeet Bajaj, the first Indian to ski to the North Pole.

QUESTION 5: Connect a song in the movie Madhumati with Khajuraho.

ANSWER 5: The song Chad gayo papi bichua and bichua, an ornament found on the khajuraho sculptures. Bichua is also the name of the small stones found on the roads leading to Khajuraho.

QUESTION 6: What was the common name of Kulsum Zamani, a famous person associated with Indian independence movement who became particularly famous during the Quit India movement of 1942?

HINT
First Kulsum Zamani was born a Hindu, and was married to a Muslim barrister; people have described her as a “heroine of the 1942 movement”.

ANSWER 6

Aruna Asaf Ali

QUESTION 7: Jaya, having more than quadrupled in size, is now known by a familiar name. What is the familiar name?

HINT
First This Jaya is not a human being.

ANSWER 7

Mahabharata

QUESTION 8: In the year ________, this person went from Madras to Salem. Although it is known that he was Indian, his exact, or even approximate place of birth is unknown today. His religion is also
not known to us. The same for his name. In fact, I have conveyed to you almost the sum total of the biographical information known about him by historians. I know of no legends about him. Yet surprisingly, he has merited mention in a number of books. What was the year, and why has this person, about whom we know almost nothing, been mentioned in books?

HINT
First People who have made a similar journey are far more likely to have interest in this person, than those who have not. However, in this case, similar does not necessarily mean from the same start point to the same end point. Very few actually do that. But very many have finished at an end point 40 km away, and an even larger number have finished their journey about 350 km from his finish.
Second The year was 1790.

ANSWER 8

An unnamed servant to John Gibaut of Salem, first Indian to sail through black waters.

QUESTION 9: _________ was first discovered in India in the BC years. Its discovery elsewhere did not happen till the 18th century.

ANSWER 9: Diamonds

QUESTION 10: Who is believed to be the first Chinese to have visited the Kumbha mela?

ANSWER 10: Hiuen Tsang.

QUESTION 11: The brand name X of a famous Indian product is an abbreviation, that stands for phrase Y in an Indian language, which roughly translates to 'The Shop of the Magnanimous'. What are X and Y?

HINT
First The language is Punjabi.
SecondIt is an three letter abbreviation.

ANSWER 11

MDH Masala. The phrase is Mahasheyan di hatti.

QUESTION 12: What do Madras, Calicut, Thane and Khambat have in common?

HINT
First The order is of significance.
Second It is someones journey.

ANSWER 12

Marco Polo

QUESTION 13: X Y is acknowledged a great writer in language V and also won the Padma Vibhushan. Surprisingly, X is the name of a famous work in language V written by writer W before X Y became a writer.
Find X, Y, V, W.

ANSWER 13: X is Mahasweta. Y is Devi. V is Bengali. W is Kamini Roy

QUESTION 14: He has a temple after him. Even his assistant has a temple after him.He died after independence. At the peak of his work, his actual followers numbered a mere 17.

HINT
First He died in the 1950s.
Second He did not die a natural death and was shot dead on orders form a minister.
Third This person was on the wrong side of the law.

ANSWER 14

Daku Man Singh. Assistant named Roopa.

QUESTION 15: Connect Nancy/Keir with Ludhiana.

ANSWER 15: Bicycles. Both cities Nancy and Keir have laid claim as workplaces of the inventor of bicycles. Ludhiana is home to the largest bicycle producer in the world, Hero Cycles.

QUESTION 16: He was involved during the actual process of partition of India. Later he became a minister and then moved to the judiciary. He also has a college named after him. Who am I talking about?

ANSWER 16: Mehar Chand Mahajan

QUESTION 17: Connect: A regular pilot for Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel; and Maneka Gandhi.

ANSWER 17: Captain V. Sundaram(the pilot) and his wife Usha; they set up an animal center in Chennai and are instrumental behind Blue Cross. Maneka Gandhi is in the forefront of animal rights today.

QUESTION 18: Identify. Was Chief Minister of a state in India for some time. He was one of the players of the Aya Ram Gaya Ram during Indira Gandhi's tenure as PM. Before he became the CM, he was education minister and ridiculed because he was an illiterate (media reportedly called him anpadh and angoota chhap). When he became a CM he had a huge cabinet of over 70 ministers which was dubbed as an airbus cabinet by media. Who am I talking about?

ANSWER 18: T.Anjaiah, of the party Tanguturi Anjaiah(TDP)

QUESTION 19: After this Indian politician had received an international award, one newspaper wrote something like "____ should be pleased, given that previous recipients included Kofi Annan and Vladimir Putin, though they, in turn, may feel different".

ANSWER 19: Jayalalitha.

QUESTION 20: This Indian became a citizen of USA in 1944. As a member of the US Army Airforce, he also won gallantry medals for his performance in the battlefield. Who am I talking about?

ANSWER 20: Selar Shaik Sabu better known as Sabu Dastagir

QUESTION 21: In ancient location X, there is a famous depiction of someone doing penance. The figure doing penance is usually said to be A. However, this famous depiction also shows a boon received by B.
And so, the figure doing penance is sometimes said to be B. As a result, this famous depiction has two different names, sometimes after A, and sometimes after the boon received by B. Place X was in world news a few years ago. Supply X, A and B (I'm looking for a specific answer).

ANSWER 21: X is Mahabalipuram, now known as Mamallapuram. A is Arjuna; B is Bhagiratha. The place came into news due to the 2004 Boxer Day Tsunami. The depiction is sometimes called as Arjuna's Penance and sometimes as The Descent of Ganga. Incidentally, there is an unusual figure in that bas relief who also appears to be doing penance. A cat.

QUESTION 22: I don't have a clue about Dead Poets Society or what it stands for; nor does my question have anything to do with that film. However, someone in India has formed a "dead people society"
that has 20,000 members and was also presented an international award for his activities - this also resulted in some press coverage. Who am I talking about?

ANSWER 22: Lal Bihari

QUESTION 23: Relate a practice in the South of India during September-October, with another practice in the Northeast of the United States slightly later. (The practices may actually be more widespread geographically)

ANSWER 23: Dussehra and Halloween. For Halloween, children in US Northeast create faces on pumpkins. These are sometimes smashed by hooligans. In Tamil Nadu, and perhaps elsewhere, pumpkins with faces are smashed.

QUESTION 24: Connect diamonds with The Bible.

ANSWER 24: Diamond Sutra, written in India was one of first printed books, and is the oldest printed book which is definitively dated. (Existing printed version printed in China). Bible is oldest printed book in Europe by Gutenberg.

QUESTION 25: Name the (existing) states (if any) for which article 356 has not been imposed.

ANSWER 25: Jammu and Kashimir