Test Your Knowledge_6
QUESTIONS
01. In Mahabharata, we get the ancient names of many regions of modern India. Which modern state of India was mentioned in Mahabharata in its present day name?02. Connect Sakuntala, Narada in the story of Savitri and Meerabai.
03. Psychoanalysis is a type of psychodynamic therapy or insight-oriented therapy, a therapeutic technique for the treatment of neuroses and some psychoses. Sigmund Freud was one of the first proponents of this method/ theory. Which Indian scientist/clinician is generally believed to be the first proponent of this theory in India?
04. This poet wrote a sathaka (anthology of 100 or more poems) on an eatable. Who is this writer and what is the name of the sathaka? What is the story of how it came to be written?
05. There is a place in India, of which it is said, that a river passes through a mountain and emerges on the other side. This is not just a river that travels underground, and emerges some time later at a lower elevation. This river is said to pass through a mountain! What is the name of the mountain? Where is it located? HINT
Hint 1: The river flows into a valley which is surrounded on all sided by mountains. According to a legend of some local inhabitants, at one time the valley was filled with water. However, a giant fish bored a hole through the mountain, allowing the valley to drain and become inhabitable.
Hint 2: An alternate legend to the giant fish, is that the drainage hole was created by Siva with his trishul.
Hint 3: The giant fish was called Hutunga.
06. There were 2 Sahadevas, one the Pandav, who was the other?
07. What term or phrase is often used in USA to differntiate Indians of India origin from Native Indians?
08. Connect James Bond and 2006 Commonwealth Games.
09. Which Indian city did Robert Napier, 1st Baron Napier of Magdala lay the foundation of?
10. Who is the first Indian to become a European star on television and what was the character?
ANSWERS
01. Manipur02. All played by M. S. Subbulakshmi.
03. Girindrasekhar Bose
04. Chilakamarthi. Apart from being a famous poet, he was also a playwright with one of the popular theater troupes in which Tanguturi Prakasam was also a member. The story goes that, one day after rehearsals, some one brought hot pakoras and when Chilakamarthi wanted to have them, some one said, one pakodi (Telugu for Pakora) for one poem! Then, Chilakamarthi said, "Gone are the days of akshara lakshalu (A lakh for each alphabet in the poem) and we have the days where we get only a pakodi for a poem." and then recited several poems on the spot on the greatness of pakodi. The collection is titled pakodi satakam
05. Chingnunghut mountain, Manipur valley, and Imphal river. Its tributaries and it flows into chindwin river through 3 tunnels.
06. Sahadeva Thera, an arahant who accompanied the Thera Majjhima to the region of HimavÄ, who was also the son of Jarasandha.
07. "Indians of dot"(Asian Indian) as opposed to "Indians of feather" (Native Indians).
08. "Goldfinger" Samresh Jung.
09. Darjeeling
10. Kabir Bedi
