Test Your Knowledge_6

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. Manipur
02. 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 Himavā, 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

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Test Your Knowledge_5

QUESTIONS

01. In 1991, a fire-accident burnt down "Star Theatre"—an old theatre in Calcutta. In the same year, in a separate fire-accident, the priceless historical collection of a company was gutted in Calcutta. What is the company/institution? And what sort of collection it had?
02. Considered among the most influential personalities in the Bombay film industry, this gentleman's name means "new happiness" as his year of birth also saw the conclusion of a major war. Who is being referred to?
03. What is the common characteristic between Drona, Dhristadyumna, Jarasandha and Sita?
04. Which Indian revolutionary was a founding member of the Mexican Communist Party?
05. Name the state in India that does not have a public seat at the Lok Sabha.
06. Who is the director of the Indian film that won the award for Best Film Live Action 6–12 category in the 2005 Kids for Kids festival, Naples? What is the name of the film in English and in vernacular language?
07. During World War II, Country A was under the colonial rule of Country B. Country B was at war with Country C. Faced with attack from C, B had to withdraw from A. Now, in A, there was a freedom struggle going on to free the country from B. The leader of this struggle was Person D. So when C drove B out of A, D welcomed C as its deliverer and joined his forces with C’s armies. But C treated A so badly that within a couple of years, D switched sides and allied himself with B once again. The Country A got its freedom a few years after WWII. Name A, B, C and D.
08. Once when a soldier said 'I'm proud be in the Forgotten Army', which army he was referring to.
09. Which actor turned politician was also a nominee for a Nobel prize?
10. Who was the first actor in India to get elected as a member of LokSabha, from which place and which year?

ANSWERS

01. Bourne & Shepherd Photographic studio, established by Samuel Bourne and Charles Shepherd. It contained lots of Raj era photos.
02. Naushad
03. All had unnatural births. Sita was got from a furrow when ploughing a field, daughter of earth; Drona was born a brahmin, son of sage Bharadwaja, in modern day Dehradoon (a modification of dehra-dron, a clay pot), which implies that he was not gestated in a womb, but outside the human body in a Droon (earth pot); Drupada aka Drishtadyumna was got from doing a yagnam, born out of the fire. Jarasandha was born in two halves in 2 mothers. Each half was dead and were thrown away. A rakshasi named Jara collected the 2 pieces and joined those. That's why the name: Jara sandha.
04. M. N. Roy (Manabendra Nath Roy (21 March 1887 – 26 January 1954))
05. Mizoram ("land of the hill people")
06. Sahiful Mandal, for "We are"/"Aamra".
07. A is Burma; B is British Empire; C is Japan and D is Aung San and the Burmese National Army.
08. The British Fourteenth Army
09. Jayalalitha. She is a nominee for the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize.
10. Kongara Jaggayya (also transliterated as Jaggaiah). He was an MP from Ongole.

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