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A Vishnu Quiz
28 November 2020

2. Formerly known as Nerva, what in Hyderabad
derives its name from coming together of
things named after two prophets of Abrahamic
religions - Esa(Jesus) & Moses?
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3. Just a quote, for safety!
“I have a dream”

4. Musi (Musa and Esi are two tributaries)
Answer

5. Identify this place in Hyderabad which gets its name
due to the immersion of Gandhi’s ashes at the site?
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6. Just a quote, for safety!
“Silence of good people is dangerous than the brutality of bad people”

7. Bapu Ghat
Answer

8. Mohammed Hussain was a clerk at Nijam of Hyderabad’s court. He later left his job
to follow his passion of bread making and established a shop just outside Nijam’s
palace in 1851. Identify the name of this popular bread of Hyderabad whose recipe
was fine tuned by the kin of the clerk?
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9. Munshi Naan
Answer

10. Which nationalized companies(blanks) in India were usually
referred by their initials and hence were criticised according to their
acronyms as follows. Also give any of the two real full-forms.
• GIP: Grossly Ignorant of Punctuality, Great Improvement Possible, Good In Parts,
Greatest Incovenience Possible
• SIR: Sambar-Idli ……, Stupid and Irregular …….
• M&SMR: Mail in Slow Motion, Most Slowly Moving
• BNR: Bribes Never Refused, Brains Not Required
• NR: Nalaayak …….
• BDR: Baro Dukkher …….
• BB&CI: Beastly, Bad, and Cannot Improve
Round Title Question…

11. Just a quote, for safety!
“Overthinking is injurious to health and cause hair-fall”

12. Railways
Round Title - Written

13. …….. Express
Chennai Central – Bangalore City
Named after a famous garden near a royal city
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14. …………. Express
Rajgir – Varanasi
Named after a day in the month of Vaishaka
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15. …… …… Express
Kanpur – Gorakhpur
Named after this police station in a town of UP with historic importance.
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16. Chetak Express
Delhi Sarai Rohilla – ……. City
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17. Gharib Nawaz Express
Yeshwanthpur – …..
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18. ……. ….. Express
Mumbai CST – Hyderabad
A landmark named after Hussain Shah Wali
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19. End of railways round
Answers follow

20. 1. Brindavan Express
2. Buddhapurnima Express
3. Chauri Chaura Express
4. Udaipur
5. Ajmer
6. Hussain Sagar
Answers

21. Gopaditya, a 4th century BC king is credited for
constructing Jyeshteshwara Temple on Shankaracharya
Hill and a Brahmin Agrahara named Gopa Agrahara at
the foot of the hill. Which locality‘s name in political
news has been corrupted to its present form from Gopa
Agrahara?
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22. Just a quote, for safety!
“The bigger the lie, easier it is to believe”

23. Gupkar Road - Gupkar Declaration
Answer…

24. In 2012, Ad Age conceded to the
time-line and the term coined by
William Strauss and Neil Howe in
1987. Ad Age’s past director once
said, “Y was just a place holder until
they found out more about them.”
Who are they and what is the present
placeholder?
Round Title Question…

25. Just a quote, for safety!
“With love comes great responsibility”

26. Millennials & Generation Z
Round Title

27. A study on the GenZ and millennials who had grown up in the age
of short messages points at them being turned aggressive or being
annoyed while chatting when they look at a certain commonly used
symbol! They(We) consider it as an arrogant way of ending the
conversation 😡
Which symbol?
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28. Just a quote, for safety!
“I’m a millennial which means every thing you say and do to me is on
record”

29. .
Answer

30. This has been a viral phenomenon on the
internet. However, bone doctors claim it as
a temporary deformation. More prevalent
during the COVID times, what is the cause
of this creepy deformity?
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31. Just a quote, for safety!
“Dream big, start small, but start!”

32. Excessive Smart-Phone
Usage
Answer

33. A French think tank in January came up with the
calculations on carbon footprint of which millennial
habit, they claim produces a 1.6 kilograms of CO2
every half hour, which could otherwise be utilised
to drive a distance of 3.6 miles?
The number must have obviously gone up due worldwide lockdowns since March!
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34. Just a quote, for safety!
“If your dreams don’t scare you, then they are too small”

35. OTT Services (Netflix/Amazon Prime….)
Answer

36. Most millennials feel that the sender is mad at them when they
receive it as a reply. While the 180 years old term concerning a
US re-election campaign is considered offensive, the millennials
are ok with the acronym of a relatively new cool term. Although
they mean and sound the same, which terms makes a lot of
difference to millennials and GenZ while on virtual chat mode?
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37. Just a quote, for safety!
“Either post something sharing or do something worth posting”

38. Ok | kk
Ok comes from All Correct, an acronym used by Van Buren during 1839 US re-election campaign.
kk comes from Ok Kewl which is a slang term for being cool.
Answer

39. What are these about?
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40. Just a quote, for safety!
“Those who criticise our generation forget who raised it”

41. Aroma of books
Answer

42. End of Millennials and GenZ
round

43. Bimal Patel(left) heads HCP Interior Architecture, Ahmedabad. Bimal’s name in near
future might probably replace the name of the person on right in media and political
circles. In which major project presently often associated with the person on right is
Bimal involved in?
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44. Just a quote, for safety!
“Do what your heart says”

45. Revamping of Delhi’s Central Vista
Answer

46. Which hydraulic binder was invented by Joseph Aspdin
and named due its resemblance to a stone found on an
island of the UK?
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47. Just a quote, for safety!
“काल करे सो आज कर, आज करे सो अब । पल में प्रलय होएगी, बहुिर करेगा
कब ॥”

48. Portland Cement
Answer

49. The usage of which word originating from the Latin word ‘tradere’,
meaning ‘to hand over’ has peaked in 18th century for obvious
reasons of frequently changing political affiliations under the colonial
powers. X Trauma is similar to PTSD, only difference being that the
later one is caused by extreme fear, while the former is caused by the
extreme anger on a person or an institution. X?
Round Title Question…

50. Just a quote, for safety!
“There is enough for everybody’s need but not for everybody’s greed”

51. Betray
Round Title

52. Whose palace in east India was Namak Haram Deorhi?
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53. Just a quote, for safety!
“When someone betrays you, it is the reflection of their character, not
yours”

54. Mir Jafar
Answer

55. Iskander Mirza, the first president of
Pakistan in 1956 and a Bengali is often
blamed by Pakistani historians for
imposing and giving way to martial
law. However, even before becoming
the president why did he and his family
had an historic ill reputation?
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56. Just a quote, for safety!
“It is called Karma and it is pronounced HaHaHa”

57. Descendents of Mir
Jafar
Answer

58. Exactly 385 years before India turned into a republic,
which major medieval Indian empire received its
death blow and its Imperial capital turned into a
rubble due to the betrayal of the Gilani Brothers? And
which historic event happened on that day?
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59. Just a quote, for safety!
“The saddest thing about betrayal is that it never comes from your
enemies”

60. Vijayanagara Empire
Battle Of Thalikota
Answer

61. Mohammad Iqbal once said, “Jaffar az Bengal, Sadiq az
Deccan; nang-e-deen, nang-e-millat, nang-e-
watan”, which means Jafar of Bengal and Sadiq of
Deccan are disgrace to the faith, a disgrace to Nation, a
disgrace to Country. Who was Mir Sadiq?
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62. Just a quote, for safety!
“Trust is earned when actions meets words”

63. The minister who betrayed Tipu Sultan
Answer

64. If you betray an institution, you will be sacked. But there are some cases where people conspire against an institution and
later be the part of the same. (Reverse betrayal?!)
One such case is of Girdhar Gamang who was blamed for
something for 18 years until he was exonerated in the
Pranabh Mukherjee’s 2017 book. Giridhar (who was only an innocent pawn
bound by rules), and the key conspirator are both now the part of
same organisation which hated them 21 years ago. Identify
the organisation, the conspirator, and what did Giridhar do?
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65. Just a quote, for safety!
“Hard work betrays none”

66. Giridhar Gamang was the CM of Odisha, but did
not resign to his MP seat. His one vote led to the
fall of Vajpayee’s 13 months government in 1999.
Key conspirator was Subramaniam Swamy.
Organisation is BJP
Answer

67. Daulat Khan was responsible for paving the way while the
Shiladitya was responsible for solidifying the presence of whom
in India?
Shiladitya later converted as Silah-al-din was also responsible
for his master’s first and last defeat in 1527. Who was his master?
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68. Just a quote, for safety!
“Its hard to fight when the fight ain’t fair”

69. Mughal Rule & Rana Sangha
Answer

70. Done with betrayals!
😠

71. The story of which 1995 movie
was built around the deleted
scene from a 1991 Amithabh &
Rajni starrer ‘HUM’?
The deleted scene was where
Shekhar(Amithabh) would help his
younger brother Vijay (Govinda) get a seat
in the Police Academy.
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72. Just a quote, for safety!
“Do it for people who want to see you fail”

73. BAASHHA
Answer

75. In 1917, the poor old Mirza Zafar Sultan was working as
thelewala at Delhi. His identity was revealed when he was
taken to court on a brawl with a rich Punjabi trader about
a small road accident. At court, he said-
“The rich do not think anything of poor, but 60 years ago this man’s forefathers
would have been my slaves and entire Hindustan would obey my orders. I have
not forgotten my lineage, so how could I tolerate such insults? Just look how that
coward ran away when I hit him. It is not easy to endure a …….’s slap.”FITB
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76. Just a quote, for safety!
“लगता नहीं है जी मेरा उजड़े दयार में िकसकी बनी है आलम-ए-नापायेदार में”

77. Timurid’s Slap
Answer

78. Click to register

79. Id, …, and Super-… are three concepts of
psychoanalytic theory. Originally described by
Sigmund Freud as ‘The It’, ‘The I’, and ‘The Over-
I’, what conflict causing behaviour’s etymology is
derived from the Latin word for self?
Round Title Question…

80. Just a quote, for safety!
“काल करे सो आज कर, आज करे सो अब ।
पल में प्रलय होएगी,बहुिर करेगा कब ॥”

81. EGO
Round Title

82. Which scholar from an Indian epic gets his name due to his
loud wail in pain when his fingers were crushed under Mt.
Kailash?
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83. Just a quote, for safety!
“Ego is a little thing, but it hurts others a lot in many ways”

84. Ravana
Answer

85. Purandhara is at the helm right now under
the reign of Vivasvata. Which grounded
king will be at helm under Savarni in
future? And which post am I talking about?
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86. Just a quote, for safety!
“Ego never accepts the truth”

87. Bali Chakravarty | Indra
Answer

88. Extreme egos leads to revenge and ultimately
labelling such persons as villains in history.
Such was the fate of which famous
founder of Dramatic Oil Co. later
renamed as Fuller Farm Oil Co.
founded in 1863 and ceased
operations in 1864, a few months
before the dramatic turn of events?
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89. Just a quote, for safety!
“Ego is the only requirement to destroy any relationship”

90. John Wilkes Booth
Answer

91. The painting depicts a compromising
moment during a friendly game of dice
between her and her husband’s close
aide(X).
She looks terrified when she notices
her husband(Y) well known for his ego
enters the room. However she and X
were surprised and relived by the trust
Y had on them. Identify her, X, and Y
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X

92. Just a quote, for safety!
“Apologising doesn't mean that you are wrong, it just means that you
value your relationship more than your ego.”

93. Bhanumati
X - Karna
Y - Duryodhana
Answer

94. Sanaka, Sanatana, Sanandana, and
Sanatkumara are responsible for pushing
heavenly egos to create havoc on earth. Who
are they, and how were they responsible for
inflated deadly earthly egos?
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95. Just a quote, for safety!
“The only thing bigger than the god’s universe is man’s ego”

96. Four Kumaras and Their
curse to Jaya-Vijaya
Answer

97. 6
मत कर माया को अहंकार , मत कर काया को अ भमान
काया गार से काची, जैसे ओस रा मोती॥
ा लेके आया ब े, ा लेके जायेगा,
दो दन क ज गी है, दो दन का मेला॥
Don't be deluded by Maaya, don't take pride in the body
Its as fragile as clay, like a drop of dew
What did you bring, what will you take away
Life is of two days, life is a two days mela
These are 2 of the Kabir’s bhajan songs, why are they
trending for over a month now?

98. Just a quote, for safety!
“Skip the bigger ‘E’ and let it ‘GO”

99. Songs in Scam 1992

100. Ego ends. Quiz ends. Life starts!
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