Mitron: Saarang India Quiz Finals Swathi P G Avinaash R Melwin James
Mitron: Saarang India Quiz Finals Swathi P G Avinaash R Melwin James
Mitron: Saarang India Quiz Finals Swathi P G Avinaash R Melwin James
Similar ornaments appeared by around 1500 B.C in China and by 13th century
A.D in Europe.
However, the powers would be were not pleased, and the structure of the
body was changed, which was widely seen as an attempt to clip his wings
The winners were those who, in foundation’s opinion, commit or abet such activity,
in particular politicians, businessmen and bureaucrats.The ceremony drew
attention to the ongoing controversies over the Bhopal Gas Tragedy and violence
in Nandigram and Singur.
Next slide….
1. Best Environmental Talk the Talk Award: Ashok Punjwani
2. Birds of a Feather Award: Mukesh Ambani
3. Bureaucrat for Business Award: B.K. Chaturvedi
4. Money Can Buy You Law Award: T.K.A Nair
5. Best Diplomat for Welfare of Transnational Corporations: Ronen Sen
6. The World is a Business Award: P. Chidambaram
7. Best Use of an Inside-Outside Strategy: Abhishek Manu Singhvi
8. Lifetime Spent Evolving Opportunities from Disasters: Babulal Gaur
9. Extraordinary Contributions to the Progress of International Capital: Kamal Nath
10. Best Use of the Revolving Door: Montek Singh Ahluwalia
11. Best Friend of Big Business: Manmohan Singh
12. Dynastic Loyalty to the Empire: Ratan Tata
Mir Jafar
4
If one go to Haridwar and come across Brahmin Priests or ‘Pandas’, mostly they
would be having voluminous records called ‘Bahi Khate’. These handwritten
records, passed down to them over generations are classified according to the
villages/districts and are updated periodically. Special designated Pandit families
are incharge of each districts, with a few of them being incharge of districts which
are in present day Pakistan as well.
The records are similar to ‘Panjis’ maintained by Maithil Brahmins in Bihar. What
is Bahi Khate, that is also used for settling legal issues in many cases? Image
follows
Hindu Genealogy Registers
As Haridwar has traditionally been a site, for death rites and also Shraaddha,
amongst Hindus, it soon also became customary for the family pandits (priest) to
record each visit of the family, along with their gotra, family tree, marriages and
members present etc., grouped according to family and home town. And over the
centuries, these registers became an important genealogical source for many
families, part of splintered Hindu families, in tracing their family tree and family
history as well, especially after the Partition of India in 1947
5
The image shown in the next slide is of New Lucky Restaurant, located in Lal
Darwaza Area of Ahmedabad.
If one visit this restaurant, he can see nearly a dozen green coloured structures
as the owner Krishnan Kutty Nair chose not to destroy of these structures while
constructing the restaurant. Instead he has sealed of these structures using iron
grills. Every morning waiters spend some time wiping these structures and
decorate them with fresh flowers.
What are these structures, which the owner believes has helped in flourishing his
business?
Graveyards/Coffins
6
a) Owing to geographical reasons, the natives of Longwa village of Mon district in
Nagaland is granted with a special privilege/relaxation from certain provisions
mentioned in Constitution of India. What privilege/relaxation?
b) The image in the next slide shows the house of “The Angh”, the hereditary chief
of Longwa. Going by part a) what is so special about this house?
a. Dual Citizenship - For Example,The chief’s son is an employee in
Myanmarese Army
a. India-Myanmar border passes right through this house
7. Id X
Rajiv Motwani (1962-2009), who
completed his BTech in computer
science from IIT Kanpur and PhD in
computer science from University of
Berkeley was a professor at Stanford
University. He co-authored X alongwith
Terry Winograd and two other then PhD
students (one of whom X is named
after) as a part of their research project
in the year 1996.
Pagerank Algorithm
PageRank is an algorithm used by Google Search to rank websites in their search
engine results. It was named after Larry Page, one among the two PhD students
and the other being a certain Sergey Brin.
8
Jatinga, a small village located in Assam has been witnessing a strange
phenomenon every year between the months of September and November. The
phenomenon occurs in foggy, cloudy and misty atmospheric conditions, usually
between 7pm and 10pm.
Although no concrete explanation has been given till date, one popular theory
says that the subject of the phenomeneon, gets attracted towards light, and
hence rush to the light sources, thus resulting in something
Give me the name of the 2017 movie and make sure you have got the
spelling right.
10
The TCS 10000 m race is an annual competition held in Bangalore every year,
usually in the month of May. Mosinet Geremew of Ethiopia won this year’s event
by finishing in 28 minutes and 36 seconds. He had won the same event in 2015 as
well, thus becoming the first person to retain his title in the events 8 year history.
However midway into the race, it was his fellow countrymen Mule Wasihun who
was enjoying a healthy lead when he took a wrong turn and lost his way. He
eventually found his way back and was still in the lead. However due to some
strange circumstances he could finish the competition only at 9th position.
•What fully romantic name extracted from mythology is given to this arrangement
a. India’s Only Privately Owned Railway Line
b. Shakunthala Railways
12
The image on the right side shows an
Orchid with the scientific name
Cypripedioideae, which is also the state
flower of two North-east Indian states.
Owing to its resemblance to a daily used
entity, what is its common name?
The novel intricate family relationship of two countries: India and USA. The core
characters comprise a family living in a small town in India, where provincial customs
and attitudes dictate the future of all children: girls are to be married off and boys are
to become as educated as possible.Uma spends her life in subservience to her older
demanding parents, while massive effort and energy is expended to ensure Arun's
education and placement in a university in Massachusetts, and his intense dislike to
American food and cooking is specially noted in the novel.
The novel’s name name has two words:- second word, an antonym to the first word,
16)A musical Instrument
In the Hindu Ramayana epic, after the war, Hanuman picked up this musical
instrument and returned to North India. In Rajasthan and Gujarat, it was the first
musical instrument to be learned by princes. The Sangit tradition of Rajasthan
further helped in popularizing the instrument among ladies as well.
The western stringed musical instruments such as the violin and viola were later
based on this instrument.
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