Inter House Heritage quizD.A.V Public School ,BSEB Colony, Patna

Researched and Conducted by:- ANKUR AGRAJ

Rules

20 questions 1,5,10,15,20 are star marked 8 teams ( top 2 from each house )

qualify for the finals No electronic gadgets to be used.

Those found using would be thrown out .

*1.Finger painted self portrait of whom?

Rabindranath Tagore

2. Which medival city

The original name of the city of X was Ramdaspur as it was founded by Guru Ramdas. He had a tank dug at the site granted to his wife by Emperor Akbar. The fifth Guru Arjun Dev gave it the name of X.

Amritsar

3.The author and his 1st novel X is an Indian author of British

descent. He lives in Masoori. He wrote his 1st novel Y in 1951 at the age of 17. Many of his books have been adopted into movies.

Ruskin Bond and Room on the Roof

4.What in terms of Ancient Indian History According to Jain and Vedic texts

there were 16 of them in 6th century BC and mostly clustered around the north of the Vindhyas. The powerful of them were Kosala, Magadha (Bimbsara, Ajatshatru, Mahapadmananda), Vatsa and Avanti (Chandrapradyota). Some of them were republics like Lichhavis and Shakyas, Which term are we looking for?

Mahajanpads

*5

X ( 2nd May, 1921- 23rd April, 1992) was a fiction writer, publisher,  illustrator, calligrapher, music composer, graphic designer and a renowned filmmaker.

X's first feature film won him international fame including the award for 'Best Human Document' in the 1956 Cannes Film Festival. X was only the second person after Charlie Chaplin to be awarded an honorary doctorate by Oxford University. He was awarded the Bharat Ratna in 1992.

Name X

Satyajit Ray

6

Which Indian city is also called the blue city?

Joadhpur

7

Name the only site in Bihar to be on the UNESCO’s list of World Heritage site?

Mahabodhi Temple

Kusumpura Kusumdhwaja Pushpapuram Azimabad Padmawati

8. Give funda

Old names of Patna

9. Which pre independence political outfit X was an organization founded by

Indians in the United States and Canada with the aim of securing India’s Independence. This party’s members returned to India to agitate for rebellion during the Babar Akali Movement in 1915

Kye members include Rasbihari Bose, Abdul Hafiz Mohamed, Karthar Singh Sarabha and Lala Hardayal

Gadar Party

*10. Which two dishes are being compared Colleen Taylor Sen lists three distinctions

between X and Y1. X is the primary dish in a meal, while Y is

usually a secondary accompaniment in a larger meal

2. In X , meat and rice are cooked saperately before being layered and cooked together. Y is a single pot dish: meat and rice are simmered in a liquid until the liquid is absorbed

3. X has more complex and stronger spics, compared to Y

X: Biryani & Y:Pulao

11.

The enactment of _______ ________ of Goods (Registration & Protection Act, 1999) in 2003 gave birth to something very important for the protection of moveable heritage. What?

Geographical Indicators or GI Tags

12.

What special ingredient is added to traditional Bikaneri bhujia which give it its crunchy feeling?

Desert Sand

13

The Kolhati and Mehar groups of Maharashtra generally combine together to perform which folk dance which literally means 'entertainment' in Persian?

This term lends it name to a 2015 bollywood movie

Tamasha

14. Which Monument

Jama Masjid,Delhi

*15

Once Guru Gobind Singh, the tenth guru of Sikhs died appointing their holy scripture Guru Granth Sahib as the guru, they were left without a leader to decide upon community matters. The solution to this was bianuual meets at Amritsar on two festival.

Name both.

Baisakhi and Diwali

16. Which dance

Manipuri

17.

She was an popular singer in the early 20th cent. She became the 1st recorded Indian singer recording a song in 1902.

Who is she

Gauhar Jaan

18.

What is the literal meaning of 'Nataraj' in Sanskrit

Lord of Dance

19.Which King

He succeeded his elder brother Veera Narasimha as king. As an accomplished poet and a patron of the arts, his literary court was adorned by eminent poets and scholars. He himself wrote a Telugu classic Amukta Malyada and a play in Sanskrit, Jambavati Kalyana

Krishnadev Rai

*20.Which dish

A must during wedding celebrations, X is a tempting dessert from Bihar. It is made into a layered dough using refined wheat flour and sugar and lightly fried in oil . There are both sweet and salty of this

ID X

Khaja