FUNDAMENTALS
India finished with their highest medal haul ever at the 2018 Asian Games. As our athletes bask in their well deserved glory, today’s quiz is on India’s performance at Asiad 2018. 1. Hima Das is the second athlete from Assam to win a track and field gold medal at the Asian Games. The first gold medal came in the 1966 Games in 800 metres. Name this athlete who is honoured with a sports day in Assam on his birthday on September 3rd every year. 2. Manjit Singh and Jinson Johnson made a rare 1-2 for India at the 800 metres in Asiad 2018. Who was the first Indian to win a gold medal in 800 metres in the inaugural Asian Games in 1951? 3. How did Gholamreza Mazandarani and Shailaja Jain prove to be the cause of heartburn for millions of Indians at the Asiad this year? 4. The Sepak Takraw team created history by winning a bronze in a traditional Southeast Asian sport. Incidentally, 8 of the 12 players of the Indian Sepak Takraw team are from one state. Which one? 5. Fill in the sequence with a fourth name: Soma Biswas, J.J. Shobha, Pramila Aiyappa, …..? 6. Who beat Sirojiddin Khasanov, Abdulqozim Fayziev, Batchuluuny Batmagnai and Daichi Takatani on his way to a gold medal at 2018 Jakarta-Palembang Games? 7. Name the shooter from Kolhapur who became the first Indian woman to win an individual Asian Games gold medal in shooting by winning the 25 metre pistol event? 8. The Indian bridge team that returned with one gold and two bronze famously had several members of industrialist families on the team. Kiran Nadar, wife of Shiv Nadar of HCL, being one of them. Name the MD of the India arm of Swiss steel company Sc molz+Bic ken bach, who was part of the bronze medal winning Indian men’s team. 9. Pincky Balhara lost three of her family members, including her father, in a space of three months before the Asiad. She was also hampered by lack of funding as her sport was not recognised. Her fellow villagers from Neb Sarai raised ‘2 lakhs for her training in Uzbekistan. For which sport did Pincky win a sliver medal for India? 10. Jan Zelezny of Czech set a record in 1996 that many people say is impossible to break. Which Indian athlete competes in the same discipline as Jan Zelezny and won an Asian gold in Jakarta Palembang 2018?
ANYTHING GOES
1. DigiFlip and Citron were all inhouse brands launched by a company which has now been discontinued. Which company launched these brands? (Commander G.R. Balakrishnan (Retd), Chennai) 2. Mirror Image writing is writing which looks like your writing as seen in a mirror when you hold the paper in front of a mirror. Which world famous artist of the 15th century used to write his notes in this type of writing? He used to write normally when addressing letters to friends or others. (U.N. Murthy, Secunderabad) 3. Denis Atkinson from the Caribbean played his farewell Test against Pakistan at Bridgetown in 1957-58, while his younger brother Eric made his debut in the same Test. There has been another pair of brothers who were involved in a similar situation. Identify the siblings and the Test they were involved in. (B.K. Harinath, Mysuru) 4. Which iconic structure in Europe was to be destroyed 20 years after its construction but was saved since it was re-purposed as a giant radio antenna? (Partha Sarkar, Kolkata) 5. According to one theory, Lucius Artorius Castus, a Roman military commander who served in Britain in the late 2nd century, was the original model for which legendary character? (Madhavi Chandran, Kochi) 6. Sachin Tendulkar, Salman Khan, Narendra Modi are all Twillionaires. Who is a Twillionaire? (Partha Sarkar, Kolkata) 7. The world’s largest visa centre was inaugurated in July 2018. Which place and which country has set up the visa centre? (S. Meenakshi, Secunderabad) 8. Which Mughal ruler was blinded, caged, poisoned, garroted, stabbed to death and finally buried at Humayun’s tomb? (Rajeev G. Pillai, Kochi)