Republic Day Special India Quiz - 26 Jan 2024

Here's a Republic Day Special India Quiz to Celebrate India's 75th Republic Day!

Its a fun trivial quiz mostly based on the celebrations of this year's Republic Day. Take a look!

1. REPUBLIC DAY SPECIAL INDIA QUIZ 26 Jan 2024 Researched & Conducted by: Aravind Anil

2. The Deal Theme Republic Day Special India Quiz # Questions 12 Qs → 12 p oints Approx Time ≈1 0-15 minutes

3. Before you take the quiz… All Questions contain texts as well as images. The questions are wordy and trivial. Look out for cryptic clues/ easter eggs in the text. The images contain giveaway clues. Take a good look at them. In some questions, texts would contain blanks, which would be the answer to the Q. The blank lengths are indicative of the length of words throughout the quiz. FORMAT : The quiz consists of 1 round with 12 Questions. Question Slide → followed by Safety Slide → Followed by Answer Slide (for each Qs) STYLE: Questions are trivial in nature, and most of them can be cracked even without a deep factual knowledge about the specific theme. Treat this quiz like a com petitive quiz. Take a sheet of paper & pen, Run the entire quiz at once, and score yourselves. Having said that, skullduggery is prohibited! Put your thinking caps on, ignite the grey cells. Good luck in scoring a perfect 12/12!

4. Teaser Q . ‘ The Great Indian Novel ’, a political - satire novel by Dr. Shashi Tharoor , is a fictional work that takes the story of the Indian Epic Mahabharata and recasts and resets it mainly in the context of the Indian Independence Movement. In this book, Gandhiji is represented as Bhishma and Nehru as Dhritarashtra , alluding to their personal qualities. Karna, the “Father of Karnistan,” was very appropriately, represented as a character who switched sides by ditching his lineage. Which real-life figure inspired the character Karna?

5. Muhammad Ali Jinnah ANSWER

6. 1 . The 2024 Indian Republic Day Parade had a country head as the chief guest, marking the sixth occasion of the head of this country gracing this stage. He was also a dignitary during the 2018 and 2022 FIFA World Cup football finals because his country featured in both of them. Who?

7. Emmanuel Macron (France) ANSWER

8. 2. One of the most significant changes made in the 2024 Republic Day parade was the group of over 100 women playing Indian musical instruments replacing the traditional military bands. The etymology of one of the percussion instruments featured is from an Arabic verb “ naqr” which means "to strike or beat". In India, it is called by the corrupted version of its Arab name, and is an indispensable component in marriages. It also features in the titles of multiple Bollywood songs - from Jab We Met , Ramleela et al. Which instrument?

9. Nagada ANSWER

10. 3 . One of the show stealers of the 2024 Republic Day Parade was the pictured multiple rocket launcher developed for the Indian Army. It's named after the celestial bow of the Hindu deity, Lord Shiva . Identify?

11. Pinaka ANSWER

12. 4 . The image is of one of the highlights of the 2015 Republic Day parade. This float, which displayed a working model of the motif, was a call to attract stakeholders for this initiative, which is now ubiquitous. The name of this initiative reminded of a popular Indie-pop album song by Alisha Chinai . What did it represent ?

13. Image Slide

14. Make in India ANSWER

15. 5 . The award for the best tableaux during the Republic Day parade in 2021 and 2022 were won by the same state, which presented the theme of the cultural heritage of a particular city on both occasions. On both these parades, they displayed the cultural heritage of this city and included the float of a then-ongoing “project.” Not very surprisingly, the 2024 tableaux of this state came with the same theme and featured the float of the now-completed project. Identify the city/ project ?

16. Image Slide 2021 2022

17. Uttar Pradesh ANSWER

18. 6 . The tableaux of Ladakh during the 2024 Republic Day Parade, themed “Empowering Women through employment in Ladakh’s journey,” featured women playing a sport, alluding to the fact that the women’s national team for this sport is made up entirely of players from this Union Territory. Although this sport was invented in North America in the 19th C and has featured in the Olympics since the 1920 edition, the Indian women's team played its first international game only in 2016. Which sport?

19. Ice-Hockey ANSWER

20. 7 . The tableau of Manipur during the 2024 Republic Day parade was themed "Thambalgi Langla" or “Lotus Threads”. It paid tribute to a 30-year old woman named Bijiyashanti Tongbram , who lives by the Loktak Lake and recently became India's first to produce a certain product using the Lotus flower. This rare but eco-friendly product is very delicate and, therefore, uses traditional manufacturing methods instead of machinery for its production. What product?

21. Lotus Silk ANSWER

22. 8. This Amul ad pays tribute to a landmark event in the Indian pop-culture scene, where the frontman of a legendary band (X) jammed with a veteran Indian pop-jazz singer (Y) at the England vs Pakistan match during the 2023 Cricket World Cup, held in Eden Gardens, Kolkata, with its caption a nod to one a popular song by X’s band. The latter (Y) was again in the news earlier this week when she was honoured with the Padma Bhushan award on the eve of the Republic Day. Identify both the singers - X & Y?

23. Image Slide

24. X - Mick Jagger (Rolling Stones) Y - Usha Uthup ANSWER

25. 9 . Raj Kaul was a Sanskrit and Persian Scholar from Kashmir and the oldest known ancestor of a famous Indian family. The popular story goes that his association with the Mughal emperor Farrukhsiyar impelled him to shift his family from Kashmir to the plains in Northern India. They were granted a house on the banks of a canal, resulting in the family adopting a new surname that literally means “someone who lives by a canal.” What surname?

26. Nehru ANSWER

27. 10. This snip is from an advertisement by an Indian company on the occasion of the 75th Republic Day. They recently launched a campaign #SoundTrackOfTravel, and a dedicated Spotify channel to enhance their customers' experience while using their product. Which company?

28. Vistara Airlines ANSWER

29. 11 . The IPL Team Mumbai Indians’ 2024 Republic Day Wishes post featured multiple landmarks across the city lit up in Indian tricolours, marking the occasion. One of the landmarks in this image, situated in close proximity to the Wankhede Stadium, is nicknamed ‘ Queen's Necklace’ due to its resemblance to a string of pearls in a necklace, in aerial view at night. Although it is officially named after Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose , it's commonly known by its generic name. Which landmark?

30. Image Slide

31. Mumbai Marine Drive ANSWER

32. Fin.