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Welcome to the India quiz. The quiz is a general knowledge quiz centred around India that any registered Wikipedians can enter. It is run as a friendly competition to test and improve your knowledge of India. Most importantly, it's supposed to be fun. The questions and answers would be condensed in the form of "Did you know..." facts on Portal:India to be updated once or twice a week. Also, the relevant articles that get quoted in these quiz questions would hopefully get a face-lift with increased attention as a result of the questions.

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[edit] Rules

  1. Any registered Wikipedian can answer a quiz question, but to ask a question you must first earn the right by being the first person to answer the previous one correctly. If the current question is still open and you think you know the answer, post your answer below and wait for an adjudication from the person who placed the question. Remember to sign your post with ~~~~.
  2. If you are the first person to post the correct answer, the asker will post a message below your answer confirming you gave the correct response.
  3. You now have the baton and 24 hours to post a new question. If a new question is not posted by you within that time limit, the previous asker can post a new question in lieu of yourself.
  4. If the baton holder fails to ask the question within 5 days, any wikipedian can ask the question on his behalf.
  5. When 25 questions have been asked, a round is over. The leader on the answer tally at the end of each round is declared the winner of the round. The questions asked during the round are archived.
  6. The leader-tally then resets with all users back to zero to begin the next round, with the user that answered the last question of the previous round asking the first question of the present round.

[edit] Question guidelines

  1. If you find that no-one is able to get the answer to your question, consider offering clues or replacing your question with an easier one. The aim is to keep the quiz moving.
  2. Remember that you may have an international audience. Keep quiz questions relevant to India in some way.

[edit] Previous rounds and Winners

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[edit] Leaderboard

(After Q0) It would be ideal to update this once every five to ten questions

No. of questions answered (after 0 questions) User name

[edit] Questions

[edit] Q1

'A' won the first gold medal for India in 1990 in a competition. India hosted the same competition in the year 1996 for the first time. Identify 'A'. --Amondal (talk) 12:22, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

Rina Panigrahy - the event is International Mathematical Olympiad held in 1990 in Beijing. The 1996 edition was held in Mumbai. It is a "stumped me!" type of question, good one. --Gurubrahma (talk) 12:43, 12 June 2008 (UTC)
Thats too fast. Your turn. --Amondal (talk) 13:12, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Q2

Nirad C. Chaudhuri : India :: X : Cricket. Sitter, identify X. --Gurubrahma (talk) 16:00, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

Sujit Mukherjee, who wrote Autobiography of an Unknown Cricketer. -- GDibyendu (talk) 16:47, 12 June 2008 (UTC)
Yup. He was not only a first-class cricketer but also arguably one of the best Indian writers on cricket. Enough info on Cricinfo to start an article on him on WP, though I couldn't nail his player profile there - see [1], [2] and [3] for example. Your turn, GDibyendu. --Gurubrahma (talk) 06:19, 13 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Q3

This 19th Century guy was expert in handling wild animals like tigers and lions. He later moved to another country, where he joined their war of independence and became a Colonel in army of that country. Who? -- GDibyendu (talk) 16:57, 13 June 2008 (UTC)

Davy Crockett? Shahid • Talk2me 21:39, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
Davy was American Indian, not 'Indian' Indian. GDibyendu (talk) 21:50, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
Oh so it's not Kit Carson either? He was my second choice but I see it is not the answer. Shahid • Talk2me 22:06, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
Colonel Suresh Biswas. I cannot ask the next question, as I will not have an access to wikipedia for next several hours. Please someone else ask the next one.--Dwaipayan (talk) 04:41, 14 June 2008 (UTC)