The CBSE Heritage India Quiz, 2010 (HIQ, 2010) was conducted on 28th Aug, 2010.

There were 100 questions to be answered in an OMR sheet in 90 minutes with two marks for every
right answer and one negative mark for each wrong answer.
Questions & Answers
1.

The tallest statue of Hanuman is in

1.

Maharashtra

2.

Punjab

3.

Tamil Nadu

4. Andhra Pradesh
A) Andhra Pradesh (in Paritala 135 feet)
2.

Which Indian city manufactured balls for the World Cup Football?

1.

Ludhiana

2.

Mumbai

3.

Jalandhar

4. Chennai
A) Jalandhar
3.

Name the oldest mountain range of India

1.

Himalayas

2.

Nilgiris

3.

Aravallis

4. Vindhyas
A) Aravallis
4.

In which year was Teachers' Day first celebrated in India?

1.

1965

2.

1947

3.

1962

4. 1975
A) 1962
5.

Which of these sanctuaries is in Karnataka

1.

Gir Sanctuary

2.

Kaziranga Sanctuary

3.

Dandeli Wildlife Sanctuary

4. Tadoba National Park

A) Dandeli Wildlife Sanctuary (Tadoba is in Maharashtra, Gir - Gujarat, Kaziranga - Assam)
6.

On which riverbank is Goa located?

1.

Ganga

2.

Mandovi

3.

Gomati

4. Sabarmati
A) Mandovi (Gomati is a tributary of Ganga, Sabarmati is in Gujarat)
7.

Name the Indian Tennis player who has turned Hollywood filmmaker?

1.

Leander Paes

2.

Mahesh Bhupathi

3.

Vijay Amritraj

4. Ashok Amritraj
A) Ashok Amritraj (brother of Vijay Amritaraj, both of them Tennis players. But Vijay Amritraj has only
acted in movies)
8.

The Great Indian Bustard, an endangered bird, is found in

1.

The Thar Desert

2.

The Deccan Plateau

3.

The Sunderbans

4. The Sambhar Lake

A) The Thar Desert (and adjoining states in India, Pakistan)
9.

Which state was the first to electrify all its villages?

1.

Haryana

2.

Kerala

3.

Maharashtra

4. Tamil Nadu
A) (not Maharashtra, not Kerala)
10. 'Prem Rog' a movie directed by Raj Kapoor is based on which social cause?
1.

Dowry

2.

Widow-remarriage

3.

Untouchability

4. Casteism
A) Widow-remarriage (man in love with widow of higher status)
11. Which of these foreign rulers were the last to leave the country?
1.

British

2.

Dutch

3.

French

4. Portugese
A) Portugese (left Goa only in 1961)
12. Which is India's second highest civilian honour?
1.

Ashoka Chakra

2.

Padma Bhushan

3.

Padma Shri

4. Padma Vibhushan
A) Padma Vibhushan (followed by Padma Bhushan, Padma Shri, Ashok Chakra isn't civilian)

13. Which monument was built by the Mughal emperor Akbar?

1.

Qutub Minar

2.

Red Fort

3.

Charminar

4. Fatehpur Sikhri
A) Fatehpur Sikhri (in 1571)
14. The stories depicted in the Ajanta and Ellora caves are from the
1.

Ramayana

2.

Mahabharata

3.

Jataka

4. Panchatantra
A) Jataka???? (stories)
15. Hamida Begum was the mother of
1.

Akbar

2.

Humayun

3.

Babar

4. Aurangazeb
A) Akbar (Humayun's wife)
16. One of the oldest and holiest Indian cities lies on the banks of the river Shipra. What is its name?
1.

Ujjain

2.

Gandhinagar

3.

Chandipur

4. Mysore
A) Ujjain
17. Name the river whose main tributary is the Tungabhadra

1.

Krishna

2.

Godavari

3.

Kaveri

4. Narmada
A) Krishna
18. Which city is called the religious capital of Maharashtra?
1.

Mumbai

2.

Pune

3.

Nasik

4. Shirdi
A) Nasik (Pune is the cultural capital)
19. What was Kanyakumari, the southernmost tip of the Indian peninsula, known as during the
British rule?
1.

Cape Coromandel

2.

Cape Comorin

3.

Cape Victoria

4. Cape Connaught
A) Cape Comorin
20. In which state is India's first marine national park located?
1.

Gujarat

2.

Kerala

3.

Goa

4. Tamil Nadu
A) Gujarat (acknowledged in 1982)
21. Which is the Indian state whose ruler was the only royalty who did not attend the Delhi Durbar for
King George V in 1911?

1.

Udaipur

2.

Hyderabad

3.

Mysore

4. Gwalior
A) Udaipur (Maharana Fateh Singh)
22. In which monument would you find the grave of Sultan Mohammad Adil Shah?
1.

Lodhi Tomb, Delhi

2.

Gol Gumbaz, Bijapur

3.

Charminar, Hyderabad

4. Bibi ka Maqbara, Aurangabad

A) Gol Gumbaz
23. Which Indian state gets its name from the Burmese word for "people with pierced ears"?
1.

Mizoram

2.

Tripura

3.

Nagaland

4. Manipur
A) Nagaland (Naka)
24. Which noted Indian personality's father was one of the three main (Indian) contractors who built
Connaught Place? The other two were Sardar Dharam Singh and Rai Bahadur Narain Singh.
1.

Amrita Shergil

2.

Vir Sanghvi

3.

Khuswant Singh

4. Swaraj Paul
A) Khuswant Singh (his father Sir Sobha Singh)
25. Which artist, of royal descent, became so famous that his Palace was "completed to open a post
office" due to the countless painting requests that arrived "every day from everywhere"?

1.

Nandalal Bose

2.

Raja Ravi Varma

3.

Sobha Singh

4. Rabindranath Tagore
A) Raja Ravi Varma (it is!)
26. Which landmark film deals with the story of the King of Kumarpur and his two quarrelling wives
Dilbahar and Navbahar?
1.

Light of Asia

2.

Raja Harishchandra

3.

Alam Ara

4. Prithvi Vallabha
A) Alam Ara
27. During his incarceration at which prison from 1942 to 1946 did Jawaharlal Nehru write the
'Discovery of India'?
A) Ahmednagar (actually in five months April to September 1944)
28. Indian state capital was designed by the noted German architect Otto Konigsberger in 1946?
A) Bhubaneswar
29. Which tradition of the Republic Day parade was discontinued in 2009 owing to security concerns
after they caused a scare at the previous year's parade?
A) Elephants
30. In 2000, P. Gopichand became the 2nd player to win the All-England title in badminton, 20 years
earlier, who had become the first?
A) Prakash Padukone
31. Which Maratha leader was known as the Maratha Machiavelli by the Europeans in the 18th-19th
centuries?
A) Nana Phadnavis
32. The subject of a classic poem by Ramdhari Singh Dinkar, which apsara was the wife of the King
Pururavas?
A) Urvashi (the poem - Urvashi)
33. Which daughter of Fatma Begum, from Surat, became a famous film star, and also India's first

woman film director?

A) Zubeida (the first woman film director is Fatma Begum, though Zubeida is her daughter)
34. Who is acknowledged to be the first Indian to play at the Wimbledon tennis championships?
A) S Nihal Singh (played at Wimbledon in 1908. Though B Nehru entered the competition in 1905,
he gave a walkover to his opponent)
35. the famous film start seen in this still from one of his films

A) Dara Singh
36. Which town has the distinction of being the coldest inhabited town in India, and is the second
coldest inhabited town in the world?
A) Drass
37. Who was the youngest ever luge (men's category) Olympian (at 16 years old) and the sole
Indian representative at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan?
A) Shiva Keshavan
38. Which English word, meaning "Any large, overpowering, destructive force" has origin in the
falsehood that Hindu devotees of Krishna were lunatic fanatics who threw themselves under the
wheels of chariots in order to attain salvation?
A) Juggernaut (Jaggannath)
39. Which of these English words does not have a Hindi or Urdu origin?
A) Banana
40. Identify the Indian architect who has worked with Le Corbusier and Louis Kahn, and has been on
the selection committee for the Pritzker Prize, the Indira Gandhi National Centre for Arts, and the
Aga Khan Award. He was also the first founder Director of School of Architecture, Ahmedabad.
A) B V Doshi
41. Who is the fictional private investigator that has starred in a series of Bengali novels, short
stories and movies, from the series Feluda created by the famous Indian Bengali film director and
writer Satyajit Ray?
A) Pradosh Chandra Mitter
42. Which is the second most commonly spoken language in India, after Hindi?
A) Bengali (83 million speakers followed by Telugu - 74, Marathi - 72, Tamil - 61)

43. Which is the largest freshwater island in South Asia?

A) Majuli, Assam (in Brahmaputra)
44. Which is the island on which Mumbai and Thane lie, thus the most populous island in India and
the 14th most populous in the world?
A) Salsette Island
45. Identify this Jain religious cenre:

A) Shatrunjaya Hill
46. This miniature painting is an illustration from which early Mughal manuscript, commissioned by
Akbar and directed by Mir Sayyed Ali and Abd as Samad?

A) Tutinama
47. In which city would you currently find this priceless sculpture from the trove of Indian heritage?

A) Patna
48. Born in Bilaspur, in 1927, which Indian player holds the record with Udham Singh, for winning the
greatest number of gold medals in field hockey at the Olympic Games?

A) Leslie Claudius
49. Identify this painting, often called "India's Mona Lisa."

A) Bani Thani
50. Which Arjuna Awardee and Padma Shri, who won a gold medal in the 1970 Asian Games, died
recently in New Delhi?
A) Chandgi Ram
51. From which city did Doordarshan first start its broadcast on 15 September 1959?
A) Delhi
52. Which mythological figure is also known as Halyudha, Adiguru and Anmkarsana, which means
child transferred from the womb?
A) Balarama
53. Identify this tennis legend

1.

Ramanathan Krishnan

2.

Ramesh Krishnan

3.

Ghaus Mohammad

4. Zeeshan Ali
A) Ramesh Krishnan (not Ramanathan Krishnan)
54. Which of the following newspaper was established by Mahatma Gandhi?
A) Indian Opinion (in South Africa)
55. Pick the wrong match.
1.

Chilka Lake :: Orissa

2.

Kolleru Lake :: Karnataka

3.

Dal Lake :: Kashmir

4. Sambhar Lake :: Rajasthan

A) Kolleru Lake is in Andhra Pradesh
56. Aryabhata was India's first satellite. Which was the second one?
A) Bhaskara-1 (1979)
57. Where was the first Indian Institute of Technology setup?
A) Kharagpur (1951)
58. What is the odd one out?
1.

Silambam

2.

Gatka

3.

Thang-fa

4. Bando
A) Thang-fa (is a meaningless word. Others martial arts: Silambam- Tamil Nadu, Gatka - Punjab,
Bando - near Myanmar)
59. Which of the following is the motto of the Indian Navy

1.

' '- "May Vauna be peaceful to us"

2.

We protect

3.

On the Sea We Are Glorious

4. Touching the Sky with Glory

A)
60. What is the meaning of 'Koh-i-Noor'?
A) Mountain of Light
61. The 'Sanskriti Express' train is a tribute from the Indian Railways to which Indian Nobel laureate?
A) Rabindranath Tagore
62. Which was Indian television's first soap opera?
A) Hum Log
63. According to tradition, which style of painting is said to be originated in the Ramayana, when
King Janaka commissioned artists to do paintings for the marriage of his daughter, Sita, to Lord
Rama?
A) Madhubani
64. Which was India's first fully indigenous passenger car?
1.

Maruti Suzuki

2.

Hyundai Santro

3.

Honda Accent

4. Tata Indica
A) Tata Indica (of course Suzuki, Honda, and Hyundai are foreign)
65. Which of the following sports/games originated in India?
A) Chess
66. Which of the following is not a 'Classical Language' of India?
A) Hindi (Tamil, Sanskrit, Kannada, Telugu are the 4)
67. 'Losar' meaning the 'New Year' is celebrated in which part of India?
A) Sikkim (Tibet)
68. Which contemporary Indian writer was born as 'Nilanjana Sudeshna'?
A) Jhumpa Lahiri

69. Who was the director of Bollywood blockbuster '3 Idiots'?

A) Rajkumar Hirani
70. India celebrates the 'National Science Day' on 28th February every year in honor of which
scientist?
A) C.V. Raman for the Raman Effect
71. Which Indian freedom fighter was born as 'Manikarnika' in the city of Varanasi?
A) Rani Laxmibai
72. Pick the odd one out.
1.

Tapti

2.

Mahi

3.

Narmada

4. Kaveri
A) Kaveri is the only East flowing one.
73. Who amongst them was a professor of Computer Science at Stanford University, who was also
an advisor of Google and Paypal?
A) Rajeev Motwani
74. Who was the first "crorepati" in the T.V. show Kaun Banega Crorepati?
A) Harshavardhan Navathe
75. The movie Slumdog Millionaire is an adaptation of which novel?
A) Q & A
76. What special about the movie 'My Dear Kuttichathan' released in 1984?
A) The first 3D movie released in India
77. Which of the following cities doesn't have a 'Jantar Mantar'?
A) Udaipur
78. Which state capital in India is also known as the 'Scotland of the East'?
A) Shillong
79. Which form of art did Maharani Gayatri Devi help revive?
A) Blue Pottery
80. Which athelete is known as Payolli Express?
A) P.T. Usha

81. Tirupati, the famous temple town is in which state?

A) Andhra Pradesh
82. If I am good at penning 'Thrilling Tales' without 'Too Much Trouble' as I walk you on the 'Roads to
Mussoorie' to a 'Stairway To Nowhere' and 'The India I love' then who am I?
A) Ruskin Bond
83. Used in India before our independence, the term derives from the Latin prefix meaning "in the
place of" and a French word, meaning king. What word?
A) Viceroy ('Vice' - "in the place of", 'roi' - king)
84. The letter "M" stands for which city in the name of the great singer MS Subbalakshmi?
A) Madurai
85. Which Vice Chancellor of the Banaras Hindu University represented India at UNESCO from
1948-49 and was later Ambassador of India to the Soviet Union, from 1949 to 1952?
A) Dr. S. Radhakrishnan (He was vice president from 1952-1962. The first presidential election took
place only in 1952 :P)
86. Calicocotton is a cloth named after which Indian port?
A) Calicut
87. What was the name of Dhirutarastra's daughter in the Mahabharath?
A) Dushala
88. Rabindranath Tagore composed the National Anthem of India and which other country?
A) Bangladesh (Amar Shonar Bangla)
89. city is known as the Diamond capital of India?
A) Surat
90. Who established Aligarh Muslim University?
A) Sir Syed Ahmaed Khan
91. Which famous sufi saint's shrine is in Fatehpur Sikri?
A) Khwaja Saleem Chisti
92. If you land at the Choudhari Charan Singh airport which city are you in?
A) Lucknow
93. Who laid the foundation of the Maurya Dynasty?
A) Chandragupta Maurya
94. Who defeated the Marathas in the third battle of Panipat?
A) Ahmad Shah Abdali

95. Who among the following was the signatory to the Poona Pact in the Yerwada Jail near Pune
when Mahatma Gandhi was sick?
A) B. R. Ambedkar
96. Where do you find the historic gate Rumi Darwaza, named after the great Turkish poet Rumi in
India?
A) Lucknow
97. Who wrote "Kanan Kusum"?
A) Jaishankar Prasad
98. Which one of these schools of the performing arts was founded in 1930?
1.

Kerala Kalamandalam

2.

Sangeet Natak Academy

3.

Margi

4. School of Drama
A) Kerala Kalamandalam (Sangeet Natak Academy, New Delhi - 1952, Margi theater Trivandrum 1970, School of Drama, New Delhi - 1959)
99. The greeting 'Jai Hind' was started by which famous person?
1.

Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru

2.

MK Gandhi

3.

Subhash Chandra Bose

4. Bal Gangadhar Tilak

A) SC Bose (though Chempakaraman Pillai is said to have introduced it)
100.

'Bandi Nata' is the folk play of which Indian state?

1.

Orissa

2.

Maharashtra

3.

Gujarat

4. Madhya Pradesh
A) Orissa