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YASHAS QUIZ -5

Join the Yashas Quiz and test your knowledge on India's history, geography, polity, and more. Featuring 10 rounds of questions and visual challenges.

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YASHAS QUIZ -5

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  1. YASHAS QUIZ -5

  2. Rounds • Round – 1 : INDIA • Round – 2 : VISUAL ROUND • Round – 3 : GEOGRAPHY • Round – 4 : POLITY • Round – 5 : HISTORY • Round – 6 : CURRENT AFFAIRS • Round – 7 : GREAT PERSONALITIES • Round – 8 : AWARDS • Round – 9 : GENERAL KNOWLEDGE • Round – 10 : RAPID FIVE

  3. Round - 1 India

  4. Rules • 2 questions per each team. • 10 mark for each correct answer. • Pass is allowed. • Pass mark is 5. • Time limit is 1 minute.

  5. Team - A • Which is the national aquatic animal of India ?

  6. Answer – River Dolphin Ganges river dolphins once lived in the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna and Karnaphuli-Sanguriver systems of Nepal, India, and Bangladesh. But the species is extinct from most of its early distribution ranges. The Ganges river dolphin can only live in freshwater and is essentially blind.

  7. Team - B • Which state has more forest in India ?

  8. Answer – Madhya Pradhesh • Madhya Pradesh has the largest forest cover of 77,522 sq. km. in terms of area in the country followed by Arunachal Pradesh with forest cover of 67,321 sq. km.

  9. Team- C • Which is the largest public sector bank in India ?

  10. Answer – State Bank Of India(SBI) • State Bank of India (SBI) is an Indian multinational, public sector banking and financial services company. It is a government-owned corporation with its headquarters in Mumbai, Maharashtra. On April 1, 2017, the State Bank of India, which was India's largest bank, merged with five of its associate banks (State Bank of Bikaner & Jaipur, State Bank of Hyderabad, State Bank of Mysore, State Bank of Patiala and State Bank of Travancore), and with the BharatiyaMahila Bank. This was the first ever large scale consolidation in the Indian banking industry. With the merger, SBI became one of the 50 largest banks in the world

  11. Team - D • Which is the national motto of India ?

  12. Answer - SatyamevaJayate • "SatyamevaJayate" is a mantra from the ancient Indian scripture Mundaka Upanishad. Following the independence of India, it was adopted as the national motto of India in 26 January 1950.

  13. Team - A • How many languages are officially recognized in India ?

  14. Answer - 22 • India has 22 official languages. According to Census of India, the total number of mother tongues spoken in India is 1652. However, only around 150 languages have a sizable speaking population. The Indian census of 1961 recognised 1,652 different languages in India (including languages not native to the subcontinent).

  15. Team - B • From which state does monsoon enter India ?

  16. Answer- Kerala • The Arabian Sea Branch of the Southwest Monsoon first hits the Western Ghats of the coastal state of Kerala, India, thus making this area the first state in India to receive rain from the Southwest Monsoon.

  17. Team - C • Which is India's National calendar ?

  18. Answer – Saka (ShalivanaSaka) • The national calendar based on the Saka Era, with Chaitra as its first month and a normal year of 365 days was adopted from 22 March 1957 along with the Gregorian calendar. Dates of the national calendar have a permanent correspondence with dates of the Gregorian calendar, 1 Chaitra falling on 22 March normally and on 21 March in leap year.

  19. Team - D • Which is the national heritage animal of India ?

  20. Answer – Elephant

  21. Round - 2 Visual Round

  22. Rules • Identify the pictures given. • 10 marks for each correct answer. • Pass is allowed. • Pass mark is 5. • Time limit is 30 seconds.

  23. Team – BIdentify the logo.

  24. Answer – WIKIPEDIA

  25. Team – CIdentify the picture.

  26. Answer – Commonwealth Games 2018

  27. Team – DIdentify the logo

  28. Answer - NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration

  29. Team – AIdentify the logo

  30. Answer – Indian Navy

  31. ROUND - 3 GEOGRAPHY

  32. Rules • This round contains 2 questions for each team. • Option is given . • Pass is not allowed. • 10 marks for each correct answer. • Time limit is 30 seconds.

  33. Team – C • Which country has longest coastline in the world ? Greenland Russia Indonesia Canada

  34. Answer- CANADA (202,080 km)

  35. Team - D • Which is the largest lake in the world ? Caspian Sea Lake Superior Lake Baikal Dead Sea

  36. Answer- Caspian Sea(371,000 km²) • The Caspian Sea is the largest enclosed inland body of water on Earth by area, variously classed as the world's largest lake or a full-fledged sea. It is an endorheic basin located between Europe and Asia.

  37. Team - A • Which is the capital city of Gujarat state ? Ahmadabad Rajkot Gandhi Nagar Surat

  38. Answer- Gandhi Nagar

  39. Team - B • Name the place in U.P through which the Standard Meridian of India passes ? Kanpur Lucknow Allahabad Agra

  40. Answer - Allahabad • Indian Standard Time is calculated on the basis of 82.5 °E longitude which is just west of the town of Mirzapur, near Allahabad in the state of Uttar Pradesh.

  41. Team - C • Which continent has no desert ? Australia Antarctica Europe South America

  42. Answer - Europe • Europe is the only continent on Earth without a desert. Although most probably it's out of your mind, but you should also know that Antarctica is a desert too. Antarctica is not an exception, but there is a desert of another ice type.

  43. Team - D • In which state of India does the sun rise first ? Arunachal Pradesh West Bengal Meghalaya Assam

  44. Answer – Arunachal Pradesh • In 1999, it was discovered that Dong in Arunachal Pradesh, which also happens to be the easternmost place in India, experiences the first sunrise of the country. Ever since that, visitors have been flocking the state and covering an 8 kilometre trek only to see the sun rise from behind the mountains

  45. Team - A • The largest producer of saffron in India is _______ Himachal Pradesh Meghalaya Assam Jammu and Kashmir

  46. Answer – Jammu and Kashmir • Jammu and Kashmir is the largest producer of saffron in India. • Saffron cultivation in India is mainly done in the states of Himachal Pradesh and Jammu and Kashmir. Harvesting is the most difficult part in Saffron farming. Saffron plant needs extreme heat and dryness in summer and extreme cold during winter.

  47. Team - B • Which is the highest freak of western Ghats ? Anamudi Mullayyanagiri Nilgiri Kudremukh

  48. Answer - Anamudi • Highest peak of Western ghats: Anamudi is a mountain located at Idukki dist. of Kerala. It is the highest peak in the Kerala and South India, at an elevation of 2,695 metres (8,842 ft).

  49. ROUND – 4 POLITY

  50. Rules • It contains one question for each team. • Option is given. • 10 marks for each correct answer. • Pass is not allowed. • Time limit is 30 seconds.

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