Wikipedia:WikiProject India/Quiz

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.

Rules

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 ~~~~.
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.
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.
If the baton holder fails to ask the question within 5 days, any wikipedian can ask the question on his behalf.
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.
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.

Question guidelines

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.
Remember that you may have an international audience. Keep quiz questions relevant to India in some way.

Previous rounds and Winners

See Previous Rounds

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

Questions

Q1

India has 5 X's. China has the maximum number of such X's. Russia comes second in the list. Identify X. --Amondal (talk) 02:52, 23 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hints: China has some connections in 4 out of 5 X's. --Amondal (talk) 03:07, 24 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Occupied territory?--Dwaipayan (talk) 03:32, 24 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

No. But you are on right track. This is related with geography. --Amondal (talk) 03:40, 24 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Countries sharing a common border? China has 14, Russia 13 (or 14). India I thought had six (Pakistan, Bhutan, Nepal, China, Myanmar, and Bangladesh) though. And all of India's neighbours are China's too, except Bangladesh. Cribananda (talk) 05:32, 24 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

No. I am looking for a particular term which has some relation with the border between countries. China has 14 X and Russia has 12 X. --Amondal (talk) 05:53, 24 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Border treaties? Shovon (talk) 08:33, 24 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

A mountain pass? =Nichalp «Talk»= 08:56, 24 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

No. Not border treaties, not mountain pass. Myanmar and Bangladesh are the two countries related with the fifth (non-China) X. --Amondal (talk) 09:50, 24 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Railway line connection with other countries. --gppande «talk» 10:13, 24 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

States that have a border with more than one country? =Nichalp «Talk»= 10:16, 24 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

ZERO LINEs Luckeychap (talk) 10:22, 24 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Nichalp is very close. Now you need to find out the term I am looking for. --Amondal (talk) 10:26, 24 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Three-country borderpoint? =Nichalp «Talk»= 10:39, 24 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Tripoint or Tristate. Region is state and place is point. --gppande «talk» 10:41, 24 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Is it landlocked states which do not share their boundaries with national boundaries? --GDibyendu (talk) 11:04, 24 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

gppande has got it. But Nichalp has narrowed down the answer. So I give 0.5 marks to each of them. Anyone of you can ask the next question. List of tripoints provides the 5 tripoints that India has. --Amondal (talk) 11:10, 24 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I'm a little busy, so gppande, you can take the baton. =Nichalp «Talk»= 14:13, 24 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Q2

A was born during a storm, followed by a war, in the tidal mouth of a river. After B told about A to C, A became disputed. Identify A, B & C. --gppande «talk» 08:04, 25 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

A=Sir creek B=India? C=Pakistan? Not very sure about B and C. --KnowledgeHegemonyPart2 08:44, 25 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

No --gppande «talk» 08:55, 25 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

A=Krishna, B=Mahamaya, C=Kangsa??? Shovon (talk) 09:41, 25 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Not sure if you took the question mythological. It's not. Go by the lines of KHP2. --gppande «talk» 10:15, 25 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Ok. Is it Purbasha Island? India & Bangladesh? Shovon (talk) 10:29, 25 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Correct. South Talpatti Island. Cyclone was Bhola Cyclone followed by 1971 war. Island is important for possible discoveries of oil in the region. More info. --gppande «talk» 10:59, 25 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Q3

A real easy one and a red link. Just name the latest Indian footballer to have joined the club of 200 goal scorers in top-tier (including club level) games? Shovon (talk) 11:36, 25 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Dipendu Biswas? [1] --Amondal (talk) 12:07, 25 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Right. Your turn. Shovon (talk) 12:29, 25 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]