Trivia

indophile wrote:1.       If Calcutta is the City of Joy, what is the City of Dreams?

Mumbai

2.       What is the national fruit of India?

Mango

3.       Who was the first woman ruler in India? And who was the second?

Razia Sultana is the first. Second is rudrama devi?

4.       Name what are considered as the five greatest books in Sanskrit and their authors.



5.       What are names of the wolf, elephant, black panther, bear, python, and tiger in Junglebook?

bear is balu, tiger is sherkhan. panther bageera.

6.       What is the name of the place where the rivers Mandakini and Alakananda meet? What is the river called downstream from that confluence point?

7.       What is special about this verse: sulabhāḥ puruṣā rājan satataṃ priyavādinaḥ|
apriyasya tu pathyasya vaktā śrotā ca durlabhaḥ|| (It will always be easy to find “yes men” oh, king, but it is impossible to get people who give suggestions that may not be pleasant to the listner, but do him good in the long run, more so, it is impossible to get listeners for such advices)

Is this vidura neethi?

8.       Hanuman temples are quite common across India. What is one place where there is a temple for the monkey king Sugriva?

Chitrakoot?

indophile wrote:1,2,3 are correct.
For 5, the part you answered is correct.
#7 is Vidura neethi alright, but there's something unique about that verse. What is it?
#8 Chitrakoot is incorrect.

Seva Lamberdar wrote:4. Shakuntalam by Kalidasa is one of them.

6. Hardwar, Ganga

7. Vidura's suggestion / advice to Dhritarashtra

8. Kishkindha

Idéfix wrote:1. Mumbai
2. Mango
3. Razia Sultana, Rudrama Devi. They both lived in the same century.
4. kumArasambhavam and raghuvamSam by kALidAsa. Don't know the other ones.
6. Rudraprayaga. It is called Alakananda until it joins the Bhagirathi.
8. Bali?

indophile wrote:1.       If Calcutta is the City of Joy, what is the City of Dreams? ----- Bombay

2.       What is the national fruit of India? ------- Mango

3.       Who was the first woman ruler in India? And who was the second? ---- Razia Sultana (1205-1240), Rudrama Devi (1259-1289)

4.       Name what are considered as the five greatest books in Sanskrit and their authors. ----- RaghuvamSa & Kumaarasambhava (Kalidasa), Kirataarjuneeyam (Bhaaravi), SiSupaalavadha (Maagha), Naishadham (SriHarsha (Emperor Harshavardhana).

5.       What are names of the wolf, elephant, black panther, bear, python, and tiger in Junglebook? ----- Akela, Col. Haati, Bagheera, Balu, Kaa, Sher Khan. 

6.       What is the name of the place where the rivers Mandakini and Alakananda meet? What is the river called downstream from that confluence point? ----- Rudraprayag, and the downstream river from the confluence point is also known as Alakananda. It later meets up with Bhageerathi at Devaprayag, and the river downstream from that point is known as Ganga.

7.       What is special about this verse: sulabhāḥ puruṣā rājan satataṃ priyavādinaḥ|
apriyasya tu pathyasya vaktā śrotā ca durlabhaḥ|| (It will always be easy to find “yes men” oh, king, but it is impossible to get people who give suggestions that may not be pleasant to the listner, but do him good in the long run, more so, it is impossible to get listeners for such advices) ----- The same exact verse appears twice in Valmiki Ramayana (3-37-2 & 6-16-21), and Vyasa Mahabharata (5-37-14). No one has come forward so far with a plausible explanation for the repition of the verse in the two books.

8.       Hanuman temples are quite common across India. What is one place where there is a temple for the monkey king Sugriva? ------ In RameSwaram