Can you tackle this week's quiz?

This statue is a clue to question number 5. Scroll below to find out...

1. The name of the city literally means ‘the town that lives forever’. It is an Indian farming town with a meagre population. Since 2015, the real estate prices in this town have been on the rise and it has been in news recently for running a campaign urging its citizens to build the city brick by brick. Which city are we talking about?

2. Manorama, in her glittering career, has acted with three actors who went on to become Chief Ministers. Can you name all three?

3. Physicist Fritjof Capra said the following about this representation, “Modern physics has shown that the rhythm of creation and destruction is not only manifest in the turn of the seasons and in the birth and death of all living creatures, but is also the very essence of inorganic matter. For the modern physicists, then, X is the dance of subatomic matter.” X is two metres in height and was gifted by the Indian Government to CERN. It currently stands in front of the CERN building in Geneva. What is X?

4. The term is the diminutive form of “war” in Spanish and is translated as “little war”. It became popular when the Spanish people rose against the highly superior and organised Napoleonic troops. Since then the word has spread across the world for a type of war strategy. It has also found popularity in marketing parlance. What’s the good word?

5. X, the son of Rishaba and the first Jain Tirthankara, left the kingdom that he had fought and won to become a revered Jain monk. He is still worshipped today in India by Jains. His temple (refer picture) in Karnataka got 49% of votes when the list of seven wonders of India was being prepared. X has been in the news in the past few months in relation to the entertainment industry. Who is X?

 

Scroll down for the answers...

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

ANSWERS

1. Amaravati, the new capital of Andhra Pradesh.

2. MGR, J. Jayalalithaa and N.T. Rama Rao.

3. Nataraja Statue or The Dancing Shiva.

4. Guerrilla, from the Spanish word “guerra” for war.

5. Bahubali.

(Send your feedback to school@thehindu.co.in [Subject: Workoutables] along with your name, class, school and city.)