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• Total 26 questions
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A. On 18th May, 1941 "A" was
published for the first time in
Amritabazar Potrika and later in
Sarodiya Desh potrika in 1402
(according to Bengali Calendar), but
this time in a different way.
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• "A" tells us about a painting of
Lady Macbeth named "The
Somnambulist".

• Identify A
The first ever short
story written by Ray
which wss later
translated in Bengali
by his wife Bijoya
Ray as "Puroskar"
B. Year - 1958
Produced by - G.K Productions
Directed by - Gour Hari babu (owner of Gourango Studio)
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• Sunayana Devi made her debut as an actress in this film by
playing the character "Komolmoni" , but she also made her
debut as a playback singer by singing a song in this film.
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• Identify the film and the song (both starts with B)
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• Part marking will be available.
Film - Bishbrikkho

Song - Bhalobasar tumi ki jano(the song

was actually sung by Namita Ghoshal)
•C
• 1958 - Established
• July, 1974 - Won the first prize in the Copenhagen Youth Festival
• 1972 - Performed in the 25th anniversary of Independence Day of India in Delhi.
• 1990 - Opening song to welcome Nelson Mandela in India
• 1998 - Opening song to honour Amartya Sen for Nobel in Kolkata
• 21st June, 2007 - Opening song to honour Communist Party of India for
performing 30 years in West Bengal 
• 2nd May 2008 - In the birthday of Satyajit Ray, celebrated 50 years anniversary at
Rabindrasadan
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• These are some of the bright memories/history of C. Identify C
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D. Once upon a time X, who was the manager of D wrote a letter to
Phillips' Atlas Company because they did not mention about D in
their map. They replied by apologizing to him and told them they
will surely correct their mistake in their next edition. But they did
not keep their promise, only for their negligence.
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• If you want to go to D, at first you have to go till Maihar by train,
then you have to go 132 km to the east by car. Then you will reach
your destination.

• So, what is your destination ? (don't need x)

• E. What am talking about here with which Satyajit Ray was
deeply associated from its creation till his death.
F. X wrote her diary from 1858 - 1862 in which she said about
her father where she described him as a tetchy person. After
losing his son, he did not trust anyone, not even his daughter.
But she serve him with care, love him, and also prayed for
him. She ran the family by stitching clothes. There was a time
when her father had a lot of precious things, but he lost
almost everything in gambling, except - -
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• 1. A cascade
• 2. A snuff box
• 3.???? (I need a phrase in this case)
• G. In one morning G went to Ballav Gosai's house and
found that he has a __________, which he did not use.
So G asked him to give that_________. Gosaikhuro
asked some money instead of_______, but G told him
that he had nothing as they were poor grocers.
Gosaikhuro ordered G to do some work - - so G got his
hookah ready, rubbed his feet, brought water from
well and killed rats from store room. Then Gosaikhuro
happily gave him the________.
• Identify G
H. The _________ Year 
was the Norwegian
government's official
celebration of H in 2006,
marking the 100th
anniversary of his
death. The ________ Year
comprised 8213 separate
cultural events, and 83
countries took part in the
commemoration. In 2013
google released this
doodle on H's 185th
birthday.
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• Identify H
I. Written by Wilhelm Grosz and
Jimmy Kennedy and was
published in 1934, some early
recordings of this song were by
Lew Stone and his Band with
vocal by Nat Gonella (recorded
in1934) But the popular version
of this song is by Frank Sinatra in
this "very album" (see the visual)
released in 1958.
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• Identify the song.
In the film
"Kapurush" Satyajit
Ray made his debut as
a playback singer by
singing this song (lip by
Haradhan Banerjee)
• J. J's grandfather served the Indian Army
for 32 years. When J was seven years old,
he went to London amd settled there. But
those seven years of his life in India had
created an immense amount of
admiration for India in him.
• His wife was Dorothy and his father
Jonathan was the profeshor of History in
London University.
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• Identify J.
K. K1 looked like an animal with four
legs whose one leg was shorter than the
others. K1 had an arrow shaped
shoulder and also had a long neck
whose uneven end almost looked like a
face. K1 also had a one inch long tail.
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• Dilip found K1 from an abandoned
land, near his house and later K2 near
a jackfruit tree, where he found K1
(may be both were friends)
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• I need the reference from where I got
these informations. (visual is clue)
• L. In one of his short stories Satyajit Ray had given us a
wrong information (actually a common misconception)
Here is the actual logic of this misconception.
• Actually it is not a mass suicide but the result of their
migratory behavior. Driven by strong biological urges, they
may migrate in large groups when population density
becomes too great. They can swim and may choose to
cross a body of water in search of a new habitat. In such
cases, many may drown if the body of water is so wide.

These are the common misconception about whom ?

M. "The mayor made a little sad speech, his face
sometimes looking like the mayor, sometimes
looking like something else.Mother and Father
Black were there, with Brother Edward, and they
cried, their faces melting now from a familiar face
into something else. Grandpa and Grandma Lustig
were there, weeping, their faces also shifting like
wax, shivering as a thing does in waves of heat on
a summer day. The coffins were lowered.
Somebody murmured about "the unexpected and
sudden deaths of seventeen fine men during the
night—"
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• Put the funda
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• I need M1 and M2 as the answers. (clue - see
the visual)
N. Sai Paranjpye (Chairperson) 
Manju Bora
Ahsan Muzid
Arup Manna 
Mohan Sharma
K.S. Sivaraman
Rajendra Narayan Talak 
Kesari Harvoo 
Ervelle Menezes 
Sibi Malayil 
Sunny Joseph
Satya Paul
• Prathibha Prahlad
• N is omitted from the list (visual can help you to get the list about) was awarded
the Padma Shri in 2010. In a documentary about him directed by Bo Van Der
Werf he had said - - "In this vast country, if nobody comes forward to help me,
then I will offer all my 'creations' to the Ganges"
• Identify N
O. ____________ where Ray talks about the situation of Indian Cinema
at the time of writing the book along with his thoughts on filmmaking
and excerpts from his production diaries.
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• _____________starts of with Ray’s interaction with Jean Renoir in
Calcutta while scouting locations for him for The River (1951) and
then moves on to Ray’s travels around Europe, Britain and his
meeting with Akira Kurosawa in Japan.
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• What you get if you join 1st blank and 2nd blank together ?
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• Clue - year 1976....What is Wrong with Indian Films, Extracts from
Banaras Diary, An Indian New Wave, Moscow Musings, Tokyo;Kyoto
and Kurosawa etc
P. P is a set of delusional conditions in which the
affected persons believes they are being
tortured or someone is going to kill them.
Specifically, they have been defined as
containing two central elements:
1. The individual thinks that harm is occurring,
or is going to occur.

2. The individual thinks that the persons nearby

him has the intention to cause harm.

• In one of the stories of Feluda this person had

P. Identify P, which a kind of mental disease.
(don't need the character)
• Q. In 1967,Harisadhan Dasgupta (who co-
founded the Calcutta Film Society in 1947 with
Satyajit Ray, Chidananda Dasgupta, Bansi
Chandragupta and others) made an
advertisement film in which Satyajit Ray
composed the music,though its video footage
is lost.

• Identify the advertisement film.

• R. Regarded as the father of Indian
Animation, R started his career at the Cartoon
Films Unit under Films Division of India in
1956. R is the chairman and at Graphiti
Multimedia, and later he also established the
Graphiti School of Animation in 2006. In 1972,
he established his own production company,
which worked on commercials, and the
animated feature Ramayana: The Legend of
Prince Rama (1992)
• R had won the National Film Award for Best
Non-Feature Animation Film twice, You Said
It(1972) and Fire Games (1983).R was
awarded the Padma Shri in 2014.
• Identify R.
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• S. 1. A Brahmin young and candid young mathematician from
Bangalore. One afternoon, he invited X in his house for tea, where X
found that the person has a ankle bone of Brontosaurus. So X asked
the person where did he find that bone, in which he replied that when
he went to one of his friend's residence in Nilgiri,where he found that
one from the streets.

2. Husband of Ray's, Chutkimasi"(Probha Iyengar) who is from Chennai.

They had 3 children. In his autobiography "Jokhon Choto Chilam" Ray
told that - There was almost no fun in his aunt's house as his cousins
Amar, Kunto and Ramala could not speak Bengali.
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• Find the only connection between them.
• Satyajit Ray created the character from his own life
T. On hearing that a large meteor had hit the
Matharia areas of the Sunderbans, T, an amateur
(and rather poor) writer, who has a fascination for
tiger stories had visited the location in search of
tiger-skin, but he found X from where the meteor
was fallen. T brought back X,unfortunately which
was destroyed by a bunch of red ants, who
somehow manage to eat in to entirety.
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• Identify T (don't need X)
• U. Identify U, from thse
informations and the visual..
• Profession - business of
Chemicals (In Kolkata)
• Son - Rukminikumar
• House Name - Sankari Nibas
• Address - Durgakunda Road
(during Durga Puja)
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• ** One of the classmate of U
later became a criminal
mastermind **
Umanath Ghoshal
• V. Connect these following informations -
• 1. Madar Ud Daulah, the Prime Minister of a region (flag
will help) during the period of 1847 to 1856.
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• 2. Hitesh, with whom Seema (wife of Ranjan) had an
extramarital affair. From the writings of X(visual will
help) we are able know that Hitesh gave X some gifts
(air gun, drawing book, sketch pen etc)
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• 3. Y is seen and described as an educated and gentle
man. He is from kulin aristocratic family of landlords. Y
married not only a poor woman, but also one who was
not particularly attractive. In light of this, the police
also suspect him of harbouring some "hidden protest."
In reality, Y considers himself to be more aware of his
country's role in a broader sense, and refuses to take
part in Swadeshi.
Victor Banerjee. He worked with Satyajit Ray
thrice. Shatranj Ke khiladi, Pikoo, Ghare Baire
• W. He started his career as an astronomer, but when his father
asked him to choose a career other than astronomy, he joined the
East India Company, and in 1853 he was posted to Bengal where he
worked as a British officer for the Indian Civil Service.
• In 1858, he was posted to Jungipoor, where he drew up a contract
with a local man, Mr Konai, for the supply of road-making materials.
In order to prevent Konai denying his signature at a later date,he did
something very unique. When he was appointed as the Magistrate
of Hooghly, he did that thing again so that the pensions could not be
collected by an imposter.

• Identify him.
X. ক - tomorrow at 10 am the curtain of mystery will be raised.
খ - so when will it end ?
ক - Approx, 30 minutes later.
খ - So you suspect those four persons. Isn't it ?
ক - (raises his hand) no more conversation.
খ - I have not finished yet. The climax of tomorrow's drama is in my hand, not in
yours.
ক - You are really frightening me now.
খ - Nothing to be feared. No one will shake your throne. Only I will take some
credits beside you.

• Why did খ say this ? (The climax of tomorrow's drama is in my hand, not in
yours) Though the key word starts with X, but you have to give some explanation
to get full marks,unless half marks will be deducted.
Y. "At the Everyman Cinema there is a season
of Satyajit Ray. He watches the Apu trilogy on
successive nights in a state of rapt absorption. In
Apu's bitter, trapped mother, his engaging, feckless
father he recognizes, with a pang of guilt, his own
parents. But it is the music above all that grips him,
dizzyingly complex interplays between drums and
stringed instruments, long arias on the flute whose
scale or mode — he does not know enough about
music theory to be sure which — catches at his heart,
sending him into a mood of sensual melancholy that
last long after the film has ended."
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• The above mention portion is taken from a novel by
the South African novelist John Maxwell Coetzee.
Just identify the novel.
• Z. She is an internationally acclaimed graphic designer, may not be a
household name in Pune, but the Heritage Stately Home in England, under
the aegis of the National Trust, England, is more than aware of her
designing prowess.
• Her art education began at the J J Institute of Commercial Art, Mumbai,
after which, she went to the Royal College of Art and premier institutes in
London, Zurich, New York, Paris, Milan and Germany.
• Neither does she talk about her hi-profile clients, or the fact that her design
sense has given identity and form to several publishing houses and ad
agencies in England and the US, apart from prime minister's secretariat in
New Delhi.
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• Identify her who worked as the graphic designer in Satyajit Ray's film
"Shatranj Ke Khiladi"