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Smart Quiz 8

1.The first image is of British architect Edwin Lutyens and the second is Rashtrapati Bhawan in New Delhi. It was designed by him.

2.The first image is of  flag of the British East India Company and the second is the statue of Sherlock Holmes in Edinburgh.

The monument connecting these images is the Agra fort which was a site of one of the battles during the Indian rebellion of 1857, which caused the end of the British East India Company's rule in India, and led to a century of direct rule of India by Britain.

The Agra Fort plays a key role in the Sherlock Holmes mystery The Sign of Four, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

3. Brihadeswara Temple: The first Temple in the world made out of granite is the Brihadeswara Temple at Tanjavur, Tamil Nadu, India. The shikhara of the temple is made from a single 80-tonne piece of granite. The temple was built in just five years (1004–1009), during the reign of Rajaraja Chola.

4. The first image is of Qutub Minar and the second is of Firuz Shah Tughlaq.The fifth and the last storey was constructed by Firuz Shah Tughlaq.

5.Ustad Ahmad Lahauri.

Smart Quiz 9

1.  Colour TV was introduced by state-owned broadcaster Doordarshan (DD) timed with the    1982 Asian Games which India hosted

2. In 1995, the Indian Supreme Court held that the government's monopoly over broadcasting was unconstitutional, setting the stage for India to develop into one of the world's largest and most competitive television environments

3.  INSAT-1A, the first of the country's domestic communications satellites became operational and made possible the networking of all of Doordarshan's regional stations. For the first time Doordarshan originated a nation-wide feed dubbed the "National Programme" which was fed from Delhi to the other stations.

4. The first experimental telecast was attempted on Sept.15, 1959, at Delhi. The transmission was done with the help of a small transmitter in a makeshift studio.

5. Zee TV was the first private owned Indian channel to broadcast over cable. A few years later    CNN, Discovery Channel, National Geographic Channel made its foray into India.