DharmaQuiz: Swami Vivekananda

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Tuesday, January 21, 2014

DharmaQuiz Session 253: 21-Jan-2014

Theme: Ancient Indian systems.

#DharmaQuiz 1651: In "Dharayati Iti Dharma" explanation, what does Dharayati mean?. Ans: The one which upholds.

#DharmaQuiz 1652: Vivekananda made "Utthishtata Jagrata.." message very famous. In Vedic texts, whom did Yama Dharma gave this message to?. Ans: Yama to Nachiketas in KaThopanishad.

#DharmaQuiz 1653: The earliest known reference to zero is there in Pingalacharya's work from around 200 BCE. What was his book's name? Ans: Chhanda Shastra

Read this book, page 423:
http://books.google.co.in/books?id=AIU4LzftaPAC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA423#v=onepage&q&f=false

#DharmaQuiz 1654: Bhaskara II 's Siddhanta Siromani 6th chap, 22nd line has (11th century) reference to which fundamental force of nature?. Ans: Gravitational force.

{Final,Open till 10 PM} #DharmaQuiz 1655: Katapayaadi (कटपयादि) is found in Haridatta's work from 7th century CE. What is this system about?. Ans: Ancient Indian Number system. Also Katapayaadi sankhya also used for Carnatic music's Melakarta table.

Read more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katapayadi_system

Scores for session 253 could not be computed. Sorry. Will do it next time.

Tuesday, November 26, 2013

DharmaQuiz Session 243: 26-Nov-2013

Theme: Hindu Dharma's Key Acharyas

#DharmaQuiz 1601: Who is termed as the greatest Paramacharya for classifying the sacred Vedas into four parts? Ans: Veda Vyasa.

#DharmaQuiz 1602: Can you name one famous Guru, who can fit into "Dharmacharya" title for writing exemplary bhashyas on Vedas & Upanishads? Ans: Adi Shankara as the most prominent.

#DharmaQuiz 1603: Name 1 Hindu Guru who can fit into "Karmacharya" title for outstanding work done in motivating and organizing Hindu society. Ans: Swami Vivekananda as one prime example.

#DharmaQuiz 1604: Name one Hindu Guru who can fit into "Vijnanacharya" title for tremendous contribution to science or mathematics scholarship. Ans: Bhaskaracharya as one prime example.

{Final, Open till 10 PM} #DharmaQuiz 1605: Name a Guru who formulated foundational sutras of Yoga, fit enough to be praised as "Yogacharya". Ans: Patanjali

Toppers for session 243:

@Bengalur_Huduga : 5
@GuruCharan99 : 5
@brahmavith : 5
‏@bhaviknz : 5
@Simuntweets : 5
@man8shree : 5
@KaushikRg : 5
@sweetandu : 5
@GayathriSrinath : 5

Congrats to:

@cubicle_warrier : 4
@rajeshrajput1 : 4
@sreekannoth : 4
@Mamdhata : 4

@showadarsh : 3
@PankajBagla : 3
@venkataa : 3

@ijitendramodi : 2
@Archana1207 : 2
@tradetoday99 : 2
‏@right_advocate : 2

@ramanujam75 : 1
@mjrajput : 1
@PrashantRastog1 : 1
@njith : 1
‏@rao_deepak : 1
@shrivijaybk : 1
@imRaghu4mKoppal : 1
@imthe_Right : 1
@Atulkbhaskar : 1
@Ignoramusme : 1
@CurrAffairs : 1
@ManikGup92 : 1
@kathalkar24 : 1
@antapravah : 1
@ShubhamBhuyaat : 1
@Purusharth6 : 1
@theninjax : 1
@esgeeaar : 1
@pulkitgupta80 : 1
@DrSrishtiGupta : 1
@SriAiyer2RS : 1
‏@iNIMISH : 1
@GaneshChakravor : 1

See you on Friday.

Tuesday, November 19, 2013

DharmaQuiz Session 241: 19-Nov-2013

Theme: Bhajans, Aartis and Suprabhatams

#DharmaQuiz 1591: Who put to music the most common version of "Raghupati Raghav Raja Ram" bhajan that Mahatma Gandhi used to sing?. Ans: Vishnu Digambar Paluskar.

#DharmaQuiz 1592: The most famous suprabhatam in South India you can find is "Kausalya Supraja Rama Purva...". Who composed it ~600 yrs ago?. Ans: During 1430 CE by Prativaadibhayankara Sri Anantacharya Read it here - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suprabhatam#Venkateshwara_Suprabhatam

#DharmaQuiz 1593: Every Ramakrishna matha will sing "Khandana Bhava Bandhana" aarti composed by Swami Vivekananda. Usually in which raaga?. Ans: Mishra Kalyana. @GuruCharan99 explains that it was originally composed in Raga Mishra Kalyan in Belur Mutt. But it can also be sung in Dhrupad raaga.

#DharmaQuiz 1594: The Ram Bhajan "Jaise Suraj ki Garmi se" became immensely popular. Which movie featured it for the first time? Ans: Parinay

{Final, Open till 10 PM} #DharmaQuiz 1595: Who composed about 140 years ago, the very famous "Jai Jagadish Hare" aarti bhajan in Punjab? Ans: Pandit Shardha Ram Phillauri.

Answers for session 241:

@GuruCharan99 : 5
@GayathriSrinath : 5
@bhaviknz : 5
@KaushikRg : 5

@DrSrishtiGupta : 3
@rinku3009 : 2
@sachinjohri : 2
@niranjanpai : 2

@YashwantCharan : 1
@kirankonnects : 1
@pvnananth : 1
@ABoni8 : 1
‏@bechaara : 1
@myself_a_desi : 1
@ssk3071 : 1

Hope you enjoyed it today. It was tough.

Friday, December 7, 2012

DharmaQuiz Session 180: 4-Dec-2012

Theme: Hindu Renaissance leaders of 19th century.

Name the Hindu Renaissance leader of 19th century who founded a new Samaj devoid of untouchability. Family name was Tiwari. #DharmaQuiz 1256. Ans: Swami Dayananda Saraswati -> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swami_Dayananda
Name the Hindu Renaissance leader of 19th century, whose writing on Vedas came the book "The Secret of the Veda". #DharmaQuiz 1257. Ans: Sri Aurobindo -> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sri_Aurobindo
Name the Hindu Renaissance leader of 19th century, who used ancient Upanishads as a vision of rationalist 'modern' India. #DharmaQuiz 1258. Ans: Raja Ram Mohan Roy. More -> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ram_Mohan_Roy
Name the Hindu Renaissance leader of 19th century, who immortalized the "Arise, Awake" message of Katha Upanishad. #DharmaQuiz 1259. Ans: Swami Vivekananda. Kathopanishad says: “Uttishthata jagrata Prapyavarannibodhata, Kshurasydhara nishita”, meaning " Arise, awake, Empower yourself through knowledge, As sharp as the razor’s edge”. Vivekenanda used this splendidly in his speeches & slogans inspiring 100s of millions till date.
Name this Hindu Renaissance leader of 19th century, who in 1894 started the public Ganesha poojas. #DharmaQuiz 1260. Ans: Bala Gangadhar Tilak --> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bal_Gangadhar_Tilak

Just for this session, I could not compile the full scores. So I will leave out that part. The response was very good and I had to browse through 100s of tweets. Sorry, it got too late then.

Tuesday, September 11, 2012

DharmaQuiz Session 162: 11-Sep-2012

Theme: Swami Vivekananda's September 11th 1893 speech at Chicago.

On Sep 11, 1893, in which Chicago hall did Swami Vivekananda give his "Brother & Sisters of America" speech? #DharmaQuiz 1166 #Remember911 Ans: Fullerton Hall at the Art Institute of Chicago. (Hall of Columbus considered too). See -> http://hinduism.about.com/b/2012/09/11/swami-vivekanadas-911-speech.htm?nl=1
Vivekananda give his 1st speech on Sep 11, 1893. When was his last speech during the same world's parliament of religions? #DharmaQuiz 1167. Ans: September 27, 1893.
What did Swami Vivekananda teach in America primarily? a) Puranas. b) Mahabharata. c) Vedanta. #DharmaQuiz 1168. Ans: c) Vedanta.
Vivekananda's speech at Chicago covered Hinduism teaching the world tolerance and universal acceptance. True or False? #DharmaQuiz 1169. Ans: True. Read his speech here -> http://hinduism.about.com/od/vivekananda/a/vivekananda_speeches.htm and http://hinduism.about.com/od/vivekananda/a/vivekananda_speeches_2.htm
{Final,Open till 11PM} Vivekananda spoke at Chicago about a grand religion of West Asia to which India gave refuge. Name it #DharmaQuiz 1170. Ans: Zoroastrianism.

Top Scorers during session 162:

@sweetandu : 5
@DevNakshi : 5
@Manjunaath : 5
@asraghunath : 5
@intodust_in : 5
@abhipar7 : 5
@anandt_05 : 5
@hchaturv : 5
@Shree03 : 5
@surnell : 5
@iSaakshi : 5

Congrats to:

@sharathinindia : 4
@prashanthkpp : 4

@kapil_dev : 3
@man8shreen : 3

@Sahyadri : 2
@rinku3009 : 2
@bihar_ke_lala : 2
@IndianDarKnight : 2
@shylsmn : 2

@RaiAbhinav84 : 1
@Bhaarateeyudu : 1
@Sameer470 : 1
@CJ_Shekhar : 1
@nipun1090 : 1
@ChandanYogendra : 1
@PankajBagla : 1
@um_dubey : 1
@SandeepShelke : 1
@MadhusudanLohia : 1
@akyma1947 : 1
@UtsavMitra : 1

Do read through the reference links provided above to understand what a stellar performance was that of Swami Vivekananda in 1893.

Tuesday, November 29, 2011

DharmaQuiz Session 102: 25-Nov-2011

DharmaQuiz Session 102: 25-Nov-2011
Theme: Religious Conversion Quotes

Name the very famous person of 20th century India who claimed: "I Call Myself a Sanatani Hindu" - #DharmaQuiz 864. Ans: Mahatma Gandhi
Name the 19th century's most famous Hindu monk, who termed religious conversion as "religious perversion". #DharmaQuiz 865. Ans: Swami Vivekananda
Name the very scholarly President of India who claimed: "The idea of one single religion for the humankind is illogical". #DharmaQuiz 866. Ans: Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
Name the 19th century monk, whose famous Samaj encourages conversion back to Hinduism for those who left earlier. #DharmaQuiz 867. Ans: Swami Dayananda Saraswathi, founder of Arya Samaj.
{final,open till 11 PM} Name the Hindu educationalist, who propagated Sangathan & Shuddhi, a Hindu reform movement in 1920s. #DharmaQuiz 868. Ans: Swami Shraddhanand

Here is a collection of quotes from Hinduwisdom site: http://www.hinduwisdom.info/Conversion.htm

For this particular quiz, my apologies as I could not gather all correct answers on time to publish the scores. The new Twitter web interface with "Activity" incorporated, makes it very tough to gather the info.

Also, this particular session is a bit off topic to the general trend of Dharmaquiz which is usually focusing on scriptures & sampradayas (rituals) of Indic Dharma.

See you next time!

Friday, October 28, 2011

DharmaQuiz Session 95: 18-Oct-2011

Kindly refer to the following link for an introduction to what this DharmaQuiz is all about. It also has the first 19 sessions' Questions and Answers.

http://dharmaquiz.blogspot.com/2010/09/dharmaquiz-questions-answers.html

Then refer to the right panel of this blog window, under 'Blog Archive' section for the subsequent 75 updates.

Session 95: October 18, 2011
Theme: Famous Disciples of Indian Dharma Gurus

Name Buddha's principle disciple, who was referred as "Guardian of the Dharma". a)Nagarjuna b)Sariputta c)Ananda #DharmaQuiz 827. Ans: c - Ananda
Name Adi Shankara's famous disciple who became the 1st Shankaracharya of Dwaraka peetha. e)Nandi f)Hastamalaka g)Sureshwara #DharmaQuiz 828. Ans: f - Hastamalaka
Name the ultra famous disciple of Shri Ramakrishna, who composed "Khandana Bhava Bandhana" aarti for his guru. #DharmaQuiz 829. Ans: Vivekananda
Name the disciple of Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati, who preached Krishna tradition to the west. g)Prabhupada h)Aurobindo i)Osho #DharmaQuiz 830. Ans: g - Shrila Prabhupada
Name 2 famous disciples of Vidyaranya, who were converted back from Islam by their Guru to form Vijayanagara kingdom #DharmaQuiz 831. Ans: Harihara (Hakka) Raya and Bukka Raya

List of people who got one or more answers answers right, with their scores:

@amitgupta_lnct : 4
@surenc1974 : 4
@bhaviknz : 4
@saurabhvc : 4
@sharathinindia : 4
@hindu_tweeter : 4
@DevNakshi : 3
@clumsycoder : 3
@wavehit : 2
@man0jsharma : 2
@Susri1210 : 2
@mediacrooks : 2
@upendrverma : 2
@Sharma_spks : 2
@melatturng : 1
@kishan_harathi : 1
@jaideepb : 1
@dimpsdawns : 1
@Dadlany : 1
@Dhruv_rathore : 1
@mayaadvaita : 1
@BKrtik : 1
@Dhruv_rathore : 1
@bhootnath : 1
@appu_sivamani : 1
@manohar_sram : 1
@TrueNationalist : 1
@Equateall : 1
@sgdas2004 : 1

Congratulations to all those listed above! I wonder why no one scored cent percent in this quiz:)

Also, thanks to all those who attempted as well as those who are silently following the tweets or blog.

Watch out for the next update. Usually these quiz sessions happen on Tuesday and/or Friday afternoon India time, while being open for at least 3 hours for answers to come in. Of course, don't forget to leave your comments & suggestions, as well as subscribe to this blog. It is just a fun way to participate in sharing of religious / spiritual knowledge.

Tuesday, July 5, 2011

DharmaQuiz Session 75: 5-Jul-2011

Kindly refer to the following link for an introduction to what this DharmaQuiz is all about. It also has the first 19 sessions' Questions and Answers.

http://dharmaquiz.blogspot.com/2010/09/dharmaquiz-questions-answers.html

Then refer to the right panel of this blog window, under 'Blog Archive' section for the subsequent 55 updates.

Session 75: July 5, 2011
Theme: Swami Vivekananda

In which city of USA was the September 1893 Parliament of World Religions happen? Swami Vivekananda stole the show there. #DharmaQuiz 711. Ans: Chicago
Name the Governor General of India who famously proclaimed: "Vivekananda saved Hinduism, saved India." #DharmaQuiz 712. Ans: C Rajagopalachari
Swami Vivekananda's books on the 4 Yogas are considered exemplary: Raja, Karma & Bhakti are the 1st 3. Name the 4th Yoga. #DharmaQuiz 713. Ans: Jnana Yoga
Swami Vivekananda started Prabuddha Bharata, a monthly magazine in 1896. In which language is it published for 115 yrs now? #DharmaQuiz 714. Ans: English
Vivekananda was born near Kolkata in January 1863 during a famous festival based off sun's transition into a rashi. Name it. #DharmaQuiz 715. Ans: Makara Sankranti
Swami Vivekananda established a famous matha near Kolkata, which became Ramakrishna matha's headquarters. Where is it? #DharmaQuiz 716. Ans: Belur
Vivekananda's message: "Arise, Awake and Stop not till the goal is reached" is derived from which Veda? #DharmaQuiz 717. Ans: (Krishna) Yajur Veda. More here: Katha Upanishad – 1.3.14 - from Krishna Yajur Veda. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katha_Upanishad#Notable_verses

More on the 7th question, from kaTha upanishad:

उत्तिष्ठत जाग्रत
प्राप्य वरान्निबोधत ।
क्षुरस्य धारा निशिता दुरत्यया
दुर्गं पथस्तत्कवयो वदन्ति ॥ कठ उपनिषद् – 1.3.14 ॥

Translation:

Arise, awake, and learn by approaching the exalted ones,
for that path is sharp as a razor’s edge, impassable,
and hard to go by, say the wise. Katha Upanishad – 1.3.14

List of people who got answers right:

@DevNakshi : 7
@prashanthkpp : 6
@neetaraina1 : 6
@BhaskarChat: 6
@IndianWeera : 6
@arunz : 6
@sharathinindia : 6
@asraghunath : 5
@swamilion : 4
@Koundinya1990 : 3
@chhayank : 3
@TwtbyKoushik : 2
@abeerustaad : 2
@callsriganesh : 2
@mayureshgaikwad : 1
@ahmednkhan : 1
@shivsankar : 1
@man0jsharma : 1
@antidespondent : 1
@venkataa : 1
@AmiSri : 1
@DheepakG : 1
@suresh_kini : 1
@karthik_s025 : 1
@Krishnara : 1
@gkundra : 1

Congratulations to all those listed above! Also, thanks to all those who attempted as well as those who are silently following the tweets or blog.

Watch out for the next update! Of course, don't forget to leave your comments & suggestions, as well as subscribe to this blog. It is just a fun way to participate in sharing of religious / spiritual knowledge.