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This Indian author achieved international success with his first novel, 'Five Point Someone', and has subsequently developed as a columnist and Bollywood scriptwriter (including several films based on his novels).
3 Chetan Bhagat quizzes and 30 Chetan Bhagat trivia questions.
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  Five Point Someone    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
A quiz on the novel "Five Point Someone", written by Chetan Bhagat.
Tough, 10 Qns, puitpankaj, Jun 20 20
Tough
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Jun 20 20
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  "Five Point Someone": Who's Ready for it?    
Multiple Choice
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This is My FIRST ever Trivia quiz on the novel "Five Point Someone - What not to do at IIT!" by Chetan Bhagat. Hope you like it!
Tough, 10 Qns, Shreya_quizzer, Jun 20 20
Tough
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Jun 20 20
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  2 States: The Story of My Marriage    
Multiple Choice
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"Love marriages around the world are simple: Boy loves girl. Girl loves boy. They get married. But in India (a few more steps) Girl's family has to love boy. Boy's family has to love girl." Play this quiz about Krish and Ananya's love.
Average, 10 Qns, paa2isback, Jun 20 20
Average
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Jun 20 20
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Chetan Bhagat Trivia Questions

1. Indians are firstly divided into different religions and then different castes. So to which caste does Ananya (the female protagonist) belongs?

From Quiz
2 States: The Story of My Marriage

Answer: Brahmans

To be precise, Tamil Brahman (or Tam Brahm). Tamil Brahmans are one of the high ranked castes in India. They have strict prohibition on non-vegetarian food and drinking alcoholic stuff. But despite this she used to eat meat and drink. On her visit to 'Topaz' with Krish she said that she didn't practice being a Tamilian Brahman.

2. What were the All India Ranks of the Protagonists?

From Quiz "Five Point Someone": Who's Ready for it?

Answer: Hari: 326, Ryan: 91, Alok: 453

It is observed that initially when these three are brought into the picture for the first time, one gets the impression that Ryan is the most INTELLIGENT, and Alok the least, out of the three, by their AIR ranks. However, during the course of the book, quite a lot of other stuff is discovered about them.

3. In which Indian college is this novel set?

From Quiz Five Point Someone

Answer: Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)

This novel is about three IIT students, Hari, Alok and Ryan, and their adventures and struggle to cope with the IIT grading system. The title refers to the low grades in the 5-point something range which the three usually get.

4. What was the title conferred on Ananya Swaminathan by seniors?

From Quiz 2 States: The Story of My Marriage

Answer: Best girl in fresher's batch

According to Krish, good-looking girls were rare in the IIT since girls weren't selected for their looks but because they were faster than 99.99% girls all over India. So she was conferred title of "Best girl in Fresher's batch". She was rumoured to be proposed to by eighteen students (all were rejected).

5. Which university is this story based in?

From Quiz "Five Point Someone": Who's Ready for it?

Answer: Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi

The trio talk about the surroundings outside the campus a million times, where you come to know that they are in Delhi.

6. What was Hari doing when he first met Neha, his girlfriend?

From Quiz Five Point Someone

Answer: Jogging

Hari was jogging around the university campus to lose his weight, at Ryan's insistence. Neha, who was learning to drive her car, accidentally bumped into him.

7. "Why would any guy want to be only friends with a girl? It's like agreeing to be near a ________ cake and never eat it. It's like sitting in a ____ car and not driving it. Only wimps do that." What will go with the blanks?

From Quiz 2 States: The Story of My Marriage

Answer: Chocolate, Racing

She had been proposed to (till their visit to 'Topaz') by 10 IITians (IIT= Indian Institute of Technology ). And she saw a safe-zone kind of guy in Krish. So she asked him that can they only be friends. Listening to this, the quoted thought provoked his mind.

8. The main characters first attended which lecture at IIT? Whose was it?

From Quiz "Five Point Someone": Who's Ready for it?

Answer: ManPro, Prof. Dubey

They discuss a lot about Manufacturing Process in the ManPro class, where M-A-C-H-I-N-E is proclaimed in big bold letters on the blackboard.

9. Alok left Hari and Ryan after his poor performance in the first semester exams, as he blamed them for his results. Whom did he go to?

From Quiz Five Point Someone

Answer: Venkat

Ryan was a carefree person, and hence encouraged Hari and Alok to have fun rather than study. This included playing squash and chess and visiting tourist spots in Delhi in the free time. As a result of this, they messed up their semester exams. So, a frustrated Alok left the group and befriended Venkat, a studious boy, and studied with him.

10. Read the following conversation. "Ananya: What's your choice? Krish: I want to go to 'WPM'." Now what was this 'WPM' where Krish wanted to work?

From Quiz 2 States: The Story of My Marriage

Answer: Whoever pays more

Krish wasn't too gritty for a job. He wanted to become a writer but only when he had earned enough. So he wanted to join a company WPM (whoever pays more).

11. Who did Prof. Goyal ask the foremost question of the Majors Vivas to?

From Quiz "Five Point Someone": Who's Ready for it?

Answer: Ryan

He asks him: "So Ryan, what will happen if I change the 100-ohm resistor with a 500-ohm resistor?"

12. Which hostel did the three stay at?

From Quiz Five Point Someone

Answer: Kumaon

Other students in the Kumaon hostel included Venkat, Rajesh, who was always busy scratching some part of his body, and Sukhwinder, who always broke into smiles at the sight of anyone.

13. When did Krish and Ananya first have their sexual intercourse?

From Quiz 2 States: The Story of My Marriage

Answer: Two weeks after their kiss

When he explained her that he cannot be 'just friends' with a girl, Ananya came closer to him and kissed him. Before she could realize what stupidity she had done she ran out of the room. Like this one thing led to another and they had sex within two weeks.

14. When did the people get 'continental dinner' at Kumaon?

From Quiz "Five Point Someone": Who's Ready for it?

Answer: Thursday

The menu was awful. They sure did not enjoy eating the dinner at their hostel, and kept running to the illegal store outside the institute gates for 'good' food!

15. Who was Neha's father in the novel?

From Quiz Five Point Someone

Answer: Prof. Cherian

Prof. Cherian was the head of the Mechanical Engineering Department to which Hari, Alok and Ryan belonged. He taught Industrial Engineering and Management(Indem). He was a traditional conservative person quite protective of his daughter. Prof. Veera taught Fluid Mechanics (FluMech) and was the three's favourite professor. Prof. Saxena and Prof. Dubey were also professors in the same department.

16. Who used to sit to the right hand side of Krish in the classroom?

From Quiz 2 States: The Story of My Marriage

Answer: Five Mohits

There Ananya used to sit in the front row like all the As. She used to sit between the two boys; Ankur and Aditya who had proposed to her but were rejected. Kanyashree used to sit to the left of Krish and the Five Mohits all from different states of India used to sit to the right.

17. What is so different yet special about the Disco mentioned in this book?

From Quiz "Five Point Someone": Who's Ready for it?

Answer: Disciplinary Committee

The three went there for trying to steal the Indem papers. How could it be a place to dance?

18. What was Hari's first gift to Neha?

From Quiz Five Point Someone

Answer: A lipstick holder

The lipstick holder was designed by Hari and Ryan in the machining lab of the college. It had a capacity for holding up to four lipsticks at a time and some of its features included a snap-up lid, a little mirror and the name "Neha Cherian" etched on top.

19. Did Ryan ever write back to his parents (on his own)?

From Quiz "Five Point Someone": Who's Ready for it?

Answer: Yes

Yes, he does. He says that if he gets couriered letters, the courier man forced him to write a few lines as reply.

20. What did Hari drink just before Cherian's viva and got zero as a result?

From Quiz Five Point Someone

Answer: Vodka

Hari was always afraid of the vivas and was specially nervous before Prof. Cherian's viva as he wanted to impress him. According to Ryan, the vodka would make him less inhibited and so Hari took three swigs before going for the viva. But Hari started slurring at the viva because of the drink and Cherian smelled the vodka, so he gave Hari zero out of ten.

21. "Movies I love. You should watch them too". What was he trying to say?

From Quiz 2 States: The Story of My Marriage

Answer: I love you

When they were back at their homes, Krish at Delhi and Ananya at Chennai, one day on the eve of 'Varsha Porupu', Ananya called Krish in the afternoon. When she asked him to say "I love you" to her, he saw that her mother was keen listening to him, glazing her knife as her position in their love story. So he twisted the way to say "I love you".

22. What ice-cream did Hari and Neha always have at the parlour?

From Quiz "Five Point Someone": Who's Ready for it?

Answer: Strawberry

Hari tells Neha one day "Can we not have strawberry again, let's have chocolate instead!"

23. The three decided to steal the Indem (Industrial Engineering and Management) exam paper, so that Hari could get an A grade in it and impress Neha's dad. What did they call the operation?

From Quiz Five Point Someone

Answer: Operation Pendulum & Pendulum

They called the operation "Pendulum" because they believed that it would swing their miserable fortunes in IIT. All was going well till Alok decided to call his home from Cherian's office, and the switchboard outside the building lit up a little red bulb indicating that the telephone was in use. In this way, the guards realized that someone was in the office and caught the three redhanded.

24. What did he write on the 'location preference' part of his CitiBank New Employee Form?

From Quiz 2 States: The Story of My Marriage

Answer: Both Chennai and Delhi

He was in a neck deep trouble since Ananya insisted upon making him write Chennai first (since she was posted there) but his parental affection made him write Delhi. So at last he wrote 'Delhi or Chennai (same preference)'.

25. How did Hari, Ryan and Alok make up for their credits they missed during their semester? How many credits?

From Quiz "Five Point Someone": Who's Ready for it?

Answer: Extra credits for lab work, 5 credits

Prof. Cherian calls Hari and asks him if he would like to have research absence marked on the report card so that they could graduate that year? Hari obviously said yes.

26. How were the three punished for breaking into a professor's office and attempting to steal the exam paper?

From Quiz Five Point Someone

Answer: Suspended for one semester

The three were suspended for one semester, implying that they had to study one more year and hence wait another year to sit for the job interviews. Alok was expecting to overcome his family's financial problems by getting a decent job, therefore he was so shocked that he tried to commit suicide by jumping from the nine-storey institute building, but thankfully survived.

27. In which area was the CitiGroup employee dorm located in Chennai?

From Quiz 2 States: The Story of My Marriage

Answer: Nungambakkam

The dorm was located in Nungambakkam. Ananya's house was located in Mylapore. Indian Institute of Technology - Chennai and Brilliant Tutorials are located in T. Nagar. Guindy is a sub-urban area of Chennai.

28. Who was the person who interviewed Hari for his job?

From Quiz "Five Point Someone": Who's Ready for it?

Answer: Kamal Desai

I actually made up all the other names other than Kamal Desai, which is the answer. (Nice names, though!)

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