Chetan Bhagat Trivia

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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).

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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).

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Answer: Ryan

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

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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.

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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.

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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!

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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.

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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.

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Answer: Disciplinary Committee

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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".

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Answer: Strawberry

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

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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.

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)'.

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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.

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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.

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.

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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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