Bangaliana Quiz - Quiz Related to Bengal and Bengalis Part 2 (Answers)

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1. Whose statue is this or where you can see this statue in Kolkata? Hint is below

His philosophy was: "Education is the responsibility of the State; but if no one is willing to carry the cross, I will, for as long as I can."

2. This organization has its headquarters at the former Royal Exchange in B. B. D. Bagh, Kolkata, which was once the residence of Lord William Bentinck, the first Governor-General of India. It was established in 1853, it is the only such institution in India. Which organization I'm talking about?

3. Identify X and Y from below poem by a famous person?

"কে বলে X, ব্যপ্ত চরাচর,
যাহার প্রভায় প্রভা পায় Y।"

X is the founder of Y. Above line has dual meaning.

4. A story to the effect that he had once planned to demolish the Taj Mahal and sell off the marble. He was appointed Governor of Madras.

X played in a non-first-class cricket match for Marylebone Cricket Club against Nottingham Cricket Club at King's Meadow, Nottingham.

The efforts to eradicate the Thugs, a community of robber-murderers, were also started under X. He removed whipping as a punishment in the Indian Army. His two works are compared as best in Bengal. What are those and who is X?

5. How would you connect Aparna Sen a well known actress and filmmaker with Banalata Sen a collection of famous Bengali poems?

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Answers below - 
1. Rafiuddin Ahmed
2. Bengal Chambers of Commerce
3. কে বলে ঈশ্বর গুপ্ত, ব্যপ্ত চরাচর,
যাহার প্রভায় প্রভা পায় প্রভাকর।

Ke bole Ishwar Gupta, byapta charachar,
Jahar prabhaye prabha paye Prabhakar..
'Ishwar' means God, 'Gupta' means hidden and 'Prabhakar' is the sun. So a translation runs:

Who says God is hidden? He is omnipresent
From Him the Sun gets its luminescence.
Also, Ishwar (Chandra) Gupta ran the journal Prabhakar. So a second meaning of the poem, making a tongue-in-cheek reference to the author, runs:
Who says Ishwar (Gupta) is hidden? His reach touches the world
For his brilliance makes the Prabhakar luminescent.

4.  Lord William Bentinck (Sati and Calcutta Medical college)

5.  Jibanananda Das was uncle of Aparna Sen's husband :)

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