THE QUIZZING ARCHIVE1

THE QUIZZING
ARCHIVES
UTKARSHA BHARDWAJ
A COMPILATION OF QUESTIONS FROM VARIOUS
SOURCES
QUIZZING QUOTIENT
DPS DWARKA
9540273565
[Type the fax number]
[Pick the date]
GENERAL QUIZ 1
1.
Which National Highway in India is part of what is now known as Treaty Road due to its
construction after a commercial treaty signed between Maharaja Ranbir Singh and T.D. Forsyth, a
British official sent on an exploratory mission to Yarkand?
2.
Who won the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1948?
ANS: Nobody at all. Gandhi was nominated many times before this, but did not receive it even once. He
was nominated for the Nobel Prize only a few days before his assassination in 1948, and Nobel Prize
committee decided that nobody living was a deserving recipient. Alfred Nobel had stated in his will
that the Nobel Prize should be given only and only to living persons.
3. Who was also known as Ram Mohammed Singh Azad , symbolizing the unification of the three major
religions of India ?
ANS: Uddham Singh
4. What is the claim to fame of Mithilesh Kumar Srivastav ?
5. Which movie features three sisters named Chromia, Flareup, and Arcee?
ANS: Transformers 2.
6. Name the only "Oscar" to win an Oscar.
ANS: Oscar Hammerstein II who won in 1941 AND 1945. He's a lyricist best remembered for his work
on The Sound of Music.
7. What is the name of an alternative for Windows 7's circle dock on Windows XP?
ANS: It is the circledock
8. Who/What is worshipped in the religion Shiantology?
ANS: Shia LeBeouf
9. Which built form -whose name is probably of Dravidian origin, akin to Telugu kau, gau, dam,
embankment- is seen only in India?
10. Which is the Indian city whose Maharana was the only royalty who did not attend the Delhi Durbar
for King George V in 1911, and why?
ANS: maharana fateh singh of udaipur was the only one who who did not attend the Delhi Durbar for
King George V in 1911
11. Which school did the actor who plays the role of Rajesh in the sitcom The Big Bang Theory study
in? (In real life, not the show.)
ANS: ST.COLUMBA’S
VISUAL QUIZ 1
Answers:
(1) Person on the left is : Jaganath Mishra, a controversial figure in the fodder scam.
(2) The lady is : Phoolan Devi
(3) The group : The Hinduja Prothers (Gopichand , Prakash and Srichand Hinduja)
(4) The person in the picture is : Aurbindo Ghosh
(5) The person circled (convicted ) is : Dara Singh (accused in the Staine's Case)
GENERAL QUIZ 2
(1) Connect the 2 persons in the picture
(2) Identify the guy.
(3) Identify the Lady.
(4) Identify the Lady
(5) Connect : Garry Kasparov, Vladimir Bukovsky, Boris Nemtsov , Yevgeny Kiselyov, Vladimir V. KaraMurza, Vladimir Ryzhkov ,Irina Khakamada
(6) What is special w.r.t : http://info.cern.ch/
(7) Connect : Beibei ,Huanhuan,Jingjing,Nini and Yingying
(8) Fill in the Blanks : ______________ attempts to greatly reduce the amount of alcohol consumed or
even prohibit its production and consumption entirely.The movement can be associated with any of
the counter-culture, reactionary values of the early 1900's in the United States.
(9) What phrase originated from this: It seems to have been adapted from the phrase 'to play for love
(of the game)' (that is, to play for nothing). Although the theory is often heard that it represents the
French word l'oeuf an 'egg' (from the resembance between an egg and a nought) this seems unlikely.
(10) Why did the designer of Taj Hotel, Mumbai commit suicide?
Answers:
(1) Connect is "Elton John". The person on the left is David Furnish and on the Left is Princess Diana.
(2) Guru Jambheshwar (also called as Swami Jamboji)
(3) Indrani Rehman, first Miss India to participate in Miss Universe
(4) Bhanu Athaiyya
(5) Committee 2008
(6) First Web-server and also the First Directory
(7) Mascots of Beijing Olympics
(8) Temperance Movement
(9) "l'oeve" in Tennis
(10) He saw that the Taj was constructed on the opposite side; committed suicide by jumping from the
boat in which he came.
GENERAL QUIZ 3
(1) 'X' collected stones from the Shivalik foothills and neighboring riverbeds on his bicycle over a period
of seven years (1958 to 1965) and created this landmark what would otherwise have been a dumping
ground for urban and industrial waste. The creator picked up pieces of foundry lime-kiln and metal
workshop wastes and shaped them with his creative genius, resembling human, animal or abstract
forms. The layout is based on the fantasy of a lost kingdom. What is 'X' and who created it?
(2) "Defying international law and disregarding the rights of the lower riparian country, India built 'Z' in
1975 on the 'X1' River just 11 miles from the border of 'Y'. The 'Z' diverted 'X1' water into India’s 'X2'
River, causing tremendous hardship to 'Y'.One researcher estimates that the water diversion causes
annual losses of more than $4 billion in one of the world’s poorest countries."
What is being reported here? [X1, X2, Y and Z have been intentionally hidden]
(3) 'X' was the first Asian American and Indian American member of the US Congress. Identify 'X'.
(4) 'X' was a pioneer in bringing about a telecom revolution in India; he introduced the rural automatic
telephone exchanges [RAX] to some of the most isolated regions in the country.Accesibility (and not
density) was his motto. The bright yellow STD PCO boxes in IndIa are a direct manifestation of his
efforts. He was the Chief Technology Adviser to the then Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi.
(5) This term 'T' changed its meaning from the name of a Kingdom to a collection of civil and military
officers under the 'T' king, all of which were non-hereditary offices. What’s ‘T’? [Hint: The 'T' kings were
called Swargadeos]
Answers:
(1)Nek Chands rock garden
(2) India and The Farakka Dam .X1 = Ganges; X2 = Hoogly ; Y= Bangladesh; Z = Farakka Dam.
(3) Dalip Singh Saund
(4) Sam Pitroda
(5) Ahom
GENERAL QUIZ 4
(1) This art-form or style of fighting, more appropriately stick-fighting, is practiced in Southern India especially in Tamil Nadu (and also in Kerala).Hand and foot movements along with good reflexes are
mandatory for this form of fighting. In this art, when the Master recognizes the Student has mastered
the curriculum, only then he gives the red scarf to acknowledge him as a Master. Hence no "black-belt
syndromes"! This form of fighting can also be seen in many Kollywood movies (esp. during the 70-80s
eras).
(2) 'X' was instrumental in the downfall of the Mughal Empire. He was well known for his forts and
guerrilla tactics that he used successfully to conquer and annex many regions and provinces. He is also
remembered for being the only secular king in medieval India. An organization has also adopted a new
religion and made him the principal deity. Identify 'X'.[ Hint : Mumbai's International Airport was
renamed in his honor]
(3) Her debut feature film won her the Golden Camera award at the Cannes Film Festival and was also
nominated for an Oscar. She is a New York-based Indian film director. Her latest project is Maisha, a
film lab to help East Africans and South Asians learn to make films. Her last master work Monsoon
Wedding, a film about a chaotic Punjabi Indian wedding, was awarded the prestigious Golden Lion
award at the Venice film festival. Identify this female.
(4) 'Z' happens to be a distinguished Atomic and nuclear scientist .He studied cosmic rays under the
Nobel laureate Dr. C. V. Raman at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore. The Indian space
Program was his brainchild - he can be clearly called as the Father of the Indian space Program. He was
also involved in the creation on IIM ,Ahmedabad. Identify this National Hero and a Great Indian
Physicist.
(5) 'X' was born in Indore, Madhya Pradesh, into a family with strong ties to the film industry. His father
Salim Khan is a successful screenplay writer. One of Salim Khan's wives (he has two) is the famous
dancer Helen. X's brothers P and Q are also actors, if not as successful as X. X has has two younger
sisters, one married to actor Atul Agnihotri.X has also been in the news for some controversial
reasons.[Trivia : He always appears in films wearing a bracelet with a turquoise stone; his father wears
a similar "lucky" bracelet.]
Answers:
(1) Silambattam (Silambam)
(2) Chhatrapati Shivaji Raje Bhonslé
(3) Mira Nair
(4) Vikram Sarabhai
(5) 'X' = Abdul Rashid Salim Salman Khan popularly known as Salman Khan; 'P'= Sohail Khan ; 'Q'
=Arbaaz Khan
5 Qs on Cults/Movements
Questions
(1) The group 'G' reveres Shiva as their chief god, and is involved in ancient yoga, primitive Buddhism
and Mahayanist Buddhist teachings. The group's ultimate aim is to 'save all living things from
transmigration.' The group is often referred to as a new Buddhist sect, but it also claims to be an
original religion based on Hinduism and created by Mr. X. Identify 'X' and 'G'.
[A Big Clue: G currently operating under the name 'Aleph,' is best known for its March 20, 1995
terrorist attack on the Tokyo subway system.]
(2) This religious cult was linked to an infamous 1984 criminal case in which salmonella bacteria was
used to contaminate a US restaurant's salad bars. The devotees of this religion are sometime referred
to as "Orange People". Identify the leader of this cult.
(3) This movement was found by a Korean Minister, who claimed that Jesus had come in his dreams
when he was 15 and asked him to finish the task that was unaccomplished after his(Jesus)
Crucification. Members were initially dubbed "Moon Children" and the leader of the movement was
called as "Father Moon”. Critics call the members of this movement/cult as 'Moonies'. Name the
Leader and the Movement.
(4) This symbol has been one of the best known symbols of Zoroastrian theology. Name the symbol.
(5) This religious movement or the so called philosophy aims at "knowing how to know”. It has
attracted lots of controversies (leading it to be branded as a’ cult' and not a movement) and is at the
same time been endorsed by celebrities like Tom Cruise. (Hint: Hubbard)
Answers:
1. G= Aum Shinrikyo (spelled Om Shinri Kyo), X = Shoko Asahara
2. Rajneesh or Osho
3. Leader = Sun Myung Moon (Original Name - Mun Yong-myong), Unification Church or Unification
Movement
4. Faravahar or Farohar
5. Scientology
COMPUTER GAMES QUIZ
1)"The player again picks up the crowbar of research scientist Gordon Freeman, who finds himself on
an alien-infested Earth being picked to the bone, its resources depleted, its populace dwindling.
Freeman is thrust into the unenviable role of rescuing the world from the wrong he unleashed back at
Black Mesa. And a lot of people he cares about are counting on him." Identify this 'Most-Famous'
Game.
(2)"After defeating Shub-Niggurath, you arrive back at your home base on Earth, but it's not all blue
skies and butterflies. Apparently, not all 'X' forces have been subdued. Chaos ensues as you blast your
way through the 'X' minions and toward the infested gateway. Your only choice is to find the source of
evil and shut it down. Without any hesitation, and with more guts than common sense, you leap into a
portal of unknown destination." Identify this game that has set a new paradigm in the Gaming world.
(3)"World War II rages and nations fall. SS head Himmler has Hitler's full backing to twist science and
the occult into an army capable of annihilating the Allies once and for all. Battling alone, you're on an
intense mission to pierce the black heart of the Third Reich and stop Himmler -- or die trying. Fighting
in advanced team-based multiplayer mode, you'll wage your own WWII in an all-out Axis vs. Allies
contest for frontline domination." Identify the Game.
(4) In this Game ‘X', you use a paddle, and hit a small ball at several blocks above you. The goal of the
game is to get rid of all the blocks without losing your ball. In this type of game we only get one bat and
a ball, and it is our job to destroy the bricks at the top of the screen, by bouncing the ball at them.
Once you miss to return the ball, you lose a life. It's really simple. Name X.
(5) Bowser, king of the Koopas, has invaded the Mushroom Kingdom, and turned all the citizens to
stone! The only one who can break the spell, Princess Toadstool, has been locked away in Bowser's
castle. To return peace to the Mushroom Kingdom, ‘X’ must venture through eight challenging worlds,
each packed to the brim with monsters and secrets. You will find all sorts of Poisonous Mushrooms
,Red Piranha Plants ,Flying Bloober and Bowser's Twin. Game?
(6) The original city simulator made an appearance for the SNES and its mouse way back when. The
point is just to build your own city and control the fate of millions of fake people (the power!). Things
like natural disasters, angry citizens, and high taxes can hamper your progress, but raising your cities
population can get you rewards. One of these is a huge, 4 story statue of Mario, marking his second
appearance in an SNES mouse game. The Game?
(7) Identify this Game from the poster (Intentionally Blocked). ** Image Not Available **
(8) This game has 9 unique civilizations.Each of the nine unique civilizations are split amongst three
cultures: the Greeks, Egyptians, and Norse, with each providing their own special units, powers,
heroes, and more. Game?
(9) WCG 2005 Venue?? (WCG=World Cyber Games)
Answers:
1.Half Life
2.Quake
3.Return To Castle Wolfenstein
4.Arkanoid
5.Super Mario Bros.
6.Sim City
7.Max Payne
8.Age Of Mythology
9.Singapore
GENERAL QUIZ 5
1. He is one of the 5 people in history to have won the Nobel Peace Prize, the Presidential Medal of
Freedom and the Congressional Gold Medal. He is also an awardee of the Padma Vibhushan. His
discoveries have been estimated to have saved over 245 million lives worldwide
2. Which animal was called a cameleopard? The word camelopardalis is the species part of the
scientific name.
3. This dam was built on the Colarado river, in Black Canyon, and was named after the president of the
USA who promised “a chicken in every pot”.
4. Lord Caravon asked Howerd Carter “Can you see anything?” Carter replied “Yes, I see wonderful
things”. Where were they?
5. This is a Chinese group. In 2008, it became the target of public outrage. For example, the website of
this company was hacked several times. The name of the group was changed to the “Melamine
Group” and melamine was added as a product. What company are we talking about?
6. Warren Anderson was the CEO of which American company, which suffered a huge leak of Methyl
isocyanate?
7. Who said “Able was I ere I saw Elba”, a famous English palindrome?
8. Which dictator titled himself: "His Excellency, President for Life, Field Marshal Al Hadji
Doctor____________, VC, DSO, MC, Lord of All the Beasts of the Earth and Fishes of the Seas and
Conqueror of the British Empire in Africa in General and Uganda in Particular”? (Dash indicates name).
9. This was the original last name of Luke Skywalker, but it was changed as it was felt it emphasized
violence too strongly. It was used in the Force Unleashed series as the codename for Darth Vader’s
secret apprentice.
10. This criminal mastermind’s the ‘women in red’ and is head of an organization named VILE. Where
is she? No one really knows.
TECH QUIZ 1
2. At CES 2008, Nvidia announced X as a brand new technology they were going to start including
in their chipsets. However, Nvidia has already discarded X(or several key-components of it) with
their latest GTX 285 and 295 chipsets. What am I talking about?
3. According to Randy Pausch in his “Last Lecture” what was his deathbed conversion?
4. Connect Charles Mingus, Duke Ellington, Stan Getz and McCoy Tyner.
5. Albert Collins, nicknamed The Ice Man, was a blues musician who in the 50’s used a custom
Fender Telecaster to use a certain effect deliberately for the first time in Musical History. Since
then, the same effect has become a common component of rock sound today, particularly in the
punk and grunge genres. What effect?
6. The Slovenian game developer Zootfly became popular in 2006 for creating a certain game
based on a very famous movie without getting the proper permissions/licenses from Sony
Pictures Entertainment. Which game?
7. This website was founded by University of Virginia alumini Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian in
2005. In 2006, the company merged with another corporation called Infogami, and called itself
“Not A Bug”. The website became an opensource project when Adam Swartz released the web
framework he had created to run the site on his blog. Name the website.
8. This series of books created by Tom Clancy and Steve Pieczniek, written by Steve Perry talks
about a branch of America’s NSA agency that deals with cyber related criminals and hackers in
the not so distant future. Name the series.
9. One of the earliest examples of internet meme was created by a Canadian art student and
features a variety of rodents performing to a song Whistle Stop by Roger Miller. In 2005 CNET
names it as the number 1 web fad due to the creation of a fictional band and CD Album release.
What am I talking about?
10. This video game editor has a strong relation to the earth and has been featured in multiple
major game releases including Crysis and Far Cry. Named after the editing style it follows, it
emphasizes on large terrains and free-style mission programming. Identify.
GENERAL QUIZ 7
1. On a Processor and a Motherboard,there is a marker to indicate how the CPU should go in.What
SHAPES are these markers in?
2. Expand ATAPI (Resist the urge to google,btw)
3. ________:Kubuntu::WMP:Windows
4. Think magazine,Think _____ (Was in G@teway 2009)
5. Who was the "Triple Breasted WH*** of Eroticon Six?"
6. Who are the founders of the Gaming hardware company called Razer?
7. Which is the most expensive Gaming mouse available?
8. Which Mouse has the highest dpi settings till now?
9. With Which keyboard will you associate a Battle light with?
10. What is the USB of The razer copperhead,deathadder and Mamba made of AND why?H
ANSWERS:
1. A Small Circle on the processor,and a triangle on the motherboard socket.
2. Advanced Technology Attachment Packet Interface
3. Amarok is default for KDE ubuntu or Kubuntu as well,but i put in Kubuntu to confuse ppl.
4. Think Digit (This was at montfort school G@teway 2009 yesterday)
5. Eccentrica Gallumbits.
6. Robert Krakoff and Fatal1ty (Yes,Fatal1ty)
7. Razer Mamba
8. Razer Mamba
9. Razer Tarantula
10. Gold,to maintain polling rates.
G@teway 2009 Quiz Prelims
1)
At least a megabyte of memory, a megapixel display and a million instructions per second or MIPS
processing power or MIPS processing power. It was often said that it should cost a Mega penny or $10,000.
What are we talking about?
2)The origins of this word’s use can be traced to mid-17th Century for teams of people who were frequently used
to undertake long and often tedious calculations; the work was divided so that this could be done in parallel.
What word?
3)I’m an egotistical *censored*, and I name all my projects after myself. First Linux, now _______.
4)Apple II was influenced by which Atari game design?
5)Where would you find Linden dollars?
6)There was likelihood of internal clashing by placing commonly used combinations of letters nearer each other
inside the machine. This led to the development of what?
7)What is a soft 404 error?
8)“Slumdog” came fourth, “Jai Ho” came second. What came first?
9)Which was the first PlayStation game to sell over a million copies?
10)
Which company makes the Grand Theft Auto series?
11)
What is a link between two computer programs allowing them to share information and bypass certain
protocols on a host computer?
12)
Which is the best selling portable gaming console?
13)
On a chip, what do 0 and 1 physically signify?
14)
_________ : Windows :: Configuration Editor : Ubuntu
15)
IIT alumnus Padamsree Warrior is the CTO of which company?
16)
Which companies developed the Plug and Play (PnP)?
17)
Henry Ford and Alfred P. Sloan are two of the nominated to be Fortune’s Businessmen of the Century.
Who are the other two?
18)
Why was Aaron Greenspan recently in the news?
19)
What was Adobe AIR previously known as?
20)
Alone in a room in his home in Bonn, Germany, Friedhelm Hillebrand sat at his typewriter tapping out
random sentences and questions on a sheet of paper. As he went along, Hillebrand counted the number of
letters, numbers, punctuation marks and spaces on the page. What did this lead to?
LORD OF THE RINGS QUIZ
1. Whats Nun Curnir also known as?
2. Who was the Necromancer?
3. Who were known as the Istari?
4. Where did Gimli's last journey finish?
5. How old was Aragorn when he died?
6. Where was Isildur's son when he passed away?
7. What was the name of Aragorn's successor?
ANSWERS:
1. The valley of isengard
2. The necromancer was Sauron.
3. The istari were the wizards
TECH QUIZ 2
2. What was Deep Thought (I'm not talking about the computer in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the
Galaxy)
3. This famous Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and long term Bolt, Beranek and Newman was
born in Amsterdam, New York and received the lifetime achievement Webby in 2001. When he
first showed the thing that made him a Name to Jerry Burchfiel he was told not to tell anyone,
because that was not what they were supposed to be working for. Who am I talking about?
4. In 1994, The firm Canter and Siegel used a Perl script written by a programmer known only as
“Jason” to do X. Arnt Gulbrandsen became the first user of what is now a common technique
used to counter X not long after they did. What is X?
5. This company owns and operates the third largest wireless telecommunications network with
50.5 Million customers, is the third largest long distance internet service provider and also
operates the second largest wireless broadband network, all in The United States. Which
company am I talking about?
6. This kid, at 9 years old was Microsoft's youngest beta tester for Windows 95.
7. This TV show is a features claymation parodies that pit a certain type of people against each
other. One famous such match was between Bill Gates of Microsoft and Michael Flaherty (The
Lord of The Dance). Identify the TV Show
8. X decided the colour of a certain computer in 1977. In The August of 1988 Fortune Magazine
said we can blame X for “Why computers are Y” Identify X and Y
9. An estimated 100,000 copies of the Playstation version of Tiger Woods 99 were recalled when
something was found as a hidden file on the disk. What was found?
10. Not too long ago, a certain rumour went flying about that Intel engineers had etched a tiny
message on the surface of their Pentium Microprocessors. Eventually the rumour was proved
to be untrue. What was the message?
ANSWERS:
1. Live Free or Die (Die hard 4.0 was called Live Free or Die Hard in North America, Armando Stettner is
the guy who printed UNIX license plates and DEC is logo, all connected to the live free or die motto
2. Deep thought was a chess playing computer, created by the team that made Deep Blue, before they
joined IBM
3. Ray Tomlinson created the first email program on Usenet.
4. First commercial spam
5. Sprint
6. Some kid called Adam Baratz
7. Celebrity Death match
8. X= Jerry Manock, Y= Beige, he decided on the colour for the original Mac
9. The Spirit of Christmas, a small video, that eventually became South ParKK
10. Bill Sucks ;)
GENERAL QUIZ 8
1. X (January 28, 1884 – March 24, 1962) was a Swiss physicist, inventor and explorer. Showing an
intense interest in science as a child, he attended the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich,
and became a professor of physics in Brussels at the Free University of Brussels. In 1930, an interest in
ballooning, and a curiosity about the upper atmosphere led him to design a spherical, pressurized
aluminum gondola that would allow ascent to great altitude without requiring a pressure suit. X has
inspired something/someone in the field of entertainment. Identify X and what/who he has inspired.
(refer pic named X)
2. Fill in the blank.
1xx : Informational.
2xx : Success.
3xx : Redirection.
4xx : __________.
3. What has been blanked out, and how is this book “more” famous? (refer pic named book)
4. X was born in Manchester, England and attended Reading School in Reading, Berkshire England. In
the early 1970s he was taken on as a trainee engineer by the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority
at its Atomic Energy Research Establishment in Harwell, Oxfordshire, where he studied
instrumentation. His career in motorsport began in 1976 when he joined March Engineering in the
town of Bicester as a milling machine operator. Soon afterwards he joined their Formula 3 racing team
as a mechanic. X was hired by Sir Frank Williams in 1978 as a machinist for the newly formed Williams
team. He quickly moved up through the ranks, working in the R&D department and as an
aerodynamicist in the team's wind tunnel. Later in 1991 X returned to F1 as technical director of the
Benetton team, helping it win back-to-back World Drivers' Championships in 1994 and 1995 with Y,
and to take the World Constructors' Championship in 1995. X followed Y to the Z F1 team in late 1996,
at the end of Y's first year with the team. Again he was renowned for his race strategies as the team
began to challenge for the championship from 1997, despite the superiority of the Williams cars that
year and the McLarens from 1998 onwards.
Id X,Y,Z.
5. It began with a posting titled Those Eyes, on the subject of actresses with beautiful eyes. Hank
Driskill began to collect a list of attractive actresses and what movies they had appeared in, and as the
size of the repeated posting grew far beyond a normal newsgroup article, it soon became known
simply as THE LIST. (The first code to manage this list was a Perl program written by Randal L. Schwartz
to "invert the list“). The other project, started by Chuck Musciano, was briefly called the ___________
List and soon became the ___________ Report.
In 1990, Col Needham collated the two lists and produced a Combined LIST & ______________Report.
On October 17, 1990, Needham posted a collection of Unix shell scripts which could be used to search
the four lists, and X was born. Identify X.
6. 1955/56: Widowed Saraswati Devi and her son Rajkumar (50) come to live with her father Mahadeo
Prasad Misra in Singar Nagar, Lucknow. Misra himself is staying with Bhagwanji. Saraswati Devi and her
son serve Bhagwanji until his death in 1985.
April 1962: Atul Sen, an associate of X, meets Bhagwanji in Neemsar. On his return to Kolkata tells
historian Dr RC Majumdar and _______ Secret Service man Dr Pabitra Mohan Roy about the meeting.
Dr Pabitra rushes to Neemsar at the end of the year.
December 1962: Dr Pabitra approaches X’s friend and political associate Leela Roy for help in buying
seven items Bhagwanji had wanted.
June 1963: Dr Pabitra Roy and another revolutionary Amal Roy visit Neemsar and stay there for two
months.
1967: He moves to Shrista, Purani Basti, into the house of Basti King Onkar Singh. Here, Durga Prasad
Pandey (83) comes into his contact. He meets him regularly for eight years.
1975: Bhagwanji shifts to Ayodhya. Durga Prasad Pandey travels with him in the same car. In his eight
years' stay in Ayodhya, Bhagwanji changes places four times.
September 1, 1964: Leela Roy writes to X’s closest friend Dilip Roy to say _______________________.
September 16, 1985: Bhagwanji dies around 9 pm of cardio-vascular failure at the age of 88.
September 18, 1985: Local disciples cremate Bhagwanji at 4 pm at a park in Guptar Ghat on the banks
of River Sarayu.
These are excerpts from a probe that Hindustan Times did around 6-7 years back, on Bhagwanji, and
his relation to X. Identify X and tell me what this is all about.
7. El X is a coast redwood tree located in El X Park on the banks of San Francisquito Creek in X,
California, United States.
The tree is California Historical Landmark No. 2. It is recognized by the National Arborist Association
and International Society of Arboriculture for its historical significance as "a campsite for the Portola
Expedition Party of 1769"; being frequented by the Costanoan/Ohlone Indians; and for its use as a
sighting tree by surveyors plotting out El Camino Real. The tree is depicted on the city of X’s official seal
and on the seal of Stanford University. It is presumably the origin of the city's name.
The tree dates to approximately AD 940 and is reportedly healthier today than 100 years ago. El X
originally had twin trunks, but an 1887 flood in the San Francisquito arroyo tore off one of the two.
Because of its secluded location, El X has become a popular sleeping spot for transients and an equally
popular drinking spot for juveniles.
A plaque at the base of the tree bears the following inscription:
Under this giant redwood, the X, November 6–11, 1769, camped Portola and his band on the
expedition that discovered San Francisco Bay, this was the assembling point for their reconnoitering
parties. Here in 1774 Padre Palou erected a cross to mark the site of a proposed mission (which later
was built at Santa Clara). The celebrated Pedro Font topographical map of 1776 contained the drawing
of the original double trunked tree making the X the first official living California landmark.
What is X .
8. A little known Turkish company called Ramazan Baydan has experienced a surge in sales of its
products, since December last year. It got an order of 300,000 items in a week. Its model, the Ducati
Model 271 especially became famous due to a particular incident, and this is what lead to the rapid
increase in its sales. What do they make, and why did it become famous?
9. Connect Youtube, a game called Zero Wing by Sega, and Simply Awful.
10. Who will you associate this emoticon with?
///0-0\\\
11. A has almost no natural resources, and its main form of income consists of foreign aid. Virtually the
only jobs in the islands that pay a steady wage or salary are with the government. Subsistence farming
and fishing remain the primary economic activities, particularly off the capital island of Funafuti.
Government revenues largely come from the sale of stamps and coins, fishing licenses and worker
remittances.
Due to the country's remoteness, tourism does not provide much income; a hundred tourists are
estimated to visit A annually. Almost all visitors are government officials, aid workers, nongovernmental organization officials or consultants.
In 1998, this country began deriving revenue from something. Identify the country and the source of
revenue.
12. Name the Indian cricketer who has played test cricket but has the dubious distinction of having
0(zero) runs, 0 wickets and 0 catches to his credit? In fact he has played 2 tests.
13. Which company's office is located at 1601 South California Avenue, Palo Alto, California 94304?
ANSWERS:
1. cuthbert calculus
2. Classes of errors - the blank is Client Server error
3. Book that inspired H2G2 - Hitchhikers Guide to Europe
5. IMDb – correct
6. bhagwanji was subhash chandra bose living in hiding
7. Palo Alto
8. It made the shoe used as a projectile on Bush
9. Zero Wing gave us "All your base belong to us" which was popularized in the forum Simply Awful
(similar to 4chan) and was used by YouTube as an April fool’s prank)
10. John Lennon
11. Tuvalu, .tv
12. TA Shekhar
13. facebook
Music Quiz
1. Ok a simple one to start off with, which famous band was once called The Abdabs, The
Architectural Abdabs, the Meggadeaths and The Tea Set?
2. Identify this dude, or name the band he was in?
3. So, X was a composer of the Romantics Era and he wrote some of the world's most famous
pieces of music, the most famous of them being Swan Lake, The Nutcracker, The 1812 Overture
and Eugene Onegin
4. Identify the famous Canadian musician and record producer who has not only worked with
Aerosmith, Bon Jovi and Simple Plan, but is also famous for making Metallica and Motely Crue
the huge bands they are today.
5. This famous analog synthesizer is named after the company that manufactures it, which in turn
was named after the founder of the company, and was made famous by a little known bands
like Simon And Garfunkle and The Byrds. Name it.
6. Fool On The Hill is a song originally written by Paul McCartney and recorded by the Beatles in
1967 eventually appearing in the Magical Mystery Tour album. In April of '75 it also entered
history. Why?
7. Name this english alternative band whose members are Thom Yorke, Jonny Greenwood, Colin
Greenwood, Ed O' Brien and Phil Selway.
8. This band was originally formed when two of its founding members met at a Black Flag concert
in Long Beach in '86 and realised that they were dating the same woman. Not only did they
break up with her, but also moved into her apartment. Calling themselves Mighty Joe Young,
they joined with two of their friends and released an album called Core, upon which they were
forced to drop the name. Calling themselves Shirley Temples P***** they performed for a
while, until pressure from the record labels forced them to change their name to what they are
called today. Name the band
9. What is Bono's real name?
10. This Nirvana album, the first one to be produced under Geffen records was first entitled Sheep.
Released in 91, it received a huge reception and in 92 knocked out Michael Jackson's Dangerous from
the top of the Billboard Charts. Name it.
1. Pink Floyd (Comfortably Numb Babe!)
2. Keith Moon of The Who (He could take Pert with one hand tied behind his back)
3. tchaikovsky (Good luck spelling that one)
4. Bob Rock (The guy behind the black album)
5. Moog (Actually got this one from a Click episode, it was pronounced to rhyme with "rogue"?)
6. Dompier, MITS Altair 8800, and need I say more?
7. Radiohead (Kid A was one of the few albums that actually sold because of Napster)
8. Stone Temple Pilots, sorry for the censorship
9. Paul Hewson
10. Nevermind
GENERAL QUIZ 9
1. Identify this place.
THE ANSWER IS SABARMATI ASHRAM
2. Which organization was started after its founder came to know
about two students who had been sent to jail for a period of seven
years for raising a toast 'to liberty'?
ANS: The answer is Amnesty International As a child X is saved from
drowning in a Scottish lake by a farm boy Y.
3. A few years later X telephones Y to say that his parents, in gratitude,
will sponsor Y’s otherwise unaffordable medical school education. Y
graduates with honours and in 1928 discover that certain bacteria
cannot grow in certain vegetable molds. In 1943 when X becomes ill in
the Near East, Y’s invention is flown out to affect his cure. Thus once again Y saves the life of X.
ANS: X IS WINSTON CHURCHILL AND Y IS ALEXANDER FLEMING
4. What connects the names of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles?
ANS: All are the names of renaissance period artists- raphael, donatello, leonardo and michelangelo
5. Where would you find the phrase "zarro boogs found" and what is the origin of this phrase?
1. This game upon release was responsible for riots in Japan along with coin shortage. The country had
to quadruple Yen production to keep up. In America, videogames were introduced in department
stores for the first time to cope with its popularity. Which game am I talking about?
2. Connect: Roman goddess of safe returns, portable computing devices
3. Started as Church High in 1941,it was known as Naveen Bharat in 1947...its Found everywhere these
days. What?
4. He was called Uncle Louis by his supporters. Which nations PM was he?
5. Name the only capital city in the world to not have traffic lights.
6. Name the first (and most probably the only one) Indian to score 3 hundreds on 3 different occasions
at Lords.
7. Name the place in Delhi made by Shah Jahans daughter. It was named so because of the sparkling
effect that is seen at the lakes there at moonlight.
8. Why is PVR called, well, PVR?
9. Which Automobile maker would use the tagline "Vorsprung durch Technik”?
Answers:
1. Space invaders
2. Adeona, the Roman Goddess of Safe Returns is also a FOSS tracking system for portable devices. It
uploads your ip as soon as your device connects to the internet.
3. Delhi public school
4. Canada
5. Thimpu, the capital of Bhutan
6. Dilip Vengasarkar
7. Chandni Chowk
8. PVR *was* a JV with Australian company Village Roadshow, but they exited the JV. Village Roadshow
still produces movies. '300' was one of theirs too. Ajay Bijli is the CEO of PVR
9. Audi
Columban open semifinals 2
ROUND 1
1. What was Armi Kuusela (my spelling may be incorrect) the first person to do in 1952?
Ans. First Miss World
2. By what name do we better know the Hunkpapa Lakota warrior Tatanka Iyotaka?
Ans. Sitting Bull
3. Which town in Orissa is renowned for applique work and manufactures umbrellas etc. for the Rath festival?
Ans. Pipli
4. Which company is the chief promoter of the new age real estate development of Lavasa near Pune?
Ans. Hindustan Construction Company
5. In Hebrew, this Biblical character was called Helel. By what name do weto score a better know him?
Ans. Lucifer
6. Who was the only Indian to score a century at the second edition of the IPL?
Ans. Manish Pandey
7. Who was the first Chief Minister to be married while in office?
Ans. Prafulla Kumar Mohanta (Assam)
8. After which Vedic Storm God is India's first indegenously made fighter plane named?
Ans. Marut
ROUND 2(Audio)
I am also giving the answers as it makes no sense to answer Audio questions without any audio.
1. The song Khoya Khoya Chand was played. From which film?
Ans. Kala Bazaar
2. Mrs. Robinson by Simon and Garfunkel(As pointed out by Agrim). Again, from which movie?
Ans. The Graduate
4. Some Hindi song was played. The film had to be identified.
Ans.safar
5. I couldn't hear the answer. But if I am correct, the song Fast Car was played. Which artist?
Ans. Tracy Chapman
6. Song - Jo Waada Kiya Wo Nibhana Padega. Movie?
Ans.I Don't Know. If anyone knows please inform me.
ROUND 3
1. In 1956 who received a Pulitzer Prize for Literature for the book 'Profiles in Courage'?
Ans. John F Kennedy
2. Which country is named after the Portuguese word for Shrimp or Prawn?
Ans. Cameroon
3. In which city do the cartoon characters Fred Flintstone and Barney Rubble live?
Ans. Bedrock
4. Which city is the capital of the US state of Florida?
Ans. Tallahassee
5. Name the world's smallest French speaking country ruled continuously by the House of Grimaldi since 1297?
Ans. Monaco
6. Who is the owner of the Italian football club AC Milan?
Ans. Silvio Berlusconi
7. Which island is divided into sovereign nations of Dominican Republic and Haiti?
Ans. Hispaniola
8. In which fictional country is Anthony Hope's famous novel The Prisoner of Zenda based?
Ans. Ruritania
BUZZER ROUND
1. Who invented the Kinetoscope in 1894?
Hint: Something to do with Pictures and early cinema.
Ans. Edison
2. After which person is the unit for capacitance named?
Ans. Michael Faraday (farad)
3. Which title did Aurangzeb assume which meant Emperor of The World (or something similar)?
Ans. Alamgir
4. In Greek Mythology, what was the food of Gods?
Ans. Ambrosia
5. What is the name of Israeli parliament?
Ans. Knesset
6. According to Bible which was the final resting place of Noah's Ark?
Ans. Mt. Ararat
If:
W is to
X is to
Y is to
Z is to
Then give me W, X, Y, Z and what are W, X, Y, Z know as collectively.
ANSWERS
w is Rafael
X is Michaelangelo
Y is Leonardo
Z is Donnatello
and collectively the Ninja Turtles
1. Just tell me the car brand that's being advertised.
Answer: The Acura MDX. Acura is the luxury arm of Honda Motor Company.
Prelims
1. What brand name is the tenth-generation Toyota Corolla in India known by?
Toyota Corolla Altis
2. Identify the logo
Renault
Renault
3. “Let‟s learn to teach” is the tagline of which powerful initiative launched by a media company
in India?
Teach India
Teach Indi
4. Ad that said – Born in USA. Motherland India.
Incredible India
5. Identify
Sunil Mittal
6. Which soap brand is endorsed by Saif Ali Khan and Madhavan. [Hint: It is manufactured by a
company not really known for FMCG products]
Santoor
7. Get Gorgeous, Launch pad, On the Run, etc are programmes of which channel?
Channel V
8. Which bollywood actress endorses Sugar Free?
Bipasha Basu
9. Aamir Khan endorses which brand of biscuits?
Monaco
Monaco [points given for Parle as well]
10. This company came about when a few Gujarati women came together and set up their own
enterprise and became self-sustaining. [Wording was slightly different]
Shri Mahila Griha Udyog
11. Identify the logo
ABN AMRO
ABN
12. Identify
Warren Buffet
Warren Buffet
13. Which company started off as Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing?
3M
3
14. “On holiday 365 days a year” which place? [Destination tourism campaign]
Goa
15. Soha Ali Khan ad – from the world of car accessories.
AmbipurAmbipur
16. Ad – Human Network
CISCO
17. Who is the author of this book? [Hint: The author is someone who urges you to be more
effective]
Stephen Covey
Stephen Covey [author of 7 Habits of Highly Effective People]
18. Which airline was started by Naresh Goyal?
Jet Airways
19. This coffee chain has a tie up with India Premier League [IPL] to have kiosks during IPL
matches. Which?
Café Coffee Day
ee Da
20. Identify the logo
Fannie Mae
Fannie Mae
Wild Card Round 1
1. In terms of volume sales which is the largest manufacturer of watches all over the world –
Swatch, Titan or HMT?
Swatch
2. In 1894 this company received a patent on their "Lucky Curve" feed. Which company? Leader
in writing instruments.
Parker pens
3. Who is known as the Oracle of Omaha?
Warren Buffet
Warren Buffet
4. Started off as Galvin Engineering before it was renamed as something else
Motorola
Motorola
5. Which company was founded in 1873 by Richard and William to make cigarettes for the then
Prince of Wales, Albert Edward?
Benson and Hedges
Benson and Hedges
6. Who exited out of the Planet Hollywood Restaurant Chain saying that he wanted to
concentrate on his constituency?
Arnold Schwarznegger
Arnold Schwazenegger
7. Set Wet is a brand from which company?
Paras Pharma
Paras Pharma
Wild Card Two
1. Durable, Reliable, Excellence though some people mistake it as being "Durable Latex".
Durex
d
2. Who started NeXT computers?
Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs
3. Which company bought Pixar in 2004?
Disney
Disney
4. What is Nannyware?
Software to restrict access
Software to restrict access to pornography sites.
5. In the world of tea plantation, what is CTC?
Crush twist and curl
Crush, Tear and Curl
Finals
1. When this product was to be launched in India – Lever‟s came out with its own specific to
India campaign for it, a first for any Unilever product in India. Currently, this brand is owned by
Bunge Limited. Which?
Dalda
2. Invented by Hakeem Ustad Hasan it had Khurfa Seeds, Kasni, Munaqqa, Nilofar, Gaozaban,
Hara Dhania etc. What?
Roohafza
3. Founded in 1906 by Hakeem Hafiz Abdul Majeed, the name means "empathizer" or
"companion in suffering".
Hamdard
4. Kisan Credit Cards were launched in India through?
NABARD
n
5. Company set up by Bengali Doctor started off with three brands – something, something
[don‟t remember] and?
Pudin Hara
6. Identify
Harley Davidson
Harley Davidson
7. Who and which company did he start?
Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook
8. Cement company from TATAS
India Cements
India Cements
9. Identify person on left.
Noel Tata
Noel Tata [not Naval Tata :) ]
11. Started as Southwestern Bell Co.
AT&T
AT
12. Bhaskar Bhatt is the MD of?
Titan
Titan
13. Lateral Connects
a. Pepsi - New Pepsi logo, Pepsi Blue Man, and Frito Lays logo
b. Companies that have exited the Airline Business.
c. Emami - Zandu Balm, Saurav Ganguly etc.
d. Unilever - Axe Ad, etc.
14. American clothing and accessories retailer based in San Francisco, California, and founded in
1969 by Donald Fisher and Doris F. Fisher.
GAP
GAP
15. Coco Gem is a new brand of what from the house of the TATAs?
Coconut oil
Coconut Oilccc
1. The 2 residents of the 'villa' have publicly endorsed rival candidates McCain and Obama, and
have campaigned /will campaign in the future for their respective candidates. Whose residence?
(Image Source: The New York Times)
2. Connect the three images:
3. What?
Answers:
1. Arnold Schwarzenegger & Maria Shriver
2. Lashings World XI - "World's greatest cricket club"
Images of its founder David Folb, the Rude Guy logo and Sachin Tendulkar - who will be playing
for them this summer
3. The BMW Headquarters, Munich
Prelims:
1. which confectionary brand is named after a village near Malegaon, Nasik where its factory was
originally based.
2. It is a block that houses addresses in NYC. It is named after a newspaper/media house.
3. Identify the logo -
4. Mehnga Ram works for Beat-All Sports. What is his contribution to Indian Sports?
5. This product was invented in 1846 from healing tea and witch hazel to heal cuts and bruises.
Used today commonly as a cosmetic. (Pickbrain: I bet that someone in the hall has one right
now.)
6. This automobile company entered the US motorcycle market in 1964. A chart-topping song of
1964 called Little ________ paid tribute to this product. Name the Company.
7. Award winning ad for which brand?
8. The first demo for this 'accessory was carried out in 1968 by Joint Computing in San
Francisco. The name was coined at Stanford Research Institute. What?
9. Robert Townsend gave this cheeky ad campaign with a 3 word punchline. It is one of the
famous ones in the transportation Industry.
10. Which Indian company or group is associated with Kiwi Shoe Polish?
11. Identify the Brand
12. This management guru is famous for his 14 principles of management. He wrote the book,
Administration industrielle et generali which was published in 1917. Who?
13. Which character was named after Mr.Segale, landlord of Nintendo's US Office?
14. Balmer and Lawrie and Co., engaged in packaging of LPG cylinders is a ____ enterprise by?
15. World of travel Accesories. Identify.
16. He is the MD of Labour India Magazine based in Kerala. He is famous because he will be the
first Indian to do something. What? (Name of the person is optional)
17. Chaudhry Raghuvendra Singh founded the company in 1946 and in 1961; his son-in-law
joined the company and is at the helm of affairs now. Name the Company.
18. Who is the Distributor of the movie "Sunday"? [Audio clip was played from the movie. Hint:
it is ________ Entertainment]
19. Identify the product. - Liril Soundtrack
20. Whose ad campaign? [Video- Happydent White ]
Questions from the Wildcard Rounds:
1. Which newspaper from Times Of India, Indian Express and Hindustan Times had its office
inaugurated by Mahatma Gandhi?
2. What was inaugurated on 19th November, 1984 by Rajiv Gandhi?
3. Italian fashion giant Armani has a joint Venture with which Indian Company?
4. Nintendo: Mario as Sonic:???
5. "Chala Change ka Chakkar"
6. Passat
7. Reliance Entertainment sold a 3% stake to whom?
8. Titan, Vodafone and Reliance Energy Limited lost. Who won?
9. Body structure of tata nano has been designed by which NRI Designer's company?
10. "Kya aap 5th pass se zyaada tez hain?" is associated with which actor?
11. Barabarians at the Gate is about?
12. Called the Briley Group, the Joint venture was called BJETS. Which is the other company?
13. Company founded as a thought which occurred to Baba Kalyani?
14. Full form of NTPC.
15, India's first virtual credit card was by?
16. Glenn originally thought of a golf course, but eventually settled for hotdogs and burgers and
Mexican food, right next to a McDonalds. Which chain?
Some Questions from the Finals:
1. ALL(A little larger) was created for which company?
2. IATA Code BZ.
3. Name of Tata Tea outlets opened recently.
4. Trimotor, one of the first successful airlines in US. Which company ran this 12 seater
passenger plane?
5. Phrase originated from newsletter published by "Arelene and Jose Ramos". It came into use in
the printing press industry after 3 years of publishing and was sold to Stanford Research
Institute in California. What phrase?
6. What is common to military.com, Tickle.com, fastweb.com, Telephone Marketing programs
and Yellow Pages Advertising?
7. Logo of?
8. This Indian Entertainment and distributor was established as Garnet Paper Mills and renamed
in 2002. Chairman is Ashok Pamani.
9. Identify [Hint- World of Inventions]
Connect Round
1. Hrithik Roshan, Godrej, Vinod Khanna, Imran Khan and audio "Breathless" by Shankar
mahadevan. [Cinthol]
2. "The next episode in Entertainment", NAVTEQ, N way, enpacket.[Nokia]
3. Timex, EK,photos of George Eastman and flash structure. [Kodak]
4. "Just in TIme", Dalgen, photo of Brijmohan Munjal and song from Krrish. [Honda]
Nano Games
1. Celebrity associated with Angel Networks.
2. "Thodi si Pet pooja"- tagline of ?
3. Ninja, Scout, Kids Club are vaieties of?
4. "Eveready Mechanical Pencil made by Us". Which Company?
Prelims
1.Ravalgaon
2.Times Square
3.Apollo Hospitals
4.He makes cricket bats for many famous cricketers.
5. Ponds Cream
6.Honda
7.Kawasaki
8.The Computer Mouse
9.'We Try Harder'
10.TTK Group
11.Goodyear
12.Henri Fayol
13.Mario
14.Government Of India
15.American Tourister
16.Santosh George Kulangara, to be India's first space tourist
17.DLF
18.Eros
Wildcards:
1.Hindustan Times
2.Appu Ghar
3.DLF
4.Sega
5.Frito Lay
6.Volkswagen
7.George Soros
8.DLF
9.Caparo Group-Lord Swaraj Paul's company
10.Shah Rukh Khan
11.RJR Nabisco's takeover
12.Tata!
13. Bharat Forge
14.National Thermal Power Corporation
15.Reliance and HDFC together
16.Taco Bell
Finals:
1.Pantaloons
2. Blue Dart Aviation
3. Chai Unchai
4.Ford
5. WYSIWYG- What You See Is What You Get
6. They are all owned by Monster Worldwide.
7. Commonwealth Bank
8. K Sera Sera
9. Momofuku Ando- inventor of instant noodles and founder of the company Nissin
Nano Games1. Oprah Winfrey
2.Cadbury Perk
3.Atlas Cycles
4.Sharp Corporation
INDIA QUIZ – PRELIMS
1. ______________ is a comic book series published by Virgin Comics based upon the X. It is
written by Shamik Dasgupta & the art is by Abhishek Singh, and a brainchild of Deepak Chopra and
Shekhar Kapur. It features a imagining of the classic story in a post-apocalyptic future. Y is the
principle antagonist, the leader of the continent of Nark, a cyborg created using nano-technology
during the old times in order to obtain an edge during the world war that consumed the planet.
Give X and Y.
2. X studied at Montfort School in Yercaud & attended High School at St. Xavier‟s Collegiate School
in Kolkata & graduated with a BA degree from St. Stephen‟s College, Delhi where he stood first in
the University, graduating with a record score in History (Hons). He then completed a Ph.D. at The
Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy at Tufts University, Massachusetts, where he earned 2 Master‟s
degrees. His Ph.D was awarded at 22, a Fletcher record. Who is this famous Indian Diplomat?
Shashi Tharoor
*3. This is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and its name literally means "beautiful jungle". The
name may have been derived from the name of the X trees that are found here in large numbers.
Other possible explanations can be a derivation from the Bengali for "Sea Forest" or "Chandrabandhe" the name of a primitive tribe in the region. Give the site and the tree.
4. X and Y were involved in an unbroken 664-run partnership in a Lord Harris Shield tournament
game in 1988. The destructive pair reduced one bowler to tears and made the rest of the
opposition unwilling to continue the game. X scored 326* in this innings and scored over a
thousand runs in the tournament. This was a record partnership in any form of cricket until 2006.
Simply name X and Y.
*5. The Sanskrit name for this syllable is Pranava, from a root nu "to shout, sound, praise", verbal
pra-nu- being attested as "to make a humming or droning sound" in the Brahmanas, and taking
the specific meaning of "to utter the syllable" in the Chandogya Upanishad and the Shrauta Sutras.
The Mandukya Upanishad is entirely devoted to the explanation of the syllable. Which syllable are
we talking about?
6. It is generally believed that the concept of the song X came to Y when he was still a government
official under the British Raj. In 1870, the British rulers of India had declared that singing of God
Save the Queen would be mandatory. He wrote it in a spontaneous session using words from two
languages he was expert in, Sanskrit and Bengali. The song first appeared in Y's book Z and the
first political occasion where it was sung was the 1896 session of the Indian National Congress.
Give X and Z.
7. Fariborz Sahba, a Canadian architect was instrumental in the creation of this famous structure
having a unique architectural shape and design. Which one?
8. What does the word „Kaur‟ literally mean?
9. Who penned the 'Green Book', which was an account of the lives of the Asians during their stay
in South Africa?
*10. Ab'ul Hasan Yamin al-Din __________ or popularly known as ______ __________ is
generally credited with the invention of Qawwali, Khayal, Tarana and the Tabla. Who is this musical
genius?o
11. The Salon & Beauty Parlors‟ Assoc. was in the news recently regarding an objection they
raised, which among other reasons, generated a lot of incredulity. What was the bone of
contention?
12. I'm sure you know the National Flower, Song & Animal. But which is the National Tree of India?
13. Identify him.
Veer D Savarkar
14. The titles bestowed to this monarch included Devanampriya Priyadarsi, Dhammarakhit,
Dhammaradnya, Chakravartin, Samrat, Radnyashreshtha, Magadhrajshretha, Magadharajan,
Bhupatin, Mauryaraja and Prajapita. However his real name really meant „without sorrow‟. Who?
*15. He was very successful in keeping foreign naval ships, particularly Portuguese and British,
under check, by building and securing seaside and land based forts. For his foresight of
establishing of one of the first large scale naval presence he is referred to as the "Father of Indian
Navy". Who is X?
16. Vatapadraka meaning „Village amongst the Banyan Trees‟ is the ancient name of which city?
17. He qualified in Transportation Design from the Art Center College of Design, California, U.S. &
worked with General Motors USA in their Design Centre. His company made the first prototype for
the Aston Martin Vanquish which appeared in the James Bond movie „Die Another Day‟. Who?
18. Perhaps for the first time for India, three woman athletes of the same state represented India
and reached the finals of the field events at the Olympics. Two of them, M. D. Valsamma and Shiny
Abraham, were lesser known athletes. Who was the third?
*19. She was the national swimming champion from 72-74, won the Miss India title in „76 and was
runner-up at the Miss International in „77. She was also a jockey at the Calcutta Gymkhana. Who?
*20. Which is the only news agency in South Asia which operates its own communication satellite
(INSAT) to broadcast news and information?
21. ColourNext 09, which is a celebration of colours born out of imagination & research, is the
outcome of a comprehensive trend mapping exercise conducted by X across India, taking into
account a variety of factors like international trends, consumer insights & expert opinions. Give me
X.
22. Their concept of serving ice creams with a difference was launched in 1991 in the form of
Happinezz parlours. Which group?
23. Bhojpuri star Manoj Tiwari‟s wife Rani's debut music album, Dil Ko Chura Le, featured a famous
star in his field, making his debut music video appearance by starring in two of the videos. Who?
24. Which movie's posters read as, “Historic Hit in 14 minutes and 52 seconds.”
*25. X is experienced in this very life as dissolution of the sense of self as an egoistic personality
by which the underlying, eternal, pure spirit is uncovered. X is seen as a transcendence of
phenomenal being, a state of higher consciousness, in which matter, energy, time, space and
karma are understood as maya. What is X?
Answers:
1. Ramayan,Ravana.
2. Shashi Tharoor.
3. Sunderban.
4. Sachin Tendulkar and Vinod Kmabli.
5. Om.
6. Vande Mataram,Bankim Chandra Chattopadhya,Anandmath.
7. Lotus Temple.
8. Sherni.
9. Mahatma Gandhi.
10. Ommar Khayyam.
11. Billu Barber.
12. Banyan Tree.
13. Veer Savarkar.
14. Ashok.
15. Chattrapati shivaji
16. baroda
17. Dilip Chabaria.
18. PT Usha.
19. Nafisa Ali.
20. PTI
21. Asian paints
22. vadilal.
23. Dhoni.
24. Ghajini.
25. Moksha.
1. Connect:
movie shakti, smiling Buddha
code names for pokhran 1998 and 1974,connect: nuke deal
2. Whose signature?
3. The person in the image (X) recently quipped about Y:
Even if you never met him, you know this guy. He's the guy at the country club
with the beautiful date, holding a martini and a cigarette that stands against the
wall and makes snide comments about everyone who passes by.
Identify X and Y.
4. This term, when used in the context of sports, derives its usage from the Salem witch
trials, in which a test used to expose a witch required the woman in question to simply
swallow one communion wafer. Which term?
Answers:
2.Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw
3. X - Karl Rove, Y - Barack Obama
4. Choke
1. Name the sculptor. He is perhaps the only of his kind in India. Certainly the only well known
one. He is unique in the sense that all his sculptures are made from a certain material.
Answer: Sudershan PatnaikSudarshan Patnaik, Sand Sculptor
2. Bengali writer, Uttam Ghosh started his writing career with smut. Amongst his best sellers are
Nishiddha Swad [Forbidden Taste] and Bedside Stories. His next project was a two-volume
translation of Vivekananda‟s English writings. He was threatened with a lawsuit in 2005 for a
story he weaved around the life of Kolkata boy Jhontu. Why?
Answer: He illegally wrote Harry Potter Kolkattayewrote an illegal Harry Potter story - "Harry
Potter Ko
3. Name the artist. The story goes that one night out of frustration he picked up a knife and
started erasing his own art and thus invented a style of painting called scratch-painting which is
painting by scraping off paints with knives and blades to get the desired image.
Answer: Rameshwar Broota Rameshwar Broota. This painting is from his Man series paintings of gorilla-like men.
4. Bharadwaja was meditating by a river when he saw a naked Apsara Ghritachi bathing.
Seeing her thus, he ejaculated and collected the fluid in a pot. What resulted?
Answer: Dronacharya was born thus Dr
5. Muni Sharadwan had been celibate for a century, and was the Master of his Domain.
But once he happened to be strolling along a river bank when he saw a naked nymph
bathing. This unexpected sight unmanned him and he spent his seed into a clump of riverreed. Just a day later, two infants of unearthly splendour lay crying lustily in the bed of
reeds. Name the two infants thus born.
Answer: Kripa and KripiKripa and
Football quiz
Connect the following:
a)
b) Woolwich
c)
2. Again connect:
a) Manchester United
b) Zwickau (Hint: Its a place in Germany)
c)
3. During construction, this football stadium had not adopted an official name, and so became known
to fans simply as the Wearmouth or Monkwearmouth Stadium. The name eventually adopted is a
reference to a miner's lamp, recognising the fact that the stadium is built on top a coal mine, and that
many thousands of the club's fans, past and present, have worked in the region's mines. To emphasise
the fact, a giant Davy lamp (first introduced in this area) is located in front of the box office, adjacent to
the stadium.
Name the club and stadium.
1. It is Arsenal f.c..The pic is of graham (a former arsenal player and coach), the 2nd pic is of former arsenal
crest and Woolwich is the place where arsenal was founded as Dial Square.
2. The connect is Audi. zwickau is the place where the first automobile was produced by August Horch,who
later renamed it as Audi..The place in the pic is Ingolstadt, where the headquarters of Audi are located. As for
manu, check there any home game.
3. Stadium - Stadium of Light
club – Sunderland
Trivia
1. “During WWII, in Nazi occupied France, a group of Jewish - American soldiers were chosen to spread
fear throughout the Third Reich. They were to do this by scalping and brutally killing whatever Nazi
scumbag got in their way. This group of people was known as the __________”
Fill in the blank.
2. He said this was his year… to win 3 percent. Even after teaming up with Obama girl, he could
manage only 0.56 percent. Who?
3. X addressing Y on Y’s 90th birthday in November 2002:
You're right, we did it. We're very sorry. But thanks to you, we won't do it again.
Identify X & Y and hence give the context.
Answers:
1. The blank is Basterds or Inglourious Basterds (the upcoming Tarantino movie)
2. Ralph Nader
3. X - Ben S. Bernanke
Y - Milton Friedman
The context is the Great Depression.
1. Connect these two pictures and explain.
Answer
The guy is Abraham Zapruder, who actually shot on video the assassination of JFK
with his camera on the right. The film used itself is now referred to as Zapruder
film. He is seen testifying for the same.
2. Connect the two pictures.
Answer: Guy Fawkes - The phoenix Fawkes from the Harry Potter series, V for
Vendetta comic cover
3. Explain.
Answer: A controversial campaign poster for the Swiss People's Party - showing a
black sheep being kicked from the Swiss flag by a white sheep
1. A superhuman of Jat origins, he was genetically engineered by scientists on
earth to have physical and mental capabilities superior to those of normal humans.
Unfortunately, this resulted in a megalomaniacal streak he dreamt of world
domination. Even though his plans were thwarted temporarily, he remained in
suspended animation for 200 years, until someone found him by accident. Who
was he?
2. Born in Kanpur, he went on to study under Paul Dirac. He later moved to math
where he made significant contributions to the representation theory of noncompact groups. Who?
3. He was the second governor of Madras, where through his corrupt dealings he
was able to amass a fortune. Now known for entirely different reasons. Who?
1. Khan - from Star Trek - The Wrath of Khan
2. Harish Chandra
3. Elihu Yale
1. This is a Special Google Logo, Identify the occasion.
2. Connect the two people in the picture.
3. Identify the band.
4. What's going on here?
5. What's this?
6. Flag for?
7. Start and end with Google. In honor of?
Answers:
1. Louis Braille's birth
2. Matt Damon and Lars Ulrich(Metallica)- The character of 'Skylar' in 'Good Will Hunting', was
based on Matt Damon's real life ex-girlfriend, who later married(and divorced) Lars Ulrich.
3. Fall Out Boy
4. Ted Danson in Blackface
5. The formula for a martini, this was an ad for Parker Pens.
6. Khalistan
7. M.C.Escher(hands drawing hands)
SPORTS QUIZ
Q1.There is a prize for the fastest circumnavigation of the world by any type of
yacht with no restrictions on the size of the crew and it was first awarded to the
first yacht which sailed around the world in less than 80 days. Can you guess after
whom the trophy is named?
Q2.Which type of race originated in the British Isles where runners raced from one
town's X to the next where the X's were used as markers due to their visibility
over long distances. Along the way runners inevitably had to jump creeks and low
stone walls separating estates.
What is X?
Q3.According to the DVD movie interview of the movie 'Amadeus', Tom Hulce
studied which sportsman's mood swings for his portrayal of Mozart's unpredictable
genius?
Q4.The largest stadium in Portugal is by far Benfica's Estadio de Luz. It had a
77,000 capacity in the early 2000s, but by what name is it better known?
Q5.X was a Hollywood superstar who was well known for starring in action,
adrenaline pumping movies, but has since moved on to politics.
There is a Stadium bearing his name in his native country. Which club plays it's
home matches here? Also identify X?
Q6.Xand Y play at the 'Stadio delle Alpi' whose English translation is 'the stadium
of the Alps'? Identify X and Y.
Answers;
1. Jules Verne
2. Steeplechase
3. John McEnroe
4. Stadium of light
5. X: Arnold Schwarznegger. Club is Strum Graz
eSpice MMIX
1.
What was named Time man of the year in the year 1982?
2.
Developed by 25 year old college graduate Jordan Mechner who created the story, characters
and levels this game took four years to make. His father composed the music and he videotaped his
brother’s motions in order to make the animation realistic. Initially produced on Apple II, it later
made almost all platforms. What? [Hint: The game had to be completed in 60 minutes and cheat
Codes are “Megahit”]
3.
Which British computing brain died of Cyanide poisoning after being arrested and tried for
homosexuality?(Clue: Go Step By Step, in a State wise manner)
4.
Incorporated as Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company in 1911, it formally changed its
name in 1924. How do we better know this company today?
5.
Released on 22 March 93. Ted Hoff and Fedricco Faggin designed the first one for usiom of
Japan. It was originally to be called 80586, Razor, Prochip & Intellect. What are we discussing?
6.
Invented by IBM engineer, Alan Shugart. It was used initially to hold microcode and
diagnostics for the IBM mainframe computer systems. It got a nick name due to its flexibility and that
is the name by which we know it today. What?
7.
In 1983, the subscribers of PC World received a free demo floppy with the magazine. This was
probably the first time in history that a magazine featured a floppy bind in. Now days this practice is
pretty common with magazines giving away CDs instead of floppies. What product was introduced to
the subscribers via that floppy?
8.
It could have been: Calex, Elcal, Calecom, Elcom, Calcomp, Digicom, Tronicom, Comptek,
Computek, Esscotek, Ectek or something that sounds closer to More Noise. But what name was finally
chosen for this startup?
9.
How and where would you most probably read the following:
“And the beast shall come forth surrounded by a roiling cloud of vengeance. The house of the
unbelievers shall be razed and they shall be scorched to the earth. Their tags shall blink until the end
of days.”
10.
Which chat client did Bridget Jones and her boss Daniel Cleaver use to flirt online in the chick
flick Bridget Jones' Diary?
11.
What was formerly codenamed Blackcomb and Vienna?
12.
a.
Expand
MIDI.
b.
c.
d.
e.
f.
SATA
MBR
WGA
CMOS
MSN
13.
Kay McNulty, Betty Jennings, Betty Snyder, Marlyn Wescoff, Fran Bilas and Ruth Lichterman are the six
women who did most of the programming for what project?
14.
“READ THIS PAGE FIRST! First compiled when I became frustrated while reading magazine
articles, help wanted ads and equipment for sale brochures....all pertaining to computers....where the
following Abbreviations and Acronyms were used and their meanings were either not known to me or
were not immediately available. I have actually seen (or have been told about) these combinations of
letters used at one time or another in magazines, newspapers, handbooks, etc. They apply to personal
computers, multimedia, communications, programming, networking, etc......you name it. This glossary
can never be considered complete so look over the entries and let me have your feedback. If you find
errors or if you can suggest additions, they will be most welcome (See NOTE 1). If you can help, you
have my thanks in advance.”
We all might have used this list for preparing for IT quizzes. What is it called?
15.
X started in Chicago, Illinois as Galvin Manufacturing Corporation in 1928 with its first product
being a battery eliminator. The name X was adopted in 1930, and the word has been used as a trademark since
the 1930s. Founders Paul Galvin and Joseph Galvin came up with the name when the company started
manufacturing car radios in 1930; the name is derived from a part of the car and the market leader in record
players at that time. Identify X.
Trivia
1. He was India’s representative at Bretton Woods Conference which led to the formation of IMF and
World Bank. He was also a minister in Nehru’s cabinet from 1950 to 1956 but resigned in protest. He
was awarded the Magsaysay award in 1959 for distinguished Government Service. Identify the person.
2. It was the World War II slang for UFO’s. Some say it was a hush – hush group of air force pilots who
tried to shoot down UFO’s. Which band gets its name from the above slang?
3. A popular beverage gets its name from a Greek Athlete in classical times who was reputed to have
phenomenal strength. He was said to have supported the roof of a collapsing building in which the
mathematician, Pythagoras, was teaching, thus saving his life. The beverage advertises itself as musthave energy drink. Name the Beverage.
1. CD Deshmukh
2. FooFighters
3. Milo
Science quiz
1. Name the plant.
2. Name this recent anthropological find
3. Satellite image of what?
4. Who is she?
ANSWERS
1. Giant Rafflesia
2. Hobbit
3. The Five Great Lakes
4. Anousheh Ansari
General quiz
1. Name the guy on the logo
.
2. Connect the above
3. Z was created as a joint venture between the X and Y, which produced mainframe computers. In the
early 1990s, however, Y went out of business because of the general shift away from the use of
mainframes in the global computer industry and the advent of the personal computer. The X group
kept the name Z but it now belongs to the X group of companies.
These days this company provides special effects for movies such as Rang De basanti, Into the blue,
Bunty aur Babli etc.. Identify X, Y, Z?
4. X massacred the bowling attack comprising Bishen Singh Bedi and Prasanna in an Irani Trophy game
during the 70s, which prompted the commentator to compare his big hitting to C K Nayadu. Hence, the
nickname Y was born. Give me both X and Y.
5. David Cameron has driven the G-Wiz, though he didn't really comment on it. G-Wiz is a favorite
punching bag of Jeremy Clarkson. Not only has he made it lose to the Renault Alpine A610, but also to
a wooden table. :)
One guy has called it the "sweetest four-wheeled self-propelled invention to hit the London streets
since the first horseless carriage arrived at the end of the 19th century." How do we better know it
back home.
6. Z's lines from a Pepsi ad: My name is Z. I hope you haven't forgotten me. Whatever happened, why it
happened I do not know... On the field or outside the field, I won't keep quite. Hu ha...
Identify Z.
7. This ad created controversy due to its racist undertones. Which company?
8. Painter, Subject.
9. I knew him by wanting to play with him. We had Pantera open for ____(his band) in the U.S. and in
Europe. When you get to the level of guitar playing that I'm at and that he was at, the air is pretty thin
up there . . . Darrell was a really gentle spirit and pretty easygoing guy. Society is looking at this and
saying, "This is heavy metal." That's not heavy metal, that's a random act.
An (im) modest tribute to the late Dimebag Darrell. By whom?
10. Formerly New Zealand's fourth most popular guitar-based digi-bongo acapella-rap-funk-comedy
folk duo. They now have a hilarious show on HBO. Among their hits are - The Robot Song (The Humans
are Dead), Hiphopopotamus vs. Rhymenoceros.
11. In his free time, he is a lieutenant in the Territorial Army. As "Assistant (to the) Regional Manager",
he annoys his Wernham Hogg coworkers with his steadfast enforcement of the rules and sucking up to
boss David Brent. He may be familiar to you as someone else. Who?
12. Known as futbol de mesa in Spain and as biliardino in Italy, it is called _____ in the US. The regulatory body
for this sport is the ITSF in France. The World Championships coincide with the FIFA World Cup every four years.
1. Harland Sanders
2. Sites of Mumbai terror attacks
Leopold Cafe, Trident Oberoi, CST Terminus etc.
3. Tata, Elxsi, Tata Elxsi Visual Group
4. Dilip Vengsarkar, Colonel
5. Electric car, Reva
6. Saurav Ganguly
7. Intel
8. A painting of Monet painting, made by Manet.
9. Dave Mustaine
10. Flight of the Conchords
11. THE OFFICE, Gareth Keenan
12. Foosball
General quiz
1. "I am the living death, the Memorial Day on wheels. I am your Yankee Doodle Dandy, your John Wayne
come home, your Fourth of July firecracker exploding in the grave." Whose words?
Ron Kovic
2. Bill Brown by __________ __________, Australia v India, Sydney,
Ian Redpath by Charlie Griffith, Australia v West Indies, Adelaide,
Derek Randall by Ewen Chatfield, England v New Zealand, Christchurch,
Sikander Bakht by Alan Hurst, Pakistan v Australia, Perth,
Fill in the blanks and name the mode of dismissal.
Vinoo Mankad, Mode of Dismissal: Mankaded
3. Connect: Anil Ambani, Rahul Dravid, Shahrukh Khan, Mahendra Singh Dhoni and Orkut.
MTV Youth Icons
4. This writer studied architecture at the School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi. In the 1980s she
did an assignment with the Italian edition of Vogue magazine, adorning Rajasthani jewelry. Identify.
Arundhati Roy
5. “On October 4, 2003, at 5 pm, about 60 people gathered outside Crossroads in Central Mumbai. First,
they gesticulated wildly like stockbrokers and yelled into their phones: 'Reliance ek hazaar becho!' and
'Khareedo, khareedo!' Then they broke into an impromptu garba dance, and at a shouted signal, they froze
and held their pose for exactly half a minute. A voice yelled, 'Move!' and each of the 60 odd men and
women unfurled their umbrellas and melted away into the crowd.” What am I describing here?
India's first flash mob
6. Whose epitaph reads thus–
Nature, and nature's laws, lay hid in night,
God said, let __________ be! And all was light.
Isaac Newton
7. “And so at last the beast fell and the unbelievers rejoiced. But all was not lost, for from the ash rose
a great bird. The bird gazed down upon the unbelievers and cast fire and thunder upon them. For the
beast had been reborn with its strength renewed, and the followers of Mammon cowered in horror.”
- From X, 7:15
Where would you find these lines and what is the significance of 7:15?
about: Mozilla (The Book of Mozilla), the 7:15 chapter and verse notation refers to July 15, 2003, the day
when America Online shut down its Netscape browser division and the Mozilla Foundation was launched.
9. This company, a financial dot-com, launched an incredible celebrity endorsement campaign featuring
three of the most expensive celebrities in the country with the signature line – ‘Life Means More’. The
campaign was used as a cover for a meticulously planned financial scam. Which company?
HomeTrade
10. X is a community of nature worshippers. X, when translated, means 29, because the founder Guru
Jambheshwar laid down 29 principles to be followed by the sect. Before his death, he stated that the animal
Y was his manifestation after death and should be conserved. What are X and Y?
Bishnoi, black buck
Corporate quiz at innovision 2008 prelims
1. Which is the largest apparel maker in the world?
2. X, established in 1906 as X Hindu Permanent Fund in Mangalore, India, by Ammembal Subba Rao
Pai, is one of the oldest and major commercial banks of India. The Government of India nationalized
the bank, along with 13 other major commercial banks of India, on 19 July 1969.
3. X was incorporated in Seattle, Washington by William E. X, on July 15, 1916, as "Pacific Aero
Products Co." William E. X had studied at Yale University and worked initially in the timber industry,
where he became wealthy and acquired knowledge about wooden structures. This knowledge would
prove invaluable in his subsequent designs. Identify X.
4. X (founded 1909) is a German luxury car manufacturer. Wilhelm X with his son Karl X as director
founded it in 1909. The company was originally a subsidiary of Luftschiffbau Zeppelin and was itself
known as "Luftfahrzeug-Motorenbau GmbH" (literally "Airship Engine Company") until 1918. Today,
the brand is owned by Daimler AG and based in Stuttgart.
5. X was an English cricketer who played 190 first-class cricket matches for three English county cricket
teams, Kent, Middlesex and Sussex. He was posthumously selected as Cricketer of the Year in 1913, 50
years after his retirement from first-class cricket. Who is X?
Roshan
6. It was created by entrepreneurs Niklas Zennström, Janus Friis, and a team of software developers
based in Tallinn, Estonia. The X Group has its headquarters in Luxembourg, with offices in London,
Tallinn, Tartu, Stockholm, Prague and San Jose. X has experienced rapid growth in popular usage since
the launch of its services. It was acquired by eBay in September 2005 for $2.6 billion.
*7. It was first commissioned by The Times (London) newspaper in 1931 and designed by Stanley
Morison together with Starling Burgess and Victor Lardent. It was commissioned to address the
problems of high-speed printing on low quality newsprint. What am I talking about?
8. Bitten Hisses, Buzzing Hornets, Bitten Heroes are/were all alternatively used names of which brand
and where are they used?
9. The story of this company began in 1907 when its founder Eugene Schueller, a chemical engineer,
developed the first synthetic hair dye. In 1908,he set up the French Company for Inoffensive Hair Dyes
which later became X. Initially he did everything himself, manufacturing products during the night,
then selling them to Parisian hairdressers in the morning and delivering them in the afternoon.
10. What is the German phrase for Blue Dot?
11. X (born November 7, 1942) is an American writer on business management practices, best known
for, In Search of Excellence (co-authored with Robert H. Waterman, Jr). Who is X?
*12.How are the people Stan Getz, Michael Brecker, McCoy Tyner, Duke Ellington, Billy Strayhorn, Ella
Fitzgerald, Dexter Gordon together known other than the fact that they are jazz artists?
13. X: The Fall of Y is a 1990 book about the leveraged buyout (LBO) of Y, by investigative journalists
Bryan Burrough and John Helyar. The book is based upon a series of articles written by the authors for
The Wall Street Journal. The book was later made into a made-for-TV movie by HBO, also called X.
Identify X and Y.
*14. Ilayaraja's song, 'Naguva nayana' from the 1983 Kannada movie, 'Pallavi Anupallavi came back
into popular Indian consciousness as what?
15. X is an Indian conglomerate with interests in engineering, abrasives, fertilizers, finance, bioproducts and plantations. The group started in early 20th century. Started at the same Tiruvottriyur, it
is headquartered in Chennai, India, is a $ 2.4 billion (Rs 9,582 crore) conglomerate with 29 companies
under its umbrella, of which eight are listed and actively traded on the National Stock Exchange. What
is X?
16. X (born February, 1967) is a British designer and the Senior Vice President of Industrial Design at
Apple Inc. He is internationally renowned as the principal designer of the iMac, aluminum PowerBook
G4 (and Mac Book Pro), iPod and iPhone. His name?
17. X is a book by Abhijeet Bhaduri, an Indian writer who writes about his MBA at XLRI, Jamshedpur in
a very simplistic and yet comical way. Give me the name of the book, which is also an expansion of
MBA. It also according to Bhaduri, signifies what MBA degree pursuers and holders are??Extremely
average in their work and yet have a high-headed cockiness. Give me the name of the book.
Answers
1. Mattel-They manufacture clothes for all those Barbies
2. Canara Bank
3. Boeing
4. Maybach
5. John Wisden
6. Skype
7. The Font Times New Roman
8. Benson and Hedges-wherever cigarette advertising is not allowed-especially F1
9. L'Oreal
10. Blaupunkt
11. Tom Peters
12. Codenames for Wordpress releases
13. Barbarians at the Gate:Fall of RJR Nabisco
14. The Idea Cellular Jingle
15. Murugappa Group
16. Jonathan Ives
17. Mediocre but Arrogant
Tata crucible Delhi round 2009
1. Whose book is titled ' the story of my assassins'?
2. Logo of?
Tetra Pak
3. Raju Narisetty has moved from The Wall Street Journal to which other big American Newspaper?
Post
4. The copyright on whose books ended in 2009? Gandhi
5. Ad for? *This wasn’t the ad shown, but the brand and the campaign is the same.+
Coca Cola Little Drops of Joy Ad campaign.
6. Which company had moved into sponsor Sri lankan Cricket Team after Dilmah backed off?ialog
Telecom
7. Who, along with Shilpa Shetty gained a share of Rajasthan Royals recently?
8. Identify the person, has heavy investments in Sports and is also governor of Chukotka.
9. Which consulting firm has recently released an initiative to scrutinise company records for any
malpractices?
10. Which famous actress, following her successful contribution to the AIDS campaign, has now been
roped in for the Breast Cancer Awareness programme?
11. Identify the guy from Nike.
12. Which company held a F1 promotion campaign recently on Rajpath. [Is present in India]Renault
13. Which place has a state of the art rail coach factory and is better known recently for Sonia GandhiMayawati standoff?ae Bareilly
14. Which Newspaper is known for different timing than most dailies? [Their ad was shown, but cant
find it].
Mid Day
15. Captain Krishnan Nair is the head of which Indian Hotel Chain?
16. Which famous Indian sports women will be endorsing a Herbal drink?
17. Logo of which group from Gujarat?
18. Which sportsperson was removed by Kelloggs as its brand ambassador because of some
disreputable action on his part?ichael Phelps
19. Song- ’Masakali’. Identify the Producer.
20. Ad for? [Video of people playing hypothetical instruments, coupled with great sounds]
Wildcard Questions
1. Company formed by Mamman Mapillai RF
2. Company founded by a young doctor in Kolkata.
3. Who bought over Wall Street Journal recently?ert Murdoch
4. Soap named after Turkish community bathrooms.
5. 'To lay open' is Latin term. Known in English as?
6. 1st product was Liquid Organic CleanersAmway
7. Company name from anglicized form of Founder Matsuda.
8. Double Helix is the logo of which Indian Company.
9. American Messenger Service founded by Teenagers.UPS
Finals
Round 1
1. Latin for ' Course of Life' / French for ' Summary'.
Curriculum Vitae/ Resume
2. Can’t afford to take you for granted. Can’t afford to take it for granted. Can’t afford dirty ashtrays,
unwashed cars etc. Which famous ad? Car Rentals ' We try
3. 1st published from Naya Bazar in Delhi in 1946. What? Hindusndustan Times
4. Popular chain owned by ICBW Co-operative Society.ian Coffee House
5. Iridium consortium of satellites was so named because?satellites were supposed to be part of the
consortium and Iridium has atomic number 77.
6. Bear who made short sells who can’t meet commitments made on the sale. He is struggling like a
___________.ame Duck
Round 2
Identify:
1. Which organization?
2. Second man in sequence?
3. Indian Designer, These were designed for which organization?
4. Whose initiative?
5. Bombay DostMagazine, Publisher - Humsafar Trust. What’s special?
6. What’s the funda ?
Google Page Rank
Round 3
Tata World
1. African Telecom major that had a stake bought by Tata.
2. Vitax is a brand from which Tata company?ta Tea
3. Under which name does Tata sell plywood?
4. Smart Basics, Help Yourself.nger hotels
Round 4
Connect
1. Kapil Dev, Zee Network, Glucose-D, 'Disco Dancer' Song.
2. Parineeta Song, Shiv Nadar, UPS, L & T, Indian Distributor and UPS Worldwide distributor.
3. Flyte, (1/2) mv^2, Mahindra, Ride the change, Beedi jalaile song, Kinetic Energy, and bought by
Mahindra.
4. Club Spice, Force 10, Pretty Woman song, Funda mint, Sonba
, and other Godfrey Phillips brands.
Round 5
1. Concept formalised first in 1978 - Delhi Metro
2. Originally formed in 1891, gave away baking powder with their products. - Wrigley's
3. Created by Col. Needham - IMDB
Answers:
1. Tarun Tejpal
2. Tetra pak
3. Washington Post
4. Mahatma Gandhi
5. Coca Cola Little Drops Of Joy campaign
6. Dialog Telecom
7. Raj Kundra
8. Roman Abrhamovich
9. KPMG
10. Shabana Azmi
11. Phil Knight
12. Renault
13. Rae Bareilly
14. Mid Day
15. Leela Group
16. Saina Nehwal
17. Adani Group
18. Michael Phelps
19. Ronnie Screwala
20. Bose Audio
1. X was built by an engineer of the company Y 50 years ago.
X has been identified by German patent registrars as one of the 8 patents to have the greatest human
significance between the years 1885 and 1985.
Y recently released figures which stated that one million lives have been saved due 2 X.
Identify X and Y.
Ans: X is the 3 point safety belt. Y is Volvo
2. Connect:
1._________ Archibald Haddock
2.Cryptic: Jadoo is hungry. Feed him.
3. Pimple II aka 4875
4.Parampara (movie)
5.Cryptic: Bhartiya Crescent of Courage
6.Army Public School, Dhaula Kuan
Ans: Captain Anuj Nayyar
3. What is so special about Karnataka Khadi Gramodyoga Samyukta Sangha, Hubli?
Ans: This is the organization which has the sole rights to prepare the tri color for the country
Which book was marketed with the tagline "I have been arrested. For winning a quiz show."?
QUESTIONS YOU WANT MORE……..
1. From '42-45, he served in the US Navy during WWII as a fighter pilot. During '71-73,
he was US Ambassador to the UN. During '76-77, he was the head of the CIA. Who is he?
2. He was the wicket-keeper captain of St. Columba's High School. His teammates
included Rahul Roy and Marc Robinson. He once asked Imran Khan for an autograph at
Ferozeshah Kotla and the annoyed cricketer hit him with a bat. Who is this guy?
3. Apart from the first chapter in what order are the chapters of the Koran arranged?
4. Which product gets its name from the Hindi word for eating a lime?
5. I don't know who you are or where you are from but I am gonna get you. Who said this
to whom?
6. According to Business Week, when New York's World Trade Centre was bombed in
1993, a man James McIntyre led a group of people across 34 floors using what as a
source of light?
7. In which sport is playing with the left hand not allowed
8. What was started by Subramanya Aiyer and the Triplicane Six with a rupee and six
paise?
9. For the winners of what is the Raghu Ramaiah Cup given?
10. On whom? (Larry Ellison) If he was a plumber he would control all the water in the
world and force anyone who wanted to use the precious liquid to cut a deal with him.
11. Nobert Pearl Roth could read 13 languages. He read 350,000 books in a span of two
years for a particular purpose. What?
12. Complete the series birdie, eagle----
13. The temple of Rose Mars is in a village called Devalapura near Bangalore. Who is
worshipped here?
14. This word is said to come from the Hebrew words for Father, Son and the Holy Ghost.
Identify this word, which has been used as a cablistic charm.
15. A man pushes his car. Finally he reaches a hotel and knows that he is bankrupt. How
come?
16. A famous electrical expert was present at the first electrocution. He critized the electric
chair by pointing out that electrocution was not instantaneous. Who was this expert?
17. Which is the only capital city in the world, which has no traffic lights?
18. Connect Brahma and Helen of troy
19. Among all the things that "fell" in 1665, one which fell at Woodsthorpe manor became
most famous. Which one?
20. Who said this to whom "Had you been in my army, I would have made you a colonel"?
21. Which company gave Santa Claus his traditional dress?
22. Every single match ball used at EURO 2004 was inscribed with the name of the teams,
the date, the name of the stadium and something very specific to the stadium. What?
23. If it happens, who will be the youngest ever to undergo a Dope Test (related to
Athletics)?
24. Who wears the “Fisherman‟s Ring”?
25. What is common to Abraham Lincoln, Lord Mountbatten, Jawaharlal Nehru and Giani
Zail Singh?
26. Where would you find the Islets of Langerhans?
27. In 1885, what did Canada sell to the State of New York for $150,000?
28. The late John F Kennedy Jr. Once joked that an advertising slogan finally convinced
him to take the plunge and get married. Which famous slogan inspired him to tie the
knot?
29. Name the person - b Sep 19, 1965 in Euclid, Ohio. Completed her BSc in phy science
from US naval academy in 1987. In 1990, she was deployed in the Persian Gulf as part of
op. desert storm.
30. This was the old logo of which present day company?
31. "I was waiting for my teammates to embrace me, and no one came...I told them,
„Come hug me, or he won’t allow it.‟" Whose words about what?
32. During the 1982 Ranji Trophy semi-final, Raghuram Bhat picked 8 wickets in the first
innings, including a hat-trick. Later, batting at No.11, he scored 30 runs and helped put
on a partnership of 91 runs for the last wicket. Staring down the barrel of an innings
defeat, the opposition captain came in to bat at the uncharacteristic No.8 position and did
something remarkable. Though his 66-ball unbeaten innings failed to save his team, the
match is still remembered for his heroics. Identify the batsman and what did he do?
33. His first-class career lasted from 1900 to 1907. In all he played 10 matches for MCC -
18 innings, 6 not-outs, 231 runs, highest score 43, average 19.25. He also took one
wicket for 50 runs. Identify him.
34. As a child, he designed shoes for walking on water. After his graduation he was a
lecturer of Astronomy. He propounded ground breaking theories on labour division and
production technology. His inventions included, the cowcatcher, Speedometer, uniform
postal rates and Greenwich Time Signals. He once baked himself in an oven at 2650 Far.
and on another occasion was lowered into Mt. Vesuvius to view molten lava. Identify him.
35. The name of the object means small in Gujrati which is the native language of its
owner.Its first glimpse was seen at pragati maidan on January 10 2008. It‟s available for
$2500 in Apple green, Ivory white, Lagoon blue, Lava grey, Lunar Silver, Ink Blue, Lime
Yellow, Racing Red
36. Name the largest structure on this planet ever made by any living creature?
ANSWERS
1. George Bush sr.
2. Shah Rukh Khan
3. Decreasing order of length
4. Limca
5. Deep Blue to Kasparov
6. Timex Indiglow Watch
7. Polo
8. The Hindu
9. The cricket match between Rajya Sabha and Lok Sabha
10. Bill Gates
11. Ripley's Believe it or not
12. Albatross
13. Elvis Preisly (check sp.)
14. AbracaDabra
15. Monopoly
16. Tesla
17. Thimphu
18. Born from an egg
19. Newton's Apple
20. Hitler to Dhyanchand
21. Coca Cola
22. The latitude and longitude of the centre of the pitch
23. Buddhia Singh
24. Pope
25. They are names of hybrid roses grown in the indian parliament
26. Pancreas
27. Niagra Falls
28. Nike's Just Do It
29. Sunita Williams
30. Nokia
31. Diego Maradona after the Hand of God
32.
33.
34.
35.
36.
Sunil Gavaskar - batted left handed for 6 balls
Arthur Conan Doyle
Charles Babbage
Tata Nano
Great Barrier Reef
1. Connect the images:
Answer: harsha bhogle ,part of the 'few good men' team of commentators and brand
ambassador for tata aig and sugar free
2. Identify and connect the following players:b
Answer: Only batsmen to have batted on all 5 days of a test match.
3. What is her claim to fame (besides her looks obviously!)?
Answer: danica patrick, the 1st woman indy 300 winner
4. Connect the following:
1. Famous Indian Badminton player from Karnataka. Among other titles, won the All England
Open in 1980.
2. Former Indian cricketer (spinner), and now umpire. Known by an anagram (of sorts) of his
name.
3. Identify.
4. (Wiki-Lift) She is one of the most renowned Kuchipudi and Bharatanatyam dancers in India
today. She holds a MBA and a doctorate from IIM Ahmedabad and has experience in acting,
film-making, editing and television anchoring.
5. "The Father of Advertising". Go for the obvious answer here.
6. Identify.
Answers
1. Prakash Padukone
2. S Venkataraghavan
3. Balamuralikrishna
4. Malika Sarabhai
5. David Ogilvy
6. Pandit Bhimsen Joshi
the connect the "Mile Sur Mera Tumhara" Clip
1) Name the largest planned city in the world ?
2) Which is Asia's largest residential colony ?
3) Name the places of the Danish settlement in India ?
4) In which comic does Tintin comes to India?
5) Between which two tennis player were the Battle of Sexes fought?
6) Which three presidents of which country signed the NAM (Non Aligned Movement)?
7) Who was called the Black Bradman?
8) Who is the main protagonist in the Gears of War series?
9) For which film did Arundhati Roy wrote a screenplay and won a National Film Award for
Best Screenplay?
10) First Indian women to win a round in Wimbledon?
Answers:
1) Navi Mumbai
2) Gomti Nagar in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh
3) Tranquebar in Tamil Nadu, Serampore in West Bengal, Nicobar islands of Andaman and
Nicobar Islands.
4) Tintin in Tibet
5) Bobby Riggs and Billie Jean King
6) Jawaharlal Nehru (India),Gammel Abdel Nasser (Egypt), J.B Tito (Yugoslavia)
7) George Headley
8) Marcus Fenix
9) In which Annie gives it those ones.
10) Nirupama Vaidyanathan
1. Complete the list.
Vinson Massif, elbrus, Everest. Kilimanjaro, Kosciuszko, X, Y
IDENTIFY X AND Y....
1. x- mount McKinley
y- Aconcagua
Company or biz quiz
Q1. This company is should be the only one named after a Greek letter. It has been
associated
with
Olympics.
Name
the
company?
Q2. Which famous company derives its name from the Japanese name of Bodhisatva for
mercy.
Q3.
This
car
company
is
named
after
the
Latin
for
its
owner.
Q4. Born as Multitech International in 1976, the company changed its name to X in 1987. The
Latin
word
for
“sharp,
acute,
able
and
facile”
Q5. "Accent on the future". Name proposed by a company employee in Norway.
Q6.
Means
'high
view'
in
Spanish.
DEC
created
it,
yahoo
owns
it.
Q7. Which company is named after the Italian word for bartender? (Hint 26-July)
Q8.Victor
Company
of
Japanis?
Q9.Name
RichardBranson'sautobiography.
Q10. True Trivia! He was the first Briton to be killed in an aeronautical accident, and the
eleventh internationally. A statue in his memory, in which he is seen holding a biplane
model, was erected in Agincourt Square, Monmouth. (Hint - He formed a car company with
another person and his name still appears in the name of the famous car company.)
Answers:
1. Omega
2. Canon
3. Audi
4. Acer
5. Accenture
6. AltaVista
7. BARISTA
8. JVC
9. Losing my virginity
10. Rolls Royce
SPORTS QUIZ
1) Which club Hernan Crespo used to play for before joining Lazio, a record transfer fee then.
2) Canada Govt. decided to have 2 national sports, one for winters and one for summers. For
winters, it was Ice Hockey, what was it for summers?
3) The first ODI was played between which two teams?
4) Which grand prix the incident occured when Barichello was instructed to give way to
Schumacher in order to win the race?
5) Which bowler has taken most no. of wickets in World Cups?
6) Baseball is the national sport of Japan and which other country? (It's not USA)
7) Connect - Houston Rockets, San Antonio Spurs, Dallas Mavericks
8) Connect - Steve Williams, Glen Jacobs, Mark Callaway, Adam Copeland
9) Connect - Ronaldo, ___________ , Zidane and why?
10) Which baseball team plays at New York apart from the Yankees?
11) Mrs. Peacock, Mrs. White, ___________ . Also tell which Sport is this related too?
12) Identify the person along with Kevin Pietersen?
13) Identify the athlete in the centre?
14) What was this group better known as?
15) Identify which trophy is this?
16) Who used to manage this club before Claudio Ranieri?
17) This company was started in Denmark in 1847 by a person after the name of his son. In
2001 it joined a Norwegian company 2001 by Orkla ASA, thus becoming the 5th largest
company in its field. Today it is associated with one of the biggest football club in the
world.\
GENERAL QUIZ
1) He used to open the batting for his country in one day cricket, and used to bat in the
middle order in Test cricket. He was also a right arm medium bowler. He has 16 ODI
Centuries and 37 ODI Fifties to his name and is the second highest run-scorer of all time in
One-Day Internationals for his country. His highest ODI score of 145* was recorded against
relative minnows USA although he won several matches for his country against countries with
full Test match status. He has played County Cricket in England for Derbyshire, Durham and
Nottinghamshire.
2) His father’s name was Prabodhankar because of his articles in his fortnightly magazine
named Prabodhan or "Enlightenment. He was born in a lower-middle class family. He started
his career as a cartoonist in the Free Press Journal in Mumbai in the 1950s. His cartoons
were also published in the Sunday edition of The Times of India. In 1960, he launched a
cartoon weekly Marmik with his brother.
3) He is also known in texts as Vira or Viraprabhu, Sanmati, Ativira,and Gnatputra. In the
Buddhist Pali Canon, he is referred to as Nigantha Nātaputta. In a place called
Kshatriyakunda in the ancient kingdom of Lachuar in Jamui District in modern day Bihar,
India, he was born to King Siddartha and Queen Trishala on the 13th day under the rising
moon of Chaitra. While still in his mother's womb it is believed he brought wealth and
prosperity to the entire kingdom, which is why he was also known as Vardhaman.
4) Sandeep Reddy purchased what for $84 million in 2008?
5) His middle name is Craig.He is nicknamed Church although he is world renowned for
another nickname. His strike rate is amongst the highest in the history of both One-day and
Test cricket. He made his first-class debut in 1992, his first One-Day International
appearance in 1996 in India and his Test debut in 1999.
ANSWERS:
1) NATHAN ASTLE
2) BAL THACKERAY
3) MAHAVIRA
4) DELHI DAREDEVILS
5) ADAM GILCHRIST