Cut the Crap Quiz (General Quiz)

F I N A L S

DISCLAIMERNo Animals were harmed during the making of the quiz.

ROUND 1: Written8 Questions

Scoring: +15/0

Write all the answers on your sheet

Q1.An apocryphal or a fabricated story recounts that the 12th century Hoysala king Veera Ballala II, while on a hunting expedition, lost his way in the forest. Tired and hungry, he came across a poor old woman who served him boiled beans. The grateful king named the town “the town of boiled beans", which eventually evolved into X. Suryanath Kamath has put forward an explanation of a possible floral origin of the name, being derived from the vernacular term for Pterocarpusmarsupium (also known as the Indian Kino Tree), a species of dry and moist deciduous trees, that grew abundantly in the region.

Give X

Q2. What is X(brand)?X was made in 1952, famously because the then Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, was concerned that Indian women were spending precious foreign exchange on beauty products, and personally requested J.R.D Tata to manufacture them in India.

Q3. Identify the company from its logo that also

highlights the "31 flavors" it promised its customers - one variety each day of the month.

Q4.What does a person suffering from Paraskavedekatriaphobia fear?

Hint: Look hard at the word

Q5.The photo on the next slide has been cut-pasted millions of times. What’s so special about this photo?

Q6. ID this guy

Q7.In the early 1970s, a stoned hippie arrived in Benares looking for nirvana.But when he asked a sadhu he was dragged to the top of a hillock, his head was shaved and then he was allowed to go. This weird experience resulted in his returning to his returning to his country to set up what ?

Q8. ID XX is India’s own card payment scheme. Like all other card payment schemes,notably Visa and MasterCard, it was created to ensure cashless transactions.

The scheme was conceived by National Payment Corporation of India (NPCI), agovernment agency, an initiative of the Reserve Bank of India and an umbrella institution for all retail payment systems in the country.

ExchangeSheets

ROUND 1: Answers10 Questions

Scoring: +15/0

Write all the answers on your sheet

Q1.An apocryphal or a fabricated story recounts that the 12th century Hoysala king Veera Ballala II, while on a hunting expedition, lost his way in the forest. Tired and hungry, he came across a poor old woman who served him boiled beans. The grateful king named the town “the town of boiled beans", which eventually evolved into X. Suryanath Kamath has put forward an explanation of a possible floral origin of the name, being derived from the vernacular term for Pterocarpusmarsupium (also known as the Indian Kino Tree), a species of dry and moist deciduous trees, that grew abundantly in the region.

Give X

(BLANK SLIDE)

Ans. Bangalore

Q2.X was made in 1952, famously because the then Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, was concerned that Indian women were spending precious foreign exchange on beauty products, and personally requested J.R.D Tata to manufacture them in India.

(BLANK SLIDE)

Ans.

Q3. Identify the company from its logo that also

highlights the "31 flavors" it promised its customers - one variety each day of the month.

(BLANK SLIDE)

Ans.

Q4.What does a person suffering from Paraskavedekatriaphobia fear?

Hint: Look hard

(BLANK SLIDE)

Ans.

Q5.The photo on the next slide has been cut-pasted millions of times. What’s so special about this photo?

(BLANK SLIDE)

Ans.

Q6. ID this guy

(BLANK SLIDE)

Ans. Colonel Sanders

Q7.In the early 1970s, a stoned hippie arrived in Benares looking for nirvana.But when he asked a sadhu he was dragged to the top of a hillock, his head was shaved and then he was allowed to go. This weird experience resulted in his returning to his returning to his country to set up what ?

(BLANK SLIDE)

Ans.

Q8. ID XX is India’s own card payment scheme. Like all other card payment schemes,notably Visa and MasterCard, it was created to ensure cashless transactions.

The scheme was conceived by National Payment Corporation of India (NPCI), agovernment agency, an initiative of the Reserve Bank of India and an umbrella institution for all retail payment systems in the country.

(BLANK SLIDE)

Ans.

ROUND 2: Bollywood Minimalist posters

4 Questions

Scoring: +15/-5

Pounce & write down your answer on your sheet

Eg.

Ans.

1.

(BLANK SLIDE)

Ans.

2.

(BLANK SLIDE)

Ans.

3.

(BLANK SLIDE)

Ans.

4.

(BLANK SLIDE)

Ans.

ROUND 3: Hollywood Minimalist posters

5 Questions

Scoring: +15/-5

Pounce & write down your answer on your sheet

1.

(BLANK SLIDE)

Ans.

2.

(BLANK SLIDE)

Ans.

3.

(BLANK SLIDE)

3.

4.

(BLANK SLIDE)

Ans.

5.

(BLANK SLIDE)

Ans.

ROUND 4: Pounce++

9+1 Questions

+30/-5 for Pounce

+50/-15 for Powerplay

1.The Most Interesting Man in the World is an advertising campaign for the Dos Equis brand of beer, produced by the marketing firm Euro RSCG for Cuauhtémoc MoctezumaBrewery.The ads feature Jonathan Goldsmith as "the world's most interesting man" and are narrated by Frontline's Will Lyman. The advertisements first began appearing in the United States in 2006 and have since then been adapted into a certain thing which you have come across on the Internet.

(BLANK SLIDE)

Ans.

2.In the original ending, the X killed Y in the movie Z. The Censor Board did not agree with this ending, saying that its vigilante aspect undermined the rule of law and could adversely influence naive young minds. So, a new ending was created that showed the police running in at the last moment, arresting Y, and specifically telling the X that only the law has the right to punish criminals. The original ending was restored in the 204-minute director's cut.

Give X, Y and Z.

(BLANK SLIDE)

Ans.X - Thakur

Y - Gabbar Singh

Z - Sholay

3. ID theadvertiser

(BLANK SLIDE)

Ans. Durex

4. There’s a video on the next slide

The name of the short movie is “Lebe Jetzt” and stars Michael Steiner, his wife Eliese Steiner and Salman Khurshid (Minister of External Affairs in the UPA Govt).

Who is Michael Steiner?

(BLANK SLIDE)

Ans. German Ambassador to India (since March 2012)

The "nine dots" puzzle. The goal of the puzzle is to link all 9 dots using four straight lines or less, without lifting the pen and without tracing the same line more than once. The solution to the puzzle led to a famous expression. What?Solution on next slide

6.

(BLANK SLIDE)

Ans. (applies to the question as well)Think outside the box

7. ID X (novel)X is a French historical novel, first published in 1862, that is considered one of the greatest novels of the 19th century. In the English-speaking world, the novel is usually referred to by its original French title, however several alternatives have been used. Beginning in 1815 and culminating in the 1832 June Rebellion in Paris, the novel follows the lives and interactions of several characters, particularly the struggles of ex-convict Jean Valjean and his experience of redemption. Examining the nature of law and grace, the novel elaborates upon the history of France, the architecture and urban design of Paris, politics, moral philosophy, antimonarchism, justice, religion, and the types and nature of romantic and familial love. X been popularized mainly through a film starring Hugh Jackman, Oscar winner Russell Crowe and Anne Hathaway.

(BLANK SLIDE)

Ans. Les Misérables

8. ID X“X" is spelled out in 45-foot-tall (14 m) white capital letters, and is 350 feet (110 m) long. It was originally created in 1923 as an advertisement for a local real estate development, but it garnered increasing recognition after the sign was left up. The sign was a frequent target of pranks and vandalism, but it has since undergone restoration, including the installation of a security system to deter vandalism. The sign is protected and promoted by the Fox Sports Detroit Sign Trust, a nonprofit organization, while its site and the surrounding land is part of Griffith Park.

(BLANK SLIDE)

Ans.

9. Long ago, in the villages of Germany, lovers whose families opposed their marriage would jump off a cliff to prove their love. But women, when their turn came after seeing their men jump off, would get cold feet and return home, and marry someone else .This is considered to be the origin of which phrase?

(BLANK SLIDE)

Ans. Ladies first

Example for Question-10: Connect

Ans: Saif Ali KhanThe link that connects all products is that Saif Ali Khan endorses all of them.

10. Connect-Slide1(+100/-40)

10. Connect-Slide2(+80/-30)

10. Connect-Slide3(+60/-20)

10. Connect-Slide4(+40/-20)

10. Connect-Slide5(+20/-10)

(BLANK SLIDE)

Ans. Biocon

•Biocon's first major expansion was in 1987, when ICICI Ventures supported creation of a venture capital fund of US$250,000.

•Biocon Biochemicals of Ireland was acquired by Unilever in 1989. In 1997, this minority share was sold to Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI). In 1998, Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw’s fiancé John Shaw personally raised $2 million to purchase this from ICI. John Shaw left his position as chairman at Madura Coats to join Biocon and became Biocon’s vice chairman in 2001.

•Federation University(formed from Ballarat University): Alma Mater of Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw where she graduated top-of-the-class

•Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw worked as a trainee brewer at Carlton and United Breweries.

•Slide-4: John Shaw

•Slide-5: Childhood photo of Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw.