Quizzare 2k16 finals

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FINALS

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In the Finals there will be 5

rounds:1. Anything under the Sun (Mixed Bag)

2. TechnoManagement 3. Sports and Entertainment

4. Connecting the Dots5. Rapid Fire

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Anything under the sun

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The first emblem for the State Bank of India was adopted in 1955 showing a Banyan tree because of its strong roots and branches which are capable of propagating and growing in all directions, depicting growth, success and stability. However, the logo was abandoned as it invited criticism because of the a certain fact.

What is that?

1

Answer

A Banyan tree does not let any other plant grow within its space.

Instead of using GDP as a measure of progress, Bhutan uses the GNH. What does GNH stands

for?

2

Answer

Gross National Happiness

What is common among these countries..

3

Answer:

Currency is Rupee

AI 173, a flight that departed from New Delhi on March 6 at

0235 hrs landed in San Francisco at 0600 hrs, having covered 17 long hours made history for a certain reason.

What is that?

4

Answer:

World’s Longest Fully Female operated flight

X was established in 1969 by an act of parliament.

In 2012 The National Assessment and Accreditation Council gave X a grade of 3.9 out of 4, the highest grade awarded to any educational institution in the country.

Identify X.

5

Answer:Jawaharlal Nehru University

In 2011, 450 copies of a book were brought from Italy to India. While

bringing them back each copy of the book was regarded as a passenger and was given separate seats for

each copy in the flight...Which book?

6

Answer:

Guru Granth Sahib

7 Whose wax statue at Madame Tussauds?

Answer:Marie Tussaud, The

founder helself

what is the significance of this graph?

8

Answer:

According to Hindu Mythology what was created when Vayu, the wind God broke the top of Mount Meru?

9

Answer: Lanka

Di Corporation is a South Korean company involved in the trade and supply of

semiconductor and computer chips. The

company was established in 1955 and its current CEO

is Park Wan HooIn Oct 2012, the stock prices rose by 800%

Why?

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Answer:Psy's dad owns the company Di Corporation.

So in Oct 2012 the Gangnam dance raised the stock prices by Psy's sudden popularity

______ Nagar, is a village located in Muzaffarnagar district in Uttar

Pradesh formerly Known as Shiv Nagar. _____ invested $5,000 to

install 15 hand pumps that would make it so the villagers wouldn't

have to walk nearly two miles just to get clean water. The villagers were

so grateful for them, they decided to change the name of their village.

Name the company.

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Answer:

Atargatis was a Syrian moon godess. She had a child with a human.

She killed her love, abandoned her child. JUMPED INTO THE LAKE and took the form of X?

What is X

12

Answer: Mermaid

Put Funda13

Answer:

‘Face with tears of Joy’ Emoji becoming the Oxford Word of the year, 2015

Originally known to the Lakota Sioux as "Six Grandfathers". At first, the project of carving this

structure was undertaken to increase tourism in the Black Hills

region of South Dakota. The carving started in 1927, and

ended in 1941. It has become an iconic symbol of the United

States, and has appeared in works of fiction, and has been discussed

or depicted in other popular works. It attracts over two million

people annually.

Name the structure.

14

Answer:

Mount Rushmore

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Tech It

TECHNO-MANAGEMENT

ROUND

1

Beethoven's Ninth Symphony is 74mins 33sec long.Its set as the standard time for what modern day invention?

Answer

CD length

What is it?2

Answer

Blueprint of Twitter

When the internet was still very much under the spell of bare Unix shells and Gopher, an ambitious group of scientists at CERN started working on World Wide Web. In an

office on the "fourth floor" they placed the World Wide Web's central database. Some faculty requests were answered with a standard message : "_________"

3

Answer:

Room 404:File Not Found

Which drink was named by its inventor after rejecting the first six names that were

offered?

4

Answer:

This picture is home to a famous IT company. I need the address of this

5

Answer:Infinite Loop Street

By what name is "Phiroze Jeejebhoy Towers" better known as?

6

Answer:

Bombay Stock Exchange

7

In 1932 JRD Tata founded it as Tata Airlines....

How do we commonly know Tata Airlines as?

Answer:

This tune is an excerpt taken from measures(bars) 13-16 of the piece Grans

Vals. This tune is heard worldwide an estimated 1.8 billion times a day, about

20,000 times per second. Identify X?

8

Answer:NOKIA TUNE

Guess the tagline and name of the company behind it.

9

Answer:

Give the name10

Answer:

McIntosh

_______ is a type of a contest for finding a Google search query

consisting of exactly two words without quotation marks,that returns

exactly one hit.

11

Answer:

Googlewhack

X is a shark in the ocean. We are a crocodile in the Yangtze River.If we fight in the ocean we loose, if we fight in the river we win -

CEO Y

Identify X and Y

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Answer:

X:

Y:

It was first started as Orgish.com, a shock site and

was aimed at the empowerment of citizen

journalism. It came to lime light when it leaked the video

of execution of Saddam Hussain. It has the tagline “Redefining the media”.

Which website is being talked about here?

13

Answer:

LiveLeak.com

It is a book by entrepreneur Rashmi Bansal. It features the

stories of 25 MBAs from IIM Ahmedabad

who left lucrative jobs to follow the rough

road of entrepreneurship.

This book created a new record in Indian publishing by selling over 300,000 copies

and has been translated into 8

languages. The title of this book is similar to a very famous quote

of a very famous personality. Name this

book.

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Answer:

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Sports

X arrived at England with the aim of buying Y. Admittedly he was a fan. The management at Y though declined after repeated advances by X and with his 10 day visa permit fast coming to an end, he ended up buying Z. And thus came about one of the most important takeovers in sporting history.Identify X,Y and Z (No Part Marking)

X= Roman AbramovichY= Tottenham Hotspurs FCZ= Chelsea FC

X was born in a suburb named Henderson.X is widely known for his popularity in the field of cricket.X had a promising career as a fast bowler in his 20s when he was affected by Rheumatoid Arthritis which ended his career.Who is X?

2

Sports

Billy Bowden

What does it signify?3

Sports

No. of times Summer Olympics hosted by the Continents. 2016 Rio Olympics will be the first ever Summer Olympics in Latin America.

On May 2, 2007, a men's tennis exhibition match between Roger Federer, the then top-ranked men's singles player, and Rafael Nadal, the then World No. 2 in men's singles, was played in the capital city of Nadal's home island, Palma de Mallorca. Nadal won 7–5, 4–6, 7–6.

Prior to that match, at that time Nadal was 72 matches unbeaten on clay and Federer was 48 matches unbeaten on grass court.There was something very unique about the match that the match was called 'The Battle of *****'What was the unique thing?

4

Sports

The Battle of Surfaces.

One side of the court was Grass Court and other half was clay court.

About what?5

Sports

Day-Night Test Cricket

Guess the Footballer. Also name the clubs X

and Y6

Sports

Iain HumeX= Kerala Blasters

Y= Atletico de Kolkata

Who?7

Sports

Floyd Mayweather

X is an American professional basketball player for the Golden State Warriors of the National Basketball Association (NBA). X is considered by some to be the greatest shooter in NBA history.X won the 2015 NBA Most Valuable Player (MVP) award and is a three-time NBA All-Star. X also holds the NBA record for most consecutive games with a made three-pointer (131).Who is X?

8

Sports

Stephen Curry

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X started her career as a child actress in the Telugu film Rangula Ratnam. She debuted as a lead in Sawan Bhadon in Bollywood.She worked in over 180 films in about 40 years career.she had received Padma Shri. Recently X was conferred with Yash Chopra Memorial Award in Mumbai. Identify X.

Identify X.

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RekhaAnswer:

Trailer of which video game?2

• video

Answer: NFS NO LIMITS

742 Evergreen Terrace is well known address in

pop culture? Who resides at this address?

3

Answer:Simpsons

This song is by a band which is a side-project of America’s famous band Linkin Park’s co-lead

singer Mike Shinoda. Name the band

4

• video

Answer: Fort Minor

5 this kid suffers from a rare disease of Osteogenesis Imperfecta, he has become an internet sensation after releasing the cover of ‘Not afraid’ by Eminem .What is his name?

Answer: SPARSH SHAH

6 Name the competition

Answer:Dum Laga ke Haisa

Advertisement of which product?7

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDa2K28G3eU

• CAMLIN PERMANENT MARKER

If Hindi =Bollywood Bengali =Tollywood Telugu = Tollywood Odia = Ollywood

Then Kannada -- ???

8

Answer:

Sandalwood

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Union Budget of India It is announced on the last working day of

February every year.

The papers are carried into the Parliament by the Finance Minister in a Leather Briefcase. ( The word Budget is originated from French word "bougette" or "small bag" that was once considered sufficient to hold an individual's wealth)

The printing of Budget documents starts roughly a week ahead of presenting in the Parliament with a customary 'Halwa ceremony’. This ceremony is performed as a part of the Indian tradition of having something sweet before starting an important work

2

 Narendra Modi  As a child, Modi helped his father sell tea at the

Vadnagar railway station, and later ran a tea stall with his brother near a bus terminus.

From a ‘Chaiwala’ to the Prime Minister of India

Bipin Chauhan the founder of Ahmedabad based clothing chain JadeBlue is Narendra Modi's personal tailor and the man behind the 'Modi Kurta‘.

First Indian Prime Minister to Visit Facebook Headquarters

3

GT Road Rudyard Kipling’s ‘Kim’ is set on the GT Road.

This road existed during the Maurya Empire and flourished during the reign of Chandragupta Maurya

The Modern GT Road was rebuilt by Sher Shah Suri.

The road ends at Kabul. That’s why a poster of the film ‘Kabuliwala’

4

Leonardo Dicaprio He was a speaker at climate change summit 2014.

Leonardo Dicaprio foundation works on this same issue.

Romper Room: TV Show where he made his debut at the age of 5

Picture is ‘The Last Supper’: Famous Painting of by Leonardo da Vinci

The book is ‘The Revenant’. Story based on which the film was made.

5

Real faces behind internet memes

6

Hurricanes Katrina,

Michelle, Tomas all names of Hurricanes

Other one is Harry Kane

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Around the World in 80 days

Jules Verne, author of the novel ‘Around the World in 80 Days’

Jackie Chan starred in a movie of this same title.

Gunnar Garfors created World Record by visiting every Country in the world

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Technologies used in cricket Hawk eye Wagon Wheel Hotspot Spider Cam

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