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KUMARANS INTER STREAM QUIZ

SENIORSAUG 2012

By

Sudarshan, Sashank & Suresh

Format

• This quiz consists of 5 rounds

• Rules for each round will be explained at the beginning of the round

• Quiz master is God for the next hour or so…

Rules

• This round consists of 6 questions

• You have to identify and write your answer

• + 5 for every correct answer

• If you get all 6 correct, a bonus of + 20

• No Negative marking in this round

• You can get a max of +50 in this round

1. Identify

2. Identify

3. Identify

4. Identify

5. Identify this animal

6. Identify

Rules

• This round consists of 12 questions

• The first 6 will be clock-wise and the next 6 will be anti-clock-wise

• + 10 for every correct answer

• No Negative marking in this round

Question 1

Queen Elizabeth II declared the 2012 London Olympic Games open on 27th

July 2012.

When was the last time she did a similar act of declaring an Olympic Games

open?

Question 2

Question 3A Reuters dispatch in 2008 from Afghanistan

recounted an incident in the evening hours of how a set of robbers in Mazar-e-sharief

stripped a car of its wheels, mirrors etc. as nobody was around. The robbers left a note on

the car “Tulsi Zindabad”.

Further the Reuters dispatch stated that you couldn’t meet / call any Afghani at 830 pm in the evening as they were busy watching!

What were the Afghans busy with?

Question 4

Question 5In the 19th Century they were sold under brands like Major Grey’s (or) Bengal Club and shipped to Europe and were treated

on par with Luxury goods

They are either wet or dry, and they can have a coarse to a fine texture

Types of these include Tamarind, Ridge gourd, Mango, Mint, Peanut, Onion

What is being referred here?

Question 6

Question 7

“I actually feel very embarrassed because I rejected him as a fast bowler. However I think I did him

and the game of cricket a big favour”

Who said recently about whom?

8. Connect

Question 9Mr. William Ortan, President of Western Union in

1876 decided not to pay $ 100,000 as an investment for an invention.

He declined the investment with a note “After careful consideration, while it is a very

interesting novelty, we have come to the conclusion that it has no commercial

possibilities”.

A few years later he said that he could consider the patent for the same invention, a bargain at $ 25MM.

What is being referred here?

Question 10X was the idea of David Wallerstein, a Y executive who worked

for a chain of movie theaters in the 1950s and 1960s.

While working at the movie theaters, Wallerstein was tasked with boosting sales of popcorn and soda. Wallerstein

discovered that it was very difficult to persuade customers to purchase more than one soda or bag of popcorn.

"I soon discovered that customers could be persuaded to pay for more up front.”

Although Y executive Ray Kroc was initially skeptical ofWallerstein's proposal to change Y meals (believing that people

who wanted more fries would buy two bags), he eventually agreed to try Wallerstein's idea.

The sales results led to the program being rolled out in the 1990’s throughout Y restaurants.

Question 11

“CQD..CQD..MGY..41.46N 50.14W”

12. Connect

Rules• This round consists of 8 questions

• This is a Buzzer Round

• + 10 for a correct answer and - 10 for a wrong answer

• No passing

1. Explain

2. Identify

3. What is this?

4. Identify

5. Identify

6. What just happened here?

7. Identify

8. Identify

Rules of BOOMERANG• Correct answer +20; Wrong answer -10

• Question assigned to random team

• The team to which question is assigned can answer or boomerang it to any other team

• Boomerang can continue till all teams are exhausted

• If receiving team answers correctly, the team that last boomeranged will get -20

Question 1

Nick Newlife from Oxford placed a bet of £1,520 at odds 66 to 1 ten years ago with

Bookmakers William Hill. But he died in 2009 and left his entire estate including the 2003

betting slip to the charity organization OXFAM.

This betting slip in 2012 won them £100,000.

What was the bet?

2. Connect

3. ConnectAlong with the Indian Army, Indian Navy & Indian Air Force there are 3 other paramilitary forces that

guard our nation.

The Indo Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) guards the border in the heights, the Border Security Force (BSF) guards the borders in the plains & jungles.

Name the 3rd paramilitary force that watches over internal security of our county.

4. Connect

5. What are we talking about?Cheetah Flex carbon fibre transtibial

Categories 2-9

Build Weight - 512g

Build Height - 411 mm

Max Weight - 147 Kg

6. What?

Rule 1: one foot shall remain in contact with the ground at all times.

Rule 2:  front leg on making contact with the ground shall straighten at the knee and stay

that way till the body has passed over it.

What are we talking about?

Rules• 6 questions of standard quizzing on Buzzer• For each correct answer +10 points and wrong answer -10

points• The answers to each of these 6 questions are connected

by a common - Theme / Word / Concept / Person – this will lead you to the LINK

• Teams should guess and write down the LINK on paper (not shout out)!

• If you guess the LINK correctly i.e. connecting theme / word / concept / person after the first two questions, you get plus 60 points, next two ,you get plus 40 points and last two you get plus 20 points

• There is a constant negative of 20 points for wrong guesses (any number of guesses allowed but for every wrong guess – 20 points)

1. What happened next?

2. Identify

3. IdentifyIt is a UNESCO World Heritage Site designed by

Frederick William Stevens with influences from Victorian Italianate Gothic Revival architecture and Indian (Mughal and Hindu) traditional buildings.

Was built in 1887 to commemorate the Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria  on the location of the

old Bori Bunder Station.

Its name was changed to its present one in March 1996 and is simply known as VT (or CST/CSTM)

What are we talking about?

4. Identify

5. Identify

6. Identify

PLEASE WAIT TILL THE SCORES ARE TABULATED

AND THE WINNER IS…