Initium - The Launch Quiz | XQuizzite XIMB

General Round 1- Infinite Bounce
with Pounce

Rules
• Correct +10
• No negative

Question 1
• Which brand in latin means
• ‘I Roll’

Answer 2: Mascot of Glasgow 2014

Question 3: Id. X
• X is a pale lager produced by Anheuser–Busch InBev. Introduced in
1876 by Adolphus Busch it has grown to become one of the highest
selling beers in the United States, and is available in over 80
markets worldwide.

Question 5: Id X
• X originated in South Africa
• Graham Wulff (1916-2008),an ex-Unilever chemist from Durban,
started it in 1949. The name X was chosen by Wulff as a spin on
the word "lanolin", a key ingredient.
• It is one of Procter & Gamble's multi-billion dollar brands

Question 7: Id X
• The X originated in the present-day Odisha, as khirmohana.
In the coastal city of Puri in Odisha, the X has been the traditional offering to
the Hindu goddess Lakshmi. According to the tradition, her
consort Jagannath tries to pacify her by offering her X, so that she lets his
convoy enter the sanctum sanctorum of the temple. This ritual, known
as Bachanika, is part of the "Niladri Bije" (or "Arrival of the God") observance,
which marks the return of the deities to the temple after the Rath Yatra.

General Round 2- Infinite Bounce
with Pounce

Question 1
In January 1996 former National Geographic photographer Charles O'Rear was on his way
from his home in St. Helena, California, to visit his girlfriend. He was being particularly
alert for a photo opportunity that day, since a storm had just passed over and other recent
winter rains had left the area especially green.
"There it was! My God, the grass is perfect! It's green! The sun is out; there's some clouds,"
he remembered thinking.
Four years later company X approached O’Rear as they wanted to buy not just the license
but all the rights to it. O’Rear needed to send ‘X’ the original negative and sign the
paperwork.
‘X’ later gave it a name and made it a key part of their marketing campaign for its
product.
Identify ‘X’ and the picture?

Question 2
When Gandhi went to London first time he carried four notes of
Introduction to famous Indians in England at that time.
Dadabhai Naoroji, Dalpatram Shukla , Dr P.J Mehta
Name the fourth one

Answer 2: RanjitSinghji “Ranji”

Question 3
• Gary Gilmore, an American criminal had committed two
murders. His trial lasted two days. The Utah jury unanimously
recommended death penalty due to the special circumstances
of the crime. Utah had two methods of execution — firing
squad or hanging. Believing a hanging could be botched,
Gilmore chose the former, declaring, "I'd prefer to be shot."
Against his express wishes, Gilmore received several stays of
execution. His last three words had made him a legend in the
world of Business and Branding.
• What were those three words?

After India became independent in 1947, the Planning
Commission was entrusted to oversee and direct the
development of the nation. India grew rapidly in the 1950s,
and in the late 1950s the Commission started facing difficulties
in finding suitable people for the large number of enterprises
that were being established in India as a part of its industrial
policy. To solve this problem, the Planning Commission in 1959
invited Professor George Robbins of the University of
California. What resulted ?
Question 4

The name of this website stems from a Hindi phrase used on anyone
who attempts to achieve the impossible. Started by Wharton
graduate Allwin Agnel in 2003, its mascot is named ‘Monsieur
Green’. Which website?
Question 5

Question 6: Who this tweet is referring to?

David Saltzberg has a Bachelor’s degree in Physics from Princeton and a Phd in Physics
from University of Chicago.
He has worked at CERN and his research interests include high-energy collider
physics and the radio detection of cosmic neutrinos .
He is a Professor of Physics and Astronomy at the University of California, Los
Angeles.
However, he is famous for his work in an entirely different role as X .
Question 7: Identify X

Answer 7: Science Consultant/Technical Director for
‘The Big Bang Theory’

X is the largest shareholder in Citigroup, Bank of America and JPMorgan Chase, Exxon
Mobil, Shell, Apple, McDonald’s and Nestlé.
X is easily the biggest investor in the world, with $4.1 trillion of directly controlled
assets (almost as much as all private-equity and hedge funds put together) and
another $11 trillion it oversees through its trading platform, Aladdin .

Question 1: It was the largest-calibre rifled weapon ever used in
combat and the heaviest mobile artillery piece ever built in
terms of overall weight. Name the gun.

The Gustav gun or Schwerer Gustav.
Answer 1

Question 2: Name this world famous sniper of erstwhile
USSR.

Question 3: In this picture from the Great war name the
person sitting on the extreme right

Question 4: What is happening here.

Answer 4: The Germans and Allies signing the armistice just 11
November 1918.

Question 5: What is the significance of the tallest
statue of a woman in the world.

Answer 5: The Motherland Calls or The Mamayev
Monument in Volgograd, Russia to commemorate the
Battle of Stalingrad.

Steven Spielberg offered the job of director for this
“Movie X” to Roman Polanski. Polanski turned it down
because the subject was too personal. Polanski would
later direct his own film about this subject “Movie Y”
and also win the Oscar (his only one till date) for it.
Identify X and Y.
Question 6

X- Schindler’s List
Y- The Pianist
Answer 6

Question 7: Identify this person who was the first
Indian Commander-in-Chief of the Indian Army.

Answer 7: Field Marshal KM Cariappa

Who said this
“If a man says he is not afraid of dying, he is either lying or is a
Gurkha.”
Question 8

Answer 8: Field Marshal SHFJ Maneckshaw.

Question 1: What is the unique feat these World
Champions achieved on their way to win the
respective Football World Cups
1974
1978
2010

Answer 1
West Germany (1974 – vs East Germany), Argentina (1978 – vs Italy)
and Spain (2010 – vs Switzerland) went to win the respective World
Cups even after a 1-0 defeat in Group stage matches.
Coincidentally, all three teams won against Netherlands in the final.

Question 2: What this picture depicts

Answer 2
• 25-pass goal scored by Esteban Cambiasso of Argentina vs Serbia
and Montenegro in WC 2006

Question 3
• In 1970, X became the first official soccer ball of a World Cup.
• It has 32 black-and-white panels and has since become an icon of
the game.
• It was manufactured by Adidas.
• It got its name from a communication satellite which has a similar
geometry to it.
- Identify X

Question 4
1938 Football WC saw the first Asian representative in Football
World Cup.
After Japan withdrew in the qualifying round for Asia, X qualified as
the only team from Asia.
However, X’s 1938 World Cup appearance was short-lived, having
been knocked out by Hungary in the opening game by 6 goals to
none.
- Identify X

Answer 4
Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia)

Question 5
- 1934 – 1938 –---------- 1994 – 1998 – 2002 – 2006 – 2010 – 2014
- Which country’s WC Finals appearances is depicted in the above
timeline?

Answer 5
Germany (unified/reunified)

Question 6
• During the 1950s, X was both a prominent member and captain of
the national team known as the ‘Mighty Magyars’.
• He was awarded the best player award, having scored 4 goals, in the
World Cup in which his team reached the finals, eventually losing to
West Germany.
• In 1958, two years after the Revolution in his country, he emigrated to
Spain where he played for Real Madrid.
• While playing with Real Madrid, X won four Pichichis, awarded by the
Spanish sports newspaper Marca to the league’s top scorer and scored
seven goals in two European Champions Cup finals. In 1995, he was
recognized as the top scorer of the 20th century by the IFFHS.
• In October 2009, FIFA announced the introduction of the FIFA X Award,
awarded to the player who has scored the "most beautiful goal" over the
past year. He was also listed in Pelé's FIFA 100.
• Identify X.

Question 1:Identify X
X is a well known angel investor and venture
capitalist. He is a Stanford alumnus.
He started a fellowship to encourage students
under 20 years of age to dropout of school to
start their own venture.
He was the first outside investor in Facebook.

X was initially developed as an internal
communication tool for the genealogy website
Geni.
X is an enterprise social software, ie: it is used
for private communications. It is used by 80
percent of the fortune 500 companies.
X won the TechCrunch50 startup competition in
2008.
X was sold to Microsoft in 2012.

Me at the zoo is the first ever video to be
uploaded on Youtube.
It is 18 seconds long and the uploader is seen
describing the elephants at the San Diego zoo.
Identify the uploader.
Question 3: Identify

Answer 3: Jawed Karim, co-founder of youtube.

X is the co-founder of a prominent social
network.
X is considered one of silicon valley’s most
prolific angel investors and currently runs a $ 20
million Discovery fund for Greylock Partners,
one of the oldest venture capital firms. Some of
his prominent investments were in Facebook,
Zynga, Digg, Flickr etc.
Forbes described X as “Silicon Valley's uber-
investor” and said X “has had a hand in creating
nearly every lucrative social media startup”.

Answer 4: Reid Hoffman, co-founder of Linkedin.

Y was founded to reduce space transportation costs
and enable colonization of Mars.
Some of the historic achievements of Y are:
• the first privately funded, liquid-fueled rocket
to reach orbit.
• the first private company to send a spacecraft
to the International Space Station
• the first private company to send a satellite into
a geosynchronous orbit .
Due to their low launch prices and low
development time, Y has been able to win many
government and private contracts.

Connect
Members and companies founded by the
members of Paypal mafia.

Initium - The Launch Quiz | XQuizzite XIMB

Initium - The Launch Quiz | XQuizzite XIMB

Recomendados

Recomendados

Mais conteúdo relacionado

Mais procurados

Mais procurados (20)

Semelhante a Initium - The Launch Quiz | XQuizzite XIMB

Semelhante a Initium - The Launch Quiz | XQuizzite XIMB (20)

Último

Último (20)

Initium - The Launch Quiz | XQuizzite XIMB