1. Rules
• 3 rounds in the quiz
• Round 1 and 3 : 25 dry and visual questions
• Each has +10 points on the direct and bounce
• For pounce +15/-10
• You can pounce your own question
• Unlimited pounce
• Round 1 – clockwise, round 3 anticlockwise
• The Quizmaster is always right
4. • Andhra Bank – Pattabhi
Sitaramaiyya, founder, and mascot Dolle
• Anyone – “why the name Dolle?”
5. What is the subject of this poem by Nissim Ezekiel? (specific
answer needed – if it sounds close to the answer, I will give it)
• Please
Do not spit
Do not sit more
Pay promptly, time is valuable
Do not write letter
without order refreshment
Do not comb,
hair is spoiling floor
Do not make mischiefs in cabin
our waiter is reporting
Come again
All are welcome whatever cast
If not satisfied tell us
otherwise tell others
GOD IS GREAT
------ Nissim Ezekiel, 1972
6. • His favorite Irani café; the now defunct Bastani
and Company, in Dhobi Talao
7. • X was founded in 1997 as Jomax Technologies
by Bob Parsons, a veteran of the United States
Marine Corps. However, Parsons felt the name
sounded archaic and asked employees to
come up with another name. Some suggested
Big …….., but that was already in use and
someone else suggested the present name.
Parsons said the company stuck with the
name because it made people smile and
remember it. What is X?
10. • Lagadapati Rajagopal is the founder. He was
the MP who threw pepper in Parliament
protesting over Telengana issue
11. • X is a soft drink that was created in Peru in
1935, by British immigrant José Robinson
Lindley using lemon verbena. The soda has an
unusual sweet, fruity flavor - Americans
compare its flavor to bubblegum or cream
soda. It has been described as "an acquired
taste" whose "intense color alone is enough to
drive away the uninitiated.“. The Coca-Cola
Company owns the X trademark everywhere
but in Peru. What is X?
12.
13. • India's first woman brew-master X is the
author of the book “Ale & Arty: the story of
beer”. Her father is a former general manager
of united breweries. Who?
14.
15. This person operated a boutique, the “Psychedelhi”, at the
Oberoi Hotel with Martand Singh in the 1960s. The clientele
included the Beatles and it ended up supplying clothes to such
London outlets as Mr. Fish and Annacat. It also led to an
association with Diana Vreeland, then editor of Vogue. However,
we know him as a person who operates in a different field. Who?
16.
17. Actor Billy Crudup (picture below) has been the voice of which
legendary series of ads in US (all by same company) from 1997
(he first appeared in the series of ads in 2005?
19. The advertising campaign of a well known brand X is centered
around the X girl (shown in the picture below) who lands up in
awkward situations while trying to sell X. Vanessa Branch played
X girl for long before being replaced by Farris Patton. What is X?
23. • X manufactured nutritional supplements such as
"Master Formula", "Calorie Control Formula", and
"Fiber Energy Bar", distributing them via multi-
level marketing. The company experienced rapid
growth in the 1980s and was heavily endorsed
and marketed by various celebrities. However, an
expose by NBC revealed fraudulent practices, and
this was followed by multiple lawsuits from
attorneys general. Several of the company's
advisors resigned, and X declared bankruptcy in
1987. What is X?
25. Kenguru (Hungarian for Kangaroo) is a car manufacturer which
started in Hungary and now based out of US. They have recently
come up with this car. Who is this car exclusively for (which is a
first)?
27. • A rose and a doll is named after X, an Olympic
silver medal winner. X partnered with German
perfume company Muelhens to produce a line
of fragrances in the late 80s and 90s. The
fragrances ironically became a top-seller in
Bruhl, the hometown of X’s biggest rival (also
the person who beat X to the Olympic Gold).
Who is X?
33. The logo is of a non-profit organization with HQ in
Charlottesville, Virginia, USA. Around 7000 people get
themselves associated with this organization every
year. Name
34.
35. • In March 2006, he was rated the 11th richest man
in the world. Most of his wealth came from
buying companies cheap when Russia was
privatizing its state run firms. He bought himself a
majority stake in Sibneft, an oil company, and
later merged smaller companies to form
Rusal, the world’s second largest aluminium
producer. In 1999, he was elected to his country’s
parliament. He also bought the UK’s second most
expensive car registration number – “VIP1” for a
whopping £285,000. Who?
37. • The online store , started by a firm called Take
India Beyond Merchandising Pvt. Ltd, is a
collaborative effort of a group of volunteers.
The store sells merchandise that it says is
inspired by the lifestyle and values of X. It
offers a range of products that include t-
shirts, sleeveless jackets and stationery such
as pen drives and planners. The products are
in the price range of Rs.15 to Rs.450. What?
38.
39. • _________ is a game of chance where
randomly-selected numbers are drawn and
players match those numbers to those
appearing on 5x5 matrices which are printed or
electronically represented and are known as
"cards." The first person to have a card where
the drawn numbers form a specified pattern is
the winner and calls out the word - "_______”.
What game?
49. MS Paint version of which incident? (mandatory football world
cup question)
50. • Joseph Mwepu Ilunga of Zaire kicking away a
Brazilian free kick in the group match between
the two nations before the ball was in play in
1974. This was a protest against his country's
authorities, who were alleged to be depriving
the players of their rightful earnings
• Funda taken from www.goaldentimes.org –
Follow us, follow football
52. • Battle of the Sexes – game theory and Bobby
Riggs
53. Round 2
• Who / what am I, 3 questions
• 3 Clues for each question - +20/-8 for first
clue, +10/-4 for 2nd clue, +5/0 for 3rd clue
• Answers to the questions connect to a theme
• Points for theme: +20/-8 on answer on 1st
question, +10/-4 on answer of 2nd question,
+5/0 for on answer on 3rd question
• Maximum 1 try per “Who am I” question – so
a maximum of 3 tries
54. Who am I -1
• Clue 1:
• Khushwant Singh mentions an incident in his
book “Absolute Khushwant: The Low-Down on
Life, Death and Most things In-between”
where after being defeated in a Lok Sabha
election, X immediately returned the 2 lakh he
had borrowed from the writer for hiring taxis
55. Who am I - 1
• Clue 2:
• X’s doctoral thesis was titled "India’s export
performance, 1951–1960, export prospects
and policy implications“ and was later the
basis for his book "India’s Export Trends and
Prospects for Self-Sustained Growth"
56. • Clue 3:
• Ancient Delhi (1999)
• A History of Ancient and Early Medieval India
(2008)
• The Last Frontier: People and Forests in Mizoram
• Nine by Nine
• The above are a non-exhaustive list of books
written by X’s children
59. Who am I - 2
• Clue 1:
• X represented India at the Bretton Woods
Conference on July 1–22, 1944. The
conference led to the establishment of the
IMF and IBRD. He was a member of the Board
of Governors of both of these institutions for
the next ten years. In 1950, at the Paris
conference of these institutions, he served as
the Chairman of the Joint Annual Meeting
60. Who am I -2
• Clue 2:
• An ICS officer, X he was conferred knighthood
in 1944 and in 1959, he won the Ramon
Magsasay award
61. Who am I -2
• Clue 3:
• X was the Chairman of U.G.C.(1956–61) and
Vice-Chancellor of University of Delhi (1962–
67). He was also President of I.S.I.(Indian
Statistical Institute)from 1945 to 1964
64. Who am I - 3
• Clue 1:
• In a paper "Has Financial Development Made
the World Riskier?", X "argued that disaster
might loom because financial sector managers
were encouraged to take risks that generate
severe adverse consequences with small
probability but, in return, offer generous
compensation the rest of the time”
65. Clue 2: X, along with fellow Chicago Booth professor Luigi
Zingales wrote this book. Also author of the book “Fault Lines:
How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy”
66. • Clue 3:
• X and Paul Krugman expressed alternate views
on how to reinvigorate the economies in the
U.S. and Europe. This debate occurred against
the backdrop of a significant "austerity vs.
stimulus" debate occurring at the time where
X conceded that austerity could slow
economies in the short-run and cause
significant "pain" for certain constituencies
71. • There are 4 chapters in the book – in each of
the chapters the protagonists solve a case.
The mysterious cases of the bride-abducting
Were-Yeti of Ramgarhpur, the ghost of the
(very alive) AK Hangal, the rescue of the
Indian Women`s Hockey team from a `not-a-
terrorist` attack and aid of forgotten stars
from DD (like Salma Sultana). Adhiraj Singh
and Harsho Mohan Chattoraj are the authors.
Name the book
74. • Fairchild Eight/ Traitorous Eight/ Shockley
Eight (Julius Blank, Victor Grinich, Jean
Hoerni, Eugene Kleiner, Jay Last, Gordon
Moore, Robert Noyce and Sheldon Roberts)
79. This is made by a Florida-based company called Scottish Spirits
Ltd and apparently produced in factories in Panama. It went on
sale around the world on December 1, 2011. What was the claim
the makers made while marketing the same?
81. C Rangarajan, economist, ex-Governor of RBI and President of ISI was
also the ex-Governor of the states of Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and
Odisha. He has been an economic adviser to GoI and as head of
several committees, have made several recommendations. One of his
recommendations is now under severe fire from a particular political
party and is being linked to a very rich Indian. What is the
recommendation?
82. It was a committee led by him which had recommended that gas
from KGD-6 Basin should be priced at $7-8/mmBtu
87. • Arnold Peter Møller was the founder of the AP
Møller Maersk Group. On A.P. Møller's death
in 1965, his son Arnold Mærsk Mc-Kinney
Møller took over as the CEO. When Arnold
Mærsk’s wife of 65 years Emma died in
2005, how was her memory immortalized? (I
want a particular keyword)
88. The largest container ship (keyword) (E-Class) launched by
Maersk Line in 2006 was named after her
91. • X was founded in 1994 by John W. Meriwether, the
former vice-chairman and head of bond trading at
Salomon Brothers. Members of X's board of directors
included Myron S. Scholes and Robert C.
Merton, who shared the 1997 Nobel Memorial Prize
in Economic Sciences for a "new method to
determine the value of derivatives". Initially
successful with annualized return of over 21% (after
fees) in its first year, 41% in the second year and 43%
in the third year, in 1998 it lost $4.6 billion in less
than four months following the 1997 Asian financial
crisis and 1998 Russian financial crisis requiring
financial intervention by the Federal Reserve, with
the fund liquidating and dissolving in early 2000.
What is X?
93. • In 2009, a final-year student of IIT-Delhi Harsh
Narang set up a company X. X involved
providing photocopying opportunities to
students at little or no cost and survived on
sponsorships from companies who advertised
on the photocopied material – client list
included CCD, Apple, Vodafone etc. What is X?
95. X is chairperson of the Serum Institute of India and its mentoring
force. X says “making cheap vaccines is my primary motivation in
life, along with anything that’s expensive”. He is also a designer
of cars. However, he is known for a different reason in the world
of Indian sport and high-society. What reason?
96. Poonawala Stud Farms which breed
India’s finest race horses and jockeys
like Pesi Shroff were associated with it.
Further- “a character in which 2000s
Bollywood movie is allegedly based on
Cyrus P?”
97. The person to the left is a
British politician. He was
a Member of Parliament
from 1970 to 1992,
representing the
constituencies of Epping
(1970–74) and Chingford
(1974–92). Who is he?
99. • Notable figures to have featured for this team
included Arthur Conan Doyle, Jerome K.
Jerome, A. A. Milne, Walter Raleigh, A. E. W.
Mason, E. V. Lucas, Maurice Hewlett, E. W.
Hornung, P. G. Wodehouse, Owen
Seaman, Bernard Partridge, Augustine
Birrell, Paul du Chaillu, and George Llewelyn
Davies, as well as the son of Alfred Tennyson.
Peter Pan's First XI, a book on the exploits of
the this team, was published in 2011. Which
team, and why so named?
100. Allahakbarries, an amateur cricket team founded by author J. M.
Barrie - active from 1890 to 1913. The team was named in the
mistaken belief that Allah akbar meant Heaven help us in Arabic.
Plus a wordplay on name of Barrie
101. What does the red line indicate? (this
is a sports question)
107. • The crest of this organization X features a
palace in the city of Y. X is based out of Y. The
crest is colored in white in order to symbolize
"victory“. The pride, resilience, and pride of
the people of the city Y is represented by a
picture of a blue Gandaberunda - a mythical
two headed bird. Gandaberunda is on the
official emblem of the state of which Y is the
current capital city
119. • SPARK Eduventures Pvt. Ltd. Is an IIT Coaching
institute based out of Patna. The MD of the
same was in the news a few years ago. One of
his memorable quotes was –”the daal at Tihar
Jail tastes better than the one in ………”. Name
the MD an why was he in the news
120. Ravi Raj, the IIT KGP student who went
to jail in the DPS MMS –Baazee.Com
scandal
