1. E d i t i o n
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If it’s Tues day, it’s
2. T h e R u l e s
• 4 p a r t i c i p a n t s p e r t a b l e . I f y o u a r e m o r e t h a n 4 t h e n
p l a y a s k f o r a n e x t r a t a b l e n u m b e r. Ye s , y o u c a n s t i l l
s i t t o g e t h e r
• C l u e s d a y i s a f u n q u i z s o p l e a s e n o u s i n g t h e
i n t e r n e t f o r a n s w e r s . Ta k e a s h o t ( l i t e r a l l y ; )
• A n s w e r s n e e d t o c o m e i n b e f o r e t h e s o n g e n d s o r t h e
q u i z m a s t e r s c o u n t d o w n .
•I f y o u w i n C l u e s d a y, y o u r t e a m ’ s ‘ b o o z e ’ b i l l i s o n t h e
h o u s e !
•S p r e a d t h e g o o d w o r d - Tw i t t e r - > @ v a p o u r b l r
F a c e b o o k - > w w w. f a c e b o o k . c o m / g r o u p s / c l u e s d a y /
If it’s Tues day, it’s
3. 1. Tazaa Maal
2. Shor
3. Dhanda
4. Manu Aur Ranjan
5. Literaturish
6. Finale
R ounds points
1
1
1
1
1
3
Sure of your strengths?
*Use the joker to double your
points in any of the first four
rounds. Call out before the round
begins.
5. Tazaa Maal
Q 1
People in this country have to sometimes spend a lot of time in elevators.
As a result, they are contemplating introducing toilets in elevators.
Which country?
Why do they have to spend so much time in elevators? (Part Points)
7. A 1
Japan
People get stuck in elevators during the frequent earthquakes.
Tazaa Maal
8. Q 2
This is an extremely nutritional
seaweed called Dulse/ Palmaria
palmate. It is recently in News
because a new harvest of it
prepared by Chefs working with the
Food Innovation Center at Oregon
State University.
When friend it is claimed to taste
like X?
Tazaa Maal
11. Q 3
Mike Lookinland is a former
American actor.
How does his character from a
1969-1974 sitcom ‘The Brady
Bunch’ related to someone in the
2016 US Presidential Elections race?
Give Funda.
Tazaa Maal
17. Q 5
Google introduced an IoT OS in Google I/O 2015 called Brillo. According to
Sundar Pichai, it is a _______ _______ version of Android OS.
FITB.
Tazaa Maal
35. Shor
Q 5
This is an Irish folk song played by The Dubliners. Although there are
many versions of this track, this version has featured in an important
scene of a famous movie as the background score.
Name the movie.
43. Dhanda
Q 2
This innovative company’s business can be summarized in the picture
below. Its founder is one of the youngest self-made billionaire.
Give the name of the company and the founder. (Part Points)
46. Dhanda
Q 3
At some point of time, he was the non-executive Chairman of Maruti
Suzuki. He has also been a VP of Tata Steel. He received Padma Bhushan in
1990.
However, he has been immortalized in the Indian automobile industry for
something that is one of its kind.
Who? What?
49. Dhanda
Q 4
Identify the logo of this company
that has investors such as Khosla
Ventures, Li Ka-Shing, Jerry Yang,
Eduardo Saverin, Marc Benioff, etc.
and is using new ways to plants in
food products.
It is working towards removing
eggs from existing products
already on the market.
52. Dhanda
Q 5
INDOFIL Industries Ltd. has been
recently caught in a controversy.
The youngest ever governor of an
Indian State (at the age of 37), Mr. X,
was offered the role of ‘Alternate
Director’ in this company. However,
the offer was withdrawn even before it
was presented before the company’s
board.
Give X’s more popular wife Y.
59. Q 1
X is a London-based Lebanese-Britishlawyer, activist, and author.
Barrister at Doughty Street Chambers, specializing in international law, criminal
law, human rights, and extradition.
X’s clients include Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, in his fight against
extradition.
X has also represented the former prime minister of Ukraine, Yulia Tymoshenko. X
was selected for a 3 member UN Commission investigating rules of war violations
in Gaza Strip.
Unfortunately, X’s claim to major global recognition was due to something else.
ID X.
Manu Aur Ranjan
65. North Carolina State University’s Dror Baron recently presented a paper on X at the
IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory.
Center for the Science of Information, Stanford, is also planning to introduce this in
their course curriculum. Same is the case with University of California at Santa
Barbara.
X was originally created to satisfy needs of a ‘fictional’ nature.
What is X, named after the Stanford Scientist Dr. Tsachy?
Manu Aur Ranjan
Q 3
68. In the starting credits of Dev D, Anurag Kashyap thanks another famous film-
director X.
Actually, Anurag did not want to show drugs in the movie. X introduced him to the
“camera tripping away” technique.
“X told me about this still camera that he had got. The drug shots were all done
using this still camera. It's such an amazing technique because I could show what's
going on in the character's mind in a mere 10 seconds when otherwise it would
have taken me 10 minutes.“
Identify X.
Manu Aur Ranjan
Q 4
71. Who is this man, popularly known
as the “Man of Thousand Voices”?
He is regarded as the most
influential people in the voice
acting industry.
He lend his voice to various
animation characters; Bugs Bunny,
Tweety, Sylvester, Wile E Coyote,
Tasmanian Devil among others.
Manu Aur Ranjan
Q 5
85. Literaturish
Q 3
Ray+Keshavan is a brand design company that (arguably) rightly claims: “IT’S HARD
TO DRIVE A MILE IN AN INDIAN CITY WITHOUT SPOTTING A BRAND THAT WE
HAVE HELPED BUILD” since they have worked with tonnes of Indian brands.
(AirTel,Infosys, Kotak Bank, Himalaya, Bank of Baroda, J&K Bank, Network 18, MAX
Healthcare to name a few.)
Sujata Keshavan has been the MD of the company ever since its inception. Who is
her more famous husband who is a bestselling author and a visiting Prof. at LSE?
88. Literaturish
Q 4
A _____________ ______________ is deemed to have occurred:
a) When a local councillor fails to make his declaration of acceptance of office
within the proper time
b) When his notice of resignation is received
c) On the day of his death
Fill in the blanks. (No part points)
91. Literaturish
Q 5
In 2013, a crater on Mercury was named in this artist’s honor. He is considered to
be among one of the greatest painters in the history of Indian art.
Who?
96. • Wall Street Hedge Fund Manager
• His bet against the subprime mortgage bubble has been called "the greatest
trade ever" by some
• Made a $400 M donation to Harvard’s School of Engg and Applied Sciences
Who?
Finale
Q 1
104. Finale!
Tie breaker
X is a very old “verse-format” of poetry. It is an independent verse, the meaning
of which is complete in itself. It is suggested that its origin can be traced back to
Greek Hexametre, that is an amalgam of two hexametres in one line. It is based
upon the argument that Indians possessed a translation of Homer’s works as
asserted by Dio of Alexandria.
What is X?