5. Rules:
1. 25 questions, every 5th question will be star marked.
2. Every star marked question is worth 2 points, other questions
are worth 1 point.
3. No Negative Marking
4. 6 Teams will qualify for the stage round.
5. In case of a tie-breaker, star marked questions will decide who
progresses to the stage round.
6. Cheating is strictly prohibited. If you are caught cheating, you
8. 2. Anant Agarwal, an Indian Computer Architecture
researcher, is an Electronics and Computer Science professor
at MIT(USA ;) ).
He has led the development of Alewife, a cache coherent
multiprocessor, in the 1990s, and has also served as director
of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence
Laboratory in MIT.
He is most popularly known to be the founder and CEO of Y,
an online education platform that offers free online learning.
Give me Y.
9. 3. In 2003, 3 students formed Helsinki University of Technology(Aalto
University School of Science), Niklas Hed, Jarno Väkeväinen and Kim
Dikert, participated in a mobile game development competition at the
Assembly Demo Party sponsored by Nokia and HP.
After winning the competition with a multiplayer game called ‘King Of
The Cabbage World’, the trio, along with Hed’s cousin, set up their own
company, Reclude, which is today known as X Entertainment, or simply
X.
X became popular since the release of its 52nd game, Y, in 2009, which
is their most popular game to this day. X’s other popular games include
Amazing Alex and The Croods.
Give me X and Y.
11. 5. X is an Indian IT Services company headquartered in
Bengaluru.
X was incorporated in Amalner, Jalgaon on 29th December 1945
as a manufacturer of vegetable and refined oil company under
the trade names Kisan, Sunflower and Camel.
The company still contains a flower to reflect products of their
original business.
In 2013, X demerged its non-IT business into separate companies
to bring focus on independent companies.
Id X
12. 6. ID X, and Connect
Sagar Samrat Oil Rig
Tractor
Rhinoceros, Tiger and Elephant
Mount Harriet, Port Blair
Parliament of India
Himalaya Mountains
Red Fort
Mangalayan
13. 7. Apple was established on April 1, 1976 to sell the Apple I Personal
Computer kit by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and X.
X had worked with Jobs at Atari before co-founding Apple. X was also
responsible for designing the first logo of Apple Computers.
X initially received a 10% stake in Apple. X however sold off his
shares for $800 within less than 2 weeks, and later accepted $1500
to forfeit any claims against Apple.
As of April 2016, if X had kept his 10% share, his shares would have
been worth almost $60 billion.
ID X
15. 9. Mr X coined a famous term Y in the most recently held Lok
Sabha Elections. Incidentally, X, who happens to be the CEO
of SpiceJet, was a core strategist of the political party Z
during the elections.
The slogan is said to have been pitched by X in a late night
conference call and subsequently decided by what can be
called as a spur-of-the-moment proposal.
Identify X and Y
P.S: Brownie points for Z :P
16. 10. Mr. X heads several reinsurance businesses and is an
employee of Berkshire Hathaway. A former IIT-KGP and
Harvard Business School alumnus, he had previously worked
for McKinsey and Co. before he was invited by Warren
Buffett to work on insurance operations in his firm.
Today, X is the president of the insurance group in the same
firm. ID X.
17.
18. 11. X is an American sports investment company and also the
parent company of Boston Red Sox and Y, a football club.
X was founded and incorporated in Delaware in 2001 as New
England Sports Ventures to successfully bid for the Red Sox.
NESV was renamed to X in 2011.
If it was not for the refusal of Bill Gates to take over as the
owner of Y, X would not have been the current owners of Y
today.
ID X, Y
19. 12. X is an American digital distributor of English, Bollywood,
and other regional Indian music and offers web and mobile
music streaming.
Since it was founded in 2007, the company has acquired
rights to over 30 million music tracks.
Headed by Rishi Malhotra and contrary to its name(which is
also an acronym), the company is based in New York City.
Give me X.
20. 13. X is a hacktivist group whose modus operandi to attack
some rich and powerful Indian people is by hacking their
twitter accounts.
X claims to have access to several mail servers in India and
also has the encryption key used by the Indian banks over the
Internet.
Notable victims of X include Rahul Gandhi, Barkha Dutt, Vijay
Mallya, Ravish Kumar, INC.
ID X.
21. 14. Looking at the Logo, it suggests that X represents a
camera shutter. But that's not the only point.
The name X is based on the Spanish word __, which means
home.
The motive behind the logo was to indicate that the site
housed all the pictures. The logo also contains a house in the
middle of the shutters.
Id X
22. 15. X is a British Multinational Company, headquartered in
Rocester, Staffordshire.
It produces over 300 types of machines, including diggers,
excavators, etc.
Although it is trademarked now, it is colloquially used as a
term in UK and India as a generic term for diggers and
excavators, and it now appears in the Oxford Dictionary.
ID X
23. 16. In the Star Trek fictional universe, the fictional computer
OS known as “Library Computer Access/Retrieval
System(LCARS)” is often seen used on a device known as
“Personal Access Display Device”.
This device served as the inspiration of the name for a modern
technology marel - more so because of their similar
appearances.
Name this modern gadget every one of you would love to
own.
24. 17. X is a MIT-spinoff technology startup company that makes
software to build self-driving cars and autonomous robots.
In August 2016, X launched the self-driving taxis in Singapore.
By doing so, it beat the likes of Uber and Google as the first
company to launch a self-driving taxi.
Founded in 2013, it aims to develop fully autonomous cars by
2019.
Id X
25. 18. “My model for business is ___ _______. These 4 kept each
other’s negative tendencies in check; they balanced each
other. And the total was greater than the sum of the parts.
Great things in business are never done by one person, they
are done by a team of people.”
Who said this?
Also FITB.
27. 20. X is an Indian IT services company.
One of its known products is Finacle which is a universal
banking solution with various modules for retail & corporate
banking. Few of its key products are:-Mana - Knowledge
based AI platform, Panaya - Automation Firm, Skava etc.
Very recently, allegations surfaced surrounding the
acquisition of Panaya, with reports coming out that the
members of management team had prior investments in
Panaya which led to the deal, and the deal was signed at a cost
of $200 million, way above its actual valuation. ID X.
28. 21. The team spent a full day sharing some of the Metro style
design philosophy; The X brand history and values as well as
graphic design and technology industry tends.
“To see what is in front of one’s nose need a constant
struggle”- George Orwell
That’s the feeling we had when Paula Scher showed us her
sketches for the new X logo.
She asked us a simple question, “Your name is X, why are you
a ______ ?
29. 22. X operates with 4 motorized winches positioned at each
corner at the base of the covered area, each of which controls
a Kevlar cable connected connected to a gyro-stabilized dolly.
By controlling the winding and the unwinding of the cables,
the system allows the dolly to reach any position.
X is modelled after _____, its predecessor, invented in USA in
1984.
The most notable application of X is in sports.
ID X
30. 23. A is a research and development project being developed
by X (here, X is the name of the company) with the mission of
providing Internet access to rural and remote areas. The
project uses high-altitude balloons placed in the stratosphere
at an altitude of about 18 km (11 mi) to create an aerial
wireless network with up to 4G-LTE speeds. It was named A,
since even the company which acquired “X”(a tech giant)
found the idea of providing Internet access to the remaining 5
billion population unprecedented and "crazy."
Give me A.
31. 24. Donald Hoefler was an American journalist, well known for using
the term X for the first time in the print. His friend Ralph Vaerst
suggested the name X in a series of articles entitled ‘X, USA’ in the
weekly trade newspaper Electronic News starting Jan 11, 1971.
X was born through several contributing factors intersecting,
including a skilled STEM research base housed in area universities,
plentiful venture capital, and steady US Dept, of Defence spending.
Popular cultural references of X include A View to Kill, Watch Dogs 2
and Felicity. X is also the name of a TV Series.
ID X
32. 25. X is an Indian, multi-national conglomerate founded by
two Danish engineers who had taken refuge in India.
Their notable projects include -
Lotus Temple
Wankhede Stadium
Statue of Unity
Kempegowda Airport
Indira Gandhi Airport
Cyber Towers Hyderabad
37. 2. Anant Agarwal, an Indian Computer Architecture
researcher, is an Electronics and Computer Science professor
at MIT(USA ;) ).
He has led the development of Alewife, a cache coherent
multiprocessor, in the 1990s, and has also served as director
of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence
Laboratory in MIT.
He is most popularly known to be the founder and CEO of Y,
an online education platform that offers free online learning.
Give me Y.
40. 3. In 2003, 3 students formed Helsinki University of Technology(Aalto
University School of Science), Niklas Hed, Jarno Väkeväinen and Kim
Dikert, participated in a mobile game development competition at the
Assembly Demo Party sponsored by Nokia and HP.
After winning the competition with a multiplayer game called ‘King Of
The Cabbage World’, the trio, along with Hed’s cousin, set up their own
company, Reclude, which is today known as X Entertainment, or simply
X.
X became popular since the release of its 52nd game, Y, in 2009, which
is their most popular game to this day. X’s other popular games include
Amazing Alex and The Croods.
Give me X and Y.
46. 5. X is an Indian IT Services company headquartered in
Bengaluru.
X was incorporated in Amalner, Jalgaon on 29th December 1945
as a manufacturer of vegetable and refined oil company under
the trade names Kisan, Sunflower and Camel.
The company still contains a flower to reflect products of their
original business.
In 2013, X demerged its non-IT business into separate companies
to bring focus on independent companies.
Id X
49. 6. ID X, and Connect
Sagar Samrat Oil Rig
Tractor
Rhinoceros, Tiger and Elephant
Mount Harriet, Port Blair
Parliament of India
Himalaya Mountains
Red Fort
Mangalayan
53. 7. Apple was established on April 1, 1976 to sell the Apple I Personal
Computer kit by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and X.
X had worked with Jobs at Atari before co-founding Apple. X was also
responsible for designing the first logo of Apple Computers.
X initially received a 10% stake in Apple. X however sold off his
shares for $800 within less than 2 weeks, and later accepted $1500
to forfeit any claims against Apple.
As of April 2016, if X had kept his 10% share, his shares would have
been worth almost $60 billion.
ID X
59. 9. Mr X coined a famous term Y in the most recently held Lok
Sabha Elections. Incidentally, X, who happens to be the CEO
of SpiceJet, was a core strategist of the political party Z
during the elections.
The slogan is said to have been pitched by X in a late night
conference call and subsequently decided by what can be
called as a spur-of-the-moment proposal.
Identify X and Y
P.S: Brownie points for Z :P
62. 10. Mr. X heads several reinsurance businesses and is an
employee of Berkshire Hathaway. A former IIT-KGP and
Harvard Business School alumnus, he had previously worked
for McKinsey and Co. before he was invited by Warren
Buffett to work on insurance operations in his firm.
Today, X is the president of the insurance group in the same
firm. ID X.
66. 11. X is an American sports investment company and also the
parent company of Boston Red Sox and Y, a football club.
X was founded and incorporated in Delaware in 2001 as New
England Sports Ventures to successfully bid for the Red Sox.
NESV was renamed to X in 2011.
If it was not for the refusal of Bill Gates to take over as the
owner of Y, X would not have been the current owners of Y
today.
ID X, Y
69. 12. X is an American digital distributor of English, Bollywood,
and other regional Indian music and offers web and mobile
music streaming.
Since it was founded in 2007, the company has acquired
rights to over 30 million music tracks.
Headed by Rishi Malhotra and contrary to its name(which is
also an acronym), the company is based in New York City.
Give me X.
72. 13. X is a hacktivist group whose modus operandi to attack
some rich and powerful Indian people is by hacking their
twitter accounts.
X claims to have access to several mail servers in India and
also has the encryption key used by the Indian banks over the
Internet.
Notable victims of X include Rahul Gandhi, Barkha Dutt, Vijay
Mallya, Ravish Kumar, INC.
ID X.
75. 14. Looking at the Logo, it suggests that X represents a
camera shutter. But that's not the only point.
The name X is based on the Spanish word __, which means
home.
The motive behind the logo was to indicate that the site
housed all the pictures. The logo also contains a house in the
middle of the shutters.
Id X
78. 15. X is a British Multinational Company, headquartered in
Rocester, Staffordshire.
It produces over 300 types of machines, including diggers,
excavators, etc.
Although it is trademarked now, it is colloquially used as a
term in UK and India as a generic term for diggers and
excavators, and it now appears in the Oxford Dictionary.
ID X
81. 16. In the Star Trek fictional universe, the fictional computer
OS known as “Library Computer Access/Retrieval
System(LCARS)” is often seen used on a device known as
“Personal Access Display Device”.
This device served as the inspiration of the name for a modern
technology marel - more so because of their similar
appearances.
Name this modern gadget every one of you would love to
own.
84. 17. X is a MIT-spinoff technology startup company that makes
software to build self-driving cars and autonomous robots.
In August 2016, X launched the self-driving taxis in Singapore.
By doing so, it beat the likes of Uber and Google as the first
company to launch a self-driving taxi.
Founded in 2013, it aims to develop fully autonomous cars by
2019.
Id X
87. 18. “My model for business is ___ _______. These 4 kept each
other’s negative tendencies in check; they balanced each
other. And the total was greater than the sum of the parts.
Great things in business are never done by one person, they
are done by a team of people.”
Who said this?
Also FITB.
93. 20. X is an Indian IT services company.
One of its known products is Finacle which is a universal
banking solution with various modules for retail & corporate
banking. Few of its key products are:-Mana - Knowledge
based AI platform, Panaya - Automation Firm, Skava etc.
Very recently, allegations surfaced surrounding the
acquisition of Panaya, with reports coming out that the
members of management team had prior investments in
Panaya which led to the deal, and the deal was signed at a cost
of $200 million, way above its actual valuation. ID X.
96. 21. The team spent a full day sharing some of the Metro style
design philosophy; The X brand history and values as well as
graphic design and technology industry tends.
“To see what is in front of one’s nose need a constant
struggle”- George Orwell
That’s the feeling we had when Paula Scher showed us her
sketches for the new X logo.
She asked us a simple question, “Your name is X, why are you
a ______ ?
99. 22. X operates with 4 motorized winches positioned at each
corner at the base of the covered area, each of which controls
a Kevlar cable connected connected to a gyro-stabilized dolly.
By controlling the winding and the unwinding of the cables,
the system allows the dolly to reach any position.
X is modelled after _____, its predecessor, invented in USA in
1984.
The most notable application of X is in sports.
ID X
102. 23. A is a research and development project being developed
by X (here, X is the name of the company) with the mission of
providing Internet access to rural and remote areas. The
project uses high-altitude balloons placed in the stratosphere
at an altitude of about 18 km (11 mi) to create an aerial
wireless network with up to 4G-LTE speeds. It was named A,
since even the company which acquired “X”(a tech giant)
found the idea of providing Internet access to the remaining 5
billion population unprecedented and "crazy."
Give me A.
105. 24. Donald Hoefler was an American journalist, well known for using
the term X for the first time in the print. His friend Ralph Vaerst
suggested the name X in a series of articles entitled ‘X, USA’ in the
weekly trade newspaper Electronic News starting Jan 11, 1971.
X was born through several contributing factors intersecting,
including a skilled STEM research base housed in area universities,
plentiful venture capital, and steady US Dept, of Defence spending.
Popular cultural references of X include A View to Kill, Watch Dogs 2
and Felicity. X is also the name of a TV Series.
ID X
108. 25. X is an Indian, multi-national conglomerate founded by
two Danish engineers who had taken refuge in India.
Their notable projects include -
Lotus Temple
Wankhede Stadium
Statue of Unity
Kempegowda Airport
Indira Gandhi Airport
Cyber Towers Hyderabad
117. 1. X was developed by a professor at Stanford University,
and Vinith Mishra, a graduate student, for fictional use.
Following is the formula for X
X was used in Dropbox Tech Blog to explain real world work
on lossless compression.
ID X
120. 2. X, when used as a geological term, is defined as a coarse-
grained sedimentary rock composed of rounded fragments
embedded in a matrix of cementing material such as silica.
X in its verb form can also be defined as something that
gathers together into a compact mass.
X however has a more popular usage in the corporate world.
ID X
123. 3. X is a form of lottery which originally involved betting on the opening
and closing rates of the New York Cotton Exchange. It originates from
before the era of Indian Independence when it was known as Ankada
Jugaad.
However, in 1961, the NY Cotton Exchange stopped the practice, which
caused the punters to look for alternative ways to keep the business alive.
Rattan Khatri introduced the idea of declaring opening and closing rates
of imaginary products. Kalyanji Bhagat started the Worli market in 1962.
Although the business peaked in the 80’s and the 90’s, it has reduced
significantly. The current X business is centered around Maharashtra.
ID X
126. 4. X is an Indian commerce company based in Delhi NCR.
In 2015, X became the first Indian company to receive Alibaba’s
funding after it raised over $625 mn at a valuation of $1.5 bn.
X is also approved as an operating unit for Bharat Bill Payment
System.
X’s services are very popular, with it’s services being used very
frequently. It employees over 13000 employees and has 3 million
offline merchants across India.
Which famous company am I talking about?
132. 6. X was an American financier and banker who dominated corporate
finance and industrial consolidation in the late 19th and early 20th
century United States.
X had been responsible for the merger of Edison General Electric and
Thomson-Houston Electric Company to form General Electric. He
was instrumental in the creation of the United States Steel
Corporation, International Harvester and AT&T.
A leading financier of the Progressive Era, his dedication to
effficiency and modernization helped transform American business.
X is widely regarded as the Napolean of the Wall Street.
ID X
136. Round 2 - Long Connect
The questions will be asked in an anticlockwise manner.
Infinite Pounce. Each answer will be followed up with a
clue. No negative marking.
+10 for each correct answer.
+40 for the first team that answers Long Visual Connect
before all the questions are over.
+30 for the team that answers the LVC first.
+20 for the team that answers the LVC second.
138. Q1. X is a long-haired domesticated animal which can weigh
upto 1200 pounds. X is said to be the ship of plateau. The
word X is also used to describe an irritating individual. An
asian country has around 85% population of X.
ID X.
141. Q2. There are 8 species of X in the world. X are unique
creatures that are covered in hard, plate-like scales. They are
insectivorous (feeding on insects) and are mainly nocturnal.
Just as armadillos are the only mammals with shells, X are the
only mammals covered in scales.
ID X
144. Q3. X is a long-legged freshwater and coastal bird. It appears
on all continents except Antarctica. X are often confused with
storks and Cranes. The Great Blue X is the largest among X
and can measure nearly a meter in height
In Greek mythology, X was regarded as an unpopular bird
because it waded in shallow water, thereby revealing the
location of fords to armies poised to invade.
147. Q4. X are short-tailed wildcats with usually tufted ears and a
mane of longer hair around the face and neck. They have a
short tail, and usually a pencil of hair on the tip of the ears.
The body colour of X varies from medium brown to a gold
color to beige-white; and occasionally, is marked with dark
brown spots, especially on the limbs. Bobcat is the name of
one of the most popular species of X, and it is found in North
America.
ID X.
150. Q5. X are a group of amphibians typically characterized by a
lizard-like appearance, with slender bodies, blunt snouts,
short limbs projecting at right angles to the body, and the
presence of a tail in both larvae and adults.
In literature and legend, the X is associated with fire, being
supposedly unharmed by the flames, while clothes made from
its skins or 'wool' were believed to be incombustible. More
plausibly, X were said to be intensely poisonous.
X’s ability to regenerate lost body parts is being investigated
and research is ongoing into any applications this may have
for human medicine. Give me X.
153. Q6. X is a small carnivore belonging to the mongoose family. X
live in all parts of the Kalahari desert, in much of the parts of
Namib Desert, in southwest Angola, and in South Africa.
X tend to stand on their hind legs to survey their
surroundings.
In the movie Lion King, Timon is an X.
In the book Life of Pi and its film adaptation, the floating
island is inhabited by tens of thousands of Xs.
ID X
159. Round 3: Differential Theme
Round
Rules:
All the questions are based on a certain theme.
Number of points one will get = 10(No. of team who cannot
answer the question)
Given an image, identify it’s current brand
187. Q1. Charles Forster was a marketing genius who might have
sold a side of beef to a vegetarian! He was born in 1826 in
Charlestown, Mass., into an old and aristocratic New England
family. While working for his uncle's import/export business
in Brazil, he noticed that the natives had beautiful Y(a part of
the body), which he attributed to something specific. So at a
time when virtually everything was becoming mass produced,
Forster vowed to make a fortune producing wooden X so
cheaply by machine that he could export them to South
America.
ID X and Y
190. Q2. X are an economic force in Japan with over 100,000
members in 22 syndicates, grouped into three families. An
ambiguous relationship between them and the government
contributed to their prosperity.
According to police estimates, half of the revenues of X are
derived from legal activities that were acquired or built up
with illegal gains, such as construction, finance, and real
estate. Many of these legal activities are performed by
“associates” who are experts in finance, law, etc., but don’t
have the signs of true X, such as full body tattoos.
In Japan, a stunted pinkie signifies membership in the X. ID X.
193. 3. X was created by Satoshi Nakamoto, who published the invention
to a cryptography mailing list in a research paper, and was released as
an open source software in 2009. The system is peer-to-peer system.
Hal Finney, Wei Dai and Nick Szabo are credited as few of the earlier
supporters of X.
According to the Economist in Jan 2015, X are hard to earn, limited in
supply and easy to verify.
In Charles Stross’ 2013 science fiction novel, Neptune Blood, a
modification of X is used as the universal interstellar payment
system.
ID X