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GRAND FINALE
..a quizzing venture
• Started as quizmaster in ‘Quest ‘a club in Wadia
college Pune where the most passionate quizzers
had trivia as their four square meals
• In 2010, rediscovered the passion at a
summer school camp in kerala
• 30 quizzes at school, college, business schools
followed in the next 4 years….
• Helped me to improve as a quizzer also.Won the
ultimate TATA Crucible Kochi round last year.
• Works as Brand manager for living in Malayala
Manorama handling the ULTIMATE encyclopedia..
Manorama Yearbook
India Round
- NO Buzzer round just to warm up
- 10 for Direct,-5 for Indirect
India Round
This 14 year old whose
parents are humble daily
wage workers from
Nizamabad, Telangana
was in news for her brave
efforts for being the
youngest woman on Mount
everest.
.Name this inspiring girl
1
India Round
Which indian festival is known as
Shigmo in Goa,Madan Daman
or Kamayan in south India,Dol
Jatra in West Bengal
2
India Round
Which indian festival is known as
Shigmo in Goa,Madan Daman
or Kamayan in south India,Dol
Jatra in West Bengal
3
India Round
Something beautiful for the
god is a book written by
Malcolm Muggeridge? Who
is the subject of the book
4
India Round
5
India round Times of India carried this in Obituary columns
” D.EM O'Cracy beloved husband
of T.Ruth,Father of
L.I.Bertie,Brother of Faith,Hope
and Justice expired on
26 June,1975” .What was the occassion
6
Audience
He was considered the evergreen
Indian hero of Hindi films with
longest period as hero who won
the Dada saheb Phalke award in
2002 and whose Autobiography is
called Romancing with Life
Audience -2
In terms of currency
notes in India,if MG
series is Mahatma
Gandhi series what is AP
series
5
Answers to India Round
1. Malvath Poorna
2.HOLI
3.Mother Teressa
4.First living person in Tinkle
5.Emergency announced
Audience
1 Dev Anand
2. Ashoka Pillar Series
Freedom Movement round
Freedom movement round
# Questions Pass on in a clockwise manner
# 10 for direct answer
# 20 for Pouncing on Direct question given to somebody. You can Pounce on your own direct question also and get additional points
# -10 for Wrong Pounce
# After the wrong pounce question moves in the normal clockwise manner with 5 marks for getting it correct. The team with wrong pounce will not get it again
Freedom Movement round
Rabindranath Tagore renounced
his Knighthood to protest
against which Incident
1
Freedom Movement round
Where in India did Gandhi first
experiment with the principle of
Satyagraha
2
Freedom Movement round
Servants of India Society was
formed in Pune to promote social
and Human development and
overthrow the British rule in India?
Who was the founder of the
servants of india society
3
Freedom Movement round
Who was the Governor General
when Bengal was partitioned in
1905?
4
Freedom Movement round
Who established the
Organization “Khudai
Khithmatgar”
5
Freedom Movement round
Who established the
Organization “Khudai
Khithmatgar”
6
Audience Question
At which session did the
congress proclaim “POORNA
SWARAJ” complete
independence as its goal
Answers to Freedom Movement round
1. Jalianwala Bagh
2.Champaran
3. Gopalkrishna Gokhle
4. Lord Curzon
5. Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan
6.Lahore session
Sports and Entertainment
# Buzzer round
# 10 for getting it correct,-5 for getting it wrong.It will not be passed once wrong answer is given
Sports and Entertainment
A Dada Saheb Phalke
recipient,he has directed films
like Ankur,Nishant,Manthan and
Bhumika?Who am I talking
about
1
Sports and Entertainment
Jamaican Reggae singer-songwriter,guitarist who achieved international fame .He was a commited to the religious and Political movement of Rastafari.
His Album Exodus was chosen as the greatest Album of 20th century by TIME Magazine
2
Sports and Entertainment
Identify the
Award
3
Sports and Entertainment
This 16-year-old girl who hails from Punjab clinched a silver medal in the 10m air pistol competition in Glasgow
Name her
4
Sports and Entertainment
What is referred to as the “SHAME
of GIJON” in Football
5
Sports and Entertainment
What organization
did KIRAN SETH
form which has a
global presence
now in schools and
colleges.The logo is
shown here
6
AUDIENCE Identify this Oscar winner
Answers
1) Shyam benegal
2) Bob Marley
3) Laureus Awards
4) Malaika Goel
5) Fixed match between German and Austria
6) SPIC MACAY
Audience
Bhanu Athaya
CROSS CONNECTIONS ROUND
Cross connections Round
# Buzzer round
# 20 for getting it correct, -10 for getting it wrong
# You have to think differently and identify what connect the visuals
Connect
Connect
Connect
Freedom is for the educated people who fought for it. We were slaves of the English, now we will be slaves of the educated Indians or the Pakistanis.”
Connect
Connect
Connect
AUDIENCE CONNECT
AUDIENCE
Answers for Cross connection
1) Ruskin Bond
2) Amartya sen
3) All Are squash player
4) Khushwant Singh
5) All are canadians
6) RK Narayanan
7) All Lok Sabha speakers
8) Time persons of the year
9) All Official Indian nominees for oscar
MIXED BAG
# 8 questions on the buzzer
# 10 for getting it correct;-5 for getting it wrong
MIXED BAG
Where will the headquarters of The BRICS development
bank formed during the recent summit be located ?
1
MIXED BAG
What is the Space centre at Sriharikota in Andhra pradesh used for launching satellites called?
2
MIXED BAG
What did Austrian American
pathologist Karl Landsteiner in
1901 develop that made blood
transfusion a routine medical
practise
3
MIXED BAG
4
Name the Mascot of
Glasgow
commonwealth
games
Mixed bag
Name the Sanskrit word used
by James Cameron as a title
for One of his HIT FILMs?
5
Mixed bag
Which Musician's
Autobiography is called
“Woodwinds of Change”
6
Mixed bag
Who was the first from Kerala
to get the Jnanpeeth award
7
Mixed bag
The book first published in Spanish 1967 in
was was in news in June this year.It is a
story of seven generations of Buendia
Family in the town of Macondo.Throughout
the family the characters are visited by the
ghosts.Name the book and the Nobel
winning Author
8
Audience question
What is the principal performer in Bullfighting who works the capes and usually dispatches the bull with a sword thrust between the shoulder blades called?
Answers
1) Beijing
2) Sathish Dhawan space centre
3)Blood groups
4)Clyde
5) Avtaar
6)Hari Prasad Chaurasia
7) Sankara Kurup
8)Marquez-One thousand years of solitude
Audience
Matadaor
Cryptic clues
Cryptic clues
# On the buzzer
# 15 marks for getting it right without the clue
#10 for getting it with the clue
# -10 for getting it wrong with and without clue
# You can attempt once again for with the clue even if you press the buzzer wrong without a clue
CRYPTIC CLUES
What was founded by Brian Acton and Jan Koum in 2009 with more than 400 million active users and is currently undergoing take over by Facebook
CRYPTIC CLUES
Clue follows...
CRYPTIC CLUES
What was founded by Brian Acton and Jan Koum in 2009 with more than 400 million active users and is currently undergoing take over by Facebook
WHATS APP
Cryptic clue
The only Film Director to
have received the Bharat
Ratna
CRYPTIC CLUES
Clue follows...
Cryptic clue
The only Film Director to
have received the Bharat
Ratna
SATYAJIT RAY
Cryptic clue
Which technology of today is named after a Viking King of 9th century who unified Denmark and Norway
CRYPTIC CLUES
Clue follows...
Cryptic clue
Which technology of today is named after a Viking King of 9th century who unified Denmark and Norway
BLUETOOTH
6 GREAT INDIANS
6 GREAT INDIANS# Buzzer round
1st clue: 20 points
2nd clue: 15 points
3rd clue:10 points
Constant-10 for wrong attempt. You can attempt it even after getting it wrong once
Questions will not appear on slide
Tie Breaker
#On the Buzzer
#If one team answers it wrongly on going for the Buzzer,the other team should answer to become the champion
Tie Breaker-1
RBI has in principle agreed to
give banking licenses to two
applicants IDFC limited and X to
set up banks?What is X
Tie Breaker-2
What is the test
called to tell
computers and
Humans apart to
prevent unwanted
internet bots from
accessing Websites
Tie Breaker-3
How do we better know the latin phrase“id est”
Tie Breaker-4
Give the Japanese word literally meaning empty Orchestra or without voice
Tie Breaker-5
Connect the words
Bloodstained,leapfrog,
watchdog,fashionable,
moonbeam,assasination
Tie Breaker-6
Chad Hurley,Steve Chen and Jawed Kareem
were PAYPAL employees.In the early
months of 2005 Hurley and Chen attended
a dinner party at CHENs apartment.Hurley
and CHEN had experienced difficulty in
sharing Videos.What was born out of this