Saan Quiz 09

Quiz Finals the battle

begins.....

GENERAL RULES Scoring and rules for each round will

be intimated at the start of each round.

Two teams will be eliminated at the end of the third round.

Quiz Master’s verdict will be final.

DRY ROUND

RULES This round consists of 12 questions. 10 marks for direct questions. 5 marks for a pass. No negative marking.

1.Which feature now common in mobile phones gets its name from a tenth-century Danish king?

BLUETOOTH

2. Name the major company that rejected a takeover bid by Microsoft in Jan 09?

Yahoo Inc!

3.The recent controversy in the field of cricket is regarding the hesitation of Indian cricketers to accede to the WADA signatory. What does WADA stand for?

World Anti-Doping Agency

4.Which unlikely company manufactures a soap brand called Santoor?

5.Potti Sriramulu’s fast unto death and his passing away resulted in the creation of which state in India?

Andhra Pradesh

6.Every year, 15th September is celebrated as _______________ Day in India celebrating the birth anniversary of Sir Mokshagundam Visvesvarayya. Fill in the blank.

Engineer’s Day

7.Which term in the IT/ITES sector refers to people who have been laid off from a multinational because their job has been moved to India?

Bangalored

8.The lead female voice is slated to be Vijayalakshmi Agathiyan of Chennai 600028 fame, the villain will be Rahul Dev. Who provides the voice for the hero and what is the name of the animated movie?

Rajnikanth Sultan the Warrior

9.NTT DOCOMO ventured with TATA TELESERVICES to launch TATA DOCOMO

IN INDIA. What does “DOCOMO” stand for??

Do

Communication

over Mobile network

10.If Geology is the study of the earths crust What is Astrogeology?

Study of the crust of celestial bodies

11. The famous story “The hare and the tortoise” was written by whom ?

Aesop, in the “Aesop’s Fables”

12.Identify the Co-Inventor of USB who shot to fame with this advertisement?

Ajay Bhatt

AUDIENCE

In United kingdom & Ireland it is called P45,in Belgium its called C4. What is it called in India and USA?

Pink Slips

New Delhi based sisters Megha Singhal and Aditi Gupta unique matrimonial with tagline "for the large hearted“ What is the name of the website?

LOGOS & TAGLINES

LIMEWIRE

Chennai Metro Rail Limited

Computing Tabulating and Recording Company

Old logo of International Business Machines (IBM)

Jockey

National Instruments

International Red Cross Agency

Logitech

“Experience Certainty” is the tagline of which IT Major?

TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES

Seagate

Mozilla Thunderbird

“There are some things money can’t buy. For everything else there’s ____________”.

Fill in the blank.

MasterCard

AUDIENCE

Commonwealth Games 2010 New Delhi

WHO'S THE PERSONALITY??

Kishore BiyaniFuture Group

Chanda KoccharICICI Bank

Carol BartzYahoo Inc

Deep Joshi

Mary Khom

Richard BransonVirgin Inc

Tim Berners Lee, founder of WWW

Pankaj Advani

Grove, Robert Noyce, Moore

Co-Founders of Intel Inc

Nirupama Rao Foreign Secretary

Ajith Jain & Warren Buffet ofBerkshrine Hathway Inc

Nandan NilkeniCo-Founder Infosys

AUDIENCE

kalanithi Maran

Russell Peters

SEE WHAT OTHERS DON’T SEE (SWODS)

RULES This is the buzzer round. 4 questions common to all teams on

stage. Only one guess per question per team. 30 marks for a correct answer. No negative marking.

All Tata Group Products

Michael Joseph Jackson

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

AUDIENCE

3 CLUES

RULES 3 clues will be unveiled one after the other. 30 marks will be awarded if answered on the

first clue. 20 marks will be awarded if answered on the

second clue. 10 marks will be awarded if answered on the

third clue. Teams can have any no. of guesses. But a

constant minus 5 applies for every wrong answer.

Passed Question will be marked +10 and -5 for the wrong answer.

QUESTION 1

CLUE 1This organization is funded by member organizations, including AMD, eBay, Google, Marvell, Nortel Networks, Red Hat and many others. Each company has donated two million dollars.

CLUE2It is a U.S. non-profit org set up to oversee the creation of an low-cost educational device for use in the developing world.

CLUE 3

One Laptop Per Child(OLPC)

QUESTION 2

CLUE 1This Indian politician was born on January 3, 1938 in Rajasthan. He served in the Indian army in the 1960s and is an alumnus of the National Defense Academy.

CLUE 2In July 2006,he released a book titled “A Call to Honor: In Service of Emergent India”. A controversy erupted immediately after the release of this book.

CLUE 3He won from the Darjeeling constituency the last time he was elected to the parliament.

Jaswant Singh

QUESTION 3

CLUE 1Born in Bangalore. At the age of 12, he launched a website called CoolHindustan.com but when a black hat hacked the logo to "CoolPakistan," he reportedly abandoned the website.

CLUE 2 When an American company invited

him to their headquarters so he could maintain their web site, he is said to have declined on the ground that he was not interested in serving a non-Indian company. However in 2000, at the age of 14 traveled to the United States to found Globals Inc. in San Jose, California, as the laws in India did not allow a minor to set up a company.

CLUE 3 In 2003 Globals Inc. lost a business deal with

SingT Inc, a BPO company in Singapore reportedly because the then 17-year-old CEO was too young to sign a memorandum of understanding.

Suhas Gopinath

QUESTION 4

CLUE 1Born on February 24, 1955.He is an American Businessman, Co-founder of a company that created one of the first commercially successful computing machines.

CLUE 2 After losing a power struggle with the

board of directors in 1985, he resigned from the company and founded NeXT, a computer platform development company specializing in the higher education and business markets. NeXT's subsequent 1997 buyout by the company he previously worked for brought him back to the company he co-founded, and he has served as its CEO since then.

CLUE 3On January 14, 2009 announced a

six-month leave of absence until the end of June 2009 to allow him to better focus on his health. Tim Cook, who had previously acted as CEO in his 2004 absence, became acting CEO.

Steven PaulJobsApple Inc

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