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Grand Finale
Rounds
•Written (5) •Mixed Bag (13)•Written (5)•Mixed Bag II (13)
Round1
LQ : Logo-Quotient• 5 questions. • Each question carries 5
marks.• Full house ensure 5
bonus.
For the Audience
Created by Delhi designers Shantanu and Nikhil, the gold foil lines on the front of the MI shirt for 2010 IPL,
symbolised something which conjoins the old and the new part of the city — representing the mix of experience in
the team. What is being referred to?
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Bandra-Worli Sealink
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What does the marked portion of the logo symbolically represent?
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The founders thought of the name and the logo design while making their
way to Sacramento for registration of the company.
What acted as the inspiration for the logo?
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This tree, often
planted outside the
village near
crematoriums, is
usually associated with Yama. Identify it.
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What does the red coloured part in the logo of this well known tech-company
signify?(not referring to the alphabets)
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What influenced the selection of this animal as the logo by the founder who
loved to stargaze a lot?
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What does the marked portion of the logo symbolically represent?
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One Hershey’s Kiss Chocolate
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The founders thought of the name and the logo design while making their
way to Sacramento for registration of the company.
What acted as the inspiration for the logo?
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Golden Gate Bridge
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This tree, often
planted outside the
village near
crematoriums, is
usually associated with Yama. Identify it.
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Banyan Tree
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What does the red coloured part in the logo of this well known tech-company
signify?(not referring to the alphabets)
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Outline of the map of Texas
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What influenced the selection of this animal as the logo by the founder who
loved to stargaze a lot?
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Taurus, the zodiac sign
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Round2
Mixed Bag• 13 questions • Infinite Bounce + Pounce (5)• Flat scoring of 10 points• Half points, if any, is totally
QM’s discretion
For the Audience
This print ad belongs to an
Indian biz-entity which is also
world’s largest manufacturer of a
certain type of products.
Which company?
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Nilkamal Plastics
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From July 23, 2000, The New York Times Book Review started to publish
a separate bestseller list.Whose monopoly in that hallowed list
drove NYT to take that decision?
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Harry Potter
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Why this particular issue of this iconic magazine has become a ‘Collector’s
Item’?
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Last issue with nude photos
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This head-honcho of JSW Group is said to be the man behind the setting up of a high-profile ‘bhaichara’ in the
latter part of 2015. What did he, allegedly, arrange?
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is..
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Modi-Sharif Talks
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Originally started as a filler, this comic strip told the story of a girl
named Lilli who liked gossiping and flirting with boys. This series became a huge hit and eventually became the
inspiration for an endearing global brand.
What am I talking about?(vis of the comic strip – next slide)
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Barbie
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Taking a cue from ‘Awardwapsi’, a similar movement was started in 2015.
More than 7 lakh people have uninstalled a certain application from
their mobile phones and around 1 lakh have downgraded it to one on a
scale of five.What was the issue?
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AppwapsiSnapdeal faced the flak over the Aamir Khan
intolerence comment.
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Coming from the desert of Rajasthan, the Sheherwalis were rich
Jain merchants who once financed companies in France, Belgium and
other Europian nations. Manikchand, a noted Sheherwali once encouraged a person to leave Dhaka and establish a
city bearing his own name by the banks of the Hooghly and he himself became the Personal Banker of that
person.How do we better know Seth
Manikchand? A quiz by Somnath
Chanda
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is..
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Jagat Seth
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Highly respected among his peers,
William Brodie was a Scottish cabinet-maker, President of the Trades
Guild and also an Edinburgh councillor.
Because his job entailed fitting locks to doors and cabinets, he was able to carry out
burglaries undetected for many years, partly
for the thrill and partly to fund his gambling.
How is he immortalised later?
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The Answer
is..
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
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For the Audience
The new ATM System launched in the Changi Airport, Singapore in 2015, is
proving to be a big hit to the commuters. Based on flight data and
strategically put cameras, the authority is handling several
operations in a smarter and a more efficient way.
What is it all about?
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Automated Trolley Management System
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New Hampshire teacher-cum-poet Edith Newlin wrote a few lines in
1937. It was first seen and heard in a modified avatar in 2008 and
subsequently few times later. Her daughters, Margaret Perry and Ellen Chase, are now asking for royalty and
accordingly filed a suit. Where have you heard those lines?
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is..
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Big Bang Theory
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For the launch of which century-old entity in a premier city in Western-
India, this particular slogan was extensively used in November, 2015?
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is..
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Launch of The Hindu in Mumbai
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The director-duo Sheershak Anand and Shantanu Ray Chhibber read an article on a spooky incident about a jinxed phone no. that occurred in Nigeria. Whoever owned that no.
would die within 6 months of possessing it.
What did they make after getting inspired from
the story?(Clue – Will become outdated in near
future) A quiz by Somnath Chanda
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Neil Nitin Mukesh starrer 3G
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The hot-blast design is also known as ‘tubular’ due to the metal tubes used
in its construction.
The cold-blast design is similar to the hot-blast, except that cold fresh air is drawn in from around the top of the
globe.What apparatus, once very commonly found in the Third World Countries,
which gets its name from the cylindrical wick protector and not
because it was used in ships during storms is being referred to?
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is..
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Hurricane Lamps
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Jaconet, named after the most important landmark of an Indian city,
is a lightweight cotton cloth with a smooth and slightly stiff finish. It is
mostly used for women’s clothes, also to cover the butter in kegs and in the same way as gauze for dressings; it
appears both white, dyed and printed. In which city did it originate?
(vis – next slide)
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Puri
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On 3 March 1856, a civil engineer named George Alfred DePenning of
Calcutta, had invented a device which he named - “An Efficient Punkah-
Pulling Machine”. What is so special about this matter?
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1st Indian Patent
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Real-to-Reel Avatars• 5 questions. • Each question carries 5
marks.• Full house ensure 5
bonus.
For the Audience
Woody Harrelson playing whom?
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Larry Flint
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Which great inventor-cum-entrepreneur is being played by Spencer Tracy in this 1940 film?
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Whom did Audrey Tautou portray on
screen?
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A still from a recent
movie….who is being portrayed on screen?
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Whom did Timberlake play in this multiple Oscar winning film?
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Screenshots from a ‘77 tv-movie…..who is being played by
Tommy Lee Jones?
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Which great inventor-cum-entrepreneur is being played by Spencer Tracy in this 1940 film?
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Thomas Alva Edison
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Whom did Audrey Tautou portray on
screen?
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Coco Chanel
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A still from a recent
movie….who is being portrayed on screen?
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Steve Wozniak
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Whom did Timberlake play in this multiple Oscar winning film?
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Sean Parker
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Screenshots from a ‘77 tv-movie…..who is being played by
Tommy Lee Jones?
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Hoiward Hughes
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Round4
Mixed Bag II• 13 questions • Infinite Bounce + Pounce (5)• Flat scoring of 10 points• Half points, if any, is totally
QM’s discretion
For the Audience
Whose IMDb entry?
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Raghuram Rajan
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In a role-reversal of sorts, this Hyundai Accent, bought by Swami
Chakrapani Maharaj of Akhil Bharat Hindu Mahasabha at an auction under the SFEMA, is going to be turned into
an ambulance.Whom did the car originally belong
to?
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Dawood Ibrahim
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Pomodoro Technique, a time management method developed
by Francesco Cirillo in the late 1980s, uses a timer to break down work into intervals, traditionally 25 minutes in
length, separated by short breaks. The method is based on the idea that
frequent breaks can improve mental agility. Cirillo named this technique after one of this timer clocks (vis).
What does Pomodoro mean?(vis of a prototype – next slide)
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Tomato
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Where can you see the most
popular depiction of the Joshua Reynolds
painting titled Infant
Hercules Strangling the
Serpents?
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Woodward’s Gripe Water logo
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The first proper episode of this tv-show contained numerous
mathematical references (including a joke about calculus), while the
infamous ‘Treehouse of Horror VI’ episode presented around five minutes
of mathematics ever broadcast to a mass audience. Moreover, it has even
offered viewers an obscure joke about Fermat’s last theorem.
Identify the most mathematically sophisticated tv show in the history of
primetime broadcasting. A quiz by Somnath Chanda
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The Simpsons
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In a first, Sequoia Capital invested in Ankur Jain-founded craft beer brand
Bira 91.What is the funda behind the no. in
the brand name?
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India’s ISD Code
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Marty Puranik, CEO of cloud computing firm Atlantic.net, was
looking at new cars. Working with a sales rep, he found a car of his liking
and paid a $4,000 deposit. On the evening of January 7, the day before delivery, he was informed that X was using the car as his personal vehicle to test a new version of autopilot. He revealed all these facts in a recently published article titled - How X Stole
My Car.Who is X? A quiz by Somnath
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Elon Musk
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For the Audience
“Even had I thought of trying to get my boys to do this I probably couldn't have, neither were coerced into any of
this and neither were hurt (for very long anyway)” – said Howard Davies-Carr, father of the two protagonists.
What did his boys do?
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Charlie bit my finger
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In the layout map of city of Chandigarh, Le Corbusior was
instructed to eliminate a certain
factor. He duly obliged and prepared it accordingly.
According to him, what was the funda
behind the numbering of the sectors in the top
two rows? (bigger vis – next
slide)
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When Chandigarh was designed, Le Corbusier was told to leave out
Sector 13 for superstitious reasons. Grudgingly, he did so, but
numbered the sectors in the first two rows so that opposite sectors’
numbers add up to 13. For example, Sector 1 is opposite Sector 12,
Sector 2 is opposite Sector 11 and so on.
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In 2014, the govt. has decided to observe the birth anniversary of
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel on October 31 as ‘Rashtriya Ekta Diwas’
( National Unity Day) every year.60 years ago on this very occasion on 31st October, what major decision was
taken by the govt. which ultimately became an iconic one in the days to
come?
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AMUL was launched
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The pic. shows Adolf Hitler laying the cornerstone of a car factory.
Identify the gentleman (marked inside the circle) standing behind Hitler.
(bigger vis – next slide)
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Ferdinand Porsche
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Taking over from Hamish, Rufus is currently employed to patrol their 42-acre area throughout the year, with
daily visits during a particular fortnight in every year. Much sought
after figure, he has also been employed to perform similar duties at
Westminster Abbey, various noted hospitals, airfields and landfill sites.
Who is Rufus?
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Rufus the Hawk
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Once described as ‘the most beautiful woman in the world’, Google has
dedicated this doodle to this lady, on the occasion of her 101st birthday.
Identify this lady who has both tech & biz connection.
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Hedy Lamarr
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Chief Belief Officer (CBO) is a designation created by the Future Group just to draw attention to the
value of ‘belief’ in business. Who has served as the CBO of the Future Group apart from being a
bestselling author, a tv-show host and a regular columnist for Mid Day?
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Devdutt Pattanaik
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In 2000, an online bank has been opened by an eccentric genius along
with Ron Roy, one ofhis partners in the online company
UltraStar.Depositors in that bank got ATM
cards, cheques and other banking paraphernalia emblazoned with his
name and image — as well as a year of internet service.
Who started that bank?A quiz by Somnath
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David Bowie (Bowiebanc.com)
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