Ad Club Bangalore Apr 2011 Finals

Ad Club Bangalore QuizApril 2011

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the Finals

Venkatesh S and Vivek K – Team Nexus

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Fan comic for?

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Identify the book

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Identify this famous endorser

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A classic ad of a Pfizer brand that is almost a generic name. ID

An 1980s ad for which game?

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What’s blanked out?

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ID the logo

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Identify

Exchange Sheets….

Answers

1. Big Bang Theory2. Requiem for a Dream3. Ronald Reagan4. Chapstick5. TRON 6. Facebook7. FIFA World Cup 2014, Brazil8. Onion

Clockwise – Infinite Bounce

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A mixed-up response involving the two pictures on

the right caused much embarrassment during trials.

Explain

The answer is...

Watson – IBM’s Jeopardy computer once confused Dickens' Oliver Twist with the Pet Shop Boys, a 1990s techno band

2This is the idea that there are other ways to use the Internet to communicate a marketing message. These include sponsoring a Web site or a particular feature on it; advertising in e-mail newsletters; co-branding with another company and its Web site; contest promotion; and, in general, finding new ways to engage and interact with the desired audience. Can also include the interstitial and streaming video infomercial.

What three word term is used for this, as it takes other ways apart from the usual one?

The answer is...

Beyond the Banner

3The precise time of 53 seconds, 26 minutes after 9 AM on March 14, 2015 will be looked forward to by geeks all over the world. Why?

The answer is...

March 14, 2015 9:26:53, or 3.141592653, or pi.

4The term is reportedly

onomatopoeic, the sound it makes when one taps it with

a finger.An oft-repeated, but false,

alternative explanation for the term says that at

some time in the early 20th century, the

United States military had two classes for

airships: Type A-rigid and Type _-___.

What are we talking about?

The answer is...

B-Limp, Blimp

5An audit shows that last year, they controlled 30 of these and 659

people. At an average take home of $5.4 Million,

their total income was $238 Million last year.

Their negotiations have often taken

months, and recently one of them has offered a

20% discount for “early bird” negotiationcompletion.

What, very African in nature, is being

described?

The answer is...

Somalian Pirates!

Three recent books on Indian films. Name all three.

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The answer is...

Jaane Bhi Do YaaronDeewarDisco Dancer

The brand that issued this ad names multiple competitors – ironically, it acquired the first name blanked out in 1987, and itself got acquired by the second one earlier this month. Name all three

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The answer is...

National SemiconductorFairchildTexas Instruments

It began its association with sports in 1927, through advertising on the southern wall of minor league baseball's Nicollet Park in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Michael Jordan holds the record for most depictions a total of 18 times, followed by Tiger Woods at 14 times. The first athlete was Lou Gehrig, the first woman athlete Babe Zaharias and the first African American, Jesse Owens.

Which iconic brand and its tagline, the latter being shared with a 1999 American comedy film based on a 1973 novel?

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The answer is...

WheatiesBreakfast of Champions

An enterprise started in 1993, it has diversified business interests ranging from essential oils, herbal oils, specialty perfumery compounds, wellness, education, agri-business & marble mining. TheGroup manages various brands like Chandan Sparsh (Spa), ____ Marble (Largest Imported and Indian Marble retail chain in India), Lambency Wellness Products and more.

Who and why have they become prominent recently?

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The answer is...

Floriana Group, sponsors of Rajasthan

Royals

Fill in the two blanks and connect

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The answer is...

Speak Softly and carry a big stickGood to the last drop

Both phrases coined / made popular

by Theodore Roosevelt, also famous for

the Teddy Bear

When X (an Indian director) asked Y (actor), (whom X has directed earlier in a book-based movie) to read The Reluctant Fundamentalist, he did so and was all eager to play the role, but was turned down, since they needed a younger hero. More recently, acclaimed international director Z asked Y to read Life of Pi and finally confirmed that Y would act in it as the older version of the protagonist. Y also wanted to star in the film version of Midnight’s Children by Deepa Mehta, but could not accommodate it in his schedule.

Name all

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The answer is...

X – Mira NairY – Irrfan KhanZ – Ang Lee

Oslo: 4 cents; Glasgow, Londonderry, Aarhus and Bilund: 6-9 cents;

Explain.

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The answer is...

Ryanair ads banned after 'cheap sun destinations' turned out to include Denmark and Norway in winter

Travel & Living Round • 10 Questions• +10 for direct and pass

Which region in Scotland, famous for Salmon fishing, and home to the likes of giants like Balvenie, Cardhu and Macallan?

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What would this lead to? 2

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Into whose wonderful world would you get lost in this fantasy house on Djurgården?

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Pippi Longstocking / Astrid Lindgren

The decline of Istanbul’s Suleymaniye and Zeyrek districts began in the early 20th century. World War I related problems provoked a ban order, and post WW II saw the middle class begin to prefer more modern stuff. What attribute of these World Heritage areas would some call safety hazards?

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Wooden Houses

"It's exactly what it sounds like," says Catherine Price, author of 101 Places Not to See Before You Die. Located under Seattle's Pike Place Market, X was ranked as the world's second-most-germy tourist attraction by CNN in 2009.

Name X, and also the attraction that topped the list.

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X – the Gum WallY – the Blarney Stone

Is the one at the Kraanlei, near the castle of the counts in Ghent “the” thing? No, say some, the one in Brussels, at the junction of Rue de l'Étuve & Eikstraat is older.

‘Certainly not!, ours is’, say the folks in Geraardsbergen. Those in Hasselt, and some in the north French village of Broxeele are keen to put the spotlight on the things in their towns.

What thing?

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Mannekin Pis

Alice Springs, Australia and these other places around the world have what in common – New Caledonia, Kruger National Park, Windhoek, Rio De Janeiro, Sao Paulo, Asunsion, Atacama Desert, Easter Island, French Polynesia, … ?

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Tropic of Capricorn

Mr ______ here shares his first name with the fifth largest banking center in the world… A name, please.

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Cayman Islands

Which “spot” in Nevada is christened after this place – one that is oft quoted as the greatest open air museum known to man?

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Luxor

At more than 1.3 million square miles, it has the globe’s second-largest rainforest, after the Amazon's.Extending across six nations, 10 million acres of forest here is degraded each year due to mining, illegal logging, farming, ranching and guerilla warfare.Poachers prey on endangered animals like mountain gorillas, forest elephants, bonobos and okapis.

Where?

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The Congo Basin

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An examples of nonsensical complaints against X include the San Francisco Chronicle’s 2005 griping, for allowing dog breeders, and thereby allegedly encouraging the over breeding and irresponsible selling of pit bulls in the Bay Area.

X’s success has brought in others like Olx, Adsglobe, Adpost, Locanto, Adoos, Kugli, and Oodle.

ID X.

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Its progression has been this way… Red on top and green at the bottom with a black band in between, and a crescent and star to boot, during the Idris al-Sanusi period. A red-white-black trio for a short while until 1972 An all-green version

What?

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The Libyan Flag

A ban in 14 US States because of infection alarms Between £10 and £50, if you are in the UK. UV-lit tanks Lots of Garra Rufa Opponents who say that unlike usual rules, which compel staff to throw away or sanitize tools after each use, these are too expensive to discard

Explain.

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Garra Rufa fish pedicures, where dead skin is nibbled away by scores of Turkish miniature toothless carp

An artist who often works with metal, with one of his creations… For full points name him and the iconic brand.

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Subodh GuptaAbsolut Vodka

X is a form of advocacy often in support of a corporate agenda, designed to disguise the actual work of an entity, through misinformation and other means.

The term is a derivation of a synthetic surface designed to look like the natural thing.

Y was the first film to use the internet for such a thing. Its makers spread rumors that the material they shot was authentic and that the three protagonists really disappeared in Burkittsville.

Name X and Y.

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AstroturfingThe Blair Witch Project

The linguist hired by Apple says it’s a proper noun and hence can be trademarked; the linguist hired by Microsoft says it’s a generic term and hence cannot be trademarked.

For the linguist, mentions are generic or specific. "Steve is a nice guy" would be specific, but "'Steve' is a common name" would be generic. Or, as Mr Goldfarb puts it, "water is wet" is generic, but "I spilled water all over the table" is specific.

Used by one of the companies since 2008, what is the two word term in this legal dispute?

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App Store

It is shared by the Eastern Orthodox, Armenian Apostolic, and Roman Catholic Churches, with the Coptic Orthodox, the Ethiopian Orthodox and the Syriac Orthodox Churches having a lesser piece. Times and places of worship for each community are strictly regulated in common areas. Violence breaks out every so often. On a hot summer day in 2002, a Coptic monk moved his chair from its agreed spot into the shade. This was interpreted as a hostile move by the Ethiopians, and eleven were hospitalized after the resulting fracas! Where?

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Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem

"Skynet was supposed to go operational tonight. Instead of machines taking over, we have the very real threat of global warming.“

Who tweeted this, reminding the world of a special date, April 19th, twenty five years ago? What is the significance?

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James Cameron.

“On APRIL 19th 2011, Skynet went berserk; two days later it began a killing spree and tried to enslave the human race…” the setting for one branch of the "Terminator" series.

The series began in 1984, the year Apple introduced the Macintosh computer. Then, the date of Skynet achieving "self-awareness" was 1997. Later, it was pushed back to 2011, to make it feel suitably far in the future to be plausible, yet sufficiently immediate to excite viewers.

If X were to be the third largest of its kind, and is made up of four pieces of which, a small Sabah, a slightly bigger Sarawak and a huge Kalimantan, are three, which is the smallest part Y?

And what precedes X?

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X – BorneoY – BruneiPreceding X as the second largest island

in the world is New Guinea

What hospitality chain takes its name from shelters equipped with a roof but no walls, or only partially enclosed?

Traditionally constructed with branches or bushes, the term today is also applied to permanent concrete, wooden, or steel structures used to shelter objects or people from the sun. For example, public parks in desert areas of the United States may have them with picnic tables, restrooms, water sources, etc.

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The name of this genus, Brontomerus McIntoshi, would bring back fond memories of all those aunties in South Indian flicks. Why?

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Bronto-merus means Thunder-thighs

Anything other than the five standards: the gray Trianon canvas (1854), the red and beige vertical-striped canvas (1872), the beige and darker beige monochrome striped canvas (1876), the Damier canvas (1888), and the Monogram canvas (1896) Oval “O’s”

These are just two of the various things that one can watch out for. Explain madi.

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To know if a Louis Vuitton bag is a fake

Theme Time • 6 Questions, all answers written• Common Theme – in writing• Theme points on each slide

Two depictions of the flag of?

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Echolocation is used by whales and bats (among others) to emit calls out to the environment and listen to the echoes of those calls that return from various objects in the environment. They use these echoes to locate, range, and identify the objects. Echolocation is used for navigation in various environments.

What is the human-developed technology on the same principle called?

+25, -5

One of the oldest regiments in the Indian army, dating back to 1768.

Name it

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A recently started TV serial on NDTV Imagine

Name it

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Which dynasty / empire?

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Identify the building

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Exchange Sheets….

Answers

1. Mughal Dynasty2. SONAR3. Maratha Light Infantry4. Chandragupta Maurya5. Chola Dynasty / Empire6. Windsor Castle

Theme?

ITC Welcomgroup Hotels