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FINALS
Congratulations for Qualifying for the Finals!!!!!
In the Finals there will be 5
rounds:1. Anything under the Sun (Mixed Bag)
2. TechnoManagement 3. Sports and Entertainment
4. Connecting the Dots5. Rapid Fire
Hints will be given Like Charity, but the same cannot be said about
Time.
Anything under the sun
Mixed BagDirect: +10Bonus: +5No Negative
The first emblem for the State Bank of India was adopted in 1955 showing a Banyan tree because of its strong roots and branches which are capable of propagating and growing in all directions, depicting growth, success and stability. However, the logo was abandoned as it invited criticism because of the a certain fact.
What is that?
1
Answer
A Banyan tree does not let any other plant grow within its space.
Instead of using GDP as a measure of progress, Bhutan uses the GNH. What does GNH stands
for?
2
Answer
Gross National Happiness
What is common among these countries..
3
Answer:
Currency is Rupee
AI 173, a flight that departed from New Delhi on March 6 at
0235 hrs landed in San Francisco at 0600 hrs, having covered 17 long hours made history for a certain reason.
What is that?
4
Answer:
World’s Longest Fully Female operated flight
X was established in 1969 by an act of parliament.
In 2012 The National Assessment and Accreditation Council gave X a grade of 3.9 out of 4, the highest grade awarded to any educational institution in the country.
Identify X.
5
Answer:Jawaharlal Nehru University
In 2011, 450 copies of a book were brought from Italy to India. While
bringing them back each copy of the book was regarded as a passenger and was given separate seats for
each copy in the flight...Which book?
6
Answer:
Guru Granth Sahib
7 Whose wax statue at Madame Tussauds?
Answer:Marie Tussaud, The
founder helself
what is the significance of this graph?
8
Answer:
According to Hindu Mythology what was created when Vayu, the wind God broke the top of Mount Meru?
9
Answer: Lanka
Di Corporation is a South Korean company involved in the trade and supply of
semiconductor and computer chips. The
company was established in 1955 and its current CEO
is Park Wan HooIn Oct 2012, the stock prices rose by 800%
Why?
10
Answer:Psy's dad owns the company Di Corporation.
So in Oct 2012 the Gangnam dance raised the stock prices by Psy's sudden popularity
______ Nagar, is a village located in Muzaffarnagar district in Uttar
Pradesh formerly Known as Shiv Nagar. _____ invested $5,000 to
install 15 hand pumps that would make it so the villagers wouldn't
have to walk nearly two miles just to get clean water. The villagers were
so grateful for them, they decided to change the name of their village.
Name the company.
11
Answer:
Atargatis was a Syrian moon godess. She had a child with a human.
She killed her love, abandoned her child. JUMPED INTO THE LAKE and took the form of X?
What is X
12
Answer: Mermaid
Put Funda13
Answer:
‘Face with tears of Joy’ Emoji becoming the Oxford Word of the year, 2015
Originally known to the Lakota Sioux as "Six Grandfathers". At first, the project of carving this
structure was undertaken to increase tourism in the Black Hills
region of South Dakota. The carving started in 1927, and
ended in 1941. It has become an iconic symbol of the United
States, and has appeared in works of fiction, and has been discussed
or depicted in other popular works. It attracts over two million
people annually.
Name the structure.
14
Answer:
Mount Rushmore
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Tech It
TECHNO-MANAGEMENT
ROUND
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Beethoven's Ninth Symphony is 74mins 33sec long.Its set as the standard time for what modern day invention?
Answer
CD length
What is it?2
Answer
Blueprint of Twitter
When the internet was still very much under the spell of bare Unix shells and Gopher, an ambitious group of scientists at CERN started working on World Wide Web. In an
office on the "fourth floor" they placed the World Wide Web's central database. Some faculty requests were answered with a standard message : "_________"
3
Answer:
Room 404:File Not Found
Which drink was named by its inventor after rejecting the first six names that were
offered?
4
Answer:
This picture is home to a famous IT company. I need the address of this
5
Answer:Infinite Loop Street
By what name is "Phiroze Jeejebhoy Towers" better known as?
6
Answer:
Bombay Stock Exchange
7
In 1932 JRD Tata founded it as Tata Airlines....
How do we commonly know Tata Airlines as?
Answer:
This tune is an excerpt taken from measures(bars) 13-16 of the piece Grans
Vals. This tune is heard worldwide an estimated 1.8 billion times a day, about
20,000 times per second. Identify X?
8
Answer:NOKIA TUNE
Guess the tagline and name of the company behind it.
9
Answer:
Give the name10
Answer:
McIntosh
_______ is a type of a contest for finding a Google search query
consisting of exactly two words without quotation marks,that returns
exactly one hit.
11
Answer:
Googlewhack
X is a shark in the ocean. We are a crocodile in the Yangtze River.If we fight in the ocean we loose, if we fight in the river we win -
CEO Y
Identify X and Y
12
Answer:
X:
Y:
It was first started as Orgish.com, a shock site and
was aimed at the empowerment of citizen
journalism. It came to lime light when it leaked the video
of execution of Saddam Hussain. It has the tagline “Redefining the media”.
Which website is being talked about here?
13
Answer:
LiveLeak.com
It is a book by entrepreneur Rashmi Bansal. It features the
stories of 25 MBAs from IIM Ahmedabad
who left lucrative jobs to follow the rough
road of entrepreneurship.
This book created a new record in Indian publishing by selling over 300,000 copies
and has been translated into 8
languages. The title of this book is similar to a very famous quote
of a very famous personality. Name this
book.
14
Answer:
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Sports
X arrived at England with the aim of buying Y. Admittedly he was a fan. The management at Y though declined after repeated advances by X and with his 10 day visa permit fast coming to an end, he ended up buying Z. And thus came about one of the most important takeovers in sporting history.Identify X,Y and Z (No Part Marking)
X= Roman AbramovichY= Tottenham Hotspurs FCZ= Chelsea FC
X was born in a suburb named Henderson.X is widely known for his popularity in the field of cricket.X had a promising career as a fast bowler in his 20s when he was affected by Rheumatoid Arthritis which ended his career.Who is X?
2
Sports
Billy Bowden
What does it signify?3
Sports
No. of times Summer Olympics hosted by the Continents. 2016 Rio Olympics will be the first ever Summer Olympics in Latin America.
On May 2, 2007, a men's tennis exhibition match between Roger Federer, the then top-ranked men's singles player, and Rafael Nadal, the then World No. 2 in men's singles, was played in the capital city of Nadal's home island, Palma de Mallorca. Nadal won 7–5, 4–6, 7–6.
Prior to that match, at that time Nadal was 72 matches unbeaten on clay and Federer was 48 matches unbeaten on grass court.There was something very unique about the match that the match was called 'The Battle of *****'What was the unique thing?
4
Sports
The Battle of Surfaces.
One side of the court was Grass Court and other half was clay court.
About what?5
Sports
Day-Night Test Cricket
Guess the Footballer. Also name the clubs X
and Y6
Sports
Iain HumeX= Kerala Blasters
Y= Atletico de Kolkata
Who?7
Sports
Floyd Mayweather
X is an American professional basketball player for the Golden State Warriors of the National Basketball Association (NBA). X is considered by some to be the greatest shooter in NBA history.X won the 2015 NBA Most Valuable Player (MVP) award and is a three-time NBA All-Star. X also holds the NBA record for most consecutive games with a made three-pointer (131).Who is X?
8
Sports
Stephen Curry
Entertainment
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X started her career as a child actress in the Telugu film Rangula Ratnam. She debuted as a lead in Sawan Bhadon in Bollywood.She worked in over 180 films in about 40 years career.she had received Padma Shri. Recently X was conferred with Yash Chopra Memorial Award in Mumbai. Identify X.
Identify X.
1
RekhaAnswer:
Trailer of which video game?2
• video
Answer: NFS NO LIMITS
742 Evergreen Terrace is well known address in
pop culture? Who resides at this address?
3
Answer:Simpsons
This song is by a band which is a side-project of America’s famous band Linkin Park’s co-lead
singer Mike Shinoda. Name the band
4
• video
Answer: Fort Minor
5 this kid suffers from a rare disease of Osteogenesis Imperfecta, he has become an internet sensation after releasing the cover of ‘Not afraid’ by Eminem .What is his name?
Answer: SPARSH SHAH
6 Name the competition
Answer:Dum Laga ke Haisa
Advertisement of which product?7
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDa2K28G3eU
• CAMLIN PERMANENT MARKER
If Hindi =Bollywood Bengali =Tollywood Telugu = Tollywood Odia = Ollywood
Then Kannada -- ???
8
Answer:
Sandalwood
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Union Budget of India It is announced on the last working day of
February every year.
The papers are carried into the Parliament by the Finance Minister in a Leather Briefcase. ( The word Budget is originated from French word "bougette" or "small bag" that was once considered sufficient to hold an individual's wealth)
The printing of Budget documents starts roughly a week ahead of presenting in the Parliament with a customary 'Halwa ceremony’. This ceremony is performed as a part of the Indian tradition of having something sweet before starting an important work
2
Narendra Modi As a child, Modi helped his father sell tea at the
Vadnagar railway station, and later ran a tea stall with his brother near a bus terminus.
From a ‘Chaiwala’ to the Prime Minister of India
Bipin Chauhan the founder of Ahmedabad based clothing chain JadeBlue is Narendra Modi's personal tailor and the man behind the 'Modi Kurta‘.
First Indian Prime Minister to Visit Facebook Headquarters
3
GT Road Rudyard Kipling’s ‘Kim’ is set on the GT Road.
This road existed during the Maurya Empire and flourished during the reign of Chandragupta Maurya
The Modern GT Road was rebuilt by Sher Shah Suri.
The road ends at Kabul. That’s why a poster of the film ‘Kabuliwala’
4
Leonardo Dicaprio He was a speaker at climate change summit 2014.
Leonardo Dicaprio foundation works on this same issue.
Romper Room: TV Show where he made his debut at the age of 5
Picture is ‘The Last Supper’: Famous Painting of by Leonardo da Vinci
The book is ‘The Revenant’. Story based on which the film was made.
5
Real faces behind internet memes
6
Hurricanes Katrina,
Michelle, Tomas all names of Hurricanes
Other one is Harry Kane
7
Around the World in 80 days
Jules Verne, author of the novel ‘Around the World in 80 Days’
Jackie Chan starred in a movie of this same title.
Gunnar Garfors created World Record by visiting every Country in the world
8
Technologies used in cricket Hawk eye Wagon Wheel Hotspot Spider Cam
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