Finals

Synthesis 2012GREY MATTERS

Ashish Desai

The first round happens to be a Mixed Bag questionnaire.

Total of 20 QuestionsEach carries +20 for a correct answerA negative 10 for a wrong answer

Rules

Q1.On which website would you encounter

this error message?

allaboutrajni.com

Q2.Currently kept at the

entrance of the Madame Tussaud’s Wax Museum at London, whose statue is this?

Madame Tussaud’s

Q3.What is unique about Anarchy, a new scent

from Axe, launched in January 2012?

First Axe deodorant for women

Q4.In 1995, this particular gentleman

received the national award for best coverage of science and technology in mass media from National Council for Science & Technology Communication (NCSTC) under the Department of Science and Technology.

Name this person, who recently passed away, without whose works have been used by most of us today.

Dr. R.D Sharma

Q5.Since its inception, Oprah Winfrey has

appeared alone on the cover of each issue of ‘O: The Oprah Magazine’.

The first shared cover was her April 2009 issue. With whom did she share this cover?

Michelle Obama

Q6.“__X__ __Y__ __Z__ is now a true British

national dish, not only because it is the most popular, but because it is a perfect illustration of the way Britain absorbs and adapts external influences. XY is an Indian dish. The Z was added to satisfy the desire of British people to have their meat served in gravy.”

This is an excerpt from a speech delivered by British Foreign Secretary Robin Cook in 2001, which came to be known as the XYZ speech.What is XYZ?

Chicken Tikka Masala

Q7.  Often called India's Warren Buffet, he currently among

India’s 50 richest individuals with a net worth of over Rs. 4000 crore.

He is also the chairman of Aptech Ltd. and the Hungama Digital media Entertainment group.

ID this ‘Pied Piper of Indian Bourses’, who also has a “fake” blog and Twitter account dedicated to him.

Rakesh Jhunjhunwala

Q8.What has been blanked out?

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Q9.Opened in 1986, this is the first and only

McDonalds outlet in Cuba. Where is it located?

Guantanamo Bay

Q10.Identify this personality?

Ans. Jack Dorsey (Creator of Twitter)

Q11. Identify and put funda

The Flipper Bridge

In Hong Kong, cars drive on the left while in the rest of China, they drive on the right

Q12

Born as Vijayalakshmi into a poor family in Eluru (in Andhra Pradesh), she left school after the fourth standard, determined to become a film star. Moving in with her aunt in Madras (then the centre of the South Indian film industry), she soon found a sponsor who renamed her to avoid confusion with the then reigning ‘cabaret dancer’ of the same name. After garnering much notice and acclaim with her first major role, in the Tamil movie Vandi Chakkaram (The Wheel), in 1979, she added a prefix after her character's name in the movie. She died in 1996, in what many believe to be a suicide caused by her financial difficulties. Who?

Answer

Silk Smitha

Q13. It’s usually said that the human tongue can detect only four basic tastes: sweet, sour, bitter and salty, and that all tastes are combinations of these. In recent years some researchers have added a fifth taste, umami, to the other four, though western food scientists are divided about whether it really exists or not.

What ingredient is usually used to provide the umami?

Hint: Chinese Cuisine

Answer

Aji no moto

Q14 Id

First ever computer mouse by Douglas Englebart

Q15.What unique distinction is held by the gentlemen below?

In The Godfather, Vito Corleone was portrayed by Marlon Brando. He was portrayed as a younger man in The Godfather Part II by Robert De Niro. Both performances won Academy Awards. Brando and De Niro remain the only two actors to each win Oscars for playing the same character.

Q16John Prakasa Rao Janumala is popularly known as ?

Jhonny Lever

Q17What is a "Textonym" ? 

Explain and give an example .

In T9, words that arise with the same numbers are called textonyms.

Sorry for bad English :P

Q18This was a viral marketing strategy to promote which movie ?

Inception !

Q19.'Mysore paints and varnishes Ltd.' creates one particular product since 1962 , which is used at a specific gap of 5 years . which product ?Hint: Elections

Indelible Ink (Voter's Ink) for elections

Q20A company was formed when NOKIA and HP sponsored a game developing competition in Helsinki University of Technology .

The company's name means 'bonfire' in Finnish.

Owing to mega success of one of its games the company positions for marketing head are called 'Wingman' and for CEO , "The Mighty Eagle". 

which company and which popular game are we talking about ?

Rovio’s Angry Birds

Press the buzzer !

The second round happens to be a Buzzer round.

Total of 6 QuestionsEach carries +20 for a correct answerA negative 10 for a wrong answerNo negative for pass questions

Rules

Q1What has been blanked out ?Give funda?

Apple doesn't support Flash :P

2.This seed is called the Carob seed or the "St John's Bread" from the Carob tree. These seeds have almost consistent mass and have less variability amongst themselves compared to other seeds. The ancient practice in the Middle East and in Rome was to use these seeds to weigh something & hence the biological name of this seed gives its name to a unit of measurement. Either give the ancient use of these seeds or the term.

CaratThey used this to weigh gems and pearls. In late Roman times, the pure gold coin known as the solidus weighed 24 carob seeds. And hence the term 24 carats for pure gold. Its bilogical name is Ceratonia Siliqua.

3Where are you likely to be greeted by this signboard?

this is the entrance to Las venturas, based on Las Vegas, from GTA: San Andreas.

4The funda behind the logo of (a website) X goes like this : The logo is composed of jigsaw pieces with each piece bears a glyph symbolizing the multilingualism of X. They include the Cyrillic letter И (“I”), the Greek letter Ω (Omega), the Korean syllabic block 위 , the Chinese character 維 (Wéi), the Hindi letter वि� , the Bengali letter উ, and at the bottom the Kannada kagunita ವಿ (Vi) and the Hebrew letter As with the Latin letter “W”, these .(Vav) וglyphs are in most cases the first glyph of the name X rendered in that language. The empty space at the top represents the incomplete nature of the project, and languages yet to be added. Id X.

Wikipedia

5Neha Kapur was crowned the Miss India 2006 and represented India at the Miss Universe pageant. She finished in the top 20 at the pageant and is well-established model today. Who is her more famous Britain-born husband, and what is his most famous role?

 she is the wife of Kunal Nayyar a.k.a Rajesh Koothrapalli of TBBT.

6What peculiar connection does Amitabh's portrayal of Vijay Deenanath Chauhan have with Marlon Brando's portrayal of Don Corleone in The Godfather?

Both actors used to stuff their mouth with cotton to make the cheeks appear swollen in order to 'complete the gangster' look.

Logo Quiz

The second round includes questions to identify logos of different brands.

Total of 20 QuestionsEach carries +20 for a correct answerA negative 10 for a wrong answer

1

Atari

2

Uncyclopedia

3

Patni Computers

4

Netscape

5

Apple Safari

6

Emirates Airlines

7

Marks & Spencers

8

Fosters Beer

9

Galaxo Smith-Kline

10

Disneyland

11

Dolby Digital

12

Bentley

Rapid fire round to follow:

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