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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?

A quiz by Somnath Chanda

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Tech-Biz Quiz 2016, ISI

The Answer

is..


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Bandra-Worli Sealink


What does the marked portion of the logo symbolically represent?


1


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?


2


This tree, often

planted outside the

village near

crematoriums, is

usually associated with Yama. Identify it.


3


What does the red coloured part in the logo of this well known tech-company

signify?(not referring to the alphabets)


4


What influenced the selection of this animal as the logo by the founder who

loved to stargaze a lot?


5


Exchange

your

papers

What does the marked portion of the logo symbolically represent?


1



1

One Hershey’s Kiss Chocolate


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?


2



2

Golden Gate Bridge


This tree, often

planted outside the

village near

crematoriums, is

usually associated with Yama. Identify it.


3



3

Banyan Tree


What does the red coloured part in the logo of this well known tech-company

signify?(not referring to the alphabets)


4



4

Outline of the map of Texas


What influenced the selection of this animal as the logo by the founder who

loved to stargaze a lot?


5



5

Taurus, the zodiac sign


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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The Answer

is..


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Nilkamal Plastics


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?


1


The Answer

is..


1

Harry Potter


Why this particular issue of this iconic magazine has become a ‘Collector’s

Item’?


2


The Answer

is..


2

Last issue with nude photos


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?


3


The Answer

is..


3

Modi-Sharif Talks


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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4


The Answer

is..


4

Barbie


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?


5


The Answer

is..


5

AppwapsiSnapdeal faced the flak over the Aamir Khan

intolerence comment.


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

6


The Answer

is..


6

Jagat Seth


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?


7


The Answer

is..


7

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde


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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The Answer

is..


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Automated Trolley Management System


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?


8


The Answer

is..


8

Big Bang Theory


For the launch of which century-old entity in a premier city in Western-

India, this particular slogan was extensively used in November, 2015?


9


The Answer

is..


9

Launch of The Hindu in Mumbai


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

10


The Answer

is..


10

Neil Nitin Mukesh starrer 3G


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?


11


The Answer

is..


11

Hurricane Lamps


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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12


The Answer

is..


12

Puri


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?


13


The Answer

is..


13

1st Indian Patent


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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The Answer

is..


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Larry Flint


Which great inventor-cum-entrepreneur is being played by Spencer Tracy in this 1940 film?


1


Whom did Audrey Tautou portray on

screen?


2


A still from a recent

movie….who is being portrayed on screen?


3


Whom did Timberlake play in this multiple Oscar winning film?


4


Screenshots from a ‘77 tv-movie…..who is being played by

Tommy Lee Jones?


5


Exchange

your

papers

Which great inventor-cum-entrepreneur is being played by Spencer Tracy in this 1940 film?


1



1

Thomas Alva Edison


Whom did Audrey Tautou portray on

screen?


2



Coic

2

Coco Chanel


A still from a recent

movie….who is being portrayed on screen?


3



3

Steve Wozniak


Whom did Timberlake play in this multiple Oscar winning film?


4



4

Sean Parker


Screenshots from a ‘77 tv-movie…..who is being played by

Tommy Lee Jones?


5



5

Hoiward Hughes


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?


*


The Answer

is..


*

Raghuram Rajan


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?


1


The Answer

is..


1

Dawood Ibrahim


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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2


The Answer

is..


2

Tomato


Where can you see the most

popular depiction of the Joshua Reynolds

painting titled Infant

Hercules Strangling the

Serpents?


3


The Answer

is..


3

Woodward’s Gripe Water logo


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

4


The Answer

is..


4

The Simpsons


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?


5


The Answer

is..


5

India’s ISD Code


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

Chanda

6


The Answer

is..


6

Elon Musk


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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The Answer

is..


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Charlie bit my finger


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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7


The Answer

is..


7

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.


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?


8


The Answer

is..


8

AMUL was launched


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)


9



9


The Answer

is..


9

Ferdinand Porsche


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?


10


The Answer

is..


10

Rufus the Hawk


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.


11


The Answer

is..


11

Hedy Lamarr


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?


12


The Answer

is..


12

Devdutt Pattanaik


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

Chanda

13


The Answer

is..


13

David Bowie (Bowiebanc.com)


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