The EDGE Quiz 2015 Music, Entertainment, Literature, Arts and Sports

The EDGE Quiz 2015The Business and Technology quiz prelims Answers

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1.

The photo uploaded by Hope Taylor is being retweeted by whom here?

Adobe.

2.

Salman Khan with a team whose work has been very much in the news. Which work?

Mauka Mauka Ads.

3.

This is the American TV show Family Feud. An online game version of this TV show has become extremely popular. What is it called?

Google Feud.

4.Ingredients :Each 10 ml contains : Akarkara 100 mg Malla 50 mg Malkangni 25 mg Keshar 50 mg Harttal 125 mg Jaitoon Oil QS Laung 100 mg Tilli oil QS Usage : Use 10 - 15 drops through massaging by light hand at bed time and in the morning. Packaging size : 15 ml bottle.Identify the product.

Japani Oil.

5.X is an event that consists of a group of supposed shoppers who congregate at a large superstore and slowly push empty shopping carts silently through store aisles. Participants will not purchase anything and seek to form a lengthy chain of non-shoppers, continually weaving and whirling through a maze of store aisles for up to an hour at a time. The participants describe their actions as a collective reclamation of space that is otherwise only used for buying and selling. The participants seek to mimic and mock what they perceive as the absurdity of the shopping process.What is X?

WhirlMart.

6.Biosynwas a research company with its headquarters atCupertino, California. It was headed byBill Steingartenduring the early 1990s. Their head of product development, Dr. Lewis Dodgson involved himself in corporate espionage schemes for Biosyn that involved recovering developing technology from rival companies and then re-engineering the technology in such as way as to avoid a lawsuit. Biosyn sent Dodgsonto meet withDennis Nedry, a computer programmer working in their rival company InGen, and asked Nedry to steal a certain product from InGen and to give it to Biosyn. Nedry was going to be paid $1,500,000 for this. But Biosyn never received the products as Nedry died in an accident soon after stealing them. But this incident had a much more dangerous repercussion that lead to the bankruptcy of InGen.What was the product that Nedry stole?

Dinosaur Embryos.

7.This phrase, used often in the corporate world, has its origin in gambling. The phrase refers to the initial amount of money that a gambler carries with himself to a card game and which other players have a chance to win. Carrying a lot would mean that your contribution has the potential to enrich everybody else.What is the phrase?

Bring to The Table.

8.[SPOILER ALERT]In the movie Open Tee Bioscope, after the football team Koboj defeats the team Ispat in the climax of the movie, they celebrate by mimicking the dance steps of a famous TV commercial.The commercial was for which product?

Dairy Milk.

9.According to Internet memes, Xs are like Jesus. They died to become the icon of saving.What is X?

Floppy Disk.

10.X is an enzyme which is released by the chief cells in the stomach and that degrades food proteins. It was discovered in 1836 by Theodor Schwann who also coined its name from a Greek word meaning digestion. X is one of three principal protein-degrading, or proteolytic, enzymes in the digestive system, the other two being chymotrypsin and trypsin.X lends its name to a famous company and its most famous product.ID X or the company.

PepsiCo(from Pepsin)

The EDGE Quiz 2015The Business and technology quiz Finals

by The Disco Fighters

Infinite Pounce Part I16 Questions.Infinite Bounce.Infinite Pounce.+10/0 on bounce.+20/-10 on Pounce.Clockwise.

1.Witworks, an Indian start-up has launched Rewind as its first product. The founders say that they wanted to start by solving a small yet a very common problem.Rewind is available on major online shopping websites at a price of around Rs. 200.What is the use of Rewind?

Prevents Tangling of Earphones.

2.

Why did this print ad stir an unnecessary controversy?

The Words SOCIALIST And SECULAR Are Missing From The Preamble.(But This is the Original Text. Socialist And Secular Were Added in the 42nd Amendment.)

3.The company X recently announced itsRace Togethercampaign, which opened to an intense backlash. The campaign is aimed at spurring a meaningful discussion about race. But X itself has played an instrumental part in gentrification across the U.S. Since 1997, homes near X locations have appreciated in value by 96 percent.Another issue with the campaign is that it is just plain awkward. Like Gwen Ifill of PBS NewsHour tweeted :Honest to God, if you start to engage me in a race conversation before I had my morning coffee, it will not end well.Identify X. And what term, a parody of a famous idiom, is the media using to describe such attacks on the company?

Starbucks.Storm in a Coffee Cup.

4.Starting from an early age, X wondered if the existence of God and paranormal phenomena could be proven scientifically. While he was still a schoolboy in Alphington, Devon, X made his first attempt to prove the existence of the supernatural by trying to call upon the Devil. As Anthony Hyman points out ina biography of X, this was an ordinary enough endeavour for a schoolboy, but the methodical way in which X approached his diabolical experiment was quite apropos for the future inventor.Even when he became famous, he remained a member of the Ghost Club, a society of paranormal researchers.Who is X?

Charles Babbage.

5.Last year, Hormel created a custom motorcycle that runs on 100% refined X grease. Steve Venenga, Hormel VP, explained the utility of the product saying, X is in more households. Price increases of X are starting to slow. Scott Schraufnagel, from Hormels ad agency said that because the bike runs on B-100 bio diesel, there are no hazardous waste materials. Around one gallon of fuel is generated from one pound of X grease.The team behind the idea toldThe Washington Times: If there were a X biodiesel tanker spill in the ocean, the fuel would be safe and there will be mouth-watering fish food. And this X biodiesel is nearly carbon-neutral, meaning it contributes almost zero emissions to global warming.Jane Wells of CNBC wrote an article on the bike titled : America runs on X, and so does this motorcycle.Identify X.

Bacon.

6.The Latin phrase ___ ______ means Voice of the people.Inbroadcasting, ___ ______ is aninterviewwith members of the general public. American television personalitySteve Allenas the host ofThe Tonight Showdeveloped such man on the street interviews and audience-participation comedy breaks that have become commonplace on late-night TV. Broadcast journalists almost always refer to them as the abbreviatedX.X Clothing is also an online merchandise store started by Siddharth Taparia, a formerexecutive directorandbusiness head of licensing businessforWalt Disney. Identify X.

Vox Pop.(From Vox Populi).

7.The term X describes the transformation of society to resemble_____ _____. The term appears in Andre Kehoe's book, Christian Contradictions and the World Revolution.The term is used in a negative way and implies homogenization of consumption, merchandising andperformative labour. It can be used more broadly to describe the processes of stripping a real place or event of its original character and repackaging it in a sanitized format. References to anything negative are removed and the facts are watered down with the intent of making the subject more pleasant. In the case of places, this typically means replacing what has grown organically over time with an idealized and tourist-friendly look.Identify X.

Disneyfication.(The Blanks = Theme Parks.)

8.Martin Raynsford, one of the owners of Just Add Sharks, an UK-based laser cutter manufacturer, recently created a real-life version of the game X where he destroys the paper cut-outs of the antagonists using a 80W laser cutter.The paper cut-outs have shields made of foam at the centre to absorb the first shot. They move left to right on a modified rotary attachment. They approach the player using a motor on the Z-axis. The paper bursts into flames when shot with the laser. The game is complete when all the antagonists have been burnt.Identify the game X.

Space Invaders.

9.Xs are usually employees within a company who are assigned a special idea or project, and are instructed to use the resources and capabilities of the firm to develop it. Xs main job is to turn that special idea or project into a profitable venture for the company.They take innovative ideas and turn them into new products and solutions. In many cases, their salaries are tied to the success of their ideas. In 1978, Gifford and Elizabeth Pinchot coined the term in an article about large companies that were adopting this emerging trend.What is X?

Intrapreneur.

10.It begun in November 1991 with DOS. From then onwards, there has been at least 2500 more, from Windows to Photoshop to Chess to Medical Ethics to Fishing to Parenting to Acne to Breastfeeding to Star Trek to The Royal Wedding to Buying a Property in Spain (not in any particular order).What am I talking about?

For Dummies Book Series.

11.Most people credit Tomas Bata with the ideation of this practice who popularized it in Czechoslovakia in the 1920s. But the practice has been there much before Bata.One theory says that it may have originated due to shopkeepers of mid 1800s trying to ambush each other with cutthroat pricing. Another theory says that it was an early form of loss prevention, inventory control and accounting. It was done to prevent the cashier from pocketing the money a customer paid and forced them to open the register. Also, it made counting the number of items sold in a day much easier.Which practice is being discussed?

Psychological Pricing.(999 is lesser than 1000.)

12.In the third season of House of Cards, President Frank Underwood appears on The Colbert Report to promote his proposal for a controversial job-generation scheme called America Works. Here is a part of their conversation:Underwood: Look, I don't let polls like that bother me. I think that once the nation sees AmWorks in action, they will change their attitudes.Colbert: I'm sorry, AmWorks? I'm sorry, I didn't realize it was called AmWorks. Is that like X? Is it a pyramid scheme? Is that what you're selling to the American people?Underwood: No, it's actually just an abbreviation to make it easier to say.Colbert: Well, if you make it small enough, maybe it'll be easier to swallow.What is X?

Amway.

13.The YouTube channel PewDesiPie has uploaded a video that is going viral at present. It is a mash-up of two videos. One is a social awareness initiative X by the company Y, based on a piece written by Kersi Khambatta. The other is the song Z from the 1997 movie Gambler picturized on Govinda.Identify X, Y and Z.

My Choice by Vogue India and Meri Marzi.

14.It is being hailed as the greatest Easter egg of all time. Experts are predicting that, if it becomes a permanent feature, this is going to cost the loss of a massive number of work hours.According to a Forbes article, Washington DC, Boston, Brussels, Milan, Phoenix, Paris, Saigon, Baghdad and Tokyo are The Best Places to Play X on Y.Identify X and Y.

PacMan on Google Maps.

The Honest Slogans Round.Written Round.8 Honest Slogans of business and technology related identities.Name them.+5 for every correct answer.+20 for a full house.

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Exchange Sheets.

Answers.

1.

Victorias Secret.

2.

Kickstarter.

3.

Netflix.

4.

Google Plus.

5.

Internet Explorer.

6.

Perrier.

7.

Lego.

8.

Lays.

PYAASA GUNDA : The Indian Entertainment QuizBy Tamal Dutta, Baneswar Sarker and Archisman Das.

1.When there was a little controversy about the name of the 2014 movie X, the cast and crew of the movie said the name came from a line of the poem Jhansi Ki Rani by Subhadra Kumari Chauhan :Chamak uthi san sattavan mein, yeh talwaar puraani thi, Bundeley Harbolon key munh humney suni kahaani thi, Khoob ladi X woh toh Jhansi wali Rani thi.

ID X.

Mardaani.

2.The moment which u can only dream of. The only man to beat @usainbolt in 100 meter race.

Worlds fastest ;)

Whose tweets on September 2nd, 2014?

Yuvraj Singh.

3.This is a scene from the film Pirates of the Caribbean : Dead Man's Chest.

What is the game being played originally called?

Liars Dice.

4.Connect :

The 2006Germandrama film that marked the debut of director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck and won the2006 Academy AwardforBest Foreign Language Film.

The Jadavpur University alumnus who won theVodafone-Crossword Book Awardin 2008 for his debut novel.

The Lives of Others.

5.

If

Then

Bachchan.

6.

This is Shakun Batra. He was an assistant director in movies like Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na, Rock On!! and Don 2.

In 2012, he debuted as a director with Ek Main Aur Ekk Tu.

What did he direct in 2014, that has described as a brilliant PR stunt by many online reviewers?

Alia Bhatt : Genius of the year.

7.At the inauguration of the Indian Super League, guest performer Priyanka Chopra joked that Sourav Ganguly bought a football team for a particular reason, which she thought was legal in football, but not in cricket.

She was in for a surprise, perhaps, when she realised she was wrong as Atletico de Kolkatas Arnal Carb was yellow-carded in the match that followed for the same reason.

What is the reason being talked about?

Taking off the jersey.

8.Xis aMarathi film that released in 2004. It was India's official entry to theAcademy Awardsand was ranked 6th in theAcademy Award for Best Foreign Language Filmcategory (according to Wikipedia, among other websites).

The IMDb plot description reads :This story is about how an old man tried to show his grandson the preciousness and beauty of life in a no win situation such as cancer. It is about keeping a positive attitude towards life.

ID X.

Shwaas.

9.J.B. Bernsteinis the CEO of Access Group, an athlete management firm andChief Marketing Officer of Seven Figures Management, a sports marketing and athlete representation firm.

Bernstein set up an Indianreality TVcontest in 2007 calledXwhich was aired onZee TV. The winner received a prize of $100,000with an opportunity to win $1 millionUS dollarsin a bonus round afterward.

ID X.

The Million Dollar Arm.

10.

Connect.

Debut Movies of Sa RE Ga Ma Pa Hosts.

124

11.

Both the movies 18.11 : A Code of Secrecy and Velayutham are guilty of ripping off posters of popular video games.

People who have seen the movies and played the games say that the similarities do not end there. Some elements from the games and even some videos from the games have been copy-pasted in these movies.

ID both the video games.

Assassins creed.Watchdogs.

12.Which word is defined by Merriam-Webster as :

Personal confidence or courage that allows someone to do or say things that may seem shocking to others.?

Chutzpah.

13.Anandabhadram was a 2005Malayalamromantic fantasy film based on the novel of the same name by Sunil Parameswaran. The film was the first Malayalam filmto be directed bySantosh Sivan. The film was inspired by the paintings ofX.

Santosh Sivan went on to play the painter X in the 2011Malayalam romantic drama film Makaramanju which waswritten and directed byLenin Rajendran.

ID the painter X.

RaJa Ravi Verma.

14.The upcoming 2014 film X is the remake of a 1982 Basu Chatterjee film starring Ashok Kumar, Utpal Dutt, A.K. Hangal, Mithun Chakraborty and Rati Agnihotri.

The name of the remake is the plural form of the name of the original.

ID X.

The Shaukeens.

15.Connect :A social gathering attended by members of a group of people who have not seen each other for some time.The two-word warning message that comes up on screen when someone lights a cigarette in a film.A small, usually heart-shaped, flat piece of wood equipped with two wheeled castors and a pencil-holding aperture, used to facilitate automatic writing.Thegoddessofretributivejusticeorvengeance in Greek mythology.

Chotushkone.(Reunion, Smoking kills, Reverse Planchette, Nemesis.)

16.In the new YouTube video by The Viral Fever, called TVF Talk Show - Barely Speaking with Arnub : SRK, which performance did Shah Rukh Khan rate as his best action performance as he could abuse and use bad language openly in front of kids who are very impressionable and scar them for life ?

Brawl At Wankhede Stadium.(during IPL V.)

17.While promoting her new film Super Nani on an Indian TV show, actress X said :Thappadse darr nahi lagta. Pyaar se bhi nahi lagta, who toh main bahut de sakti hoon. Darr lagta hain toh bas Y se.She realised her mistake and was quick to rectify seconds later that by Y she was referring to Z. But the media did not let her slip of tongue slide and started speculating whether X was still not over Y even after so many years.

ID X, Y and Z.

X Rekha,Y - Big B, Z - BigG Boss.

18.

Connect.[Recent and exhaustive.]

CRICKETERS WHO will FEATURE ON THE India Vs. Sri Lanka 4th ODI tickets.(As A Part of the Celebrations for the 150th Year of Eden gardens.)

19.In the original Agent Vinod (1977) starringMahendra Sandhu, Jagdeep played Sandhus comic sidekick.

What was Jagdeeps character called?

James Bond.

20.The opening credits of the movie X shows different couples publicly displaying affection as Lata Mangeshkar and Hariharan sing Y in the background. Some famous couples appear in the video, including Yash and Hiroo Johar, who squabble like a regular couple after she snatches away his cordless phone, and Sanjeev Kohli (the erstwhile CEO of the movies production house) and his wife.The director Z himself appears at the end of the credits with his wife Pamela, embarrassing her with an impromptu hug.ID X, Y and Z for full points.ID X and Z for half points.

X Dil Toh Pagal Hain,Y Ek Dujey Ke Vaastey, Z Yash Chopra.

21.On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of his novel X, author Y was in Kolkata last week. On being asked by journalists if he could have set the novel X in the present political scenario, Y said:I do not think we live in epic times anymore. I do not see The Mahabharata fitting into what we see of contemporary politics. I think Mr. Modi, certainly within the BJP, looks like Gulliver among the Lilliputians.ID X and Y.

The Great Indian Novel.Shashi Tharoor.

22.These are the tracks from the album X by Shayan Chowdhury Arnob that released in 2006.

Bakshey Bakshey.Tomar Jonyo.X.Tui Ki Janishna 1.Bhalobasha Tarpor.Tor Jonyo.Shomoy Kate.Chalak Tumi.Muhoorto.Prokreeto Jol.Shwobdo.Tui Ki Janishna 2.

ID X.

Hok Kolorob.

23.

ID the artist.

Shuvaprasanna.

24.

In early 2015, Anand Tiwari will join a list that includes Shailen Mukherjee, Rajarshi Mukherjee, Debdut Ghosh and Anindya Chatterjee among others.

[ Two of the most popular names have been excluded.]

What list am I talking about?

Actors who have played ajit.