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THE FINALS...

ROUND 1:DRIES

Rules for the rounds+10 for direct/pass.+15/-5 for a pounce.

LETS START THE FINALS

1:Name the only CEO to have featured on The Vogue magazine cover?

Marissa Mayer. (YAHOO.)

2: Specs of what?5-inch, 52-column display.2 floppy disk drives.A Z80 microprocessor.64KB of RAM.Could fit under an airplane seat.It could survive an accidental crash.Included a bundled software package that included the CP/M OS, the BASIC programming language, the WordStar word processing package, and the SuperCalc spreadsheet program.

Osborne 1, the first ever laptop.

3: 640 K ought to be enough for anybody.Famous line by whom about what?

Bill Gates said this in 1981 when IBM introduced a PC with 640KB of memory.

4: From a 1995 Book of 101 Un-Useless Japanese inventions to making to the 25 best inventions of 2014. ID this Wand Of Narcissus.

Selfie stick.

5: This was invented by Ted Selker at PARC only because of the fact that it took 0.75 seconds to shift your hands from keyboard to the mouse. What are we talking about?

Pointing Stick / Trackpoint.

6: What connects Facebook, Samsung, Ericsson, MediaTek, Microsoft, Opera Software and Qualcomm?

All companies are a part of Internet.org

7: There are many popular theories about how this came about. One of the anecdotes goes thus:

Once X went to the Watsons Hotel in Bombay. The swanky hotel which at the time allowed only European into their premises did not allow X to enter. Enraged by this, X built the magnificent Y opened on Dec 16th 1903 which has been a landmark ever since.ID X and Y.

X: Jamsetji Tata.Y: The Taj Mahal Palace in Mumbai

8: Love, courage, patience, peacefulness, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, selfcontrol, selflessness, selfsacrifice, truthfulness, righteousness, justice, mercy, graciousness, humility, empathy, sympathy, supreme knowledge, supreme wisdom, supreme wisdom, love for beings, hope, trust or faith in the goodness of god or nature.

What are these virtues from ancient India represented by, in modern in India?

The 24 spokes of Ashok Chakra.

9: Around 1930, during the Dasara season, the umber of travelers heading for the Mysore Dasara festival was overwhelming. Narsimha Upadhaya a cook in a local restaurant on the way needed to use all his imagination to come up with something quick, tasty and filling. He took Chiroti Rava , Maida, Rice powder, onions, chillies, coriander, salt and ghee and patted the paste into flat cakes and fried them crisp. What was born?

10: Basketball was invented in 1891 by James Naismith. But in the initial days, the game was not popular as it was very tedious and time consuming.Finally in 1904, what rule change made the sport exciting and popular?

The baskets were replaced with metal hoops.

11: ______ is a Genus of jellyfish, with only one known species, which are found off the central eastern coast of Australia. Marine biologists Lisa Ann Gershwin and Peter Davie first described the Genus in 2013.

The name of the Genus ______ is a reference to a famous catch phrase said by a more famous character X on Y, a popular T.V show.

What is the name of the catch phrase/Genus?

Bazinga!!

12: Where will you find a high school football coach, a bank teller, a messenger service owner, a stock broker, a painter, a salesman, an architect, a garage owner, a watch maker, an advertising executive and 2 other people of unknown professions in a single room?

12 Angry Men.

END OF ROUND 1

ROUND 2:DIFFERENTIATE

Rules for this round:5 questions common to all.Scoring pattern:10*(No. of teams that dont get the answer).

SECOND ROUND BEGINS.

1: According to the traffic cops, Bangalore has 260 these, some of them dating back to the 1970s. Which convenience/ inconvenience?

2: ID this movie with the help of this minimalistic poster.

3: This was founded as the Golden State ___________ in 1970 by a group of enthusiasts in California, and is now the largest of its kind in the world.

Its is the home of awards such as the Inkpot Award and Will Eisner Awards.It has an annual regional economic impact of $162.8 million.

4: Connect:

5:ID the singer of the song.

1: According to the traffic cops, Bangalore has 260 these, some of them dating back to the 1970s. Which convenience/ inconvenience?

One ways.

2: ID this movie with the help of this minimalistic poster.

3: This was founded as the Golden State ___________ in 1970 by a group of enthusiasts in California, and is now the largest of its kind in the world.

Its is the home of awards such as the Inkpot Award and Will Eisner Awards.It has an annual regional economic impact of $162.8 million.

COMIC-CON

4: Connect:

All these companies have CEOs of Indian origin.Satya Nadella. (Microsoft)Sundar Pichai. (Google)Punit Renjen.(Deloitte)Shantanu Narayen. (Adobe)

5:ID the singer of the song.

Monali Thakur.

END OF ROUND 2

ROUND 3

TAKE YOUR PICK

Rules:Choose the topic you prefer.Bid for your points. (Max 50)

YOUR CHOICES: SCIENCE&TECHNOLOGY POLITICS LITERATURE

PRINT AD SPORTS HISTORY

CURRENT AFFAIRS ENTERTAINMENT MISC

By what name do some scientists and students celebrate every 23rd October between 6:02pm and 6:03pm?

NAME THE DAY.

Avogadro day. (6.022X10^23)

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is an autoimmune disease that results in a chronic, systematic inflammatory disorder that may affect many tissues and organs, but principally attacks flexible (synovial) joints. It can be disabling and painful condition, which can lead to substantial loss of functioning and mobility if not adequately treated.

Who, in the world of cricket, is the most famous person suffering from this disease?

Billy Bowden.

After the Supreme Court verdict of 27 September 2013, India became the 14th country to adopt this practice .

This is an improvement over the earlier practice under Section 49(O) of the Conduct of Election Rules, 1961.

Jaspal Bhattis wife Savita floated a party inspired by this.What are we talking about?

NOTA.

ID the group.

Donald Duck and his nephews, Huey, Dewey and Louie.

Print ad for?

Dove.

Put funda.

Salma Dam.

Connect:Mekhri Circle.Kempambudhi LakeLalbagh. (Double Road)Ulsoor

Locations of Kempegowdas pillar.

________ is an international criminal master mind whose ultimate goal is a world in perfect balance. He believes that the best way to achieve this balance is to eliminate most of humanity. He usually tries to assault the worlds human population with a Biological weapon such as a genetically engineered virus.

His name in Arabic literally means The Demons Head.

Ras al Ghul.

This classic recounts how a yaksha, a subject of king Kubera, after being exiled to central India for a year, for neglecting his duties, covinces a passing cloud to take a message to his wife at Alaka on Mount Kailash. ID the book and the writer.

Meghadootam by Kalidasa

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