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The GENERAL Quiz
Round 1

Whats in a name???
1.

Name the company founded by Dr.
Burman in Kolkata.
2.
It was founded by Harry Pickup.
Name this famous cleaning brand.

3.
Named after strepto bacillum
bacteria, this brand is used to
cure sore throat.
4.
This brand is named after the person
who determined the correct value
of Absolute zero.
Name the toy brand which derives its
name from the Danish phrase Leg
Godt, meaning Play Well.
5.
6.
According to a legend there were 18
forts on either side i.e, north and
south of river Shivnath in the area of
Southern Kaushal(Kosal). What was
the implication of this?
This is how Chhattisgarh
gets its name.
Round 2 Infinite Bounce
1.
A "surveyor's chain is a measuring
device, whose form will be familiar to
students of civil engineering even
today. It was first used in England in
the late 17th century primarily to
help landowners measure land. It has
100 metal links of equal length, each
of 7.92 inches. The legacy of this chain
is still preserved in a very different
field. How?
Measuring the 22 yard length of
a cricket pitch.

792 inches = 22 yards.
2.
Mark Waugh when on a tour of the
Subcontinent was highly unsuccessful
in scoring runs and ended up with
four consecutive ducks. What
nickname, did he earn due to this
incident?
3. Put funda
4.
In the past few years, many
products like biscuits, bread etc. have
TJ imprinted upon them. Where are
these products likely to be made?
Tihar Jail
5. ID X
Initially, the company's advertising agency
recommended naming the product "Lasers".
Then, on a selling trip to the southeastern
United States, the brand's first sales manager,
James Gaylord Muir dined with one of his
regional salesmen and the meal included X,
traditional fried southern cornballs. When Muir
asked about the origin of the name, he was told
that farmers threw X at the hounds to "quiet
their barking dogs." Muir saw a connection to his
new product. "Barking dogs" in the vernacular of
the day was an idiom for "sore feet." Muir
surmised his new shoes were so comfortable that
they could "quiet barking dogs."

6.
The Lord's test in 1996 between India
and England is best known as the test
where Sourav Ganguly and Rahul
Dravid made their test debut, Ganguly
making a century and Dravid making
95. But it was the last test for
someone else. Who?
Umpire Dickie Bird
Round 3 Pounce
1.
Which Television Series topped the list
of most pirated TV series in both
2012 and 2013?
2.
The wool tax of 1275, which survived
until the fifteenth century, meant tax
involved the collection of one third to
the king, and one third to the church.
We know this custom as X.
A controversy emerged over changing
X in Britain from 1986, because, it
was alleged in the popular press, it
was seen as racially dubious. Id X.
Baa Baa Black Sheep
3.
What comes in between?

Vancouver, Canada, 12-28 Feb 2010

?

Pyeongchang, South Korea, 9-25 Feb 2018

Sochi, Russia, 7-23 FEB, 2014
4. Put funda
When you access www.relentless.com,
you are re-directed to a well known
website. Relentless was the name that
the founder had in mind during the
inception of the company but later on
chose the present name, that too after
rejecting two more names. Identify
the company.
Amazon.com
5. Identify X and the movie Y
The Elephant Man is a an English movie
directed by David Lynch and was released in
the year 1980. X played the pivotal role of a
doctor named Frederick Treves in this film.
Based on this role, eleven years later Jonathan
Demme cast X again in the role of doctor in
an academy award winning movie Y.
Apparently, when X found out that his casting
was based on his performance as Dr. Frederick
Treves in The Elephant Man, X questioned
Jonathan Demme and said "But Dr. Treves
was a good man.
X - Anthony Hopkins

Y Silence of the Lambs
6.
Next slide contains a picture of the
design conceptualized by a serial
entrepreneur for an ambitious project.
What is the design for and Identify the
entrepreneur behind the concept?

Elon Musk

Hyperloop high speed transportation
system using pressurized capsules aiming
to achieve speeds around 760 mph

Round 4 Trivia
1.
In June 2012, a group of engineers
from Eskay Enterprises, Bangalore
went all the way to Arkhangelsk
region in Russia to install something
on the Admiral Gorshkov which is
an aircraft carrier of the Russian
Navy. What did this team of
engineers successfully install on the
aircraft carrier and how do we
better know Admiral Gorshkov?
INS Vikramaditya

To install 6 dosa making machines and 3 idli
making machines. Eskay enterprises is one of the
license holders authorized to manufacture the
Idli and dosa making machines developed by the
Centre Food Technological Research Institute,
Mysore.
2.
During the development phase of the
registered three stripes design, ____
_________ experimented with three,
four, five and six stripes on the shoe in
order to find the perfect look before
settling for three. What am I talking
about?
Adi Dassler - Adidas
3.
The pictures below are of US patent
5255452. Identify the patent holder
and the function of the invention.
4.
"...Von Guericke's demonstration was performed on 8 May
1654 in front of the Reichstag and the Emperor Ferdinand
Regensburg. Thirty horses, in two teams of 15, could not
separate the hemispheres until the valve was opened to
equalize the air pressure. In 1656 he repeated the
demonstration with 16 horses (2 teams of 8) in his
hometown of Magdeburg, where he was a mayor. He also
took the two spheres, hung the two hemispheres with a
support, and removed the air from within. He then strapped
weights to the spheres, but the spheres would not budge..."

This experiment was supposedly the inspiration behind the
logo of which extremely popular brand?
5.
In what way is this photo of Lord Pethick
Lawrence and Mahatma Gandhi, taken on
April 18, 1946 significant to this day?
6.
Started in 1945 by two friends Burt X and Irv Y,
with the merging of their respective individual
shops, XY has since become one of the leading
companies that sell Z. It is distinctly recognized by
its logo which contains a number signifying the
number of varieties of the product it sells.

Its new logo, revealed in 2005, is hailed by many
as one of the most innovative logos of all time for
its clever inclusion of the above mentioned number
into it.

Id "X-Y" and Z
Round 5- Connect
1. Connect
Puneet Rajkumar, Mohanlal, Akshay
Kumar, Vikram and Venkatesh are the
brand ambassadors of Manappuram
Finance.
2. Connect
KSRTC
3. Connect
4. Connect
5. Connect
Sabeer Bhatia
6. Connect
The Wadia Group
Round 6

Bidding Round
1.
Sotheby's is a multinational
corporation, originally British but now
headquartered in New York City. One
of the world's largest brokers of fine
and decorative art, jewelry, real
estate, and collectibles. On the NYSE
what is its three letter code.
BID

Remember the name of the round
2.
There are three food items in the list
of geographical indicators in India
according to the official information
available on the Geographical
Indications Registry website. Name all
three. Half points for naming only
two.
Hyderabad Haleem
Tirupati Ladoo
Dharwad Pedha

3.
Identify the series of trains named after
the Bengali word for Quick/Unbridled
and was started in the year 2009. Also,
contrary to other railway coaches which
are painted with standard railway
colors, it was decided to paint this series
of train with a different set of vibrant
colors. The design and the colors were
apparently designed by X and was also
based on Xs paintings. Identify the train
series and X.
Duronto

Mamata Banerjee
4.
The Eiffel tower was recently illuminated
with lights as seen in the picture. What was
the occasion?
The colors represent the South African
flag, paying tribute to Nelson Mandela.
Who is Benedict Cumberbach playing
in the upcoming movie The
Imitation Game?
5.
Alan Turing
6.
Combating Terrorism A Legal
Challenge is a book published in the
year 2002, authored by an Assamese
born, Oxford graduate. Identify this
well known person.

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Quizmaster : Rajat Shetty
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Tie Breaker Questions
1.

Kochouseph Chittilappilly founded the company X in 1977.
The company was then working on producing only one
product Y which was a major hit down south. When the
company went for an IPO in the year 2008, the stock had an
offer price of 80 rupees and opened at the BSE at 60 rupees.
After Kochouseph's son took over the company in 2009, they
introduced newer product offerings and expanded widely
across south and other parts of India resulting in an increase
in the profits. The share price of X as on Nov 2013 was around
480 rupees. Mithun's elder brother Arun looks after another
of their business Z which was started by their father in 2005 in
Kochi. Identify X, Y and Z.

X V-guard Industries
Y - V-guard stabilizers
Z Wonder La
2.
Identify the phrase which is believed to be
originated from Boxing, whose meaning is - to
hurt your opponent before he hurts you.
Metaphorically, it means - to score a victory
over someone.

Also, the title of a Sylvester Stallone's 1982
movie contains a part of this phrase.

To draw first blood

3.

The largest and strongest parachute ever
created, weighed only 100 pounds but was
capable of withstanding 65000 pounds of force.
Where was this parachute used?


Landing of Curiosity rover on Mars surface. The
parachute slowed the craft to about 200 miles
per hour during landing.