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B-Ent Quiz(Business and Entertainment)
Prelims
• 16 questions
• Every 5th Q is star marked(will be considered in case of a tie)
• Source links in the answer slide for reading more stuff
1.What English word?
Businesshttp://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/business
2.
• “This film is full of love and laughter. Apart from working with Tamannaah, the best bit is that for the first time in my career, I'll be working with a dog! I've romanced women; I've played with babies; I've done every stunt under the sun. Now, it's time for me to take a cue from a canine. This film promises fun and it has got what everyone loves - dogs, dogs and more dogs.”-Akshay Kumar
• Which movie?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entertainment_%28film%29
3.Official poster of?
4.
• Tokusatsu is a form of Japanese entertainment that uses considerable amount of special effects. One of the most popular genre of this form of entertainment is Kaiju which literally means strange creatures. X is one of the most famous Kaiju , also appearing first in a film in 1954 and then has gone on to become a pop culture icon. Give me X.
Godzillahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokusatsu
5.Identify the minimalist posters.
6.
• The right to manufacture this is held by the Khadi Development and Village Industries Commission, who allocate it to the regional groups. As of 2009, the Karnataka KhadiGramodyoga Samyukta Sangha was the sole manufacturer of this product.
• Which one?
Flag of Indiahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_India
7.He is known for his roles in 3 Idiots and Fukrey. What is his latest movie?
Furious 7
8.
• X is an annual event spread over 3 days isorganized by Percept, an Entertainment,Media and Communications company.Itfeatures a flea market, massage centre, andactivities such as rock climbing, makeoverlounge and slippery football and volleyball,along with the main attraction.
• The first edition was held in 2007, and hasbeen held every year ever since.
• What is X?
9.
• X has started new innings as businessman with YouWeCan Ventures.
• He is floating a venture fund that aims to support young entrepreneurs by investing in startups across sectors.
• Id X.
http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2015-04-07/news/60902653_1_yuvraj-singh-mahendra-singh-dhoni-venture-fund
10.Id the logos.
11.Id the Director, Producer and Writer of this $20-million action thriller Hollywood flick from Reliance Entertainment starring
Vincent D'Onofrio and Anton Yelchin opened on April 10.(Question Courtesy - Tanuj Bakshi)
Vidhu Vinod Chopra
12.
• “A glass and a half of fresh milk”
• This slogan was introduced by the company in 1928. After almost 80 years, it has been replaced, having been told it contravenes European regulations.
• In its place, it now reads: “The equivalent of 426ml of fresh liquid milk in every 227g of ____”
• Which famous brand and its best selling product is this?
http://www.bbc.com/news/business-11427357
13.
• Formerly called Fourth Avenue, it runs parallel to Madison Avenue to the west and Lexington Avenue to the east. It shares its name with a clothing brand in India? Identify.
Park Avenue
14.Where will you find this?
15.Id the famous parodies from the world of Simpsons.
Homeland and Doctor Who
Finals
Source links in the answer slide for reading more stuff.
Round 1
• Write answers on paper• 8 questions• +5 for each correct• Bonus +5 if more than 6 correct
1.
• This brand was born in a tea taster's chamber in Kolkata in 1966. It is considered as India's first premium brand. The tea leaves are picked even today only from a few tea estates located in Upper Assam. Name the brand.
2.
• How is “Raftaar Ka Junoon” better known as?
3.Give funda. Its a kind of currency.
4.Ad for?
5.Id the logo.
6.Vintage ad for?
7.Amul ad for?
8.Ad for?
Answers ahead
Exchange your sheets
1.
• This brand was born in a tea taster's chamber in Kolkata in 1966. It is considered as India's first premium brand. The tea leaves are picked even today only from a few tea estates located in Upper Assam. Name the brand.
Brooke Bond's Taj Mahal tea
2.
• How is “Raftaar Ka Junoon” better known as?
Fast and Furious
3.Give funda. Its a kind of currency.
(Movie - In Time)Time being used as currency in future
4.Ad for?
Levis Low Rise Jeans
5.Id the logo.
6.Vintage ad for?
7.Amul ad for?
8.Ad for?
Round 2
• Infinite Bounce (+10/0) & Pounce (+10/-10)
• Clockwise direction
1.(i)Said to be inspired from which famous flick poster?
(ii)Now this was also said to be inspired from a comic cover. Which one?
(iii)Now the all 3 posters are actually inspired from an original masterpiece. Which one?
Pieta by Michelangelo
2.Which denomination?
Zero rupee notehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_rupee_note
• A zero rupee note is a type of novel & innovative money issued in India as a means of helping to fight systemic political corruption. The notes are paid in protest by angry citizens to government functionaries who solicit bribes in return for services which are supposed to be free. The Zero rupee note, is the mascot or primary campaign tool of a non-governmental organization known as 5th Pillar, which has distributed over 2.5 million pieces as of Aug 2014, since their inception in 2007.
3.Promotional website for what?
4.Most of you have seen this product, par kahan par dekha?
Remember anything?
5.
• On Apr 1, 2015, as part of a great April Fool's joke, the non-profit "Teach For America" announced on its Facebook page that:
• “We're excited to welcome ____, who has accepted our offer to join the 2015 corps after announcing his departure from _____ last week. We believe that [his] experiences being both revered and ridiculed by teens and preteens and surviving Simon Cowell's management - not to mention the overall Story of His Life - will equip him well for success in the classroom…”
• About whom was Teach For America talking about, and what was the departure from?
(Question Courtesy - J.Ramanand)
Zayn Malik, the English pop star, who exited from the boy band "One Direction" in May 2015 to much
teenage heartbreak
6.
• This American director won the Silver Bear for Best Director at the 2014 Berlin Film Festival for a film that took him a long while to complete. Reportedly, he had made an informal arrangement with one of the actors in the film (and a frequent collaborator) for the actor to finish this film in case the director died before its completion. Which highly acclaimed 2014 film?
(Question Courtesy - J.Ramanand)
'Boyhood', which was made by Richard Linklaterover a decade, as his lead actor grew up. The
actor in question was Ethan Hawke
7.
• P. B. Kasbekar ,a joint secretary in the banking department attended the meeting convened by the then Prime Minister, Indira Gandhi to take a key decision. Kasbekar had kept a colourful envelope that was actually a wedding invitation in his shirt pocket which was orange in colour and with a dash of red and saffron. PM liked the combination and chose the colour scheme and design for ‘X’.
• Identify X.
http://www.quora.com/Why-are-Indian-rupee-notes-colored-differently
8.
• The famous British actor, appeared in a new 2014 TV series, made in the US. This is a sequel to a 1996 film that won a couple of Oscars, including the Oscar for Best Actress.
• He plays a salesman in this TV series which has the same name as the film - also the name of a place. What's the name?
(Question Courtesy - J.Ramanand)
9.
• As a child, X attended an exclusive school in Switzerland, despite being born with all the world's knowledge already inside his brain. In addition to excelling academically, he was extremely popular and by age 14 he'd had consensual sex with over 40 students and 7 teachers. After graduating at the top of his and all other classes in the school, he then continued his education in Y, where he earned 118 PhDs – not just from the University of X, but also from X University and Northwest X State.
• During his university years, X did pioneering work for the Y Space Program. His projects were a success without rival, killing more astronauts than both the Russian and American space programs combined. Part of his research managed to confirm that there's not enough oxygen for a political opponent to survive at altitudes higher than 45,000 feet. In the same experiment, he confirmed that there is enough gravity at 45,000 feet for a political opponent's body to return to Earth when thrown from an aircraft.
• X and Y ?
X- Admiral-General Aladeen, Y- Republic of Wadiyahttps://uk.movies.yahoo.com/video/exclusive-interview-062045013.html
10.
• In Economics, a Veblen good is a member of a group of commodities whose demand is proportional to its price, a contradiction in the law of demand.
• The X effect is a similar phenomenon. It states that ceteris paribus, a commodity generates more demand when its price is set higher than it was before. A lower priced version of it with similar quality has lesser demand.
• X is a famous brand, whose sales, according to as story, sucked despite it being a very good tasting liquor. After a brainstorming session in the boardroom, officials decided to jack up prices and so, with it went up the demand.
• What is this effect known as ?
Chivas Regal effect
11.
• In the Harry Potter novel series, the spell X is known as the Killing Curse. During an audience interview at the Edinburgh Book Festival on 15 April 2004, series author J. K. Rowling had this to say about the fictional Killing Curse's etymology: "Does anyone know where X came from? It is an ancient spell in Aramaic, and it is the original of Y, which means 'let the thing be destroyed.' Originally, it was used to cure illness and the 'thing' was the illness, but I decided to make it the 'thing' as in the person standing in front of me. I take a lot of liberties with things like that. I twist them round and make them mine.“
• Identify X and Y.
X- avada kedavraY- abracadabra
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_spells_in_Harry_Potter
12.
• Fresh out of film school, X was at the Academy Awards in 1979 when his documentary short about child slum dwellers in Mumbai, India, "An Encounter With Faces," was nominated for an Oscar.
• "I was too poor to rent a tuxedo," recalled X in Los Angeles. "They said I could wear national dress. All I had was kurta. I sat next to Jane Fonda in my pajamas. I was brash enough to think I'd win, that I'd made the best movie ever."
• He didn't win, but he was hoping that the nomination and recognition would pave the way for him in Hollywood. That didn't happen. So he took a different route.
• He returned to India and made a string of highly popular Bollywood movies. Two of these broke box office records in India.
• Id X.
Vidhu Vinod Choprahttp://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/la-et-mn-ca-vidhu-chopra-broken-horses-director-20150405-story.html#page=1
13.
• With X premiere on the horizon, a report has surfaced claiming Sony Entertainment TV is remaking the hit series for Indian television.
• The report comes from Pakastani news outlet Ary News. According to the site, Sony's series will be titled Rani Mahal.
• And according to Dramatize, Rani Mahal will actually be set in India in 1857 (the year of the Indian Rebellion), which would suggest there won't be fantasy elements involved. It should be noted that "Rani Mahal" is also the name of a royal palace in the city of Jhansi that was damaged by British bombardment during the 1857 rebellion.
• Which series (X) is being talked about?(Question Courtesy - Tanuj Bakshi)
Game of Throneshttp://in.ign.com/game-of-thrones-1/74358/news/report-sony-entertainment-tv-remaking-game-of-thro
14.
• Originally the scientists were developing this drug named UK-92480 to treat high blood pressure and a heart problem called angina but the drug was inefficient in helping the conditions but there was a side effect reported by many trial patients and the company went to sell the drug for the side effect they had found and it became a quick success. So they were selling a product which induced the side effect rather than the actual intention.
• ID the product and company?
http://edition.cnn.com/2013/03/27/health/viagra-anniversary-timeline/index.html
15.
• This 12 letter English word is derived from the adjective ‘To form or gather into a mass or whole’.
• It comes from the the LATIN word for “together” and for “ball”
• What is the good word?
Conglomerate
16.
• The sign is made by pressing your three middle fingers of your left hand to your lips and then hold them out to the person, or people, that you want to show respect to. In the books, the left hand is used, but in the first film it is the right hand, and the fingers are simply held up by their side. Later on in the second film, the left hand is used like in the book.
http://thehungergames.wikia.com/wiki/District_12_sign
17.
• This company's logo depicts an overhead shot of three people joined together, holding hands, and looking up towards the sky. All in all, a rather clever and fitting logo/name combination, as the word "X" means “Humanity”.
• Id the company(X).
http://www.letsintern.com/blog/famous-logos-hidden-meanings/
18.Id the logo.
Powers (can be used twice in next round)
• Bypass one team
• One member of opponent team sit out for two turns
• Double the money (+20/-10)
• Audience helpline
• Change the direction
• Veto others power
Round 3
• Infinite Bounce (+10/0) & Pounce (+10/-10)
• Anti clockwise direction
1.
• The movie Chakra: “The Invincible” features Raju Rai, a young Indian boy living in Mumbai, India. Raju's mentor, the scientist Dr. Singh, develops a technology suit. The suit weaponizes all the Chakras in the body. Raju uses its powers to be a Superhero. Raju vows to use the suit to protect and serve as he battles super-villains.
• It is an Indian animated superhero film based on the main character created by a famous comic book writer, along with Sharad Devarajan and Gotham Chopra.
• Who is this comic book writer who was also one of the executive producers of the film?
Stan Leehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chakra:_The_Invincible
2.
• Bal X - Childhood Stories of X, a comic book brought out by Rannade Prakashan and Blue Snail Animation, tells stories of bravery and "fearlessness" from X's childhood. The comic book, that has no known author, is a catalogue of larger-than-life deeds for his family, friends and society in general.
• The 45- page comic book shows X rescuing a drowning boy, swimming in crocodile infested waters, serving tea and food to soldiers going to war in 1962, taking on school bullies, helping his father sell tea, acting in theatre, strategising his team's kabaddi win and saving a trapped bird.
• Who is X?
http://ibnlive.in.com/news/bal-narendra-in-pics-comic-book-shows-fearless-young-narendra-modi-saving-drowning-boy-taking-on-crocodiles-bullies/460660-79.html
3.
• People love X who was on a roll in the 1990s but very few would know that Disney's Aladdin character's appearance is based on him. If you have seen his smile, it shouldn't be difficult for you.
• Id X.
4.
• Before Y joined the project, Warner Bros. bought the screenplay for a reported seven-figure sum because of Leonardo DiCaprio's interest in playing X. In the end, DiCaprio did not come on board and the rights of the script reverted to the screenwriter. Black Bear Pictures subsequently committed to finance the film for $14 million. Various directors were attached during development including Ron Howard and David Yates.
• In December 2012, it was announced that Headhuntersdirector Morten Tyldum would helm the project, making the film his English-language directorial debut.
• It also received nine British Academy of Film and Television Arts nominations, including Best Film and Outstanding British Film.
• ID X and Y.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Imitation_Game
5.
• _____ is a growing city in Thane district, Maharashtra state, India. It is a part of the Mumbai Metropolitan Region. Due to population growth in nearby cities, people working in Mumbai have been moving to _____ for a number of socioeconomic reasons, including close proximity to Mumbai via rail. _____ City encompasses the old villages of _____, Kulgaon, Manjarli, Belavali, Katrap, and many other small villages. _____ was named for being a remount depot on a travel route through the rugged Konkan region to Gujarat via Surat.
• The town was famous for its splendid horses. Warriors (e.g. ShivajiBhonsle) changed their horses at the town in anticipation of the difficult climb through the Konkan. The word "change" (_____ in Marathi) was applied to the town. Name this town.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Badlapur
6.
• Which 2014 English film by Warner Bros. is the first ever to feature Superman, Batman, Gandalf, William Shakespeare, C-3PO, Abraham Lincoln, Green Lantern, and Wonder Woman together?
7.
• X is an american lawyer and currently the interim CEO of Y. X was previously the corporate director at Flipboard. X is currently embroiled in a ‘gender discrimination’ lawsuit against venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins. The irony is, X is the interim CEO of a firm known for a lot of gender bias. According to a user, “Late-night Y is a disgusting cesspool of racists and women-haters.”
• Give X and Y.
X: Ellen Pau Y: Reddit
8.Id the organization.
9.
• The public sector UCO Bank set up the first-of-its-kind branch in India when it opened its ShaniShingnapur division in Maharashtra. The village is located in Ahmednagar district of Maharashtra The bank has taken this step despite the Center'sconstant strive for hi tech security in both public and private sector banks. "We took note of the general belief of the people living in the area." a senior bank official said while opening the branch.
• What is unique about this branch of UCO Bank?
Lockless Branch “ever since the most revered temple came into existence several years ago, the village has not witnessed A single crime. In fact, all houses in the entire village have no
doors. We took the risk and started the lockless bank A week ago," A senior bank official said.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/God-as-guard-Bank-opens-lockless-branch/articleshow/7300436.cms
10.The Bombay High was drilled by drill-ship 'SagarSamrat' in 1973. 'Sagar Samrat' became an important symbol and knowingly/unknowingly we've all seen it.
It's making a comeback after two decades. How?
The Drill Ship could be seen on Rs. 1 note which were discontinued by GOI earlier but will be reintroduced again
11.
• When the name for this Indian brand was selected, there were strong feelings in its company. Some referred to it as "Tenga" in Hindi, which refers to teasing and mocking and others alluded it to "Up yours" in English. Finally the founder of the company stuck to it.
• Name the brand.
12.
• X was a 1979 seven-part drama spy miniseries for the BBC. It is the television adaption of the 1974 novel of the same name by Y. Starring Alec Guinness in the lead role, the main credits feature a matryoshka doll progressively revealing a doll looking more irate than the previous, with the final doll being faceless, an allusion to Winston Churchill's describing Russia as "A riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma." The miniseries was remade into a film in 2011, and earned Z his first Oscar nomination, before which he was widely described as "the best actor not to have been nominated for an Oscar."
• Give X, Y and Z.(Question Courtesy - J.Ramanand)
X - Tinker, Tailor, Soldier SpyY - John Le CarreZ - Gary Oldman
13.
• This company's logo has a lot more than meets the eye. The colourful portion of the logo represents a camera shutter, while the white space within the logo represents a house. "Y" means “house” in Spanish, while “X” can be shorthand for Pixel Index. Put them together(XY), and you have a house (i.e a depository) for your photos.ID the company(XY-single word).
http://www.letsintern.com/blog/famous-logos-hidden-meanings/
14.
• This was the classic case of “ambush marketing” promoting the availability of its services in Norway (for the Olympics in 1994 in Lillehammer) with an advertisement saying “So if you’re traveling to Norway, you’ll need a passport but you don’t need a Visa.” Identify the company.
American Expresshttp://articles.latimes.com/1994-02-19/business/fi-24757_1_american-express
15.Id X and the comapny.
• X was born on 15 November 1931 in Bulandshahar, Uttar Pradesh in a Jat family. His father Ch. Mukhtar Singh was a reputed lawyer in Bulandshahr. After graduating in science from Meerut College, Uttar Pradesh, he pursued Aeronautical Engineering in UK and was subsequently selected to the Indian Army by British Officers Services Selection Board, UK. He was commissioned into the renowned cavalry regiment of 'The Deccan Horse' of the Indian Army. In 1960, he joined American Universal Electric Company and soon after its merger with a company in 1979, he took over as the Managing Director of this new company.
• The company's US$ 2 billion IPO in July, 2007 was India's biggest IPO in history (at that time).
K P Singh (DLF guy)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kushal_Pal_Singh
16.
• Big Blue – IBM
• Big Brown – UPS
• Big Yellow - ?
Kodak
17.
• In 1974 a co-founder of this company got excited by a feature on the Altair 8800 computer published in the December edition of the Popular Electronics magazine. He took this to his best friend who was then a Harvard undergrad and had the skills to code a programming language for this machine.
• What this incident lead to?
Microsoft. Paul Allen approached Bill Gates with the article on Altair 8800 and rest they say is
history
18.
• “You don’t need to be at your desk to need an answer, You can make money without doing evil, You can be serious without a suit.” These are 3 out the 10 beliefs based on which a company operates.
• Name the company.
Googlehttp://www.google.co.in/about/company/philosophy/
Round 44 Connect & 4 Oscars
Infinite Pounce+15/-10
Infinite Bounce+10/0
1.Connect
• Slats (1917–1928)
• Jackie (1928–1956)
• Telly and Coffee (1927–1934)
• Tanner (1934–1956)
• George (1956–1958)
• Leo (1957–present)
Leo the Lion-MGM
2.Funda?
• Colin Farrell as Ray Velcoro
• Vince Vaughn as Frank Semyon
• Taylor Kitsch as Paul Woodrugh
• Rachel McAdams as Ani Bezzerides
• Kelly Reilly as Jordan Semyon
• Afemo Omilami as Holloway
True Detective Season 2
K2 Gwadar port
Mohenjodaro Faisal Mosque
3.Connect
Pakistani Currency Note
4.Connect
• Cricbuzz
• Money Sights
• Coupon Dunia
• Gaana.com
• BoxTV.com
• MensXP.com
• ZigWheels
Times Internet brand of Times Group owns all these sites
5.FITB
• ____________________
• Alejandro González Iñárritu
• Richard Linklater
• Bennett Miller
• Morten Tyldum
Best Directions 2015Wes Anderson – The Grand Budapest Hotel
6.Funda?
• William Wyler (12)• Martin Scorsese (8)• Billy Wilder (8)• Steven Spielberg (7)• David Lean (7)• Fred Zinnemann (7)• Woody Allen (7)• Frank Capra (6)• John Ford (5)• Elia Kazan (5)• George Stevens (5)
10 Most Nominated Directorsat Oscars
7.Connect
Hint
• The Nights of Cabiria - 1957
• Pelle the Conqueror - 1988
• No Man's Land - 2001
These films won the Best Foreign Language films at the Oscars when the Indian films were nominated in the foreign film category in 1957, 1988 & 2001 (Mother
India, Salaam Bombay & Lagaan respectively)
8.Connect
Hint – 1.Abraham Lincoln2.Daniel Plainview
3.Christy Brown
• Characters played by Daniel Day-Lewis in the movies for which he got academy award for best actor.
• Abraham Lincoln ( Lincoln)
• Christy Brown ( My left foot)
• Daniel Plainview (There will be Blood)
Round 5The Last Ride (where you will find best of the
best – all my favorite questions in there)
• Super Pounce (+20/-20)
• Infinite Bounce (+10/0)
1.
• "The Grand Budapest Hotel" is a film directed by Wes Anderson, which will open the 2014 edition of the Berlin International Festival. The film follows the story of a concierge (played by Ralph Fiennes) at the titular hotel through the first half of the 20th century.
• Why did the director, known for his recognisable and quirky style of film-making, choose to shoot the film in three different aspect ratios?
(Question Courtesy - J.Ramanand)
Each aspect ratio conveys a different time period - this helps viewers visually identify the different
periods
2.
• Vikas Dubey, wrote the lyrics, while Salvi and Utpat searched for the perfect singer - someone who could pull off an alaap and a sufi tune with equal ease. From Chandigarh, Alamgir Khan was chosen as the voice and the trio started jamming to find a tune.
• “It's just one word which is sung in different tempos. It's similar to the way we tease someone by repeating just one word,” chimes a smiling Utpat.
• What does this trio create?
Mauka Mauka Songhttp://www.afaqs.com/news/story/43502_Meet-the-team-behind-Star-Sports-Mauka-Mauka-films
3.Connect
Brands owned by The Swatch Grouphttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Swatch_Group
4.
• A characteristic of the course is the giant run-off areas, which have been criticised for not punishing drivers who stray off the track. However, they tend to prevent sand getting onto the track and make X one of the safest tracks in the world.
• Although alcoholic beverages are legal in X, the drivers do not spray the traditional champagne on the podium. Instead, they spray a non-alcoholic rosewaterdrink known as Waard.
• X race is most probably the only F1 race where champagne is not sprinkled. Which city is X?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bahrain_Grand_Prix
5.
• Dum Laga Ke Haisha marks a new beginning at Yash Raj Films, with Aditya Chopra becoming the presenter and ManeeshSharma becoming the creative producer. Ten days before release, YRF had changed something for Dum Laga Ke Haisha.
• For the first time ever, in the history of YRF, in 60 years, they will be changing this at the beginning of the film. The reason being, Ayushmann Khurrana's character in the film is a huge fan of a person in the movie. Makers want the audience from the very first instance to sweep into the milieu of the film. So, in order to suit the screenplay, the makers decided to make this change just for Dum Laga Ke Haisha.
• What change?(Question Courtesy - Tanuj Bakshi)
Lata Mangeshkar’s voice for YRF logo replaced by Kumar Sanu’s for Ayushmann Khurrana’s Dum Laga
Ke Haishahttps://in.movies.yahoo.com/news/background-score-yrfs-logo-change-dum-laga-ke-183000813.html
6.What does the pie chart depict?
1% rule (Internet culture)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1%25_rule_%28Internet_culture%29
• In Internet culture, the 1% rule is a rule of thumb pertaining to participation in an internet community, stating that only 1% of the users of a website actively create new content, while the other 99% of the participants only lurk.
• Variants include the 1-9-90 rule or 90–9–1 principle (sometimes also presented as the 89:10:1 ratio), which state that in a collaborative website such as a wiki, 90% of the participants of a community only view content, 9% of the participants edit content, and 1% of the participants actively create new content.
7.
• During most of the 19th century, Americans used to have left overs from the previous day in the morning, which caused widespread indigestion and related ailments. Wealthy people used to visit sanitariums for treatment and it is in one such visit the modern concept of breakfast was invented. The person who invented it also built a global brand, which is in existence since the 1900s.
• Name the brand.
Kellogg's Breakfast cereal
8.
• Dabbawallas have started a new thing which is quite amazing.
• What's so interesting about it?
They give a "Share my Dabba" sticker to everyone. Whosoever leaves some food at the end, can stick the
sticker on the dabba.T he dabbas with these stickers are given to the slum people in Mumbai to feed them.http://www.firstpost.com/living/share-my-dabba-how-mumbai-dabbawallahs-will-help-feed-street-kids-784183.html
9.
• With what postulate in the financial world are the following connected:
• The Singer Building and Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Tower, the Chrysler Building, Empire State Building and the Petronas towers in Malaysia?
Skyscrapper index - the world's tallest buildings have risen on the eve of economic downturns
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skyscraper_Index
10.
• On a trip to Paris in the 60s, Jaikishen and HasratJaipuri visited a night club. Getting mesmerized by the glittering costumes of the dancers under the flashy lights, Jaikishen started to hum a tune and wrote a few words on a piece of paper. Hasrat Jaipuri completed the song and they record it immediately after returning to Mumbai.
• Which hit song was made which was picturizedon Shammi Kapoor?
Badan Pe Sitare Lapete Huehttp://www.sjmusic.org/respage.php?Type=Interviews&ResId=25
Round 6Long Connect
• Individual question carry 5 points.
• Points on respective slides for connect.
+25/-20
• When Xerox aimed to exit the computer industry in 1975,[clarification needed] they asked IBM to migrate their business systems to IBM technology. As part of IBM's compensation for the migration, IBM was given the rights to the Scientific Data Systems (SDS), reportedly for a contract credit of $80,000.
• Five IBM engineers from the AI department (Dietmar Hopp, Klaus Tschira, Hans-Werner Hector, Hasso Plattner, and Claus Wellenreuther, all from Mannheim, Baden-Württemberg) were working in an enterprise-wide system based on this software, only to be told that it would be no longer necessary. Rather than abandon the project, they decided to leave IBM Tech and start another company.
• Which German multinational software corporation did they start?
+20/-15Connect
+15/-10
• This Factory was started by K. M. MammenMappillai as a toy balloon manufacturing unit in 1946 at Tiruvottiyur, Madras (now Chennai). In 1952, the company ventured into the manufacture of tread rubber. based in Ohio, USA.
• In 1989, the company collaborated with Hasbro International USA, the world's largest toy maker and launched Funskool India.
• Which company?
+10/-5
• X is a 50:50 joint venture between two of the world's leading cable and satellite broadcasters. As Asia's definitive and complete sports broadcaster and content provider, X combines the strengths and resources of its ultimate parent companies - Walt Disney and News Corporation Limited - to deliver a diverse array of international and regional sports to viewers via its encrypted pay and free-to-air services.
• Id X.
+25/-20
• When Xerox aimed to exit the computer industry in 1975,[clarification needed] they asked IBM to migrate their business systems to IBM technology. As part of IBM's compensation for the migration, IBM was given the rights to the Scientific Data Systems (SDS), reportedly for a contract credit of $80,000.
• Five IBM engineers from the AI department (Dietmar Hopp, Klaus Tschira, Hans-Werner Hector, Hasso Plattner, and Claus Wellenreuther, all from Mannheim, Baden-Württemberg) were working in an enterprise-wide system based on this software, only to be told that it would be no longer necessary. Rather than abandon the project, they decided to leave IBM Tech and start another company.
• Which German multinational software corporation did they start?
+20/-15Connect
PepsiCo
+15/-10
• This Factory was started by K. M. MammenMappillai as a toy balloon manufacturing unit in 1946 at Tiruvottiyur, Madras (now Chennai). In 1952, the company ventured into the manufacture of tread rubber. based in Ohio, USA.
• In 1989, the company collaborated with Hasbro International USA, the world's largest toy maker and launched Funskool India.
• Which company?
MRF
+10/-5
• X is a 50:50 joint venture between two of the world's leading cable and satellite broadcasters. As Asia's definitive and complete sports broadcaster and content provider, X combines the strengths and resources of its ultimate parent companies - Walt Disney and News Corporation Limited - to deliver a diverse array of international and regional sports to viewers via its encrypted pay and free-to-air services.
• Id X.
ESPN Star NetworkWalt Disney (ESPN, Inc.) and News
Corporation Limited (STAR)
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