MASTERMINDZ

THE GENERAL QUIZ

GRAND FINALE

GREY MATTERPRESENTS

Round 1 Kick Off

Rules:

•Direct questions to each teams.•10 points for correct answer•Question passes in case of a wrong answer•5 points for answering a pass question•Maximum time to answer – 15 seconds (direct), 5 seconds (pass)•Total 18 questions•First 6 clockwise, next 6 anticlockwise, next 6 clockwise.

STARRINGJessica AlbaKathy BatesJessica BielBradley CooperEric DanePatrick DempseyHector ElizondoJamie FoxxJennifer GarnerTopher GraceAnne HathawayAshton KutcherQueen LatifahTaylor LautnerGeorge LopezShirley MacLaineEmma RobertsJulia RobertsTaylor Swift

ID The Movie

Valentine’s Day

This sitcom liberally borrows some of the finest elements of two of the best sitcoms of the last decade: Arrested Development and The Office. But it applies them to one of the greatest ensembles currently on TV, created by Steven Levitan, Christopher Lloyd . This sitcom has been able to take ideas we’ve seen before, but wrap them up in a way that feels fresh each week. Identify the sitcom.

Modern Family

Started in 1928, as AT&T’s Western Electric division , established a division for the specific purpose of installing and servicing their loudspeakers and electronic products for motion picture use. Called “E.R.P.I.” (Electrical Research Products, Inc.), it was purchased as part of a consent decree in 1936 by a group of E.R.P.I. executives, including George Carrington and Mike Conrow. They changed the name to “All Technical Service Company”. How do we know this company today?

ALTAC LANCING

X was born in Kingston, Ontario, Canada to parents originally from the United Kingdom. Around the age of 14-15, X worked as a dishwasher to be able to afford a proper guitar. He quit the job after a year and started auditioning as a guitarist while rehearsing his own band in his mother's rented basement in North Vancouver. In 1976 , Shock and Sweeney Todd released If Wishes Were Horses with the 15-year-old X as the singer. X has had his photographs published in British Vogue, L'uomo Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, Esquire among others. X is also currently Editor at Large and regular photographer for Zoomer Magazine, a Canadian periodical focused on topics relevant to the baby boomer generation. In 2002, X was invited, along with other photographers from the Commonwealth, to photograph Queen Elizabeth II during her Golden Jubilee; one of the photographs from this session was used as a Canadian postage stamp in 2004 .X supports the Hear the World initiative as a photographer in its aim to raise global awareness for the topic of hearing and hearing loss. X was awarded the Order of Canada and the Order of British Columbia for contributions to popular music and philanthropic work via his own foundation, which helps improve education for people around the world.

Id X.

BRYAN ADAMS

A project of a famous company X, codenamed Y, needed an alternative to give to their own employees once Y rolled out to the general public.Turns out they bought the rights from the organization Z shown in the pic.

Id X,Y,Z

American Farm Bureau (Z) sold the rights to www.fb.com to Facebook(X).Since facebook launched their messaging service, codenamed Project Titan(Y), every user would get a @facebook.com email id.So the employees of facebook were made to switch to @fb.com for their internal email ids.

X is an information technology and computer networking products multinational company, founded in 1996. It is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, USA. The company designs and sells high-performance Internet Protocol network products and services. In 1995 Pradeep Sindhu, a principal scientist at Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center, returned from vacation with the idea to start a company to supply high-performance routers to support the quickly emerging Internet. Sindhu started the company in February 1996 with $200,000 in seed money from powerful venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. He hired two other engineers, Bjorn Liencres from Sun Microsystems and Dennis Ferguson from MCI. As a startup, X received $6 Million in funding from AT&T in 1997. It garnered financial support of over $40 million of Northern Telecom, 3Com, UUNET Technologies, a subsidiary of WorldCom, the Siemens AG/Newbridge Networks alliance; and Ericsson.X went public on 25 June 1999. The company had one of the most successful initial public offerings in history.

ID X

Juniper Networks

Which commonly used word derives its origin from two Greek words

‘oikou’ and ‘nomos’ which means the rule or law of the household?

Economics

What is the name of the independently developed short-range quick reaction, tactical missile which was tested for the first time in July, 2011?It is a solid-fuelled surface to surface guided short range tactical ballistic missile developed by DRDO of India.It plays the missile roles as required for the Indian Army and the Indian Air Force.

Prahaar

Which brand did JRD Tata launch in 1952 under the special recommendation of the then Prime Minister of India, Jawaharlal Nehru?It was launched as a 100% subsidiary of Tata Oil Mills (TOMCO). The name of the brand when converted in French means Lakshmi, the goddess of wealth.Today the company is not a part of TATA and is sold to HLL for 200 crore’s and then went on to create Trent & Westside.

LAKME

X is a brand owned by Unilever and was launched in France in 1983, inspired by another Unilever brand Impulse.It is sold in the United Kingdom and Ireland as LYNX due to trademark issues.Its products include Gravity, Apollo, Dark Temptation and many more. From 1996 to 2002, Lynx took inspiration from Calvin Klein using the same consultant.It created history by manufacturing a 8cm cylinder called ___X____ bullet.Its targeted to reach the youth population and is very well established in the market.Identify X.

AXE DEODRANT

Israel banned the imports of the X in their country. The ministry of Israel says the X’s Wi-Fi system is configured for the US and does not conform to European standards.After two months of the ban, they lifted the ban and returned the confiscated X’s.Then the Princeton University and The Yankees Stadium in New York too banned X due to issues with network and Wi-Fi.Identify X.

Apple iPad

Name the two wheeler that got associated with the movie ‘3 Idiots’.

Mahindra Flyte

FUNDA?

Munich Air Disaster which killed 8 Manchester United players. This clock serves as the memorial to victims of the plane crash. This clock has remained in the same position since it was installed.

Which book holds the record for being the book most often stolen from public libraries?

Guinness Book of World Records

Id the company.

Tata Consultancy Services

K Computer, the worlds fastest supercomputer, is produced by X in Kobe, Japan named after the Japanese word, ‘Kei’ which stands for 10 quadrillion.It has a performance of 8.162 FLOPS.It is expected to become completely operational in November 2012.Identify X

Fujitsu

X was acquired by Sanjiv Mehta, a Mumbai born entrepreneur who completed the process by buying out the company in 2005 from 30 to 40 people who owned the company.He says “a huge feeling of redemption” after he realises his company once generated half of the world trade and employed a third of British workforce.Mehta is now poised to open the first X store in London’s upmarket Mayfair neighborhood in March.“ I took a sabbatical from all other business and this became the single purpose in my life” says Sanjiv Mehta.

The East India Company

This is a 2005 book of fiction. The book has 13 chapters .Each chapter's name is prefixed with a number, which are :1000 20005000 10000500001000002000005000001000000100000001000000001000000000

Which book?

‘Q&A’ by Vikas Swarup

Later re-released as ‘Slumdog Millionaire’

Round 2

PICturesque

Rules:•12 questions (images/videos)•Direct questions•6 anticlockwise and 6 clockwise• 10 points for correct answer•5 points for answering on pass•Maximum time to answer – 15 seconds (direct), 5 seconds (pass)

NAME THE FOUR CHARACTERS

ERIC CARTMAN, KYLE BROFLOVSKI, STAN MARSH AND KENNY McCORMICK

ALL THESE ARE BRANDS OF X.IDENTIFY THE COMPANY X

DIAGEO

JOHN F. KENNEDY

IDENTIFY THE NAME OF THIS MOON

• With over 400 active volcanoes, it is the most geologically active object of the solar system.

IO, is the innermost of the four moons of the planet Jupiter.

IDENTIFY THE LOGO

VIRGIN GALACTIC, provide sub-orbital flights to the paying public.

Id:

N. R. NARAYANA MURTHY, founder of Infosys.

WHAT IS THIS?

Google Earth’s recreation of Ancient Rome

Old Logos Of?

SAMSUNG

ID the two.

LONDON OLYMPICS 2012 MASCOTS: Wenlock and Mandeville

FUNDA?

Cartoon by Abu Abraham on the signing of Emergency ordinance by the president Fakrhuddin Ali Ahmed in 1975

ID

12 Jyotirlingams

ID

APPLE 1

ROUND 3 BOUNCER

Rules:•Infinite Bounce round.•20 points for correct answer•Question passes in case of a wrong answer•10 points for answering a pass question•Maximum time to answer – 15 seconds (direct), 5 seconds (pass)•Every question is addressed to the team succeeding the team that answered the previous question.•Total 18 questions•To start from leading team and move clockwise

1600 light projectors with a total power requirement of three million watts producing a total illumination of 3000 lux have been used every September since 2008, in a south-east Asian nation. Name the event for which the above have been used.

Singapore Grand Prix

Which popular car audio company when translated in German means “blue point”?It was a 100% subsidiary of Robert Bosch GmbH until March 1st, 2011.It was initially launched in 1923 in Berlin as “Ideal”.The logo has a blue dot before the name of the company.Identify the name of the Company.

Blaupunkt

When the Indian forces drove away the Portuguese from this colony, it became an independent country in the eyes of international law. When the residents of the colony requested the Government of India for administrative help, Mr K.G. Badlani, an IAS officer was sent as the administrator. In 1961, Mr. Badlani was, for one day, designated as the Prime Minister of the ‘country’ so that as the Head of State he could sign an agreement with the Prime Minister of India, Jawaharlal Nehru, and formally merge the country with the Republic of India.

Identify this former Portuguese colony.

Dadra and Nagar Haveli

X is a global skin- and body-care brand that is owned by the German company Beiersdorf. The company was founded on March 28, 1882 by pharmacist Carl Paul Beiersdorf. In 1900, the new owner Oskar Troplowitz developed a water-in-oil emulsion as a skin cream with Eucerit, the first stable emulsion of its kind. This was the basis for Eucerin and later, X. The name X comes from the Latin word for 'snow-white'.

NIVEA

Throughout his presidency, he has hosted the live talk show known as ‘Aló Presidente’ (‘Hello, President!’). The show broadcasts in varying formats each Sunday at 11:00 AM. The show features him addressing topics of the day, taking phone calls and live questions from both the studio and broadcast audience, and touring locations where government social welfare programs are active. Who?

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez

The original concept was developed by Jaakko Iisalo and his mechanics is said to have

been inspired from a previous game called Crush the Castle.

Identify this game that Salman Rushdie claims to be a master

at.

Angry Birds

Telenor(Norway), Batelco(Bahrain), Sistema(Russia),Etisalat(UAE)...

Connect

Foreign telecom giants which owned stakes in the telecom companies involved in 2G scam.

It was a single country not long ago. It has now split into 6 countries in 2 decades. Another name of this peninsula now used as a verb which means the same. Id.

Yugoslavia, Balkan Peninsula

The only Nobel lauerate from Pakistan, he got the 1979 Nobel for Physics. He left Pakistan in 1974 in protest when his Ahmeddiya sect was declared unislamic by the Pak Parliament. Who?

Abdus Salam

X is an entrepreneur best known for founding several high profile online ventures with Janus Friis.He studied at the Uppsala University in Sweden.He co-founded the worlds most downladed internet software in 2003, Y.After the success of Y, he and Friss launched their most notable success to date, Skype-a telephony company based on peer to peer principles.Identify X & Y.

X-Niklas ZennstormY-Kazaa (a peer to peer file sharing application)

Designed by Atkins Studio of Dubai, it is being developed by Jaguar Buildcon. With a height of 300 metres, the exterior of the building will represent the mehendi patterns. The building will be a 62 floors mixed use tower that will house a hotel, office and retail space. Two wings of the building are clasped together like hands greeting. What is being described?

NAMASTE TOWERS

Being built at Lower Parel (Mumbai), it is expected to be completed in 2014 and will be the tallest building in India.

X was a major South Korean chaebol (Conglomerate). It was founded on 22 March, 1967 and was dismantled by the Korean Government in 1999. It was the 2nd largest conglomerate in Korea after Hyundai Group, followed by LG Group and Samsung Group. The name of the company means Great Universe.Some of its divisions include textiles, heavy industries, precision industries and electronics.Identify X.

DAEWOO

X was a German athlete, notable for winning Silver at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin and for giving advice to his competitor, Y who went on to win the gold medal for the broad jump (now referred to as the long jump) as a result of his advice. This was one of the four gold medals which Y won at the 1936 Olympics.

In 1942 as X prepared to go to war for Germany, he wrote a letter to Y:“My heart is telling me that this is perhaps the last letter of my life. If that is so, I beg one thing from you. When the war is over, please go to Germany, find my son and tell him about his father. Tell him about the times when war did not separate us and tell him that things can be different between men in the world. “Your brother, X”

X died during the Allied invasion of Sicily in 1943. Y fulfilled X’s wishes and found ‘his brother’s son; in Germany.

Who were these two friends X and Y?

X – Luz Long

Y- Jesse Owens

Mehran Karimi Nasseri (born 1942), also known as Sir, Alfred Mehran, is an Iranian refugee who lived in the departure lounge of Terminal One in Charles de Gaulle Airport from 8 August 1988 until July 2006, when he was hospitalized for an unspecified ailment. His autobiography has been published as a book and is the basis for a movie directed by Steven Spielberg. Name the movie.

The Terminal

CONNECT

ORKUT

The Head of State nominates six members and the Parliament nominates the other six. The requirement is that six must be theologians while the others must be jurists. This body has veto powers over parliament decisions. Identify this unelected body and the country where it wields power.

Council of Guardians/Guardian Council

of Iran.

By what nickname was William Mark Felt Sr, former Dy. Director of FBI, the Post's anonymous source in the Watergate scandel known for 30 years from 1974 to 2005.

Deep Throat

Which publication advertised itself with the following lines that reads “ Software for the most advanced micro-processors on this planet? “Identify which publication are we talking about?

The Economic Times

ROUND 5

LONG CONNECT

Rules:•Long connect round•Guess the theme•Negative marking for wrong answer•Varied scoring pattern

+150/-125

+125/-100

+100/-75

+75/-50

+50/-25

+20/-10

+10/-5

And The theme is:

Airports Of India

ROUND 5 FREE KICK

Rules:

•12 topics•First 6 clockwise, next 6 anticlockwise• 30 for correct answer•-15 for wrong or no answer•No passing

Literature Sports History

Geography Mythology & Religion India

Movies Music IT

BIZ Life Sciences Cricket Finish

Literature

Fredrick Forsyth wrote this novel about an attempt on X's life based on a real incident, the rest of the book being pure fiction. The assasin Y in the story shares his name(nickname) with an actual contract killer of Venezualan origin currently serving life in french prison for killing 2 french agents.

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X-Charles de Gaulle & Y-Jackal (The killer was Carlos the jackal)

Book-The Day of the jackal

sportsIn the Tour de France the rider who finishes last, rather than dropping out along the way, is accorded a distinction. Riders may compete to come last rather than just near the back. Often the rider who comes last is remembered, while those a few places ahead are forgotten. The revenue the last rider will generate from later appearance fees can be greater than had he finished second to last, although this was more true when riders still made much of their income from post-Tour criteria. The phrase referring to the competitor in last place in Tour de France comes from the French words for the object hung on the caboose of a railway train, which conductors would look for in order to make sure none of the couplings had become disconnected. Give the phrase.

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Lanterne Rouge Or The Red Lantern

History

This place is one of India’s largest wholesale markets. Built in 17th century

by Shah Jahan and designed by his daughter Jahan Ara, the market was

once divided by canals to reflect moonlight. Identify the place.

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Chandni Chowk, Delhi

Geography

The British say the inhabitants are British by choice, Argentina claims the territory on the basis of geographical proximity. Name this mineral rich territory. There is a version which claims Diego Maradonna dedicated his Hand of God in memory of ' our boys fighting for' this land

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Falklands

Mythology &ReligionAccording to ancient tale , there was a Muslim shepherd named Buta Malik who was given a sack of coal by a sadhu. Upon reaching home, he discovered that the sack ,in fact, contained gold. Overjoyed and overcome ,Buta Malik rushed back to look for the sadhu and thank him,but on the spot of their meeting discovered a cave and eventually this became a place of workship for all the believers .To date, a percentage of donations given by pilgrims are given to Malik’s descendents and remaining to the trust which manages the shrine.

Name this famous shrine

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Amarnath Cave Shrine ,Kashmir

India

India was the first Asian country to get a loan from the WORLD BANK on the 18th of august, 1949.What was the purpose of this loan?

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Reconstruction & Development of the INDIAN RAILWAYS

MoviesX is a film which Hrishikesh Mukherjee made to get out of a bout of depression caused by his 1977 flop Alaap. It was also remade in Tamil in 1981 starring Rajinikanth, in Kannada in 1990 starring Shivrajkumar and in Malayalam in 1995 starring Jagadeesh. The name has become a consistently successful Hindi movie franchise in the 2000s with three releases so far. Id X.

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Golmaal

Music X was born on December 2, 1981, the second child of Lynne Irene and James Parnell. She is of English heritage through her maternal grandmother, who was born in London, and of distant Maltese descent. At age three, she started to attend dance lessons in her hometown of Kentwood, Louisiana. During her childhood, she also attended gymnastics and voice lessons, and won many state-level competitions and children's talent shows . X made her local stage debut at age five, singing "What Child Is This?" at her kindergarten graduation. She said about her ambition as a child, "I was in my own world, [...] I found out what I'm supposed to do at an early age". At age eight, X and her mother Lynne travelled to Atlanta for an audition in the 1990s revival of The Mickey Mouse Club. Casting director Matt Casella rejected her for being too young to join the series at the time. X also appeared as a contestant on the popular television show Star Search, as well as being cast in a number of commercials. In December 1992, she was finally cast in The Mickey Mouse Club, but returned to Kentwood after the show was cancelled. She signed with Jive Records in 1997. X was Yahoo’s most popular search term between 2005 and 2008. X was named as Most Searched Person in the Guinness World Records book edition 2007 and 2009. In Nov 2009, X released an application for iPhone and iPod Touch titled "It's X!".

ID X

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Britney Spears

ITIT major X recently entered into a pact with Japan's Y to set up a joint venture in Japan.The new firm will focus on the Japanese market and provide a range of service for IT, business process outsourcing (BPO) and infrastructure services to Japanese corporations."Japan is a very important market for X. The new (venture) will provide strong local market knowhow, deep domain knowledge as well as bring in global technology best practices to help Japanese corporations effectively respond to their global IT needs," chief executive and managing director of X said. According to X, it will own up to 60 percent in the new stake Y will hold 40% stake.

ID X and Y

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X- Tata Consultancy ServicesY- Mitsubishi

BIZWhich is the famous multinational corporation located in Kyoto, Japan whose name when translated from Japanese to English roughly gives the phrase “leave luck to heaven”?This company was founded on the 23rd of September, 1889 as a producer of handmade playing cards.By 1963, the company had tried several small niche businesses, such as a cab company and a love hotel.It is Japan’s third most valuable listed company, with a market value of over US$85 billion.Which is this famous company ?

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Nintendo founded by Nintendo Koppai

Life SciencesThe evidence of this disease was found in the spines of Egyptian mummies thousands of years old. The disease was common both in ancient Greece and imperial Rome. This disease caused organism was first isolated in 1882 by a German physician named Robert Koch who received the Nobel prize for this discovery. A new technology light emitting-diode fluorescence microscopy is used to diagnose this disease. A special type of test called PCR(polymerase chain reaction) detects the genetic material of the disease caused organism. Some 1.8 billion people-a third of world population are infected with this disease and 2-3 million die each year. Identify the disease.

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Tuberculosis

CricketHe was said to be the best all-rounder of his day. He made his first-class debut for Sussex in 1845 aged 18, weighing only 7 stone (45kg). Initially a fast round-arm bowler, his pace slowed in later years. While bowling fast, he took on average nearly 10 wickets in every game. In 1850, playing for the South against the North at Lord's, he took all 10 wickets in the second innings, all clean bowled (still the only instance of all ten wickets being taken "bowled“ in any first-class match). In all, he took 1,109 first-class wickets with a bowling average of 10.32. He was also a fine batsman (4,140 first-class runs with a batting average of 14.12, an average which was very good for the time). He scored only two centuries, the first in 1849 and the second was the only century scored in 1855. Who?

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John Wisden