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• 6 rounds- 2 oral, 1 audio, 1 visual, 2 oral
• +10 pts for correct answer
• +5 for pass
• No negatives
• Alternate rounds clockwise/anti-clockwise
• Infinite Bounce

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Q1.An email user sometimes signs up for email
but doesn’t read it for a very long time. Some of
the examples are mails from e-merchants,
news alerts, messages from networking sites,
etc. What one word term is used to describe
such mail to differentiate it from spam?

Q2. This company was founded in 1899.More than
1.7 billion of a product of this company have been
distributed worldwide since 1908.Popular mentions
include songs written by the Beatles, Jethro Tull and
Frank Zappa.
Give the names of both product and company.

(No part points)

• Gideons International
• Bible
• Gideons bible

Q3. This term comes from the Latin term for
“whiteness”. It is defined as the ratio of
reflected radiation from a surface to the
incident radiation. It is dimensionless and is
expressed as a percentage. It is measured on a
scale where 0 indicates no reflecting power for a
perfectly black surface and 1, the perfect
reflection of a white surface. What term?

Q4. Which entrepreneur’s memoirs are titled
“Oontavarcha pravas” ?

Q5. Which element in the periodic table gets its
name from the fact that it is never found
unalloyed. Another theory suggests that it gets
its name from “monk-killer” because of its
poisonous nature.

Q6. What peculiar ritual is performed by the
cyclist who wears jersey number 13 in the
Tour de France to ward off bad luck?

Q7. He was never really a literary figure, but
his poems are considered well written and of
excellent quality. Some of his seminal works
include poems such as “Yellow Crane Tower”,
“The Warlords Clash”, “Double Ninth” and
“The Long March”. His poems are to this day
very popular in his native country. They are
often quoted in popular culture, literature and
daily conversations. Name the poet.

• Mao Zedong
• Poetry of Mao Zedong

Q8. A natural athlete, he excelled at cricket as a
left-handed batsman and a left arm medium
pace bowler. He later gained fame as an avant
garde novelist , playwright and theatre
director. He eventually won a Nobel Prize in
Literature and has an entry in the Wisden
Cricketer’s Almanack as a result of playing two
first class games against Northamptonshire.
Who?

Q1. According to ancient Greek sources, he was
considered the first first person ever to
appear on stage as an actor playing a
character in a play instead of speaking as him
or herself. He introduced a new style in which
one singer or actor performed the words of
individual characters in the stories,
distinguishing between the characters with
the aid of different masks. He has given rise to
a term that is used to describe actors today.
Which actor and what term?

Q2. Shivnagar is a remote and impoverished
village in Uttar Pradesh. A businessman from
New Delhi wanted to do something for the
village with the profits from his flourishing
company. The company adopted the village
under its CSR initiative and has pledged to
develop its infrastructure, water facilities and
local hospital. The village renamed itself as an
expression of gratitude to the company. What
was it renamed to?

• Renamed the village to snapdeal.com nagar

Q3. ______ is the vending area of the parking lot
at a jam band concert. Usually all kinds of
foods, hand made jewelry and even illicit
substances like ganja, hash brownies, etc get
sold here. The name is from a song by a band
whose area in the parking lot was particularly
active. What was this area called ? Which
band?

• Shakedown street
• Grateful Dead

Q4. It is considered one of the most advanced milk
colonies in the world with 16,000 cattle reared on
1,287 hectares of land, and 32 cattle farms. Some
of the attractions are the Garden Restaurant and
the Picnic Spot. It has milk plants, gardens, a
nursery and a lake in the vicinity that attracts
visitors and makes it a suitable location for a
weekend getaway or excursion. It has been used
a number of times as a site for film shootings.
Name the milk colony.

• Aarey Milk Colony,Goregaon east

Q5. David Bowie turned it down because it did
not represent what he was doing all his life,
while John Lennon did the same since Britain
supported America in the Cold War. Others in
the list who followed suit include Henry
Moore. Vanessa Redgrave and Aldous Huxley.
Which Indian did it in 1919 and what was his
reason.

• Rabindranath tagore in 1919 after the
jallianwala bagh massacre

Q6. What Latin term when literally translated
means “with other things the same" or "all
other things being equal or held constant.” By
holding all the other relevant factors
constant, a scientist is able to focus on the
unique effects of a given factor in a complex
causal situation. Such assumptions are also
relevant to the descriptive purpose
of modelling a theory.

Q7. Around 1890, in the German village of Apolda , its tax
collector also ran the Apolda dog pound. With access
to dogs of many breeds, he aimed to create a breed
that would be ideal for protecting him during his
collections, which took him through many bandit-
infested areas. It would be the perfect combination of
strength, speed, endurance, loyalty, intelligence, and
ferocity. The breed is believed to have been created
from several different breeds of dogs that had the
characteristics that he was looking for, including
the German Pinscher, the Beauceron, the Greyhound
and the Great Dane among others. The dog eventually
got its name from the tax collector. Name the dog.

• The Doberman
• Karl Friedrich Louis Dobermann

Q8. This organization or office was first established in
1561 with the purpose of punishing apostate New
Christians-Jews and Muslims who converted to
Catholicism , as well as their descendants . The
punishment was meted out as the converts were
suspected of practicing their ancestral religion in
secret. Some 16,202 persons were brought to trial by
them, 57 were sentenced to death and executed in
person ; another 64 were burned in effigy. Others were
subjected to lesser punishments or penance, but the
fate of many of those tried is unknown. It was briefly
suspended from 1774-1778 and finally abolished in
1812. What was this organization that was considered
a blot on Roman Catholicism in India called?

• Sundari Neeyum 1
• Nick Cave 2
• Asimov
• Clarke 3
• Magic man 4
• Steely Dan-Do it again 5
• Afternoon Delight 7
• Dastangoi
• Sandokan 6
• DMB-For what its worth 7
• Jackie Chan
• Blue Moon
• Girl from ipanema 8
• Stp-break on through
• Olivia newton-john
• Start me up- win 95

• TMC
• Mamata Banerjee
• Jora Ghas phul

Q6. Id the dress or the dress it’s a variation of.

Q7 What electrical/computer engineering term
does the picture below give rise to?

Q8. id the bird and the world’s most famous
Peruvian song
that is about this bird.

Q1. Her father was a well known nuclear physicist,
who worked under the supervision of Marie
Curie for his doctoral thesis in Paris and ran one
of her labs. Her grandfather on her Indologist
mother’s side owned a factory where he fired a
young Benito Mussolini for beating up a co-
worker. The only surviving child of eight
pregnancies, she debuted in a critically acclaimed
movie about a radio singer, dancer and daughter
of a rich man who falls for an idealist doctor. She
followed it up with a fictionalized adaptation of a
real life murder.
Who?

• Leela Naidu
• Father- Dr. Pattipati Ramiah Naidu
• Mother-Dr. Martha Mange Naidu

Q2. This organization was started by Fred DeLuca
and Peter Buck in Bridgeport, Connecticut. Fred
wanted to start a business to save money
for college and become a doctor, so he borrowed
$1,000 to start the business from Doctor Peter
Buck. They named the company Doctor's
Associates, even though it had no affiliation with
any medical organizations or treatment. It
eventually went on to become famous in a
business far removed from anything to do with
medicine. Which company is this?

Q3. The format for this game is supposed to be
most effective when the number of
participating teams is large. The format was
invented in the early 80s by Shankar
Balakrishnan from Anna University. It was
swiftly adopted by IIT Madras, and became
widespread soon after. Which game and what
format?

• QUIZZING!!
• Infinite Bounce

• Q4. According to Vamana Purana, “When the gods had
sought Vishnu in their distress, he, and at his
command Shiva, Brahma, and the other gods, emitted
such flames from their eyes and countenances that a
mountain of effulgence was formed, from which
became manifest ________”. Siva gave her his trident,
Vishnu a Sudarshan Chakra (discus), Varuna a shankha
(conch-shell), Agni a dart, Vayu a bow, Surya a quiver
full of arrows, Indra a thunderbolt, Kuvera a mace,
Brahma a rosary and water-pot, Kala a shield and
sword ,Visvakarma a battle-axe and other weapons.
Who is this goddess ?

Q5. This was a nickname originally given to members of
the U.S. 10th Cavalry Regiment of the United States Army,
formed on September 21, 1866 at Fort
Leavenworth, Kansas. This nickname was given to the
"Negro Cavalry" by the Native American tribes they fought;
the term eventually became synonymous with all of
the African-American regiments formed in 1866:
• 9th Cavalry Regiment
• 10th Cavalry Regiment
• 24th Infantry Regiment
• 25th Infantry Regiment
We know this term from popular culture for a different
reason. What term?

Q6. Which area in Bombay gets its name from
one of the names of Lord Shiva?

• Bhandup from Bhandupeshwar

Q7. Sasken is a publicly traded company based
in Bangalore, India that offers research and
development consultancy, wireless software
products, software services and network
engineering services to semiconductor
manufacturers, wireless handset developers,
network equipment and test and
measurement companies, and service
providers globally. How does Sasken get its
name?

• Silicon Automated Systems and ‘Ken’ is the
Scottish word for knowledge

Q8. This is an open source Web 2.0 application
framework written in Python. Some of the
famous sites that use it include Pinterest,
Instagram , Washington Times and Mozilla. It
gets its name from a well known musician?
Which musician lends his name to this web
framework? Why was it named after him?

• Django from Django Reinhardt
• Reinhardt managed to play dazzling and
versatile stuff on his guitar even though two of
his fingers on his left hand were paralyzed
when he was young.
• Django can do some very complex things with
less code and a simpler execution than you’d
expect.

Q1. Nunatak is a little known band that has no
chartbusters or albums to their name.
However they were chosen to play for Live
Earth 2007. Why?

• Nunatak is British Antarctic Survey’s
(BAS) Rothera Research Station’s house band.
• Nunatak played the Live Earth Antarctica
concert on July 7, 2007, to a "sell out" crowd
of seventeen, the entire population of the
Rothera Research Station.
• Their participation fulfilled the event's
promise to hold a concert on all seven
continents.

Q2. In Hebrew this term means “Spanish”. It is a general term
referring to the descendants of Spanish and
Portuguese Jews who lived or live in the Iberian Peninsula.
It broadly refers to those who follow the customs and
traditions followed by Jews who lived in the Iberian
Peninsula (Portugal and modern Spain), before their
expulsion in the late 15th century. This includes both the
descendants of Jews expelled from Spain under
the Alhambra decree of 1492, or from Portugal by order of
King Manuel I in 1497, and the descendants of crypto-
Jews who left the Peninsula in later centuries to North
Africa, Asia Minor, the Philippines and elsewhere around
the world, and the descendants of crypto-Jews who
remained in Iberia. What term is this?

Q3. For years, Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side Of The Moon was
the ultimate “system-test” album. If you bought the best
stereo equipment in the world, and wanted to show it off
for your friends, you bought a fresh copy of the album,
and played it for the group. If someone heard something
in the album they had never heard before, your system
was a great success. This led to enormous sales of
cassettes of the album and stereo equipment as well.
Which rock band’s album, recorded entirely in digital
format , targeted towards the CD market was the first
album to sell one million copies in the CD format and to
outsell its LP version? A Rykodisc employee would
subsequently write, “we were fighting to get our CDs
manufactured because the entire worldwide
manufacturing capacity was overwhelmed by demand
for a single rock title”.

• Dire Straits- Brothers in Arms

Q4. This is a place where Manufacturing Guns is
more than a 200 year old story. During the First
World War period the gun manufacturers came
in to the prominence and production of cartridge
gun was developed. It was perhaps the only city
in India where guns manufacturers took shape of
a cottage industry and become a popular
profession. One of the major institutions over
here is Bihar School of Yoga. It is one of the
foremost learning centre in the world for Yoga
and frequented by people all over the globe. It is
situated on the banks of the Ganges and known
for its pleasant bathing Ghats. Which place is
this?

• Munger town, HQ of Munger district

Q5. Long before Shantaram and Gregory David Roberts
became famous , there was a man ,a few decades before
Shantaram happened, who went through a similar
situation. He wrote a book about his incarceration and
escape from a penal colony in French Guiana. The book
became an instant hit. It sold over 1.5 million copies in
France, prompting a French minister to attribute "the moral
decline of France" to mini-skirts and _______. Which book
and who’s the author?
.

• Papillon
• Henri Charriere

Q6. An aerated drink marketed and sold mainly
in the state of Gujarat, it was introduced in
1927 as an Indian option to the UK drink
Vimto. It is a mixture of grape and apple
cider with some ingredients imported from
Germany and Italy. It was called Whisky No, to
attract alcoholics in the dry state of Gujarat.
What is this drink that is exported as far as
UAE, South Africa, NZ,UK and USA, popularly
known as now?

Q7. The initial pilot of this sitcom was different
from its subsequent avatar. It had Katie, "a
street-hardened, tough-as-nails, woman with a
vulnerable interior “, whom two of the main cast,
X and Y meet shortly after she breaks up with her
boyfriend and invite to live in their apartment.
The series wasn’t picked up, but the creators
retooled the show and produced a second pilot. X
and Y got their names from a Jewish American
Director, XY, whose work the show writers were
big fans of.
Which show and who are the characters X and Y?

• The Big Bang Theory
• Sheldon Cooper and Leonard Hofstadter
from Sheldon Leonard

Q8. It is supposed to be the first vodka to be
produced entirely in Italy. The maker of the
vodka , a well known personality , describes his
vodka as “The appeal, seduction and
quintessence
of pure femininity… _____ Vodka Is All This.
“I want to have fun in whatever I do:
Everything must bring me joy, enthusiasm, life...”
“I love the pureness of vodka, especially of my
vodka:it is like water and fire coming together in
a single element.”He claims it is inspired and
dedicated to the sexy woman who is his iconic,
eternal muse. Who is the maker of this Vodka?

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