Quiz conducted for Telecom department

2. GRAY MATTER
Finals
-By
QUEST - DSCE Quiz Club

3. ROUND 1
DRIES
(Clockwise)
+10/0

4. 1.
This movie’s website didn’t give any details on the story
line of the film. The site refreshes itself every fifteen
minutes & irrespective of whichever section of the
website you are on, it comes back to the home page after
fifteen minutes. Which movie’s website?

5. Answer :
Ghajini

6. 2.
This IT company was initially set up as a
manufacturer of vegetable
ghee, vanaspati, refined oils including salad oil
in Maharashtra under the trade names of
Kisan, Sunflower & Camel.
ID the company.

7. Answer :

8. 3.
Connect!

9. Answer :
Maximum sixes in Test cricket, ODI’s and T20’s

10. 4.
This picture is of a famous American musician and actor Hoagy Carmichael.
Novelist ‘X’ decided that his character ‘Y’ should look a little like Carmichael
ID X and Y

11. Answer :
X-Ian Fleming
Y-James Bond

12. 5.
What in this world uses MPEG-2 & MPEG-4
digital compression technology & is
transmitted using INSAT 4A at 83 degrees
east ??

13. Answer :

14. 6.
Connect

15. Answer :
Phantom
Cloud
Ghost

16. ROUND 2
DRIES
(Anti-Clockwise)
+10/0

17. 1.
Connect!

18. Answer :
Chinese alternatives to YouTube, Google and twitter

19. 2.
What gets its name from this animal!?

20. Answer :

21. 3.
This letter led to what?

22. Answer :
Toilets in Trains..!!

23. 4.
David Bradley, the IBM engineer who
originally invented X has said over the years
that he didn’t intend for the command to be
widely used. He had this to say
“It was like a five-minute job in doing it. I
didn’t realize I was going to create a cultural
icon when I did it,” he said. “But I have to
share the credit. I may have invented it, but I
think Bill made it famous.”
ID X

24. Answer :

25. 5.
What Originated?

26. Answer :
Ferrari’s Logo-The Prancing Horse

27. 6.
How do we now know “Backrub” as?

28. Answer :

29. ROUND 3
Categories
+15/-5

30. Categories
Telecommunication
Politics
Technology
Sports
Gadgets
Entertainment
Round 4

31. Alone in a room in his home in
Bonn, Germany, Friedhelm Hillebrand sat with his
typewriter, tapping out random sentences and
questions on a sheet of paper.
As he went along, Hillebrand counted the number of
letters, numbers, punctuation marks and spaces on the
page. Each ran on for a line or two and nearly always
clocked in under ___________.
What did this lead to?

32. Answer :
Standard for one of today's most
popular forms of digital
communication: text messaging(SMS)
160 characters!
Back
Round 4

33. Specifications
of what..??

34. Answer :
Google Glass
Back
Round 4

35. Image of what?

36. Answer :
The IPod click wheel
Back
Round 4

37. Identify

38. Answer :
George W. Bush
Back
Round 4

39. ID the guy

40. Answer :
Oscar Pistorius
Back
Round 4

41. X ,born in 1943 was originally named Krishna Pandit Bhanji.
His father, Rahimtulla Harji Bhanji born in Kenya, lived in
Zanzibar, until moving to Britain at the age of 14.
He is better known to us as X..

42. Answer :
Ben Kingsley
Back
Round 4

43. ROUND 4
Crack The Clues
1st Clue : +30/-15
2nd Clue : +20/-10
3rd Clue : +5/-5

44. Question 1.
Clue 1 :
X, a film star was born on 24th February 1948
in Melkote.

45. Question 1.
Clue 2 :
While in Bangalore, X attended Bishop Cotton Girls'
School. She completed her childhood education at
Sacred Heart Matriculation School, (popularly known as
Church Park Presentation Convent) in Chennai. She
excelled at school and was offered a government
scholarship to pursue further education.

46. Question 1.
Clue 3 :
In 1991, following the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi
just days before the elections, her alliance with the
Indian National Congress enabled her to ride the
wave of sympathy that gave the coalition victory. Reelected to the assembly, she became the first elected
female chief minister and the youngest ever chief
minister of her state.

47. Answer :
Jayalalithaa

48. Question 2.
Clue 1 :
The domain name for X was registered on September
15, 1997, and the company was incorporated on September
4, 1998. It was based in a friend's (Susan Wojcicki) garage in
Menlo Park, California. Craig Silverstein, a fellow PhD student
at Stanford, was hired as the first employee.

49. Question 2.
Clue 2 :
Algorithm for what?

50. Question 2.
Clue 3 :
X’s latest product

51. Answer :
Google

52. Question 3.
Clue 1 :
X was born in Gandhara in
modern day Afghanistan.

53. Question 3.
Clue 2 :
X is often depicted as a man dressed in black
clothes, sporting a white beard, wearing a halfkireetam, and limping slightly while walking. He
was a great devotee of Lord Shiva.

54. Question 3.
Clue 3 :
X is perhaps best known for masterminding the
infamous Game of Dice. A master of sorcery, it is
said the dice used by X were made from his father's
thigh bones and hence generated any desired
number.

55. Answer :
Shakuni

56. Question 4.
Clue 1 :
X was established as a business entity following a
restructuring of the Rapp Motorenwerke aircraft
manufacturing firm in 1917. After the end of World War I in
1918, X was forced to cease aircraft-engine production by
the terms of the Versailles Armistice Treaty. The company
consequently shifted to motorcycle production in 1923.

57. Question 4.
Clue 2 :
X bought Swiss team Sauber in June 2005 to form the
X Sauber F1 Team. The takeover came after X's
relationship with Williams had deteriorated in the
previous months, the partnership ending at the end of
the 2005 season.

58. Question 4.
Clue 3 :

59. Answer :
BMW

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