Round 1Infinite BounceInfinite PouncePounce only on all unknowns

+10/0 on Bounce+10/-10 on Pounce

Q1. Identify this personality

• Vikram Pandit (ex CE0 , Citi Bank)

Q2. Which word, now generally used for an unexpected burst of wealth or success, literally means ‘ calm sea’ in Spanish?

• Bonanza

Q3. Identify the product associated with these personalities.

• Founding team members of their product i.e. Trizzio which is a quizzing app

Q4.• Statements about pornography appeared in the very 1st

minute of this film X , directed by Mohit Suri under the banner of Vishesh , Entertainment Ltd. X was released in 2005, starring Amrita Singh , Emraan Hashmi, Deepal Shaw and Y.• Speaking of pornography , the origin of this word can be

traced to which language?

•Hint : Y worked as a child artist in “Raja Hindustani” starring Aamir Khan and Karishma Kapoor.

• X: Kalyug• Y:Kunal Khemu• Greek language

Q5.•Kenneth George “Ken” Aston was responsible for the major change in the game of football. This change was implemented first in 1970 FIFA World Cup .•Can you guys tell the major change ?

• Yellow and red cards

Q6.• In an interview, Mukesh Ambani once said –“If you noticed my public utterances, and I speak very rarely, I made this point(of free voice call) more than once in the past. I had spoken in Delhi at a Brown University function where the president of Brown and the media were present. I had met the CEO of ‘X’ and he had said , “ Oh in your country you still charge for voice? We stopped doing that long ago”.X’s CEO is Lowell McAdam and it was founded on October 7 , 1983 as Bell Atlantic . Today , it now stands as the largest U.S wireless comm. Service provider.X’s slogan is Better Matters. Identify X.

• Verizon

Q7• Joel Zimmerman aka Y , a well known EDM artist, expressed his desire

to work with Daler Mehendi at the Sunburn festival 2014 by tagging him on Twitter and praising him like he would prefer him over Yo Yo Honey Singh .• The outcome of bonding over social media and on the Coffee Run was

and electrifying remix of Mehndi’s smash hit ‘B’.• ‘B’ became so popular that the video game ‘World of Warcraft’ had

the dance steps incorporated from the video.Identify Y and B.

• Deadmau5• Tunak Tun Tunak

Q8.•Recently , Abhishek Bachchan broke a Guinness world record which was held by German film actors(one of them is Daniel Bruhl of Inglourious Basterds and Rush fame).

•Which record did Junior B break?

• Most public appearances in 12 hours , while promoting for Delhi 6.

Connect• Pounce to death• Infinite Bounce

• +20/0 on bounce• +20/-20 on pounce

Q1. Connect

• Limited edition packs of Walkers – flavours named after them

Q2. • Mehmet Scholl• Richard Gere• Kate Bosworth• Orlando Bloom• Mayawati

• Followers of Buddhist principles.

Q3.

• Kashmiri Pandits.

Q4.

• Pankaj Kapur played the titular role in detective serial “ Karamchand” and the character is seen eating carrots while solving the cases.

Q5. Connect

• It is claimed that Bob Woolmer had witnessed the record of achieving the highest individual score in the domestic cricket.• At Kanpur – he witnessed Hanif Mohammed • At Worcester, he witnessed Brian Lara creating the new record.

Round 3• Pounce to death• No infinite bounce• Pounce only on all X,Y (and Z)

• +30/-20 on pounce• +15/-5

Yoshiaki Tsutsumi created a name for himself in the business world in 1987.

What was it ?

Q1.

• He was declared as the world’s richest man in the inaugural Forbes list in 1987.

Q2.• Creators while visualising the image of a new comics villain

acknowledged that it produced an image of German actor Conrad Veidt in character as Gwynplaine as an inspiration for their new villain character.• One of them , Jerry Robinson said that his studies at Columbia

University taught him that some characters are made up of contradictions, which helped him to add this characteristic to the character.

Character was also known as the Red Hood.An animated film depicting the character’s origin was released this year.Name the villain.

• Joker

The statue symbolising Jai Jawan Jai Kisan in Miramar , replaced the

bust of which Portuguese personality???

Q3.

• Afonso de Alberqueque

Q4.• Mayte Garcia is an American belly dancer, actress and choreographer

of Puerto Rican ancestory. She has appeared in many singles , notably choreographed Britney Spears’ “ I’m a Slave 4 U” and appeared in the Bollywood song “Deedar De” of 2005 film Dus starring Sanjay Dutt.• Garcia was hired to dance on the tour named “Diamonds and Pearls

Tour” where she met her employer and future husband named K, later to be divorced.• Recently, K was in the news this year for his death due to a fenatyl

overdose. He won 7 Grammy Awards and Rolling Stone ranked him at number 27 on its list of 100 Greatest Awards. His first album was named “For You” and released on April 7,1978.• Identify K.

• Prince

Q5.• ‘A’ was born on August 9,1976 in Los Angeles, California. • In 1998, A along with other classmates , dropped out of UCLA to

found Scour Inc. with Dan Rodrigues, a search engine. It had to face legal action from various bodies like the Motion Picture Assoc. of America . Scour filed for bankruptcy to protect itself from the lawsuit.• A started a company named RedSwoosh , a peer to peer file sharing

company. It took advantage of increased bandwidth efficiency on the Internet to allow users to transfer large media files.• A along with Garrett Camp founded B , an app which is focussed on

vehicle rental system, ridesharing etc. . It operates in 66 countries .• Identify A and B

• A – Travis Kalanick• B- Uber

Q6. Describe the Photo.

• Gary Liner

Q7. • This tournament was conceived in 1899 by 4 members of the N

University tennis team who wished to challenge the British to a tennis competition.• Once accepted , 1 N player Dwight Davis , designed a tournament

format and ordered an appropriate sterling silver trophy from Shreve Crump & Low.• The first match between them took place in Boston in the year 1900.• The tournament expanded to various countries as the years progressed.• Initially known as Int’l Lawn Tennis Challenge, now renamed as X Cup. • In 1966, which country did India defeat to reach the final of the X Cup

for 1st time. Country is ‘Z’• Give Z,N,X.

• Harvard • Davis Cup• Brazil

XYZ• Pounce only on all X,Y (and Z)• Infinite Bounce

• +30/0 on Pounce• +10 for each variable

1.Wikipedia is an Internet encyclopaedia project in many languages. It is "open content". This means anyone can copy it, and make changes to it if they follow the rules for copying or editing.Its name is a combination of the two words wiki, a Hawaiian word for quick, and encyclopedia. The term ‘Wiki’ was coined by X, who also created the first Wiki website.X is a member of the Advisory Board of the Wikimedia Foundation, an American organization based in San Francisco, California, which owns Wikipedia. Wikipedia, created by Jimmy Wales and Y, began as a related project for Z. Z was a free online English-language encyclopedia project, whose articles were written and owned by Bomis, Inc which is a web portal company. Y was the editor-in chief for Z.

Answers

X – Ward CunnighamY – Larry SangerZ – Nupedia

2.In April 2012, X was sued by the author of the book Link, John L. Beiswenger, who alleged a copyright infringement for using his ideas in Y and demanding $5.25 million in damages and wanted to stop the Y that was set to be released in a few months along with any future games that allegedly contain his ideas. However, Beiswenger dropped the lawsuit within a month due to X’s motion to block future lawsuits from him. He was later quoted as saying he believes "authors should vigorously defend their rights in their creative works“.This is not the first controversy X has been associated with. On 2 July 2013, X announced a major breach in its network resulting in the potential exposure of up to 58 million accounts including usernames, email address and encrypted passwords. Although the firm denied any credit/debit card information could have been compromised, it issued directives to all registered users to change their account passwords and also recommended updating passwords on any other website or service where a same or similar password had been used.Hint: EA has a 19.9% stake in X

Answers

X – UbisoftY – Assassin’s Creed III

3.X is an American bags and luggage manufacturer and retailer, founded in Denver, Colorado as the Shwayder Trunk Manufacturing Company. Beginning in 1961, X manufactured and distributed Lego building toys for the North American market under license from the Danish parent firm. X was instrumental in establishing the Lego brand in the United States. This was part of an overall company expansion into toy manufacturing in the 1960s that was abandoned in the 1970s.Currently, X is involved in making products ranging from large suitcases to small toiletries bags and briefcases, and 40% of all its hard luggage is manufactured in its plant in Nashik, India.After a series of lows, the company was bought by Marcello Botolli, former Chairman and CEO of Y, as the President and CEO of X for a period of 4 years after which he left.

Hint: Y is one of the world's leading international fashion houses with products ranging from luxury trunks and leather goods to ready-to-wear, shoes, watches, jewelry, accessories, sunglasses and books.

Answers

X – SamsoniteY – Louis Vuitton Malletier

4.X was founded in February 1982 by three senior managers from semiconductor manufacturer Texas Instruments. The three of them had left due to lack of faith and loss of confidence in Texas Instrument's management, and initially considered but ultimately decided against starting a chain of Mexican restaurants. Each invested $1,000 to form the company, which was founded with the temporary name Y. Unlike many startups, X differentiated its offerings from the many other IBM clones by not focusing mainly on price, but instead concentrating on new features, such as portability and better graphics displays as well as performance—and all at prices comparable to those of IBM’s PCs. Due to its partnership with Intel, X was able to maintain a technological lead in the market place as it was the first one to come out with computers containing the next generation of each Intel processor.X produced some of the first IBM PC compatible computers, being the first company to legally reverse engineer the IBM Personal Computer. It rose to become the largest supplier of PC systems before being overtaken by it’s biggest rival Z. Soon after the Company struggled and was finally taken over by Z.

Answers

X – CompaqY – Gateway TechnologyZ - HP

5. Fellowship of the Society, the oldest scientific academy in continuous existence, is a significant honor which has been awarded to many eminent scientists from history including Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin and Michael Faraday. X, a Scottish chemist, was also one of the few people elected as a member of the Royal Society. Born in Glasgow, X was first employed as a Clerk. Later he resigned his clerkship to take up the manufacture of chemicals. In this he was highly successful, inventing various new processes. His experiments with one of the by-products of tar, led to his invention of Y, to which he is most widely credited with. In 1828, he became a partner with James Beaumont Neilson in a firm to exploit the latter's patent for the hot blast blowing of blast furnaces, which saved considerably on their fuel consumption.X died in 1843 at Dunchattan, Scotland, and was buried in the churchyard of the Glasgow Cathedral

Hint: The essence of his patent involved cementing of two thicknesses of cloth together with natural (India) rubber, the rubber being made soluble by the action of the Naphtha

Answer:

X – Charles MacintoshY - Raincoat

BUZZER ROUND• Each question consists of 5 clues that reveal the answer• +50/-20 on first clue• +40/-15 on second clue• +30/-10 on third clue• +20/-5 on fourth clue• +10/0 on fifth clue

• The next clue will be provided if no one presses the buzzer for 15s

Q1.A. The New Development Bank (NDB) makes up the financial architecture of this organization,

operated by its members. The bank's primary focus of lending is on infrastructure projects with authorized lending of up to $34 billion annually.

B. The organization’s first formal summit, held in Yekaterinburg, commenced on 16 June 2009. The summit's focus was on means of improving the global economic situation and reforming financial institutions. They announced the need for a new global reserve currency, which would have to be "diversified, stable and predictable” which led to a fall in the value of the US dollar against other major currencies

C. South Africa will be the African Headquarters of the NDB named the "New Development Bank Africa Regional Centre

D. The name of the Association/Organization was coined in 2001 by then-chairman of Goldman Sachs Asset Management, Jim O'Neill

E. The organization originally consisted of 4 member countries, which later expanded to become five. Current many countries have expressed their interest in joining this organization

Answer:BRICS

Q2.A. This company, established in 1897, became the first Indian company to introduce PUF

( Polyurethane Foam) and made soap using vegetable oil, which was a huge hit with the vegetarian community in India

B. One of it’s subsidiaries oriented towards consumer products, became the Highest Ranked Indian FMCG(Fast Moving Consumer Goods) in Asia's Hot Growth Companies' List by Business Week, and was ranked 14th in The Best Companies to Work For study, jointly conducted by Business Today, Mercer and Taylor Nelson Sofres(TNS)

C. One of it’s founders, Pirojsha laid the foundation for the sprawling industrial garden township now called Pirojshanagar in the suburbs of Mumbai, where the company has its headquarters.

D. They were the first to produce India's first indigenous typewriter in 1955 and shut down its typewriter manufacturing plant in 2011, which was the last in the world

E. Introduced the first lock with lever technology in India in 1897 and the first Indian safe in 1902

Answer:Godrej

Q3.A. Widely recognized for frequently reinventing her style and image, she received the Fashion Icon

lifetime achievement award from the Council of Fashion Designers of America in 2014. Forbes ranked her the fourth most powerful celebrity of 2012, and was named one of Time's "100 Most Influential People in the World" later that year

B. She was an army cadet in a sub-military program, where Shontelle was her drill sergeant. Although she initially wanted to graduate from high school, she chose to pursue a musical career instead

C. With sales exceeding 200 million records worldwide, she is one of the best-selling artists of all time and is the youngest and fastest solo artist to earn fourteen number-one singles on the Billboard Hot 100, and has eight Grammy’s to her name

D. Though she named Madonna as her biggest influence, her music has encompassed a broad range of genres, including dancehall, reggae and soca, as well as pop, R&B, dubstep, hip hop and electronic dance music, inspired by her Caribbean roots

E. She was involved in a controversy in 2009 where it emerged that her then-boyfriend had physically assaulted her, resulting in the cancellation of her performance at the 51st Grammy’s

Answer:Rihanna

Q4.A. The company was an engine supplier in Formula One between the 1989 and 1993

Formula One seasons for various teams including Lotus, Modena, Minardi, and Larrousse, with which its best result was achieved at the 1990 Japanese Grand Prix

B. This car manufacturer owned by the Mimrans created high performance off-road vehicles before being sold to the American Chrysler Group in 1987

C. The founder was skeptical of making cars for motorsports as they were too expensive and drained the company’s resources and instead initially focused on producing refined grand touring cars

D. This company based in Sant'Agata Bolognese, Italy, is currently owned by the Volkswagen Group through it’s subsidiary Audi.

E. The company names its cars after a breed of (famous) bulls used in bullfighting, though they have broken from traditional once or twice.

Answer:Lamborghini

Q5. A. In 1928, one of the founders of this Film Distribution and Studio Company made his son the head

of the company as a 21st birthday present, building up a reputation for nepotism in the company.

B. It is owned by Comcast through its wholly owned subsidiary NBCUniversal and is one of Hollywood's "Big Six" film studios

C. It is the only studio to have released three billion-dollar films in one year, and this distinction was achieved in 2015 with movies including Furious 7

D. They owned the rights to "Oswald the Lucky Rabbit“, created by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks. However the producers were unhappy with the production fee accepted by Disney and demanded that they accept a lower fee. This led to Disney and Iwerks creating Mickey Mouse who starred in the first "sync" sound animated short, Steamboat Willie, establishing their dominance in the industry

E. The company was founded by Carl Laemmle, Mark Dintenfass, Charles O. Baumann, Adam Kessel, Pat Powers, William Swanson, David Horsley, Robert H. Cochrane and Jules Brulatour

Answer:Universal Studios