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General Round 1- Infinite Bounce with Pounce

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Rules

• Correct +10• No negative

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Question 1

• Which brand in latin means• ‘I Roll’

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Answer 1

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Question 2: Who is Clyde?

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Answer 2: Mascot of Glasgow 2014

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Question 3: Id. X

• X is a pale lager produced by Anheuser–Busch InBev. Introduced in 1876 by Adolphus Busch it has grown to become one of the highest selling beers in the United States, and is available in over 80 markets worldwide.

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Answer 3: Budweiser

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Question 4: What is this?

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Answer 4: Twitter Blueprint

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Question 5: Id X

• X originated in South Africa• Graham Wulff (1916-2008),an ex-Unilever chemist

from Durban, started it in 1949. The name X was chosen by Wulff as a spin on the word "lanolin", a key ingredient.•  It is one of Procter & Gamble's multi-billion dollar brands

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Answer 5: Olay

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Question 6: Connection?

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Answer 6: Snapdeal.com

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Question 7: Id X

• The X originated in the present-day Odisha, as khirmohana.In the coastal city of Puri in Odisha, the X has been the traditional offering to the Hindu goddess Lakshmi. According to the tradition, her consort Jagannath tries to pacify her by offering her X, so that she lets his convoy enter the sanctum sanctorum of the temple. This ritual, known as Bachanika, is part of the "Niladri Bije" (or "Arrival of the God") observance, which marks the return of the deities to the temple after the Rath Yatra.

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Answer 7: Rasgulla

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Question 8 : Id her.

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Answer 8: Mother Teresa

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General Round 2- Infinite Bounce with Pounce

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Question 1

In January 1996 former National Geographic photographer Charles O'Rear was on his way from his home in St. Helena, California, to visit his girlfriend. He was being particularly alert for a photo opportunity that day, since a storm had just passed over and other recent winter rains had left the area especially green."There it was! My God, the grass is perfect! It's green! The sun is out; there's some clouds," he remembered thinking. Four years later company X approached O’Rear as they wanted to buy not just the license but all the rights to it. O’Rear needed to send ‘X’ the original negative and sign the paperwork.‘X’ later gave it a name and made it a key part of their marketing campaign for its product.Identify ‘X’ and the picture?

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MicroSoftBliss

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Question 2

When Gandhi went to London first time he carried four notes of Introduction to famous Indians in England at that time.Dadabhai Naoroji, Dalpatram Shukla , Dr P.J MehtaName the fourth one

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Answer 2: RanjitSinghji “Ranji”

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Question 3

• Gary Gilmore, an American criminal had committed two murders. His trial lasted two days. The Utah jury unanimously recommended death penalty due to the special circumstances of the crime. Utah had two methods of execution — firing squad or hanging. Believing a hanging could be botched, Gilmore chose the former, declaring, "I'd prefer to be shot." Against his express wishes, Gilmore received several stays of execution. His last three words had made him a legend in the world of Business and Branding. • What were those three words?

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Answer 3

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After India became independent in 1947, the Planning Commission was entrusted to oversee and direct the development of the nation. India grew rapidly in the 1950s, and in the late 1950s the Commission started facing difficulties in finding suitable people for the large number of enterprises that were being established in India as a part of its industrial policy. To solve this problem, the Planning Commission in 1959 invited Professor George Robbins of the University of California. What resulted ?

Question 4

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The IIMsAnswer 4

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The name of this website stems from a Hindi phrase used on anyone who attempts to achieve the impossible. Started by Wharton graduate Allwin Agnel in 2003, its mascot is named ‘Monsieur Green’. Which website?

Question 5

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Answer 5: www.pagalguy.com

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Question 6: Who this tweet is referring to?

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Answer 6: Roger Federer

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David Saltzberg has a Bachelor’s degree in Physics from Princeton and a Phd in Physics from University of Chicago.

He has worked at CERN and his research interests include high-energy collider physics and the radio detection of cosmic neutrinos .

He is a Professor of Physics and Astronomy at the University of California, Los Angeles.

However, he is famous for his work in an entirely different role as X .

Question 7: Identify X

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Answer 7: Science Consultant/Technical Director for ‘The Big Bang Theory’

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X is the largest shareholder in Citigroup, Bank of America and JPMorgan Chase, Exxon Mobil, Shell, Apple, McDonald’s and Nestlé.

X is easily the biggest investor in the world, with $4.1 trillion of directly controlled assets (almost as much as all private-equity and hedge funds put together) and another $11 trillion it oversees through its trading platform, Aladdin .

Question 8: Identify X

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Answer 8: Blackrock

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War Round

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Question 1: It was the largest-calibre rifled weapon ever used in combat and the heaviest mobile artillery piece ever built in terms of overall weight. Name the gun.

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The Gustav gun or Schwerer Gustav.

Answer 1

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Question 2: Name this world famous sniper of erstwhile USSR.

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Answer 2: Vasily Zaytsev

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Question 3: In this picture from the Great war name the person sitting on the extreme right

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Answer 3: Adolf Hitler

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Question 4: What is happening here.

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Answer 4: The Germans and Allies signing the armistice just 11 November 1918.

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Question 5: What is the significance of the tallest statue of a woman in the world.

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Answer 5: The Motherland Calls or The Mamayev Monument in Volgograd, Russia to commemorate the Battle of Stalingrad.

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Steven Spielberg offered the job of director for this “Movie X” to Roman Polanski. Polanski turned it down because the subject was too personal. Polanski would later direct his own film about this subject “Movie Y” and also win the Oscar (his only one till date) for it. Identify X and Y.

Question 6

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X- Schindler’s ListY- The Pianist

Answer 6

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Question 7: Identify this person who was the first Indian Commander-in-Chief of the Indian Army.

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Answer 7: Field Marshal KM Cariappa

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Who said this“If a man says he is not afraid of dying, he is either lying or is a Gurkha.”

Question 8

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Answer 8: Field Marshal SHFJ Maneckshaw.

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Football World Cup

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Question 1: What is the unique feat these World Champions achieved on their way to win the respective Football World Cups

197419782010

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Answer 1

West Germany (1974 – vs East Germany), Argentina (1978 – vs Italy) and Spain (2010 – vs Switzerland) went to win the respective World Cups even after a 1-0 defeat in Group stage matches. Coincidentally, all three teams won against Netherlands in the final.

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Question 2: What this picture depicts

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Answer 2

• 25-pass goal scored by Esteban Cambiasso of Argentina vs Serbia and Montenegro in WC 2006

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Question 3

• In 1970, X became the first official soccer ball of a World Cup. • It has 32 black-and-white panels and has since become an

icon of the game. • It was manufactured by Adidas. • It got its name from a communication satellite which has a

similar geometry to it. - Identify X

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Answer 3

Telster

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Question 4

1938 Football WC saw the first Asian representative in Football World Cup. After Japan withdrew in the qualifying round for Asia, X qualified as the only team from Asia. However, X’s 1938 World Cup appearance was short-lived, having been knocked out by Hungary in the opening game by 6 goals to none.

- Identify X

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Answer 4

 Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia)

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Question 5

- 1934 – 1938 –---------- 1994 – 1998 – 2002 – 2006 – 2010 – 2014

- Which country’s WC Finals appearances is depicted in the above timeline?

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Answer 5

Germany (unified/reunified)

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Question 6

• During the 1950s, X was both a prominent member and captain of the national team known as the ‘Mighty Magyars’.

• He was awarded the best player award, having scored 4 goals, in the World Cup in which his team reached the finals, eventually losing to West Germany.

• In 1958, two years after the Revolution in his country, he emigrated to Spain where he played for Real Madrid.

• While playing with Real Madrid, X won four Pichichis, awarded by the Spanish sports newspaper Marca to the league’s top scorer and scored seven goals in two European Champions Cup finals. In 1995, he was recognized as the top scorer of the 20th century by the IFFHS.

• In October 2009, FIFA announced the introduction of the FIFA X Award, awarded to the player who has scored the "most beautiful goal" over the past year. He was also listed in Pelé's FIFA 100.

• Identify X.

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Answer 6

• Ferenc Puskas

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Long Connect Round

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Question 1:Identify X

X is a well known angel investor and venture capitalist. He is a Stanford alumnus.

He started a fellowship to encourage students under 20 years of age to dropout of school to start their own venture.

He was the first outside investor in Facebook.

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Answer 1: Peter Thiel

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X was initially developed as an internal communication tool for the genealogy website Geni.

X is an enterprise social software, ie: it is used for private communications. It is used by 80 percent of the fortune 500 companies.

X won the TechCrunch50 startup competition in 2008.

X was sold to Microsoft in 2012.

Question 2: Identify X

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Answer 2: Yammer

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Me at the zoo is the first ever video to be uploaded on Youtube.

It is 18 seconds long and the uploader is seen describing the elephants at the San Diego zoo.Identify the uploader.

Question 3: Identify

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Answer 3: Jawed Karim, co-founder of youtube.

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X is the co-founder of a prominent social network.

X is considered one of silicon valley’s most prolific angel investors and currently runs a $ 20 million Discovery fund for Greylock Partners, one of the oldest venture capital firms. Some of his prominent investments were in Facebook, Zynga, Digg, Flickr etc.

Forbes described X as “Silicon Valley's uber-investor” and said X “has had a hand in creating nearly every lucrative social media startup”.

Question 4: Identify

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Answer 4: Reid Hoffman, co-founder of Linkedin.

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Y was founded to reduce space transportation costs and enable colonization of Mars.

Some of the historic achievements of Y are:• the first privately funded, liquid-fueled

rocket to reach orbit.• the first private company to send a

spacecraft to the International Space Station

• the first private company to send a satellite into a geosynchronous orbit .

Due to their low launch prices and low development time, Y has been able to win many government and private contracts.

Question 5: Identify

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Answer 5: SpaceX

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ConnectMembers and companies founded by the members of Paypal mafia.

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