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SRI VENKATESWARA COLLEGEpresents
NEXUS ’09(Inter -College Annual Cultural Festival)
QUIZ FINALS
ROUND 1 -
KICK OFF
• Correct on a Direct + 10• Correct on a Pass + 5• No negative marking
____________ was charged and pleaded guilty to possession of 400 grams of cocaine, assault and kidnapping in 1985 while he was a student at Duke University, USA. He pleaded guilty on all charges and was sentenced to two years in prison. However, he did not serve any prison time and came back to India in 1986 after being released on probation. In 2007 a PIL was filed in Mumbai High court challenging his position in (His employer) on pretext of his criminal history.
This company based in Kyoto, Japan was founded by Fusajiro Yamauchi. The name of this company translated from Japanese to English means "Leave luck to Heaven". It is the majority owner of the Seattle Mariners, a Major League Baseball team.
Pierre Bellon is the founder of The company, a multinational catering company. He founded the company in France in 1966. It is a public traded company on New York and Paris exchanges.13th Richest man in France and has a net worth of US$2.2 billion. What is his source of Wealth?
Pranab MukherjeeRabindranath Tagore
C. V. RamanAmartya SenSatyajit Ray
Somnath ChatterjeeSwami VivekanandaJagmohan Dalmiya
R. P. GoenkaLakshmi Mittal
What's common between all these following personalities?
He was cartooned in 1945. It is the corporate mascot of its owing entertainment company. He starred in 163 shorts in the Golden Age of American animation, and made cameos in three others along with a few appearances in non-animated films. He was "born" in 1940 in Brooklyn, New York. He first appeared in Porky`s Hare Hunt. Charlie Thorson a lead animator gave it the name. He was popular during World War II because of his free and easy attitude, and began receiving special star billing in his cartoons by 1943. He was in opposition to the period's biggest enemies: Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, and the Japanese. In one of the cartoons he was wearing a USMC(United States Marine Corps) dress uniform. As a result, the USMC(United States Marine Corps) made him an honorary Marine Master Sergeant. Who ?
The company was founded in 1890 as A.G. Thompson Pty Ltd by Alfred Grace Thompson, a migrant harness and saddle maker who
turned to manufacturing cricket balls when his livelihood was threatened by the advent of the motor car. In the mid-1980s, the company diversified into manufacturing the full range of cricket
equipment. ____________ also manufactures top quality hockey sticks, most notably the ICON range, which is used by many
international players. The company also sponsors a junior cricket tournament called the ___________ cup.
ROUND 2 –
GUESS THE PICTURE
• Correct on a Direct + 15• Correct on a Pass + 5• No negative marking
Identify the sport
Identify the emblem
What’s special about this ship
Identify the stadium in which this statute is built
Identify this young Premier League Football Player
Identify the logo
ROUND 3 –
MOVING ON
• Correct on a Direct + 10• Correct on a Pass + 5• Incorrect on Direct - 5
In an attempt to define this South African ethic and humanist philosophy, Archbishop Desmond Tutu stated
the following:
"A person with ___________ is open and available to others, affirming of others, does not feel threatened that others are able and good, for he or she has a proper self-
assurance that comes from knowing that he or she belongs in a greater whole and is diminished when others are humiliated or diminished, when others are tortured or
oppressed."
What modern-day product takes its name from the above mentioned philosophy mostly because it is based on the
same principle?
In 1949, a young entrepreneur, K. M. Mammen Mappillai, opened a small toy balloon
manufacturing unit in a shed at Tiruvottiyur, Madras (now Chennai). Although the factory was just a small shed without any machines, a variety
of products, ranging from balloons and squeaking toys to industrial gloves and
contraceptives, were produced. Which multi-billion dollar company had such a humble
beginning?
This brand X has its origins in Germany, when a trading ban was placed on that nation by the Allies during World War II. The Coca-Cola company therefore was not able to
import the syrup needed to produce Coca-Cola in Germany. As a result, Max Keith, the man in charge of Coca-Cola's operations in Germany during the second World War, decided to create a new product for the
German market created using only ingredients available in Germany. And hence X was developed. Identify this well
known brand X.
Signor Felice ___________, an Italian, first introduced this concept in India starting in Mumbai in 1965 by forming a
company of the same name. His views were way ahead of his time and thus the company didn't do well and started showing tremendous loses. An Indian family saw some potential and bought over the company in 1969 & the
company managed to keep the same brand name.Since 1995, the company has started expanding operations substantially and the turn over has multiplied more than 20 times over a period of 10 years and the average growth rate
has been around 40% over this period. Moreover they command a 60% market share of the organized market.
Identify this legendary brand.
The word is an onomatopoeia, a word that imitates the sound it represents. Through focus groups decided that
the name was memorable, short, easy to spell, and that it would function well as a URL around the world. The word
would remind people of the sound made during "the moment of discovery and decision making.
While being tested internally by the company's employees, it's codename was Kumo, which came from
the Japanese word for spider as well as cloud, referring to the manner in which search engines "spider" Internet
resources to add them to their database, as well as cloud computing. What am I talking about?
It appears the original idea of X didn’t come from Y, and in fact, British inventor, Kane Kramer, invented X in 1979, at
the age of 23. His invention was named IXI. Kramer’s patent became public domain after his company IXI went bankrupt in 1988. Unfortunately, he was unable to raise
the money required to renew the patent in over 120 countries. Obviously, Y was one of the companies to check
out Kramer's patent, liked what it saw and eventually created what we know as the X. Identify X and Y.
ROUND 4 –
CONNECT
• Correct on a Direct + 20• Correct on a Pass + 10• No negative marking
ROUND 5 –
MIXED BAG
• Correct on a Direct + 10• Incorrect on a Direct - 5• Not a passable round
EPL
MOVIES COMPUTERS
LITERATURE GEOGRAPHY
TENNIS
POLITICS MUSIC F1
HISTORY
RELIGION CRICKET
NEXT
Who was the first player to make 100 appearances in the Premiership/Premier
League as a substitute?
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Who was the first woman writer to win a Nobel Peace Prize for Literature?
BACK
In 1994 San Marino Grand Prix, Roland Ratzenberger died during qualifying and
Ayrton Senna died during the race. In the same Grand Prix, another driver had an accident in practice session on Friday,
swallowing tongue and a broken nose and arm. Who was the driver?
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Where would you be if you were at 1, Infinite Loop?
BACK
A gruesome bus tragedy claimed the life of a well known metal musician of his time when him and his band were promoting their latest
album on tour at that time . Name the musician and the place of his death
BACK
What is common to the movies “How The West Was Won" , “The Good , The Bad And
The Ugly" and “The Godfather Part 3"
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The Indian Democracy has been suspended only once when an emergency was declared for a 21 month period from 25th June 1975 to 21st March 1977 upon
the advice of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. Who was the President that
declared the emergency?
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Who was the last Hindu King to sit upon the throne of Delhi?
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Which famous Indian saint has a memorial named after him in Baghdad, Iraq?
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Which Indian state has the most number of airports?
BACK
Which team made 496-4 in a 50 over match which made it the highest scoring
ODI game anywhere in the world?
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Jimmy Connors is the only individual to win the US Open on all three surfaces but name the only women to win the US Open
on two surfaces i.e. Clay and Deco Turf
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THANK YOU
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