blitz (business + literature) quiz prelims, iitg quiz fest
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ACUMEN (QUIZ CLUB)PRESENT
Qurious, the Quiz Fest
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BLITZ QUIZ PRELIMSQuizmaster
Dhrubojit Bhattacharya
1st Year, Dept of EEE
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RULES
• 30 Questions, +1 on every correct answer.
• No Googling Allowed
• Quizmaster’s decision is final
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LET THE QUIZ BEGIN
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Q1.Which Indian entrepreneur, chairperson of IIM Bangalore, has authored “Ale & Arty : The story of beer”?
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KIRAN MAZUMDAR-SHAW
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Q2.What term is used to describe exceptional compensation package offered by acquiring company to the top executives of the company being bought?
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GOLDEN LIFE-JACKET
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Q3.X is a 1925 novel that follows a cast of characters living in the fictional town of West Egg on prosperous Long Island in the summer of 1922. The story primarily concerns a young and mysterious millionaire and his quixotic passion and obsession for the beautiful former debutante Daisy Buchanan. It is considered the magnum opus of F. Scott Fitzgerald. Id X.
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THE GREAT GATSBY
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Q4.It was founded by JC Jacobsen in 1847. One of the oldest breweries in Copenhagen is open for tours and famous visitors include Winston Churchill and Queen Elizabeth II. In 1975, it introduced the ‘Probably the best lager in the world’ slogan with voice over by Orson Welles. In India, breweries are located in Altar, Aurangabad and Paonta Sahib (Himachal Pradesh). Which alcohol brand?
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CARLSBERG
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Q5.Connect the following brands : Etihad Airways, Lux, Panasonic, Pantene, Veet
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BRANDS ENDORSED BY KATRINA KAIF
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Q6.Identify the voice of the speaker.
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CHETAN BHAGAT
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Q7.What are those bonds called which matured in the year 2007?
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JAMES BONDS :P
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Q8.Author of Things Fall Apart (1958), identify this Nigerian novelist, poet and professor.
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CHINUA ACHEBE
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Q9.The split of two famous brothers, M and N, led to a divided town. Both were members of the Nazi party, and when N was arrested by American soldiers, he was convinced that his brother M had turned him in. Name the two brands founded by M and N.
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Q10.This famous kids author X, was greatly inspired by A and made his own detective novel series between 1965 and 1992, which he called Y, where Y is the detective and his assistant is “Topshe”. Y lives in 21 Rajani Sen Road. Give me X and Y.
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X : SATYAJIT RAYY : Feluda/Prodosh Chandra Mitter
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Q11.What unique distinction does John Wood’s “Leaving Microsoft To Change The World” hold in the world of Indian e-commerce?
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First book sold on Flipkart
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Q12.Which website, founded by Jack Dorsey, Evan Williams and Biz Stone, literally means “a short burst of inconsequential information”?
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Q13.Connect.
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CECELIA AHERN
All the three are hints of Cecelia Ahern novels
1. Hillary Swank and Gerard Butler starred in ‘P.S. I Love You’
2. The song is ‘If You Could See Me Now’
3. ‘Where the Rainbow ends’
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Q14.Connect the following terms : Petrol, Trampoline, Heroin, Yo-Yo, Zipper
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Earlier/Present trademarks which have become generic names
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Q15.Print Ad for?
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COCA-COLA LIGHT
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Q16.This term refers to a politically unstable country dependent upon limited agriculture (e.g. Banana) and ruled by a small, self-elected, wealthy and (but not necessary) corrupt politico-economic clique. What term am I talking about, first used by O. Henry in Cabbages and Kings?
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BANANA REPUBLIC
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Q17.The name of the company means “I put together” (which is what you actually do with it) in Latin, but the company claims it is a mere coincidence, and etymology of the word is entirely Danish, where it is combination of two words meaning “play well”. Name this company, which earlier manufactured wooden toys.
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Q18.It is known as P45 in UK and Ireland and C4 in Belgium. It is the practice of including a discharge notice with pay envelope. Name this business term.
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Q19.Identify the significance of the house to the field of IT world, shown on the next slide.
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The house in Palo Alto where HP started
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Q20.Which Nobel Laureate’s collections of short stories include “The View From Castle Rock”, “Dear Life” and “Too Much Happiness”? According to the Nobel Society, she is the “master of contemporary short story”. She won the Nobel Prize for literature in 2013.
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ALICE MUNRO
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Q21.Advertisement for what? Video on next slide.
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GILETTE
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Q22.Designed to be equal parts protagonist and antagonist, ______ has become a modern icon in pop culture for revolution and anarchy. Famously clad all in black and wearing a Guy Fawkes mask, this character appears in a novel by Alan Moore. Give the novel and FITB (part points)
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V (from V for Vendetta)
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Q23.Originally named Precision Optical Instruments Laboratory, two years later they renamed to the name of their first camera, which was actually named after the Japanese name of the Buddhist goddess of mercy. Name this brand.
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CANON
The camera was named Kwanon
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Q24.Reference to what/which book? #sitter
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The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy
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Q25.Between 1978 and 2006, there were a number of legal disputes between Apple Corps and computer manufacturer Apple Computers (now Apple Inc.) over competing trademark rights. Who founded Apple Corps Ltd, a multi-armed multimedia corporation in 1968?
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Q26.Put Funda
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Q27.Identify
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SHERYL SANDBERG
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Q28.Wayne McLaren, David McLean, Dick Hammer and Eric Lawson are models who have all died of smoking-related diseases.
What did they model for?
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Q29.Which novel begins with –
“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in the possession of good fortune, must be in want of a wife.” ?
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PRIDE AND PREJUDICE
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Q30.Sometimes called the ‘American Tolkien’, his blog is named ‘Not a Blog’, and does all his writings on a DOS machine running Wordstar 4.0. Name him.
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