2. Round 1
The Rules :
Each question is worth 20 points. The first
question goes to team 1, the next to team 2.
And so on.
Questions can be passed. For a passed
question, the value of the question decrease
to 10 points.
3. 1.
Simple Question. WW2 : The German
intelligence services were known as the
Abwehr. They were headed by a famous
person X. Later on X tried to assasinate Hitler
and was executed . Identify X.
5. 2.
Goodyear , Dunlop and Michelin are a few
examples of tyres used by the cars in Formula
1. However from 2011 only one sole tyre
company has the rights to supply tyres.
Identify the company .
8. CHURCHILL , ROOSEVELT AND STALIN
• The Yalta Conference, held February 4–11,
1945, was the wartime meeting of the heads
of government of the United States, the
United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union,
represented by President Franklin D.
Roosevelt, Prime Minister Winston Churchill,
and General Secretary Joseph Stalin,
11. 5.
What runs for about 1.3 miles on Hollywood
Boulevard and Vine Street in Los Angeles
county and is said to attract 10 million tourists
every year?
12. The Hollywood Walk of Fame
• There are more than 2000 stars symbolizing
five categories within the entertainment
industry that are placed at 6-foot intervals
13. 6.
•
In 2009, a Face to Face tour featuring Elton
John and Billy Joel was promoted as '(X) Man
meets (Y) Man'. What are X and Y ?
16. The connect between the three is
Nokia.
• Navteq is a Chicago, Illinois-based provider of Geographic
Information Systems (GIS) data and is a dominant company in
providing the base electronic navigable maps. The company is a
wholly owned subsidiary of Nokia but operates independently.
Enpocket was a global mobile media company providing integrated
entertainment and mobile marketing services. The company was
founded in 2001, headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. Nokia
acquired the company in 2007 and merged it into its Services
division as Nokia Interactive Advertising. In November 2009 the
business unit was moved to Nokia's NAVTEQ subsidiary and
renamed to NAVTEQ Media Solutions.
19. 9.
With a 57 member count that includes Turkey,
Malaysia and Algeria, what is the second
largest international organisation after the
UN?
20. The Organisation of the Islamic
Conference (OIC)
• Most OIC member countries are non-
democratic. There are no OIC countries which
are rated as a 'Full Democracy' under the
Democracy Index guidelines, and only 3 of the
57 members are rated as high as a 'Flawed
Democracy'.
22. Both of them used biased coins
Amitabh Bachchan (Jai) in Sholay and Aaron
Eckhart ( Harvey Dent ) in The Dark Knight.
23. 11.
• This word originated in the 1770s in British
India, where the soldiers went hunting for a
bird whose excellent natural camouflage
made it very difficult to locate. This word was
used as a badge of respect for skilled hunters
who later brought their catch to the market.
What popular word are we talking about?
25. 12.
• In the special edition of times magazine, X was
given the award of the person of the
century...however it was debated Y shud be
given the award as the award shud go to the
person who has created the most significant
impact on the world in the century...however
as Y was not successful in his intentions the
award went to X.
27. Round 2.
• This round contains 6 questions 1 to each
team.
• For each direct question you get a +20.
However, if u don’t know the ans then u can
pass it on to any other team of your choice. If
they get it right both the teams get 10 points
each. So, think and select wisely.. Best of Luck
!!
30. 14.
• According to alexa.com, this website's
audience primarily tends to be Asian and has a
traffic ranking of #61 in India, from where it
gets 81% of its visitors. Cyber security experts
believe that over 12 lakh Indian users
download files from this website daily and
thus, hackers may very easily target these
computers to steal information and even
launch a huge attack by releasing worms.
Name the website in question
32. 15.
• Bollywood and Politics aren’t just recent
playmates, there is a bond between them right
from the Nehru days. In his time there was a
prodigal politician who was immensely popular
with the crowds. To beat his charisma Nehru used
one of the biggest superstar of that era Balraj
Sahni to campaign against him. This was the
earliest case of someone from the glam industry
coming out to endorse a certain political party.
Who was he campaigning against???
36. 17. What is this and Who is the person
in the picture ??
37. The Nobel Prize and the person after whom it is
named – Alfred Nobel.
He invented the Dynamite !!
38. 18.
Mythology:
What was the name of the garland carried by
Goddess Lakshmi when she arose from the
churning of the ocean and placed around the
neck of Lord Vishnu at the time of their
marriage?
40. Round 3
Okay, so this round will have each question open to all teams.
The scoring.
If only one team out of the 6 gets it correct, that team gets 25
points.
If two teams get it correct, both teams get 20 points each.
If three teams, 17 points
If four teams, 14 points
If five teams, 10 points
If all teams get it correct, 7 points
And please don’t shout out the answers. It ll be your loss.
Paper pe likho.
42. CERN !
CERN stands for European Organisation for
Nuclear Research.
It was prominently featured in Dan Brown’s
book Angels and Demons. And Tim Berners
Lee was a researcher at CERN when he
created the Internet.
43. 2.
• A man named Mr. Wright was dying from cancer of
Lymph nodes. Multiple tumors had invaded his body
parts and his doctors had exhausted all available
treatments. However, he was confident that a new
anti-cancer drug named Krebiozen would cure him.
After taking it his tumors Shrunk by half and after 10
days he was discharged. However, other patients in
the same hospital didn’t respond to the treatment of
the drug. This happenend due to the self belief of Mr.
Wright .
• Medical terminology would describe this incident as
________ .
45. 3.
Lesser known second stanza of which song?
"You're still in bed at 10 and work began at 8
You've burned your breakfast so far... things are
goin' great
Your mother warned you there'd be days like
these
Oh but she didn't tell you when the world has
brought
You down to your knees that............"
49. 5.
Even people who never took a music class can
play John Cage’s composition that is titled
4`33``. How come ??
50. Silence
• The score instructs the performer not to play
anything during the entire duration of piece. It
is the sounds of the enviornment that the
listener has to hear.
51. 6.
• The name of which automobile company
derives its name from the Latin of “i roll” ??
