2. Finals will have three rounds.
Qualified teams will battle amongst themselves for the honor.
General Round, Utterly Butterly Delicious Round, Legal Round.
At the beginning of the Round, one question will be directed to a
particular team. If the team to whom the question is directed,
gives right answer, will get 10 marks. No negative marking for
that team.
That question will be open for rest five teams. It is optional for
them to give answer. Right Answer- 5, Wrong – Negative 5.
At the end the teams will be placed according to their scores. Top
three Teams- Awards. Rest three will get consolation prize.
Audience, please be seated. We have questions for you as well.
The lucky one’s will get chocolates.
3. 1. He asked for one rupee for providing permission to
the project. The makers added a touch of symbolism
by finding a rupee note printed in 1958 - in many
ways, this was a golden and breakthrough year not
just for him, but also for Indian athletics because of
the Commonwealth and Asian Games.
Who is he, and what did he thus bless?
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5. 2. 500 Startups-backed shopping search site Pricebaba
last year launched a campaign to convince Google to
do something, but their ambitious goal ultimately
ended in defeat following Google’s announcement.
Undeterred by their failure, they have already
launched an online campaign to convince Google for
the same thing in a slightly different way which
apparently matches Google's convention for the same.
What is it?
(Hint- This is with regard to a query or survey that Google has made
to public and asked their suggestion on the same.)
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7. 3. A classic Xerox ad. What is the second ‘R’ that they
are talking about ?
8. The ‘r’ in the registered trademark symbol ®.
This ad was part of a campaign to drive
home the point that Xerox is a trademark and
not a generic word.
9. 4. At the passing out parade, the recruits of X
regiment March, Sing and Stomp feet at the
“Badluram Song”. The song starts with the
following lines - “Badluram ka badan jamin ke
niche hai, to hume uska ration milta hai”. The
famous lines are inspired from a story of
Badluram, a Jawan who died during World War 2.
Legends have it that the dead Jawan’s extra rations
helped his regiment survive a crucial siege while
fighting the Japanese! The tune is inspired by an
American civil war song “The battle hymn of the
republic”. Identify the Regiment
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11. 5. X magazine is a 61 year old media
start up which reaches out to people
through print and e-magazine and
contains several commentaries, news
articles, satires etc. Recently it has been
in news for creating Y monitor which is
in form of a dashboard which contains
the analysis of the performance of
government. Identify the X and Y.
13. 6. X is an online mobile challenge
game that was developed by a
Russian teenager in 2013 has been
criticized for a long all over the
world. It is being alleged that this
game is creating suicidal tendencies
in the teenagers and more than 100
teenagers have committed suicide
globally. Recently it was in news
because of an incident that triggered
debates in Rajya Sabha.
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25. This is second time when
Sharukh Khan was detained by
US immigration authorities at
US airport.
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31. A 21 year old priest approached the
court to save the temple land under
article 26 , concerning the right to
manage religiously owned property
without government interference. No
one would have thought of this case
becoming one of the landmark
judgments in the Indian judicial
history. Identify the judgment.
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33. 62-year old mother of five, X was divorced by
her husband,. She filed a criminal suit against
him in the Supreme Court and claimed
alimony, which was then granted to her. But
then the Islamic orthodoxy protested the
judgment claiming the practice of granting
alimony as anti-Islamic. The case was later
diluted by a legislation passed by then
Congress Govt. This case is regularly
mentioned during talks about 'Uniform Civil
Code' in the country.
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35. Identify the Case
“April 28th , 1976 is a day never to be forgotten by any of us
Indians who love the pledges of Justice and liberty which
we gave to ourselves in the preamble of our constitution ”
The long dissenting voice of a Supreme Court Judge of
whom the New York Times remarked: ‘surely a statue
would be erected to him in an Indian City’.
This is an excerpt from a infamous Habeas Corpus case. In a
five judge bench, the dissenting judge lost his claim for CJI
of India.