The document describes the rules for a quiz game with 30 questions. Players can earn points for correct answers, passing on a question, or pouncing to answer first, while losing points for incorrect answers. It then lists 16 questions and answers related to people, brands, logos, and other trivia topics.

3. Rules
 30 Questions
 Pounce: +100/-50
 Direct: +50
 Pass: +50

4. 1. Connect (Exhaustive)
 Deepak Hooda
 Rahul Chaudhari
 Jasvir Singh
 Ajay Thakur
 Nitin Tomar
 Pardeep Narwal
 Kiran Parmar
 Anup Kumar
 Manjeet Chhillar
 Sandeep Narwal
 Mohit Chhillar
 Surjeet
 D. Cheralatham
 Surender Nada

6. Answer
 Indian Squad for Kabaddi World Cup 2016

7. 2.
 For a long time, the idea of selling frozen ice-cream cones had been
impractical, as the ice cream would soak into the cone during the
manufacturing process and make it soggy and unpalatable when served.
 It was in 1959 that Spica, an Italian ice-cream manufacturer based in Naples,
overcame this problem by insulating the inside of the waffle cone from the
ice-cream with a coating of oil, sugar and chocolate.
 Originally 125ml, it is now reduced to 90ml when purchased from shops and
supermarkets.
 What am I talking about?

9. Answer
 Cornetto

10. 3. Connect

12. Answer

13. 4.
 It is believed that the concept of X was originally developed by Y in 1890 and
he started the service with about a hundred men. Under the X system,
__________ are marked in several ways: (a) abbreviations for colletion points,
(b) color code for starting stations, (c) number for destination station and (d)
markings for handling X at the destination.
 Each worker, regardless of his role, is paid around Rs. 8000 per month.
However, in order to join the system, the workers are required to contribute
a minimum capital in kind, in the form of a bicycle, a uniform and a wooden
crate. The New York Times estimated in 2007 that X was growing by 5-10%
annually.
 Identify X and Y.

15. Answer
 X : Dabbawalas  Y : Mahadeo Havaji Bachche

16. 5.
 X is a crime-thriller movie released in the 90s, starring Ralph Foody and
Michael Gudo and is based on a 1939 classic movie. The movie was shot in just
one day on a sound stage in the abandoned New Trier West High School
gymnasium.
 The entire consisted of just a couple of walls. The office of the character
portrayed by Ralph Foody was designed especially for maximum dramatic
backlighting potential: pebbly-textured translucent glass on the door and a
Palladian window that would sinisterly spotlight him at his desk through
Venetian blinds.
 Set decorators fitted the room out with a private investigators’ tools of the
trade: an old typewriter, a pair of binoculars at the window, a grabaphone
and a gun. For further ambience, artificial mist was pumped into the set.
 Identify X

18. Answer
 Angels with Filthy Souls (the movie Kevin watched in Home Alone when his
family left him alone. He also used the scenes from the movie to scare off
burglars).

19. 6.
 Identify the personality and what’s his claim to fame?

21. Answer
 M. Chandrakumar. The crime-thriller film “Visaranai”, which got nominated
for the Oscars under the Best Foreign Film category, is based on his novel
“Lock Up”.

22. 7.
 Initially, the founder of X used to make ice cream by the traditional Kothi
method, using a hand-operated machine to churn milk with other ingredients,
ice and salt. Home delivery was also offered back then, with ice creams
packed in thermocol boxes.
 In 1926, they imported ice-cream making machines, paying custom duty of
300-350%. X, which had expanded to four ice-cream shops before
independence, became popular for its Y ice cream, which it introduced in the
1950s.
 X is the first Indian brand to export frozen vegetables to the US market. In
2000, when the ice cream industry was going through a low phase, X launched
the iconic 1+1 scheme which is now the SKU for all ice cream manufacturers
in the country.
 Identify X and Y

24. Answer
 X : Vadilal  Y : Cassatta

25. 8. Connect
 Napa Valley
 The Peninsula
 Pacific Coast Highway
 Sierra Nevada
 The City

27. Answer
 Roadrash

28. 9.
 ___________________, best known under its colloquial name X, is an oil
painting created by American-born painter James McNeill Abbott in 1871. It is
exhibited in and held by the Musée d'Orsay in Paris, having been bought by
the French state in 1891.
 During the Depression, the picture was billed as a "million dollar" painting and
was a big hit at the Chicago World's Fair. It was accepted as a universal icon of
motherhood by the worldwide public. In public recognition of its status and
popularity, the United States issued a postage stamp in 1934 featuring an
adaptation of the painting.
 Fictionally, this world famous painting was purchased for $50 million from the
National Gallery, London by the Grierson Art Gallery with a grant from
General Newton.
 Identify X

30. Answer
 Arrangement in Grey and Black No.1, i.e., Whistler’s Mother

31. 10.
 What has been blanked out?

33. Answer
 Lord Ganesha

34. 11. Connect

36. Answer

37. 12.
 X is an Indian-based bank founded by Rai Bahadur Lala Sohan Lal in 1943 in
Lahore. Within 4 years of its coming into existence, X had to face partition.
The bank had to close down its branches in the newly formed Pakistan and
shift its registered office to Amritsar. Lala Karam Chand Thapar, the then
Chairman of the Bank, in a unique gesture honored the commitments made to
the depositors from Pakistan and paid every rupee to its departing customers.
 During the 1970s, the profit plummeted to ₹175, that prompted the owner of
the bank, the Thapar House, to close down the bank. Then employees and
leaders of the Bank came forward to its rescue. The owners were moved and
had to change their decision of selling the bank and in turn they decided to
improve the position of the bank with the active cooperation and support of
all the employees. Their efforts bore fruits and performance of the bank
improved significantly.
 Identify X

39. Answer

40. 13.
 Born on December 6, 1987, in Bengaluru, India X did his schooling from Bishop
Cotton Boys’ School and started engineering in CMR Institute of Technology,
Bengaluru. During his college days, X started making short films and founded his
first business venture ‘Last Minute Films’. As a film maker, X has directed with
A.R. Rehman and Preity Zinta and has also worked with Karan Johar.
 After completing his engineering, he co-founded his second business venture, Y
with his friend Rohn Malhotra, which has successfully partnered with educational
institutions across India in being able to make and supply customized sweatshirts
to alumni and is India’s largest company for providing merchandise to school and
college students.
 In June 2012, after his success with ‘Y’, his debut book, the semi-
autobiographical How I Braved Anu Aunty and Co-Founded A Million Dollar
Company, chronicling his journey as an entrepreneur was published by Rupa &
Co. and became a best-seller.
 Identify X and Y

42. Answer
 Varun Agarwal, co-founder of Alma Mater

43. 14.
 X is one of America’s most celebrated graphic designers. His artwork has been
featured in exhibits, and placed in permanent collections in many museums
worldwide. Throughout his long career, he has designed many posters, publications
and even architectural designs.
 One of the most recognizable works of X is Y, set in a rounded slab serif typeface
called American Typewriter. In 1970s, the crime rate in a particular region was up
and it was widely perceived to be dangerous and was on verge of bankruptcy.
Advertising agency Wells Rich Greene was hired to develop a marketing campaign
to increase tourism and boost morale in that region. X was recruited to work on
the campaign and create a design based on Wells Rich Greene's advertising
campaign.
 X came up with the design of Y in the back of a taxi cab on the way to a meeting.
Y generates $30 million each year and became more of a symbol, creating unity
between the people after the 9/11 attacks.
 Identify X and Y

45. Answer
 X : Milton Glaser  Y : I Love New York

46. 15.
 Identify the personality and what’s his claim to fame?

48. Answer
 Alok Sagar, an ex-IIT professor who has been living in the remote tribal
villages of Madhya Pradesh for 32 years. While teaching at IIT Delhi, Alok
Sagar had groomed numerous students, including ex-RBI Governor Raghuram
Rajan.
 After resigning from his post, he started working for tribals in the Betul and
Hoshangabad districts of Madhya Pradesh.

49. 16.
 X is a cartoon character created by Joanna Ferrone and Sue Rose. Rose first
developed the character in 1985, on a napkin in a restaurant. They later
stenciled X on t-shirts with the credo: “X is for X, X is against no one”. These
t-shirts became very popular in New York.
 X was licensed to PepsiCo in 1987, but the character did not receive much
attention until the early 1990s on numerous products, particularly stationery.
Later, he was replaced with Cool Spot as the brand mascot. X reappeared in
the 2000s and was used to promote 7Up in countries worldwide.
 7Up was launched in India in 1992 with X as its mascot. However, 7Up and X
had a very short relationship. In 1995, PepsiCo globally stopped using the
mascot and in India, too, the company stopped using X. Later in 2003, the
brand began using X again but it still failed to impress the audience.
 Identify X

51. Answer

52. 17. Connect

54. Answer

55. 18.
 X were invented in 1948 by Charles Elmer Doolin, who cooked early test
batches in his Texas-based research and development kitchen. The X sold
quickly, but Doolin did not gave have the production or distribution capacity
to support a nationwide launch.
 This led Doolin to partner with potato chip businessman, Herman for
marketing & distribution, and X were introduced nationally in the U.S in 1948.
The success of X prompted Doolin and Lay to merge their two companies in
1961, forming Y Inc.
 X first entered Brazil in 1976, followed by other countries such as Australia
during the 1980s. In 1994, X became the first American brand of snack food to
be made and distributed in China
 Identify X and Y

57. Answer
 X : Cheetos  Y : Frito-Lay

58. 19.
 Identify the Logo and what is its “Claim to Fame”?

60. Answer
 Jadeblue – the official designer and manufacturer of PM Narendra Modi’s
clothes.

61. 20.
 A candle maker and a soap maker, both born in the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, emigrated from England and Ireland, respectively. They
settled in Cincinnati initially and met when they married sisters, Olivia and
Elizabeth Norris. Alexander Norris, their father-in-law, called a meeting in which
he persuaded his new sons-in-law to become business partners. On October 31,
1837, as a result of the suggestion, X was created.
 During the American Civil War, the company won contracts to supply the Union
Army with soap and candles. In addition to the increased profits experienced
during the war, the military contracts introduced soldiers from all over the country
to X’s products.
 X produced and sponsored the first radio soap operas in the 1930s. When the
medium switched to television in the 1950s and 1960s, most of the new serials
were sponsored and produced by the company (including The Guiding Light, which
had begun in 1937 as a radio serial, and made the jump to television in 1952).
 Identify X

63. Answer
 Procter & Gamble, founded by William Procter and James Gamble.

64. 21. Connect

66. Answer
 Dabiq magazine by ISIS

67. 22.
 Identify the personality. What is he doing?

69. Answer
 Elisha Otis, founder of Otis Elevator Company, demonstrating how his
invention, a safety device that he designed in 1852, would prevent elevators
from falling if the hoisting cable fails.

70. 23. Connect

72. Answer

73. 24. Put Funda

75. Answer
 Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made his comic book debut in the
latest issue of Marvel’s Civil War II: Choosing Sides. In the comic, the prime
minister joins the Canadian superhero team Alpha Flight, with the likes of
Sasquatch, Aurora, and Puck.

76. 25.
 X is a probiotic dairy product made by fermenting a mixture of skimmed milk with
a special strain of the bacterium Lactobacillus casei. It was created by a Japanese
scientist, Minoru Shirota, who graduated from the Medical College of Kyoto
University in 1930. Official claims state that the name is derived from jahurto,
an Esperanto word for "yogurt".
 In 1935, Shirota started manufacturing and selling X. Since then, X has also
introduced a line of beverages for the Japanese market that
contain Bifidobacterium breve bacteria, and has also used its lactobacilli research
to develop cosmetics.
 X contains 14g of sugar for every 100g, but comes in 65 mL bottles.
This concentration is higher than the level defined as "HIGH" by the UK Food
Standards Agency. As a comparison, Coca-Cola and orange juice are in the range of
10g of sugar per 100g, but with a serving size usually greater than 250 ml, while X
is served in much smaller doses. It was classified as a fermented milk named
"Fermented Milk Drinks" of the Codex Standard.
 Identify X

78. Answer

79. 26.
 X is a property with a particular form of ownership or use rights. These properties
are typically resort condominium units, in which multiple parties hold rights to use
the property, and each sharer is allotted a period of time in which they may use
the property.
 The term “X” was coined in the United Kingdom in the early 1960s expanding on a
vacation system that became popular after WWII. X involved 4 European families
that would purchase a vacation cottage jointly, each having exclusive use of
property for one of the four seasons. They rotated seasons each year, so each
family enjoyed the prime seasons equally.
 Enterprising minds in England decided to go one step further and divide a resort
room into 1/50th ownership, have 2 weeks each year for repairs and upgrades, and
charge a maintenance fee to each owner. X was introduced in U.S during the
1970s. Shortly thereafter, Florida Real Estate Commission enacted a legislation to
regulate X and make them fee simple ownership transactions.
 Identify X

81. Answer
 TimeShare

82. 27.
 X was incorporated in Clearwater, Florida on April 1, 1983, by six Clearwater
businessmen: Lynn D. Stewart, Gil Di Giannantonio, Ed Droste, Billy Ranieri, Ken
Wimmer and Denis Johnson. The date was an April Fool’s Day joke because the
original six owners believed that their prospect was going to fail.
 The first X was built on the site of a former rundown nightclub that had been
purchased at a low price. So many businesses had folded in that particular location
that the X founders built a small “graveyard” at the front door for each that had
come and gone before them. The first X opened its doors on October 4, 1983, in
Clearwater.
 Their menu includes hamburgers, sandwiches, steaks, seafood entrees, appetizers
and restaurant’s specialty, chicken wings. Almost all X restaurants hold alcoholic
beverage license to sell beer and wine, and where local permits allow, a full liquor
bar.
 Identify X.

84. Answer
 Hooters

85. 28.
 X, a very unusual bank, was founded in 1474 and is named after its founder. It
is operated by very “specific kind of people”. It is a snowy white building and
towers all the neighboring shops.
 In order to enter the bank, customers have to pass through a set of bronze
doors and then a silver one before entering the lobby. The main floor is paved
with marble and has long counters stretching along its length.
 Customers keep their money and other valuables in vaults that are protected
by very complex and very strong security measures. The vaults extend for
miles under London and are accessible through rough stone passageways.
 X is considered to be “safest place in the world for anything you want to keep
safe”.
 Identify X

87. Answer
 Gringotts Bank (Harry Potter)

88. 29.
 Since March 1949, a Yamaguchi-based company, Ogori Shoji (which had been
operating men’s clothing shops called “Men’s Shop OS”) existed in Ube,
Yamaguchi.
 In May 1984, they opened a unisex casual wear store in Fukoro-machi, Naka-
ku, Hiroshima under the name “_______”. Initially, from the contraction of
“______”, the brand was going to register under X. However, in 1988, during
administration work between Hong Kong in relation to the brand, staff in
charge of registration misread the “C” as “Q”, and that is how the brand
name was born. From then, Tadashi Yanai changed the store name to “Y”
across Japan.
 Identify Y.

90. Answer

91. 30. Connect (Exhaustive)
 Friendship
 John Wesley
 Salem
 Birmingham
 Maria Teresa
 Propontis
 Recovery
 Sooloo
 Constitution
 Java
 United States
 Grand Turk
 Hamilton

92. Answer
 Old Spice Ships