Backup Quiz Finals for my GK Quiz during Nexus 09 at Sri Venkateswara College, DU.

1. SRI VENKATESWARA COLLEGE
presents
(Inter -College Annual Cultural Festival)
QUIZ FINALS

2. ROUND 1 -
KICK OFF
• Correct on a Direct + 10
• Correct on a Pass +5
• No negative marking

3. ____________ 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.

4. 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.

5. 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?

6. Pranab Mukherjee
Rabindranath Tagore
C. V. Raman
Amartya Sen
Satyajit Ray
Somnath Chatterjee
Swami Vivekananda
Jagmohan Dalmiya
R. P. Goenka
Lakshmi Mittal
What's common between all these following personalities?

7. 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 ?

8. 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.

9. ROUND 2 –
GUESS THE PICTURE
• Correct on a Direct + 15
• Correct on a Pass +5
• No negative marking

10. Identify the sport

11. Identify the emblem

12. What’s special about this ship

13. Identify the stadium in which this statute is built

14. Identify this young Premier League
Football Player

15. Identify the logo

16. ROUND 3 –
MOVING ON
• Correct on a Direct + 10
• Correct on a Pass +5
• Incorrect on Direct -5

17. 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?

18. 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?

19. 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.

20. 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.

21. 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?

22. 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.

23. ROUND 4 –
CONNECT
• Correct on a Direct + 20
• Correct on a Pass + 10
• No negative marking

30. ROUND 5 –
MIXED BAG
• Correct on a Direct + 10
• Incorrect on a Direct -5
• Not a passable round

31. EPL MOVIES COMPUTERS
LITERATURE GEOGRAPHY TENNIS
POLITICS MUSIC F1
HISTORY RELIGION CRICKET
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32. Who was the first player to make 100
appearances in the Premiership/Premier
League as a substitute?
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33. Who was the first woman writer to win a Nobel
Peace Prize for Literature?
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34. 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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35. Where would you be if you were at 1, Infinite
Loop?
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36. 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
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37. 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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38. 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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39. Who was the last Hindu King to sit upon
the throne of Delhi?
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40. Which famous Indian saint has a memorial
named after him in Baghdad, Iraq?
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41. Which Indian state has the most number
of airports?
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42. 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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43. 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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44. THANK YOU