3. R1: VISA ON ARRIVAL
• Each team will choose a country of their
choice; the last team will also have two
choices.
• Questions will pass clockwise.
• Flat scoring of 10 points. No negatives.
5. Vishal Malhotra, a Delhi based engineer,
quit his job at Accenture to join Balaji’s
acting school in Mumbai. He made news
in February 2015 when he played the
role a befuddled character, which
became a national sensation. Which
campaign was he the face of?
INDIA
7. First established in 1738 as a stand for
peddlers, Antica ________ Port'Alba was
opened in 1830 in the town center in
the city of Naples, Italy. This restaurant
quickly grew popular and led to the
creation of ubiquitous business in the
modern world. What?
ITALY
13. This is a gas-operated 7.62×39mm
assault tool. It is documented as
the Avtomat Kalashnikov and was
developed in the Soviet Union by
Mikhail Kalashnikov in 1947. More
than 75 million of this have been
produced. What am I describing?
RUSSIA
15. X featured extensive landscaping of a
fixed campus at Midoriyama Studios in
Yokohama, Japan. The track included
large man-made lakes and permanent
obstacles. X aired between 1986 and
1990 and quickly became a cult
television hit. What am I talking about?
JAPAN
17. FedEx has been responsible for five
such deliveries to Washington, Paris,
Memphis, Edinburg and Memphis. The
delivery planes were equipped with
white enclosures with holes and stocks
of bamboo, apple and fresh water.
What was special about the deliveries?
CHINA
20. R2: MADAME TASSAUDS
• Each team will choose a country of their
choice; the last team will also have two
choices.
• Questions will pass anticlockwise.
• Flat scoring of 10 points. No negatives.
28. The Bill Gates Foundation released
a report in 2014 reporting the
deadliest animal in the world. With
more than 725,000 people killed by
it every year, which animal topped
this list?
GATES
30. Aamir Khan came up with an out of
the ordinary promotion idea for
one of his movies X, released in
2012. He was in talks with Google
to bring the campaign to the every
Internet user’s homepage, but the
deal wasn’t signed. Which movie?
AAMIR
31. He wanted to replace the Search button
with Talaash.
BACK
37. R3: INVISIBLE ANALYTICS
• 4 questions with progressive clues
open to all teams on stage.
• +40 on 1st clue, +20 on 2nd clue, +10
on 3rd clue and +5 on 4th clue.
• A constant negative of –5.
64. R4: DIFFERENTIAL
• 6 questions open to all teams on
stage.
• +60/N for correct and -30/N for
incorrect where N is the number of
teams that chose to answer.
65. Volcanion was leaked in the January
2016 issue of CoroCoro magazine on
December 12, 2015, and it was officially
revealed on December 14, 2015. It is
both fire and water abilities. At number
721, Volcanion the newest addition to
which list?
67. X was started by a 19-year-old entrepreneur
named Tom Lyle Williams in 1915. He noticed
his older sister Mabel applying a mixture of
Vaseline and coal dust to her eyelashes to
give them a darker, fuller look. He adapted it
with a chemistry set and produced the first
product of X. Which cosmetic brand?
71. On April 3, 1996, the New Zealand
cricket team played against West
Indies in an ODI. New Zealand won
the match by 4 runs. Who won the
Man of the Match award?
76. R5: THE WALL STREET
• 6 questions open to all teams on
stage from the world of business.
• Teams will choose to play the
question for 10, 20 or 30 points after
seeing the company but before
seeing the question.
77.
78. On Thursday, December 10th 2015,
Uber offered a special service
called uberACES. What was it all
about?
Q1
81. The Big Mac Index is published by The
Economist as an informal way of
measuring the purchasing power parity
(PPP) between two currencies. India
has a score of 30 for ($50) on the index.
How does the index work?
Q2
82. It counts how many Big Macs you
can buy for the equivalent of $50.
83.
84. Labelled as ultra-filtered _________,
Fairlife is a brand by the Coca-Cola
Company in the United States under
the MinuteMaid label. What kind of a
beverage is Fairlife by this soft-drink
manufacturer?
Q3
93. According to Guinness, X is the world’s most
widely recognized English song. The melody
of this song has been derived from ‘Good
Morning to All’. Warner Brothers had a
copyright over X, until a court ruling
declared the claim was invalid. Which
ubiquitous song am I talking about?
Q8