2. RULES
1. You are provided a sheet . Write down your
details carefully. Note the answers in the space
provided.
2. Q16 to Q20 marked with asterisk carry two
marks. These questions shall be decisive in case of
tie.
3. Quizmaster’s decision will be final.
4. Keep your answers to yourself.
5. Happy Quizzing. Good luck!
3. 1
Which Bollywood actor has invested an
undisclosed amount in boAt and will feature in
the upcoming “Lost in Nirvana” campaign for it’s
sub-brand, which offers premium audio
products?
4. 2
Derived from the Sanskrit word which denotes
“King/Emperor”, this car model is a sub compact
crossover SUV manufactured by Czech
automaker Skoda Auto in India since 2021.
Identify this car model?
5. 3
With a name that means ‘artificial’ in
Sanskrit, it is a large language model (LLM)
which, as per Mr. Aggarwal, has been
trained on more than 2 trillion ‘tokens’;
launched in April 2023 with two
classifications, i.e., base & pro model.
Identify India’s own AI.
8. 6
Netflix is opening a brick and mortar retail
chain where they would be selling
merchandise related to Netflix shows, have
uniquely curated food and drinks as well as
games . What will these outlets be called ?
9. 7
This CEO drew a lot of flak for conducting a
management meeting shirtless while having a
massage. Identify his company.
10. 8
It means "Sky" in Japanese and "Conch
Shell" in Korean, it is the talk of the town!
What are we referring to?
11. 9
Identify the founders of Honasa Consumer Ltd,
the company behind Mamaearth cosmetics and
other brands. In the market soon with an IPO.
12. 10
Which global major is setting up a JV in
India under the name Bharat Innovation
Glass Technologies to manufacture
smartphone cover glass and other
products ?
13. 11
Which soap brand was concocted by
William Lever in 1894 and sold it as a means
to combat cholera ? No longer sold in UK
but sold in India
14. 12
Richard Branson, founder Virgin Group
today controls more than 400 companies in
various fields. He has described his
unrelated businesses as based on a growth
philosophy of ABCD.
Expand ABCD ?
17. 15
Pran Kumar Sharma was an Indian Cartoonist. In
1969, he sketched a cartoon character with red
turban, a waistcoat with double pocket and a
pocket watch for Hindi magazine Lotpot that
made him famous. He has been included in
Limca book of records for popularizing Indian
comics.
Which character are we taking about?
18. Inspired by a Japanese study indicating
increased worker productivity in the presence of
specific scents, Patrick McCarthy innovatively
crafted two distinctive fragrances for his sales
team, named Liquid _______. What is the
distinctive fragrance it contains?
16*
19. 17*
Recently, India has partnered with an e-
commerce platform Lyra from the country ‘X’ to
enable the ‘Y’ technology there. At the Republic
day reception, Y was implemented starting with
most popular tourist destination of country ‘X’
by purchasing the tickets using technology ‘Y’.
Identify both X & Y?
20. 18*
_______ partnered with Adidas to create this
limited edition translucent sneakers to mark
20 years since their original release.
Which brand are we referring to?
21. 19*
It is an Indian fastest growing cloud kitchen start-up
founded by Jaydeep Burman and Kallol Banerjee in
2011. It owns some of top brands in food biz mentioned
above like Faasos, Oven story etc.
Which company is being referred to?
22. 20*
Carrot Calling was the marketing strategy
that was used by this company to sell its
products. Saleswomen visited the houses of
people, and challenged the women there to
put carrots in their box instead of where they
usually stored their veggies to see which
method kept them fresh longer. Which
company sold its boxes thus?
