The document provides information on the prizes and rules for an upcoming quiz competition. For the first prize, winners will receive the Dr. MR Doreswamy Trophy for Quizzing Excellence, Rs. 15,000, individual trophies, certificates, and book vouchers. Second and third prize winners will receive Rs. 10,000 and Rs. 5,000 respectively, along with individual trophies, certificates and book vouchers. The quiz will have 5 rounds with different formats and scoring systems. General rules are explained such as the quizmaster being omnipotent during the event.

2. What's at stake…
• 1st Prize Winners
– Dr. MR Doreswamy Trophy for Quizzing
Excellence
– Rs. 15,000
– Individual Trophies
– Certificates
– Book Vouchers

3. What's at stake…
• 2nd Prize Winners
– Rs. 10,000
– Individual Trophies
– Certificates
– Book Vouchers
• 3rd Prize Winners
– Rs. 5,000
– Individual Trophies
– Certificates
– Book Vouchers

4. What’s at stake…
• Finalists
– Individual Trophies
– Certificates
– Book Vouchers

5. General Rules
• 5 rounds of quizzing.
• Rules explained before each round.
• Till 5pm today, the QM is omnipotent,
omniscient and all-knowing! His word is final.
• After that, feel free to catch hold of him.

6. Round 1 – Clockwise Dries
• 8 questions. The round moves clockwise.
• Infinite Bounce.
• Double Dare option.
• +10/0 on a direct or a pass.
• +20/-10 on a Double Dare.

7. 1.
• X India is the Indian subsidiary of X
Corporation. Originally YX, the business was
derived from a joint venture formed between
Dr Bhupendra Kumar Y through Y Corp (now
Spice Group) and X in September 1983.
• YX is a very common phrase one would find on
Indian footpaths or on shop boards (at least in
the late 90’s and early 2000’s).
• YX ?

9. Modi Xerox

10. 2.
• X is a 12-in-a-team sport native to India, which
was a recognized sport even earlier to the
mythological classic Mahabharata. The Deccan
Gymkhana of Pune drafted the first ever rules
and regulations of this sport.
• Which sport?

12. Kho – Kho

13. 3.
• The terms "grandfather", "grandmother", and
"granddaughter" have all been applied to
longcase Xs.
• The general consensus is that a X smaller than
1.5 m (5 ft) is a granddaughter; over 1.5 m
(5 ft) is a grandmother; and over 1.8 m (6 ft) is
a grandfather.
• Peculiar naming adopted for what?

16. 4.
• “Yatra Pratibha Avasara Prapnoti”
• Where would you find this inscribed?
• It translates to “Where talent meets
opportunity”

18. IPL Trophy

19. 5.
• This is the deity at a tiny
village called Nadruyan
in Tamil Nadu.
• This deity holds a very
unique distinction and is
one of its kind in the
whole of India.
• Which deity? What
distinction?

21. Lord Ganesha
• It is the only figure of Lord Ganesha with his
original face without the usual elephantine
head and the trunk.

22. 6. FITB
1. N/A
2. Bill Fairbanks
3. Jason Walters, Jack Mason
4. Aidan Flemmings, Scarlett Papava
5. Stuart Thomas
6. Alec Trevelyan
7. ___________________
8. Bill Timothy
UNKNOWN Jonathan Hunter
UNKNOWN Agent York
UNKNOWN Suzi Kew

25. 7. FITB

27. Windows File Copy Dialog

28. 8.
• ‘Wycinanki’ is a form of paper cutting in the
regions of Poland, Belarus and Ukraine .
• Around 19th century this became quite known
and familiar art in Ukraine.
• Where have we seen this form of art in very
recent times through a platform that is not
often associated with it?

31. End of Round 1
• Scores please!

32. Round 2 – Con-X-tions
• 8 questions.
• All visual connects.
• +10/0 on a Direct/Pass.
• Feel free to take guesses!

33. 1.

35. SONY

36. 2.

38. Kings on a deck of cards

39. 3.

41. Airports in India

42. 4.

44. Cyclops

45. 5.

47. HTC Phones
• Explorer
• Wildfire
• Incredible
• Sensation

48. 6.

50. WWE Wrestling moves

51. 7.

53. Swatch

54. 8.

56. IPL Hattricks

57. End of Round 2
• Scores!

58. Round 3 – Anti-clockwise
• 8 questions.
• Round moves anti-clockwise.
• Double Dare enabled.
• +10/0 on a Direct/Pass.
• +20/-10 n a Double Dare.

59. 1. Connect and explain.

61. • Only posthumous Oscar Awardees.
• Heath Ledger – Best Supporting Actor
• Peter Finch – Best Actor

62. 2. Who?
• His most famous bowling performance for
India came in an ODI match against South
Africa in the LG Cup in 1999.
• He returned figures of 10-6-6-5 helping India
to victory in that match.
• Three years later, the performance was rated
in the Wisden 100 as the seventh best ODI
bowling performance to that date.

64. Sunil Joshi

65. 3. Explain.
• Legend is that Nero, the then king of Rome was fiddling
when the city was burning. ‘Nero fiddled while Rome
burnt’ is a commonly used and believed statement.
• But apparently, Nero who was as fond of his city as
much as any good king would be, took so many
measures to save Rome from the fire. Yet he ended up
with a bad name.
• There is a very simple explanation as to why the latter
theory holds more merit than the former.

67. • The Fiddle or the Violin was invented long
after Nero’s time.
• So he couldn’t have possible been ‘fiddling’.

68. 4.
• This is a pic of a Czech
footballer Antonin X.
• His name became
synonymous with some type
of incident in the past one
week during the final stages
of the Euros.
• X?

70. Panenka Chip

71. 5.
• You will see the first 75 sec of a song – Fire by
Kasabian.
• The next part of the song is extremely famous.
• Tell us its claim to fame.

73. BPL Theme Song

74. 6. Put funda

77. 7.
• Apart from their normal day-to-day routine of
picking up and dropping employees, how else
do the cab drivers at Google’s offices in
Hyderabad and Bangalore make themselves
useful?

79. • Help improve the directions (route from place
to place) on Google Maps for Hyd and
Bangalore!

80. 8. Who is he?
• He was the first recipient of the title of
‘Ambassador of Interlaken’.
• He is one of the two persons other than founder
Adolf Guyer-Zeller after whom a train of popular
tourist railway network Jungfrau railways has
been named.
• All this has been done in view of his outstanding
contribution to tourism development in
Switzerland, particularly in Interlaken.

82. Yash Chopra

83. End of Round 3
• Scores please!

84. Round 4 – Choose your battles!
• Teams are pitted against each other.
• Teams challenge each other, starting from the
lowest scored team.
• 9 topics to choose from; 2 questions per topic.
• Scoring:
– 2 questions right: +20/-20
– 1 question right: 0/0
– 2 questions wrong: -20/+20

85. Google
Doodles
Print Ads Amul Ads
Etymology Logos Food
Mythology
Harry
Potter
Tech

87. Google Doodles – 1

89. Yuri Gagarin

90. Google Doodles – 2

92. Alan Turing

93. Print Ads – 1
• Next Page

96. • Nilkamal

97. Print Ads – 2

101. Amul Ads – 1

103. Vicky Donor

104. Amul Ads – 2

106. • SM Krishna reading the wrong speech at the
UN Assembly.

108. Etymology – 1
• It is rumored that this term, quite frequently used
in sporting contests, originated from the
profession of carpentry.
• Two men would use a saw to cut a piece of wood
& the subordinate among the two would
invariably take position in a sawdust pit below.
• Metal brackets used to hold the wood in place
were called _____, hence the guy below was
called the _______. What was he called?

110. Underdog

111. Etymology – 2
• X is a regional term meaning “long journey”.
This, in turn, is derived from an Arabic word
meaning “journey”. The word is used locally to
refer to any journey.
• Its first use in English is attributed to
Sir Richard Francis Burton, the famous
explorer.
• What’s the word?

113. Safari

115. Logos – 1

118. Logos – 2
This served as a
basis for which
famous logo?

122. Food – 1
• X is a Indian savory cake popular
throughout India. The cakes are usually two to
three inches in diameter and are made by
steaming a batter consisting
of fermented black lentils (de-husked)
and rice. Definition for what?

124. Idly

125. Food - 2
• “Communist” is roasted with chili powder
• “Oil king” is dipped in a batter containing chili
powder, and fried
• “Green revolution” is roasted with salt and
some other spices
• What is broken down and roasted with a
mixture of turmeric, black pepper powder and
red chili powder?

127. Congress!

129. Mythology – 1
• What is the name of the two vulture brothers
that appear in the Ramayana epic?

131. Jatayu and Sampathi

132. Mythology – 2
• Who are the two people who heard the
Bhagavad Gita directly from Lord Krishna’s
mouth?

134. Arjuna and Sanjaya

136. Harry Potter – 1
• Complete the list:
• James Potter
• Sirius Black
• Peter Pettigrew
• Minerva McGonagall
• __________________

138. Rita Skeeter
• List of Animagi.

139. Harry Potter – 2
• What is the name of Gellert Grindelwald’s
prison, where he finally ends up himself?

141. Nurmengard

143. Tech – 1
• This company’s first in house product was
launched ‘96. The product’s name has a ‘K’
which is a reference to Kryptonite, being the
only substance that could harm Superman.
• It was a dig at the world leader in its segment.
• Identify this computing behemoth.

146. Tech – 2
• Name the penguin.

148. Tux

149. End of Round – 4
• Scores please!

150. Round 5 – Final Hurrah!
• 8 questions on the buzzer.
• Scoring: +10/-10

151. 1. What term?
 Ground/land between two opposing trenches.
 The title of a 2001 Bosnian movie that beat
Lagaan to win the Oscar for Best Foreign
Language Film.
 When two fielders approach for the same
catch (generally high catches) and ultimately
no one gets it as it falls in between them.

154. No Man’s Land

155. 2. Connect
 Tractor
 Indian Wildlife
 Indian Coastal line
 Parliament building of India
 Himalayas
 Dandi March
 Indian Economy

158. Indian Currency Notes

159. 3.
• Which multi-million dollar company did Mark
Pincus start in 2007, and name after his best
friend, his American Bulldog?

163. 4.
• The following structure
is intended to be a
permanent, lasting
legacy of London's
hosting of the 2012
Summer Olympics.
• Who/Which company is
sponsoring this?

166. Arcelor Mittal

167. 5. XY?
• Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Haversham XY , an
English topographer, geologist and surveyor , is
distinguished for his researches on the natural
history of India. He has authored a book titled,
The Land and Freshwater Mollusca of India . He
was also an ornithologist, writing the book "Birds
of Assam ".
• Now, what honour was bestowed upon this man?

170. Mt. Godwin Austin (K2)

171. 6.
• This is a project by the Brigade
Group. What is it inspired from?

174. Brigade Rubix
• Rubik’s Cube

175. 7. Who came first?
2nd-Zhu Qinan 3rd-Herni Hakkinen

178. Abhinav Bindra

179. 8.
This bird and its owner were in the news very
recently. Identify the bird.

182. Rufus, the Wimbledon bird.
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183. Final Scores Tally!
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184. And the champions are…

185. Winners
PESIT Congratulates
• First Place – FIITJEE, Hyderabad
• Second Place – SKCH, PUC
• Third Place – SKCH, CBSE

186. Thank You!