ZS Associates - CSS POD Quiz

1. CSS POD Quiz
5th October 2017

2. Round 1 – Head Shot
• There are 4 Questions
• +10/0 on Direct answer. +10/-5 on Pass
• Quiz Master’s decision will be final
TIP: You’ll probably know all the answers, so just go with your gut
feeling.

3. 1. What is the occasion?
This is the Empire State Building, where ZS
New York Office is located.
It stood as the world's tallest building for
nearly 40 years, from its completion in early
1931 until the topping out of the original
World Trade Center's North Tower in late 1970.
The building is often lighted to commemorate
occasions.
What is the occasion OR What is it decorated
as in this pic?

4. Christmas

5. 2. Identify the missing sport.

6. Field Hockey

7. 3. These are the pillars for?

8. India 2020

9. 4. Who is X
X is an Indian guru, music producer, singer-songwriter, actor, and
filmmaker. He is usually credited in his films as actor, director, writer,
songwriter, as well as various other roles, in one instance being
credited in thirty departments.
His followers have adopted "Insan" ("human") as a surname
On 25th August 2017, X was convicted which led to widespread rioting,
where upto 40 people died from clashes with police and 300 injured.
On 28 August 2017, X was sentenced to 20 years in jail for rape.

10. Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh

11. Round 2 – Its all relative
• There are 6 Questions
• +10* no of teams that didn’t answer.
• Quiz Master’s decision will be final
TIP: You’ll probably know all the answers, so just go with your gut
feeling.

12. 5. ID the startup
This popular startup owes its origin to the cafeteria of Bain and Co
where they began as foodiebay, later changed to X in November 2010.
They are currently operational in 23 countries, headquartered in
Gurugram, India.

13. Zomato

14. 6. Connect these non-exhaustive images

15. Images behind the Indian currency notes

16. 7. What problem are we talking about?
• ‘Knapsack Problem’, also called as the rucksack problem is a
combinatorial optimization problem: Given a set of items, each with a
weight and a value, determine the number of each item to include in a
collection so that the total weight is less than or equal to a given limit
and the total value is as large as possible
• Andy crossed paths with Prabha Sinha, who was exploring the use of
higher math in meal planning for the military. The two collaborated on
the Multiple Choice – ‘Knapsack problem’ and co-wrote a paper on the
topic. Eventually they realized that this line of thinking was highly
applicable to solve problems in which area/expertise?

17. Sample Problem

18. Sales force sizing and Resource allocation
Cycle 1 Cycle 2 Cycle 3

19. It is a breakthrough campaign launched by Isha Foundation to save the
life lines of this country, conceived by Sadhguru, the rally will be
flagged off from Isha Yoga Center, Coimbatore on September 3 and
culminate in Delhi on October 2, covering 13 states and 21 major cities.
Sadhguru will be driving this entire stretch of 6560 km across India.
You can pledge your support by giving a missed call to 8000980009
8. What is this campaign?

20. Rally for Rivers

21. 9. What did it give rise to?
When the typewriter was invented, it used a metal bar to hold the character
alphabets and the other end of the bar was attached to a linkage carrying a
carriage with the coated ink. When a key was struck, it would emboss its character
on the paper placed beneath the carriage. However, when an operator learned to
type at a great speed, a certain flaw invoked. When two letters were struck in quick
succession, the bars of the typewriter would entangle and get jammed.
Christopher Sholes found a way out. He proposed that the letters of frequently
used letter pairs should be in different rows. For example, ‘C-H’, ‘S-T’, ’T-H’, ‘E-H’
and more. He also formulated that to speed up the typing process, there has to be
a regular alternation between two hands. So observing thousands of words, he
placed the letters in way that most words would make use of both hands.

22. QWERTY Keyboard layout

23. 10. Why did it backfire?
Nawaz Sharif was disqualified from holding any government office by
the supreme court of Pakistan. The court, in its ruling said that Sharif
was no longer "eligible to be an honest member of the parliament”.
His daughter Maryam Nawaz submitted copies of two documents in
the court. These documents were dated February 2006 and they tried
to ascertain that Sharif had nothing to do with the two properties in
London that Panama Papers linked to him. And the move backfired.

24. Sans-Serif a.k.a Sharif
The documents, which were prepared using Microsoft Word used
Calibri font but the interesting part is that the font wasn't available
publicly until 2007. This hinted that the documents from 2006 that
Sharif's family submitted in the court were actually prepared much
later.

25. Round 3 – Trial by combat
• There are 6 Questions
• You can bet on your answers
• +X/-X for the answers. Same rules on Pass
• Quiz Master’s decision will be final
TIP: Be careful on how much you bet. If its gone, it wont come back.

26. 11. Connect these images

27. Android versions

28. 12. ID Them

29. • President of India – Ram Nath Kovind
• Prime Minister of India – Narendra Modi
• Vice President of India – Venkaiah Naidu
• Chief Justice of India – Dipak Misra

30. 13. What is X?
John Pemberton was an American pharmacist. When Pemberton
initially started selling X, its label said “brain tonic and a cure for all
nervous afflictions” as it contained Kola nuts and Coca.
X contained cocaine from 1886-1929 as Cocaine was legal and treated
as medicine. Today X uses caffeine rather than cocaine.
X was invented during the Civil war as a brain tonic and nerve
stimulant.

31. Coca-Cola

32. 14. This is an exhaustive list of what?
1. Arlene
2. Bret
3. Cindy
4. Don
5. Emily
6. Franklin
7. Gert
8. Harvey
9. Irma
10. Jose
11. Katia
12. Lee
13. Maria
14. Nate
15. Ophelia
16. Philippe
17. Rina
18. Sean
19. Tammy
20. Vince
21. Whitney

33. Hurricanes in the USA

34. 15. What was created in the Maratha kitchen?
King Shahuji of Thanjavur Marathas had a special guest of honour at his
court, and had wanted to prepare a feast. Marathas had planned on
serving the traditional Maratha dish Amti. However, the royal cooks
had ran out of Moong Dal and Kokum; which were the traditional
ingredients needed to cook Amti. So they experimented with Toor
Dal (Pigeon pea split lentils) and Tamarind pulp instead of Kokum; and
also added ground Coconut and vegetables.
The guest of honour was the Maratha King Sambhaji, the son of Shivaji
Hence the newly created dish was named X in the honour of the guest
of the court.

35. Sambar/Sambhar

36. 16. Connect These. Put Funda
• Mumbai – Shapoorji Poolanji
• Bengaluru – Brigade
• Pune – Panchshil
• Noida – Viridian Red
• Kochi – Brigade

37. WTCs in India and their builders