The document discusses a quiz with questions on topics ranging from movies and books to sports and companies. It includes questions about characters from Friends, movies directed by Steven Spielberg, and logos of Ivy League colleges. Participants can earn points for correct or partial answers and connecting clues to reveal the overall theme or topic.

1. Does Grey Matter ?

2. Dedications
―Ramki” – For not participating in this quiz…
―Priyanka Chopra” – For giving geeks a reason to live…
“Ranjan Panda” – Just because there was no other
dedication to be made….

3. Infinite Bounce
+ 10 for direct answer as well as passes
+5 for partial answers

4. 1
Complete the list :
Chef, Statistical Analyst,
Paleontologist, Masseuse, Buyer,
_____________ ???

5. ANSWER:
Actor (Professions of lead characters in Friends)

6. 2
Which sport is played on an oval-shaped,
500 feet (150 m) long and 180 feet (55 m)
wide pitch, with a small central circle
approximately 10 feet (3.0 m) in diameter
by three Chasers, two Beaters, one Keeper
and one Seeker?

7. ANSWER:
Quidditch (Harry Potter)

8. 3
This company formed by Dassler
brothers later split into two both of
which are leaders in their areas. Which
two companies am I talking about?

9. ANSWER:
Puma and Adidas

10. 4
• 1993 - Cruzeiro
• 1994-1996 - PSV Eindhoven
• 1996- 97 - Barcelona
• 1997- 2002 - Inter Milan
• 2002-07 - Real Madrid
• 2007-08 - AC Milan
Connect....

11. ANSWER:
Clubs for which Ronaldo played

12. 5
Who quotes this : ―So we went to Atari and
said, 'Hey, we've got this amazing thing, even
built with some of your parts, and what do you
think about funding us? Or we'll give it to you.
We just want to do it. Pay our salary, we'll
come work for you.' And they said, 'No.' So
then we went to Hewlett-Packard, and they
said, 'Hey, we don't need you. You haven't got
through college yet.‖?

13. ANSWER:
Steve Jobs

14. 6 Connect….

15. ANSWER:
Coat of arms of Ivy League colleges

16. 7
What was launched on August 1, 1981, at
12:01 a.m with the words "Ladies and
gentlemen, rock and roll," spoken by
John Lack ?

17. ANSWER:
MTV

18. 8
Which Bond flick included in its
cast Vijay Amritraj and Kabir
Bedi ?

19. ANSWER:
Octopussy

20. 9
When the company started in Munich in
1916, it made aircraft engines (its logo
is meant to depict the sky as seen
through a moving propeller).
It switched to motorcycles and trucks
in 1923 and from 1928 started making
automobiles.
Name the company.

21. ANSWER:
BMW

22. 10
Prior to his final defeat at Waterloo in June 1815,
after which Napoleon spent the last six years of
his life under British supervision on the island of
Saint Helena, he had spent around 300 days in
exile (1814) in another island off the coast of Italy
before escaping to France. Napoleon‘s stay on this
island is said to have inspired this very famous
―literary” sentence
―Able was I ere I saw _____”
Fill the blank which is also the name of the
island.

23. ANSWER:
Elba

24. MEGA CONNECT 1
• First 3 clues : + 20/-10
• Next 2 clues : + 10/-5
• Next 3 clues : + 5/0
• Shouting out the answer : 0
• Write the answer on your paper
• Show it to the quizmaster when you think you
have the answer

28. ANSWER:
All are movies of Steven Speilberg

29. 11
Roland Berrill, an
Australian barrister,
and Dr. Lancelot
Ware, a British
scientist and lawyer,
found X, which
literally means ‗table‘
in Latin. The members
have a 98 percentile
score in IQ tests.
Famous members
include Isaac Asimov,
Geena Davis, Jodie
Foster, Clive Sinclair,
Scott Adams.

30. ANSWER:
Mensa

31. 12
The initial design and construction of the temple took place
during the reign of Suryavarman II (ruled 1113–c. 1150).
Dedicated to Vishnu, it was built as the king's state temple
and capital city.
As neither the foundation stela nor any contemporary
inscriptions referring to the temple have been found, its
original name is unknown, but it may have been known as
Vrah Vishnulok after the presiding deity.
The modern name, in use by the 16th century, means "City
Temple‖. It is also the only monument to feature on a national
flag. Name the monument and the country.

32. ANSWER:
Angkor Wat / Cambodia

33. 13
Who appeared in the Johnny Bravo episode "A
Page Right Out Of History" where he saved
Johnny's ancestor of the same name as Johnny?
Johnny did chores for him as a way of repaying.
A famous English all-rounder has been given his
nickname because of perceived similarities
between him and this character.

34. 14. Connect
Name the
three movies
also.

36. ANSWER:
Only movies to win all big five Academy Awards
(Picture, Director, Actor, Actress, Screenplay)
It Happened One Night
One Flew Over the Cuckoo‘s nest
The Silence of the Lambs

37. 15
The Wimbledon is held at the All England
Lawn Tennis and X Club. Identify X.

38. ANSWER:
Croquet

39. 16
Which dish containing noodles, meat and
sauce gets its name from the Italian word for
‗cooking pot‘?

40. ANSWER:
Lasagna

41. 17
Connect

42. ANSWER:
Twilight series (Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse, Breaking
Dawn)

43. 18
The name of the company is derived from Greek word
meaning the peak, zenith or prime. Ironically, their
products tend to backfire (often literally) in a
comedic fashion ! Their products have been used
extensively since 1949 by many famous and iconic
characters. Their delivery services are generally so
good that you get the products within seconds of
ordering!
Name this world famous company...

44. ANSWER:
Acme (Road Runner)

45. 19
Born to Oscar winner X and Marcheline
Bertrand, Y become an international
superstar after the release of Z, a movie
based on an adaptation of a popular
videogame series.
Identify X, Y, Z.

46. ANSWER:
John Voight, Angelina Jolie, Lara Croft

47. 20
Born on 31 May 1946, Z was initially a high school Maths
teacher and sports coach, before going on to be one of his
country's leading sports officials. He became an international
football referee and even officiated in a World Cup qualifier
in 1988 but had to retire after FIFA lowered the age limit for
referees to 45.
However, this allowed him to pursue the career he is now
famous for. He's run into controversies lately, the peak being
in April 2007 and January 2008, prompting calls for his
retirement.

48. ANSWER:
Steve Bucknor

49. MEGA CONNECT 2
• First 3 clues : + 20/-10
• Next 2 clues : + 10/-5
• Next 3 clues : + 5/0
• Shouting out the answer : 0

58. ANSWER:
Google Doodles commemorating birthdays of famous
men

59. 21
―I turned my chair to the and dozed. Again the atoms were
gamboling before my eyes. This time the smaller groups kept
modestly to the background. My mental eye, rendered more
acute by repeated vision of this kind, could not distinguish
larger structures, of manifold conformation; long rows,
sometimes more closely fitted together; all twining and
twisting in snakelike motion. But look! What was that? One of
the snakes had seized hold of its own tail, and the form
whirled mockingly before my eyes. As if by a flash of lighting I
awoke... Let us learn to dream, gentlemen. ―
Identify this famous speech

60. ANSWER:
Kekule discovering structure of Benzene in his sleep

61. 22
How is Colombian Defender Andres
Escobar tragically remembered in
Football Annals???

62. ANSWER:
Shot because of own goal

63. 23
YY is an Indian television series partly based on Devaki Nandan
Khatri's novel by the same name. It was originally telecast on
Doordarshan in the early 1990s. The serial was controversially pulled
off air by Doordarshan in 1996 and the producers had to file a suit in
court for reinstatement. It later enjoyed reruns on Star Plus and Sony
Entertainment Television.
Kamlapati Khatri, the grandson of the novel's author has said that the
producer "had not done justice to the soul of Khatri‘s book". He has
also accused the producers of willfully misrepresenting certain
concepts from the novel such as "tilism" (kind of a maze) and "ayyari"
(spying) and showing it as "jaado-tona" (sorcery).
Identify YY.

64. ANSWER:
Chandrakanta

65. 24
Connect
A - Foreign government officials and families
B - Temporary Visitors
E - Treaty traders and investors
F - Students and exchange visitors
G - Representatives to international
organizations and families
H - Temporary Workers and trainees

66. ANSWER:
US Visa categories

67. 25
In which sport is the playing portion of
the field called the diamond?

68. ANSWER:
Baseball

69. 26
Identify the brand

70. ANSWER:
Rolls Royce

71. 27
Connect
 Cheetah
 Puma
 Jaguar
 Panther
 Tiger
 Leopard
 Snow Leopard
(Apart from the fact that they are all big cats :P)

72. ANSWER:
Mac OS version names

73. 28
The puzzle, known as Number Place in the
US, was first published in New York in the
late 1970s by the puzzle publisher Dell in its
magazine Math Problems and Logic
Puzzles.
It became immensely popular in the UK in
2005, stimulating international interest. What
is its popular name which is also the
Japanese for „single number‟?

74. ANSWER:
Sudoku

75. 29
Identify ??
1. “To my mother. And to ____, my
„mother‟.”
2. “To my baby twin boys and the wonderful
woman who created them*
*with a little bit of help from me”
3. “To my country, which called me back”

76. ANSWER:
Acknowledgement of Chetan Bhagat in Five Point
Someone

77. 30
“Missed Connection” is a term that describes the
kind of situation where two people want to
reconnect after an initial meeting but do not have
the other person's contact details.
X is a movie based on a missed connection,
although not so 'missed' as the lead actor and
actress write their contact details on a 5$ bill and
the inside cover of a book, and finally meet in the
ice skating rink in Central Park, New York.
Identify X.

78. ANSWER:
Serendipity

79. MEGA CONNECT 3
• First 3 clues : + 20/-10
• Next 3 clues : + 10/-5
• Next 2 clues : + 5/0
• Shouting out the answer : 0

88. ANSWER:
WC Final Man of the Match

89. Take your pick
• 9 topics, 2 rounds
• Starting with the lowest ranked team, each team gets to pick
twice
• + 10 for direct answer
• + 5 for passes
• Each topic can be picked only once in one round

90. Music Movies Computers
Music Movies Computers
Etymology Trivia Buildings
Etymology Trivia Buildings
Technology Sports TV shows
Technology Sports TV shows

92. Music
On December 4, 1971, XXX had set up camp in Montreux,
Switzerland to record an album using a mobile recording studio
rented from the Rolling Stones and known as the Rolling Stones
Mobile Studio, part of the Montreux Casino.
On the eve of the recording session, a Frank Zappa and The
Mothers of Invention concert was held in the casino's theatre.
During the gig a fire broke out: "In the middle of Don Preston's
synthesizer solo on "King Kong", the place suddenly caught fire.
Somebody in the audience had fired a flare gun into the
ceiling, at which point the rattan covering started to burn" .
The spectacle was witnessed by the band as it unfolded to
them from the other side of Lake Geneva.

93. Music
With which famous song is this cover associated?

94. ANSWER:
Hotel California

95. Movies
The price of amber increased by a factor of
10 after the release of this movie. Which
movie are we talking about?

96. ANSWER:
Jurassic Park

97. Movies
Javed Akhtar, in love with actress Honey
Irani, requested his partner Salim Khan to
meet her mother Perin Irani on his behalf.
The conversation that took place between
Salim and Perin was incorporated into
which film‘s script?

98. ANSWER:
Sholay

99. Computers
If a laptop vendor uses a Intel processor
and mobile chipset, he can use a branding
label of Pentium M, Pentium Dual-Core,
Celeron, Intel Core or Intel Core 2. What
label can it carry if it also uses the Intel
wireless chipset ?

100. ANSWER:
Centrino

101. Computers
When Google launched it‘s IPO, the filing was
done to raise $2,718,281,828. Not $2.5 billion and
not $3 billion, but the particular figure
mentioned.
As is always the case with Google, they had an
unconventional reason tinged with some humour
for this. What was the reason?

102. ANSWER:
Natural Log (e)

103. Etymology
In printing presses, when a day‘s paper was set, it
was encased in a frame called the flange. It
represented the final, edited copy of the paper.
However, if news of extremely high priority arrived,
then it could only be accommodated by destroying
the flange. This was considered to be an honor to the
reporter who actually got the story.
What phrase originates out of this custom?

104. ANSWER:
Breaking News

105. Etymology
Quality Communication

106. ANSWER:
QualComm

107. Trivia
If the Metre, the Kilogram, the Second, the
Ampere, the Kelvin, and the Candela are six of
the seven basic units of measurement in the SI
system, what is the seventh?

108. ANSWER:
Mole

109. Trivia
Which Provençal (French) dish of stewed
vegetables, especially tomatoes, zucchini
(courgette), eggplant (aubergine), bell peppers
and spices - originated around the city of Nice
and shares its name with one of the
cinematographic highlights of 2007?

110. ANSWER:
Rattatouile

111. Buildings
This place has served as a lighthouse, then a military fortification, then a
military prison followed by a federal prison until 1963. It became a national
recreation area in 1972 and received landmarking designations in 1976 and
1986. It has been featured in many movies, tv shows, books, comics, and
games. Identify.

112. ANSWER:
Alcatraz

113. Buildings
Though this structure from 1799 is situated on a road
named after it, entry is normally allowed only through
the Tripolia Bazaar.
It is a five storey building with an elaborate facade
containing 953 small windows, each with a balcony and
an arch. These artfully-designed windows are
responsible for keeping the entire structure well-
ventilated.
Identify the building.

114. ANSWER:
Hawa Mahal

115. Technology
YY, originally titled Phoenix, it was renamed because of
trademark issues with Phoenix Technologies. The replacement
name, provoked an intense response from a free database
software project with the same name.
In response, the XX Foundation stated that the product should
always bear the prefix XX to avoid confusion with the database
software. Continuing pressure from the database server's
development community forced another change and the
product finally became XX YY.
Identify XX and YY

116. ANSWER:
Mozilla Foundation
Firefox

117. Technology
The name for this revolutionary product
was proposed by Vinnie Chieco, a freelance
copywriter who after seeing a prototype
thought of the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey
and the phrase "Open the pod bay door,
Hal!".

118. ANSWER:
iPod

119. Sports
• Friday: Rubins Barichello - Broken nose
and arm
• Saturday: Roland Ratzenberger - Dead
• Sunday: ?????

120. ANSWER:
Ayerton Sena - Dead

121. Sports
Complete the List
Malcolm Nash
Tilak Raj
Daan Van Bunge
_____________

122. ANSWER:
Stuart Broad (All bowlers who got hit for six sixes in an
over)

123. TV Shows
In this celebrated American family, the father, works as a
safety inspector at the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant—a
position at odds with his careless, buffoonish personality.
His wife is a stereotypical American housewife and
mother.
They have three children: A ten-year-old troublemaker; A
precocious eight-year-old activist; and a baby who rarely
speaks, but communicates by sucking on a pacifier. The
family also owns a Dog and a Cat.

124. ANSWER:
Simpsons

125. TV Shows
Identify the TV show
“Department of Heuristics and Research
on Material Applications”

126. ANSWER:
Lost (DHARMA Initiative)

127. IT‘S COMPLICATED
• 8 answers – all connected
• Relative scoring:
For every answer, Number of points = 5 * Number of
teams that didn‘t give the answer
• Write all answers on your paper

128. A C D
B
E
H G F

129.  A is the longest running film in the history of Indian cinema.
 B is a famous Indian producer-director who featured for few
minutes in A.
 C had one of the lead roles in A.
 D is the mother of C and sister of E.
 F is the son of E and appears in a famous medical soap opera on
TV.
 G is the second cousin of C and F, and is a famous actress in
Bollywood.
 H is the cousin of C and G and was director of one of the
biggest hits of 2009.

130. ANSWER:
A = DDLJ
B = Karan Johar
C = Kajol
D = Tanuja
E = Nutan
F = Monish Behl
G = Rani Mukherjee
H = Ayan Mukherjee