The document provides information about various quizzes and events: 1) There are 3 rounds of a quiz in India with no prizes at the end. 2) Details are given about famous brands and their history like Parle-G biscuits. 3) Barack Obama is described pulling out personal tokens he carries with him from an interview, including items from the Pope, a monk and from his travels.

1. FINALS
INDIA QUIZ
3 ROUNDS
NO PRIZES AT THE END :p

3. 1
• It is a form of explanation and is often used in
writing to introduce an extraordinary deed or
story of transformation. It is also name given
to the creation of Dhiraj Mukherjee with Chris
Barton and Philip. What am I talking about

5. Shazam
• The app that recognizes music played in
backround

6. 2
• Connect McDonald’s, Horlicks, Reynolds and
Max Super Markets.

8. Chota bheem

9. 3
• 1939 Even as the Allies and the Axis blew conch shells
for the Second World War
• 1980 When it was time for graduation, the brand was
rechristened X to distinguish itself from the horde of
me-too glucose brands entering the market.
• Gulzar moved his quill and Piyush Mishra lent his
voice to the most recent campaign
• Neeru Deshpandey from then and till now continues
to feature on it
• Roped in Ruskin Bond to blog for its micro site

11. PARLE-G

12. 4
• Darjeeling Tea, Mysore Pak (sweet), Tanjavur
Veena, ________ (not an exhaustive list)
• Justice Basha ordered the assistant registrar to
reconsider the issue of addition of areas of
states such as Madhya Pradesh, Odisha and
Rajasthan.
• Justice Basha also dismissed a petition filed by
Lahore-based Association

14. GI tag for Basmati

16. 1
• X is a religion which follows the concept of
death by slow starving. Y, one of the famous
rulers of India, went on to follow X and
subjected him to slow death in favor of his son
at a place Z (pic in the next slide). Like many
religions across the world have Ganesha like
gods, this also has a Ganesha, but with a turtle
in stead of a mouse. Give me the names of
any of the 2 variables to claim full points.

19. Jainism
Chandragupta
Bhadrabahu

20. 2
• Which Brahmin saint and teacher did ask for a
land to teach Brahmin the art of war and
martial arts to defeat the khyatriyas to take
revenge and the people who performed this
art came to be known as X which is still a part
of the surname.

22. Parshurama
Kalaripayattu (kalari)

23. 3

25. Duryodhan

26. 4
• Asked to show off an item of personal significance
during the interview with YouTube creator Nilsen on
Friday, X pulled from his pockets a series of small
totems, each of which he said reminded him “of all the
different people I’ve met along the way.”
• It included rosary beads given to him from Pope
Francis, a tiny Buddha statue procured upon him by a
monk; a silver poker chip that was once the lucky
charm of a bald, mustachioed biker in Iowa; a figurine
of the Y and a Coptic cross from Ethiopia, where he
visited in July.

28. Barack Obama

30. 1
• “Lambi race no ghodo chhe, leader chhe, PM
banse – he’s a thoroughbred for the long run,
a true leader, he will be prime minister”. Who
said this about Narendra Modi to his family
members when Modi attended a dinner at
their residence ?

32. 3
• Identify the event from the audio

33. 4

34. 5
• "El sari rojo" by Javier Moro is a story of a
native young woman X confronted by the
complicated and dangerous world by politics.
It tells the story of X whose dreams of home,
heart and anonymous living were struck down
by the hands of fate. Demand was made for
the book's withdrawal as some claimed of
distorted facts and misinterpreted details.
Who is X?

35. 6
• X acted as the central bank of Y till 1948,
before Y before it had its own state bank. It
also acted as bank of _____ till April 1947. The
denominations of 20 of the currency made by
X will be now be replaced by a person's name
written in a distinctive way as a form of
identification in authorizing a cheque or
document or concluding a letter after the
former person returns to Chicago.

36. 7

37. 8
• Whats the link between Akhilesh Yadav,
Democratic presidential nominee Hillary
Clinton, Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy
and former US vice president Al Gore?