Intaglio 2k15 Part I

In association with
Quiz-a-holic Spot
presents

WITH SINCERE THANKS TO:
 God Almighty who made this come true.
 Sheeba Miss & Sudha Miss
 Captain
 The whole team of Quiz-a-holic Spot,
especially Alan, Murali and Anoop Chettan.
 Many more quizzers without whom this quiz
would not have happened.
 My beloved crew…(especially Rupa )
 Slideshare
 Google Bhagawan!!

GOLDEN RULES:
 The QM’s decision is always final.
 Read rule 1 once more.
 The whole quiz will follow Infinite bounce and
Pounce.
 +10 for every bounce question irrespective of
whether direct or pass. Feel free to guess, no
negatives applicable for bounce.
 No clues (objection) can be generally activated
by shouting the same.
 Pounce will be open for only 10 seconds.

ABOUT POUNCE…
Option A:
The uncivilised pounce
(+5/-15)
–tailormade for Karthik,
Cherian and their pals.
You can shout out for the
QM and show all sorts of
antics( like getting up from
your seat, disturbing the
QM etc) but beware of the
negative!
Option B:
The civilised pounce
(+10/-5)
-for everyone else.
Just raise your hand
and patiently wait for
the QM to come and
check your answer.
<= Our KK
(Uncivilised Pounce)

Option C
The I’m so damn sure pounce (aka Anant pounce)
(+20/-20)
This one is applicable for everyone
(It’s just that I named this after him).
You can use this pounce when you
are so sure of the answer and do not
want any clues (ie: objection). The QM
will come to you and check your answer
and only then, will proceed. Shout TOYOTA
‘game’ to
try this one but do this only when you are so sure.

1.
Starting with an Invocation to the almighty.
Which is the only bank
that sells prasad?

2.
X is a word with Persian origins and is widely
used in Persian, Urdu, Hindi and with a slight
variation, Malayalam to denote a particular
profession. Interestingly, this is also the name of
a 1941 movie that revolves around a character
practising this profession. The movie turned out
to be one of the biggest pre-independence hits
Bollywood ever had. X is also the name of a
remote village in Iran which apparently got its
name from the fact that a lot of people employed
in the profession stayed in its vicinity. The
Malayalam word for treasury is derived from this
word.

ഖജാ൯ജി
aka Khazanchi

3. This company was set up in 1938 and
named after its founder. It manufactured parts
for gas masks during WWII. After the war, its
founder thought of making a peace time
product. While searching for such a product, he
discovered a way of turning polyethylene slag,
a byproduct of crude oil refinement, into a
strong, resilient, grease free plastic and gave it
his name.
Which Brand (co.) am I talking about?

4.
Founded on 2/6/1806 with the main purpose of
Funding Arthur Wellesley's countless wars
against Tipu and The Marathas, The Bank of
Calcutta as it was called then was renamed
into something which is a household name
today in India on 30/4/1955. What am I talking
about?

5. X is a fruit-flavored drink. Originally
formulated by General Food Corporation’s food
scientist William A Mitchell in 1957, it was first
marketed in powdered form in 1959. Sales for
X were poor until NASA used it on John
Glenn’s mercury flight and other subsequent
Gemini missions. Since then, it was closely
associated with the US Manned spaceflight
program and thus led to the misconception that
X was invented for the space program. ID X.

8.
Easy one.
World’s largest
producer of
Apparels?

9.
There are 1366 of them currently and are
named so because people sat in assigned
chairs in the hall where the day’s proceedings
happened. The term lost its literary meaning in
1871 with the advent of a new set of working
rules. They are a highly sought-after
commodity with the most expensive inflation-
adjusted sale being in 1929 for $625,000
which today would be over $6m.
What are we talking about?

10.
If NIFTY and SENSEX is for India,
Then NIKKEI and TOPIX is for?

11.
What is a glitz-
edged market?

Market for
Government
Securities.

12.
Its official beginning is marked with the ritual
Halwa Ceremony. Once the process is
completed, the concerned people are neither
allowed to go home nor to have any sort of
communication with the outside, even their
dear and near ones.
What begins with the halwa ceremony?

13. WHAT IS SO UNIQUE WITH THIS BOTTLED
WATER PRODUCT?

Water from the
Bhopal gas
tragedy site

15. ID THE BRAND FROM THE LOGO

SUPERMAN’S
75TH BIRTHDAY
(CANADA)

17.
Founded in 1981, this company was led by one
of its founders from 1981 to 2002 (he has since
been designated Chairman Emeritus of the
company. ) From 2002 till August last years, 3
more of its founders alternatively held the reins
of the company. The company finally got its
first non-founder CEO when X took over in Aug
2014.
Which company and who is X?

20. Founded by Pierre X in Alba, Piedmont,
Italy in 1946, X has been run as a family
business till date. In 2009, X was ranked by
Reputation Institute as the most reputable
company in the world. X owns 38 trading
companies, 18 factories and has 21,500
employees.
X has also been described a one of the most
secretive companies in the world. It has
never held a press conference and does not
allow media visits to its plants.

21.
The origins of this product lie in
setting up a factory in 1916 to use
excess reserves of a particular
product which could not be exported
to Europe due to the first world war .
This company, whose first brand
ambassador was MS Dhoni also
holds a GI tag on this product.
What am I talking about?

22.
The X store is an online store started in Dec 2013.
It includes products like T-shirts, stationery
material, masks, kurtas, pen-drives etc. According
to Live Mint, there are plans to launch physical
stores in major cities and that the first brick and
Mortar store will be in Delhi or Ahmadabad. This
online store is from Take India Beyond
Merchandising Pvt. Ltd. Which describes itself as a
merchandising brand that goes beyond mere
profits and tries to predict the future of India.
Interestingly, this comes in the wake of X-inspired
video games and mobile phone series that were
also launched in 2013.

23.
Founded in 1761 at Stein near Nuremberg by
cabinet maker Kaspar X, the enterprise has
remained in the X family for 8 generations. It
opened branches in New York, London, Paris and
expanded to Vienna and St. Petersburg. It opened
a factory in Geroldsgrün. It expanded
internationally and launched new products under
Kaspar X’s ambitious great grandson, Lothar. In
1900, after the marriage of Lothar’s
granddaughter with a cadet of the counts of Y, the
A.W. Y enterprise took the name of XY and a new
logo, combining the X motto since 1761, with the

24.
 The origins of this Franchise lie in the revelation
in 1929 that the star-spangled banner was not
the national anthem of USA.
 The inaugural issue of the franchise redirected
attention to the topic and on Mar 3 1931,
President Hoover signed a document that
officially made ‘ The star-spangled banner’ the
national anthem of USA.
 The collection of the franchise include 20k+
photos, +30k artifacts and more than 100000
cartoon panels. What brand am I talking about?

Ripley’s
‘Believe it or
not’

25.
Another die-hard easy question.
By what name is
Feroze Jeejebhoy
towers better known
as?

R K Shanmugham
Chetty
( India’s first finance
minister)

27.
 Founded in 1948, X is still one of Britain’s
highest selling brands, with approx. 20 mn
units produced everyday and about 150 units
consumed every second.
 An interesting thing about X is that if you
crush it in a darkened room, you can see
them sparkle blue due to triboluminescence.

28.
Which famous French company was founded
by these two brother back in 1889, inspiring
from a tire puncture ?

26.
This is an Indian book award hosted by a
Mumbai based Bookstore which was instituted
in 1998 with intention of competing with Booker
Prize, Pulitzer Prize etc. This award has been
sponsored by many companies since its
inception which includes Hutch, Vodafone, The
Economist and currently sponsored by
Raymond Group. Id the award I am talking
about ?

Starbucks @
Saudi Arabia*.
*(cuz it’s Saudi Arabia.)

31.
Kasinadhuni Nageshwararao better known as
Nageshwara Rao Pantulu was a rare combination
of a journalist, nationalist, politician, a staunch
supporter of the Khaddar Movement and an
enthusiastic pioneer in library movement in
Andhra.
His participation in the Indian independence
movement and INC was historical. After a brief
stint in business in Madras, he went to Calcutta to
work in an apothecary for some time. Later, he
went to Bombay to work in an office, but he
couldn’t stick around there. He was interested in

32.
In 1978, this brand was launched with 16
generic items in black and Yellow packaging.
This packaging had only text with a basic
product description and name, such as ‘ freshly
ground coffee’ or ‘fabric softener’. My the mid
80’s , it had become Canada’s largest selling
brand. Now there are more than 2900 different
products under this brand name. Name it.

Lexus (inspired
by Dali’s
Persistence of
Memory)

Kurlon mattresses
(The person featured is Malala.)

Captain
Haddock,
Tintin and
Snowy.

Date of
release?
No point
for
occasion

02-05-15
Floyd Merryweather
v/s Manny Pacquiao

Srini-Mama N
Srinivasan’s
re-election

Successful Marketing campaigns of the
DeBeers group include the eternity
ring, the trilogy ring and the right-hand
ring . But the most common is the ___
_______ ____ _________’ The phrase was
coined by a young typewriter working
for N. W. Ayer & Son, Frances Gerety in
1947. In 2000, Advertising Age named
it the best advertising slogan of the 20th
century. What am I talking about????

Manila Coin (NIGERIA) Used in
trading slaves

In 1520, Count Hieronymus Schlick of
Bohemia began minting coins called as
‘Joachimsthler’. I t was later shortened
to taler or thaler and this shortened
word eventually found its way to the
English language as
_ _ _ _ _ _. The origin of its sign is
derived from the Spanish coat of arms.
FITB.

Why did this banknote hit headlines a few years
back?

Darwin was replaced by
Jane Austen.

Quetzal- Guatemala’s currency

Where was this in circulation?

The areas under Pondicherry
(Precisely, Mahe, Yanam and
Karaikal.)

Although a symbol was used for this currency
between the 16th and 18th century, it did not
carry forward after that. No symbol was used for
the next 2 centuries until the apex bank of this
country announced that it was deciding on one
and had shortlisted 13 designs for the same. On
December 11, 2013, the following became the
official symbol of this currency.
Which currency?

I want you to list out the 6 notes in the Gandhi
series (1996- …) released by RBI and the 3 digit-
value currency bank notes along with the Images
featured on them.
You have exactly 2 minutes.

And the
answers….
Rs. 1 – Sagar Sampat Oil rig
Rs. 2 – Aryabhata (the satellite)
Rs. 5 – Tractor
Rs. 10 – The Elephant, The Tiger and The One-horned
Rhinoceros
Rs. 20 – Beach (Mount Harriet, The Andamans)
Rs. 50 – Parliament
Rs. 100 – The Himalayas
Rs. 500 – Dandi Yatra
Rs. 1000 – Indian Economy

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