This document contains a 20 question quiz with topics spanning business, politics, history, and pop culture. It also includes 5 bonus questions that could be used as tie-breakers. The questions require identifying people, companies, logos, events, and inventions from brief descriptions or images. The quiz tests a wide range of knowledge while rewarding concise answers.

1. The Quiz
99.1 % Pure Quizzing

2. Cooking the Answers…..

3. Round 1
Consists of 20 Questions.
Marking Scheme +1 -0
Brevity & Conciseness will be appreciated.
No points for ESSAY Writing

4. Question 1
This company was founded back in 1945 by the father of the current
chairman.
Initially the company dealt with sunflower oil but when Mr. X took over from
his father, the company expanded into consumer products, IT, furniture and
lighting.
Company's logo has been a sunflower, however several years ago there
was a company-wide survey to update the said logo.
It resulted in the addition of the rainbow color scheme over the black-and-
white sunflower.
ID X

5. Answer
Mr. Azim Premji

6. Question 2
Related to which Agenda ?

7. Answer
Net Neutrality

8. Question 3
Shri Anant Khasbardar of Kolhapur, Maharashtra won a Logo design
contest beating 1,635 other entrants while Ms. Bhagyasri Sheth of Rajkot,
Gujarat emerged successful in the contest for Tagline for the Logo with
her entry edging out 5,167 other entries.
The tagline and logo for what?

9. Answer
Swacch Bhaarat Abhiyaan

10. Question 4
A few decades ago, watches in India meant X.
But time's up for the iconic brand that was launched in 1961 as part of the
government's efforts to build a modern India.
Like the Ambassador, another marquee brand of the license-permit era, its clock
has finally wound down.
Name X – “The Timekeepers to the Nation”

11. Answer
HMT

12. Question 5
What has been blanked out?

13. Answer
EDGE

14. Question 6
Who was the creator of Rock Garden (expired recently)?

15. Answer
Nek Chand

16. Question 7
ID the personality recently in news

17. Answer
Indrani Mukerjea

18. Question 8
Which Country’s Flag?

19. Answer
New Zealand

20. Question 9
ID Both.

21. Answer
Rowan Atkinson (Left)
Vishal Sikka (Right)

22. Question 10
ID the Author

23. Answer
Chetan Bhagat

24. Question 11
ID the logo

25. Answer

26. Question 12
Which Automobile Giant’s Ad?

27. Answer
Volkswagen

28. Question 13
Which famous magazine ?

29. Answer
Playboy

30. Question 14
Benjamin Careathers, a regular consumer of beverage X sued the
company for false advertising, arguing that after 10 years of
consuming X, he neither had certain superhero traits nor any
enhanced athletic or intellectual performance. Surprisingly, the
company lost and pledged to refund $10 to any US customer who
bought it since 2002 & agreed to amend future advertising
campaigns.
ID X

31. Answer
REDBULL (Which doesn’t give you wings)

32. Question 15
During the first ever human artificial heart transplant, which man-made
invention, used presently in a totally different field, inspired by nature was
used to hold together the heart during surgery?

33. Answer
Velcro

34. Question 16
A picture of plume of smoke & dust rising taken by astronaut
Frank Culbertson after which famous incident?

35. Answer
9/11 Attacks

36. Question 17
In 1968, scientist Spencer Silver at 3M company created a very weak adhesive
that would peel off when removed from any surface. The funny thing was that he
was in fact trying to create a super strong adhesive. No one thought there was
any use for such a product until another scientist, Art Fry, realized that the little
pieces of paper made great book marks for his church songs without leaving
residue on the page.
Which famous invention am I talking about?

37. Answer
Sticky Notes

38. Question 18
What is the full form?

39. Answer
Industrial Oxygen

40. Question 19
Which occasion?

41. Answer
1975 Emergency

42. Question 20
ID the Logo

43. Answer

44. Round 2
Consists of 5 bonus Questions.
Marking Scheme +1 -0
To be considered in case of Tie(s)

45. Question 1
ID the erased name

46. Answer
Kiran Bedi

47. Question 2
Which country’s National Animal ?

48. Answer
Scotland

49. Question 3
When a Canon engineer rested his hot iron on his pen by accident, ink
was ejected from the pen’s point a few moments later. This principle led
to the creation of ?

50. Answer
Inkjet Printer

51. Question 4
ID him.

52. Answer
Mufti Mohammad Sayeed

53. Question 5
John Nettleship described himself as ‘a short tempered chemistry teacher
with long hair and a gloomy, malodorous laboratory’ who enjoyed
picking on bright students. He made such an impression on one of his
students that she based one of her most iconic characters on him.
However he didn’t recognize himself as X until asked directly by a
reporter.
ID X.

54. Answer
Severus Snape

55. Thank You !