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1. BRAINWHIZ
COGNIZANCE '15

2. .
RULES
• There will be four rounds, with the first three rounds
containing five questions each.
• The fourth round will be a rapid fire round where any
team can answer the questions.
• Each correct answer will give you 10 points.
• A question answered after passing will be awarded 5
marks.
• The team with the highest total at the end of the four
rounds, WINS

3. ROUND 1

4. Here are taglines of some famous companies.
Identify the companies.

5. 1

7. 2

9. 3

11. 4

13. 5

15. 6

17. ROUND 2

18. Identify the famous personalities with the
given hints

19. 1
•A prominent political leader.
•Winner of Nobel Price in 1991.
•Lived under house arrest for almost 15 years.
•Author of the best-seller 'Freedom From Fear'.

20. Aung San Suu Kyi

21. 2
• Served as Prime Minister of India thrice.
• Winner of Bharath Ratna
• First person to deliver a speech to the
United Nations General Assembly in Hindi.
• Retired from active politics in 2005.

22. Atal Bihari Vajpayee

23. 3
• Chief economist at the International Monetary Fund
from 2003 to 2007.
•Received a Ph.D. from MIT
•Expected to take over as the head of IMF in 2016

24. Raghuram Rajan

25. 4
•British Indian Novelist and essayist
•Winner of Booker Price
•Knighted by Queen Elizabeth II
•Authored the controversial book - “Satanic Verses'

26. Salman Rushdie

27. 5
• Former Indian cricketer and captain.
• Honoured with Padma Bhushan
• Scored three runs in his début international ODI
match.
• Scored more than 10,000 runs in both ODI and Test
matches.

28. Rahul Dravid

29. ROUND 3

30. 1
How many squares are there in a chess
board?

31. 204

32. 2
Which is heavier, a kilogram of gold or a kilogram of
cotton?

33. Both weigh the same.

34. 3
Brothers and sisters I have none but this
man's father is my father's son.
Who is the man?

35. His son.

36. 4
An empty tank is connected to a pipe from which
water flows at a rate that doubles every minute. If
the tank gets filled in one hour, what time does it
take to fill half the tank ?

37. 59 minutes

38. 5
A couple go for a picnic. They have two daughters
and a son. Each daughter has 4 children and the son
has 3 children. Find the number of people who
went for the picnic.

39. 2

40. ROUND 4

41. 1
What does one googol represent?

42. 1 followed by a hundred 0s

43. 2
The first man to land on the moon was Neil Armstrong.
Who was the second?

44. Edwin 'Buzz' Aldrin

45. 3
In which fictional character's house would
you be if you are in 221B Baker Street”.

46. Sherlock Holmes

47. 4
Who is the CEO of Microsoft ?

48. Satya Nadella

49. 5
Which is the most ductile metal?

50. Gold

51. 6
Who holds the record of the highest
individual score by an Indian in Cricket World
Cup matches?

52. Saurav Ganguly
183*

53. 7
In medicine, what is usually denoted by
120/80 for an adult.

54. Blood Pressure

55. 8
If a byte stands for 8 bits, how many bits
form a nibble?

56. 4 bits

57. 9
The black widow, which eats the male
counterpart after mating, is a female species of
which animal ?

58. Spider

59. 10
Douglas Engelbert, who passed away in
2013, is credited as the inventor of which
computer peripheral ?

60. Computer Mouse

61. 11
Apple Computers launched ‘Apple Newton’.
On which OS does it run

62. Newton OS

63. 12
Which among these is not a country?
•South Sudan
•Scotland
•Kosovo
•East Timor

64. Scotland

65. 13
Who created the character of Dracula ?

66. Bram Stoker

67. 14
What do you call a group of owls?

68. A Parliament

69. THE END