The document provides information about the 5 rounds of the finals competition: 1) Anything under the Sun, 2) TechnoManagement, 3) Sports and Entertainment, 4) Connecting the Dots, 5) Rapid Fire. Hints will be given but time is limited. The rounds include multiple choice questions testing a wide range of knowledge.

2. Presented By:

4. Congratulations for Qualifying
for the Finals!!!!!

5. In the Finals there will
be 5 rounds:
1. Anything under the Sun (Mixed Bag)
2. TechnoManagement
3. Sports and Entertainment
4. Connecting the Dots
5. Rapid Fire

6. Hints will be given Like Charity,
but the same cannot be said
about Time.

8. Anything under the sun
Direct: +10
Bonus: +5
No Negative

9. The first emblem for the State Bank of India was
adopted in 1955 showing a Banyan tree because
of its strong roots and branches which are
capable of propagating and growing in all
directions, depicting growth, success and
stability. However, the logo was abandoned as it
invited criticism because of the a certain fact.
What is that?

10. Answer
A Banyan tree does not let any
other plant grow within its space.

11. Instead of using GDP as a
measure of progress, Bhutan
uses the GNH. What does GNH
stands for?

12. Answer
Gross National
Happiness

13. What is common among these
countries..

14. Answer:
Currency is Rupee

15. AI 173, a flight that departed from
New Delhi on March 6 at 0235 hrs
landed in San Francisco at 0600 hrs,
having covered 17 long hours made
history for a certain reason. What is
that?

16. Answer:
World’s Longest Fully Female operated flight

17. X was established in 1969 by an act
of parliament.
In 2012 The National Assessment
and Accreditation Council gave X a
grade of 3.9 out of 4, the highest
grade awarded to any educational
institution in the country.
Identify X.

18. Answer:
Jawaharlal Nehru University

20. Answer:
Guru Granth Sahib

21. Whose wax statue at Madame Tussauds?

22. Answer:
Marie Tussaud, The
founder helself

23. what is the significance of this graph?

24. Answer:

25. According to Hindu Mythology what
was created when Vayu, the wind
God broke the top of Mount Meru?

26. Answer:
Lanka

28. Answer:
Psy's dad owns the company Di Corporation.
So in Oct 2012 the Gangnam dance raised the stock
prices by Psy's sudden popularity

29. ______ Nagar, is a village located in
Muzaffarnagar district in Uttar Pradesh
formerly Known as Shiv Nagar. _____ invested
$5,000 to install 15 hand pumps that would
make it so the villagers wouldn't have to walk
nearly two miles just to get clean water. The
villagers were so grateful for them, they
decided to change the name of their village.
Name the company.

30. Answer:

31. Atargatis was a Syrian moon godess.
She had a child with a human.
She killed her love, abandoned her
child. JUMPED INTO THE LAKE and
took the form of X?
What is X

32. Answer:
Mermaid

33. Put Funda

34. Answer:
‘Face with tears of Joy’ Emoji
becoming the Oxford Word of the
year, 2015

35. Originally known to the Lakota Sioux as "Six
Grandfathers". At first, the project of
carving this structure was undertaken to
increase tourism in the Black Hills region of
South Dakota. The carving started in 1927,
and ended in 1941. It has become an
iconic symbol of the United States, and has
appeared in works of fiction, and has been
discussed or depicted in other popular
works. It attracts over two million people
annually.
Name the structure.

36. Answer:
Mount Rushmore

38. Direct: +10
Bonus: +5
No Negative
TECHNO-
MANAGEMENT
ROUND

39. Beethoven's Ninth Symphony is
74mins 33sec long.
Its set as the standard time for
what modern day invention?

40. Answer
CD length

41. What is it?

42. Answer
Blueprint of
Twitter

43. When the internet was still very
much under the spell of bare Unix
shells and Gopher, an ambitious
group of scientists at CERN started
working on World Wide Web. In an
office on the "fourth floor" they
placed the World Wide Web's central
database. Some faculty requests
were answered with a standard
message : "_________"

44. Answer:
Room 404:File Not Found

45. Which drink was named by its
inventor after rejecting the first six
names that were offered?

46. Answer:

47. This picture is home to a famous IT
company. I need the address of this

48. Answer:
Infinite Loop Street

50. Answer:
Bombay Stock Exchange

51. In 1932 JRD Tata founded it as Tata
Airlines....
How do we commonly know Tata
Airlines as?

52. Answer:

53. This tune is an excerpt taken from measures(bars) 13-
16 of the piece Grans Vals. This tune is heard
worldwide an estimated 1.8 billion times a day, about
20,000 times per second. Identify X?

54. Answer:
NOKIA TUNE

55. Guess the tagline and name of the
company behind it.

56. Answer:

58. Answer:
McIntosh

59. _______ is a type of a contest for finding a
Google search query consisting of exactly two
words without quotation marks,that returns
exactly one hit.

60. Answer:
Googlewhack

61. X is a shark in the ocean. We are a
crocodile in the Yangtze River.
If we fight in the ocean we loose, if
we fight in the river we win -CEO Y
Identify X and Y

62. Answer:
X:
Y:

63. It was first started as Orgish.com, a
shock site and was aimed at the
empowerment of citizen journalism.
It came to lime light when it leaked
the video of execution of Saddam
Hussain. It has the tagline
“Redefining the media”. Which
website is being talked about here?

64. Answer:
LiveLeak.com

65. It is a book by entrepreneur
Rashmi Bansal. It features the
stories of 25 MBAs from IIM
Ahmedabad who left lucrative
jobs to follow the rough road of
entrepreneurship. This book
created a new record in Indian
publishing by selling over
300,000 copies and has been
translated into 8 languages. The
title of this book is similar to a
very famous quote of a very
famous personality. Name this
book.

66. Answer:

68. • Direct= +10
• Bonus= +5
• No Negatives

69. X arrived at England with the aim of
buying Y. Admittedly he was a fan.
The management at Y though
declined after repeated advances by
X and with his 10 day visa permit fast
coming to an end, he ended up
buying Z. And thus came about one
of the most important takeovers in
sporting history.
Identify X,Y and Z (No Part Marking)

70. X= Roman Abramovich
Y= Tottenham Hotspurs FC
Z= Chelsea FC

71. X was born in a suburb named
Henderson.
X is widely known for his popularity
in the field of cricket.
X had a promising career as a fast
bowler in his 20s when he was
affected by Rheumatoid Arthritis
which ended his career.
Who is X?

72. Billy Bowden

73. What does it signify?

74. No. of times Summer Olympics
hosted by the Continents. 2016
Rio Olympics will be the first ever
Summer Olympics in Latin
America.

75. On May 2, 2007, a men's tennis exhibition match
between Roger Federer, the then top-ranked men's
singles player, and Rafael Nadal, the then World No. 2
in men's singles, was played in the capital city of
Nadal's home island, Palma de Mallorca. Nadal won 7–
5, 4–6, 7–6.
Prior to that match, at that time Nadal was 72
matches unbeaten on clay and Federer was 48
matches unbeaten on grass court.
There was something very unique about the match
that the match was called 'The Battle of *****'
What was the unique thing?

76. The Battle of Surfaces.
One side of the court was Grass Court and other half
was clay court.

77. About what?

78. Day-Night Test Cricket

79. Guess the Footballer. Also
name the clubs X and Y

80. Iain Hume
X= Kerala Blasters
Y= Atletico de Kolkata

81. Who?
7

82. Floyd Mayweather

83. X is an American professional basketball
player for the Golden State Warriors of the
National Basketball Association (NBA). X is
considered by some to be the greatest
shooter in NBA history.X won the 2015 NBA
Most Valuable Player (MVP) award and is a
three-time NBA All-Star. X also holds the
NBA record for most consecutive games
with a made three-pointer (131).
Who is X?
8

84. Stephen Curry

85. • Direct - +10
Pass - +5
• No negatives

86. X started her career as a child actress in the
Telugu film Rangula Ratnam. She debuted as a
lead in Sawan Bhadon in Bollywood.She
worked in over 180 films in about 40 years
career.she had received Padma Shri. Recently
X was conferred with Yash Chopra Memorial
Award in Mumbai. Identify X.
Identify X.

87. Rekha

88. Trailer of which video game?
• video

89. NFS NO LIMITS

90. 742 Evergreen Terrace is
well known address in pop
culture? Who resides at this
address?

91. Simpsons

92. This song is by a band which is a side-project of
America’s famous band Linkin Park’s co-lead singer
Mike Shinoda. Name the band
• video

93. Fort Minor

94. this kid suffers from a rare disease of
Osteogenesis Imperfecta, he has become an
internet sensation after releasing the cover of
‘Not afraid’ by Eminem .
What is his name?

95. SPARSH SHAH

96. Name the competition

97. Dum Laga ke Haisa

98. Advertisement of which product?
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDa2K28G3eU

99. • CAMLIN PERMANENT MARKER

100. If Hindi =Bollywood
Bengali =Tollywood
Telugu = Tollywood
Odia = Ollywood
Then Kannada -- ???

101. Sandalwood

103. Direct: +20 points
Bonus: +10 points
No Negatives

105. Union Budget of
India
 It is announced on the last working day of
February every year.
 The papers are carried into the Parliament by
the Finance Minister in a Leather Briefcase.
( The word Budget is originated from French
word "bougette" or "small bag" that was once
considered sufficient to hold an individual's
wealth)
 The printing of Budget documents starts
roughly a week ahead of presenting in the
Parliament with a customary 'Halwa
ceremony’. This ceremony is performed as a
part of the Indian tradition of having
something sweet before starting an important
work

107. Narendra Modi
 As a child, Modi helped his father sell tea at the Vadnagar
railway station, and later ran a tea stall with his brother near a
bus terminus.
 From a ‘Chaiwala’ to the Prime Minister of India
 Bipin Chauhan the founder of Ahmedabad based clothing chain
JadeBlue is Narendra Modi's personal tailor and the man behind
the 'Modi Kurta‘.
 First Indian Prime Minister to Visit Facebook Headquarters

109. GT Road
 Rudyard Kipling’s ‘Kim’ is set on the GT Road.
 This road existed during the Maurya Empire and flourished
during the reign of Chandragupta Maurya
 The Modern GT Road was rebuilt by Sher Shah Suri.
 The road ends at Kabul. That’s why a poster of the film
‘Kabuliwala’

111. Leonardo Dicaprio
 He was a speaker at climate change summit 2014. Leonardo
Dicaprio foundation works on this same issue.
 Romper Room: TV Show where he made his debut at the age of 5
 Picture is ‘The Last Supper’: Famous Painting of by Leonardo da
Vinci
 The book is ‘The Revenant’. Story based on which the film was
made.

113. Real faces behind
internet memes

115. Hurricanes
 Katrina,
Michelle, Tomas
all names of
Hurricanes
 Other one is
Harry Kane

117. Around the
World in 80 days
 Jules Verne, author of the novel
‘Around the World in 80 Days’
 Jackie Chan starred in a movie of this
same title.
 Gunnar Garfors created World Record
by visiting every Country in the world

119. Technologies used in cricket
 Hawk eye
 Wagon Wheel
 Hotspot
 Spider Cam