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1. QUIZ-2016
Grand Finale

2. Format of the Quiz

3. •Simple Direct round.NO Buzzer
•10 marks for correct direct answer
•5 for passed correct answer
•No negative marking
•20 secs for direct question,No extra time for passed
answer

4. • A new film is being launched on a social activist directed
by Shashank Udapurkar who plays the lead role.
• Its based on the life of social activist who transformed the
village of Ralegaon Sidhi in Maharashtra.
• From a fearless soldier, a hard working farmer to a social
revolutionary, rose to prominence with his fasting and
protest against rampant corruption in the country.
• n 2011, he participated in the Satyagraha movement
campaigning for the passing a stronger anti-corruption
Lokpal bill in the Indian parliament. Which came to be
Known as the Jan Lokpal Bill.
• Identify the person on whom the film is being made
Q-1

5. •Name of the party literally
means Grass roots.Its slogan is
Ma Mati Manush which means
Mother,Motherland People.This
party recently became the
Seventh party to gain national
Status recently.?Which party
are we talking about?
Q-2

6. Q-3
• Who has written the books Hazaar
Chaurasi Ki Maa (1998) and Rudaali on
which films were made?

7. Teams from which sporting league is shown here
Q-4

8. •Which Industrialist
feature in the first ever
coin commemorating an
Industrialist?
Q-5

9. •He started off as cartoonist in Free
press journal ,is the founder of
Marathi language newspaper
Saamna and Hindi language
newspaper Dophar ka Saamna ?
Who am I talking about
•
Q-6

10. Audience
• Gidda dance is associated with which state

11. Audience Question
• In 1891 George Williams a london draper was concerned
about lack of activities for young men in major cities.He got
the idea of forming an organisation during meetings he held
for prayer and Bible reading among his fellow workers in a
business in the city of London and on June 6,1944 he
founded this organization with the purpose of improving the
spiritual condition of Young Men.

12. Its a Buzzer Round!!!!!!
•20 points for Correct answer
• -10 points for a wrong answer
•Quizmaster will stop if buzzer goes midway.
•For Wrong answer buzzers will be reset and
question continued with same scoring pattern

13. •Which film has been chosen as India's
official entry into Oscars 2017?
Q-1

14. • Where was India's 500th test match played?
Q-2

15. • JIM YONG KIM has been relected to which body?
Q-3

16. • Bezwada Wilson and musician TM Krishna
recently won which award
Q-4

17. • Who won the Womens Singles title at US
open 2016 ?
Q-5

18. • Who has been appointed as the next United
nations New Secretary general?
Q-6

19. Audience Question
• Identify

20. Audience question
• In 1891,James Naismith,Canadian American
Invented which game in order to interest his
pupils in physical activity.The game had to be
interesting,easy to learn and easy to play indoors
in Winter.
• Which game are we talking about?

22. Rules of Round
There are 8 questions in this round
•Three cards will appear of denomination
Golden:50,Silver: 30 and Bronze:20
•If you press the buzzer right for Golden Card you
get 50 but -25 for Wrong answer
•If you press the buzzer right for Silver Card you
get 30 but -15 for Wrong answer
•If you press the buzzer right for Bronze Card you
get 20 but -10 for Wrong answer

23. For Golden
Card you get
50 but -25 for
Wrong answer

24. Q-1
•Connect the words
Bloodstained,leapfrog,watchdog,
Fashionable, Moonbeam,
Assasination

25. If you press the buzzer
right for Silver Card you
get 30 but -15 for
Wrong answer

26. Q-2
•Which word comes from the Greek
word meaning general or well
rounded education?

27. If you press the buzzer right fo
Bronze Card you get 20 but
-10 for Wrong answer

28. Question 3
In 1960 a group of British naturalists
including biologist Sir Julian Huxley, artist
and conservationist ,Peter Scott and
ornithologists Guy Mountfort and Max
Nicholson started which Organization for
protection of Wildlife.

29. For Golden
Card you get
50 but -25 for
Wrong answer

30. Q-4
Whose first patented
invention was Electrical Vote
recorder?

31. If you press the buzzer
right for Silver Card you
get 30 but -15 for
Wrong answer

32. Q-5
• Amīr Khusro,one of India's greatest Persian-
language poets,is considered the Father of this
form of Music.Identify the music

33. If you press the buzzer right
for
Bronze Card you get 20 but
-10 for Wrong answer

34. Question 6
Name the creator of the two popular comic strips of
Phantom and Mandrake the Magician?

35. For Golden
Card you get
50 but -25 for
Wrong answer

36. Q-7
Name the Indian Born
American Biochemist who
won the Nobel Prize for
Medicine for research that
helped to show how the
nucleotides in nucleic acids,
which carry the genetic code
that control the cell's
synthesis of proteins

37. If you press the buzzer
right for Silver Card you
get 30 but -15 for
Wrong answer

38. Q-8
• What award does the International Olympic association give
for Fair play in sport in Olympics?
•

39. Audience
• Juan Carlos Ceriani a teacher in
Monttevideo Uruguay created a game for
YMCA that was inspired by Footbal by
taking rules from
Basketball,Waterpolo,Team Handball to
create a Indoor Game that has become
hugely popular.Identify the game

40. •6 Questions,on the buzzer
•30 marks for getting it correct
•-15 for getting it wrong
•Buzzers to be reset after a wrong
answer with same scoring system

47. Audience

49. Rules of Round
• 5 questions
•On the Buzzer
•5 questions
•20 for getting it
correct,-10 for getting
it wrong

50. With which Olympic sport will you
associate Greeco Roman and
Freestyle ?
Q-1

51. •She was born as Edvige
Antonia Albina Maino in
Contrada Maini in Luciana
Italy.In India how is she better
known as ?
Q-2

52. •With Which Brand will you
associate Gattu
Q-3

53. •Sri Lanka National Anthem is
Sung in Tamil and Which other
Language?
Q-4

54. •Which is the only Grand slam
played on Clay court
Q-5

55. Rules of tie breaker
•We will have total of 6 question
•A team that presser the buzzer and gets it right
wins the tie breaker
•In case of team gets it incorrect the other team
has to give the right answer to clinch it
•In case both teams gets it wrong we move on to
the next question

56. •In which field is
Anjolie Ela
Menon famous
Q-1

57. Q-2
•Over 70% of one horned rhinos
are found in which national
park?

58. Q-3
• Identify the Animal

59. Q-4
•Which country won the
Olympics Football gold medal
in Rio Olympics 2016?

60. Q-5
• A major International summit is
being hosted in Goa.The logo of
the same is given here
• Identify which Summits logo

62. THANK YOU

63. Q-2
•The penny farthing invented by
James Starley was the precursor
of which modern day vehicle
Additional questions

64. Additional questions
•Which team has won the
Ranji trophy the maximum
number of times?

65. Additional questions
•What is a chemical substance
produced by a living organism,
generally a microorganism, that
inhibits the growth of other
microorganisms known as?