ThE fOoL aNd FiNaL Prelims

- the s h o r t e s t prelims that you can get

Hosted by Saish Redkar

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X is what you are listening to.It was copied in the movie Y.

Id X and Y.

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5.How do we better know Bhanurekha Ganesan?

6. The erstwhile automobile companies DKW, Wanderer and Horch merged with a 4th company to form a new automobile company which had the same name as the 4th company. Which was the 4th company?

7*. This song consists of six sections: introduction, ballad, guitar solo, opera, hard rock and outro. This format, with abrupt

changes in style, tone and tempo, was unusual to rock music. Intro (0:00–0:49)Ballad (0:49–2:35)

Guitar solo (2:35–3:03)Opera (3:03–4:07)

Hard rock/Heavy metal (4:07–4:56)Outro (4:56–5:55)

8*. Give me the funda behind this graph.

9*. The inspiration behind the “Artists” logo.

ThE fOoL aNd FiNaL Prelims

-the s h o r t e s t prelims that you can get

ANSWERS

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X is what you are listening to.It was copied in the movie Y.

Id X and Y.

X - 1492 Conquest Of ParadiseY – Koyla by Rajesh Roshan

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PlayStation

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It stands for the number of times he’s won that particular grand slams

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Peter Cullen – the voice of Optimus Prime

5.How do we better know Bhanurekha Ganesan?

Please leave if you didn’t answer this

6. The erstwhile automobile companies DKW, Wanderer and Horch merged with a 4th company to form a new automobile company which had the same name as the 4th company. Which was the 4th company?

7*. This song consists of six sections: introduction, ballad, guitar solo, opera, hard rock and outro. This format, with abrupt

changes in style, tone and tempo, was unusual to rock music. Intro (0:00–0:49)Ballad (0:49–2:35)

Guitar solo (2:35–3:03)Opera (3:03–4:07)

Hard rock/Heavy metal (4:07–4:56)Outro (4:56–5:55)

Bohemian Rhapsody- Queen

8*. Give me the funda behind this graph.

Love Actually

9*. The inspiration behind the “Artists” logo in iPhone.

Bono from U2

Round hosted by Saket Jain

TECH + GENERAL ROUND

• 16 Questions.

• No Negative Marking.

• +10 For Correct.

• Written Round.

RULES

• It was a Live Conference scheduled for half an hour went on for over an hour and more than 200 questions were received on different aspects of the X. Identify blanked part?

• Community Radio

ANSWER

CONNECT W.R. T. ANIMATION TECHNOLOGY

• MOCAP – Motion Capture Technology

• X is the Indian domestic card payment network being set up by National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) at the behest of banks in India. X is regarded as indi’s answer to MasterCard. This scheme would be similar to domestic card schemes one of which is China UnionPay in China. Identify X?

• Rupay

ANSWER

• X is a Punjabi film based on real life events during the Khalistan movement, was banned by the Punjab Government on the eve of its release across theatres.

IDENTIFY

• Sadda Haq(Our right), The filmis based on the dark days of militancy in PunjabThe film has faced criticism that it seeks to glorify the Khalistani movement and militant leaders like Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale.

ANSWER

• X is a material which is created by drying the semi solid gel and removing the solvent. The material is visible in solid state with many of its inner poles filled with air, which accounts for its minimum density. The world’s lightest substance - X- that has a density of one sixth of the density of air. Identify x?

• Carbon Aerogel

ANSWER

• X is an initiative by the Reliance Industries in the field of biotechnological advancement. It is established as a part of the subsidiary of Reliance Life Sciences. X is the first to have a registered cord blood bank and repository in India as well as the entire region of South East Asia. Identify?

• Relicord

ANSWER

PUT FUNDA

• The book, titled "I am Malala", will be published by Weidenfeld & Nicholson in the UK and Commonwealth and by Little, Brown in the rest of the world.

ANSWER

• AMPRI- C-MMACS - CBRI - CCMB- CDRI - CECRI- CEERI - CFTRI - CGCRI - CIMAP - CIMFR - CLRI - CRRI - CSIO – CSMCR IIGIB - IHBT - IICB - IICT - IIIM- IIP - IMMT - IMTECH – IITR- NAL –l NBRI - NCL - NEERI - NGRI –NIO -NISCAIR - NISTADS - NML NPL – NEIST - SERC

CONNECT

• Subsidiaries of CSIR

ANSWER

CONNECT

• Big Three of Science fiction. Isaac Asimov Robert A. Heinlein and Arthur C. Clarke

• X owns the worlds largest private undersea cable system spanning 65,000 kms seamlessly connecting 40 key business markets in India, the Middle East, Asia, Europe, and the U.S. With its recent acquisition of eWave World, a pioneer in the global Wimax space, X has the capability to launch 4G services in over 50 countries. It has also acquired Vanco Group, enabling the company to provide managed services to over 230 countries and territories across the globe. Identify X.

• Reliance Globcom

• X was first used on April 3, 1973 by Motorola engineer Martin Cooper, head of a team working on X technologies.Cooper made the call on Sixth Avenue in New York, before going into a press conference using a Motorola DynaTAC – a device that weighed one kilogram, (2.2 pounds) and had a battery life of 20. Few days X become 40 years old. Identify X.

• Mobile Phone

ANSWER

• It is a Technology enhanced learning initiative involving IITs and Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) was first proposed by IISc Bangalore in the year 1999,[1] immediately following a Workshop on Technology Enhanced Learning conducted in Bangalore in collaboration with Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), Pittsburgh, USA. Identify?

• NPTEL

ANSWER

• 1. 2 multiplied by itself 57,885,161 times minus 1

• 2. 2 multiplied by itself 43,112,609 times minus 1

• 1 is which has over 17 million digits, is only the 48th Mersenne ever found and the 14th discovered by GIMPS.

•  what are we talking about?

• Prime Number/ Mersenne primes

ANSWER

• X seems to have been independently invented by Galileo Ferraris and Nikola Tesla, a working model having been demonstrated by them. Tesla applied for U.S. Patents ,was granted some of these patents. He presented his technical paper A New System for Alternating Current Motors and Transformers to the American Institute of Electrical Engineers (AIEE). Identify x?

• Induction Motor

ANSWER

• X is the stock market trading activity for an hour on the auspicious occasion of Deepawali. X in the stock market happens for about an hour on Diwali day. Usually, this trading session is held in the evening. It is a symbolic ritual which has been performed for years.Identify?

• Muhurat Trading

ANSWER

IDENTIFY?

• Anubhuti Coach- It is a state of the art LHB coaches with 50 seating capacity, featuring ergonomically designed cushioned seats, LCD screens, modular toilets and stylish interiors, announced in the Railway Budget of 2013 are to be produced at the Rae Bareli coach factory. They are fitted with automatic doors, the interiors and lighting arrangements will be aesthetically designed to enhance the ambience.

ANSWER

The Bread and Butter Round –

Utterly, Butterly, Delicious

Rules: You will be shown blanked out Amul ads. You need to give me the funda behind these ads. Another aspect of these ads is their awesome captions,

which too will be blanked out. You either guess the original caption OR give a caption

of your own. The caption written goes out to voting amongst the

teams (anonymous voting). 10 points for the correct funda. 15 points for the exact caption. 10 points if majority of the teams vote for your caption.

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Amul's take on CAG report that states nearly 150 coal fields were allotted to private and state-run firms without transparency and objectivity between 2005 and 2009. This led to a loss of Rs. 1, 80,000 crore to exchequer.

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The Satyam Computer Services scandal was a corporate scandal that occurred in India in 2009 where Chairman Ramalinga Raju confessed that the company's accounts had been falsified.

3.

This Amul ad takes a dig at businessman and Congress chief Sonia Gandhi's son-in-law Robert Vadra's controversial post on his Facebook account - "mango people in a banana republic.”Mr Vadra had been in the eye of the storm with activist-turned-politician Arvind Kejriwal calling his business transactions with real estate giant DLF illegal.

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The Shane-Warne and Elizabeth Hurley affair

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Amul inspired by the rave party busted by cops in Mumbai Television actors and real life couple, Apurva and Shilpa Agnihotri, and IPL cricketers Wayne Parnell and Rahul Sharma were among the celebrities at the party.

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Amul ad depicting the Indian cricket world without a sponsor. Sahara did not renew it’s contract of sponsorship with the BCCI - Feb'12

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Amul ad for the race to the Presidency between Pranab Mukherjee and PA Sangma

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See you at the movies, Red!- The Long Connection

1. Born as Norma Jeane Mortenson, she was an American actress, model, and singer in the early 1960’s. The final years of her life were marked by illness, personal problems, and a reputation for unreliability and being difficult to work with. The circumstances of her death, from an overdose ofbarbiturates, have been the subject of conjecture. In 1999, she was ranked as the sixth-greatest female star of all time by the American Film Institute. In 2009, TV Guide Network named her #1 in Film's Sexiest Women of All Time. +50/-25

2.”Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.”

+30/-15

3. Born as Margarita Carmen Cansino, X Y was an American dancer and film actress who achieved fame during the 1940s as one of the era's top stars. Appearing first as X Cansino, she agreed to change her name to X Y and her natural dark brown hair color to dark red to attract a greater range of roles. She is listed by theAmerican Film Institute as one of the 100 Greatest Stars of All Time.

+20/-10

4. Born as Jo Raquel Tejada, she is an American actress and sex symbol. She came to attention as a new star on the 20th Century Fox lot in the mid-1960s. She posed iconically in an animal skin bikini for the British-release One Million Years B.C. (1966), for which she may be best known.

+10/0

See you at the movies, Red!- The Long Connection

ANSWERS

1. Born as Norma Jeane Mortenson, she was an American actress, model, and singer in the early 1960’s. The final years of her life were marked by illness, personal problems, and a reputation for unreliability and being difficult to work with. The circumstances of her death, from an overdose ofbarbiturates, have been the subject of conjecture. In 1999, she was ranked as the sixth-greatest female star of all time by the American Film Institute. In 2009, TV Guide Network named her #1 in Film's Sexiest Women of All Time.

Marilyn Monroe

2.”Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.”

3. Born as Margarita Carmen Cansino, X Y was an American dancer and film actress who achieved fame during the 1940s as one of the era's top stars. Appearing first as X Cansino, she agreed to change her name to X Y and her natural dark brown hair color to dark red to attract a greater range of roles. She is listed by theAmerican Film Institute as one of the 100 Greatest Stars of All Time.

Rita Hayworth

4. Born as Jo Raquel Tejada, she is an American actress and sex symbol. She came to attention as a new star on the 20th Century Fox lot in the mid-1960s. She posed iconically in an animal skin bikini for the British-release One Million Years B.C. (1966), for which she may be best known.

Raquel Welch

“Remember Red, hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies”