ROUND ONE

Rules

• 6 Questions• Infinite bounce • Infinite Pounce• +10/0 on direct• +15/-10 on pounce

Q1

• Mahindra had recently launched Mahindra Gusto in India.

• What is unique about it, a first for scooters globally and a technology patented by the two-wheeler manufacturer?

Answer follows…..

Answer

• Height adjustable seat, upto 35mm

Q2 Logo progression of?

Answer follows…..

Answer : Buick Motor Division

Q3Given in the pic below is the 2015 Ford F -150 set to be released by the end of this year. An innovation in the manufacture of this vehicle enhances its fuel efficiency and mileage. What is so special about it?

Answer follows…..

Answer:

It is nearly made entirely of aluminium and very little steel. This makes it lighter and hence very fuel efficient.

Q4

• It’s earliest known use and mention is by Dorothy Levitt in her 1906 book The Woman and the Car which noted that women should "carry a little ____(1)___ in a convenient place when driving" thereby inventing the ____(2)____before it was introduced by manufacturers in 1914

• The earliest known ____(2)____ mounted on a motor vehicle appeared in Ray Harroun's Marmon racecar at the inaugural Indianapolis 500 race in 1911, he also claimed that it vibrated constantly due to the rough brick surface, rendering it largely useless.

• Elmer Berger is usually credited with inventing it because in fact he was the first to patent it (1921) and develop it for incorporation into production streetgoing automobiles by his Berger and Company.

ID this useful addition by filling the blank 2

Answer follows…..

Answer :

The rear view mirror !!

Q5• X is a now-abandoned, prefabricated industrial town

established in the Amazon Rainforest in 1928 by American industrialist Henry Ford to secure a source of cultivated rubber for the automobile manufacturing operations of the Ford Motor Company in the United States.

• Ford intended to use X to provide his company with a source of rubber for the tires on Ford cars, avoiding the dependence on British rubber. The project was ultimately a total failure.

• Identify X.

Answer follows…..

Answer : Fordlandia

Q6Edgar Heinrich is a German automobile designer and motorcycle designer. He began his career at BMW Motorrad as head of vehicle design (motorcycles) from 1986 to 2009.

From 2009 to 2012, he had a brief spell in an Indian Motorcycle company where he was vice president of product development, responsible for the design of ________, one of its recent models

He returned to BMW Motorrad in July, 2012 to take over from David Robb as director of design

ID the Indian Co he worked for and the famous product he designed.

Answer follows…..

Answer :

Bajaj and the Pulsar 200 NS

ROUND TWO

Rules

• Written round• 5 logos and 5 taglines to identify• 5 points for a correct answer• Bonus 5 points each for identifying all logos

and all taglines• No negatives

IDENTIFY THE LOGOS

1.Live to ride . Ride to live.

2.The power of dreams.

3.Celebrate awesomeness

4.You are the fuel.

5.Drive the change.

ID the Taglines

Answers follow……

Taglines

• 1. Harley Davidson• 2. Honda• 3. Tata Nano• 4. Maruti Suzuki Swift• 5. Renault

ROUND THREE

Rules

• 6 Questions• Infinite bounce • Infinite Pounce• +10/0 on direct• +15/-10 on pounce

Q1

The Gravity Field and Steady-State Ocean Circulation Explorer (GOCE) was the first of ESA's Living Planet Programme satellites intended to map in unprecedented detail the Earth's gravity field.

What nickname was given to the GOCE for its sleek, finned looks?

( Image follows..)

Answer follows…..

Answer

• Ferrari of space

Q2

Connect the images to a popular ad campaign of a famous brand

Answer follows…..

Answer : Chevrolet

1974 "Baseball, Hot Dogs, Apple Pie and Chevrolet" campaign that Car and Driver and other publications have ranked as the best automobile commercial of all time

Q3• This model was an automobile marque that was planned, developed, and

manufactured by the Ford Motor Companyduring the 1958, 1959, and 1960 model years, but Ford lost millions of dollars on its development, manufacturing and marketing.

• Thus the name ________ became synonymous with the "real-life" commercial failure of the predicted "perfect" product or product idea. Similar ill-fated products have often been colloquially referred to as ________

• ID this model dubbed the “wrong car at the wrong time” and is named after Henry Ford’s son.

Answer follows…..

Answer : Ford Edsel

Q4• The software powering X's cars is called X Chauffeur.• Lettering on the side of each car identifies it as a "self-driving car". The

project is currently being led by engineer Sebastian Thrun, former director of the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory .

• Thrun's team at Stanford developing the system for X, created the robotic vehicle Stanley which won the2005 DARPA Grand Challenge and its US$2 million prize from the United States Department of Defense.

• ID the company X

Answer follows…..

Answer : Well ……Google tries its hands everywhere….

Q5• Though numerous sources suggest a trend in a period in Xs

history when it named its vehicles after prominent winds and currents such as the Gulf Stream, the Jet stream, Bora and sirocco, a 2013 report by former advertising copywriter Bertel Schmitt of X, says that — after consulting knowledgeable sources— no conclusive evidence suggests that X employed a naming theme as such

• ID the company X

Answer follows…..

Answer : Volkswagen

• The Volkswagen Golf (after German for Gulf Stream), the Volkswagen Jetta (after the Jet stream), Volkswagen Bora (after bora), and Volkswagen Scirocco (after sirocco) and the Passat derived from the German word for trade wind.

Q6

What initiative are the following images a part of??

Answer follows…..

Answer :

Toyota Dream Car Art Contest invites children from all corners of the globe to share ideas about the future of mobility by drawing their dream cars

ROUND FOUR

Rules

• 8 topics are given• 9 options for each topic out of which 6 satisfy

the criteria asked• You can quit anytime with the points earned

but first mistake costs the whole score• Maximum 60 points to be earned

• Team with lowest points chooses first.

Example slide

TOPICS

1. Motor brands under GENERAL MOTORS

2. Formula 1 constructor companies

3. Final round bidders of India’s 126 medium

multirole combat aircraft defence deal

4. Motor brands under FIAT

5. Engine Configurations ( Cylinder Alignments )

6. French automobile manufacturers

7. National Highways present in Kerala

8. Countries with Right Hand Drive

Kerala

Indian States

Assam Goa

Delhi Mumbai Tamil Nadu

Chandigarh Punjab Manipur

Back

Chevrolet

GMC

Cadillac Detroit Electric

Baojun Falcon Buick

Lincoln Holden Vauxhall

Back

Mercedes

F1 Constructors

Shell Ferrari

Catterham Honda Lotus

Red Bull Infiniti Williams

Back

Dassult Raphael

Indian MMRCA

Eurofighter Typhoon

Sukhoi 30MKI

Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor

Boeing Super Hornet

Lockheed Martin F-16

Mikoyan MiG- 35 Saab Gripen Boeing F-15SESilent Eagle

Back

Abarth

FIAT

Cizeta RAM

Pagani Dodge Lancia

Maserati Lamborghini Jeep

Back

W16

Engine Configurations(Cylinder Arrangements)

W3 Inline Engine

V8 M6 X24

W24 V10 T4

Back

Bugatti

French Car Manufacturers

Siata Scania

Pugeot Microcar Renault

Multicar Citroen Exagon

Back

NH-47

National Highways In Kerala

NH-7 NH-15

NH-86 NH-49 NH-17

NH-208 NH-212 NH-213

Back

Brazil

Right Hand Drive

Sri Lanka Myanmar

South Africa China Japan

Indonesia Australia U.K.

Back

ROUND FIVE

Rules• LONG VISUAL CONNECT• 7 visuals• Exhaustive (repetitions not considered )• Points as indicated on each slide

+60/-30

+50/-25

+40/-20

+30/-15

+20/-10

+10/-5

+5/0

Answer follows…..

Vehicles to win Indian car of the year since its inception

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