conQUIZtadorsPrelims

RULES

• 25 questions

• Write your names on the top of the sheet

• Write the question number followed by the answer in each line

• Inbuilt tie-breaker questions (Indicated by *)

• Top 5 teams make it to the finals

• No negative marking.. You are encouraged to guess.

• No laptops and smartphones

• Decisions of the quizmaster are final and binding

1Founded in 1984 by Sandy Lerner and Leonard Bosack, Company X became the world’s most valuable company with a market cap. of $500 billion for a brief duration in late March 2000.

Current board members include Carol Bartz and Jerry Yang (from Yahoo!)

Identify X

2*

Identify this vehicle.

3*To ensure 100% purity, every bottle of ABSOLUT vodka is washed with this liquid before the vodka is filled into it.

What is this liquid?

4

What’s the funda?

5X is the world’s 2nd largest optical storage media manufacturer and supplies to the world’s top dozen brands. This company was founded in New Delhi in 1983. 75% of its revenues come from exports.

Identify X

6The movie Manthan, by Shyam Benegal is based on which famous revolution in modern India?

7The seeds of this plant was originally consumed by the Aztecs (central American natives) as a drink on special occasions.

These seeds were also used as currency and tributes among the Aztec states.

In 1502, the Spanish invasion to central America resulted in Christopher Columbus discovering this amazing food which later became a regular delicacy in Spanish courts.

Sugar was mixed to make it taste better.

What are we talking about?

8

Identify the landmark in the center of this satellite map

9Nepal's telecom company Ncell recently brought 3G cellphone coverage to a place that is 8848m above sea level. Where exactly?

10Identify the word which is one of the latest additions to English dictionaries and which indicates the meaning “laid off due to outsourcing, esp. outsourcing to India or other parts of Asia”

11Which government service is absent from the states of Meghalaya, Sikkim, and Union Territories of Andaman and Nicobar Islands and Lakshadweep?

12*The logo for this product shows one and a half glasses of milk pouring into it and forming it, reflecting company claims that one and a half glasses of full cream milk go into the making of one pound of this product.

Which product?

13Which famous Indian sportsman is named after a famous Bollywood Music Director?

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Connect

15*X is an Australian journalist and computer programmer very much in the news for his efforts in ‘whistleblowing’.

He won the 2010 Amnesty International Media Award and Readers Choice nomination for TIME Magazine 2010 Person of the year.

Who is X?

16

Identify the logosGet the connect for an additional point

17In 1952, Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru was concerned that Indian women were spending precious foreign exchange money on beauty products.

He then initiated JRD Tata to launch an Indian beauty product company.

Which company?

18Widely regarded as the greatest English novelist from India, his style of prose is extremely simple, and so are most of the characters he has created.

He had an equally talented cartoonist brother, who was an icon by himself.

Name the novelist.

19This chess legend was rated World #1 in 1984 and he remained the top rated player in the world for over 20 years (1984 - 2005) except for a short period in 1996.

He was recently in the news for being arrested outside a Moscow court.

Identify the legend.

For one additional point, identify the computer that beat him in 1997.

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Recognize the voice?

21Which Hollywood movie won all the Oscars it was nominated for?

It also has a record of winning the most Oscar awards.

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23Identify the movie

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What phenomenon?

25NASA Astronaut Marsha S. Ivins placed the first-ever IP phone call from the international space station on February 10, 2001 via her ThinkPad laptop.

What technology made this possible?