Fresher CookerDOMS, IIT-Roorkee

Shreyash & MohitConducted By

Buzzing Crowdof

Finals

Rules• The quiz is split in 5 rounds– Infinite bounce– #followmeto– Infinite bounce 2.0– AD-o-Mania– MegaConnect

• Hint wont be given if atleast one team objects• Certain questions may fetch you a chocolate

• QuizMasters’ decision is final & binding

Round 1Infinite Bounce

• 12 questions• +10/0, on pounce : +10/-5

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• The canteen at IIM Ahmedabad is aptly titled “TANSTAAFL”. What is the full form of the canteen, one of the first lessons inculcated by educators worldwide to Business and Economics students?

There ain’t no such thing as a free lunch

2• Which company did four of them found in

2000?

Micromax

• Rahul SharmaVikas JainSumeet AroraRajesh Agarwal

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• France : Bonjour• China : NI HAU• Russia : ZDRAS-TVUY-TE• South Korea : AHN-YOUNG-HA-SE-YO• Kenya : JAMBO • UAE : ??

MARHABA

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• Name the business technique involving the sale of dependent goods for different prices – one good is sold at a discount, while the second dependent good is sold at a considerably higher price.

Gillette Razor Blade theory/Model

5What are these ?

Widely used Fonts

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X in Danish literally means "Play Well", however the Latin Translation seems more apt "I put together". However the founders of X claim that the name is purely Danish and the Latin name is purely coincidental. Years before plastic was invented X used wood.

Identify X.

LEGO

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• Identify the brand.

Marley Natural

• Marley Natural seeks to be the world's first global cannabis brand, developed by Bob Marley’s family in conjunction with Privateer Holdings of Seattle, Washington, US.

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• Season 1 Episode 8: The Pointy End • Season 2 Episode 9: Blackwater • Season 3 Episode 7: The Bear and the Maiden Fair • Season 4 Episode 2: The Lion and the Rose

What's common to this exhaustive list?

Episode’s ‘written by’ credit to George R.R. Martin

9• This fb page

has 2,127,559 likes as of yesterday.

• Name of the page and owners of the page?

Beast, Mark & Priscilla

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• Where will you find these lines form Kipling’s poem ‘if’

“If you can meet with triumph and disaster and treat those two imposters just the same.”

Center Court, Wimbledon

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• X was firstly started in 1666 in Germany. In India, X was formed in 1948 . A committee headed by Pandit H.N Kunzru recommended it’s establishment at a national level. Following the 1962 Sino-Indian War, to meet the requirement of the Nation , it was made compulsory in 1963. In 1968, it was again made voluntary.

• X ?

NCC(National Cadet Corps)

12• This is the founder talking about how he named his

creation. Name what he created-

• “One day I was in San Francisco in a coffee shop, and I was thinking __________ is a good name. And then a waitress came, and I said, "Do you know about __________?" And she said yes... …And I said, "Yes, this is the name!" Then I went onto the street and found 30 people and asked them, "Do you know __________?" People from India, people from Germany, people from Tokyo and China … they all knew about ____________.

Alibaba

Round 2#followmeto

• 8 locations• Identify place(+5) and country/city(+5)• Write the answer, don’t shout out, No pounce• No negatives• Pic credits : Murad Osmann

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Big Budhha, HongKong18

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Answers

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Taj Mahal, Agra

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Hawa Mahal, Jaipur

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Petra, Jordan

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Big Budhha, Hong Kong

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Holocaust Memorial, Berlin

Big Budhha, HongKong18

Infinity pool, MBS, Singapore

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Kremlin, Moscow

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Big Ben/Palace of Westminster, London

Round 3Infinite bounce 2.0

• 12 questions• +10/0, on pounce : +10/-5

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• What is this ?

The Fibonacci Clock

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• Fill the series

5, 1, 3, 2, 2020, ?

.5, Chetan Bhagat books

23• Hamish McDonald is a print journalist and author of a series of polemic

political commentaries on various Asia-Pacific subjects. He served as the Delhi bureau chief for the Far Eastern Economic Review for several years.

• In 1998,he published an unauthorized biography “X” , of Y, an Indian entrepreneur. In X, both Y’s achievements and shortcomings were reported , but family of Y threatened legal action if the book were published in India, so it was never sold in India.

• However, expurgated edition, entitled ”Z”, was approved for publication in 2010.

• Identify X, Y, Z.

• X – Polyester prince• Y – Dhirubhai Ambani• Z – Ambani & Sons

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• Just Do IT• Dan Wieden coined the Nike Punchline taken

from last words of Gary Gilmore who was an American criminal who gained international notoriety for demanding the execution of his death sentence for two murders he committed in Utah

25• This is Mosul’s Ninawa International Hotel.

What is so special about it ?

ISIS’s own luxury hotel

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• 40 devotees of Maa Manglagauri Mandir in Gaya town, Bihar have opened a bank for their financial betterment.

• Who are the principal founders of the bank or what is this bank’s uniqueness?

for beggars, run by beggars

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• Identify the missing company.

MYNTRA.COM

• Companies Acquired by Flipkart

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• X brand of scotch whisky was struggling to gain market share and its sales were low. Its owners doubled its price -- without changing the whisky -- and saw unit sales double. This has become a term in Marketing X Effect.

• X ?

Chivas Regal Effect

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0 is ISO/TC 68 and other industry assignments 1 and 2 signify Airlines 3 is Travel and Entertainment4 and 5 are Banking and Financial6 is Merchandizing and Banking7 is Petroleum8 is Telecommunication9 is a National assignment

What are we talking about?

Credit Card first Digit (MMI)

• The major industry identifier tells you what the card is for.

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Absolut tribute to which artist?

Jackson Pollock

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What is this list all about ?

Countrywise restaurants with Michelin stars

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Thousands of years ago, the Kurukshetra war, between Pandavas and Kauravas, was the mother of all wars. All the kings; hundreds of them, aligned themselves on one aide or the other. The king of X however chose to remain neutral. He spoke to Krishna and said, "Those who fight battles have to eat. I will be the caterer for this battle.“

And according to legend how did the king of X ensure that the right amount of food was cooked everyday? (A legend used to indicate that the entire war was in Krishna’s hands)

X - Udupi.Giving Krisna groundnuts for dinner,Krishna eating the number of nuts * 1000 = number of people to die next day

Round 4AD-o-Mania

• 8 ads of famous brands• Write down the answer• 1 team answers : +12• 2 team answers : +6• 3 team answers : +4• 4 team answers : +3• 5 team answers : +2• 6 team answers : +1• No negatives

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Answers

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Airtel Contacts backup

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Hotwheels

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Wonderbra

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IKEA

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Scrabble

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KFC

39

aerie

40

FedEx

Round 5MegaConnect

• 8 slides, scores written on each slide• Single try at a slide• Don’t shout out the answer

+80/-40

+70/-35

+60/-30

+50/-25

+40/-20

+30/-15

+20/-10

+10/0

Companies with Indian born CEOs

• Diageo - Ivan Manuel Menezes (Pune)• Reckitt Benckiser - Rakesh Kapoor (Bareilly)• Adobe System – Shantanu Narayen (Hyderabad)• MasterCard - Ajaypal Singh Banga (Pune)• Nokia – Rajeev Suri (New Delhi) • PepsiCo - Indra Nooyi (Madras)• Microsoft - Satya Nadella (Hyderabad)• Google - Sundar Pichai (Madras)

Thank You !