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MERRY QUIZTMAS!Powered by INFINITY
R1: VISA ON ARRIVAL
R1: VISA ON ARRIVAL
• Each team will choose a country of their
choice; the last team will also have two
choices.
• Questions will pass clockwise.
• Flat scoring of 10 points. No negatives.
NEXT ROUND
R1: VISA ON ARRIVAL
INDIA
JAPAN
GERMANY USA
RUSSIA CHINA
ITALY
Vishal Malhotra, a Delhi based engineer,
quit his job at Accenture to join Balaji’s
acting school in Mumbai. He made news
in February 2015 when he played the
role a befuddled character, which
became a national sensation. Which
campaign was he the face of?
INDIA
Mauka Mauka by StarSports
BACK
First established in 1738 as a stand for
peddlers, Antica ________ Port'Alba was
opened in 1830 in the town center in
the city of Naples, Italy. This restaurant
quickly grew popular and led to the
creation of ubiquitous business in the
modern world. What?
ITALY
World’s first pizzeria
BACK
1936: Wallis Simpson
1937: Soong Mei-ling
1952: Queen Elizabeth II
1986: Corazon Aquino
2015: ?
GERMANY
Angela Merkel
Female Time Person of the Year
BACK
USA
Harley Davidson
BACK
This is a gas-operated 7.62×39mm
assault tool. It is documented as
the Avtomat Kalashnikov and was
developed in the Soviet Union by
Mikhail Kalashnikov in 1947. More
than 75 million of this have been
produced. What am I describing?
RUSSIA
AK-47
BACK
X featured extensive landscaping of a
fixed campus at Midoriyama Studios in
Yokohama, Japan. The track included
large man-made lakes and permanent
obstacles. X aired between 1986 and
1990 and quickly became a cult
television hit. What am I talking about?
JAPAN
Takeshi’s Castle
BACK
FedEx has been responsible for five
such deliveries to Washington, Paris,
Memphis, Edinburg and Memphis. The
delivery planes were equipped with
white enclosures with holes and stocks
of bamboo, apple and fresh water.
What was special about the deliveries?
CHINA
Pandas
BACK
R2: MADAME TUSSAUDS
R2: MADAME TASSAUDS
• Each team will choose a country of their
choice; the last team will also have two
choices.
• Questions will pass anticlockwise.
• Flat scoring of 10 points. No negatives.
NEXT ROUND
R2: MADAME TASSAUDS
BHAI
Salman Khan of KhanAcademy
BACK
JK ROWLING
Diagon Alley
BACK
OBAMA
Ahmed Mohamed’s Clock Incident
BACK
The Bill Gates Foundation released
a report in 2014 reporting the
deadliest animal in the world. With
more than 725,000 people killed by
it every year, which animal topped
this list?
GATES
Mosquito
BACK
Aamir Khan came up with an out of
the ordinary promotion idea for
one of his movies X, released in
2012. He was in talks with Google
to bring the campaign to the every
Internet user’s homepage, but the
deal wasn’t signed. Which movie?
AAMIR
He wanted to replace the Search button
with Talaash.
BACK
SACHIN
BACK
KATE
Mauka Mauka by StarSports
BACK
R3: INVISIBLE ANALYTICS
R3: INVISIBLE ANALYTICS
• 4 questions with progressive clues
open to all teams on stage.
• +40 on 1st clue, +20 on 2nd clue, +10
on 3rd clue and +5 on 4th clue.
• A constant negative of –5.
RAINBOW
+40 / -5Au
RAINBOW GOLD
+30 / -5Au
RAINBOW GOLD
FEVER
+10 / -5Au
RAINBOW GOLD
FEVER MIRCHI
+5 / -5Au
RAINBOW GOLD
FEVER MIRCHI
Au
Indian FM Stations
Atmosphere of a place
+40 / -5Q1
Atmosphere ofa place Largest ocean
+20 / -5Q1
Atmosphere of a place Largest ocean
French for walk
+10 / -5Q1
Atmosphere of a place Largest ocean
French for walk Entrance that is not towards the East
+5 / -5Q1
Atmosphere of a place Largest ocean
French for walk Entrance that is not towards the East
Q1
Malls in Delhi-NCR
A software by Adobe
+40 / -5Q2
A software by Adobe
Playing card found apart from 4 suits
+20 / -5Q2
A software by Adobe
Playing card found apart from 4 suits
+10 / -5Q2
A software by Adobe
Playing card found apart from 4 suits
+10 / -5Q2
A software by Adobe
Playing card found apart from 4 suits
+10 / -5Q2
Malls in Delhi-NCR
+40 / -5Q3
+20 / -5Q3
+10 / -5Q3
+5 / -5Q3
Q3
Property colors in Monopoly
+40 / -5Q4
+20 / -5Q4
+10 / -5Q4
+5 / -5Q3
Namastey London
Chandni Chowk to China
Bombay Talkies
Delhi 6
Q3
Movies with names of places
R4: DIFFERENTIAL
R4: DIFFERENTIAL
• 6 questions open to all teams on
stage.
• +60/N for correct and -30/N for
incorrect where N is the number of
teams that chose to answer.
Volcanion was leaked in the January
2016 issue of CoroCoro magazine on
December 12, 2015, and it was officially
revealed on December 14, 2015. It is
both fire and water abilities. At number
721, Volcanion the newest addition to
which list?
Pokémon
X was started by a 19-year-old entrepreneur
named Tom Lyle Williams in 1915. He noticed
his older sister Mabel applying a mixture of
Vaseline and coal dust to her eyelashes to
give them a darker, fuller look. He adapted it
with a chemistry set and produced the first
product of X. Which cosmetic brand?
Maybelline
What branded item for the Indian
Railways is processed at plants at
Nangloi (Delhi), Danapur (Patna),
Palur (Chennai) and Amethi?
Rail Neer
On April 3, 1996, the New Zealand
cricket team played against West
Indies in an ODI. New Zealand won
the match by 4 runs. Who won the
Man of the Match award?
The whole New Zealand team
MOTM
.wwf PDF
R5: THE WALL STREET
R5: THE WALL STREET
• 6 questions open to all teams on
stage from the world of business.
• Teams will choose to play the question for 10, 20 or 30 points after
seeing the company but before
seeing the question.
On Thursday, December 10th 2015,
Uber offered a special service
called uberACES. What was it all
about?
Q1
A fan wagon for IPTL
The Big Mac Index is published by The
Economist as an informal way of
measuring the purchasing power parity
(PPP) between two currencies. India
has a score of 30 for ($50) on the index.
How does the index work?
Q2
It counts how many Big Macs you
can buy for the equivalent of $50.
Labelled as ultra-filtered _________,
Fairlife is a brand by the Coca-Cola
Company in the United States under
the MinuteMaid label. What kind of a
beverage is Fairlife by this soft-drink
manufacturer?
Q3
Milk
Q4
Self Lacing Shoes
Q5
Vilgax from Ben10
According to Guinness, X is the world’s most
widely recognized English song. The melody
of this song has been derived from ‘Good
Morning to All’. Warner Brothers had a
copyright over X, until a court ruling
declared the claim was invalid. Which
ubiquitous song am I talking about?
Q8
Happy Birthday to You
TIE BREAKER
TIE BREAKER
Who in this world would you see driving a green 1976 British Leyland Mini 1000?
TIE BREAKER
Name as many aliens as you can from Ben 10: Secret of the Omnitrix.
TIE BREAKER