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FRESH AIR

THE WALL STREET

AS EASY AS 123

SONE KI CHIDIYA

TWO FACE

BREAD & BUTTER

APP ALL KNIGHT!

X is a generic trademark owned by Sealed Air Corporation. In 1957 two inventors named Alfred Fielding and Marc Chavannes were

attempting to create a 3D plastic wallpaper. Although the idea was a failure, they found that what they did make could be used as

packing material. X?

FRESH AIR 20

Bubble Wrap

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Earlier this year, AirAsia launched a special X themed aircraft painted with ________’s image featuring a special menu. It flew from cities like Bengaluru, New Delhi, Goa and Pune to Chennai on July 15 to enable the passengers

to watch X before the rest of the world. What was the reason behind this hysterical

promotion?

FRESH AIR 40

Kabali

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X, also known as the Chinese top, is a toy rotor that flies up when its shaft is spun. It originated

in 400 BCE in China, consisting of feathers at the end of a stick. It was the object of early

experiments by George Cayley, the inventor of modern aeronautics and is considered to be the first tangible helicopter. Where have we all seen

this Chinese toy?

GERMANYFRESH AIR 60

Bamboo-copter

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FRESH AIR 80

Ajay Singh is co-founder and owner of Indian airline SpiceJet. He transferred the ownership

of the company to Sun Group's chairman Kalanithi Maran in 2010 but re-acquired it in

2015. In the meantime, he was the brain behind a popular 5 word phrase that

resonated among the public in 2014. What am I talking about?

Ab Ki Baar Modi Sarkar

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BHAIWALL STREET 20

At the beginning of this year, few images went viral because of the plaintive, yet sullen

Devanagari words resembling the graffiti produced by thousands of jilted lover across bathroom walls and bus seats. The meme re-

rose to public attention again lately with Facebook events and pages being created in

response to the clarion call. What?

Sonam Gupta Bewafa Hai

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BHAIWALL STREET 40

This journey is undertaken by millions of people, vehicles, animals and objects every

year. It starts from a low-rise residential area and ends at the first of its kind walkway in the

United States, having opened in 1870. A plaque commemorating Charles Darrow can

be found near the second location.

Monopoly

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BHAIWALL STREET 60

This is the currency of which state?

ISIS

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X is a North American brand distributed by ConAgra Foods. X is manufactured by Golden Valley M_______ Foods from Edina, Minnesota.It was the successor to a refrigerator variety with a similar name that was introduced by GVMF in 1981 and the first mass-marketed

variety of its type. X?

123 20

Act II Popcorn

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123 40

2048 combos

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KATE123 60

Surprisingly, X doesn’t have a local name due to its remoteness. It is not visible from

Askole, the last village to the south and is only glimpsed from the end of the Baltoro.The name is derived from the notation used by the Great Trigonometric Survey of British India when Thomas Montgomerie made the

first survey of the Karakoram. X?

K2

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123 80

The Kaali Peeli Taxi took on Ola and Uber earlier this year by launching an app for

booking cabs at government regulated rates. The app that allowed the traditional cabs to

become high-tech was discontinued in October 2016 due to low financial support.

What was the app called?

9211

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KATEINDIA 20

The Indian government was left red faced after a glaring mistake was spotted in a

poster for the ‘Incredible India’ campaign featuring a stock image of the Annapurna

mountains. What was the error?

The image was shot in Nepal.

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KATEINDIA 40

Twelve people attending an international film festival in the Trivandrum were arrested

last Monday and charged with “failure to obey an order issued by a public servant,

thereby causing obstruction or annoyance to others”. In Chennai, eight people were

assaulted by the police for the same reason. What?

Supreme Court’s ruling to play the national anthem before every film.

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KATEINDIA 60

Sanjiv Mehta is an India-born British businessman. In mid-2000s, Mehta bought majority stake in several comapanies with

name similar to X, like the X Tea Bars and X Tea Rooms Limited. In 2010, he re-launched the business operating in the luxury retail

space as a purported revival of the historic X that was dissolved in 1874. X?

East India Company

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TWO FACE 20

Hannah Montana

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TWO FACE 40

Earlier this year, X launched SRT, a sports management company. Former Tata Group senior executive Mrinmoy Mukherjee is the CEO of the company. X will now engage in multiple initiatives such as brand building

and commercial engagements, supported by a dedicated team at SRT. Who is behind this

venture?

Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar

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TWO FACE 60

Rated only 3 out of 5 stars on TripAdvisor, Jaddu’s Food Field is a restaurant in Gujarat. Recently it came into news when the RMC pulled down an illegally constructed store room and kitchen of the restaurant. Who

owns this restaurant?

Ravindra Jadeja

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FOOD 20

Chester Cheetah is a fictional character and the official mascot for X. According to an episode

of Unwrapped, the mascot was created by Hawley Pratt, the same man behind the Pink

Panther. X was invented by Charles Elmer Doolin and is today distributed by a subsidiary

of PepsiCo. X?

Cheetos

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FOOD 40

The Salt Lake Stadium with a capacity of 68,000 was the second largest football

stadium in the world before its renovation in 2011. It was established in 1984 because the

club grounds in the Maidan area were too small for the huge crowd that occupied the

grounds and the ‘gardens’ were too big. Where would you find this stadium?

Kolkata

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FOOD 60

Coca Cola’s X campaign was one of the best-performing marketing campaigns in its

history. Coca Cola traded out its iconic logo for 250 of the country's most popular ______.

Additionally, consumers could share their stories on Twitter with the hashtag #X and

their photos featured on the company's website. Name the campaign.

BACK

APP 20

Connect:

My, TV, Cinema, Chat Messenger, Music, Join, Mags, XpressNews, Security, Drive, Switch,

Money Wallet

Jio

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APP 40

While the government and organizations were announcing huge cash prizes, on 23

August 2016, Uber India issued an update to app changing how the cars looked on the

map. What was the change?

Replaces cars with shuttlecocks

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APP 60

GottaGo is an application by StartupGarageVentures operational in Mumbai, Pune and

Delhi. It provides a list of extensively mapped restaurants, malls, railway stations, museums and hotels ranked by users and an expert team. When would you use this app?

Locate Toilets

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APP 80

A blog post titled ‘How to Eliminate the Green _____ in your Life’ provides a unique

outlook towards yoga. It claims yellow sharpens intelligence, red teaches to use your

tongue wisely, blue develops knowledge of your three bodies, black blows away

destructive thought and white seeks wisdom. Put fundae.

Angry Birds

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JACK IN THE BOXIt's a Saturnalia miracle!

THE GAME CHANGER• 6 questions open to all teams on stage.

• Teams will choose to play the question for

50, 100 or 200 points after seeing the clue

but before seeing the question.

• ± points on correct / incorrect answer.

Theophilus Van Kannel was granted a patent for a which is described it as having "three

radiating and equidistant wings” The design possesses numerous advantages such as it is noiseless and prevents the entrance of wind

and dust. Van Kannel was reportedly motivated by his phobia of chivalry and

therefore designed this. What?

Q1

Revolving Doors

X were the runners up for TIME Person of the Year 2016. TIME claimed that hardly a week passed without news of some kind of breach by X. They affected government agencies like the NSA and IRS, companies like Yahoo! and LinkedIn and personalities like Serena and

Venus Williams and Mark Zuckerberg. Who?

Q2

Hackers

The ideology behind X is that humanity is a beautiful X. Loneliness, love, and children are

key elements in a man’s life. These three aspects have the same meaning that humans should spread love and loneliness is a lesson in itself. Y claims that for God, man is an X in

himself and claims that he is an X too. We heard this important message earlier this

year. X?

Q3

Q4The first documented use of X was as the

name of a creature in in Dr. Seuss's book If I Ran the Zoo in 1950. By the early 1960s, the term had spread throughout the US and at took on meaning of bookishness and social

ineptitude. Oral tradition holds that an alternate spelling was derived by altering the

word drunk to describe people who didn’t party. What?

Nerd / Knurd

Q6A myth about the word X says that in 1791

James Daly, a Dublin theater owner, bet that he could introduce a word into the language within 24 hours. He hired a group of urchins

to write a nonsense word on walls around Dublin. Within a day, the word was common currency and had acquired a meaning (since

no one knew what it meant, everyone thought it was some test). What?

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