iimb_ does grey matter quiz_finals_dec 2010

Does Grey Matter?The IIM Bangalore

QuizWelcome to the Finals

Let us Welcome the Top 8 Teams

Write to Score •10 visuals• All-written• +5 for each; +10 if you are one of the only 1 or 2 teams to get it

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Promo for which 2009 movie?

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What is this inspired by?

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Where will you find this?

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He is in this ad, because of playing which character?

ID this animal, the national symbol of a country in the Gulf region

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ID the country and what is depicted on this country’s flag?

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What is this logo based on?

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• What is this machine?

What’s blanked out?

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Fill in the blank

Exchange Sheets….

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1.District 92.Rebecca3.Bijapur (Gol Gumbaz)4.Doogie Howser MD5.Oryx, Qatar6.Lebanon, Green Cedar tree7.River Thames8.Ravioli pasta making machine9.B.O. / Body Odour10.Pondicherry

Clockwise • 8 Questions• No negatives•+10 for direct and pass

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Connect

The answer is...

Jingle Bells

Written by James Lord Pierpont, it was actually written and sung for Thanksgiving. Jingle Bell is is commonly taken to mean a certain kind of bell.

2In economics and business, _____ ____ is the impact that one user of a good or service has on the value of that product to other people. When it is present, the value of a product or service increases as more people use it. The classic example is the telephone. Facebook, twitter etc work in the same way. Fill in the blanks

The answer is...

Network Effect

3This is the “first” Amar Chitra Katha that came out. However there is something strange about its numbering. What and why?

The answer is...

#1 – 10 were reproductions of popular Western fairy tales in Indian languages.

41. Noida – have a dot2. Mumbai – have a diamond3. Hyderabad – have a star4. Kolkata – Nothing

What are we talking about?

The answer is...

Indian coins are mainly produced in 4 cities.

The production city puts an identification mark under the year of issue.

5The correct term to use belongs to

a specificcategory called space and motiondiscomfort that share similar

options fortreatment. Sufferers can be prone

to panic attacks.

The term used incorrectly in its place refers

to a spinning sensation that occurs when one

is not actually spinning, which can be

triggered by any type of movement. The latter

term became very famous in 1958.

Name the two terms

The answer is...

AcrophobiaVertigo

X is a financial institution started in 1911 by Sorabhji Pochkhanawala that was one of the first of its kind to be wholly owned and managed by Indians.

Y carries out its legal duties through the aegis of the DSPE, the post World War II avatar of the erstwhile War Department of British-occupied India, and is almost always in the news.

X and Y have the same abbreviation. Name both.

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X – Central Bank of IndiaY – Central Bureau of Investigation

The twitter feed @uriminzok is claimed to be futile. The feeds are written in the Hangul system. They are largely understood only by people living below the 38th parallel, who will disbelieve them. People above the parallel have very few personal computers and no broadband.

Explain this exercise in futility.

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The feed is run by the North Korean govt. Uriminzok is Korean for “our people”.

What’s the India Pavilion at the Shanghai World Expo 2010 inspired by? Incidentally, it’s the world’s largest bamboo structure.

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The answer is...

Sanchi Stupa

List It • 1 Question• 7 Answers• +5 for each• +10 for any that you are among 1 or 2 teams to get

There are seven countries that have the letter “J” in their name (anywhere, not just as starting letter).

Name them

Exchange Sheets….

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1.Japan2.Jordan3.Jamaica4.Djibouti5.Fiji6.Azerbaijan7.Tajikistan

Anti-Clockwise • 8 Questions• No negatives•+10 for direct and pass

Both A and B have won the boys titles at SW19. A also reached the semis at the main event in 1960 and 61, and B the quarters in 1986

A’s victory against Brazilian Thomas Koch, which took India to the finals for the first time, was emulated by B at the same tournament many years later when he beat Wally Masur in a decisive fifth match.

ID A and B.

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A – Ramanathan KrishnanB – Ramesh Krishnan

Some believe he picked it after the name of a character in a set of Persian poems. Others think that it is a reference to this monkey, a description of which appears in his story "The Remoulding of Groby Lington" 

Which famous pseudonym?

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The Senator for New York, Charles Schumer, who occasionally suffers from ‘foot in mouth’ disease, recently likened X to an illegal operation that disassembles saleable parts from stolen automobiles (Y).Schumer later said he actually meant Z, which according to the dictionary could mean a place where the exteriors of motor vehicles are built or repaired.

What are X, Y and Z?

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X – InfosysY – Chop ShopZ – Body Shop

On March 1, 1928, a freckled, snub-nosed 15-year-old boy scout Palle Huld left Copenhagen and circled the globe. Winner of a competition run by a Danish newspaper Politiken, Huld was re-enacting the Phileas Fogg adventure.

What newspaper appearance the following year suggests that Huld was a wholesome influence?

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On June 22, 1941 Soviet archaeologists opened the Samarkand crypt to study the body and found the inscription: “Whoever opens this will be defeated by an enemy more fearsome than I.” The first event Operation Barbarossa took place hours later.

As if to make non-believers change their mind, the second event, a total reversal of the first, took place five weeks after the great one was reinterred in 1942.

For full points, give the name of the buried, and the two events.

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The answer is...

TimurlaneHitler’s invasion of RussiaThe German Surrender at Stalingrad

What resulted?6

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Who is being introduced in this 1958 show?

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The answer is...

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ID all and Connect

The answer is...

Dilip Kumar, Prosenjit Chatterjee, A Nageswara Rao and KL Saigal – have all played Devdas on screen

Theme Time • 8 Questions – all on Indian cities• Questions pass normally for +10• Common Theme – in writing• Theme points on each slide

This city is referred to as the “rice bowl of India”, since it has hundreds of varieties of rice grown here. The Mahanadi river flows to the east of this city Name this capital city and the state

+30, -5

The answer is...

Raipur, Chattisgarh

Name him and the city that has an airport named after this tribal leader

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Birsa Munda, Ranchi

The ruins of the ancient town at Khokrakot prove that perhaps the town is as old as the Indus Valley Civilization. Traditionally, it is named after a Raja in whose days city is said to have been built. It is also claimed that the town derives its name from the Roherra (Tacoma undulate) tree.

Name this North Indian city

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The answer is...

Rohtak

A combination of a 7th centuty Shiva and Ganesha temple built on a rock, believed to be dating 3 Billion years ago. Where?

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The answer is...

Tiruchirapalli / Trichy

This city known as “Scotland Of the East”, was the capital of undivided Assam till 1972.

It has a football club whose name translates into “our own” in the native Khasi language.

Name the city

+20, -5

The answer is...

Shillong

Combining Biometric, anthropology and information technology together, Asia's first human DNA Bank has been set up in Biotech Park of this state capital.

Name the city

+20, -5

The answer is...

Lucknow

There are only two airports in India named after women. One is Indira Gandhi, who lends her name to many airports.

Who is the person and name the city in which the airport is located named after her?

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Devi Ahilyabhai Holkar, Indore

Who, landing where?

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The answer is...

Vasco De Gama in Calicut / Kozhikode

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