A general quiz held at BNMIT for the IEEE event BNMIT SARVATRA, Final round.

1. THE FINALS...

2. ROUND 1:DRIES

3. Rules for the rounds……
• +10 for direct/pass.
• +15/-5 for a pounce.

4. LET’S START THE FINALS

5. 1:Name the only CEO to have featured on The
Vogue magazine cover?

7. Marissa Mayer. (YAHOO.)

8. 2: Specs of what?
• 5-inch, 52-column display.
• 2 floppy disk drives.
• A Z80 microprocessor.
• 64KB of RAM.
• Could fit under an airplane seat.
• It could survive an accidental crash.
• Included a bundled software package that included the CP/M OS, the
BASIC programming language, the WordStar word processing
package, and the SuperCalc spreadsheet program.

10. Osborne 1, the first ever laptop.

11. 3: “640 K ought to be enough for anybody.”
• Famous line by whom about what?

13. Bill Gates said this in 1981 when IBM
introduced a PC with 640KB of memory.

14. 4: From a 1995 “Book of 101 Un-Useless Japanese
inventions” to making to the 25 best inventions of
2014. ID this Wand Of Narcissus.

16. Selfie stick.

17. 5: This was invented by Ted Selker at PARC only
because of the fact that it took 0.75 seconds to
shift your hands from keyboard to the mouse.
What are we talking about?

19. Pointing Stick / Trackpoint.

21. 6: What connects Facebook, Samsung, Ericsson,
MediaTek, Microsoft, Opera Software and
Qualcomm?

23. All companies are a part of Internet.org

24. 7: There are many popular theories about how
this came about. One of the anecdotes goes thus:
• Once X went to the Watson’s Hotel in Bombay. The swanky hotel
which at the time allowed only European into their premises did not
allow X to enter. Enraged by this, X built the magnificent Y opened on
Dec 16th 1903 which has been a landmark ever since.
• ID X and Y.

26. X: Jamsetji Tata.
Y: The Taj Mahal Palace in Mumbai

28. 8: Love, courage, patience, peacefulness,
kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness,
selfcontrol, selflessness, selfsacrifice, truthfulness,
righteousness, justice, mercy, graciousness,
humility, empathy, sympathy, supreme knowledge,
supreme wisdom, supreme wisdom, love for
beings, hope, trust or faith in the goodness of god
or nature.
What are these virtues from ancient India
represented by, in modern in India?

30. The 24 spokes of Ashok Chakra.

32. 9: Around 1930, during the Dasara season, the
umber of travelers heading for the Mysore Dasara
festival was overwhelming. Narsimha Upadhaya a
cook in a local restaurant on the way needed to
use all his imagination to come up with something
quick, tasty and filling. He took Chiroti Rava ,
Maida, Rice powder, onions, chillies, coriander, salt
and ghee and patted the paste into flat cakes and
fried them crisp. What was born?

35. 10: Basketball was invented in 1891 by James
Naismith. But in the initial days, the game was not
popular as it was very tedious and time
consuming.
Finally in 1904, what ‘rule change’ made the sport
exciting and popular?

37. The baskets were replaced with metal hoops.

38. 11: ______ is a Genus of jellyfish, with only one known
species, which are found off the central eastern coast of
Australia. Marine biologists Lisa Ann Gershwin and Peter
Davie first described the Genus in 2013.
The name of the Genus ______ is a reference to a
famous catch phrase said by a more famous character X
on Y, a popular T.V show.
What is the name of the catch phrase/Genus?

40. Bazinga!!

41. 12: Where will you find a high school football
coach, a bank teller, a messenger service owner, a
stock broker, a painter, a salesman, an architect, a
garage owner, a watch maker, an advertising
executive and 2 other people of unknown
professions in a single room?

43. 12 Angry Men.

44. END OF ROUND 1

45. ROUND 2:DIFFERENTIATE

46. Rules for this round:
• 5 questions common to all.
• Scoring pattern:
10*(No. of teams that don’t get the answer).

47. SECOND ROUND BEGINS……….

48. 1: According to the traffic cops, Bangalore has 260
these, some of them dating back to the 1970s.
Which convenience/ inconvenience?

49. 2: ID this movie with the help of this
minimalistic poster.

50. 3: This was founded as the Golden State
___________ in 1970 by a group of enthusiasts in
California, and is now the largest of its kind in the
world.
Its is the home of awards such as the Inkpot
Award and Will Eisner Awards.
It has an annual regional economic impact of
$162.8 million.

51. 4: Connect:

52. 5:ID the singer of the song.

53. 1: According to the traffic cops, Bangalore has 260
these, some of them dating back to the 1970s.
Which convenience/ inconvenience?

54. One ways.

55. 2: ID this movie with the help of this
minimalistic poster.

57. 3: This was founded as the Golden State
___________ in 1970 by a group of
enthusiasts in California, and is now the
largest of its kind in the world.
Its is the home of awards such as the Inkpot
Award and Will Eisner Awards.
It has an annual regional economic impact of
$162.8 million.

58. COMIC-CON

59. 4: Connect:

60. All these companies have CEOs of Indian
origin.
• Satya Nadella. (Microsoft)
• Sundar Pichai. (Google)
• Punit Renjen.(Deloitte)
• Shantanu Narayen. (Adobe)

61. 5:ID the singer of the song.

62. Monali Thakur.

63. END OF ROUND 2

64. ROUND 3
TAKE YOUR PICK

65. Rules:
• Choose the topic you prefer.
• Bid for your points. (Max 50)

66. YOUR CHOICES:
SCIENCE&TECHNOLOGY POLITICS LITERATURE
PRINT AD SPORTS HISTORY
CURRENT AFFAIRS ENTERTAINMENT MISC

67. By what name do some scientists and students
celebrate every 23rd October between 6:02pm
and 6:03pm?
NAME THE DAY.

68. Avogadro day. (6.022X10^23)

69. Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is an autoimmune disease that results
in a chronic, systematic inflammatory disorder that may affect
many tissues and organs, but principally attacks flexible
(synovial) joints. It can be disabling and painful condition, which
can lead to substantial loss of functioning and mobility if not
adequately treated.
Who, in the world of cricket, is the most famous person suffering
from this disease?

70. Billy Bowden.

71. After the Supreme Court verdict of 27 September
2013, India became the 14th country to adopt this
practice .
This is an improvement over the earlier practice
under Section 49(O) of the Conduct of Election
Rules, 1961.
Jaspal Bhatti’s wife Savita floated a party inspired
by this.
What are we talking about?

72. NOTA.

73. ID the group.

74. Donald Duck and his nephews, Huey, Dewey
and Louie.

75. Print ad for?

76. Dove.

77. Put funda.

78. Salma Dam.

79. Connect:
• Mekhri Circle.
• Kempambudhi Lake
• Lalbagh. (Double Road)
• Ulsoor

80. Locations of Kempegowda’s pillar.

81. ________ is an international criminal master mind
whose ultimate goal is a world in perfect balance.
He believes that the best way to achieve this
balance is to eliminate most of humanity. He
usually tries to assault the world’s human
population with a Biological weapon such as a
genetically engineered virus.
His name in Arabic literally means “The Demon’s
Head.”

82. Ra’s al Ghul.

83. This classic recounts how a yaksha, a subject of
king Kubera, after being exiled to central India for
a year, for neglecting his duties, covinces a passing
cloud to take a message to his wife at Alaka on
Mount Kailash. ID the book and the writer.

84. Meghadootam by Kalidasa