JAQUIZZI

(The Jaipur Quiz Club)

Chapter IV
Quizmaster : Ankit Soni
Round 1 :Direct

Scoring : 10 questions
+10 for correct
no negative
infinte bounce
Q1.1
An Intel Pentium MMX processor powers this. The
software for this was written by someone called Walt
Woltosz. It comes along with a voice synthesizer and a
wireless remote control for entertainment systems.
One of the most famous personalities of our times
uses this. What is it?
Ans:
Stephen hawkins’ wheel chair.
Q1.2
This company started in Ohio in 1898 with making
bicycle and carriage tires, rubber horseshoe pads, and
poker chips. The company grew with the advent of an
automobile which is a legend in itself and recently
completed its century recently.Which famous
company are we here referring to?
Ans:
Goodyear
Q 1.3
The word X is derived from the Proto-Germanic
language. X was first used by the Greeks. It was
referred to as Kibisis, the sack carried by the
god Hermes and the sack in which the mythical hero
Perseus carried the decapitated head of the monster
Medusa.
In Spain , X was used to carry smoking leaves so as to
trap the essence and freshness of the leaves. 
ID X . 
Ans:
wallet
Q1.4
October 12th has been celebrated each year as a
national holiday in the U.S. since 1792 to
commemorate a great achievement by a non-
American person and the day is named in his
honor. The country of birth of this person started
celebrating this day from October 12th 2004. You
have to identify this person.
Ans:
Christopher Columbus
Q1.5
His father served in the RAF during World War II.
When the writer was 8, his mother separated from his
father and married a Punjabi-Hindu Mr.Hari who
himself was married once. He has lived in Landour
since the 1960s, having previously also lived, as a child
and young man, in Shimla, Jamnagar, Mussoorie,
Dehradun, and London.He has written more than 300
short stories and is often compared to William
Wordsworth.Who?
Ans:
Ruskin Bond
Q1.6
X lives on the slopes of Mount Vesuvius, next to
Naples, Italy. Her primary motivation is to steal Y's
Number One Dime and melt it in the fires of the
volcano to turn it into a powerful magical amulet,
capable of granting the Midas Touch.She sometimes
teams up with Z which are mostly known by their
chest numbers (which consist of 1,6,7 only).
Identify X,Y,Z.
Ans:
X – Magica
Y - Scrooge McDuck
Z- The Beagle Boys
Q1.7
The name of this company was created as a
contraction of the words "Mosaic killer“. The logo was
a reference to the name of the fictional monster
Godzilla.
Presently holds the second position in the area of
interest.
Which company?
Ans:
Mozilla
Q1.8
The company was started at the Eleutherian Mills, on the Brandywine
Creek, near Wilmington, Delaware, USA two years after the founder and
his family left France to escape the French Revolution. It began as a
manufacturer of gunpowder, as the founder had noticed that the industry
in North America was lagging behind Europe and saw a market for it. The
company grew quickly, and by the mid 19th century had become the largest
supplier of gunpowder to the United States military, supplying as much as
half of the powder used by the Union Army during the American Civil War.
In 2005, the Company ranked 66th in the Fortune 500 on the strength of
nearly $28 billion in revenues and $1.8 billion in profits.
businesses are organized into the following five categories, known as
marketing "platforms": Electronic and Communication Technologies,
Performance Materials, Coatings and Color Technologies, Safety and
Protection, and Agriculture and Nutrition.

Which company??
Ans:
Dupont
Q1.9
The founders of this famous software company
were working on a consulting project for the CIA
(Central Intelligence
Agency). The code name for the project gave the
name of the company they founded.Which
company ?
Ans:
Oracle
Q1.10
On 1 July 1946, the United States conducted the first
post-war test of an atomic weapon at X in the Marshall
Islands. X was the site for numerous nuclear weapons
tests through 1958. Four days after this first test,
fashion designer Jacques Heim exhibited his creation
which he dubbed the X in an attempt to ride the
publicity wave created by the well-publicized
detonation.It was initially banned in many places
including Vatican,Portugal,and some parts of Europe
but evetually became popular.And now is very
common.Identify.
Round 2 : Connectomania
Scoring : +10 and -5
 no passing
Rules : Poora Funda Chahiye !! Points on the QM’s
discretion
Q2.1
Ans:
Titan
Funda : (clockwise)Pic 1 : Sam Worthington acted in
Clash of the Titans , Pic 2 : Aamir Khan brand
ambassador of Titan watches,Pic3 :Atlas :one of the
Greek Titans and Pic4 : Mozart whose tune was taken
as the signature Titan tune
Q2.2
Ans:
Adidas
Funda : Pic 1 : Adidas Styl (new brand from Adidas) ,
pic 2 : Adi Dassler , pic 3,4,5 : the three boys who
feature in the new Impossible is nothing ad (Gaurav
Jathar ,Sahil Kukreja, Sandeep Sharma)
Q2.3

Hint 
Ans:
Funda : all are the brand ambassadors of Men’s
fairness creams
Q2.4
Ans:
Pic 1 : Vittal Mallya ,father of Vijay Mallya
Pic 2 : Dhirubhai Ambani
Pic 3: Nusli Wadia father of Ness Wadia
Pic 4 : Dr. S.K Burman founder of Dabur and grand
father of Mohit Burman
Connect : IPL
Q2.5
Ans:
All have bought property in the Palm islands
Q2.6
Ans:
Himani Navratna Tel
Funda: Pic 1 Zandu acquired by Emami
Pic 2: Emami’s logo
Pic 3 : Dhoni and Priety brand ambassadors of new oil
from emami
Pic 4: Navratna companies
Himani is ofcourse ayurved company of Emami
Q2.7
Ans:
Connect : all have perfumes on their names
Also they are shown in the chronological order
Zeenat aman was the first.
Q2.8
Ans:
Pic 1 : New Coke ad directed by Dibakar Banerjee
Pic 2: New Balaji Venture which produced LSD
directed by Banerjee
Pic 3: Sneha Khanwalkar who composed the music of
his films
Pic 4: Freshwater films his production house
Connect : I think you are intelligent enough to get it
now atleast !
Q2.9
Ans :
All died in Plane crash
Pic 1: Yuri Gagarin
Pic 2 : Hansie Cronje
Pic 3 : Ramon Magsaysay
Pic 4: GMC Balyogi
Pic 5 : Manchester United whose team died in Munich
in 1958 (refer to
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munich_air_disaster)
Q2.10


 HINT

Ans :
Berkshire Hathaway or Warren Buffet
Funda : all companies owned by Warren Buffet’s
Berkshire Hathaway
DIRECT dwitiya
Rules same as Direct 1
Q3.1
Founded by Hisashige Tanaka in 1875, this company
was called Tokyo Shibabaru until it changed its name
in 1978 to its current popular name. Name this
company that celebrated its 125th year in 2000.
Ans:
Toshiba
Q3.2
This group's corporate anthem is … Vandana, a
Sanskrit hymn that "extols the greatness of the sun
and its never- ending journey towards excellence." Can
you name the group?
Ans:
Aditya Birla Group
Q3.3
This product was first manufactured and used in
Germany in World War II.Its name in German implied
“fantasy” since considerable imagination was needed
to create a palatable drink from the limited means
available in the war years of austerity.Name the
product.
Ans:
Fanta
Q3.4
Elvis only made one commercial in his career which
was for a legendary product which has featured in
many movies.Name the product.
Ans:
Volkswagen Beetle
Q3.5
Fuji Heavy Industries’ first President, Kenji Kita, used
the Japanese word for 'unit'e as this product's name. It
is also the name of a cluster of stars, only six of which
are visible to the naked eye, in the Taurus
constellation. The cluster, commonly known as
Pleiades, also has a Chinese name, Mao. What's the
Japanese name?
Ans:
Subaru
Q3.6
This company runs an ayurvedic research institute,
named after its founder Pandit Ram Dayal Joshi, in
Patna. Apart from its core activity, it also publishes a
monthly magazine Sachitra Ayurved. Can you name
the company?
Ans:
Baidyanath
Q3.7
It's a joint stock company involving European
Aeronautic Defence and Space Company and BAE
Systems. Based in Toulouse, France, this company is
said to directly employ over 48,000 people of over 50
nationalities. Can you name the company?
Ans:
AIRBUS
Q3.8
Sir Fred Hoyle is said to have coined and popularised
this term, despite challenging the scientific theory
associated with it.
That term was used decades later in reference to the
sudden deregulation of financial markets by the
Thatcher government i n 1986. What Which is the
term?
Ans:
Big Bang
Q3.9
Identify.
Ans:
Highlighted portions depict the IVY league colleges.
Q3.10
X, a hungarian inventer, on his most famous, and
eponymous product, Y."Space always intrigued me,
with its incredibly rich possibilities, space alteration
by (architectural) objects, objects transformation in
space (sculpture, design), movement in space and in
time, their correlation, their repercussion on
mankind, the relation between man and space, the
object and time. I think the Y arose from this
interest, from this search for expression and for this
always more increased acuteness of these
thoughts. . . .". ID.
Ans:
Rubiks cube invented by Ernő Rubik
THEME round
Rules : qm will tell u
Q.1
The current logo was originally sketched on a paper
napkin and remains largely unchanged since 1979.The
artist says the angle was due to the orientation of the
paper.What?
Ans:
Virgin
Q2.
Ans:
First recipient of the Filmfare awards
Hint for theme : Filmfare
Q3
Ans:
Samir Jain and Vineet Jain
Q4
Ans:
Femina magazine
Q5.
Ans:
Times of India

By now you must have guessed the theme, if not the
theme was Times Group
FIN

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