3. ROUND 1
FILL IN THE BLANKS
1 Question, 6 blanks
Written round
+5 for each correct answer
4. ___U___ is a peri-cratonic passive margin basin is spread across 50,000
sq km in Andhra Pradesh.
The first gas discovery in the basin was in 1983, in Rajole Well No 1,
when ___V___ had a small office in Rajahmundry and Narsapur.
The site ___W___-6 (D6) is where ___X___ discovered the biggest gas
reserves in India. In government records, the 7,645 sq km block is
known as KG-DWN-98/1.
___Y___ ( 48 inch uniform diameter (API 5L Grade X-70) across the
entire trunk length of around 1375 km with wall thicknesses 17.2, 20.7
and 25.4 mm) is a project implemented to transport gas from Kakinada
(Andhra Pradesh) to Bharuch (Gujarat) including various spurs and
interconnects on the way. The current gas source for EWPL is ___U___-
D6 gas block.
5. “They are not India-Pakistan. They can easily merge together.” This was
Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister Dharmendra Pradhan talking about
___V___ and ___Z___.
___Z___’s proven reserves today are 1.1 tcf of gas in the ___U___, a
fraction of the 20 tcf that was claimed in 2005. ___Z___ has spent
nearly Rs. 20,000 crore on the Deen Dayal gas fields with little to show
for it and was recently rapped by the CAG for the alleged 19,760-crore
mess.
Fill in all the blanks
7. U - Krishna-Godavari Basin
V – Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Limited (ONGC)
W – Dhirubhai
X – Reliance Industries
Y – East West Gas Pipeline
Z – Gujarat State Petroleum Corporation (GSPC)
8. ROUND 2
INFINITE BOUNCE WITH POUNCE
8 Questions
Clockwise
+15/-15 on Pounce
+15 on Bounce
If no teams answer, next question to the next team
9. 1.
X was founded by a group of eminent patriotic personalities to cater to
the needs of small and medium business merchants in the Kolhapur-
Sangli belt in August 1943 with branches in Kolhapur and Sangli. A
majority of its business used to be sourced from cities in and around
NH 4 (new NH 48) that connected some of the most populous cities.
In July, 2010, Mr. Vishwavir Ahuja was inducted as the MD & CEO and
the name was shortened to a version with the abbreviation of the
original name.
On August 31st, 2016, X was listed on the NSE and the BSE. The IPO
was subscribed almost 70 times.
What is X?
12. 2.
X was originally developed by Thomas Mayne in Sydney, Australia, in
1934 who launched it at the Sydney Royal Easter Show and is now
marketed and sold in many countries around the world. The name was
derived from the famous ancient athlete X of Croton, after his
legendary strength.
X is manufactured by evaporating the water content from a thick syrup
at reduced pressure. The thick opaque syrup is obtained from malted
wheat or barley.
What is X?
15. 3.
Hakeem Hafiz Abdul Majeed laid the foundation of the X Dawakhana,
in Delhi in 1906. In 1907, he came up with Y, his most popular product
that is still popular more than a 100 years down the line. Following
partition, the X Dawakhana was inaugurated in Karachi on June 19,
1948. In Dhaka, Bangladesh (then East Pakistan), X was established in
1953.
Y is produced by X Laboratories (Waqf) in Pakistan and X (Wakf)
Laboratories in India. In Pakistan, Y’s advertisements have long been
appealing to Pakistanis’ patriotic spirit and is associated closely with
fasting during Ramzan.
Give me X and Y.
18. 4.
Gianchand Chandumal Motwane founded the business which is now
known as Motwane Private Limited as Eastern Electric & Trading Co. at
Sukkur (Sind) in 1909. At first he imported flashlights from Germany.
Later, he imported mobile power plants to supply electricity in Sind,
and added telephones to his line of business.
In 1912, he moved his headquarters to Karachi. Mr. Motwane opened
in Bombay on 1st April 1919. He named this company X Telephone
Supply Co. In 1926, he changed the name to X Telephone & Radio Co.
Today, Motwane has a modern manufacturing plant at Bangalore and
six offices in the country and deals in public address sound equipment.
Notable for a 1950 newspaper advertisement featuring Jawaharlal
Nehru, what is X?
21. 5.
The French collective Georgette Sand — named after the French
novelist was one of the first to point out the issue in the pricing at
Monoprix supermarket chain and had run a petition that had attracted
more than 40,000 signatures.
Tesco was charging £1 for certain packs of five twin-blade razors but
they cut the price by approximately half in January 2017.
Boots, a UK pharmacy chain, revised the prices on some products after
shoppers launched an online petition in February 2016.
Give me the popular term or Give Funda.
24. 6.
Sean Blagsvedt launched his career working at the
White House with Internet Policy Czar–Ira Magaziner.
He spent 9 years with Microsoft, owning Messenger
Integration, Speech Recognition and Windows Vista’s
IM experience. Setting up and helping found Microsoft
Research India in 2004 was what brought Sean to
India, what kept him here is another story.
Sean received the Namma Bengaluru award for Best
Foreign Resident in 2014.
In 2007, What did Sean establish in India?
27. 7.
Kandathil Varghese Mappillai found X on 22 March 1890. He was
succeeded at X by his nephew K. C. Mammen Mappillai. On his death, his
eldest son took over who was in charge till his death in 1973 when K. C.
Mammen Mappillai’s eighth son K M Mathew took over.
K M Mathew started in 1940 as a planter in Chikmagalur where he joined
a brother at the family owned Bhadra Estate. In those 7 years, he opened
a balloon manufacturing facility in the estate premises but the factory
was closed due to pollution. The machinery was transferred to Madras
when his younger brother K. M. Mammen Mappillai started Y Limited. In
1947, K M Mathew shifted to Bombay where after spending seven years,
K M Mathew moved to X where he stayed till his death in 2010.
Give me X and Y.
30. 8.
Elizur Wright was an American mathematician described as the "father of Y X"
in the US. He served as X commissioner for Massachusetts from 1858 to 1866.
In 1852 a broker placed an advertising booklet in his hand. He perceived that
no company could undertake to do what this one pretended to and remain
solvent. On a visit to the Royal Exchange in London he witnessed old men
auctioning off their Y X to investors after faithfully paying all their lives. Upon
his return to America, he began campaigning for a cleanup of the Y X business.
He devised a new formula known as the “accumulation formula,” and also
invented and patented (1869) the “arithmeter,” a mechanical contrivance for
multiplication and division, based on the logarithmic principle.
Which industry ( Y X) did he thus regulate? (Pictures on next slide)
49. 5.
Space Tourists:
1. Dennis Tito : Wilshire Associates
2. Mark Shuttleworth : Thawte
3. Gregory Olsen : Sensors Unlimited, Inc.
4. Anousheh Ansari : Telecom Technologies, Inc. acquired by Sonus
Networks
5. Charles Simonyi: was head of Microsoft's application software
group, he oversaw the creation of Microsoft Office
6. Richard Garriott : Origin Systems, Inc.
7. Guy Laliberté : Cirque du Soleil
59. ROUND 4
WRITTEN ROUND WITH DIFFICULT CONNECT
7 Questions
Written Round
+10 per correct answer
Points for connect decreases every slide. Will be mentioned on the
slide.
Exchange sheets at the end of the round.
60. 1. Connect at +70/-35
The name B was first used in 1886 by an Oakland, California food distributor
on premium coffee prepared for a Hotel with that name on the Monterrey
peninsula. When 18 companies merged in 1898, the name B was given to
one of the premium brands that were marketed. The fact that the brand was
used for a certain product in 1892 has reflected in the design of the shield.
The Shield was introduced in 1909 on the can labels.. Early ads in the 1920s
assure customers that it is "Not a label, but a guarantee”. Calpak, the parent
company changed its name to B Corporation in 1967.
The Man From B remains one of the best-loved ad campaigns of the 1980s.
In Ireland, the Unionist political slogan, "Ulster says no!" was mocked by
nationalists who added "...and the man from B says yes.
The brand is present in India through a Joint Venture. Give me B.
61. 2. Connect at +60/-30
The C Group is a $27 billion (revenue) steel-to-shipping conglomerate
based out of Mumbai. Its presence is diversified across Energy, Metals
& Mining, Infrastructure (comprising ports and EPC businesses) and
Services (primarily comprising shipping and BPO businesses). The name
C is derived by combining the sounds of the first letter of the
Chairman's and Vice-Chairman's names, who are brothers.
C began its operations with the construction of an outer breakwater in
Chennai port. In the 1990s, C set up India’s first sponge iron plant in
Hazira, Gujarat. They also have an oil refinery at Vadinar, Gujarat, and
have set up a power plant near the steel complex in Hazira.
What is C?
62. 3. Connect at +50/-25
Manu Chhabria in 1987 tried to pick up a one per cent stake in D. The then
chairman N M Desai asked Dhirubhai Ambani to invest in the company’s
shares who immediately bought 12.4%. from the open market and by 1989
increased his stake to 18.5%. Soon, Desai was shunted out as chairman in
favour of Dhirubhai. LIC, the dominant shareholder forced Ambani to resign
from the board. The Ambanis stayed on as passive investors in D.
In November 2001, the Ambanis sold their remaining 10.05 per cent stake in
D to E who was directly competing with D in the cement business. The CEO &
MD of the company rallied the employees to let D retain its professional
management culture. After negotiations, E exited D by selling its stake to an
employees' trust of D in June 2003. In return, E received D's cement division.
Give me D and E.
63. 4. Connect at +40/-20
F has an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School (1964). According to
Forbes, he is the 158th richest person (2nd in Malaysia) with a net worth
of USD 6.6 Billion. He was born in 1938 in Brickfields, Kuala Lumpur's to
Tamil parents of Sri Lankan origin.
He has a multimedia empire which includes two telecommunication
companies including Astro (All-Asian Satellite Television and Radio
Operator) and three communication satellites orbiting the earth.
His only son is a Theravada Buddhist monk in Thailand and is known as
Ajahn Siripanyo.
Who is F?
65. 5. Connect at +30/-15
Identify the iconic four-storey structure situated at Homi Modi Street, Kala
Ghoda, Fort, Mumbai. The architect was George Wittet who came to
Bombay in 1903 as assistant consulting architect to the Government of
Bombay and is well known for taming the exuberant Bombay Gothic style.
The building is owned by The Associated Building Company which
manages the building. It earns a rent from the companies that have offices
within the premises, which houses about 400 people.
67. 6. Connect at +20/-10
A not-for-profit Company established by the winner of the Nobel Peace
Prize 2006 owns 34.20% of the shares of G. An indirectly wholly owned
subsidiary of a Company listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange owns
55.80%. The rest is held by the public or other institutions. G was
founded in 1997 after Iqbal Z. Quadir, an accomplished entrepreneur
and a long-time champion of the critical role of entrepreneurship and
innovations in creating prosperity in low-income countries inspired by
the microcredit revolution, got the consortium together and launched
G.
On November 16, 2006, G formally changed its logo to match the logo
of the main shareholder.
What is G?
68. 7. Connect at +10/0
H is a category of polymers that contain a certain functional group in their
main chain. Almost half of all the world's products in this category are made
of H.
British chemists John Rex Whinfield and James Tennant Dickson, employees
of the Calico Printer's Association of Manchester, patented H in 1941, after
advancing the early research of Wallace Carothers. After World War II, the
US Company DuPont bought the right to make H and by 1950 a factory in
Delaware was beginning to make it. Dupont's research lead to a whole range
of trademarked products, one example being Mylar (1952).
What is H?
I am just looking for the common name.
This answer goes twice into the connect.
70. Answers
1. B : Del Monte
2. C: Essar Group
3. D: L&T, E: Grasim (ABG)
4. F: Tatparanandam Ananda Krishnan
5. Bombay House
6. G: Grameenphone
7. H: Polyester. OK with polyethylene terephthalate
71. ROUND 5
IDENTIFY THE BRAND
8 Questions
Anti-Clockwise
+10/-10 on Pounce
+10 on Bounce
If no teams answer, next question to the next team
96. ROUND 6
INFINITE BOUNCE WITH POUNCE
8 Questions
Anti-Clockwise
+15/-15 on Pounce
+15 on Bounce
If no teams answer, next question to the next team
97. 1.
Croslite is a proprietary Closed Cell Resin material which is neither
plastic nor rubber. Croslite material is closed-cell in nature and anti-
microbial and is an extraordinary impact absorbing resin material.
Which company founded by Lyndon "Duke" Hanson, Scott Seamans,
and George Boedecker, known for its operational efficiency that
revolutionized the industry owns the exclusive rights to Croslite?
100. 2.
Sar-i Sang (or Sar-e Sang) is a settlement in the Kuran Wa Munjan
District of Badakhshan Province, Afghanistan. Which commodity highly
valued in the ancient period and extensively traded by the Harappan,
Egyptian and Mesopotamian civilizations, as well as the later Greeks
and Romans is Sar-i Sang home to?
103. 3.
Mechanization came to the Indian ______ industry when X Ltd. started
operations in 1924 as a unit of the multinational Swedish ______
Company.
The acquisition of X through Russell Credit Limited, a 100% subsidiary
of ITC Limited on July 1, 2005, aimed to further consolidate the market
standing of ITC. Subsequently X became a direct subsidiary of ITC
effective 29th September, 2011 when ITC acquired the entire
shareholding of X from Russell Credit. By 2015, the 4 production units
of X at Ambernath, Bareily, Kolkatta and Chennai were shut down. ITC
today procures from smaller units and markets them under the brands
of erstwhile X.
What is X?
106. 4.
The Double X With a Y Sandwich:
The technique involves two X companies, a Y company and an offshore
company located in a tax haven.
The first X company receives large royalties on goods sold to U.S. consumers.
The U.S. profits, and therefore taxes, are dramatically lowered, and the taxes
on the royalties are very low for X. Due to a loophole in the law, the company
can then transfer its profits tax-free to the offshore company.
The second X company is used for sales to Non US customers. It is also taxed
at a low rate and can send its profits to the first X company using a Y
company as an intermediary. The first Y company now has all the money and
can again send it onward to the offshore company.
Give me X and Y.
109. 5.
It was established in 1992, at the behest of the government of India
with the stated aim being to bring transparency. Major shareholders
are LIC, with a 12.5% stake, and Gagil FDI, Aranda Investments and SAIF
II SE Investments. A few months earlier, Mauritius-based Veracity
Investments had acquired a 5% stake from SBI for Rs 911 crore, valuing
it at Rs 18,200 crore.
The draft prospectus for a Rs 10,000-crore Initial Public Offer (IPO) of
equity was filed in December 2016. It will be an offer for sale (OFS) of
111.4 million equity shares, 22.5% of its post offer paid-up equity
capital.
What am I talking about?
112. 6.
The company known for an iconic Indian brand traces its origins to the
establishment of a manufacturing unit (first in Asia) in 1855 by Edward
Dyer at Kasauli.
After the World War I, this company merged with a competitor and in
1937, post Burma’s separation, the company was restructured with its
Indian assets as a public company on the London Stock Exchange.
Following independence, N.N. Mohan travelled to London and acquired
a majority stake and took over management of the company in 1949
and the name was changed in 1967. Currently headquartered at
Ghaziabad, which company am I speaking about?
115. 7.
The best documented explanation of its origin based on studies of late
eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century manuscripts holds that it evolved
out of the Spanish and Spanish American scribal abbreviation "pˢ".
A variation ascribes the origin to Greek character "psi" (ψ) rather than p.
Other less popular theories credit the origin to the Spanish Coat of Arms, the
name of USA (postulated from the papers of Dr. James Alton James, a
professor of history at Northwestern University from 1897 to 1935) or the
letters NU near the serpent's head hanging from a cross in Germany.
Robert Morris was supposedly the first to use it in official documents and in
official communications with Oliver Pollock.
What is it?
118. 8.
Founded in November 1920, the name X comes from an acronym for its
original name. The original name had the names of two of the
states/federal territories.
An ad campaign which ran from 1967 - 1992, originally featured a furry
and cute little koala sitting amidst the branches of a eucalyptus tree
where the voice of actor Howard Morris as the koala is heard
muttering, "I hate X!" for bringing in the large number of tourists.
X’s nickname though refers to another animal that is featured in its
logo.
What is X?
