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● Dr P . T . Kulkarni
● Dr Rajesh Ingle ( HOD Comp. Dept. )
● Mr. Amar Buchade

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RULES
• All electronic devices should be either switched off or kept on silent
mode.
• Wikipedia has been assumed to be factually correct while preparing this
quiz.
• The more you stare at the question, the more the answer stares back at
you.
• `Kindly refrain from cybernetic investigations.
• Quiz Master is God, his decisions are ﬁnal and binding

RULES
• Scoring: Pounce ( +10/-10 ); Bounce( +10 )
• There is no negative marking for bounce or direct questions.
• A time period of 20 seconds will be given to pounce on the
question. Pouncing will be closed after these 20 seconds.
• If all teams pounce and get it right or none of the teams get it
right on bounce then, the team who got that direct question will
get the next direct question.
• The bounce will be in a clockwise direction
• Don’t shout out the answer so the team who had the direct or
any of the other teams who did not pounce can still answer and
get points as per the bounce rules.

QUESTION 1
This cryptocurrency was released on 30th July 2015 ;
It is also a platform for decentralized apps.
Developers can use X to host their apps on the
platform. X helps developers build on top of its block
chain as it sees the block chain as the medium to
change the world for the better.
Which cryptocurrency is this?

QUESTION 2
Which popular chocolate company owns
several pet food companies including
Pedigree, dog foods and Whiskas, cat food?*

QUESTION 3
This packaged water selling brand was brought to
India by an Italian entrepreneur. It’s started selling
its products in two variants- Bubbly and Still in
glass bottles. Later, this company was bought by
the owners of lima and gold spot.
Which brand is this?

QUESTION 4
Google is set to shut down its mailing app “X” in March 2019, giving users
time to shift to the traditional Gmail by then, the company has said in a
blog post.
Launched in 2014, “X” was introduced as an innovative new email app that
lived alongside Gmail and served as an experimental platform for Google to
try newer mailing features that could be incorporated in Gmail later.
Name the app “X”

QUESTION 5
Poised to become the largest mango producer of the world,
the multi-billionaire dollar corporation X initially started
planting mangoes in the wasteland surrounding its oil
refinery back in 1997 with the help of engineers from Israel.
Fast forward to 2018, the mango orchard created to curb
high levels of pollution by the refinery has now turned into
one of the most profitable business for the corporation X
with more than 1.3 lakh plants of over 200 species.
Identify the company X.

This company is a Swedish multinational networking
and telecommunications company headquartered in
Stockholm. The company offers services, software and
infrastructure in information and communications
technology for telecommunications operators. It
introduced the world's first fully automatic mobile
telephone system, MTA, in 1956. It released one of the
world's first hands-free speaker telephones in the
1960s.
Which Company is this?
Question 6

GoDaddy’s GoCentral website builder is an addition to its
line-up, allowing users to quickly craft a site without any
web design knowledge. Thereby in order to promote
GoCentral, GoDaddy partnered with The Onion’s in the
house of ad agency Onion Labsto produce an ad campaign
starring X. The video depicts X as a bearded , tattooed man.
X goes on a talk show to promote his(fake) memoir “My life
as X”.
The trailer of this video says- “you won’t see an interview
with an abstract concept personified for marketing purpose
like this anywhere else”.
Considering the industry in which GoDaddy operates.
Identify X.
Question 7

Regret of not
pouncing on
that question.
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QUESTION 8
Choosing a name for this company was a drawn-out
process. Directpix.com, Replay.com, and others were
considered; so was Luna.com, which was the name of a
founder’s dog. When the company was being incorporated,
they named it Kibble.com until they could decide on
something permanent.
What is this website known as currently?

RULES
• Score: Direct ( +10 ) Pass( +5 )
• If a team is unable to answer the
question or gives a wrong answer then
the question passes in a clockwise
direction

RULES:
1. There are 8 questions in this round.
2. In this round, a team can challenge any other
team once for answering the question, before
seeing the question.
3. +5/0 if the challenging team answers the
question.
4. +10/-10 if the challenged team answers the
question.
5. A team can be challenged only once.

QUESTION 1
A state government launched an app, e-Rythu,
to digitise agricultural marketplaces and
payments. It will help farmers buy, sell and
receive payments for their products through
phones in an easy and secure way. The app,
developed by MasterCard Labs for Financial
Inclusion in Nairobi, Kenya, has been
customised for India through its team in Pune.
Which state is it?

QUESTION 2
X is a product from Procter & Gamble, which can
be deadly if ingested, and which have been
labelled as a health risk by the Centre for Disease
Control and Prevention. There have been
numerous media reports discussing how children
and those with dementia could endanger their
health or life by eating these after mistaking them
for candy.
Identify X.

QUESTION 3
X was created by Theodor in Bern, Switzerland, in 1908.
Theodor, with his cousin Emil Baumann, developed a food
product with a unique shape.
The shape of the Matterhorn in the Swiss Alps is commonly
believed to have given Theodor his inspiration for the shape
of X.
Identify X.

QUESTION 4
What started with a child stumbling across a small, six-gram
spec of gold hidden within the silt of a local river soon became
one of the most notorious and violent open-air gold mining
excavations in history. The X gold mines are often termed as
the closest the humanity has come to creating hell on Earth.
When gold was discovered in X, which means “Naked Ridge" in
Portuguese, men flocked from all around Brazil in hopes of
finding work at the mine.
Identify the name X, which is also the name of the region the
mines were in Brazil.

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QUESTION 6
X is an Indian multinational corporation headquartered in a city in
Maharashtra, India. It provides Product Engineering solutions and
services to Automotive and Transportation, Consumer and
Industrial Goods.
X is a publicly traded company. In automotive domain, X has
created well known solutions including REVOLO and India's first
ARAI-certified intelligent transportation system — On-bus ITS.
X has filed 58 patents, published several research papers, and has
won several awards for innovation.
Name the company X?

QUESTION 7
This is an American company headquartered in Memphis,
Tennessee, USA.
Interestingly, the founder of this company once saved the
company and used the remaining 5,000 dollars to convert it
into 32,000 by gambling in Vegas.
It’s also an American logistics giant.
Which company is this?

QUESTION 8
X acquired a toy company in 1969 called ‘Fisher Price’.
Later, in 1982, formed a company named ‘US games’,
which created games for Atari 2600.
X also bought ‘Snapple’ for $1.7 Billion in 1994 but
eventually sold it to ‘Triarc’ in1997 for $300 Million.
‘PepsiCo’ bought X in 2001 as it wanted to add ‘Gatorade’
to its arsenal of beverages and thus break into the
isotonic sports beverage market. Name X.

QUESTION 1
A company named Xan American multinational corporation
based in the Boston, manufacturing arch supports and other
accessories designed to improve shoe fit. The first product,
a flexible arch support, was designed with three support
points to provide greater balance and comfort in the shoe. It
is believed that the name "X" was given by observing
chickens in his yard and demonstrated the way his arch
supports worked by keeping a chicken foot on his office
desk. The company X manufactured the "Trackster", the
world's first running shoe made with a ripple sole.
Identify X-

QUESTION 2
X is a variety of chocolate introduced in 2017 by Barry
Callebaut, a Belgian-Swiss cocoa company. The chocolate's
taste is described as "sweet yet sour"] with "little to none"
of the cocoa flavour traditionally associated with other
varieties of chocolate. Publications note industry
speculation that it is made with unfermented cocoa beans,
which can have a natural red-pinkish colour.

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QUESTION 3
The old English sheepdog is a breed of dog which was
developed in England from herding types of dog. It can grow
a very long coat with fur covering the face and the eyes. The
dog was first introduced in advertising campaigns in
1961.“Apna rang chhalakne do” the famous tagline of the X
company. The name of dog is particularly associated with
the X and hence popularly nicknamed the “X dog”.
Name this Company.

QUESTION 4
This Corporation is a privately held American corporation,
based in Framingham, Massachusetts, that designs,
develops and sells audio equipment. Founded in 1964, the
company sells its products throughout the world. The
founder, a graduate student at MIT, had purchased a stereo
system and was disappointed with its performance. This led
him to research the importance of reverberant (indirect)
sound on perceived audio quality.
Name this organisation.

QUESTION 5
X is a series of audio players and some Sony Ericsson
mobile phones manufactured by Sony. Released in 1979,
was a cassette player that changed listening habits. It was
devised by Sony cofounder Masaru Ibuka, who felt Sony's
existing player was too unwieldy and expensive. A prototype
was built from a compact tape recorder designed for
journalists.
Name X.

QUESTION 6
Saul Steinberg, who created this cover's artwork,
once said that he thrived to make pictures that
would change the way one sees the world,
pictures the viewer wouldn’t be able to erase from
his memory. This cover has been imitated
countless times, including covers by Mad
Magazine, The Economist and the given magazine
itself.
Identify the magazine.

QUESTION 7
The X was created by the “London Bakery Peek Freans” in
1874 to commemorate the marriage of the Grand Duchess
Maria Alexandrovna of Russia to the Duke of Edinburgh. It
became popular throughout Europe, particularly in Spain
where, following the Civil War, it became a symbol of
country's economic recovery after bakeries started
producing mass quantities of X to consume a surplus of
wheat.

QUESTION 8
A company “X” has changed its logo for the fourth
time since it was launched eight years ago.
Recently, the old square-in-a-circle logo from 2016
has been replaced by the word “X” on its app icon
as well as the website. The move comes two days
after the company hired former Coca-Cola
executive Rebecca Messina to lead it's marketing
efforts.
Name the company X.

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