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Parantap Chakrabarti
Ritwik Roy

THE RULES OF THE GAME:-
1. There will be 2 rounds in this final segment of the quiz.
2. One clockwise and the other anti-clockwise.
3. The rounds will be based on infinite bounce.
4. Again, no negative marking.
5. The quizmaster’s decisions are subservient to none.

Q1. Pt. Madan Mohan Malviya went to the Nizam of Hyderabad (who
happened to be one of the richest men the world at that time) asking for a
donation. The Nizam was annoyed at the gesture and flung his footwear a
Madan. Madan picked up the footwear and left silently. He came directly to
the marketplace and began to auction the footwear. When Nizam heard o
this, he became uneasy. He thought it would be an insult if his footwear w
to be bought by someone for pittance. So, he sent one of his attendants wi
instruction to buy his footwear no matter what the bidding price may be!
Thus Malviya, managed to sell the Nizam's own footwear to him, for a
huge amount.
For what purpose did he use that money?

Q2. What is the significance of the old Nokia SMS ringtone of
‘ bip bip bip beep beep bip bip bip?

Q3. Connect the pictures to a common household entity.

Q4. Connect . (please be specific)
The Indian, Sri
Lankan and
Bangladesh teams
during national
anthems

Q6. Before coming up with the name Intel, Robert Noyce and
Gordon Moore wanted to give their company a different
name. However, they decided against it, owing
to the fact that it would be an ill-suited name for an
electronics company. What name? And why did they decid
against it?

Q7. identify the significance.

Q8. X's finance minister, V. P. Singh, uncovered compromising details about
government and political corruption, to the consternation of Congress leaders. Tran
to the Defence ministry, Singh uncovered what became known as the Y scandal,
involving tens of millions of dollars – concerned alleged payoffs by the Swedish Y
arms company through Italian businessman Ottavio Quattrocchi, in return for Indian
contracts. Upon the uncovering of the scandal, Singh was dismissed from office, an
from Congress membership. X himself was later personally implicated in the scanda
when the investigation was continued by Narasimhan Ram and Chitra Subramaniam
The Hindu newspaper. This shattered his image as an honest politician; he was
posthumously cleared over this allegation in 2004.
Identify X and Y.

Q9. Who was the first Indian athlete to win an individual
Olympics medal?

Q10. Who is the missing individual in this exhaustive list.
1.Ginni Rommety
CEO of IBM
3. Ellen Kulmann
CEO of lockheed Martin
They are Fortune 500s most important women of 2013.

Q11. Identify the individual.
I did my Masters from Cambridge University.
I briefly worked in the United Nation Conference on trade
and development
In the year 1969 I became a Professor in Delhi School of
Economics.
In the year 1982 I became the Governor of Reserve
Bank of India.

Q12. Marconi missed it as he had some paperwork to do. Willia
Hershey missed it due to personal reasons. JP Morgan m
it because he wanted to spend some more time in a Fren
resort. They all missed something in the early 1900s. Had
they not missed this thing, their business and for that ma
of fact, the course of their lives would have been complete
different. What did they miss?

Q13. Identify the location where this billboard was found. Such billboards w
used to instill a sense of secrecy . These were located in Tennessee,
Oak Ridge and Los Alamos in the early 1940s.

Q14. X believed that social realism was the way for Hindi literature, as
opposed to the "feminine quality", tenderness and emotion of the contemporary
Bengali literature.
X started taking an interest in political affairs while at Kanpur during the late 190
and this is reflected in his early works, which have patriotic overtones. His politic
thoughts were initially influenced by the moderate Indian National Congress lead
Gopal Krishna Gokhale but later, he moved towards the more extremist
Bal Gangadhar Tilak.
Unlike other contemporary renowned authors such as Rabindranath Tagore,
X was not appreciated much outside India. Siegfried Schulz believes that the re
for this was absence of good translations of his work. Also, unlike Tagore and Iqb
X never travelled outside India, studied abroad or mingled with the renowned for
literary figures.
Oka Oori Katha (English title: The Marginal Ones; Telugu: ఒక ఊరి కథ) is a 1977
Telugu film directed by Mrinal Sen. It is based on the story Kafan by X. It is one o
few Art films made in Telugu language.
Identify X.

Q17. X is an organisation. The current president of the association is Raghunath Med
Boxes are usually marked in several ways: (1) abbreviations for collection point
(2) colour code for starting station, (3) number for destination station and (4)
markings for handling X at destination, building and floor. Their service is almo
always uninterrupted. They have an efficiency rate of 1 mistake in 8 million
deliveries. The New York Times in 2007 reported that X, a 125 yr. old industry s
manages grow at about 5-10% per year.

Q20. X was a member of the Indian national Congress and also
former chief minister of a central Indian state.
X’s son was a former National Security Advisor during ND
regime.
X’s grandson is a critically acclaimed film director.
The government of India in 2005 established Y in X’s stat
Y’s name was in honour of X.
Identify X and Y.

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