E-Day Prelims & Finale || NIT Raipur

2. RULES:
•20 Questions in Prelims & 15 in Finale.
•Internal tie-breakers (marked by *).
•Hints will be given on participants’ discretion.
•Decision of the quizmasters will be final and abiding.
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3. PRELIMS

4. ID this personality.
Q1.

6. M. Visvesvaraya – today is his birthday!

7. X is an Indian actor who became famous in recent years
because of his terrific acting. X is an engineer from Rajiv
Gandhi Institute of Technology , he also worked for an IT
company briefly but soon realized that this job wasn’t suitable
for him. Soon after getting in bollywood he became famous for
his acting skills. He also won best debut award in 2012 for his
movie. Identify the actor X.
#AT
Q2.

10. What’s the occasion? (Bonus for the location)
#TS
Q3*.

12. India's First Prime Minister Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru at Mineral Dressing Lab,
Department of Mining Engineering GEC Raipur(now NIT Raipur) On
occasion of Institutes Inauguration
(Source: Nitrr wiki)

13. “X” is a celebration made by organization “Y” to promote girls.
#RV
Q4.

15. X-Introduce girls to engineering
Y-NASA

16. Put Funda
#YS
Q5.

18. Amul - On Verghese Kurien’s demise

19. #AT
Advertisement by?Q6.

21. Flipkart

22. An engineering graduate, X had developed an app called FontSwap during
the final year of her course. The app let users change fonts used in
the iPhone. Emphasizing on the relevance of the app, X said, “Now
obviously you have many of them (such apps). But say, 6-7 years ago, it
was a first-of-its-kind app”. The app, however, was not submitted to the
App Store because of its tedious approval process, she added.
X, didn’t pursue a career in engineering after college( Guru Tegh Bahadur
Institute of Technology in New Delhi). She, in fact, rejected a job at Infosys
for which she had been selected during a campus recruitment. X became a
full-time model after she auditioned and was selected for Channel V's talent
show Get Gorgeous, which eventually led her to acting.
#YS
Q7*.

25. Baby Shark Dance, A YouTube children song with 1.6B views (#34 on most
viewed) being already infamous, is copied and experimented for another
more infamous recent song. Identify the song.
#TS
Q8.

28. Give the place and name of the architecture.
#RV
Q9.

30. Chenab bridge in
Jammu and Kashmir

31. Which movie?
#YS
Q10.

34. Identify this engineer who holds a graduation degree in Telecom
Engineering from the National University of Computer & Emerging
Sciences, Lahore.
#AN
Q11.

37. CONNECT.
#SK
Q12*.

40. Banners shown below cleverly uses part of McDonald’s Golden arch to
give road travelers a very basic information.
What purpose do they serve?
#TS
Q13.

42. Direction to the nearest McDonald's

43. X is product that is used by people on a daily basis, although it is hard
to put X into Edible or Non Edible category. X was invented in year
1870 by Thomas Adams .The history of X can be traced early history
but the modern form of X was introduced when Thomas was
searching for a substitute of rubber but turned out to give birth to a
new invention. As a result Adams New York NO. 1 became the first
mass producer of X. X is widely used by Children and teens daily.
Identify X.
#AT
Q14.

45. Chewing Gums

46. What does this Image signify?
#AT
Q15.

48. The Deathly Hallows
from Harry Potter

49. Tea
Coffee
Fresca
Coke
Oval Office
#AN
Put Funda.
Q16*.

51. Lyndon Baines Johnson had 4 buttons
installed in the Oval Office for drinks on
demand labeled coffee, tea, coke and
fresca.

52. Id the organization from it’s logo.
#AN
Q17.

54. Bank of America

55. ADVERTISEMENT
BY
WHICH COMPANY?
#SK
Q18*.

59. The logo shown is of ‘ALTOP’ producer of instruments and sensors. Though, it is very
famous for one of its another Trademark product in India, which every
engineers(excluding extra ordinaries) must have used at least once. Which product?
#TS
Q19*.

61. OMEGA mini drafters.

62. • 2018-Engineering Challenges for Knowledge Era.
• 2017-Role of Engineers in a developing India.
• 2016-Skill Development for Young Engineers to Reform the Core Sector
• 2015-Engineering Challenges for Knowledge Era.
• 2014-Making Indian Engineering World-Class.
• 2013-Frugal Engineering-Achieving More with Fewer Resources.
• 2012-Engineering Preparedness for Disaster Mitigation.
• 2011-Engineering Preparedness for Disaster Mitigation.
• 2010-Impending Paradigm Shift in Engineering Sciences and Future Challenges.
Put Funda
#RV
Q20.

64. Theme of Engineer’s Day for different years as given by
Institution of Engineers India (IEI)

65. FINALE

66. Infinite Pounce
Marking
Direct - +20/-20
Pounce - +10/-10

67. ID THE PERSONALITY

68. He earned an architectural degree from Kamla Raheja
Vidyanidhi Institute for Architecture and Environmental
Studies.
X, who has always kept his interest in architecture alive by
designing homes and offices for his friends, did the same
for Shah Rukh and Karan Johar.
He practiced his profession with an overseas architectural firm
for a year. He has an ownership in Evolutions, which is an India-
based architectural and interior designing firm.
Q1.

70. Riteish Deshmukh

71. He won for the following categories during the Creative Arts Emmys posthumously:-
Outstanding informational series or special
Outstanding Writing For A Nonfiction Program
Outstanding Short Form Nonfiction Or Reality Series
Outstanding Picture Editing For A Nonfiction Program
Outstanding Sound Editing For A Nonfiction Program (Single Or Multi-Camera)
Outstanding Sound Mixing For A Nonfiction Program (Single or Multi-Camera)
Q2.

74. Anthony Bourdain

75. X was born on 22 November 1990 in Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh. Both his parents
are doctors; his father is a paediatrician, and his mother, Mala, is a gynaecologist.
He pursued an engineering degree in biotechnology from Navi Mumbai's D Y
Patil College of Engineering. X began a modelling career while in university and
after three years of unsuccessfully auditioning for films, he did an acting course
from the Kreating Charakters institute. He informed his parents of his desire to
become an actor only after he signed his first film.While still in his third year of
college, X made his acting debut with Luv Ranjan's buddy film in 2011, co-
starring Divyendu Sharma, Raayo S Bakhirta, and Nushrat Bharucha . ID X
Q3.

77. Karthik Aryan

78. X played the role of a man who bring buffoon in daily tasks have been shown in a sitcom show.
Being portrayed as ridiculously expressive man in character, in real life X holds Masters degree
in Electrical Engineering from Queen’s College at University of Oxford.
Y is an Indian Computer Science Engineer who was appointed as CEO and Managing of Infosys
in year 2014. Y resigned the CEO post afterwards in 2017 due to appointment of new co-
chairman. Y begin his career with job in SAP where he became CTO(Chief Technical Officer) in
April 2007.
X and Y have something similar apart from their qualifications.
Id X, Y and the similarity they have.
Q4.

80. X- Rowan Atkinson (as mr. bean)
Y - Vishal Sikka
Similarity- Look alike

81. X (born 26 November 1982) is an Indian web series director and the
founder of The Viral Fever, an online entertainment source that works upon
presenting social issues in an entertaining way. He was the CEO (Chief
Executive Officer) of The Viral Fever. X was brought up in Muzaffarpur in
Bihar. After completing his B. Tech in Electrical Engineering from IIT
Kharagpur, he joined Shah Rukh Khan's production house Red Chillies
Entertainment in an assistant’s position under Farah Khan. He was the
assistant director of the Indian movie Om Shanti Om. MTV rejected his
creation Engineer's Diary which led to the launching of another very
famous content based project . ID X .
Q5.

83. Arunabh Kumar

84. ON THE BUZZER!
Marking : +20/-20

85. Q1. What easter egg is shown in this video from Spiderman(2018)

87. A tribute to 9/11

88. Put FundaQ2.

90. AT & T

91. “X” announced a crackdown on accounts powered by software "bots" which can
artificially amplify a person or cause and which have been accused of
manipulating the social network during the 2016 US election. The messaging
platform said the move was intended to rid the service of spam-spewing
automated accounts, and not aimed at people using the service according to the
rules.
Id X.
Q3.

93. TWITTER

94. Which
TV series?
Q4.

96. The Silicon Valley

97. In October 12, 2008 the Soyuz Spacecraft took something to
the International Space Station. It took a memory chip that
consisted of some codes which would drive humanity
forward even after life on earth as we know it, ceases to exist.
The Memory chip consisted of substantial information from
some of the well known people from all over the globe
including Stephen Hawking, Matt Morgan and even Lance
Armstrong. The project was known as the immortality drive
and was needed in case some global catalysm should occur
on earth.
What is inside this memory chip?
Q5.

99. DNA Info of these personality

100. Shortly after Margaret Thatcher’s election, Central Office
was visited by a flustered civil servant who demanded to
know the identity of ‘Carmen’. Apparently, diary entries
showed that Mrs Thatcher was having secret meetings with
the said Carmen every other morning, without her civil
servants being present. With whom was this appointment
fixed daily?
Q6.

102. Her Hairdresser

103. Around 1876 Thomas Edison was working on developing an Electric Pen, this
pen did not use any ink, rather it perforated holes in a master form and made
Stencils. Ink was further rolled on the stencil for printing. Although this pen
was modified by O’Rielly and he added multiple needles and an ink reservoir
to this pen and used for a different purpose. He patented the system and the use
and demand of the product he made increased with time. The machine uses
needles and ink at the same time for operation.
What was this invention
Q7.

105. Tattoo pen

106. ID THEMQ8.

108. LEFT- Ashton Kutcher
RIGHT- Steve Jobs

109. Q9.

111. Elon Musk

112. In Mad Max: Fury Road one of the member of an Wasteland religion is seen
praying with this hand gesture.
The hand gesture very much resembles their god whom they see as symbols of
power and uses them
in the rides they drive. Who do they worship?
Q10.

114. V8 ENGINES

115. Interact Club wishes you a very Happy Engineers Day !
#AN – Akansha Nigam
#AT – Ayush Tiwari
#RV – Roma Vardiyani
#SK – Shubh Kela
#TS – Tanmay Singh
#UK – Uttara Khatik
#YB – Yash Bhojak
#YS – Yasha Shukla

116. THANK YOU