The document discusses rules for a quiz competition with multiple rounds. It states that prelims scores will be multiplied by 5 and added to finals scores. There are two rounds of 15 questions each, with different point systems for different question types. One question asks about a specific media outlet that the Akali Dal were referring to in their demands. Another asks about a slogan or nickname earned by a person who was denied an honorary degree from Oxford University after a certain bill was passed in 1971.

2. Researched and Conducted by
Aastha Mathur
Balasubramanyam Pattath
The Dais Education Initiative

3.  Prelims scores to be carried over:
 Prelims score X 5= starting score in finals

5.  2 rounds
   :(
 Dry - 15 questions
 Dry - 15 questions
 All the best

6.  5 questions on books, theories, principles, entities and
definitions in economics and business.
 5 points per answer.
 5 bonus for all.
 Write and Exchange.

12.  Exchange

13.  5 questions on books, theories, principles, entities and
definitions in economics.
 5 points per answer.
 5 bonus for all.
 Write and Exchange.

24.  15 questions
 All questions on infinite bounce and pounce
 Bounce: 10 points
 Pounce, +20,-10
 No part pounces in case of questions where there are 2 parts.
 All the best

25.  The second Khalistan Resolution was a call for a separate
Punjabi state formulated by theAkali Dal. Among the other
clauses was a demand that Punjabis may not be shown in an
inaccurate manner before the media. MarkTully who
covered these events right upto the attack on the Golden
Temple and Indira Gandhi's assassination, felt that this
demand alluded to a specifically pernicious problem faced by
Sikhs even today.
 What specific media does MarkTully think theAkali Dal were
alluding to?

28.  In 1971, a bill which planned to stop a certain free supply in
school for children over the age of seven was passed by 281
votes to 248.This was passed as it would have freed more
money to spend on other areas of education, like new
buildings.
 The passage of this bill led to a refusal in 1985 by Oxford
University to award an honorary degree to someone and also
earned that person a famous slogan and nickname.
 What slogan/nickname?

31.  Emma Georgina __________, is a British economic historian who
is a Professor of History at Harvard University. Her surname is
derived from German words meaning "Red Shield“.
 Because of her Indian connection, she was present during a
celebration of the 150th birth anniversary of Nobel laureate poet
RabindranathTagore when music school Surer Dhara launched
Sruti Gitabitan, a collection of 2222Tagore songs.
 Who is her Indian connection, significant to the event in a certain
way as he unveiled the album cover?
 What is her surname?

34.  This system was first observed in the 19th century, some
companies — mostly manufacturers — began offering new
benefits for their employees.When Henry Ford introduced
his $5-a-day pay rate in 1914 (when most workers made $11 a
week), his goal was to reduce turnover and build a long-term
loyal labour force that would have higher productivity.
 These companies also sponsored sports teams, made social
clubs, and provided educational and cultural activities for
workers. Some offered housing as well.
 What system, which from a Marxist’s point of view might be
an oxymoronic term?

37.  The Amiga is a family of personal computers sold
by Commodore in the 1980s and 1990s.The Commodore
Amiga's operating system's disk repair program Diskdoctor
occasionally renames a disk “_______" if it feels it has done a
particularly good job of rescuing damaged files.
 FITB
 Hint in next slide

41.  ‘White Centre’(image) which sold for $73 million at Sotheby’s
is also known alliteratively as the ___________ ______, as
the previous owners were an American industrial, political,
and banking family that made one of the world's largest
fortunes during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
 FITB.

44.  In the context of Liberalism, journalistAmitVarma, a
classical hardcore liberal defined a counterfeit liberal or Kim
Kardashian Liberal as one who will espouse a liberal principle
but then, immediately, before putting a full stop on the
sentence, add a conjunction before speaking further to
diminish the weight of their conviction, thereby becoming a
hypocrite.
 Explain the etymology of Kardashian Liberal.

46.  “I believe there should be no regulation, BUT(T), certain
checks and balances are needed”
 “I believe all industries should be disinvested, BUT(T)…”

47.  It dates back to 1911, when the Morton Salt Company developed a
new breakthrough in table salt technology by adding an anti-
caking agent as a result of which the salt didn’t cake and clump. It
could be poured or shaken out as nicely as dry sand, even when it
was humid indoors due to the weather.
 The Morton execs asked their ad agency – the renowned N.W.
Ayer & Son firm to create a slogan and they did so with a positive
twist on an old English proverb which suggests a domino effect for
troubles.
 The Ayer firm also created an image(next slide) of a little girl with
an umbrella to go with the slogan.
 What slogan?

51.  Excerpt from a blogpost about Lebanese passports:
“At a tender age you learn to queue at Embassies to get visas, for
only 44 out of 147 countries in the world have agreed to let you in
without crawling to their embassy doors. By the time you hit puberty
you realize you have collected more visas than women in your life. At
this point you run out of empty pages, find yourself obliged to clip
several passports to each other and join a group of very selective
travellers commonly referred to as “The _________ Citizens” by the
Passport Control Desks in International Airports”
 FITB, a word also used in paper crafts for a similar type of folds
which resemble bellows.

56.  In 2002 the Ignobel Prize in Mathematics was presented to
K.P. Sreekumar and G. Nirmalan of Kerala Agricultural
University, India, for their analytical report "Estimation of the
Total SurfaceArea in X”, quite true to the spirit of the Ignobel
which seeks to address ‘obvious big issues’ that are ignored
or in other words, a phrase which was also the title of a
Banksy exhibit in LA where an actual X was spray painted
and kept in a 4 walled space.
 X and the phrase?

60.  While the first was a notebook, a square album with a
hardback red, white and green cover, the remaining two are
exercise books. Entries were written in various types of ink
and (coloured) pencil as identified by a forensic institute and
allegations of ballpoint usage have been dispelled by
accounting for the lack of its popularity in the region during
the time period.This is considered unusual because the
ballpoint was patented in Paris in 1938.
 What group of 3 am I talking about?
 Why wasn’t ballpoint popular in the region in question for at
least a decade?

64.  In 2006, a particular group of people who purchased 12 cans
of Bavaria beer could buy the orange Leeuwenhosen
trousers for just €7.95 but a controversy of ‘ambush
marketing’ erupted when these people weren’t allowed to
wear the Leeuwenhosen for the intended purposes they
bought them for.
 Who were these people?
 Explain why the controversy erupted.
 Image in next slide.

68.  Alexander McCall Smith recently recalled the history behind
a book published in the last 5 years. He remarked that the
book which is now a bestseller, was originally intended as a
book on interior decoration owing to its emphasis on
colours, patterns and aesthetic arrangement of furniture and
apparatus.The publishers who read the first draft remarked
that the book lacked spice and changes were made, but the
book was published by them only a year later.
 Which book?

73.  In September 2009, a South African IT company based
in Durban proved it was faster for them to transmit data than
Telkom , the country's leading internet service provider.
The data transfer of 4 GB done via a method that had been
prevalent for centuries, took two hours, six minutes, and
fifty-seven seconds—the same amount of time it took to
transfer 4% of the data over the ADSL.
 How did the IT company transfer the data?

76.  Mary Margaret Bannister who attended the Upstate
Chamber Series in August 2015 with her husband was invited
onstage in front of 1,400 people to perform an impromptu
inspection. After a feel and laugh, she confirmed the
authenticity which has now been confirmed as an aggressive
cowlick which sustains growth by its own weight, maintained
by gel and spray, the result of surgery as referenced in the
1993 book, LostTycoon.
 What did she inspect?
 Image in next slide

80.  6 questions
 5 per answer
 Bonus 5 for all
 Write and exchange

81.  The cost-estimating website Fixr.com put together a map of
the world with the most-Googled-for object in each country,
using the autocomplete formula of "How much does * cost in
[x country].“

87.  Exchange

88.  6 questions
 5 per answer
 Bonus 5 for all
 Write and exchange

99.  15 questions
 All questions on infinite bounce and pounce
 Bounce: 10 points
 Pounce, +20,-10
 No part pounces in case of questions where there are 2 parts.
 All the best

100.  After the country was grouped along with
Netherlands and Spain in the 2014 FIFA
World Cup, this company(pictured) came
out with an ad featuring a particular group
of people who had become national ‘heroes’,
a few years prior.
 The transcript of the ad reads thus :
 “We knew outside millions of ________ believed in us and this soil was
witness to all of this.That’s why we will take this soil to Brazil to the
practice field for our national team.To fill it up with hope and courage
and show the world nothing is impossible for a _______. Spain is
tough? Netherlands is tough?We don’t fear the ‘death group’. We
don’t care about death! Because we defeated death before!”
 Which group of people/Claim to fame?

103.  Project MKUltra was the code name given to an illegal program of
experiments on human subjects, designed and undertaken by the United
States CIA. MKUltra used numerous methodologies to manipulate
people's mental states and alter brain functions, including the
surreptitious administration of drugs (especially LSD) and other
chemicals, hypnosis, sensory deprivation, isolation, verbal and sexual
abuse, as well as various forms of torture.
 One of the subjects was a brilliant mathematician gone rogue who was a
student at Harvard where these tests were conducted on him in the 60s
was named _________ by the FBI because his early victims were
associated with universities or airlines
 FITB
 What was the project trying to develop?

106.  Contrary to popular perception, the word __________ is not a
product of the internet age. Despite becoming popular after the
advent of social media websites, it’s origins date back to the 17th
century. It shows up in this early example from 1659 : “I Hope, Sir,
that we are not mutually __________ by this difference which hath
happened betwixt us”
 __________ is also the name of a 2015 teen slasher horror flick
with major product placement from Facebook,Youtube, Skype
and Spotify, among many others.What ‘unique’ feature of the film
enabled them to do so, without seeming too desperate?
 Also FITB

109.  Writer Franz Kafka is credited with developing the first civilian
version while employed at the Worker's Accident Insurance
Institute for the Kingdom of Bohemia (1912).
 It was in 1938 that Bullard designed and manufactured the first
aluminum version, which was considered very durable but had the
drawback of being made from a conductor hence being unsuitable
for few of the intended purposes. In 1940, the fiberglass version
and later, thermoplastic versions came into production.
 The are mainly classified intoType I which are intended to reduce
the force of impact resulting from a blow only to the top andType
II which are intended to reduce the force of lateral impact.
 What am I talking about?

112.  Sebastian Mallaby is a British-born journalist and author. His
book More MoneyThan X: Hedge Funds and the Making of a
New Elite is a financial book published by Penguin Press.
Mallaby initially chose to call his book “More money thanY”
as the book shows "how finance’s richest moguls made their
loot" starting from J.P. Morgan in the 1890s who was calledY
by friends and foes alike, but sinceY was the king of Xs, he
decided on the title as we now know it.
 Give X andY

115.  The ___________ (meaning clumsy person) could be considered to
be an early form of shotgun, which was often adapted to military
and defensive use. A flintlock version was built for use
in Seringapatam, in 1793–1794 and it has been preserved in several
museums all over India.
 In the addon for the 2010 video game Red Dead
Redemption called Undead Nightmare the protagonist John
Marston received one and his initial reaction was: "A ___________?
What is this, 1850?"
 FITB
 Who was the flintlock version built for?
 Image in the next slide

119.  The Norwegian name for the _____ ___ is "Pengebingen",
and has become a regular word in the Norwegian language
for a large amount of money or cash.
 FITB for something that gave rise to a popular and much
desirable action which would require $486,830 at 1947 prices
and 31.2 billion dollars when adjusted for inflation, which
makes it an act exclusive to the first six people in a
worldwide list.

123.  ZOO Jeans are available in three styles; L,T and B. How are
these jeans different from other jeans in terms of
manufacturing ?
 Image in next slide.

128.  Apple Inc. uses a common placeholder name in many of its
recent adverts, video tutorials, and keynote presentation
examples; this was also the alias of Mike Markkula under
which he published several programs for the Apple II. It also
appears as a contact in many of Apple, inc.'s application
demonstrations.
 What name, the popular name of a rather generous
nurseryman who spread seeds wherever he went?

131.  In an early scene ofTheTruman Show(1998), onTruman and
Meryl's kitchen table is a bottle, quite astutely placed as a
remedial for a condition likely to be faced by the people
living in the artificial city ofSeahaven.
 What did the bottle contain?

135.  Scottish tea magnateThomas Lipton was a patron of
football during the early 1900s. He sponsored the SirThomas
LiptonTrophy, the Lipton Challenge Cup and theCopa
Lipton.The Copa Lipton as well the Copa Newton were
contested between two nations with one nation having won
the majority of trophies in both competitions between 1905-
92.This tournament was considered a precursor to a major
tournament in the region, the first to play an international
match outside the British isles.
 Which two nations?

138.  Nix vs Hedden was an 1893 case where the high court issued in
favour of the case brought by members of the Nix family against
Edward Hedden, collector at the Port of NewYork, to recover the
fees they spent transporting a commodity.The Nixes sued under
theTariff of 1883, which required taxes on a certain type of goods
but not on the other, usually considered their opposite.
 The arguments from both sides using the Webster's Dictionary and
Worcester's Dictionary included words like "pea," "eggplant,"
"cucumber," etc.
 The court unanimously decided that the science doesn't change
common language and ruled in favour of the Nixes.
 What exactly did the case decide?

141.  In Auschwitz: A Doctor's Eyewitness Account, concentration
camp survivor Dr. Miklós Nyiszli (who served on Dr. Josef
Mengele's medical kommando) described operations where
teams of eight, equipped with a lever and tools, worked in
the crematoria. Stationed in front of the ovens, their job was
to pry open the mouths of prisoners who had been gassed
and perform an operation.This operation permitted the
Reichsbank to earn a profit on an untraceable good and add
to German reserves.
 What operation did they perform?

144.  A long-running feud between a 1976 British Leyland Mini
1000 and a light blue Reliant Regal Supervan III(registration
GRA 26K) ended up in the latter usually getting turned over,
crashing out of its parking space, and so forth by the
perpetrator who is oblivious to the results. On one occasion,
the Reliant which pulled over to offer help was ignored until
it left.
 Who is the perpetrator?

148.  The Sikhs wanted the name of the Flying express to be
changed to the GoldenTemple mail, but they soon realised
the error of that proposal perhaps a little too late.
 Why was it a bad idea to rename?

151.  Finis