Quiz prepared for Quanta, the quizzing fraternity of NIT Goa

1. QUANTA MONTHLY QUIZ
JANUARY 2019
BY SAUVIK SENAPATI

2. MARKING SCHEMES:
THE SPECIAL ONE
(Bonus)
THE NORMAL ONE
(Default)

3. A BRIEF SET OF INSTRUCTIONS
• There are 35 questions in the quiz, divided into three rounds.
• The questions shall be answered on the buzzer.
• If no one buzzes for the given question after 30 secs (or
depending on QM), we will pass to the next question.
• There will be two attempts (max.) per question.
• If someone gives a wrong answer in the first attempt, the
buzzer will be open to all except the one who gave wrong
answer.

4. A BRIEF SET OF INSTRUCTIONS
• There will be two types of marking schemes:
i) The Normal One
ii) The Special One (Bonus)
The team needs to mention any one of the names while answering the question.
Example: If the answer is OLAY, say THE SPECIAL ONE, OLAY (150) or THE NORMAL ONE,
OLAY (100).
Mentioning the points should be enough before giving the answer.
Should they fail to do so, “The Normal One” shall be considered for the evaluation.
If a team buzzes and fails to answer within 10 seconds, they will get negative of “THE
NORMAL ONE” points.
If the team buzzes and mentions THE SPECIAL ONE/bonus and yet fails to answer within
the stipulated time, they will be penalised with a negative of “THE SPECIAL ONE” points on
that question.

5. Example of an Analytic Question.
• IDENTIFY THE LOGOS AND GIVE THE RESULTING COMPANY’S
ACRONYM/NAME WITH THE HELP OF CLUES.
U+3 S-2 A-4

6. ANSWER
•NBC
•1st logo= JUVENTUS ( U+3 = N)
•2nd logo= BOSCH ( S-2)
•3rd logo= CHIVAS (A-4)

7. Last But Not The Least Rule of the Quiz
DO NOT SHOUT THE ANSWER
BEFORE BUZZING!!
BUZZ FIRST THEN SHOUT THE
ANSWER !!

8. Round 1: IT’S RAINING CATS AND DOGS
• 10 Questions
• Marking Scheme:
ith question carries i marks as normal one and 2*i marks as
bonus/special one.
Example: Q1 will carry +1/+2 and negatives are -1/-2
Q8 will carry +8/+16 and negatives are -8/-16

9. Q1. Identify (+1 /+2)

11. Answer
• Shaktikanta Das, RBI governor.

12. Q2. Identify the author. (+2/4)

14. Answer:
• Peter Thiel

15. Q3. (+3/6)
Which Pune-based company established by Devendra and
Lalit Jain; dealing with industrial oxygen products is better
known for its chain of cinema multiplexes throughout the
country?

17. Answer
INOX Leisure Ltd. (INdustrial OXygen)

18. Q4. (+4/+8)
• Identify the logo of this publishing house.

20. Answer:
• Simon and Schuster

21. Q5. (+5/10)
• Taking the meaning of state sponsoring to another level, which state
government has agreed to be sponsor of Indian national hockey
teams (men and women)?

23. Answer
• Odisha

24. Q6. (+6/12)
• Name the owner of the
internet speed checking
tool “FAST” (or fast.com)?

26. Answer
• NETFLIX

27. Q7. (+7/14)
Which ice-cream chain’s logo represents the 31 flavours
with the idea that a customer could have a different
flavour every day of any month ?

29. Answer
• BASKIN ROBBINS

30. Q8. (+8/16)
• Which jewellery brand has
launched “AVEER”, an
exclusive jewellery range for
men ?

32. Answer
• TANISHQ

33. Q9. (+9/18)
• Which pharmaceutical company was
established as a patent medicine
business in Mumbai in 1893 by K.
Nageswara Rao Pantulu who was a
journalist, social reformer and freedom
fighter ?
• The headquarters were shifted to
Chennai in 1914.

35. Answer
• Amrutanjan Healthcare

36. Q10. Analytic (+10/20)
U+1 L-1 A-3 P+4

38. Answer
• DKNY
• AUDI (U+1=D)
• CALVIN KLEIN (L-1=K)
• NOVARTIS (A-3=N)
• HARDIK PANDYA (P+4=Y)

40. ROUND 2: INTERMEDIATE
• 12 QUESTIONS
• Marking Scheme : (i-10)*5 for normal one and Bonus= Normal +5, i
indicates the question no.
• 1st Question carries +5/+10 for default/bonus respectively and wrong
answer will give negatives of respective points.
• 2nd question carries 10/15 marks.
• 3rd question carries 15/20 marks and so on ….. Till the end of the
round.

41. Q11 (+5/10)
• Which Indian economist is credited with the creation
of Duidoku (a two-player version of Sudoku) and also
associated with ‘Arthapedia’, an online portal for
sharing economics stuff ?

43. Answer
• Kaushik Basu

44. Q12. (+10/15)
• The movement was started by Jurgen
Griesbeck of streetfootballworld with the help
of Spanish footballer Juan Mata,which aims to
encourage professional footballers and coaches
to pledge at least one percent of their salaries
for the betterment of under-privileged people.
Players such as Matt Hummels, Alex Morgan
have supported the movement as well.
• Name the movement.

46. Answer
• CommonGoal

47. Q13. (+15/20)
• X founded by Rajesh Mehta, is a gold
retailer in India which refines, designs, and
sells gold and jewellery. The company
ranked 295th on the Fortune Global 500 in
2017, with revenues of more than $36
billion, making it the fifth-largest company
in India by revenue.

49. Answer
• RAJESH EXPORTS

50. Q 14 (+20/25)
• Began as Onitsuka Co. Ltd in 1949, which company’s name derives
from the Latin phrase anima sana in corpore sano , which means
“healthy soul in a healthy body” ?

52. Answer
• ASICS

53. Q15. Connect (+25/30)

55. Answer
• Telegram
• First telegram in India was sent from Mumbai to Pune in 1854.
• Rahul Gandhi received the last telegram before the service got
discontinued.
• Pavel Durov (bottom) and Nikolai Durov are the founders of
“Telegram”, a messaging app.

56. Q16 (30/35)
• Which institution of national importance is actually an result of an
accidental meeting Jamsetji Tata and Swami Vivekananda on a ship in
1893 ?

58. Answer
• IISc Bangalore

59. Q17. (+35/40)
• Which Vadodara company dealing in safety products, has been
approached by ISRO to develop indigenous astronaut crew escape
suit for the ambitious Gaganyaan programme ?

61. Answer
• Sure Safety

62. Q18. (+40/45)
• According to its official website, this scheme Facilitates bank loans between 10
lakh and 1 Crore to at least one Scheduled Caste (SC) or Scheduled Tribe (ST)
borrower and at least one woman borrower per bank branch for setting up a
greenfield enterprise (as evident in the logo).
• Although the name of this scheme encourages less-privileged SC/STs to emerge
out of their shadows, the name has often been used as a genre of a popular art
as well.
• It’s English motto is “Endeavour and Prosper” & in Hindi, it is Karein Prayaas
Paaein Vikas ( करें प्रयास पाएं विकास ).
• Which scheme is being talked about ?

64. Answer
• STAND UP INDIA

65. Q19. (+45/+50)
• The person in the photo is Byung-
Gyu-Chang, is the founder of
which video game developing
studio which was started in 2007
in Seongnam, South Korea ?
• Hint: They have developed a game
called PUBG which was released in
2017 and became a household
name nowadays.

67. Answer
• BLUEHOLE

68. Q20. (+50/55)
• When the guests complained of cold kebabs at Indore’s Sayaji Hotel,
the manager Prosenjit Chowdhury got inspired from the idea of mini-
grills and started a restaurant chain following a buffet system, under
the guidance of late Sajid Dhanani, then MD of Sayaji Hotels, starting
it in Mumbai in 2006 and has been a hit among the masses
throughout the country and continues to expand.
• Which restaurant chain is being talked about ?

70. Answer
• Barbeque Nation

71. Q21 (+55/60)
• X was established in 1987 as a joint venture by MRF Ltd. and
American toy manufacturer Hasbro, Inc. The company began
commercial operations the following year. X manufactures all its
products (including licensed products) at manufacturing facilities in
Ranipet, near Chennai, and in Goa.
• X has been publishing the Monopoly board game in India since 1987.

73. Answer
• Funskool

74. Q22. Connect (+60/65)

76. Answer
• Conde Nast
• Rahul Dravid received “GQ Legend” award from GQ owned by Conde
Nast Publications.
• The man in the middle is himself Conde Nast.
• Shahrukh Khan and his daughter Suhana have appeared on the
separate issues of Vogue India, owned by Conde Nast.

78. ROUND 3 : SLOG FEST
• 13 Questions.
• MARKING SCHEME
• Each question carries +30/+50 and negatives of respective points for
wrong answers.
• For +30, say “THE NORMAL ONE” or 30 before the answer.
• For+50, say, “THE SPECIAL ONE” or 50 before the answer.

79. Q 23
• X was founded by Linda Avey, Paul Cusenza and Anne
Wojcicki in 2006 to provide genetic testing and
interpretation to individual consumers.
• In 2007, Google invested US$3,900,000 in the company,
along with Genentech, New Enterprise Associates, and
Mohr Davidow Ventures. Wojcicki was married to Google
co-founder Sergey Brin at the time.
• In 2007, X became the first company to begin offering
autosomal DNA testing for ancestry, which all other major
companies now use. Its saliva-based direct-to-consumer
(DTC) genetic testing business was named "Invention of
the Year" by Time magazine in 2008.
• Which company ?

81. Answer
• 23andMe
• 23 indicates the number of
chromosomes in a human
being.

82. Q24
• Pepsi X was a Pepsi variant. It was released in 1989 in certain regions
in the United States. It contains about 28 percent more caffeine an
ounce than regular Pepsi but 77 percent less than coffee or tea. It was
test-marketed as a morning drink but failed in the test marketing
stage, and in 1990, it was discontinued due to low sales.
• X is a two-letter acronym to indicate morning.

84. Answer
• PEPSI AM

85. Q25
• Identify the founder of the weekly
“MARMIK/मार्मिक .

87. Answer
• Bal Thackeray

88. Q26
• Which company began operating in Mumbai, India in 1969 as the
Indian division of the advertising wing of Lever brothers which is
associated with an unputdownable figure in the industry?

90. Answer
• LINTAS India (Lever International Advertising Services)

91. Q27
• Situated in Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, this
tower is a symbol of love, peace and
communal harmony. However, it’s location
is an interesting one as people can term
the location of the tower as a tribute to “2
Gujarati fathers.”
• Who are these Gujarati fathers ?
• One of them founded a newspaper in
Delhi on 26 October 1941 but its offices
got shifted later due to occurrence of
historical events as time passed by.

93. Answer
• Mohammad Ali Jinnah and
Mahatma Gandhi .
• Both of them had Gujarati roots.
• The tower in the picture is referred
to as “Jinnah Tower”, located on
Mahatma Gandhi Road in Guntur,
Andhra Pradesh.
• The newspaper in the context
being talked about is DAWN, a
Pakistani daily established by
Mohammad Ali Jinnah.

94. Q28
• X was founded in 2010 by inventor and entrepreneur Clayton
Alexander. The company based in Westlake Village, California makes
drinkware and dishware that can be thermally controlled by rotating a
dial on the ware or through X App.
• Jonas Brothers (Joe and Nick) have invested in X as well.

96. Answer
• Ember Technologies

97. Q29
• The company was founded in 1898 in
Augsburg, Germany, by Johann Josef
Keller and Jacob Knappich. At first,
the company focused on house and
street lights, but soon expanded to
other products (welding equipment
and solutions; big containers), to
become the market leader in public
vehicles in Europe by 1966.
• Later,the company decided into
robotics and become one of the top-
rated firms specialised in robotics.

99. Answer
• KUKA

100. Q30
• Alfred Escher founded a bank originally
called ‘X’ or Schweizerische Kreditanstalt
jointly with Allgemeine Deutsche Credit-
Anstalt in 1856 primarily to provide
domestic funding to railway projects,
avoiding French banks that wanted to exert
influence over the railway system.
• What is X which is a two-word term ?

102. Answer
• CREDIT SUISSE

103. Q31.
• What is so special about the clip made
in 1941 by Bulova, a watchmaking
company ?

105. Answer
• It was the world’s first commercial advertisement.

106. Q32. ANALYTIC
E-4 A+3 P+3

108. Answer
• ZTE
• Alexander Zverev ( E-4= Z)
• Dassault (A+3=T)
• Spyker(P+3=E)

109. Q33
• X is a German company which was founded on 28 March 1882, by
Paul Carl Beiersdorf. In 1890, it was sold to Oscar Troplowitz.
Troplowitz worked with his consultant Paul Gerson Unna and the
German chemist Isaac Lifschütz, developed a new skin care cream. In
1900, Lifschütz developed a water-in-oil emulsion with Eucerit, the
first stable emulsion, which was the origin for Eucerin.
• Give X

111. Answer
• NIVEA

112. Q34
• In 1925, Frederick Rentschler approached the
gentlemen for funding and a location to build
his new aircraft engine. The gentlemen with
surnames X and Y respectively, loaned him
$250,000, the use of their surnames, and
space in their building. This was the beginning
of the X & Y, which evolved into today's widely
known aircraft engine manufacturer.
• The company has been in the news for wrong
reasons due to faulty engines on IndiGo
flights, resulting in permissions revoked for
the latter to ply on Port Blair routes.
• Which company?

114. Answer
• Pratt and Whitney

115. Q35. Connect

117. Answer
• CLEAN SLATE
• Clean Slate Films, a movie production house is owned by Anushka
Sharma.
• In the movie The Dark Knight Rises, Selina Kyle tries to obtain “Clean
Slate” which will help her erase her past criminal records from the
database.
• Fortres Grand is a software company which has developed a software
named “Clean Slate” and fought against the makers of TDKR
unsuccessfully over the use of the term.

118. SCORES PLEASE

119. THANK YOU