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FINALS-03/04/2018
RESEARCHED AND CONDUCTED BY RITHWIK K

FORMAT
Round 1: Written Round (6 questions)
Round 2: Infinite Pounce (15 questions)
Round 3: Buzzer Round (6 questions)
Round 4: Written Round (6 questions)
Round 5: Infinite Pounce (15 questions)
Round 6: Buzzer Round (6 questions)

Round 1
 Written Round
 6 questions
 10 point for every right answer
 There is an hidden theme.
 No Points for the theme though 

1.  Mr Joe worked in the United States Merchant Marine and served in
the United States Navy during World War II, where he was badly
injured in a torpedo attack, and also in the Korean War.
 He also appeared as an extra in two epic movies: The Ten
Commandments and Around the World in 80 Days, both in 1956.
 What venture was started by him on August 1965, in Venice Beach,
California?

2.Which company came up with this ad? They later
apologized for creating this racist ad.

3.  Platt Rogers ______ was the originator of a popular system of
cursive handwriting. He was a teacher and active in the
business school movement.
 He was instrumental in founding the business colleges of the
United States and in promoting their growth and development.
He combined there his work as a teacher, his system of
penmanship for keeping business records and his lectures.
 FITB/Name the system devised by him.
 Where can one see the most famous application of this system?

4.
 In August 1966, Richard M. Schulze and a business partner opened Sound
of Music, an electronics store specializing in high fidelity stereos in Saint
Paul, Minnesota.Schulze financed the opening of his first store with his
personal savings and a second mortgage he took out on his family’s home.
 In 1981, the Roseville, Minnesota, the time the largest and most profitable
Sound of Music store, was hit by a tornado.The store’s roof was sheared off
and showroom destroyed.In response, Schulze decided to have a “Tornado
Sale” of damaged and excess stock in the parking lot.He poured the
remainder of his marketing budget into advertising the sale, promising
“_____ ____” on everything.
 Early beginnings of which company?

5.
 The Copyright Term Extension Act (CTEA) of 1998 extended copyright
terms in the United States. It is one of several acts extending the terms of
copyrights. Following the Copyright Act of 1976, copyright would last for
the life of the author plus 50 years, or 75 years for a work of corporate
authorship. The act was named in memory of the late Congressman Sonny
Bono, who died nine months before the act became law: he had previously
been one of twelve sponsors of a similar bill.
 The act got its popular name after a fictional character, because since
1990, a certain company had lobbied for copyright extension.
 Which character?

6.
 Jean Nidetch ,an overweight housewife had a self-confessed
obsession for eating cookies.Nidetch had experimented with
numerous fad diets before she followed a regimen prescribed by a
diet clinic sponsored by the New York City Board of Health in 1961.
After losing 20 pounds and finding her resolve weakening, she
contacted several overweight friends and founded a support group
which developed into weekly classes, and incorporated a company. In
1978, the company was sold to the H. J. Heinz Company.
 What company was founded by her?

3.  Platt Rogers ______ was the originator of a popular system of
cursive handwriting. He was a teacher and active in the
business school movement.
 He was instrumental in founding the business colleges of the
United States and in promoting their growth and development.
He combined there his work as a teacher, his system of
penmanship for keeping business records and his lectures.
 Name the system devised by him.
 Where can one see the most famous application of this system?

Spencer/Spencerian Script
Logo of Coco Cola

ROUND 2
 15 questions
 Infinite Bounce/Pounce (+10/-5)
 Most of the questions have multiple parts,Be careful on Pounce.
 If No team answers, the next questions goes to the next team

1.  This company recently received a patent for a new service that
would let users upload photos of their vegetable gardens then
receive a variety of recommendations from them including recipes
for the specific veggies they’ve planted, gardening tools they might
need, and even advice on what else to plant and exactly where in
your plot it should go.
 The “garden service,” as the company bills it in the patent, uses
algorithms and image recognition software to make the
recommendations. The company gives a weirdly specific example
of a woman named Evelyn who likes to cook with home-grown
veggies, has just moved to Seattle, and isn’t familiar with the plants
in her backyard or how to cook them.
 Which company?

2.
 The company was created in 1951 as a subsidiary to Åkerlund &
Rausing, a food carton company established in Malmö in 1929 by
Ruben Rausing and Erik Åkerlund, with funding from Mathusan
Chandramohan, a rich entrepreneur from Sri Lanka. Rausing, who had
studied in New York at the beginning of the 1920s, had seen self-
service grocery stores in the United States, which was unheard of in
Europe at the time. Which company?
 Upon visiting their factory in the 1950s, Danish physics professor and
Nobel Prize laureate claimed to "never have seen such an adequate
practical application of a mathematical problem“. Who?

3.  The Hawks Nest Tunnel disaster took place between 1927 and
1932 in a West Virginia tunnel project. During the construction of
the tunnel, workers found the mineral silica and were asked to mine
it for use in electroprocessing steel. The workers were not given
masks or breathing equipment to use while mining. Due to silica
dust exposure, many workers developed silicosis. According to a
marker on site, there were 109 admitted deaths. A congressional
hearing placed the death toll at 476. This project is considered to
be one of the worst industrial disasters in American history.
 Which company was in charge of the tunnel at the time of this
catastrophe?

4.
 A certain word was first used with ‘a double n’ in French in 1719 by Steven
Fentiman and is first recorded in English in a letter of Lord Byron of 1816, then in
print in a novel called Vivian Grey.
 Vivian Grey was this author’s first novel published by Henry Colburn in 1826.
Originally published anonymously,part 1 caused a considerable sensation in London
society. The book is a frequent touchstone for discussions of the author’s political
and literary career.
 Which word?
 Who was this author?

5.
 This is a prominent Swedish family renowned as bankers, politicians,
bureaucrats, diplomats. They are present in most large Swedish industrial
groups, like Ericsson, Electrolux, ABB, SAS Group, SKF, AIK, Atlas Copco
and more.
 The most famous member from this family was a diplomat, worked
in Budapest, who famously did something Between July and
December 1944.
 Which Swedish family? Or Name the most famous member.

 Raoul Wallenberg is widely celebrated for saving tens of thousands of Jews
in Nazi-occupied Hungary during the Holocaust from German Nazis and
Hungarian Fascists during the later stages of World War II.
Wallenberg

6.
 Limex was charged with marketing of these ‘products’ and historians say
auctions in Paris and Monaco had raised a good fortune by mid-1990s.
 Victor Pawlowksi, whose wife and daughter are also in the business, has
enough of these products to last him for decades. But he says the sale of these
only makes up around a fifth of his souvenir supplies business.
 He has also filed a patent application for his technique of implanting these
products into plastic globes and attaching them to postcards.
 What do they sell?

7.
 Lock & Co. , founded by Robert Davis in 1676, is the
oldest company in the world producing a particular
product. It is a Royal Warrant Holder. More than 5
decades ago, it fitted a chakram, a weapon from
India with sharp edges, to one of their products. The
product was made for Harold Sakata, an Olympic
silver-medalist in weightlifting (London, 1948) who
was also a professional wrestler.
 Where was this product put to use?

8.  He watched long lines of customers at a Mexican
restaurant called the Mitla Cafe, located across the
street, which attracted a dedicated customer base
for its food items.He began eating there regularly,
attempting to reverse-engineer the recipe, and
eventually won the confidence of the proprietors.
 What did he start?

9.A London-based tour operator, Blue Marble Private, will run eight-day
trips to a unique location. The trips will be run by OceanGate Expeditions
on its new Cyclops 2 submersible.(pictured below)
 The trip will be open to just nine people at a time and comes with an eye-
watering price tag of £86,500 a ticket.
 Where is the destination of this tour package,A sort of tribute to a
journey that took place over 100 years ago?

10.  An association football trophy contested between Argentina
and Uruguay.
 An association football competition that took place in Turin,
Italy
 An association football competition competed between
clubs from Southern Italy and Sicily.
 A sports league for high schools in the Philippines.
 All the above mentioned tournaments were sponsored by a
company started by a Scotsman who also appeared on the
cover of TIME magazine. (Image)
 Which company/the founder?

11.
 Brian Patrick Carroll is best known for his electric guitar
playing.He has been voted number 8 on a list in GuitarOne
magazine of the "Top 10 Greatest Guitar Shredders of All
Time".He has released 40 studio albums, four special releases
and one EP.
 He got his nickname because he place something on his
head while performing.
 What’s his nickname or tell me what does he place on his head?

12.
 The long process of turning barley by hand inevitably took its toll on
Scotland’s malt men. After long shifts of constant manual flipping they
were subjected to a condition which caused one arm to hang down just
a little; they called this _________ ________ . While the unfortunate side
effect is no longer experienced thanks to the modernisation of production
techniques and widespread dissolution of distillery maltings.
 This also happens to be the name of a William Grant-owned blended malt.
In early 2016, the brand was named the ‘trendiest’ Scotch whisky brand in
the world in a poll by trade title Drinks International.
 FITB.

13.What connects?
 Hotel Full Moon in Baku, Azerbaijan - a design from
Heerim Architects of Korea, to be built on a peninsula
overlooking Full Moon Bay.
 The RAK Convention and Exhibition Center in the
new city of Ras al Khaimah, UAE
 Belarus National Library
 A Panasonic R-70 transistor radio, marketed as the
Panapet
 AT&T Logo

14.  Which brand is advertised here?
 What catchphrase from the world of Pop-culture traces its origins
to this commercial?

Brylcreem
Fred Flintstone's catchphrase "Yabba-Dabba-Doo!

15.  The first self-contained version of a household appliance was invented by
Nathaniel B. Wales and Alfred Mellowes. In 1918, William C. Durant, a founder
of General Motors, personally invested in the company which came up with the
product and in 1919 it adopted the present name. The brand was so well
known in its field,so the products of all companies was referred by this
name.
 From 1919 to 1979, the company was owned by General Motors. The division
would also manufacture the compressors for GM's cars that were equipped with
air-conditioning. The company was sold to the White Sewing Machine Company
in 1979, which in 1986 was purchased by Electrolux, its current parent.
 Which company?

Round 3
 Buzzer Round
 6 questions
 +10/-10
 Maximum of 2 attempts per question

1.She is the most recent person to portray whom?

2.What connects the companies founded by them?

Companies named after dogs
 1) Anil Moolchandani – Archies
 2) Mark Pincus – Zynga

3.Where can you see this McD outlet?

4.Which company was started by him?

Dorabji Tata
 *As the president of the Indian Olympic
Association, he financed the Indian contingent
to the Paris Olympics in 1924.
 *Founder of New India Assurance Co Ltd
 *Uncle of Homi.J Bhabha

Round 4
 Written Round
 6 questions
 10 point for every right answer
 Topic :- Logos

1.  The company’s logo has remained virtually unchanged since it
was introduced in 1969.The logo was created by X after a
request by his good friend and the founder of the company
Enric Bernat, in less than an hour while the pair ate lunch.
While the logo looks simple, his masterstroke was insisting
that it be displayed on top of the product instead of on its
side, ensuring that it would always be clearly visible.
 Which company?
 Who designed the logo?

2.  To date, the man behind it, Joel Zimmerman, has
trademarked his logo in over 30 countries. But when
Zimmerman tried to trademark the logo in the United
States, a certain company came to know its similar to one
of their major offering and tried to block his application. In
response, Zimmerman did a simple Google search and
found that the company had used one of his more popular
songs for a video,” something he’d absolutely not given
them permission to do. To make things even more
hilarious, the video was accompanied by this huge logo
created him.
 How do we better know Joel Zimmerman?
 Name the company involved.

3.
 An extract from the official website of a company about the history of their
logo.
 The logo evokes the Kaientai, a modernizing and enterprising naval trading
company that operated during the last days of the Tokugawa Shogunate in
Japan. As a mark of respect for their passion and empathy with their vision,
our brand symbol is designed based on the banner of the Kaientai.
 The double-line represents the “= (equal)” sign, symbolizing the Group's
stance as an actor in the Information Revolution.
 Which company?

4.
 The first logo of this organization was adopted in 1955 which
depicted a Banyan tree because of its strong roots and branches
which are capable of propagating and growing in all directions,
depicting growth,success and stability.
 However, as a result of an event in 1969, the logo was abandoned as
it invited criticism for a particular reason involving the tree.
 Which organization?
 Why was the earlier logo abandoned?

5.  In 1927, the company was trying to drum up some
publicity by embarking on a countrywide trip. For this
purpose they modified a Ryan Brougham plane (similar in
design to the "Spirit of St Louis" but with a shorter
wingspan).Five hours into the flight from San Diego to
New York, after a takeoff covered by extensive media, the
plane crashed in the Arizona desert. The company was
really concerned about the “cargo”.
 What was the cargo?

6.
 This logo was designed by computer science professor
Vaughan Pratt. Pratt managed to come up with a ingenious
design by making its logo into an ambigram, which is a
typographic design that spells a word out in various
directions. Here, he constructed the design that no matter
what direction you twist and turn it, you can still read the
word “____”.
 Which company?

2.  To date, the man behind it, Joel Zimmerman, has
trademarked his logo in over 30 countries. But when
Zimmerman tried to trademark the logo in the United
States, a certain company came to know its similar to one
of their major offering and tried to block his application. In
response, Zimmerman did a simple Google search and
found that the company had used one of his more popular
songs for a video,” something he’d absolutely not given
them permission to do. To make things even more
hilarious, the video was accompanied by a huge logo
created him.
 How do we better know Joel Zimmerman?
 Name the company involved.

SBI
Banyan tree does not let any other plant grow
within its space.

5.  In 1927, the company was trying to drum up some
publicity by embarking on a countrywide trip. For this
purpose they modified a Ryan Brougham plane (similar in
design to the "Spirit of St Louis" but with a shorter
wingspan).Five hours into the flight from San Diego to
New York, after a takeoff covered by extensive media, the
plane crashed in the Arizona desert. The company was
really concerned about the cargo.
 What was inside the cargo?

ROUND 5
 15 questions
 Infinite Bounce/Pounce (+10/-5)
 Most of the questions have multiple parts,Be careful on Pounce.
 If No team answers, the next questions goes to the next team

1.  As a fullback at the University of Maryland, he got tired of having to change
out of the sweat-soaked T-shirts worn under his jersey; however, he
noticed that his compression shorts worn during practice stayed dry. This
inspired him to make a T-shirt using moisture-wicking synthetic fabric.After
graduating from the University of Maryland, he developed his first prototype
of the shirt, which he gave to his Maryland teammates and friends who had
gone on to play in the NFL.
 He opted to use the British spelling in the company name because the toll-
free vanity number was still available for that version.
 Who?
 Which company was founded by him in 1996?

2.
 In 2013,the rate of new start-up launches in the city doubled in
New Orleans. iSeatz, a company that allows users to book
multiple legs of travel on one platform, jumped from gross
bookings of $8 million in 2005 to $2 billion in 2013. Another
tech company, Kickboard, which helps tracks students’
education progress, raised a $2 million round of funding in
February 2013.
 What was cited as a reason behind this entrepreneurial
renaissance?

3.  The company was founded by a 19-year-old entrepreneur named
Thomas Lyle Williams in 1915. Williams noticed his older sister
applying a mixture of Vaseline and coal dust to her eyelashes to give
them a darker, fuller look. He adapted it with a chemistry set ,
produced a product sold locally called Lash-Brow-Iine. Williams
renamed his product in honor of the sister who gave him the
idea. In 1917 the company produced a Mascara and Ultra Lash in the
1960s.
 Which company?

4.  In 1983, Jean-Louis Dumas was seated next to an English-French
actress on a flight from Paris to London. She had just placed her
straw travelling bag in the overhead compartment for her seat,
but the contents fell to the deck, leaving her to scramble to
replace them. She explained to Dumas that it had been
difficult to find a leather weekend bag she liked. In 1984, he
created a black supple leather bag for her.She used the bag
initially, but changed her mind because she was carrying too
many things in it. Nevertheless, since that time, the bag has
become a status symbol.
 Jean-Louis Dumas was the chief executive of which company?
 Also Identify the actress after whom the bag was named.

5.  The casinos are the best-known of their holdings, due to the long
negotiations over its financial agreement with the state of Florida. In
2007,they purchased an entity from the British gaming and leisure
company Rank Group Plc for close to $1 billion dollars — one of the
largest purchases ever by an American Indian tribe. At the time,
the entity owned 124 music-themed restaurants in 45 countries,
seven hotels, two casinos and two freestanding concert venues. The
company had been in operation for 36 years.
 Which tribe?
 What did they purchase for close to $1 billion dollars in 2007?

Seminole Tribe of Florida
Hard Rock Cafe

6.  Back in the 1930s, the company got the idea of showing off their
products by having their models wear cellophane and staging a
"cellophane wedding."
 The first picture seems to be a trial run of this stunt, in which the
company created outfits that were only half cellophane. But in
1938, they staged a wedding with full cellophane outfits at the
National Association of Retail Clothiers and Furnishers convention.
The story goes that a picture of this event subsequently ran in Life
magazine and it even came to the attention of Adolf Hitler, who
used it as an opportunity to speak out against America's moral
decline.
 Which company?

7.  This was a large resort hotel in Monterey, California, from its opening in
1880 until 1942. It was one of the finest luxury hotels in North America.
 During World War II, it closed and the building was leased to the Navy.It
was first used by the Navy as a school where enlisted men spent the
second, third, and fourth months of an eleven-month course being trained
as electronic technicians. Later the hotel became the Naval Postgraduate
School of the United States Navy.It is now known as Herrmann Hall and
functions as administrative office.
 Which food production and distribution company headquartered at Walnut
Creek, California was named after this Hotel?

8.  During the preparations for an ultimately successful October
2010 event, a journalist covering the story contacted a
company to donate their products to the people involved and
they provided over 30 pairs.
 The company has also built one 'golf hovercraft', intended as
an all terrain replacement for conventional golf carts, in
partnership with the professional golfer, Bubba Watson.
 What event?
 Name the company that was named after the founder’s
English setter.

2010 Chile miners incident
Oakley

9.  Chelsea Xpo Pavilion Project is directed by Cyril Shing, Senior
Lecturer of BA Interior Spatial Design (ISD) in collaboration with
Yiching and Platform 2 final year students. The pavilion marks the
achievements of Platform 2’s idea of digital creativity and addresses
issues of sustainability through consideration of the use of materials.
 Which company sponsored this pavilion in 2010?
 What surplus products are used for the construction which resulted
in this remarkable structure?

10.  The brand dates back to 1851 in Rhode Island when Robert
Knight, a textile mill owner, visited his friend, Rufus Skeel.
Skeel owned a small shop in Providence that sold cloth from
Knight's mill. Skeel's daughter painted images of apples and
applied them to the bolts of cloth. The ones with the apple
emblems proved most popular.
 The company was bought from bankruptcy by a giant
corporation in 2002 for approximately $835 million in cash.
 Which brand?
 Identify the parent company.

Fruit of the Loom
Berkshire Hathaway

11.  Dr. William A. "Bill" Mitchell was an American food chemist who,
while working for General Foods Corporation between 1941 and
1976, was the key inventor behind Pop Rocks, quick-set Jell-O, Cool
Whip, and powdered egg whites.During his career he received over 70
patents.
 His first major success came with a tapioca substitute he helped
develop during World War II, in response to the disruption of cassava
supplies. Because of this, tapioca quickly became known as "Mitchell
mud" within the US WW II infantry.
 Sales of a fruit-flavored drink he formulated was poor until 1962.
 Identify the drink.
 What was the reason behind the increase in the sale from 1962
onward?

Tang
NASA used it on John Glenn's
Mercury flight in February 1962.

12.  1) The ________ Manufacturing Company is an American
manufacturer of combine harvesters. It has been a popular brand
of combine harvester particularly in the Midwestern United States
for many decades, first as an independent firm, and later as a
division of Allis-Chalmers. The brand continues today under the
ownership of AGCO. FITB. (3 points)
 2) In 1924, X’s aunt, a crossword puzzle enthusiast, asked whether
there was a book of New York World crossword puzzles, which
were very popular at the time. After discovering that none had
been published, X and his friend Y decided to launch a company to
exploit the opportunity.
 Which company was started by them? (3 points)
 What connects (1) and (2)? (4 points)

Gleaner
Simon & Schuster
Jean-François Millet paintings

13.  From 1996 through 2014, this American organisation looked to the
kind folks at World Vision International to put the surplus stocks
to good use.
 With over 400 mission projects all over the developing world,
World Vision plays a very major role in the development of over 90
countries, which made them a perfect candidate for this
organisation to partner with.
 After a long and mutually beneficial 19-year relationship with the
people of World Vision, the organization has now partnered with
Good 360, that will manage the distribution of these surplus stocks.
 What exactly does Good 360 do?

They distribute the Super Bowl Surplus T-Shirts.

14.
 The Rolls-Royce calls them a “hallmark” feature of its lineup. Just one
of those pieces would make a decent mark in a normal person’s bank
account, since the New York Daily News reports that those present in
the 2013 Rolls-Royce Phantom cost about $700 a piece.
 What product is present in the Rolls-Royce car to signify its a British
company?

15.  Since their numbers peaked at 92,000 across the country in
2002, but now they have been in rapid decline. There are
now 42,000 left, of which 7,000 are the classic versions
loved by tourists. There are plans to remove 20,000 more
by 2022.
 Many decommissioned ones have been put to ingenious
uses, becoming art galleries, or storage sites for
defibrillators.
 What am I talking about?

Round 6
 Buzzer Round
 6 questions
 +10/-10
 Maximum of 2 attempts per question

1. John Schnatter sold his 1971 Z28 Camaro to start
which company in 1984?

Papa John’s
 "Papa" John Schnatter - He sold his 1971 Camaro Z28 to
purchase US$1,600 worth of used pizza equipment and began
selling pizzas.

Lupin Limited
 Desh Bandhu Gupta and Lupinus

3.What chain of hotels was named after this Hill
fort in Alwar,Rajasthan?

4. Currently a subsidiary of Secuitas AB ,Founded by this
person marked who became famous when he claimed
to have foiled a plot to assassinate president-elect
Abraham Lincoln.

Pinkerton
 Started by Allan Pinkerton.

5.
 The company traces its history back to 1860, with the
publication by Henry Varnum _____ of History of
Railroads and Canals in the United States. This book
compiled comprehensive information about the
financial and operational state of U.S. railroad
companies.
 Which company?

Dr T. M. A. Pai
 He, along with his brother Upendra Pai, also established Syndicate Bank originally in Udupi,
Karnataka.
 Ripley's Believe It or Not as the person who has established the most number of educational
institutions in his lifetime.

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