I was able to attend the 2019 Mumbai round and the national final of this quiz (as a participant) held on 7th September 2019. The downpour in Mumbai had absolutely no effect on the turnout of the quiz. My guess is at least 100-odd quizzers turned up for this.
So lets quickly get ahead with the questions from the Mumbai round (prelims & finals) and the national finals. For want of time, I will be uploading the questions in batches every now and then.
Disclaimer - The questions have been represented in as close resemblance to the real quiz as possible.
Cut-off for Mumbai round - 14/20
Top score - 18/20
[Source - QM]
Top 6 teams in Mumbai Regional Finals
1. Network 18
2. Discovery India
3. SAIL Bhilai (employees posted in Mumbai -confirmed from QM)
4. SIMSR
5. IIT Bombay
6. HDFC Life
There was a written preliminary round of 20 questions from which these top 6 teams were selected. The finals consisted of 4 rounds with the first three being non-buzzer rounds and the last one being a buzzer round.
I will include the answers to these questions in a separate blog post (I think it's better that way). All the visuals used here are exactly as those used in the quiz.
Happy quizzing!
1. Identify the blanked out part in the logo!
This production company is named after a business group which has a tribute to their shipbuilding origins on their coat of arms.
P.S. –
They created characters like the
Fearless Nadia etc.
2. This brand was launched by High Time Solutions (HTS) in association with a famous personality. The name CheQmate comes from the personality's first love game - Chess.
Identify the personality.
3. On being asked about the future capital
needs of Paytm, what dialogue did founder Vijay Shekhar Sharma come
up with as a
reply to the above question?
4. In the year 1967, Mr. Amarjit Singh _________
tasted
a Lebanese delicacy prepared from pita bread and a whopping variety of
stuffing, at Beirut. Enraptured by what his taste buds had experienced, he
returned to India to launch something (starting at
Mumbai) which is extremely famous today. Fill in the blanks.
5. Fill in the blanks.
6. Whose chatbot is known as TeeCee? This company is into forex, visa and holidays.
7. Which famous Bollywood casting director's (person on the left) company (logo on the right) is this? They have done the casting for movies like Gangs of Wasseypur, Mast Ram, Chennai Express, Shahid, Jai Ho etc.
8. Identify this Indian company co-founded by Rakesh Dugar in 1998 (logo below).
9. Which cola brand from the 80s had jungle book characters beneath the bottle caps which one could collect and stick on a sheet in a campaign to attract children to the brand?
10. Vivek Ranadive, co-owner and Chairman of Sacramento Kings, founded the Information Bus Company in 1997 after selling Teknetron Software Systems. What is the Information Bus Company known as today?
11. Which ATV manufacturer (earlier Headquartered in Alibag) founded in 2006 is this (logo below)?
12. La _______ is a three-act opera
comique with music by Edmond Audran and words by Alfred Duru and Henri
Chivot.The
story is about a farm girl who is a ______ and someone with the mystic power to
bring good luck to all around her so long as she remains a virgin.
What business concept comes from this premise? All blanks are
the same and would lead you to the business concept.
13. Belgian-based KBC Asset Management exited the Indian
market by selling its stake in the mutual fund business to its JV partner
_________ ?
Fill in the blanks. Almost everyone present at the quiz
cracked this question apparently!
14. Which
brand, endorsed by Anushka Sharma, established itself as one of the best
handbag brands in India in 2010?
15.
Identify the person in the picture in this print ad for the Mandarin Oriental
Hotel Group (a member of the James Matheson Group).
16.
_______ is a casino game named after a French word meaning little wheel. One of
the forms of this game is Californian ______. Fill in the blanks (Both blanks
are the same).
17. Print
ad by which organization promoting veganism?
18. Print
ad by whom?
19. An award for courageous journalism
was instituted by IntiRaymi Fund on January 1,2019 known as JKA. A stands for
Award. What does JK stand for?
20. Its name originates from the popularity of gin in India
during the British Raj. It's a two-word brand whose second word refers to the
violet-blue Star of Bombay which was mined from Sri Lanka and is now on display
at the Smithsonian Institution. Which brand?
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of Prelims------------------
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