EQUILIBRIUM PRESENTS

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John Alias and Aditya Ganesh

1st Round-What’s in a Name?

7 Questions – Written 5 points for each correct answer. All correct fetch +15 (bonus)- 50

points at stake. Good luck folks…

KWIZ BIZ X is the company of Hindustan Unilever, the

arm of Unilever in India. It is an amalgamated brand name created out of two previously separated independent companies that unilever took over. In 1995 X entered into an agreement with Lever and ahs been known by its current umbrella name. Other brands acquired by Hindustan Unilever, such as Gaylord-Milkfood, were phased out in favour of promoting X.

ID X.

KWIZ BIZ

The company's name originated from the four founding brothers Harry,Albert, Sam and Jack . They emigrated as small children with their parents to Canada from Krasnosielc which was located in the part of Congress Poland that had been subjugated to the Russian Empirefollowing the eighteenth-century Partitions of Poland near present-day Ostrołęka.

ID the co.

KWIZ BIZ X was started in the early 1940’s by N.Parameshwaran

Pillai during the British rule.

In the mid 1950’s, it was almost closed down due to labour conflicts and a very large number of employees lost their jobs.

Then, a well known communist leader A.K Gopalan Nambiar took over the leadership of the said employees and organised societies all over India in different states.

ID the well known brand / organisation thus established ?

KWIZ BIZ

Tata Motors launched X as “the next big thing”. But soon it was forced to change the name of the car from X to its present name through a competition - #fantastico name hunt

Gimme X ( or reason behind the name change)

KWIZ BIZ – CLAIM TO FAME?

KWIZ BIZ-WHO HAS BEEN DROPPED ?

KWIZ BIZ

X is credited with building IT industry's first context-rich aware help desk software, built right out of rural India. The CEO speaks of it as "Made in rural India, Made for the world." X was formerly 'Advent Net'.

Gimme X?

Kwality wall Warner Bros Indian coffee house Zica Bhim app Ivanka Trump Zoho

2nd Round – The Avial

Mixed Bag of 6 questions. Normal bounce (+10) and pounce

(+10/-5). No part points on pounce. Will go in clockwise. Do well guys…..

1. People used to make pun on this pic, as they

wonder who clicked it while the plane was on the air. In 1963, X became the first in their industry to own and operate an aircraft. X was established to campaign against the Anglo-Indian oppression upon one of the then famous local persona. The fine touch by Mario Garcia and Aurobindo Patel on one of the products of X has attracted many towards X all these years and even today.

Gimme X. (image slide folllows)

The Hindu

2. Ted Kaczynski is an anarchist and a mathematician

who is an alma-mater of Harvard university. Janet Reno, former attorney general of USA is

credited for being the first lady to occupy the position and to catch Ted for his contributions to “modern technology” during her term.

A book by Ted titled ‘_______ manifesto-Industrial society and its future’ starts with the famous lines “ The industrial revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for human race.”

However, Ted is better known by another name. What is it?(else FITB)

UNABOMBER

3.

This is the photo of Indonesia's new 100,000 rupiah bill. Indonesian Islamic party Islamic defenders front found it unfavorable to their vision because of some extra features appeared in this bill.

The point in question is what was the factor that made this bill to create a sudden uproar in media recently?

(Image slide follows)

Image

Hammer -and -sickle

In the new bill, small circular bank logo (anti counterfeit feature) is visible that resembles a hammer and sickle, a symbol of Communism. Indonesia had already banned communism in their country.

4.

X, a leading manufacturer of footwear, faces a lawsuit from Y Automobile Holding SE for alleged infringement of trademark.In its lawsuit, X has alleged that Y has used its widely popular sports car brand name Cayman for a line of footwear. Gimme X and Y

X-Porsche & Y- Crocs

5. The following is the description regarding the visit of

commander Ernesto de la Serna(as in official records) to a specific entity in India back in 1959:

“Serna started his journey on 12 June 1959. He celebrated his 31st birthday in Madrid, and flew to Delhi via Cairo. His plane reached Palam on the night of 30 June. Since he had no official position in the government, this “national leader ”, as he was described in official communications, was received at the airport by a welcoming committee of one, Deputy Chief Protocol Officer DS Khosla, who later accompanied him to the newly built Hotel Ashok in Chanakyapuri”

How is this “National leader” better known as? To which entity he made his visit?

Che Guevara and AIR

6.Gimme X Absolute hot is a concept of temperature that

postulates the existence of a highest attainable temperature of matter. Contemporary models of physical cosmology postulate that the highest possible temperature is the Planck temperature, which has the value  1.416785(71)×1032 Kelvin.

As a tribute to Absolute hot, X came up with hot sauce which contains Capsaicin, Carolina Reaper and Trinidad Moruga scorpion peppers. This heat is measured with the Scoville scale, a relatively subjective spiciness scale that gives a good idea of how spicy different peppers are.

Which company(X), that is completely unrelated to this field of condiments came up with this idea?

General Electric(GE)

3rd Round-BID ROUND

12 QUESTIONS Risk and Reward round Points:+10/-5, +20/-10, +30/-15 Pounce :+10/-10 No bounce Clockwise and anti clockwise.

1. connect

3. MokshaYug  Access is a company founded

in 2006 by the former Petroleum minister 's son, Harsh Moily. The company initially focussed on the microfinance and the health sector in rural areas, but decided to enter the dairy sector in 2009. The company's first product in the dairy sector was launched in Bangalore and was named X which is eponymous with one of the most famous trade routes in the world. X?

Milk Route, (from Silk Route)

4. Swatch is a Swiss watchmaker founded in  1983. The company

has been found to trademark Apple's key one-liners and taglines. When asked, the  company spokesperson told Techradar today that its trademark for the "___   ____      ____" phrase was inspired by a line from the TV show “Columbo,” an explanation people following technology news will have a hard time believing. Interestingly enough, that’s not the only Apple-related phrase that Swatch wants. The company has also sought a trademark for “Tick Different,” which is immediately familiar to Apple’s “Think Different” marketing campaign. 

The company  Registered a European trademark for this phrase in 2005. It gives this Swiss company, the right to use this phrase upto 2025, a move no one was expecting, especially the Apple fans. Which phrase?

One More Thing…

5. In France,Palm oil has long been criticsed by green acitivists

for destroying large parts of rainforest to make way for land-greedy palm tree plantations. Hence, The French Government, under pressure from environmental groups, approved a tax to be imposed per tonne of Palm Oil used in production. The initial tax proposal would have seen the tax rise to €500 in 2018, €700 in 2019 and €900 in 2020.The tax was named eponymously with a very famous product(X) for which the palm oil is used in it's production.

The proposed tax, would translate to a 6 euro cent hike per kilo of X, or 30 euro cents on giant 5 kg Jars of X most commonly used in restaurants and creperies across France. However, later on,The imposition of this tax attracted severe criticisms from the public, which later made the Government to slash this tax.

Nutella Tax

6.

Shown in the image is a particular move in Wrestling where the wrestler lifts his opponent, tosses him over and puts him down on the mat, symbolizing the strength and dominance of one wrestler over the other. In wrestling matches, 3 points are awarded for this move. Name the move.

Dhobi Pachad

7. X is a script style that was used in the United

States from approximately 1850 to 1925 and was considered the American De Facto standard writing style for business correspondence prior to the widespread adoption of the typewriter. This script takes inspiration from various existing scripts to develop a unique oval-based penmanship style that could be written very quickly and legibly to aid in matters of business. This script is eponymous in the sense that it was named after its founder. 

You can find this script being used in the logos of Coca Cola and Ford. Name the Script(X).

Spencerian Script

8. Identify this Ad man who came up with these

hilarious taglines. Cheese,It's milk that you chew. Crackers, because your cheese needs a buddy. A grape, because who can get a watermelon in

your mouth. Th phone, bringing you closer to people who

have phones. Bagels and Donuts, Round food for every mood Pants, like shorts but longer.

Chandler Bing

9. Prometheus is a Titan, culture hero, and trickster

figure, who in Greek Mythology, is credited with the creation of man from clay and the theft of fire for human use, an act of enabled progress  and civilization. He is known for his intelligence, and as a champion of humanity. Zeus sentenced the Titan to eternal torment for his transgression. The immortal Prometheus was bound to a rock, where each day an eagle, the emblem of Zeus, was sent to feed on his liver, which would then grow back to be eaten again next day. How has his punishment been immortalized?

The Olympic Flame

10. This company(X) came up with a wonderful marketing

campaign last christmas season, where its products were put under the heading "X Retail Therapy".  Products were simply renamed to relationship problems so that they can be Googled. 

"What better way to connect X's products to people's actual lives is there than the questions about everyday life people actually ask on Google?" asked Magnus Jakobsson, the X's advertising agency's creative director.The idea is that when people search Google for help with a specific problem, they'll find a product with the exact same name on the X website.

He doesn't text back- 3 port USB Charger How to get a girl to like you- An Oven.  My partner snores-Daybed with drawers .which company?

IKEA

11. The five hundred euro note (€500) is the highest-

value euro banknote and has been used since the introduction of the euro (in its cash form) in 2002.It is one of the highest-value circulating banknotes in the world, worth around 532 USD, 3,672 CNY, 60,931 JPY, 537 CHF or 437 GBP. Because of its High value, this note is associated with Money-laundering and terror financing, thus, paving the way for authorities to phase out the note in stages. Such is its popularity among criminals, the 500 euro note has earned itself a nickname - the X. It is so called because you know it's out there, you know what it looks like, it moves around a lot but no-one ever sees it.

Bin Laden

12.What is this a list of?Bowler Batsman

*MS Kasprowicz SP Fleming Australia v New Zealand

Auckland 2004/05

AB Agarkar HH Gibbs India v South Africa Johannesburg 2006/07AC Thomas Imran Nazir South Africa v

PakistanJohannesburg 2006/07

SW Tait JM How Australia v New Zealand

Perth 2007/08

RK Kleinveldt Junaid Siddique South Africa v Bangladesh

Johannesburg 2008/09

PP Ojha Shakib Al Hasan India v Bangladesh Trent Bridge 2009JL Denly GC Smith England v South

AfricaCenturion 2009/10

**V Kohli KP Pietersen India v England Manchester 2011Nadeem Ahmed SP Khakurel Hong Kong v Nepal Chittagong 2013/14P Khadka Irfan Ahmed Hong Kong v Nepal Chittagong 2013/14***WT Gavera NJ O'Brien Papua New Guinea

v IrelandBelfast 2015

AJ Lalcheta Nizakat Khan Oman v Hong Kong Abu Dhabi 2015/16Aamer Yamin JJ Roy Pakistan v England Sharjah 2015/16*LH Ferguson Sabbir Rahman New Zealand v

BangladeshNapier 2016/17

PADLR Sandakan M Mosehle Sri Lanka v South Africa

Johannesburg 2016/17

What is this a list of?

ANSWER.

List of cricketers to have taken a wicket off their first ball in bowler career in T20Is.

4th round-Buzzer round

5 questions +10/-10 On Buzzer