Headrush Mains

HEADRUSH

MAINS

Round 1

The Rules : Each question is worth 20 points. The first question goes to team 1, the next to team 2. And so on. Questions can be passed. For a passed question, the value of the question decrease to 10 points.

1.

Simple Question. WW2 : The German intelligence services were known as the Abwehr. They were headed by a famous person X. Later on X tried to assasinate Hitler and was executed . Identify X.

Admiral Wilhelm Canaris

2.

Goodyear , Dunlop and Michelin are a few examples of tyres used by the cars in Formula 1. However from 2011 only one sole tyre company has the rights to supply tyres. Identify the company .

PIRELLI

3.Identify the 3 people.

CHURCHILL , ROOSEVELT AND STALIN

• The Yalta Conference, held February 4–11, 1945, was the wartime meeting of the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union, represented by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and General Secretary Joseph Stalin,

4. What is being shown here ?

Larry Page’s PageRank Algorithm

5.

What runs for about 1.3 miles on Hollywood Boulevard and Vine Street in Los Angeles county and is said to attract 10 million tourists every year?

The Hollywood Walk of Fame

• There are more than 2000 stars symbolizing five categories within the entertainment industry that are placed at 6-foot intervals

6.

•In 2009, a Face to Face tour featuring Elton John and Billy Joel was promoted as '(X) Man meets (Y) Man'. What are X and Y ?

Rocket and Piano

7.Connect

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The connect between the three is Nokia.

• Navteq is a Chicago, Illinois-based provider of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) data and is a dominant company in providing the base electronic navigable maps. The company is a wholly owned subsidiary of Nokia but operates independently.

Enpocket was a global mobile media company providing integrated entertainment and mobile marketing services. The company was founded in 2001, headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. Nokia acquired the company in 2007 and merged it into its Services division as Nokia Interactive Advertising. In November 2009 the business unit was moved to Nokia's NAVTEQ subsidiary and renamed to NAVTEQ Media Solutions.

8. Name the person encircled.

Jackie Chan

The successor to Bruce Lee.

9.

With a 57 member count that includes Turkey, Malaysia and Algeria, what is the second largest international organisation after the UN?

The Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC)

• Most OIC member countries are non-democratic. There are no OIC countries which are rated as a 'Full Democracy' under the Democracy Index guidelines, and only 3 of the 57 members are rated as high as a 'Flawed Democracy'.

10. Connect

Both of them used biased coins

Amitabh Bachchan (Jai) in Sholay and Aaron Eckhart ( Harvey Dent ) in The Dark Knight.

11.

• This word originated in the 1770s in British India, where the soldiers went hunting for a bird whose excellent natural camouflage made it very difficult to locate. This word was used as a badge of respect for skilled hunters who later brought their catch to the market. What popular word are we talking about?

Sniper

12.

• In the special edition of times magazine, X was given the award of the person of the century...however it was debated Y shud be given the award as the award shud go to the person who has created the most significant impact on the world in the century...however as Y was not successful in his intentions the award went to X.

X= Albert Einstien Y= Hitler

Round 2.

• This round contains 6 questions 1 to each team.

• For each direct question you get a +20. However, if u don’t know the ans then u can pass it on to any other team of your choice. If they get it right both the teams get 10 points each. So, think and select wisely.. Best of Luck !!

13. Connect

Vicky Christina Barcelona

A film directed by Woody Allen.

14.

• According to alexa.com, this website's audience primarily tends to be Asian and has a traffic ranking of #61 in India, from where it gets 81% of its visitors. Cyber security experts believe that over 12 lakh Indian users download files from this website daily and thus, hackers may very easily target these computers to steal information and even launch a huge attack by releasing worms. Name the website in question

Songs.pk

THE MUSIC RESERVE !!

15.

• Bollywood and Politics aren’t just recent playmates, there is a bond between them right from the Nehru days. In his time there was a prodigal politician who was immensely popular with the crowds. To beat his charisma Nehru used one of the biggest superstar of that era Balraj Sahni to campaign against him. This was the earliest case of someone from the glam industry coming out to endorse a certain political party. Who was he campaigning against???

Atal Bihari Vajpayee

16.

In which Olympic sport , do participants wear an electrically conductive jacket called a Lame`, to define the scoring areas ??

Fencing !

17. What is this and Who is the person in the picture ??

The Nobel Prize and the person after whom it is named – Alfred Nobel.

He invented the Dynamite !!

18.

Mythology: What was the name of the garland carried by

Goddess Lakshmi when she arose from the churning of the ocean and placed around the neck of Lord Vishnu at the time of their marriage?

Vajayanthimala

Round 3

Okay, so this round will have each question open to all teams. The scoring.If only one team out of the 6 gets it correct, that team gets 25

points.If two teams get it correct, both teams get 20 points each.If three teams, 17 pointsIf four teams, 14 pointsIf five teams, 10 pointsIf all teams get it correct, 7 pointsAnd please don’t shout out the answers. It ll be your loss. Paper

pe likho.

1. Connect

CERN !

CERN stands for European Organisation for Nuclear Research.

It was prominently featured in Dan Brown’s book Angels and Demons. And Tim Berners Lee was a researcher at CERN when he created the Internet.

2.

• A man named Mr. Wright was dying from cancer of Lymph nodes. Multiple tumors had invaded his body parts and his doctors had exhausted all available treatments. However, he was confident that a new anti-cancer drug named Krebiozen would cure him. After taking it his tumors Shrunk by half and after 10 days he was discharged. However, other patients in the same hospital didn’t respond to the treatment of the drug. This happenend due to the self belief of Mr. Wright .

• Medical terminology would describe this incident as ________ .

The “PlaceBo” effect.

3.

Lesser known second stanza of which song? "You're still in bed at 10 and work began at 8 You've burned your breakfast so far... things are

goin' great Your mother warned you there'd be days like

these Oh but she didn't tell you when the world has

brought You down to your knees that............"

F.R.I.E.N.D.S

Friends theme song- I will be there for u.

4.

The Allianz Arena

Home to Bayern Munich !!

5.

Even people who never took a music class can play John Cage’s composition that is titled 4`33``. How come ??

Silence

• The score instructs the performer not to play anything during the entire duration of piece. It is the sounds of the enviornment that the listener has to hear.

6.

• The name of which automobile company derives its name from the Latin of “i roll” ??

VOLVO

GRAND CONNECT

You can answer at any slide. And the points are mentioned at each slide. And you have to connect.

1. 60/-40

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GOLF !! :D

These word are used as expressions for scores in Golf.

Albatross – Three strokes under parEagle – twoOstrich – fourCondor - Six

2. 60/-40

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Answer : Hindustan Unilever

:D :D

3. 60/-40

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All English players :P

Paul CollingwoodAlaister CookIan BellGeoffrey Boycott