Questions from the written preliminary round of a general quiz context 'conQUIZtadors' that I conducted at work.

1. conQUIZtadors
Prelims

2. RULES
• 25 questions
• Write your names on the top of the sheet
• Write the question number followed by the answer in each line
• Inbuilt tie-breaker questions (Indicated by *)
• Top 5 teams make it to the finals
• No negative marking.. You are encouraged to guess.
• No laptops and smartphones
• Decisions of the quizmaster are final and binding 

3. 1
Founded in 1984 by Sandy Lerner and Leonard Bosack, Company X became the world’s
most valuable company with a market cap. of $500 billion for a brief duration in late
March 2000.
Current board members include Carol Bartz and Jerry Yang (from Yahoo!)
Identify X

4. 2*
Identify this vehicle.

5. 3*
To ensure 100% purity, every bottle of ABSOLUT vodka is
washed with this liquid before the vodka is filled into it.
What is this liquid?

6. 4
What’s the funda?

7. 5
X is the world’s 2nd largest optical storage media
manufacturer and supplies to the world’s top dozen
brands. This company was founded in New Delhi in 1983.
75% of its revenues come from exports.
Identify X

8. 6
The movie Manthan, by Shyam Benegal is based on
which famous revolution in modern India?

9. 7
The seeds of this plant was originally consumed by the Aztecs
(central American natives) as a drink on special occasions.
These seeds were also used as currency and tributes among the
Aztec states.
In 1502, the Spanish invasion to central America resulted in
Christopher Columbus discovering this amazing food which later
became a regular delicacy in Spanish courts.
Sugar was mixed to make it taste better.
What are we talking about?

10. 8
Identify the landmark in the center of this satellite map

11. 9
Nepal's telecom company Ncell recently brought 3G
cellphone coverage to a place that is 8848m above sea
level. Where exactly?

12. 10
Identify the word which is one of the latest additions to
English dictionaries and which indicates the meaning
“laid off due to outsourcing, esp. outsourcing to India or
other parts of Asia”

13. 11
Which government service is absent from the states of
Meghalaya, Sikkim, and Union Territories of Andaman and
Nicobar Islands and Lakshadweep?

14. 12*
The logo for this product shows one and a half glasses of
milk pouring into it and forming it, reflecting company
claims that one and a half glasses of full cream milk go
into the making of one pound of this product.
Which product?

15. 13
Which famous Indian sportsman is named after a
famous Bollywood Music Director?

16. 14
Connect

17. 15*
X is an Australian journalist and computer programmer
very much in the news for his efforts in ‘whistleblowing’.
He won the 2010 Amnesty International Media Award
and Readers Choice nomination for TIME Magazine 2010
Person of the year.
Who is X?

18. 16
Identify the logos
Get the connect for an additional point

19. 17
In 1952, Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru was
concerned that Indian women were spending
precious foreign exchange money on beauty
products.
He then initiated JRD Tata to launch an Indian
beauty product company.
Which company?

20. 18
Widely regarded as the greatest English novelist
from India, his style of prose is extremely simple,
and so are most of the characters he has created.
He had an equally talented cartoonist brother, who
was an icon by himself.
Name the novelist.

21. 19
This chess legend was rated World #1 in 1984 and he
remained the top rated player in the world for over 20
years (1984 - 2005) except for a short period in 1996.
He was recently in the news for being arrested outside a
Moscow court.
Identify the legend.
For one additional point, identify the computer that
beat him in 1997.

22. 20
Recognize the voice?

23. 21
Which Hollywood movie won all the Oscars it was
nominated for?
It also has a record of winning the most Oscar awards.

24. 22

25. 23
Identify the movie

26. 24
What phenomenon?

27. 25
NASA Astronaut Marsha S. Ivins placed the first-ever IP
phone call from the international space station on
February 10, 2001 via her ThinkPad laptop.
What technology made this possible?