6-teams finals. Won by Thejaswi Udupa and Anustup Dutta.

1. Ad Club Bangalore Quiz April 2011 Welcome to the Finals Venkatesh S and Vivek K – Team Nexus

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4. 1 Fan comic for?

5. 2 Identify the book

6. 3 Identify this famous endorser

7. 4 A classic ad of a Pfizer brand that is almost a generic name. ID

8. An 1980s ad for which game? 5

9. What’s blanked out? 6

10. ID the logo 7

11. 8 Identify

12. Exchange Sheets….

15. 1 A mixed-up response involving the two pictures on the right caused much embarrassment during trials. Explain

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17. Watson – IBM’s Jeopardy computer once confused Dickens' Oliver Twist with the Pet Shop Boys, a 1990s techno band

18. 2 This is the idea that there are other ways to use the Internet to communicate a marketing message. These include sponsoring a Web site or a particular feature on it; advertising in e-mail newsletters; co-branding with another company and its Web site; contest promotion; and, in general, finding new ways to engage and interact with the desired audience. Can also include the interstitial and streaming video infomercial. What three word term is used for this, as it takes other ways apart from the usual one?

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20. Beyond the Banner

21. 3 The precise time of 53 seconds, 26 minutes after 9 AM on March 14, 2015 will be looked forward to by geeks all over the world. Why?

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23. March 14, 2015 9:26:53, or 3.141592653, or pi.

24. 4 The term is reportedly onomatopoeic, the sound it makes when one taps it with a finger. An oft-repeated, but false, alternative explanation for the term says that at some time in the early 20th century, the United States military had two classes for airships: Type A-rigid and Type _-___. What are we talking about?

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26. B-Limp, Blimp

27. 5 An audit shows that last year, they controlled 30 of these and 659 people. At an average take home of $5.4 Million, their total income was $238 Million last year. Their negotiations have often taken months, and recently one of them has offered a 20% discount for “early bird” negotiation completion. What, very African in nature, is being described?

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29. Somalian Pirates!

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44. Speak Softly and carry a big stick Good to the last drop Both phrases coined / made popular by Theodore Roosevelt, also famous for the Teddy Bear

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120. Two depictions of the flag of? +30, -5

121. Echolocation is used by whales and bats (among others) to emit calls out to the environment and listen to the echoes of those calls that return from various objects in the environment. They use these echoes to locate, range, and identify the objects. Echolocation is used for navigation in various environments. What is the human-developed technology on the same principle called? +25, -5

122. One of the oldest regiments in the Indian army, dating back to 1768. Name it +20, -5

123. A recently started TV serial on NDTV Imagine Name it +15, -5

124. Which dynasty / empire? +10, -5

125. Identify the building +10, -5

126. Exchange Sheets….

128. Theme?

129. ITC Welcomgroup Hotels