Mood Indigo India Quiz by J Ramanand
J Ramanand, who hosted the quiz at Mood Indigo, has shared with us questions from his Quiz for those of you who haven’t seen it earlier, at the BC session, or at the BQC Ender Bender.
Mood Indigo 2011 – India Quiz – Finals
2011 has been a year that has witnessed the loss of some legendary personalities all over the world. Here is a compilation of such personalities and a description of their accomplishments in the form of a self help Quiz.
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Levi's History - Levi's Arcuate Logo
Levi’s History: Levi Strauss & Co.: Levi Strauss & Co. is an American clothing company known worldwide for its Levi’s brand of denim jeans.
Headquarters: San Francisco, California, U.S.
Levi’s History Tagline:
Levi's History - Levi's Signature
Levi’s History Founders: Levi Strauss
Levi's History - Levi Strauss
Logo:
It was founded in 1853 when Levi Strauss came from Buttenheim, Franconia, (Kingdom of Bavaria) to San Francisco, California to open a west coast branch of his brothers’ New York dry goods business. In 1873 Levi Strauss and tailor Jacob Davis received a U.S. Patent to make the first riveted men’s work pants out of denim: the first blue jeans. The company briefly experimented (in the 1970s) with a public stock listing, but remains owned and controlled by descendants and relatives of Levi Strauss’s four nephews.
Brand Ambassadors:
Levi's History - Levi Strauss & Co. Logo - The Two Horse Brand
Levi’s History Trivia:
Levi's history - The Red Tab
Levi's history - Shahid Kapoor
Levi's History - Privanka Chopra
Levi's History - Akshay Kumar
Levi's History - Sushmitha Sen
Levi's History - Kangana Ranaut
Levi's history - Music Jeans
Levi's History - Go Forth
Levi's History - Eco Denim
Levi's History - For Those Who Toil
Levi's History - Capital E - Made by Hand
Levi's History - Backflip
Video: Levi’s “Fit to die for.” advertisement campaign run with Deepika Padukone.
That’s right, the IIT Madras Open Quiz is back!!!
The uncharted forests of Adyar once again await your arrival, eagerly anticipating some high voltage quizzing action. Having witnessed a footfall of over 1500 quizzers last year, the IIT Madras Open Quiz promises to be bigger, and better this year!!
So ladies and gentlemen, the stage is set. If you think you know a thing or two about quizzing, find your way to said forest on the 8th of January 2012. May the Force be with you.
Mark your calendars, the kelvi-veri begins. . .
Date : 8 Jan, 2012
Time: 1:30 PM
Venue : Students Activities’ Center, IITMadras
JYOTI presents NERICIQ-The quiz competition
Date: 7th January,2012 (Prelims) & 8th January,2012 (Finals)
Venue: Rajiv Bhawan, Silchar
QM: Rajib Saha and Raj Dam
Quiz partner: QuizWorks
Prizes:
1st: 21000(cash with trophy)
2nd: 15000(cash with trophy)
3rd: 10000(cash with trophy)
The other 3 finalist teams will be awarded with an amount of 3000 INR
Accommodation will be provided for the outstation teams.
Registrations and more details, contact: jyotisilchar1990@gmail.com
That’s right, the IIT Madras Open Quiz is back!!!
The uncharted forests of Adyar once again await your arrival, eagerly anticipating some high voltage quizzing action. Having witnessed a footfall of over 1500 quizzers last year, the IIT Madras Open Quiz promises to be bigger, and better this year!!
The IITM Open Quiz is renowned for witnessing participation from the best in the business, including representation from almost every major quizzing circle in South India. The quiz is known for its challenging questions and saw the inception of the Long Visual Connect (LVC), a staple component of any quiz today. The standard of the quiz is a testament to the long-standing quizzing culture on campus. For years, The Open Quiz, hosted in the pristine campus of IIT Madras, has enthralled school-goers, college students, professionals and families alike.
So ladies and gentlemen, the stage is set. If you think you know a thing or two about quizzing, find your way to said forest on the 8th of January 2012. May the Force be with you.
Mark your calendars, the kelvi-veri begins. . .
Date : 8 Jan, 2012
Time: 1:30 PM
Venue : Students Activities’ Center, IIT-Madras.
CERE- CERE-BRATE: THE OPEN BUSINESS QUIZ PRELIMS
It is with pleasure that we announce the inaugural edition of KQA’s International Solo Championship, titled MindSweep.
We have confirmations from the United Kingdom and the United States, and a few more countries will probably participate.
Mindsweep will be held during the weekend comprising Saturday, 7 January and Sunday 8 January 2012.
The quiz will require participants to answer 200 questions–in two sessions of 60 minutes each with a 30 minute break between sessions for corrections. Please register in advance using the form on this page.
The quiz is split into 10 sections of 20 questions each and is set by Dibyendu Das, Kiran Vijayakumar and Arul Mani.
RULES:
1. Two Members per Team.
2. Cross Team Allowed.
3. No Join Fees.
4. DATE: 22ND DECEMBER 2011.
5. VENUE: Parbotiprasad Baruah Khetra, Sonari.
6. CONDUCTED BY: CLICK ON QUIZ, SONARI (QM: NABAJYOTI BHARALI & MONI GOGOI).
7. PRIZES: 7K, 5K & 3K.
Being knowledgeable and cognizant is futile, if one cant apply, reason or think rationally
Cudgel your brains for the most grueling and challenging business quiz in India.
The quiz master is renowned Giri ‘Pickbrain’ Balasubramanium. 24 teams ( campus + corporate ) will qualify for the semi final rounds, out of which the competition will be filtered down to the best 12 teams (campus + corporate ) battling it out in the final round.
The final round will take place at the NIMHANS Convention Center in Bangalore.
Event details :
Campus
Rewards :
1st Place : Rs. 50,000.
2nd Place : Rs. 25,000.
Qualifying Rounds :
In – Station Colleges
The qualifying rounds for in station colleges will take place on 14th Jan 2012, where the top 7 colleges will then qualify for the semi-finals which will take place on 2nd Feb 2012.
Out – Station Colleges
The qualifying rounds & semi finals will take place directly on 2nd Feb 2012.
Semi – finals:
The top 12 teams from the qualifying rounds move on to the semi finals, where the top 6 teams qualify for the finals
Corporate
Rewards :
1st Place : Rs. 75,000.
2nd Place : Rs. 35,000.
Qualifying Rounds :
In – Station Corporate Teams
The qualifying rounds for In – station corporate teams will take place on 14th Jan 2012, where the top 7 teams will then qualify for the semi-finals which will take place on 2nd Feb 2012.
Out – Station Corporate Teams
The qualifying rounds & semi finals will take place directly on 2nd Feb 2012.
Semi – final :
The top 12 teams from the qualifying rounds move on to the semi finals, where the top 6 teams qualify for the finals
Registrations :
To register please send in your details and the form attached to “ precipice2012@cms.ac.in ”
Registration Form : Download
Rules & Regulations :
* Conditions Apply.
Lakshya
Megamind 2011
Where: St. Xavier’s, Ahmadabad.
Obligatory Question: A British Naturalist’s wife gives her name to
State Bird of an East Indian State. However the Naturalist’s is
remembered in Indian politics. Who & Why?
The Department of Commerce and Tourism of Mar Ivanios College, Trivandram is proud to invite you to our national level commerce festival Zreyas 2011. An inter college initiative, with the aim to bring together the creative potential of young minds in India.
Zreyas, though born last year was able to captivate the hearts of the student’s nation wide. Zreyas 11 promises to keep up to the legacy born.
The fest is proposed to be held on 7th January 2012 in the premises of Mar Ivanios College with an expected turn over of over 1500 participants from all over India. We assure you lots of fun and activities.
Zreyas provides you a golden opportunity to explore the world of knowledge. Quiz provides us with fun; promote our knowledge at the same time making us feel that we don’t spend time for nothing. It is a platform to broad your sense of perceiving the outer world & changes your outlook of understanding things.
Naveen Kumar : +91-9995 94 5812
Vishnu Thampi : +91-8907 45 1666
website:http://www.zreyas2011.com/events_providentia.html
The Hindu’s latest Newspaper in Education initiative, Arena, had a grand start. The inter-school mega sports quiz had sports enthusiasts sitting at the edge of their seats.
Do you read the sports page of the newspaper the first thing in the morning? Are sporting legends not just your idols but gods? Do you care more about your favourite football club’s standing in the league or about the status of the injured cricketer in the team than your outcome in the exam? Then you would have loved Arena!
The Hindu NIE Arena 2011, an inter-school mega sports quiz presented by Indian Overseas Bank, was held recently in the city of Chennai. Over 410 teams from 105 schools sat through the prelims where the teams had to write down answers to questions distributed to them. While that was being evaluated, the crowd comprising sports enthusiasts, students and teachers were kept entertained by the team from Radio One.
By the end of it six teams comprising two students each from PS Senior Secondary School, DAV Public School (Velachery), Maharishi Vidya Mandir, Hindu Senior Secondary School, Bala Vidya Mandir and Zion Matriculation were selected.
In keeping with the theme of the quiz, the quizmaster was Dr. Sumanth C. Raman, an avid sports quizzer and host of the DD Podhigai’s BSNL Sports Quiz.
With the stage set for the final clash, the questions categorised into seven rounds were fired at the teams. The rounds comprised general questions, audio, photo/video, dumb charades and rapid fire. It wasn’t just the teams on stage that were racking their brains to answer the question, even the young audience were constantly jumping out of their seats to get the quizmaster’s attention to answer. And they were promptly rewarded with chocolates.
At Arena, everyone walked away with interesting gyan like the Indian government’s efforts to promote tender coconut water as an ideal sports drink, that Jesse Owens visited The Hindu office in Chennai in 1955, that the Maharaja of Porbandar captained India’s first test series overseas. There was also a fun clipping of a sports person dancing in his hotel room to a pop song and the teams had to identify him. To everyone’s amusement it turned out to be Kamran Akmal, the Pakistani cricketer.
After sevens rounds of battling it out and even acting it out (in the dumb charades round), the team from Bala Vidya Mandir comprising Siddhartha S. Nathan and Vedanth Murali, both Std IX students, clinched the first place. They won a cash prize of Rs. 25,000, besides Hercules Rodeo bicycles and computer desks from Zuari Furniture.
Apoorv Abhishek and S. Adityaram from Maharishi Vidya Mandir Senior Secondary School, Chetpet, came second to bag the cash prize of Rs. 15,000. While Swati Hemant and Arjun Aravind from P.S.S.S.S. who placed third walked away with cash prize of Rs. 10,000. The remaining three teams won cash prizes of Rs. 5000 each.
Actor K. Dhanush, the chief guest who received a rousing welcome from the children, congratulated the winners and added, “Those who were placed fourth, fifth and sixth, don’t worry. That’s where I was usually placed too and I am doing pretty well in life.” He also stressed on the importance of giving one’s best even for the simplest of attempts. “You’ll never know where it’ll take you. That’s what happened with Kolaveri too.”
Mr. M. Narendra, Chairman and Managing Director of Indian Overseas Bank, was present too and shared how happy he was to be a part of the initiative and see youngsters enthusiastically participating in the quiz.
SIDDHARTHA S. NATHAN and VEDANTH MURALI, Std IX, Bala Vidya Mandir: We love sports. We are part of various sports teams in school and also avidly follow sports news. Since we were tied in the final rounds, we had to play strategically. One wrong answer would have cost us. That’s why even when we knew the answer for a couple of questions, since we weren’t sure we didn’t want to take the risk. But we are happy it paid off.
APOORV ABHISHEK and A. ADITYARAM, Std IX, Maharishi Vidya Mandir Senior Secondary School: We got to know about the quiz just the previous day and hence didn’t have much time to prepare. But since we regularly read the sports news, especially during the lunch breaks in school, it helped a lot. The quiz was fun and we really enjoyed participating in it.
SWATI HEMANT (Std IX) and ARJUN ARAVIND (Std VIII), P.S.S.S.S.: We’re into sports, that is we play, read books and look up news in the Internet. And that helped us in this quiz. Besides, we’re avid quizzers too. We liked the video rounds. We were extremely surprised that one of our really wild guesses for a question on cricketer Imran Khan turned out to be correct.
Source: http://www.thehindu.com/life-and-style/kids/article2728494.ece
Lee Cooper
Founders: Morris Cooper and Louis Maister
Headquarters: London, United Kingdom.
Tagline:
Shoes – Think Performance.
Le Cooper Femmes – Get Ready
Denim – Devoted to Denim, Dedicated to style
Founders: Morris Cooper and Louis Maister
Lee Cooper's Morris Cooper
History: The business was founded by Morris Cooper and his best friend, Louis Maister, after they’d left their hometown in Lithuania and traveled first to South Africa and then to London. Their idea was make work wear in the East End and export it to South Africa, where they knew there would be a big demand. By the time the First World War came along in 1914, Morris and Louis were employing 600 people.
Morris was a self-taught tailor, but practice had made him a very good one. Louis decided to leave after World War I and Morris renamed his business, Morris Cooper (Overalls) Ltd. From now on, it would specialise making high quality denim jackets and trousers.
When the Second World War started, Morris divided the business in two. Part of it still made workwear, but the rest of it made military uniforms, flying overalls and battle fatigues. These were complicated to make, but Morris was a very talented pattern maker and they managed, becoming one of the military’s biggest suppliers.
As the Battle of Britain was being fought in the skies overhead, Morris was killed in a car accident, and with his son, Harold away in the RAF, it was left up to other members of the family to keep the business afloat. Harold Cooper, took over the business upon his return from active service in the RAF.
When he got back from the war, Harold set about modernising the business and the post war introduction of clothes rationing helped him. If you wanted to buy a man’s suit, it would cost you 26 ration coupons. A dress took about 15. But you only needed one coupon to buy a pair of jeans.
In less than five years, Harold’s business had become Britain’s top denim brand. It had a brand new factory in a new town called Harold Hill. Its workwear was being worn all over the world and by incorporating his wife’s family name into the name of the business, it now became Lee Cooper(see Trivia).
If one wore workwear in the 1950s and 60s, the chances were four out of five that one was wearing Lee Cooper. So great was its reputation for making tough, hardwearing, high quality work clothes that the business had now captured more than 80% of the UK market.
Something far more far-reaching was also going on in the 1950s and 60s. Young people were overturning convention to a soundtrack of rock’n'roll and denim was fast becoming a symbol of youth revolution. Harold Cooper was an unlikely revolutionary, but before the American jean giants arrived, he was the man who introduced denim to young Europe and the world.
First to the Teddy boys, then the Mods, through hippy, to punk and every musical and cultural shift since – in Britain, Europe, the Far East, Australasia and around the globe – the name Lee Cooper has become legend. In their designs, their materials, and in every stitch and rivet.
Lee Cooper Union Jack - Advertisement
Trivia:
Lee Cooper since 1908
QUIZ (KWZ) V.
1.QUESTION CLOSELY OR REPEATEDLY.
2.TEST THE KNOWLEDGE OF BY POSING QUESTIONS.
3.POKE FUN AT; MOCK.
Its a veritable quizzers’ delight this year at Mood Indigo as Omnisience returns to consolidate its spot on the quizzing scene after its bang of a start last year. This time we bring you two days jam packed with quizzes ranging from the arcane to the zany, and everything beyond.
Cash prizes as never before, quizzes set by some of the best quizmasters in the country, and quizzers from every nook and corner of the nation, this is one quizfest that you simply CAN NOT afford to miss.
Mood Indigo Office, Students’ Activity Center, IIT Bombay, Powai, Mumbai-400076.
The world blanks out. The ears register each word as it’s spoken. A vague memory sparks somewhere, firing up a zillion gray cells in unison, sending a mini shiver down your spine… Subduing your excitement, you scream out the words with alacrity even as a wave of euphoria hits you. You have just answered a question.
You always loved a challenge, had a knack of remembering minute details, little nuggets that nobody bothered about. All for these sweet moments…
Quizmaster: Dr. Navin Jaykumar
Team Size: 2
For Further Details Contact:
Aditya Poonia: aditya.poonia@moodi.org | +91-9820699673
Harsh Maheshwari : harsh@moodi.org | +91-9920799913
Did you know that the Capital of Madagascar was Antananarivo? Did you know that that first president of France was Adolphe Thiers? Or that Roger Federer’s mother’s name is Lynette?
Well, it doesn’t matter anyways (If you do, well. Then. You are Google.) If you have always loved your music or your books or your movies or all of them, then you will love this too. We will appeal to all things that have appealed to our artistic and cultural senses. It’s an offer you can’t refuse.
Quizmaster: Suraj Menon
Team Size: 2
For Further Details Contact:
Aditya Poonia: aditya.poonia@moodi.org | +91-9820699673
Harsh Maheshwari : harsh@moodi.org | +91-9920799913
“The Battle of Waterloo was won on the playgrounds of Eton…”
A fierce quizzing battle about everything sports awaits you at Omniscience this year.
Quizmaster: Aditya Gadre
Team Size: 2
For Further Details Contact:
Aditya Poonia: aditya.poonia@moodi.org | +91-9820699673
Harsh Maheshwari : harsh@moodi.org | +91-9920799913
So, you know all about India, right? I mean, you’ve probably lived here most of your life, what new stuff can they possibly ask you in an India quiz? Well, think again.
Be ready to be quizzed about anything, from the time of the paleolithic hominids of Soan valley to the 64 year old modern republic, from the Karakoram pass to Indira point.
Ready to win? Well, see you at the India section of the library…
Quizmaster: Ramanand Janardanan
Team Size: 2
For Further Details Contact:
Aditya Poonia: aditya.poonia@moodi.org | +91-9820699673
Harsh Maheshwari : harsh@moodi.org | +91-9920799913
Round the world, We take you through a journey you will have never thought of in your wildest dreams. Oops that sounded a bit too wild for the topic of this quiz. Nevertheless its time you apply that knowledge of the hip and the pop cultures around the world as the best quizzers of IIT Bombay test you out on this one!
Quiz set by Quiz Club, IIT Bombay
Team Size: 2
For Further Details Contact:
Aditya Poonia: aditya.poonia@moodi.org | +91-9820699673
Harsh Maheshwari : harsh@moodi.org | +91-9920799913
Participate @ http://quizzing.in/onlinequiz/ and stand a chance to win cool Hampers from Quizzing.in to welcome the New Year! 
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