TATA Crucible 2007

TATA Crucible 2007 is an All-India Biz Quiz. It's gonna be REAL tough apparently. Quiz Master is Pickbrain Balasubramanium, so... be ready for screwed up questions. He is better than *cough* pr0n-n00b *cough*, but then again, anyone is!
Delhi round is on Feb. 10th at the IIT Seminar Hall between 1330 to 1630. Teams of two from the same institution. Registration and more info can be found HERE.
All The Best.

A Tale of Three Cities

There are three cities which I call home. I was born in the first one, the other is where I grew up and the last one is where I'm staying right now. Here's a pretty simple quiz on these three cities.

1. Connect:




2. Connect:




3. Connect with a place (be specific)




4. Opened in 1996 and located around 25kms outside Hyderabad, on the Vijaywada National Highway, this is the largest film studio area in the world acc. to the Guinness Book of WRs, covering an area of over 2,000 acres. It offers over 500 shooting locations and can one can supposedly shoot nearly 70 movies simultaneously there. Which place?

5. It was founded on December 20, 1999 by a group of Fortune 500 entrepreneurs and its partners include London Business School, Wharton Business School and Kellogg School of Management. What institution?

6. "Per pale, Dexter - per fess indented ermine and gules, in chief two palm branches in saltire proper, surmounted of a mitre or, in base an episcopal staff, in bend, gold, surmounted of an open book, also proper. Sinister - Azure achevron between three hanks of cotton agent." Motto of which 140-year-old institution.

7. This 332-acre area was the brainchild R.K.Baliga and started in 1978. However, it only took off in the 1990s and is now home to nearly 120 companies and 60,000 employees including the India HQs of such global majors as Microsoft, Infosys, Trilogy, Motorola etc.

8. Mythically, this place was gifted to Guru Dronacharya as Guru Dakshina by the Pandavas and Kauravas, hence earning its name, meaning Guru Village. Which place?

9. Which famous entertainer and politician's address is no. 25, Tughlak Road?

10. Rot 42: "Y ADEM JXYI DKYP IKSI!!!"

To NSIT, with...

A quiz on delhi's 4th best engineering college's latest hero.

1. Which was my first overseas posting during my tenure with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs?

2. In 2002, the government of which country awarded me the Grand Cross of Rio Branco?

3. This individual motivated me to become a diplomat after I met him when I won an essay writing competition and did my Master's degree in a school named after him. Who?

4. To counter claims of being non-charismatic, I sang which song at the UN Correspondents dinner early in December?

5. Though I claimed to be fluent in this language; I could barely understand, let alone answer, a question asked to me in this language by Neil Harland CBC news.

6. Who is my successor at the Ministries of Foreign Affairs and Trade?

7. After I emerged as the only person to recieve a vote in the fourth straw poll, who quit the electoral race?(by far, the easiest q. of all!)

8. Who was the first person to be elected to my current post?

9. Who was the only non-Asian who contested the election for my post?

10. Providing I don't die or resign due to the overuse of my name... when will my term expire?

Thank You, Thank You Very Much!