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She is the first woman CEO of a foreign bank in India. Name the bank and the lady.
(Hints: Crorepati.. )
### Tarini Vaidya, KBC Bank ( of Belgium )
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Q1. This cute, cuddly, overweight penguin is the Linux mascot. Name it.
Tux.. (T)orvalds(U)ni(x). Larry Erwig painted the first Tux using GIMP(some
program).
Q3. These are PCs without a hard drive, but still offer complete access to
application running on Windows and other operating systems. Name these devices.
Thin Clients.
Q4. `Rules of the garage' is a part of the million dollar advertising campaign by
Hewlett Packard, the California based PC manufacturer? What is the significance of
the garage association?
The company had its origins in a garage, and the campaign stands for their
inventive capabilities
Q5. Japanese wireless service provider NTT DoCoMo has one of the largest number of
mobile Internet subsribers. Name the service used to access Internet?
Packet-data transmission based i-mode as opposed to WAP.
Q6. The Sydney 2000 Olympics had one of the largest and most complex information
technology networks ever built, running behind the stage. So, applications from
which company were called in to do the works?
Tivoli Systems Inc. (IBM company)
Q7. India saw the central government budget being announced, a few days back. So,
for every rupee earned, what constitutes the largest source of earnings for the
government? Also, for every rupee spent, what is the largest source of expenditure
for the government. (Hint: One is related to the other)
Borrowings and Interest Payments
Q8. (A sitter, as you say) This year's Grammy awards had their share of
controversy. One of the award winning albums has been criticized for the anti-
women, and anti gay lyrics. Identify the artist.
Eminem
Q9. From where does the Swedish Pop group `ABBA' derive its name?
From the initials of the founders. A Swedish canned fish company which went
by the same name agreed to lend their name to the group (Coutesy: Sriram
Krishnan)
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Red, Yellow and Blue for phases and Black for the
neutral
( hints : Silken......Indus...... )
Connect ' City of Jerusalem ' and ' City of Karachi '.
( On the wings....................)
3. POWERFUL THREE
What kind of products are ' Spy ', ' Big Boss ' and
' 303 ' ?
( comic..............)
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### ORANGE
### FUTUREBRAND.
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1.0 VILLA NO.1
(Hints : Notecontrol/access )
( Hints : Sky. )
2.With recession looming and mass scale suicide in the dot com world have
any of you recently stood up and thought well at this given moment which is
the most valuable company in the world? - which company has the highest
Market Capitalization in the world as on April 13, 2001.Well if u know which
company it is send in your answers.
Answer: It is GE - a lot of you were still in the new economy with answers
like Microsoft, Cisco etc but the old economy has bounced back and really
well although Microsoft is number 2 and at third place is another old
economy giant Exxon Mobil
Nerd Section
3.This very popular language was renamed "Java" in 1995. It was conceived
byJames Gosling, Patrick Naughton, Chris Warth Ed Frank and Mike Sheridan
atSun Microsystems in 1991 and went by a different name till 1995. So what
was Java initially known as?
Answer: Oak a lot of you got this correct
4.Well another question which will get probably people thinking as they did
when they saw these designs- The Sony Trinitron TV, Apple Macintosh, Airport
terminal design and seating environments for Lufthansa, the Ford TH!NK
vehicle, as well as website design for Dell.com and L.A.Times.com have been
done by a famous design firm. What is the name of this design firm?
Clue: This design firm has recently partnered with i2 technologies to
augment i2's supply chain management solutions.
Answer: Frog Werk
5. What is the biggest - selling Album of all time? Added info: It has sold
27 million copies world wide and is still selling.
Answer: No it is not thriller by Michael Jackson it is Eagles Their
greatest hits 27million albums sold versus 26 million for Michael
Jacksons Thriller.
6.Did you know that it took CD players seven years to reach the 10 million
units mark, and it took eight years for VCRs to reach that mark but then
incomes an upstart new consumer electronic product and and it reaches the 10
million mark in just three and half years. So what is this consumer
electronic product we are talking of ?
Answer: The DVD player
Magazines
7.After 40 years of having no advertisements this magazine finally started
having advertisements starting from 2001. Name the magazine?
Answer:Mad a popular answer was the National Geographic but I sure did see
advertisements in the National Geographic ever since I was a kid.
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### PYTHON
### BROWSING
### YAHOO!
5. What is a blog ?
### FREEHAND 10
### ROUTER
### SONY.
### BLUETOOTH
### SUNMICROSYSTEM.
A. QUOTE NO.1
At the end of the day, you have to create wealth and
not distribute poverty
Great thinking by one of the present day business
doyen. Who?
( Surely, not the richest one..)
### N R NARAYANAMURTHY
B. RETAILER NO.2
Worldwide,Walmart stores are the no.1 in the retail
stores business. Who are no.2?
( French connection.?.)
### CARREFOUR
They are french retailers with presence in 28 countries.
C. THREE CHEERS FOR PIZZA
Jet Airways recently collaborated with Dominos Pizza
and have introduced Pizza Meal in three of their
routes to start with. Mumbai-Hyderabad and
Mumbai-Ahmedabad are two. Which one is the third
route?
(You must cave in )
### Mumbai-Aurangabad route. Three correct answers.
D. FILTHY FIVES
Berlin based Transparency International carried out
corruption survey in Kerala govt. departments. The Top
Five corrupt departments turned out to be Motor
Vehicles, Police, Excise, PWD and..
Guess which one.
( Capital connection.)
### THIRUVANATHAPURAM CORPORATION
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### Nokia.
Only Borgrulze ( ??? ), V Yadavalli and T Vignesh were
correct.
Ericsson was most answered.
B. COOLEST PAIR.
C. MUSICAL THREE.
You can get this car in Simply Red, Deep Purple &
Symphony Silver shades. Which car I am talking
about?
(Hints : Soldier.)
(Hints : 22 Circles.)
E. FAB IN FIVE
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### CLEARSIL
Many correct answers.
### J HAMPSTEAD
Again many correct entries.
### USA.
Yes, most of you might have forgotten. Only N N
Shenoy,Sumeet Pai and Narayan Iyer were ccorrect.
China, India and Brazil were favourites. Somebody
suggested Ukrain.
### OMEGA
Many correct answers.Longines was also preferred
by some.
### COUNTINGDOWN.COM
### TCS
Mitesh, Priyanka, Anirudh, Salil Ambat and
Kiran were correct. Infy and Wipro
Were popular choices.
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### MOROCCO
Eleven of you are correct. Most of you have
answered Malaysia whose country domain code is .my.
Rajesh Agarwal adds that Massachusetts in USA has
suffix .ma.us. Rajesh.there is no surprise that
Micronesia has a suffix of .fm as the country is
actually named as Federal State of Micronesia.
### JAVA.
S Jagadish points out that it is the first Java
Applet. V Balaji mentions that it is the Swing API
technique which created Duke. 50% correct answer.
### JAVASCRIPT
50% are correct.
7.0 This court allows to make small claims (Disputes
upto $ 5000) online. This is a special court in which
disputes are resolved inexpensively & quickly. Name
the court.
### SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, SACRAMENTO
No correct answer.It seems that there was a
little confusion in understanding my question. There
are many courts who have online settlement facility,
but my question was for settlement upto a maxm. Value
of US$ 5000. That means the answer is to be limited to
small claim courts. I have allowed 0.5 marks to
whoever has mentioned small claims court.a little
generous!
### FIGARO
Only Anindya could crack it. Figaro can store
upto 800 meter of optical fibre cable and thus avoids
cumbersome 8 shaped loops.
### LAN
How could most of you missed it? Ethernet, 10 Base T.... all points the finger to
wired LAN system.I feel, if I could have asked which system ratherthan which
technology, there would have been more correct answers. I have allowed 0.5 marks
to those whohave answered IEEE 802.3 as it covers a wider spectrum. 10Base T
Category 5 has the following details. 10denotes transmission speed upto 10 Mbps.
Base refers to baseband signalling which means that only Ethernet signals are
carried on the medium. T represents twisted pair wire. 5 denotes thickwire coaxial
cable with a maximum segment length of 500 meters. No point to those who answered
gigabit Ethernet as it is a 1000 Base system.
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### REEBOK
Many correct answers. Again quoting Mitesh, an athlete
puts a spike in the shoes to increase control and
speed.and this is what the African Gazelle does.
### LANDMARK
Surjith Singh, Saurabh Sharma, Ravi Subramanian, R
Prakash, Anoop Mehendale and Biz kid are correct.
Popular answer was Food World.
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event question. April 25, 1977
-A day to remember in the history of computer network.
What happened?
### INFORMATION
On January 26th. 2001, DoCoMo released new sets of
I-mode phones that had a new Capability called
i-appli which they described as information
application. Many of you have mentioned internet /
intelligent / information. Full point to whoever has
touched information.
### ORANGE S A
Only G Vaadakaeveettil was right. Popular answers were
AT&T, Vodafone.
### DRISYA
Mitesh, Anindya, Faridur, G Vaaadakaeveettil, Girish
and Jayashree were correct.
### HOTJAVA
Many of you were correct.
### 4G
Mitesh, Anindya and Lakshminarayan KG were correct.
Most of you answered 3G. Mitesh adds Earlier OFDM
was rejected as the technology of use for 3G and UMTS
was chosen instead. That's a news. Thanks Mitesh.
#1.
I. Movie Magic
#1. This a favorite of mine - Most of you would have watched the movie
"Psycho" - *ing, Anthony Perkins...there is a famous scene in the movie
where a lady is in the shower with the shower curtains pulled on etc..A guy
comes from behind and then stabs the woman and blood starts going down the
drain....No, No, No my question is not about the two characters but its
about the colour of the blood...since it was a "Black & White" movie
Hitchcock used a peculiar substance to come up with the required effect for
the blood....name the substance
#2. More than anything else, I'd like to be an old man with a good face,
like Hitchcock or Picasso" ...these are famous words of an famous bald actor
- (He started losing hair from the age of 21)
Answer: Its Sean Connery...here too I had a wide variety of answers like Yul
Bryner, Anthony Hopkins and Jack Nicholson
#5. This Motor car Manufacturing giant was expected to enter the indian
market when the whole herd put their foot in India...but it had its own
unusual strategy of entering in a class, where it has excelled worldwide
rather than the usual passenger car segment...this model is called "Tamaraw"
in Indonesia...what company and car are we talking about?
#6. The prodigal son of one of the greatest influences of South East Asia,
is in the midst of his toughest assignment of merging one of the largest
acquisitions in Asia pacific Telecom history, that his company has
made....name the father, and the company which the son is heading
Answer: This is were I could not find even one correct answer, most of u had
Li ka Shing and Hutchinson Whampoa....probably the question was
misleading....but it is Lee Kwan Yew, the erstwhile Premier of Singapore,
the man who shaped the future of the country and his son who is currently
the CEO of Singapore Telecom. Singapore Telecom has successfully bid for
Optus Telecom ( No:2 Cellular operator in Australia) in Australia for close
to US $ 2.5 billion dollars and the merger modalities are in process.
Sport -
#7. Aussies influence on both mens and Womens Tennis in the
beginning of the open-era and just before that was so much that they were a
force to reckon with...One Lady even after becoming mother came back after a
break to win Wimbledon , even with the likes of Evert, Billie Jean King and
Martina around...name her
### AVON
Anshuman, Gargi, K Balasubramanian, Hanjura Sajinder,
K Narayan, Anand Lakshmiratan, Mitesh, Abhishek Gupta,
Rathindra Basu, Saurabh Sharma and Jaykumar Babu are
correct. Few of you almost got it as Nova..didnt try
from the other direction.
Other popular answers were Hercules and BSA.
### HARLEY-DAVIDSON
Most of you were correct. Anand Mahadevan informs
that the survey was restricted to US business
executives only.Thats right. Corporate Branding LLC
included the largest publicly traded companies in the
United States only. They surveyed how familiar and
favourable a company is among senior business decision
makers in US that is a group defined as vice
presidents or higher at the top 20% of US Corporations
based on revenue. As suggested by Ananad , it is a
sort of branding by recognition. CBLLC surveys brands
in all developed countries with a common base on a
scale 0f 1 to 100. Topmost Japanese brand as per their
survey is Toyota which had a score of 68 whereas
Harley Davidson scored 71. Toyota as per their survey
will be joint 8th. World wide..
The reason I selected this question is I was startled
to see Harley-Davidson scoring over companies like
Nike, GE, IBM, McDonalds. etc. and wanted to share
with you what Americans consider top brands. Going by
more global survey of Fortune, the top five brands in
the year 2000 were CocaCola, McDonalds, Sony, Nike
and Microsoft for the first five places. More
rationalisnt it?
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Norman Abramson /*Most of you got this , didn't expect so many hits though*/
3) John Vittal, a programmer, hacker and ARPAnet user invented this utility
for the e-mail software so that users` didn't have to type the mail address
again. What utility?
He devised the 'Reply' command for the e-mail messages and called it the
ANSWER.
5) For the first time, the release of a new movie will be promoted with an
SMS campaign. The name of the movie is:
Bridget Jones Diary /* the question should have been was promoted any way
lots of hits for this too */
6) This new feature was supposed to be part of IE 6 but has been dropped as
of now. With this included Microsoft could decide the insert a link on any
webpage. What is this feature known as?
7)This is the latest features that has been added to google. What????
searching images /* That was what i was looking for *
8)What's runix?
Linux 2.4 kernel for PS 2 /* Form the Czech firm Blokman Trading */
10)"Adding manpower to late software makes it even more late" Which law?
Brookes Law /* Not many of them answered this Wonder Why???? I thought it
was pretty well known*/
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### KODAK
2. Japan has again shown off one of its greatest innovations - square
watermelons. About 20 years ago a forward-thinking farmer on Japan's
south-western island of Shikoku solved a problem that plagues people
worldwide. The farmer, from Zentsuji in Kagawa prefecture, came up with the
idea of making a cube-shaped watermelon .To make it happen, farmers grew the
melons in glass boxes and the fruit then naturally assumed the same shape.
Today the cuboid watermelons are hand-picked and shipped all over Japan.
What problem did the sqaure watermelon solve ?
Answer: The reason this farmer did it was that it was easier to store in
refrigerators- It stood its ground instead of rolling around but as a lot of
you wrote it would also allow easy and efficient stacking in supermarket
shelves and during transport.
Rajesh Krishnan wrote from Japan saying that these Melons although good to
look at were prohibitively expensive- well how about somebody growing them
in India.- VC Funding milega kya????
Anurag Varshney says "The ease of eating it. Round watermelons were regarded
tough to eat" - well i dont know about this as i have never eaten a cuboidal
fruit before and my source for this question does not say anything about
this - anyways points to you for thinking differently.
3. All U.S. paper money has received a new look recently, except for the $1
bill. Why was the dollar left as is?
This question had a lot of interesting answers but the one I liked best was
from Anoop Bhat, "$1 bill is not regulated by Federal Reserve, it is the
White House's prerogative to change it".Well he forgot to add but i guess
what he means to say is that Bill Clinton was too preoccupied for such
mundane stuff as changing a $ 1 Bill. Great try Anoop.
Another answer from Krish Ashok & Vimal Vardhan got me thinking "Almost all
vending machines accept only one dollar bills. If they change that , they
would have to change every vending machine in the US " - theoretically
correct but I did some research and found that vending machines that used to
take old $5 bills still took the new $5 bills so the same would be true for
the $1 bill too, so your logic although very compelling is not true.
Well this one was also really great " The new look was the correspondence
between the chronological order in which these men became presidents and the
denominations of the various notes...but George Wasington,the first
president appears on the 1$ bill anyway (his rightful place!?) and therefore
no alteration required there. " - Great logic Parikshit Shah but not true.
Krishnakumar Venkataraman said "Because the 1$ bill says 'In God we trust'
...Americans still trust in God. "- what can i say about such great answers.
4. The Vatican first went online with its web site in 1996. The site is
powered by three host computers named after archangels. What are these 3
computers called ?
5. The interstate or Freeway system in the USA is the bedrock on which the
country has made most progress.The interstates whoever owe their existence
to a US President and most of the Freeways were built during his tenure as
President. Who is this President after which the US freeway system is named
?
Answer: The commonly called " Interstate System" is officially called Dwight
D. Eisenhower System of Interstate and Defense Highways after the US
president of the same name.
Krish Ashok has also this interesting funda to add "The interstate highways
are built according to a certain specification - i.e. every mile in 5 miles
is a straight line without turns. This was done so that planes in WW2 could
use them as stopgap runways... " Thanks Krish
Bhushan had this interesting quote to add by FD Roosevelt - "We don't have
good roads because we are rich, we are rich because we have good roads."
6. Palm was the largest supplier of handhelds in the world having pioneered
the hand held concept in 1996. However latest figures indicate that in terms
of revenue from handheld sales Palm will soon become number 2 although in
terms of number of units sold they will still be number 1. Which company
unseated Palm from its numero uno position ?
Answer:Compaq with its iPAQ range of handhelds
7. Sitter : Seattle has always been associated with the Boeing Aircraft
company but about a month back Boeing decided to shift their Worlwide
headquarters from Seattle to a different city in USA. Name the city ?
Answer:Chicago was finally chosen but Dallas and Denver were also in the
fray
Answer: It was put in so that the soldiers from Ft. Huachuca ( a base close
to the McDonalds) could get food since the base had a regulation that
prohibited anyone in uniform from entering a business establishment. Most of
the quizzing veterans got this. Points to anybody who mentioned regulation
that did not allow a particular group of people to enter business
establishments.
10. Well to end this quiz some information on the heads that you see on
Currency Notes in the USA
$1 - George Washington
$2 - Thomas Jefferson
$5 - Abraham Lincoln
$10 - Alexander Hamilton
$20 - Andrew Jackson
$50 - Ulysses S. Grant
So who is on the $100 note .
### ORANGE
Many are correct.Nokia was other popular answer.
1.0 V C No.1
(Hints : Womenswear)
4.0 FOURMORE
### NOKIA
A P Ramani, Rajat Gulati and Prashanth Kokati are
right. Popular answer predictably was Nortel.
Ajit Chand informs that for first quarter of 2001,
Agere, Cisco And Buffalo were at the first three spots
( Report by Dell'oro ). Thanks Ajit for this info.
### THEY ALL ARE IN ENERGY DRINK CATEGORY AND HAVE ALL
BEEN RECENTLY LAUNCHED IN US MARKET.
Venom is by Cadburry Schweppe, KMX is by Coke and 180
is by Anheusser Busch.
### SAMSUNG
1. Complete the series : Helen Menken, Mary Philips, Mayo Methot, __________?
[Dibyajyoti Ghosh] Lauren Bacall. The four wives of Humphrey Bogart
3. Bogie once acted in a play by Robert E. Sherwood. When this play was made
into a movie Bogart also had the same role as in the play. Which movie am I
talking about?
[Dibyajyoti Ghosh] The Petrified Forest
4. Complete the series : To Have and Have Not, The Big Sleep, Dark Passage.
[Dibyajyoti Ghosh] Key Largo. Movies starring Bogie and Bacall
5. What was the name of the production company set up by Bogie? It was named
after his boat.
[Dibyajyoti Ghosh] Santana Pictures
6. Which was the only time in history when two members of a family won an Oscar
each for the same movie?
[Dibyajyoti Ghosh] The Treasure of the Sierra Madre released in 1948. John
Huston won the Best Director Oscar and his father Walter Huston who acted in
that movie won the Best Supporting Actor Oscar. IMHO the best Bogie movie ever.
He should have won an Oscar for this.
7. To whom did Bogie lose out in 1943 for the Best Actor Oscar?
[Dibyajyoti Ghosh] Paul Lukas for "Watch on the Rhine"
REALLY TOUGH (3 POINTS EACH)
8. For which politician did Bogie campaign for in 1952 though it was not enough
for the gentleman to become the US President?
[Dibyajyoti Ghosh] Adlai Stevenson
9. John Ford's "Up the River" released in 1931was the second feature film of
Humphrey Bogart. Another famous actor made his debut in the movie. Who?
[Dibyajyoti Ghosh] Spencer Tracy
10. Bogie's daughter is named after a very famous actor. Which one?
[Dibyajyoti Ghosh] Leslie Howard
1. Spains biggest bank is BSCH. Tell me what does BSCH stands for..?
2. An easy one to crack. In which Swiss bank does Ketan Parekh, the
latest Big Bull have his money stashed in?
3. This is something all you quiz buffs should know. Who markets the
"Mastermind" game in UK?
4. The Ad goes like this " ______ ______ inside". Whose Ad is this. and
what is the significance ?. Check the attachment. [ Just like Intel Inside He
na..]
Ans: RAVI RAMU INSIDE! it is actually ad given by IVEGA CORPORATION when KPMG's
RAVI RAMU joined them
[ A good try by Roy Sudeep :
" Genius is inside" : Ad campaign By Hyundai,
Santro. Sorry could not open the attachment. What they
wanted to convey has two versions. First Shahrukh
Khan, the 'Genius' was inside the car. The second
version is that Santro has an inteligent chip inside
the car control console.]
5. Name the 3 hotels that was shortlisted for the historic Indo-pak summit at
Agra?
7. Give me the Pakistani URL that was hacked by an Indian few months back or
was claimed to be hacked some time back and was in the news?
Ans: www.pakgov.gov
8. Which is the only hotel with 2 presidential suites namely Tansen and
Mansingh?
Ans: The airline that does not fly in to india is called an OFFLINE CARRIER.
1. CELEBRITY NO.1
2. AWESOME TWO
( Hints : LeatherFrost.)
3. TEESRA KAUN ?
( Hints : Cakes.)
### PILSBURY
Again most of you are correct.
4. FRAUDULENT FOUR
5. PANCH RANG
( Hints : Swami)
### MONK
Ramdas, Shivkumar, Balasubramanian, Aviroop and Rajat
are correct.
### Motorola
### Goga
### Mozilla
### Hot-Swapping
### LIFEBUOY
Almost all of you are correct. A few opted for Nirma.
May be they are no.1 in detergent.
( BusinessFilm )
### MITSUI
20% correct answers. Matsushita, Marubeni were other
answers.
( Peasants Rice.)
1)
Automotive - Name the auto exchange formed by world's
top auto majors, General Motors, Ford Motor Co and
Daimler Chrysler, which inspired Anand Mahindra to
take initiatives for setting up the Indian Auto
Exchange, IAX.
Ans: Covisint
2)
Konosuke established his company in 1918 at the age of
23. He alongwith his wife and brother-in-law started
with a single product, that is an 'attachment plug'.
And another unique product this company imports and
distributed in the Japanese market, in particular
Osaka, is the "Famouse Grouse" Scotch Whisky. Identify
this Japanese corporate.
3)
Which internationally acclaimed Indian movie has been
included as a case study in "Human Behavior at Work"
for Leadership practices in human resource context at
IIM indore?
Ans: Lagaan
4)
Identify this personality. He is the convenor of AGNI
-Action for good Governance through Networking for
India.According to him government policies and
executive decisions are ruled exclusively by the 3
great P's - Political Survival, Party Interest and
Pocket. Also the recipient of AAAI-Premnarayen Award.
5)
We all know that Security Threads are inside Currency
papers and one can read the words RBI and Bharat
on the security threads. But the question is Where the
paper for Indian Currency is manufactured?
6)
Name the systematic study of the cause and effect of
personal space requirements, a term coined by an
anthropologist Edward T. Hale?
7)
Which famous International group publish a quarterly
magazine called "Colors" and run a communications
school known as "Fabrica"?
Ans: Benetton
8)
Logo trivia: The "Four Linked Rings" is the logo for
Audi AG and famous everywhere. How it is formed or
What is the significance of that logo?
9)
According to Businessworld survey of India's Most
Respected Companies, first time an IT company top the
list,of course Infosys. But two corporates have listed
in the Top 10 list ever since the survey was
introduced way back in 1987. Name the two companies.
10)
This person began his career as a lecturer in the L.M.
College of Pharmacy and turned as an entrepreneur
in 1951. He is also an accomplished poet and has
published his anthology of poems compiled in Pratiti
His company combines the ethos of the Greco-Roman god
Zeus. "Our life itself should convey our message
finally" is from his Pratiti. And last week he died.
Identify him and his group.
( Hints : Green..)
3.0 THREE-IN-ONE
( Hints : Carbon..Carbon)
### CARBONE LORAINE
No correct answer. Somebody guessed Carborundum ???
( Hints : Gijoniny.)
Q 1:
Which company sells Chocolates under the brand name
'Ashok'?
Q 2:
If you have a cupa coffee in "Bush House" which media
company you are in?
Q 3:
TAM is one of the measuring criteria for television
rating points. What does it stand for?
Q 4:
Which agency is responsible for the creation of the
famous mascots Tony The Tiger, Pillsbury Doughboy and
the Marlboro Man?
Q 5:
A couple of months ago this company launched a
'Perfect pencil' in Sydney to mark the company's 240th
anniversary and costs $ 10000. It made from a 240 year
old olive wood and 18ct white gold cap with 3 diamonds
in it. Which company we are talking about?(one of the
oldest private company in the world)
Q 6:
Name the anti-bacterial soap launched by Jyothi
Laboratories of Ujala fame?
Q 7:
Who is the only Indian in the Time Magazine's 25
Influentials of 2001?
Q 8:
Which retail major pioneered the concept of 'New Year
Sales'in India?
Q 9:
Which brand was founded in La Chaux-de-Fonde,
Switzerland and available since 1881?
Q 10:
I wa sborn in Seattle in 1971 and was originally
selling only coffee beans. My owner was inspired by
the espresso bars in Italy and created me as a 'third
place', i.e neither work nor home, but just to relax.
Identify me and my owner?
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ANSWERS::
Q 1 : ITDC
Q 2 : BBC
Q 3 : Television Audience Measurement
(most of you answered as Television Audience Meter)
Q 4 : Leo Burnett
Q 5 : Faber Castle
Q 6 : Nebula (cracked by Ramdas Nair)
Q 7 : N.R.Narayanamurthy (who else)
Q 8 : Viveks in Chennai
Q 9 : Movado
Q 10: Starbucks, Howard Schultz
(0.5 marks for any of these)
Q 1:
Lord Swaraj paul is the first Asian Who became the
Chancellor of a British University (Wolverhampton).
But who is the first non-british chariman of the
famous London Metal Exchange?
Q 2:
Name the WLL based CDMA mobile phone service from
MTNL for Mumbai to be launched on 25 jan 2002?
(first mammal and now it is bird)
Q 3:
Name the Official Time keeper of Tata Open Tennis,
India's biggest ATP tournament?
Q 4:
Which country is the origin of the Tatra brand of
trucks and Skoda Auto Company?
Q 5:
Which two words are responsible for the creation of
the brand name 'Exide'?
Q 6:
In Media lingo what is 'Grazing'?
Q 7:
Naomi Klein was in the news recently for which of the
controversial book?
Q 8:
Which leading publishing group's children's divisions
are 'Puffin' and 'Warne'?
Q 9:
In which product's advertising campaign,'Driving
Instinct',was actress Sharon Stone featured?
Q 10:
I am the largest provider of News and Information to
the world of media. And the founder Paul Julius used
pigeons to communicate and transfer the information in
1850s. Who am I?
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ANSWERS::
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Ans: ADIDAS
Ans: Kingfisher
Ans: pathfinder.com
Ans: McDonalds
STELLA MARIS
INTER COLLEGE QUIZ PRELIMINARY
STELLA MARIS
INTER COLLEGE QUIZ PRELIMINARY
Answers
.......................................................
A.ARIVU ARIVU
Ans : Dragon.
Ans : Mississippi.
Ans : Drama.
Ans : Putrajaya.
7.0 What are Cat, Dog, Milk, Pig, Rabbit & Pup types
of?
Ans : Fish.
Ans : Pantry.
B.OLD IS GOLD
Ans : Coffee.
C.NEW IS TRENDY
Ans : NavinMail.
Ans : Netscape.
D.VANAKKAM CHENNAI.
Ans : Royapuram.
E.SINDIKKA SILA.
Ans : Mc-Donalds.
Ans : Ramon.
F.MONEY FUNNY
Ans : Jasdaq.
G. GRAND BRAND.
Ans : Slates.
2.0 McDonalds has big Mac. What is the corresponding
from burger king?
Ans : Nilgiris.
Ans : Sierra
1. First thing First... Well Quiznet gang know well about UPS, the big black.
This question is not about UPS but about UCS which stands for United Canvas
and Sling, Inc. and this is first and only company in the world to ...?
POLE VAULT
3. Following are recommended to Stay Young by a fashion house which very well
has its presence in cyberspace ... To stay Young - Don't Laugh-Don't have
sex -Inhale Oxygen--and it recommends to Drink What ?
" You complained a lot about this store. Email after email (and one hand
delivered package). Not enough clothes you said. Not selling in enough
countries we heard you America). Here at XXXXXX we enjoy a healthy dialogue.
So the bad news is - we listened -and we're closing the UK Store. "
what is the GOOD NEWS from them..... XXXXXX [ The clue :This clothing
brand sounds like a fuel!]
ANSWER:
once again its DIESEL ...the good news is :
Thanks for shopping, browsing, or moaning. We love you. Always and all ways.
------ Diesel"
ANSWER:
it stands for Opting Out of Placements.....and one entry said it is "S***"!
[ the top scorer in this quiz...] I donno whether he means the question or
he tried the answer....well if it is to the question the credit goes to ET
coz the source for this is ET...{J/k}
ANSWER:
Akila Moni said : its some stupid oil company GOLDWINNER
Btw which oil did u use Akila ............?.
ANSWER:
I would have offered u Jeans coz its the old name for Jeans , Levi has
this info.
8. In which commercial would you come across HSB- Hotel Saravana Bhavan..?
Vim Bar
9. What is Channel W?
ANSWER:
Its seems that there is no Wiproities in Quiznet. 'Channel W a new
e-home for Wiproites.
Using the ubiquitous internet, Wipro through the channel W portal is
attempting to bond its 9500 employees spread across several locations and
geographies. It addresses all the areas that an employee needs- community,
collaboration and care, say Wipro officials. The portal brings out the fun
element through its funky design. It has affinity clubs, message board, chat,
intranet search, personalization engine and even a space for Wiproites to buy
and sell stuff, be it a book on XML (extensible mark-up language) or an used
xylophone. Wiproites say that W in Channel W besides representing the
company also stands for Web, World and Winning.
10.To log off tell me with out logging on......if you are in this site
www.amex.com what you will be looking at ?
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Q 1:
In Computing standards what is an 'Orange Book'?
Q 2:
Which software major introduced the Intellimouse with
Intellieye technology?
Q 3:
Nolan Bushnell designed and built the first video
arcade game 'Computer Space' in 1970 and in 1972
released PONG, the first commercially successful
arcade game. Also he hired Steve Jobs and Steve
Wozniak to assemble arcade games at his company. Name
the company he founded?
Q 4:
Which product is called as the 'Volkswagen of
Computers'?
Q 5:
Name the company who produced the 'Crusoe' processor?
Q 6:
With which company would you associate the tagline
'take it to the nth'?
Q 7:
After stepped down as CEO of Microsoft corp Bill Gates
is the Chief Software Architect. Likewise
N.R.Narayanamurthy of Infosys stepped down from his
chair and now known as what?
Q 8:
Sun Microsystems:Java :: Hewlett Packard:?
Q 9:
What is the code name for Itanium, the 64-bit
processor from Intel stable?
Q 10:
PKzip is a compression utility program like winzip.
What does PK stand for?
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Answers:
Q 1: Informal name for Philips and Sony's Recordable
CD Standard
Q 2: Microsoft
Q 3: Atari (The game is PONG. I mentioned it as PING)
Q 4: Apple II
Q 5: Transmeta
Q 6: Sun Microsystems
Q 7: Chairman and Cheif Mentor
Q 8: Chai or Espeak
Q 9: Merced
Q 10:Philip Katz, the inventor's first two letters
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CQ 1:
Alongwith whom Vinten Cerf published the paper 'A
Protocol for Packet Networking Internetworking', in
which they established the Transmission Control
Protocol(TCP)?
CQ 2:
Ray Tomlinson invented the E-Mail program while
working at BBN. What does BBN stand for?
CQ 3:
Name the largest running vaporware project
conceptualised by Ted Nelson, the inventor of Hyper
Text Transfer Protocol?
CQ 4:
Grace Murray Hopper is known as the 'Mother of COBOL'.
She developed the first Compiler program and her motto
is 'Dare and Do'. But apart from these which other
term coined by her is famous in the computing world?
CQ 5:
Lotus 1-2-3 is very popular killer app developed in
1983 by Jonathan Sachs and Mitch kapor. What do the
numbers 1-2-3 denote?
CQ 6:
IBM launched the Floppy disk or memory disk which was
in 8" size. Sony first introduced 3.5" floppy disk. In
between these two which two companies jointly
introduced the 5.25" floppy disk drive.?
CQ 7:
Founded as the Software Development Laboratories. Then
changed its name to RSI, Relational Software Inc. Its
flagship product was codenamed after a CIA-funded
project that was developed by the creators while they
work for their previous company called Ampex. Later
the company name retained to the product's after the
success. Name the company.
CQ 8:
Who developed the first multiple-window GUI which was
precursor to Windows and MacOS, hosted the first video
conference in 1968 and the inventor of the 'X-Y
Position Indicator for a Display System?
CQ 9:
Which is the world's first Computer Company and who
founded it?
CQ 10:
I translated Italian commentary in to English on the
Analytical Engine and I suggested Charles Babbage to
develop instructions for directing his machines'
operations. And I am the First... o.k...Enough clues
are given....Identify me?
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Answers:
CQ 1: Robert Kahn
CQ 2: Bolt Beranek and Newman
CQ 3: Xanadu
CQ 4: Bug
CQ 5: Software is capable of performing 3 specific
functions.1.Electronic Spreadsheet 2.Database
Management and 3.Graphics
CQ 6: Apple and Tandy
CQ 7: Oracle (BTW I mistyped it as Rational Software
but it would be Realtional Software Inc.
Thanks for Mahesh Murthy to indicate this
mistake.
CQ 8: Douglas Engelbert
CQ 9: Electronic Control Corporation or Eckert Mauchly
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### Radioofindia.com
I thought it was tough but Nikhil, Debarshi and Abir
got it right. World Space was favourite answer.
### Korea
BORg, Roshan and Vivek are correct. India was most
favourite.
### Jalmala
A tough one. Nobody could crack. A few of you thought
it is SAFE.
### Sothebys
Many of you are right.
### Kozmo.com
Nikhil, Debarshi, Florentyne and Arvind are correct.
### Software
Nobody could crack. Pornographic mtl. was most
favoured.
Ans: TELCO
( Hints : h, i, j, k, l, m )
### SINGAPORE
The clue was conspicuous.Hongkong was the other
country most tried.
### COCACOLA
Again many of you are correct. However a few thought
it was Bisleri.
### ADIDAS
Ans: Nike
1) John Katzman founded it in his parents' apartment in 1981. The first batch
consisted of 19 students. What ?
(HINT : They review a lot of stuff)
ONE OF THE BEST COURSE MATERIALS FOR THE GMAT PREP., COMPETING FOR THE TOP SLOT
WITH KAPLAN.
note : though this etymology can't be traced. This is a common phrase used in
many sites as well as online forums.
ANSWER :
(1) PERFECT UNDERGRAD GPA FROM AN IVY LEAGUE LIKE SAY PRINCETON,
(2) 770 ON THE GMAT
AND (3) 5+ YEARS EXPERIENCE ON WALL STREET, WORKING FOR GOLDMAN SACHS.
YOUR 3 BIG FACTORS (UNDERGRAD GPA, GMAT & WORKEXP) ARE IN IMPECCABLE, SINCE YOU
CLEARLY HAVE THE CREDENTIALS, YOU ALSO ARE THE MOST MOTIVATED AND CONSEQUENTLY
THE MOST PREPARED. WHICH MAKES YOU APPLY WELL BEFORE THE
DEADLINE UNLIKE SOMEONE WHO IS ON SHAKY GROUND. SO IN SHORT,YOU ARE A "SHARK"
SO IN THE FIRST ROUND YOU WOULD BE SITTING WITH ALMOST 90% OF THE JUNTA WITH
GREATER STATS THAN YOU. THOUGH A WELL-PREPARED APPLICATION DOSSIER WITH GREAT
ESSAYS AND RECOS IS ALWAYS GOOD.... ALL THE SAME THE GRAD COMMITTEE WOULD TEND
TO BE PSYCHED A BIT. MOST PEOPLE RECKON YOU ARE BETTER OFF APPLYING IN THE
SECOND ROUND.
Whats *** ?
(HINT : I dont think you need any hints. Even a highschool student can tell
you)
ANSWER : ETS, EDUCATIONAL TESTING SERVICE. THE NOT FOR PROFIT ORGANIZATION
WHICH RUNS MOST OF THE STANDARDIZED TESTS WE DESI JUNTAS TAKE IE. GMAT, GRE,
TOEFL, SAT ETC.
5) For 12 years, This bschool would not even look at the GMAT scores of its
applicants. The class of 1997 was the first in more than a decade that was
required to submit GMAT scores. Which bschool ?
ANSWER : HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL. BTW DO U KNOW DUBYA WAS CLASS OF '75 :)
6) One of the leading magazines BusinessWeek came out with the results for the
top bschools in the US. There was a controversy when it listed this bschool at
11th. Wouldnt be bad unless you consider that usnews (another
famous ranking) puts it in the top 3. Add to it the fact that it has a
selectivity of 11% (appox. only 1 out of 10 candidates who apply get an offer)
and an average GMAT score of 727 !! (roughly in the top 1-2 percentile)
R.Shantaram says "Would have thought Stanford... but Wharton seems to be the
most diverse... Stern certainly has an Israeli pilot and a Jap. doc., (not sure
about the Uzbeki), but that's the class of '02... will finally stick with
Stanford - un-Joe Blogg-like :)"
7) While preparing for tests like the GMAT, you will encounter/hear someone
speaking something like "Don't mess it up like a Joe Blogg !!". What is the
"Joe Bloggs theory" ?
(HINT : This is a pretty average everyday kind of question, don't think you
shud be requiring any)
ANSWER : HE IS THE AVERAGE PERSON & FOR SAKE OF CONVIENCE HE HAS BEEN NAMED
"JOE BLOGGS". JOE BLOGGS IS JUST THE AVG. AMERICAN PROSPECTIVE BUSINESS-SCHOOL
STUDENT. HE HAS AVERAGE GRADES FROM COLLEGE, AND WILL GET AN AVERAGE GRADE ON
THE GMAT. THERE'S A LITTLE BIT OF HIM IN EVERYONE, AND THERE'S A LITTLE BIT OF
EVERYONE IN HIM. HE ISN'T BRILLIANT. HE ISN'T DUMB. HE'S JUST AVERAGE. :)
8) More closer to home. CAT-2001 was relatively easier. But yet the scores are
hoping to be more or less equal to the last year levels due to what is being
called as the "Theory of the greater fools". Whatzit the funda?
(HINT : No hints. This question is reserved for those who took CAT last Sunday.
BTW, junta tells me a 75+ score is in the reckoning for a call)
ANSWER : IF YOU HAVE MADE A BIG BLUNDER (SAY ATTEMPTED LESS THAN 20 IN THE
RELATIVELY EASIER D.I.) THERE WILL BE SOMEONE WHO MAKES A GREATER BLUNDER (SAY,
LEAVE OUT 15 STRAIGHT FORWARD SYNONYM QUESTIONS IN VERBAL). SO I'LL QUOTE
HANUMANTHA REDDY MOTHE'S PERFECT ANSWER :
"Last year people got admission in IIMs for scores in 60s and 70s as the exam
was tough. This year, people targeted the same score and not more. So,the
performance is low even though the exam is relatively easy."
MOST APPALING THING ABOUT THIS FUNDA IS PEOPLE KNEW THE TERM IN THE STOCK
EXCHANGE PARLANCE BUT WEREN'T ABLE TO PUT 2 AND 2 TOGETHER TO GIVE THE ANSWER.
BUT I HAVE GIVEN POINTS FOR ANY FEEBLE ATTEMPT.
But Shailesh Murali gives an excellent guess ""The population of the world
increases;intelligence is a constant". Basically more people take the test. But
there are a greater number of fools than in the previous year."
Sunil says "Does this deal with Normalization....where the scores of fools
brings down the scores of the "sharks"" good fatta but wrong :)
9) What was started off by late Mr. Nagesh Raghunath Rane on a table space in
the office of a very supportive close friend ?
ANSWER : INSPITE OF TEACHING THERE PART-TIME I MADE A GOOF UP TILL I AGAIN GOT
THE RIGHT ANSWER FROM HANUMANTHA REDDY :
"IMS Learning Resources (formerly Institute of Management Studies)"
"SNAPSHOTS FROM HELL" A CLASSIC EACH BSCHOOL ASPIRANT SHOULD READUP. DESCRIBES
THE AUTHOR'S EXPERIENCES AT THE FIRST YEAR OF STANFORD MBA (1988)
Shailesh Murali adds "Simple one : People who don't have a Math background.
People who are not Engineers...more like Afghan pilots who ram into the tall
buildings ;)"
Sabyasachi Chandra says "poets = Piss off early tomorrow saturday." duh ? :)
Q 1:
Which corporate employees individually received a copy
of the book called 'One Voice' from its CEO ?
Ans>> IBM
Q 2:
Who developed the concept of the 'Caring Customer' and
the company's corporate religion is 'Trade and care'?
Q 3:
Name the corporate established in 1946 by a consortium
between three national airline companies in Sweden,
Denmark and Norway?
Q 4:
Identify this Legendary pharmacist who founded a great
corporate? (Attch: img1.jpg)
<<Not Considered>>
Q 5:
In 1991, Which company introduced a 'Stock Option'
plan called 'Bean Stock' for its employees called?
Ans>> Starbucks
Q 6:
Under what brand name the Tamil Nadu Dairy Development
Board markets its milk products?
Ans>> Aavin
Q 7:
Whcih non-profit organisation was founded by Bill
shore? (Hungry kya?)
Q 8:
Which corporate's in-house journal is called as
'Footsteps'?
Ans>> Eicher
Q 9:
Identify the brand born in 1893 and the person who
gave birth to this brand is Desodhakara Pantulugaru
Nageswara Rao?
Ans>> Amrutanjan
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Ans: Nike
Ans: Viveks
Ans: Dell
Ans: Pink Slip. The irony is that while the term has
hit the big time,its origins are still a mystery. The
first reference to it recorded by The Oxford English
Dictionary goes as far back as 1915.
1. ACHIEVER NO.1
2. BEAUTIFUL TWO
3. DAZZLING THREE
4. GLITTERING FOUR
5. FUNKY FIVE
1. No no no no no no no no no! No! No! No! No! Oh all right then, I'll meet you
halfway ____________ Fill in the 11 letter brand name First word has 5
letters and other word has 6 letters .[ sorry Google wont help u in this
question]
FIRST DIRECT [ a subsidiary of HSBC]. Only Devi and Victor could crack it.
Cheers!!! .
There is something unique about this bank can any one tell me what?
LEHMAN BROTHERS . The figures are nothing but TOP salary offered
to IIM students.
Section 22 of SICA. Except Ramkumar of Ready test go no one could get this one
right.
8. Who claims itself to be world's first FMFG company and what is FMFG stands
for?
9. Which is the only Indian company to figure in the TOP 10 Note-book Pcs or in
other words Top 10 Laptops?
Zenith. Very few answered correctly other popular answer was wipro.
KEYWORD
11. Which is China's No.1 web portal? I want the full web address
Ans: BPL
Ans : Australia.
Ans : Teflon.
Ans : Sandalwood.
Ans : Latin.
Ans : Lychees.
Ans : Hanuman.
Ans : Indonesia.
Ans : Chandra.
Ans : Argentina.
Ans : Subaru.
Ans: The Gaming Board for Great Britain. Only two could crack it namely,
Feroz and Ramdoss.
Unattempted question.
4. If i have given you II Sole - 24 Ore what i would have given you?
Ans: Only Ramdoss and Devi Mohan got this one right. Its nothing but
Italy's financial daily.
6. What is GenJam?
Ans: Swatch
Ans: Swiss
at IIM-A.
Ans: The team that decided on the bid price for IBP.
33.58% of IBP for a mind boggling Rs. 1153.68 crore.
Ans: Sony
Ans: Motorola
Ans: IBM
Ans Siemens
Audience Question:
ROUND 2.0
Ans : They hold the rights for the famous Who wants
to be a millionaire TV Game show.
Audience Question
Ans : Sathyalakshmi
ROUND 3.0
.
Audience Question :
ROUND 4.0
.
Audience Question :
ROUND 5.0
Ans : Audi
Ans : Hyundai
Ans : Lords
Audience Question :
Ans : Cricket
Ans : Kiwi
ROUND 6.0
.
Ans : Castrol
ROUND 7.0
.
This was a video round . One had to identify
person/object/ brand.
1.0 Amway
2.0 Godrej Prima
3.0 FedEx
4.0 Indian Express
5.0 Shipping Corpn
6.0 Times of India
Audience Question :
1.0 Westside
ROUND 8.0
.
Team 1
1.0 Which brand gets its name from latin snow white
Ans : Nivea
Ans : Scissors
Ans : C K Prahlad
Ans : Cadillac
5.0 Who is the hot shot India born lady in Pepsico who
has been selected by Fortune as one of the most
powerful business woman ?
Ans : Chennai
Ans : Arrow
Ans : Vodka
Team 2
Ans : Lacoste
Ans : Brazil
Ans : Australia
Ans : Essel
Ans : Contessa
Ans : Shell ( ? )
Ans : Train
10.0 Name the new generation fuel cell car brought out
by GM?
Ans : Hydrogen
Team 3
Ans : Chennai
Team 4
.
Ans : Lacoste
Ans : Blaupunkt
Ans : Toranto
Team 5
.
Ans : Daewoo
Ans : Heinneken
Ans accenture
Ans Rajyalakshmi
Ans : ICICI
10.0 Which famous Swiss watchmaker markets a range of
metal cased watches under the subbrand nameIrony ?
Ans : Swatch
Team 6
Ans : Motorola
Ans : Emirates
Ans : Lahore
Ans : Nutrine
ROUND 9.0
.
2.0 Who was the chief of Air India who was disgraced
and suspended for nepotism, but subsequently relieved
of all charges a day before his retirement ?
Ans : Jeep
Audience Question :
Ans : Cleopetra
ROUND 10.0
..........
Ans : Sydney
Ans PriceWaterhouseCooper
..................................................
1. To start with music. Which brand of car would you come across in the Eagles
"Hotel California" ?
2. Name the world's only privately owned bank still to have the highest
possible ratings of S&P [Standard and Poor's]?
Ans- RaboBank
Ans- Marsh & McLennan Companies Inc. Very few correct answers.
Ans- Palmtop
5. When I was a kid i often wasn't the best player on the team. When I got to
this company , I was not always the smartest guy in the room. But I always
looked to find the best people smarter than me. Once I did that they would
take care of the rest. I am supposed to be the first employee of this company.
Tell me who am I? If u know me why not u give me the company name?
Ans- Orissa Police Pigeon Service. It was in the news recently because they are
planning to stop Pigeon service and to use the funds effectively in other
areas.
7. To which giant would you associate the term 4PL with , which happens to be
its trademark?
8. If you associate MY TIME with Global Trust Bank To whom would you associate
Cashpoint for?
9. This young airlines took Pope John Paul II twice to Croatia. During their
first service to him they had to send representatives to the vatican in order
to research Pope's dietary needs coz they wanted Pope to have dinner in
aircraft. But pope came aboard the aircraft after having just attended a dinner
and ended up that he wont have anything. Atlast he had onething in the flight.
What did pope had during his first trip in that airline. Name also the
airline.
Ans- Croatia Airlines. First time Pope had only Coca Cola.
other answers recd : Pepsi, Virgin Airlines
coke, Alitalia
Orange Juice, Ryan Air {sudhir kamath}
10. This company claims itself to be the first company in the world to offer
all four real-time language translation applications. E-mail, Chat, Text and
Browse applications. Name the company.
Ans- Amikai.
12. John H. Patterson founded this company and its now the worlds largest in
its field. Name the company and their product?
Ans- National Cash Register Company, maker of the first mechanical cash
registers and largest producer of cash registers.
13. What type of card is a Powerplus, the one recently launched by Sundaram
Finance ?
Ans- "It is a value added fleet card. POWERPLUS Fleet Card has the unique
feature of both prepaid and credit options and provides accident cover to both
fleet operator and the driver. Eliminating the cash transactions at petrol
stations while drawing fuels and lubricants, the POWERPLUS Fleet Card will
provide fleet owners the advantage of monitoring all transactions tracking the
fleet movement which will help exercise necessary "control" in their fleet
operations" explains Debajyothi.
Ans: ITC.
Ans: Tanishq
1. All know about 'Udayan', the charity organisation that became famous with
Steve Waugh's affiliation and generous financial contribution. Can u name its
founder ?
Also, In the vedic period the strings were made of dried grass, later replaced
by gut strings and the metal chords we see today. The instrument that Shivkumar
Sharma started with had 25 bridges, with 4 strings each. He increased the
number of bridges to 29 and reduced the number of strings to 3 per bridge, a
total of 87. This brought greater clarity and took less time to tune. The
melodic range is now 3 full octaves.
4. What is special about the phone call made by Sukhram to jyoti Basu ?
5. Who was the kiwi captain during the 1996 cricket world cup ? how was he
selected or elected as the captain of the team?? (2 points)
* Lee Germon. The NZ team management was looking for a new captain as they felt
that none of the team members was capable of leading the team (and also not
many volunteered for the job). So they put up an advertisemnt in the newspaper
asking for a team captain with the requisite skills and LEE GERMON applied
(among many) !!!!
Unbelievable ??? I was shocked too !!!! But I had heard it from Lee Germon
himself in a TV interview. Wish we had applied too !!!!!!
8. Who is the FM Radio jockey(mumbai) to be a part of the new boy band ? (hint:
grandmother)
An SLR camera reflects the image onto the focusing screens by using the light
coming through the lens.
With this process, the camera can immediately fix the image onto the film,
after checking the imaging area and how the image will turn out.
This is particularly useful when using telephoto lenses or shooting close-ups.
Indeed, one of the secrets to improving your photography skills is to observe
the image on the viewfinder, one of the greatest advantages of an SLR camera.
10. Which artiste won the Grammy for 'Best Female Pop Vocal Performance' ? and
the song ??
* Nelly Furtado, I'm like a bird
1. BANK NO.1.
2. DEADLY DUO
Zero Plus and Plus Plus are the two Killer deodorants
from which Brand?
### DIESEL
Ryan Michigan, G S Gurpreet, Nishant Labh and Sanjay K
Gupta were correct.
3. TOP THREE.
### SINGAPORE
Many were correct.
Japan, China, USA & now India are the only four
countries to develop this produt in fresh water.
Which product?
( Hints : Bombing.)
### PEARL
Meet_grn, Prithwiraj Mukherjee, Roshan Mathews and
Victor Bhattacharjee cracked.
5. OH FIVE !
( Hints : Cover-up)
Ans: Enron.
The contents of the advertisment
It is a small word...
but it can bring years of conventional assumptions to
a jarring halt.
Find out how we're changing the way industries think.
Ans: Cambodia
10. Which Indian apparel manufacturer owns Manzoni,
a premium brand of Menswear ?
Ans: Raymond
3) the currency of japan is yen, america is dollar, saudi is rial. what is the
currency of Italy ?
MY BIGGEST ACHIEVMENT........TOOK U ALL FOR A COOL RIDE
$ as of today, the currency of Italy is Euro.(not Lira). Only Akila Moni,
Hanman & Sharad Patel got it right. Good presence of mind.
(thnx Patel 4 appreciating the question )
6) sergi bubka once said-" my worst enemy is .........." fill the blank?
# gravity
Only Rahul Jayanti got this . Most of u replied " myself". That was a nice try
though.
N Srinivasan feels that it is his pole ( may i know what makes u think
so.........btw u r rite about my careless attitude....u have no idea how
non-chalant i am......regards buddy)
8) Vodafone is world's largest cellular networking company. How did they frame
their name Voda?
Ans : VOice & DAta.
vishal vaibhav answers:
# vodka? their chairman is a compulsive vodka drinker.
# very ordinary digital appliance!?
# okay, i am trying too hard!!! ;-)
11) Nicola tesla inventor of tesla coil and induction motor along with a
another scientist X were considered for nobel prize in phy . however , tesla
didnot want his name to be associated his X. so the nobel comitee decided to
give the prize to neither.? whos mr. x?
# Thomas Alva Edison
12). After throwing out coca cola the janta govt encouraged an indigenious cola
drink? name it?
# 77 ( the year) . majority said Campa Cola.
13) which famous indian fictional character is the son of Hari Singh?
hint: think movies
# Gabbar Singh ( afterall, we all have seen the movie upteen times)
14) every tuesday afternoon the buckingham palace gets a regular visitor who
comes to brief the queen who is he?
# the PM of britian for his regular briefings on Tuesday.
16)On whose tomb is it written-' blessed be the man who spares these stones and
cursed be the he who moves my bones'
# william Shakespeare
( Once again i had given the ans myself. Once again I am SORRY. Once again u
all get 1 pt free.)
18) In the film sholay the immortal role of Sambha was played by McMohan.
however in the whole film he had to say just one dialogue. which one?
# "poore pachhas hazar sarkar"
Some of u have 2 see the movie again. I can't imagine somebody saying ' maine
apka namak khaya hai sarkar'. That was the dialogue of Kalia and not Sambha.
2. Why did Alfred Hitchcick shoot his 1960 chiller Psycho in Black and white?
# He feared the sensors would be antagonised by the sight of red blood.
( anybody who meant nearly the same has got marks)
3.. what is the contribution of these animals to music- peacock, bull, goats,
crouncha birds, koel, horse and elephant?
# the seven basic swars of music originated from the voices of these animals.
sa- peacock's cry : re- bull's voice : ga- goat's voice : ma- croncha 's cry
: pa - koyal's voice : dha - horse neighing : nee- elephants trumpheting.
( this was cooly cracked!! )
Abhishek Bora says................"These animals sounds have been used to
compose the sound which comes when you switch the Microsoft XP(MIXED-ALL THESE
SOUNDS) "
4. we all have heard the 10 commandmants? what is the 11th commandment being
proposed by the present pope?
# " Thou shall use condoms" .........i had fun reading all 'excessively
imaginative' answers i got for this. but none got it right.
ravi subs says THOU SHALT NOT GOOGLE...
sudhir kamath says Thou shalt not have abortions??
feorze thinks........ Dont be a terrorist
7.. During the space flight of american astronaut John Glenn in 1962, the
citizens of perth did something to greet the astronauts in their spacecraft
which in turn gave the city a popular epithet? what did they do and whats the
epithet?
# they turned on all their lights and perth got its name - " city of lights "
( once again i got fundoo guesses.....
abshike bora writes......
when john glenn was falling back into earth the whole city of perth put the
lights on,so that glenn could see it from the sky.Basically to announce his
arrival
I like the way u think...though sounding funny, it nearly gave u the answer.
Afterall in Quizzing, guessing is everything.
9." Feel the blood pound in ur head, the adrenalin rush , the breath catch in
ur throat. for all those who dare to take on the challenge this is the ultimate
nirvana" . what used to be advertised in the above lines?
# One of my personal favos.......nobody got it .
It is KARGIL ( as advertisied by J & K Tourism department before intrusion )
10. During the early years of indian film , only three instruments were used
for producing background music- tabla, harmonium and empty coconut shells.
while the tabla was used for fight scenes and harmonium for love scenes, what
was coconut shell used for?
# To produce the sound of horse hoofs.
11. The harry potter series has given many new words to english. In the book
there exists a magical mirror named "erised" ? how did this mirror gets its
name and whats its special property ? ( its workable )
#-the mirror shows the hearts desire of every onlooker..hence desire spelt
backwards as it would look in a mirror image.
( some of u worked it out......GR8)
12 .personality...
my original name is shantanu mukherji, i was born on 30th sept 1972...
won a bravery award when just 9yrs... caught a bank robber red handed...the
award was presented by j.reberio...
i also wrote a book on computer programming,,,, lotus 123 3.1+.
who am i ?
# Shaan
One of u said SHAKTIMAN.........(sudhir kamath)
15. There is a b2b company called line56.com. The question is why the name
line56.com ?
(hint shakespeare's play hamlet )
## Line 56 of Hamlet reads ' 2 b r not 2 b'...........hence the b2b company
gets its name after it.
16. KFC chain was started by Col. Harland Sanders who did not come from a army
background. then how did he get the title of VCol.
# He was conferred the title by the Governor of Kentucky for making the name of
the state very popular..
17. Marilyn Monroe once confided in fellow actress Shelly Winters that she had
a secret crush on this person who was more than twice her age and that he was "
not really as old as he thought he was ". afer her death a large framed
photograph of this person was found in her room autographed--" to marilyn
.....with love and thanks". who was this person?
# Albert Einstein ( How many of u r surprised ????????? )
18.. why are the liberals always associated to left and not to the right?
# When the first french legislature after the french revolution assembly was
packed with 745 members. the liberals or the radicals were seated to the left
of the speaker and the conservative to the right.
( I have been very liberal in this question....U got to tell me that it was the
first french legislature which noone did.....My inexperience in Quiznet makes
me accept almost all answers sounding the same but missing important details.)
21 Gandhi's 3 monkeys stand for - ' see no evil, hear no evil and speak no
evil' . of all the things in the world why were the monkeys chosen?
# This phrase was given by a Japanese monk Deng Yo. Originally the statemnt is '
mi zaru -( don't see evil) , iwa Zaru -- (don't speak evil) , & kika zaru
--(don't hear evil)..
But, in Japanese the term Zaru means both 'don't' and 'monkey'
Hence monkeys were opted.
22.. why does every royal bride of Monaco undergo a fertility test before
marriage?
# Due to a treaty , Monaco had with france in 1918 which had a provision that
calls for the absorption of Monaco into France and the subsequent loss of her
status if her monagasque prince should have no heir.
23. why did sea captains in earlier days keep pigs on board of their ships?
# Becaouse they believed that should there be a ship wreck, the pigs will
instinctively swim towards the nearest shore.
M Hanman writes:
If the ship sinks, the passengers could swim to the shore 'piggy-backing' on
the pigs
24.what was once banned in iran as it was supposed to sexually excite girls?
### Chewing Gums
25.in medivael france, traders used to go from place to place on horses. while
halting at night, they used have entertainment through cheap sex with local
damsels. as nothing would be available impromptu, they used to utilise their
saddle as the temporary bed or bedsheet. this process gave a word to english
which word?
hint: get abusive
## In french the saddle used was called something like 'bust'.......So, the
children born due to this act were associated with this word.......However in
English 'ard' is added to any word which kinda has a negative connotation like
drunkard, coward..etc..........hence the combo gives us 'bustard'.............
yeah the word is the universally used.............BASTARD
Manivannan adds,
Pawan Hans Helicopters Limited was incorporated on15th
October' 1985 and is the 'Largest Helicopter Operator
in India'. The Company has achieved an unparalleled
record of over 2,60,000 flying hours till date. It has
a total staff strength of about 767 including highly
trained and experienced pilots, engineers and other
technical personnel .It's Fleet of 29 Helicopters
which include 19 Dauphin- SA365N, 3 Bell 206 L4, 2
Bell 407, 2 R44 and 3 MI-172, are at your service to
take you any place, any time with comfort and safety.
Government owned enterprise ( Govt -78.5%, ONGC
-21.5%).
Ans: mysap.com.
Only Sharad damani gave the exact answer.
Chaudharysaab and Sunay had given SAP. I have given
them the marks.
Ans: Bates India. Those who knew the answer were able
to figure out the question.
1. The congress got an overwhelming majority when Rajiv Gandhi was the PM
candidate right after his mother's death. What was the number of Lok Sabha
seats that congress got??
401 out of 515 seats !!! (source: ' Rajiv's India ' by Dinesh N Desai )
many folks were close like 415, 420 etc !!!
Larry Ellison was working on Project Oracle for the CIA. The project failed and
thus Larry was free to use the name !!! (Source: Larry Ellison's interview on
Click Online, BBC)
4.The Movie 'Its a Mad Mad Mad World' got how many oscar nominations and how
many did it win finally ?
Nominated for 6 oscars and finally won for Best Sound Effects !!!
5. This bold guy, a few years ago in India made big news of being able to
prepare petrol by using herbal ingredients !!!! who is this bold chap ?
7. In which novel did the ship ' Hispaniaola ' play a large part ?
Treasure Island
8. For whom did Stevie Wonder sing ' Happy Birthday to you' ?
Martin Luther King, Jr
9. Which major Indian river is also known as dibang, siong, meghna and tsang po
along its route?
Brahmaputra (Almost everyone got this right)
10. He was a shrewd communist leader, diplomat and statesman; He shocked the
world when he took off his shoes and thumped the desk at the UN. He was a
shepherd boy who became the prime-minister of his country. Name him.
Nikita Krushchev
Ans: MASTEK
More news
The history of ARPA leading up to the ARPANET.
A climate of pure research surrounded the entire
history of the ARPANET. The Advanced Research Projects
Agency was formed with an emphasis towards research,
and thus was not oriented only to a military product.
The formation of this agency was part of the U.S.
reaction to the then Soviet Union's launch of
Sputnikin 1957. ( ARPA draft, III-6 ). ARPA was
assigned to research how to utilize their investment
in computers via Command and Control Research (CCR).
Dr. J.C.R. Licklider was chosen to head this effort.
Licklider came to ARPA from Bolt, Beranek and Newman,
(BBN) in Cambridge, MA in October 1962. (ARPA draft,
III-6) The very first site to receive an IMP was UCLA.
Professor Leonard Kleinrock of UCLA was involved with
much of the early development of the ARPANET. His work
consisted of understanding queueing theory and as such
was one of the first computer scientists working on
the ARPANET who was dealing with how to measure what
was happening as the network would function. This made
it natural to make sure that UCLA received the first
node as it would be important to initiate the network
from the site which would measure the networks
activity. In order for the statistics to be correct
and for analysis purposes - the first site had to be
the measurement site. Sure enough UCLA was assigned to
be the Network Measurement Center (NMC).[1]
Ans: Sansui.
Only Samrat Sengupta gave the right answer.
Ans: Florsheim
### Akbar
### Kheyal
### France
### Balayogi
### Ashwathama
### Shanta
### Al Pacino
### Uranus
### Godhra
### Uruguey
### Monkeys
### Aankhen
### Rajnikant
### Sabbath
### Enron
48.Which Indian states name literally means land of
gems?
### Manipur
### Herz
### Matinee
.......................................................
### Qwikys, the coffee pub outlet and the syrups are
flavours ( for coffee, milk etc. ).
Q1. This cute, cuddly, overweight penguin is the Linux mascot. Name it.
Tux. Most of you have got it right. (T)orvalds(U)ni(x). Larry Erwig painted
the first Tux using GIMP(some program). Thanks for the info.Nupur
All three are Peer-to-Peer (P-to-P)) Networks. But, I have given it to guys
who have answered `File sharing networks'
Q3. These are PCs without a hard drive, but still offer complete access to
application running on Windows and other operating systems. Name these
devices.
Thin Clients. Only Aman got this!Most answered Network Computers and I have
given it to you( NCs and Windows based Terminals are two kinds of thin
clients)
The company had its origins in a garage, and the campaign stands for their
inventive capabilities
Q5. Japanese wireless service provider NTT DoCoMo has one of the largest
number of mobile Internet subsribers. Name the service used to access
Internet?
Q6. The Sydney 2000 Olympics had one of the largest and most complex
information technology networks ever built, running behind the stage. So,
applications from which company were called in to do the works?
Tivoli Systems Inc. But I will give it to guys who answered IBM, which is
the parent company.
Q7. India saw the central government budget being announced, a few days
back. So, for every rupee earned, what constitutes the largest source of
earnings for the government? Also, for every rupee spent, what is the
largest source of expenditure for the government. (Hint: One is related to
the other)
Q8. (A sitter, as you say) This year's Grammy awards had their share of
controversy. One of the award winning albums has been criticized for the
anti-women, and anti gay lyrics. Identify the artist.
Eminem
Q9. From where does the Swedish Pop group `ABBA' derive its name?
From the initials of the founders. A Swedish canned fish company which went
by the same name agreed to lend their name to the group (Coutesy: Sriram
Krishnan)
Red, Yellow and Blue for phases and Black for the
neutral.Many correct entries.
1. UNIQUE IT PARK
( hints : Silken......Indus...... )
Connect ' City of Jerusalem ' and ' City of Karachi '.
( On the wings....................)
3. POWERFUL THREE
What kind of products are ' Spy ', ' Big Boss ' and
' 303 ' ?
4. INNOVATIVE FOUR
5. WISHFULLY FIVE
( comic..............)
### 12.
### EASDAQ
### NOWHERE.
### 1972
### TISCO
### MANIKCHAND
### FUTUREBRAND.
> 8. U've heard of e-commerce, i-commerce and then m-commerce. Now what is
> g-commerce?
> Answer: G-Commerce The online market for human genome research data and
> gene data-mining tools
>
> 9. Which web browser supports xhtml, xml and the editing of documents
> online apart from the normal surfing ? Hint: it is supposed to do be what
> Tim Berners Lee wanted web browsers to do
> Answer: amaya is a browser/editor and hence it also allows to edit the
> html page. tim berners lee originally visualized that web browser should
> have this feature but earlier browsers like mozilla did not become as
> popular as netscapes and ies of the web world. but now the w3c is
> developing amaya ( currently ver. 3.1 available) .....really cool
> software....and ya, its free... check it out at w3c.org/amaya
>
>
> 10. Who is father of "market-driven strategy"?
> Answer: George S Day - Professor of Marketing at Wharton and Author of the
> book by the same name
>
>
1. Politics drives business in most parts of the world although its
influence seems to be waning . So lets see if we know our Politics well.
The third largest party in the Lok Sabha with 33MPs, stands the risk of
losing its national party status when its performance in the '99 general
election comes up for review before the Election Commission. Which political
party are we talking about?
Answer: CPM - Communist party of India( Marxist)
2. " __________ _____- 6,500 feet above the ordinary''. So goes the
millennium promo for what is reckoned to be the first-ever generic brand
blitz of this beverage.
What is the beverage we are talking about.
Hint : The brand is geographically linked and the campaign is pretty
prominent on TV
Answer: Darjeeling Teas
7. What is common between S B Billimoria & Co, CC Chokshi & Co, Fraser &
Ross and PC Hansotia & Co ? We know that all of them are Consulting firms
but there is something more than that which is the binding force between
these 4 firms.
Answer: All these firms will now operate under the name of Deloitte Haskins
and Sells as member firm of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu (DTT) in India. This
heralds the entry of DTT, one of the 'big five' international accounting and
consulting firms into India.
1. The Reserve Bank Governor Bimal Jalan recently announced the credit
policy for 2000 -2001. The credit policy however occurs at 2 times every
year - 1st Half & 2nd Half. Each of these credit policies are referred to
differently. What are the credit policies called and why are they called so?
Answer: Busy Season Credit Policy(October) and the Slack Season Credit
Policy( April ), which are named so because the April - September period is
where most of the GDP growth occurs and the money supply is the highest,
whereas Oct - March period is relatively weak. This GDP growth is fuelled by
the harvest season in October-March and the lots of work being generated in
the economy.
5. What is the Baleno called in U.S.A ( Suzuki does'nt run the same
Japanese/ European Ads in U.S ) ?
Answer: The Esteem
6. There is no word which is more misused today than 'New Economy' . Our
company even managed to make us work on May Day since we operate in the New
Economy. Who however is the person credited with coining the term 'New
Economy '?
Answer: Alan Greenspan
9. What famous brand of cosmetics derives its name from the latin word
meaning snowwhite and was founded by Oskar Troplowitz in 1911 ?
Answer: Nivea
10. Tarla Dalal does not own the Tarla Dalal brand name as far as food
products go. Name the company which owns the Tarla Dalal name in India ?
Answer: International Bestfoods formerly CPC (Corn Products Company
)......... incidentally the company is called Bestfoods in U.S.A and
International Bestfoods in India
1)
Badische Anilin & Soda-Fabrik was founded by Friedrich
Engelhorn in 1865 to produce coal tar dyes and
precursors and within few decades became the leader in
the world dye market.How would we better know this
Chemical giant?
2)
John Jacob ----- set up a tiny optical goods shop in
Rochester, New York in 1853.When he needed money to
keep the business going he borrowed $60 from his
friend Henry ----. He promised to made Henry as a
partner, if the business grew,and the partnership was
formed after the success of business. Identify the
Corporate?
Ans: Bausch and Lomb (John Jacob Bausch & Henry Lomb)
3)
Cool Trivia. Irv ------- opens an ice cream store in
Glendale, California called 'Snowbird'.He teams up
with his brother-in-law and competing store owner Burt
------ to form new store. They introduced various
flavours like 'Baseball Nut', 'Beatles Nut', 'Lunar
Cheesecake' etc,.Identify the speciality ice cream
retail chain.
4)
Logo Trivia. This famous corporate changes it's logo
recently after 36 years since 1963.Though there had
been minor changs 30 times the latest change includes
the elimination of six birds in the crest, called
Marlettes, and the crown or coronet. Name the logo and
the brand.
5)
Name this american car brand advertised as "Dart is
Power". However in Latin American market the ad line
received as "Car Drivers Lacked Sexual Vigour"?
6)
A sitter: How do we better know this corporate.
Societe Anonyme Belge d'Exploitation de la Navigation
Aerienne. (Hint: Belgium Connection)
Ans: SABENA
7)
Charles Lazarus founded "Children's Supermarket" which
sold toys and furniture initially in the late 40s.
In 1966 Interstate Inc acquired it and when Interstate
filed for the bankruptcy in 1974 more stores were
opened as per the court order for reorganisation move.
It is known for it's Toys retailing.Identify the
company.
Ans: Toys R Us
8)
Name the International Financial Services giant who is
popularly referred as the "Thundering Herd"?
9)
Name the personality who is widely recognised as the
"Father of Group Dynamics"?
10)
"Strange Brew" was founded in August 1998 by a hunting
engine called 'Seeker'. What is this strange brew?
#### Infosys.
Muralikrishnan and Sunay answered correctly.
#### DVORAK.
BORg, Muralikrishnan, Subhendu and Sumit are correct.
#### Bean
Akshay is the only person to crack.
Ans: Gadar is the first Indian movie for which all its
18 crore budget spending was by cheque. Actors,
technicians, suppliers and even spotboys, who make a
measely Rs.100/day were paid by cheque.
Ans: Simputer.
1)
The inside margins of two pages that face each other
in a print publication is called as what?
2)
In advertisement parlance what does 'Intaglio' mean?
3)
Expand ROP. It is the print publishers' option to
decide the physical location (where to place the ads)
of advertisements in a print.
4)
What term is used to refer the Senior members of the
Editorial team of a Newspaper?
5)
If anyone use the remote control device to switch over
the channels and avoid advertisements, then what is
he/she doing as per the advertising lingo?
Ans: Zapping
6)
While broadcasting TVC's or any other type of
commericals, what does the trem "Back-to-Back" mean?
7)
A sitter. The first print of an edited commercial is
known as ------ -----?
8)
Recent print ad campaign shows that the car was
co-starred in Steve McQueen film Bullit and
the owner refused to sell the car to Steve for over 15
years. Which car is mentioned here?
9)
Straight one.With which brand would you associated the
1959 advertisement line "Good to the Last Drop"?
10)
Which Indian media company's Outdoor advertising arm
is known as 'Primesite'?
Ans: Mudra
7. Fat Boy and Road King are two of them. Name the
third.
Very few got this right. VVS Laxman was the popular
answer.
1)
Identify this world famous advertisement?
2)
Name this cool personality?
3)
Pioneer in the mutual fund industry and often referred
as the Father of Index Fund Investing. He created the
first S&P 500 Index. Name the personality.
4)
Identify this famous personality related to software
industry.
5)
Identify the man in the middle. A pioneer of
automobile industry. After the bankruptcy in 1936
he tried his luck in bowling alley in 1940. Here he is
at a scoring table with customers.
6)
Rod Canion, Jim Harris and Bill Murto, three senior
managers left Texas Instruments started their own
company by investing $1,000 each in February 1982.
Their first product idea was sketched on a paper place
mate in a pie shop in Houston. Which company we are
talking about?
Ans: Compaq
7)
Name the personality who connects all these corporate
identities? (image having the identities like Bio,
Britannia, Wipro, Niravna, Activa 7000, Fulmen etc)
8)
Identify this women? (a woman's picture with wordings
'business as unusual')
9)
This 32-year old printer walked from his home in
Market Harborough to the nearby town of Leicester
to attend a temperance meeting on 9 June 1841.
Suddenly an idea flashed on his mind and suggested
a proposal to engage a special train for the
temperance supporters and he approached Midland
Railway Company. Name the person who created a
successful worldwide organisation?
10)
Powerful and fortunate woman in the world of business?
1. In the 80's Brooke Bond tried to diversify into a totally new product
> category and failed miserably. What is the product category?
>
> Two wheelers.........scooters.....well i didnt believe it either....only
one
> got close
>
> 2. This comany launched India's first detergent powder in the 50's? Name
the
> company and the name of the brand of detergent powder?
>
> Swastik Oil Mills...........DET
>
> 3. David Ogilvy...a favourite of most quiznet members.....said that two
> words can be there In all product promotions.....which two words?
>
> New & Free
>
> 4. In competition with Nirma, Surf rapidly lost market share from 53% in
> 1976 to 8.4 in 1987. HLL launched two detergents to compete with Nirma
> one of them is the 2nd largest selling detergent in the market
> today.....name the two brands of detergents.
>
> Sunlight & Wheel......Wheel is the second largest selling detergent
>
> 5. What is the DAGMAR model in advertising.....and who is responsible for
> it?
>
> Defining Adverising Goals for Measured Advertising Results
> Given by Russle Colley
>
> 6. Which two people are responsible for the concept of positioning? (a
> sitter)
>
> Al Reis and Jack Trout
>
> 7. Lintas is one of the top ten advertising agencies in the
world.......what
> is the full form of LINTAS?
>
> Levers Internal or International Advertising Agency
>
> 8. Which famous Golfer has been the spokesman for Motorola ( another
sitter)
>
> Lee Trevino
>
> 9. In 1994, the chairman and co-founder of Saactchi of Saactchi &
Saactchi
> was forced to resign due to his extravagent lifestyle but he did not
go
> quitely.......in 1995 he formed his own agency.....and forced hor
brother
> Charles the President of Saactchi & Saactchi and three other
excecutives
> to join him also taking a lot of accounts from the agency......what
did
> he name the agency and what was it later changed to?
> (Well I guess this answers the most answered question in my earlier
quiz)
>
> The New saactchi Agency later changed to M&C Saactchi Agency
>
> 10. Chait/Day a small asvertising agency has been responsible for a ad
> campaigns like Nissan Altima, Energiser Bunny and the famous Apple
> Macintosh 1984........name the creative genius behind these ad
campigns.
>
> Lee Clow.........not Ridley Scott
1)
Start with Monsanto who is in controvercy with its GM
foods technology. John F Queeny started Monsanto with
his savings and some amount borrowed from a soft drink
supplier to produce and supply products for food
and pharma companies. He was in pharmceuticals
industry for more than 30 years. Now come to the
quest.
From where he got the name Monsanto to his company?
2)
Name the world's first and only CMMI Level 5 certified
company. CMMI stands for Capability Maturity Model
Integrated. (Hint: Indian connection)
3)
A straight one. What is "Steganography"?
4)
The largest luxury goods maker IKEA was founded by
Ingvar Kamprad in 1943. The two letters in the name,
I and K are the founder's initials. But what does E
and A mean?
5)
Companies started in a garage rules the world of
business, at least most of them. (that's not the only
qualification)Which indian company started in a garage
on Foras road, Bombay in 1942 and the founders pick
the name for the company randomly from a telephone
directory.
6)
Name the Christie's first woman auctioneer of Indian
origin and also the first to auction contemporary
Indian art?
7)
Berry Collin, a senior research fellow at the
Institute for Security and Intelligence at Stanford
Univerrsity,California, coined a term which is widley
talked all over the world nowadays. What is it?
8)
A sitter. Which Michigan Business School professor has
a full-time administrative role in a San Diego
based company called 'Praja' he co-founded, though his
core competency is not software?
9)
Toyota was founded by Sakichi Toyoda and was initially
in textiles industry. His son Kiichiro Toyoda founded
the Toyota car company. The compny once known as 'a
company made up of a bunch of farmers' because it
employs lot of farmers for its assembly line
operations. And in Japanese Toyoda means 'abundant
rice filed',but what does 'Toyota' stand for?
10)
This personality is banned from using a computer till
January 2003 and playing a role of a CIA computer
expert in a spy thriller 'Ailas' from ABC. Who we are
talking about?
Ans : Subhiksha
Arun, Surjith and Gokul were right. Viveks was the
other common answer.
3.0 Operation in 40 countries, 4500 outlets, serving
10 million people every week, over 650 different
recipe. Which company?
said where?
Ans : Flurys
Saurabh Sharma was the only one to crack.
Ans : Nike
Many correct answers.
Ans : Metro AG
Arun is right.
Ans : Pepsodent
Damu, Surjith and Quizguy are right.
1)
Which country is referred as the 'International Call
Center Capital' and world's second largest producer of
software?
2)
Once this company estimates that if all the _______
ever consumed by human race by 1994 was poured
over Niagara Falls, the falls would flow at their
normal rate for 38 hours and 2 minutes. What was it?
3)
Name the oldest public sector bank in India which was
formed by a group of Europeans in 24 April 1865 and
was later taken over by P&O Banking Corp. in 1920?
4)
In 1915 this corporate manufactured and sold pencils
under the brand name "Ever Sharp" and retained that
brand name for it's consumer electronic products
introduced later on. Name it?
A>> Sharp
5)
MAVERICK, stands for
Mentor-Analyst-Visionary-Entrepreuner-Resource
Control, is a brand management
tool used by which Indian company to manage it's brand
portfolio?
6)
Under which brand name the UK based United Biscuits
group launched its products Hobnob, Digestive
Biscuits, Ginger Chips and BN Cream Sandwich in Indian
market?
A>> McVitie's
7)
"If a little girl was going to do role-playing of what
she would be like at 16 or 17, it was a little stupid
to play with a doll that had a flat chest. So i gave
her beautiful breasts." Who said the above while
explaining the most successful product/brand?
8)
We all know 'Tanishq' from Titan. What does the brand
name 'tanishq' mean?(how that name is created)
9)
SPICE is the European standard for Software quality
certification from TUV Rheinland and equivalent to SEI
CMM. Expand SPICE.
10)
Identify the company founded by Uttambhai Mehta and
was known as Trinity Laboratories till 1971?
9. The first thing that strikes when you read the best
selling and very subversive to current management
trends, book Stewardship is the absolute lack of
Management Jargon. And no charts too. Just plain,
simple language. Which Management guru is the author
of this book Stewardship ?
Ans : Mustafas
Ans : Dilbert
Ans : S
Ans : Hallmark
Ans : Funscool
Ans : Jobber
Ans : Mamootty
Ans : Perfetti
Ans : BPL
Ans : Budweisser
Ans : Amazon.com
Ans : Sahara
Ans : Hope
Ans : Paintings
B : FINAL
Ans : Apple
Video round :
13. One film clip was shown with a KBC quiz style
scene. Which Film ?
Ans : Nayagan
19. On Narayanamurthy :
21. On Lego ;
FUQ round :
Ans : KS
31. P Chidambaram
32. Steve Jobs
33. Sam Pitroda
34. S P Godrej
35. George Lucas
36. Bimal Jalan
Ans : NIKKEI
Ans : News
Ans : Laddoo
Ans : Kickback
......................................................
( Clue : Aditya..)
C. THREE FLAVOURS
D. OHHHHHFOUR !
E. TOP FIVE
( Clue : At No.3)
Ans: FEMINA
Ans: Proton
1)
In stock market, if you buy as many shares as possible
over a short period of time before bidding,
then it is known as ---- ---- (4+4)
2)
After its success throughout the world now it is time
to manufacture branded products based on this
character.While Warner Brothers holds the
manufacturing rights, a New delhi based company called
GoldStrand made ----- ------ (5+6) Garments for the
sale in europe and Turkish apparel company Sahiner
Holdings provides the design and colors. Name the
brand of garments.
3)
While working as a clark in British Trading Company in
Yemen, --------- ------ (9+6) collected Rials and then
4)
In 1993, April 2, tobacco major Philip Morris
announced that it was cutting the price of a packet of
Cigarettes by as much as 20%. Suddenly the stock
market plunged and the day was called as--------
------ (8+6) (like black tuesday, black monday etc...)
5)
At Thirupati Temple people put many things in the
'hundi'(coins, currency, jewels, golden handcuffs to
name few).And temple authorities found a Golden Camera
from the 'hundi' and now that camera is used by the
official photographer of the venkateswara temple. What
brand it is? (5)
6)
If Etc is the in-store brand of Ebony Retail holdings
and Kshish, Stop, Life and Karrot are for Shopper's
Stop, then what is the in house brand launched by
Globus, a Raheja group company? (3)
7)
Gopi Kukde is credited for creating which brand icon
in the Indian consumer electronics market? (5+5)
8)
After trying it in the ZIP phones it is now time for
running advertisements on ATM Screens. Indian finance
major ICICI trying this and which is the first brand
being advertised on its own ATMs? (7+11)
9)
John Williamson of Wolff Olins suggested this name to
a telecom company and it recieved a huge success.
Before that the company decided to go for the name
"Microtel". Name that 'name'? (6)
A>> Orange
10)
'Fortune' referred him as Ur-Guru and 'The Economist'
as Uber Guru. Identify this Guru of gurus. (3+6)
> 1. What was the first product of the Godrej Plant in Vikhroli, Mumbai in
> 1952 ? (Hint: It is one of the sources of so much violence in this country
> !)
> Answer: Ballot Boxes.....c'mon guys, I gave u the hint ! ( Many people
> wrote Locks and Safes.)
>
> 2. What was the 'first/innovation' about the packaging of the Wrigley's
> chewing gum sold at Troy, Ohio on 26th June, 1974 at 8:01 am ? (Hint: It
> is a very commonplace thing today. )
> Answer: Bar Codes....as opposed to aluminium foil packaging ! (Only M
> Sunay and S V Sriram had a crack at this Q.)
>
> 3. The largest chunk of Pepsico's revenues (44%) in the US do not come
> from the sale of Pepsi Cola. Where do they come from then ? (Hint: Quite a
> few of you guys would have contributed in this reveneue of Pepsico !)
> Answer: Pizza Hut, Taco Bell, Frito Lays...the food and restaurant
> business
>
>
> 4. Which company offered pop star Bruce Springsteen US$ 123 million for
> use of his song Born in the USA for their advertising in the mid-1980's ?
> (By the way, Springsteen rejeted the offer !)
> Answer: Chrysler Corporation...now, DaimlerChrysler (Narahari Nayak and
> Kaushik Sundaram were the only guys who cracked this Q. Vibhendu wrote
> 'Chevrolet', which was pretty close, although wrong, and I gave him 0.5
> mark for that.)
>
>
> 5. MTV uses the catchline Enjoy ! for its promotions in India. What two
> word phrase is used by them in the East Asian region ?
> Answer: MTV - I Like ! (Only M Sunay and M Madhu knew this one. Keep it
> up !).
>
>
> 6. It is widely claimed as one of the hottest techniques for Supply Chain
> Management. It is called RFID. What exactly is RFID ?
> Answer: Radio Frequencey Identification Device
>
> 7. Simple one (sitter) this one. There is a major controversy going on
> regardign Napster in the newspapers and the magazines ? What is Napster ?
> Answer: Napster is a freely downloadable software that you can use to
> share your MP3 files with anyone on the Net. Developed by Shawn
> Fawning, A freshman at Northeastern Univ., Napster has generated a lot of
> controversy 'coz it allows users to access any MP3 file and download it
> without the recording company or the artiste getting any royalty.
> Recently, Mettalica generated a lot of flame on the Net 'coz of their
> vociferous campaign against Napster's illegal distribution of their music.
> (The answer is courtsey Shibani from Graycell. Thanx Shibani. Piyush
> Raithatha & Ravi Yadavilli also replied in detail.)
>
>
> 8. Charles Schultz, in his popular comic strip, Peanuts, coined two famous
> phrases. One of them is 'Good Grief'. Which is the other one ? (Hint: It
> is a current business jargon).
> Answer: Security Blanket
>
>
> 9. Which bank has coined the phrase " Doorstep Banking " in its aggressive
> promotion of its banking services in India recently ?
> Answer: ABN-Amro Bank (Faridur R Choudhury, Deepak Parmeshwaran,
> Vibhendu, Kaushik Sundaran, Ravish Singh......only these guys could crack
> this one.)
>
> 10. What word was coined in 1826 by the then future British Prime
> Minister, Benjamin Disraeli to describe the new industrialists and the
> fortunes they were piling up due to the growth of textile mills in England
> ?
> Answer: Millonaire (Only Narahari Nayak and Sriram Srinivasan could crack
> this one. Amit Pandey went a step further and came up with
> 'Billionaire'....I have given him 1 mark for thinking big !)
>
1. CAMPAIGN NO.1
2. tITan NO. 2
3. THREE FLAVOURS
( Hints : abCDef..)
4. PUB HUB
#### GEOFFREYS
Again decent hits. Salil Ambat adds that Marine Plaza
Group runs it.
5. FIVE HIVE
3 What is the most famous item stored in the vaults of Trust Bank Company,
Atlanta?
7 This Theory envisages that persons buy already highly valued shares in
anticipation that somebody would
9 What is the Sanskrit word which means "River of Knowledge". It was used to
name a major project undertaken by Govt. of India. (It is a different issue
that it is yet to take off)
10 New insurance companies all over the world who handle all types of policies
have lately started "K n R" policies. What does "K n R" stands for?
Our friend Gunaseelan Radhakrishnan adds : The Latin form of the motto of the
LSE is 'Dictum Meum Pactum'. In English it translates to "MY WORD IS MY BOND"
thanks a ton pal.
3 The original Coca Cola Formula (Anish Raju adds that it contains the list of
13 ingredients of Coke.) Thanx pal
4 Cooler at every outlet (I got some answers like Coke in Every Office)
5 Paris; It was set by Pierre & Ernst Michaux in 1891 at 29, Avenue Montaigne,
Paris
6 Carr Tagore and Co. (4 partners, W. Carr, Dwarkanath Tagore, D. M. Gordon and
W.Pricep.
7 The Greater Fooler Theory (Thought not many but most got it correct)
8 They all campaigned for Y2K awareness. (Most wrote it as VDIS campaign) Good
attempt !!.However Bharat Ranganathan got it correct. Congrats.
The hilarious answer I got in this question was that they have the same father.
I broke into splits.
9 Sankhya Vahini (Most of u got this one correct. There were also some answers
like Enron and Narmada Setu)
10 Kidnap and Ransom. (For this one I got some answers like Knowledge and Kill
for K and Run and Risk for R)
Ans: Bill Gates himself. Quite a few did not get this
googly.
Ans: Mango
------1)
Which Chinese city is referred as the 'Economic
Capital'
of China?
------2)
Which Chinese company's corporate culture is
known as 'Colourful Life; Excellent Products', and
its name in mandarin means 'good wishes'?
Ans: <<Konka>>
------3)
In Chinese industry what are Cofco, Cosco, Sinochem
and Sionpec. (just identify what type of companies)
------4)
Name the 'King of Chinese Motorcycle' ?
Ans: <<Jialing>>
------5)
Identify the company which spreads its wings from
textiles, finance, trading, insurance, engineering,
automobile, hospitality, shipping, to name few,
founded by Scots William and James in 1832 in
Canton. In 1836 it promoted the founding of Hong kong.
It introduced many firsts including first railroad,
sugar mill, ice-making factory, spinning and weaving
mill etc. Name the company.
------6)
Which Indian company has a JV with Chinese Ministry of
Science and Technology and has translated the
curriculam in Mandarin and also having a tie up with
British Council to educate English to Chinese
students?
------7)
'Superman Li' is the first Chinese to buy a
British Trading Co in 1979. He's a school
dropout and at the age 15 he sold plastic
watches and belts. At 22 he opened a small
factory with his savings and started
manufacturing plastic flowers. Identify him?
------8)
Which is the oldest operating bank in China
established in 1912, and listed in the Fortune
500 list for 11 consecutive years?
------9)
Which is the largest IT Corporation in China and
the largest manufaturer of personal computers
in Asia-Paciic region?
------10)
A pretty sitter. In China what is "Renminbi"?
-----------------------------------------------------
3.I'd like to buy the world a home and furnish it with love,
Grow apple trees and honey bees, and snow white turtle doves.
I'd like to teach the world to sing in perfect harmony,
I'd like to buy the world a ---- and keep it company.
( ama???.)
2. COLOURFUL TWO
3. LOOK-UP THREE
4. PASSIONATELY FOUR
5. FIVE LIVE
( Computer.)
### NIIT
Many of you are correct. HLL does not qualify as pure
Indian company.
Ans: Modiluft
> 1. Which brand has its origins way back in 1865, when a Finnish mining
> engineer named Frederick Idestam established a wood-pulp mill in Southern
> Finland, till major diversifications in the latter part of the 20th
> century made it a leader in its current field ?
>
> Ans: Nokia
>
> 2. Which well known South India based retail chain is planning the
> launch of men's garments under the brand-name 'Asegai' ?
>
> Ans: Nalli's (The Nalli Chinnasami Chetty Group - Dealt with Kanchi Silk
> Sarees so far.)
>
>
>
> 3. The frequent flyer programme of Indian Airlines is called 'Flying
> Returns'. What is the frequent flyer programme of Jet Airways called ?
>
> Ans: JET PRIVILEGE
>
>
> 4. In which recent print ad would you encounter photographs of Bill
> Clinton, Michael Jordan, Steffi Graph, Nelson Mandela, Steve Jobs, Amartya
> Sen, Jack Welch among other with the bold copy reading ' There are people
> you can reach even more important and inaccessible than these. Your
> Customers ' ?
>
> Ans: Oracle's e-Business advertisements
>
>
> 5. This famous magazine was started in 1953. Surprisingly the first issue
> did not have a date, since the founder was not sure if there will be a
> second issue and when it'll be published. Name this magazine.
>
> Ans: Playboy
>
> 6. Following the huge success of Hotmail and its eventual sellout to
> Microsoft, what is the name of the new venture planned by Sabeer Bhatia ?
>
> Ans: Arzoo! inc.
>
> 7. What indispensable aid to modern managers was first used by Roy
> Tomlinson of Bolt, Beranek & Newman - a Cambridge, Massachusetts based
> firm of consulting engineers, in the 1950's ?
>
> Ans: Email (Bolt, Beranek & Newman (now part of GTE) was involved in the
> development of the ARPANET - the precursor to the internet - and in fact
> takes credit for creating the @ for use in all email addresses. They the
> first email using SNDMSG.)
>
>
> 8. Shekhar Kapoor's 'Bandit Queen' used an innovative marketing strategy
> for the first time in India to woo a certain section of the audience.
> Later the same strategy was followed during the screening of 'Kamasutra' ?
>
> Ans: Seperate shows for women
>
> 9. 'What Productivity Means Today.' is a powerful baseline under which
> a new product has been launched recently by Microsoft. Name the product?
>
> Ans: Microsoft Office 2000
>
> 10. Which brand of vehicle recently advertised their introduction of
> battery operated three-wheelers in Delhi with the bold copy reading,
> 'Presenting the Only vehicle in Delhi that Doesn't Smoke' ?
>
> Ans: Mahindra Bijlee (Scooter's India VIDHYUT was also launched at the
> same time but it got into commercial production before Mahindra Bijlee.)
>
>
1) She is known as the Queen of Madison Avenue. She is also considered the most
powerful woman in advertising. She was previously the chairman of J.Walter
Thompson ad agency. She is now in the news because she has been asked by the
Bush administration to rebrand America following the Sept 11 attacks? Name her
# Charlotte Beers. She's all over the print media. Like they say in our lingo,
cracked l,r,c.
# Taxation.
# Patricia Seybold herself, regd under her co name Patricia Seybold Group
# Wilful defaulter.
# Raashid Alvi
6) Taj Mahal is to Tatas, as Humayuns tomb is to Oberoi Group and Aga Khan
foundation, as Sun temple (Konark) and Qutub Minar are to ?
8) Rayalseema Alkalies and Allied Chemicals, Kurnool, AP offers NSA and NDA
allowances to its employees, possibly the first of its kind anywhere. What are
NSA and NDA allowances?
# Non Smoking Allowance and Non Drinking Allowance. The co pays its 1200
employees Rs 415/- (215 for NSA and 200 for NDA) The co pays the wife of the
employee to avoid misuse. It shells out Rs 5.1 lakh it this endeavour
9) This magazine uses a the line 'Mars, a view from Venus'. Identify (Hint-
Times Publication
# GMAT prep site. Now it has GRE preps also. the GMAT is marked out of a max of
800.
# Vijay Mallya. Weird! i've never heard anyone, except himself, call him Al
Capone.
12) Connect bank, direct, markets, communitites, winfra and amc. (Hint - www)
C. LOVELY THREE
### NETHERLANDS
Nilanshuk, Ryan and Subir were correct. Italy was
answered by most.
D. COLOURFUL FOUR
E. POWERFUL FIVE
( clue : CBSE.......??..........)
Ans: Dominos
1. FASTEST NO.1
2. CELEBRITY JODI
3. THREE ON ROLL
4. FOUR FROM NY
She owns the brands flore, aqua flore, CH 212 & 212
Men. Identify her.
5. POWERFUL FIVE
2. Expand YAHOO.
Ans: Jadoo
Ans: Pulsar
B. Round 2 : FUQS
- Palace on Wheels
- Film-Khoobsurat, Brand-Hajmola
D. Round 4: FUQS
- Bacardi Rum
- M S Oberoi
- Television
4. For some time there were four MNCs who had the
courage to enter Indian Biscuit industry in the last
15 years. The two biggest of them however withdrew.
Can you name them ?
( This question was asked by the guest quizmaster
Sunil Alagh, C&CEO of Britannia )
- Chrysler
- Yamha Crux R.
- Deepak Khaitan
F. Round 6 : FUQS
- Red Carpet
- McDonalds Hamburger
- Akio Morita
- Jeff Bezos
- Ketan Parekh
- Lee Lacocca
- George Harrison
- Napoleon
- Golkonda
- India
- Kenyan Airlines
- Bill Gates
- Pacific Ocean
- Eureka
- Javagal Srinath
- Kawasaki
Brand 1:
This brand is the leader in its category and have a
simple moto 'hearing is believing'. The five stripes
in its name denotes the five areas of excellence as
Engineering, Manufacturing, Marketing, Service,
Partners. Which one?
Freebie 1:
Which brand was nicknamed as 'Peep' ,
'Blitzbuggy','Panzer Killer' and 'Beetlebug'?
Brand 2:
The Cheek & Neal Coffee and Manufacturing Company was
set up in 1901 by Joel Cheek and introduced the first
Coffee percolators in 1966. A Successful brand was
named after the Nashville hotel where the cofee blend
was first tested and served. Now the brand is owned by
Kraft Foods. Name it?
Freebie 2:
How do we better know the 'Rowntree's Chocolate Crisp'
today? It changed to its present name after the famous
London gambling club of eighteenth century.(you can
found it in Red & White wrappers, the colors of
St.George)
Brand 3:
Identify the most famous media brand created by two
yale students Henry R. Luce and Briton Hadden and
first one was launched on 3 march 1923?
Freebie 3:
What was published in February 1922 in Greenwich
Village, New York, by Dewitt Wallace and his wife Lila
Acheson Wallace and their first issue was subtitled as
"The Little Magazine"?
Brand 4:
'Beauty should be a combination of nature and science'
are the words form the founder of a famous cosmetics
brand. The brand name is a combination of the name of
the founder's daughter and the title of a favorite
Tennyson's poem. The personality is Florence
Nightingdale Graham. Name the brand?
Freebie 4:
Which brand is owned by Beiersdorf AG and got its name
from the Latin word means 'snow-white'?
Brand 5:
With which brand would you associated the famous
advertising line 'A cherry tip for your red ruby
lips'?
Freebie 5:
Name the brand which has variants named Orbit
Sugar-Free, spearmint, Doublemint and Juicy Fruit?
Brand 6:
If you buy a 'Waterman' brand what kind of product it
would be?
Freebie 6:
Which brand has a royal warrant as the sole supplier
of Pens and inks to the British royal household?
Brand 7:
Identify the famous brand created by C.L Grigg
launched just two weeks before the 1929 stock market
crash under the brandname 'Bib-Libal Lithiated
Lemon-Lime Soda'?
Freebie 7:
If Johnnie Walker is to 'Whisky' then Gordon's is to
what?
Brand 8:
Which brand hails from Pondicherry, India and founded
by Dilip Kapur,a doctorate form Princeton University.
It has international presence in South Africa, Europe,
Middle East, Asean region and USA.?
Freebie 8:
What does 'B' stand for as in Oral-B?
Brand 9:
The company was founded by founded by Masujiro
Hashimoto in 1911 and it's earliest car was a 'Dat',
named after the first letters of Den, Aoyama and
Takeuchi, the three investors. In 1931 it changed to
Datson and then to Datsun. After a merger in 1934
datsun and another brand were used till 84, the year
which datsun name phased out. What is the present
name?
Freebie 9:
Which brand was established by Frank A. Seiberling in
1898 and adopted its name from a person who invented
the process of vulcanisation of rubber?
Brand 10:
which famous electronics major began its life as a
light-bulb manufaturer and is headquartered in
Eindhoven?
Freebie 10:
Which company owns the mju: brand of cameras?
------------------------------------------------------
::Answers::
Brand 1: Alpine
Freebie 1: Jeep
Brand 3: Time
Freebie 3: Readers Digest
Brand 5: Marlboro
Freebie 5: Wrigley's
Brand 7: 7-UP
Freebie 7: Gin
Brand 8: Hidesign
Freebie 8: Brush
Brand 9: Nissan
Freebie 9: Goodyear
Ans: ENIAC.
Manivannan adds:
Item 1:
Which brand is available in these colors:
Gold Dust, Sparkling Blue, Jet Black, Royal Blue,
Emerald green, Pearl Grey and Midnight Black?
Item 2:
Name this Indian personality who sold Bibles door to
door in the city of West Lafayette, Indiana, in his
student life to meet the real American consumer?
Item 3:
Who owns the Internet TV channel NUM TV, New
Millennium
Television?
Item 4:
Which corporate regularly teach its employees afew
korean words through its newsletter magazine
'Vanakkam'?
Item 5:
Javed Aktar, India's one of the famous lyricist and
his wife Shabana Azmi were among those who helped to
design which Indian Corporate's Logo? (Flying Colors)
Item 6:
There are lots of techies from Wipro started their own
ventures.But this one is something different. He was
one of the short-listed candidates to head Wipro's
hardware business in 1979 and he never got the job.
But later he became the king of Indian Software
industry. Identify him.
Item 7:
Which group owns the Margadarsi Chit Fund?
Item 8:
Name the Time Magazine's 2001 "Person of The Year"?
Item 9:
What was founded by four brothers Dayanand, Satyanand,
Om Prakash,and Birjmohan as a supplier of bicycle
components?
Item 10:
With which corporate would you associate the person
'Carlos Ghosn'and recently named as the "Japan's
Father of the Year" and topped
in Time's 25 Most Influential, born in Brazil educated
in France and truly a global CEO?
----------------------------------------------------
Answers::
### TIC-TAC-TOE
Most of you are correct. One answer was chinese
chequer.
### AIRTEL
Only four are correct.MTNL, Dolphin is popular choice.
### THOMSON
Anindya, Sabysachi Chandra and Saurabh Sharma are
correct.
### WIPRO
I should have mentioned to restrict among Indian
companies. Only five correct answers. Zee Telefilms
was most guessed.Two of you mentioned CISCO. I don't
know.
### INFOSYS
Five correct answers. ICICI was most guessed.
### ASSUREINDIA.COM
Only Anindya could crack it. Great! LIC was well
guessed.
### NEWSTRACK
Again only Anindya was right. All others chose 'World
this week'. Good guess , but not correct.
### ALTAVISTA
Can you believe it? Google is most visited, but
Altavista has more pages.
### DIGI Q.
A tough one. Nobody could answer. What kind of
toy...well....it's a toycar plus...
### WIDOWS CE
I thought most of you will be able to answer. Only
four right answers.May be the question was not
properly framed.
### X2
Only Anindya could answer.Great show again!
### PING
Many of you answered correctly.
Q 1:
Sipmle one. Who owns the mosquito repellent brand
'Maxo'the dishwahsing bar 'Exo', and the washing soap
'vanamala'?
Q 2:
Connect Richard Hadlee, Sachin Tendulkar and Steve
Waugh with a three letter brand?
Q 3:
Why American company called "Dynegy" was in news
recently?
Q 4:
Who provide the 4 pages section of business news for
'The Statesman'?
Q 5:
Which switch brand is claimed that the royal families
and
celebrities across the world prefer them, and
especially
the one is Sultanate of Brunei?
Q 6:
Which petro major launched Q'n'Q outlets to serve it's
customers towards the best Quality and Quantity of the
fuel served?
Q 7:
Name the second Indian company won the prestigious
Deming Prize?
Q 8:
Al Ries and Jack Trout gave us 22 Immutable Laws of
Marketing.And Ries along with his daughter Laura Ries
suggested 22 Immutable laws of Branding. But how many
laws this father and daughter duo stated for 'The
Immutable laws of Internet Branding?
Q 9:
In which industry you come across the terms CKD,SKD
and CBU and what they mean?
Q 10:
I started with Boots Plc and moved on to the hands of
Knoll Pharmaceuticals, but after a small stint there I
went to Reckitt Piramal, and at last I landed in the
corridor of Dr.Morpen. Who am I?
-----------------------------------------------------
Answers::
Q1 : Jyothi Laboratories
Q2 : MRF
Q3 : Tried to acquire energy major 'Enron',later
withdrawn.
Q4 : Business Standard
Q5 : Anchor Ave, an Indo Italian JV
Q6 : Indian Oil Corporation
Q7 : Sundaram Brake Linings(SBL)
Q8 : 11
Q9 : Automobile and manufacturing
CKD- Completely Knocked Down,
SKD-Semi Knocked Down
CBU-Completely Built Unit(generally used in
manufacturing or importing of any products and
goods)
Q10: Burnol
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Tejas Bakre
Luis Figo
4. Who is the Man of the tournament of Junior World Cup Hockey which India won
in Australia?
Deepak Thakur
5. Who became the youngest ever year-end number one in Mens Tennis ATP
rankings?
Llyewton Hewitt
Vladimir Kramnik
7. Who are the three angels in the Hindi version of Charlie's Angels being made
by Pankaj Parashar?
Ashoka
Descartes
10. Woods are Lonely dark and deep, but I have promises to keep and miles to
go before I sleep and miles to go before I sleep , I want the poem
from which these famous lines have been taken.
11. Who coined the phrase Cyberspace ? Also name the reference
12. What is the official name of the exact spot where The Pathfinder touched
down on Mars?
13. How is Hector Hugh Monroe known in the world of English Poetry?
Saki
14. Two households, both alike in dignity, In fair Verona, where we lay our
scene.. which world famous work of litrature starts with these lines
15. The story of the life of Howard Roark, an Architect, became one of the most
successful works of modern fiction. Which book are we speaking about?
16. Tuluva dynasty of Vijayanagar kingdom, was founded by Krishna Deva Raya
(1509 AD - 1530 AD). Under him the empire emerged as the strongest
military power in the south. The question is, which was the book - Mahakavya
written by this great emperor, which became a benchmark in telugu
litrature for its Prabandha style of writing.
Amuktamalyada
Lambada
19. Moon Moon Sen the famous multi-lingual actress created quite a furore when
she expressed that she wants to get a nude portrait of herself ainted.
Who is the painter who is offered this once in a lifetime opportunity?
Waseem Kapoor
20. We have heard about Hardware, Software, Shareware, Freeware, Firmware and
Shovelware. What is Bloatware?
21. The Indian Air Force has a fleet of ATJ Surya Kirans made by HAL
Bangalore.What does ATJ stand for?
McMohan
23. Arthos, Porthos, Aramis and DeArtagnan are the main characters of which
famous classic written in 1844?
Three Musketeers
24. With who or what do you associate Henry Scarpelli and Craig Boldman?
Archies Comics
25. T-series was founded by the late Gulshan Kumar in India to manufacture and
market audiotapes. What did the 'T' in the title stand for ?
Trishul
26. While at Oxford, he was the singer and bassist for a band called 'Ugly
Rumours'. Name this famous person
Tony Blair
Baywatch
28. Its better to burn out than to fade away were the lines written in the
suicide note of which singer associated with a band that enjoyed cult
status in the yesteryears
Stanley Kubrick
30. Success is the sole earthly judge of right and wrong. Who said this?.
Adolf Hitler
> > 1) In 1950s a guy called Harry Pickup invented something which
>later
> > on has become the market leader in its product category. The name
>of
> > this brand is hidden in Harry pickup's name. tell me the brand name
> > Ans: HARPIC (most of us got it )
> > 2) Action shoes a famous Indian brand name we all know about it but
> > do u know who is the manufacturer of these shoes?
> > Ans: Apmi Polymers ( no one got it)
> > 3)While standing in a Bank waiting for his turn this guy thought of
> > something revolutionary which is now very popullar. Tell me the
>name
> > of this guy and what idea struck him?
> > Ans: DON NETZEN and ATM
> > 4)This Japanese brand means WE in the local language and aims at
> > perfection and precision in its ad? ( I hope many of u will get it )
> > ANS: HITACHI
> > 5) The son of Italian immigrants, this man rose through the ranks
> > (first in Engineering and then in Marketing) of Ford Motor Company,
> > becoming its president. He was fired several years later in an ego
> > clash with Henry Ford II, after which he joined the ailing Chrysler
> > Motor Company and turned it around. A few years ago, he had to step
> > down from the board of Chrysler as well. Name this charismatic
> > Detroit legend. ( LONG BUT A EASY ONE)
> > Ans: LEE Iacooca
> > 6) One related to jargons who gave the concept of SIPs explain the
> > term and the person who gave it
> > ANS: ANDY GROOVE and Strategic Inflection Points
> > 7)You must have heard of Killer Loop brand of sunglasses why it is
> > called killer loop?
> > Ans: Because of its shape which Resmbles killer loop
> > 8)Mont Blanc is coming up with new series of pens called 4156
>series
> > what does 4156 stands for?
> > HEgiht of Mont Blanc
> > 9)The name was originally used by the Chiswick Soap Company,
>London,
> > for a perfumed toilet soap packed in a tin. After a period of non-
>use
> > the name was revived for similarly packed another product
> > manufactured by the same firm, with the name being registered in
> > 1903. The firm was later acquired by Reckitt & Coleman. Name the
> > product and the brand name.
> > Ans; Cherry Blossom
> > 10)Which is the first brand to be advertised on U.S television?
> > Ans; Ivory Soap
2. What is the theory according to which some investors will buy stock even
if it is over-valued, on the conviction that there will be someone else who
will buy the stock from them at higher prices ?
3. This is a question that had some of the best quizzers in Madras rueing
the fact that they bid for the question in a bidding round of a the 'CVALS'
Quiz conducted by Team Jigyasa some time back.
Here is the background.......Ray Kroc mortgaged his home and invested his
entire life savings to become the exclusive distributor of a five-spindled
milk shake maker. Hearing about the McDonald's hamburger stand in California
running eight of these mixers at a time, he packed up his car and headed
West. It was 1954. He was 52 years old. Ray Kroc had never seen so many
people served so quickly when he pulled up to take a look. Seizing the day,
he pitched the idea of opening up several restaurants to the brothers Dick
and Mac McDonald, convinced that he could sell eight of his mixers to each
and every one. "Who could we get to open them for us?" Dick McDonald said.
"Well," Kroc answered, "what about me?"
Now the real question ........ What brand name did Ray Kroc use to sell his
five-spindled milk shake maker ?
4. The first product made by this company was a car record player. They gave
themselves a name similar to the name of the market leader in record players
in those days. Name the company? (Hint : The company which was the market
leader no longer exists whereas the company in question is a household name
worldwide.)
Ans: The market leader in record players was Victrola. The new guys were
focussing on car record players specifically, and so called themselves
Motorola
5. "Novell dons Denim !" A few months back Novell Inc. rolled out a
blueprint for its next-generation, directory - based applications called
DENIM which is to be the Architecture for network services that leverage
Novell Directory Services ( NDS ) but runs on multiple platforms. What does
the acronym DENIM stand for ?
Ans: Bo Dereks are bonds that will mature in 2010 ( since these were issued
when the movie "10" starring Bo Derek was doing the rounds in the theatres),
and James Bonds are those that will mature in 2007.
7. Some guys broke off from Madura Coats and came together as Indus League
(the apparel company). Similarly, a group of executives recently quit Titan
Watches (Tanishq Division). What is the name of their startup ? (Hint: This
startup is opening up a chain of stores on and off the Web in the area of
jewellery and women's accessories.)
Ans: Oyzterbay
8. Which air conditioner company advertised a few months back with the bold
copy,'We gave the world the bullet train. The least we can give you is a
superior air-conditioner' ?
Ans: Hitachi
Ans: Infosys
10. OK guys, a sitter.....In the 1800's, a gold miner named Alkali Ike had
the habit of stuffing the Levi's pants pockets with ore samples, so much so
that the pockets would frequently rip open. Ike was constantly taking his
Levi's to his tailor, Jake Davis, to have then resewn. What invention did
Jake Davis eventually come up with to solve the problem ?
Ans: After several resewings, Davis took Ike's torn pants to the local
blacksmith and had him put rivets at the pocket corners. It worked, Davis
later took his idea to Levi Strauss and they decided to become partners in a
patent for Levi's pant with riveted pockets
> 1) This one is an absolute sitter for cricket fans.... Name the cricket
> ground on which the maximum number of one-day international matches have
> been hosted?
##### Sharjah Cricket Ground.
most guys got this correct, this venue has hosted more than 100 one day
matches
>
> 2) One more about cricket( I am still a fan of cricket despite the fixing
> charges)..... The pitch-roller at Eden Gardens in Calcutta has a
> particular name. Name it?( Hint: An Indian Name)
###Gungadin
few people got this, mostly bemgalis i nopticed
>
> 3) Could not keep comics out....This person was appalled to see the
> influence of foreign cartoon characters in India. To counter this, he
> started his own comic strip, which initially was not quite popular, but he
> gained more popularity with his series on Chacha Choudhary and Sabu. Name
> this person and also the first comic character. (Please give only his
> pen-name)
#### Pran, Shrimatiji
the first part most of u got, but only one got the second part
>
> 4) Complete the series..... Fire, Earth, Sky, Snakes,___________.
> After u get the 5th one, u can easily get the connection of all the five.
####Trident
Well, these are the names of our indigenious missiles developed byDRDO.
Fire-Agni, Earth-Prithvi, Sky-Akash, Snakes-Nag, Trident-Trishul.
only 3 got this correct
the most common answer was water, connection beibng deepa mehta
>
> 5) Some test about Geography.... The city of Timbaktu is located in the
> continent of Africa. Name the country in which it is located?
#####Mali
>
> 6) A trivia on the presenter of KBC..... Amitabh Bachchan lives in a
> spacious bungalow in Mumbai. Name the bungalow.
#### Prateeksha
somebody has pointed out that his bungalow has been sold to recover dues
from ABCL, but now i think after the success of KBC he might get it back
>
> 7) What exactly is the Lyons Range? (KRECians will surely crack this)
### Calcutta StOck Exchange
>
> 8) A test on Hindu mythology.... This person is said to be the reporter of
> Lord Yama and he keeps all the records of a person's soul in a great
> register. (Hint: These two characters were present in the movie
> Taqdeerwala or its Tamil original "Lucky Man")
#### Chitragupta
>
> 9) One more on Mahabharata..... The Kauravas have only one sister,
> Dushala. Who is her husband? (Hint: This person is killed in the war at
> Kurukshetra by Arjun)
#### Jayadratha
he is responsible in being the cause of Abhimanyu's death
>
> 10) One test on astronomy.... In the 11th century, a massive supernova
> explosion took place over the northern hemisphere. the explosion was so
> bright that, for two months, the chinese astronomers noted the presence of
> two suns. it was so bright and it was said that one could read by its
> light during night-time also. but gradually the supernove faded and now,
> what we have left is a very faint remnant. what is the remnant more
> popularly known as? (Hint: it is still visually a great sight to watch)
### Crab Nebula
>
> 11) A test on a personality.... This famous inventor was once punched on
> his ear by a railway officer for some mischief. At that time, this person
> felt a thud in his ear and he heard something snap. but slowly and surely,
> his hearing powers decreased, till by the time he was old, he was nearly
> deaf. But, this did not deter him. He said he was able to concentrate on
> his work more as he would not be distracted easily. Nmae this person.
#### Thomas Alva Edison
>
> 12) A test on Olympics.... So far in all the olympics, all the female
> athletes are tested to ensure that they really are female. But only one
> female athlete was allowed to skip this test. Name this athlete?
### Princess Anne in 76 Olympics for equistrian event
>
> 13) A test on India..... This is the southernmost point of India,
> goegraphically. Name this point? (Hint: This ques was once asked in
> Surabhi and there were actually more wrong answers than right answers)
### Indira Point
>
> 14) A test on Birds....Which bird has the largest wing-span?
### Albatross
>
> 15) To whom did MUL present the keys of the first Maruti that they built
> in India? (Hint: He was not a politician)
### Tirupati Venkateshwara Temple
>
> 15) The actual name of this building is Phiroze Jeejeebhoy Towers. By what
> name do we popularly know it as?
### Mumbai Stock Exchange
>
> 16) Dr.Bhabha was an admirer of this mountain. In fact the day before his
> death in a plane crash, he had told in a interview ot a reporter about the
> beauty of this mountain peak. The next day, his plane crashed into this
> mountain. Name this mountain?
#### Mt.Blanc
>
> 17) If a person is said to be suffering from gymnophobia, what is he
> exactly afraid of?
#### Nudity
>
> 18) After the recent reorganization of states, in which Uttaranchal,
> Chattisgarh and Vananchal have been created, which state is going to be
> the biggest in terms of area?
##### Rajasthan
only 5 got this right
>
> 19) A test on personality....S=k*log(w). This has been inscribed on the
> tombstone of a famous scientist.Who? (We have heard of his most famous
> constant in our 12th standard)
#### Ludwig Boltzmann
actually the eqn in this form was derived by planck
>
> 20) A test on Sherlock... Sherlock Holmes was initially killed by Arthur
> Conan Doyle in his encounter with Dr.Morteimer in this short story. Name
> this story. But due to public demand, he had to bring Holmes back to life
> in the next one. Name this story also.
#### The Final Problem, The Adventure of Empty House
> well, sorry about the mistake on my part. the correct name is
Dr.Moriarty.
Ans: The Gaming Board for Great Britain. Only two could crack it namely,
Feroz and Ramdoss.
Unattempted question.
4. If i have given you II Sole - 24 Ore what i would have given you?
Ans: Only Ramdoss and Devi Mohan got this one right. Its nothing but
Italy's financial daily.
6. What is GenJam?
1. For how many US Dollars, did Bill Gates purchased Hotmail from Sabeer
Bhatia?
Ans:- It is actually us $ 390 milion, most of u except one answered $ 400
million
2. how did the name netscape come into use &who invented this name?
ans: Marc Andreesen (original name was mozilla comunication
corporation)
4. Name the Man who landed on Moon, other than Armstrong and Aldrin.
ans: Michael Collins
19. Who is person who has climbed Mt. Everest 10th times?
ans: On 24th may 2000 APPA SHERPA climbed the everest for
the 11th time. RITA SHERPA and BABU CHIRI SHERPA
have climbed 10 times.
Ans: MASTEK
More news
The history of ARPA leading up to the ARPANET.
A climate of pure research surrounded the entire
history of the ARPANET. The Advanced Research Projects
Agency was formed with an emphasis towards research,
and thus was not oriented only to a military product.
The formation of this agency was part of the U.S.
reaction to the then Soviet Union's launch of
Sputnikin 1957. ( ARPA draft, III-6 ). ARPA was
assigned to research how to utilize their investment
in computers via Command and Control Research (CCR).
Dr. J.C.R. Licklider was chosen to head this effort.
Licklider came to ARPA from Bolt, Beranek and Newman,
(BBN) in Cambridge, MA in October 1962. (ARPA draft,
III-6) The very first site to receive an IMP was UCLA.
Professor Leonard Kleinrock of UCLA was involved with
much of the early development of the ARPANET. His work
consisted of understanding queueing theory and as such
was one of the first computer scientists working on
the ARPANET who was dealing with how to measure what
was happening as the network would function. This made
it natural to make sure that UCLA received the first
node as it would be important to initiate the network
from the site which would measure the networks
activity. In order for the statistics to be correct
and for analysis purposes - the first site had to be
the measurement site. Sure enough UCLA was assigned to
be the Network Measurement Center (NMC).[1]
> 1) This one is an absolute sitter for cricket fans.... Name the cricket
> ground on which the maximum number of one-day international matches have
> been hosted?
##### Sharjah Cricket Ground.
most guys got this correct, this venue has hosted more than 100 one day
matches
>
> 2) One more about cricket( I am still a fan of cricket despite the fixing
> charges)..... The pitch-roller at Eden Gardens in Calcutta has a
> particular name. Name it?( Hint: An Indian Name)
###Gungadin
few people got this, mostly bemgalis i nopticed
>
> 3) Could not keep comics out....This person was appalled to see the
> influence of foreign cartoon characters in India. To counter this, he
> started his own comic strip, which initially was not quite popular, but he
> gained more popularity with his series on Chacha Choudhary and Sabu. Name
> this person and also the first comic character. (Please give only his
> pen-name)
#### Pran, Shrimatiji
the first part most of u got, but only one got the second part
>
> 4) Complete the series..... Fire, Earth, Sky, Snakes,___________.
> After u get the 5th one, u can easily get the connection of all the five.
####Trident
Well, these are the names of our indigenious missiles developed byDRDO.
Fire-Agni, Earth-Prithvi, Sky-Akash, Snakes-Nag, Trident-Trishul.
only 3 got this correct
the most common answer was water, connection beibng deepa mehta
>
> 5) Some test about Geography.... The city of Timbaktu is located in the
> continent of Africa. Name the country in which it is located?
#####Mali
>
> 6) A trivia on the presenter of KBC..... Amitabh Bachchan lives in a
> spacious bungalow in Mumbai. Name the bungalow.
#### Prateeksha
somebody has pointed out that his bungalow has been sold to recover dues
from ABCL, but now i think after the success of KBC he might get it back
>
> 7) What exactly is the Lyons Range? (KRECians will surely crack this)
### Calcutta StOck Exchange
>
> 8) A test on Hindu mythology.... This person is said to be the reporter of
> Lord Yama and he keeps all the records of a person's soul in a great
> register. (Hint: These two characters were present in the movie
> Taqdeerwala or its Tamil original "Lucky Man")
#### Chitragupta
>
> 9) One more on Mahabharata..... The Kauravas have only one sister,
> Dushala. Who is her husband? (Hint: This person is killed in the war at
> Kurukshetra by Arjun)
#### Jayadratha
he is responsible in being the cause of Abhimanyu's death
>
> 10) One test on astronomy.... In the 11th century, a massive supernova
> explosion took place over the northern hemisphere. the explosion was so
> bright that, for two months, the chinese astronomers noted the presence of
> two suns. it was so bright and it was said that one could read by its
> light during night-time also. but gradually the supernove faded and now,
> what we have left is a very faint remnant. what is the remnant more
> popularly known as? (Hint: it is still visually a great sight to watch)
### Crab Nebula
>
> 11) A test on a personality.... This famous inventor was once punched on
> his ear by a railway officer for some mischief. At that time, this person
> felt a thud in his ear and he heard something snap. but slowly and surely,
> his hearing powers decreased, till by the time he was old, he was nearly
> deaf. But, this did not deter him. He said he was able to concentrate on
> his work more as he would not be distracted easily. Nmae this person.
#### Thomas Alva Edison
>
> 12) A test on Olympics.... So far in all the olympics, all the female
> athletes are tested to ensure that they really are female. But only one
> female athlete was allowed to skip this test. Name this athlete?
### Princess Anne in 76 Olympics for equistrian event
>
> 13) A test on India..... This is the southernmost point of India,
> goegraphically. Name this point? (Hint: This ques was once asked in
> Surabhi and there were actually more wrong answers than right answers)
### Indira Point
>
> 14) A test on Birds....Which bird has the largest wing-span?
### Albatross
>
> 15) To whom did MUL present the keys of the first Maruti that they built
> in India? (Hint: He was not a politician)
### Tirupati Venkateshwara Temple
>
> 15) The actual name of this building is Phiroze Jeejeebhoy Towers. By what
> name do we popularly know it as?
### Mumbai Stock Exchange
>
> 16) Dr.Bhabha was an admirer of this mountain. In fact the day before his
> death in a plane crash, he had told in a interview ot a reporter about the
> beauty of this mountain peak. The next day, his plane crashed into this
> mountain. Name this mountain?
#### Mt.Blanc
>
> 17) If a person is said to be suffering from gymnophobia, what is he
> exactly afraid of?
#### Nudity
>
> 18) After the recent reorganization of states, in which Uttaranchal,
> Chattisgarh and Vananchal have been created, which state is going to be
> the biggest in terms of area?
##### Rajasthan
only 5 got this right
>
> 19) A test on personality....S=k*log(w). This has been inscribed on the
> tombstone of a famous scientist.Who? (We have heard of his most famous
> constant in our 12th standard)
#### Ludwig Boltzmann
actually the eqn in this form was derived by planck
>
> 20) A test on Sherlock... Sherlock Holmes was initially killed by Arthur
> Conan Doyle in his encounter with Dr.Morteimer in this short story. Name
> this story. But due to public demand, he had to bring Holmes back to life
> in the next one. Name this story also.
#### The Final Problem, The Adventure of Empty House
> well, sorry about the mistake on my part. the correct name is
Dr.Moriarty.
UTI once had a scheme for the benefit of minor girls. As per this scheme,
the girl child below the age of one year on an investment of Rs.1000 was due to
get Rs.21000 on attaining the age of 21 years. In this scheme, the girl child
would have got 17% annual interest. Which scheme am I referring to ?
Ans: Rajlakshmi
Imported until March 2000, the first diesel export by India started with
Reliance Petroleum Ltd. shipping 34000 tonnes to this country.
Ans: Bangladesh.
When all others answered it as Brazil, there were only two of them who gave the
right answer. Hats off to Abir Ghosh and the one with email id
mitr016@y... Whats ur good name sir/madam ???
A Print ad shows a man in a business suit with his mouth taped up with
post-its and says: "To turn a few heads during a meeting you dont really need
a mobile phone. Call it being considerate, if you like it. At ________ , we
call it Mobile manners". Fill in the blank with the brand name.
Ans: Nokia
AOL-Time Warner was the common answer. Though AOL is a part of this group, I
was looking for a specific answer. Hence no points to those who had answered
AOL-TimeWarner. Sounds a little harsh????
Coca-Cola will soon be launching its ready-to-drink coffee and tea in the
Indian market with a common brand name. Give the name.
Ans: Georgia
Vertis from Voltas are "Acs with IQ". What does this IQ stand for ?
Ans: Intelligent Qooling
Which Indian company owns Revive, Mediker, Oil of Malabar and Top Ramen ?
Ans: There is a mistake in this question as rightly pointed out by Rohit.
Revive, Mediker and Oil of Malabar are owned by Marico whereas Top Ramen is
owned by Indo-Nissin foods but is being marketed and distributed by Marico
since July 1998. Rohit gets a 0.5 point bonus for his effort.
Name the low fare airline in Australia that is owned by Richard Branson ?
> 1. The first model of photocopiers launched by Xerox was called the Xerox
> 914. The next model to come out was called the Xerox 813. Why were the
> models called 914 and 813 ?
> Ans: Xerox named their first product 914, because it could reproduce
> documents up to 9 in by 14 in. in size. Similarly for 813 (8''x13''). A
> lot of you went on the 14th of September and 13th of August trip which was
> quite good lateral thinking but not quite right.
>
> 2. TIDEL park in Madras, HITEC city in Hyderabad and the International
> Technology Park in Bangalore have become icons for the growth of the
> software industry in India. HITEC however is an acronym - What does it
> stand for ? Hint : It does not stand for High Technology
>
> Ans: Hyderabad Information Technology Engineering Consultancy
>
> 3. Which men's fashion house and former tailor to the Nazi Germany's
> dreaded SS has agreed to pay Pounds 5,00,000 into a compensation fund for
> the jew slave labourers ?
> Ans: Hugo Boss
>
> 4. The unchallenged domination of the Bombay Stock Exchange ( BSE ) over
> stock trading came to an abrupt end when the National Stock Exchange ( NSE
> ) joined the fray in 1994. The launch of NSE promoted National Securities
> Depository Ltd ( NSDL ) in November 1996 was followed by the BSE flagging
> off its own depository last year. What is the name of the BSE promoted
> depository ?
> Ans: Central Depository Services Ltd ( CDSL )
>
> 5. Which international airline operates a Marco Polo Class ?
> Ans: Cathay Pacific
>
>
> 6. It was 1992, a dark time for Honda Motor Company. Its founder, Soichiro
> Honda, had recently died. Rumours were circulating that the company -
> maker of the best engineered Japanese cars - was about to br absorbed by
> its dreaded rival. Bills were piling up from the financial follies of the
> 1980s. The company had no new models and the Japanese economy was heading
> downhill. Nobuhiko Kawamoto, Honda's new boss, did something astonishing,
> painful, symbolic and central to the strategy that has brought Honda back
> to life. What was this surprising and significant act?
>
> Ans: The expected answer is that Nobuhiko Kawamoto axed the Winning
> Formula One Racing division of Honda. (Junta has been expansive about the
> TQM efforts being undertaken, Re-engineering being done there etc,etc. As
> above, points have been awarded only if the F1 division is mentioned in
> the answer. )
>
> 7. Which brand name derives from the Japanese name for the Chinese
> goddess of Fortune ?
> Ans: Canon ( Kwa-Jin, the Chinese goddess of Fortune )
>
> 8. Montenegro adopted which currency sometime back in a bid to further
> their independence from the Federation of Yugosalavia ? What was the
> currency adopted by Montenegro ?
> Ans: Deutsche Mark
>
> 9. Microsoft issues a 'Certificate of Authenticity' to guard against
> counterfeit software. It has a watermark with the image of a woman. Name
> the woman?
> Ans: Ada Lovelace
>
> 10. Universal Music Group, the worlds largest record label, which is owned
> by Seagram Co Ltd is in the news because of the proposed merger of Seagram
> Co Ltd and the French utilities and media group Vivendi . However
> Universal also made news because of the launch of its new digital format
> which hopes to offer a secure system that protects artist copyrights . (
> The Napster trial has helped popularise the launch ). Now the question -
> What is this new format called ?
> Ans: Bluematter ( Many people sent back the technology which is behind
> this initiative but we wanted the commercial name of this technology,
> which is Bluematter. Nonetheless, 0.5 marks have been given to everybody
> who have sent in the technology also - SDMI etc.).
1) We will start with his family connection... What is the motto of the
Bond family?
### Orbis Non Sufficit-- this is in latin. i have given 1 mark to those
who have given me the latin version. spelling mistakes have been forgiven,
though i think it should not be allowed, as i do not know whether the
meaning will change in latin.
in english, it can be translated as The World Is Not Enough. 0.5 marks for
those who have given only the english version.
3) According to the book "Death of a President", this bond movie was the
last movie that JFK ever saw on 20th nov'63 in the White House. which
movie are we talking aboout?
### Well, JFK saw " From Russia With Love". it was released at around the
same time of his death.
4) This bond movie was the first was the first such movie to be showed in
the Kremlin. Which movie?
### Most of u got this one wrong.The most common answer was From Russia
With Love.
The correct answer is "The Man With The Golden Gun"
5) In the movie "The Spy Who Loved Me", it was mentioned that bond would
return in "For Your Eyes Only" , but instead teh next movie was
"Moonraker". what was the reason for this change of plans?
### The success of StarWars and Close Encounters of the Third Kind which
had led to the interest in sci-fi movies was the reason for MoonRaker
being released ahead than other bond movies.
6) "After all Bond has done for Britain, it was the least we could do for
Bond" quoted a famous personality. who was he and in what context do he
quote thus?
### British Foreign Secretary Robin Cook said this.a scene from The world
is not enough was planned to be shot around the HQ of MI6, the british
intelligence agency and they obvously protested and did not allow it. then
the foreign secretary moved in to overrule them and made this comment.
8) The name of the movie "Goldeneye" has a connection to Ian Fleming. What
is the connection?
### This was the name of the mission the Fleming ran during WW2 when he
was in naval intelligence. it is said that the plot of the mission was
more fantastic than the movie itself. it is also the name of the
beach-house at Jamaica.
1. We all know that the first Indian talkie was Alam Ara. It was produced by
the Imperial film company and was released on March 14, 1931. Name the
director of this movie.
## Ardershir Irani, though I've given points for Moti Gidwani also, who had
a part in the direction.
3. What unique distinction do the nominations for the following films hold -
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Sleuth and Give them Hell, Harry ?
4. If Pele, Lineker and Maradona all wore the No. 10 on their jerseys, which
number did Dutch superstar Johann Cruyff wear on his shirt ?
## No. 14
5. In which sport did Leander Pace's father Vace Paes represent India ?
## Hockey
6. How many test centuries did Don Bradman score in his career ?
## 29
8. What was the name of the hospital in Hyderabad, where Ronald Ross
identified the carrier of malaria on 20 August 1879 ?
## Begumpet. One Hyderabadi answered the quiz only b'cos of this question.
9. Which was the last Tintin adventure that Herge left unfinished at the
time of his death ?
10. The Hound of the Baskervilles was a cross between bloodhound and which
other dog ?
## Mastiff
1. Which Amitabh Bachchan movie was based on the Hollywood political movie,
'Meet John Doe', directed by John Capra?
2. The symbol of R K movies shows a man with a violin in one hand and a
woman leaning on his other hand. What does the symbol signify?
### It signifies the romance between Raj Kapoor and Nargis. It is also a
scene in the film 'Barsaat'. I have given half points to the mention of only
the movie.
### Vasantsena, no points for prostitute. I had needed the character's name.
4. Dilip Kumar along with Suni Dutt shares a unique honour bestowed on a
citizen. What honour?
### Rajnikanth
7. 'Ma Baker..' of Boney M has been an inspiration for a very famous Hindi
Film song featuring Shahrukh Khan. Name the song.
### 'Sach yeh kahani hai, sun lo meri jaan', from the film "Kabhi Haan Kabhi
Na".
8. In 'Chandni O meri Chandni' number from the film "Chandni", who joins Sri
Devi in the duet?
### Jolly Mukherjee, many answered Rishi Kapoor, but the question was on
music, as the heading might have suggested.
### Parasmani
10. The song 'Chura liya hai tumne jo dil ko', from the film 'Yaadon Ki
Baraat' was composed by R D Burman. Give me the name of the Singer / Music
director who played the famous opening Guitar piece.
### Bhupinder, he had played guitar in the song 'Dum maaro dum' from "Hare
Rama Hare Krishna" also.
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1. "First Impression is the always the best" Right ? But, not always. A famous
English novel was originally titled 'First Impression' but was rechristened
later. Which is the novel ?
2. This was a part of the erstwhile Gondwanaland. The continental drift has
split this apart and is a tiny set of isles now. The place is fossil rich (
Fossils of the Prehistoric shark Pucapampella was found here) and was even a
cause for a war between two countries in the last century ? Which set of isles
are we talking about ? psst... heard of Pebble Islands , Sea Lion Islands....
3. Here is a sitter. Come Sep 15th, the Olympics would start. And tell me, in
which Olympics was the Olympic flame lit for the first time throughout the
games ?
4. We all have heard & seen of skirts - micro, mini, micro-mini, micro to the
power of nth, etc. But, what would you be holding if you had a 'hobble skirt'
in your hand ?
5. What was the former name of Monica's den, err.. I mean, 'White House' ?
6. In printing, what are left hand page and right hand page called ?
7. Name the cartoonist who drew the Donald Duck Comic books. Uncle Scrooge is
one of his creations. While answering this question pay respect to this
departed soul who left for heavenly abode a month ago.
8. When Vendors collude together and create an artificial rise in the price of
materials, economists call them as playing monopoly. Now, what is the
phenomenon of Buyers colluding together to artificially lower the price of
materials known as ?
Ans : Monospony { 2 / 9 }
Ans : Pandemonium { 5 / 9 }
Ans : Study of wines { 7 / 9 ( Max people got this one correct. It's natural..
ha ha ) }
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Q1. Malt whisky can contain only malted barley. What makes a blend?
ANS: Any grain added with barley will make it a blend. Blends are made from a
variety of grainsbarley, corn, maize, wheat and/or ryeand are not limited by any
particular proportions or mixture standards.
Q2. What is the difference between Irish and Scotch whisky, other than the fact
that the former whisky is distilled and matured in Ireland and the latter in
Scotland?
ANS: The barley used for Scotch whisky is dried over open peat fires which allows
the smoke to penetrate the barley malt and gives Scotch its distinctive smoky
flavour.
The malt in Irish whiskey is dried in sealed ovens keeping only the pure malt
flavour. Irish whiskey is then distilled three times (as opposed to just once for
Scottish whisky) which furthers adds to the smoothness of its taste. To be called
"Irish," the whiskey has to be distilled from native grains in Ireland and stored
in wooden casks for at least three years.
Q3. What is common to the books "Mein Kamph", "God Is Not in the Thesaurus" and "De
Profundis"?
Q4. Which famous actor makes a very brief appearance as a local mastaan in the
Bachchan-Rekha starrer Do Anjaane?
Q5. This cooking had its genesis in famine relief and the building of the Bara
Imambara in Lucknow. Nawab-ud-Daulah, who ordered the building of the edifice, as a
famine relief measure, also ordered that all who laboured to build it should be
given something to eat. For this purpose enormous containers filled with rice,
meat, vegetables and spices were placed on a fire with hot coal on top of the
sealed containers. Slow cooking ensured that food was available, day and night.
Name this cuisine.
ANS: I was looking for "Dum Pukht", but have given points for Biryani as well.
Q8. What is the style of painting called in which visual imagery from the
subconscious mind is used?
ANS: Surrealism.
Q9. A step in the process of mummification is the removal of internal organs. These
organs were mummified separately and stored in little coffins called Canopic Jars.
These jars were supposed to be protected by the four sons of a god. Name this god
and also name his son who protects the lungs.
Ans: DABUR
Ans: Everest
Ans: Colgate
Ans: HSBC.
I made a mistake by typing language in place of
knowledge. Thanks to Bargava Raman, I was able to
correct it on time.
Q1. James Bonds drink is Vodka Martini - shaken not stirred. What is the
difference between a shaken and a stirred martini?
ANS: Shaking provides the Martini with a greater amount of exposure to the ice thus
chilling the drink more quickly. Stirring on the other hand is not as vigorous and
is therefore a less swift way of achieving the same cold temperature. In addition,
differing amounts of water will dilute the drink depending on how long it has been
shaken or stirred with ice.
Also, shaking Martini may have a serious drawback. The crystalline clarity that
makes a Martini look so clean, crisp and sophisticated is lost. The shaking motion
inundates the cocktail with many tiny bubbles, often producing undesirable
cloudiness.
Q2. In their olden times, whom did the Egyptians call as Heka-Khaswt?
ANS: A period in the Egyption history (1640 - 1550 BC) is known as The Second
Intermediate Period. This period, saw Egypt ruled by foreign kings for almost a
hundred years. These kings came from diverse backgrounds as groups of foreigners
vied to dominate Egypt. The Egyptians, ashamed and angered at the loss of their
state, called these kings Heka-Khaswt, or "Rulers of the Foreign Lands".
Q3. What word is derived from a Sanskrit word which means to color?
ANS: Raga
Q5. K L Saigal sang the famous song "Babul mora" in the movie "Street Singer". Who
is the lyricist of this song?
Q7. While working on Alfred Binets intelligence tests, H H Goddard coined a term
for the adults whose defective gene caused them to test with a mental age between 8
& 12. What is the term?
ANS: Moron
Q9. Beer quotes. Who said, "I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake
up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day.
ANS: An instrument for measuring the quantity of dew on the surface of a body in
the open air. It consists of a balance, having a plate at one end to receive the
dew, and at the other a weight protected from the deposit of dew.
Q1. Measured alcohol, crushed ice, everything mixed/shaken, and then your cocktail
is served in a lovely glass decorated with an umbrella. What is the use of a
cocktail Umbrella?
ANS: To protect the cocktail from Sun's rays and heat, thus not allowing it to
dilute because of melting ice.
Q2. What is the one basic difference between the cocktails Bloody Mary and Bloody
Maria?
ANS: The alcohol in Bloody Mary is Vodka and it is Tequilla in Bloody Maria .
A clarification; Bloody Maria is not Bloody Mary + Tequilla. I have, though, given
points even for this answer.
Q3. Moron is an adult with a mental age between 8 & 12. A person with IQ below this
is called an imbecile. What is the term for the persons with the lowest IQ levels?
ANS: Idiot
Q4. Robert Ludlum has written three novels on Jason Bourne. Two of them are, The
Bourne Identity and The Bourne Ultimatum. Which is the third?
ANS: It is the small decorative point on the upper edge of the smallest letter; jot
or iota. So, it can be the dot on the letter 'i', or the crossing in the letter
't'.
Q7. A model from PAL is known as 118NE. What does the designation 118NE denote?
ANS: 1180 CC Nissan Engine. Half points for just Nissan Engine.
Q8. Whose story was the basis of David Dhawan's film Biwi No 1?
Q9. The first ever pyramid was supposed to be built for King Djoser. Who is
considered the architect of this step pyramid?
ANS: Imhotep
ANS: One of the most important concepts of Chinese medicine is that of natural
balance. From this idea of balance arises the fundamental theory of yin and yang.
According to this theory, life takes place in the alternating rhythm of yin and
yang.
Day gives way to night, night to day; a time of light and activity (Yang) is
followed by darkness and rest (Yin).
I have got a few answers which say it is Feng Shui, but my sources say that the
Feng Shui literally means wind and water. The Yin/Yang theory is a subset of Feng
Shui, which also includes the five elements, east/west compass directions, the
solar system and the environment.
Q1. With what term is the alcohol content in whisky usually expressed in America?
ANS: Proof. The conversion is quite simple: the proof number is simply double the
percentage of alcohol by volume. Thus, "100 proof" whisky contains 50% alcohol.
Q2. Champagne is a region of France, and only wines, which come from this region,
can properly be called "Champagne". What is the name of the similar drink from the
rest of the world?
ANS: Ritual celebration or jubilee of a king's reign. Normally, it was first held
during the 30th regnal year of a king, and from then on, every 3 years. During the
celebrations, the king performed a ritual run and dance, aimed at proving that he
was still physically able to rule the country. In doing so, he was also rejuvenated
and reborn.
Q4. "The whole purpose of places like Starbucks is for people with no decision-
making ability whatsoever to make six decisions just to buy one cup of coffee.
Short, tall, light, dark, caf, decaf, low-fat, non-fat, etc. So people who don't
know what the hell they're doing or who on earth they are, can, for only $2.95, get
not just a cup of coffee but an absolutely defining sense of self: Tall! Decaf!
Cappuccino!" Identify the movie.
Q5. What is common to the movies Made in USA, The Outfit and The Split?
ANS: All movies based on Richard Stark's novels. Made in USA was based on "The
Jugger", The Outfit on "The Outfit" and The Split on "The Seventh".
Q6. R.D. Burman was nominated for the best Music Director Filmfare Award 16 times,
but won it only three times. The first two movies were Sanam Teri Kasam in 1982
and Masoom in 1983. Which is the third?
Q7. I do not want to come up with something of this sort, but what is
Parenthophobia?
Q8. Bond cars! It was Aston Martin DB5 in a few movies starting with Goldfinger.
But the DB5 used in Goldeneye had a difference from the previous DB5s. The gearbox
contained a Champagne bottle instead of controls for the gadgets. There was this
one difference, though, which had a possible indication that this car was not a
company car but James Bonds private car. What was this difference?
ANS: It was the number plate - BMT 214A. It used to be BMT 216A.
Q9. How did the name of Andhra Pradeshs capital change from Bhagyanagar to
Hyderabad?
ANS: Muhammed Quli Qutub Shah had named it Bhagyanagar on his courtesan Bhagmati.
He later renamed it to Hyderabad when she became his wife and changed her name to
Haider Mahal.
Q10. Cubism is a school of painting and sculpture in which the subject matter is
portrayed by geometric forms without realistic detail, stressing abstract form at
the expense of other pictorial elements largely by use of intersecting often
transparent cubes and cones. Which painter along with Georges Braque started this
style of painting?
Auschwitz ..... again answered by many.Rudolf Hess is the first and last
chief
Blondie.
### Fa
Ans : Filmfare
Ans : T. Yohannan
Ans : Alwars
Ans: i2i.
i2i --- Undersea Submarine Cable JV from Bharti
Singtel.
i2I --- Business plan contest from IIM Calcutta.
Ans: Penthouse
Ans: Imclone
ANS: Chapagne Flute is a glass used mostly for serving champagne. This tall and
slender cone shaped glass is designed to show off the sparkling bubbles of
champagne.
Q2. You can store up to 500 litres of this in butt. What am I talking about?
ANS: I am talking about storing whisky. Butt is the name given to the cask
which can store upto 500 litres of Whisky. The other containers are Hogshead
(250-305 Ltrs), American Barrel (173-191 Ltrs), Quarter (127-159 Ltrs) and
Octave (45-68 Ltrs).
Q3. Who sang the female version of Amitabh Bachchan's "Mere angne mein" in
Lawaaris?
ANS: Cumulonimbus clouds are the ones which are lumpy in appearance and can
produce precipitation. It comes from Cumus, which means lumpy or piled and
Nimbus, which means a cloud which can produce precipitation.
Q5. What is unique about the flight between Westray and Papa Westray in Orkney,
Scotland?
Q6. Ptolemy I had begun a new dynasty in Egypt. It is believed that the
Ptolemaic kings married their sisters. All the kings were named Ptolemy and
their sisters - Cleopatra. What is the meaning of "Cleopatra"?
ANS: It means "Her father's glory". Kleos = Father and Pater = Glory.
Q7. Issac Asimov's novel, The Positronic Man, was made into a movie. Name the
movie.
Q8. Painting! A family of colors is called cool, because they remind of cool
things like a cool forest or a cold lake. Cool colors are primarily made of
Green, Blue and which color?
Q10. Cricket! Long ago, a young lady was trying to bowl for her brother. She
wore a crinoline dress with a long, full skirt. The skirt had hoops in it to
make it stand out stiffly. This was making her difficult to bowl, so she did
something to avoid it, which eventually changed the game. What did she do?
### WIPRO
### Snow
12.0 This i2i speciality exchange ( one of its kind in
India ) has Prof. Bibek Debroy in its board ? Which
company and who are the promoter ?
### IS95
Q1. There are four official types of Tequila. What is the difference between Silver
(or White) and the Gold types?
ANS: Silver or White Tequila is bottled immediately after distillation or within 60
days. Gold Tequila is basically same as the White but colouring and flavouring
ingridients are added to it to make it look aged. Its called Gold because of its
coloring, which is usually through added caramel.
Q3. Hrishikesh Mukherjee's film 'Rang Birangi' ends when police inspector, played
by Utpal Dutt, gives orders to arrest a particular personality. Which personality?
ANS: Film director B.R. Chopra
Q5. Which human organ did the Egyptians believe was useless and used to throw out
when removed from the body during mummification?
ANS: Brain
Q7. Leonardo Da Vinci was born in Italy, so which colors would he have used as
local colors?
ANS: Local color means realistic color-color as it appears in nature (green grass,
blue sky, brown horses, etc.), so irrespective of the place Da Vinci had to use
realistic colors as local colors.
Q8. The oldest form of the ancient Egyptian language is known as the Hieroglyphic
Script, which is of a pictorial nature. What is the meaning of the word Hieroglyph?
ANS: Sacred Carving
Q9. Who sang the title song of the film Kaho Na Pyaar Hai apart from Udit Narayan
and Alka Yagnik?
Q10. It was the cricket test match between England and South Africa in Kennington
Oval in 1951. Leonard Hutton was out in the second innings after scoring 27 runs.
What was unusual about his wicket?
ANS: He was out obstructing the field. This is the only instance when a batsman was
given out this way.
5. Acer has got a new brand name for its mobile phone
and computer peripherals unit in a bid to
differentiate the higher-growth business from Acer's
troubled hardware brand. The new brand name is 'Benq'.
What does 'Benq' stand for?
Ans : Croquet
17.0 This city in PGA Map has three green and one
brown track. Which city?
Q1. Which Hrishikesh Mukherjee film is loosely based on the film 'A Star is born'?
ANS: Abhimaan
Q3. Ramesh Sippy's Sholay has probably been the most famous Indian movie till date,
for its story, direction, acting and RD Burman's music. The background music of the
film was also supposed to be one of its important factors. Who scored it?
ANS: The background music was also scored by RD Burman.
Q5. On whom is the song 'Deewane hain deewano ko na ghar chahiye' picturised (with
a harmonium) in Prakash Mehra's film 'Zanjeer'?
ANS: Gulshan Bawra
Q6. Which film name connects Dev Anand, Kalpana Kartik, Robert deNiro and Jodie
Foster?
ANS: Taxi Driver: Chetan Anand's movie with Dev Anand and Kalpana Kartik and Martin
Scorsese movie with the same name with Robert De Niro and Jodie Foster.
Q7. How do we know Ranbir Kapoor and Shamsher Raj better in the film industry?
ANS: Raj Kapoor and Shammi Kapoor; their real names being Ranbir Raj Kapoor and
Shamsher Raj Kapoor. Sashi Kapoor was born Balbir Raj Kapoor.
Q8. This person associated with Sholay once played one of Shammi Kapoor's buddies
in the film 'Teesri Manzil'. Who is he?
ANS: Salim Khan. Played the drummer in Teesri Manzil and was a writer of Sholay
along with Javed Akhtar.
Q9. On which novel was the Hindi film Phir Subah Hogi based?
ANS: Fyodor Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment
Q10. Remember the song "Daadi Amma Daai Amma maan jaao " from the film Gharaana?
Two kids singing to their grand mother! One of the playback singers of the song is
Asha Bhosle. Who is the other?
ANS: Kamal Barot
Q1. How did Amitabh Bachchan get the name 'Babumoshai' in the film Anand?
ANS: This was the name by which Raj Kapoor used to address Hrishikesh Mukherjee.
Raj Kapoor had developed the habit of addressing Hrishikesh Mukherjee as
'Babumoshai'. Hrishida used this concept and dedicated the film to Raj Kapoor (and
to the city of Bombay)
Q2. Mukesh, at one time in his career, was going through a bad patch when he had
left singing for pursuing acting. But then he bounced back into singing and won his
first filmfare award for best male playback singer for this film. Which film?
Q3. In which film the role originally slated for Amitabh Bachchan went to Samit
Bhanja, as the producer wanted a fresh face?
ANS: Guddi
Clue I: Hrishikesh Mukherjee - all the above movies were directed by him.
Q4. She is daughter of Gemini Ganeshan and Pushpavali. Her name Bhanu Ganeshan.
She had a very hit pairing with a superstar and was also alleged to have had an
affair with him. How do we know her better?
ANS: Rekha. Her full name - Bhanurekha Ganesan. The superstar mentioned in the
question is Amitabh Bachchan.
Q5. Which game did Amitabh Bachchan play with Sridevi in the film 'Khuda Gawah'?
ANS: Buzkashi
Q6. ABCL had produced films like Tere Mere Sapne and Saat Rang ke Sapne. Who, along
with Flicks Motion Picture, produced Rakesh Mehras Aks?
Q7. He has also acted in movies like Dhoti lota aur chowpaty, Tum haseen main
jawaan and Mohabbat zindagi hai along with loads of other super hit films. He was
presented with the lifetime achievement award from Filmfare a few years back. Who?
ANS: Dharmendra
Q8. Which movie, directed by Krishna Shah, had Rex Harrison and Salvia Miles in it?
Q9. A family drama directed by Mohan Kumar. The message of the film was that
education is an integral part of life. For an illiterate woman, life is an unending
stream of crisis and catastrophes. A song, written by Raja Mehdi Ali Khan, and
composed by Madan Mohan is picturised on Mala Sinha, which she sings to her
husband, thanking him for accepting her. Identify the movie.
Clue III: Dharmendra. Acted in Shalimar (The Deadly Thief) and Anpadh.
Q10. He was born O P Bakshi in Lahore. Acted in many hindi movies in almost all
kinds of roles. Got a filmfare award as a best comedian in a 1960s film, which had
Sanjay Khan and Babita. Who?
Q11. In which film does Navin Nischol sing RD Burmans romantic songs to Archana?
ANS: Buddha Mil Gaya. Two songs I remember are "Raat kali ek khwab mein aayi..."
and "Bhali bhali si ek surat...."
Q12. What is common to the movies Gateway of India, Chacha Zindabad and Jahan Ara,
apart from Madan Mohan being the music director of all?
The movie is Chupke Chupke. Main lead actors are Amitabh Bachchan, Dharmendra and
Om Prakash and the director is Hrishikesh Mukherjee.
......................................................
Ans : Stupa.
Again most of you answered correctly.
Ans : Kathak.
Many of you answered Mujra. Although Wajid Ali was a
great patron of Mujras, that's not the right answer.
Ans: Indonesia
Ans: GINIE
Ans : They are the only two umpires who applied law
42.7 and 42.8 ( unfair play )of cricket and disallowed
a bowler to bowl further. Venkat did it in third test
in Nagpur between India and Zimbabwe in February 2002
to restrain bowler Trevis Friends. Hampshire
disallowed Colin Stewart of West Indies against
Srilanka in Kandy in Nov 2001. Only Shyam could crack
it.
Ans : Chaturanga.
Ans: Fonterra
A:wolverine,seacow,dolphin,badger.
2.Which is the largest animal ever?
A:Blue Whale.
3.Where are TAPIRS found?
A:Malaysia ,IndonesiA,Brazil
4.How many bones are there in an
elephant'strunk?
A:ZERO!
5.what is a BONOBO?
A:A variety of ape.
6.What is the fastest swimming animal?
A:Dolphin.
1.With which wars are the following military defence lines associated?Torres
Vedras,Hindenberg,Maginot, Mannerheim,Gustav.
Korean War(1950-1953).
4.Who was the victorious General in the Battle of Dien Bien Phu(1954)?
Complimentary Question :
3.0 Bimal Roy's "Do Bhiga Zameen" was his debut film.
However, he became almost house hold name when he
portraited a famous role in a subsequent Landmark
Hindi film. So much so, he decided to make a film
by the name of that role. The film however bombed in
the box office. Who?
Ans : Wrestling
14.0 8th August, 1942 - Call for quit India was born.
There was a call for a strike all over the country.
This famous Industrialist who was otherwise hobnobbing
with the British aristocracy planned to support the
bandh in a novel way without antagonising the ruling
british administratation. He spread a rumour that
Ahmedabad will soon be bombed by the Japaneese. In
the next two days all the workers from Bihar & UP left
the town. The mills were closed for the next three
months. Who was this patriotic genius?
Ans : Tappa
> 8. TITAN has recently launched a range of digital clocks in India. Under
> what brand name does TITAN sell these clocks?
> Ans: CYBER
>
>
> 9. In Politics P.P.P is the Pakistan People's Party. What is PPP in
> economics ?
> Ans: Purchasing Power Parity ----it`s the I.M.F`s method of guaging the
> size of a country`s economy.
>
>
> 10. All of us are familiar with Golden Handcuffs, Golden Handshakes etc
> etc. However what is a Golden Parachute ?
> Ans: A golden parachute is a payment that is contingent of a change (1) in
> the ownership or effective control of the corporation, or (2) in the
> ownership of a substantial portion of the assets of the corporation. The
> traditional use of a golden parachute is to offer company executives
> financial security in the event of a takeover. In essence, a form of
> "layoff insurance," meant to protect against a sudden loss of employment.
ANS : This is the much awaited book from Dr. Eliyahu M Goldratt, the management
guru, who has brought in TOC & related concepts. He explained the concept of
Theory of Constraints & DBR principle in the form a novel, "The Goal".
"Necessary But Not Sufficient", which is releasing on Oct 15th talks about
applying these thoughts on IT industry. Of course, this is also in the form of
a novel. Interested ! read a sneak preview at
http://www.rogo.com/cac/index.html You may know more about TOC, Goldratt and
all at www.goldratt.com
2. "A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle" - whose words are
these ?
ANS : Gloria Steinem. She was a sworn feminist. But, after nearly three decades
of her "fight against MCPs", recently at the age of 66, she got married.
3. Today, KBC is the talk of the town. As you may be knowing, it is not an
invention by Rupert Murdoch & his team. This show is in fact run under a
license from the inventors of the show who has so far issued license to hold
such shows in more than 50 countries and they provide set design, questioning
pattern and even the candidate selection procedure in a 169 page booklet. Name
the inventing company
ANS : Sorry ! I had posted the picture. It did not get distributed as a result
of the group policy that only text files would be distributed.
5. "If anything can go wrong, it will and at the worst time possible." By what
name is this funda known popularly ?
ANS : B'cos such petty crimes are booked under section 420. This was found to
be the most popular answer
7. Why did a stamp issued by St. Kitts and Nevis in 1903 depicting Christopher
Columbus standing on his ship and observing the American coast through his
telescope, become a rare collector's item ?
9. Which is the longest word that can be made using the letters of only one row
of the keyboard ? elementary... my dear... ( no that isn't the answer )
ANS : TYPEWRITER
10. Here is a sitter. She was in her pre-teens and did not know a bit of
malayalam. But, her debut was in a malayalam movie, in which she got the state
award ( for acting, mind you..) and the movie went on to win several state &
national awards. She went her on way and cut a niche for herself as a sexy
siren in languages other than malayalam... who are we talking about ?
ANS : The most popular answers were Silk Smitha followed by Sridevi. But, it's
actually our own RAMBHA. This was answered correctly only by Sagi hyma
1. If anyone of you own a cellular licence in India and wanted to sell out
then you would have a bunch of guys standing at your doorstep Orange,
Bharti, BATATA etc. Who the hell are these BATATA guys ?
Ans: BATATA was formed after the coming together of Birla AT&T and TATA
Telecom.
Ans: Well this one was a teaser and NOBODY got it, the answer is GRAB.COM
and I suggest you visit the site as National Indemnity and Berkshire
Hathaway are prominently mentioned on the site.
6. In the Indian Mobile phone market there is a lot to cheer for the end
consumer. A slew of new models , reduced import duty etc etc. However a new
brand to hit the market is TRIUM. Now the question which company owns the
TRIUM brand of Mobile phones ?
Ans: Mitsubishi. The most popular answers here were TCL, Baron and Motorola
7. By 1861, this product, produced in USA enjoyed higher sales abroad than
in USA. In Africa, salesmen had to customize the machine because the
tribesmen wanted it noisier saying Good iron makes loud noise. Mahatma
Gandhi called it one of the few useful things ever invented. Name the
brand and product ?.
Ans: Singer Sewing Machine. The answers here ranged from Remington
Typewriter to Bicycle to a Harvester
8. This is a question that appears on most of the quizzing web sites in the
Indian Internet space. Who is the only Indian character in the Dilbert strip
and what position does he hold ?
9. Chemicals, aspertame and acesulfame are something you would not like to
forget if you are one of those calorie freaks. So what are these chemicals
and what purpose do they serve ?
2)What is a WAPERWARE ?
NEVILLE BULSARA
A CUCKOO'S NEST.
5)In 1911 a company was formed by the merger of The Tabulating Company ,The
Computing Scale Company and The International Time Recording Company. Name it?
MICKY.
10)what's the name of the company which got the prestigious SANKHYA VAHINI
prohect even before it was incorpotated?
> 7. Which group of fictional characters had the motto 'All for one and one
> for all'?
>
> ## The Three Musketeers.
>
> 8. In Gulliver's Travels, what was the name of the island of sorcerers and
> magicians?
>
> ## Glubbdubdrib
>
> 9. What do the Chinese refer to as 'One Lee Chang Che'?
>
> ## The Great Wall of China.
>
> 10. On 3 December, which Indian naval ship, commanded by Lt. Commander
> Inder Singh sank the PNS Ghazi off the coast of Vishakapatanam?
>
> ## INS Rajput
>
>
1) Apart from being famous, what links Hrithik Roshan, Meena Kumari, Sir Gary
Sobers and Anne Boleyn?
### An extra thumb, (or) 6 fingers on a hand ###
3) What is the name of the wrestler who was stripped of his Gold medal for 76
Kg class of freestyle wrestling in the Sydney Olympics 2000?
### Alexander Leipold of Germany ###
4) Name the element with Atomic Number 49 in the Modern Periodic Table.
### Indium ###
Slonim, Poland
She only stopped screaming when she died. It was then that he started to
scream.
### Kane And Abel, by Jeffrey Archer ###
8) For which team will Grant Hill be playing for in the NBA 2000-2001 upcoming
season?
[ Hint: Think of fairies ]
### Orlando Magic ###
[ The clue is now obvious, isn't it?!? ]
9) "The amount of heat absorbed or given out by a unit mass of the substance to
change its state without change of temperature, is known as the ______ ____
of the substance."
Please fill in the blanks.
### Latent Heat ###
10) In the book "Dr. No" by Ian Fleming, the heroine, Honeychile Rider, has a
facial deformity. What is it?
[ Hint: The deformity is not one by birth; but was an inflicted one. ]
### She had a broken, and crudely reset nose ###
3) K V Kamath made history by ringing a bell in New York. What history was
created by K V Kamath's Company in an Asian context ?
Answer: ICICI is the first Indian company to be listed in NYSE (second
Indian company after Infosys to be listed in the US Stock market- Infosys is
on Nasdaq) and the first Asian Company outside of Japan to be listed in
NYSE. Its ADS was oversubscribed 6 times.ICICI chief K V Kamath also made
history on NYSE by becoming the first Indian CEO to ring the bell to
commence trading on the world's largest stock exchange.
5) Name the company which markets the ' Top Ramen ' brand of noodles which
is a contender to Nestle's Maggi Noodles ?
Answer: Indo Nissin Foods. Recently they have signed Shah Rukh Khan for two
years to market their new flavours. However if you were to see a pack of '
TOP RAMEN' noodles it has marketed by Marico Industries Ltd written on it .
Actually it is only the distribution which is undertaken by Marico and the
marketing and production is done by Indo Nissin Foods
7) One more chip question. one of Intel's competitor's AMD has developed a
chip equivalent to ' 7x86' or k7. what is this chip called?
Answer: Athlon
"Internet section"
9) One of the companies at the forefront of internetworking is Sun
Microsystems. Who were the founders of this company?
Answer: Andy Bechtolsheim, Bill Joy, Scott Mcnealy and Vinod Khosla.
"Personality section"
10) Simple one, Who is George Gilder?
Answer: According to many, George Gilder is a "net- age guru" and his major
area of work is in the 'marriage' of Internet and telecommunications. He
has also propounded what is known as Gilder's Law. (What's this law is , may
be in some other Jigyasa you'll find the answer !!) and hence a lot of his
current occupations have come into being like "George Gilder is a Senior
Fellow at the Discovery Institute and Contributing Editor and Founder of the
magazine Forbes ASAP. He is the author of ten books, including Life After
Television, which was published in 1990 and revised in 1994. His forthcoming
book, Telecosm, is a far-reaching look at opportunities associated with the
Information Superhighway."
1. Name the person who has been appointed as the Founding Dean of Indian
Business School, Hyderabad.
Anindya Roy put forward this explanation too and he gets a bonus point for that
!
3. "Breathe 100% pure air with 20% discount on oxygen. Welcome to _____". Where
are you being welcomed to ?
## Ans : Thoise airfield, the highest airfield in the world, near Siachen
5. Nominees for Nobel Prize for literature this year included 2 Indians. Name
them.
6. Name the only Non-governmental organization in the whole world, which has
all the three wings of Armed Forces namely - Army, Navy & Air Force.
## Ans : LTTE.
The most popular answer was UN. The UN does not have a permanent force of it's
own. A UN force is made up of armed officers on deputation, of various member
countries for a specific task.
8. Come 2003, the cricket fans would be on their toes again, as the World Cup
Cricket rolls in. Name the Venue of the 2003 World Cup Cricket Finals.
9. Which Nobel category does not yet have a single female laureate?
## Ans : Economics.
Actually, in a small (but not cheap!) consolation, the 1995 economics prize was
"shared" by a woman.
Robert E. Lucas, the University of Chicago professor who won the 1995 Nobel
Prize in Economics for his work on the theory of "rational expectations," had
to split the $1 million prize with his ex-wife. Seven years before, she had her
divorce lawyer insert a clause that would cover such an eventuality. Under the
property settlement, if her ex-husband had won the prize the following year, he
would have been able to keep the whole thing. Mrs. Lucas was apparently acting
on her own set of rational expectations, since eight University of Chicago
professors have won the Nobel Prize so far; Lucas was the fifth in the last six
years.
1) "I come not, friends, to steal away your hearts...". This a quote taken
from a classic. This also appears in a Microsoft game. Name the classic, and
also the game.
[ half points for each ]
### The classic is Julius Caesar(Act III, scene II). The game in which this
appears is Microsoft Hearts. [ go to MS Hearts, and Help and Quote ] ###
3) Until 1969, there were 5 categories in which the Nobel prize was awarded.
Name the 6th category which was added.
### It is Economics, or Economic Science.
[ Prize funded by the Bank Of Sweden ] ###
5) Name the lady player against whom Steffi Graf played her last and final
pro career tennis match ?
### It was against Lindsay Davenport Of the U.S., in the 1999 finals in
Wimbledon. ##
6) _____ ___ states that at constant temperature, the current flowing through
a conductor is directly proportional to the potential difference across its
ends. Please fill in the blanks.
### Ohm's Law ###
8) "All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players..."
From which of Shakespeare's works has this been taken?
### As You Like It
[ I also accepted "The Seven Stages Of Man" ] ###
9) Apart from being actresses, what links Tabu, Kate Winslet, Aishwarya Rai
and Emma Thompson?
[ Hint: The link has to do something with one of the movies they acted in.
You know, the characters they played. ]
### All have played characters in movies based on Jane Austen's "Sense And
Sensibility".
Thompson and Winslet played the role (of the 2 sisters) in the English
version ,directed by Ang Lee, named after the book itself.
Tabu and Rai played the roles in the (somewhat modernised) Tamil version,
directed by Rajiv Menon, and entitled "Kandukondein Kandukondein ".
[ I have accepted all the answers with atleast one of the key-words ] ###
10) This "dedication" has been taken from a famous book. Identify the book.
" For Mary *** who grew me up. Who taught me to say 'excuse me' before
interrupting her in Public. Who loved me enough to let me go. For LKC, who,
like me, survived."
[ the *** is because revealing that would be tooooooo much of a hint. ]
### The book is The God Of Small Things, by Arundhati Roy. The *** was
Roy.(although I didn't want that answer, many ppl did answer that too)
5. Who is a Cruciverbalist?
# An expert in solving Crossword Puzzles
(Samrat, & Anindya mentioned that 'IT'S A COMPUTER PROGRAM TO SOLVE
CROSSWORDS'.Some also mentioned that crossword developers are
cruciverbalists.I've given 1 point to all of them........... I'm tooooooooo
generous :-) )
6. What is 'Trishkadekaphobia'?
# Fear of number 13
(Cracked by most of u. Anirudha have an interesting funda 'fear of drinking
vodka ???'
7. Which famous Indian Classic Musician have acted in film 'Heat and Dust'?
# Zakir Hussain
(Cracked by most.Next popular answer was Pt. Ravishankar)
10. Which actreess' face was plastered on the A-Bomb dropped in Hiroshima?
# Rita Hayworth
(Cracked by most of u)
4)"I DON'T THINK ANYONE HAS COME TO ANY HARM FROM D.N.A. . INFACT, THE ONLY
PERSON IT HAS HARMED IS CLINTON".Who said these words?
5)What is the ISRO's commercial arm which is already selling SPACE images to
the world?
2) He was a monk of the order of St. Augustine. He nailed his 95 theses, which
attacked the sale of the "Letter Of Indulgence", on the door of the Church in
Wittenberg, Germany. Identify this famous person from medieval history.
### Martin Luther ###
[ No points for those people who have added a "King" at the end. ]
3) The research work carried out by this years Nobel Prize Winners for
Medicine, deals with the nervous system. It hopes to help cure 2 diseases. One
of them is "Parkinson's Disease". Name the other.
### Schizophrenia ###
[ OK, controversial answer. I have accepted 'Depression' also. ]
1Q. This ship was wrecked in 1799 carrying with it a cargo of Gold bullion
off the coast of Holland. Her salvaged bell was presented to Lloyds of
London where it was hung outside its London headquarters. Traditionally this
Bell has been rung ever since to mark a marine disaster when an insured ship
sinks.Now it's rung for big market news: once for bad news, twice for
good.What is the name of the bell ?
2Q. In 1959 Haloid ,later Xerox,introduced the Model 914, the first fully
automated photocopier. It was the company's first commercial success.Why was
it was called the 914 ?
2A. Because it could handle paper up to 9 x 14" in size (legal size).
5Q. What does the mammoth $11-billion A3XX project attempt to build?
5A A3XX superjumbo jet aircraft ,Airbus' rival to Boeing's Jumbo,a
555-seat aircraft.
6A Oxygen
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Round 2
2Q.BSA makers of BSA SLR cycles in India and some other countries and the
famous Triumph model of bikes
was formed in 1863 and a factory was built at a small heath on the edge of
an English town.
What does BSA SLR stand for ?
Clue : their original established business !
3Q.Whats common to :
Aspirin, Brassiere, Cellophane, Corn Flakes, Escalator, Granola, Gunk,
Heroin, Jungle Gym, Kerosene, Linoleum, Raisin Bran, Shredded Wheat,
Tabloid, Thermos, Touch-tone, Trampoline, Yo-yo and Zipper.
3A Words which were once trademarks and which have gone the way of "cola,"
that is, former trademarks that have been ruled (legally) descriptive words,
and therefore, no longer owned by the companies or individuals who invented
them.
4Q.A Bndictine monk born in France and lived between 1639 and 1715 ; known
for his brilliant mind, he was for 47 years, Prosecutor and Administrator of
the Cellars of the abbey of Hautvilliers near Reims since he was a wine
expert.
Although blind, he was endowed with an outstanding sense of smell and
palate.
Having understood the importance of pressure in wine making due to carbon
dioxide, he pioneered the use of bottles made of thicker glass and better
corks secure with a wire.
Who ?
4A Dom Prignon
6Q.Edmund McIlhenny came up with this brand name which some scholars say is
a Central American Indian word that means "Land where the soil is hot and
humid." while others say it means "place of coral or oyster shell".Its also
the name of a Mexican state.What ?
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Round 3
1A Reuters
2Q. Eleanor Velasco Thornton had bewitching beauty, intellect and esprit -
but not the social status which might have permitted her to marry the man
with whom she had fallen in love - Lord John Walter Edward-Scott-Montagu who
was a pioneer of automobilism in England and from 1902 editor of the
illustrated magazine The Car. Eleanor V Thornton was employed as his
secretary. On Lord Montagu's order,his friend the sculptor Charles S Sykes
created a special mascot for his car
The small statue illustrated a young woman in fluttering robes having placed
one forefinger to her lips. The sculptor chose Eleanor Thornton as model for
this figurine, which was christened "The Whisper". How do we now know this
statue ?
3A GRATEFUL DEAD
(see pic)
4Q. In 1974 the first working prototype came into being and a patent
application was initially drafted.
The creator was a lecturer at the Department of Interior Design at the
Academy of Applied Arts and Crafts in Budapest Hungary.He had a passionate
interest in geometry, in the study of 3D forms, in construction and in
exploring the hidden possibilities of combination of forms and materials.In
the course of his teaching, he preferred to communicate his ideas by the use
of actual models, made from paper, cardboard, wood or plastic, challenging
his students to experiment by manipulating clearly constructed and easily
interpreted forms.
What did he create ?
5Q. In 1977 this 59 story Tower opened in Manhattan for a mere $175
million.it was extremely light for its size and included many new
engineering innovations.
The tower's designers were faced with a unique challenge - St. Peter's
Lutheran Church was located at one corner of the building site and the
church agreed to allow the rights to build in the air above the church, but
not the ground that it stood on.
The Engineers simply cut off the corner support of the building, so that the
building would hover some seventy-two feet out over the church and removed
all four corner supports on the building.
A student of architecture casually discovered the flaw and reported to the
owners of the building.
Wind tunnel tests with a scale model of the tower determined that the
building had a 50% chance of blowing down if exposed to a sustained
windspeed of 70 mph for five minutes - the type of wind that statistically
occurs every sixteen years - in a hurricane.
Since the building was so light, it had a tendency to sway a great deal in
the wind. So the designers devised a device known as a tuned mass damper to
moderate the tower's sway. The damper was the first of its kind and relied
on Newton's First Law - the principle of inertia. The damper consists of a
400 ton concrete block that slides on a steel pan that is filled with oil.
Backup generators were installed for the damper to insure that it would not
fail during a blackout.
6Q. Give the name of the person that connects all these :
Jumbo ;
Throwing your hat in the ring ;
Grandstanding ;
Let's get the show on the road ;
The Greatest Show on Earth ;
Siamese Twins ;
Rain or Shine ;
A sucker is born every minute.
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Round 4
1Q. Cuba : early part of the 19th century. A wine merchant named Don Facundo
________Mass emigrated from Spanish Catalonia to the handsome colonial city
of Santiago de Cuba.
At the time, this product was something once reserved for Caribbean pirates.
It was not used by polite society or sold in fine establishments.
To provide his product to the general public,he purchased a small tin roofed
distillery containing a copper and cast iron alembic. In the rafters of the
first distillery lived a colony of fruit bats. Considered a sign of good
fortune, the bats were allowed to stay and employed as the trademark for the
product till date.
Clue ? picture - Bat.jpg
2Q. Oscars 1954 : "A Star is Born" was Judy Garland's great comeback-musical
after MGM cancelled her contract in 1950.Garland was nominated for a best
actress Oscar, which however was won by Grace Kelly for "The Country Girl".
Groucho Marx' made a statement regarding the loss of Garland's Oscar which
alluded to "the crime of the century",one of the biggest capers that was
ever pulled off .
On January 17, 1950, a group of armed robbers walked away from from 165
Prince Street in Boston, with $1,218,211.19 in cash and more than
$1.5-million in checks, money orders and other securities.It was a textbook
robbery the largest in U.S. history at the time. There had been seven
robbers all wearing Navy P-coats, gloves and caps, and Halloween masks as
well as rubbers and crepe-soled shoes.
2A Brinks ! "The biggest robbery since Brinks' " was Marx's statement
3Q. He and his brother forged notable careers for themselves in the East
India Company's service. He rose to become Governor of Madras,India and from
there in 1689 he sent his brother Thomas on what was the Company's first
direct trading mission to China, paving the way for the eventual opening up
of that unknown country to the Company's traders. Although his brother was
later disgraced, he returned to America with the fortune that he had amassed
in India, to start what institution ?
4A "Robber Barons"
5Q. An old nickname for a set of bankers who were reputed to be the
money-masters of the world and involved in foreign exchange speculation,this
slang came into popularity by Great Britain's Labour ministers,esp.Prime
Minister Harold Wilson, during the 1964 sterling crisis,, who claimed that
"They had more power than all the governments of Europe together". He fought
them off for three years before he eventually had to devalue sterling in
1967.
Hint : These bankers are sometimes referred to as this also because many of
the banks store mountains of gold in underground vaults.
5A "Gnomes of Zurich"
Referring to financial and banking people of Zurich, Switzerland who have a
lot of power and prestige, they control all the Banks, Lending and Exchange
institutions, and have aristocratic levels of wealth and power. They have
invested in and own several vineyards, mechanical manufacturing operations ,
quarries, and even a few of the famed Helvetian mercenary companies. These
gnome families tend to very ruthless, cold, and ambitions
6A Tetris
The traditional puzzle Pentomino required placement of 12 different-shaped
pieces formed out of five squares to be arranged in a certain order in a
box. He realized the 12-5 combination was too much for real time, so he
reduced the program to seven shapes of four square blocks. Thus the name
Tetris, taken from tetra, the Greek word for "four." It took him only two
weeks to program the prototype.
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Round 5
1Q. First developed by Hormel in 1926 X was called ''the Miracle Meat'', and
promoted as an anytime meat. In 1940, it was the subject of quite possibly
the first singing commercial. The jingle was to the tune of the chorus of
''My Bonny Lies Over The Ocean'', and the lyrics were :
'X X X X
Hormel's new miracle meat in a can
Tastes fine, saves time
If you want something grand
Ask for X !''.
Nikita Kruschev credits X with the survival of the Russian Army during WWII.
Identify X ?
1A SPAM
Thats where we get the word for unsolicited bulk E-mail !
3Q. At the young age of 16 his father sent him away to serve as a seamen on
board the sailing ship Carvo to keep him out of trouble. While on board he
made observations of the ships Capstan which is a mechanical device
connected to the ship that is used to lift heavy objects onto and from the
ship.
Upon returning to the United States from his duty on the Carvo he began
producing wooden toy models of his invention.
To augment his income Colt assumed the title "Dr" even tho' he could hardly
read or spell and went on a traveling tour as far away as India and London
to give demonstrations on Nitrous Oxide (laughing gas).
By 1836 he had patents in England, France and the US for his product.
In 1873 his company produced the most famous of their products which was
also known on the western front as the "Equalizer".
4Q. In 1971 Nolan Bushnell designed the first commercial arcade video game
called "Computer Space" which was not a big success.Next year he founded
this company,named after an attack cry in the Japanese strategy game of GO
Seiki,with a $250 initial investment in Sunnyvale, California and launched
the Pong arcade game craze.
Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak the founders of Apple computer worked for this
firm in 1974.
In 1976 it was sold by Bushnell to Warner Inc. for $28 million and in '93 it
became Time-Warner Interactive.Bushnell later founded the Chuck E Cheese
chain of childrens restaurants.Which company are we talking about ?
4A Atari Inc
6A Now known as the Chiquita Brand International - known for its brand name
Bananas and for its mascot. The Banana Company's power over countries made
them " Banana Republics".
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Round 6
1Q. In the late 1960's,Burroughs, GE, RCA, Honeywell, NCR, Sperry Rand (or:
Univac), Control Data (or: CDC) were the smaller companies competing with
IBM.What popular nickname was used to refer to these companies.
1A Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs - Snow White being IBM.
3Q. Paris has a private school , ESLSCA, which has a curriculum that sounds
more like James Bond than the Harvard Business School.
Its tucked down a side street near the military academy Napoleon once
attended ; director Harbulot used to work for a subsidiary of the French
arms export agency and got its help to launch the school in 1997. One of his
lecturers is retired General Jean Pichot-Duclos, former head of the French
military intelligence school.
Access to the school is through a storefront with an unmarked door and
Venetian blinds blocking the view through the front window. What does the
school teach beleived to be the first of its kind dedicated to this subject
?
4Q. Up through the end of World War I,Aspirin (with a capital A) was
actually the trademark of Bayer Corporation.
However, following Germany's defeat, Bayer was forced to give up two
trademarks as part of the country's war reparations. The trademarks were
actually given up at the Treaty of Versailles to France, England, Russia,
and the United States in 1919.
What was the other trademark that has now become a generic name ?
5Q. At the close of the Civil War, between one third and one half of all
U.S. currency in circulation was counterfeit. On July 5, 1865, this body was
created as a bureau under the Department of Treasury to combat this threat
to the nation's economy. Within less that a decade, counterfeiting was
sharply reduced.
Today, this body continues to suppress the counterfeiting of currency and
securities of the United States and of foreign governments; is responsible
for investigating the fraud and forgery of U.S. checks, bonds, and other
obligations;examining fraud related to false identification documents and
devices; fraud and related activities involving credit and debit cards;
investigative authority relating to computer fraud; and at the direction of
the Secretary of the Treasury, authorization to investigate fraud associated
with the electronic funds transfer system of the U.S. Treasury. In 1990,
Congress further expanded its jurisdiction regarding criminal violations
against federally insured financial institutions to include savings and loan
investigations.
Which body are we talking about ?
6Q. VW was offered to England as war reparations after WW2.England and its
business people rejected it then on what grounds ?
_________________________________________________________________
Q1. To start with a sitter, this company is a joint
venture of Times Group & Citi Group. Name the
companyand its CEO.
### Times onLine money Ltd.CEO is Raj Kapoor.
No correct answer.Most of you have answered
Timesofmoney.com, which is actually the website URL of
the company. However I have allowed 0.5 points for
that answer.
Q2. Which was the first domestic Air service in
Indiawhen and in which route?
### India State Air Service. They started domestic
passenger flight between Karachi and Delhi in 1929.
Tatas started their liner in 1931.No correct hit.
Q3. In India the first two largest premium soap brands
are Liril & Dettol. Which brand comes third?
@@@ Margo!!! Can you believe it? Almost unanimous
answer was Lux, but that is wrong. nobody answered
right
Q4. In USA, which organisation formulates the policy
for the uniform domain name dispute resolutions?
### ICANN ( The Internet Corporation for assigned
names and numbers ). Six correct hits.
Q5. This TV Channel recently bagged a total of 16
awards (seven gold & nine silver) for creative
excellence at the annual Promax and BDA Asia awards
for the year 2000. Name the channel.
### MTV.Five correct entries. Other favourite answer
was STAR.
Q6. According to a survey carried out by Sheraton
Hotels in US, Hamberger, Chicken Sandwich, Chicken
Caesar Salad and Cobb Salad are at No.2,3,4 & 5 spots
of popularity in business lunch. Which one enjoysNo.1
spot?
### Club Sandwich. Pizza and Coke were most received
entries.No correct entry.
Q7. Bombay Chemicals Limited manufactures Tortoise
Mosquito Repellent by BIO-HS formula. What does HS
signify? (hints : Natural).
### Herbal Strength.I have given marks to Anuradha
Ramachandran and B Narayanan as they were close.
Somebody suggested Horrible Smell. Good try but no
marks.
Q8. What is common among Strauss, Vantage, Tiffany,
Florence, Rossete, Aruba and Grandiose? ( hints
:lifestyle comfort.)
### These are models of bathtubs made out of imported
acrylic sheets unveiled recently by Hindustan
Sanitaryware and Industries.Only S Pramod Bilgiri gave
the correct answer.Good answer
Q9. In Foreign capital market, what do Samurai,
Yankee& Bulldog signify?.
### These are bonds issued by nonresidents in Japanese
Yen, US$ and British pound in Japan,USA and UK. Most
have answered more or less correctly.
Q10. Popeye, Red devil & Iron man are products ofwhich
establishment?
### These are name of Pizzas available in Pizza
Corner. Nobdy answered it right! I thought we all are
pizzaconscious.
Q11. Which well known magazine has Inderjit Badhwar as
editor in Chief? (hints : up..up.up)
### SWAGAT of Indian Airlines. Few have answered
Debonair. I don't know...
Q12. She is the founder and artistic director
Brumhlata Intercultural story-telling company based in
Birmingham. In 1994 she completed Europes first
doctorate in performance storytelling from the
University of Leads. What is her name?
### Vayu Naidu. I am happy that Anuradha Ramachandran
answerd it ccorrectly. Congrats!!
Q13. This company in India manufactures fire resistant
Dhotis. Name the company? ( hints : Govinda
aalare)
### Aala Textiles.S N Rameshkumar is right.Welldone
SNR. Popular answer was Rupa , Govinda connection? )
Q14. Pope John Paul is considering naming him as
patron saint of Internet users and
computerprogrammers. Who is he?
### A difficult one. Saint Isidore OF Seville. He
lived in the seventh century and is believed to have
written world's first encyclopaedia, the etymology. No
correct entry.
Q15. NEC Corporation and Nippon Sheet Glass Company
Ltd are the only two companies in this Giant Japanese
group, which do not have the founders name. Name
thegroup?
### Sumitomo. Sudhir Sunder Shetty and M J Pawnday
gave correct answer.
Q16. Only three companies in India manufacture
High-tech Autocalved Aerated Concrete blocks which is
gaining popularity in construction Industry. Two of
them are Ballarpur Industries Limited & B.G.
ShirkeLimited. Name the third.
### Hyderabad Industries Ltd ( of C K Birla).Only B
Narayanan gave correct reply. Good answer.Manu chose
L&T..good try...
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As per BT-Noble & Hewitt study 2001, on best employers
in India, the company that come at No.1is.........Name
the company & the MD.
( Hints : No hint required......pretty obvious).
### INFOSYS, NANDAN NILEKANI
Most of you have named the company correctly, but many
of you have WRONGLY chosen N R Narayanamurthy as MD
2. JURWA DO
Top food company Nestle India Limited manufacture
Nescafe & Sunrise Coffee in two locations. One
isatMoga, Punjab.
Name the second location.( Hints :
Templetown.......... )
# Boris Becker
# Nike
4. Which ad has the slogan (S. O. _?_) - We Need Blood (The S, O is drawn in
blood, and the last letter is another S but is barely seen...)
# Tea (CTC)
# US Open
# The Nike swoosh. Apparantley she went back to Nike for a second round of
ad campagining.
# 3-M
12. A sitter (and i being the fool did not remember at the reckoning hour!)
... what specification comes under ISI-1?
# Time Magazine
14. In operation desert storm, what in god's name did Saudi Arabia import in
HUGE quantities to solve the 'sand problem'?
# Condoms
15. Connect Hobscraft Hotel and Slavey Hall (Spellings again... my apologies
in case of incorrect spellings).
# DELL
17. What are the international market code RELId^NS and BDYNd^NS (think
carefully!)
# They are the ADR/GDR codes for Reliance Industries and Bombay Dyeing. the
d^NS is the National Stock Exchange's international ticker code and RELI and
BDYN are the respective ticker codes. Many people guessed Reliance... fluke
fluke fluke :) One person ... can't remember who got it exactly right.
18. How much will a crorepathi on KBC take home after the Budget is passed?
# 12,000 Crores
3) K V Kamath made history by ringing a bell in New York. What history was
created by K V Kamath's Company in an Asian context ?
Answer: ICICI is the first Indian company to be listed in NYSE (second
Indian company after Infosys to be listed in the US Stock market- Infosys is
on Nasdaq) and the first Asian Company outside of Japan to be listed in
NYSE. Its ADS was oversubscribed 6 times.ICICI chief K V Kamath also made
history on NYSE by becoming the first Indian CEO to ring the bell to
commence trading on the world's largest stock exchange.
5) Name the company which markets the ' Top Ramen ' brand of noodles which
is a contender to Nestle's Maggi Noodles ?
Answer: Indo Nissin Foods. Recently they have signed Shah Rukh Khan for two
years to market their new flavours. However if you were to see a pack of '
TOP RAMEN' noodles it has marketed by Marico Industries Ltd written on it .
Actually it is only the distribution which is undertaken by Marico and the
marketing and production is done by Indo Nissin Foods
7) One more chip question. one of Intel's competitor's AMD has developed a
chip equivalent to ' 7x86' or k7. what is this chip called?
Answer: Athlon
"Internet section"
9) One of the companies at the forefront of internetworking is Sun
Microsystems. Who were the founders of this company?
Answer: Andy Bechtolsheim, Bill Joy, Scott Mcnealy and Vinod Khosla.
"Personality section"
10) Simple one, Who is George Gilder?
Answer: According to many, George Gilder is a "net- age guru" and his major
area of work is in the 'marriage' of Internet and telecommunications. He
has also propounded what is known as Gilder's Law. (What's this law is , may
be in some other Jigyasa you'll find the answer !!) and hence a lot of his
current occupations have come into being like "George Gilder is a Senior
Fellow at the Discovery Institute and Contributing Editor and Founder of the
magazine Forbes ASAP. He is the author of ten books, including Life After
Television, which was published in 1990 and revised in 1994. His forthcoming
book, Telecosm, is a far-reaching look at opportunities associated with the
Information Superhighway."
UTI once had a scheme for the benefit of minor girls. As per this scheme,
the girl child below the age of one year on an investment of Rs.1000 was due to
get Rs.21000 on attaining the age of 21 years. In this scheme, the girl child
would have got 17% annual interest. Which scheme am I referring to ?
Ans: Rajlakshmi
Imported until March 2000, the first diesel export by India started with
Reliance Petroleum Ltd. shipping 34000 tonnes to this country.
Ans: Bangladesh.
A Print ad shows a man in a business suit with his mouth taped up with
post-its and says: "To turn a few heads during a meeting you dont really need
a mobile phone. Call it being considerate, if you like it. At ________ , we
call it Mobile manners". Fill in the blank with the brand name.
Ans: Nokia
AOL-Time Warner was the common answer. Though AOL is a part of this group, I
was looking for a specific answer. Hence no points to those who had answered
AOL-TimeWarner. Sounds a little harsh????
Coca-Cola will soon be launching its ready-to-drink coffee and tea in the
Indian market with a common brand name. Give the name.
Ans: Georgia
Vertis from Voltas are "Acs with IQ". What does this IQ stand for ?
Ans: Intelligent Qooling
Which Indian company owns Revive, Mediker, Oil of Malabar and Top Ramen ?
Ans: There is a mistake in this question as rightly pointed out by Rohit.
Revive, Mediker and Oil of Malabar are owned by Marico whereas Top Ramen is
owned by Indo-Nissin foods but is being marketed and distributed by Marico
since July 1998. Rohit gets a 0.5 point bonus for his effort.
Name the low fare airline in Australia that is owned by Richard Branson ?
> 8. U've heard of e-commerce, i-commerce and then m-commerce. Now what is
> g-commerce?
> Answer: G-Commerce The online market for human genome research data and
> gene data-mining tools
>
> 9. Which web browser supports xhtml, xml and the editing of documents
> online apart from the normal surfing ? Hint: it is supposed to do be what
> Tim Berners Lee wanted web browsers to do
> Answer: amaya is a browser/editor and hence it also allows to edit the
> html page. tim berners lee originally visualized that web browser should
> have this feature but earlier browsers like mozilla did not become as
> popular as netscapes and ies of the web world. but now the w3c is
> developing amaya ( currently ver. 3.1 available) .....really cool
> software....and ya, its free... check it out at w3c.org/amaya
>
>
> 10. Who is father of "market-driven strategy"?
> Answer: George S Day - Professor of Marketing at Wharton and Author of the
> book by the same name
2. " __________ _____- 6,500 feet above the ordinary''. So goes the
millennium promo for what is reckoned to be the first-ever generic brand
blitz of this beverage.
What is the beverage we are talking about.
Hint : The brand is geographically linked and the campaign is pretty
prominent on TV
Answer: Darjeeling Teas
7. What is common between S B Billimoria & Co, CC Chokshi & Co, Fraser &
Ross and PC Hansotia & Co ? We know that all of them are Consulting firms
but there is something more than that which is the binding force between
these 4 firms.
Answer: All these firms will now operate under the name of Deloitte Haskins
and Sells as member firm of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu (DTT) in India. This
heralds the entry of DTT, one of the 'big five' international accounting and
consulting firms into India.
1. The Reserve Bank Governor Bimal Jalan recently announced the credit
policy for 2000 -2001. The credit policy however occurs at 2 times every
year - 1st Half & 2nd Half. Each of these credit policies are referred to
differently. What are the credit policies called and why are they called so?
Answer: Busy Season Credit Policy(October) and the Slack Season Credit
Policy( April ), which are named so because the April - September period is
where most of the GDP growth occurs and the money supply is the highest,
whereas Oct - March period is relatively weak. This GDP growth is fuelled by
the harvest season in October-March and the lots of work being generated in
the economy.
5. What is the Baleno called in U.S.A ( Suzuki does'nt run the same
Japanese/ European Ads in U.S ) ?
Answer: The Esteem
6. There is no word which is more misused today than 'New Economy' . Our
company even managed to make us work on May Day since we operate in the New
Economy. Who however is the person credited with coining the term 'New
Economy '?
Answer: Alan Greenspan
9. What famous brand of cosmetics derives its name from the latin word
meaning snowwhite and was founded by Oskar Troplowitz in 1911 ?
Answer: Nivea
10. Tarla Dalal does not own the Tarla Dalal brand name as far as food
products go. Name the company which owns the Tarla Dalal name in India ?
Answer: International Bestfoods formerly CPC (Corn Products Company
)......... incidentally the company is called Bestfoods in U.S.A and
International Bestfoods in India
> 1. In the 80's Brooke Bond tried to diversify into a totally new product
> category and failed miserably. What is the product category?
>
> Two wheelers.........scooters.....well i didnt believe it either....only
one
> got close
>
> 2. This comany launched India's first detergent powder in the 50's? Name
the
> company and the name of the brand of detergent powder?
>
> Swastik Oil Mills...........DET
>
> 3. David Ogilvy...a favourite of most quiznet members.....said that two
> words can be there In all product promotions.....which two words?
>
> New & Free
>
> 4. In competition with Nirma, Surf rapidly lost market share from 53% in
> 1976 to 8.4 in 1987. HLL launched two detergents to compete with Nirma
> one of them is the 2nd largest selling detergent in the market
> today.....name the two brands of detergents.
>
> Sunlight & Wheel......Wheel is the second largest selling detergent
>
> 5. What is the DAGMAR model in advertising.....and who is responsible for
> it?
>
> Defining Adverising Goals for Measured Advertising Results
> Given by Russle Colley
>
> 6. Which two people are responsible for the concept of positioning? (a
> sitter)
>
> Al Reis and Jack Trout
>
> 7. Lintas is one of the top ten advertising agencies in the
world.......what
> is the full form of LINTAS?
>
> Levers Internal or International Advertising Agency
>
> 8. Which famous Golfer has been the spokesman for Motorola ( another
sitter)
>
> Lee Trevino
>
> 9. In 1994, the chairman and co-founder of Saactchi of Saactchi &
Saactchi
> was forced to resign due to his extravagent lifestyle but he did not
go
> quitely.......in 1995 he formed his own agency.....and forced hor
brother
> Charles the President of Saactchi & Saactchi and three other
excecutives
> to join him also taking a lot of accounts from the agency......what
did
> he name the agency and what was it later changed to?
> (Well I guess this answers the most answered question in my earlier
quiz)
>
> The New saactchi Agency later changed to M&C Saactchi Agency
>
> 10. Chait/Day a small asvertising agency has been responsible for a ad
> campaigns like Nissan Altima, Energiser Bunny and the famous Apple
> Macintosh 1984........name the creative genius behind these ad
campigns.
>
> Lee Clow.........not Ridley Scott
>
> 1. What was the first product of the Godrej Plant in Vikhroli, Mumbai in
> 1952 ? (Hint: It is one of the sources of so much violence in this country
> !)
> Answer: Ballot Boxes.....c'mon guys, I gave u the hint ! ( Many people
> wrote Locks and Safes.)
>
> 2. What was the 'first/innovation' about the packaging of the Wrigley's
> chewing gum sold at Troy, Ohio on 26th June, 1974 at 8:01 am ? (Hint: It
> is a very commonplace thing today. )
> Answer: Bar Codes....as opposed to aluminium foil packaging ! (Only M
> Sunay and S V Sriram had a crack at this Q.)
>
> 3. The largest chunk of Pepsico's revenues (44%) in the US do not come
> from the sale of Pepsi Cola. Where do they come from then ? (Hint: Quite a
> few of you guys would have contributed in this reveneue of Pepsico !)
> Answer: Pizza Hut, Taco Bell, Frito Lays...the food and restaurant
> business
>
>
> 4. Which company offered pop star Bruce Springsteen US$ 123 million for
> use of his song Born in the USA for their advertising in the mid-1980's ?
> (By the way, Springsteen rejeted the offer !)
> Answer: Chrysler Corporation...now, DaimlerChrysler (Narahari Nayak and
> Kaushik Sundaram were the only guys who cracked this Q. Vibhendu wrote
> 'Chevrolet', which was pretty close, although wrong, and I gave him 0.5
> mark for that.)
>
>
> 5. MTV uses the catchline Enjoy ! for its promotions in India. What two
> word phrase is used by them in the East Asian region ?
> Answer: MTV - I Like ! (Only M Sunay and M Madhu knew this one. Keep it
> up !).
>
>
> 6. It is widely claimed as one of the hottest techniques for Supply Chain
> Management. It is called RFID. What exactly is RFID ?
> Answer: Radio Frequencey Identification Device
>
> 7. Simple one (sitter) this one. There is a major controversy going on
> regardign Napster in the newspapers and the magazines ? What is Napster ?
> Answer: Napster is a freely downloadable software that you can use to
> share your MP3 files with anyone on the Net. Developed by Shawn
> Fawning, A freshman at Northeastern Univ., Napster has generated a lot of
> controversy 'coz it allows users to access any MP3 file and download it
> without the recording company or the artiste getting any royalty.
> Recently, Mettalica generated a lot of flame on the Net 'coz of their
> vociferous campaign against Napster's illegal distribution of their music.
> (The answer is courtsey Shibani from Graycell. Thanx Shibani. Piyush
> Raithatha & Ravi Yadavilli also replied in detail.)
>
>
> 8. Charles Schultz, in his popular comic strip, Peanuts, coined two famous
> phrases. One of them is 'Good Grief'. Which is the other one ? (Hint: It
> is a current business jargon).
> Answer: Security Blanket
>
>
> 9. Which bank has coined the phrase " Doorstep Banking " in its aggressive
> promotion of its banking services in India recently ?
> Answer: ABN-Amro Bank (Faridur R Choudhury, Deepak Parmeshwaran,
> Vibhendu, Kaushik Sundaran, Ravish Singh......only these guys could crack
> this one.)
>
> 10. What word was coined in 1826 by the then future British Prime
> Minister, Benjamin Disraeli to describe the new industrialists and the
> fortunes they were piling up due to the growth of textile mills in England
> ?
> Answer: Millonaire
1. Which brand has its origins way back in 1865, when a Finnish mining
> engineer named Frederick Idestam established a wood-pulp mill in Southern
> Finland, till major diversifications in the latter part of the 20th
> century made it a leader in its current field ?
>
> Ans: Nokia
>
> 2. Which well known South India based retail chain is planning the
> launch of men's garments under the brand-name 'Asegai' ?
>
> Ans: Nalli's (The Nalli Chinnasami Chetty Group - Dealt with Kanchi Silk
> Sarees so far.)
>
>
>
> 3. The frequent flyer programme of Indian Airlines is called 'Flying
> Returns'. What is the frequent flyer programme of Jet Airways called ?
>
> Ans: JET PRIVILEGE
>
>
> 4. In which recent print ad would you encounter photographs of Bill
> Clinton, Michael Jordan, Steffi Graph, Nelson Mandela, Steve Jobs, Amartya
> Sen, Jack Welch among other with the bold copy reading ' There are people
> you can reach even more important and inaccessible than these. Your
> Customers ' ?
>
> Ans: Oracle's e-Business advertisements
>
>
> 5. This famous magazine was started in 1953. Surprisingly the first issue
> did not have a date, since the founder was not sure if there will be a
> second issue and when it'll be published. Name this magazine.
>
> Ans: Playboy
>
> 6. Following the huge success of Hotmail and its eventual sellout to
> Microsoft, what is the name of the new venture planned by Sabeer Bhatia ?
>
> Ans: Arzoo! inc.
>
> 7. What indispensable aid to modern managers was first used by Roy
> Tomlinson of Bolt, Beranek & Newman - a Cambridge, Massachusetts based
> firm of consulting engineers, in the 1950's ?
>
> Ans: Email (Bolt, Beranek & Newman (now part of GTE) was involved in the
> development of the ARPANET - the precursor to the internet - and in fact
> takes credit for creating the @ for use in all email addresses. They the
> first email using SNDMSG.)
>
>
> 8. Shekhar Kapoor's 'Bandit Queen' used an innovative marketing strategy
> for the first time in India to woo a certain section of the audience.
> Later the same strategy was followed during the screening of 'Kamasutra' ?
>
> Ans: Seperate shows for women
>
> 9. 'What Productivity Means Today.' is a powerful baseline under which
> a new product has been launched recently by Microsoft. Name the product?
>
> Ans: Microsoft Office 2000
>
> 10. Which brand of vehicle recently advertised their introduction of
> battery operated three-wheelers in Delhi with the bold copy reading,
> 'Presenting the Only vehicle in Delhi that Doesn't Smoke' ?
>
> Ans: Mahindra Bijlee (Scooter's India VIDHYUT was also launched at the
> same time but it got into commercial production before Mahindra Bijlee.)
>
1) In 1950s a guy called Harry Pickup invented something which
>later
> > on has become the market leader in its product category. The name
>of
> > this brand is hidden in Harry pickup's name. tell me the brand name
> > Ans: HARPIC (most of us got it )
> > 2) Action shoes a famous Indian brand name we all know about it but
> > do u know who is the manufacturer of these shoes?
> > Ans: Apmi Polymers ( no one got it)
> > 3)While standing in a Bank waiting for his turn this guy thought of
> > something revolutionary which is now very popullar. Tell me the
>name
> > of this guy and what idea struck him?
> > Ans: DON NETZEN and ATM
> > 4)This Japanese brand means WE in the local language and aims at
> > perfection and precision in its ad? ( I hope many of u will get it )
> > ANS: HITACHI
> > 5) The son of Italian immigrants, this man rose through the ranks
> > (first in Engineering and then in Marketing) of Ford Motor Company,
> > becoming its president. He was fired several years later in an ego
> > clash with Henry Ford II, after which he joined the ailing Chrysler
> > Motor Company and turned it around. A few years ago, he had to step
> > down from the board of Chrysler as well. Name this charismatic
> > Detroit legend. ( LONG BUT A EASY ONE)
> > Ans: LEE Iacooca
> > 6) One related to jargons who gave the concept of SIPs explain the
> > term and the person who gave it
> > ANS: ANDY GROOVE and Strategic Inflection Points
> > 7)You must have heard of Killer Loop brand of sunglasses why it is
> > called killer loop?
> > Ans: Because of its shape which Resmbles killer loop
> > 8)Mont Blanc is coming up with new series of pens called 4156
>series
> > what does 4156 stands for?
> > HEgiht of Mont Blanc
> > 9)The name was originally used by the Chiswick Soap Company,
>London,
> > for a perfumed toilet soap packed in a tin. After a period of non-
>use
> > the name was revived for similarly packed another product
> > manufactured by the same firm, with the name being registered in
> > 1903. The firm was later acquired by Reckitt & Coleman. Name the
> > product and the brand name.
> > Ans; Cherry Blossom
> > 10)Which is the first brand to be advertised on U.S television?
> > Ans; Ivory Soap
2. What is the theory according to which some investors will buy stock even
if it is over-valued, on the conviction that there will be someone else who
will buy the stock from them at higher prices ?
3. This is a question that had some of the best quizzers in Madras rueing
the fact that they bid for the question in a bidding round of a the 'CVALS'
Quiz conducted by Team Jigyasa some time back.
Here is the background.......Ray Kroc mortgaged his home and invested his
entire life savings to become the exclusive distributor of a five-spindled
milk shake maker. Hearing about the McDonald's hamburger stand in California
running eight of these mixers at a time, he packed up his car and headed
West. It was 1954. He was 52 years old. Ray Kroc had never seen so many
people served so quickly when he pulled up to take a look. Seizing the day,
he pitched the idea of opening up several restaurants to the brothers Dick
and Mac McDonald, convinced that he could sell eight of his mixers to each
and every one. "Who could we get to open them for us?" Dick McDonald said.
"Well," Kroc answered, "what about me?"
Now the real question ........ What brand name did Ray Kroc use to sell his
five-spindled milk shake maker ?
4. The first product made by this company was a car record player. They gave
themselves a name similar to the name of the market leader in record players
in those days. Name the company? (Hint : The company which was the market
leader no longer exists whereas the company in question is a household name
worldwide.)
Ans: The market leader in record players was Victrola. The new guys were
focussing on car record players specifically, and so called themselves
Motorola
5. "Novell dons Denim !" A few months back Novell Inc. rolled out a
blueprint for its next-generation, directory - based applications called
DENIM which is to be the Architecture for network services that leverage
Novell Directory Services ( NDS ) but runs on multiple platforms. What does
the acronym DENIM stand for ?
Ans: Bo Dereks are bonds that will mature in 2010 ( since these were issued
when the movie "10" starring Bo Derek was doing the rounds in the theatres),
and James Bonds are those that will mature in 2007.
7. Some guys broke off from Madura Coats and came together as Indus League
(the apparel company). Similarly, a group of executives recently quit Titan
Watches (Tanishq Division). What is the name of their startup ? (Hint: This
startup is opening up a chain of stores on and off the Web in the area of
jewellery and women's accessories.)
Ans: Oyzterbay
8. Which air conditioner company advertised a few months back with the bold
copy,'We gave the world the bullet train. The least we can give you is a
superior air-conditioner' ?
Ans: Hitachi
Ans: Infosys
10. OK guys, a sitter.....In the 1800's, a gold miner named Alkali Ike had
the habit of stuffing the Levi's pants pockets with ore samples, so much so
that the pockets would frequently rip open. Ike was constantly taking his
Levi's to his tailor, Jake Davis, to have then resewn. What invention did
Jake Davis eventually come up with to solve the problem ?
Ans: After several resewings, Davis took Ike's torn pants to the local
blacksmith and had him put rivets at the pocket corners. It worked, Davis
later took his idea to Levi Strauss and they decided to become partners in a
patent for Levi's pant with riveted pockets
1. For how many US Dollars, did Bill Gates purchased Hotmail from Sabeer
Bhatia?
Ans:- It is actually us $ 390 milion, most of u except one answered $ 400
million
2. how did the name netscape come into use &who invented this name?
ans: Marc Andreesen (original name was mozilla comunication
corporation)
4. Name the Man who landed on Moon, other than Armstrong and Aldrin.
ans: Michael Collins
19. Who is person who has climbed Mt. Everest 10th times?
ans: On 24th may 2000 APPA SHERPA climbed the everest for
the 11th time. RITA SHERPA and BABU CHIRI SHERPA
have climbed 10 times.
> 1) This one is an absolute sitter for cricket fans.... Name the cricket
> ground on which the maximum number of one-day international matches have
> been hosted?
##### Sharjah Cricket Ground.
most guys got this correct, this venue has hosted more than 100 one day
matches
>
> 2) One more about cricket( I am still a fan of cricket despite the fixing
> charges)..... The pitch-roller at Eden Gardens in Calcutta has a
> particular name. Name it?( Hint: An Indian Name)
###Gungadin
few people got this, mostly bemgalis i nopticed
>
> 3) Could not keep comics out....This person was appalled to see the
> influence of foreign cartoon characters in India. To counter this, he
> started his own comic strip, which initially was not quite popular, but he
> gained more popularity with his series on Chacha Choudhary and Sabu. Name
> this person and also the first comic character. (Please give only his
> pen-name)
#### Pran, Shrimatiji
the first part most of u got, but only one got the second part
>
> 4) Complete the series..... Fire, Earth, Sky, Snakes,___________.
> After u get the 5th one, u can easily get the connection of all the five.
####Trident
Well, these are the names of our indigenious missiles developed byDRDO.
Fire-Agni, Earth-Prithvi, Sky-Akash, Snakes-Nag, Trident-Trishul.
only 3 got this correct
the most common answer was water, connection beibng deepa mehta
>
> 5) Some test about Geography.... The city of Timbaktu is located in the
> continent of Africa. Name the country in which it is located?
#####Mali
>
> 6) A trivia on the presenter of KBC..... Amitabh Bachchan lives in a
> spacious bungalow in Mumbai. Name the bungalow.
#### Prateeksha
somebody has pointed out that his bungalow has been sold to recover dues
from ABCL, but now i think after the success of KBC he might get it back
>
> 7) What exactly is the Lyons Range? (KRECians will surely crack this)
### Calcutta StOck Exchange
>
> 8) A test on Hindu mythology.... This person is said to be the reporter of
> Lord Yama and he keeps all the records of a person's soul in a great
> register. (Hint: These two characters were present in the movie
> Taqdeerwala or its Tamil original "Lucky Man")
#### Chitragupta
>
> 9) One more on Mahabharata..... The Kauravas have only one sister,
> Dushala. Who is her husband? (Hint: This person is killed in the war at
> Kurukshetra by Arjun)
#### Jayadratha
he is responsible in being the cause of Abhimanyu's death
>
> 10) One test on astronomy.... In the 11th century, a massive supernova
> explosion took place over the northern hemisphere. the explosion was so
> bright that, for two months, the chinese astronomers noted the presence of
> two suns. it was so bright and it was said that one could read by its
> light during night-time also. but gradually the supernove faded and now,
> what we have left is a very faint remnant. what is the remnant more
> popularly known as? (Hint: it is still visually a great sight to watch)
### Crab Nebula
>
> 11) A test on a personality.... This famous inventor was once punched on
> his ear by a railway officer for some mischief. At that time, this person
> felt a thud in his ear and he heard something snap. but slowly and surely,
> his hearing powers decreased, till by the time he was old, he was nearly
> deaf. But, this did not deter him. He said he was able to concentrate on
> his work more as he would not be distracted easily. Nmae this person.
#### Thomas Alva Edison
>
> 12) A test on Olympics.... So far in all the olympics, all the female
> athletes are tested to ensure that they really are female. But only one
> female athlete was allowed to skip this test. Name this athlete?
### Princess Anne in 76 Olympics for equistrian event
>
> 13) A test on India..... This is the southernmost point of India,
> goegraphically. Name this point? (Hint: This ques was once asked in
> Surabhi and there were actually more wrong answers than right answers)
### Indira Point
>
> 14) A test on Birds....Which bird has the largest wing-span?
### Albatross
>
> 15) To whom did MUL present the keys of the first Maruti that they built
> in India? (Hint: He was not a politician)
### Tirupati Venkateshwara Temple
>
> 15) The actual name of this building is Phiroze Jeejeebhoy Towers. By what
> name do we popularly know it as?
### Mumbai Stock Exchange
>
> 16) Dr.Bhabha was an admirer of this mountain. In fact the day before his
> death in a plane crash, he had told in a interview ot a reporter about the
> beauty of this mountain peak. The next day, his plane crashed into this
> mountain. Name this mountain?
#### Mt.Blanc
>
> 17) If a person is said to be suffering from gymnophobia, what is he
> exactly afraid of?
#### Nudity
>
> 18) After the recent reorganization of states, in which Uttaranchal,
> Chattisgarh and Vananchal have been created, which state is going to be
> the biggest in terms of area?
##### Rajasthan
only 5 got this right
>
> 19) A test on personality....S=k*log(w). This has been inscribed on the
> tombstone of a famous scientist.Who? (We have heard of his most famous
> constant in our 12th standard)
#### Ludwig Boltzmann
actually the eqn in this form was derived by planck
>
> 20) A test on Sherlock... Sherlock Holmes was initially killed by Arthur
> Conan Doyle in his encounter with Dr.Morteimer in this short story. Name
> this story. But due to public demand, he had to bring Holmes back to life
> in the next one. Name this story also.
#### The Final Problem, The Adventure of Empty House
> well, sorry about the mistake on my part. the correct name is
Dr.Moriarty.
1. The first model of photocopiers launched by Xerox was called the Xerox
> 914. The next model to come out was called the Xerox 813. Why were the
> models called 914 and 813 ?
> Ans: Xerox named their first product 914, because it could reproduce
> documents up to 9 in by 14 in. in size. Similarly for 813 (8''x13''). A
> lot of you went on the 14th of September and 13th of August trip which was
> quite good lateral thinking but not quite right.
>
> 2. TIDEL park in Madras, HITEC city in Hyderabad and the International
> Technology Park in Bangalore have become icons for the growth of the
> software industry in India. HITEC however is an acronym - What does it
> stand for ? Hint : It does not stand for High Technology
>
> Ans: Hyderabad Information Technology Engineering Consultancy
>
> 3. Which men's fashion house and former tailor to the Nazi Germany's
> dreaded SS has agreed to pay Pounds 5,00,000 into a compensation fund for
> the jew slave labourers ?
> Ans: Hugo Boss
>
> 4. The unchallenged domination of the Bombay Stock Exchange ( BSE ) over
> stock trading came to an abrupt end when the National Stock Exchange ( NSE
> ) joined the fray in 1994. The launch of NSE promoted National Securities
> Depository Ltd ( NSDL ) in November 1996 was followed by the BSE flagging
> off its own depository last year. What is the name of the BSE promoted
> depository ?
> Ans: Central Depository Services Ltd ( CDSL )
>
> 5. Which international airline operates a Marco Polo Class ?
> Ans: Cathay Pacific
>
>
> 6. It was 1992, a dark time for Honda Motor Company. Its founder, Soichiro
> Honda, had recently died. Rumours were circulating that the company -
> maker of the best engineered Japanese cars - was about to br absorbed by
> its dreaded rival. Bills were piling up from the financial follies of the
> 1980s. The company had no new models and the Japanese economy was heading
> downhill. Nobuhiko Kawamoto, Honda's new boss, did something astonishing,
> painful, symbolic and central to the strategy that has brought Honda back
> to life. What was this surprising and significant act?
>
> Ans: The expected answer is that Nobuhiko Kawamoto axed the Winning
> Formula One Racing division of Honda. (Junta has been expansive about the
> TQM efforts being undertaken, Re-engineering being done there etc,etc. As
> above, points have been awarded only if the F1 division is mentioned in
> the answer. )
>
> 7. Which brand name derives from the Japanese name for the Chinese
> goddess of Fortune ?
> Ans: Canon ( Kwa-Jin, the Chinese goddess of Fortune )
>
> 8. Montenegro adopted which currency sometime back in a bid to further
> their independence from the Federation of Yugosalavia ? What was the
> currency adopted by Montenegro ?
> Ans: Deutsche Mark
>
> 9. Microsoft issues a 'Certificate of Authenticity' to guard against
> counterfeit software. It has a watermark with the image of a woman. Name
> the woman?
> Ans: Ada Lovelace
>
> 10. Universal Music Group, the worlds largest record label, which is owned
> by Seagram Co Ltd is in the news because of the proposed merger of Seagram
> Co Ltd and the French utilities and media group Vivendi . However
> Universal also made news because of the launch of its new digital format
> which hopes to offer a secure system that protects artist copyrights . (
> The Napster trial has helped popularise the launch ). Now the question -
> What is this new format called ?
> Ans: Bluematter ( Many people sent back the technology which is behind
> this initiative but we wanted the commercial name of this technology,
> which is Bluematter. Nonetheless, 0.5 marks have been given to everybody
> who have sent in the technology also - SDMI etc.).
1. We all know that the first Indian talkie was Alam Ara. It was produced by
the Imperial film company and was released on March 14, 1931. Name the
director of this movie.
## Ardershir Irani, though I've given points for Moti Gidwani also, who had
a part in the direction.
3. What unique distinction do the nominations for the following films hold -
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Sleuth and Give them Hell, Harry ?
4. If Pele, Lineker and Maradona all wore the No. 10 on their jerseys, which
number did Dutch superstar Johann Cruyff wear on his shirt ?
## No. 14
5. In which sport did Leander Pace's father Vace Paes represent India ?
## Hockey
6. How many test centuries did Don Bradman score in his career ?
## 29
8. What was the name of the hospital in Hyderabad, where Ronald Ross
identified the carrier of malaria on 20 August 1879 ?
## Begumpet. One Hyderabadi answered the quiz only b'cos of this question.
9. Which was the last Tintin adventure that Herge left unfinished at the
time of his death ?
10. The Hound of the Baskervilles was a cross between bloodhound and which
other dog ?
## Mastiff
1. Which Amitabh Bachchan movie was based on the Hollywood political movie,
'Meet John Doe', directed by John Capra?
2. The symbol of R K movies shows a man with a violin in one hand and a
woman leaning on his other hand. What does the symbol signify?
### It signifies the romance between Raj Kapoor and Nargis. It is also a
scene in the film 'Barsaat'. I have given half points to the mention of only
the movie.
### Vasantsena, no points for prostitute. I had needed the character's name.
4. Dilip Kumar along with Suni Dutt shares a unique honour bestowed on a
citizen. What honour?
### Rajnikanth
7. 'Ma Baker..' of Boney M has been an inspiration for a very famous Hindi
Film song featuring Shahrukh Khan. Name the song.
### 'Sach yeh kahani hai, sun lo meri jaan', from the film "Kabhi Haan Kabhi
Na".
8. In 'Chandni O meri Chandni' number from the film "Chandni", who joins Sri
Devi in the duet?
### Jolly Mukherjee, many answered Rishi Kapoor, but the question was on
music, as the heading might have suggested.
### Parasmani
10. The song 'Chura liya hai tumne jo dil ko', from the film 'Yaadon Ki
Baraat' was composed by R D Burman. Give me the name of the Singer / Music
director who played the famous opening Guitar piece.
### Bhupinder, he had played guitar in the song 'Dum maaro dum' from "Hare
Rama Hare Krishna" also.
1) We will start with his family connection... What is the motto of the
Bond family?
### Orbis Non Sufficit-- this is in latin. i have given 1 mark to those
who have given me the latin version. spelling mistakes have been forgiven,
though i think it should not be allowed, as i do not know whether the
meaning will change in latin.
in english, it can be translated as The World Is Not Enough. 0.5 marks for
those who have given only the english version.
3) According to the book "Death of a President", this bond movie was the
last movie that JFK ever saw on 20th nov'63 in the White House. which
movie are we talking aboout?
### Well, JFK saw " From Russia With Love". it was released at around the
same time of his death.
4) This bond movie was the first was the first such movie to be showed in
the Kremlin. Which movie?
### Most of u got this one wrong.The most common answer was From Russia
With Love.
The correct answer is "The Man With The Golden Gun"
5) In the movie "The Spy Who Loved Me", it was mentioned that bond would
return in "For Your Eyes Only" , but instead teh next movie was
"Moonraker". what was the reason for this change of plans?
### The success of StarWars and Close Encounters of the Third Kind which
had led to the interest in sci-fi movies was the reason for MoonRaker
being released ahead than other bond movies.
6) "After all Bond has done for Britain, it was the least we could do for
Bond" quoted a famous personality. who was he and in what context do he
quote thus?
### British Foreign Secretary Robin Cook said this.a scene from The world
is not enough was planned to be shot around the HQ of MI6, the british
intelligence agency and they obvously protested and did not allow it. then
the foreign secretary moved in to overrule them and made this comment.
8) The name of the movie "Goldeneye" has a connection to Ian Fleming. What
is the connection?
### This was the name of the mission the Fleming ran during WW2 when he
was in naval intelligence. it is said that the plot of the mission was
more fantastic than the movie itself. it is also the name of the
beach-house at Jamaica.
1. "First Impression is the always the best" Right ? But, not always. A famous
English novel was originally titled 'First Impression' but was rechristened
later. Which is the novel ?
2. This was a part of the erstwhile Gondwanaland. The continental drift has
split this apart and is a tiny set of isles now. The place is fossil rich (
Fossils of the Prehistoric shark Pucapampella was found here) and was even a
cause for a war between two countries in the last century ? Which set of isles
are we talking about ? psst... heard of Pebble Islands , Sea Lion Islands....
3. Here is a sitter. Come Sep 15th, the Olympics would start. And tell me, in
which Olympics was the Olympic flame lit for the first time throughout the
games ?
4. We all have heard & seen of skirts - micro, mini, micro-mini, micro to the
power of nth, etc. But, what would you be holding if you had a 'hobble skirt'
in your hand ?
5. What was the former name of Monica's den, err.. I mean, 'White House' ?
6. In printing, what are left hand page and right hand page called ?
7. Name the cartoonist who drew the Donald Duck Comic books. Uncle Scrooge is
one of his creations. While answering this question pay respect to this
departed soul who left for heavenly abode a month ago.
8. When Vendors collude together and create an artificial rise in the price of
materials, economists call them as playing monopoly. Now, what is the
phenomenon of Buyers colluding together to artificially lower the price of
materials known as ?
Ans : Monospony { 2 / 9 }
Ans : Pandemonium { 5 / 9 }
1. This imaginary substance was believed to change base metals into gold
> and was sought by the alchemists in the medieval periods. Name the
> substance?
>
> Ans. "Philosopher's Stone (14th century)" an imaginary stone,
> substance, or chemical preparation believed to have the power of
> transmuting base metals into gold and was sought by alchemists.
>
> The Philosopher's Stone was a substance (not a rock) that the alchemists
> sought. It was thought that an underlying spirit linked all things and
> gave rise to the dualistic forms universe. Therefore, by combining
> different chemicals and substances a secret balance of dualisms might be
> discovered, The Philosopher's Stone, that would contain the essence of the
> (nondual) divine. That substance would have transformative power and so
> the notion that ordinary minerals would be transformed into gold, the most
> perfect metal.
>
>
> 2. How well do you know the comic character "Bruce Wayne"?
> (Hint : Van Kilmer, Michael Keaton & have played this character with great
> aplomb.)
>
> Ans:-batman
> (All answered it except two)
>
> 3. Which Indian town recently in the news, is situated approx. 6 kms from
> the confluence of river Dras & Suru?
> (Hint : It is situated on the banks of river Suru.)
>
> Ans :kargil
>
>
> 4. Who is the only Indian Bowler to take a wicket with the very 1st ball
> he bowled in test-cricket?
>
> Ans: Nilesh Kulkarni
>
>
> 5. What name is given to a collector of picture post-cards?
>
> Ans: "Deltiologist"
>
> Can you find out the names for the collector of these items?
> 1) Match Box Labels
> 2) Flags
> 3) Teddy Bears
>
>
>
>
> 6. What distinction does the International organization "Medicins Sans
> Frontiere" has achieved recently?
>
> Ans. "Nobel Peace Prize 1999"
> Since its foundation in the early 1970s, Mdecins Sans Frontires has
> adhered to the fundamental principle that all disaster victims, whether
> the disaster is natural or human in origin, have a right to professional
> assistance, given as quickly and efficiently as possible. National
> boundaries and political circumstances or sympathies must have no
> influence on who is to receive humanitarian help. By maintaining a high
> degree of independence, the organization has succeeded in living up to
> these ideals.
>
>
>
> 7. What term is given to the elements which are neither metals nor
> non-metals?
> Ans. "Metalloids"
>
> Metalloids are the elements found along the stair-step line that
> distinguishes metals from non-metals. This line is drawn from between
> Boron and Aluminum to the border between Polonium and Astatine. The only
> exception to this is Aluminum, which is classified under "Other Metals".
> Metalloids have properties of both metals and non-metals. Some of the
> metalloids, such as silicon and germanium, are semi-conductors. This means
> that they can carry an electrical charge under special conditions. This
> property makes metalloids useful in computers and calculators The
> Metalloids are:
>
> Boron
> Silicon
> Germanium
> Arsenic
> Antimony
> Tellurium
> Polonium
>
>
> 8. Which American film star is a part of American Olympic team for Sydney
> Olympics 2000? She is a member of American Archery Team?
> (Hints : Thelma and Louise and Earth Girls Are Easy.)
>
> Ans: Davis, 43, only took up archery two years ago. The star of Thelma and
> Louise was inspired to try her hand at the sport after watching Justin
> Huish win two gold medals at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta.
>
> According to the U.S. Olympic Committee, no other actors have turned
> Olympic athletes, although the process has happened in reverse. Tarzan
> portrayers Johnny Weissmuller and Buster Crabbe were both Olympic
> medal-winning swimmers before they took to swinging from vines.
>
>
>
>
> 9. What will you be doing if you are "SHOUTING" on the Internet?
> (Hint : Answer in the question itself.)
>
> Ans. "Writing in Capital Letters"
>
>
> 10. Which is the only game to be played on the MOON?
>
> Ans. "Golf"
>
Advertising
Q1. What brand of home furnishings was launched in India by ICL International of
the India Cements Group ?
Casa Mia
Q2. Over the years 'Lux', the Unilever bathing soap has used beautiful women,
especially famous actresses, as models in its advertisements all over the world.
Who was and remains to be the only man ever to model for Lux ?
Paul Newman
Q3. Complete the bold copy in the Adidas print advertisement featuring Sachin
Tendulkar: 'Getting my throw right took me long, gruelling hours of practice. And a
split second inspiration from a ______.'
Paperwala
Q4. Aishwarya Rai, the former Miss World models for 'Longines' watches. Which
other famous Indian model is the brand ambassadress for 'Rado' watches in India ?
Lisa Ray
Q5. Which Indian company launched a new brand of beer called 'Zingaro' ?
Millenium Alcobev ltd.
Q6. In collaboration with which Bollywood star has 'Emami' launched a range of
Ayurvedic personal care products ?
Madhuri Dixit
Q7. Which car advertised / advertises itself as 'the ultimate driving machine' ?
BMW
Q8. Who will be the brand ambassador for Brooke Bond A1 Power, the first
vitaminised tea launched by Hindustan Lever Ltd ?
Javagal Srinath
Q9. Become what you are' is the advertising line of which company?
Lacoste
Q10. In textiles, who owns the Vivaldi brand?
Bombay Dyeing
Q11. Michael Schumacher, Martina Hingis and Alexander Popov all endorse the same
watch brand. Name it.
Omega
Q12. 'Gets Ya There and Gets Ya Back' was the advertising slogan of which famous
brand ?
Ford Model T
Q13. Which brand of jeans was promoted by Ajay Jadeja ?
Bare
Q14. Cluett Peabody & Co are owners of which famous brand of clothing ?
Arrow
Q15. Cohen and Greenfield lent their first names to a famous brand. Which brand ?
Ben & Jerry
Q16. Which company used the advertising slogan 'The World Is Closer Than You
Think' ?
British Airways
Q17. Samsonite Corporation of the U.S.A. sells its luggage under two famous brand
names in addition to the eponymous 'Samsonite' brand. Name these two brands.
American Tourister, Lark
Q18. What is common to 'Waikiki Wonder', 'Hawaiian Holiday', 'Swiss Kiss', 'French
Feelings', 'Latin Lover' and 'Pussy Cat' ?
All brands of condoms launched by JKChemicals, maker of KamaSutra condoms
Q19. BPL has launched its second TV brand in India. What is it called ?
Evelux
Q20. What is common to Kapil Dev, Lisa Ray and Leander Paes in the context of
brand endorsement ?
Rado Watches
Q21. Which brand of water in the Indian market bills itself as the only water
certified by doctors ?
Kinley
Q22. The latest Pepsi ad has created a furore with Coke accusing Pepsi of unfair
practices. The latest one from Pepsi directed by Prahlad Kakkar has this Hritik-
lookalike who gets a raw deal in the end. Which model played Hritik ?
Tarun Khanna of Delhi
Q23. Which liquor brand got into controversy recently for using Che Guevara's
photo in its ad ?
Smirnoff
Q24. David Ogilvy's ad for Good Luck Margarine was, in a way, very unique and
historic. Why ?
Only ad in which he used a celebrity endorsement - Eleanor Roosevelt
Q25. In 1970, at the age of 16, playback singer Kavita Krishnamurthy was selected
by composer Vijay Padukone to sing a 60-second ad jingle in Tamil for a national
brand. In the studio, Kavita found Geeta Dutt preparing to sing the same jingle in
Hindi. Seeing a nervous Kavita, Geeta Dutt said "I have heard you sing well. Do not
be afraid. Do your best." That successful ad jingle was her first step to stardom.
Which product was the jingle for ?
Amulspray
Q26. "Software for the most advanced microprocessor on earth" was an ad line used
by ?
The Economic Times
Q27. In an ad released by this organisation, you'll find Anil Kumble holding a bat
with the words "Go Veg" on it. Which organisation ?
People for Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA)
Q28. Which company signed up Azharuddin and Sangita Bijlani (nee Ayesha) to
endorse their products - but released very few ads featuring the duo ?
Bridgestone-ACC
Q29. Which ad agency calls itself "India's first fee-based agency" ?
Momentum
Q30. The name of a world famous brand was coined in 1898 by Caleb D Bradham, a
drugstore manager in New Bern, North Carolina. Which brand ?
Pepsi Cola
Q31. Whose company is "Far Away Tree" which makes and markets scented candles used
for aroma therapy ?
Dimple Kapadia
Q32. As of today, which Indian group is associated with Akai in India ?
Videocon
Q33. Who was the first ever Indian cricketer to commercially endorse a product ?
Farokh Engineer- for Brylcream
Q34. Who was the model for the Rolls Royce SPIRIT OF ECSTASY?
Eleanor Thorton
Q35. EVERYONE IS INVITED is the baseline of which company?
Samsung
Q36. Who is the elderly lady model in the Ayurvedic Concepts ads?
Ava Mukherjee
Q37. Which Indian actor endorses Tide detergent and Zenith computers?
Shekhar Suman
Q38. To celebrate the 50th anniversary of Tide, Procter & Gamble launched a unique
contest in 1996. This has now become an annual event. Name this contest.
The Dirtiest Kid in the US
Q39. Which Indian corporate has recently launched a promotion campaign entitled
Kaun Banega Carpathi ?
Satyam Online
Q40. Whose ad baseline is RULE YOUR WORLD
India Kings
Q41. Whose ad baseline is KERALA AT ITS BEST ?
Malayala Manorama
Q42. The logo of which company was changed from bright red to sober black
following the death of the founder of the company?
Rolls Royce
Q43. The baseline of which company is INVENT ?
Hewlett Packard
Q44. The baseline of which company is WORLDPROOF ?
Samsonite
Q45. Whose baseline is BEYOND WORDS?
Parker
Q46. To which company does the brand ALKA SELTZER belong?
Bayer
Q47. What is the name of the little boy who is the promotional icon of Alka
Seltzer?
Speedy
Q48. Name the first ad agency to be set up in India ?
P Dattaram & Co
Q49. Who markets Perrier mineral water in India?
Nestle
Q50. Which brand of watch does Indian cricketer Azharuddin endorse?
Tissot
Q51. It is known as the Venture in South Africa, the Unser in Malaysia, the Zace
in Taiwan, the Kijang in Indonesia and the Tamaro in the Philippines. How do we
know it in India ?
Toyota Qualis
Q52. In what context is a Jack Russell terrier called Nipper famous ?
Its the dog in the HMV logo
Q53. The Discovery Channel recently had an ad talking about something which
travels 100,000 km a day. What were they talking about ?
Human blood
Q54. Which celebrity endorses 'Weight Watchers' and the crockery brand Wedgwood ?
Sarah Fergusson
Q55. Daewoo Motors had launched a 'His' and a 'Her' version of the Lanos in Korea.
What were the sub-brands ?
Romeo & Juliet
Q56. Which product does Sierra Industrial Enterprise manufacture / market in India
?
Nike Shoes
Q57. Who owns the Binaca brand in India ?
Dabur
Q58. Who owns the Cibaca brand in India ?
Colgate Palmolive
Q59. Which brand of shoes does Kapil Dev endorse ?
Milano
Q60. In a unique cross-industry branding exercise, five Japanese Companies have
come together and started a single brand. Which brand and who are the companies ?
WiLL brand. Toyota, Kinki Nippon Travel Agency, Asahi Breweries,
Kao Soaps and Matsushita Electrical.
Q61. The British Royal family is now anti-smoking, and has withdrawn the royal
warrant from which brand ?
Benson &Hedges
Q62. Langholm, Scotland to Mysore - which brand has made this journey ?
Reid & Taylor
Q63. What's special about the Hindi movie "Pyaar Mein Kabhi Kabhi" ?
Only film produced by an ad agency percept
Q64. Who advertises themselves as "Software for the most advanced microprocessor
on this planet" ?
The Economic Times
Q65. LG Electronics have come out with a TV for rural India ? What is the brand
name ?
Sampoorna
Q66. Which Indian football star has been signed on to endorse Kanan Devan tea ?
I.M. Vijayan
Q67. Who advises you to 'put a tiger in your tank' ?
Esso/Exxon
Q68. Which American product was "fingerlickin' good" ?
KFC
Q70.
"Where's the beef ?" was used to promote which American hamburger chain ?
Wendys Hamburgers
Q71. Keki Dadiseth, Ritu Beri, Ajay Jadeja and ____. Name this eminent
bureaucrat . These four persons shared something unique. What ?
Montek Singh Ahluwalia. All appeared in TV commercials advocating Y2K preparedness
Q72. Which tourist destination advertises itself as 99% fun, 1% land ?
Mauritius
Q73. Which sports watch does Boris Becker endorse ?
Tag Heuer
Q74. The veteran parliamentarian H V Kamath suggested the brand name for this
product which was developed by CFTRI, Mysore and launched by Modern Beverages.
Which brand ?
Double Seven (77), the short-lived Coke replacement
Q75. Kellogg's India has recently undertaken a unique brand extension of its
Chocos flakes, its first such foray anywhere in the world. What is it?
Chocos Breakfast Cereal Biscuits
Q76. The famous painting 'Bubbles' was used to advertise Pears soap. Who was the
painter ?
Millais
Q77. Who is the only tennis player to have a perfume named after her ?
Gabriela Sabatini
Q78. Some years ago, Benetton launched a product which had no connection to the
clothing industry. They explained this product launch with an ad claiming << At
Benetton, the smallest garment is a _______ >>. Just what was this smallest garment
?
A Condom
Q79. The ad for which product had the simple headline "Lemon" ?
Volkswagen Beetle
Q80. What has been voted by the "Advertising Age" as the marketing icon of the
20th century ?
The Marlboro Man
Q81. I thought Kamasutra was an India restaurant until I discovered ____ - so goes
the ad. Just fill in the blank.
Smirnoff
Q82. Which brand combined the Coke and Pepsi adlines to say "The real thing is the
choice of the new generation" ?
London Pilsner Beer
Q85. Which novel method did Dabur employ during the cricket World Cup 1999 to
advertise itself ?
On AIR commentary, the commentator announced, for every four or
six, thats another Dabur Chyawanprash four/six.
Q87. What invention of the confectioner George Smith was named after a famous race
horse of the early 20th Century?
Lollipop
Dilbert
Q1. In Dilbert, who is the management consultant ?
Dogbert
Q2. How did Dilbert get his name ?
Scott Adams, in his days at Pacific Bell, drew the Dilbert character and ran a Name
the Nerd' contest for his co-workers. One of them, Mike Goodwin, picked Dilbert
Q3. In the Dilbert strip, one character is touted as the world's smartest human.
Who ?
The Garbageman
Q4. Bob, Dawn and Rex are three characters in the strip. What species are they ?
Dinosaurs
Q5. What was Scott Adam's title at Pacific Bell ?
Applications Engineer
Q6. There is an ice-cream dedicated to Dilbert. What's the name of the ice-cream
and which company produces it ?
Ben & Jerrys Totally Nuts
Q7. As per Scott Adams, what is a stealth hike ?
A decrease in job unpleasantness without a corresponding pay cut.
Q8. What's the name of Dilbert's boss ?
He doesnt have a name. He just goes by the moniker Pointy Haired Boss
Q9. Who is the only Indian character in the Dilbert strip and what position does
he hold ?
Asok. He is an intern.
Q10. There is a technical writer in Dilbert's company. What's her name ?
Tina
Q11. One foreign country keeps cropping up in Dilbert's world. What's the name of
the country ?
Elbonia
Q12. Dilbert has a co-worker who does his best not to work (don't we all?). Who ?
Wally
Q13. What's the significance of 4S700R ?
Absolute trivia. This is the number of Scott Adams cubicle at
Pacific Bell.
Q14. What's unique about Dilbert's face ?
He has no mouth
Q15. In which organisations did Scott Adams work, before he started writing the
Dilbert series ?
Crockers bank & Pacific Bell
Q16. Which Dilbert character was originally known as XP-39C2 ?
Ratbert
Q17. What's the name of Dilbert's girlfriend ?
Liz
Q18. You may have noticed that Dilbert's necktie is always upturned. When,
according to Scott Adams, will Dilbert's tie flatten out ?
When he gets to first base with his girlfriend. ;-)
Q19. What position does Catbert hold in Dilbert's company ?
The director of human resources
Q20. Which company publishes the Dilbert strip ?
United Media
Q21. There is a Satan-like character who appears every now and then in a Dilbert
strip. Who ?
Phil, ruler of Heck, Prince of Insufficient Light
Q2. September 15, 1992 is known as 'Black Wednesday' by the British government,
especially by the mandarins in the office of the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Why ?
On that day George Soros and others had bet more than $10 billion on the
expectation that Britain would have to devalue the British Pound due to the
financial situation prevailing then. Soros won the bet and in the process made over
$2 billion in profits. Thus, he became widely known as 'the man who broke the Bank
of England'. Not unexpectedly, Soros called that day 'White Wednesday'
Q3. What theory states that some investors will buy even highly over-valued stock,
assuming that there's always someone who will be ready to buy it from them at a
higher value?
Greater Fool Theory
Q4. Which magazine claims to be "the first Indian personal finance magazine"?
Intelligent Investor Of Outlook
Q5. The monetary unit called MILL is used in the USA, not as coinage, but only for
monetary computations. Exactly how much is a MILL worth ?
One tenth of a cent. It is used where precise monetary calculations in fractions
of a cent are required - for example in options pricing
Q6. Insurance companies known for issuing all kinds of policies have of late begun
offering K'n'R policies. What is special about these ?
Coverage in kidnap and ransom situations
Q9. Which mercantile institution has had the motto "My word is my bond" since 1801
?
The London Stock Exchange
Q10. What is the origin of the stock market terms 'bulls' and 'bears' ?
Bulls attack by moving their horns up, while bears strike down with their paws. In
the past, fur traders used to take advantage of ruling high prices for bear skins
even before they had caught or skinned the bears. Hence the term 'bear' denotes a
trader who sells without actually owning the stock.
Q11. If New York is the Big Apple, what is the New York Stock Exchange known as ?
The big board
Q15. Which was the first Indian company to dematerialise its shares ?
HDFC
Q16. Which was the first Indian Public Sector Undertaking to be listed on the
Bombay Stock Exchange ?
Hindustan Petroleum
Q17. What's the expansion of NASDAQ ?
National Association of Security Dealers Automated Quotation
Q18. What are red chip companies ?
Companies incorporated on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, which have links with
mainland China
Q19. What does Says Law say ?
Supply creates its own demand
Q20. How many countries are there in the European Monetary Union ?
Eleven
Q21. What's the Big Mac index ?
A measure of Purchasing power parity, introduced by the Economist
magazine. It was so called because it compares the price of a McDonald's Big Mac in
different countries in order to gauge purchasing power
Q22. Which institution had its origins at the Merchants' Coffee House in New
York ?
The New York Stock Exchange
Q23. What is the Islamic Index ?
It measures the shares of companies that follow the Shariat Law
Q24. How do we know 'The Native Stock and Share Brokers Association' today ?
Bombay Stock Exchange
Q28. Which is the oldest company listed on Wall Street (the NYSE) ?
Bank of New York
Q7. We've heard of Blue Collars and White Collars. What are Velvet Collar crimes ?
Q9. We've all downloaded JPEG files. What does JPEG stand for ?
Joint Photographic Experts Group
Q10. What are vertical agreements ?
Exclusive deals between supplier and buyer to deliver / buy
Personalities
Q1. British Petroleum (BP) has been very active in the acquisitions mode. Which
three major oil companies did BP acquire in the 1990s ?
Amoco, ARCO (Atlantic Richfield) and Castrol. BP advertises itself
as \'Beyond Petroleum\' now !
Q2. This person developed an eye for luxury while working as a bellboy at the
Savoy Hotel in London before the First World War. He then opened his first store in
Florence in 1921. He and his descendants became world-famous for the bamboo-handled
handbag sported by the likes of Jackie Onassis and the trademark loafers worn by
Frank Sinatra's set. His descendants took this company to greater heights before
almost destroying it because of their own internecine infighting. It is now back in
the pink and once again a leader in its field. The American designer Tom Ford has
given this venerable company a much-needed breath of fresh air. Which famous person
are we talking about ?
Guccio Gucci of 'Gucci' fame
Q11. Entrack Ltd is the largest distributor of Mont Blanc pens in India. Which
famous Indian cricketer is the head of this company ?
Dilip Doshi
Q12. Identify this person : He graduated from Osmania University with a BTech in
Chemical Engineering in 1983. He then did his PGDM from IIM-Ahmedabad in 1985. He
started his career with Rediffusion and later joined Gavaskar's Professional
Management Group (PMG) working on research for Sunil Gavaskar.
Harsha Bhogle
Q13. This former president of Ford Motor Company served as the secretary of
defence under presidents JFK and Lyndon Johnson. Who ?
Robert McNamara
Q14. Which of these Indian tycoons, JRD Tata, Dhirubhai Ambani and R P Goenka, is
NOT featured in the book Business Maharajas by Gita Piramal?
J R D Tata
Q15. Which famous businessman was chosen by TIME magazine as the " Man of the
Year" for 1999?
Jeff Bezos-Amazon.com
Q16. In 1895, this cycle tyre manufacturer fitted the first pneumatic motor car
tyre to a 4 horsepower Daimler which he drove in the Paris- Bordeaux race .He had
to change the tyres twenty two times over the 1200 km long route. Who was this
person?
Edouard Michelin, who founded the Michelin tyre company.
Q17. Of which company was Bill Bowerman a co-founder?
Nike
Q18. Name the company started by Elliot Handler and Harold Matson?
Mattel Toys
Q19. Which organisation was started by Larry Hillblon, Adrian Dalsey and Robert
Lym ?
DHL - the courier company
Q20. Whose biography is entitled BEYOND BOUNDARIES?
Swraj Paul---caparo group
Q21. Name the autobiography of Kim Woo Chang, the founding chairman of Daewoo.
Every street is paved with gold
Q22. If Sherlock Holmes stayed at 221-B Baker Street, this man stays at 221-A,
Baker Street. His autobiography is titled "Beyond Boundaries". Name him.
Swraj Paul. His Caparo group is headquartered at Baker Street
Q23. In a 1999 Fortune survey of the world's most powerful women, who was number 1
?
Carly Fiorina, then Group President, Lucent Technologies. Oprah
Winfrey was second on the list
Q24. Who was the first businessman to be named Times Man of the Year ?
Walter Chrysler
Q25. If John Pemberton was the founder of the Coca Cola company, who was the
founder of Pepsi ?
Dr.Caleb Brabham
Q26. Which famous designer designed the new Tata logo ?
Wolff Ollins
Q27. A professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at MIT, his
products have been used in cars, space shuttles, ships and theatres. Who are we
talking about ?
Amar Bose (Bose music systems)
Q28. Which colourful personality is reputed to have said "When I want your
opinion, I'll give it to you" ? He was in the entertainment industry.
Samuel Goldwyn
Q29. Who was the first Indian film star used to advertise Lux soap ?
Leela Chitnis
Q30. Who invented the concept of double entry book-keeping ?
Luca Pacioli
Q31. Benetton ads are extremely controversial. The writer of these ads parted
company with Benetton in early 2000 after 18 years. Who ?
Oliviero Toscanni
Q32. Which famous advertising personality started his career as a salesman for AGA
cookers in Scotland ?
David Ogilvy
Q33. Connect Madonna to Lord Swraj Paul.
Lord Paul's son Angad has produced a movie called 'Lock, Stock and
Two Smoking Barrels', the director of which is Guy Ritchie the (ex) boyfriend of
Madonna
Q34. He was named by Sports Illustrated as the most powerful man in sports. He
never attended Harvard Business School, but the success of his company has been
taught there as a case study. He is a frequent lecturer at Harvard and other
business schools. Who ?
Mark McCormack
Q35. Whose autobiography is titled "The Adventures of a Bystander" ?
Peter Drucker (if he is a bystander, wonder what that makes most
of us ?!)
Q36. A book about this famous business personality was titled 'From Corporate Man
to Corporate Skunk'. Who (and no, not Nick Leeson) ?
Tom Peters
Q37. This entrepreneur wrote a book called 'The Human Drift' which envisaged
bringing all the world's businesses under one management to optimise resources (and
yes, he wanted to run it himself). Apart from such pipe dreams, he also founded one
of the world's most successful companies, present even today. Who ?
King Camp Gillette and the company, obviously, is Gillette
Q38. So you brand all accountants as the non-creative types?! Well, the logo for
one of the most famous brands of all time, Coca Cola, was designed by a bookkeeper.
Who ?
Frank Robinson
Q39. Which CEO of an American company is known as the High Priest of Ha-Ha for his
off-beat management style ?
Herb Kelleher, of SouthWest Airlines
Q40. This professional manager was nicknamed Chainsaw for his propensity to cut
costs ruthlessly by axing people. Subsequently, he himself got fired. Who ?
Al Dunlap
Q41. One time head of one of the biggest companies in the world, he was known
simply as "The Boss". Who ?
Robert Woodruff, of the Coca Cola Company
Q42. CEO of a Brazilian company, he shot into fame after he wrote the book
'Maverick' about the non-conventional style of management at his company. Who and
which company ?
Ricardo Semmler, Semmco
Q43. Who's known as the 'Father of the Internet'?
Vint Cerf
Q44. Who's acknowledged as the founder of the World Wide Web ?
Tim Berners Lee
Q45. We've all heard of Steve Jobs. Who was his partner in setting up Apple ?
Steve Wozniak
Q46. Which French tennis player gave his name to a range of sportswear ?
Henri Lacoste
Q47. Who founded the Indian Institute of Science ?
J N Tata
Q48. He is one of the leading lights of the Indian IT industry. Surprisingly, he
used to be a staunch communist and was once arrested in Bulgaria after being
mistaken for someone else.Who is he?
N.R. Narayanamurthy
Trivia
Q1. Before it became a world leader in computer games, what product did the
Japanese company Nintendo make ?
Playing cards
Q2. Many companies are intimately linked to their towns, for e.g., Boeing is to
Seattle as Coca-Cola is to Atlanta. What town is linked to Ford Motor Company ?
Dearborn, Michigan
Q3. Which company was established early in the 19th century as the arsenal of the
now defunct Austro-Hungarian empire and has been manufacturing automobiles for
nearly a century ?
Skoda
Q4. 'Gateway of India', the Mumbai monument was built by which company in 1924 ?
This constuction company is still active in India now !
Gammon India Ltd
Q5. Which make of chandelier is proposed to be hung in the dome of Mumbai's
Gateway of India after it is totally restored ?
Baccarat
Q6. Saint Gobain, the giant French glassmaker has recently inaugurated its float
glass plant at Sriperumbudur, Tamil Nadu, India. To what first commission does this
company trace its beginnings to ?
The company was formed in 1665 by Colbert to build the Hall of
Mirrors at the Chateau de Versailles. The company's advertising tagline is 'The
future of glass. Since 1665'
Q7. What was invented by Daniel Peter, who sold the concept to his neighbour Henri
?
Milk Chocolate. Henri Nestle was the neighbour
Q8. Christy Turlington, the famous model has joined hands with Ayla Hussain and
Caven Mahoney to launch an India-inspired range of cosmetics, blending Ayurveda and
other Indian motifs. What is this range called ?
Sundari
Q9. Which revolutionary new car was jointly designed in 1994 and launched by
Daimler-Benz, as it was then known, and SMH, the Swiss maker of Swatch watches ?
'Smart'. SMH later sold out to DaimlerChrysler.
Q10. What is so unique about the location of the first official showroom in
Britain for selling DaimlerChrysler's 'Smart' car ?
It was opened in October 2000 inside the London Underground station at Green Park
in London's Mayfair district. If any car can be sold in such cramped quarters, it
is the Smart. At only 2.5 metres, it is little more than half the length of a
Volkswagen Beetle. Owners have been known to park Smarts at right angles to the
kerb, like a motorcycle, rather than parallel.
Q11. A new brand of wine called 'Alcott Ridge Vineyard' was launched in the U.S.
simulataneously in about 38 states in October, 2000. These wines are priced between
$6 to $7 per bottle. What is special about this wine label ?
It is a private label owned by the retail giant Wal-Mart, which
introduced this new item on its store shelves
Q12. Which business family has the motto 'Quality is remembered long after the
price is forgotten' ?
Gucci
Q13. The name of which major Korean company translates to 'modern' in English ?
Hyundai
Q14. With which organisation would you associate London's Lutine Bell ?
Lloyds Insurance
Q15. According to the TV commercial, which specific location is the setting for
the Pepsi ad in which Shah Rukh Khan enters the Indian dressing room impersonating
Sachin Tendulkar ?
Lord's
Q16. What connects Andrea Jung, Marion Sandler, Cinda Hallman, Carly Fiorina and
Anne M Mulcahy ?
Only CEOs of Fortune 500 companies who are women (Andrea Jung - Avon
Products; Marion Sandler - Golden West Financial; Cinda Hallman - Spherion; Carly
Fiorina - HP; Anne Mulcahy - Xerox (appointed on Jul 26, 2001)
Q17. The Chennai-based 'Celebrity Group', which is a major supplier of men's
clothing to internationally well-known stores like 'The Gap', 'Banana Republic',
'The Limited', 'Timberland', 'Otto Versand' and 'Diesel', has recently launched its
own range of branded men's clothing. What is the brandname of this range ?
'Indian Terrain\, at the premium end. They have also launched
'Terrain Traveller', a multi-purpose range of apparel, and 'Terrain Sport', for the
younger crowd
Q18. Which lady entrepreneur is associated with the brand Biotique ?
Vinita Jain
Q19. Ethernet is a registered trademark of which company ?
Xerox
Q20. Which company's motto is 'the best or nothing' ?
Mercedes Benz
Q21. Sometime ago there was a private airline operating in India called N.E.P.C.
Airlines. This was started by the N.E.P.C. group. What is the origin of this name ?
Q28. Many companies are intimately linked to their towns, for eg., Boeing is to
Seattle as Coca-Cola is to Atlanta. Which town is linked to Kelloggs ?
Battle Creek, Michigan
Q29. The most expensive segment in the 3-tiered labelling system of this product
is called 'Black Label', where nothing is less than $2,000. 'White Label' comes
next where the lowest sticker price is $1,200. What are we talking about ?
Giorgio Armani's clothing collections. His biggest selling range is 'Emporio
Armani', which is priced considerably lower !
Q30. In the mid-1990s, who took over 'The East India Company', yes, the very same
one which has a such a chequered history ?
Subhash Chandra of Zee TV fame
Q31. Which company is behind the broadband portal NumTV.com ?
Pentamedia
Q32. Bajaj has just launched India's costliest motorcycle, priced at Rs.84,000.
What is it called ?
Eliminator
Q33. Before Nestle, who owned the Polo Mints brand ?
Rowntree Macintosh
Q34. Which Indian investment bank was recently taken over by Arthur Andersen ?
Ind Global
Q35. Metro Goldwyn Mayer trademarked its lion's roar way back. Which other
American company has also trademarked another special sound peculiar to its
business ?
Harley Davidson has trademarked the unique full-throated growl of
its engines for the motorbikes
Q36. What is the free trade agreement between Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay and
Uruguay called ?
Mercosur
Q37. What is the 'La Bourse' ?
The Stock Exchange in Paris
Q38. Rathikant Basu of Star TV fame started a new company whose latest offering is
called TARA. What is TARA ?
Television Aimed at Regional Audience
Q39. In 1999, what did Fortune magazine identify as the 'Product of the 20th
Century' in the work-place ?
Paper clip
Q40. What is the desi Viagra to be launched by Ranbaxy Laboratories called ?
Caverta
Q41. In the late 1950s, why did Sony Corporation give some of its salesmen shirts
with extra-large sized pockets ?
Sony Corp. had just then pioneered the world\'s first pocket transistor radio:
except that these radios were slightly larger than conventional shirt pockets.
Hence, for the salesmen to demonstrate the pocketability, Sony offered their
salesmen shirts with extra-large pockets !
Q42. Which company manufactured India's first B&W T.V. ?
ECIL (Electronics Corporation of India Ltd., Hyderabad). The
model\'s name was APSARA.
Q43. What is the origin of the word 'company' ?
From medieval Italian, maritime firms whose members \'took bread\' together ( \'cum
panis\' ). The earliest stockholders were born in the 17th century, when long
voyages to newly discovered territories were so expensive that merchants sold
shares in individual expeditions to raise capital.
Q44. Vince McMahon is the man behind a very famous company / brand. Which
company / brand are we talking about ?
World Wrestling Federation
Q45. Ajay Mathur achieved great success with the 'Sumeet' brand of mixers /
blenders. Following a split in his family, he launched his own brand of products
called 'Discus'. How did he come to select this name ?
He is passionately devoted to the South American tropical fish
known as the \'Discus\', which he successfully breeds in his office aquarium. He
hopes to duplicate that success with his new brand also.
Q46. It was the first among international cars to be launched in India with a
rather outrageous claim, 'The Buckingham Palace wouldn't move - so we brought the
other masterpiece.' Which car ?
Rover Montego
Q47. Which famous drug was invented accidentally by the English scientist Ian
Osterloh while engaged in an inglorious task of creating a new improved anti-angina
drug ?
Viagra - from Pfizer
Q48. Which was India's first four stroke scooter ?
Bajaj Legend
Q49. Which car did Ford replace Model T with ?
Model A
Q50. The English translation of which Japanese company / brand name means 'Three
Oceans' ?
Sanyo
Q51. Which organisation has taken a 49% stake in Virgin Atlantic Airways?
Singapore Airlines
Q52. Which media company has set up India's first private sector earth station for
direct uplinking, of special significance to DTH (Direct to Home) telecasts?
Jain Studios (of Jain TV)
Q53. Who invented Pepsi ?
Caleb Bradham
Q54. With which business family would you associate the town / locality
Pirojshanagar ?
Godrej
Q55. It was introduced in 1909 in the U.S.A. for $850 and by 1924, its price had
been reduced to $290. What product are we talking about ?
Henry Ford\'s Model T Ford car. This example is cited to signify
the launch of mass production techniques resulting in lower production costs and
thus lower selling prices.
Q56. Which company was started by Joe Foster in 1895 ?
Reebok
Q57. The book 'Birds of Prey' traces the history perhaps of the closest and
toughest competition in an individual market. Which are the two companies involved
in this epic market battle ?
Boeing & Airbus
Q58. Which is the only country in the world where Coke uses sea water ?
Maldives
Q59. In the movie, which company actually built the bridge on the river Kwai ?
Larsen & Toubro
Q60. What do the letters 'E.I.D.' in E.I.D.Parry, the Chennai based company, stand
for ?
East India Distillery
Q61. Samsonite Corporation of the U.S.A. began manufacturing and selling its
world-famous luggage brands in India in partnership with which Indian company ?
Tainwala Plastics
Q62. With which Indian company did Bacardi Martini Company join hands to launch
their products India ?
Gemini Distilleries of Mysore, who hold 26 percent share in Bacardi Martini India
Limited
Q63. This business in Japan rings up gross receipts of almost $200 billion a year.
It accounts for about 25 percent of all Japanese spending on leisure, and fetches
in more, collectively than the domestic automobile market. What business are we
talking about ?
Pachinko
Q64. This famous university is the only major university in the USA named in
honour of a teenage boy. It is named after a 15-year old boy who died young. His
father, a railroad tycoon, gave money to the school to honour his son's memory.
Which university ?
Stanford (named after Leland Stanford Jr.)
Q65. Which famous company was started by the famous inventor Thomas Alva Edison ?
General Electric (GE)
Q66. Name the production company which has made all the Bond Movies so far ?
Eon Productions
Q67. We have heard of the 'Montreal Protocol'. What is the 'Banana Protocol' ?
The European Union has a Banana Protocol which gives quotas and preferential access
to ex-colonies of Britain and France - some of them small islands dependent on
these exports. The same protocol restricts imports of bananas from other suppliers.
This protocol is due for revision in 2003
Q68. In 1894, a book called The Human Drift urged the creation of a corporation
that would run all of the world's businesses. This idea went nowhere, but the
book's author had a better idea. What eponymous company did this person found?
Gillette
Q69. Which company is the basis of the book ' Infinite Loop '
Apple
Q70. Which luxury car's name means 'lightning' in Italian?
Baleno
Q71. What was described by the famous Canadian humorist Stephen Leacock as "The
science of arresting the human intelligence for long enough to get money from it"?
Advertising
Q72. What is made by the CRUSH-TEAR-CURL process?
Tea
Q73. Which publishing house brings out the Harry Potter books in the UK ?
Bloomsbury
Q74. Which watch company boasts as its patrons, Marie Antoinette, Napoleon,
Empress Josephine, Tsar Alexander-I and Winston Churchill ?
Montres Breguet
Q75. Which company sponsored the Australian cricket team in the ICC Knock Out
tournament, 2000 ?
Pentafour
Q76. Forte Hotels has a division which runs a chain of hotels. Which famous hotel
chain are we referring to ?
Le Meridien
Q77. What did the Mcdonald brothers call their new store set up after they sold
the brand to Ray Kroc ?
The Big M
Q78. Crystal City in Texas, known for a particular product, has erected a statue
for the most famous consumer / icon of that product. Who / which product ?
Pop-eye - Spinach
Q79. Which organisation sponsors Vengsarkar's cricket academy ?
Elf
Q80. Which famous company is the subject of the book "Changing Focus" ?
Kodak
Q91. Which public sector corporation was the first one to be set up in independent
India ? (Hint : 1948)
Damodar Valley Corporation
Q92. Why did Liz Clairborne Inc, which markets the popular DKNY brand of apparel,
recall about 8000 pair of jeans from the US market ?
It had verses from Koran printed on the jeans. The jeans had to be
recalled after an outcry from the Islamic community which felt that this was
inappropriate and offensive
Q98. Maurice and Richard were brothers who lent their name to one of the most
successful companies in the world. Which ?
McDonalds. They were the original Mcdonald brothers
Q99. Which company / organisation is proposed to be renamed Tata Infomedia Ltd ?
Tata Donnelley Ltd
Q103. Inspired by Fred Terman, two students started an electronics firm in 1939.
Their first product was an audio oscillator which was used by Walt Disney for sound
effects for his film Fantasia. Name the firm.
Hewlett Packard
Q106. Who wrote the book THE END OF MARKETING AS WE KNOW IT?
Sergio Zyman, the man behind the New Coke saga
Q108. What is the name of the award given to electronic editions of newspapers?
The EPPY awards
Q109. On whose website would you find the lines IF YOU PAY,THE STORY ROLLS.IF YOU
DONT,THE STORY FOLDS?
Stephen King on his new book The Plant which is being sold
exclusively on the Internet , on an instalment basis
Q113. What was sold by Canada to the United States in 1885 for $150,000?
Niagara Falls
Q114. Adi Dassler is the founder of the Adidas company. His brother, Rudolph
Dassler, broke away from him and set up his own company. Name this company.
Puma
Q115. In 1947, a company called Galvin Manufacturing changed its name to....?
Motorola
Q119. Which company was the subject of the book THE CONCEPT OF CORPORATION written
by Peter Drucker?
General Motors
Q121. Name the international brand of retail outlets franchised to Chimayo chains
in Chennai,
Qwikys
Q122. Which Indian company has chosen Aarthi Ramaswamy and Harikrishna to be their
chess ambassadors?
Wipro
Q124. Which bird is used as the logo of Swarovski (the crystal manufacturers)?
The swan
Q125. Which famous brand was bought in India by Smithkline Beecham from Duphar
Interfran for Rs.400 million?
Crocin
Q126. The kookaburra brand of balls is associated with which Olympic sport since
1984?
Field hockey
Q127. If Maruti Zen is a jelly bean design and the Santro is a Tall Boy design,
what design is the Ford Ikon ?
New Edge
Q128. Which product of everyday use was originally intended for use as a sexual
supressant, a sort of an anti-Viagra, so to say ?
Kelloggs Cereal
Q129. Which was the first Indian company to be listed on the NASDAQ ?
Infosys (Infy) in 1999
Q130. We've all heard of Johnnie Walker Red Label and Black Label (probably more
than heard of it). What's the difference between the two ?
The red label is a blend of six years vintage while the black label is a blend of
twelve years vintage
Q131. What was developed in Germany during World War II when local bottlers ran
out of the ingredients for Coca Cola ?
Fanta
Q132. What was so significant about the Time magazine cover of May 15, 1950 ?
It featured a painting of the Coke bottle - the first time any
commercial product was so honoured
Q133. When it was originally formed, it was called the Selfish company - so called
by taking parts of the two founders' names and combining them. Due to obvious
connotations, the name was changed by combining the other two parts of the
founders' names. Which company ?
Goldwyn (subsequently part of Metro Goldwyn Mayer). The founders
were Samuel Goldfish and Edgar Selwyn
Q134. The brainchild of three Scotsmen, it was issued in 100 parts , acquired by
Sears, Roebuck in the early 1900s, then by William Benton and now by a businessman
called Jacob Safra ? Which famous institution are we talking about ?
The Encyclopedia Britannica
Q135. What are Simon King and Badri Seshadri known for ?
They are the founders of Cricket.Org (or CricInfo.Com)
Q136. Properties in Monopoly, the famous board game invented by Charles Darrow,
are named after the street names of which city ?
Atlantic City
Q141. Satyam Infoway has announced the launch of exclusive cybercafes under what
name?
Iway
Q142. The 'Project Kansas' which was made public on April 23, 1985, sent shock
waves across America and the rest of the world. This led to the consumer product
leader being upstaged by the no. 2 in the field. What was Project Kansas ?
The formula for Coca Cola was changed and New Coke was introduced
Q143. What was so special about the stetson hat delivered to comedian Will Rogers
in 1927 under armed guard ?
First air freight !
Q148. What is the significance of 4810 as seen on Mont Blanc pens, watches etc ?
It not only represents the height of the Mont Blanc peak in
metres, but also the total number of limited editions made of each such item
Q149. What did the Rajas of Chalapalli, Kirlampudi and Parlakimedi jointly start
in India in the 1940s ?
A sugar mill called KCP !
Q150. Why are soap operas so called ?
Ma Perkins', a radio serial, was sponsored by P&G's Oxida soap powder in 1933.
After the success of this, they sponsored more such serials. All these came to be
called soap operas
Q159. Historically speaking, what was unique about the two colours 'Deep Channel
Green' and 'Rich Windsor Maroon' launched in 1925 ?
The first Model T Ford cars to be introduced in a colour other
than black
Q160. Why was the town of Halfway, Oregon, USA in the news in January 2000 ?
The town renamed itself Half.Com for one year - after an Internet co, in return
for an assurance from the company that it would generate employment opportunities
in the town
Q161. Which famous business personality was also known for having won the US Open
Doubles in tennis ?
F W Taylor, the father of scientific management
Q162. Which cover organisation is James Bond supposed to be an employee of ?
Universal Exports
Q163. Which Indian confectionary company has a ten member consultancy team
comprising of 10-16 year old kids for product development and marketing feedback ?
Candico
Q164. What is the most famous item stored in the bank vaults of the Trust Company
Bank, Atlanta ?
The formula for Coca Cola
Q165. McDonald's runs a training centre at Elk Grove Village, Illinois. What is it
called ?
Hamburger University
Q166. To which company did the shipment of tea belong which was dumped in the
harbour by American colonists at the famous Boston Tea Party ?
British East India Company
Q167. Legend has it that as recently as 1930, Father Christmas had no uniform and
had a dull image. Which company was responsible for making Santa Claus a popular
and happy figure with a red and white outfit ?
Coca Cola Company
Q168. What was Superman carrying on the cover of the first Superman comic ?
An automobile
Q169. Why was the French model and actress LAETITIA CASTA in the news ?
Since 1792 France has used the image of a woman dubbed Marianne to represent the
republic on town halls, stamps and currency. For the new millennium, they have
chosen the above actress to represent the republic
Q173. Why was Shree Mata Vaishno Devi Shrine in the business news in 1999 ?
The first depositor in the Gold deposit scheme announced by the
Indian Government in that year
Q174. Which brilliant inventor and businessman killed himself, leaving a note
which said "Why Wait" ?
George Eastman
Q175. To whom was the first Maruti 800 car given?
Lord Venkateshwara at Tirupathi
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3. Which of the following Articles in the Indian Constitution deals with formation
of new States and alteration of areas, boundaries and names of existing States?
(a) Article 1 (b) Article 2 (c) Article 3 (d) Article 4
6. Which one of the following countries has the oldest operating oil refinery?
(a) Kuwait (b) India (c) Indonesia (d) Venezuela
What is the sequence of these in terms of descending order of their carbon content?
(a) 1, 2, 3 (b) 1, 3, 2 (c) 3, 2, 1 (d) 3, 1, 2
10. Among the following languages, which one has the highest number of speakers in
the world?
(a) English (b) Hindi (c) Portuguese (d) Spanish
12. If a person first inspires with his utmost effort and then expires also with
maximum effort, the volume of air breathed out is called the:
(a) Expiratory Reserve Volume
(b) Inspiratory Reserve Volume
(c) Tidal Volume(d) Vital Capacity
13. In the map given above, the shaded area represents the grasslands locally known
as:
(a) Downs (b) Llanos (c) Savanna (d) Velds
18. The product of the pressure and the volume of an ideal gas is:
(a) a constant
(b) approximately equal to the universal gas constant
(c) directly proportional to its temperature
(d) inversely proportional to its temperature
20. The port especially developed for exporting iron ore to Japan is:
(a) Haldia(b) New Tuticorin
(c) Paradeep (d) Vishakhapatnam
22. United Nations' Second World Conference on Ageing was held in April 2002 in:
(a) Geneva (b) Madrid (c) Rome (d) Vienna
24. Who among the following has been awarded Padma Bhushan recently?
(a) Robert D. Blackwill(b) Bill Clinton
(c) Frank Pallone(d) Christina Rocca
32. Who among the following are more in number in the world?
(a) Jains (b) Jews (c) Sikhs (d) Zoroastrians
33. Which one of the following was the eighth five year plan period in India?
(a) 1990-1995(b) 1992-1997
(c) 1993-1998(d) 1994-1999
Directions
The following 7 (Seven) items consist of two statements, one labelled as 'Assertion
(A)' and the other labelled as 'Reason (R)'. You are to examine these two
statements carefully and decide if the 'Assertion (A)' and the 'Reason (R)' are
individually true and if so, whether the 'Reason (R)' is the correct explanation
for the given 'Assertion (A)'. Select your answers to these items using the codes
given below and mark your answer sheet accordingly:
Codes:
(a) Both A and R are individually true and R is the correct explanation of A
(b) Both A and R are individually true but R is NOT the correct explanation of A
(c) A is true but R is false
(d) A is false but R is true
35. Assertion (A) : Chandragupta Maurya failed in his first campaign against
Magadh.
Reason (R) : He did not begin with the frontiers, but invaded the heart of Magadh.
36. Assertion (A) : The Ganga Plain is the most densely populated part of India.
Reason (R) : The Ganga is the most harnessed river of India.
38. Assertion (A) : When a piece of rock is brought from the moon to the earth its
mass changes.
Reason (R) : The gravitational pull of earth is stronger than that of moon.
39. Assertion (A) : Quit India Movement could not achieve its goal.
Reason (R) : The government of the day adopted a very repressive policy.
40. Assertion (A) : In the initial stages of the rise of Buddhism, the people of
Magadha did not respond readily to the new religion.
Reason (R) : At that time, Magadha was placed outside the pale of the holy
Aryavarta.
41. Assertion (A) : Jayachandra did not help Prithiviraj Chauhan in his war against
Shahabuddin Ghori.
Reason (R) : He thought if the power of Chauhans were destroyed it would clear the
way for his own supremacy in the North.
42. The Purusha Sukta which refers to the origin of caste is found in:
(a) the Atharva Veda (b) the Rig Veda
(c) the Sama Veda (d) the Yajur Veda
44. Which one of the following countries was never taken over by any European power
as a colony?
(a) Brunei (b) Indonesia (c) Thailand (d) Singapore
46. Match List I (Institutes) with List II (Locations) and select the correct
answer using the codes given below the Lists:
List I List II
(Institutes) (Locations)
A. National Council of 1. Pune
Applied Manpower
Research
Codes :
A B C D
(a) 1 4 3 2
(b) 2 4 3 1
(c) 2 3 4 1
(d) 1 3 4 2
47. Among the following Union Territories of India, which one has the largest size?
(a) Pondicherry(b) Lakshadweep
(c) Daman and Diu(d) Chandigarh
52. Which one of the following States ranks first in milk procurement in India?
(a) Punjab(b) Gujarat
(c) Haryana(d) Maharashtra
54. The density of population in India, per sq km., according to the Census, 2001
is:
(a) 304 (b) 324 (c) 344 (d) 364
56. Who among the following great cricketers did NOT belong to West Indies Test
team?
(a) Frank Worell(b) Gary Alexander
(c) Ken Barrington(d) Sony Ramadhin
57. Which one of the following taxes is levied by the Union and collected and
appropriated by the States?
(a) Passenger and Goods Tax
(b) Estate Duty(c) Stamp Duties
(d) Taxes on Newspapers
58. The shaded area in the above map of India shows the distribution of:
(a) Gram(b) Ragi
(c) Tur (Pegion-pea)(d) Wheat
59. The capital of the British Indian Empire was shifted from Calcutta to Delhi
because:
(a) Delhi was located at the centre of the Empire
(b) the climate of Delhi was more suitable for Europeans
(c) Calcutta was the hotbed of revolutionaries
(d) Delhi was the traditional seat of Imperial powers
60. Which of the following vetoes are available to the President of India in
relation to bills?
1. Absolute
2. Qualified
3. Suspensive
4. Pocket
Codes:
(a) 1 and 2(b) 1 and 3
(c) 2, 3 and 4(d) 1, 2, 3 and 4
62. An Inter-State Council was set up in 1990 under Article 263 of the Constitution
by the:
(a) President(b) Parliament
(c) Government (d) Planning Commission
64. During the financial year 2001-2002 India's foodgrain exports were:
(a) more than 70 lakh tonnes
(b) between 55 and 70 lakh tonnes
(c) between 40 and 55 lakh tonnes
(d) less than 40 lakh tonnes
65. To elect the President of India, which one of the following election procedures
is used?
(a) Proportional representation through List System
(b) Secondary voting system
(c) System of proportional representation by means of a single transferable vote
(d) Collective voting system with proportional representation for Union and States
67. Match List I (Chemicals) with List II (Application) and select the correct
answer using the codes given below the Lists:
List I List II
(Chemicals) Application)
A. Sodium Carbonate 1. Photography
B. Sodium Bicarbonate 2. Washing
C. Sodium Peroxide 3. Baking
D. Sodium Thiosulphate 4. Source of Oxygen
Codes :
A B C D
(a) 2 3 1 4
(b) 3 2 4 1
(c) 2 3 4 1
(d) 3 2 1 4
70. The ratio of external debt to GDP in India as of the year 2001 is around:
(a) 11 per cent(b) 21 per cent
(c) 29 per cent(d) 39 per cent
73. Which one of the following countries was in news recently for its default on $
155 billion public debt, the largest such default by any country in history?
(a) Angola(b) Argentina
(c) Venezuela(d) Yugoslavia
74. The total number of members in the Legislative Council of a State shall not
exceed:
(a) one-fourth of the total members in the Legislative Assembly
(b) two-third of the total members in the Legislative Assembly
(c) half of the total members in the Legislative Assembly
(d) one-third of the total members in the Legislative Assembly
75. Summers in Western Europe are warmer than those in Eastern Europe because of:
(a) the influence of the warm ocean current
(b) the influence of bright sunshine
(c) the lower mountainous terrain
(d) peninsular nature of the continent
77. In medieval India, what was the name given to the Letter of Credit payable
after a certain period?
(a) Hundi(b) Kharaj
(c) Patta(d) Qubuliyatnama
78. Match List I (Deserts) with List II (Country) and select the correct answer
using the codes given below the Lists:
List I List II
(Deserts) (Country)
A. Gibson 1. Argentina
B. Karakum 2. Turkmenistan
C. Patagonia 3. Australia
D. Sonara 4. Mexico
Codes :
A B C D
(a) 4 1 2 3
(b) 3 2 1 4
(c) 3 1 2 4
(d) 4 2 1 3
81. Consider the names of the following four Speakers of Lok Sabha:
1. G.S. Mavalankar
2. Hukam Singh
3. Shivraj Patil
4. Balram Jakhar
What is the correct chronological order in which they served Lok Sabha?
(a) 1, 2, 3, 4(b) 2, 3, 4, 1
(c) 1, 2, 4, 3(d) 2, 4, 3, 1
The three Movements of Gandhi were named variously as, the Non-Cooperation
Movement, the Civil Disobedience Movement and the Quit India Movement because:
1. Gandhi wanted to attract the Indian masses to his
movements by giving it a different name each time.
2. When a movement failed, he did not want to use the
same name for his new movement.
3. Each movement was more rigorous than the previous
one.
4. Gandhi prepared the masses slowly from non-
cooperating in 1921 to telling the British to quit India
in 1942.
84. Which among the following sectors received the largest Central plan outlay in
the last few Central Government annual budgets?
(a) Energy
(b) Agriculture and Allied Activities
(c) Social Services
(d) Communication
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