IIMB Vista 2012 Bizarre Barry O’brien

IIMB Vista 2012 Bizarre Barry O’brien 

Here are the prelims questions. Most of the questions in the finals were more than awful to be even noted down, or to be published here. Cut off was 19 (on tie-breaker). Highest was 23. (We scored 22. :D)

Teams on stage: JK, Prasad Shetty, Srikanth (winners) | Samrat, Himmat +1 | Avinash Mudaliar, Siddhartha Banerjee, Nikhil Narayanan | Ajay Rao, Vinod Rajamani, Vinay Mudaliar (II)| Dhanno+2 | <I don’t know their names>

1) This Indian was involved, and played a key role in the formation of the RBI.

2) Neutrogena is a brand from __

3) As per the latest IRS, the largest *read* newspaper

4) <Not this text, but something similar with examples>

Countries that are pursued by investors seeking potentially high returns who are able to accept the higher risks these type of markets would be exposed to. Some of the risks investors face in these frontier markets are political instability, poor liquidity, inadequate regulation, substandard financial reporting and large currency flucuations. In addition, many markets are overly dependent on volatile commodities.

5) Some 17million users, many branches, Indian organization

6) NEFT full form

7) Not final good, not raw materials – what?

8) Mahindra Bolero tagline

9) Court appointed person for a property, palace….

10) Many brands, jewellry company

11) Some quote on Bill Gates/Microsoft…word missing

12) David Ogilvy quote

13) First US University(disputed), started off with hotel management courses

14) Peculation is

15) Cheques are bounced due to ____ ____. Standard reason in India.

16) Israel currency pic – identify country

17)UEFA logo

18) Anu Agha pic

19) Currency note – one language masked – Sanskrit

20) Saina Nehwal -old pic – as a school kid

21) Unmukt Chand pic

22) Indian Bank logo

23) Preet Bharara pic

24)  Andy Grove pic

25) Mike Duke of Walmart pic

26) Dubai stock exchange logo

27) East Bengal club logo

28) ‘India’s international bank’

29) Google TV logo

30) Connect – a plant image, located at Calcutta, Mumbai.., – ans was Mint (3 points)

1) BR Ambedkar

2) J&J

3) Dainik Jagran

4) Frontier Markets

5) India Post

6) National Electronic Fund Transfer

7) Intermediaries

9) Receiver

10) Gitanjali

11) Imagination

13) Cornell

14) Embezzlement

15) Insufficient Funds

28) Bank of Baroda

 

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