The Brand Equity Quiz 2012 – Chandigarh

The Brand Equity Quiz 2012 – Chandigarh

Courtesy: Hitesh Kamboj

6 teams to qualify for the regional final:
1. Bharti Airtel with (24 points)
2. Infosys Red (24)
3. Pioneer &Partner (25)
4. Samsung (24)
5. Infosys Blue (21)
6. Winshuttle (22)
The chief guest, Vivek Malhotra (Vice President and Head of Marketing for Idea Cellular’s Punjab, Himachal Pradesh and J&K circles) presented the prizes to the winners. The team from Samsung ( represented by Nitin Gupta and Manu Kaushik) maintained their lead from the start and won the quiz

1) Which Arch said “Chairs are arch. Sofa are Bourgeois ?
Answer: Le Corbusier.

2) Which abbreviation of the 1920s is probable influenced by the proprietor name “Frigidaire”
Answer : Fridge.

3) In the 1990 Louis Cartier popularize the use of –
a) Diamond
b) Pearls
c) Platinum
Answer: C

4) Paul Di Resto, Nico Huldenberg and Jules Bianchi are drivers for which F1 team?
Answer Force India

5) What is the minimum amt that one can send through Instant Money Order on India POST?
Ans 1000 Rupee

6) Which bollywood film, directed by Bimal Roy in 1953, is the story of and Impoverished farmer who become the Rickshaw Puller.
Answer: Do Bhiga Jamin.

7) Last year the world oldest marathon runner featured in a publicity campaign for
– UNICEF
– DUREX
– PETA
Ans- Peta

8) In 2011 Rupert Murdoch News Corp. Launched the ‘daily’ it is the first Newspaper ?
-Internet
-Tabloid
-Ipad
Ans : ipad

9) Missing

10) You have to pay to go up the Eiffel tower
Serious/Joking
Answer: serious

11) All the winner of Nobel Prizes for Eco. Have won the award in their lifetime.
Ans: True/False— True

12) Complete this phrase ; Be penny wise and– ——Foolish.
Answer : pound

13) In 1917 the US Rubber company almost marketed their footwear creation calling it Veds or Peds. They finally used another four letter word for them what was that
Ans: KEDS

14) Who headed the salt lake org. Committee for th Olympic Paralympics Winter games of 2002.
Answer: Romney

15) What is trade mark as a type of plasticized cardboard carton for milk & other folded from a single sheet ?
Answer: tetra pack

16) who worked in the Daily Bungle ?
– Superman
– Batman
– spiderman
Answer: Spiderman

17) the Pakistan version of which board game is called Crorepati Baopaar
ANSWER: Monopoly

18) which is the most popular flavour of ice cream?
– Chocolate
– Strawberry
– Vanilla
Answer : Vanilla

19) Which company traded itself first shares in the 2011 using NYSE symbol “LNKD”
Answer- linkedin.in

20) In their effort to stop tea from being declared the national drink being did bar owner in Ludhiana abduntly server to their Customer?
Ans: Lassy ( a drink extracted from the milk)
21-25 Visual ques

Ans: 21) 7-Up adv

Ans:22) Lufthansa logo

Ans:23) Vijaypat Singhania

Answer: 24) Azim Premji Voice

Ans 25 audio of Aiyyaa movie

2 point for each ques 26-30
26) Only 19 nation representing 6% of the world population have comprehensive national bans on ————- adv ?
Ans. Tabacco

27) who presented the first interi budget of independent India.
Ans: R. K. Shanmukham Chetty

28) The name of which mild pain killer comes from ‘acetyliete spirsaure’ salicylic acid.
Ans. Aspirin .

29) Acc. To Philip Kotler the science and art of exploring, creation value to satisfy the needs of a target mkt at a profit is called————
Ans. Marketing

30) In 1882, a company started by which inventor provided the 1st commercial light system in Lower Manhattan ?
Ans. GE, Thomas Edison.

Finals
Round 1 : ( Derek gave answers and teams had to make ques See below 6 ques.)

1) 7824-7431-7884 Ranjana Sonawane of Maharashtra
Answer: Who was first AADHAAR recipient.

2) To cure his kidney stones Marquir de Lessert drank this water from an his friends property.
Answer: How did we got Evain Water.

3) Forbes magazine says this Indian the MOST Losers of 2011?
Ans: who ranked Luxmi Mittal most loser of 2011

4) This auto sport originated when bootleggers transported whiskey at night in modified cars to deceive the police ?
Ans. How Nascar originated

5) Travel Company started in 1841 when the founder took 500 passenger from Leicester to Loughborough
Ans. How Thomas& Cook Formed.

6) answer was Nickelodeon.

Round 2
1) In 1990s before he become the pioneer of it he was a motorcycle dealer, having poultry farm, he has served in Indian army, Udupi hotel owner and a stockbroker. Who
Ans. CAPTAIN Gopinath

2) Which iconic brand has assembly line in Brazil and Bawal (Haryana).
Ans. Harley Davidson

3) Acc. To the Times in London who is riches Musician in 2011 under the age of 30.
Ans. Adele

4) Missed

5) Missed

6) It is belived, Japanese used to put something in Chai to make it bitter what they used to put in the Chai ?
Ans. Turmeric

Round 3 ( Flicker Round ) Visual.
Ans 1. Accenture
Ans2. ?
Ans3. Banker to the Poor book image by Mohammed Yunis
Ans4. Yuvi Foundation T-Shirt.
Ans5. Kari Leaves
Ans6. Manthan movie Poster.

Round 4. ( Idea Deal Round)
1) Acc. To the recent survey who is the best brand ambassador in watch category
Ans. Tiger Wood

2) Name this commodity which derives its name from ‘Juniper berry”
Ans. Gin

3) My wealth comes from Luck and compound Interest ?
Ans. Warren Buffet

4) India produce more than 109 Product of it in India somthing related to the Agri product what ?
Answer: Spices ( The Youngest one in the hall crack this one Arpit from DPS)

5) In which city of Southern Hemisphere the movie ‘ The Lord of King’
Ans. NZ

6) Which company in the world produce more than 300 million rubber tyre ?
Ans. Lego

Round 5 (Skype Round) Audio round

Ans. 1 Neck Chand video

Ans.2 Q.n was cancelled as audio was not clear.

Ans.3 Whitney Houston song

Ans.4 Vico Termeric adv in Audio

Ans.5 Anushman Khurana Actor in Vickey Donor

Ans 6 Audio OF Piyush Pandey.

Last Round 6, 9 ques. In this round 1 team had to be out after 3 ques. 3 teams had to go back to pavilion and in which last year winner from Pioneer&Partner even after making a very gud come back in the game by giving answers of 3 ques. Consecutively and then fight remained for left 2 teams (Samsung and Infosys).

Round 6 Buzzer Round.

1. This mgt guru initial letter of his name is ‘MEP’
Ans. Micheal E Porter

2. Harry Bentley Bradley set to design which brand of Toys ?
ans. Hot Wheel

3) Qns on some comparison with Marilyn Monroe.

Winshuttle was Out after these 3 ques due to lowest score ?

4) In term of Tonnage which state produce more Wheat ( This ques. Made the fight tough for Pioneer&Partner last year regional winner as they answered Punjab.
Ans. UP

5,6) Not able to note DOWN due to to too much noise around .

So finally Bharti Infosys Blue and Pioneer&Partner were out after these 6 ques of 6th round.

So fight remaiedn between Samsung and Infosys Red

7) Which country has more user of FACEBOOK. (As Infosys Red got it wrong they were out and winner were Samsung of First regional round)
Ans- US

Ice Ice Baby

It was cut from lakes and rivers, and then stored in containers insulated with saw dust. In 19th century North America, the ice trade was suddenly a new business. Ice was transported in insulated railroad cars and ships. Soon ice had found markets across the globe, from New York to Bombay, from Madras to Calcutta.

On February 13, 1806, ‘Favorite’ left Boston harbor with large chunks of ice cut from the frozen Massachusetts lake. This ship was bound for Martinique, a Carribean island. The man behind this was a Boston Brahmin, Frederic Tudor, who was later known as the ‘Ice King’.

Hundreds of tonnes of ice survived journey that spanned thousands of miles, and over four months, revolutionizing the domestic lives of millions of people around the world. A marketing genius, Tudor trained bartenders to use ice in cocktails and evangelised the idea of cold drinks.

Tudor’s ships supplied ice to Bombay, Calcutta, and Madras. Ice was stored in insulated buildings known as ice houses – there was one each in each of these locations. (Only the one in Chennai survives. Vivekanandar Illam in Chennai was nothing but Chennai’s ice house).

Across these ports, the demand for ice was rising. British community was in love with this – ice was the in thing, for cooling water, to be used as palliative for those with fever and stomach disorders. Soon, ice was no longer a luxury item, it was a necessity. Tudor had monopoly over the trade in Calcutta.

The Bengal Ice Company, India’s first artificial-ice manufacturer, began production in 1878. Cheaper domestic ice from them killed Tudor’s business with India.

Pollution in water bodies, and methods to produce artificial ice like industrial refrigerators and domestic fridges slowly melted the ice industry. Tudor, and his rivals built an international trade which died during the onslaught of technology and innovation.

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Tata Crucible 2012 Corporate Chennai External Finals

Tata Crucible 2012 Corporate Chennai External Finals

Courtesy: G.B.Jayakumar & Pratik Pandey

 

I. TIPS & TRENDS:

1. At the time of the Second World War, the Government of India asked the leading advertisement agencies to form a consortium and set up a publicity unit in Shimla to handle war propaganda, tackle rumour mongering, put out messages about black-outs and handle recruitment to the armed forces. When the war ended, this consortium was converted into its present form. It came into being in 1955.

2. ‘Class Edge’ is an offering from which TATA group company?

3. Identify this futuristic currency.

 

4. This most famous brand’s first in the world is to be set up in GoldenTemple atAmritsar, the second one in Vaishno Devi Temple.

5. Name of this famous Indian brand comes from a flower. The brand traces its history to 1862 when Kanji Morarji, started a small trading business in Mumbai.

6. Which TATA group company acquired 51% stake in Zero waste Agro organics Pvt ltd (ZWAOPL), a  Maharashtra based organic manure and soil conditioners manufacturing company?

7. It is the Sanskrit word that now refers to the entire plant kingdom. However, according to Charaka Samhit? and Sushruta Samhita medical texts, it is limited to plants that bear fruits but no evident flowers. In the Rigveda, it is a deity presiding over the forest and described as the “bright golden hued _________, with its thousand branches.” Identify the brand name.

8. Which tiny seeds grown mainly in Rajasthan, Haryana and the Saurashtra region of Gujarat inIndia are helping in the oil field services of Halliburton?

9. ‘India’s Place in the Sun Would Come from the Partnership Between Wisdom of its Rural People and Skill of its Professionals’. Which famous Indian’s quote?

10. Identify this personality. Former chairman of Madura Coats.

 

11. Tata AG promotes the worldwide export of a wide range of Indian commodities, finished products and non-traditional industrial items. It undertakes third-country international trading, counter-trading and specialist equipment procurement for overseas projects. Where is its Head Quarters?

12. Advertisement for?

 

II. BUSINESS APPRAISAL:

1. WIPRO to sell the water purification and treatment business to which company?

2. First luxury tower in India by Homestead will be branded in which personality’s name?

3. George Weyman, inventor of Copenhagen Snuff, opens his tobacco shop in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. This is the foundation to which global company?

4. After selling the business they co-founded to TATA, one of them went on to start “Shop4solutions”, a retail solutions company. Who?

5. Connect:

 

6. Connect:

 

7. Connect:

 

8. Connect:

III. BRICKS & MORTAR:

1. Index level of governance in African countries.

2. Founded by Max Levchin, Peter Thiel, Luke Nosek, Ken Howery, Elon Musk

3. P.C.Balasubramanian & Raja Krishnamoorthy’s book on Rajini – Value Statements on Business and Life Management.

NON TATA TRACK – FINALS: ANSWERS:

I. TIPS & TRENDS:

1. DAVP (Directorate of Advertising and Visual Publicity)

2. TATA Interactive systems

3. Currency designed to be used by inter-planetary travellers. Called the Quasi Universal Intergalactic Denomination or Quid.

4. McDonald’s Veg Restaurant

5. Saffola (from Sunflower)

6. Rallis India

7. Vanaspati

8. Guar Seeds – an essential ingredient for mining oil and natural gas in a process called hydraulic fracturing.

9. Dr. Verghese Kurien

10. John Shaw (Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw’s husband)

11.Switzerland

12. Cocaine

II. BUSINESS APPRAISAL:

1. Earth water Group

2.Michael Schumacher World Tower

3. U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Company (Altria Group)

4. Hemu Ramaiah, Founder ex CEO of Landmark

5. Colgate: Total, Tom’s – manufacturer of natural-ingredients-only personal care products, a partially owned subsidiary of Colgate-Palmolive, Mahesh Bhupathi – Brand ambassador

6. Dabur: Balsara – acquired by Dabur, Amla – Dabur amla oil

7. Zydus: logo, Founder – Ramanbhai Patel, Bipasha Basu – Sugar Free brand ambassador

8. Tang: Kraft logo, Warner Lambart belongs to Kraft group, Two flavours of Tang

III. BRICKS & MORTAR:

1. IBRAHIM

2. PAYPAL

3. PUNCHTANTRA (Rajini’s PUNCHTANTRA)

Tata Crucible 2012 Corporate Chennai – Internal Tata Track Finals

 Tata Crucible 2012 Corporate Chennai – Internal Tata Track Finals

 Courtesy: G.B. Jayakumar & Pratik Pandey

I. CROSS TALK:

1. Started as a simple showroom by Nanu Gupta in Mumbai

2. John Keynes theory – Employees motivation is effected by aids; Effort & Reward parity to motivation

3. Company founded by Shekar Kapoor & AR Rahman

4. Called as “Little Japan” by Jawaharlal Nehru

5. Mumbai’s first circulating book library

6. Asian column of “The Economist”

7. Hon Hai Precision Industry better known as

8. Chairman of KAIRALI TV

*** 1 & 8 are Audience Questions.

II. WORD IN A CAPSULE:

1. Identify.

     2. Identify the logo:

3. Identify her.


                                    4. Identify:

5. Identify him.

                                         5. How do we know this now?

 

III. IN FOCUS:

1. Law for an Industry in 1878, a man would walk in front of the vehicle with a red flag for what purpose?

2.  A product’s name with ‘Forint” was denied a patent. Why?

3. Which Football club is owned by Alisher Usmanov?

TATA WORLD:

1. Identify the logo.

2. Identify him:

3. TATA’s project in which city?

 

V. DIFFERENT STROKES:

1. Founded by Johann Georg Halske and Werner von?

2. Founder chairman of Vulcan Inc.

3. On Mar 22, 1993 – Federico Faggin & Ted Hoff designed the first?

TIE BREAKER: Created as an entity to reconstruct & build the world?

TATA TRACK – FINALS: ANSWERS

I. CROSS TALK:

1. Vijay Sales

2. EQUITY theory

3. QYUKI

4. Sivakasi

5. SHEMAROO

6. Banyan

7. FOXCONN

8. Actor Mammootty

 II. WORD IN A CAPSULE:

1. World Economic Forum (WEF)

2. NABARD

3.Dilma Rousseff,BrazilPresident

4. VIAGRA (Pfizer)

5. Sridhar Vembu, ZOHO founder

6. Ultratech Cement

 III. IN FOCUS:

1. Safety purpose, to indicate to the pedestrians that a automobile vehicle is coming

2. Forint is the currency ofHungary

3. Arsenol FC

IV. TATA WORLD:

1. 8 o’ clock coffee

2. OP Bhatt (former SBI chairman), one of the board of directors of Tata Consultancy Services (TCS)

3. TATA Housing project in Chennai

V. TATA WORLD:

1. SIEMENS

2. Paul Allen

3. Pentium Microprocessor by Intel

TIE BREAKER: World Bank (Founded as IBRD – International bank for reconstruction & development)

Tata Crucible 2012 Corporate Chennai Prelims

Tata Crucible 2012 Corporate Chennai Prelims

Courtesy: G.B.Jayakumar & Pratik Pandey

PRELIMS:

1. Luxury group owns the brands GUCCI, YSL, Redcats (PPR)

2. Amalgamation of word’s “Nordic Food”, World’s best restaurant in 2010 & 2011? (Noma)

3. Created modern espresso machine in 1934 (Illy)

4. Singapore Airlines low cost subsidiary. It’s name is short, sharp and snappy. Name resembles an Indian scooter brand. (SCOOT)

5. Identify the logo. (Groupon)

6. A location-based social networking website for mobile devices, such as smart phones. Created by Dennis Crowley whose similar “Dodge ball” was acquired by Google. Named after a playground sport. (Four Square)

7. Of the 1,000 people surveyed in theUK, 66 % have nomophobia, up from 53% 4 years ago. What is nomophobia? (No Mobile Phone Phobia)

8. A non-profit educational organization that operates clubs worldwide for the purpose of helping members improve their communication, public speaking and leadership skills. Founded by Ralph C. Smedley. (Toastmasters International)

9. Which famous personality is behind the “Girl friend” perfume? (Justin Bieber)

10. Identify the author of the book. (Tom Peters and Robert H. Waterman)

 

 11. Originally formulated by General Foods Corporation food scientist William A. Mitchell in 1957. Sales of this product were poor until NASA used it on John Glenn’s Mercury flight, and subsequent Gemini missions. Since then, it was closely associated with the U.S.manned spaceflight program. The brand is currently owned by Kraft Foods. (Tang)

12. Telecom service launched in 1995. Not so successful? (Pager service)

13. Established in 1932 as TBVF by late Mr. Vishnu. (Talwalkars)

14. Jersey Airtel and Guernsey Airtel are services offered under a partnership between Airtel &______? (Vodafone)

15. Identify this controversial project. (Lavasa)

 

 16. Online Travel service of MSN and was later spun off in 1999. (Expedia)

17. Popularly known as Co-optex, it was established in 1935 and has a long and rich tradition in Handloom History that dates back over 77 years. Has a network of 203 showrooms spread all overIndiawith an annual turnover of around Rs.1000 Crore. (The Tamilnadu Handloom Weavers’ Co-operative Society Ltd.,)

18. Official Sportswear Partner to Wembley Stadium and exclusive football supplier to The FA at all levels of the game. (Umbro)

19. Which retailer has the “From the mountains” range of Jams & Chutney? (Nilgiri’s)

20. Identify the advertiser. (Hot Wheels)

 

21. Former chief technology officer @ Zynga, left the company to assume a similar role at ServiceNow, a company that offers software to automate enterprise IT operations as a service. (Allan Leinwand)

22. Which airline’s campaign “Our sign is a promise”? (Swiss Airlines)

23. Which company owns the “Optimus” range of mobile phones? (LG)

24. BALMEROL lubricants (Balmer Lawrie)

25. Identify the personality. (Sivasankaran – Siva Group)

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Tata Crucible 2012 Corporate Kolkata Prelims

Tata Crucible 2012 Corporate Kolkata Prelims

 

Prelims

 

1. Rajat Gupta was at the helm of which Management Consultancy Firm from 1994 to 2003 which is also coming in news because of his recent Insider Trading Trial?

 

2. This Bank preceded the setting up of a Bank by a person named Ramakishen Dutt in Calcutta (now Kolkata) in 1828, the second one was incorporated in London in the year 1836 as an Anglo-Indian bank and the third one was registered in Bombay (now Mumbai) in the year 1864. Name it?

 

3. Coca- Cola doesn’t operate in three countries in the world yet,CubaandNorth Koreaare the two, which is the third one?

 

4. Which is the largest Fictional Co. in the world with a estimated sales of $1.7 Trillion?

 

5. This gentleman in the Pic has invented something which is popular in Kolkata?

 

6. Hotels.com came up with an index to measure cost of living in different cities around the world. What’s it called?

 

7. Which MNC has exited from a JV with Calcutta Metropolitan Group for a Project called Riverbank Projects? (Hint: the MNC is nowhere related to Real Estate)

 

8. The company was founded by Frenchman Thierry in 1837. Initially it specialized in saddles and leather goods & then they moved into their current Product Portfolios etc. WhichCo.? (Hint: think bag & scarves)

 

9. The Russian and Indian team from seismic exploration vessel Academic Arkhangelsky discovered this while mapping of the Gulf Cambay during 1964-1967 & they came the name because it sounds catchy. Which name?

 

10. Id the Entity from the logo?

 

 

11. This Greek word describes a measure of the sensitivity of the price of an option to a change in its implied volatility in stock market as well as the name of an Italian apparel maker. Which word?

 

12. They gave rise to the phrase Cause-Related Marketing or CRM in short in 1983 when they raised money for the restoration of Statue of Liberty by donating one cent on every transaction. WhichCo.?

 

13. Which retail brand was started by Mr. Nanu Gupta in Mahim in 1967 by selling Sewing Machines?

 

14. In 2003, at age 37, he founded Tribe.net & he mission is to engage people over internet. Who? (Hint: a dog is the shareholder in his currentCo.)

 

15. The gentleman below started in 1907 by selling Soda Fountain, later moved into some other products & his surname is the name of the Brand. Id?

 

 

16. This country overtook US to become the world’s largest food grocery market, valued at £607 billion. Which country?

 

17. Founded in 1960 by Suchet Singh, they gave the brand an English-sounding name as they thought it would work, as there was a craze for imported goods that sold at high prices. Id the brand?

 

18. Jack Trout touted this which is been originated by Xerox as the ‘ultimate competitive strategy’ & we use it very often nowadays in our Organizational use. Which word?

19. The book ‘The Coalition Of Competitors’ is written by a person whom we better knows as an IT Person although he earlier background is into in a different field altogether. Who?

 

20. Id the Professor below who’s synonyms with the definition of Poverty Line inIndia?

 

21. Which denim brand is owned by the Grotto family inItaly? (Hint: brand name is a generic word)

 

22. WhichCo.is investing $ 250,000 to improve health, safety and education in seven communities surrounding its operation in Chennai. Under the banner of “Operation Goodwill,” because the majority of their workforce comes from these areas?

 

23. Which Japanese electronics giant has made the Robot named Cocorobo?

 

24. This storage deviceCo.was founded by Dr. Eli Harari & Sanjay Mehrotra in 1988. Name it?

 

25. Id the writer of the book?

 

 

Answers

1.  McKinsey & Company

2. Bank ofIndia

3.Myanmar

4. CHOAM

5. Rasgulla & the gentleman is Nabin Chandra Das

6. Club Sandwich Index

7. Bata

8. Hermes

9.BombayHigh

10. The Rockefeller Foundation

11. Kappa

12. American Express

13. Vijay Sales

14. Mark Pincus of Zynga

15. Vadilal & Vadilal Gandhi

16.China

17. Vi-John

18. Benchmarking

19. Kiran Karnik

20. Suresh Tendulkar

21. Gas Jeans

22. Ford Motor Company

23. Sharp

24. Sandisk

25. Jack Welch

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IIMB Vista 2012 Bizarre Barry O’brien

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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