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The Brand Equity Quiz 2012 – Ahmedabad Round

Courtesy: Mayank Mujumdar.

Same can also be found at http://www.quiztalk.in/brand-equity-quiz-2012-at-ahmedabad

Winner: Arvind Mills

Prelims
1. Zandu Pharmaceuticals was established on a piece of land near the river Rangamati. The king of which erstwhile princely state donated this land?
Jamnagar

2. Daag achche hain is the tagline of which product?
Surf Excel

3. The outlawing of logging in Thailand during the early 1990’s left thousands of domesticated _________ out of work?
Elephants

4. What is the term for the amount of CO2 released by an organization, industry or person?
Carbon footprint

5. Prior to this (event), Gloria was the last one to shut down the NYSE. What?
Hurricane Sandy

6. Australian mining company Rio Tinto supplied 8 tonnes of gold for which sporting event held recently?
London Olympics

7. On which channel is the Bournvita Quiz Contest telecast?
Colours

8. Which of the 5 Pandavas lost 1000 golden nishkas& 1000 chariots to Duryodhana in wager?
Yudhishthir

9. Which was the first social networking website to be valued at $100 billion?
Facebook

10. In 1950, Peter Drucker was the first to suggest that companies treat their employees as _______ instead of liabilities.
Assets

11. When Anil Ambani joined Reliance, he dropped the word ‘only’ from which brand?
Vimal

12. What connects Bajaj to MaharanaPratap?
Chetak

13. What was the name of the moneylender in Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice?
Shylock

14. Aligarh is famous for manufacture of which product?
Locks

15. What does E in NEFT stand for?
Electronic

16. How many people are expected to visit Antarctica in 2012?
A.10000 B. 35000 C. 50000
35000

17. Who decided to pursue a career in aviation after a joyride in an aircraft at Hardelot, France at the age of 15?
JRD Tata

18. Which food item did Sanjay Dutt’s character sell in the movie Vaastav?
Pavbhaji

19. If IIM Calcutta was the first IIM to be set up, which was the second?
IIM A

20. Which Asian airline has an IATA code of SQ?
Singapore Airlines

21. Which Indian state is most frequented by luxury train routes?
Rajasthan

22. If you buy a product from brand TJ, where was it manufactured?
Tihar Jail

23. Which India-born director living in USA has a production house called Mirabai Films?
Mira Nair

24. On which cookie would you find a design of 12 flowers, 12 dots and 12 dashes per side?
Oreo

FINALS
ROUND 1
Answers to some questions were provided and the teams had to come up with the questions
1. Progress through Knowledge in Sanskrit
A. What is the motto of IIM Ahmedabad?

2. A personal hygiene product manufactured using saponification reaction
A. What is soap?

3. DhirajbenRuparel named this product so for being tasty
A. What does Lijjat (papad) mean?

4. This plastic equipment manufactured by Acme Corporation is used in all FIFA matches
A. Who manufactures the whistles used by referees infootball games?

5. It is the most popular type of cheese in USA
A. What is mozzarella?

6. Bangladesh gets half of its fuel wood from this place in India
A. What are the Sunderbans?

ROUND 2:-
1.Mother Dairy runs stores called Safal which sell perishable goods. Why were the stores named Safal?
Sabzee + Fal

2. In modern day media, what does EQ mean?
Engagement Quotient

3. Which term was popularized by Alex Faickney Osborn in the 1953 book Applied Imagination?
Brainstorming

4. Chennai based Nalli’s Silks came up with a shade called MS Blue to honor which person?
M.S Subbalaxmi

5. What are Trinidad Moruga Scorpion, Trinidad Scorpion Butch T Scorpion and Hainan Yellow Lantern some types of?
Chili

6. According to a survey by Nielsen, what is biggest cause of worry for working Indians?
Job security

ROUND 3:-
1. About 110 Nobel Prize winners, 20 Heads of States and 5 US Presidents have contributed to which widely referred literature?
Encyclopaedia Britannica

2. In marketing jargon, who are mystery shoppers?
Customers sent by a company to its own outlets/retailers to conduct surveys

3. Which brand of tennis balls have been used at the Wimbledon Championship since its inception?
Slazenger

4. Which popular packaging product would you associate with a company called Sealed Air?
Bubble Wrap

5. Which marketing fundamental was proposed by Jerome McCarthy in 1960?
4 P’s

6. Which is the world’s largest producer of Aspartame[actual question had a discrepancy]?
Ajinomoto

ROUND 4 (buzzer):-
1. Which firm started in 1911 is the second largest employer in USA?
IBM

2. Which apex Indian body was set up in 1927 on the recommendation of Mahatma Gandhi?
FICCI

3. The first salesperson for which company was a lady named Persis Albee?
Avon Products

4. In 1912, who asked Edison to manufacture a battery for self-starting automobiles?
Henry Ford

5.What have Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan and Rod Stewart insured at Lloyd’s?
Voices

6. Name the only coffee brand by Unilever.
Bru

7. If Milk: White Revolution, ________: Round Revolution?
Potatoes

8. Connect rainbows to a low-cost airline in India.
Indigo

9. In the petroleum industry, what is a BBL?
Oil Barrel

The Brand Equity Quiz 2012 – Mumbai – Finals

Brand Equity Quiz 2012_ Mumbai Finals
Winners: TCS Priyambad Pattanayak & Pravin Varma | 2nd Edelweiss

Selection Round

1) Which book has characters Raghav – a Journalist, Gopal- Dir Gangatel, Aarti- Ramada hotel

2) Which company changed its HQ to ‘One Hacker’s way’ California

3) This brewery was started by Arthur

4) It has a Spread Eagle as its logo

5) Which Scam sounds like something which has Calcium, mineral….

6) 1920’s founded as International Cellucotton Products

7) Montblanc’s the Limited Edition 3000 dedicated to which movie of Alfred Hitchcock?

8) In Youtube, it is the highest viewed Commencement speech. WHose speech?

9) Bacterium Clostridium botulinum …

10) Olive Bar, Mumbai, Delhi and which other city?

11) Which denomination of currency notes have the Himalayan range on the obverse?

12) Flipkart founders Sachin Bansal & Binny Bansal, previously worked for?

Tie Breaker : In 1982, Pranab Mukherjee succeeded which would be President then, to become the finance minister

Answers:

1) Chetan Bhagat’s Revolution 20/20

2) Facebook

3) Guiness

4) Barclays

5) Coalgate/Colgate

6) Kotex

7) Psycho

8) Steve Jobs

9) Botox

10) Bangalore

11) Rs. 100

12) Amazon

13) Venkataraman

Teams on stage: TCS (winners), Edelweiss (2nd), Maersk, Tata Capital, JWT, Goldfish

Round 1: Frame a qns

1) It was started to stop Cholera in Victorian England.

2) A recent Cosmopolitan survey- Women prefers it more than sex

3) First record of it being mentioned in “Heer Ranjha”, a Punjabi poem written by Waris Shah in 1766

4) Dell Streak was the first?

5) Radhe, RadhaRani, Balarama, GangaCafe

6) Only Qatar airways provide theses for long flights

Ans: Round 1

1) Lifebuoy

2) Facebook

3) Basmati rice

4) Phablet (Phone + Tablet)

5) Iskcon restaurants

6) Night suits

Round 2

1) His contract with the Monarch of Spain said that he could keep 10 percent of whatever riches he found, along with a noble title and the governorship
of any lands he should encounter.

2) One of the founder’s used the company’s expertise in pumps to develop a submersible bathtub pump for his son, Kenneth, who had developed rheumatoid arthritis.
He realized that their agricultural water pumps could be adapted to give his son soothing whirlpool treatments in the tub at home.

3) Why was Coca Cola not available in India from 1977 till 1993

4) Arthashastra- Rainy season…Entertainers and which oher group were banned – to prevent the agriculture being impacted

5) Richard Branson mentions that his business ideasof different businesses can be termed as ABCD. What is ABCD ? ( ALways Be….)

6) Google doodle- This Actor/director featured in the video

Ans: Round 2

1) Columbus

2) Jacuzzi

3) The new govt wanted the company to share its secret formula 7x

4) Gypsies/vagabonds

5) Always Be Connected Dots

6) Google doodle of Charlie Chaplin
(BTW, what about the John Lennon doodle? nevermind)

3rd Round – Visual
1)

2) Which Movie?

Think: Television

4) What is the outfit called?

5) Identify

6) Identify

Ans: Round 3

1) Pistorius

2) Safe

3) Big Boss

4) Catsuit

5) Nargisi Kofta

6) Mao Suit

4th Round

1) Only living person to feature in the Amar Chitra Katha?

2) Broadway… Evita…

3) Author John Haggai..said about him ‘He did write crappy ads too’. Who?

4) What is Textonym?

5) It was the first subject taught as a correspondence course.
Hint: Corporate skill

6) Asian City…Fishing settlement..Sindhi fisherwoman Mai Koalchi

Ans: Round 4

1) Narayan Murthy

2) Ricky Martin

3) Salman Rushdie

4) A textonym is a word which becomes ambiguous when using predictive text due to having the same button combination as other unrelated words. Book= Cool

5) Shorthand

6) Karachi

5th Round

1) Video: What is being manufactured?

2) Song : “rich Girl”. Singer?

3) Video: From movie ‘Catch me If you can’

4) Audio: Yuvraj Singh. Which company?

5) Video: Vandana Luthra of VLCC

6) Audio: Song Mujhe kya bechega rupaiya- Satyameva Jayate. Singer?

Ans: Round 5

1) Credit Card

2) Justin Bieber

3) ‘Catch me If you can’

4) Birla SunLife

5) Vandana Luthra of VLCC

6) Sona Mohapatra

6th Round: Cell phones provided to search for answer

1) Radhe, O fish, 90 days, 63 cameras

2) Bisleri is named after?

3) J P Getty’s quote: __________ is like Manure. It Stinks

4) BSKYB took it to court three years ago over the use of the word ‘Sky’

5) After USA, this country is the largest contributor to UN in dollar terms

6) National Old Age Pension scheme named after which PM?

Ans: Round 6

1) Big Boss

2) Person. part of Founder’s name

3) Money

4) Skype

5) Japan

6) Indira Gandhi

Round 7- Only for the Top 2 Teams

1) The last, 32-volume print version, published in 2010, weighs 129 pounds and sold for $1,395. What?

2) 2006 Padmashri awardee ‘Ayurveda to the west’

Ans: Round 7

1) Encyclopedia Brittanica. (TCS team which was leading at this stage, answered it as Brittania Encyclopedia, a minor lapse and were not awarded the points, hence
scored a negative)

2) Shahnaz Hussain (TCS answered it and won the quiz)

The Brand Equity Quiz 2012 – Kolkata – Prelims

Courtesy: The Champ himself- Rabi Sankar Saha

Kolkata BEQ was won by Rabi Sankar Saha & Bhaskar Datta.
Change of his previous partner sure seems to have done Rabi a great deal of good 🙂

Qs which consist 1 mark each

1. Which of these are not in Tangra, Kolkata? (MCQ & Local Qs)
Ans- Golden Dragon

2. Which watch brand is the Official Olympic Timekeeper since 1932?
Ans- Omega

3.Wch Indian Politician bought seeds from the Pune-based Pocha Seeds for his Rose Garden during his confinement?
Ans- Jawaharlal Nehru

4. Which term was first used in reference to trades jobs in 1924, in an Alden, Iowa newspaper?
Ans- Blue-collar

5. _____ Book is published by UN for Climate Change? (FITB)
Ans- Green

6. After US Dollar, which is the largest Foreign Reserve currency?
Ans- Euro

7. Whose capmpaign is the ‘Kentucky Fried Cruelty’?
Ans- PETA

8. Which ruler started the silver coins named Haidari & Imami (MCQ)?
Ans- Tipu Sultan

9.Which retailer has the highest per square foot sales of $5,600/Square Foot?
Ans- Apple

10.After which FM’s Budget Speech, Mrs. Gandhi commented ‘India’s shortest finance minister has delivered the longest speech’?
Ans- Pranab Mukherjee

11. The Benelux union in Europe comprisie of three countries, two of them are Netherlands and Luxembourg. Which is the other?
Ans- Belgium

12. What was invented in 1974 in Hungry to play on 3-D Geometry?
Ans- Rubik’s Cube

13. Who’s th presiding deity of all architects?
Ans- Vishwakarma

14. Kakababu series is written by wch writer (Local Qs)?
Ans- Sunil Gangopadhyay

15. This Year, ICICI Bank has introduced which unique facility for the first time?
Ans- PPF Account

16. Which Social Networking Site uses the “fail whale” as error message for the Webpage?
Ans- Twitter

17. Who is the higest Paid Footballer amongst these? (MCQ)

a) Sunil Chhetri
b) Odafa Okolie
c) Ranti Martins
Ans- Odafa

18. Monalisa Guest House, 172A, Sarat Bose Road, Kolkata. Signifies what?
Ans- Kahani of Vidya Balan

19. Which classless train was introduced by Madhu Dandavate in 1978 named after a famous literary work?
Ans- Gitanjali Express

20. can’t recall

A&V

21. Logo of Axis Bank

22. Ad of Lux Cozi starring SRK

23. Pic of Tarla Dalal

24. Cadbury Ad Jingle

25. The song ‘Taxman’ by The Beatles from the Album Revolver, Id the Group?

Idea Qs (Qs wch consist 2 marks each)

26. The tax collection of Empreror Akbar got a boost after the appointment of whom as Diwan-I-Ashraf?
Ans- Raja Todar Mal

27.FITB-‘If you reach for the stars, you might not quite get one, but you won’t end up with a handful of mud, either’
said by Leo Burnett (MCQ)
a) Poo
b) Grains
c) Mud
Ans- Mud

28. Who was been appointed as the Commissioner of Customs in Scotland in 1778?
Ans- Adam Smith

29. FITB- Sumantra Ghosal’s Quote ‘You can’t renew a Company without revitalizing its……’?
Ans- People

30. Who started teachin in Dhaka University in 1926 with the recommendation from Einstein?
Ans- Satyendra Nath Bose

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

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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)

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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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Answers

ANIL AMBANI NAMED AFTER TINA AND ANIL
CITIBANK
INTERNET
SATYA PAUL
EVELYN LAUDER
EXAMINER OF COINS
HINADLCO
APOLLO HOSPITALS
MONISHA KALTENBORN OF TEAM SAUBER
N.R. NARAYANA MURTHY
AL CAPONE
ANAND MAHINDRA
UNIQUE PERCEIVED BENEFIT
COCA COLA
ABSOLUT
RUPERT MURDOCH
SPORTS ILLUSTRATED SWIMSUIT EDITION
AVON
CIPLA
BERNARD ARNAULT
BAJAJ ELECTRICALS
SINGAPORE
WENDT
RED TAPE
MARIO MIRANDA

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for they were examiners of coins. What?

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Ans1: Carbon Paper

Ans2: Hindus | Shendy was a long braid of hair compusalrily grown by Hindus

Ans3: High quality counterfeit US Dollar bills printed on cotton-fiber paper using the same expensive “intaglio” printing presses used by the U.S. government

Ans4: films and photographic supplies |film base

Ans5: Bechdel Test | Alison Bechdel

Ans6: RMS Titanic Inc, which is the the Titanic’s court-approved salvor

Ans7: Parekh and the Parikh from Pariksha

Ans8: The songun, or “military first,” revolution refers to Kim Jong-il’s policy of focusing resources on the Korean People’s Army and using it to police the country and dictate foreign policy, often by raising tensions with other countries.

Ans9: Squeezed Middle

Ans10: Jack Kilby’s notebook from 1958, along with two of the original integrated circuits

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NMIMS Business Quiz 2011- Amit Pandeya

Narsee Monjee Business Quiz

Prelims

1) This Hotel in Mumbai ha a suite called Shantaram Suite. It also keeps a copy of Shantaram in every room, along with Suketu Mehta’s Maximum City. Which hotel?

2) After searching for and documenting millions of images on Flickr, researcher Eric Fischer has pinpointed New York City’s most photographed attraction, which one?

3) Hoechst… It’s molecular formula is C₉H₆Cl₆O₃S… 500 crore Industry. What?

4) This Mascot has a scarf, a chef’s hat, two big blue eyes, a blush when girls kissed him, and a soft, warm chuckle when poked in the stomach.What are we talking about? For complete 2 points give the name of the Mascot

5) Whose ad? http://www.madtrash.com/?id=112

6) Rekha promoted this brand… Dhoni currently endorses it…

7) He was taught English by the famous Marathi writer P. L. Deshpande. He started “Partha Institute of Personality Development” in August 1978. Who?

8) An alumnus of the Indian Institute of Technology ( IIT) Bombay, Vasant Mehar, has won the nation-wide competition for designing this which is is modeled after Japan’s design.What?

9) _________is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway.Whose quote and fill in the blank

10) It began life in Brazil as a one-time marketing plan to sell pre-packaged music on Nokia 5310 phones – where two different Brazilian artists recorded a show fusing different styles of music. What?

11) Guru in Chennai, Sri Sri Muralidhara Swamigal came upw ith the name of this PE Venture. Which one?

12) Sued by X, the company Y defends its position stating that shoes with red soles have been used for centuries, dating as far back to as the 1600’s when King Louis XIV donned red soled shoes, or more recently (relatively speaking) in the Wizard of Oz (you know, the ruby red bottoms on Dorothy’s iconic slippers). What are X and Y?

13) This company’s “The Tomorrow Project” introduced four science-fiction writers to the latest research in photonics, robotics, telematics, dynamic physical rendering and intelligent sensors. Then, the writers let their imaginations run wild. The end results are four short science-fiction stories that imagine a future where this latest research is the old research. This company hired a famous musician.

14) Headquartered in Kolkata,founded in the year 1994 by Shri S.M.Jalan, it is endorsed by katrina Kaif & Shahrukh Khan. Which brand?

15) kanti, Dant Kanti, Ojas, Tejas Beauty cream. Whose brands?

16) KPCB has invested in it. Its conference rooms are named after these famous places in hanoi, Amsterdam…

17) In 1934, the brothers Giovanni and Giacomo founded a tailoring workshop dedicated to the manufacture of high quality clothing. Gene Hackman wore its business suit in the film ‘The Firm.’

18) The term originates from chiseled horizontal marks, that surveyors made into which an angle-iron could be placed to bracket a levelling rod, thus ensuring that the levelling rod can be accurately repositioned in the same place in the future. These marks were usually highlighted with a chiseled arrow below the horizontal line. What term?

19) The company was founded by Dr. August _____ in 1891; the first product developed was “Backin”, a pre-measured amount of baking powder that, when mixed with 500g of flour and other ingredients, produced a cake.Logo represents a housewife

20) He along with vice president Greg Hart has been named as co-inventors of “a system and method for protecting devices from impact damage.” He was once Time magazine’s man of the year

21) This brand has asked Norwegian police to ban Anders Breivik from wearing its label amid fears it could seriously harm the brand. Breivik, the gunman who murdered 77 people in a shooting rampage at a youth camp and bombing in Oslo in July, has been spotted on numerous occasions wearing the company’s clothes. This company has a campaign ___________ 2083

22) What is the Three letter ticker symbol of Molson Coors?

23) This company will use gold fromMongoliato make medals forLondon’s 2012 Olympic Games. Which company?

24) Barbie is morphing not into a lawyer or doctor, but into Adele Bloch-Bauer. Adele’s visage was immortalized by painter _________ in Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I. Adele came from a wealthy Austrian banking family and was one of his most important sponsors.

25) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWaUUpaI9i8 Whose voice?

Answers:

1) Four Seasons

2) Apple Store on Fifth Avenue.

3) Endosulfan

4) Pillsbury Doughboy Poppin’ Fresh

5) MAD magazine

6) Emami

7) Anant pai

8) India Design Mark or I-Mark

9) Blank: Wall Street | Warren Buffett

10) Coke Studio

11) Multiples | Renuka Ramnath

12) X: Louboutin | Y:YSL

13) Intel | will.i.am

14) Linc Pens

15) Patanjali | Baba Ramdev

16) Square

17) Canali

18) Benchmarking

19) Oetker

20) Jeff Bezos

21) Lacoste

22) Tap

23) RioTinto

24) Gustav Klimt

25) Prasoon Joshi

Jamnalal Bajaj Quiz – Oct 2011- Prelims

JBIMS- Jamanalal Bajaj Quiz – Oct 2011- Prelims

QuizMaster- Dhananjay Shettigar

1) Out’ is a popular gay and lesbian fashion, entertainment, and lifestyle magazine.
Every year it publishes ‘Power 50’, a list of 50 most powerful gay men in America. Who topped the list is the year 2011?

2) Two of his companies listed in Virginia Islands are Paysons and Autumn Holdings.
Some of the businesses he has ventured into include antiques, car rentals, metal trading, export of rice, etc. Who?

3) In 2010, Urs Holzle sent around an urgent internal memo warning that the company would be crushed if it didn’t figure out its social strategy. The team named their social project “Emerald Sea” after this painting of a wave knocking a ship over and then recreated that painting outside the elevators where they worked. What was the outcome of this project?

4) After graduating as an engineer in 1924, he spent six months working in a radio factory in the United States. On his return to his native country, he teamed up with his friend whose parents made the attic of their manor house in Struer in Jutland available for experiments. When they officially opened their business in 1925, one concentrated on the technology while other dealt with the business interests. There were a number of successful developments in the 1930s and 1940s, including a sound recording system for the film industry, roof-mounted loud-speakers for circus and army vehicles and the iconic Beolit 39 radio with a Bakelite cabinet. Name the Company?

5) Born on 1st January, 1956, this person as a teenager, was a member of the its national synchronised swimming team and won bronze medal in the national championships. This person joined Baker & McKenzie, a large Chicago-based international law firm, in 1981 and was elected the company’s Chairman in October 1999.

6) The actress made the debut in 2002 Telugu film ‘Lahiri Lahiri Lahilo’. What was her first acting assignment?

7) The original concept was developed by Jaakko Iisalo and its mechanics were inspired by other petrary physics games that have been released over the years, including another 2009 release, Crush the Castle. Some of the it’s notable fans include Prime Minister David Cameron of the United Kingdom, and author Salman Rushdie. What?

8) Pic-What is the event that is described?

9) Image consulting firm Lippincott & Margulies was hired to develop a list of 219 prospective names; Vectre, Verone, Chaparel, Calibre and Alexis were chosen as top candidates. While Alexis quickly became the front runner, concerns were raised that the name applied to people more than cars (being associated with the Alexis Carrington character on the popular 1980s primetime drama Dynasty) as a result the first letter was removed and it was to morph the name to _______.

10) According to Tim Keck, his uncle suggested the name when he saw him and Chris Johnson eating a sandwich.

11) This project had been conceived by Indian Banks Association and had the approval of Reserve Bank of India to develop a domestic card payment network.The Original name was discarded as it was found out that two other companies in the payment space have already applied for similar name. What?

12) Pic

13) In September 2010, a certain range of furniture and other interior accessories were launched at Paris trade show. Some of these items were named Radcliffe desk, Bodleian book case, Harry Potter table, etc. The Critics were quick to label it as vulgar and cheapens it image. Whose venture?

14) Ad- Sholay-Gabbar

15) Pic- passed away on 21st June 2011

16) In 2006, Couture Tech Ltd had applied for a particular trademark. The European Union high court rejected an appeal by ruling that the symbol is “contrary to public policy or to accepted principles of morality”. It was also considered as “symbol of despotism”. What?

17) _____ might be inferred from the appendix of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four. Of the three segments of the fictional language Newspeak, the “_ vocabulary” is the one dedicated to technical terms and jargon. “Doubleplus” is the superlative modifier for Newspeak adjectives. Thus, ___ might hold the meaning “most extremely technical or jargonous” in Newspeak.

18) Appointed to the Board of Directors of ACC in 1968, he became its Chairman in 1969 and continued till 1997, excluding his tenure as India’s ambassador to USA (1977-79). Later he was honoured as Chairman Emeritus for life. Who are we talking about?

19) Pic

20) 20. Reed Hastings said that “I had a big late fee for ‘Apollo 13.’ It was six weeks late and I owed the video store $40. I had misplaced the cassette. It was all my fault. I didn’t want to tell my wife about it. And I said to myself, ‘I’m going to compromise the integrity of my marriage over a late fee?’ Later, on my way to the gym, I realized they had a much better business model. You could pay $30 or $40 a month and work out as little or as much as you wanted”. What resulted out of this?

21) Resulting from an article written from Stanley Morison, it was created by Victor Lardent. Some experts believe that it was based on an earlier original work of William Starling Burgess. Morison’s revision became known as ___________ and made its debut in the 3 October 1932 issue of The Times newspaper.

22) Video clip of Simpsons. Identify the character?

23) What are bonds denominated in chinese yuan and issued in Hong Kong known as?

24) Designed by Atkins, Dubai, it is being built by Jaguar Buildcon. With a height of 300 meters, the exterior of the building will represent mehendi patterns. Name it.

25) X first met Y by chance at a railway station in early 60s, when he was travelling by train from Hyderabad to Delhi. X let Y in the AC coupe, where he started sketching him, but he was not “impressed” with the drawing. A few years later Y came to X’s house with a guest and again some days later, the painter came asking for a loan of Rs. 600. After Y sought another loan a few months later, X offered him a job at his company to do some paintings for a monthly salary of Rs. 800. He was elevated to the position of Art Advisor at his company in May 1986 at a salary of Rs. 2,500 per month plus accommodation. Identify X & Y

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Ans
1) Tim Cook, Apple CEO

2) Hasan Ali Khan

3) Google +

4) Bang & Olufsen (B&O)

5) Christine Lagarde

6) The Rasna Girl in old Rasna Ad.

7) Angry Birds

8) Occupy Wall Street (OWS)

9) Lexus

10) The Onion

11) RuPay

12) Charles & Maurice Saatchi

13) Oxford University selling products using Harry Potter

14) Monster.com ( Caught in the wrong job)

15) Suresh Tendulkar

16) Hammer & Sickle symbol

17) C++

18) Nani Palkhivala

19) Nina Ricci

20) Netflix

21) Times New Roman

22) Mohd. Yunus

23) Dim Sum Bonds

24) Namaste Towers

25) K P Singh & M F Hussain.

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