AVENUES O8 SJMSOM IITB

LUDUS MAGNUS- SOM IITB-2008

Some Questions from the Quiz:


1) Royal bank of Scotland, Clysdene are the only banks permitted to print currency notes in UK

2) Kishore Biyani, Subramanium of Subhiksha were inspired by SARVANA STORES, Chennai all of these are mentioned in Kishore Biyani’s book “It happened in India”.

3) This publication gives premium importance to its own products hence they are in prime locations in its flagship product however in early 2007 for the first time it made a change in its policy with regards to its advertisements of one of its products. Which product and why was this change effected?

A) SPORTSTAR ( racial abuse of Herschell Gibbs on the Pakistan fans during the test series vs Pakistan in 2007)

4) Hyundai Roten -- Mitsubishi Corp ---- Mitsubishi Electric ( Connect)

A) Delhi metro ( BEML)

5) The Milk trade control order of 1967 cramped & smothered the enterprise initiated by its founder barring one establishment, in that year all other branches had to close down. Scarcity of quality milk and shortage of electricity had added to the organization problem? What happened as a result?

A) K.C.Das , Bangalore

6) Connect : OMEGA --- MOTOROLA -- HASSELBLAD

A) Man’s first landing to moon ( omega watch was worn by Buzz Adrin, the first message from moon was transmitted using a Motorola transponder)

7) 1) SYMBOLICS 2) BBN TECHNOLOGIES 3) THINK MI CORPORATIONS

A) First Dotcom registered on 15th March 1985 is SYMBOLICS & rests of them all are domain names registered after symbolics.

8) Brazilian Govt. Released a stamp with smell of burnt wood due to the depletion of Amazon forest.

9) Tim O’Reilly coined the term web 2.0 he is also the founder of O’Reilly Media.

10) Parle in the year 1949 had a soft drink known as Gluco Cola. Coco Cola had dragged Parle to court since the brand name was similar to their drink it is when they set up a committee and in that Parle said “ CHODO BABU HUMKO BAS DHANDA KARNEKA HAI “ and they thus renamed their brand as THUMPS UP.

11) BAYER in the year 2003 sold their brand BAYGON to S.C. Johnson & Co. but they still provide the ingredients for baygon & hence the name still exists.