The Curious Quizzer

TATA CRUCIBLE- MUMBAI EDITION

2009-09-13T09:48:00.000-07:00

TATA CRUCIBLE,MUMBAI- 2009

The Tata Crucible of Mumbai saw a fierce battle as giri rightly said the "Mother of all battles" with the national champions of 2006,2007,2008 & the defending champions of Mumbai round coming up on stage.It was no less than the National Finals being witnessed with Sun Microsystems emerging as the winner followed by HUL in a tie-breaker.

The teams on stage (Non Tata Track)

1) IMRB (defending champion, Mumbai-2008)

2) Sun Microsystems (Mitesh Agarwal & team), National Champion-2008

3) Questa Software (Manish Tandon & Amit Pandeya),National Champion-2006

4) CRISIL (Dhananjay & team), a well known quizmaster

5) Deutsche Bank (Rajiv Rai & Sudipta Roy), National Champion- 2007

6) HUL (Pradeep & team)

TATA TRACK

Winners: TCS (M Suresh Kumar & Anirudha Dutta)

Runners up: Tata Capital (Govind & team)

PRELIMS

1) What is common to "Engaging you,Acheiving together,passion for innovation,very human?

NOKIA

2) Which company founded by Ren Zhengfei is the largest applicant under WIPO patent cooperation treaty displacing Philips from the first place?

A) HUAEWEI

3) Which foundation confers the prestigious Saraswati Samman & Vyas Samman awards to promote literature?

BIRLA FOUNDATION

4) MIT prof. Dr. Y W Lee invested his life savings in 1964 to fund which company?

BOSE CORPORATION

5) BOSSENI logo

6) Which company was founded to fend off 'regret minimization frame work'?

AMAZON

7) Which construction & mining equipment manufacturers logo in Black & Yellow is offset at 18 degrees to the horizontal & 22 degrees to the vertical founded by Joseph Cyril Bamford. What are we taling about?

JCB

8) Which management guru who reimagines, once served in the US Navy & later worked as a senior drug abuse advisor in the White House?

TOM PETERS

9) The Shot Show is the worlds longest exposition of firearms,archery,cutlery,outdoor apparel,camping and related procedures. If OT stands for OUTDOOR TRADE. What do S & H stand for?

SHOOTING & HUNTING

10)Identify: Nick Leason pic (Cover page of the book: Back from the brink coping with stress)

11) Which chain of Hotels founded by Kemmons Wilson takes its name from a Bing Crosby movie?

HOLIDAY INN

12) Area 71 is the unofficial title for which public corporations data center?

WALMART

13) Which magazine has the tagline "Where fashion gets personal" ?

HAPERS BAZAAR

14) Segway & who launched a tiny electric car as new carbon transport vehicle called 'PUMA'(Personal urban mobility & accessibility)?

GENERAL MOTORS

15)Identify: Pepsi's mascot

16) Which global pharma giant makes "Pegasys" the first drug to be given patent in india after the the adoption of the new patent regime?

ROCHE

17) Which billionaire became the only repeat space tourist till now?

CHARLES SIMONYI

18) Which Indian Cricketer sold licensing rights to his name as a brand to Delhi based license India?

HARBAJAN SINGH

19) Which global giant introduced a new container called "Plant Bottle" made from Sugarcane & Mollasses that is completely recyclable?

COCO-COLA

20) Which famous personality wrote the poem 'is baar nahin' after the Mumbai terror attacks in 2008?

PRASOON JOSHI

21)Which country recently announced plans to become the first carbon neutral county in the world?

MALDIVES

22) Which Computer maker joined hands with UTVi to bring out some of the success stories of lesser known entrepreneurs through "TAKE YOUR OWN PATH" campaign?

DELL

23) With a Security blanket of Central Industrial Security Force (CISF), they became the first private firm to be protected by the force,which usually guards govt. institutions ?

INFOSYS

24) video ad of SBI

25) video ad of Itch Guard

BEQ FINALS -2009

2009-05-12T18:39:00.000-07:00

Brand Equity Quiz -2009

Winners : Acceture, Delhi

Runners Up: IBM, Bangalore

SEMI FINALS

1) Peter Drucker once said to a client :
My Job is to ask questions, it’s your job as a client to provide _____

A) ANSWERS

2) In women’s Fashion what are chicken Fillets?

A) Silicon bras used to enhance the bust.

3) Sunday is a Paludrine day art created in 1949. Who created it?

A) SATYAJIT RAY

4) In HR appraisal what is halo Effect?

A) If you say first answer correctly and if the remaining answers are wrong but the correct answer itself creates a good impression.

5) Which Indian Company shares its name with a diety in greek mythology ?

A) HERO

6) Whose Partition Theory is used by ATMs?

A) Ramanujan Shrinivas

7) When Pope John paul II visited Hollywood in 1987, what was the changes made ?

A) One of the L was removed and it was made HOLYWOOD.

8) ROI is Return of Investment then what is ROTI?

A) RETURN ON TRAINING INVESTMENT

9) What is Fong Kong?

A) Products with a fake designer label

10) Which brand combines of a queen & a sensitive Document?

A) VICTORIA SECRETS

FINALS

1) This municipality of Belgium is in the province of liege in the Waloon region.

A) What is Spa?

2) This Russian has a European patent for a ‘ Method of playing a lottery game.

A) Who is gary kasparov?

3) This edible variety from India got its name from the first Duke of Goa.

A) How did Alphonso mango get its name?

4) Which Academy runs this?
B.A.- Babe Attractor
M.B.A- Major babe Attractor
M.B.B.S.- Magnet for beautiful babe

A) AXE ACADEMY

5) For which particular group of people did Radio Alakar start in India?

A) Fisherman

5) What is client golf?

A) Deliberately losing the game so as to strike a deal with your client.

The rest of them can be viewed on Times Now.

BRAND EQUITY QUIZ -09 MUMBAI EDITION

2009-04-25T11:55:00.000-07:00

Review:

The Mumbai edition of BEQ-2009 showed a record participation of 69 teams. Mumbai is truly a tough city to qualify. The cut off was 22-23 to be on stage. Sun Microsystems kept their cool and emerged as a winner however the young team from ICICI bank tried to give a fierce competition to them & ended as runners up in the Quiz.The surprise was that the Team Deutsche bank comprising of Rajiv & Sudipta ( the winners for the past two yrs in Mumbai) could not make it on stage.

PRELIMS:

1) Mr. Foster of M/S Crompton Greaves, Mumbai was the first person to own a ______ in India.

A) CAR

2) Du Point pioneered the concept of getting feedback from peers,managers and subordinates. This system is referred to as a _______ _____ review.

A) 360 Degree.

3) Sylla Petit was the first lady pilot in India.Who was her famous brother?

A) J R D Tata

4) Companies in which industry strive to qualify for the Geneva seal?

A) Watch Making.

5) Melinda Gates said that among the very things on the banned list in our household ….. __________ or __________

a) Mills & Boons
b) Fish & Chips
c) Ipods & Iphones

A) Ipods & Iphones

6) In British India, if 16 annas was equal to 1 rupee, what was 15 rupees equal to ?
The options are:

a) One Mohur
b) One Cowry
c) One cent.

A) One Mohur.

7) In 1952 what word was coined to describe Walter Crompite’s role at the Democratic & Republican National Conventions for CBS’s televised coverage?

A) ANCHOR

8) The classical Hippocrates oath taken by those in the Medical Profession explicity bars _________ & abortion

A) EUTHANASIA

9) Karmail has been awarded the ‘ Most Tourist Friendly railway Station’ in which State is that?

A) GOA

10) Every year 13 billion ______ bags are handed to British shoppers.

A) PLASTIC

11) Dharavi in Mumbai, the Bronx & East Harlem in New York, Favelas in _____

A) Rio De Janeiro

12) Peter Drucker insisted that a company has only two functions: Marketing & ________

a) Innovation
b) Ideation
c) Segmentation

A) Innovation

13) In monopsony there is the existence of only one ______

a) Buyer
b) Seller
c) Agent

A) Buyer

14) Which city’s name appears below the brand name Haldiram?

A) NAGPUR

15) What kind of question owes its origin to a 1940s radio quiz programme where participants answered ques?

A) Sixty Four Thousand Dollar

16) Corrections corporations of America is the largest operator of _____ in the U.S.

A) PRISONS

17) Grey Goose is one of the worlds best known brands of ________

A) VODKA

18) The founders of which company had to buy the rights from a hotel chain to rechristen their outfit?

A) INTEL

19) The devil’s ____ office was established in 1587 by Pope Sixtus and was abolished by Pope John Paul II in 1983?

A) ADVOCATE

20) The copyright of the literary works of which Indian expired on January 1, 2009?

A) M.K. Gandhi

21) Why did Max Yasgar rent out his dairy farm in bethel, New York for 3 days in 1969?

A) WOODSTOCK

22) Afte the 2006 world cup, who worked closely with the Adidas innovation team in creating the new Football, Powerhouse?

A) Zinedine Zidane

23) What appears between the words ‘wal’ & ‘mart’ in the Wal Mart Logo?

A) Five pointed Star

24) You can win an ipod from the website nailthethief.com by throwing rotten eggs on whose face?

A) RAMILANGA RAJU

25) Which district of U.P. is nicknamed Suhag Nagri because it fulfills everything a Suhagin wants?

A) FEROZABAD

26) Pic of Niranjan Hiranandani

27) Print ad of vadillal

28) Logo of Deccan Chargers

29) Pic of Rajkumar Santhoshi

30) Print ad of De beers Diamonds

Some Q & A from the Mumbai Rounds:

1) What would you get by Rolling,Building,Blending,Muddling,Layering?

A) Cocktail

2) The shorter form of Oxford Dictionary has removed 16K of these before printing its Sixth Edition?

A)Hyphen

3)General Insurance has paid 50 Crores,ICICI Lombard 1.5 crores,LIC 55 Lakhs.What is the Incident?

A) 26/11 Terrorist Attack

4) What is Poorism?

A) Tourism to visit poor countries (Poverty Tourism)

5) The ____ ____ costume is the only non service costume to have been granted US patent?

A) PlayBoy Bunny

6) Cover page of foreign Edition of Imagining India by Nandan Nilekani

7) When is a person Dilberated?

A) When he is not Promoted

8) Since 2005 what is unique about the bills that we receive from Reliance Energy ?

A) Braille Edition

9) The Congress party charged 4 annas from every new member,Mahatma Gandhi stopped it.What did they have to do instead?

A) They had to buy Khadi

10) Why were Rhinoceros horn the only material used for drinking vessels?

A) Since they were used for detecting poison

11) What was the primary reason in Credit card donation in Jan 2005 compared to Jan 2004?

A) TSUNAMI

12) In Indian Economy what is calculated by Income Method,Output Method& Expenditure?

A) GDP

13) video clip of Bernie Madoff

14) What is known as ISRO's version of Google Earth?

A) BHUVAN

15)In the world of movies who is the owner of Air voice Mobile?

A) Sanjay Singhania

16) To spread the awareness of which cause did Cucubera introduce Pink Cricket Ball?

A) Breast Cancer

17) Which company coined the term GREEN MONDAY considered to be the heaviest online spending day of the year?

A) ebay

Thats all guys that i can remember.

TATA CRUCIBLE NATIONAL & INTERNATIONAL FINALS-2009

2009-04-06T08:14:00.000-07:00

Semi Finals 1

DOMAIN EXPERTISE

1)some ques about Sunil Bharti Mittal & his adopted surname BHARTI

2) Identify:

A) David Ogilvy

3) Identify this person (someone from the world of fashion)?

A) Satya Paul

4) Identify the author? ( the cover page one more book was also shown)

A) Sudha Murthy

5) The first in the world was in Japan and was titled as "Deep Love", by its creator Yoshi.The Indian first was "Neelakannukal" meaning (Blue Eyes) by P R Harikumar. What are these?

A) Mobile Novels

6) What is Slumpometer?

A) Something used to measure the severity of Recession. It takes in account the Gross Domestic product (GDP) and Gross Domestic Income (GDI).

7) Print Ad Identify the campaign?

A) DOn't drink and Drive.

iii) TATA WORLD

1) How do you know the coffee shop of Westside?

A) Cafe West.

SEMI FINAL-2

1) Identify the logo?

A) Election Commission Of India.

2) something related to RBI

3) Print Ad of Voting in USA

iii) TATA WORLD

1) Identify:

A) Girish Wagh

2) ques on Land Rover

3) ques on Blue Scope

4) Identify the logo?

A) TATA NEN

FINALS

I) THINK GLOBAL

1) ques on the Shamiana in the Taj

2) ques on LEE Cooper

3) What is project Roshini in Rashtrapati Bhavan?

A) Using alternative source of Energy in Rashtrapati bhavan other than Electricity.

4) ques on RTI

5) ques on ivory trading in india

6) In the world of Apparels what are Lock,Chain,Over lock & Cover? These are the four main categories?

A) Sewing Machines

7) ques on barack Obama's Campaign Yes we Can

8) ques on Ceat Cricket Ratings.

II) THINK PICTORIAL

With what would you credit the above person with?

A) JAIPUR FOOT (Dr. P.K.Sethi)

2)What did I give this world?

A) ATM (John Shepherd)

TATA CRUCIBLE (CAMPUS EDITION)- MUMBAI

2009-03-22T09:09:00.000-07:00

TATA CRUCIBLE (CAMPUS EDITION)- MUMBAI

What better than to spend a lazy sunday afternoon attending the tata crucible Mumbai Edition. It was a nail biting finish till the last.The teams NMIMS vs IIT Bombay were giving a tough fight giving a flash back of previous year where the former had won in a tie breaker but this year it was the other way round with IIT Bombay winning in the tie breaker.The Quiz couldn't have been better than this with three questions in the tie breaker.

Winner: IIT Bombay

Runner's up: NMIMS

PRELIMS:

1) Which company is the official sponsor of the Mumbai Marathon?

A) Standard Chartered Bank

2) Logo of Thomson Reuters

3) missed out few ques for walking in late

6) This word meaning "Flower of Persia" means gift of god? (don't remember the exact ques)

A) JASMINE

7) Spiderman recently said "If you get to be on my cover,can i be on the dollar bill? who is he saying this to?

A) Barack obama on spiderman Magazine

8) Identify this partner of Farhan Akhtar?

A) Ritesh Sidwani

9) I'm is a range of office furniture launched by which company?

A) WIPRO

10) Which actress has signed her first endorsement deal with L'oreal as brand ambassador for its products targeted for the youth?

A) Sonam Kapoor

11) From the world of Mirc Electronics? Identify the gentlemen?

12) Which jewellery chain created the trophy presented to Sachin Tendulkar by BCCI to commemorate his scoring 12000 runs?

A) AURA

13)Which Japanese company has the ad line " Inspire the next " ?

A) HITACHI

14)Ad of Spark

15) This product was first used in 1890. It was used by more than 25 countries throughout the 20th century acquiring nick names such as Sizzlin,Sally, old Smokey,Old Sparky, Yellow Mama & Gruesome Gertie. What am i referring to?

A) ELECTRIC CHAIR

16)Which auto giant withdrew from F1 for the 2009 season?

A) HONDA

17)Print Ad showing Freedom from Protective Gear. WHich footwear giant?

A) LIBERTY

18)Which word came to English from french, derived from the greek word which means "Fruit of the Carob" ?

A) Carat ( used for measurement of gold)

19) Song: Pappu can't dance? Identify the production house?

A) Aamir Khan Productions

20) Ad campaign of Denim

EVOLUTION OF LOGOS

2008-11-17T09:32:00.000-08:00

Contributed by my dear Quizzing friend Mr.Vivek

AVENUES O8 SJMSOM IITB

2008-10-21T11:30:00.000-07:00

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.

BEQ (Finals)-2008

2008-08-24T07:48:00.001-07:00

BRAND EQUITY QUIZ- 2008
Venue: MMRDA Grounds, Bandra (E)

Semi finals:

QM: Mr. Andrew Scott

1) Name the countries under the BRIC nations?

A) Brazil, Russia, India, China

2) This word has been a new addition in the Oxford Dictionary?

A) Bollywood

3) Absolut Vodka is from which country?

A) It is a Swedish drink

4) This country has topped in the list of bribery?

A) Pakistan

5) Which Paper Size is bigger 4A or A4?

A) 4A

6) Which cricketing term is also used in the advertising industry?

A) Pitching

7) If you are shopping at YES, then what is YES?

A) Year End Sale

8) IIT Kanpur has developed a software known as chick? What is this related to?

A) Chicken

9) Standard recycling logo consists of how many arrows?

A) 3

10) In April 2008 this has crossed 1 Million marks in the cyber world?

A) No. of viruses, Trojans

11) What is A B C gum in Europe if B stands for been?

A) Already been chewed

12) What is the share of iconic players in the Indian Premier League?

A) 15% more than the highest bid player in that team

13) Dance bars in Mumbai have been replaced by ______ bars?

A) Orchestra

14) In the year 1995 in the life of Bill Gates besides Windows 1995 what was the significance of the year to him?

A) He got listed in the Forbes billionaire list

15) Mahashank, Padma, Ved, ______, ______?

A) Arab, Koti ( Indian numbering system in the descending order)

16) In the year 1948, Rs 300 crore was the due on outstanding to India. Who is the creditor?

A) Pakistan, (Pre partition debt)

17) What is EBITDA?

A) Earnings before interest tax depreciation & amortization

18) The word video is a noun, which other part of speech is the word?

A) Verb

19) The train number of Rajdhani & Shatabdi Express starts with the number?

A) 2

20) In the year 1982, south premier English XI vs. which team?

A) South Africa ( Infamous match)

21) Students in Venezuela have to devote every hour compulsory studying the life of?

A) Edward de bono

22) The maximum harvesting of solar energy is done by which industry?

A) Agriculture

FINALS

QM: Derek o’ Brian

1) Grass ceiling is a set of social & discriminatory that prevents women from using ________?

A) Golf

2) The janta govt. in the year 1970 had called Coca- Cola Company back in India if they comply with their conditions? What were their conditions?

A) To reveal their 9x formula (preparation of coke)

3) In the year 1975-1976 bill gates & Paul Allen decided to drop something from Microsoft? What was that?

A) Hyphen (Previously it was Micro-Soft)

4) What are green wash products?

A) The products which are not environment friendly but pretend to be environment friendly.

SECOND ROUND

1) Cialis ranks second in the list of that brand? What is the first brand?

A) Viagra

2) When asked how to be a billionaire what was the reply of Richard Branson?

A) You start with a billion dollars and then start an airline.

3) 1.6 million tonnes of steel, some used for making refrigerators in Chennai some used in china was from ( don’t remember the full question)

A) WTC Debris

THIRD ROUND (VISUAL ROUND)

1) Pic of a person who is an alumnus of London school of economics?

A) B R Ambedkar

2) Pic of a 1000 buck note of State bank of Pakistan with a tomb in background? Identify the tomb?

A) Jahangir’s Tomb

3) Pic of a bar? Identify the bar?

A) Palace on wheels

4) Pic of a ship & some music?

A) Pingo star in star cruise

FOURTH ROUND (VIDEO ROUND)

1) Video of the movie (Jab v met), identify the hotel?

A) Hotel Decent

2) Video of a cricket match showing the West Indies team, Identify the sponsor?

A) DIGICEL

3) Connect: (Poster of Brylcream Boyz, some music & a pic)?

4) Audio of an fevicol ad.

FIFTH ROUND
(We give you the answers you give me the question)

1) For essential amino acids this product is second to mother’s milk.

A) What is EGG?

2) For the last 20 yrs. this brand has sold for 1 re. & cures ‘Cephalagia’.

A) What is Saridon?

3) Dilbert’s favourite 8 letter word that refers to the joy that we get when criticizing some one else’s work

A) What is feedback?

4) Vendi, Iced Venti, Grande, Iced Grande & Mezzo.

A) What are the different cup sizes in a Star buck’s outlet?

SIXTH ROUND

1) What is Imeru in Japan?

A) Take a nap

2) In the year 2007, what was the most typed word in google news?

A) American idol

3) Which state is the largest importer of Basmati Rice in India?

A) Haryana

4) Which MNC is the highest tax payer in India?

A) CITI

FINAL ROUND

1) Hema, Rekha, Jaya, _______?

A) Sushma (from the jingle of nirma ad)

2) Unscramble CASHIER so as to form a brand?

A) Archies

3) The width of 1000 Rs. Note is 73 mm. what is the width of a 50 Rs. Note?

A) 73 mm.

4) Who opted out of IPL since that would affect his Sports Company? Which Iconic Player?

A) VVS Laxman

5) Which currency would the POPE use to order a coffee in his office?

A) EURO

Winners: TCS, Kolkata

The Brand Equity Quiz true to its name was an amazing event to witness held in the MMRDA grounds, inspite of the heat in the Mumbai. The theme of the quiz was the origin of quizzing in India started by the father of Indian Quizzing Neil o’ Brian till KBC hosted by SRK. It was a well managed event which truly shows that quizzing is lot more than winning live ducks & two bottles of beer; the winners of the quiz were richer by 30 lakhs.

BEQ-2008 ( Regionals)

2008-08-24T07:44:00.000-07:00

BEQ REGIONALS – 2008

1) According to a report by the IB to the Home Ministry, which currency note is the most popular among counterfeiters?

A) Rs.500

2) Whom did Bruce Barton’s book, The Man Nobody Knows portray as a salesman?

A) Jesus Christ

3) What are ‘Verbs’ on an IPOD shuffle?

A) They are symbols for ‘Stop’, ‘Play’, ‘Pause’, ‘Fast Forward’, & ‘Rewind’

4) Which non wood forest product has the highest turnover in India?

A) Tendu Leaves

5) Around 12,000 pieces are sold annually in India. Only Godrej manufactures them in India. Nowadays there is probably not a single one in any of your offices. What am I referring to?

A) Typewriters

6) With an annual turnover of Rs.4.5 crore, which factory in Delhi makes 1,200 loaves of bread and 300 kg of chips daily?

A) Tihar Jail Factory

7) In the world of branding what is The Perception Gap?

A) The difference between brand identity & brand image. Brand identity comprises the core values of a brand while brand image is how the consumer perceives the brand. If there is a gap between these two, it’s called the perception gap.

8) According to David Ogilvy, which is “the only really dishonest kind of advertising”??

A) Political Advertising

9) Why Formica is called Formica?

A) From ‘for mica’, that is, a substitute for mica. Till the 1920’s mica was the perfect material for electrical insulation, Formica replaced it.

10) What significant change did the publisher of the first Harry potter book make when launched in the US?

A) In the US the title was changed to Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone. In the UK, it was Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone.

11) Which Indian state has the largest concentration of carpet weaving in the country, with 90% of the production and 75% of the weavers?

A) Uttar Pradesh

12) Two Volkswagen models share their names with ball games. One is golf, which is the other?

A) Polo

13) According to Al Ries, the three most important rules of advertising are novelty, gimmickry and________

A) Creativity

14) Which word is described in the Oxford English Dictionary as a ‘Payment’ (as a tip or bribe) to expedite service?

A) Baksheesh

15) More than 105 million yards of fabric have been created for which women and her friends?

A) Barbie

16) ‘The Place where dreams come true’ is the slogan for which popular tourist attraction?

A) Disneyland

17) According to Caterer and Hotelkeeper magazine, which is the most stolen item from hotels?

A) Towels

18) After text messaging and voice calls, what is the most cited reason for teenagers using mobile phones?

A) Playing Games (43%)

19) Why was the Indian badminton camp for the 2008 Thomas and Uber Cups cancelled?

A) Unavailability of Shuttlecocks due to bird flu

20) What was stored inside the first paper carton made by Tetra Pak?

A) Milk

21) Ridhi, Vridhi, Jeevak, Risbhak, Kakoli, Ksirkakoli, Meda and Mahameda, a group of eight plants, is better known as what?

A) Chyawanprash

22) Which company had the fastest entry into the dictionary of new words as a commonplace verb?

A) Google – in less than 5 yrs.

23) What replaced the king’s image In the Nepalese currency notes of Rs.500 denominations?

A) Mount. Everest

24) Austrian national archives have the only surviving copy of which management consultant’s pamphlet?

A) Peter drucker. The name of the pamphlet is “ The Jewish Question in Germany”

25) Sedlabanki Islands is the name of Iceland’s:

(a) most popular tourist resort
(b) most popular red light district
(c) most popular children’s park or
(d) Central bank?

A) Central bank. ‘Sedlabanki Islands’ means ‘Central bank of Iceland’

26) What is common to Godrej, Titan and GSM technology?

A) EDGE- a refrigerator brand from Godrej, a watch brand from Titan and a data transmission technology from GSM.

27) By what brand name is ‘Barbara Millicent Roberts’ better known?

A) Barbie the Doll

28) What is the connection between Sony, Onkyo & Concorde?

A) Sound in latin,’Sonus’ means sound; in Japanese ‘Onkyo’means sound and ‘Concorde’ is the aircraft which can fly twice as fast as the speed of Sound.

29) Which short form of a brand name is also used for two pollutants/impure elements?

A) Coke- term also used for Coal and Cocaine.

30) What is the treaty of Park Avenue?

A) The Arthur C.Clarke- Isaac Asimov treaty finalized while they drove through Park Avenue, in which each acknowledged the other as superior.

31) In Poland Microsoft took a group of Journalists into a Submarine. Why?

A) To show what a world without windows was like.

32) Which brand claims to be the first to be visible from outer space?

A) Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) – An 87,500 sq. feet logo created in the Nevada Desert is claimed to be visible from outer space.

33) A group named “Three Star club” used to exist in Mumbai in the 1990’s. What is the eligibility to be a member of this Club?

A) Ownership of a Mercedes.

34) With which well known brand are the companies Bector Foods, Dynamix Dairies and Amrit Food associated?

A) McDonald’s.

35) Which former Indian Union Ministry was also the founder of a famous British Publishing House?

A) V.K.Krishna Menon, co-founder of Penguin and Pelican.

36) Which country recruited its first astronaut with an ad on radio?

A) United Kingdom which recruited Helen Sharman through a radio ad. She flew aboard Soyuz mission TM-12, launched on May 18, 1991.

37) In 1996, John Leonard of Seattle, Washington actually ‘won’ the ‘unwinnable’prize in a Pepsi contest. What was the Prize?

A) An AV-8 Harrier fighter plane.

38) What do ‘Mercedes’ and ‘Nirma’ have in common?

A) Both have been named after the daughters of their owners/founders.

39) The brand name of a musical instrument was formed from the surnames of the founders, Tsutomu katoh and Tadashi Osanai.What was the Name?

A) Korg

40) The company is named after the two founders who died within days of each other in 1948.Although they never met, their companies merged 41 years after their death. Name the company as we know it today?

A) Ernst & Young.

41) David Ogilvy’s rejection of an account which initially came to him was something he regretted for long. Which account?

A) Xerox.