Prelims of Biz Quiz @ Fms on December 12th [Quiz Master- Avinash Mudaliar]

Although it was quite cold in the open lawn of  FMS but I didn't mind sitting for around 3 hours. There were  really good questions well researched by Mr. Avinash Mudaliar .

Last round ended with a theme "This is it'. It went uncracked but somebody from audience cracked it finally.

Winners - Rohan Khanna(Accenture) and Mitesh (Sun microsystems)

Here are some questions from prelims.


1) Tata DO CO MO Ad .Identify music director-

Ans. Ram Sampat

2)Ad Campaign - Three Idiots

3) sinking or " drowning " in roman .Give business conection?

Ans- Merger

4) Ad of what? Also identify the person.

Ans. Tod stitzer CEO of Cadbury

5) Identify ?

Ans- Joseph Lister

6)Transport of coffee –

Ans. Lavazza Ad

7) Identify brand of which company-

Ans.- ITC 

8)Some trivia related to naming controversy of-

Ans- Baby Ruth

9) Some story related to -

Ans-  “Indian coffee house”

10) Ad for what? Recently launched in India?

Ans- Coca Cola Burn

11) Some funda related to -

Ans- Tata Swach (World's cheapest water purifier)

Quo Vadis(Finals) @ IIFT, New Delhi [QM - Arul Mani] on November 15, 2009

1) RB 211-whose collapse did it bring about in 1970-

Ans- Rolls Royce (The costs of development forced Rolls Royce Limited into bankruptcy and nationalization by the British government.)

2) Identify-

Ans- Renzo Rosso (Diesel)

3) Global Sexual Well Being Survey is conducted by-

Ans- Durex

4) What do turnips, the excise tax, sash windows and grandfather clocks have in common?

Ans- they all came to us from Holland in the 17th century

5) The Frawley Pen Company developed a revolutionary new ink, which dried instantly.The pen that delivered this ink was called-

Ans- Papermate

6)  Who shaped this hotel and restored a 1930's Art Deco red velvet cinema and the result is a lively new meeting complex. Hotel Rival overlooks-

Ans- The former Abba star, Benny Andersson and his partners

7) Dispute between The Twinings & Jackson's was due to-

Ans- Earl Gray Tea

8)In 1984 which company was sold to the Akram Ojjeh-

Ans- Heuer and the brand name changed to TAG-Heuer 

 

9)In 1999, Duk-Jun Yang and Rae-Hwan Lee left Samsung Electronics, along with five colleagues. They formed ReignCom, with Yang as CEO. What did they started-

Ans- I- River

10) Theme based -

Ans-Ab Tak Chappan (K Sera Sera)

        Aetbaar (Tata Infomedia)

        Dev (Applause entertainment)

        Pinzar (Lucky Goldstar - oswal group)

        Tere Mere Sapne (ABCL)

Connect- These all were the debut movies from these production houses

11)Theme Based-

 a)THE ALGORITHM CONSTANTLY FINDS JESUS

   THE ALGORITHM KILLED JEEVES

   THE ALGORITHM IS BANNED IN CHINA
   THE ALGORITHM IS FROM JERSEY

Ans- ASK.COM

 b) Former Imperial Palace in Beijing caused much controversy, persuading them eventually to close it down in July 2007 -

 Ans-  Starbucks

 c)Who's baseline is-

    Life's a journey - SAMSONITE

 d)Identify the pic-

Ans- Yahoo's from gulliver travel

e)Stationary company issued this iconic brand-

Ans- Phileas stationary brand

Connect- Brands derived from fictional characters.

Quo Vadis @ IIFT, New Delhi [QM - Arul Mani] on November 15, 2009

A wonderful quiz with some very good connects. Few questions from the prelims. I tried to post same images as it was shown in the quiz.

1)Identify

Ans: Madam Tussauds

2) Put fundae:

Ans:   Map of Europe showing areas where research on wave energy is going on.

3) Identify:

Ans: Colombian Coffee

4)Gruelling sea race sponsered by Rolex in south or Ireland.What?

Ans: Fastnet Race

5)Fred Mouqwad, top man at global franchise architect -his claim to fame in India?

Ans: Pizza Corner

6)Map showing what?

Ans: G 20 nations(the color difference is because EU is automatically a member)

7)Margot Fraser got some disease .She used a german brand.It went global after this.Which brand?

Ans: Birkenstock

8)Identify him:

Ans: Dilmah Tea( Sponsor of Srilankan cricket team)

9)The goodyear company blimbs are all listed as GZ.What is Z?

Ans: Zeppelin

10)Identify:

Ans: Tomb Raider's Laura Croft

11)What comes from this:

Ans: Cannes lion international advertising award

12) Whose tenure is this:

Ans: jack Welch

13)Capitalistic tool and the image

What's the connect?

Ans: Eureka Forbes

14) Identify the image.Its the first of what?

Ans: First Photocopier

15)A 19th century business man owns Bethlehem Steel Co.. He made a $100,000 donation to a B School. The B School still carry his surname.What?

Ans. Wharton

16)T- Turin or torino as it is in Italy, One is FIAT.Identify third?

Ans: CEAT

17)Swedish term Aktiebolag means stock co.HQ in Trollhatan in Sweden.Which auto co??

Ans. SAAB

18))Italian word for Bee is also in circulation in India though it may not as well known as their word WASP-

Ans. APE(Piaggio)

19) some trivia about Boroleen.

CHAKRAVYUH B - Quiz 09

JIMS Rohini is organizing 'Chakravyuh' - The Bizzquiz for management students/ business schools in Delhi, NCR on 10th October 2009 at JIMS Rohini Sec-5. Chakravyuh '09' shall be conducted by the renowned quiz master, Manimugdha Sharma.

DATE: Saturday,October 10, 2009

TIME: Prelims at 10:00 A.M

VENUE: JIMS Rohini Sec-5, New Delhi

RULES AND REGULATIONS

1. The Quiz is open to Post Graduate students of any discipline.

2. Each team will consist of two students.

3. A maximum of one team will be allowed per college/Institute.

4. Ist prize Rs. 20,000 , IInd prize Rs. 15,000 and Prizes for audience too.

5 Certificate of Participation and Merit will be presented to all the participants in the concluding ceremony.

6. Last date for sending registration is 5th October, 2009.

7.Registration is free

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Tata Crucibles - Corporate edition (Delhi)

1. Annapurna ata is owned by which company- Unilever

2. Harmony brand of garment comes under which group- Reliance

3. Ad of colgate palmolive -

4. Unilever’s first product in India – Sunlight

5. Pic of a book - “Sneaker War “

6.Which country is not using coins anymore as its currency- Vietnam?

7.“The fog of war” documentary on- Robert McNamara

8.Dare to dream is related to – M.S. oberoi

9.Ticker symbol of SUN is replaced by- JAVA

10.Which FMCG giant market Axe in Indian market – HLL

11.Some question about template- Lauren Epson

12.The poor always pay back- Grameen bank

13.Who is going to takeover the CEO & MD of T.C.S- M. Chandrasekhar

14.Which co. tied up exclusively with titan eye plus - Essilor?

15.Visuals of Sharad devraj, Shakti, were shown – Virgin comic book

16.Pic of dreamline, Hemamalini, Dhoni were shown – Future group

17.Connect-Pic of Parle’s Ramesh chouhan, Daredevils, the football league

connect is Coca- cola

18.Annual Meeeting of the new champions held annually in China-World economic forum

19.The only fictional character so honored ,inducted as an honorary fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry in 2002- Sherlock Holmes

20. Campaign of what-

National association for blinds

21.identify pic-

Maslow hierarchy

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It was an evevning worth spent at ARMY Public School. I ran soon after giving my exam, So reached late. I missed out preliminary round questions. Here are other questions from -TATA track & external track.

Six teams which qualified on the stage were-

Accenture, Mccann erickson , Citibank, SAP Labs, CSC Noida & The Smart Cube

But this time unfortunately traditional quizzers & one of my favorite teams, team NTPC missed out with little margin, even Giri also quoted on this.But they answered some cool audience questions.

The winners for this evening were undoubtedly -

Team Accenture-Rohan khanna & sandeepan

CHAKRAVYUH-09

Preliminary round Questions

1.HTC Dream will be one of the first mobile smart phones running on this mobile operating system. Name it.

Ans. Android

2.Which software had been employed to give special effects in Harry Potter movies?

Ans. Maya

3.Who was the world's first dollar billionaire?

Ans. John d Rockefeller

4.In 1984, Michael Jackson accidentally set his own hair on fire while shooting a commercial for whom?

Ans. Pepsi

5. Which organization?

6. Retail giant Wal Mart is known for its worldwide strategy of edlp. Expand EDLP.

Ans. EVERYDAY LOWER PRICES

7. Whose initiative?

Ans. Jagdish Khattar Initiative

8. There are three trains in India that run on steam. The Darjeeling and Nilgiri toy trains are two. Which is the third?

Ans. The palace on wheels

9. Which is the world's oldest airline still functioning today?

Ans. KLM

10. If Greta Garbo was the first Hollywood actress to have a perfume named after her, who was the first Indian movie star after whom a perfume was named?

Ans. Zeenat Aman (the perfume was "zeenat")

11. Put fundaez about the three dots in the logo of Domino's Pizza.

Ans. Original goal was to open three pizza delivery stores. That's why there are three dots on the log

12. It was Sam Walton from 1985 to 1988, followed by John Kluge from 1989 to 1992. Who followed in 1992 and has continued an uninterrupted reign of over 15 years?

Ans. Bill Gates

14. Which is the 2nd most photographed building in India after the Taj Mahal?

Ans. Jeejeebhoy towers (or Bombay stock exchange)

15. What does Sony's VAIO stand for?

Ans. Video audio integrated operation

16. Expand YAHOO as in YAHOO.COM

Ans. yet another Hierarchical Officious Oracle

17. As per ISO 7810, what should be 3 3/8 by 2 ½ inches in size?

Ans. Credit card

18. Which Indian business group was founded by Jagdish Chandra and Kailash Chandra?

Ans. JK group

19. Which currency unit derives its name from the Sanskrit word for "stamped coin"?

Ans. Taka (Bangladesh)

20. Who bought the first Hummer or Humvee manufactured for civilian use in 1992?

Ans. Arnold Schwarzenegger

21. WTI and Brent are considered the world's references for what?

Ans. Oil prices

22. This company was originally founded by Ranjit Singh and Dr. Gurbux Singh of Amritsar, who were distributors for A. Shionogi, a Japanese pharmaceutical company manufacturing vitamins and anti-TB drugs. Which company?

Ans. Ranbaxy's

TAGLINES

23. WIPRO - Applying Thought

24. HSBC - The World's Local Bank

25. Logo of which group from Gujarat?

Ans. Adani group

Google Doodle

Save energy by using all black search engines

All white web page uses about 74 watts to display, while an all black page uses only 59 watts. I thought I would do a little math and see what could be saved by moving a high volume site to the black format.

Take at look at Google, who gets about 200 million queries a day. Let's assume each query is displayed for about 10 seconds; that means Google is running for about 550,000 hours every day on some desktop. Assuming that users run Google in full screen mode, the shift to a black background [on a CRT monitor] will save a total of 15 (74-59) watts. That turns into a global savings of 8.3 Megawatt-hours per day, or about 3000 Megawatt-hours a year. Now take into account that about 25 percent of the monitors in the world are CRTs and at 10 cents a kilowatt-hour, that's $75,000, a good amount of energy and dollars for changing a few color codes.

Go Kiss the World - Book by: Subroto Bagchi

The best job in the world & its Indian connection

Anjaan RJ

Hamilton Island

The job was a Tourism Australia campaign to boost the floundering tourist market, and it attracted applications from more than 200 countries.The job pays 150,000 Australian dollars (105,000 US dollars) and includes free airfares from the successful applicant's home country to Hamilton Island on the Great Barrier Reef, India’s Anjaan RJ from Bangalore has made it to the list of top 16 candidates for Queensland island’s ‘best job in the world’.