Quizophilic: February 2010

Friday, February 12, 2010

Corporate Quiz at SSCBS's Crescendo 2010 on 6th Feb 2010

Some questions from the quiz

1) In 1998 Satya Prabhakar started which website?
Ans. Sulekha.com

2)Tagline - Pure reading pleasure
Ans. Mills n Boon

3)This coffee house company based in the United Kingdom founded in 1971 by Italian brothers Sergio and Bruno Costa, as a wholesale operation supplying roasted coffee to caterers and specialist Italian coffee shops.
In 1995, the company was acquired by, and is now a subsidiary of, the Whitbread company
Ans. Costa Coffee

4)Identify the HQ .

Ans. General Motors

5)This slang was originated in US Navy-
Ans. Happy Hours

6)French Connection exploited the controversy of the name, producing an extremely popular range of t-shirts with messages such as "_____ fashion", "_____ this", "hot as ____", "lucky _____", "_____ on the beach"
. It was founded in the United Kingdom in 1972 which sells clothing and accessories in many parts of the world.
An. fcuk

7)Luca Pacioli had codify something specific in -"Summa de arithmetica". What did he codify?
Ans. Double entry book keeping

8)The phrase was featured on The Simpsons in the 1992 episode "Homer's Triple Bypass", with the characters Bart and Lisa referring to themselves as such, describing the ___________ as ones that "feel neither highs nor lows". When Homer asks what it's like, Lisa replies "meh."

Ans. MTV Generation

9)Identify;

Ans. Tatoo artist -Don Ed Hardy

10.The Company was set up by Ninan Mathai in 1887 atKozhencherry, a small town in the erstwhile Kingdom of Travancore (Kerala). It was then later taken over by his son M George ______ who incorporated the Finance division of the group which was till then primarily involved in wholesale of grains.