Daily Trivia #504 The Hiatus Ends

My god, it's been long since I posted! First exams, then facebook gets blocked and then Technieek's Tech Quiz takes over...but the break is over!
This one is contributed by Aditya Tyagi (2010 batch) and involves an interesting piece of trivia.
Connect and explain the middle pic.

Brand Equity Quiz - 2011 Pune Edition

Its been raining quizzes here in Pune.The Westin hosted the Pune edition of Brand Equity Quiz,2011. Derek O Brien conducted the quiz. Ramanand has posted the questions from the prelims here. I have posted here the questions from the finals except the ones from the buzzer round. Infosys did superbly in the buzzer round to beat us and finally qualify for the National finals. Final standings for the quiz:
1st  :  Infosys                          : Pratyush and Mehul
2nd : ZS Associates                : Prabhakar (Yours truly!) and Jaipal
3rd  : Advinus Therapeutics     : Suraj Menon & Shariq
4th  : TCS                               : Abhishek and Suchir
5th  : Indira School of Business: Professors from the college!
6th  : ZS Associates                 : Bharat and Anand Vishwanathan

Round 1

1. The concept of mass distribution of condoms was introduced by an IIM graduate through which product?  
Nirodh
2. I you are wearing a Macfarlane, then what is it? Coat
3. If your railway reservation ticket shows the code CA over it, you have booked your ticket under which category?   Tatkal
4. After the bombing of Pearl Harbor in December 1941, Woodruff declared company's wartime policy: "We will see that every man in uniform gets a bottle of _____ for five cents wherever he is and whatever it costs". Fill in the blanks.  Coke
5. Mullet is associated with which profession?  Hair Cutting
6. Tresskilling Yellow is considered as the most expensive piece of what? Postage Stamp

Round 2

1. The Vickers scale is used to define the hardness of materials. Which company uses this scale to describe one of the qualities of its product?  Rado
2. William Painter was the inventor of Crown Cork, he advised one of his friend to come up with this product which can be used by men and then thrown away. Which product? Shaving Blades
3. Mukti Dham and Moksh Bhavan in Varanasi was founded by Dalmia Charitable Trust. What are they known for?  People on the verge of death visit this place to pass off their last days
4. Cupcake, eclairs, honeycomb and gingerbread are related to what? Android
5. In USA, who are known as ambulance chasers?   Lawyers
6. Which extremely high profile person once endorsed Callaway golf clubs?   Bill Gates


Round 3

1. This is the headquarters of which company.  Boeing

2. An ad for Microsoft Azure.
3. Identify the person. Pulitzer

4. Identify the lady.  Savitri Jindal

5. What was the official name of the football used during 2010 FIFA World Cup.  Jabulani
6. Identify the ad.   Karnatka Tourism

Round 4

1. What was introduced by the Government of India on 1st April, 1957 ?  Naya Paisa
2. What is copyleft? Allowing people to copy one's content.
3. What are Pinot Noir, Sciacarcello, Schiava ? Grapes used for wines.
4. What is Shopper Lifting?  When the barcode shows up more price than it actually is.
5. What is french for small shop which caters to a specific group of customers?  Boutique
6. Which vechicles sport a pattern called 'Sillitoe Tartan' over them?  Police vehicle

Round 5

1. Which brand was founded by her grandfather?   Prada

2. Identify the voice behind a jingle. - Prasoon Joshi
3. Name the sponsors of the football club Inter Milan. Pirellli
4. The track 'Aam Aadmi' was played. Which movie based on a serial had this song?  Office Office
5. The track 'My Hometown' was played and the singer was to be identified.  Bruce Springsteen

Tata Crucible Corporate Quiz,2011-Pune

Being the Q-BIT correspondent from Pune, here are the questions(which as Pickbrain said were on the tougher side. According to him, Pune is at the 3rd position among the cities as far as the level of questions are concerned) from the quiz.Samrat Mukherjee and Ashish Singh from DCB Bank finished as the winners while the team from ECLERX ended up as runners-up. The other teams which reached the finals were Mindtickle,Cognizant, John Deree and Amdocs. While in the Tata Track, Tata Chemicals became the winners for the first time in Pune. There were more than 200 teams in the prelims and it was a hard fought battle with five among the six finalists being at the same score. We missed the finals by 2 points and returned home with the audience prize(me and my partner Jaipal adding a crucible bag to our collection).

1."Garv Se Kaho Ki Hum Kanjoos Hain"- This is a quote by which famous businessman.
2."Wear The Pants"- tagline of which brand.
3.Which famous businessman led the restoration of Statue of Liberty by the private sector in 1986 on request from Ronald Reagan.
4.The online game "Urban Thrill" is owned by which company.
5.Demi Moore spends around 36000 dollar per year on this particular product for grooming her hair.Which product.
6.This famous chain of environment friendly cosmetic products collaborated on working for the safety of whales.Which company.
7.Which famous fashion designer claims direct desendence from Scottish poet Robert Burns and opened his first store under the name The People's Place.
8.Identify this personality.

9.The MTV movie awards are designed after what?
10.Which bank became the first bank to achieve 1 billion dollar in assests in 1919.
11.What is FILOFAX.
12."Inside Magic Kingdom" is a book based on which comapany.
13.This company was founded in 1953 in collaboration with Oerlikon Machine Tools Works, Buchrle & Co., Zurich. Aftab Rai was its first MD. Which company.
14.This company which had about 40% market share in wireless handset market recently renamed its music and maps offering service to the name of the company.
15.The first colour TV in India was produced by which company.
16.Identify this famous strategic consulting guru.

17.This company was founded by Alvin B Philps, a Motorola employee in 1970.It rapidly became a speciality semiconductor maker. Its first product in the market was WD1402A UART.
18.What does NEO stand for in the Airbus A320 NEO planes which have been recenlty been in news for being ordered by Spicejet.
19.This is what the website of this corporate enitity says about its logo-
   "As a corporate entity, our new logo reflects our new mission... smoother, seamless, and efficient, whichever way you look at it." Which entity.
20.Identify the logo.

21.Apple filed a patent infringement lawsuit on this company over a product for it being similar to its Ipad in design. Which product.
22.What do you call a person who is a minority invetsor in a private equity fund or a venture capital fund.
23.This company had about 80% of the market share in gaming but its fortune dwindled once it came up with a game based on the movie E.T.
24.FreshHome, Birds & Blooms and Best You are some of the magazines from which famous publishing house.
25.Which prime minister led the nationalization of banks in India in 1969.

Questions from the finals.....in my next post.

Daily Trivia #503 Of Extinct Volcanoes

Identify and connect the images to a person.

DAILY TRIVIA # 502 Pataka Chai

Like Brian Lara, Q-BIT too got stuck at 501 for a lot many days. So, here comes a sitter just to outdo Lara.

Identify the man with the flowing beard.