Daily Trivia # 557

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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

Daily Trivia #435 : Aktiengesellschaft

Connect the above images !!!

(Specify the significance of each image in the given context and refrain from partial answers.)

The correct answer is indeed Puma AG, as correctly answered in all the three responses.

Great job for cracking each part of the question.

Another Puma trivia - Puma was initially named Ruda by Rudi Dassler in a similar fashion as his brother Adi Dassler who called his company Adidas. Credit to both of them for starting two giants of the fashion & sports industry with a whopping $10+ billion in annual revenues combined together!!!

Daily Trivia #429

Connect the above images !!! (Hint: Something significant down the memory lane...think retro)

AIMA 11th National Management Quiz for Corporates-Mumbai Finals

Continuing from where I left in my last post which covered the prelims round of this quiz.I couldn't qualify for the finals so what I could do next was to sit there,enjoy the quiz as a Q-BIT correspondent :P and win some audience prizes.Barring a handful of questions,the finals by quizmaster Jacob Kurian didn't match up to the questions in prelims.Tata Capital team(Govind Grewal & Preeti Shankar) or the Anjaana Anjaani team as it was named led from the beginning to finally win the quiz with almost double the score of the team coming second i.e. the Hero Honda team.I did win 4 Kit-Kats as an audience prize in a quiz that had an entry fee of Rs 7000 only :P.The quiz was followed by lunch(Chalo thoda to paisa vasool hua).While we enjoyed the lunch there,you enjoy the finals here.
Round 1
Take Your Pick.
A.1.Which company's new initiative is called Project Samruddhi?
    2.With which auto company would you associate Blue On?

B.1.This company launched its Family Moments campaign,a marketing in store and digital initiative designed to            provide more options for the family.Name the company.
   2.Which World heavyweight champion has been signed by Sanghvi brands,a real estate company to share his expertise on health topics?

C.1."Your moment is waiting".This tagline is used by which state's tourism board?
    2.According to World economic forum's Global Competitiveness Report 2010-11 which company has got the top slot?

D.1.Which bank as a part of green office project 'Hum Aur Haryali' has opened Mumbai's first solar powered ATM?
    2."Power and Productivity for a better world." is the tagline for which company?

E.1.According to Newsweeks's 2010 Green ranking which company has got the top slot?
    2.Which famous model hosts the reality tv show "Project Runaway"?

F.1.Which company owns the global football talent search "The Chance"?
   2.Which actress endorses the Goa tourism?

Round 2 
Environment Ki Guzaarish
1.Which car has been chosen as the Green Car of the year 2011?
2.Which organization publishes magazine called TUNZA?
3.Expand LEED which is a green building certification system.
4.People,Planet,Profit report has been prepared by the organization Sustainibilty for which company?
5.Gobar Times is the children supplement for which environment magazine?
6.Brazil,Netherland,Portugal,USA,South Korea,Austrailia,New Zealand,Serbia and Slovenia.what was so unique about these teams participating in FIFA world cup ?

Round 3
Bad Mania
This was the most exciting round or probably the only round of this finals which I loved playing even when we were not on stage.In this round the tagline of a company was presented in a jumbled manner and the name of the company had to be guessed by cracking that jumbled line and to be filled in the desired no. of slots.
1.Laughingly Wise Today. _ _ _ _ _
2.A fat Sedition. _ _ _ _
3.Is Blooming Pithiness. _ _ _ _ _ _
4.Wifely Oaf. _ _ _ _ _ _     _ _ _ _ _ _
5.Raunchily Ace Of Aged Inane. _ _ _ _
6.Wet Poor You. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
7.Win Both The Debts. _ _ _ _ & _ _ _ _ _ _
8.Cleverer Of High Minded Rape. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

Round 4
Pass Round
1.Why were Chitra and Khalijia were in news recently?
2.Management Innovation eXchange(MIX) is a project run by which famous business guru?
3.This game called 'Mokshapat" was created by saint Gyandev.How do we know it today?
4.With which innovation would you associate Harvey Ball?
5.Why are Babushka phones popular in Russia?

Round 5
Khelein Hum Jee Jaan Sey
1.June 17,1862 W.V. Adams patented something that used adjustable ratchets.what?
2.Headquarters for which British organization?

3.Who is being described here?

• Young, enthusiastic and determined
• Thinks cricket is the best game in the world
• Loves playing Street cricket and would play it 24/7 if he could
• Worships his cricket heroes, their technique, skill and character
• Understands there is a lot to learn, works hard at it, step by step
• Learning to master the art of concentration
• Dreams of playing in the ICC Cricket World Cup one day
• Age: 10 (human years)

4.A video from the movie Avatar was shown and then it was asked that which tribe has been affected by Vedanta's Niyamgiri project?
5.A video from Golmaal 3 was shown and then it was asked to expand TISA.

6.In the movie Karthik calling Karthik Farhan Akhtar's transition occurs at which retail store?

7.Expand LGBT.

Daily Trivia #408 DryHex

After a series of treasure hunt updates, Utsavius and I decided to do a little quizzing of our own. Frankly, we're a bit tired of connects at the moment. So, here is a set of 6 dry questions. Hope you like them.

• In 1849, the future President Abraham Lincoln, received patent 6,469 , for inventing what?

• Digital, Trends, Wellness, Footprint, Jewels, TimeOut and Autozone. What am I talking about?

• ID the logo of an IT major.

      

• Who said to about whom?
Tumbled out of life as he had tumbled through it"

• What is the most famous product shipped out of the Mikoyan-and-Gurevich Design Bureau?

• What does Sydney and Melbourne have in common with New Delhi, in the field of transportation?

Everyone got the answers, except the last one.

Anyway, what I was expecting was : 

1.  Manner of buoying vessels.

2. Reliance Retails Stores

3. Patni Computer Systems

4. Stanley Lane-Poole about Humayun
5. MiG Figher Jets
6. All the cities have T3 terminals at their airports. :)

Daily Trivia #388:Family Business

X was started by A & B in 1937 as a distributor for a Japanese company. The name X is derived from the names of A & B. X was then passed on to A & B's cousin C. After C's son joined the company in 1967, the company saw a significant expansion in its business and scale. The company went on to become a leading firm in the sector. In 2008 it was taken over by a Japanese company Y whose logo is shown below. Id X & Y along with X's founders A & B.

Daily Trivia #354 - Logos n feats !!!

Identify the images and connect them to a common landmark in their corporate legacy !!!

(Hint-One of the 5 started the culture way back, the other 4 made records in the same arena.)

Daily Trivia #349 - Riches to Rags !!!

Id each image and connect to a common link.

(Be wary as part answers won't fetch any marks, so better identify each clue given)

Daily Trivia #344 - The difference is German engineering !!!

Same old question...id each image & provide the connection between them.

(Hint - Start with the images u can identify...its a sitter if done from ground zero)

Daily Trivia #335

Id each of the above images & connect them. Be specific about the relation of each image to your answer.

(Hint - Start with the image at the bottom right corner, it actually turns out to be a sitter)

Daily Trivia #331

Connect these images.

(Hint - An iconic innovative company)

Daily Trivia #319

Give the connection between the following images...

(Hint - The company visits BIT Mesra)

Puzzles Galore...

Connect the images given (be specific).

The images in CW sequence from top are: 187 Men to Avoid: A Guide for the Romantically Frustrated, TIME Magazine cover 2005, Leonardo da Vinci, Columbia Pictures logo & Ron Howard. Pic 1 was the first book written by none other than Dan Brown, who was featured on the TIME magazine list of influential people in 2005(pic 2). Two movies based on his works "The da Vinci Code"(pic3) & "Angels & Demons" have been directed by Ron Howard(pic5) under the banner of Columbia Pictures(pic 4). Hence the connection is DAN BROWN !!!