Quenching BIT's Quriousity: trivia

Thursday, August 16, 2012

Thursday, February 9, 2012

Daily Trivia #536 : Royal Insignia

What is unique to these companies, apart from being behemoths in their respective fields ?

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Answer: Well done all of you, the answer is indeed Royal Warrant Holders, something to be proud of for these companies along with using the fact as a strong marketing tool !!!

Tuesday, May 24, 2011

Daily Trivia #470 Sofa Hyatt

Connect!
Question Courtesy: Sneha Lakshmi Roy
These people are really piling it on! Thanks to them, we have a regular stream of good questions...kudos to SLR and Pranshumaan!
If you have a question you think should be put up and shared with, do what these two do: Mail us at mail2qbit@gmail.com!

Friday, April 29, 2011

Daily Trivia #455 The most famous of them all

After a loooooooooong hiatus, here is a sitter to start the proceedings.

Answer: Black Eyed Peas : Will I Am

Globe Theater related to William Shakespeare

Logo of BMW Williams F1 Team

William "Bill" Clinton

Connect: William! And the most famous of them all currently: Prince William

Tuesday, June 8, 2010

Daily Trivia #287 Fivey makes a comeback!

1>Connect the countries:

quoting Abhishek: "Question 1) Uruguay, France, W.Germany (now Germany), Brazil, England, Italy, Argentina are the only countries to have lifted the FIFA World Cup at least once"
@pankaj - Brazil, although the most successful have infact never won at home!
also correctly got by aviral and kaushik.

2>Connect the logos with the gentleman.
Hint:This question pays tribute to a long standing QBIT tradition.

again quoting Abhishek: "Question 2. J.N. Tata was instrumental in setting up Logo 1 - Indian Institute of Science (IISc), and Logo 2- Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR)"
also got by kaushik.

3>Who's behind this excellent ad campaign?

By Mudra group for Bangalore Traffic Police.
got by pankaj and abhishek.

4>Identify the gentleman:

Edwards Deming, of Total Quality Management fame, credited with making Japan a manufacturing powerhouse. Also the Deming Award named after him has been won by a couple of Indian companies - TVS and Mahindra.
got by pankaj.

5>Identify the gentleman who I am absolutely certain is Vijay Mallya's role model:

Lars Olsson Smith, was a Swedish spirits manufacturer and politician. He was called "The King of Spirits" because of his domination of the of spirits production in Stockholm during the end of the 19th century. He started the production of Absolut Rent Brännvin which was later renamed Absolut Vodka.

On another note: Absolut has grown from producing 90k litres of vodka per year to 96 million litres per year in recent years.

Tuesday, May 18, 2010

DAILY TRIVIA # 267 Hungry Kya???

Hello one and all,
this is my first post here. As you would have noticed, there are new additions to the Q-BIT Team. All of us are from various branches of the 3rd year at BIT, Mesra.

First of all, I want to thank all the seniors for doing a fantastic job at BIT over past few years, not only in terms of this blog, but also all the hugely entertaining quizzes organized by Q-BIT in all the uncountable number of festivals at BIT. If not for Q-BIT I doubt if I would have ever realized my passion for quizzing. Seriously you guys rock!! Wish you all, all the very best in your professional lives. :-)

Secondly, to all the regular readers of this blog: All of us newbies here will try our best to live up the high standards set by team Q-BIT and keep your curiosity quenched!! Also, let us know of anything new you want to see here, be it some genre of quizzing we miss out, or some type/format of questions never posted before.

Here we go, Identify this guy & his claim to fame: