7.

From the 3rd century AD, the Chinese celebrated the New Year by throwing
bamboo stalks onto flames. Why did they do that and what resulted?

Fire crackers. As the trapped air in the bamboo stalks grew hotter, they
exploded with a bang.

8. In 969 AD, the Chinese emperor Mu-tsung was said to have spent New Year's
Eve playing...what kind of game?

Card-like games. These were played with tokens marked with spots to indicate
their values, rather like today's dominoes.

9. In May 1671 at the Windsor Castle, England, Charles II was presented with
'One plate of white strawberries and one plate of _____'. (Fill in the
blank. It was the first time that the second item was served in England!)

Icecream

liners of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company discovered

that the best cabins were those protected from the sun's glare.
Consequently, a word in English originated. What is this word?

Posh. Wealthy travelers became accustomed to asking for a 'posh' ticket:

port (side) out, starboard home.

7. Owns a publishing house called Quantum. And a line

of products with the brand name Opti. Voted as one of
the 100 icons and heroes of the twentieth century by
Time magazine. He wrote an article in the Playboy
magazine titled “Does god have orgasms?” Identify
this man.

Dr. Deepak Chopra

5. Which guru wrote a book called Easy Journey to

Other Planets?

Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada – founder of ISKCON

> 3) I was brought to India by our late Prime

Minister
> Mr. Rajiv Gandhi to give a push to the
> telecommunications sector. I started the Department
> of Telecommunications (DoT) with the fond wish of
> bringing phone connectivity to every village. I also
> had a few other plans. But there was one controversy
> after another because the famed Indian bureaucracy
> started showing their mettle and I had no other
option
> but to pack my bags. But I won't be difficult to
name
> in this climate of 'Pravasi Bharatiya' zindabad. So
> go ahead...(q.m: maybe everyone in India should
start
> leaving the country, seems our politicians will
> realize our value only then:-), the way they are
going
> about gushing in the 'Pravasi Bharatiya conference'.

> No, maybe I am wrong, they do realize our value once

> in five years, sometimes even earlier nowadays)

ANS: SAM PITRODA

> 4) I was the dare-devil editor of my newsy web-site

> which conducted a sting-operation to bring to
> lime-light the kick-backs common in defence deals.
I
> was so successful in stinging some bigwigs including
> the then BJP President Mr. Bangaru Laxman and Samata
> Party top leader Jaya Jaitley, that the
establishment
> started stinging back with a vengeance. My web-site
> is in a financial mess and I am being pressed from
> different directions. I am the poor Mr......

ANS: TARUN TEJPAL

> 9. !dea cellular is a collaboration between Birla, Tata and AT & T.

> Before
> they got the IDEA that they could name the company !dea, they had hit
> upon
> a totally unimaginative and country name. What was the name they thought
> of earlier?

junta cracked this, it is BATATA

> 8. Connect the band QUEEN with Meswak toothpaste. ( a really involved
> connect with the crux being a name).

surprisingly quite a few people got this. lead singer of queen is freddie
mercury, whose real name is Farrukh Balsara ( some people got the first
name wrong, but no penalties). meswak is manufactured by a company called
Balsara. So Balsara is the connection

9. People spoofed him as Hardly Humane Goddard for his Sanjay Ghandiish
suggestion to instititutionalize and sterilize ___________. Fill in the
blanks.

MORONS, a word coined by HH Goddard

10. When MIT coined this term in the 1960s it meant “innovation style and
technical virtuosity’. Today it’s a pejorative word that refers to a warped
cult. Gimme the word.

HACKERS

. Bell Labs supervisor Don Macpherson came up with the first descriptor for
the hash symbol. What did he call it?

OCTOTHORPE

4. The short story “Burning Chrome”/ Neuromancer gave rise to a very widely used term
today. Who wrote the short story and what is the good word?

WILLIAM GIBSON & CYBER SPACE

5. What’s common to Herbert J Webber, Dolly Parton and Eve?

The word CLONE. Webber coined it. Dolly was the clone sheep. Eve supposedly
the first human clone.

6. The Book ‘If I Ran The Zoo’ featured a semi humanoid character with a
comically angry expression. What name did the author Theodore Seuss Geisel
give this character?

NERD

7. In 1938, a 9-year old boy came with a rather strange word to describe
something big and complex. What’s the word? (I can’t think of any other word
that’s been coined by a kid.)
GOOGOL coined by Milton Sirrota when his uncle Edward Kasner asked him how
would he describe 1 followed by 100 zeroes.

1) The creator of Dilbert opened a company recently. What's the name

of the company, and what do they do?
Ans: CEO of Scott Adams Foods, Inc., a company Scott Adams funded to create and
market convenient, tasty food containing 100% of the daily values of vitamins
and minerals.

2) Also, he's a co-owner of a business at Pleasanton Downtown in

California. What's the name of the business?
Ans: Stacey's Cafe.(co-owner of the successful Stacey's Café restaurant in
downtown Pleasanton, California.)

3) Which character has the goal of conquering the whole world and
enslaving all human beings?
Ans: Dogbert.

4) What's the name of the technical writer?

Ans: Tina.

5) Which fourth world country do dilbert and dogbert have visited for
various reasons?
Ans: Elbonia

6) What is the profession of the consulatnt of Dilbert and Dogbert

for solving complex problems?
Ans:Sanitation engineer.

7) Who is the evil-hearted director of Information Services for

Dilbert's company?
Ans: Mordac

8) Who is the prince of insufficient light,the ruler of Heck, pops up

once a year to impose mild sanctions for mild sins, once he punished
Dilbert with accountants?
Ans: Phil.

9) Which famous real-life creative arts company created Dilbert's

cubilcle with Scott Adams?
Ans: Ideo.

10) Where and when did Scott Adams get his MBA from and where was he
working when he created Dilbert?
Ans:UCB, Haas School of Business - Class of 86, Pacific Bell labs.
1. Green collar workers are environmentalists. Steel-
collar workers are robots. Who are OPEN-COLLAR
WORKERS?

PEOPLE WHO WORK FROM HOME

2. Why would you hire ‘CHAIN SAW CONSULTANTS’?

Consultants hired specifically to REDUCE EMPLOYEE

HEADCOUNT, thus allowing the company's top
executives to remain blameless.

3. You’ve heard of infomercials. What are

FICTOMERCIALS?

A WORK OF FICTION in which a company pays the

writer to incorporate the company's products into
the story.

4. If you’re a recipient of MISSIONWARE, what would

you have received and from whom?

Products such as COFFEE MUGS, PENS and T-SHIRTS

that are handed out to employees and that include
the company's logo, motto, or mission statement.

5. Why do people label FLESHWRITERS as lazy?

Because he commissions GHOSTWRITERS to do the hard

work for him.

6. What kind of a traveler is a TRAINING TOURIST?

A worker who signs up for TRAINING CLASSES just to

get a BRIEF VACATION from their jobs. Don't we all
do this?

7. How do SPILLIONAIRES make their money?

Persons who receive a big packet as COMPENSATION

for an OIL SPILL.
8. What is a MACARENA PAGE?

WEB PAGES with short life expectancy that ride on

the flavour of the month. May be we should
rechristen this as the LAS KETCHUP PAGE...

9. If company X indulges in UNDERCOVER MARKETING, what

would it be doing?

Company X would have hired ACTORS to promote

products in a REAL WORLD SETTING while posing as
REGULAR PEOPLE.

10. Where would you find a SKYSCRAPER AD?

(don’t get obvious please)

In a WEB PAGE. Remember, the vertical ads that run

down the side of a web page?

1. which company has the punchlie One single payment , 4 major benefits
--------- LIC

2. Called the Royal range, they consist of Maharaj, romantica, better halves
and heart of hearts . What are these? --------- ARUN ICE CREAM HATSUN FOODS
MARRIAGE TARGETED RANGE OF ICE CREAMS.

3. Researchers from the University of London and Indiana have come out with
what they call OMRAS which is a new technology that can help music sales
triple world over. What does OMARS do? IT'S A SOFTWARE THAT FINDS OUT
THE
NAME OF THE SONG WITH THE HUMMING OR TUNE MADE BY THE USER.

What does the book world war 3.0 deals with? A BOOK ABOUT ANTI-TRUST CASES
BETWEEN MICROSOFT AND WHATEVER.

4. Which company uses the baseline "Intelligence everywhere"? MOTOROLA

5. Why is deca durabolin in the news? OFFICIAL NAME OF THE DRUG SUNITHA
RANI
WAS ACCUSED OF USE.

6. Connect feather , iron, carrot mike basketball to Chennai? BASIC'S RANGE

OF CLOTHING.
7. The other most popular mail server in India? MICROSOFT EXCHANGE

8. Keeps you fresh 24 hours a day?

It is the adline for the siarams body care clothing

9. Black magic. Identify the range of shoes? WOODLAND

10. Moon city productions is a US based company that specializes in

marketing to
a niche market. What market do they target? SOMETHING IN GAY PRINT MEDIA.

11. which range has the baseline What is perfect body type? ALLEN SOLLY'S
WOMEN WEAR.
.

1. Which company has the punchline "we make the net work"?
Sun Microsystems.
2. Which company is launching reality TV next year in India?
Zee-turner
3. Kina is the currency of which country?
Paupa new guenia

7. A company which has 10% stake in the Dhabol power plant will help NTPC
to start DPC . Name the company?
GE worldwide

9. In online jargon what is "bigbanging"?

An attempt to create a product that possesses the features of two or more
prducts.

7. Excerpts from an Interview

"You see the gratest failure of my life was Oxford. I was supposed to be a star
at Oxford. And instead of that, I was thrown out. I could not pass the
exams"

Interviewer: Why? Didn't you study?

I don't know why. I'd like to know. I don't know to this day. I'll die not
knowing. I had a very serious operation, two of them, on my head and may be
that was it. That sounds like an excuse. Anyway I screwed that up and got thrown
out.

Who is the person being interviewed?

David Ogilvy

8. Put most simply, it refers to net operating profit minus an appropriate

charge for the opportunity cost of all capital invested in an
enterprise. What is the reference to?

Economic Value Add (EVA)

1. Mr. Luther was sad to note that the only people

using his invention in his times were prostitutes
and gamblers because they didn't want to be seen by
______. Just fill in the blanks and gimme the name
of the invention.

Mr. Luther George Simjian was talking of his invention

the original ATM...the blank refers to TELLERS. Don
Wetzel later came up with the present version of the
now-ubiquitous ATM.

2. Ida Rosenthal was no inventor. But like Bill

Gates, she was smart enough to recognize the potential
of other's inventions. And was quick to add her two
bits. What was her two bits for which she's still
remembered?

junta's answer was the Maidenform Brasserie. while it

is true she founded maidenform...her real contribution
was SHE INTRODUCED THE CONCEPT OF CUP SIZES...only
abhinandan cracked the funda...

3. The Year: 1938. The Date: 22nd October. The

Person: Otto Kornei. What is his claim to fame?

this was a mild googly. many mistook otto for chester

floyd carlsron who pioneered xerography. otto was
playing 'assistant' to carlsson. otto wrote the
message 10-22-38 astoria and took out the first
photocopy on carlsson's contraption. so otto kornei's
claim to fame is HE TOOK THE FIRST PHOTOCOPY!

4. One snowy day, while traveling from Alabama to

New York City, Mary Anderson hit upon an idea that was
laughed at in her times. How do she laugh her way to
the bank?

this was an easy one...she came up with the WINDHIELD

WIPER idea while driving down to new york...

5. A church choir singer, his perennial problem was

during performances, the paper bookmarks that he
used to mark songs would slip onto the floor. How did
Mr.Fry solve this problem?

ART FRY thought up the CONCEPT OF POST-ITS as the

solution...he found a practical utility for Dr. Spence
Silver's "unglue" that was gathering dust in 3M's
research labs...

6. Thanks to Stephen Benton, credit card companies

are having it easy today. What did he do?

Invented the white-light "rainbow" HOLOGRAM, seen on

credit cards.

7. At the age of 12 he sold candy in trains. At 15,

he printed a small newspaper and sold it in the same
train. He was exempt from military because of
deafness. His first patent was for an electric vote
recorder. Who?

THOMAS ALVA EDISON. Rajin acharya points out the

edison had 1093 patents to his credit. What a man!

8. Rejected for "52 fundamental errors" by some

junior executives. This invention by some stroke of
luck ended up in the CEO's house. He was so
delighted with it that he offered to buy it out the
next day. What am I talking about?

CHARLES DARROW's game MONOPOLY!

9. This gentleman had to wait for 30 years to get

his patent! He was finally awarded the same 1988. Who
and for what?

GORDON GOULD for LASER.

10. Melville Stone, publisher of Chicago Daily News

can legitimately stake claim for pioneering this
concept. What was his innovation?

THE ODD PRICE SALES... the full story (rajib i'm too
lazy to type it so i am using ur answer) -

When Stone first started his newspaper in 1875, the

price was a penny. Circulation rose rapidly at
first, then leveled off. Then sales started lagging.
When Stone investigated why fewer people were buying
his paper, he discovered the problem had nothing to
do with its quality. Pennies were in short supply.
Stone decided he had to do something. First he
traveled to the United States mint in Philadelphia
and brought about the transfer of barrels of pennies
to Chicago. The problem then became how to get the
pennies into circulation. So Stone persuaded Chicago
merchants to sponsor "odd-price sales," during which
they would sell their merchandise for a penny under
the regular price. The odd prices did the trick.
People had pennies again, and Stone's paper
flourished. And that is why store items today cost
"$8.99," or $12.99," instead of even dollar amounts.

47. What was formed in 1985 due to the merger between

Houston Gas Co. and Inter North and was based in
Omaha?

### Enron

43. Which Dubai based businessman’s first names were

Manohar Rajaram ?

### Manu Chabaria

38. For which newspaper Daniel Pearl was working when

he was abducted ?

### The Wall Street Journal

21. To which post Sir Osborne A Smith was in place

from 1st. April 1935 to 30th. June 1937 ?

### He was the first Governor of Reserve Bank of

India.

1. Which retail chain holds the Indian license for

Harry Potter merchandise in India?

Ans: Weekender Kids

Weekender Kids, smart casuals for children has tied up
with Warner Bros bringing exclusive Harry Potter
merchandise in their outlets in all metros and
non-metros where the brand has a presence. The Harry
Potter merchandise is also available in shop-in-shop,
multi-brand outlets and large and small format stores.
The Weekender Kids outlets have Harry Potter T-shirts,
Harry Potter caps and Harry Potter beginning at a very
affordable Rs 195.

2. With which famous drug would you associate the

baseline “Love Life Again”?

Ans: Viagra (Sildenafil Citrate)

3. Which company in Pakistan is headed by Ms. Musharaf

Hai? (Only her name resembles President Pervez
Musharraf)

Ans: Lever Brothers Pakistan Ltd.

4. Infosys Chief Mentor N R Narayanamurthy has now

been appointed as the Chairman of IIM-A’s high profile
Board of Governors. Likewise, who was appointed
recently as the Chairman of the Board of Governors of
IIM-Calcutta?

Ans: Yogi Deveshwar of ITC

5. Which brand variant of Pepsi is called ‘Twist’ in

other markets in the world – namely US, Mexico and
Saudi Arabia?

Ans: Pepsi A-ha.

6. According to the latest Sunday Times list, who is

the richest NRI “billionaire” in UK? (I mean
billionaire in pounds)

Ans: Googly!! There are no NRI billionaires in UK.

L N Mittal is the richest NRI in UK, but only with 900
million pounds. Until 2 years ago his wealth was
placed at 2 billion pounds. No one got this right.

7. We have heard about White, Blue, Green and Grey

revolutions, but according to Central Minister Ananth
Kumar, what is Brown Revolution?

Ans: Housing and Real Estate Sector.

Blue – Fisheries(Aquaculture),
Grey – Poultry (as found from BW Special Quiz book,BUT
I am not able to get any proof to justify this).
According to R A Mashelkar, Director General, CSIR it
is a revolution of the mind, creating new minds and
mindsets and making new technology acceptable to
people.
In the US and Europe it refers to looking specifically
at the needs and desires of older users - the grey
revolution, or Greynomics.

INDIA ON THE VERGE OF ‘BROWN REVOLUTION’: SHRI ANANTH

KUMAR REAL ESTATE CAN CONTRIBUTE 2 PER CENT ANNUALLY
TO GDP The Minister for Urban Development and Poverty
Alleviation, Shri Ananth Kumar said that country is
heading towards a ‘brown revolution’ known as housing
revolution, following the resurgence witnessed in the
housing and real estate sector as a result of the
substantial thrust laid by the government in the
recent years.

8. Which Internet worm is disguised as a screen saving

cartoon of former US President Bill Clinton playing
the saxophone, that can delete files and slow network
connections?

Ans: My Life Virus dubbed “MyLife.b”

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - An Internet worm, disguised

as a screensaving cartoon of former U.S. President
Bill Clinton playing the saxophone, that can delete
files and slow network connections was spreading on
Friday, antivirus software vendors said. The worm,
dubbed "MyLife.b," was rated a medium risk because of
its demonstrated ability to lure users to open it and
the way it tries to delete files, said April Goostree,
virus research manager at McAfee.com Corp. It affects
Microsoft Outlook users. However, the Outlook E-mail
Security Update, downloadable for Office 2000 and 98
users and included in Outlook 2002, blocks executable
attachments, Microsoft said. The worm is embedded in
an executable file in the attachment that comes with
an e-mail with the subject line "bill caricature."

9. To which country did REVA export its first

consignment of Electric cars?

Ans: NEPAL

10. What is common to Magnum, Breyers and Solero ?

Ans: Ice cream products from Unilever

9. In 1998, during tough times, she started knitting.

But she couldn't find a bag -- at a reasonable price
-- to carry her yarn. So she made one herself.
Immediately, people started asking her to make bags
for them and the idea just took off! And that's how
she got into the business of making bags, after
another "business" threatened to "swallow" her. Which
infamous lady is this?
Monica Lewinsky
check out the site:
www.therealmonicainc.com

1.Which business mag has the tag lines.... "Whats

stopping you? ", and, "Magazine of the New Economy"?
business world

2.This term comes from a Greek word and is used to

describe both a fine, soft, lightweight garment or a
soft gentle breeze.What term?
zephyr

In 1958, this person made the confident prediction that "There is a world
market for about five computers." Experts do, it seems, have a talent for making
bizarre errors in judgement about their own specialties. Who is this?
Ans) Thomas J.Watson jr., the then president of IBM. (half points for those who
wrote Thomas Watson and no points to those who wrote Watson Sr.(I know it’s a
bit harsh but sorry.)

Still on the subject of computers, this is a real sitter, again a very famous
person rather famously said " 640 k ought to be enough for anybody"! Just name
him.
Ans) Bill Gates.(2 people were kind enough to correct me. Thank u guys. They
informed that this is attributed to Gates but that he has acually denied saying
the above mentioned words.)

" We don’t like the sound. Groups with guitars are definitely on the way
out." All of us know the band about which this was said in 1962 by a records
company. Name the band (just for formality) and also the records company.
Ans) The Beatles and Decca Records.

The following is just for laughs because just one of these would have
sufficed. But anyway, just name the person who was smart enough to say the
following things. (Clue: a late Hollywood producer)

"Anybody who goes to see a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined."
"If Roosevelt had been alive today, he would have turned over in his grave."
"A verbal contract isn’t worth the paper it’s written on."

Ans) Samuel Goldwyn.

1. Which famous Indian Singer’s family owns the

company Musicurry Records & Entertainment ?

Ans: Mangeshkar Family.

Musicurry is the brain child of the young and dynamic

Adinath Mangeshkar, son of noted music composer and
vocalist, Pt. Hridayanath Mangeshkar and nephew of the
celebrated playback icon, Lata Mangeshkar.

2. Built on the Indica platform, what is the new

concept car from Tata called ?

Ans: Indiva (7-seater MPV aimed at the European market

to begin with)

3. ‘Hawaiian Conference’, a formal yet relaxed style

of dressing for executives is a new range of
collection under which brand ?

Ans: Allen Solly

4. With which Industry would you associate the terms

Pex, Apex, and SuperApex ?

Ans: Aviation(Flight) Ticketing

5. Why was the R&D Centre of Electrolux Kelvinator

near Nagpur recently in the news ?

Ans: For having developed world’s first talking

washing machine.

The Indian R&D centre of Electrolux has developed

world’s first talking washing machine.The machine,
which the company claims to be fluent inHindi and
English, instructs the operator in a female voice to
get the perfect wash. The concept can be replicated to
incorporate all languages. Electrolux Kelvinator has
applied for a world-wideprocess patent for the concept
developed at its R&Dcentre at Butibori, near Nagpur.
Christened ‘washy talky’, the fully automatic
toploading machine works on fuzzy logic with a voice
chip.

6. Which company was incorporated as the authorized

exclusive dealer of Volvo cars in New Delhi, in 1985,
and was started as a company dedicated exclusively to
aid the import of Volvo cars in India ?

Ans: Modi Motors Private Ltd, that is part of the UK

Modi group of companies

7. Which company owns the Yoga – inspired clothing

line called ‘Nuala’ ?

Ans: Puma. Supermodel Christy Turlington approached

Puma in 1998 and asked to start a Yoga-inspired
clothing line. NAULA from PUMA in partnershuip with
super modelChristy Turlington, stands for
Natural,Universal,Altruistic,Limitless,Authentic. The
goal of Nuala they say,is to create a symbiosis
between the outer and inner being, the individual and
collective experience, using yoga as a metaphor tomake
this balance possible.

8. ‘Ingredient Branding’ made famous by ‘Intel Inside’

will be the new strategy for which Indian
Company ?

Ans: Tata Steel’s strategy for consumer durable

products made with Cold Rolled (CR) steel manufactured
by it.
9. When this personality along with five other
colleagues started Microcomp as a trading outfit in
1975, they could not attract people because they were
not known. They had no brand, no market place and they
had to survive. So they went to IIM-Calcutta and
recruited the top 10 students of that batch with an
offer of a dream, of creating a brand at terrible
risks. The only incentive they could offer was to
double the market salary. The gamble paid off. The
team delivered amidst a grim market environment, and
in 1976, they promoted a software company with a
capital of 1.83lakhs. Identify the personlity.

Ans: Shiv Nadar of HCL

10. Which high flying executive remarried his wife in

traditional Indian style in the world’s most romantic
city Agra ?

Ans: Sanford Weill, Chairman of Citigroup

6) This symbol is used as an abbreviation for the word

Amphora which is nothing but unit of measurement that
determined the amount held by the large terra cotta
jars that were used to ship grain, spices and wine.

'@' (Georgio Stabile invented it)

1. Which company was sued by Nike for its recent

basketball ads : ‘Just don’t do it’ that was found to
be similar to a Nike campaign starring Micheal Jordan
called “Frozen Moment” ?

Ans: Videogame publisher SEGA. The ad that it produced

to promote its “NBA 2K2” basketball game.

2. Cadbury had launched an icecream brand called

Dollops which was subsequently sold to HLL. What was
the name of the exclusive icecream parlours set up by
them ?

Ans: The Lop Stop

3. Which product of coca-cola was launched with the

tagline ‘Wicked side of you’ ?
Ans: Shock

4. Which company was in charge of the counting of

votes in the recent HP Shareholders voting for the
HP-Compaq deal ?

Ans: IVS Associates

5. Which travel company once launched a scheme

‘Hospitality of the kings and by the kings’, under
which Kings from Rajasthan will play hosts to guests
in their palaces ?

Ans: Cox and Kings

6. Which Indian Actress owns a restaurant in Mumbai

called ‘The Fireplace’ ?

Ans: Amisha Patel

7. ESTELLE, Hyderabad is bracing up for an Image

makeover and has asked Alyque Padamsee to work his
magic on the brand. Incidentally this is Alyque
Padamsee’s second account in the city. What was his
first account ?

Ans: Managing AP’s Image as well as that of the CEO

Chandrababu’s Image.
February 15, 2000
Andhra Pradesh has hired the services of advertising
guru Alyque Padamsee to project the 'brand image' of
the southern Indian state aspiring to become an
economic powerhouse.
As communications advisor, Padamsee's main task will
be to package concepts to attract industry to the
state and also to deliver Chief Minister Nara
Chandrababu Naidu's ideas to the people

8. In 1996, which company introduced its first

custom-made web links for customers called ‘Premier
Pages’, the links that allow customers to tap directly
into the company’s own service and support databases ?

Ans: DELL

9. Which company(that owns some famous restaurants

around the world) is all set to change its name to
‘Yum Brands’ ?

Ans: The $22 billion US-based Tricon Global

Restaurants(TGR, owner of Pizza Hut, KFC and Taco Bell

10. What is common to Zinedine Zidane, Ato Boldon,

Martina Hingis and Sergio Garcia ?

Ans: They endorse ADIDAS

15)The device works by allowing IT departments to create decoy networks with

bogus files and other information that will make hackers think that they have
discovered a real site. Once hackers have broken into a network's outer
defenses, they will be automatically transferred to X if they try to do
something unauthorized, such as reading someone's email. Once the X is occupied,
an alarm is sent to the systems expert on a pager. The key is to make sure that
the phony files are juicy enough to make the hackers stay in the site long
enough for security experts to unmask them.

Simple....what is X ?
Honeypot

7) "Copy software and you get this hardware completely free"

Who advertised thus and what is the hardware they were talking about?

Very few hits( guess jus 1)!

The advertiser was NASSCOM and the hardware is "HANDCUFFS"!

8)We all know what V-Up t shirts are (Shirts laced with Vitamin C) ...now whatz
a luv stick???

No hits abso!
Itz a lipstick that induces joyfulness!
9)It was started as a research project at Stanford University, created by Ph.D.
candidates.Their employees are multi facted .One is a former neurosurgeon while
another is a rocket scientist while another's first job title in the company
was "spiderman" and the company's chef formerly prepared meals for members of
The Grateful Dead and funkmeister George Clinton.Which company is this?

GOOGLE

Got lotsa SUN microsystems...!!

10)He went to england in the hope of getting his 2 yr old daughter Ambika's
leaukamia.After her death he buried himself in work to forget the pain.The
London zoo even now carries a statue of ambika releasing a dove.
Who is he?
Lord Swraj Paul.

UTI once had a scheme for the benefit of minor girls. As per this scheme, the
girl child below the age of one year on an investment of Rs.1000 was due to get
Rs.21000 on attaining the age of 21 years. In this scheme, the girl child would
have got 17% annual interest. Which scheme am I referring to ?
Ans: Rajlakshmi

The mascot of McDonalds is called Ronald McDonald everywhere except Japan

where it is called Donald McDonald. Why is this so ?
Ans: Because it makes pronunciation easier for the Japanese, since they do not
have the letter "R" in their alphabet.

Imported until March 2000, the first diesel export by India started with
Reliance Petroleum Ltd. shipping 34000 tonnes to this country.
Ans: Bangladesh.

When all others answered it as Brazil, there were only two of them who gave the
right answer. Hats off to Abir Ghosh and the one with email id
mitr016@.... Whats ur good name sir/madam ???

A Print ad shows a man in a business suit with his mouth taped up with
post-its and says: "To turn a few heads during a meeting you don’t really need a
mobile phone. Call it being considerate, if you like it. At ________ , we call
it Mobile manners". Fill in the blank with the brand name.
Ans: Nokia

Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft considers these two as Microsoft’s main

rivals. One is Linux (Volunteers against Windows) and the other a media giant.
Which company am I referring to ?
Ans: AOL.

AOL-Time Warner was the common answer. Though AOL is a part of this group, I was
looking for a specific answer. Hence no points to those who had answered
AOL-TimeWarner. Sounds a little harsh????

Coca-Cola will soon be launching its ready-to-drink coffee and tea in the
Indian market with a common brand name. Give the name.
Ans: Georgia

‘Royal Wings Airline’ is the national airline of which country ?

Ans: Jordan
Vertis from Voltas are "Acs with IQ". What does this IQ stand for ?
Ans: Intelligent Qooling

Which Indian company owns Revive, Mediker, Oil of Malabar and Top Ramen ?
Ans: There is a mistake in this question as rightly pointed out by Rohit.
Revive, Mediker and Oil of Malabar are owned by Marico whereas Top Ramen is
owned by Indo-Nissin foods but is being marketed and distributed by Marico since
July 1998. Rohit gets a 0.5 point bonus for his effort.

Name the low fare airline in Australia that is owned by Richard Branson ?

Ans: Virgin Blue

1. Which was the first company to sign Hrithik Roshan

for endorsement of their brand even much before COKE ?

Ans: The Mumbai-based Acme Clothing Pvt Ltd. for their

Provogue brand of menswear. This happened somewhere in
the last week of February 2000. Coke signed Hrithik in
the middle of 2000 where as Skumars signed him in
early 2001 for their Tamarind brand.

More news

The Mumbai-based Acme Clothing Pvt Ltd that owns the

Provogue brand of menswear tied up with the current
Bollywood rage Hrithik Roshan and his maiden film
`Kaho Na Pyar Hai' for an innovative consumer
promotion.

Provogue is considered a brand with a particularly

good flair for market strategy and intuitive nose for
picking out a winner — they got Hrithik Roshan to
endorse them at the peak of Kaho Na Pyar Hai mania —
this move should speak for Khan’s prospects in the
future.

2. Which Company claims to have manufactured the

slimmest watch in the world ? The watch is said to
have a thickness of only 3.5mm .

Ans: Titan with the launch of “Edge” in Bangalore.

Titan claims ‘Edge’ is the slimmest watch manufactured
and will apply for The Guinness Book of World Records.
The watch with a thickness of 3.5mm is said to be
slimmer than the current Guinness Book entry, the
Swatch Skin from the Swatch group.

3. What is common to Dell Computers, Air France,

Lasalle Marketing and HDFC Bank ?

Ans: In India, all these accounts are handled by the

same ad agency, EuroRSCG.

4. This former CIA programmer founded a software

company in 1977, taking it public one day before
Microsoft went public in 1986.

Ans: Larry Ellison, Oracle

5. In NYSE, Which company’s shares are traded as ‘KO’

?

Ans: Coca-Cola Co.

6. Why was an Income Tax official by name Vishwa

Bandhu Gupta in the news when P. Chidambaram was the
finance minister ?

Ans: Revealed Azhar’s name during the VDIS

scheme....was supposed to be kept a secret. was
suspended even as he was due for promotion.

News item
--------------
27 May, 2000

New Delhi: It was former India captain Mohammed

Azharuddin who declared Rs 16 crore under the
voluntary disclosure of income scheme (VDIS),
assistant commissioner of income tax Vishwa Bandhu
Gupta has alleged.

Mr Gupta's allegations came to light in the videotape

screened by Manoj Prabhakar on Saturday.

Mr Gupta had earlier said a recent former captain had

deposited Rs 16 crore under VDIS, but had not divulged
the name as per the provisions of the scheme, which
safeguarded against disclosure of the name.
Caught off guard during the recording, Mr Gupta said,
"Azharuddin", when asked whom did he suspect as the
declarant.

7. Which two famous businessmen were labeled by

Fortune magazine as ‘The Lords of Wintel’ ?

Ans: Andy Grove and Bill Gates

8. If ‘Connecting People’ is the punchline of Nokia,

with which organization would you associate the
punchline ‘Connecting India’ ?

Ans: Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd.(BSNL)

9. Which motorcycle from Hero-Honda sounds like a

newspaper in Pakistan ?

Ans: DAWN

10. There is something unique about the coffee pub

that was recently opened by Qwikys in CMH Road, Indira
Nagar, Bangalore. What is something special about it
that no other coffee pub in the country can claim?

Ans: First franchise coffee pub in the country. In

fact Qwikys is the first and only company in the
coffee pub industry in India to initiate
franchising of coffee pubs.

1. What did US POWER CO., American Electric Power

company
did to " escape " lawsuits for polluting the
environment
and causing health risks?

A perfect answer from Manish Katuria

It bought the entire village of Cheshire in Ohio

state for $ 20m.
The village's residents had complained about the
company's nearby power plant but now they will
waive their right to sue the company.

2. Which brand will you associate with this tamil

movie Pudhu Pudhu Arthangal. clue : This brand
is not in market now. You can see the
hoardings , Tv commercials and the product if u
watched this film.

The Brand is SOLIDAIRE

3. Before joining Arthur Andersen which firm did Bobby

Parekh
now the indian ceo of Ernst and Young work for?

GOOGLEY. He started his career with ARTHUR

ANDERSEN.

4. When will Fevernova will be first kicked officially

and what is it?

Fevernova is the name of the official football of

the Fifa World
Cup'2002 to be kicked off on 31st May'2002.It is the
new ball
from ADIDAS.

5. How do we better know John Pierponts firm ?

JP Morgan which merged to form Morgan Stanley.

6. If VJing is Video Jockey what is DJing ?

DISK JOCKEY

7. If you want to travel with this asian airline which

was first to
have advanced taser in its flights, which airline
would
you book your ticket?

KOREAN AIR

8. In britain workers are being given bigger job

titles rather
than bigger salaries as cash strapped companies try
to
keep employees happy. So if you are a receptionist
what Jobtitle will you get if you are promoted
{remember no
pay hike just the job title} ?

Head of Verbal Communications

9. Americas biggest corporate failure is Enron

What is to Japan?

Yamaichi Securities

10. What is so unique about Bharat Overseas Bank

operating in
Bangkok?

ONLY INDIAN BANK TO OPERATE IN BANKOK

Abir Gosh of HCLcomnet adds

" Only private bank permitted by the Reserve Bank

of India to have a branch outside India. It is
also the only Indian Bank operating in Thailand
"

11. If a German companies ends with this abbr AG or

GMBH
what does it mean ? give me the expansion

Again Abhir Ghosh has a good explanation for this

question.

AG: "Aktiengesellschaft": Stock corporation - In

Germany, all
publicly traded companies are AG's, but not all
AG's are publicly traded. They require a minimum
of DM 100,000 share capital and at least five
shareholders at incorporation.

GmbH: "Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung":

Company with limited
liability - In Germany, a GmbH means that the
company is incorporated, but it is not
publicly traded (as public companies must be
AG's). GmbH's are essentially partnerships without a
legal name, and there must be at least two
partners. There must be nominal capital of at least
DM 50,000. Subsidiaries of AG's can be GmbH's.

12. Companies in Italy end with S p A or S R L what is

the
basic difference and expand the above terms.

SpA ? Societa per Azioni and

SRL ? Societa a responsibilita limitata

SpA is equivalent of a public limited company

while SRl is equivalent of private
limited.

1. After the Polaris Software Lab – Orbitech Solutions

merger (the merger having been announced on May 22,
2002), Arun Jain’s top priority for the next two years
is to implement what can be called ‘Operation 3030’.
What is ‘Operation 3030’ ?

Ans: Reduce Citigroup’s shareholding to 30% and bring

down the citi business as a percentage of polaris’
revenues from 60% to 30%.

Only Pattabiraman and Varadharajan were able to give

the correct answer.

2. Dandi Salt owned by Surat-based Kunvar Ajay

Industries has grabbed a 4% market share within the
first 5 months of its launch. Before venturing into
this business what was this company famous for ?

Ans: Sarees. The Kunvar Ajay brand of sarees.

3. “All luxury cars have air conditioning. A

___________ actually conditions the air.” Complete the
ad line with the brand name.

Ans: LEXUS (from Toyota).

Sparked by a decision from Toyota Chairman Eiji Toyoda
in 1983 to challenge the best luxury vehicles, Lexus
has since grown into one of the world's most inspiring
automobile companies.

4. If ‘The Power to Create’ is EPSON and ‘The Power to

Provide’ is Saudi Basic Industries Corporation
(SABIC), then with which company would you associate
the punch line ‘The Power to do more’ ?

Ans: Times Bank Limited ( A private sector bank

promoted by Bennett, Coleman & Co./Times Group) that
was merged with HDFC Bank Ltd., effective February 26,
2000.

5. SAS in an advertisement for its CRM services, has

the following statement. “80% of your sales comes from
20% of your customers.” How is this law better known
as ?

Ans: Pareto’s Priniciple / Pareto’s 80-20 rule

6. Bristol University-based Inventors Cliff Randell

and Henk Muller spent 3 months developing a computer
called eSleeve that costs 500 pounds. What is special
about it ?

Ans: This computer when strapped onto the wrist will

direct you to the nearest pub. The device links up
with satellites to pinpoint where you are and puts
details of the four nearest pubs on the screen. It can
even show drunk revelers the way home after a heavy
session, provided their speech is’nt slurred after a
few too many pints.

Only Abir Ghosh and Biswajit Das were specific.

7. How would you better connect Komal, Bhavika, Kiran

and Niranjan ?

Ans: All are from the Manu Chabbria family.

Komal Chabbria Wazir – Executive Director(ED), Shaw

Wallace
Ms. Bhavika Godhwani – ED, Hindustan Dorr Oliver
Ms. Kiran Chabbria – Jumbo, Dubai
Mr. Niranjan Thakur – Mr. Manu Chabbria’s
brother-in-law and is an ED on the board of Shaw
Wallace

8. Who was the first Indian Minister to ring the

opening bell at the NYSE ?

Ans: Pramod Mahajan

9. Taking advantage of the football fever around the

world, which company has rolled out unique soccer ball
shaped CTVs ?

Ans: LG

10. Andy Bechtolsheim and Bill Joy are the co-founders

of which famous company ?

Ans: Sun Microsystems. Vinod Khosla and Scott McNealy

are the other co-founders.

1. Who founded Exodus Communications along with K B

Chandrasekhar ?

Ans: B.V. Jagadeesh

2. Which company owns ‘Mars’, a funky little phone

that can constantly change its look to keep up with
different lifestyles ? (It weighs only 115g including
battery)

Ans: Mitsubishi (Trium)

3. Which Indian Company offers products that have

‘Now’ at the end of their names ? (Those who
understand the ‘Power of Precision’ will be able to
answer this question.)

Ans: Polaris Software Labs.

Their products are BankNow, LoanNow, TradeNow,
HomeloanNow, CollectNow, OriginateNow and so on.

4. Which airline is committed to bringing the world

closer to the Land of the Thunder Dragon ?

Ans: Druk Air (Royal Bhutan Airlines)

5. ShahRukh’s tryst with advertising can be traced
back to late 1993, when he first appeared in three ads
for a tea brand. Identify the brand.

Ans: Bramhaputra Tea

6. It was during the age of enlightment when Europe

was changing rapidly, creating opportunities for men
of imagination, that ‘Nathan Mayer’ left his father’s
trading house in Frankfurt to seek a stage more suited
to his energy and ambitions. In 1799, he set up in
Manchester as a textile and general merchant but moved
swiftly into finance, dealing in bills of exchange and
arranging foreign loans. As the banking activity came
to dominate his growing business, he moved to London
and acquired the premises at NewCourt on St. Swithin’s
Lane which remains the headquarters of his company
even today. Which company am I talking about ?

Ans: N M Rothschild, an Investment Bank

7. Which Indian company has set itself a target of $4

billion in revenues by 2004, its famous ‘4 * 4’ vision
?

Ans: WIPRO

8. This brand name was chosen because “People call us

that, its simple and easy to say, it’s real, and its
three Tri-Star logo was designed to symbolize its
dynamism and creativity”, said the company’s Director
of Global Branding, who was in India recently.
Identify the brand.

Ans: HUTCH.

Keith Kerby, Director, Global Branding, Hutchison said

this recently, for choosing Hutchison Essar’s unified
brand for cellular services as ‘Hutch’.

No one was able to crack this.

9. What is common to Aashirvaad, Nature Fresh and

Healthy World ?
Ans: All brands of ATTA.

Ashirvaad – ITC
Nature Fresh – Cargill
Healthy World – AgroTech Foods

10. Num Tv is the Internet Broadcast Entertainment

portal from Pentamedia. Expand Num Tv.

Ans: New Millennium Television

1. This is an option granted by a company to its

underwriter giving it the right to sell 10-15% more
shares (than the stated size of the issue)to meet
heavy investor demand. Such an instrument allows the
underwriter enter the market short. If the price goes
up, the underwriter can exercise the option and cover
the short at the issue price. If the price falls, the
underwriter can cover the short by buying the stock at
the prevailing market price. What is this option
called as ?

Ans: Green Shoe Option

2. Which clothing brand has launched a cotton shirt

priced @ a staggering Rs.3000 with the USP ‘A 15-year
Warranty’ ?

Ans: Crocodile

3. Which Organization would connect Pramod Mahajan,

N.R. Narayanamurthy, Azim Premji and F.C. Kohli ?

Ans: Media Lab Asia . Only Anuradha Ramachandran gave

the right answer.

4. Which Management Consultancy’s name translates to

‘My Faith/Word’ in french ?

Ans: Ma Foi

5. On 12th March 1997, Jack Welch sent an e-mail

message to every GE manager throughout the world,
stating that anyone interested in being promoted to a
senior management position within GE must start Black
Belt or Green Belt training by 1 January 1998 and
complete the training by 1 June 1998. Through the
black belt or green belt training what does a company
try to achieve ?

Ans: Six Sigma Level

6. Which Indian Company’s mascot is called ‘Sheru’ ?

Ans: Sharekhan

7. Which Management Guru once described an

Organisation as something that allows ordinary people
to do extraordinary things ?

Ans: Peter F. Drucker

8. Which apparel brand recently signed “the smiling

assasin of Indian cricket” Anil Kumble as its brand
ambassador ?

Ans: Indigo Nation

9. Which three powerful words would best describe a

Simputer ?

Ans: Simple, Inexpensive and Mobile Computer. Only

Hanmantha Reddy was bang on target.

10. In the lines of Naina Lal Kidwai, Shanti Ekambaram

and Lalita Gupte there are a few more Indian womenfolk
who have made it big in the Corporate arena. Sangeeta
Talwar is one of them. With which company in India
would you associate Sangeeta Talwar ?

Ans: Mattel India

7. After his design won an Alcoa design competition, Murray Pletz took his
winnings and, with cousin Skip Yowell and girlfriend Jan Lewis, started a
company in a corner of his father’s Seattle transmission shop. The year was
1967, and the three were among millions of baby boomers who were just starting
to apply their experiences, knowledge and adventurous spirit to the world. The
inspiration had come as the three hiked at 14,411 feet on Mount Rainier. The
name came in return for Lewis’ vow to marry Pletz. Little did the founders
realize that the company would grow into the largest of its kind. Which company
am I talking about?
ANS.: Jansport, the backpack company.

8. The name of the band came from bassist Mike Kroeger. He was working at the
Starbucks Coffee in Vancouver. At the time coffee was selling for $2.95 to
$4.95 a cup. He was so used to telling customers "__________________" that when
the band was trying to come up with a name, the phrase stuck in his head.

ANS.: "Here's your Nickel Back", Nickelback

9. What is Russian for ‘Milk’?

ANS.: Moloko (from Anthony Burgess’s A Clockwork Orange)

1. Which book of Gary Sutton, a turnaround specialist,

begins with the following lines. “If you are the CEO
of a struggling business, let’s hope we never meet. I
am a turnaround guy. When I arrive, you leave.” ?

Ans: “The Six-Month Fix” - Adventures in rescuing

failing companies.

2. In India, which company was the first client to

walk out of Arthur Andersen, immediately after its
Enron fiasco ? (I am not sure whether it is the only
one Indian client to walk out but this happened much
before its merger with Ernst & Young) ?

Ans: Wockhardt Ltd. And it was the only client to

desert Arthur Andersen in India.

3. Which Celebrity Couple were gifted the first

Mahindra Scorpio on June 24, in Mumbai ?

Ans: Ajay Devgan & Kajol

4. Aviva Life Insurance is a Joint Venture between CGU

of the UK and Which Indian Company ?

Ans: DABUR

5. Which company distributes ‘Time Magazine’ in India

?

Ans: Living Media India Ltd., the holding company of

India Today.
6. What is common to Joseph Sutter, Robert Davis,
Everette Webb and Kenneth Holtby ?

Ans: They are the four aeronautical engineers who

designed and created the world’s first Jumbo Jet , the
Boeing 747.

Manivannan adds the following.

News ==== OBITUARY: Everette Webb, one of the key

designers of the Boeing 747, died July 2 in Renton,
Wash. He was 80. Webb also was vice president of
engineering for the 767, vice president of engineering
for commercial airplanes and general manager of the
division that built 747s and 767s in Everett, Wash. He
retired from Boeing in 1987 after a 46-year career.
Webb helped engineer the 707 and 727, and then led the
design of the 747 along with Joseph Sutter, Kenneth
Holtby and Robert Davis.

7. Before taking over as the General Manager of Sony

Entertainment Television(SET), where was Sunil Lulla
employed ?

Ans: Valuebridge Services, a marketing consultancy

operating from Bangalore.
MTV 2 Indya.com 2 Valuebridge Services 2 SET.

8. Microsoft recently unveiled details about a new

Security initiative Code-named ‘Palladium’, giving the
first glimpse into its plan to deliver on its promise
of “Trustworthy Computing”. What was ‘Palladium’ named
after ?

Ans: Named after a protective statue of the Greek

Goddess of Wisdom.

9. This business personality isn’t your everyday

non-executive Chairman. An ardent foodie himself, he
personally tastes each of Britannia’s potential
offerings. The grapevine in Britannia has it that when
Milkman was venturing into lassi it was he who nixed
the proposed salted variant in favour of a sweetened
one. Identify this personality.

Ans: Nusli Wadia.

I had mentioned non-executive chairman and many of you
had answered Sunil Alagh. What Sir????

10. In May this year, Castrol announced the signing of

an exclusive lubricant agreement worldwide with this
world famous Soccer star.

Ans: David Beckham (my favourite player too!!!!)

11. Which ad agency was behind the Digen Verma

Campaign?

Ans: Everest

12. Between the years 1991 – 94, Which company in

India was selling Puma shoes ?

Ans: Corona Shoes.

PUMA, the Euro 1 Billion plus footwear and lifestyle
major is back in India after an unsuccessful run from
1991-94. The current licensee is Planet Sports.

13. If Vibha Desai is the VP of O&M, which company’s

VP (Marketing) is Vibha Paul Rishi ?

Ans: Pepsi-Cola India

14. This company launched a tooth paste branded ‘Cue’

in France. It did not succeed because that’s the name
of a notoriously hard-core French porn magazine.

Ans: Colgate

15. With which well-known company would you associate

the following adline. “Never underestimate the
importance of local knowledge’ ?

Ans: HSBC.
I made a mistake by typing language in place of
knowledge. Thanks to Bargava Raman, I was able to
correct it on time.

1. This is America’s Spoof tabloid which dubs itself

“America’s finest news source”. Name it.

Ans: The Onion

2. Which group has launched a new IT magazine called
“b-drive” ?

Ans: The Times Group

3. Which group owns the Asianet Cable Network entity

in Kerala ?

Ans: Rajan Raheja Group

4. Which is India’s only defense equipment

manufacturer that’s listed on the Stock Exchanges ?

Ans: Bharat Electronics Ltd.

5. The name of an Undersea Submarine Cable JV is also

an annual business plan contest conducted by one of
the best B-Schools in India.

Ans: i2i.
i2i --- Undersea Submarine Cable JV from Bharti –
Singtel.
i2I --- Business plan contest from IIM Calcutta.

6. What is common to Charu Paper, Chaddha Paper,

Pioneer Enterprises and Elite Commercial Services ?

The four companies suspected to be fictitious entities

by PriceWaterHouse Coopers in the Xerox Modi Ltd.
bribery scandal. The Mode-controlled management had
claims to have made payment to these four companies.

7. If ‘Subscriber Local Dialling(SLD)’ is from Airtel,

which cellular service provider offers ‘Roamfree Local
Dialling(RLD)’ ?

Ans: BPL Mobile

8. Which magazine apologized recently to Anna

Kournikova for misidentifying her as a woman pictured
topless in its June issue ?

Ans: Penthouse

9. Which ad agency has been handling the Harley

Davidson account for the past 23 years ?

Ans: Carmichael Lynch

10. Associate the brand with the following ad line.

“We number each bottle because names make it too hard
to say good-bye”

Ans: Chivas Regal 18 Scotch Whisky

11. ‘Darpan’ is the in-flight magazine of which

airlines ?

Ans: Alliance Air. Now made available in Indian

Airlines, which has snowballed into a contreversy.
The publisher of 'Swagat'has filed a case in the court
against having it in Indian Airlines.

12. Samuel Waksal is the ex-CEO of a company that has

been charged with insider trading . Identify the
company.

Ans: Imclone

1. GE's iconic former chairman Jack Welch in his best

selling book 'Straight from the Gut', has good things
to say about only one GE business in India. Which one
?
Ans: GE Medical Systems(GEMS)

2. He's the man Business week called the Ultimate

Entrepreneur of the Information Age. Performance
artist and high priest of Internet marketing, he is
also the man who dismissed conventional marketing
wisdom as 'Interruption marketing' and preached the
ultimate gospel for customer relationship management
in one of his seminal work. In his latest work, he
says companies need to evolve the same way that nature
evolves a species to thrive in times of change. Who am
I talking about ?

Ans: Seth Godwin who authored ‘Pemission marketing’.

His latest work is ‘Survival is not enough’.

3. Which leading Indian American entrepreneur and his

wife Jaishree have funded a multimillion dollar
technological center at Massachusetts Institute of
technology (MIT) called the 'DCTI' ?

Ans: Gururaj Desh Deshpande, Cofounder of Sycamore

Networks. The technological center is called Deshpande
Center for Technological Innovation (DCTI).

4. These two companies are referred to as the

'Lilliputs of Automotive Manufacturing'. Both these
companies have set up their car manufacturing plants
at a piffling investment of Rs.20 crore each. One of
these companies is Reva Electric Company. Which is the
other?

Ans: San Motors, known for its trendy-looking sports

convertible ‘Storm’.

5. Acer has got a new brand name for its mobile phone
and computer peripherals unit in a bid to
differentiate the higher-growth business from Acer's
troubled hardware brand. The new brand name is 'Benq'.
What does 'Benq' stand for?

Ans: Bringing Enjoyment and Quality to life.

6. In HR Parlance, what are 'Open Job Postings'?

Ans: Internal Recruitment System, Not within the

company but the group as a whole.

7. Which ad agency manages the career of cricket star

Yuveraj Singh?

Ans: Percept D’Mark. The same agency handles the

career of Saurav Ganguly too.

8. Finally it was an offer of 5 acres of free land in

Hyderabad and an assurance of ready infrastructure
that helped Andhra Pradesh clinch the deal. And of
course not to forget the political pressure. Now the
question is, which government agency moved its
headquarters from New Delhi to Hyderabad on 15th July
?

Ans: Insurance Regulatory Development Authority

(IRDA).
9. If 'Portland Trailblazers' is the club owned by
Microsoft Co-founder Paul Allen, then which company
owns the 'Atlanta Hawks' club?

Ans: Time Warner Inc.

10. Which company offers "360 Degree Finance"?

Ans: Credit Suisse Bank

11. What was dubbed by Wall Street as "the Scott'n'

Bernie show"?

Ans: The former CFO of World Com Scott Sullivan’s

chummy relationship with Bernie Ebbers, his boss at
World Com.

12. He's the man who turned a water utility company

into a global media giant, but was evicted recently
following a revolt on behalf of disgruntled
shareholders. Fortune magazine called him "the
country's first rock-star CEO". Who is this high
profile personality ?

Ans: JEAN-MARIE-MESSIER, the former head of Vivendi

Universal.

13. It is a fact that Vinod Dham was the father of

Intel's most hi-profile microprocessor : the Pentium.
Now who helped Intel's arch rival AMD to launch a
competitor to Pentium, the K6 ?

Ans: Vinod Dham again.

14. Where are you flying to if your baggage tags read

"LAX" ?

Ans: Los Angeles

15. In DSP Merrill Lynch, What does DSP stand for ?

Ans: D S Purbhoodas & Co.

DSP ML, prior to its association with Merrill Lynch
was known as DSP Financial Consultants Ltd., a
pre-eminent Investment bank and Securities house.
Founded in 1975, DSP Financial Consultants Ltd. was
promoted by the Kothari family of D S Purbhoodas & Co.
a stock broker and foreign exchange dealer.

1. With which country would you associate ‘Garuda

Airline’ ?

Ans: Indonesia

2. Which famous design guru is behind the current

Wipro, Brittania, Marico and Lakme logos?

Ans: Shombit Sengupta, founder of Shining Strategic

Design Company, the management and brand consultancy
firm that started Indian operations last year.

3. What is common to Tom Siebel, Sriram Srinivasan,

Vasant Nangia and Raman Roy ? (Something do with their
past and the present)

Ans: They are all examples of how costly the loss of a

Senior manager can prove to be for a company. They
left their companies to start their own business that
became a direct competitor to their parent company.

Tom Siebel quit Oracle to set up Siebel systems, which

offers eBusiness applications and services in direct
competition to Siebel’s old company.
Sriram Srinivasan, former CEO of Madura Garments set
up Indigo Nation that competes with Madura Garments.
Vasant Nangia left Tata’s jewellery division to start
Oyzterbay which has products similar to Ttitan’s
Tanishq.
Raman Roy left GE Capital to start Spectramind.

4. Three personalities were considered for the

‘Economic Times Entrepreneur of the Year’ award this
year. Jaithirth Rao, Chairman and CEO of Mphasis-BFL
won the award. His closest contender was Raman Roy of
Spectramind. Who was the third ?

Ans: Aamir Khan, for reinventing the production and

marketing of bollywood films, but the jury felt he
needed a longer track record than just one film,
however successful.
5. Which famous Indian brand was launched with the
tagline “Nothing else will do”?

Ans: Mahindra Scorpio

6. The entire cricketing controversy today is said to

have happened because the ICC signed a blanket
agreement with its commercial partner, Global
Cricketing Corporation (GCC), for a whopping $550
million without looking at the contract closely. Now,
the question is, who owns Global Cricketing
Corporation (GCC) ?

Ans: Rupert Murdoch

It is a consortium owned 50:50 by Newscorp and WSG
Nimbus.

7. Arnold Schwarzenegger and the restaurant chain

‘Planet Hollywood’ are in the news for the wrong
reasons. Why?

Ans: A bankruptcy court investigating the rise and

fall of Planet Hollywood is expected to question the
actor and other celebrities as the restaurant’s
management has been found to have indulged in series
of insider deals that benefited the celebrity backers
at the cost of the small investor.

8. The alumni of the Bangalore Institute of

Technology, he created a company known in its early
days as ‘Gray Cell ‘- a start-up based out of
Bangalore and the first Indian company to shift to
Silicon Valley. He created the world’s first virtual
wireless network in 1997, whereby you could send email
to a handset, even before the word ‘wireless’ became
popular. Name him.

Ans: Rajesh Reddy of Unimobile fame

First the year was wrongly typed as 1977. As Siv

Krishnan rightly pointed out it is 1997.

9. It is for the first time that Infosys has lost one

of its most senior managers and that too to its
cometitor Wipro. Name the person who moved to Wipro.

Ans: Sanjay Joshi who was the Chief Marketing Officer

of Infosys before joining Wipro.

10. What is the soon to be launched limited mobility

service of Reliance to be called as?

Ans: GINIE

5. Before April 1963, this organization was known as Special Police

Establishment which was created under the Delhi Special Police Establishment
Act, 1946. What is this organization known as since April 1963?

CBI

1. He is nobody’s image of a Chief Executive, often

arriving at his corporate office on his motorbike.
Undoubtedly, he must be the only CEO in India and
probably worldwide who has toured Europe in a
motorbike and also taken part in rally and motor cross
events. Who am I talking about?

Ans: Siddhartha Lal, Chief Executive of Royal Enfield

2. P2P is a term more popular with the dotcommers.

What does it stand for?

Ans: The answer I was looking for was “Path To

Profitability”.

Most common answers were ‘Peer To Peer’ and ‘Person To

person’.

3. With which New Zealand based company has Britannia

Industries formed a joint venture to take on Nestle in
the dairy business?

Ans: Fonterra

4. Which two-wheeler company in India recently signed

on Kapildev as its brand ambassador?

Ans: Kinetic Engineering

5. Reka Maximovitch of the US was in the news for the

wrong reasons. Why?

Ans: She filed a sexual harassment case against

Phaneesh Murthy of Infosys, which led to his
resignation from the company.

6. Which was the first bank to introduce Internet

banking in India?

Ans: Citibank in 1998 in Bangalore. I just went by the

Limca Book of World Records.

7. Expand AIG in the insurance company’s name TataAIG.

Ans: American International Group

8. We know BIFR as Board for Industrial and Financial

Reconstruction. But according to former Chief
Vigilance Commissioner Vittal, what does BIFR stand
for?

Ans: Board for Industrial Funeral Rites

9. Who is referred to as a ‘Company Doctor’?

Ans: A Consultant who moves into a sick company and

applies remedies

10. What is the term used to ‘advertising a product or

service rather than a brand’?

Ans: Generic Advertising

1. Which company was founded when, on the afternoon of

May 7, 1946, some 20 people gathered on the III floor
of a burned-out department store building in
war-devastated downtown Tokyo ?

Ans: Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering Corporation

which later became Sony Corporation.

More news On May 7, 1946, Ibuka and Morita founded

Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo K.K. (Tokyo Telecommunications
Engineering Corporation) with approximately 20
employees and initial capital of 190,000 yen. At that
time, Ibuka was 38 years old and Morita was 25.
Throughout their long partnership, Ibuka devoted his
energies to technological research and product
development, while Morita was instrumental in leading
Sony in the areas of marketing, globalization, finance
and human resources. Morita also spearheaded Sony's
entry into the software business, and he contributed
to the overall management of the company.

2. In 1993, who was given the dubious distinction of

“Turnaround CEO of the year” by Upside Magazine ?
Today he heads the company founded by him in 1984 with
$1000 in capital.

Ans: Michael Dell. As rightly pointed out by

Manivannan it was given in 1996 and not 1993 as
mentioned in the question.

Mr. Dell has earned the title "Entrepreneur of the

Year" from Inc. magazine (1989) and was also named
1992 "Man of the Year" by PC Magazine and "CEO of the
Year" for 1993 by Financial World magazine. PC Laptop
magazine named him "Portable Pioneer" of the year in
1994. In 1996 he was named "Best CEO of a Turnaround"
by Upside Magazine because of Dell's resurgence in the
notebook market and success in the global markets. In
January 1997, he was included in Business Week's list
of "The Top 25 Managers of the Year."

3. With which coffee shop would you associate the base

line/punch line “A world of coffee to discover” ?

Ans: Ritazza . Only Rajaram and Abhijeet could hit

the nail on the head.

Cafe Ritazza outlets are already operational at the

Lilavati hospital in Mumbai and the Fortis hospital
in Chandigarh, Shoppers Stop in Mumbai and Pune and
Crosswords in Chennai.

RADHAKRISHNA Hospitality Services ltd (RKHS), a food

and allied services company, is set to leverage its
expertise in the food sector to set up a chain of the
international branded coffee retail outlet, Ritazza ,
across the country over the next one year. The brand
is an international store-in-store brand designed by
its UK-based partner, Compass group.
The company is also planning to significantly grow
through stepping up its presence in the market by
using the infrastructure at its existing institutional
clients premises to set up Compass small convenience
store brand, StopGap.

By October 2002 they plan to set up a total of 50

Ritazza and StopGap outlets across the country. RKHS
already runs the StopGap and Ritazza coffee outlets at
the premises of its corporate clients in Hyderabad,
Bangalore and Chennai among other places.

4. Which MNC in India has made the K3G punchline “It

is ALL about loving your parents”, as the underlying
theme of its new e-biz sales pitch targeted at NRIs,
expats and Indians working abroad ?

Ans: Nike. No one gave the right answer.

5. This ad agency started out as D.J. Keymer in 1928,

became Bomas, and then S.H. Benson, until it was
bought over. How do we know it better today ?

Ans: O&M. It became OBM, and transformed into O&M when

Benson dropped out of the agency.

For more details visit

(http://www.magindia.com/history/hist10.html)

6. Which global giant, trumpeted its New Economy-style

creativity in slick television ads that concluded with
the line : “It’s how we’re changing the way Industries
think” ?

Ans: Enron.
The contents of the advertisment

There is a very simple question behind our advertising

campaign.
WHY?

It is a small word...
but it can bring years of conventional assumptions to
a jarring halt.
Find out how we're changing the way industries think.
Discover the power of WHY

7. He has his own e-mail magazine that you can

directly subscribe to (free of charge) and 2.3 million
already have (Since july, there have been about 20
issues of his virtual magazine). And he gives
interviews to sports tabloids rather than mainline
newspapers so that he can reach out to a wider
audience. He is a Rockstar, Reformer, Provocateur, PM
and what not ?

Ans: Japanese PM Junichiro Koizumi. Only Manivannan

gave the right answer.

8. What is commonly referred to at Intel as Grove’s

law ?

Ans: “Only the Paranoid Survive”. Only Neelakantan

and Salil Ambat gave the right answer.

9. KH is the primary domain of which country ?

Ans: Cambodia

10. Which Indian apparel manufacturer owns ‘Manzoni’,

a premium brand of Menswear ?

Ans: Raymond

24.what was once banned in iran as it was supposed to sexually excite girls?
### Chewing Gums
16. KFC chain was started by Col. Harland Sanders who did not come from a army
background. then how did he get the title of VCol.
# He was conferred the title by the Governor of Kentucky for making the name of
the state very popular..

15. There is a b2b company called line56.com. The question is why the name
line56.com ?
(hint shakespeare's play hamlet )
## Line 56 of Hamlet reads ' 2 b r not 2 b'...........hence the b2b company gets
its name after it.

9." Feel the blood pound in ur head, the adrenalin rush , the breath catch in ur
throat. for all those who dare to take on the challenge this is the ultimate
nirvana" . what used to be advertised in the above lines?
# One of my personal favos.......nobody got it .
It is KARGIL ( as advertisied by J & K Tourism department before intrusion )

6.managment guru Alvin Toffler's Future Shock was first featured in a

serialised form in a magazine. name this popular magazine?
# playboy :( easily cracked by most)
btw, to add info from my side, Alvin Toffler is a famous author and business
consultant has also been a visiting scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation, a
visiting Professor at Cornell University, a White House Correspondent and an
editor in Fortune Magazine

1. Which company is the largest helicopter operator in

India ?

Ans:Pawan Hans Helicopters Ltd. (PHHL).

Manivannan adds,
Pawan Hans Helicopters Limited was incorporated on15th
October' 1985 and is the 'Largest Helicopter Operator
in India'. The Company has achieved an unparalleled
record of over 2,60,000 flying hours till date. It has
a total staff strength of about 767 including highly
trained and experienced pilots, engineers and other
technical personnel .It's Fleet of 29 Helicopters
which include 19 Dauphin- SA365N, 3 Bell 206 L4, 2
Bell 407, 2 R44 and 3 MI-172, are at your service to
take you any place, any time with comfort and safety.
Government owned enterprise ( Govt -78.5%, ONGC
-21.5%).

1. ‘Kroger’ is the largest food retailer in the US.

Now who is the largest in Singapore ?

Ans: NTUC Fairprice Co-operative set up in 1973.

3. Which book of Andy Grove sold more than 70,000

copies and advanced the thesis that a manager’s job
should be controlled with the same precision as a
factory ?

Ans: High Output Management. Only Ramdas Nair and

Manivannan gave the right answer.

In the book, Step by step, Andy Grove shows the

executive at any level how to use the management
techniques perfected at Intel. By applying the
principles of manufacturing to managerial work, by
getting as much leverage as possible from the tasks he
chooses to perform himself, and by eliciting peak
performance from subordinates, the manager can bring
to the working environment the precise and intense
teamwork found in athletic competition.

4. In this print ad, you would see ‘a photograph of a

passenger airplane in a hangar’ with the following ad
line. “The hard part is not getting it off the
ground”. It is getting it out the door. Identify the
brand.

Ans: mysap.com.
Only Sharad damani gave the exact answer.
Chaudharysaab and Sunay had given SAP. I have given
them the marks.

5. Until a few months back, which company/group was

seen on the ear panels of Corporate Dossier every week
?

Ans: Aditya Birla Group

6. The Tata AIG account is no more with the ad agency

HTA.

Ans: Bates India. Those who knew the answer were able
to figure out the question.

7. In the early 1980s, this personality left the

company he co-founded, to organize rock festivals and
several eccentric ‘Citizen detente’ ventures between
the United States and the former Soviet Union. For the
past decade his public activities have been mainly as
a Philanthropist backing art and science institutions
and local silicon valley schools. Identify him.

Ans: Steve Wozniak

8. In retailing jargon, what does MBO stand for ? (Not

Management By Objectives)

Ans: Multi Brand Outlets. There were no correct hits.

Management Buy Out was the common answer.
9. Which company owns the portal 01markets.com ?

Ans: Wipro Ltd.

01markets, a division of Wipro, has helped over

40customers across 50 categories with an average
saving of 9.8% in just 9 months of its operation.
01marketshas over 110 successful reverse auctions to
its credit. 01markets works with clients closely to
identify the most suitable eProcurement opportunities
and evolve the most appropriate strategy solution and
implementation plan process.

10. What was code named Project Millennium at Citibank

?

Ans: To garner one billion customers by 2010It all

started with a grand vision. In mid-1997, CEO John
Reed set a stretch target for Citibank: ensure that by
2010, the bank has a billion customers. Code named
Project Millennium, this set the stage for a series of
strategic initiatives aimed at taking Citi's50-million
strong base to almost 20 times that.

1. Which company started by 3 entrepreneurs from IIM

claims to be the first to introduce ESOP in Indian
Software Industry, the first to develop the concept of
ERP in India, and the first to introduce a SCM product
in India ?

Ans: MASTEK

2. Associate the following ad line to its brand. “At

last there is one thing in life, you have complete
control over.”

Ans: Mitsubishi Lancer

3. Which Indian business magnate’s private investment

company is called the Pharma Trading Co. Pvt. Ltd. ?

Ans: Vijay Mallya

4. This company created a stir, when it was launched,

as it was the first time that Venture funding was
being made available to a bunch of professionals to
start a company in a distinctly old economic segment
–garments. It also brought in concepts of Stock
Options and sweat equity to the sector. Which company
am I talking about ?

Ans: Indus League (that owns the Scullers and Indigo

Nation brands)

5. Five Countries are expected to become economic

superpowers in this new millennium. India, China and
Russia are three of them. Name the remaining two.

Ans: Brazil and Indonesia (According to Philip Kotler)

6. Expand ARPA in ARPA-Net.

Ans: Advanced Research Projects Agency.

More news
The history of ARPA leading up to the ARPANET.
A climate of pure research surrounded the entire
history of the ARPANET. The Advanced Research Projects
Agency was formed with an emphasis towards research,
and thus was not oriented only to a military product.
The formation of this agency was part of the U.S.
reaction to the then Soviet Union's launch of
Sputnikin 1957. ( ARPA draft, III-6 ). ARPA was
assigned to research how to utilize their investment
in computers via Command and Control Research (CCR).
Dr. J.C.R. Licklider was chosen to head this effort.
Licklider came to ARPA from Bolt, Beranek and Newman,
(BBN) in Cambridge, MA in October 1962. (ARPA draft,
III-6) The very first site to receive an IMP was UCLA.
Professor Leonard Kleinrock of UCLA was involved with
much of the early development of the ARPANET. His work
consisted of understanding queueing theory and as such
was one of the first computer scientists working on
the ARPANET who was dealing with how to measure what
was happening as the network would function. This made
it natural to make sure that UCLA received the first
node as it would be important to initiate the network
from the site which would measure the networks
activity. In order for the statistics to be correct
and for analysis purposes - the first site had to be
the measurement site. Sure enough UCLA was assigned to
be the Network Measurement Center (NMC).[1]
7. The 71-yr old Ford Dagenham unit near London was
closed recently due to labour unrest. The last car is
expected to go to a Ford Museum; the three before that
will go to a charity. Which brand of car was the last
to be rolled out ?

Ans: Ford Fiesta

8. In 2001, which company agreed to pay a reported

$75million over 20 years for naming rights to the
theatre where the recent Oscar awards gala was held ?

Ans: Eastman Kodak

9. Which high profile Sports personality was signed

recently by Italian Sportswear maker Fila, reportedly
for three years, to wear their shoes, which are
naturally ‘red’ and weigh just 200gm each ?

Ans: Michael Schumacher

Fila strikes again and signs Michael Schumacher up for

its own 'team' in a sponsorship agreement that will
unite Ferrari's driver and Italy's leading sports
apparel and footwear holding for the next three years.

Another success for Italian style and its passion for

performance and technology. The world champion is now
ready for a new season in a new shoe designed by
Fila's advanced research and development team and with
the fundamental collaboration of Schumacher himself.
The result is a model that is at the cutting edge for
its design and its high performances in terms of the
light weight and quality that Fila guarantees for this
news creation. Schumacher will also be the endorser of
Fila's future advertising campaign and its apparel and
footwear testimonial throughout the world, both on and
off the circuits.
The Ferrari Team has also signed a three-year
agreement with the Italian Holding running until 2004.

10. Which airlines believes in ‘making the sky the

best place on earth’ ?

Ans: Air France

1. Connect the following. “Irish Coffee, Walnut, Black
Currant, Very Cherry and Almond Crunch”.

Ans: These are the names of the recently launched

Lakme Perfect Definition Lip Liners. They are Vitamin
E enriched , hypoallergenic and water resistant.
Priced @ Rs.90.

Only Parthapratim Sengupta was close to the answer.

2. Which business group claims to be the largest

distributor of Sony Products in the world ?

Ans: The Jumbo Group of the late Manu Chabbria

3. ‘Little Master’ is a 15-inch flat screen model from

which company ?

Ans: Sansui.
Only Samrat Sengupta gave the right answer.

4. What is so special about ‘Mana Tv’, that no other

Tv outfit in the country can claim ?

Ans: The first State Government owned Tv outfit in the

country

5. Which world famous footwear retailer filed for

Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in early march ?

Ans: Florsheim

6. By selling what products does Reebok and Nike earn

30 to 40% of their revenues in India ?

Ans: Fitness stuff (gym equipment, workout apparel and

shoes for people burning their extra calories in
health clubs)

7. Which company was in the news for appointing

disgraced South African cricketer Hansie Cronje as the
finance manager ?

Ans: Bell Equipment, South Africa, a company that

deals in earth-moving equipment. When business leaders
slammed the appointment, Bell Equipment said Cronje
had done several projects for it as part of his
studies towards a MBA, that he was pursuing before
joining UCBSA.

8. What is common to Bupron, Bupep and Zyban ?

Ans: Anti-smoking pills

9. If ‘good people to grow with’ is the baseline for

Indian Overseas Bank(IOB), with which bank would you
associate the baseline ‘good people to bank with’ ?

Ans: Union Bank of India

10. In the recent elections to the Rajya Sabha, Vijay

Mallya was elected as an Independent from Karnataka.
Which other prominent businessman was elected to the
Rajya Sabha ?

Ans: R N Dhoot, JMD of Videocon International.

Shri Rajkumar Nandlal Dhoot was nominated to the Rajya
Sabha from Maharashtra as a Shivsena candidate. He is
also the government nominee director in IDBI.

1.It came to his mind when he was sitting in his darkroom drinking
beer at the North Eastern University in Boston. What?
Ans.Napster

2. Who is a Rainmaker? (Think service industry)

Ans.A Salesperson who wins several deals.

3.Who was the Time Magazine "Man of the Year" in 1982 ?

Ans.The Computer

4.What's common to Juan, Caverta, Edegra, Androz …in medicine world?

Ans.All desi version of Viagra . Juan from Cadila pharma , Caverta
from Ranbaxy , Edegra from Sun Pharma and Androz from Torrent

5. Computer Associates International (CAI) Inc . , the third largest

independent software company in World , was founded by Charles Wang
in 1976 with two to three friends funded by ___________?
Ans.Credit Card ( That's Power of plastic money )

6. What is China's answer to India's silicon Valley , Bangalore ?

Ans.Guangdong (who knows they might take over us )
7 What's common to Reebok, Avon, Wrigley's gum, Wilson's leather
exports, Nortel Network, Sega Video Game?
Ans.Williams' sister endorsing these brands( Venus & Serena)

8 This film role of the early 1970s, which made the actor who played
it a star, was originally offered to Warren Beatty, Jack Nicholson
and Dustin Hoffmann, all of whom refused the offer. Robert Redford
and Ryan O'Neil were also considered for the role. Which role are we
talking about?
Ans.Michael Corleone in The Godfather-the role which was eventually
played, by Al Pacino

9. His words create ripples in Financial world . His wife works as

NBC correspondent . Who is this world famous personality ?
Ans.Alan Greenspan.

10.Which word connects a dangerous ball in Cricket and a low

mortgaged backed equity ?
Ans.Beamer

11.Rule 42 , part C of an sport has garnered prominence throughout

world recently . Which sport and what rule ?
Ans.Ball tampering with cricket

12. Which was the first color advertisement to hit Indian

television ? ( clue: happened during 1982 Asian Game) ?
Ans.Bombay Dyeing

13.What is a NORTAL in cyber world?

Ans.Nortal stand for Nieche Portal

14.What's common to the company Liquid Equity Capital , movie Kabhi

Khushi Kabhi Gham (KKKG) ? ( VCs( Venture Capitalist) will love to
answer the Q)
Ans.Actress Kajol . She has invested around $ 5 Million venture
capital fund for IT related activities with Liquid Equity Capital and
in KKKG , she is the lead actress in it .

15.The founder of a multinational software company sold "Blue Boxes"

in college? Who is he?
Ans.Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak

24) This banker, after the closure of the Quilon Bank looked to catering as a career, and
with the help of Canon Elphick and Dewan Bahadur K. Matthan, set up his establishment
. Name him or his establishment which has been was host to the filming crew of Harry
Black and The Tiger, starring Stewart Granger amongst others.
Prem Koshy - Koshy's.. the hub of Bangalore's "intellectuals" and "drama"

23) At Disneyland Paris, what is known as "Le Château de la Belle au Bois Dormant"?
Sleeping Beauty's Castle

17) Bangalore's biggest kitchen, can be found at the ISKCON Temple, A kitchen that
manifests technology, it is fully mechanised, complete with vibrator, service lift,conveyer
system, huge loading vessels and boilers, and a huge network of chimney and exhaust
The ISKCON kitchen, was constructed on a massive budget of Rupees One Crore. The
cooked food is transported by conveyor belt, and finally being packaged for distribution!
All this food goes to rural schools, as part of the mid-day meal scheme that ISKCON
started on 3rd of July 2000. In fact, this network feeds over 50 schools, touching over
15,500 students everyday. What is the name of the scheme?
Akshayapatra

16) French composer Edmond Audran was an unknown until he produced a hit
production in 1880. The opera, titled after a provincial word for a
witch, followed a central character who had such good luck that
theatergoers knew it had to come from supernatural sources. What word
originated?
La Mascotte- from where we have the word Mascot

7) It's free, kids! Just call 866-4-HEDWIG.What is this a toll free number for?
To get a tour of the sites used where Harry Potter was shot.

8) The success (?) of a certain patent, Patent No. 78,317 went on to give what to the
world?
Alfred Nobel's patent for nitroglycerine - funda went to Nobel Prize

6) He began his winery enterprise by buying a portion of the historic Inglenook estate in
1975. His success in the field is explored in the book "A Sense of Place" by Steven
Kolpan, in 1999. Who?
Francis Ford Coppola

1. This time it is the other way round.ie. u have to frame a question

Answer: This is the biggest beer party on earth!

QUESTION : What is unique about OKTOBERFEST?

or What is special about Munich Beer festival?

McKinseys sudhir adds : Did you know the dates for the Oktoberfest-
three fourths of it is actually in September!
thanks sudhir.
2. In which commerical would u come across Simon Singh.
Ad the end of the commercial her name will be displayed
along with the brand name. I need
a. Company and
b. the brand name

ANSWER: No one got this right...Many of them not even tried it.
Devi Mohan was very much bothered abt the sex of simon singh wants to
know first whether Simon Singh is M/F? ........ok "She" [Devi Mohan got that!] is
Daburs Vatika Girl....Check the latest Daburs Vatika Commercial which is in air

3. What is abbreviated by KKN in Indonesia ?

This one is a sitter.
KKN stands for Kolusi, Korupsi dan Nepotisme
inother words Collusion,Corruption and Nepotism

4. Which is the first company to adopt Zero Base Budgeting in the

world?

Only two could answer this. viz., Uniliver's PhanindraDasika and

Suresh Kollu. Texas Instrument was the first company to adopt
ZBB.

5. Where in the world nearly 70% of the population are estimated

to have a prepaid funeral plan?

No one got this right. Many of them answered JAPAN...sorry

no marks for that. The answer I am looking for is
Netherlands and Belgium

6. If u speak cantonese in which country u will be?

Only those who have answered HONGKONG is awarded marks.

others sorry!!!

7. It is owned by OM Gruppen, a publicly listed swedish company.

Frame a question ?

Many could crak this one. Who owns STOCKHOLM STOCK EXCHANGE?

8. Bank Negara is the Central Bank of which country?

 Again a sitter. MALAYSIA

9. Tell me which is the incorporating capital of United States ?

It means it is in this state that more american firms are
incorporated than any other state.

Only Devi Mohan could crack it. He answered it as

DELAWARE...great

12. What does Hirschman-Herfindale Index Measure?

sorry for the typo its actually Hirschman-Herfindahl, Suresh
pointed out this. Many correct answers.
HHI -It is a measure to the extent to which sales
are concentratd in the hands of a few firms
in simple words,TO measure MARKET CONCENTRATION

11. If the doctor put A inside a circle in the patients record sheet
What does it mean? [ Though this question is nothing to do with
brand equity...just for the sake of knowledge i am including this]

Some funny answers were:

--- BLOOD GROUP A+
--- to be given Anesthesia???

Only Anish chandy got this right.. It means that

patient is in the ADVANCED STAGES of the disease and
has very less chances of surviving...ie. The patient is going
do die soon.......

10. If you want to reach google, we type in the address bar

www.google.com. Assume your friend blocks www.google.com by using
a password so that u cant reach google. If u want to
outsmart him what u will do. In other words what is the other way u
can reach google.

THE ANSWER I AM LOOKING FOR IS:

TYPE WWW.GOOOGLE.COM [WITH 3 O'S--WELL IF U DO THAT U CAN

GET IN TO GOOGLE JUST LIKE THAT AND START UR RESEARCH!!
NO HASSELS...]
 P.S : Remember my question is very specific in the sense that
" what is the otherway u can reach google [ i am talking
abt google itself..not reaching google from other search engines
or those search engines that use google's services....got that]

1. Which most popular cartoon character(fictional

warrior) has been dragooned into service by the
American fast food chain McDonalds for an advertising
campaign to win over French Hearts and Palates ?

Ans: Asterix The Gaul

2. This author in one of his books conveys the

following message. ‘The main thing is to keep the
main thing the main thing’. Name the book and the
author.

Ans: “First Things First” by Stephen Covey(and A Roger

Merill). Out of the four sections in this book, one
section has this title.
Some of the other answers given were:

·In the Main Thing by Jim Barksdale

·Keeping the Main Thing the Main Thing by Dwight
Robertson
·Success Gems by Jewel Diamond Taylor

I am not sure about these answers and it is difficult

for me to sit in a browsing parlour and do research on
these books. Hence I have given marks to only those
who had mentioned ‘First Things First’ by Stephen
Covey.

3. In Maruti N2N, the fleet management solutions from

Maruti, what does N2N stand for ?

Ans: End to End Solutions

4. Shox is a new brand of shoe from which company ?

Ans: Nike

5. Pro-lease India is a company which is into business

process outsourcing(BPO). Now which celebrity is the
MD of this company ?
Ans: Film Actor Arvind Swami

6. Which chennai-based retailer had its first ‘New

Year’ sale in 1976 and today makes 25 to 30% of its
annual sales in just those three days(Dec 31, Jan 1 &
Jan 2) ?

Ans: Vivek’s

7. Connect ‘Moon Moon Sen, Raima Sen and Riya Sen’

with a jewellery shop.

Ans: Senco Gold Jewellers

8. Rapid Deployment. Maximum Uptime. Easy as _________

. Fill in the blanks.

Ans: Dell

9. Which business personality’s dog ‘Kamala’ is named

for a metamorph that appeared in an episode of
Startrek ; the next generation ?

Ans: Jeff Bezos of Amazon.com

10. Huawei Technologies, a Chinese telecom company

operating out of a software technology park in
Bangalore, was in the news in December 2001. Give the
reason.

Ans: They were found to have supplied telecom

surveillance equipment to the Taliban and the Pakistan
Government. The Senior Executives of this company
denied this but admitted that Pakistan was an
important client of its parent company.

1. On September 11, 2001 when the world was shocked by

the WTC Crash, a Joint Venture(JV) was announced in
the Communication sector. Name the two companies
involved.

Ans: Sony and Ericsson - a mobile phone Joint

Venture(JV). Tamilnadu born Indian American Sandeep
Chennakeshu is the CTO of the JV.
Only Sheetal and Pattabiraman got this right.

2. The Germans got the Blue letters. The French got

the Yellow Papers. But today what do some get ?

Ans: Pink Slip. The irony is that while the term has
hit the big time,its origins are still a mystery. The
first reference to it recorded by The Oxford English
Dictionary goes as far back as 1915.

There was a story tracing the term to The Ford Motor

Company, where Shop floor supervisors has a crude
system of recording employee performance. Those they
thought were worth keeping got a slip of white paper
in the pigeon hole for their work card; those who saw
a pink slip instead know they might as well leave.
One of the few interesting bits of information is that
different countries have used different colours.

Germany - those dismissed were said to 'get the blue

letter'.
France - Military discharges were said to have got
their 'yellow papers'.

3. He loved Math in School. That love for Math

carried over to an interest in Physics during his
undergraduate years. He earned his physics honours
from Delhi University without even attending a single
class. After a five year degree in Electrical Engg.
including two years dabbling in electronics, his first
job was with an Indian Company called Continental
India Devices Ltd. Who am I talking about ?

Ans: Vinod Dham, who had his first introduction to the

arena of wafers and chips at Continental India Devices
Ltd. The rest is now history.

Only Pattabiraman got this correct.

4. What is Project Vistaar ?

Ans: Project Vistaar is Maruti's initiative to

diversify into businesses like car insurance, auto
finance, branded accessories, fleet management and
resale of used cars. Maruti recently launched its
pre-owned cars business under the sub-brand name
'Maruti True Value'.

5. Which card-holding member of the Communist Party

of Ireland calls himself the Chief Executive Anarchist
(CEA) ?

Ans: Mr. Niall FitzGerald, Chairman and CEO of

Unilever prefers being called the Chief Executive
Anarchist (CEA).

6. How would you better connect Kathie Lee, Catalina,

Jaclyn Smith and Arizona ?

Ans: Private Labels(or Private Brands or In-store

brands) of famous retailing giants such as Wal mart,
K-Mart and JC Penney's.

Kathie Lee, Catalina and Faded Glory range - Walmart

Jaclyn Smith and RT 66 - K-Mart
Arizona and Hunt Club - JC Penney's.

Only Pattabiraman gave the exact answer. Some were

close to the answer.

7. In October 2001, Bank of Nova Scotia was in the

news. Give the reason.

Ans: Workers unearthed a burried treasure of gold and

silver worth more than $375 million hidden for weeks
under the ruins of the WTC. The yellow metal, which
was held in a vault underneath the twin towers
belonged to the Toronto-based Bank of Nova Scotia.

8. In the US Bankruptcy Code, under which code can a

company file for liquidation ?

Ans: Chapter 7. Many had given the answer as Chapter

11. Chapter 11 is actually for reorganisation and not
liquidation.

9. In December last year, an Chinese Ad company in

Anshan City, Liaoning Province was in the news for its
recruitment policy. What is so strange about their
recruitment ?

Ans: This company has been hiring its staff based on

their Blood type. The company in question turned down
a job applicant because her blood was type B, which
the company said was not suitable for the available
job in advertising and sales. The girl was told by the
company that people with blood type B lacked
independent and critical thinking skills and team
spirit.

10. Which famous advertisement is seen on the world's

largest billboard in China ? The billboard has stood
at the side of the Yangtze river for over three years.
The billboard which is 300m long and 45m high was
listed in the Guiness Book of World Records as the
world's largest.

Ans: Googly!! The billboard has stood for 3 years

without any advertisement ever appearing on it.
Experts said the billboard is shrouded by fog, which
has put off customers. The world's largest billboard
is to be dismantled shortly.

1.What business did Monica Lewinscky venture into after the White
House affair?
(Handbags. You can have a look at www.therealmonica.com - the site
she launched to market the produce)

2.Most of us know that Akio Morita's passion to listen to Beethoven's

music while playing golf resulted in the invention of Sony Walkman.
But there was another reason that prompted Morita to invent the
Walkman. What was that?
(He noticed people carrying large stereos to parks and beaches and
felt like coming up with something handy without compromising on the
sound quality)

3.Born in 1888 in Sydney; Presence in 144 countries; The Official

sponsor of the Formula One. What's the brand we are talking about?
(Fosters Beer…Please note that Fosters was born in Melbourne but not
in Sydney as I had mentioned. Apologies for the oversight)

4.Which European Country banned the original version of Kaun Banega

Crorepati (KBC)?
(Sweden)

5.In Banking parlance, what's the Golden Era of 3-6-3?

(A prescription for good banking – get money at 3 per cent, lend it
at 6 per cent and return to the Golf club at 3 PM)
6.Which brand of jeans is named after an airport in Hong Kong?
(Lap Kok)

7. It's the oldest apparel trademark still in use. During the Second
World War, the design of this trademark underwent a change due to
government policies. What is the trademark and what was the change
made to it during the WWII?
(The double row of stitching on the back pockets, known as Arcuate
Stitching Design. During the Second World War, the design was
painted on the pockets due to government rationing of essential items
such as thread.)

8.Why does McDonald decorate its restaurants in Red and Yellow?

(These colors are said to induce hunger)

9. Which ingredient of chewing paan is derived from the Sanskrit for

`Pleasant'?
(Supaari)

10.In the late 19th century, what unusual thing was used as fuel for
locomotives in Egypt due to a severe short supply of wood and coal?
(Mummies…millions of mummies)

1. No no no no no no no no no! No! No! No! No! Oh all right then, I'll meet you
halfway ____________ Fill in the 11 letter brand name First word has 5 letters and
other word has 6 letters .[ sorry Google wont help u in this question]

FIRST DIRECT [ a subsidiary of HSBC]. Only Devi and Victor could crack it.
Cheers!!! .

There is something unique about this bank can any one tell me what?

2. Simple one . In KSA technopark what does KSA stands for?

KURT SALMON ASSOCIATES

3. These are Figures in 2001

Deutsche Bank with- 75.1 lacs p.a with 3rd place
Barclays Bank with- 89.9 lacs p.a with 2nd place
_____________ with -104.8 lacs p.a with 1st place
Who is in the First Place and What am I talking about?

LEHMAN BROTHERS . The figures are nothing but TOP salary offered
to IIM students.
4. Which International Human Resource Consulting firm
was hired by Stanchart Grindlays to set up Carrer Transition
centre after takeover of ANZ Grindlays?

DRAKE BEAM MORRIN. No correct answers received for this question

5. What is Barnevik "Triple Jump"? [ I want all the three jumps]

1. A business is restructured, failing that

2. The management is changed, lastly
3. You either sell out or merge it.

No one attempted this question

6. Japnese know this film as DANCING MAHARAJA. How do we know it in India?

This one is a sitter. Muthu.

7. What is equivalent of Chapter 11 of US Bankruptcy Code in India? (I want the section

and the Act)

Section 22 of SICA. Except Ramkumar of Ready test go no one could get this one right.

8. Who claims itself to be world's first FMFG company and what is FMFG stands for?

WWW.HOMETRADE.COM, FMFG- Fast Moving Financial Goods

9. Which is the only Indian company to figure in the TOP 10 Note-book Pcs or in other
words Top 10 Laptops?

Zenith. Very few answered correctly other popular answer was wipro.

10.Give me the 7 letter word which is a product of RealNames, USA?

KEYWORD

11. Which is China's No.1 web portal? I want the full web address

www.sohu.com.cn only two perrson got this right.

12.What does YATRIK stands for in Air-India?

Sorry this question seems to be a repetition and it happend without my knowledge.

Surjit sorry for that. I used to check ur quiz regularly I donno how i missed that one.only
when i recd ur answers i came to know this and one among the participants also
mentioned this.
The answer is : Your Airline Ticket Reservations Internet Kit.

1. Which Tata group company pipped Reliance to bag a

25% stake in VSNL ?

Ans: Tata has formed a SPV, Panatone Finvest, for the

VSNL deal. The majority stake in the SPV is held by
Tata Sons (50%), Tata Power (40%) and the balance 10 %
by Tata Industries and Tata Steel

2. Which MNC exports its range of formal menswear

shoes under the brand name Le Baron ?

Ans: Hindustan Lever Ltd.(HLL)

3.What Flexcube is to Iflex Solutions, this is to

Infosys.

Ans: Finacle, Infosys core banking solution

4. Who is the only Industrialist in the recent list of

Padma Bhushan Awardees ?

Ans: Keshub Mahindra

5. Which company has latched onto the ‘replay bug’ or

the logo graphic that will come on screen during
replays of cricket action in the World Cup 2003 ?

Ans: BPL

6. Which company established in 1916 in Kanjeevaram,

Tamilnadu as a wholesale business has its outlets
today not just covering major Indian cities like
Mumbai and Delhi but also in Toronto, San Jose and
Singapore ?

Ans: Nalli Silks

7. This must stand as one of the most effective single

ads ever produced by Indian Advertising but LINTAS
does not want to take credit for the ad. Which ad am I
referring to ?
Ans: ‘Harshad Mehta is as Liar’. That was the title of
the ad that launched Mehta into the public eye. The
body copy of the ad went on to prove why the headline
wasn’t true. The impetus for Mehta to release the ad
was the contreversy over his purchase of shares in
Apollo Tyres. He was summoned to explain himself in
this matter before the Bombay Stock Exchange(BSE)
board, and he decided to pre-empt this by making a
public statement. Instead of going by the usual
press-conference or interview route, Mehta chose to
use an ad. The ad was created and released in a days’
time.

8. Why was ‘Reunion Island’ recently in the news ?

Ans: As it is ahead of European time it became the

first territory to introduce the new currency, Euro on
1st Jan 2002. The island is a dot in the Indian Ocean
about 640km east of Madagascar. A kilo of Lychees was
bought using the Euro Currency.

9. To involve youngsters in the decision making and

evolve out of the box thinking, which business group
under the guidance of Management Guru C K Prahlad has
formed the red, blue and the plum teams ?

Ans: Godrej Group. The two eight member teams called

the Red team and the Blue team are made up of young
employees. After meeting with opinion-makers from all
walks of life for 3-4 months, they are to make
recommendations for future growth prospects and
Strategies for the next 3 years to the ‘Plum team’, a
team of Senior managers, sometimes including Chairman
Adi Godrej.

10. Who is the brand ambassador for the country’s

newest branded ladieswear, ‘Wear It’ ?

Ans: Celina Jaitley

1. Who was recently quoted by Forbes as ‘The man with

the Golden Touch’ ?
Ans: Vinod Khosla

2. Which two companies have a online Music Joint

Venture called Pressplay ?
Ans: Sony and Vivendi Universal.

Major labels Sony Music Entertainment and Universal

Music Group have formed a joint venture called
pressplay. In a move to boost its potential audience,
Pressplay a joint venture between music giants Vivendi
Universal and Sony, is near a deal to offer its online
music subscription service on Microsoft's MSN network,
sources close to the talks said Tuesday.
Microsoft, Vivendi Universal and Sony all declined to
comment, although sources close to all three companies
confirmed that negotiations which have been continuing
for months had intensified and that an announcement
was expected soon.

3. ‘Asimo’ is the advanced humanoid robot from which

company ?
Ans: Honda

4. Which new, independently run subsidary of Nokia is

all set to offer hand-crafted cellular phones adorned
with platinum, and 18k polished gold and costing twice
the price of a typical family car ?
Ans: London based Vertu Limited

For a mere 20,000 dollars, you too could have a gold

or platinum adorned cellular phone, encrusted with
jewels and with sound "as clear as a Mozart symphony".
London based Vertu Limited, The new independently run
subsidiary of Nokia, has been in the works for over
five years and will have it's own staff of 200
employees. The phones will work on the GSM (Global
System for Mobile Communications) standard, and will
also have one button access to a concierge, trained in
catering to the ridiculously rich.

5. This was Henry Ford’s Chief Instrument, an obscure

Michigan weekly that Ford built into a national
presence beginning 1919.
Ans: The Deraborn Independent

Ford took anti-Semitism a step further than most of

his contemporaries by personally stoking a powerful
propaganda campaign. His chief instrument was The
Dearborn Independent, an obscure Michigan weekly that
Ford built into a national presence beginning in 1919.
The publication carried news of the world, photo
displays, and a variety of features. But even though
Ford car dealers were required to meet a quota for
subscription sales, the paper was $284,000 in the red
by 1920 and circulation was languishing. Ford and his
right-hand man, Ernest Liebold, resolved upon an
"educational" campaign to build interest. Thus began a
series of 91 successive articles slugged "The
International Jew: The World's Problem."

6. If ‘The Power to Create’ is Epson, with which

company would you associate the tagline ‘The Power to
Provide’ ?
Ans: SABIC – Saudi Basic Industries Corporation

7. 'Intelnet’ is a Joint Venture between which two

companies ? (This is Mumbai based.)
Ans: HDFC and TCS, the company being based in Mumbai

More new in this front ---------------------- >

Intelnet Global Services, as the JV will be called,
hopes to leverage the considerable domain expertise as
well as client relationships of both HDFC and TCS to
become a market leader, with 7,000 employees, revenues
of rs.700 crore and earnings of rs.300 crore in about
five years. Coming up next month: Intelnet’s first
call centre in Navi Mumbai, with 200 seats and 500
employees. Intelnet will be capitalised at Rs.20
crore, with HDFC and TCS holding 45 percent each, and
the balance 10 percent reserved for employee stock
options. It will have a six-member board with three
nominees each from HDFC and TCS. The chairman of
Intelnet will be nominated by TCS. Ramping up from
Navi Mumbai: centres in Chennai, Bangalore and Pune,
each with 500 seats. Intelnet plans to scale up to
about 1,200 employees in two to three years, and
another 6,000 -odd over the next few years.

8. Which MNC has Sripad Nadkarni as its marketing head

?
Ans: Coca-Cola
9. He worked four years in an ad agency and came up
with the line ‘Naughty but Nice’ to sell some brand of
shampoo. Who ? (Only Padma can help you!!!)
Ans: Salman Rushdie. I think the clue was too powerful
not to answer. I was referring to Padma Lakshmi who
was in chennai recently.

10. Which actress was recently signed on to be the

brand ambassador for Limca ?
Ans: Sonali Bendre. Those of u who read the ET article
on Simran signing up for Fanta, should have read it
fully.

1. Who owns Bettman Archives, the world's largest collection of historical and news
photographs ?

Ans: Bill Gates . I have given points if u answered corbis

2. who regulates the gambling industries in UK?

Ans: The Gaming Board for Great Britain. Only two could crack it namely, Feroz and
Ramdoss.

3. What was changed from 10 to 11 in Japan on January 1, 1999?

Unattempted question.

Ans: Effective January 1 mobile phone numbers were

changed from 10 to 11 digits in order to cope with the
increase in the number of users -- now over 44 million.
The Asahi Shimbun reports that the industry is expected
to spend billions 'providing help to update the phone numbers
people have input into their mobile phones, adding
new codes and rearranging the digits via computer.

Visit http://www.aic.or.jp/related/Brief/brief03.htm for more details.

4. If i have given you II Sole - 24 Ore what i would have given you?

Ans: Only Ramdoss and Devi Mohan got this one right. Its nothing but
Italy's financial daily.
 5. who is the exclusive distributor of D&G and La Prairie in India?

Ans: Euro Traditions. Unanswered question in this quiz.

6. What is GenJam?

Ans: This one is a sitter.

Infys Nayan Modai says "GenJam, which stands for Genetic
Jammer, is a computer program that learns to play jazz
solos, using a software technology called genetic algorithms.
This technology applies the principles of biological genetics
to search for solutions to artificial or abstract problems.
In GenJam's case, the genetic algorithm searches for pleasing
melodic ideas with which it constructs jazz improvisations

7. Name the worlds third largest derivates exchange?

LIFFE which stands for London International Financial Futures and Options

8. What is DCM slip ?

Almost everyone cracked it. Dont Come Monday Slip.

Australian way of saying "You're fired"... Dont Come Monday (DCM)

9. This one is for bankers.

An Indian bank with an account in New York will
call the record in its own books of its New York account
a what account? The same account in the New York
bank's books would be what account?
I want the term.

Nostro Account and Vostro Account

10. What is MATIF?

Marché à Terme International de France .
Futures exchange of France

1. Skin Chrono is a range of watch from which company

?

Ans: Swatch

2. What is Bharti Televentures Ltd.(BTVL) domestic

long distance (DLD) network called ?
Ans: India One

3.Come April, Swissair is to sport a new brand name

in the local sky. Give the brand name.

Ans: Swiss

Swissair, the airline that filed for bankruptcy

protection following The terrorist attacks of Sept.
11, will have a new name come April 1, and will resume
service in Chicago. Swissair and its European regional
carrier, Crossair, will simply be called "Swiss,"
Swiss Air Lines Ltd. announced Thursday in Basel,
Switzerland. And the airline will continue its one
daily non-stop flight between O'Hare Airport and
Zurich.

The name is changing because of "legal" issues, said

airline Spokeswoman Jackie Pash. To avoid legal
confusion and because Swissair is in bankruptcy,the
airline is being renamed, she said.
Swissair is altering its logo and look, the company
said. It will also continue its other non-stop U.S.
service between Zurich and Boston, Los Angeles, Miami,
New York, Newark and Washington.
Like many air carriers, Swissair was sent reeling by
the events of Sept. 11. The airline shut down for a
short period and subsequently filed for bankruptcy
protection in October. The last flights under the
Swissair name will be March 31. The airline was
revived by an infusion of about $1.5 billion from the
Swiss government, banks and private investors, and the
new Swiss is being built on the old routes and planes
of Swissair and Crossair.
"By building a meaningful, emotional connection with
consumers, the brand 'Swiss' will become one that air
travelers will identify with and want to be a part
of," said Swiss Chief Executive Andre Dose.
Swiss will offer 126 destinations in 59 countries, and
the company said tickets issued to Swissair customers
for trips scheduled after March 31 will be honored on
Swiss.

4. We hear about Reebok very often, but what is

Weebok?
Ans: Footwear and apparel for toddlers and children
under five years of age.

According to industry estimates, the kids footwear

market is estimated at Rs 1,000 crore. Bata, Action
and Liberty are the key major players in this
category. Interestingly, however, all the three top
brands are priced in the mass segment and the premium
footwear segment for children is more or less vacant.
The children's apparel market, meanwhile, is estimated
at roughly Rs 480 crore. Significant players in this
category include Weekender Kids, 0-12 Benetton and Lee
Kids, among some others.
Meanwhile, the industry buzz is that Reebok is set to
introduce ladies-and-kids store. The soon-to-be
domestic launch of the Weebok range follows the
introduction of the Greg Norman brand of golf apparel
and accessories which Reebok India brought into the
country from its international portfolio about six
months ago.

5. How would you better connect the following persons?

P. Sugavanam, M.S. Ramachandran, A.K. Mitra and S.K.

Barua, a Professor and Strategic Management Consultant

at IIM-A.

Ans: The team that decided on the bid price for IBP.
33.58% of IBP for a mind boggling Rs. 1153.68 crore.

6. To 'Get The Edge' in your business what should you

do ?

Ans: Become a client of AT&T. ‘Get the Edge’ is the

tag line of AT&T.

7. What makes a Keki Dadiseth or a Vindi Banga ? For

years its been shrouded in mystique. At HLL, this
program is where they make and break CEOs. Name this
Program.

Ans: LISTERS. Only Akshay got this right.

8. 'Xplod' is a new car audiorange from which company?

Ans: Sony

9. Which celebrity was recently signed up to endorse

Thums Up ?

Ans: Sushmita Sen. Virender Sehwag was signed for

COKE.

10. Who is the Chairman of the Murugappa Corporate

Board ?

Ans: N.S.Raghavan, Co-founder of Infosys

N S Raghavan takes over as Murugappa Group Chairman

New Delhi, April 13 , 2001

Mr N S Raghavan has been appointed as the new Chairman
of the Murugappa Corporate Board (MCB) of the Rs 3,900
crore Murugappa Group.

Making this announcement at a press conference today,

Mr M V Subbiah, The current Chairman of the MCB, said.
"The board's decision is a part of improving the
corporate governance process of the Murugappa Group
Initiated in October 1999 for transforming a
family-owned business to a Professionally managed
group."

Mr Raghavan, an independent director of the MCB, will

serve as a non-executive Chairman, with a specific
mandate to search for a highly qualified successor to
head the Group. The new chairman will also be
responsible for actualising the Group's vision and
strengthening its corporate governance initiatives.

"My focus will be to create the right cultural

environment to encourage creativity and fuel growth,"
said Mr. Raghavan. "The Murugappa Group is blessed
with a large talent pool, whose skills and expertise
need to be leveraged for the benefit of the whole
Group," he added.

1. Who headed the delegation of CII that recently

visited Afghanistan ?
Ans: Maruti Udyog MD Jagdish Khattar. Only Ramkumar
and Anand Mihir got this right.

2. Which company has come out with its smallest and

lightest tri-band handset called V66 ?

Ans: Motorola

3. Which ad agency has taken away the ‘Raymond-The

Complete Man’ account from Enterprise Nexus ?

Ans: RK Swamy BBDO

4. India’s biggest golf event is no longer the Indian

Open.

Ans: The Royal Challenge Indian Open. Only Feroze,

Ramkumar and Diwakar gave the right answer.

5. ‘KOBETWO’ with an Integrated 3D Torsion system and

lacing girdle is a new range of shoe from which
company ?

Ans: ADIDAS. The shoe is priced at Rs. 5999 .

6. Samuel Palmisano is the new Chief of which Multi

National giant ?

Ans: IBM

7. Which company owns the low-end tea brands Agni and

Sholay ?

Ans: Tata Tea

8. What ‘Advent’ is to LINTAS, this is to Euro RSCG.

Ans: Neerja RSCG. Ad agencies have started having an

exclusive arm for Promotions.

9. Which company is all set to launch a new apparel

brand under the ‘Axs’ tag ?

Ans: Arvind Mills of Lalbhai Group. None gave the

right answer.
10. With which Insurance company would you associate
actor Naseeruddin Shah ?

Ans: Tata AIG

1. To start with music. Which brand of car would you come across in the Eagles "Hotel
California" ?

Ans- Mercedes-Benz "Her mind is Tiffany twisted

She's got the Mercedes benz"

2. Name the world's only privately owned bank still to have the highest possible ratings
of S&P [Standard and Poor's]?

Ans- RaboBank

3. This company is supposed to be the worlds biggest insurance broker by revenue?

Ans- Marsh & McLennan Companies Inc. Very few correct answers.

4. Shyam Jha, VP of Corvis coined this word. Which one?

Ans- Palmtop

5. When I was a kid i often wasn't the best player on the team. When I got to this
company , I was not always the smartest guy in the room. But I always looked to find the
best people smarter than me. Once I did that they would take care of the rest. I am
supposed to be the first employee of this company. Tell me who am I? If u know me why
not u give me the company name?

Ans- Jack Welch of what else ? GE.

6. First introduced in the hill locked Koraput district on an experimental basis, the service
spread to other districts following satisfactory results. This service had carried an urgent
message from the then PM Jawaharlal Nehru from sambalpur to cuttack on April 13,
1948 in less than 5 and 1/2 hours. The message reached the authorities well in advance
before Nehru who was to address a public meeting. Which service am i talking about and
it was in the news recently.

Ans- Orissa Police Pigeon Service. It was in the news recently because they are planning
to stop Pigeon service and to use the funds effectively in other areas.

7. To which giant would you associate the term 4PL with , which happens to be its
trademark?

Ans- Andersen Consulting, now Accenture

8. If you associate MY TIME with Global Trust Bank To whom would you associate
Cashpoint for?

Ans- Canara Bank. Only two or three could crack this.

9. This young airlines took Pope John Paul II twice to Croatia. During their first service
to him they had to send representatives to the vatican in order to research Pope's dietary
needs coz they wanted Pope to have dinner in aircraft. But pope came aboard the aircraft
after having just attended a dinner and ended up that he wont have anything. Atlast he
had onething in the flight. What did pope had during his first trip in that airline. Name
also the airline.

Ans- Croatia Airlines. First time Pope had only Coca Cola.
other answers recd : Pepsi, Virgin Airlines
coke, Alitalia
 Orange Juice, Ryan Air {sudhir kamath}

10. This company claims itself to be the first company in the world to offer all four real-
time language translation applications. E-mail, Chat, Text and Browse applications.
Name the company.

Ans- Amikai.

11. Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau was in news recently. WHY?

Ans- Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau (known as KfW) is the German state-owned

development bank laid its footsteps in India for business
while BNP Paribas, Duetsche Banks exits from retail banking.

12. John H. Patterson founded this company and its now the worlds largest in its field.
Name the company and their product?

Ans- National Cash Register Company, maker of the first mechanical cash registers and
largest producer of cash registers.

13. What type of card is a Powerplus, the one recently launched by Sundaram Finance ?

Ans- "It is a value added fleet card. POWERPLUS Fleet Card has the unique feature of
both prepaid and credit options and provides accident cover to both fleet operator and the
driver. Eliminating the cash transactions at petrol stations while drawing fuels and
lubricants, the POWERPLUS Fleet Card will provide fleet owners the advantage of
monitoring all transactions tracking the fleet movement which will help exercise
necessary "control" in their fleet operations" explains Debajyothi.
1. “This book is dedicated to the gentleman who has
been bugging me to write on this subject for years.
He’ll remain anonymous to keep him out of trouble.”
Where do u see this dedication ?

Ans: ‘Big Brands Big Trouble’ by Jack Trout . None of

them got this right

2. This savvy speaker’s luck turned ironically when a

government decision to nationalize Bihar’s coal mines
left his family penniless and forced him to proceed to
New Jersey, where he started peddling Life Insurance
door to door. Identify the Personality.

Ans: Shiv Khera who was recently in Chennai to release

the Tamil version of his book ‘You Can Win’. Sharad
and Subham Roy got this right.

3. Who has made more budget speeches than any other

Finance Minister in India ?

Ans: Morarji Desai who has made 10 budjet speeches

though two of them were interim budjet speeches. No
correct hits.

4. ‘Magicool’ is a new range of Split and Window

Airconditioner from which company ?

Ans: Whirlpool. Subham Roy and Chaudhary got this

right.

5. This Conglomerate which believes in ‘bringing good

things to life’ sports a new Corporate Image. What is
its new Positioning theme?

Ans: GE : “A Company of Ideas” – which does a lot more

than light bulbs and washing machines. Manivannan and
Chaudhary had identified the Company as GE. Though I
was looking for more, as the saying goes ‘Something is
better than Nothing’. Both get full points.

6. In 1980, HCL established its first transnational

venture in Singapore. Name it.

Ans: Fareast Computers (Pte) Ltd. A pioneer in the

Singapore IT market for System Integration Solution.
Only Manivannan hit the nail on the head.

7. HP Investors have discussed asking this person to

become Interim Chairman of HP, if the HP-Compaq merger
is rejected and Chairman & Chief Executive Carly
Fiorina leaves. Name him.

Ans: Lew Platt, former executive of HP. Only kishore

got this right.

8. ‘Temptations’ is a brand of chocolate from Cadbury.

Now which company owns the brand ‘Celebrations’ ?

Ans: Googly! Cadbury again. Anil and Manivannan

figured it out.

9. This company, a founder member of the Indian Direct

Selling Association(ISDA) advertises that its products
come with a 100% customer satisfaction or money refund
guarantee.

Ans: Amway. The next time u see an Amway print ad

don’t forget to check the two corners of the ad.

10. With which Company/Brand would you associate the

tagline ‘Because business cant wait’ ? (I want a
specific answer)

Ans: Godrej Prima Communication Solutions. No one got

this right.

1. Which automobile brand is named after the Spanish word for grace?
(ANSWER: Mercedes. It was named after the daughter of Emil Jellinek,
an Austrian businessman who promised to buy a fleet of cars if they
were named after his daughter whose name `Mercedes' translated to
`grace' in Spanish….I am afraid if I had compounded the
confusion.

Only a few got this right. Matiz was the popular choice. Accent,
Audi, Bugatti, Indica, Mondeo, and Palio were the other responses.)

2. Which Indian company identifies itself with the Italian mindset of

precision engineering?
(ANSWER: PRICOL- Premier Instruments and Controls.
Ravi Shanker is the only one who got this right. FIAT, Premier
Automobiles, BHEL, Sundaram Clayton, SKF, LML, Mindtree, Sonata, MRF
and Tata were the popular choices)

3.What does the number 4,810 on the nib of a Mont Blanc pen signify?
(ANSWER: The height of Mount Blanc in meters and the limited edition
pens. Every Year, Mont Blanc produces only 4,810 pens. Once the 4,810
is made, the dyes are destroyed and to show its lineage, every nib of
the line has 4,810 inscribed on it

Almost everyone got this right. Though I have given a point to all
those who mentioned the height of Mount Blanc as the answer, only
Navin Giles and Sabyasachi Chandra gave the two detailed
answers. "The temperature to which the nib is heated" is what
one of
the respondents wrote. I can say this is a very creative try)

4. Long time back, Colgate introduced a toothpaste under some brand

name in France. Though the quality and performance of the product
were very good, it ended up as a cropper. What was the brand and why
did it fail?
(ANSWER: The brand name was `CUE'. It failed because CUE was the
name
of a notorious porno magazine in France

Most of the respondents got this right. Given below are some
interesting replies:
* The word Colgate meant something else in that language like "Death"
or "suicide" or something; * The name of the brand was "Cue", it was,
coinci"dentally", the name of a french Porno Mag; * Some problem with
the way the product's name was translated? For a guess, they called
it "dental cream", and the French translated it to something rude..
or to face cream and used it as a lotion?; * Les Miserabla Faila - It
failed because the toothpaste started to give a green tinge to the
teeth)

5. I am around 43. Until 1971, I used to look to my right. But from

1971, I have been looking only straight ahead. Who am I?

(ANSWER: Barbie Doll. Until 1971, Barbie's eyes looked to the right.
Beginning in 1971, they looked straight ahead. Only Arnab Banerjee
got this right.

The responses given by some of the participants: * Colonel Sanders of

KFC; *Bill Gates, author of 'The Road Ahead'; *Stephen Hawking;
*Nipper, HMV; *the Air India Maharaja; *John Amaglio from Mexico…
Until 1971, he was suffering from Neck cancer, so his neck was always
pointing to the right. Under special request from the then US
president, the US sponsored his treatment, after that he was able to
see straight…This is the response that rattled me as it appeared
to
be true …..:)

6. Connect Scott Adams with a Noisy Serpent and companies like

Microsoft, Intel, IBM, and Hewlett-Packard.
(ANSWER: "Like a giant vacuum cleaner, companies like Microsoft,
Intel…are sucking up the brightest minds and sending them to
breeding
grounds…". This is what Scott Adams wrote in a special column
for
TIME. Cheenu is the only one to give the correct answer)

7. Everyone knows that a bullish trend is when the stock markets are
rising and the bearish is when the markets are on a downward spiral.
But what do you call a stock market trend that is neither bullish nor
bearish - just flat? (Don't tell me it's a Flat Market)

(ANSWER: Chicken Market. This remained the hardest nut to crack as

there were no correct answers.

Neutral; Nervous; Stag; Snake; Spider; Stable/Indifferent Market;

Fish Market; Tennis Court Trend were some of the guesses)

8. When India, Inc. sought investment from abroad, some of the

heavyweights in the Indian business came together to protest what
they perceived as an imminent takeover of Indian business by
transnational companies. What was the result?

(ANSWER: Formation of the Bombay Club…four of the participants

answered this correctly)

FIPB; FII; NASSCOM; Venture Capitalism were the other responses.

The mind-blowing answer came from one of the respondents who
wrote "Surajit Singh Ahluwalia committed self-immolation in front
of
Amar Jawan Dhabha in New Delhi" as his answer… :)

9. What does the age recorded on a whiskey bottle refer to?

(ANSWER: The number of years it is aged prior to being bottle. once
in the bottle, whiskey does not improve.

Most of the participants answered this. No creative responses for

this question)

10. During the second world war, why there was a sudden increase in
the consumption of pop corn in the united states?

(ANSWER: Sugar was sent overseas for the U.S. troops. this caused
scarcity of sugar in the states to produce candy. because of this
unusual situation, Americans ate three times as much popcorn as
usual. Only Abhishek Sharma could crack this correctly.

1. First thing First... Well Quiznet gang know well about UPS, the big black.
This question is not about UPS but about UCS which stands for United Canvas
and Sling, Inc. and this is first and only company in the world to ...?

POLE VAULT

2. DIGITIAL among Fortune 500 company is the first company to do something in

cyberspace. what did it do.?

First among Fortune 500 companies to have a website!

3. Following are recommended to Stay Young by a fashion house which very well
has its presence in cyberspace ... To stay Young - Don't Laugh-Don't have
sex -Inhale Oxygen--and it recommends to Drink What ?

Drink Urine! visit www.diesel.com for more info......and check out the ad
there
and decide whether u wanna stay young......

4. BAD NEWS from this clothing brand is:

" You complained a lot about this store. Email after email (and one hand
delivered package). Not enough clothes you said. Not selling in enough
countries we heard you America). Here at XXXXXX we enjoy a healthy dialogue.
So the bad news is - we listened -and we're closing the UK Store. "

what is the GOOD NEWS from them..... XXXXXX [ The clue :This clothing
brand sounds like a fuel!]

ANSWER:
once again its DIESEL ...the good news is :

" The good news is that the future will be brighter.

We'll open our doors again.
 With everything you have demanded (except the animals).
A bigger store, with more clothes, selling to people of all nations (not just the Brits).

Thanks for shopping, browsing, or moaning. We love you. Always and all ways.

------ Diesel"

5. OOPS! what does it stands for in Management institutes now a

days......just like P2P which jocularly stands for Pornography is the way to profitbility.

ANSWER:
it stands for Opting Out of Placements.....and one entry said it is "S***"!
[ the top scorer in this quiz...] I donno whether he means the question or he tried
the answer....well if it is to the question the credit goes to ET coz the source for this is
ET...{J/k}

6. If you associate Alaipayythe to BRU , to which brand would you associate

the film Alavandan or the hindi verson Abay with?

ANSWER:
Akila Moni said : its some stupid oil company GOLDWINNER
Btw which oil did u use Akila ............?.

7. If I offered you Waiste overalls, what I would have offered you?

ANSWER:
I would have offered u Jeans coz its the old name for Jeans , Levi has this info.

8. In which commercial would you come across HSB- Hotel Saravana Bhavan..?
Vim Bar

9. What is Channel W?

ANSWER:
Its seems that there is no Wiproities in Quiznet. 'Channel W’ – a new e-home for
Wiproites.
Using the ubiquitous internet, Wipro through the channel W portal is attempting to
bond its 9500 employees spread across several locations and geographies. It addresses
all the areas that an employee needs- community, collaboration and care, say Wipro
officials. The portal brings out the fun element through its funky design. It has affinity
clubs, message board, chat, intranet search, personalization engine and even a space for
Wiproites to buy and sell stuff, be it a book on XML (extensible mark-up language) or
an used xylophone. Wiproites say that “ W” in Channel W besides representing the
company also stands for Web, World and Winning.
10.To log off tell me with out logging on......if you are in this site
www.amex.com what you will be looking at ?

obviously stock prices ....it takes u to american stock exchange.......

1. Who was signed up to endorse the ‘Cinnamon’ ready

to wear garments from Reid & Taylor ?

Ans: Hrithik Roshan

2. Which company has Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw as

its director ?

Ans: The answer I was looking for is Eastern India

Hotels(EIH). But there were a few other companies that
had been mentioned by the respondents. I have given
marks to those who have mentioned EIH, Brittania or
Nagarjuna Fertilizers.

Srinivasan of Interactive-I adds:

This question has more than one answer. Actually he is

a high profile personlaity, that he is often used as a
guinea pig in many boards. I remember he was into some
legal hurdle by being in the board of prudential
capital which took the investors for a ride. He is
currently in the boards of East India Hotels and
Brittania. But I feel a celebrity like him will be in
the board of many more companies.

( P.S: I checked in the web and got the following

companies with him on the board
Nagarjuna Fertilizer Limited
Goetze India Limited
Snowcem India Limited
Muller & Phipps INdia Limited
Indian charge Chrome limited
INdian Metals and Ferro Alloys

Ooph!!). Thanks Srini for the efforts.

3. This personality has had a chequered career. Born

at uzhavoor in kerala, he studied in the London School
of Economics where he was a student of Mr. Harold
Laski. He began his career as a lecturer in English,
and quickly switched over to journalism before joining
the Indian Foreign Service(IFS) in 1949. He served in
various capacities, including as ambassadors to China
and the US. He was the external affairs minister in
1985 – 86. Who am I talking about ?

Ans: President K.R. Narayanan

4. In September last year, Which Saudi business group

made a proposal to acquire shares in the ailing
Pakistan International Airlines Investment Ltd.(PIAIL)
? ( yes, it was after the Terror Tuesday)

Ans: Bin Laden Associates, owned by Osama’s family.

They have distanced themselves from Osama.

5. Intel has decided to discontinue a business it

started in 1998 due to lack of profitability and a
desire to focus on its core business. Which business
is it going to discontinue ?

Ans: Consumer Electronics Business

6. Ogilvy One India recently bagged the Echo Awards in

NewYork for the direct marketing programme that its
Bangalore unit had done for a particular brand. Name
the brand.

Ans: A1 tea brand of HLL

7. In the entertainment industry, what is a Q-factor ?

Ans: It refers to well-knownness and likability. Andy

Griffith, Meryl Streep and Oprah Winfrey could
successfully advertise a large number of products
because they have extremely high ratings for
well-knownness and likability. In celebrity
endorsements, the celebrity should have high
recognition, high positive effect, and high
appropriateness to the product.

8. On the net, if the domain ‘.com’ is for

commercial organization , what does ‘.org’ indicate ?

Ans: Non-Profit Organisation. I did not give marks to

those who had mentioned only organisation.

9. Before joining Wipro Infotech as its first CEO,

which company was Ashok Narasimhan working for ?

Ans: TELCO

10. In Computer Parlance, what is a condom ?

Ans: The plastic covers used to wrap the floppies and

the transparent cover that rests over the keyboard are
commonly referred to as condoms.

1.In which commercial that’s on air currently you come across the logo as well as the
company name displayed simultaneously from the beginning of the ad till it ends.
Probably this is the only company to adopt this method I believe. The logo as well as the
brand name will be displayed at the lower left-hand portion. The Company is an FMCG
Company and is HQ in Chennai. Name the two-letter logo and the company name? well
If u could get the two-letter logo u would have got the company name too. [Clue:
Recently they have extended their product portfolio to shampoo] Answer: Cavin Kare ,
CK ...surjit adds that "Cavin means beauty in Tamil" They have recently extended
Meera shikakai to Meera Shampoo!

2.Which six letter word is common to cybergrl inc and Bennet Colman and co.
Answer: FEMINA only Surjit got this right..A magazine from Bennet
colman is femina and it is a search engine from cybergrl inc.

3.Which profession is disliked by Henry Ford?

Answer: Accounts profession ...No body got this one right ..he considers it as an
UNPRODUCTIVE WORK!

4.If you associate Think with IBM tell me to which Company will u associate Th!nk
[with downward i ] with and it happens to be its TM?
Answer: Ford Motor Company

5.What does R in WagonR stands for?

Answer: Roadside.. btw Surjit could u pl let me know the source of it

coz I myself donno the answer for it. i just simply framed the
question to find out the correct answer frm the quiz gang..I dont think so
maruti and suzuki has this info..[ie expansion for R] can u
let us know how u got the answer...plz
6.The SentraCA from Nissan Motor Co. is the first gasoline fuelled vehicle to be certified
by California’s Air Resources Board as a super ultra low emission vehicle…ok. What
does CA stands for?

Answer: Clean Air

7 . This brand is 81 yrs old and even today is the houselhold name as far as rainwear is
concerned. It has a very strong brand equity since its inception in 1920 and it is made by
BENGAL WATERPROOF LTD.,Which brand am I talking about?
Answer : DUCKBACK

7. Every one knows Y2k tell me what is FRY 2K?

Answer : McDonalds theme for Year 2000.

8. Strange Brew is the first of its kind. It is first What?

Answer : First Java based virus

9. If Citibank : e-serve Intl ; Stanchart: ?

Answer: E-serve is a dedicated back office processing hub for citibank similarly for
Standard Chartered Grindlays it is SCOPE INTERNATIONAL

10. What does MMR in All-Out Mosquito repellants stands for?

Answer: Mosquito Mortality Rate

11. In Emami Mentho Plus commercial what does DUM formula mean?
Answer: Double Unified Medication

1. What did Coca-Cola sell, and to whom, for a

consideration of $3billion, in 1989?
#Columbia Pictures, to Sony-These large corporates
were realising that it's better to focus on ones core
competence rather than dabbling in all and sundry!
2. Which company's adline, rather ironically, was
"Geography is History"?
# Iridium, the satellite telephone service promoted by
Motorola. The company itself became history not long
after it was launched
3. Which popular vortal has been launched by Sanjeev
Bikchandani?
# Naukri.com-I guess many of you must have visited and
used the vortal!
4. What resulted when Henry Wells, John Butterfield,
William Fargo, William and John Livingstone, James
Wasson and James McKay met at Buffalo, New York in
1850?
# American Express Company. The company was originally
formed to provide courier service. It later, in
stages, diversified into traveller's cheques, travel
services, banking, and finally, into credit cards
5. This company was founded on 18 July 1968 as NM
Electronics. By what name is the company known today?
(Eminently workoutable)
# Intel, of course, from its founders, Robert Noyce
and Gordon Moore
6. If it was terylene in Britain, what was it in the
USA?
# Dacron-terylene is ICI's brand name, while dacron is
Du Pont's
7. Jack Welch, former CEO of GE, was nicknamed
"Neutron". Why?
# He made GE more efficient and cost effective by
substantial downsizing. So, while the offices and
factories survived, the people disappeared-an effect
also created by neutron bombs, which kill people but
don't destroy property or equipment
8. What quintessentially American product is popularly
known as "Hogs"?
#Harley-Davidson motorcycles. The name is derived from
the eponymous HOGs-an acronym for Harley Owners'
Groups-a society formed by Harley-Davidson as a
promotool
9. This young man, who had initially studied physics
at the redoubtable Caltech before turning to law,
started tinkering with what technology at the age of
twenty-nine, with momentous results for himself and
for the world? And who, incidentally, was this young
man?
# Chester Carlson-the man who invented the
photocopying machine. His first photocopy, of a piece
of paper bearing the words "10-22-38 Astoria" is the
stuff of many a quiz question
10. Which financial hero turned villain pioneered the
use of junk bonds to finance leveraged buyouts (LBOs),
and in which financial company was he working during
this period?
# Mike Millken; Drexel Burnham Lambert
11. Which telecom services giant is the present owner
of the "Orange" brand name?
# France telecom, which acquired the brand when it
purchased the Orange company, which provides cellular
service in the UK, from Vodaphone, which in turn had
acquired it from Mannesmann, which in turn had
acquired it from the original promoter-Li Ka Shing's
Hutchison group-sounds complicated, doesn't it?
12. Which Indian economist coined the term "Hindu rate
of growth" to refer to India's modest economic growth
rate during the sixties and seventies?
# Professor Raj Krishna
13. What connects the wicket keepers Godfrey Evans and
Farokh Engineer with crooner, actor and lovable clown
Kishore Kumar?
# They have all been featured in Brylcream
advertisements
14. Why was the Ford T model so-called?
# It followed the Ford S model
15. What, according to management guru Sumantra
Ghoshal, is the "525 rule'?
# 25% of a company's sales revenue should accrue from
products launched during the last 5 years
16. What feminist organisation has been launched
recently by Urvashi Butalia?
# Kali for Women-a publishing company which publishes
women's works
17. Why should auto executive Lee Iacocca have been
grateful to Hollywood actor Steve McQueen, in a
professional sense?
# Lee Iacocca, as is well known, played a crucial role
in the development and launch of the Ford Mustang. The
car, which the intrepid police officer Steve McQueen
drove in the film "Bullitt", was the Ford Mustang.
This film did a lot to popularise the car, and its
success, in turn, gave a big boost to Iacocca's career
in Ford
18. What is common to Frank Packer (f/o Kerry Packer),
Thomas Lipton and Ted Turner?
# They have all sponsored, and participated in, the
America's Cup race
19. What is "Gombas" the acronym of?
# "Grossly Overpaid MBAs"
20. Which was India's first branded gent's shirt to be
marketed nationally?
# Liberty-not Charagh Din, as answered by many
1. What ‘Giant’ is to RPG, this is to Pantaloons.

Ans: Big Bazaar. Giant is the hypermarket from RPG

whereas Big Bazaar is the hypermarket from Pantaloons.

2. According to Warren Buffett, Chairman of Berkshire

Hathaway, who is ‘The Tiger Woods of Management’ ?

Ans: Jack Welch. I found this on the cover page of the

book 'Jack: Straight from the Gut' by Jack Welch and
John A. Byrne.

3. Everyone knows E-mail. Now what is E-tail ? (I want

explanation, not just expansion)

Ans: Retailing on the Net. i.e. Electronic Retail.

Companies such as Amazon.com.

4. How would you better connect ‘Dan Burke and Alan

Morrison’ with Bill Gates ?

Ans: Bill Gates wrote the book ‘Business at the speed

of thought’, whereas these two wrote the book
‘Business at the speed of stupid’.

Anuradha adds th follwing.

BUSINESS AT THE SPEED OF STUPID VS BUSINESS AT THE

SPEED OF THOUGHT. THE FIRST IS THE NAME OF THE BOOK BY
DAN BURKE AND ALAN MORRISON AND THE SECOND IS THE BOOK
OF BILL GATES. THE FIRST IS ON THE MISTAKES OF
HURTLING INTO TECH VS BILL GATES VISION THAT THE WORLD
WILL SOON BE RULED BY TECHNOCRATS. ALAN MORRISON,
DESPITE THE COPYCAT TITLE IS A CONSULTANT TO MICROSOFT
ON WEB TECHNOLOGIES, STRATEGIES AND BUSINESSES

Thanks to Anu for the efforts.

5. Which former American Senator is on the Board of

Infosys ?

Ans: Larry Pressler

6. Who is the first Indian to have won the World’s

Young Business Achiever Award in 2000 ? (K-10)
Ans: Manoj Tirodkar of Global Tele Systems(GTL). It is
one of the 10 favourite stocks of Ketan Parekh.

Global Telesystems, floated in 1987 with three

employees, is today a powerhouse in the IT field with
combined turnover of over Rs. 700 crore and a market
cap of Rs. 6,800 crore.

7. This was formerly known as Blue Ribbon Sports

Company.

Ans: Nike

Manivannan adds the follwing.

Here goes the Nike timeline

1960 - Bill Bowerman handcrafts shoes for his runners
at the University of Oregon.
1962 - Phil Knight successfully pitches his business
plan, which he developed while at Stanford's business
school, to the Onitsuka Tiger company and begins
Nike's roots in a company he called Blue Ribbon
Sports.

Good work Mani.

8. The Competitors of IBM were once called BUNCH. B

was Burroughs, U was Univac, C was Control Data. What
about N and H ?

Ans: NCR and Honeywell. Some of the other answers

given were Novell, HP etc.

9. In Management context, who are ‘High Productivity -

fad producers’ ?

Ans: Consultants, according to Alvin Toffler, the

futurist and Business Consultant.

10. This person, notorious in another field in the

early 90’s was admitted to the Lala Lajput Rai College
under the cricket quota. He aspired to play for the
country but could not make it to the college cricket
team. Who ?
Ans: Harshad Mehta who died recently. He was a left
arm spinner for his school cricket team - apparently a
defensive bowler in the mould of Dilip Doshi rather
than an attacking bowler like Prassana.

1. Which company recently launched a breakthrough MP3

Player called iPod, that holds upto 1000 songs and
fits in your pocket ?

Ans: Apple Computers Inc.

2. How is the Italian Airline ALITALIA jocularly

called ?

Ans: Always Late In Take-off And Late In Arrival.

Arrived Late In Turin And Luggage In Australia.

Though the first one is more common, I have given

marks to all those who have answered either one of
these.

3. i2 Technologies was set up in 1988 in Dallas by Mr.

Sanjiv Sidhu. Which company did he leave to start i2
Technologies ?

Ans: Texas Instruments

4. This was earlier called Dun & Bradstreet Satyam

Software(DBSS). How do we know it better today ?

Ans: Cognisant Technology Solutions(CTS)

5. In the early 1960s I founded a company with less

than $500 in Capital and thereby gave birth to an
industry – the Sports Management and Sports Marketing
Industry. Today the company has grown, with offices
around the world and several hundred million dollars
in annual revenues. Who am I ?

Ans: Mark H. McCormack, founder and chairman of

International Management Group (IMG), and author of
"What they Don't Teach You at Harvard Business
School".

6. It was a massive machine weighing 30tons. It had

17,468 vacuum tubes, thousands of switches, hundreds
of cables and it could perform 5000 operations a
second. Which machine am I talking about ?

Ans: ENIAC.

Manivannan adds:

ENIAC, the Electrical Numerical Integrator and

Computer, was not the first computer developed, but it
opened the door for everything that would follow.
Weighing in at just over 30 tons with 18,000 vacuum
tubes, 1500 relays and hundreds of thousands of
resistors, capacitors and inductors it was the first
multipurpose computer. Within a decade commercial uses
of computers were introduced and it was largely due to
the pioneering accomplishments of ENIAC. John Mauchly
and J. Presper Eckert would have made Charles Babbage
proud with their invention of the ENIAC.

Thanks Manivannan for the info.

7. He claims to be a man of extraordinary

achievements. Appointed a trial judge in the Punjab
High Court when he was only 24, he had little doubt
that had he stayed on in the land of his birth he
‘would have been the Chief Justice of India based on
Seniority alone’. Instead he went off to the US,
where, in 1985, he became the only person of Indian
origin to become the Dean of a State Law school, the
Southern University Law Centre in Louisiana, the job
he still holds. Identify him.
(Hint: A couple of months back, he was in the midst of
controversy for the BJP government).

Ans: Bhisma Kumar Agnihotri. He was actually appointed

as the advisor to the Indian Embassy in the United
States.

8. Who was recently elected as the Senior

Vice-President of FICCI ?

Ans: A.C. Muthiah. He was formerly Senior VP of FICCI,

but had to resign to concentrate on the cricket
scandal investigations. After his unsuccessful bid for
the post of BCCI Chief he was recently elected to the
post again thereby succeeding R S Lodha. R S Lodha
recently took over as President of Ficci.

9. Which retail chain carries the tagline ‘Because the

world can wait’ ?

Ans: Qwikys Coffee chain

10. Which two companies have instituted the Millenium

Dreamer’s Award for young people around the world who
are making a difference to their communities ?

Ans: McDonalds and Walt Disney in association with

UNESCO and Readers Digest.

27. In France, it is known as 'Alerte A Malibu'. Venezuelans call it 'Guardianes

de la Bahia'. The Hebrew title is 'Mishmar Ha - Mifratz'. How do we
know it?
Baywatch

25. T-series was founded by the late Gulshan Kumar in India to manufacture and
market audiotapes. What did the 'T' in the title stand for ?
Trishul

24. With who or what do you associate Henry Scarpelli and Craig Boldman?
Archies Comics

21. The Indian Air Force has a fleet of ATJ Surya Kirans made by HAL
Bangalore.What does ATJ stand for?
Advanced Trainer Jets

20. We have heard about Hardware, Software, Shareware, Freeware, Firmware and
Shovelware. What is Bloatware?
A software that takes up too much of memory space

18. In the food industry, what does RDA mean ?

Recommended Dietary Allowance

11. Who coined the phrase “Cyberspace” ? Also name the reference
Wllliam Gibson in the book Neuromancer

1. ‘Climacool’ which features a 360 degree ventilation

is a new footwear technology from which company ?

Ans: ADIDAS
2. Who is called the father of Experiential Marketing?

Ans: Bernd H. Schmitt, Professor at Columbia Business

School and author of Experiential Marketing. To know
more on the topic visit www.exmarketing.com

3. Swirl, Sniff, Scrutinise and Sip are the four S’s

for judging what product ?

Ans: Wine. Some had answered Tea.

4. Apart from presenting Ritu Beri’s show in Paris

last july, its other associations have come by being
available in Six International Airlines and with
Indian Cuisine abroad. Which brand am I talking about?

Ans: Kingfisher

5. SpeedWings is the consultancy division and wholly

owned subsidiary of which airline company ?

Ans: British Airways. Handles mainly the back-office

operations for many airlines. When most other
companies are retrenching, this company is
aggressively recruiting. An estimate says that it
requires 5000 professionals in the next 5 years.

6. Which Indian businessman was part of the team that

built the Intel 486 micro processor ? ( u will have to
go below the poverty line to answer this question)

Ans: Rajeev Chandrasekhar of BPL Innovision. Some felt

the clue was unnecessary.

7. Which website launched by Time Warner a few years

ago, to take it to the next generation of media was
abandoned some time back ?

Ans: pathfinder.com

8. In PVR Cinemas What does PVR stand for ?

Ans: Priya Village Roadshow. Ajjay Bijli’s Priya

collaborated with Village Roadshow, an Australian
company based in Singapore to form Priya Village
Roadshow(PVR) in 1994.
9. Which fast food giant has put its british
coffee-shop chain Aroma for sale ?

Ans: McDonalds

10. To ‘get 10 on 10 in business’ what should one do ?

Ans: Buy Business Today which is now available only at

Rs.10(A special offer for this year as BT is
celebrating its 10th successful year). This is
actually an adline in BT. That is the reason I had
given the adline in quotes. Only Nilanshuk Haldar got
it right. I hope most of u would appreciate this
question. U can expect such questions from me in
future too. Aravind was very close but got it as
Business World.

1. In Levi's 501, what does `01' represent?

(THE CONE MILLS FABRIC SUPPLIED EXCLUSIVELY TO LEVI'S. Most of the
participants mentioned that 01 represents the first lot that came
with rivets. 5 Pockets and 1 zip was the most creative answer from
one of the respondents J )

2. `Dole' and `Chikita' are two famous global brands. Identify the
product category they belong to?
(BANANAS. Almost everyone who scored got this right. Shafeek says
that he remembers this jingle from his childhood days: "Tropical,
Natural, It's so healthy Chiquita means banana to me.")

3. Which aftershave allows its users to experience the brand even if

they cannot afford a bike? (HARLEY DAVIDSON. Yamaha was someone's
choice)

4. According to Dilbert comic strips, which is the most used

management lie?
(OUR EMPLOYEES ARE OUR GREATEST ASSET. Ram Kumar came very close
with "we care for our people.")

5. Which optical networking company is named after a tree that lives

for more than 500 years?
(SYCAMORE NETWORKS. Sequoia, Juniper and Banyan were the most common
responses. But what I was looking for was a Sycamore)

6. What do the three stripes on Adidas' logo represent?

(THE THREE SONS OF ADI DASSLER, THE COMPANY'S FOUNDER. This
question
remained the hardest nut to crack)

7. Which brand of watches is named after a highly popular Mexican car

race event of the 60s and is meant for those who dream to be inside
the cockpit of a F1 car some day?
(CARRERA. Teg Huer was the most popular response but no one gave the
correct answer)

8. When McDonald's began its operations, what was the name given to
the small conference room where the top management used to conduct
meetings?(Clue: the name depicts how seriously the company plays the
hamburger game)
(WAR ROOM. Only Shafeek cracked this. Kudos to your prowess. Shafeek!
are you listening?)

9. In stock market jargon, what is the name given to a scrip that can
be picked up at almost nothing but where you can find substantial
value?
(CIGAR BUTT. None of the respondents gave the correct answer)

10. What did Percy Shaw in invent about 70 years back while driving
late at night down a steep hill and when he was worried that he might
come off the road because there were no road markings?
(CAT'S EYES. Power Brakes and Anti-skid Tyres were the other guesses)

1. Other than the audiences even Investors and Media

analysts were excited about the film “Gadar - Ek Prem
Katha”. Why?

Ans: Gadar is the first Indian movie for which all its
18 crore budget spending was by cheque. Actors,
technicians, suppliers and even spotboys, who make a
measely Rs.100/day were paid by cheque.

Krishnamurthy, Balasubramanian, Jaideep and Ankur Jain

got this right. ‘Zee Tv’s first production venture’
was the most popular answer.

2. This company which was in the midst of controversy

recently was earlier called Century finance. How do
we know it better today? (Hint: US-64)

Ans: Cyberspace Infosys(currently called as Cyberspace

ltd). P.S. Subramaniam was arrested for causing a
wrongful loss of Rs.32.08 crore by investing in this
company.

3. US-64 Scheme claimed an unusual victim. Not only

did this victim put in big sums into US-64, but it
also ploughed back the dividends earned from it into
the same scheme. Name this victim. (Hint: Politics)

Ans: CPI(M) : The Communist Party of India - Marxists.

Aadil, Chakrabarti Udayan, Biju and Jaideep gpt this

right.

4. What is the Sonata Privilege club called as?

Ans: The Imperial Exclusives. This will be mentioned

on the left bottom corner of the Hyundai Sonata ad.

I apologise not to have mentioned Hyundai. Only one

attempted this question.

5. What was developed by four scientists from the

Indian Institute of Science (IISc),and is being
marketed by Encore Software Technologies, Bangalore?

Ans: Simputer.

6.Which brand of watch from Tissot is also a premium

chocolate from Cadbury?

Ans: Temptations. Tissot launched this watch last

month. This T-Shaped watch is just Rs. 13500/-

7. Connect Amitabh Bachchan, Indira Gandhi, Rajiv

Gandhi and Benazir Bhutto.

Ans: All are on display as wax statues in Madame

Tussaud Wax Museum. Late Pop Queen Nazia Hassan is
set to enter Tussaud.

8. Outside India, this is known as ‘Suzuki Alto’. How

do we know it better in India?

Ans: Maruti Zen.

Victor Bhattacharjee had answered Esteem, but Maruti

Esteem is called abroad as ‘Suzuki Swift’.
9. Which company carries the baseline ‘Your limousine
in the sky’?
Ans: Deccan Aviation, the bangalore based Helicopter
Charter company.

10. If the Tata holding company is TATA SONS what is

the Birla holding company called as?

Ans: Pilani Investments

1. Which UK based retail chain has decided to set up

an exclusive franchise outlet at the Crossroads,
Mumbai ?

Ans: Marks and Spencers.

2. What was founded by Jonathan Sachs and Mitch Kapor

?

Ans: Lotus Development Corporation.

3. Which brand of car would you associate with the

Anil Kapoor and Rani Mukherjee starrer ‘Nayak’ ?

Ans: Mahindra Bolero

4.What is common to Kelloggs chocos biscuits, Gilbey’s

Green label whisky, Lacoste ethnic kurtas and Kissan
Annapurna atta apart from the fact they are all
consumer goods items ?

Ans: They were all introduced by global companies

specifically for the Indian market.

5. What is in great demand as dowry in rural bengal

beating even cash and gold as bridal gifts ?

Ans: BOATS – Because floods have become an annual

feature. They have even gone a step ahead and are
asking for potential brides who know swimming.

Only Sivakumar had answered this question. Even he was

not sure whether it was boats or Umbrellas.
6. On 14th July, an article in Economic Times read as
follows. ‘Nike unveils Net video tour of Vietnam
factory’. What is the story behind this ?

Ans: There are widespread allegations that Nike’s

products are made in Sweat shops. To lay these
allegations at rest and to emphasize good pay,
benefits and better working conditions, Nike unveiled
the Net video tour of its Vietnam factory.

Most of u got this right.

7. Fat Boy and Road King are two of them. Name the
third.

Ans: V-ROD. These are the three models of Harley

Davidson. V-ROD is the latest of these three.

No one got this right. However I have given ½ point to

all those who have spotted the Harley Davidson
connection.

8. Which cricketer was signed up recently to endorse

Reebok ? (Hint : This cricketer is not there in the
Indian team at present)

Ans: Dinesh Mongia.

Very few got this right. VVS Laxman was the popular
answer.

9. Who wrote the book “The Essential Drucker” ( In one

volume the best of sixty years of Peter Drucker’s
essential writings on Management) ?

Ans: That was a googly. It is Peter Drucker himself.

Quite a few got this right.

10. Rudolf Dassler parted ways with his brother Adolf

Dassler and started a new company. What did he name
his company as ?

Ans: Clean Bowled Sir. Only Presenjit Sengupta got it

right. Hats off to him.
The correct answer is RUDA which was later renamed as
Puma.

1. ‘Work Naked’ is a book written by Cynthia C.

Frogatt . What is the book all about (Hint: This
concept has been found to be successful throughout
the world – It gives better results) ?

Ans: Telecommuting - Work from home

2. FBI, well before the September 11 attack had

discovered that two things were missing. One was
weapons. What was the other (449 weapons and 184
_________ were found missing) ?

Ans: Laptops.
A good number of people got this right.

3. What Penegra is to Cadilla Healthcare, this is to

Ranbaxy Laboratories?

Ans: Caverta.
They are all desi versions of viagra.

4. Who is the founder of STAR Tv. (Hint: Asia’s

Broadband)?

Ans: Richard Li.

Many got stumped with this question. Popular answer
was Rupert Murdoch. Quite a few had answered Li Ka
Shing, father of Richard Li and popularly called the
Hutchinson Whampoa. I did a small research to get
sufficient proof to back my answer.

Richard Li - Cyber star in the making

30 March 2001- ZDNetAsia

Richard Li is easily one of the most recognizable

names in the Internet and telecommunications industry.
The second son of Hong Kong tycoon Li Ka-Shing, this
35-year old wunderkind is the chairman and chief
executive of both Pacific Century Group (PCG) and
Pacific Century CyberWorks Limited (PCCW), as well as
chairman of Pacific Century Regional Developments
Limited.
The Stanford University computer engineering (never)
graduate first came into public attention when he
created Asia’s first satellite cable television
network – Star TV – at the tender age of 26. The
global subscriber base shot up to over 53 million
homes and three years later, Star TV was valuable
enough for Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. to pay a
colossal US$525 million for it. That amount, industry
experts say, was a tad higher than what it was
actually worth.

5. He was dating Hollywood sex symbol Salma Hayek,

until recently. Before that he wanted to take ordinary
people to space. This Stanford MBA has just taken a
49% stake in Vinay Rai’s Koshika Telecom. Who am I
talking about?
Ans: Chirinjeev Kathuria

6. Tailwinds, registered in Isle of Mann is a holding

company of which airways?

Ans: Jet Airways

This was recently in the news because, still no one is
sure as to who finances this company. Politicians are
confused whether Jet Arways is a domestic or a foreign
company.

7. What is common to Kensington, WestMinister,

Canterbury and Mayfair ?
(Hint: They bear the Union Jack logo – check how much
time u take to answer this question)

Ans: Range of Water Resistant watches from Reebok. Now

that u know the answer go back and read the hint. Hint
within a hint. Does not the quiz master deserve a word
of appreciation.

None of them got this right though a few were able to

identify it to be Reebok models.

8. Which company was started 25 years ago by Charles

Wang, funded only by a credit card?

Ans: Computer Associates

9. Which retail chain has launched a 101 day

promotional exercise called ‘Seven wonders of the
world’ across all its 8 stores?

Ans: Shoppers Stop. As per this promotional scheme

four lucky winners will be taken across the seven
wonders of the world. To be eligible for the lucky dip
customers will have to purchase for a minimum of
Rs.1500 acorss any of its 8 stores.

10. What is being advertised as India’s hottest radio

channel?

Ans: Radio Mirchi, the Times FM channel launched

recently in Indore.

2.0 Which bank acted as the Central Bank till the time
Reserve Bank of India came into existence in 1935 ?

Ans : Imperial Bank.

3.0 When India attained Independence, there were 245

Nos. of Indian and foreign companies in this business.
Which business?

Ans : Insurance.

4.0 This steel plant in India which was set up in 1919

was the second in the country in the area of making
steel. Which company?

Ans : IISCO.

5.0 Which Principal language in India does not have a

newspaper?

Ans : Kashmiri.

6.0 Which company was the first to develop DVD

recorder?

Ans : Philips.

7.0 Who is the three legged god of wealth in hindu

mythology, who is never formally worshipped?

Ans : Kubera.
8.0 Which establishment is located at No.11, 2nd Line
Beach, Chennai – 1?

Ans : Madras Stock Exchange.

9.0 Which currency is also called “Pink & healthy

baby”?

Ans : Euro.

10.0 Whom did Fortune Magazine name as “The Business

Man of the Century”?
Ans : Henry Ford.

11.0 Which Bank has a Fixed Deposit scheme named

“Pranam” for Senior Citizens?

Ans : Global Trust Bank.

12.0 Which famous auto company is based in Dearborn,

Michigan?

Ans : Ford.

13.0 In which year was the decimal coinage system

introduced in India?

Ans : 1957.

14.0 Which is the largest business park in India?

Ans : Millennium Business Park in Mumbai.

15.0 This company was set up as NM Electronics in

Silicon Valley in 1968? By what name is it known
today?

Ans : Intel Corporation.

16.0 Which brand of Tea, popular in South India, has a

flowery name?

Ans : Three Roses.

17.0 What is the name of Bayer’s wonder medicine to

treat “Anthrax”?
Ans : Cipro.

18.0 Which publishing firm brought out “The Road

Ahead” by Bill Gates?

Ans : Penguin Books.

19.0 Who first concocted Coca-Cola?

Ans : John Styth Pemberton.

20.0 “Corporate Cocktails” is the theme of purple

colored cotton shirts of which brand?

Ans : Van Huesen.

21.0 Of which company Mr.Tom Freston is the Chairman &

CEO?

Ans : MTV Network.

22.0 Which is the first All India Trade Union

registered in India?

Ans : AITUC, in 1920.

23.0 This famous website was launched by Pierre

Omidyan in 1995. Name it.

Ans : e-bay.com

24.0 Tiger Woods quite controversially endorsed golf

balls of two different companies simultaneously. One
is Nike. Which is the other?

Ans : Titliest.

25.0 Which Japanese company introduced the Mega hit

toy, “e-kara”?

Ans : Takara.

FINAL
.....
A. OLD IS GOLD.

1. Current Affairs – As on September 11th. who holds

the 99 years lease of the World Trade Center twin
towers.

Ans : Larry Silverstein.

2. Reliance Industries has entered into alliance with

Bangalore based Indus League for its sole branded
garment. Name the brand.

Ans : Reance.

3. This Marwari community is perhaps the oldest in the

profession of business. They hail from a place called
“Agroha” in Haryana. Which particular community am I
talking about?

Ans : Agarwals

4. Of which Multi National Company Carlo Donati is the

CEO in India?

Ans : Nestle.

5. This Industrial conglomerate was founded by Chung

Ju Yung, a peasant’s son from North Korea in 1947.
How do we know this group today?

Ans : Hyundai.

6. Retailer Landmark of Chennai has opened its outlet

in Calcutta jointly with a perfume major of Eastern
India. Name the group.

Ans : Emami.

7. This international food chain , departing from

their global practice, opened a hundred percent
vegetarian outlet in Ahmedabad. Which chain ?

Ans : Pizza Hut

B. NEW IS TRENDY

1. Of which company “Blue Wave” is a bluetooth

protocol stack software?

Ans : Wipro.

2. “Enterprise One” is a enterprise maintenance system

solution product for the global aviation industry
jointly developed by this company with “Boeing”of USA.
Which company?

Ans : Ramco Systems.

3. Who is the Chairperson of GoT – IT ( Group on

Telecom and Information Technology) ?

Ans : Finance Minister of India.

4. What is “Poizon Box” ?

Ans : This is a hacker’s group which hacked the

website of National Institute of Science, Technology &
Development ( NISTAD) under CSIR.

5. DSS Mobile, is the largest pager service company in

India. What does DSS stands for?

Ans : Dalmia – Samsung – Sankyo.

6. Who has an online company name “Sportgate” to help

promote his sports business?
Ans : Borris Becker.

7. As per Itnation Business Review, which is the top

IT brand in Chennai ?

Ans : DAX

C. MISCI – BABA.

1. If you are travelling by train on your business

tour and your ticket says your destination code as
“R”. Where are you going to?

Ans : Raipur.

2. On a normal business trip abroad ( except Nepal &

Bhutan ), how much maximum foreign exchange does
Reserve Bank of India allow the CEO’s to take?

Ans : US $ 25,000.

3. On your trip to Germany ( and many other countries

) if you buy a ladies hand bag with a Monogram of SG,
who do you think has designed it?

Ans : Steffi Graf.

4. We are all aware of White Goods. What are “Brown

Goods”?

Ans : Entertainment Electrical & Electronic products

such as DVD, VCD, Handycam etc.

5. If you are holding a boarding pass with a

destination airport code “RAI”. Where are you flying
to ?

Ans : Praia, Sao Tiago, Cape Verde.

6. What do you understand by an “Earn Out Deal”?

Ans : A takeover / acquisition, where payment

consists of a part upfront amount and balance linked
to future performance of the company that is connected
to company’s profit before tax in the upcoming years.
The bought out company becomes wholly owned
subsidiary.

7.What does ‘ B ‘ in FCNR – B account stand for ?

Ans : Bank

D. VISUAL ROUND

Six visuals were shown and questions asked.

E.FAST TRACK

1. Name the Minister of Industries of Tamil Nadu

Government.

Ans : Mr. K. Pandurangan.

2. When was Reserve Bank of India Nationalised ?

Ans : !948.

3. Invented in 1956, it was patented as Wireless Space

Commander. How do we know it today?

Ans : Remote Control.

4. What is unique about the virus “Liberty A”?

Ans : This is the first trojan virus detected for

Palm handheld devices.

5. Which company has set up service centers branded

“Express Highway”?

Ans : Maruti.

6. Which Tamil Nadu Government undertaking has its

Headquarter located at “Pattu Malaigai”?

Ans : Co-Optex.

7. Name the Auto puncture seal, 2 Wheeler tubes

patented and marketed by Honda?

Ans : Tuffup.

8. Which private sector company hasthe dubious record

of incurring highest loss in one single year?

Ans : ESSAR STEEL, a net loss of Rs.581.2 Crore in

1999-2000.

9. Who is the present minister for tourism for Tamil

Nadu?

Ans : Tmt. R. Saroja.

10. Which is the largest circulated single edition

newspaper in India?

Ans : Ananda Bazar Patrika.

11. Who coined the word Motel ?

Ans : Arthur Heinman.

12. Zingaro, Sandpiper, Guru, Bullet & Turbo are beer

brands of which company?

Ans : Millennium Alcobev Breweries Ltd. (MABL).

13. Name the grandma in Ayurvedic Concepts / Himalaya

drugs advertisements?

Ans : Ava Mukherjee.

14. Who wrote the book “Shanti, Sukh, Shantushti”?

Ans : Subrata Roy of Sahara India.

15. Which Zonal Railway in India is the first to go

for a full fledged ERP system with Fiber Optic
Network?
Ans : Konkan Railways.

16. Which company’s product is “Sanjivan”?

Ans : SBI Life Insurance.

17. Which company introduced the popular software

program called “Eudora”?

Ans : Qualcomm.

18. Who is Secretary of Industries in Tamil Nadu

Government?

Ans : Mr. M. A. Gowrishankar.

19. Name the branded retail outlet of IOC which was

first opened in Mumbai?

Ans : Topgear.

20. Swiss Novartis was founded in 1996 by merging

which two companies?

Ans : Sandoz & Ciba Geigy.

21. Name the branded Cellular Mobile Service of MTNL?

Ans : Dolphin.

22. What kind of company is Swiss Rr?

Ans : Reinsuring Agent.

23. Whose Ad baseline is “Be first to know”?

Ans : CNN.

24. Which motorcycle is branded “ Poor Man’s Harley

Davidson” ?

Ans : Royal Enfield Bullet.

25. In which year does Indian Government plan to

introduce Euro – III norm for pollution?
Ans : 2005.

26. Which Financial Institution holds the major shares

in L & T?

Ans : Life Insurance Corporation.

27. Whose slogan was “Roti, Kapada, Makan, Bijili Aur

Bandwith”?

Ans : Dewang Mehta.

28. Besides orchid which other hotel in Mumbai has the

Ecotel certification?

Ans : Rodas.

29. Which country has decided to print only limited

number of commemorative Euro currency?

Ans : Vatican City.

30. Which hospitality group owns the outlet TGIF?

Ans : Radisson.

31. Which is the biggest Telecom Group of Italy?

Ans : Telecom Italia.

32. What was the first modeling assignment of

Aishwarya Rai?

Ans : Lion Pencil.

33. What is unique about the slogan “Drink

Coca-Cola”?

Ans : This is the first Coca-Cola advt. in 1886.

34. Stock Exchange DAX belongs to which country?

Ans : Germany.

35. Which is the largest computer manufacturer of

Japan?

Ans : Fujitsu.

36. Which is the largest Industrial Group in Europe?

Ans : ABB.

37. What does “Barista” mean in Italian language?

Ans : Bartender.

38. The word ‘mentor’ comes from which mythology?

Ans : Greek.

39. What will be the maximum denomination of Euro

note?

Ans : 500 Euro.

40. Which country as per United Nation has the best

living standard?

Ans : Norway.

41. For what the villages Margaux, Saint Julien,

Paulliac & Saint Estephe are famous?

Ans : Bourdeax Wine.

42. Which bank in India first introduced 24 Hours

banking?

Ans : HSBC.

43. Which company's brands are Valentine Whisky,

Beefeater Gin, Kalua Coffee liquor & Courvoisier
Cognac?

Ans : Allied Domecq.

44. Aspire brand PC belongs to which company?

Ans : ACER.
45. Which vehicle reminds us of a Spanish dance?

Ans : Bolero.

46. JJ Irani calls it, “The Metal of the future”.

Which metal?

Ans : Titanium.

47. “Grab life by the horn”. Ad line of which

company?

Ans : Daimler – Chrysler for Dodge division.

48. Which airlines terminated operation in India from

4th of November 2001?

Ans : Sabena.

F.WHO AM I ?

Three clues are given of a famous personality.

Identify them.

1.
a. My father was an immigrant and I lived above my
father’s hardware store in Corona in New York.
b. I started my enterprise by selling skin creams
formulated by my chemist uncle.
c. I transformed beauty into big business by
cultivating classy sales method and giving away
samples.

Who am I?

Ans : Este’e Lauder

2.
a. I did my schooling from Bombay Scottish and joined
Mithibai College.
b. After 12th, I joined Far Production, an advertising
company.
c. At 26, I have been Ernst & Young entrepreneur of
the year award winner for my startling success in the
entertainment industry.
Who am I?

Ans : Ekta Kapoor.

3.
a. I am an alumnus from the Art Centre of Design,
Pasadona.
b. I designed the lobby of Arthur Anderson’s Office in
New Delhi.
c. My fame is however in providing designers cars to
rich and famous.

Who am I?

Ans : Dilip Chhabria.( of DC Design)

4.
a. My first job was with Dalmia Cements.
b. My secret ambition was to become an MP or work in
Hindi Film.
c. I however sparkled as a colourful spookesman of the
Indian software / IT Industries.

Who am I?

Ans : Dewang Mehta.

5.
a. I graduated from IIT in the early seventies and
with my friend and colleague founded India’s one of
the most successful companies.
b. I was awarded the prestigious “Albert Einstein
Technology Medal” for my contribution to the global IT
industry.
c. I am now Chairman and CEO of Techspan Inc.

Who am I?

Ans : Arjun Malhotra. (ex. Founder HCL Group of

Industries )

6.
a. Born in 1909, I started my career as a foreign
correspondent of a newspaper
b. I have been clarke professor of social science and
management in clarement graduate university and author
of over 30 books in politics, economics, social
science and management.
c. I am an Austrian by birth and am settled in US
since 1937, working as professor in Management
Institutions and Business schools.

Who am I?

Ans : Peter F Drucker.

AUDIENCE QUESTIONS.

1.Which is the first Public Sector Company to be

listed on Mumbai Exchange?

Ans : Hindustan Petroleum.

2. Connect the number 1066 & Apollo Hospital.

Ans : Emergency Number.

3. How many digits are their in ISBN system of

numbering books and related articles?

Ans : 10.

4. As on Jan 2001, which European country failed to

satisfy the norms required by Euro Currency?

Ans : Sweeden.

5. In banking / forex terminology, what is RFC

account?

Ans : Resident Foreign Currency Account.

6. Before setting up McDonald’s what did Ray Kroc

sell, when he started his career as salesman.

Ans : Paper cups, followed by mixer.

7. China has 14, Japan 11 and Malaysia 3 of this

particular exchange. Which exchange?
Ans : Futures Exchange.

8. Warren Buffet advised to have enough and right kind

of three T’s for becoming successful investor. Two of
them are Time and Training. What is the Third?

Ans : Temperament.

9. Patent No.1,210,881 dated 20.03.1917 in US. What

is the product?

Ans : Zipper.

10. If you want to import original Panama caps, which

country, you will be importing from?

Ans : Equador.

11. Who floated $5.5 billion India Millenium Deposit

Fund?

Ans : SBI.

12. In Indian Railway reservation system, if “LD”

represent Ladies quota, what does “GN” represents?

Ans : General Quota.

13. Which office is located at 24, Homi Modi Street,

Fort, Bombay – 1?

Ans : Bombay House.

14. Which company’s “Cartoon brand” is ‘Tony the

Tiger’?

Ans : Kellogs.

15. Which company has introduced a voice command

service called “VOX” in India?

Ans : Orange.

16. Which is the largest Banking and financial group

in the world?
Ans : Citigroup.

17. Why does “SriKrishna Sweets” of Chennai calls

their Mysore Pak as “ Mysore Pa”?

Ans : Mysore pak is hard variety of sweets. Sri

Krishna Sweets makes soft variety. To differentiate,
they call it Mysore Pa.

18. Which is the largest Mobile Networking company in

the world?

Ans : Vodafone.

1. Sitter : Everyone is aware of World War I and II,

but what is World War 3.0 ?

Ans : A book written by Ken Auletta on Microsoft and

its enemies – Microsoft Antitrust case.

2. If ‘Think Big’ is to IBM, ‘Think Small’ is to which

company ?

Ans: Volkswagen Beetle

3. Leading Software education and IT solutions

provider SSI on completing a decade of Operations, had
unveiled its new logo and brand vision. What is that
brand vision ?

Ans: ‘Raising the Bar’. One can see this brand vision
everyday in Economic Times below ‘Management Bytes’.
Only Milind Gadagkar got this right and explained the
funda behind this.Well done Milind. The funda is as
follows.
SSI Ltd. has now adopted the new base line "raising
the bar" which stands for its commitment to exceed
expectations. its new logo consists of a red
semi-circle and a bold blue rectangle. while red
stands for productivity and leadership opportunities,
the circle represents openness, dynamism,and a sense
of restlessness.the blue embodies a strong moral
code,integrity and perfectionism, and the vertical
rectangle represents growth, solidity,and stability.
4. Which famous business personality, a racing
enthusiast, actually designed, built and raced a
Formula Ford in the National Championships in
Newzealand from 1971 to 1975 ?

Ans: Philip G. Spender who recently took over as CEO

and COO of Auto Alliance Intl. (JV between Ford and
Mazda) from Ford India.
Again only Milind got this correct.

5. My tryst with IT started way back in the 60’s. As a

student of IIM-Ahmedabad, I punched cards on a
computer ‘as big as a room’. In the 70’s I was remote
sensing data at Indian Space Research
Organisation(ISRO) and in the 80’s, I came up with the
concept of CLASS – Computer Literacy and Studies in
School. Who am I ?

Ans: Kiran Karnik the current President of Nasscom. He

was appointed in the place of Dewang Mehta who died
recently. Kiran Karnik was formerly head of Discovery
Communications.
Manivannan hit the nail at the top. Kudos to my
cousin.

6. Jack Welch was given a name by his employees which

he does not wish to be called with. What was he named
and Why ?

Ans: ‘Neutron Jack’. His employees named him so

because he cut 100,000 jobs between 1981 and 1985
which was indeed a painful act. They named him after
the neutron bomb that vaporizes people but leaves
buildings intact.

7. What is a Janata PC ?

Ans: Computer for the masses. Janata PC is a simple

concept. The government should negotiate for an India
specific price for critical components like CPU,
Operating System and Storage device for entry level
systems. These people’s PCs are expected to bring down
the price of PCs for mass use to Rs.15000-17500
levels. Janata PC is a long pending proposal of MAIT
which is a non-profit industry organization.
8. In December last year, Liverpool University had
come up with two novel B-School streams. Name them.

Ans: MBA in Music and Soccer Management.

Only Milind and Sunando Bhattacharya got this right.

9. We have heard about ‘Baby Bells’ and ‘Baby Flots’,

but what are ‘Baby Bills’ ?

Ans: Companies run by former Microsoft employees are

referred to as Baby Bills.
Only Bhaskara Rao and Navin Kumar gave this answer.
Everyone else had referred it as companies that will
emerge after Microsoft is split(which is also correct,
but not the answer I was looking for).
I give 2 points to those who gave the first answer and
the rest get 1 point.

10. Which Indian actress endorses the Movado range of

watches ?

Ans: Twinkle Khanna

1. What Sonata is to Hyundai, this is to General

Motors. Which car am I talking about ?

Ans: Vectra, D-Segment car from General Motors

2. What is the Sanjay Khan promoted television

software company called as ?

Ans: Numero Uno International Ltd.

3. Bangalore based Sri Aditi Enterprises have

introduced ‘Kaumarya Sankochan’, a speciality product
for women. What is this product all about ?

Ans: Herbal Viagra. No one got this right.

Some of the answers were Bindi, Panties,

Contraceptives, Anti-ageing pills, Sanitary Napkins,
and Bust enhancers.

4. This was formerly called Citicorp Information

Technologies India Ltd.(CITIL). How do we know it
today ?
Ans: I-Flex Solutions,a software company performing
extremely well even during a downturn.

5. Which company did Kumar Mangalam Birla (A.V. Birla

group) buy recently to get a toehold in the Software
Industry ?

Ans: PSI Data Systems

6. In computer circles, what is a honeypot ?

Ans: A Honeypot is a Computer designed to deceive

Computer intruders. It collects information and
monitors activity when it is breached, but does not
allow an intruder to get to any sensitive data or do
any damage.

7. What was developed by Indranil Majumdar that made

him the first Indian to win the Texas Instruments
Analog Design Challenge $100,000 award ?

Ans: A Railway Collision Avoidance System.

8. Which US actress was recently appointed goodwill

ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner
for Refugees(UNHCR) ?
(Hint: She recently donated $1 million for the Afghan
Refugees)

Ans: Angelina Jolie

9. The first thing that strikes when you read the best
selling and very subversive to current management
trends, book ‘Stewardship’ is the absolute lack of
Management Jargon. And no charts too. Just plain,
simple language. Which Management guru is the author
of this book ‘Stewardship’ ?

Ans: Peter Block

10. In what could be the first for the company,

Coca-Cola has launched a product without any TV
commercial or campaigns. Which product of Coca-Cola
gave a shock recently with a low key opening ?
Ans: Shock, an energy drink

1. Name the outfit which managed the recent 'The Great

Mall of Hyderabad' project.

Ogilvy Live, the event management division of

O&M, 4 people came close but only two got the exact
name of the outfit.

2. "Why throw the baby out with the bathwater" and "it
is like taking the flute away from Lord Krishna" were
the comments made by a popular personality recently.
Who is he and what was the context ?

Alyque Padamsee, on removing the waterfall from

the Liril Ad campaigns. Navjot Singh Sidhu was the
popular guess.

3. Name the two brands owned by KVIC (Khadi Village

Industries Commission) .

Khadi and Sarvodhaya, 3 got Khadi and none got

Sarvodhaya - their toiletries and washing soap brand.

4. How do we better know, Wakf Laboratories ?

Hamdard, decent hits

5. Trivia, What does Britannia and MRF together open ?

The Indian ODI innings, (Bat sponsors of

Saurav and Sachin respy.), Sitter but many got
stumped.

6. What was the idea behind the Wills campaign ' Made
for each other' ?

The basic idea of the tobacco and the filter

being made for each other, decent hits.

7. What first in India, is the claim to the fame of

Western Outdoor Advertising Pvt. Ltd. in the year 1972
at the Race Course in Bombay ?

Installing the first closed circuit TV(s);

few came close saying live coverage or telecast.

8. 'There are many books on Marketing. But these are

about Profits' - What was advertised with this adline?

GETIT B2B and B2C yellow pages, no hits.

9. What unique thing connects Grasim Gwalior and

Bombay Dyeing (In India)?

The first TV ad and the first Colour TV ad

(or colour ad to appear in TV in India) respectively,
Surprisingly only one got close.

10. What brand is the title sponsor for Miss India

2002 ?
Spic Henkel’s ‘Fa’, decent hits

11. Which company circulates a magazine called 'Hello'

to its customers ?

Club Mahindra, no hits.

12. Which brand roughly translates as 'shapeless or

clumsy lumps of food' ?

Dollops, surprising again, only one got it

and he too made a guess, I believe from the 3 question
marks.

13. What, in a print ad is the 'Key No.' ?

The no. at the bottom right or left

showing the agency name and the client account no. ,
decent hits.

14. What is the claim to the fame of Frank M.

Robinson, a book-keeper ?

Coined the name and designed the logo for -

‘Coca Cola’, few hits.

15. What is advertised with the adline "India's

largest selling pair" ?

Kurl-o-pillo from Kurl-on, no hits

16. Which is the most costliest public advertising
spot in the world ?

I was basically referring to hoardings, hence The

Times Square, NY; no hits.

18. In advertising, what is 'knocking copy'?

An advertisement which mentions the competitor

and its product details and faring in the market like
the kinds of newspaper’s talking about circulations of
competitors; decent hits.

19. What is advertised as 'Where millions of singles

meet' ? ( you would have seen it quite often !!)

Yahoo! Personals (people using yahoo now for

this, just scroll down a little bit more and you can
see that)

20. Remotely connected to business : "In Italy for

thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare,
terror, murder and bloodshed but they produced
Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance.
In Switzerland, they had brotherly love; they had five
hundred years of democracy and peace and what did they
produce? The cuckoo clock ?" - Who made this quote ?

Orson Welles

1. Which brand carries the ad line ‘If women are not

climbing the corporate ladders it is because they are
taking the elevators’ ?

Ans: FEMINA

2. Which recent model from Reebok is said to be a

‘stylish and trendy model’. It comes in a mesh design
that allows easy ventilation for the feet and is
priced at Rs.1290 ? (Hint : Name has a Physics
Connection)

Ans: Proton
3. Which Indian leather company has won an audit
certification from London’s leading retailer Marks and
Spencers to become a preferred supplier ?
(Hint: World’s largest ………………. )

Ans: Hi-Design . A few months back they had unveiled

the world's largest bag.

4. How would you connect Tarun Tahiliani, Rohit Bal,

Ritu Beri and Raghavendra Rathore other than the fact
that they are all fashion designers ?

Ans: They designed clothes for the Kingfisher clothing

line.

5. What Nestle is to McDonalds, this is to Pizza Hut ?

Ans: Barista. McDonalds has started serving Nestea and

Capuccino(Products of Nestle) at four of its outlets
in Delhi. In reply to this Pizza Hut has come to an
understanding with Barista to serve its beverages at
all its 22 outlets around the country.

6. What is Maruti N2N ?

Ans: Fleet Management Solutions from Maruti

7. This Chairman of the company has 13 regional

directors reporting to him. Those 13 have a total of
72 district managers reporting to them. And each of
those 72 district managers runs an operation the size
of a Fortune 1000 company. That’s just his core
business and he has several other business units to
oversee – a couple of them in revenues excess of $1
billion. Which company am I talking about ?
Hint: After 37 years with the company this chairman
will retire in January 2002)

Ans: United Parcel Service(UPS) commonly referred as

the BIG BLACK(Known for their black vans). The
chairman of the company is Jim Kelly.

8. Daewoo Matiz was voted as the Green Car of India in

the first green ratings by the Centre for Science and
Environment. Which vehicle was last in the race ?
Ans: Mahindra Armada

9. Which company’s Head Quarters in Mumbai is called

‘The Masterpiece’ ?

Ans: STAR India office

10. According to this year’s Business Standard – The

Billionaire Club ratings, Who is the salaried topper
of India ? (Hint : Based in US)

Ans: Vivek Paul of Wipro with 4.02 crores

1. We all know Bill Gates is the Chairman of

Microsoft. who is the Chief Software Architect of
Microsoft ?

Ans: Bill Gates himself. Quite a few did not get this
googly.

2. Which range of watch from Timex is also a brand of

Television from BPL ?

Ans: Matrix. Timex recently launched the Matrix range

of watches and the flat screen tv from BPL is called
Matrix.

3. To raise funds for a cause, this famous actress

organised a 3 day exihibition entitled 'Life is
Beautiful' where she sold her brand of candles. Which
actress am i talking about ?

Ans: Dimple Kapadia. She sells the scented candles

under the brand name ‘Far Away Trees’.

4. In 1967, who dropped out of Stanford at 21 and took

over a Rs. 7 crore company ? (Hint: This business
personality finally completed his B.E. recently at the
age of 53)

Ans: Azim Hasham Premji

5. Who or which Organisation was found to be an

important client of the Al Barakaat group of companies
that was recently named by the US President as a
'financier of terror' with links with the Al Qaeda
network ? (It actually used the phone services
provided by the Al Barakaat group)

Ans: The United Nations(UN). It uses the telephone

services provided by the Al Barakaat group in 3 of
its offices in Somalia.
Only Manivannan got this right.

6. Which trendy spanish women's label is now available

at the CrossRoads, Mumbai ?

Ans: Mango

7. Which brand of car carries the adline 'If you sold

your soul in the 80s, here's a chance to buy it back'?

Ans: Volkswagen New Beetle. Except a few most others

had mentioned it as only Beetle. However I have given
marks to everyone who knew it was from Volkswagen.

8. 'We cant run our business on future promises'.

Which famous business personality said this after
deciding to close down his dotcom venture ?

Ans: Sabeer Bhatia on closing Aarzoo.

9. What business was Ramalinga Raju running before

shifting to software ?

Ans: Textiles(Cotton Spinning), Construction(Family

business). He was also a Real Estate Baron. I have
given marks to all those who have mentioned any one of
these three.

10.How can we connect Parameshwar Godrej, Shoba De and

Sunil Gavaskar with Vijay Mallya ?

Ans: The first three are on the board of Cine Blitz in

which Vijay Mallya acquired a 51% stake recently.
There were many answers given linking all the four.
But what I wanted was to link the first 3 with Vijay
Mallya. If u read the question again, u will
understand this. Again only Manivannan only got this
right.
1. Today it is called Royal Airways. How do we know it
earlier ?

Ans: Modiluft

2. Which group co-sponsored this year’s ‘The Economic

Times Awards for Corporate Excellence’ ?

Ans: There was a communication gap in this question.

What i wanted to know was the co-sponsor's name.i.e.
The Oberoi group. Raymond was the main sponsor and
Oberoi group the co-sponsor. Only Sivakumar had given
both the sponsors. Everyone else had mentioned only
Raymond. I give sivakumar 2 points and the rest 1
point. The quiz master gets -1 for not being specific.

3. Which brand connects Sharukh Khan, Sachin Tendulkar

and Hrithik Roshan.

Ans: Hometrade.com. Most of them got this one right.

Some had answered Pepsi. Hrithik endorses
Coke(Hrithik-Aishwarya ad) and not pepsi.

4. We have heard about a Golden Handshake. But what is

a Tin Handshake ?

Ans: A Golden Handshake refers to the amount paid at

the time of separation(say resignation) whereas a Tin
Handshake is a derisory payment on dismissal from
employment. Most had answered Layoff. But a Layoff is
different from a dismissal.

5. What was born in 1991 when a real estate developer,

took over an old movie theatre in Mumbai’s Western
Suburb of Andheri and fashioned it …… ?

Ans: Shoppers Stop, K.Raheja group is the real estate

developer.

6. Who was signed up recently as the brand ambassador

of BPL Mobile in kerala ?

Ans: Mohanlal. Many went wrong by answering Mamooty.

Soumen Chatterjee adds, Mohanlal in a new TV campaign
titled Swantham Desam Keralam meaning "own place
Kerala".
7. In a unique rebranding exercise, Germany’s C&N
Touristic which acquired a UK Company in December last
year has renamed itself with the acquired company’s
name. Name the UK Company which was acquired by C&N
Touristic ?

Ans: Thomas Cook Holdings, the UK based travel

company.

8. Which Napster clone, a dutch startup technology

outfit is at the center of a lawsuit by the US record
and movie industries for developing a software that
enabled tens of millions of computer users to trade
tracks of ‘The Beatles’ and Britney Spears for free
plus one better : hefty movie files too ?

Ans: FastTrack. Our friend Borg adds that it's not a

napster clone, in fact it's way above napster in terms
of technolgy FastTrack (Kazaa,Morpheus etc use
FastTrack's P2P solution)

9. NIIT Ltd. is making a safe bet on ‘K-12’ - its

internal branding for IT Curriculum for schools. What
does the name ‘K-12’ stand for ?

Ans: Kindergarten to 12th std.

10. Which brilliant investor is also known as the

‘Oracle of Omaha’ ?

Ans: Warren Buffett. His company Berkshire Hathaway

Inc. is in Omaha.

1. The dance 'Lambada' refers to the Portuguese verb, meaning "to

whip or flog", so the term describes the rhythm and style of the
dance. {Dictionary.com:-Portuguese, beating, lashing, from past
participle of lambar, to beat, variant of lombar, probably from
lombo, side, flank (of a horse), from Latin lumbus, loin.]}

2. What are McJOBS RQC jobs requiring low skill and which pay
less..part time work derived from the work many do at Mcdonalds?

3. In Air France planes- their seats are named L'espace 127 and
L'espace 180, why? they are tilted to either 127 or 180 degrees!!RQC
inspired.
4. TIE BREAKER 4. This Chennai based company was incorporated in
1979. Its corporate mission reads - To try and prove that organized
business when deeply committed to human values is the best equipped
to lead society to a better quality of life. Their initial foray was
into management consultancy, in which they were influenced by the
views of Ayn Rand on the dignity and glory of the human being and by
the views of Peter Drucker on organisation and management. To cut the
long story short, this venture wasn't too successful and they turned
into the operations for which they are very well know today. Amol
Karnad is the Chairman. Which is this very famous company.

This is Alacrity Foundations RQC

5. connect ..The amt of land that a pair of oxen could plough in 2

days(i bigha = The amt of land that a pair of oxen could plough in 1
days)..to a hindi movie with balraj sahni in it..do bigha
zameen..RESEARCH WHO THE ACTOR IS.

6. 6.tekiyaki burger-japan, maharani buger-malaysia's indian

population, green pepper burger-singapore, thai burger with thai
curry paste, spaghetti in phillipines, spiny chicken on the bone with
rice - indonesia..mcdonalds local burgrs in vairous market...
launched the veg surprise .. in inia during navratri,,veg burgermwith
lotsa pices..this burger called the 4th flavour..means..products
temporarily added to the menu say during festivals. (biz todaY)

7. Ig Nobel-started 1991-h onor people whose acheivements

cnt/shouldnt be reproduced..by a science humor mag called AIR-annals
of improbable research..(Hindu)

8. the term BIG APPLE was originally usd in the 1920s an 1930s by
jazz musicians as a way of saying ..there are many apples on h tree,
but when you play new york you play the BIG APPLE.

9. Advanced Cell Technology - had grown a 6 celled human embryo by

injecting a very small cell with its genetic material into a woman's
donated egg.

10. what is being talked about? "the initial confusion (over the
time zones) would giv the office gors in the east an xcuse for coming
late"-Shashanka Bhide, NCAER."the US had 5, Russia has 8"...IST is
currntly the local time in the city of Mirzpur, UP...if change for
time zons acepted, Bhopal rerence for westrn time, kolkata for the
east.kolkata 1 hr faster than bhopal.

11.
what is being decribed hr? - a shot of coffee followed by less than
half a cup of steamed milk and a big head of foamed milk spooned on
to contain the warmth. the proportion of espresso tyo steamed and
frothed milk is typically 1/3 espresso, 1/3 steamed milk & 1/3
frothed milk on top. Ans - (capuccino)

12. Four unmarried, but seriously committed, couples at a crossroads

in their relationship and 26 singles that are looking for love,
travel to an exotic location to test the waters of ..TEMPTATION..
(island) temptation island's blurb-------RESEARCH ON NET.

13. DELHI / JAIPUR / CHITTAURGARH / UDAIPUR / SWAIMADHOPUR /

JAISALMER / JODHPUR / BHARATPUR / AGRA / DELHI -- An extraordinary
train for extraordinary people. A train with historic charm and
modern conveniences. A royal train beckoning you to step aboard for a
week of splendor. It takes you on a royal odyssey. Bringing alive the
luxury of princely travel of the age of the Rajasthan. The Palace on
wheels has been designed to suit modern needs with central air
conditioning, shooting four channel music, interconnected telephone
system in the train, a separate pantry and lounge in each coach,
comfortable coupes with the privacy of attached bathrooms, two
specially bathrooms, two specially restaurant - Maharaja and
Maharani, serving exotic Indian, continental and Rajasthani cuisine,
a well stocked bar, a reading and relaxing coach and friendly smiling
attendants serving you round the clock.
PALCE ON WHEELS.

14. benetton-oliver toscani-a huge hue and cry in the US when his
last campaign for bentton featured death row convicts modeling
benetton outfits.The us chain sears terminated a conract to sell
their clothing in protest at what it termed Shameful Advertising.

15. TIE BREAKER 15. joey kramer+steven tyler+joe perry+brad

whitford+tom hamilton = Aerosmith

16. which MTV program has the tagline..Your Love Sutra? MTV Loveline.
(VJs malaika and cyrus--weekdays-3pm and 10pm)

17. HBO-Simply the best.which TV channel claim to be SIMPLY THE BEST?

18. pay it forward...is a movie with a beautiful idea at it heart. It

stars Haley Joel Osment, the brilliant young actor who first
aoppeared in the 6th sense. Osment Plays trevor, a troubld who
invents a schem for improving the worl..he calls
it...... .. .......ie: i someone di u a favor-something big,
something u coulnt do on ure own-and insteda of paying it back
you ... .. ....... to 3 people. And the next day they each paid it
forward to 3 more. .and so on..in 2 weeks, that coms to 4,782, 969
people.(NAME THE MOVIE given the clues).

19. what innovation has colgate introduce in its new tooth[paste

tubes, now available in stores all over india?
See thru tubes..a la Swatch?

20. TIEBREAKER ?.audio - santana song SMOOTh featuring rob thomas of

matchbox 20(find out the exact name)

21. TIE BREAKER 21.Shram Bhushan, Ratna, Vir, Devi and Shri are arwds
given by the Govt Of india for: ? outstanding contributions towards
productivity?

22. This company has recently released a spate of print ads with the
tag line - "first take-amazing stories from around the world".
Which? FIRST FLIGHT COURIERS

23. VIDEO Eric Cantona

24. VISUAL - ESPN 2 X Games

25. VISUAL – Landrover (tagline -4 X 4 X FAR )

1. In Rediffusion DY&R, expand DY&R.

Ans: Dentsu Young & Rubicam.

2. In the US, what is a COMDEX ?

Ans: COMputer Dealers EXposition(COMDEX) is the

largest US computer trade show. It brings together the
dealers, resellers from throughout the world.

3. Name the finance arm of CIPLA.

Ans: ALPIC Finance (CIPLA when reversed). Oprah

Winfrey’s company is called HARPO and Dabur’s in-house
ad agency is called ADBUR.
4. Which consultancy firm has the baseline ‘From
Thought to Finish’ ?

Ans: Ernst & Young

5. Who is the first woman director on the board of

Larsen & Toubro(L&T) ?

Ans: Rajashree Birla, mother of Kumaramangalam Birla.

They replaced the Ambani Brothers after acquiring the
10% stake owned by them in L&T.

6. In response to Coke’s ‘Shock’, Pepsi has decided to

lainch this drink in the same segment. Which drink ?

Ans: Adrenaline Rush. In the US market it is sold as

SoBe Adrenaline Rush. SoBe is a US based company known
for making energy drinks which Pepsico bought over 2
years ago.
Gatorade, another energy drink, taken over by Pepsico
was the most attempted guess.

7. Houston-based Information Technology

Architects(ITA) promoted by four Indians is in the
news after Diwali. Why ?

Ans: They were the producers of the tamil movie

‘Nanda’ released on Diwali(October 14). ‘Nanda’ has
received rare reviews and is doing well at the box
office. They produced it under the banner ‘Aparajeeth
Films’. Only Subramanian and Srinivasan(Interactive I)
got this correct.

8. Which automajor launched an operation called

'desert storm' to celebrate 5 years in India by
offering value added services ?

Ans: Ford India.

9. All customers of this bank are being gifted a

special edition of audio casette of Kabhi Khushi
Kabhie Gham(K3G) – the season’s most awaited
multi-starrer. Along with the cassette is a letter
from the bank’s Country head asking them to list out
their happy experiences with the bank under the column
Kabhi Khushi and their not so happy ones under the
column Kabhie Gham. Name the bank that has come out
with this unique plan to get its customers respond to
a survey to upgrade their service.

Ans: IDBI Bank. Very few got this correct.

10. Which pizza chain in India has introduced a

non-pizza offering called Hot Sams(a samosa stuffed
with
chettinad-style chicken) ?

Ans: Dominos

1. Who sponsors Vengsarkar's Cricket Academy in Mumbai?

ELF LUBRICANTS

2.What is common to - LINTAS,Shilpi,PSL(Press Syndicate Ltd, and

Pratibha ?
ALL ADS AGENCIES WHICH STARTED OFF AS INHOUSE AD AGENCIES OF:
HLL/Sarabhais/Mahindras/Kirloskars RESPECTIVELY.

3. Their ad in The Hindu read- Valet Parking available for trucks,

patrons are advised to bring along their 16 wheelers before 2nd
December. The Great ---------- Sale , upto 70% off. Fil in the blanks.

CROSSWORDS

4. If a cricket test match were to be played currently between a team

sponsored by Dilmah and a team sponsored by Orange , which 2 national
teams would be playing ?

Srilanka and Australia

5. As a gesture, "high fives" are well known. Who/what uses "High

threes"?

TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES

1. Coke recently changed its baseline

or its focus to "Life tastes good!"[ world wide ] say
in desi bhasha "Life ho to aise!" featuring Amir Khan.
You all know the previous baseline is ENJOY. Now
the question is before changing its baseline to ENJOY
what was the baseline...(in Indian Scenario).?
ALWAYS COCA-COLA
Other answers : Eat X Sleep X drink only coca-cola, Taste the Thunder[!]

2. This is the only airlines in USA

---- which has never lost money in the past 29 Years
[No Loss reported ever!- what a great mgmt team]
---- Even after September 11, 2001 attacK this is the
to show PROFITS
---- According to the April 2001 issue of Fortune,is an
employer of choice among college students
-----First airlines to go for website...
Ending this question with a hidden clue
"Tell me with LUV which airlines is this?"

SOUTHWEST AIRLINES. LUV is the stock ticker for South west Airlines

Other Answers : DELTA , UNITED, LUFTHANSA, VIRGIN

3. Clue 1: This company is dedicated to bringing

choice to the desktop computer, choice in operating systems.
Clue 2: Its mission : Choice of operating system on your desktop
computer.This OS [Operating system} will be this companies
FIRST
product to carry out this mission.
Clue 3: Founder of this company knows that offering a reliable,
easy-to-use,
and compatible OS that can run both Linux® and Windows® software
titles will not be an easy task. However, they’re confident
they have the necessary resources, management team and vision
to bring together the right people and technologies to offer a
choice in computer operating systems.

Ofcourse this OS is offered by a well know person. Earlier

he is the CEO of well known ....music..Sorry no more clues.

Your Job is to tell me

1. The company Name

2. Founder's Name
3. Name the Operating System
4. Earlier he is the CEO of which company ?
Answer : 1. Lindows.com
2. Shawn Fanning
3. Lindows [Linux+Windows]
3. Napster.com

A very few people got this one right.

Other Answers : Virgin, Sony

4. On 20 November 1997, the Wall Street was not called by the name
Wall Street. This is just for a day. Can any person explain me why?
and can u tell me by what name it called on that day.

This proved to be a tough question for Quiznet, Qfi and Jigyasa members
except Balasubramanaian .K [Good show.....]

It is called by the name DANONE STREET.

On 20 November 1997, the DANONE Group joined the 15 French companies listed
on the New York stock exchange, the biggest in the world. To celebrate the
event in style, Wall Street became DANONE Street for a day

5. Apart from deadly bacteria, What is Anthrax......? It was in the news

recently...

Many correct answers....except one entry[Anindya- the top performer] which said E-
MAIL VIRUS [ Yet to get this
virus right...!! ] . It is a heavy metal band

6. To which company does Linus Torvolds the brain behind the LINUX work
for...?

once again many right answers. Transmeta Corp...

Additional funda the company in which he works for does not use LINUX[!]

7. You would have seen people wearing D&G brand of clothing.

Tell me what does D&G stands for..?

97 % got this one right. DOLCE & GABANNA

8. From October 4, 2001 all food companies must compulsorily &

prominently display this in its packing. What...
So next time when u are purchasing biscuit packet
check it out. The govt Notification says that " food manufactured
after oct 4,2001"..so pl don't forget to check the label next
time when u make purchase of ANY food item.
so tell me what should be displayed in the PACKAGE..

A brown dot displaying that the food is NON-VEG [Well... EGG is included in Non-veg
category]

Other colourful answers recd were: Green, Red, Yellow ....

9. " It might have been the first line from Lincoln's

Gettysburg address for all I know. The only thing I know
it was all in UPPER CASE" . What is being described here...?

1 st ever email by Ray Tomilson

Anindya said "Bush describing terrorist attack on WTC" {S}

a well researched answer i believe ......

10. Moet& chandon awarded Esprite du sicle [ wine]

- In china to Zhargi-i-mou
- In UK to Queen mother
- In Japan to Designer Kenzo

when they came to INDIA they offered it to Amitabh who did not
respond to the invitation so they offered it to Anil Ambani who
REFUSED ! such a great offer.Atlast, they offered it to PRANNOY ROY.
So I have to tell u all what the question is.
The question is WHY DID ANIL AMBANI REFUSED SUCH A GREAT OFFER

Coz he did not drink many correct ones....

and to quote Rajaram " Anil refused Coz he didtn want to accept Amitabhs rejects !"

1. Which is the only native, free to air channel in

English that targets children between 3 and 14 ?

Ans: SPLASH TV, a 24-hour kids’ channel from

Intelivision (promoted by Pentamedia Graphics). The
channel, which is available in Tamil Nadu, Bangalore
and some parts of Kerala since mid-October is going
full steam ahead with its plans to reach a national
audience by December-end 2001.

2. Expand YAHOO.
Ans: YET ANOTHER HIERARCHICAL OFFICIOUS ORACLE. Some
of the participants had queries about the acronym
YAHOO. To clarify their queries I am attaching a small
report on Yahoo which I got it from the NET.

Jerry Yang and David Filo were graduate students in

engineering at Stanford University who got distracted
by the Internet. While surfing they made lists of
their favorite sites. On a whim, they posted the list
as Jerry’s Guide to the World Wide Web. That was in
1993. The reaction to the list was astonishing. Two
years later they changed the name to Yahoo.

Why the name Yahoo? In fooling around with possible

names, Yang and Filo came up with Yet Another
Hierarchical Officious Oracle and Yahoo was born.

3. What is the new theme song for Mitsubishi globally

?
Ans: It’s My Life from Jon Bon Jovi.

4. Name the Co-founder of Intel who recently donated

$600 million to California Institute of Technology.

Ans: Gordon Moore. Bakthavachalam Ganeshkumar adds

‘Gordon Moore and his wife, Betty Moore have started
Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, a $4.6 billion
philanthropic organization which focuses on higher
education and research. Mr. Moore donated $600 million
to the institute on behalf of the foundation’. Thanks
for the information.

5. Which famous author and business consultant has

also been a visiting scholar at the Russell Sage
Foundation, a visiting Professor at Cornell
University, a White House Correspondent and an editor
in Fortune Magazine ?

Ans: Futurist Alvin Toffler

6. The US Federal and State Banking regulators

recently imposed a $7.5 million penalty on a bank
after charging it with violation of banking laws and
failure to maintain accurate records. Which bank am I
referring to ?
Ans: Our own SBI.

7. What is Berger paints’ brand for rural market

called as ?

Ans: Jadoo

8. In October this year, a tennis match was held in

Seattle to raise money for breast cancer research.
Bill Gates teamed up with Agassi to beat the team
comprising Pete Sampras and a famous business
personality. Name this business personality.

Ans: Jeff Bezos of Amazon.com

9. Which is the first bike to be marketed under the

Bajaj brand ?

Ans: Pulsar

10. Name the two largest promoter shareholders of

Infosys.

Ans: ‘The Two Sudhas’. Sudha Gopalakrishnan – 3.09%

and Sudha Murthy – 2.43%. Narayanamurthy holds 0.91%
and together with Akshata and Rohan Murthy, the first
family of Infosys owns 7.36% in the company.

1. Sir Osborne Smith was the 1st person to head this "organization". Sir James Braid Taylor was
the 2nd. Down the years this organizn had people like K.G.Ambegaonkar, P.C.Bhattacharyya,
S.Jagannathan, K.R.Puri and M.Narasimham heading it. Please tell me who is the person who
presently heads this organizn. (He is the 20th person to head the orgzn).
*******Orgzn = RBI (arent I naughty?!).....person= dr.bimal jalan

The complan boy has been in the news recently. How do we know him?
# aftab shivdasani(the 'mast' guy)

5.to whom was the first ford ikon given??

# Mr.N.Srinivasan , the chief of India Cements

6.what are baby bills?

# it refers to the independent companies which may get formed in the
event of a vertical split of microsoft..

2. With what event did the launching of Colour T.V.'s India coincide?
# Asian Games, 1982
Connect: Saatchi & Saatchi and the Miniskirt
# Mary Quant. Credited with the invention of miniskirt & chief investor /
backer of Saatchi & Saatchi when it started.

What are ' Timna ' , ' Willamette ' and ' Itanium ' ?
# Code names for chips that Intel has recently launched

25. In the first few years of the Internet , search-engines registered ____ as the most
searched for word , but recently this has been replaced by another 3-letter word .
Name both the words .
# Sex , MP3

26. “What the hell is email for ? " . Who

# Steve Jobbs when asked about the problems of the IMac not having
a floppy-drive .

The old name of this company was Tata Finlay. What is it called today?
Tata Tea

Who got the first account from Satyam when it became India's 1st private sector
ISP ?
A B Vajpayee

The drink APPELA was marketed by ?

Cadbury's

Which was the only project cleared by the BJP government during its 13-day
tenure in 1996 ?
Enron

which company took Hindustan Lever to court over lemon not being there in its
Wheel detergent?
Fena

What award is given out by the Union of Japanese Scientists and Engineers ?
The Deming Prize

Who designs jewellery for a company named Artex ?

Priyanka Vadra nee Gandhi

Which beverage brand ad featured PT Usha?

Kanan Devan Tea

How do we know Sildenafil Citrate better ?

Viagra
Suzuki does not manufacture diesel engines. So, which company's diesel engines
are fitted into the Maruti Zen diesel version ?
Peugeot

Who modelled for Parry's toffee - Cricket ?

Saurav Ganguly

For what specific use was Coca Cola first meant ?

Cough Syrup

Who is David Whitbread ?

The senior Onida Devil

What does Honda advise you to be ?

The nicest person on the road

Who launched arange of herbal beauty products under the brand name NATURENCE ?
Manoj Prabhakar

Mika Hakkinen appears in ads for ?

Computer Associates

What is the name of the Indian intern in the Dilbert strips ?

Asok

How many Union Budgets did Dr Manmohan Singh present ?

Six

Which company is referred to as the Blue Oval ?

Ford

Which Indian filmstar first modelled for Lux ?

Leela Chitnis

The icecream brand Utsav is marketed by ?

Amul

Who is the only Ameican industrialist to be named in Hitler's Mein Kampf ?

Henry Ford

Connect Hyderabad, Mysore, Travancore, Saurashtra, Indore, Patiala, Bikaner and

Jaipur.
All are names of associate banks of SBI

Which tetrapak drink was unsuccessfully marketed by Lipton a few years ago ?
Tree Top
A film was advertised at the time of its revival as 'Before the shark, there was
the whale'. Which film ?
Moby Dick

Name the only place in Pakistan where gambling is legally permitted ?

Karachi Stock Exchange

In marketing-related parlance, what is DK-CS ?

Don't Know / Can't Say - in market surveys

Who founded Hotmail along with Sabeer Bhatia ?

Jack Smith

Which movie star is associated with a chain of shops called MISCHIEF ?

Sunil Shetty

What is the name of the house where JRD Tata lived on Altamount Road, Mumbai,
which is proposed to be converted into a memorial for him ?
The Cairn

Which city is serviced by the Malpensa airport ?

Milan

Whose original name was Marie Gresholz ?

Madame Tussaud

The unsuccessful product Supermum noodles was marketed by ?

Lipton

Which Chennai based company is owned by B A Kodandarama Setty and his family ?
Viveks

What is Yahoo's kids section called - the web guide for kids.
Yahooligans

Who has founded a software startup firm called MphasiS ?

Jerry Rao

What did Hugh Hefner found ?

Playboy

If your e-mail ID ended with the letters 'mil', what domain is denoted ?
US Military

Which Indian private sector bank advertises with the punned line "Trust is our middle
name" ?
UTI Bank

Which chain of shops headquartered in Chennai is named after a fictional character in a

Morris West novel ?
Cassidy's

What does the Lifebuoy index measure ?

Extent of market penetration in India

In the first Superman comic, what product was Superman carrying on the cover ?
A car

What is the 77th element of the periodic table ?

Iridium

Apart from being a car manufactured by Hindustan Motors, Contessa is also a

brand name of ?
Rum from Radico Khaitan (mfrrs of 8 PM whiskey)

Whose first job was at New India Assurance for a salary of Rs 600 per month ?
Harshad Mehta

Connect Compaq and M&M.

Armada

In the world of finance, what are Bo Dereks?

Bonds that mature in the year 2010

Before being renamed MS DOS, it was called Q-DOS by its creator. Expand QDOS.
Quick & Dirty Operating System

How do we know the organisation 'Overseas Communication Services' today ?

VSNL

What is the Urdu word for Excellence ?

Ala

In Chennai, where will you be served by baristas ?

At Qwiky's

'Vidhya vinoyogaath vikasaha' is the motto of which institution ?

IIM Ahmedabad

What does the word Xerox mean ?

Dry

When MRF first started business in 1946, what did they start out manufacturing?
Toy rubber balloons

Which was the first bank to offer Internet banking in India ?

ICICI Bank

Connect the Malayali goddess of speech, Tamil film industry and one of India's
major publications group ?
Manorama

If SQ is Singapore Airlines and BA is British Airways, which airline does CD

denote ?
Alliance Air

If softdrink bottle sales are measured in crates, how are tetrapak drinks sales
measured ?
Trays

In India they are called private and public limited companies. In Germany, it is
GmbH and AG. It is SpA and s.r.l. in which country?
Italy

1. What product is this

a) This product was developed in 1891, but legally registered on 12th June 1897
b) The New York Museum of Modern Art and the State Museum for Applied Art,
Munich selected it for their collections of excellence and design
c) Over 100 models of it are available
d) Carm Elsener Jr's great grandfather developed it
e) It is manufactured by a family held company named VICTORINOX
A : The Swiss Army knife

2. Identify this product

a) Mr Pickup, an engineer got a contract in 1920 to clear away the waste from
old munitions factories around London - mainly nitrite cake
b) He ground the cake in a coffee grinder at home, mixed it with water and used
it at home first, before the product went into commercial production
c) After World War - II when packing materials were scarce, this product - still
in powder form - was sold in empty shell cases
d) In 1932, Reckitt & Sons (which is today Reckitt & Colman) bought the brand
from Mr Pickup though he carried on the manufacturing activity till he retired
in 1948
e) The product promises to reach where no brush ever could
A : Harpic - (formed from the first syllables of Harry Pickup's name)
3. Identify this word connected with economics
a) This Latin word actually means "To sit down"
b) Originally it referred to legions of the Roman army held in reserve for
deployment in a crisis
c) Later it came to mean support granted by Parliament to British Kings.
d) The word is used in the context of the Union Budget in India frequently
e) Om Prakash Chautala initially withdrew support to the Vajpayee government
raising its withdrawal as an issue.
A : Subsidy

4. Identify this person

a) He was born in 1924 in Glencoe, Scotland to a Scot father and French mother
b) He was expelled from Eton, completed his schooling at Fettes and went to the
University of Geneva
c) He married Theresa, the daughter of a Corsican gangster, Marc-Ange Draco in
1962
d) He served in the RVNR during WW-II and rose to the rank of Commander
e) Later he became manager for Universal Exports, London
A : James Bond

5. Who is this person.

a) He left his hometown Smyrna to make a small fortune in tobacco sales
commissions in Buenos Aires
b) By 25, he made his first million and bought 6 freight ships soon after
c) He bought a controlling stake in the Monte Carlo casino
d) He founded Olympia Airways and owned the island of Skorpios
e) In 1968, he married the widow of an American President
A : Aristotle Onassis

6. Identify the product icon / the product

a) The brand was supposed to be named "Dimension Six" by its founder, but none
of his associates liked the name.
b) The company founder was handling accounting classes at the University where
the creator was a student of advertising.
c) The first brief was to come out with a 'stripe' which would also be visible from a
distance.
d) It got its current name when a customer placed an order asking for "___(product___
with a ___(Icon name)___.
e) It represents the wing of a Greek Goddess.
A : Swoosh logo of Nike
7. Identify the personality
a) He started his career in his company's technical dept in Havana
b) He was a Cuban immigrant displaced by Castro's regime
c) He died of lung cancer a couple of years back
d) He was the first CEO in his co's history to borrow
e) In 1981 he succeeded J.Paul Austin as CEO. J.Paul Austin suffered from
Alzheimer's disease.
A : Late Roberto Goizueta of Coke

8. Identify this company

a) This company was founded in 1892 by George, a teacher of telegraphy
b) It brought colour to an industry which, till then knew nothing but black
c) Its earliest model was called the Lucky Curve
d) With users like GB Shaw and Arthur Conan Doyle, the company's objective was
to make their product the world's most wanted in its category
e) In 1954, it put its name on a ball point pen, the Jotter
A : Parker Pen company

He was the only Indian to force his way in the exclusive group of 18 founder members of
Madras Chamber of Commerce. Name him.
### G SIDLOO CHETTY

Connect Rick_Belluzzo and Bob Herbold.

### RICK REPLACED BOB AS COO IN MICROSOFT.

Sova Ram, Shiv Narain, Raja Baldeo Das – Three predecessors of a legendary figure in
Indian Industry. Identify the legend and the group.
### THEY ARE GREAT GRANDFATHER, GRANDFATHER AND FATHER
OF LATE G D BIRLA OF THE BIRLA EMPIRE.

Four of the ten co-founders of this Bangalore based new economy knowledge
Management company with a high brand recall are based in US. Identify the company.
### MINDTREE CONSULTING

Amit Pasari, Kapil Juneja, Saket Singhania, Manoj Singhania & Prakash Yadav were
recently in the news. In what connection?
### ALL OF THEM HAVE BEEN BOOKED FOR CYBER-CRIME UNDER
IT-2000 ACT.

Sixty six Thousand Sq.Foot lodge, seven bedrooms and twenty four bathrooms. That’s
the home for a rich and famous. Name the person and the location of his home?
### BILL GATES, BUILT HIS VILLA ON THE SHORE OF LAKE WASHINGTON,
NEAR SEATTLE. AS EARLY AS 1984, HE ENVISIONED A HOME FOR HIMSELF
AND HIS FAMILY THAT WOULD BE OPERATED BY SOMETHING AKIN TO
HAL, THE 'SELF AWARE' SUPERCOMPUTER IN STANLEY KUBRICK'S 2001: A
SPACE ODYSSEY. TODAY HIS HOUSE HOLDS THE GUINESS WORLD
RECORD FOR THE 'MOST INTELLIGENT HOUSE' EVER BUILT.
Most of you were correct. Parthapratim Sengupta adds that the name of Bill's villa is
'XANADU'.

MX (owned by Rupert Murdoch) and Melbourne Express (owned by Fairfax Holdings

Ltd.) - What is common or special about them?
## THESE TWO ARE FREE TABLOIDS CIRCULATED TO THE AUSTRALIAN
TRAIN & BUS COMMUTERS.

Toshiba, IBM and Sony have recently joined hands to develop special TERAFLOPS
class micro processor chips for a supercomputer, much stronger than DeepBlue.
What is the code name of the project?
### CELL.

Lover’s Line, Oriental lovers, exotica & the Supremes. Can you Identify the products and
the company?
### THESE ARE VARIETY OF PIZZAS AVAILABLE IN PIZZA HUT.

As per ministry of IT, Karnataka, followed by New Delhi, Maharastra & Tamil Nadu
were the Top 4 states with most Software export in FY 2000. Name the State which
ranked fifth.
### UP.

1. Guido Van Rossum is the pioneer of this particular “OOPS” language. Name it.
### PYTHON

2. This often used internet related term literally means “To read or to look over goods for
sale, constantly but unmethodically”. What is the term?
### BROWSING

3. In cyber slang, what does ‘Chrome’ mean?

### EXTRA FEATURES WHICH ARE ADDED IN THE TEXT FOR GLOSS,
HAVE VERY LITTLE OR NO RELEVANCE WITH THE CONTEXT.

4. Name of this company originates from a brute race mentioned in Jonathon Swift’s
‘Gulliver’s travel’. Name the company.
### YAHOO!

5. What is a ‘blog’?
### A WEB LOG.

6. Which product of Macromedia (Nasdaq MACR) is the first product tailored for
Apple’s Mac OSX new operating system?
### FREEHAND 10

7. This common word of Cyber world is derived from a Greek word meaning a person
steering a ship.
### CYBERNATICS (From the Greek word Kubernetes which means steerer of a ship ).

8. As per Forbes, Computer Associates, i-2 technology, Juniper networks, exodus

communication are the first four largest IT Companies in USA with an Indian
executive/entrepreneur at the Top. Which Indian led company is fifth and who is the top
man?
### CIRRUS LOGIC, SUHAS PATIL.

9. This is a hardware or a software on a computer network that examines the address to

which the data is being sent and decides by which route it should be transmitted to the
destination. Identify the product.
### ROUTER

10. This product is a part of solid state optical switching solution for optical networks. It
works on a technology called electroholography. Name the product.
### INTELLIGENT LAMDA SWITCH ( ILS ), from Trellis Photonics.

11. This telecom technology is used for cost effective handling of any kind of traffic
including IP through optical fibre. Name it.
### DWDM ( Dense wavelength division multiplexing )

12. This company was formed in 1946 as Tokyo Telecommunication Engineering

Corporation (TOKYO TSUSHIN KOGYO) by a gentleman named Ibuka.
### SONY.

13. Brand values of this technology are stated to be FREEDOM to create, SIMPLE yet
SECURE & RELIABLE communication solution to wireless connection. Name
the technology.
### BLUETOOTH

14. In server market, revenue wise IBM is No.1. Which is No.2?

### SUN MICROSYSTEM.

15. Until AT & T changed its name to QNX (a real time, Micro Kernel, prioritised
message passing, network distributing, multi tasking, multi user fault tolerant
OS) , what was its earlier name?
### QUNIX or QUANTUM UNIX.
“At the end of the day, you have to create wealth and not distribute poverty”
Great thinking by one of the present day business doyen. Who?
## N R NARAYANAMURTHY

Worldwide,Walmart stores are the no.1 in the retail stores business. Who are no.2?
### CARREFOUR

Reebok India has come up with four new models under Classic brand bearing Union
Jack, Reebok’s premier brand logo. Name them.
## KENSINGTON, WESTMINSTER, CANTERBURY, MAYFAIR.

Berlin based Transparency International carried out corruption survey in Kerala govt.
departments. The Top Five corrupt departments turned out to be Motor Vehicles, Police,
Excise, PWD and………..
### THIRUVANATHAPURAM CORPORATION

Q1. This person first hit the spotlight in 1959 and hails from Willows, Wisconsin. Has sisters
called Kelly and Stacie. This person's career started off as a model but was also thrice involved in
space programs in 1965, 86 and 94. In between this person was also involved in the presidential
race in '92. In '98 this person launched a sports fashion line. Just name.
Ans : Barbie...you know like beach Barbie. Doctor Barbie so also president Barbie.

Easy one to start off. Connect these phrases - Team, Look Alike and Bitten Heroes.
A: At the French and British GPs, these phrases adorned the cars and team suits of
the McLaren Mercedes, BAR and Jordan teams respectively due to the ban on
tobacco advertising. They replaced West, Lucky Strike and Benson & Hedges...
Ram Kiran pointed out that alcohol advertising was also banned at these
races. Hence 'Visions' replaced Veltin's beer on the Williams livery and 'Best's'
replaced Becks beer on the Jaguar cars...

During the free practice session of the Canadian Grand Prix in 1979, driving his car
around the circuit, XXX suddenly decided that he was no longer interested in 'driving
around in circles'. He pulled into the pit-lane and told his team boss that he was
retiring - now. He left the sport and went on to set up his own airline, for flying was his
second passion. He did make a return to the sport later though, and even won the World
Championship one more time before retiring for good. Anyway, back to the race. The
team he was driving for was left in a lurch with his departure. YYY, the team boss, out of
exasperation, and probably even as a joke, asked someone from his pit crew to make an
announcement in the track PA system asking whether anyone could drive an F1 car. It
so happened that ZZZ, a former F3 and Aurora F1 driver who had quit racing because he
was not getting any openings in F1, was among the spectators that day. Half an hour later
he was strapped into the car, all set to go. He qualified 19th and finished 7th in the
race, just outside the points dumbfounding everyone. YYY immediately got ZZZ to sign
a 1-year contract with the team. Now, for 1 point - identify XXX, YYY and ZZZ or name
any two for half a point.
A:
XXX - Niki Lauda who left racing and founded LaudaAir only to return due to
financial difficulties.
YYY - Bernie Ecclestone who was then boss of Brabham racing
ZZZ - Ricardo Zunino, a Brazilian driver who dazzled in the qualifying session in
the following GP as well, and after that suffered a string of flops before eventually
getting fired....

The son of a trawler captain, he dropped out of school at the age of 16 and went to work
at a local gasworks. His passion was motorcycle scrambling and he began competing in
the post-war era. As machinery was scarce, he used to buy and sell motorcycle spare
parts, doing the business during his lunch break. Together with a friend, he built his
business into one of Britain's largest motorcycle dealers. In 1949, he tried his hand at
four-wheeled racing in the 500cc Formula 3 series but after a big accident at Brands
Hatch, in which he ended up hitting a car in the car park behind Paddock Hill Bend, he
gave up. Later he did attempt a comeback and made an appearance in
exactly one F1 race for the Connaught team - he did not complete the race. Who?
A: F1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone

1) What is Elwood Edwards’ claim to fame?

His voice is heard more than 27 million times a day, i.e., more than 18,000 times per
minute. He is the man behind those special words "You've got mail!"

2) Which first did the US state of Nevada achieve in December 1997 ?

In December 1997, the state of Nevada (USA) became the first state to pass
legislation categorizing Y2K data disasters as 'acts of God'-- protecting the state
from any Y2K-related lawsuits, at any time, by its residents.

3) What is different about the MacDonalds in Paris?

It is the only one in the world to have the big ‘M’ white rather than yellow.......it was
thought yellow was too tacky!!!

7) A cook Ignacio, when asked for a quick pre-meal appetizer by a group of ladies,
prepared a batch of cut tortillas topped with melted cheese. The ladies loved the new
creation. When they asked their waiter what these treats were called, he said, "Let's just
call them ______ Special." Thus came up this famous dish. Name the dish.
Nachos, the famous Mexican dish invented in a restaurant in Piedras Negras, Mexico

8) After handover of Hong Kong to China from Britain in 1997, all vestiges of British
culture were replaced by those of Chinese culture except one thing. What?
Cars continued to drive on the left side of the road, because it was too costly to
change the highways so exits went off the other side

9) Initially this game _________ was titled _______. It was renamed after executives saw
the potential for vandals to scratch out part of the letter P on the game's marquee, which
might discourage parents from letting their children play. Fill in the blanks.
Pac-Man ; Puck-Man
Mitsubishi means 3 diamonds, it was asked in a qfi post quiz and sanyo
means 3 oceans

1.0 Architect Sir Robert Smirke had designed this

building in the old Greek revival style to mimic
ancient Greek and Roman temples. When the construction
was complete after 25 years, the nineteenth century
Londoners were shocked to see the building standing in
bitter contrast to the state ornamental Victorian
buildings that surrounded it. A newspaper harshly
labeled Sir Robert as Warehouse Builder. Which
monument we are talking about?

#### The British Museum.

This neoclassical public building was constructed
during 1823-47, designed by Sir Robert ( 1785-1867 )
and partly by his brother Sydney. The museum is one of
the great collections of world treasures spanning two
million years of human history. It houses Rosetta
Stone, Parthenon sculptures, Viking artifacts and the
Lindisfarne Gospels.

2.0 This aircraft was the most technically advanced

frontline carrier of WW-2. It had the distinction of
being the world’s first turbo jet powered fighter to
reach operational status. It could attack bomber at
will with dazzling effect. Germans used it skillfully
and despite its short comings of a ill designed engine
it was a greatly feared weapons of the allied. Which
aircraft was this?

#### The ME-262 Jet.

This single Seat Jetfighter had a maximum speed of 538
mph and a maximum range of 652 miles. Because of the
newness of the technology. The ME-262 Jet had however
problems . The guns were prone to jam and front
landing gear would sometimes collapse.

3.0 This fashion wear was first unveiled in 1946 by

Louis Reard, a French man. However, it was almost two
decades after its first appearance before it was
accepted as mainstream fashion. In Spain, Italy and
other Catholic countries. This was banned. However,
it finally found American popularity in 1963 through a
movie where this fashion wear was extremely used and
became an instant hit with contemporary and acceptable
style. Which fashion wear I am talking about?

#### Bikini.

4.0 More than 60 years after its development, this

food stuff recently became a cultural icon due to
entirely different reason. This was developed by an
American company in 1937 to appeal to housewives since
it did not require any refrigeration. WW-2 made it
popular as it went into the battle with the American
troop. Soviet Premier Nikita Krushchev credited it
with saving Russian troops from starvation. What is
the food I am talking about.

#### Spam.( spiced ham )

5.0 Sasha Stallone, Cindy Costner, Marcia Diamond,

Alane Stuart, Maggie Eastwood, Julianne Springsteen,
and Amy Spillberg are all members of this exclusive
club. Which club?

#### Hollywood ex-wives Club ( also known as lonely

hearts club )
These women were left behind by their husbands’
holding the baby and the money’ while their rich and
famous husbands gave them anything except fidelity.
These ladies were unkindly referred by some Hollywood
tabloids as ‘Dumpettes’.
Finally they decided to make a platform of their own
through this club.

6.0 Napoleon himself concluded that his finest

accomplishment was “that which can never be denied,
and that will live for ever”. What was he referring
to?

#### Civil code, the system of laws which he

established, does in fact (at least in part) survives
even in these days.

7.0 Connect Shubha Mudgal & BPL Mobile.

#### BPL Mobile’s 2000 TVC showing a blue and red

cloth flying across a landscape was shot by Natraj &
the Music was composed by Shantanu Moitro. They also
featured in Shubha Mudgal’s “Ab ke Sawan” Music Album.

8.0 What are the metal / alloys added with 18ct. gold
to get white, pink & green gold?

#### White Gold = Palladium.

Pink Gold = Copper.
Green Gold = Silver.

14.0 Who propagated the laws of pure potentiality,

giving, cause & effect, least effort, intention &
desire, detachment & purpose in life?

#### Deepak Chopra – The seven spiritual laws of

success.

15.0 From which King did East India Company get the
right to trade in Madraspattinam or Chennapattinam in
the 17th Century?

#### King Chandragiri of Vijayanagar Dynasty.

16.0 His highness the King of Jordan is believed to be

responsible for development an electronic gadget.
What is that?

#### Cellphone jamming device – He got it developed

by the US based Image Sensing Device Limited as he was
peeved by the ringing of Cellphone while at prayer in
Mosque.

17.0 What is the connection between ‘Café Mantra’ a

Coffee shop in Mumbai & Juhi Chawla?

#### “Mantra” is owned by Avanti and Yashvardhan

Birla. Yash’s sister was married to Jay Mehta. After
Yash’s parents and his sister died in a plane crash,
Jay married Juhi Chawla.

18.0 ITW Signode of USA is perhaps one of the best

known international company operating in India in
industrial packaging business. Expand ITW.

#### Illinois Tools Works. In 1986, Signode was

acquired by ITW. Signode name was adopted in 1916
after Chicago inventor, Ellsworth E Flora and his
partner, J Fremont Murphy founded the original Seal
and Fastener company.

23.0 The film ‘Yadein’ was patronised by three

products. Coke and PassPass mouth freshners were two.
What was the third brand ?

#### Hero Cycle

24.0 Why did Hitchcock shoot ‘ Psycho’ in black and

white?

#### He feared, if he filmed in colour, the sight of

red blood will antagonise the Censor Board.

28.0 Indian Railway has so far honoured only one

freedom fighter by naming train after him. Who ?

### Lokmanya Tilak

29.0 Who said ‘ Computers are useless. They can only

give you answers’.

#### Pablo Picasso.

35.0 What does the yellow slash in the logo of Pizza

Hut signify ?

#### Abundance of cheese.

36.0 Finance Minister, Yaswant Sinha while addressing

ET award for excellence, advised the corporate to
follow “EECC” for all round excellence. What does
“EECC” stands for?

#### Excellence, Ethics, Courage & Compassion.

38.0 We are all aware of Nasdaq, Dow Jones, Han Seng
indexes. To which stock exchange does Bovespa relate?

#### Sao Paolo stock exchange of Brazil ( Bolsa de

Valores de Sao Paolo ).

39.0 Patent of Basmati Rice has created a quite a

furose in the recent past. Probably, Indian Government
can think of patenting the Basmati flavour. In fact,
one company has registered and patented sound of their
machine, which is unique. Question is which company
registered the sound and for which product?

#### Harley – Davidson for their Motorcycles.

43.0 He is the first producer in Indian film Industry

to claim compensation from Insurance company as he
incurred loss for not getting dates from a heroine of
his flim as per schedule. Which film, Who is the
producer, and the Heroine?

#### Mohabatein, Yash Chopra & Aishwarya Rai.

44.0 This American slang connected to liquor is named

after a Philadelphia Distiller, who prospered around
1840 by selling a popular spirit in bottles shaped
like log cabin. Some others say that Benjamin
Franklin used this term first in 1722 and Webster’s
1828 dictionary did the first entry for this word.
Actually the word is derived from a middle Dutch verb.
Which word am I talking about?

#### ‘Booze’. The distiller was EC Booz. The Dutch

word was Busen – meaning ‘to drink heavily’.

45.0 Another one on Etymology : This word, connected

mainly to aviation, was first used by Shakespeare in
1599 in ‘Henry V’ to refer to the theatre and
specifically the area around the stage. The reference
was his invention on the Idea of the fighting
performance. Later this word found its way to Navy to
indicate sleeping quarters for Junior officers. The
nautical sense transferred to aeroplanes around 1914.
Which word?

#### Cockpit.

47.0 Which is the only regency which is still

recognised by the Indian Government and why is it
still recognised?

#### Mohamed Abdul Ali, the prince of Arcot. The

royal family lost its Kingdom to British in 1801.
After much legal proceedings, Queen Victoria conferred
the new title of Prince of Arcot in 1867 and granted a
free possession in perpetuity. Since this agreement
is separate from the one signed with other Maharajas
in 1947 and scrapped by Indira Gandhi, the Indian
Government continues to honour it.

48.0 There are instances of existing companies /

groups setting up new companies with name which is in
the reverse order of their present name. For example,
NOVA / AVON, METRO / ORTEM.. like that. Which one is
the last to join this band wagon?

#### CIPLA, ALPIC Finance.

49.0 This place in Chennai was developed as a weaver’s

village by Morten Pit during his Governorship in 1730
– 1735. By which name we know it today?

#### Chindradripet, which comes from Chinna Tari

Petta ( Village of small looms ).

50.0 Ad. Lines like ‘Yeh dil maange more’ and ‘Jo
chaahe ho jaye, Cocacola enjoy’ have made Hinglish
words very popular now a days. Which successful ad in
the early nineties is the precursor of this style ?
#### ‘Bole mera lips, I love Uncle Chips’

55.0 What is ‘Black Hole’ in Cellular phone network ?

#### It is places like basements, lifts or closed

conference rooms in big buildings
where signals are week and cellphones do not operate.
56.0 Which currency gets its name from a silver mine
near the town of Joacchimstal,
now in Czech Republic ?
#### Dollar. Silver coins made there were called
Joachimstaler or Taller in abbreviated form . In Dutch and Low German, the
initial ‘t’ is softened to ‘d’. Thus ‘Daler’ came into being from which modern Dollar
was adopted.

57.0 What is a ‘Z category’ scrip in the Bombay Stock

Exchange ?

#### These are scrips of companies that violate the

listing agreement
of the Bombay Stock Exchange. These relates to failure
to abide by disclosure norms, failure to respond to
investors’ grievences….etc.

62.0 The first research work on this was done by

Ahmes in 1650 BC in Egypt and is
Known as ‘ Rhind Papyrus ‘. What did it
deal with ?

#### The value of ‘ pi’. It concluded that

when you take out one nieth from the
diameter of a circle and construct a square
on the rest, the area of the square and
the circle are the same, bringing out the
concept of ‘pi’.

63.0 What are Squatter, Sydney, Bushman, Drover,

Sombrero and Slouch types of ?

#### Australian variety of hats.

Squatter is a classic Imperial quality pure fur felt
town and country hat. Sydney is a true city hat in the
fedora shape. The Bushman is the traditional
Australian Stockman’s hat. The Drover hat has wide
brim and is fully lined.Sombrero is the old time
cowboy hat. Slouch is an army cap with one side turned
up against the crown.

70.0 In American ‘ Vietnam War ‘ army slang, what did

a ‘ head ‘ mean ?
#### Toilet
75.0 With what international movement is ‘Rainbow
Warriors’ connected ?

#### Greenpeace . Named after the Greenpeace

Ship ‘ Rainbow Warriors’ which
was sabotaged by the French Government in
1985, as Greenpeace was planning a
protest against the French nuclesr test site
at Moruroa. The ship was bombed at the
Waitemataa Harbour in Auckland. Greenpeace was
formed by three friends : Jim
Bohlen, Paul Cote and Irving Stowe .

76.0 who is a ‘Testatrix’ ?

#### This is a legal term meaning ‘A woman who

dies leaving a will or testament in
force’. This is a middle English word
originated in the 15th. Century. Male
counterpart is called ‘ Testator ‘