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1) This newspaper started in 1888 as a four page weekly published every Saturday and became a daily only 40 years later. Identify.

Ans: Malayala Manorama.

2) If you sent a message to 6388, whom would you be messaging? (Pretty workable)

Ans: NDTV, which is 6388 on the cell phone keypad.

3) Which company was started in 1802 near Wilmington, Delaware by a French immigrant to produce black powder to be used as blasting and gunpowder?

Ans: DuPont (‘The Miracles of Science”: their tagline/baseline)

4) Who says ‘Quality in everything we do’?

Ans: Ernst & Young

5) With which bank would you associate Venkatesh Prasad and Vimal Kumar?

Ans: Canara Bank, they are the brand ambassadors.

6) Which famous company’s history dates back to 1982 when two Xerox PARC employees were developing a page description language called InterPress, which Xerox was reluctant to commercialize?

Ans: Adobe, the employees were John Warnock and Charles Geschke. Bruce Chizen presently heads adobe.

7) What landmark was developed in partnership with Thomas Heatherwick, one of UK’s leading design studios and is situated on the ground floor of the Company’s headquarters in London’s Docklands.

Ans: The HSBC History Wall.

The wall is situated on the ground floor of HSBC’s head office and can be seen by customers and visitors to the building during normal office hours.

It demonstrates HSBC’s rich and fascinating pedigree, by bringing together nearly 4,000 images from the Group’s past.

Comments, suggestions and feedback to: rohit.s.nair@gmail.com

Regards

Rohit

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The 2011 Obituary Quiz

Question 1

This English filmmaker was a pioneer TV and film and was well known for his controversial styles that attracted criticisms as being obsessed with sexuality and the Church. He is Famous for Oscar-winning film Women in Love (1969). Identify.

Ken Russell (3 July 1927 – 27 November 2011)

Question 2

  In 2010, he was ranked 31st in Forbes Magazine's List of "The World's Most Powerful People”. Known in North Korea as "Dear Leader" and other places as one of the world's most famous dictators, this man served as the countries leader under the communist regime. Identify.  

Kim Jong-II (16 February 1941[4] – 17 December 2011)

Question 3

Born to a Jewish family in North London, she grew up toying with her brother's guitar and received her first guitar when she was 13.Following her shocking death due to Alcohol poisoning in July 2011, her Album Back to Black became the biggest-selling album in the UK in the 21st Century. Identify.  

Amy Winehouse (14 September 1983 – 23 July 2011)

Question 4

She started her carrier as a child artist at age of 12 after her performance in MGM's One Born Every Minute (1942), she became one of the greatest screen actresses of Hollywood's Golden Age. Though famous for her skills as an epic actor, equally colorful was her personal life with record number of marriages and glamorous lifestyle. Who?

Elizabeth Taylor (February 27, 1932 – March 23, 2011)

Question 5

Best known for his turn in the title role of "Spartacus: Blood and Sand", this Welsh actor and Model succumbed to death at the young age of 39 due to non-Hodgkin lymphoma?  

Andy Whitfield (17 July 1972 – 11 September 2011)

Question 6

In the summer of 1974 this person is set out to India to visit Neem Karoli Baba at his Kainchi Ashram. During his 7 month stay in India he experimented with psychedelics, calling his LSD experiences "one of the two or three most important things he had done in his life”. Which tech genius?

Steve Jobs (February 24, 1955 – October 5, 2011)

Question 7

He was the 2005 Indy Racing League IndyCar Serieschampion, and winner of the Indianapolis 500 in both 2005 and 2011. Wheldon died from injuries shortly after a collision at the 2011 IZOD IndyCar World Championship at Las Vegas Motor Speedway on 16 October 2011, at the age of 33. Identify.

Daniel Clive "Dan" Wheldon (22 June 1978 – 16 October 2011)

Question 8

In the 1970s, she founded the Green Belt Movement, an environmental NGO focused on the planting of trees, environmental conservation, and women's rights. She is also the first African woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize (for contribution to sustainable development, democracy and peace). Identify

Wangari Mathai (1 April 1940 – 25 September 2011)

Question 9

Born as Svetlana Alliluyeva, her defection to the West in 1967 set off an international furor and made her a best-selling author. She changed her name to Lana Peters after her defection. Identify her famous father.

Joseph Stalin Lana Peters (February 28, 1926 – November 22, 2011)

Question 10

Which of the regular daredevils on the popular MTV show and following films "Jackass" died during a stunt involving a motor vehicle, leaving the vehicle decimated and seemingly melted?

Ryan Dunn (June 11, 1977 – June 20, 2011)

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A Business Quiz part of Esperanto-2006

Jyoti Auditorium, Central College

Quizmaster: Avinash Mudaliar

Quizzically Zapped- That was exactly the condition of both, the participants and the audience who witnessed yet another wonderful Business Quiz by Avinash Mudaliar.

As the Academic year draws to an end, Bizzap seemed to be the perfect way to end yet another Quizzing season in Bangalore.

Held as part of the Canara Bank School of Management Studies National Level B-School Fest- Esperanto 2006; Bizzap was undoubtedly the mega event and the crowd puller of the 2 day fest.

After a 25-question prelim held the previous day, six teams made it to the finals.

The colleges that qualified were (in random seating order)

Govt RC College

XIME

CMRIMS

ICFAI Business School

PESIM

The quiz was complete with questions from all spheres of Business Quizzing and to add to the content was the élan of the quizmaster conducing it.

ICFAI Business School went home clear winners at the end of 5 rounds with XIME following (65 points). CMRIMS (all girls team) came a distant third with 30 points.

And as for the other teams, it seemed like it was the first time they had quizzed at this level!

That’s all from me.

Regards

Rohit

Some Questions: (All from memory- Any errors to be overlooked and forgiven)

1) After WW-I, the Tatas realized the low profit margins in the cement making industry. What did they do and what did it result in?

2) Cellulose acetate was dropped in favor of ABS in 1963. Which company is the largest consumer of Cellulose Acetate?

3) Pula is the currency of Botswana; this currency is named after the most precious item/commodity in its regional dialect. What is the commodity?

4) Connect the movies Black, Dev and Lord of the Rings to an Indian Business entity.

All questions mentioned above were detailed and included Audios and Visuals.

Most of the quiz was (for that matter) full of Audios and Videos and very audience friendly.