BEQ Bangalore was a fun filled event with Derek at his ‘unusual’ best. Good jokes interspersing good content. Tough battle for the title till the wire, but a composed IBM team won the Bangalore Edition. The other three teams in close contention till the last question were Kotak, Yahoo and Nokia.
The finalists
Cisco (Madhukar & Sri)
IBM (Lahar & Sumantro)
Infosys
Kotak (Prasad Shetty)
Nokia (Anish Raju & Arvind Ramaih)
Yahoo! (Tejaswi & Ajay Kasargod)
The Prelims
1) In 2001, Canara Bank opened Bangalore’s first of its kind branch to cater exclusively to?
Ans: Women
2) The idea of using an ___ ___ in the automation industry came from the process adopted at the armour and swift meat packing.
Ans: Assembly Line
3) What is the longest running musical on Broadway?
Ans: Phantom of the Opera
4) Some commercial airlines have a three man cockpit- The Captain, First Officer and?
And: Flight Engineer
5) Which MNC’s inhouse production company in the UK is named ‘Glass and a half full productions’?
Ans: Cadbury
6) Who uses an armoured Cadillac codenamed ‘Stagecoach’?
Ans: Barack Obama
7) In 1948, which brand was launched when Josephine Esther Mentzer first got counter space on Fifth Avenue?
Ans: Estee Lauder
Walker, Nasty and Podium are brands of ___ manufactured in Bellary?
Ans: Denim/Jeans
9) Which actor is the brand ambassador of the newly launched Fanta Apple?
Ans: Genelia D’Souza
10) In the 1920s, which product obtained from a raw material white in colour was dubbed ‘white gold’?
Ans: Rubber
11) In 1923, Frank Parrson applied for a patent dor a frozen ice stick called?
Ans: Popsicle
12) Which board member of Godfrey Philips is also a high profile gentleman from Rajasthan?
Ans: Lalit Modi
13) What originated at Sian, followed by the Great Wall of China, bypassed Takla Makan desert, climbed the Pamir and crossed Afgan?
Ans: Silk Route
14) In 1944, the handwritten copy of which scientist’s work on Electrodynamics was sold for 6 million dollars to finance the war?
Ans: Einstein
15) In the 1926 British budget, which British Chancellor of Exchequer introduced a tax on betting?
Ans: Winston Churchill
16) Which concept was coined by Jay Conrad Levinson?
Ans: Guerilla Marketing
17) In a Lok Sabha election, what is the security deposit a candidate has to pay?
Ans: Rs 10,000
18) This year Mattel has modelled Barbie on?
Ans: Angela Merkel
19) FICO score was developed by Fair Isaac & Co. What does it score?
Ans: Credit
20) Edge wrist watches from Titan set new word standard for?
Ans: Thinness
21)Sockeye, Coho, the King, the pink etc are types of?
Ans: Salmon
22) The dutch word for Master inspired which four letter English word which is used in office?
Ans: Boss
23) After a strike by Toyota workers in 1950, they were given lifetime employment. Manager Taiichi Ohno developed ways to up efficiency without cutting jobs. What?
Ans: TQM
24) In the US, extra long twin, eastern king and Olympia queen are sizes of?
Ans: Beds
25) Some of India’s top technological institutes recently collaborated to produce Saksat available at Rs 500. What is Sakshat?
Ans: Low cost PC
26) Pic of a ‘world famous’ street
Ans:Brigade Road
27) Logo of
Ans: Chennai Superkings
28) Photo of Board of Directors of which Indian institution?
Ans: Reserve Bank of India
29) Ad campaign. Id advertiser
Ans: Camel
30) Photo
Ans: Tommy Hilfiger
For Questions from this year’s Edition Click here
Questions from BEQ ‘08 here
