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Epic Quest (I) 

Venue: Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, 43 , Race Course Road , Bangalore- 560001

Landmark:Chalukya Hotel

Quizfest: Epic Quest

Host: D.R.S Team,Christ University,Bangalore

Date: 9th May 2009

Time: 02.00 PM

Open to: All Students (School, UG, PG) [Mixed teams allowed]

Type:Business Quiz

Official Website-Http://Anepicquest.Blogspot.Com/

More Details

Rituraj-(+91) 9449324623

Dishant-(+91) 9880647979

Sanchit-(+91) 9620180855

Also Visit

D.R..S Team Daily Quiz Blog: Http://Dishgill.Blogspot.Com/

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Accenture won the Delhi round of BEQ ’09 followed by NTPC and Samridhi Finance.

Find below questions from the Delhi Prelims (As questions are thanks to a telephonic conversation, the possibility of inaccuracy is extremely high. I’d therefore request Delhi participants/audience to write back in case of any mistakes. Thanks)

1) Turnover of 5 crores, supplier to MCD. Identify Entity?

Ans: Tihar Jail

2) Who said- ‘99% of advertising does Not work?’

Ans: David Ogilvy

3) 1920s- Postage stamp scam. Identify individual involved?

Ans: Charles Ponzi

4) Who are Scarlett Collared Workers?

Ans: Women who operate Porn Sites

5) Which company was the first to use a celebrity spokesperson?

Ans: Coca Cola

6) Reckitt Benckiser has recently launched two new flavours of Rose and Orange for which brand?

Ans: Harpic

7) After Sony and Disney, Warner Bros entered India producing which movie?

Ans: Chandni Chowk to China

8) BATOVKA was a first from this company and launched in 1897. Which company?

Ans: Bata

9) What is the symbol of Chiranjeevi’s party?

Ans: Railway Engine

10) Iceland lifted a ban on which product after many years?

Ans: Beer

11) Dabur to tie up with 150 Dhabas to promote sales for which brand  ?

Ans: Hajmola

12) 90% of rubies and 80% of teak from which country?

Ans: Burma

13) Which comic hero’s first book auction got around $300,000?

Ans: Superman

14) When Steve Jobs became CEO after his interim stint, what four letter word did he use for his designation?

Ans: iCEO

15) Sunil Chetri wears the jersey of which brand?

Ans: Kingfisher

17) What do you call a Simple Uncomplicated Financial Transaction?

Ans: Vanila Transaction

18) Lotta, Lifesavers etc are brands from?

Ans: Wrigley’s

19) Bell Boy was the first?

Ans: Paging system

20) Expand FFP?

Ans: Frequent Flyer Programme

21) ROFL: What is right- Le Meridien or La Meridien?

Ans: Le Meridien

22) Who is known as the Dr Spock of Management?

Ans: Peter Drucker

23) This product was built in 7 days for the Second World War. Identify

Ans: Willys Jeep

24) What is the Times Now Election analysis programme called?

Ans: Decision 09

25) What was the name of the Charles Dickens seaside home/mansion sold for 2 million pounds

Ans: Bleak House

26) Picture: Chanda Kochar

27) Product: Maskara

28) Ad: 7-7 (Double Seven)

29) Pic: Adam Smith

30) Ad: Royal Enfield

Questions from the other cities

Questions from Tata Crucible

More Questions here

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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

8) 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

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Quizfest: Quizzers Anonymous

Host: RNSIT, Bangalore

Date: 17th April 2009

Three Quizzes

India Quiz – 0930 hrs

General Quiz- 1300 hrs

Lit-Ent Quiz – 1630 hrs

More Details

Ashish- 9008342347

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National Champions – Accenture, Delhi

Review and Questions here

April 29 – Kolkata- ITC ( Pranay Rao & Sreerang)

Kolkata Prelims here

Kolkata Finals here

April 27 – Ahmedabad – Triton Communications ( Mayur Rana & Mahesh Manjawala)

Ahmedabad Review here

April 25 – Mumbai – Sun Microsystems (Mitesh Agarwal & )

Mumbai Prelims here

April 24 – Pune – Savoir Faire (Harshvardhan Bhatkuly & Rajiv D ‘ Silva)

Pune Prelims here

April 22 – Indore- Bhilai Steel Plant (C Chandrashekhar & S Ramani)

Indore Review here

April 20 – Delhi- Accenture (Rohan Khanna & )

Questions from Delhi Round here

April 19 – Hyderabad- JWT Mindset (Anvar Alikhan & Arif Akbar)

Find Hyderabad Prelim questions here

April 17 – Kochi – Aufait Technologies (Shamanth Rao and Paul Rajan Eralil)

Review of the Kochi Round here

 

April 15 – Bangalore – IBM (Lehar & Shumantro)

Review and Questions from the Bangalore Round here

April 13- Chennai- Sanmar Group (Ramkumar & Deepesh)

Review and Questions from the Chennai Round here

 

Questions from BEQ ’08 here

 

Complete Details here

 

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Aatmatrisha-09
Loads of quizzes including sports,biz-tech and ent.

Host: PESIT, Bangalore.

Date: 17th to 19th April 2009

Offcial Website:http://aatmatrisha.pes.edu

Details:

Event Name: Quiz

Date/Time: 18th April, Saturday 9am

Ticket Price: Rs.60 /-

Description: Run through the whole gamut of quizzes we have on offer. A true demand of intellectual stamina as you battle time, rack your brains and fend off competition.

Biz-Tech Quiz

Ticket Price: Rs.30/-
18th April, Saturday 11am

  • This includes the latest trends in business and cutting edge technology.
  • No of participants per team:  2
  • Time required for the event: 30mins (prelims) + 1 hour (finals)

Entertainment Quiz

Ticket Price: Rs.30/-
18th April, Saturday 12Noon

  • No of participants per team:  2
  • Time: 30mins (prelims) + 1 hour (finals)
  • Preferable venue: F-block class room + Seminar hall or Audi for finals

Sports Quiz

Ticket Price: Rs.30/-
17th April, Friday 3pm

  • No of participants per team:  2
  • Time: 30mins (prelims) + 1 hour (finals)

Online Quiz

  • A set of 50 questions will be uploaded on the AT website and the questions will be just released just before the start of the fest and the participants are required to download the questionnaire from the AT website and mail the answers to the given e-mail id within 24 Hrs.
  • Web Address: Will be announced shortly
  • Quiz goes online on 16th April.
    Email id: quiz@at.pes.edu
  • One per team.
  • Open to all and no entry fee for it.
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Details of this quiz

QM: Snehaj Srinivasan

Good content was the USP of the quiz and quizmaster. Also important to note was the gradation of rounds in the finals (easiest first ending with a Stage 2).

Quiz had two LVCs, a brands round on buzzer. A few dry rounds and a theme round.

A good quiz with a vibrant audience marked K-Factory as the main event of ICE ’09.

Special mention to the great hospitality of DMS (esp the incharge Sadiya). Definitely hope to quiz again in God’s own country..

Winners: Rohit Nair (UVCE, Bangalore)

Runners Up: Midhun & Sandeep (CUSAT)

Prelims

1. Starting the game with a tribute..In March 2009, which music company received nearly $200,000 from Indian National Congress party for the use of the song and its use in its national campaign in the upcoming 2009 Indian General Elections.

Ans: T- Series

2.When MS Oberoi was working as a clerk at Cecil hotel Simla, a famous barrister gave him RS 100 as tip for helping him to type a 6 page legal document.

Identify this famous barrister.

Ans: Motilal Nehru

3.Where is the head quarters of Indian Coffee House located?

Ans: Trichur

4.Percy Holmes and Herbert Sutcliffe had a huge partnership for Yorkshire vs Essex in 1932. According to legend, which brand of cigarette this give rise to?

Ans: 555

5.Edison’s greatest success made Harley Procter to rethink and concentrate on Ivory brand of soaps. What was the other business which he was forced to wind up following Edison’s greatest success?

Ans: Candlemaker

6.The $6.7 billion Mahindra Group, one of the top 10 leading business houses in India, has announced its initial entry into boat manufacturing. Under what brand name?

Ans: Odyssea

7.Which famous Ad character was created based on Alyque Padamsee’s mother – a very stubborn still noble hearted lady?

Ans: Lalitaji

8.Special shows only for women was an innovative marketing strategy started by Shekhar Kapoor in the film _______ later followed by Fire & Kamasutra. Fill up

Ans: Bandit Queen

9.Which famous business group of Kerala is head quartered at No:46 , Sivasakthi Industrial Estate, Andheri Worli road, Mumbai?

Ans: Jyothi Laboratories

10.Which country,with Port Louis as its capital signed a deal with India to buy its light weight helicopter ‘Dhruv’ for its police forces?

Ans: Mauritius

11. America’s top earning business head, a co-CEO Sanjay Jha, got a package of $104 million in 2008. It is said to be 10 times more than India’s top-paid business chief, Mukesh Ambani with a remuneration of Rs 44.02 crore in 2007-08.

Sanjay Jha works for?

Ans: Motorola

12.Which brand of bike asks “Why should boys have all the fun”?

Ans: Hero Honda Pleasure

13. __________ is a public holding company, incorporated in Saudi Arabia, and is the largest company in Saudi Arabia.It is controlled by Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz, and is headquartered in the city of Riyadh. The company is publicly listed in the Saudi Stock Exchange but only 6% of the shares are public, the rest is privately owned with the majority stakeholder, Prince Alwaleed holding 94% shares.

Ans: Kingdom Holdings

14.”He was never an LSE student and he does not have an LSE degree,” The spokesman of London School of Economics told media few days back, commenting on reports that ‘X’ had a law degree from the LSE. Identify the politician ‘X’.

Ans: Varun Gandhi

15.This state doesnot have coal or iron ore, yet it is the no:1 manufacturer of steel pipes in the country. It does not have a diamond mine. Yet 80 % of the polished diamonds are made here. Which state we are talking about?

Ans: Gujarat

Find Complete Tata Crucible Question Compendium

Find ET in Campus questions here

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Flavour: Online Science Quiz

Host: TIFR in association with Marchahead

Quiz link here

No Science Background Required
Open to ALL
We typically come across and use much more “science” in our everyday life than we think we do.

Quiz 1 : April 13- 19, 2009
Quiz 2 : April 27-May 2, 2009

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IIM Calcutta wins Tata Crucible National and International final as MICA finish runners up in both. Questions to follow soon

Some Questions from the Semi Finals here

Some more Questions

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Loads of Quizzes at Utsav ’09

Host: BMSCE, Bangalore

Date: 9th to 11th April 2009

Official Website

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Tata Crucible National & International Finals will be held on April 5, 2009 at The Crystal Room, Taj Mahal Palace, Colaba= Mumbai. For entry and passes details, log on to the official website

Find 2009 Campus Telecast details here

We will bring you details of the National & International Finals as and when. So, stay hooked!

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Quiz: Brain Strain

Part of: Phoenix ’09

Host: Future Institute of Engineering and Management , Kolkata

Date: 8th and 9th April 2009

Official Website

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Flavour: Business Quiz

Part of: Parivartan ’09

Host: DMS, IIT-Delhi

Date: 3rd April 2009

Quizmaster: Manimugdha Sharma

Official Website

Rules

1.Two members can form a team and participate in the Quiz
2. Inter corporate teams are allowed
3. Inter college teams not allowed
4. On spot registration will be followed by written prelims
5. Top 6 teams qualify to go on stage
7. There’s no entry fees

Contact
Umang Jain
91-9899374314
ignitiken.parivartan@dmsiitd.org

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Find Review and Questions from the below quiz here

Flavour: Business Quiz

Part of: Yukti ’09

Host: Thiagarajar School of Management , Madurai, TN

Date: 4th and 5th April 2009

Open to: Students and Corporates

Official Website

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General Quiz:
Date – 4th April 2009
Only for students
3 members in a team

Content and Research: QuizMonks
Quizmaster: Dhananjay S.

For details, kindly contact Shubham: 09824981574

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1) David Ogilvy’s rejection of an account which initially came to him was something he regretted for long. Which account?

Ans: Xerox

2) Which short form of a brand name is also used for two pollutants /impure elements?

Ans: Coke- term also used for coal and cocaine

3) What is the treaty of Park Avenue?

Ans: The Arthur C Clarke- Isaac Asimov treaty finalised while they drove through Park Avenue, in which each acknowledged the other as superior

4) In Poland, Microsoft took a group of journalists into a submarine. Why?

Ans: To show what a world without windows was like

5) Which brand claims to be the first to be visible from outer space?

Ans: Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC)- A 87,500 sq ft logo created in the Nevada Desert is claimed to be visible from outer space

6) A group named ‘Three Star Club’ used to exist in Mumbai in the 1990s. What was the eligibility to be a member of this club?

Ans: Ownership of a Mercedes

7) With which well knwn brand are the companies Bector Foods, Dynamix Dairies and Amrit Foods associated?

Ans: McDonalds

8) What is common to Godrej, Titan and GSM technology?

Ans: EDGE- a refrigerator brand from Godrej, a watvh brand from Titan and a data transmission technology in GSM

9) Which former Indian Union Minister was also the founder of a famous British publishing house?

Ans: V.K Krishna Menon, co-founder of Penguin and Pelican

10) Which country recruited its first astronaut with an ad on radio?

Ans: United Kingdom which recruited Helen Sharman through a radio ad. She flew aboard Soyuz mission TM-12, launched on May 18, 1991

11) In 1996, John Leonard of Seattle, Washington, actually ‘won’ the ‘unwinnable’ prize in a Pepsi contest. What was the prize?

Ans: An AV-8 Harrier II fighter plane

12) What do ‘Mercedes’ and ‘Nirma’ have in common?

Ans: Both have been named after the daughters of their owners/founders

13) By what brand name is ‘Barbara Millicent Roberts’ better known

Ans: Barbie, the doll

14) What is the connection between Onkyo, Sony and Concorde?

Ans: Sound. In Latin, ‘Sonus’ means sound; in Japanese ‘Onkyo’ means sound and ‘Concorde’ is the aircraft which can fly twice as fast as the speed of sound

15) The brand name of a musical instrument was formed from the surnames of the founders, Tsutomu Katoh and Tadashi Osanai. What was the name?

Ans: Korg

16) The company is named after the two founders who died within days of each other in 1948. Although they never met, their companies merged 41 years after their death. Name the company as we know it today.

Ans: Ernst & Young

For details fo the 2009 edition click here

For questions and reviews from the 2008 edition, click here

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Official BEQ ’09 Site

For Questions from this year’s Edition Click here

THE IDEA BRAND EQUITY QUIZ ’09

Associate Quizmaster: Andrew Scolt

Quizmaster: Derek O’Brien

13 April 2009: Chennai
15 April 2009: Bangalore
17 April 2009: Kochi
19 April 2009: Hyderabad
20 April 2009: Delhi
22 April 2009: Indore
24 April 2009: Pune
25 April 2009: Mumbai
27 April 2009: Ahmedabad
29 April 2009: Kolkata

For Questions, Reviews and Winners from the 2008 Edition click here

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