Guinness

- is a popular Irish dry stout that originated in a brewery at St. James’s Gate, Dublin. A distinctive feature is the burnt flavour which is derived from the use of roasted unmalted barley.

Founder(s): Arthur Guinness

Guinness History 

Arthur Guinness started brewing ales from 1759 at the St. James’s Gate Brewery, Dublin. On 31 December he signed (up to) a 9,000 year lease at £45 per annum for the unused brewery. Ten years later on 19 May 1769 Arthur exported his ale for the first time, when six and a half barrels were shipped to England. Arthur started selling the dark beer porter in 1778. The first Guinness beers to use the term were Single Stout and Double Stout in the 1840s

Guinness Trivia

1. Guinness is sometimes believed to have invented stout, however the first known use of the word stout in relation to beer appears in a letter in the Egerton Manuscript dated 1677.
2. Arthur started selling the dark beer porter in 1778. The first beers to use the term were Single Stout and Double Stout in the 1840s
3. The brewery hired the statistician William Sealy Gosset in 1899, who achieved lasting fame under the pseudonym “Student” for techniques developed for the company, particularly Student’s t-distribution and the even more commonly known Student’s t-test
4. They has also been referred to as “the black stuff” and as a “Pint of Plain” – referred to in the famous refrain of Flann O’Brien’s poem “The Workman’s Friend”: “A pint of plain is your only man.”
5. The company acquired the Distillers Company in 1986
6. They then merged with Grand Metropolitan in 1997 to form Diageo PLC
7. Guinnes’ famed stout is made from water, barley, hops, and brewer’s yeast, and is treated with isinglass finings made from fishes’ air bladders
8. Guinness uses the harp of Brian Boru as its trademark. This harp, dating from the 14th or 15th century, which is on view at Trinity College, Dublin, has been a symbol of Ireland since the reign of Henry VIII (16th century)
9. The Guinness Book of World Records is named after this very company!!

Guinness is one of the most popular Beer brands in the world , you would also like to read about the following brands – Bacardi , Smirnoff , Johnnie Walker

The Greenko Quiz

Fellow accumulators of useless knowledge and esoteric trivia, pay close attention. This is the time to mark your calendars.
Rustam-e-Dauran, Arastu-e-Zaman, Muzzafar-ul-Mulk, Wal Mamalik, Field Marshal, Fateh Jung, Sipah Salar, Faithful Ally of the Quizzing Circuit, Nizam-ud-Daula, Nizam-ul-Quizdom, Greenko Open Quiz IV is bringing its tashreef.

Greenko Quiz Details

Date: July 30, 2011 (Saturday)
Venue: RNR Auditorium, Banjara Hills, Hyderabad
Time: Prelims at 2:00 p.m. and finals at 5:00 p.m.
Type: Open
Teams: <= 3 hominids per team, 8 teams in the finals
Entry Fee: 0. Nil. Zilch.
Title Sponsor: Greenko Group

Prizes: In excess of Rs. 80,000 in cash including prizes for all finalists, audience, and other categories

Quiz Masters: Nitish Khadiya, Ravi Mundoli, Priyambad Pattanayak, Diwakar Pingle

Previous Greenko Quiz details

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Johnnie Walker

-is a brand of Scotch Whisky owned by Diageo and originated in Kilmarnock, Ayrshire, Scotland

Founder(s): John Walker.

Blends: Red & Cola,  Swing, Red Label, Black Label, Green Label, Gold Label, Blue Label, Double Black Label

Johnnie Walker History

Originally known as Walker’s Kilmarnock Whisky, the Johnnie Walker brand is a legacy left by John “Johnnie” Walker after he started to sell whisky in his grocer’s shop in Ayrshire, Scotland. After Walker’s death in 1857 it was his son Alexander Walker and grandson Alexander Walker II who were largely responsible for establishing the Scotch as a popular brand

Johnnie Walker Trivia

1. Alexander Walker first introduced the iconic square bottle in 1870.
2. The product label is applied at an angle of 24 degrees which means the text on the label could be made larger and more visible
3. In 1908, when James Stevenson was the Managing Director, there was a re-branding of sorts. The whisky was renamed from Walker’s Kilmarnock Whiskies to Johnnie Walker Whisky.
4. In 1932, Alexander II added JW Swing to the line, the name originating from the unusual shape of the bottle, which allowed it to rock back and forth.
5. The company joined Distillers Company in 1925. Distillers was acquired by Guinness in 1986, and Guinness merged with Grand Metropolitan to form Diageo in 1997.
6. In 2009 the advertising agency Bartle Bogle Hegarty created a new short film, starring Robert Carlyle and called The Man Who Walked Around the World, which outlined the history of the brand.
7. Diageo has created “The Striding Man Society” which is a members club for JW drinkers
8. Special/ Limited Edition Bottlings: Collector’s Edition, Millennium Editions, Deco, Premier, Swing Superior, Quest, Honor, 21 year, Excalibur, Old Harmony, Excelsior,
9. The Striding Man logo was created in 1908 by an illustrator named Tom Browne to be a likeness of John Walker in traditional attire. In the logo, the man is walking forward, which Diageo says symbolises forward thinking and the pursuit of excellence

Johnnie Walker Red Label was the favorite Scotch of Winston Churchill, who mixed it with soda.

Diageo

is a global alcoholic beverages company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It is the world’s largest producer of spirits and a major producer of beer and wine

NYSE: DEO

Diageo History 

Was formed in 1997 from the merger of Guinness and Grand Metropolitan. The creation was driven by the two executives Anthony Greener and Philip Yea at Guinness plus George Bull and John McGrath of Grand Metropolitan.

Diageo Trivia

1. Diageo is believed to be stand for Dia (Day) + Geo (Earth)
2. In 2002, the company sold the Burger King fast food (later sold to 3G Capital) restaurant chain to a consortium led by US firm Texas Pacific for $1.5 billion
3. It also owned Pillsbury until 2000 when it was sold to General Mills
4. In December 2003, the company provoked controversy over its decision to change its Cardhu brand Scotch whisky from a single malt to a vatted malt whilst retaining the original name and bottle style
5. It is the world’s biggest whisky producer with 28 malt distilleries and two grain distilleries.
6. It also distributes Unicum, its lighter-bodied variant Zwack and Jose Cuervo tequila products in North America.
7. Company owns the Gleneagles Hotel and a 34% stake in the Moet Hennessy drinks division of French luxury goods company LVMH
8. It has created “The Striding Man Society” which is a members club for Johnnie Walker drinkers

Diageo owns Smirnoff , the world’s best-selling vodka, Johnnie Walker–the world’s best-selling scotch whisky and Guinness–the world’s best-selling stout

Smirnoff

-is a brand of vodka owned and produced by the British company Diageo. Products include vodka, flavored vodka, and malt beverages.

Founder(s): Pyotr Arsenievich Smirnov

Smirnoff History 

The brand began with a vodka distillery founded in Moscow by Pyotr Arsenievich Smirnov (1831–1898), the son of illiterate Russian peasants, under the trading name of PA Smirnoff who pioneered charcoal filtration in the 1870s. His brand was reportedly the tsar’s favorite. When he died, he was succeeded by his third son Vladimir Smirnov.

Smirnoff Trivia

1. In 1904 the Tsar nationalized the Russian vodka industry and Vladimir was forced to sell his factory and brand. During the October Revolution of 1917, the family had to flee
2. Vladimir Smirnov re-established the factory in 1920 in Constantinople (present day Istanbul). Four years later he moved to Lwów (formerly Poland, now Lviv, Ukraine) and started to sell the vodka under the contemporary French spelling of the name, “Smirnoff”.
3. In late 1930s, Heublein acquired the North American rights of  the brand
4. In Kentucky sales rocketed as the distributor started marketing the brand as ‘white whiskey, no taste, no smell’.
5. In 1982, the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company acquired Heublein Inc. for $1.4 billion dollars. RJR Nabisco sold the division to Grand Metropolitan in 1987.
6. Grand Metropolitan merged with Guinness to form Diageo in 1997
7. During the 1990s one of Piotr Smirnov’s descendants, Boris Smirnov, started producing Smirnov (Смирновъ in Ukraine) vodka in Russia, claiming to be “The Only Real Smirnov”. After a number of lawsuits, the company successfully reclaimed its trademark, while in 2006 Diageo concluded a joint venture deal with the Smirnov company
8. They had the naming rights to the Smirnoff Music Centre, a concert amphitheater in Dallas, Texas from 2000-2008
9. There are two different products by the name of Ice. One, sold in France and the United States, is a citrus-flavored malt beverage (5.5% ABV) with variants in ‘Original,’ and ‘Triple Black.’ The other, sold in Europe (excluding France), Latin America, Australia and Canada, is a premixed vodka drink
10. Source, a lightly carbonated beer-alternative, was released in May 2007

Goldman Sachs

NYSE: GS

Founder(s): Marcus Goldman. Samuel Sachs, in 1869

Goldman Sachs History 

GS was founded in New York in 1869 by the German-born Marcus Goldman. In 1882, Goldman’s son-in-law Samuel Sachs joined the firm.In 1885, Goldman took his son Henry and his son-in-law Ludwig Dreyfuss into the business and the firm adopted its present name, Goldman Sachs & Co.

Goldman Sachs Trivia

1. GS Headquarters, at 200 West Street, in Manhattan.
2. In the early 20th century, Goldman was a player in establishing the initial public offering (IPO) market
3. On December 4, 1928, it launched the Goldman Sachs Trading Corp. a closed-end fund with characteristics similar to that of a Ponzi scheme. The fund failed as a result of the Stock Market Crash of 1929, hurting the firm’s reputation for several years afterward
4. On November 16, 1981, the firm made a move by acquiring J. Aron & Company, a commodities trading firm which brought Lloyd Blankfein on board of Sachs.
5. The firm joined David Rockefeller and partners in a 50–50 joint ownership of Rockefeller Center during 1994, but later sold the shares to Tishman Speyer in 2000.
6.  In 1996, Goldman was lead underwriter of the Yahoo! IPO and in 1998 it was global coordinator of the NTT DoCoMo IPO.
7.  In 1999, Henry Paulson took over as Senior Partner
8. In 1999, Goldman acquired Hull Trading Company, one of the world’s premier market-making firms,
9. It expanded its investments in companies to include Burger King, McJunkin Corporation, and in January 2007, Alliance Atlantis alongside CanWest Global Communications to own sole broadcast rights to the all three CSI series.
10. In May 2006, Paulson left the firm to serve as U.S. Treasury Secretary, and Lloyd C. Blankfein was promoted to Chairman and Chief Executive Officer.
11. GSAMP originally stood for Goldman Sachs Alternative Mortgage .
12. GS Capital Partners is their private equity arm . It has invested over $17 billion in the 20 years from 1986 to 2006. One of the most prominent funds is the GS Capital Partners V fund, which comprises over $8.5 billion of equity
13. In December 2005, four years after its report on the emerging “BRIC” economies (Brazil, Russia, India, and China), Goldman Sachs named its “Next Eleven” list of countries, using macroeconomic stability, political maturity, openness of trade and investment policies and quality of education as criteria: Bangladesh, Egypt, Indonesia, Iran, Mexico, Nigeria, Pakistan, the Philippines, Turkey, South Korea and Vietnam.
14. In April, 2010, Goldman director Rajat Gupta was named in an insider-trading case. It was said Gupta had “tipped off a hedge-fund billionaire,” Raj Rajaratnam of Galleon Group, about the $5 billion Berkshire Hathaway investment in Goldman in September, 2008

Indian writer Chetan Bhagat used to work at Goldman Sachs, one of the biggest Brands in the world

TCS IT Wiz Questions 2011- Bangalore Edition

Balaji Subramaniam shares with us the  TCS IT Wiz Questions (prelims) from the 2011 Bangalore edition while Gandhar Kunte shares with us videos from the Finals. Thanks a lot guys!!

The final was an absorbing one with leading schools battling for the crown of Bangalore IT Champions. The schools on stage were PSBB, Kumaran’s CBSE, NPS (K), Vidyanikethan, FAPS and St. Paul’s..

But after a well fought battle, Pratheek and Arul from St. Paul’s won the quiz followed by Jeydev and Pranav from FAPS.

If you’re participating in the other cities, do share your experiences while you can also practice quizzes on our new Quizzing platform here 

TCS IT Wiz Questions – Bangalore 2011 Prelims

1. This spinoff of Nippon Telegraph and Telephone was started in 1991. Company name means ‘everywhere’ in the native language. Present in India in partnership with a major Indian company. Ans: DoCoMo
2. This brand’s name refers to an edible fruit in plants of the rose family. Was in the news due to a protracted dispute with Govt of India. Ans: Blackberry
3. Visual – Radioshack logo
4. This game was inspired by Warcraft III: Frozen Throne, and DoTA in particular. Here, too, the objective of the game was to fight the enemy force and destroy their base. Ans: Heroes of Newerth
5. Which doyen of the Indian IT industry resigned from the company he built to start up “Happiest Minds India Ltd”? Ans: Ashok Soota
6. This is an input device consisting of a stick that pivots on a base and reports its angle or direction to the device it is controlling. First optimized for usage in games by Ralph Baer. Identify. Ans: Joystick
7. Connect Fulham FC, ICC and Boca Juniors. Ans: LG
8. Visual – Thomas Edison Google doodle
9. Inventor, Innovator, Pioneer, Discoverer, Explorer, Navigator are the names of buildings in which ‘international’ location? Ans: Buildings of ITPL (IT park in Blore)
10. Almost all Chinese Android phones will have this instead of Google Search because of China’s ban on Google. World’s second largest search engine simply because of the number of people speaking Chinese. Ans: Baidu
11. t.co is a URL shortening service by whom? Ans: Twitter
12. Visual – Google Wallet logo.
13. Founded by Serge Kampf as “Société de Gestion des Entreprises et de Traitement de l’Information” (Sogeti). How do we know this organization today? Ans: Capgemini
14. Visual – Stephen Elop
15. X is a widely used sans-serif typeface developed in 1957 by Swiss typeface designer Max Miedinger with Eduard Hoffmann. Originally called Neue Haas Grotesk, now called X as a reference to Switzerland. Ans: Helvetica
16. Who owns the domain www.eb.com ?Ans: Encyclopaedia Britannica
17. Connectix Quickcam was the first of which type of digital cameras?Ans: Webcam
18. What do you call a map of bits?Ans: Bitmap
19. SAGA 220 is India’s fastest supercomputer with a speed of 220 teraflops. Name the organisation that designed it. Ans: ISRO

Videos from the Finals

If you are participating in any other cities, we’re sure these questions will give you a heads up on the preparation required.

For those who want to have a look at the previous years’ questions, follow the links below

The format of TCS IT Wiz Questions has been simple throughout – a mixture of current affairs dry questions, visuals, heads of companies, history of IT Companies and trivia from old sites/blogs/quiz groups and magazines like PCMag and Digit.

A thorough read through previous editions’ TCS IT Wiz Questions will definitely give participants a good direction to prepare for their city finals.

And if you are not looking just for TCS IT Wiz questions but a good guide to Prepare for IT & Business quizzes, you must read the 20,000+ downloads famous – A Definitive guide to prepare for Tata Crucible

TCS IT WIZ QUESTIONS from the previous years

The Bollywood Quiz

- a simple online quiz to test your Bollywood Quotient!

Do you love watching Hindi movies, repeat Amitabh Bachchan dialogues, try and laugh like Shahrukh Khan or just keep googling information about your favourite stars?

Take a shot at The Bollywood Quiz , answer five simple questions and win as much as Rs 500/- worth prizes!!

After the success of the recent online quizzes, we’ve decided to extend this to a few more quizzes starting with this week’s Quiz on Bollywood

The Bollywood Quiz Details

The Quiz is open to All – Age , Sex & Marital Status No Bar!!

The Quiz is Open between 27th July 2011 and 5th August 2011

You can participate in The Bollywood Quiz here

What do I need to participate? Well, you need to spend 5 minutes of your time and a Quizzing.in registered account (a Facebook account is enough)

If you missed out the previous quizzes, you can still have a look at these quizzes – James Bond Quiz , Harry Potter Quiz , Tata Crucible Online Quizzes

And while you’re at all this , don’t forget the different offline quizzes happening right now : Mahindra AQ , Tata Crucible , TCS IT Wiz, Horlicks WizKids , Greenko Quiz , K-Circle Quiz

For suggestions, feedback, comments and quizzes that you want us to host, mail us at: priyanka@quizzing.in

What are you waiting for!!

Participate in The Bollywood Quiz now!!!

Mahindra AQ – Auto Quotient

Mahindra AQ  -Auto Quotient flags off the 3rd season of India’s largest & finest auto quiz. A quiz that will have engineering & management students from across the country revving up to overtake each other in this challenge.

Open to Engineering & B-School students in different cities,

Mahindra AQ Details

You can find the various cities & venues here : Mahindra AQ Checkpoints here

Who are eligible? Eligibility rules here

QuizWorks will design and host the shows across all cities

Participants are requested to register on the Official Mahindra AQ site here

You can watch videos from last year’s quiz on the Mahindra AQ Youtube Channel

Dear trivia junkies,

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Quizmasters say: “Let there be the Open!”

Welcome to “Swami & Friends’ present: K-Circle Open Quiz 2011″

> Teams of three
> Bhaskara Auditorium, B M Birla Science Centre, Near Birla Mandir, Adarsh Nagar, Hyderabad-500063. For those who didn’t know, Birla Science Center is the complex below the Birla planetarium!
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>Date:31st July 2011
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Tata Crucible Questions – 2011 Coimbatore Corporate

Anuradha Yogesh shares with us the questions from the prelims of the Coimbatore Edition. Thanks a lot Anuradha!!

Arul Saravanan and Yogesh Pai from Chennai Silks won the Coimby Edition for the third year in a row!! Beating Shailendra & Priya Bhansali of Bhansali & Associates by a very slender margin!

Have you been following the Crucible? Find the Tata Crucible questions Kochi Edition here.

But for now,

Tata Crucible questions from Coimbatore Corporate 2011

1)      English singer/composer, brain child behind rocket record co. in 1972. Has a unique record, they are the only co. that has a trade mark  to a song , that was sung  only once in public? Ans: Elton John

2)      Which former airhostess was Lakme’s first Indian model? Ans: Maureen Wadia

3)      Which co. did Sunil Mittal get into an agreement in 1983 to manufacture the co’s push button telephone models for the Indian market? Later the co. went onto forge alliance with Nokia. Ans: Seimens

4)      Picture of this famous Huge Entrepreneur.

Ans: Cecil Rhodes

5)      Whose Tagline goes “ No Flavour Finer” The product carries a G I Tag and makes India proud? Ans: Darjeeling Tea

6) The Vanilla Beans are used in the Ice Cream Industry. Which Country produces 80% of the world’s Vanilla Beans output?(Clue – Children will know from Cartoons)  Ans: Madagascar

7) On 5^th April 2011, who announced about his new IT Venture “Happiest Minds Technologies Pvt    Ltd”? Ans: Ashok Soota

Picture of a Logo – whose? (Probably the Toughest question- QM)  Ans: Competition Commission of India

9) What term now used in media comes from the name given by the London based pharmaceutical company Burroughs Well Co to the compressed Tablets ? Ans: Tabloid

10) Which Asian Country with Voice based revenues of $ 5.70 Billion has overtaken India as the Call centre capital of the world ? Ans: Philippines

11) Who is the main Holding company of LMVH, owning 42.38% of its Shares and 59.30% of its Voting rights? (Clue – Huge Brand) Ans: Christian Dior

12) From the Education Sector. Old Company. Whose Logo? Ans: Aptech

13) First example of an Indian company hiring a local face to endorse its brand exclusively in another Country. Dabur has roped in which Pakistani cricketer for its brand – Hajmola? Ans: Shahid Afridi

14) Which nation gets its top level internet  domain as .Ch ? Ans: Switzerland

15) He has donated a majority of his company’s shares to M.I.T to fulfill his desire. Under the terms of the Gift, M.I.T cannot sell its shares & will not participate in its management or governance of the Company but can get annual dividend on its shares. Identify this gentleman.? (Huge Indian name) Ans: Amar Bose

16) Arabian Logo .  Identify ? (New tourism destination in the Middle East. Did not get effected by the recession)

Ans: Abu Dhabi

17) Logo – Identify ? (Local Company) 

Ans:  Vasan Eye Care

18) Which electronic commerce company would be associated with Andrew Mason? Ans: GroupOn

19) This Company is recognized as India’s biggest chain of Family Clubs by the Limca book of world records. They boast of having around 600 corporate members including Microsoft, Brooke bond Lipton, CMC,etc….. Ans: Country Club

20) Very much  native Logo.

Ans:  Nilgiris

If you are participating in any other cities, we’re sure these questions will give you a heads up on the preparation required.

For those who want to have a look at the previous years’ questions, follow the links below

The format of Tata Crucible Questions has been simple throughout – a mixture of current affairs dry questions, visuals, heads of companies, trivia from old sites/blogs/quiz groups.

A thorough read through previous editions’ Tata Crucible Questions will definitely give participants a good direction to prepare for their city finals.

And if you are not looking just for Tata Crucible questions but a good guide to Prepare for Tata Crucible and other business quizzes, you must read the 20,000+ downloads famous –A Definitive guide to prepare for Tata Crucible

You can attempt Tata Crucible Questions from the Student Edition 2011 on a brand new customized platform. Dont just read, PARTICIPATE!

 TATA CRUCIBLE QUESTIONS from the previous years

Kraft Foods

What is Kraft: Kraft Foods Inc. (NYSE: KFT) is an American confectionery, food and beverage corporation.

NYSE Ticker: KFT

Sub-Brands: Cadbury, Maxwell House, Nabisco, Oreo, Oscar Meyer, Milka.

Founder(s): JL Kraft, Thomas H Mclnnerney

Kraft Foods History

The history of KRAFT Foods goes back to 1903, when, with $65 in capital, a rented wagon and a horse named Paddy, J.L. Kraft started  purchasing  cheese  at  Chicago’s  Water  Street wholesale market and  reselling  it  to local merchants.  In 1917  the  company  started supplying cheese in tins to the U.S. Government for the armed forces in World War I.  The success of Kraft led to its acquisition, in 1930, by National Diary Product Corporation, a firm set by Thomas Mclnnerney on December 23, 1910.

Kraft Foods Trivia

1. In 1928, it acquired Phenix Cheese Company, the maker of a cream cheese branded as Philadelphia cream cheese, and the company changed its name to Kraft-Phenix Cheese Company. In 1969, the firm changed its name from National Dairy to Kraftco Corporation.
2. In 1980, Kraft merged with Dart Industries to form Dart & Kraft.
3. At the end of 1988, Philip Morris Companies purchased Kraft for $12.9 billion. In 1989, Kraft merged with Philip Morris’s General Foods unit – makers of Oscar Mayer meats, Maxwell House coffee, Jell-O gelatin, Budget Gourmet frozen dinners, Entenmann’s baked goods, Kool-Aid, Crystal Light and Tang powdered beverage mixes, Post Cereals, Shake ‘n Bake flavored coatings and numerous other packaged foods – as Kraft General Foods.
4. In 1995, it changed its name to the present name, Kraft Foods. The same year, it sold its bakery division (except Lender’s Bagels, which was sold in 1996 to CPC International), its candy division and its tablespreads division. Log Cabin syrup was sold in 1997
5. In July 2007, the company bought Groupe Danone’s biscuit (cookie) and cereal division for $7.2 billion, including iconic French biscuit brand Lefèvre-Utile.
6. In February 2008, Berkshire Hathaway Inc. run by billionaire investor Warren E. Buffett announced that it had acquired an 8% stake in Kraft Foods worth over $4 billion
7. In 1933, the company started to use radio on an extensive scale. It sponsored the one-hour weekly musical and variety show ‘Kraft Musical Review’, which headlined notable show business personalities. New products such as Miracle Whip salad dressing (1933), Kraft macaroni and cheese dinner (1936), and Parkay margarine (1937) were introduced through the ‘Kraft Music Hall’ and became immediate favorites.
8. While in his seventies, James Kraft helped create one of the first major television programs, the ‘Kraft Television Theatre’, which was said to have set audience and studio production records. The show ran from 1947 until 1958.

Bacardi

-A spirits company headquartered in Hamilton, Bermuda and one of the most recognizable Brands in the world

Brands: Martini & Rossi, Dewar’s Scotch, Bombay Sapphire, Grey Goose, 42 Below

Founder: Don Facundo Bacardi Masso, in 1862

Bacardi History

Don Facundo, a Spanish immigrant to Cuba, had discover a technique to purify rum, which was hitherto considered as a cheap drink, using charcoal. In 1862, he along with his brother Jose set up a shop in Santiago de Cuba distillery.

Bacardi Trivia

1. As many of Santiago’s resident couldn’t read, Don’s wife Dona Amalia suggested using a symbol to represent his product.
2.  The building housing the first distillery had a large number of fruit bats living under the roof of the distillery, which led to a Bat device as the logo of the company  and Don’s product soon became popular as ‘el ron del murcielago’ or ‘the rum of the bat’. 
3. Facundo Jr planted a coconut tree which grew along with the business and became a symbol of the family and its spirit operations.
4. Emilio , Don’s son, was imprisoned during Cubar War of independence. After the war ended, he was made the mayor of Santiago in 1899
5. “The Original Cuba Libre” and the Daiquiri were both born with their rum.
6. Ernest Hemingway ordered his daiquiris with Bcardi White Label rum and mentions Hatuey beer in three of his works: For Whom the Bell Tolls, To Have and Have Not and The Old Man and the Sea.

BACARDI is the world’s leading producer of rum

Tata Crucible Questions 2011- Kochi Finals

After covering the prelims of the Kochi Edition of Tata Crucible 2011 , we bring to you a few questions from the finals and more importantly some very important TIPS for all other participants!

But for now, the questions

Tata Crucible Questions – Kochi 2011 Finals

1) The US Census used to take over 7 years to complete, this process was cut down to 3 months by an invention of a major company. What? Ans: Punching Cards by IBM

2)Started by Italian brothers; part of the brand name means ‘Rock’ in French. Which brand? Ans: Ferrero Rocher

3)Visual. Which brand did he create?Ans Mr. Piruz Khambatta & Rasna

4) This ‘Icon’ was created by Art Paul and got different with the connotation etc. Which icon? Ans: Playboy Bunny

5)some visual on QR Code.

6)Lateral Connect Question on UB Group – Pegasus,Kissan etc

7)Lateral Connect Questions on Petronas- Cesarpelli the architect

8)Clue Round Question on Cathay Pacific (3 clues ) – Chinese Brand Name

9)Clue Round on St. Gobain

10)Some Retail funda tested in supermarkets by French company - Reynolds

11)visual on Godiva

Finalist Anil gives a very important TIPS to all participating in Crucible this year!

1) There are only 23 questions in the finals, so you need to fire from question 1

2) Tata Round is very minimal and it is not necessary to stress on it

3) Almost no local questions!

4) Brand Trivia and Brand Research is the most important part, so start building a database!

5) Prelims is only 20 Qs , so you cant afford to make a single error!

For those who want to have a look at the previous years’ Tata Crucible questions, follow the links below

The format of Tata Crucible Questions has been simple throughout – a mixture of current affairs dry questions, visuals, heads of companies, trivia from old sites/blogs/quiz groups.

A thorough read through previous editions’ Tata Crucible Questions will definitely give participants a good direction to prepare for their city finals.

And if you are not looking just for Tata Crucible questions but a good guide to Prepare for Tata Crucible and other business quizzes, you must read the 20,000+ downloads famous – A Definitive guide to prepare for Tata Crucible

You can attempt Tata Crucible Questions from the Student Edition 2011 on a brand new customized platform. Dont just read, PARTICIPATE!

 TATA CRUCIBLE QUESTIONS from the previous years

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Bombardier

What is Bombardier: Is a Canadian conglomerate whose business spans aircrafts, business jets, mass transportation and financial services.

Founder: Joseph-Armand Bombardier

Bombardier History

Founded in 1942 by Joseph-Armaud as L’Auto-Neige Bombardier Limitée in 1942, at Valcourt in the Eastern Townships, Quebec, Canada. Joseph was a mechanic who dreamed of building a vehicle that could “float on snow.” In 1937, he designed and produced his first snowmobile in his small repair shop in Valcourt, Quebec.

Bombardier Trivia

1. The Ski-doo was originally called the “Ski-Dog” because Bombardier meant it to be a practical vehicle to replace the dogsled for hunters and trappers. By an accident, a painter misinterpreted the name and painted “Ski-Doo” on the first prototype.
2. On February 18, 1964, J. Armand died of cancer at age 56. At the time of death, he was at the helm of company controlling every aspects of it, right from the design. In 1967, the company was renamed Bombardier Limited
3. In 1970, the company acquired the Viennese company Lohner-Rotax, a manufacturer of snowmobile engines and tramways, and became involved with rail business
4. In 1974, it won its first mass transit contract to manufacture 423 cars for the city of Montréal’s subway system.
5. I n 2000, they acquired Skyjet.com, a pioneer in real-time online air charter reservations.
6. The earlier logo depicted a sprocket– profiled wheel with teeth that meshes with a chain.

United Technologies

What is United Technologies: United Technologies Corporation (UTX) is an American multinational conglomerate headquartered at Hartford, Connecticut.

Brands: Otis, Black Hawk, Sikorsky, Carrier, Hamilton Sunstrand.

United Technologies History

Founded in 1929 as ‘United Aircraft and Transport Corporation’ by the merger of Boeing Airplane Company, Boeing Air Transport, Chance Vought, Hamilton Standard, Pratt & Whitney and Sikorsky Aircraft.  As a result of Air Mail Act of 1934, UATC broke up into three independent corporation—United Airlines, Boeing, United Aircraft Corporation (HQ: Hartford, Connecticut). Frederick Rentschler, who had founded Pratt & Whitney in 1925 became CEO of United Aircraft. United Aircraft changed its name to United Technologies on May 1, 1975.

United Technologies Trivia

1. UA became a member of DJIA on March 4, 1939, replacing Nash Motors.  On same day AT&T replaced IBM.
2. In 1976, it acquired Otis Elevator. Carrier Refrigeration and Mostek (later sold to French ‘Thomson’ in 1985) were acquired in 1979.
3. It acquired Sunstrand corp in 1999 and merged it with Hamilton Standard to form Hamilton Sunstrand.
4. Two years later, UTC entered the fire and security business by purchasing Chubb Security, which was followed in 2005 by Kidde. Also in 2005, United Technologies acquired Boeing’s Rocketdyne division, which was merged into the Pratt & Whitney business unit.
5. The United Technologies Building is known locally as the “Gold Building” due to its gold-tinted glass-mirror exterior.
6. Clipper Windpower is a wind turbine manufacturing company formed in 2001 by James G.P. Dehlsen, who also formed Zond in 1980. In December 2010 Clipper Windpower was acquired by United Technologies Corporation.

Nash Motors

What is Nash: Nash Motors was an automobile manufacturer based in Kenosha, Wisconsin, in the United States

Founder(s): Charles Nash.

Nash Motors History:

Nash Motors was founded in 1916 by General Motors fifth president Charles W. Nash who acquired the Thomas B. Jeffery Company. Jeffery’s best-known automobile was the Rambler whose mass production from a plant in Kenosha, Wisconsin began in 1902. The 1917 Nash Model 671 was the first vehicle produced to bear the name of the new company’s founder.

Nash Motors Trivia:

1. Nash-Kelvinator Corporation was the result of a merger between Nash Motors and Kelvinator Appliance Company. The union of these two companies was brought about as a result of a condition made by George W. Mason prior to his appointment as CEO of Nash.
2. In 1925, Nash introduced its entry level marquee Ajax, later sold as ‘Nash Six Light’, which was produced in the newly acquired Mitchell Motor Car Company plant in Racine, Wisconsin.
3. In 1924,  Nash acquired Indianapolis based LaFayette Motors , which was a manufacturer of expensive luxury cars.
4. In 1954, Nash Kelvinator acquired Hudson Motor Car Company of Detroit, Michigan to form the American Motors Corporation. Kelvinator continued as a wholly owned division within the new company.
5. The Kelvinator brand was eventually sold to White Consolidated Industries.

BQC: Bournvita Quiz Contest

Update as on 1st August 2011: So, its official!! Bournvita Quiz Contest will be back on Colors from 14th August 10:30 -11 am.. Surprisingly, Derek will have Soumya Tandon as co-Quiz host for the show! Don’t remember Ms Tandon? She is Kareena Kapoor’s ‘sister’-Roop in Jab We Met and recently hosted Zor Ka Jhatka with SRK!
The Quiz will be for students of Class 7 and Class 8.

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I have multiple times shared with friends and clients how I started my Quizzing career and how closely associated Bournvita Quiz Contest is to my Quizzing Life today and I am sure BQC has been an integral part of the lives of most readers of this post..

History of BQC

The Cadbury Bournvita Quiz Contest started way back in 1972 as a live quiz show that was across cities in India, later moved to being a radio and TV show. The original hosts were Hamid Sayani and his brother Ameen Sayani. But undoubtedly, the most famous host has been Derek O’ Brien.

The show was taken off air a few years ago but wait!! IT IS BACK!! Bournvita Quiz Contest is Back!! This time on Colors at 10:30 am on Sundays!

Bring Back BQC

The Bring Back BQC campaign was started on Facebook by 19 yr old Rahul Sethi and it kick started an online movement with over 150,000 fans today!!

The immense response from the public caught the attention of Cadbury’s and they’ve decided to bring back Bournvita Quiz Contest!!

This is indeed a great victory of Quizzing as I personally believe that BQC and KBC (Kaun Banega Crorepati) are the shows that took quizzing to the public.. Stay tuned for more updates as Derek and friends bring back India’s biggest student quiz back!!

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