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Quiz: Blue Ribbon
Part of: Manit ’08
Date: 20 March 2008
Quizmaster: Pickbrain

Winners: Chetan TV & Rohit Nair (UVCE, Bangalore)

1) Bhanu Athaiya is known to have designed the costumes for Lagaan. She won an Oscar for costumes for which 1982 classic?
Ans: Gandhi

2) Which organization in Karnataka started by Swati & Ramesh believes that India’s challenges need systemic changes rooted in Democracy and not band-aid solutions?
Ans: Janaagraha

3) Which famous Indian Bazaar claims that “The Edge is Efficiency”?
Ans: Bombay Stock Exchange

4) Turning 60 in 2008, it was shortly after Indian independence in 1948, that K. N. Guruswamy founded this media house in Karnataka?
Ans: Prajavani/ Deccan Herald group

5) How does the nation now know L & T Cement?
Ans: Ultratech Cement

6) Who has given the world the “Kindle”?
Ans: Amazon

7) If I am the Saint, the surfer and the CEO to ask Who will cry when you die and tell you about the monk who sold his Ferrari who am I?
Ans: Robin Sharma
This lawyer by profession served as President of BCCI from 1977 to 1980. MCC honored him with a life membership in 1969, and a cricket stadium in South India was named after him against his wishes. Who?
Ans: M. Chinaswamy (of Chinaswamy stadium, Bangalore fame)

9) Viewty is a new range of mobiles from whom?
Ans: LG

10) Connect Malaika Arora Khan, Boman Irani and Satish Shah to one brand?
Ans: Pizza Hut

11) What is the claim to fame of Karen Lunel Hishey in Indian advertising?
Ans: First Liril Girl

12) Which Padma Shri awardee was also the first Indian woman to have to graduated from the Harvard Business
Ans: Naina Lal Kidwai

13) Radio Today launched Meow 104.8 FM, India’s first radio station in what way?
Ans: Target audience- only women

14) The MORE brand of supermarkets is from which famous business house in India?
Ans: Aditya Birla Group

15) Which model connects Bank of Baroda, Gillette, Max New York Life and Reebok?
Ans: Rahul Dravid (Model?? )

16) Expand the management style MBWA?
Ans: Management by Walking Around

17) You would associate the character Hari Sadu with which advertiser?
Ans: Naukri.com

18) Who is the Indian partner of Virgin Mobile?
Ans: Tata Tele

19) Formerly known as Palam, this has been upgraded recently by GMR Infra consortium. Which famous take off point in India is this?
Ans: Delhi Airport

20) Amalgamated Bean Coffee Trading company owns which coffee chain across India?
Ans: Coffee Day