QUIZ QUESTIONS OF 4/6/2005 - QM Sanjay lavkare

QUIZ QUESTIONS OF 4/6/05

ROUND 1 : Corporate

1) Why did Intel call the successor to its 486 processor series "Pentium" instead of using a combination of digits as they had always done
1(a) During the initial launch of Pentium, it had a lot of issues, so much so that the press jokingly gave it another name.What was it?
2) Which soft-drink has a slogan, : "No more drinking stupid, drink with commitment!" ?
3) Which company founder said "I have 3 priorities - God, family and _______, and at work these get reversed.
4) Singer Sewing machines was the first company to introduce a highly innovative marketing tool.What is it?
5) The merger of in 1939 of Shibaura Seisakusho and Tokyo Denki created a new company. In 1978 the company officially got its current name, which refers to a magical and powerful plant in East Asian mythology that offers longevity and good luck. Name the company

ROUND 2 : GK

1) In Netherlands, what is the House of Orange?
2) In the 1960s & 1970s she became a diplomat when she was loaned to the US President by Charles de Gaulle in an attempt to improve Franco-American relations. Whom are we talking about?
3) Walter Fredrick Morrison sold the rights to his "Pluto Platter" in 1955, but under what name did this toy become popular?
4) Which computer game , completing 25 years this year (2005) - feature ghosts named Inky, Pinky, Blinky and Clyde
5) Armenia, Iran & USA. Which sportsman links these 3 countries?

ROUND 3 : VISUAL

1) Identify the exact location of this landmark .
2) What does this logo represent in the world of Internet?
2(a)Mozilla corporation have a director on their board who was the starter of a very famous software? Who
3) Which product (brand) do these mascots advertise? Name these mascots.
4) The tallest building in Taipei, was illuminated earlier this year in the manner shown in this photograph,to commemorate which significant scientific breakthrough ?
5) On April 15, 2005 , Google's home page sported this logo. What was the occasion?

ROUND 4 : Corporate

1) Mark McCormack is the author of " What they don't teach you at Harvard Business School" What is the other book he has written ?
2) Which Indian entertainment software company has a Michigan University graduate on its board of directors? Name the director also.
3) In 2004, this popular electronics & telecommunications company abandoned the slogan "Let's make things better" in favor for a new one : "Sense and Simplicity". Name the company
4) There are 3 famous international ratings agencies - a) S & P, b) Moody's c) _____ Fill in the blanks.
5) Which US senator worked as a lawyer for Walmart and was also on their board of directors ?

ROUND 5 : Corporate

1) Mitsubishi was, in a way, played a role in triggering the end of World War -II. How?
2) This entrepreneur has introduced music -bands like Sex Pistols & Culture Club to the world music scene.In 2002 ,his company came up with the catch-line "Mine's bigger than yours" on the posters advertising their new "facility" (which now happens to be one of their major business-lines). Name the person/company.
3) Who said this and on whom " If he was a plumber, he would control all the water in the world and force anyone who wants a drop of the precious liquid to cut a deal with him"
4) Who has set up the world's first floating ATM?
5) Name this corporate which gets its name from a brute race mentioned in Jonathan Swift's novel "Gulliver Travels'

ROUND 6 : Visual

1) Who is the only female-partner of this Indian, entertainment company ?
2) Identify the personality
3) Love him or hate him….but this guy’s making waves these days !
4) Identify the trophy and the event at which it is awarded.
5) In a game of Pictionary , which fast-food chain could be identified by the above illustration ?


ROUND 7 : GK

1) How is author Mary Shelley associated with genetically modified foods?
2) Where, on a horse ,do you find a frog?
3) Who is the employer of James Bond?
4) What is Barbara Millicent Roberts popularly known as ?
5) The suffix 'ology' means "study of" (viz. psychology, biology etc.) What is the shortest 'ology' word?

ROUND 8 : Corporate

1) This was a classification of the highest quality of ships by Lloyd which became a phrase in the English language.What is it ?
2) If IBM is the Big Blue, Coke the Big Red, who is Big Brown/Black?
3) With which company would you associate Chicago, Memphis, and Longhorn?
4) Born in Brazil to Lebanese parents, this person has turned around a Japanese company. He has written about his experiences in a book. Name the book and the author
5) Which local product has an adline tag which goes as "The Power to Dream"


Answers
ROUND 1 : Corporate

1 Because numbers can't be trade-marked.
1(a) Repent-ium
2 Mecca-Cola
3 McDonald's (Ray Croc)
4 Installment Scheme
5 TOSHIBA to, means "east", and the second, shiba, is a magical and powerful plant

ROUND 2 : GK

1 The Royal Family
2 Mona Lisa (Many believe that she's actually, Da Vinci in drag !She's also been lampooned as "Lady suppressing a smile after a silent fart " by some of her not-so-kind critics!!)
3 Frisbee
4 Pacman.It was invented in a Pizza joint. At a pizza parlor,Toru Iwatani - the founder, paused after taking his first slice and thought the remainder of the pie looked like a head with its mouth open. He imagined it racing through a maze, eating things -- and the phenomenon was born.

5 Andre Aggasi ,Agassi, an ethnic Armenian was born and raised in Las Vegas and lives there when not on tour. His father, Emmanuel "Mike" Agassi, was a boxer for Iran in the 1948 & 1952 Olympics before emigrating to the U.S. When he became a citizen, he shortened his name from Agassian to Agassi

ROUND 3 : VISUAL

1 Wall Street (NY). The Bronze Bull Sculpture " The beloved bull sculpture that symbolizes Wall Street capitalism is for sale, and bidding starts at $5 million.
But any prospective buyer will have to keep the 7,000-pound bronze ""Charging Bull"" where it is, in a park near the New York Stock Exchange, said its creator.
""I put the bull up for sale because I need the money to create more masterpieces for New York,"" said Arturo Di Modica, 63, who sculpted the slick, powerful-looking bull, which mysteriously appeared on Wall Street 15 years ago. Di Modica insisted that any deal would require the buyer to donate the landmark sculpture to New York City, with the new owner's name inscribed on a plaque to be placed next to it. The buyer would be allowed a tax deduction."
2 FireFox ( The new Internet Browser from Mozilla)
2a) Mitchell Kapur (who started Lotus)
3 Kellogs (Tony the Tiger & Cornelius the Rooster)
4 100 years of "Theory of Relativity". The formula "E=-mc2 can be read if the picture is turned sideways)
5 Leonardo Da Vinci's birth anniv.

ROUND 4 : Corporate

1 What you'll never learn on the Internet
2 Balaji Telefilms. Tusshar Kapoor
3 Philips
4 Fitch
5 Hillary Clinton

ROUND 5 : Corporate

1 During WW-II, they manufactured the famous Zero aircraft that was used in the Pearl Harbor bombing which then triggered the Hiroshima bombing by the US

2 Richard Branson (Virgin Atlantic). This catch-line was advertised on the hoardings of their new A340 Airbus , to 'show-off' their bigger passenger capacity.
3 Larry Elison about Bill Gates
4 SBI in Kerala backwaters
5 Yahoo!

ROUND 6 : Visual

1 Juhi Chawla (in Dreamz Unlimited) , the other partners being Shahrukh Khan & Aziz Mirza.
2 Michael Moore.
3 Crazy Frog
4 Palme d'Or (Golden Palm) at The Cannes Film Festival
5 Wendy's ( Chilli + Finger; referring to the infamous incident wherein a lady alleged that she had bitten into a human finger while having her chilli-dip. This was later found to be a hoax. The woman had actually 'planted' the finger belonging to a friend of her husband (who had severed the finger in an accident).The lady's surely had planned it quite well, as she'd preserved the finger carefully all these months !


ROUND 7 : GK

1 Mary Shelley wrote "Frankenstein". GMFs are known as "Franken-Foods"
2 On the sole of it's hooves.
3 MI-6
4 Barbie
5 Oology (study of eggs)
Incidentally, the longest is : OPHTHALMOOTORHINOLARYNGOLOGY
(the branch of medicine which formerly combined the treatment of eye, ear, nose, and throat).

ROUND 8 : Corporate

1 A-1
2 UPS (United Parcel Service )
3 Microsoft- Codenames for various projects Chicago was Windows 95, Memphis was Windows 98 and Longhorn
is the next version on Windows (yet to be launched)
4 Carlos Ghosn (Nissan CEO) ; "Shift"
5 Raha (mattresses)