Tuesday 29 November 2011

Quiz 93:29th November 2011

Q1.  Identify the Organization.

Q2. Connect
 and the 'Women In Love'
Q3. The co-founder, Kalle Lasn has reportedly started this foundation after an epiphany that there was something profoundly wrong with consumerism. It happened in a supermarket parking lot. Frustrated that he had to insert a quarter to use a shopping cart, he jammed a bent coin in so that the machine became inoperable. This act of vandalism was his first (quite literal) “culture jam" -- defined as an act designed to subvert mainstream society.  This foundation has launched numerous international campaigns, including Buy Nothing Day, TV Turnoff Week and Occupy Wall Street, and is known for their "subvertisements" that spoof popular advertisements. Name this Media foundation?
Q4. This was one of the first Internet newspaper sites. This was produced by the New Media division of The News & Observer newspaper in Raleigh, North Carolina. In 1993, George Schlukbier, a news librarian from McClarthy newspapers became the first New Media Director, hired by Frank Daniels III, editor of the daily paper, to build this new division. The core developers for this effort were to prove that the Internet was a better partner for newspapers than AOL. Name it?
Q5. In 2002, the first ________ was offered on eBay.  "Preemies" are smaller ones.  From “Preemies” to regular ones the sizes can range from 4 to 22 inches. What are we talking about?
Q6.  David Bloom, the currency strategist at HSBC, just unveiled a analysis of the links between different asset markets. He has constructed a correlation index to show how correlations have grown over time. He writes about that this tendency of the market had made life very difficult for hedge fund managers to add value since there has been little differentiation within asset classes; stocks have risen or fallen in tandem. What does David Bloom term this Index?
Q7. Which company is roped in by Bharati Airtel to manage 70 % of the network in India?

Monday 28 November 2011

Quiz 92:28th November 2011

Q1. Co-Founded by Zev Siegl, who is a history teacher by profession this company experimented with eateries in the San Francisco Bay arena through a restaurant chain called Circadia. The New York branch of this chain was bombed soon after which a 17 year old boy was arrested as he said that he had bombed the place to emulate the movie ‘Fight Club’. Name this coffeehouse chain.
                      
Q2. Ashutosh Rana and Rohit Roy came into limelight with the same serial as this actor. Tabu and Katrina Kaif have both fallen on his feet during the premiers of the movies in which he himself was cast. Zubeidaa is one of the movies he has acted in. Name this actor.

Q3. ‘The Hades Business’ is the name of the first book authored by him at the age of 13. He is famous for wearing black fedora hats which has been described as ‘more that of urban cowboy that city gent’. Name this author.

Q4. Identify.

 

Q5. Identify.

 

Q6. Identify.

 

Q7. Identify.

 

Sunday 27 November 2011

Quiz 91:27th November 2011

Q1. Identify.

 
                        
Q2. Identify.

 
                        
Q3. Original logo of _________________________

 
                        
Q4. Identify.

 
                        
Q5. Identify.

 
                        
Q6. Identify.

 
                        
Q7. Identify.

Saturday 26 November 2011

Quiz 64 : Answers

Q1. Name the product that made debut at Andy Capp’s bar in Sunnyvale, California in 1972. It had just one instruction – ‘Avoid missing ball for high score’.

                                Pong

Q2. Name this writer-director who made his mark with his first film, “Praying with Anger”, and the story of an Indian exchange student who finds himself a stranger in his homeland. The film was named the debut film of the year at the American Film Institute in Los Angeles in 1993. Later, he wrote and directed “Wide Awake” for Miramax, which bombed at the box office. Along the way, he also wrote the script for a ‘little’ movie. Success came only with the third major movie.

                                Manoj Shyamalam

Q3. ‘You have deliberately tasted two whole worms and now you can leave Oxford on the town drain’. Name the Warden of New College Oxford who said this?

                                Reverend W.A Spooner, after whom spoonerism are named.

Q4. Name the creature, from Homer’s Iliad, that is composed of parts from a lion, a goat and serpent.

                                Chimera

Q5. Originally it was the name of the Aegean Sea. It acquired the meaning ‘large group of islands’ since the 16th century. What is it?

                                Archipelago

Q6. Identify.  

 
                               
Q7. Connect.

    
                                Tata tea
                              Anna Wintour, editor of Vogue

Quiz 63 : Answers

Q1. What does LEAF stands for in Nissan LEAF electric cars?
               
                                Leading, Environment, Friendly, Affordable, family Car

Q2. Why in 1987 Nokia phone were nicknamed “Gorba” ?

Nokia’s mobile phones got a big publicity boost in 1987, when Soviet leader Mikhail gorbachev was pictured using a Mobira city Man to make a call from Helsinki to his communications minister in Moscow. This led to the phone’s nickname “Gorba”

Q3. Italians call it the snail, the Germans call it “spider Monkey”, Dutch call it “Monkey Tail” and Chinese call it “Little Mouse”. What am I talking about?

                                @

Q4. His maxim was, “People first, products and profit will follow!”. While growing wealthy, he also lavished wealth generously on all his employees. At the end of the company’s first $1 mn quarter, he stood by the door of the company and handed a $100 bill to every employee as they left. Every employee at the company got stock options, a huge innovation at that time. Whom are we talking about?

                                Jerry Sanders, Co-founder of Advance Micro Devices

Q5. What is the exciting and innovative mobile payment service in India offered by Union Bank and Yes Bank in partnership with Nokia?
               
                                Mobile Money

Q6. Identify. 


Hector de Jesus Ruiz(born December 25, 1945) is the chairman and CEO of advanced Nanotechnology Solutions

Q7. Identify the logo.


                                Nvidia

Quiz 62 : Answers

Q1. Noted for its internal lexicon the expression________________ is used to describe the policy of using prerelease and beta versions of products inside Microsoft in an effort to test them in “real-world” situations.

                                Eating our own Dog Food

Q2. Name the global nonprofit organization which is dedicated to fostering entrepreneurship. It has 54 chapters in 13 countries, with a total membership exceeding 13,000. It is most closely affiliated with the South Asian business community, and is recognized as an important networking forum for entrepreneurs and investor’s?

                                TiE

Q3. Identify the “First” employee.


Google’s first employee- Larry and Sergey hired Craig Silverstein as their first employee; he’s a fellow computer science grad student at Stanford.

Q4. What was first created by a group called “Sherpa Tsering Gyalsten”?

The World’s highest Internet Café was set up with the help of this group in Mt. Everest.

Q5. Why modern computers are called “Digital Computers”?

The word Digit comes from the Latin word meaning “finger” or “Toe”. Ancient times people used fingers for counting hence the name digit.

Q6. What is this?

 
                                United States Bankruptcy Court Seal

Q7. Which is the world’s largest online business-to-business trading platform for small businesses?

Alibababa.com

Quiz 61 : Answers

Q1. Bungie and 343 industries are few of developers of this game and it is owned by Microsoft Studios. “Combat evolved” was the name of it first version whereas “Reach” is the name of its latest release. The game is based on the experiences of Master Chief John-117 and his companion Cortana. Name this game.
                                Halo
Q2. In 2002 he won the award from the International Indian Film Academy for “Face of the Year” and Actress Kim Sharma is his cousin. “Chasing Ganesha Films” is the name of his production house. I see you were the first film which he produced. He has opened up a hotel with the name LAP (Lounge and Party). Name this actor.
                                Arjun Rampal
Q3. Robert B. Zoellick is the president of this organization and it is one of the five institutions created at the Bretton Woods Conference in the year 1944. CIA (Clean Air Initiative) is an initiative taken by this organization. “Development Business” is the official source for the organizations Procurement notices, contract awards and project approvals. Name this organization.
                                World Bank
Q4. His famous name is “The Franchise” and has been trained by Dominic DeNucci. He has married Carla Marie Reeves and the name of his son is Connor. He has won the ECW World Heavy Weight Championship four times. Name this wrestler.
                                Shane Douglas
Q5. Jerry Mateparae is the governor general and John Key is the President of this place. It is also referred to as the “land of the long white cloud”. James Cook has named this country and Steward Island is one of the famous islands on that country. Its calling code is +64. Name this country.
                                New Zealand
Q6. Connect.
  

                                PS2
Q7. Connect.
  

                                Intel

Quiz 60 : Answers


Q1. It is listed as the 9th largest private company in the US by Forbes. Jim Turley is the CEO Chairman of this company. Alvin and Theodore were the two founders and the motto is “Quality in everything we do”. Name this organization.

                                Ernest and Young

Q2. Ward Cheney, John hay Whitney, Paul Mellon and Andrew Mellon were the four founders of this magazine. Ray Chelstowski is the publisher and Tina Brown is the editor. Its first issue was launched on 17th February 1933. Name this magazine.

                                Newsweek

Q3.  It is 39.6 metres (130 ft) tall, including its 9.5 metres (31 ft) pedestal, and 30 metres (98 ft) wide. It weighs 635 tonnes (625 long,700 short tons), and is located at the peak of the 700-metre (2,300 ft) Corcovado mountain in the Tijuca Forest National Park overlooking the city. This was sculpted by Paul Landowski. Which one we are talking about?

                                Christ the Redeemer  
 Q4.  Identify

Sharbat Gula. She is the Afghan woman who was the subject of a famous photograph by journalist Steve McCurry

Q5.  With a blog, a Facebook page, and many You Tube videos, he had been described as the "Bin Laden of the Internet". Who?

                                Anwar al-Awlaki.

 Q6.  Identify the businessman?


                                Harland “Colonel” Sanders. Founder of Kentucky Fried Chicken Company

Q7.  In 2005, he opened the first exhibition of his drawings, located in Moscow. His reasoning for showing the drawings then was, "I am 72 years old and I wanted to present my drawings this year before disappearing from this planet. I have not shown them to anyone except Salvador Dali 30 years ago who told me to keep going." Which fashion designer we are talking about?

                                Paco Rabanne
 

Quiz 59 : Answers

Q1. He started the band “The Royal Canadians” and he is also an important figure in hydroplane, winning the Gold Cup in 1946. He was the reigning US champion from 1946 to 1949. His middle name is Alberto and the name of his siblings is Carmen, Lebert and Victor. Name this violinist.

                                Guy Lombardo

Q2. Identify.


                   Bruce Chizen, CEO of Adobe

Q3. This company has the third largest software revenue and its CEO is the highest paid executive in the world. Bob Miner was one of the founders of the company. It rose to success because it used the C programming language in all its products. Name this company.

                                Oracle

Q4. Jess Cliffe is the name of one of its designers. This game is developed by Valve Corporation and in the year 2008 it was the most played game throughout the world. Steam is the distributor for this game. Name this game.

                                Counter Strike

Q5. Penelope Wensley is the Governor of this state. Mt. Bartle Frere is the highest point on this state and the Gold Coast and the Hervey Bay are two famous tourist places on this state. This state is the house to Cairns International Airport and also the Bond University. Name this state.

                                Queensland

Q6. She won the all Asian Tennis Championship and won the Asian ladies title at the age of 22. Her husband’s name is Brij and her daughter’s name is Saina. She has received the Ramsaysay award and also the Presidents Gallantry award. She began her career as a Political science lecturer in Khalsa College and then she went on to get into government service. Name this lady.

                                Kiran Bedi

Q7. Connect to a company.  

   
                                Reliance Communications