IBA Quiz: Answers to elims & first two rounds

Posted on March 13, 2011 by amitbhatnagar

Sorry, didn’t get a chance to post the answers earlier. If you haven’t tried the questions yet, read no further and try this and this. I know some of you found this quiz way too easy, but remember this was not a quiz for regular quizzers. In fact, half of the participants were perhaps participating in a quiz for the first time.

Anyway, without further adieu, here are the answers to the questions from the elims

1. Roger Federer
2. Norah Jones
3. George W Bush
4. Sony VAIO (Check out the logo, really cool!)
5. Amazon.com
6. Apple
7. Lady Gaga
8. Literature
9. Subway
10. IKEA
11. Southwest Airlines founder (Most MBA students will have at least one case on Southwest. So didn’t find it right to leave out Southwest completely from a quiz for MBA students!)
12. Jetlag
13. Fear of #13 (Did you notice the question number??)
14. Bankrupt/ Bankruptcy
15. BlackBerry

And here are the answers to questions from the non-business rounds:

Will follow up with a post on Business rounds and the final round!

Business School Quiz: Main Rounds 1 & 2

Posted on March 5, 2011 by amitbhatnagar

As written here, I recently organized a quiz at my business school. The quiz was organized under the banner of International Business Association, and had a mix of business and non-business questions related to the US and the rest of the world. Here are the questions from the non-business rounds:

As before, the comments are moderated, and I will approve them all, in a 2-3 days once I feel everybody has had a fair chance at attempting the questions. (Please post your answers here as comments, not on FB link for this post) Will be posting the questions from non-business rounds tomorrow.

Smartest MBA Challenge: A Quiz at Goizueta

Posted on February 26, 2011 by amitbhatnagar

Once a Quizzer, always a quizzer!! (Or in MNNIT lingo, once a Gnosiomaniac*, always a Gnosiomaniac!!) I was active in quizzing in my school days, and in my undergrad days. So, when I entered the corporate world and found the quizzing action missing, I organized some quizzes at my former employers CA and Adobe. I intended to do the same, when I came to US for my MBA. Finally, I got a chance to realize this dream of mine, when I organized a Quiz under the banner of International Business Association. The attendance was slightly lower than my expectations, but that was more than made up by the action. I am so excited by the success of the event that I have decided that I will repeat the action once I join back the corporate world!

Anyway, without further adieu, here are the questions from the elimination round. If you are a seasoned quizzer, you may find some of them extremely simple, but I believe there is some good stuff for everyone.

Leave your answers as comments to this post. I have enabled comment-moderation, so that everyone gets a fair chance. Will post the answers in a week and the questions from the main round in a couple of days.

Elimination Round

1. Nike created this logo for X. Identify X

Q1 Nike

2. The birth name of this multiple Grammy Award winning American music star is: Geethali _______ _______ Shankar, but she has now dropped “Geethali” and “Shankar” from her name, and goes by the name ____ ___ (the parts blanked out in the full name). Which singer are we talking about?

3. “Decision Points” is an autobiographical memoir released in 2010. Who is the author?

4. The logo of this company represents an integration of analog and digital technology, with part of logo representing an analog wave, while the other represents binary code. Which brand?

5. Which company is the parent company of The Internet Movie Database (IMDb)?

6. The image below shows the first logo of which present day company:

7. By what name do we know the singer Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta?

8. British Prime Minister Winston Churchill was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1953. Which field?

9. What is the most famous offering of a company called Doctors’ Associates?

10. Swedish lawyer Ingvar Kamprad grew up in a village called Agunnaryd on a farm named Elmtaryd. At the age of 17, he founded a company named after his name, and the places he grew up in. Today, Kamprad is one of the world’s richest man, while the company he established is the world’s largest retailer in its segment.

Which company are we talking about?

11. His name is Herb Kelleher. What is his claim to fame?

12. The medical term for this condition is desynchronosis. What term do we layman have for this?

13. What is Triskaidekaphobia a fear of?

14. In North Italy, when a moneylender went out of business, the bench that he worked from, was physically broken. What modern day business term has its origin in this practice?

15. What is the Canadian company “Research In Motion” best known for?

*Gnosiomania is the Annual Knowledge-Festival of MNNIT, Allahabad. The word Gnosiomania, a neologism coined in MNNIT itself, means an Obsession for knowledge.

Print Technology Group Quiz

Posted on November 7, 2007 by amitbhatnagar

I conducted a quiz with my colleague Prajal within the print group some time back.
There was a decent turn-out with 13 teams (of three members each) turning up for the event. Five teams moved to the Finals on the basis of a written elimination round. The finals were won comfortably by the trio of Sugato, Reena and Akhilesh. Here are the questions (and Answers) from the elimination round of the Quiz. Most of the Qs are workable if you give them a little time.
As I had commented earlier too, the level of Quizzing even among the non-regular quizzers here is really impressive.
I really enjoyed conducting this quiz. Hopefully, I’ll be be back with another Quiz very soon.

The Print Technology Group Quiz

Elimination round Questions

Shinshu Seiki launched an electronic printer named EP-101. Which brand gets its name from the next generation of printers termed as “Son of electronic printer”
How many planets are there in the Solar System?
(visual) His second name is Buyukkokten. His first name is something which is a rage world over. Give us his first name.
Whose punchline “Life is our life’s work”?
In 1276, a ruling was passed in England applying this term to events that occurred prior to 1189, the year in which Richard I ascended the throne. In 1832, this definition was abandoned as a legal term, but common use has prevailed. What term?
How do you refer to an event that has a frequency of 1.16699016 × 10^-8 Hertz?
Identify the logo.. (Visual)
Stanford University Network lends its name to something very well known in the IT world.. What’s that?
IBM engineer David Bradley is credited with the invention of something called as “Three Finger Salute”. What exactly is TFS?
In 1988, to commemorate the birth centenary of Pt Nehru, what was launched by Indian government?
(Visual)Connect the dots by drawing four straight, continuous lines, and never lifting the pencil from the paper. The puzzle is difficult because people tend to confine their thinking to the square area defined by the nine dots. Once you get the catch, the puzzle is easy. Which English phrase originated from the solution?
If Land of five waters (rivers) is Punjab, what is the term for “water of mischief”?
What is the name of this great work of art (Visual)
For what purpose is Snellen Chart used?
Which brand of Indian TV set takes its name from a WWII rocket launcher?
What does a cruciverbalist do?
Eunoia is a rarely used term denoting a normal mental state. Root words: Eu + nous = good thinking. What’s special about this word?
(visual) This is the hand of a person called Douglas Engelbart. He’s credited with invention of X and in this pic, he’s holding the first X that he created. What is X?
What is claim to fame of a businessman named Bernard Weber?
According to the Dilbert strip, this invention has freed more employees from work than any other. Prior to this, people answered the phone personally and found themselves doing more work because of it. Which invention?
Anyone who has shopped online using a credit-card must enter something called CVV to complete the transaction. Expand CVV.
(Visual) First names are Frank and Tony.Connection: Cricket.
Give us their last names.
Expand ICICI.
Carob seeds were used as weights on precision scales because of their reputation for having a uniform weight. Which unit derives its name from these seeds?
(Visual) Name him.

ANSWERS

Epson
Eight (Pluto is no longer a planet!!)
Orkut
Pfizer
Time-immemorial
Once in a blue moon
Bank of Baroda
SUN Microsystems
Ctrl-Alt-Del
Shatabdi Express
Out-of-box Thinking
Sharaab
Vitruvian man
Eye-sight testing
Bazooka
Creates (or solves) crosswords.
Smallest word with all the five vowels
The first computer mouse
Seven New Wonders
Voice Mail
Card Validation Value
Duckworth Lewis
Industrial Credit and Investment Corporation of India
Carat
John Warnock

Bharat Ek Khoj:: An India Quiz

Posted on February 18, 2007 by amitbhatnagar

This 26th Jan I had a chance to organise an India Quiz titled Bharat Ek Khoj at Adobe.. The quiz was to be about everything that is Indian::Indian history, Indian sports, Indian movies, Indian business, People of Indian origin.. In short, about anything connected to India… I wanted it to be a formal quiz with the main rounds to follow the written elims,but the organisers wanted an open quiz with everyone to take a chance at every Q.. So had to go with the format… 🙁

Well.. It’s never easy to design a quiz for non-quizzers. U dont want it to be flop show with every 2nd Question going over the audience’s head..So have to keep the level moderate.. So this quiz may not be to the liking of the veteran quizzers.. Also some questions were a direct repeat from old quizzes.. Actually with the very little time that I had at my disposal I cud not design many original Qs and the level was a bit lower than I’d have liked it to be..

But I must admit that I had grossly underestimated the quizzing levels of the general janta @ Adobe.. I’d say that though the last quiz which I had organised at my last company Computer Associates was surely better than this one in terms of organisation and overall event-rating, the awareness level here at Adobe is much much higher.. I had never thot that a hallfull of audience will all be able to identify Prahlad Kakkar!! Kudos to Adobe’s Quizzing janta!!

Coming to the main stuff, I had divided the open quiz into three rounds…
First was a mixed bag of direct questions.. Second was the traditional passwords round, where three clues were given one by one for a famous personality.. If u get it on the first clue, you get max points (bigger gift in the case of this open quiz) lesser points for guessing on the 2nd clue and still lesser for the 3rd one.

Last round was my original creation ( well… as far as i know 🙂 ) It used the Antakshari format for quiz.. As per the format, the answer for nth question will start with the last alphabet of (n-1)th question. Thus if if answer of the 10th Q is Abhishek Bachchan, the answer to 11th question will start with a ‘N’..

So if you’ve read this far, do take a try at the actual quiz questions and do leave a comment::

Round1: (For images, click here r1.pdf)

How do we better know a fictional character with real name is Sarkeshwar
What’s unique about a person called Nirmaljit Singh Sekhan winning the Paramvir Chakra?
A person called Raj kaul moved from to Delhi from Kashmir and was presented a house on banks of a canal. Because of the canal, the Kauls adopted a new surname.Which one:: a very important one in Indian history.
Connect the logo, the man and the cartoon character (Visual 1,2,3)
Expand AMUL.
Which modern-day game was earlier known as Poona as it was originally played in Indian city of Pune?
What’s common to the books: Glimpses of World History, Meri Sansadiya Yatra, The Insider, “India’s Export Trends and the Prospects for Self-Sustained Growth”?
What exclusively connects these great men? (Visual 4,5,6)
Name the only person to have composed the national anthems of two countries.
There has been only one instance of Bharat Ratna being withdrawn after being awarded. Name the person and the reason.
Famous words connect these three pics. Which words? (Visual 7,8,9)
Identify this formal Indian PM.

Round2: Passwords:

Grimace; Booker of Bookers; Midnight Children
Project Aden;Dheeraj lal Heerachand; Growth is Life;
Savli Premchi ;Manohar; Sunny Days
Abhas; Madhubala; Chalti Ka Naam Gaadi
Phoenix, Ben Kingsley ,My Experiments with Truth
Hema Hardikar, Mangeshi, Nightingale of India, song
“The Argumentative Indian” ; Trinity College, Cambridge; Economics

Round3:: Antakshari (Find the images here:: anta.pdf )

Which Indian city gets its name from the belief that it was here that Lakhsmana chopped off Shurpnakha’s nose?
If the middle name is Ramlal, last name is Nikhanj; Give me the first name
Connect these pics: (visual 1,2,3,4,5)
According to Hindu Mythology, whose twin sister is Yamuna?
This Indian place literally means division/land of forests. Name it.
India has always been stern with its stand on racism. Following the same situation, in 1974, India gave a walk-over to South Africa due to latter’s policy on apartheid in one of the only three instances that India had qualified for the finals of the tournament. Name the championship.
The magician shown is a famous Indian in his own right. A genius in field of advertising. Name him. (video)
AIshwarya, Diana Heyden, Priyanka Chopra were much later to follow. The lady won the First Miss World title for India way back in mid-sixties. Name her. (Visual 6)
Subhash Chandra Bose called them as Swaraj and Shahid. What do we call them?
Identify the company from the logo.
Whose punchline:: “Never Settle”?
Before resigning from Rajya Sabha in early 2006, he was the only Indian parliamentarian on the Forbes Richest Indian list. Name him
<< One more Q, which I’m unable to recall right now 😐 )
First person to receive all the three padma awards and Bharat Ratna..

Overall the quiz was a moderate hit.. Not many people turned up, but those who did seem to like it 🙂

You can find the answers here:: answers.pdf

A Brand Name Quiz

Posted on January 6, 2007 by amitbhatnagar

<< Originally posted on my blogspot blog on Wednesday, October 26, 2005 >>

Hey!! I contributed this quiz in the CA Newsletter some time back..
Hope that’s a likeable collection…
Leave ur comments with ur genuine score…

What’s in a Name

A Brand Name Quiz

Try these questions involving popular brand-names. Most of them are workable and the brands are all around you.

“I have done more than anybody else to change the face of mankind.”, boasted the founder of this company and he was not wrong, at least literally. The company is named after this founder. Which company?
The company was founded in Yonkers, New York in the United States in 1853 by Elisha Otis. Now this company is the world’s largest manufacturer in its field. Identify the company and the product.
X is actually a popular variety of apples in United States. It looks logical then the name X was chosen for this famous brand. Identify X.
Expand ESPN: the popular Sports Channel.
“Zero Engine Noise” The USP and the origin of another common brand. Identify it.
An easy one: Among all names under consideration, the name was chosen because it included the letters HTML in the same sequence. Which name?
The Goldstar group of Korea was into electronic goods, while Lucky brand was into household products like laundry detergents and household cleaning products. Which brand resulted with the merger of these two brands?
What is the contribution of the French Town of St. Tropez to the Indian Car Market?
This Germany company, one of the world leaders in its market, is named after its its founder Adolf Dassler. Identify the company.
Though not exactly a brand, still I’d like to put this question to end the quiz: Expand HITEC as in HITEC city (Yes!!! It’s an acronym)

Scroll down for answers…..

Gillette. The founder’s name was King C Gillette. Wasn’t he right in what he said?? J
Otis Elevator Company. You can see OTIS written on the elevators in the VIT too.
Macintosh of Apple Computers.
Entertainment and Sports Programming Network. Though the channel no longer uses this expanded form, it treats ESPN as a word.
Maruti ZEN.
Hotmail.. What else it could be?
LG. (Lucky Goldstar. Here too company no longer uses the expended form)
The origin of the name Santro.
Adidas. Adolf’s nickname was Adi Dassler
Hyderabad Information Technology and Engineering Consultancy

Racing Towards Infinity

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