Ludus Magnus Biz Prelims 2008

Hello Quizzer!!! IIT Mumbai had conducted their Biz Quiz on 18th Oct. Posting some of the questions from the prelims:

Q1.Its creation and first instance of its usage dates back to the time of Henry IV of France who dispatched miniature,elegantly attired dolls to his fiancee,Marie de’Medici,to update her on French trends.It takes its name from Flemish/German word meaning ‘little man’.What?

Ans: Manequin

Q2.The name of which Appleproduct is used under license from CBS Operations?

Ans:Mighty Mouse

Q3. Which brand is the largest supplier of files and folders to the Delhi High court?

Ans:Tihar Jail

Q4.What was started by Heap Media Australia 750 megawatt-hours a year?They got the idea after reading a particular study in 2002 on LCD & CRT monitors?

Ans:Blackle.com

Q5.Popular for its refined taste,pleasing aroma,saffron and silver flakes,this globally popular brand launched in 1948 was Inda’s first saffron flavoured product in its category.Which brand?

Ans: Baba Zarda

Q6. A question on 7 Efffective habits of highly successful people.

Q7.The planet Venus traces the shape of a pentacle across the sky every 8 yrs.What did the Greeks use this cycle to form the basis of.The last of these incurred an expenditure of 400 Billion of local currency.

Ans:Olympics Ring

Q8.He is the richest fictional character according to Forbes.His industry profits up significantly due to sale of “Brother Eye” spy-satellite technology to U.S govt?

Ans: Bruce Wayne

Q9.Opened in Fall of 1965 in California,its most famous frequent visitor was Arnold Schwarzeneggar and was also featured in the movie Pumping Iron in 1977.The company goes with the tagline ‘Know your Strenght’.Who are we talking about?

Ans: Gold Gym

Q10.Joypolis is an amusement park that was first opened on July 20.1994 in Yokohama, Japan and now spread across Japan.What is the theme of this park?

Ans:Sega.

Regards,

Anubhav & Vijay .

BT ACUMEN REGIONAL ROUND-Mumbai

Hi All

Both the students edition and alumni edition was quite exciting….

in students edition SIBM had a cake walk…. 

in alumni round there was tug of war between the national winners of tata and non tata track champions… suresh kumar and mitesh agarwal… and at the end it was a happy week end for Mr. Suresh kumar winning it in a tie breaker…

Some of the questions that were asked in the finals ….

Q.who was the first foreigner to buy a EPL club?

A: Mohammed Al Fayed

Q. What first generation computer game is based on table tennis?

A: Pong

Q. Which city is home for most number of billionaires-the most of any city in world?

A. Moscow

Q. Whichautomobile means ‘Hark’ or ‘Listen’ inLatin?

A.Audi

Q.Western India Bakers Pvt. Ltd. is better known as ?

A. WIBS

Q. Which European city has over 100 km canal and is known as venice of North?

A. Amsterdam

Q.Who signed the last one rupee note?

A. Montek Singh Ahluwalia

Q.Ad ofGoogle Chrome

Q. Logo of virgin galactic

Q.Which century old sporting shoes brand is thought to be anagram of a keyword in football?

A. GOLA

Regards

Vijaykrishna C V & Anubhav Chatterjee

TATA CRUCIBLE NATIONAL FINAL-2008

The TAJ MAHAL PALACE auditorium was full to the brim. There was tension prevailing in the minds of 48 people present there. They were the finalists of this year’s Tata Crucible Finals. As expected quiz master “Pickbrain” came up with high level questions apt for a National Finals. Some of the rounds were really good.

First-the two semis for Non Tata Track:-

Top four teams from each semi were through to the final and the teams in the final were:-

-          Infosys

-          Citibank

-          ITC

-          DLF

-          Vizag Steel

-          Sun Microsystems

-          Bhilai Steel

-          Vizag Steel

This is the first time in Crucible history that there were two teams from the same company in the National Finals.

The TATA Track line up:-

-          TCS, Mumbai

-          Tata Elixi, Bangalore

-          TCS, Chennai

-          MJunction, Kolkatta

-          Tata Steel, Jamshedpur

-          TCS, Delhi

-          TAL, Pune

-          TCS, Hydrebad

Tata Track finals were the first to take place after the non tata semis. TCS, Mumbai won it on a tie breaker beating Tata Steel coming from behind(Anu Aga the savior).This year was full of surprises as the reigning champions in both the tracks were out in the regional round. Sun was shining really bright at Taj and it was a good win for Sun Microsystems. Hats off to the champions of both the tracks:-

TCS, Mumbai-TATA TRACK – Sureshkumar & Aniruddha Dutta

Sun Microsystems, Non TATA TRACK – Vishwajeet & Mitesh Agarwal

But special hats off to a team who had almost won the crucibles but lost it by playing sportingly giving other teams’ chance – hats off to the TATA STEEL team- you are the actual winners.

 

 

 

Some of the questions (we know people will be in look out for this)

1)       This country according to World Bank report is the largest seller of Carbon Credit – China

2)       Owner of Newcastle United – Mike Ashley

3)       Dhanabalan is the chairman of? – TEMASEC Holdings, S’pore

4)       Innocenti comp. set up in Milan – Lambratta

5)       “My World” – Big Bazaar

6)       Pic- credited as the earliest posters in the early era – Olympics poster

7)       Harrah Ent. Is the first company of this type – Casino

       Exhaustive database – Holmes + Training Program –elementary- A: Scotland Yard

9)       What is a glass cliff? A: …… (you can google this)

10)   Pic. – “was homeless” – Helpage India

11)   Which global financial giant Tony Blair joined as Sr. Advsor?-JP Morgan

12)   Magnificent garden, towering light house, pink wire cable, gold stop watch, a sumo wrestler, fragrant roses and a path of diamonds : – “The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari”

13)   Childhood+deepalaya+s8+flag of St. Dennis – Oriflame

14)   Founder of instone nutrition? – Silverster Stallone

15)   During Mughal era copper coins were called? – Dam

Contributions and suggestions are welcome: – quiziebee@gmail.com

Vijaykrishna C V & Anubhav Chatterjee

Voltas                                    TI Cycles

(Hope someday we will be in the same company so that we can participate in Crucible together.)