01/08/07

August 2007 Main Quiz

1) What is the significance of the date July 8th, 2007, in the world of travel?

a) Launch of 787 Boeing
b) First commercial service of A380 – Singapore Airlines
c) Mandatory x-ray vision body search of passengers in US

2) For what reason was a channel called Press TV in news recently?

a) First English News channel from Iran
b) Adult entertainment channel in Pakistan
c) A version of FTV focusing on conservative fashion for muslim countries

3) Where in Asia do the largest numbers of billionaire come from?



a) Saudi Arabia
b) Japan
c) India

4) Which among these is the small car to be launched by Honda in India?

a) FCX
b) Pony
c) Jazz

5) In modern day business slang, what does “Betamaxed” mean?

a) Better marketed inferior technology overtaking the market
b) Digital archiving of office data
c) A wrong doing caught on electronic surveillance system

6) The Harry Potter series of books is brought out by which publishing house?



a) Random House
b) Bloomsbury
c) Penguin

7) In cyber world what is a cobweb?

a) A special interest community blog
b) A never changing website
c) A wired network

8) Meow in Delhi is a radio channel with a difference. What is it?

a) It’s a youth channel being run by Delhi University
b) First just-for-women radio channel
c) It’s a channel on health and family welfare by Min. of Social Welfare

9) Simple – What logo is that?



a) Adobe
b) Blue Tooth
c) AOL

10) It mainly consists of 2 elements – rapping and DJing. What kind of music is that?

a) HipHop
b) Acid Groove
c) Black Metal

11) The Microsoft project for next version after Windows Vista, codenamed Vienna, will be called what?

a) Windows XT
b) Windows 7
c) Windows – Picasso

12) What’s this game called?



a) Jenga
b) Lawn Lego
c) Building Blox

13) Which Korean company’s name literally means “3 Stars”?

a) Samsung
b) Hyundai
c) Daewoo

14) What was founded by James Wilson, a hat maker from the small Scottish town of Hawick, who believed in free trade, internationalism and minimum interference by government, especially in the affairs of the market?

a) Wall Street Journal
b) Financial Times
c) The Economist

15) The ___Hearts collection of Reebok is promoted by whom?



a) Natalie Portman
b) Lindsay Lohan
c) Scarlett Johannsen

16) Who claims to be the No.1 selling Digital Camera brand in India?

a) Kodak
b) Canon
c) Samsung

17) What is the contribution of Michel Adams to the world of Media?

a. Founder of Penthouse magazine
b. Founder of MTV
c. Founder of FTV

18) George Clooney’s choice – which watch?



a) Tissot
b) Omega
c) Rolex

19) Dover, Genoa, Billiard, Dublin, Apple, Plymouth – they are all varieties of what?

a) Special sport shoes from Puma
b) Bowl of smoking pipe
c) T-Shirt range of Adidas

20) Cricinfo.com was recently acquired by who among these?

a) ESPN
b) Microsoft
c) Google

21) This picture is best associated with which TV series?



a) Will and Grace
b) Friends
c) Seinfeld

22) In the 2007 F1 circuit, which is the tyre fitted on all the cars?




a) Bridgestone
b) Michelin
c) Goodyear

23) It was a company started by Paul Galvin, Joe Galvin, and Sawn Hamme as Galvin Manufacturing Corporation in 1928. What is it now known?

a) Motorola
b) IBM
c) 3M

24) Who in Tintin, drinks the most amount of whiskey after Captain Haddock?



a) Professor Calculus
b) Snowy
c) Thomson and Thompson


25) Which garment is named after an atoll in Marshall Islands, the site of many American Nuclear Tests?

a) Bikini
b) Bermuda
c) Poncho

26) Haier Elegance – what’s its claim to fame?




a) World’s smallest GSM phone
b) World’s first “personal” phone (due to fingerprint reading enabled key buttons)
c) India is its production centre for global
supply