01/02/08

February 2008 Main Quiz

Sony will be launching the world’s first OLED TV very soon. In the abbreviation OLED, where LED is Light Emitting Diodes, what is O?

a) Organic
b) Octagonal
c) Obtrusive

Makoto Hagiwara of Golden Gate Park's Japanese Tea Garden in San Francisco is said to have invented what as an extension to Japanese desserts in 1909?

a) Fortune Cookie
b) Peanut Butter
c) Chocolate Waffle Cone

India’s first Hydrogen-powered 3-wheeler is brought to you by whom?



a) Sonalika Group
b) Bajaj
c) Mahindra

An Anglo-Saxon noblewoman who, according to legend, rode naked through the streets of Coventry in England in order to gain a remission of the oppressive toll imposed by her husband on his tenants. A brand of chocolates is named after her. Which one?

a) Godiva
b) Noka
c) DeLafee

What was founded in Washington, D.C. on January 13, 1888, by 33 explorers and scientists who were interested in "organizing a society for the increase and diffusion of knowledge."?

a) Greenpeace
b) National Geographic
c) Nobel Foundation

Reportedly at the equivalent rate of Rs.0.54 per litre, where in the world do you get petrol at the cheapest rate?



a) Oman
b) Nigeria
c) Venezuela

It is arguably India’s answer to the Humvee. Called as Axe-SUV, who is bringing it out soon?

a) Mahindra
b) Eicher
c) Force Motors

Which duo among these owns a software company by the name StumpVision?

a) Sachin and Ajit Tendulkar
b) Anil and Dinesh Kumble
c) Irfan and Yusuf Pathan

Logo of a British luxury brand since 1856 - which brand?



a) St.Michael’s
b) Burberry
c) Harrods

Alpine, Nordic, Slalom are all variants of what?

a) Skiing
b) Golfing Clubs
c) Mountaineering Shoes

In the world of comics, what is the claim to fame of Edgar Rice Burroughs?

a) Creator of Commando Comics
b) Creator of Tarzan
c) Creator of Flash Gordon

What is SS as in SS Cricket Bats?



a) Super Strike
b) Sports Sun
c) Sareen Sports

Which business and media mogul among these is best associated as a part owner of the Atlanta Braves baseball team?

a) Ted Turner
b) Rupert Murdoch
c) Silvio Berlusconi

Acco, Swingline and Kangaro are all brands of what?

a) Staplers
b) Pencil Sharpeners
c) Carbon Paper

The Iberia Airlines is native to which country?



a) Portugal
b) Russia
c) Spain

Sanyo’s mobile phone business has recently been bought over by whom?

a) Kyocera
b) Motorola
c) Sony Ericsson

Which newspaper is the largest read Daily in India?

a) Dainik Bhaskar
b) Times of India
c) Dainik Jagran

Paul Otellini is the boss at -



a) HP
b) Intel
c) Motorola

What happened when Sir Hugh employed student twins Norris and Ross McWhirter, who had been running a fact-finding agency in London to work on an assignment in 1954?

a) Setting up of the Mensa Foundation
b) Brought out the first Guinness Book of Records
c) Founding of the British Council

Rico’s Engine Head Block, Sona Koyo’s Steering Column, Minda Group’s Electric Switches and Bosch’s Engine Management system go into the making of what?

a) Tata Nano
b) Reva/ G-Wiz
c) India world-premiered Hyundai i10

A lady from the world of fashion/ cosmetics. A lady who lends her name to a major brand. Who/ what brand?



a) Chanel
b) Donna Karen
c) Elizabeth Arden

What is unique about the Top 10 Best Selling Novels of Japan for the year 2007?

a) For the first time ever an English novel made it into the top 10
b) 6 of them were Digital Novels and sold as a CD pack
c) 5 of them were written on Cell Phones

B and O as in the acronym ORBO stand for Banking Organisation. What are O and R?

a) Organised Retail
b) Organ Retrieval
c) Organisational Research (and)

A company registered in Zlin, Czechoslovakia by the siblings Tomáš, Anna and Antonín in 1894. A global company/ brand today, they have their own museum in Toronto (as you see here). Which brand/ company?



a) Bata
b) Skoda
c) Prada

In space, no one can hear you scream – is the tagline of which famous movie?

a) Alien
b) Star Trek
c) Star Wars

A famous model endorsing HP – who is she?



a) Giselle Bundchen
b) Petra Nemcova
c) Laetitia Casta

01/01/08

January 2008 Main Quiz

Volvo is now in a joint venture with which of these Indian enterprises for production of commercial vehicles?

a) Mahindra
b) Eicher
c) Ashok Leyland

You now have a Ferrari sub-brand laptop, thanks to whom?


a) Sony Vaio
b) Dell XPS
c) Acer

An ad featuring Steffi Graf and Andre Agassi – which one?


a) Louis Vuitton
b) Compaq
c) Durex

It was the first song to have been performed in outer space. They were astronauts aboard the Apollo IX on the 18th of March, 1969. Which song was it?

a) Merry Christmas
b) Silent Night
c) Happy Birthday

Which logo is that?



a) Logitech
b) Toyota Festival Special
c) Omega Sport

A new range of refrigerator from Samsung called Quatrocooling. What is unique about it?


a) Needs quarter the electricity of an average refrigerator to run
b) Compartments can be reconfigured as per users needs of food storage
c) Is programmable to indicate low quantity of specific items needing to be replenished

Philip Rosedale is best known as the creator of what?

a) Second Life
b) MSN Chat
c) Facebook

Which place of great business interest is this?


a) Times Square - NY
b) Wall Street - NY
c) Fleet Street - London

Many years back there was a fuel efficient popular cooking stove promoted by the Indian Oil. What was it called?


a) Nutan
b) Agni
c) Taap

Frank Nuovo, a design guru at Nokia was the brainchild behind what of these?

a) Camera Phones
b) Blackberry
c) Vertu Mobile

Some of the famous owners of this watch were Napolean Bonaparte, George Washington, Leo Tolstoy, Sir Winston Churchill and so on. Which watch are we talking about?

a) Breguet
b) Patek Philippe
c) Rolex

Madhu Sapre and Milind Soman had arguably appeared almost in the buff for which ad in the mid 1990s?


a) Tuff Shoes
b) Kamasutra Condoms
c) Axe Deo

Nepal’s currency note of Rs.500 does not bear the picture, name or sign of the royalty any more. How has it got replaced?

a) With the picture of Ganesha
b) With the picture of Mt. Everest
c) With the symbol of “Om”

Tiger Airways’ home base is which country?


a) Taiwan
b) Korea
c) Singapore

The Rhino is best associated with which of these brands?


a) Konika
b) CEAT
c) Nintendo

As related to mobiles, what is ARPU?

a) Area Range of Phone Usability
b) Average revenue per user
c) Anti-radiating phone usage group

Think of cars. The surname following the name Soichiro is the brand name of which car?

a) Suzuki
b) Honda
c) Toyota

Rake your brains. This scooter of yester years is of which make?

a) Vespa Nova
b) Lambretta
c) Bajaj Chetak

What if the term for a unit of energy as used in the International System of Units (SI)?

a) Watt
b) Newton
c) Joule

Which drink was originally called as "Bib-Label Lithiated Lemon-Lime Soda"?

a) 7-Up
b) Canada Dry
c) Schweppes - Lemon

How is Lillian Bettencourt famous in the world of Business?


a) Is the richest woman in the world
b) Founded Body Shop
c) Is the first woman CEO of Ford Motors

Deepika Padukone also endorses a watch now. Which watch?


a) Tissot
b) Tag Heuer
c) Swatch

Among new words being used by British Doctors, what does “Disco Biscuit” mean as reported in the British Medical Journal?

a) The clubbers’ drug Ecstasy
b) Feel-Good Drugs
c) Vitamin Supplements

What on earth is that?


a) Narain Karthikeyan’s 2007 A1 GP Car
b) Michael Schumacher’s Benetton car
c) Ayrton Senna’s Williams-Renault

Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg, and David Geffen got together and started what?

a) Hollywood Cafe
b) Dreamworks SKG
c) International Creative Artists

A designer of par excellence - Who is this?

a) Yves Saint Laurent
b) Calvin Klein
c) Roberto Cavalli