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

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

And indefinitely it is not far :)