01/09/07

September 2007 Main Quiz

1) Jaihind is a Malayalam channel launched by whom?

a) Congress-I
b) Sun TV Network
c) UB Group

2) Bordeaux, Mosel, Sonoma are variants of what?

a) Samsung LCD TV
b) RayBan Sunglasses
c) Canon DigiCam

3) Which will be the world’s first airline to fly the Airbus A380 commercially?



a) Singapore Airlines
b) Qantas
c) Emirates

4) Which of these media is controlled by the Bancroft family?

a) Fox Network
b) Turner Network
c) Dow Jones

5) India’s largest BPO is -

a) EXL
b) Genpact
c) Efunds

6) Carlos Slim has been in news recently because -




a) He was the chief architect of the iPhone
b) He was appointed as the first non-Japanese CEO of Sony
c) He overtook Bill Gates to be the world’s richest man

7) Who says “India’s no.1 selling Japanese TV Brand” in its advertising?

a) Sony
b) Sansui
c) Panasonic

8) What is QSR in the food business?

a) Quality of Service Regulations
b) Quick Service Restaurant
c) Quality Standard Restaurant

9) Archies comics now has an Indian character. What’s his name?



a) Jai Gopal
b) Ashok Kumar
c) Raj Patel

10) Where in the world is the first compass said to have been invented about 2200 years ago?

a) China
b) Greece
c) Egypt

11) In which of these brand’s advertising are you likely to see the golfers Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus and Gary Player?

a) Mercedes
b) Rolex
c) American Express

12) Scott Adams – what did he create for us?



a) Dilbert – the comic strip
b) Tetris – the computer game
c) Lego

13) What is George Crum’s contribution to the food world?

a) Created the Polo mint with a hole
b) Created KitKat
c) Created Potato Chips

14) O2, the mobile phone company was bought over recently. Whose company is it now?

a) Vodafone
b) Dopod
c) Telefonica

15) Who is this Hollywood star who was famous as the “HotWheels Kid” in the 1980s?



a) Leonardo DiCaprio
b) Skeet Ulrich
c) Ashton Kutcher

16) What venture came about as the creative collaboration of author Deepak Chopra, film maker Shekhar Kapur and maverick businessman Richard Branson?

a. Virgin Media
b. Virgin Digital
c. Virgin Comics/ Animation

17) Doris and Don Fisher in 1969, as they say “created ____ with a simple idea: to make it easier to find a pair of jeans. We remain committed to that basic principle”. Fill in the blank.

a) Sears
b) Gap
c) Saks Fifth Avenue

18) A management guru of par excellence often referred to as “Father of Competitive Strategy”. Who?



a) Tom Peters
b) Michael Porter
c) Jack Trout

19) It was set up in
1979
by Anil Moolchandani and initially it sold song books, posters and leather patches. What are we talking about?

a) Crossroads
b) Archies
c) Landmark

20) Which sportsperson has a fashion store by the name CR7?

a) Roberto Carlos
b) Christiano Ronaldo
c) Roger Federer

21) Greyhound of US is mainly in the business of what?


a) Bus Services
b) Courier/ Carriage Services
c) Production of industrial robots

22) What is this orange “boxy” thing?



a) Flight Data Recorder
b) The first IBM tower CPU
c) The standard telex machine till the 1970s

23) Yum Restaurants is the holding company of which of these restaurants?

a) Pizza Hut
b) Subway
c) Dominoes

24) Sometimes referred to as "The House of Ideas", who brought us characters such as Spider-Man, the X-Men, the Fantastic Four, the Hulk, Captain America, etc?



a) DC Comics
b) Marvel Comics
c) Eagle Comics

25) Which make of car is named after the Persian God of Light?

a) Mazda
b) Subaru
c) Saab

26) In the world of travel/ tourism what is Anousheh Ansari’s claim to fame?




a) First woman space tourist
b) First woman to have piloted an Airbus A380
c) First woman to have logged in over 10,000 of flying

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