October 2007 Main Quiz

1) Bobby Kooka’s claim to fame in Indian advertising is on account of a mascot he designed. Which one?

a) Air India Maharajah
b) Amul Butter Moppet
c) Asian Paints Gattu

2) Santa Fe’, Vera Cruz and Tiburon are some of the cars from whom?

a) Hyundai
b) Mitsubishi
c) Toyota

3) The Indian media giant Bhaskar has a FM radio channel. What is it called?


a) Indigo
b) S-FM
c) MyFM

4) What did Scott Fahlman of Carnegie Mellon University create in 1982 as a form of expression?

a) Official sign language for deaf and dumb
b) Shorthand
c) The Smiley

5) Sisley is a premium fashion brand from which apparel company?

a) Benetton
b) Levi Strauss
c) Raymond

6) Its India’s first interactive digital TV and Radio programming guide. What is it called?


a) EToday.com
b) ZipaZap.com
c) TimePass.com

7) IBM has a launched a free suite of applications to counter the MS Office Suite. What is it called?
a) Algol
b) Lotus Symphony
c) Convenio

8) Geri Halliwell’s song “It’s Raining Man…” forms the backdrop of which advertiser’s TV commercial these days?

a) Sony Ericsson
b) Maruti SX4
c) Windows Vista

9) S Gopalakrishnan better known as “Kris” in the company is the CEO and MD of which of these companies?


a) Mphasis
b) Infosys
c) iGate

10) What is the area of Zhongguancun in China famous for?

a) It’s the Silicon Valley of China
b) Has the world’s largest McDonald’s
c) It’s the global hub of Apple’s iPod production

11) Which city in Asia is tourist destination and advertises itself as the city of entertainment?

a) Macau
b) Genting
c) Dubai

12) A famous designer from the world of fashion. Who is this?


a) Yves Saint Laurent
b) Gianni Versace
c) Giorgio Armani

13) Pearson is an International Media Company which brings out which business daily?

a) Financial Times
b) Wall Street Journal
c) Business Times

14) Which Hindi Movie has the distinction of being the first one to have been shown at the United Nations?

a) Lage Raho Munnabhai
b) Swades
c) Mother India

15) That’s the logo of a famous publishing house. Which one?


a) McGraw Hill
b) Random House
c) Harper Collins

16) It’s a company that spends 7% of sales in R&D and registers 12 patents every working day. Who is this tech giant we are talking about?

a) McDonnald Douglas
b) Pratt & Whitney
c) Bosch

17) The slogan “________” of 3 R prescribes three strategies for reducing the environmental costs associated with waste materials. What is this slogan?

a. Reduce, Readjust, Realign
b. Replenish, Restrict and Redesign
c. Reduce, Reuse and Recycle

18) Who/ what was the MTV India Youth Icon in 2007?



a) Abhishek Bachhan
b) Orkut
c) Multimedia Cell Phones

19) Invented by Frank Mcnamara in 1950, which was the world’s first credit card?



a) Barclay’s Bank
b) Diner’s Club
c) HSBC

20) Which car’s first model was called as the Landmaster?

a) Ambassador
b) Mahindra Jeep
c) Contessa

21) Whose logo is that?


a) Cisco Systems
b) Cathay Pacific
c) A previous logo of Nike’

22) What was manufactured in India from 1968 to 2000 by an erstwhile flagship company of Walchand Hirachand Group in their Kurla Plant in Mumbai?

a) Premier Padmini Cars
b) Chetak Helicopters
c) Shaktiman Trucks

23) Who is the world’s largest plasma TV maker?


a) Samsung
b) Matsushita
c) Sony

24) Ars Gratia Artis (meaning Art for the sake of Art in latin). On which logo would you see this inscribed?

a) MGM
b) Paramount Pictures
c) Columbia Pictures

25) Born in Cairo in 1960 to Egyptian and English parents, and raised in Canada. He has designed products for Alessi, George Jensen, Umbra, Kenzo, Prada, Issey Miyake, Method and so on. Who is he?



a) Karim Rashid
b) Charles Eames
c) Guccio Gucci

26) "Nation Shall Speak Peace Unto Nation" is the motto of which of these media organisations?

a) BBC
b) CNN
c) Hindu

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