Hi,

A great response to Biz Quiz 211106. 37 quizzers took the quiz.

Here are the answers. For questions, you can check the previous post available at http://quizjunkie.blogspot.com/2006/11/biz-quiz-211106-hi-presenting-biz-quiz.html

Answers:

1. Fruit of the Loom

2. Wrigley

3. Underwriting/Underwriters

4. Mumbai Dabbawallahs

5. Adi Dassler

6. NECC

7. Leo Burnett

8. Guinness

9. Pidilite Industries (the makers of Fevicol)

10. Sony Playstation

Scores:

1. Praneeth Reddy - 5
2. Sachin Kadam - 7
3. Sushil Kumar Vashishta - 4
4. Jitaditya Narzary - 4
5. Abhinav Kishore - 3
6. Sudheer Moro - 5
7. Santanu Dey - 6
8. Jeevesh Gupta - 5
9. Manoj Reena Vaibhav - 5
10. Chandan Shahi - 5
11. Rajiv D'Silva - 7
12. Sairam Iyer - 5
13. Sadashiv N - 5
14. Nikhil Kumar Verma - 5
15. Nikhil Narayanan - 3
16. Brijesh K Nair - 2
17. Harish Mopur - 6
18. Shiv Das - 1
19. Mahendra Singh Chauhan - 7
20. Aniruddh Sankaran - 3
21. Varadha - 5
22. Jayendra Bisnek - 3
23. Arijit Mukhopadhyay - 5
24. Divyanshu Srivastava - 3
25. Balaji Krishnan - 1
26. Sriharsha Bhat - 3
27. Kamal Raju - 3
28. Rajat Padhi - 2
29. Aniruddha Biswas - 4
30. Shrinidhi Rai - 2
31. Sangeeta Banerjee - 6
32. Debjit Das - 4
33. Mugdho Debnath - 3
34. Sukrit - 2
35. Harshith Ajila - 1
36. Priyambad - 7
37. Jagan Pillarisetti - 4

Happy Learning,
Murali Duggineni.

Biz Quiz 211106

Hi,

Presenting a biz quiz with a mix of dry and visual questions. I hope you like it. Mail your answers to me at muraliduggineni@gmail.com within a week.


1. Purple grapes, green grapes, apple and gooseberries are the characters from which apparel company?

2. Fill in the blanks.

William ________ Jr. came to Chicago in 1891. He was 29 and had only $32 in his pocket. But he had lots of energy and immense talent as a salesman. He started out selling soap. As an extra incentive to shoppers to carry _______'s soap, he offered them free baking powder. When baking powder proved to be more popular than soap, he switched to the baking powder business. One day, _______ got the idea to offer merchants free chewing gum with each can of baking powder. The rest is history.

3. The rich at Edward Lloyd’s coffee house would take a share of a risk by signing their names one beneath the other on the policy together, with the amount they agreed to cover. This practice has given rise to a word, which we usually associate with the public offering of shares. What word?


4. Year started: 1880
Average Literacy: 8th Grade Schooling
Average Area Covered: 60 Km per ____ ____
Employee Strength: 5000
Number of shipments: 2,00,000 ____ ___
Time taken for delivery: 3 hours
Cost of Service: Rs. 200/- month
Turnover: about Rs. 50 Crore per month
Who/What am I talking about?


5. Who is he?

6. Identify the advertiser.

7. Who is this advertising legend?




8. Identify the advertiser.

9. Identify the logo.

10. Identify the advertiser

Happy Learning,

Murali Duggineni.

Answers - Biz Quiz 051106

1. Originally called New Lord & Company, this company was born as a small tailoring shop in the year 1947. A couple of years later, it was bought over by Mr Arjan Daswani. Under the aegis of Daswani, the company transformed itself into a mega shirt store. Today, it’s one of the established names in the Indian fashion industry and claims for brining international acclaim to Indian tailor craftsmanship. It is said that Ram Jethmalani and Farooq Abdulla are among its customers. Which brand/company am I talking about?
### Charagh Din

2. Which German margarine brand shares its name with a Hindu god?
### Rama; Originally known as "Rahma", Rama gets its name from RAhm(cream) + MArgarine

3. In 1872, Levi Strauss got a letter from Jacob Davis, a Reno, Nevada tailor, who had come up with a great idea. To improve the strength of the pants he made for his customers, he added something, which proved to be a big success. What did he add?
### Metal Rivets

4. Which brand gets its name from the Goddess you see in this visual?

### Canon. Gets its name from Kwannon - the Buddhist Goddess of mercy.

5. Name this author who has a couple of business bestsellers to his credit.

### Malcolm Gladwell of the "Tipping Point" and the "Blink" fame.

6. Who is this person? He founded a company whose products are a kind of ubiquitous these days?

### Frederik Idestam of Nokia

7. Logo of which International NGO?

### Transparency International (TI) - the global civil society organisation leading the fight against corruption. TI brings people together in a powerful worldwide coalition to end the devastating impact of corruption on men, women and children around the world. TI’s mission is to create change towards a world free of corruption.

8. Which company was born in this building? (Clue: part of the company’s name was influenced by the shape of the structure)

### Pizza Hut; Pizza Hut began its operations in 1958 in Wichita (Kansas) when two brothers Frank and Dan Carney had been approached by the owner of a small building who wanted a nice neighborhood business. The brothers borrow $600 from their mother and start making pizzas in the building, which had a signboard that would accommodate only nine characters. They wanted to use "Pizza" in the name and that left room for only three more letters. A family member suggested that the building looked like a hut — and Pizza Hut was born.

9. Seen in the visual is a comic drawn by Richard Outcault. What pejorative phrase did this strip give rise to in the world of journalism?

Yellow Journalism. The cartoon is Yellow Kid

10. Identify the advertiser

### Unicef (ad promoting more education for girls in Islamic countries!)

Scores:

1 Srinidhi Rai - 3

2 Mitesh Agarwal - 7

3 Rabi Sankar Saha - 4

4 Anilkumar Jahagirdar - 3

5 Mahendra Singh Chauhan - 5

6 Manoj Prasad - 3

7 siddharth misra - 3

8 Nikhil Narayanan - 3

9 Santanu Dey - 4

10 Sarvashree - 1

11 Sachin Kadam - 4

12 Rahul Jayanti - 5

13 Aniruddha Biswas - 4

14 Chandan Shahi - 3

15 Rohit Jain - 2

16 Ameya Mardolkar - 1

17 Rajiv Sangoi - 7

18 Jacob Dijo - 1

19 Nikhil Narayanan - 2

20 Arun A - 5

21 Nirupa Somasundaram - 3

22 Anand Shankar - 1

23 Rajimuth - 3

24 sangeeta banerjee - 7

25 Arijit Mukhopadhyay - 4

26 Prasoon Ranjan - 4

Happy Learning,

Murali Duggineni.

Answers - Biz Quiz 301006

1. In 1926, Ganapayya Maiya started Brahmin Coffee House near Lalbagh, Bangalore. How do we better know this venture as today?
### MTR Foods

2. It’s a practice followed by the 20th Century Limited company to welcome passengers at the railway station and it has given rise to a tradition we follow today. What is it?
### The use of "Red Carpet” to welcome guests

3. In 1998, Time magazine came up with a list of the 20 most influential business legends of the 20th century. Who is the only woman to be featured in this list?
### Estee Lauder

Questions 4-9 are on visuals. The visuals are available at http://quizjunkie.blogspot.com/2006/10/biz-quiz-301006-hi-presenting-yet.html

4. Corporate headquarters of which online major?
### Yahoo!

5. A sitter: Who is this iCon?
### Steve Jobs. BTW, iCon Steve Jobs: The Greatest Second Act in the History of Business is a book on Steve Jobs by Jeffrey S. Young, William L. Simon

6. Identify the advertiser
### WWF

7. Identify this famous landmark in London
### Harrods

8. A character from Dilbert Comics. Just name her.
### Tina – the technical writer

9. On what occasion did AMUL release this ad?
### Raj Kapoor’s death

Scores (in the order I received)

Taneja D - 1
Varadha - 3
Sushil Kumar Vashishta - 2
Mitesh Rathore - 1
Narayan Swamy - 3
Zipts - 5
Ravi Chand - 2
Rajiv D'Silva - 5
Chandan Shahi - 3
Prasoon Ranjan - 6
sangeeta Banerjee - 7
rakonda srikanth - 2
Sudipta Jash - 3
Neo M - 6
Sushil Kumar Vashishta - 3
Santanu Dey - 3
Ameya Mardolkar - 3
Siddharth Misra – 3

Happy Learning,
Murali Duggineni.

Biz Quiz 301006

Hi,

Presenting yet another biz quiz. Most of the questions can be cracked hands down. So go ahead and mail your answers to muraliduggineni(at)gmail.com.

1. In 1926, Ganapayya Maiya started Brahmin Coffee House near Lalbagh, Bangalore. How do we better know this venture as today?

2. It’s a practice followed by the 20th Century Limited company to welcome passengers at the railway station and it has given rise to a tradition we follow today. What is it?

3. In 1998, Time magazine came up with a list of the 20 most influential business legends of the 20th century. Who is the only woman to be featured in this list?

4. Corporate headquarters of which online major?



5. A sitter: Who is this Icon?




6. Identify the advertiser




7. Identify this famous landmark in London

8. A character from Dilbert Comics. What's her name?

9. On what occasion did AMUL release this ad?

Answers - Biz Quiz 251006

Hi,

A pretty good response to the quiz I posted on 25th Oct. The quiz is available at http://quizjunkie.blogspot.com/2006/10/biz-quiz-251006-1.html .

Here go the answers.

1 Altoids
2 Blue Ocean Strategy
3 ACT II
4 Arundhati Roy
5 Amar Bose
6 Fruit of the Loom
7 Harley-Davidson
8 Seth Godin
9 Andy Warhol's Birthday

Scores (in the order I received):

Anish Raju - 5
Sachin - 6
Srinidhi Rai - 3
Mitesh Agarwal - 5
Jitaditya Narzary - 4
Prasoon Ranjan -6
Sanjeev Mittal - 8
sangeeta banerjee - 5
Nikhil Narayanan - 1
Abhishek Kumar - 8
Dr Vikram - 7
Neo M - 6
AmEyA MaRdOlKaR - 4
Rajiv D'Silva - 5
Mahendra Singh - 7
Sushil Kumar Vashishta - 3
Param Puneet Singh - 1
Santanu Dey – 6

Two members didn't score. Nice to see them attempt the quiz.

Happy Learning,
Murali Duggineni.

Harsha’s Kaikoo

Today Harsha Bhogle conducted the “Harsha’s Kaikoo” quiz in Hyderabad. The quiz is in connection with the Hyderabad 10K Half Marathon, scheduled to take place next month. The quiz had a mix of general, sports and business questions.

Quinkie represented by Deepak Karamungikar and yours truly won the quiz. JNTU, represented by Raghuram and Latish came second. Sierra Atlantic, represented by Anchal Mathur and Harish Shanthinikethanam finished third. Though the turnout was not up to the mark, it was a great evening as Harsha brought in lots of flamboyance and handled the quiz with his inimitable flair.

Ace quizzers Srinivas and J Krishnamurthi from K Circle provided the content and spent a lot of effort in getting the quiz together.

Here are some questions from the elims:

1. The name of which Hyderabad landmark translates to “Mirror of the Sky”?

2. Which 1993 Client Eastwood starred film shares its name with a recent literary work?

3. The consumption of sheep testes by the Greeks as early as the 8th century BC is the first reported instance of what?

4. It is derived from the Makonde word meaning "that which folds up" in reference to the stooped posture developed as a result of the arthritic symptoms of the disease. What am I talking about?

5. Which famous pop star wrote children’s book called “English Roses”?

6. The two main forms of this game are known as Tudabarai and Qarajai. Which game?

7. What new age first does the film “Waterborne” has to its credit?

8. Which place in Hyderabad gets its name from the Urdu for “barbed wire”?

9. Which drink gets its name from the Dutch for “burnt wine”?

10. Which musical instrument gets its name from the Greek for Wood and Sound?

11. Aibophobia is the fear of what?

12. An AMUL ad with the title “here goes the sun” and a “sitar” were shown. The question was to identify the occasion.

13. What is the name of the fundamental militia under the regimen of Mir Osman Ali Khan?

14. Pic of Siva Kesavan, the only Indian in Luge event at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin.

15. Visual of the board game Monopoly



Answers:

1. Falaknuma

2. “In the Line of Fire” by Pervez Musharraf

3. Performance enhancement/doping

4. Chikungunya

5. Madonna

6. Buzkashi, the national game of Afghanistan

7. one of the first films to be available on Google Video

8. Tarnaka (Once upon a time this place was famous for its mangoes and several Nawabs owned mango orchards. To guard them, a Nawab built a barbed wire fencing (tar in Urdu) all around and posted a guard (naka) from which the place derived its name)

9. Brandy

10. Xylophone

11. Palindromes

12. Death of George Harrison. The funda is: Pandit Ravi Shankar teamed up with Harrison to compose the famous cut “Here comes the Sun”.

13. Razakars


There were 25 questions in the elims. These are the only ones I could recollect.

Cheers,
Murali Duggineni.

Biz Quiz 251006


1. Which brand gets its name from the combination of the Latin for “to change” and the Greek for “taking the form of”?

2. Opening lines from which business bestseller in recent times?

“A One Time Accordion Player, stilt-walker, and fire eater, Guy Laliberté is now CEO of Cirque du Soleil, one of Canada’s largest cultural exports. Created in 1984 by a group of street performers, Cirque’s productions have been seen by almost forty million people in ninety cities around the world. In less than twenty years Cirque du Soleil has achieved a level of revenues that took Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey—the global champion of the circus industry—more than one hundred years to attain.”

3. ConAgra Foods' Microwave Popcorn is sold in more than 130 countries across the world. It is marketed under two brand names. One of the brand names is Orville Redenbacher. Name the other.

4. Who played a village girl in the award-winning movie Massey Sahib, and wrote the screenplays for “In Which Annie Gives it Those Ones” and “Electric Moon.” She also wrote the screenplay a TV serial called `The Banyan Tree.' Today, the person is more popular in another line.

5. “I would have been fired a hundred times at a company run by MBAs. But I never went into business to make money. I went into business so that I could do interesting things that hadn’t been done before.” Whose words?

6. Identify the logo


7. Identify the advertiser

8. Who is this new age marketing genius?

9. On what occasion did the home page of Google sport this doodle?

Visual Quiz 181006

Hi,

Presenting yet another visual quiz. I have made it a tad easier than the previous one. Give it a try and mail me your answers within a week's time.

1. Logo of which ad agency?


2. Identify the advertiser.






3. Logo of which liquor company?





4. Logo of which global governing body?




5. Who is this fashion designer? His name also happens to be a famous brand.


6. This is an award given to the world’s best websites. Name the award.



7. Which famous institution does the building in this visual house in Mumbai?


8. Logo of which Japanese company? It means "three water wells" when translated to English.


9. People from the world of marketing/branding. Identify this father and daughter duo.

Visual Quiz 111006

Hi,

Presenting a visual quiz. There are not many clues. Mail me your answers within a week.

1. Identify the literary award.


2. Identify the automobile legend.



3. Identify the advertiser.

4. With which famous brand would you associate these Brothers?


5. Name the person featured on the cover of the TIME.



6. Identify the advertiser.

7. Identify the personality in whose witty creations we relish.


8. Identify the logo.


9. Give me the brand name of the car (it's not an Ambassador)

Biz Quiz 250906

1. One of the popular Russian keepsakes, these brightly painted wooden dolls get their name from the Latin word for “Mother”. The dolls are made in such a way so that they could be taken apart to reveal the smaller dolls fitting inside one another. Considered a symbol of motherhood and fertility, the largest doll in the set is associated with the image of a mother. All the other dolls fitting inside one another are considered the children. What popular dolls am I talking about?
###

2. European cooks used a small amount of cake batter to test their oven temperature before baking a large cake. These little test cakes get their name from the Dutch word “koekje,” meaning `Little Cake’ in Dutch. What edible item/items am I talking about?
###

3. Connect Gautami, Shruti, Mangal, Raavi, and Tunga (The list is not limited to only these five).
###

4. The ad legend David Ogilvy preferred the discipline of knowledge to the chaos of ignorance. He codified knowledge into slide and film presentations. What did he call this knowledge as?
###

5. In the year 2004, Estee Lauder launched a fragrance in the name of a famous business magnate. The fragrance is said to exemplify the confidence, success and character of the personality. Who is this famous personality?
###

6. What is the corporate significance of the precious stones Vaidurya(Cat's Eye), Hira (Diamond), Panna (Emerald), Gomedh (Hessonite), Neelam (Sapphire), Moti (Pearl), Pukhraj (Topaz), Manik (Ruby), and Munga (Red Coral)?
###

Happy Learning,

Murali Duggineni.

Biz Quiz 120906

1. Which brand gets its name from two filament metals - Osmium and Wolfram?

2. The diamond-shaped logo of this automobile company started out as a bonnet emblem. However, from 1922, the center of the bonnet emblem logo was cut. Which company’s logo are we talking about? And what was the reason for giving a new look to the logo?

3. “Humsafar” is the in-flight magazine of which Asian airline?

4. What happens when you get “plutoed” in your career?

5. Identify the advertiser

6. Identify the logo of a not-for-profit organization, working for the development of the underprivileged.

7. Connect the two images.

A Biz Quiz

Presenting a biz quiz after a long time. Mail me your answers in a week's time.

1. Seen in the picture are people from the world of Technology. They used to work for Shockley Semiconductor. But after a year, they quit the company as they were not happy with the managerial style of William Shockley. What derogatory term did Mr Shockley use to describe these people for betraying his company?

2. Which advertising agency gets its name comes from an obscure short story by Guy De Maupassant?(Clue: the agency is based in South Africa and is known for its outstanding work)

3. The December 31, 1999 issue of the TIME magazine named Albert Einstein the Person of the Century. It also named two persons as the runners up. One was Franklin D. Roosevelt. Who was the other?

4. What term was introduced in the Wall Street Journal editorials starting on 20 November 2002, referring to Americans who pay no federal income tax because their income level is below the tax line?

5. Clarence Hailey Long was a foreman at a Texas ranch. Once in a week, he used to visit the town for a shave and a milk shake. In 1949, Life magazine published the photograph and story of Clarence Hailey Long. And the rest, as the cliche goes, is history. The question is: What is the contribution of Clarence Long to the world of advertising?

6. Google is known for sporting special holiday logos. On what occasion did this logo adorn the homepage of Google?


7. Identify the logo of a not for profit organization that works towards putting an end to child labor and creating educational opportunities for children.

8. With which famous brand would you associate the two persons you see in this picture?

9. Identify the advertiser