The General QUIZ

Quizzing Club

Indian Institute of Management Raipur

Answers!

Round 1

People and ………

Question 1Knowledge of Literature – nil.Knowledge of Philosophy – nil.Knowledge of Astronomy – nil.Knowledge of Politics – Feeble.Knowledge of Botany – Variable. Well up in belladonna, opium and poisons generally. Knows nothing of practical gardening.Knowledge of Geology – Practical, but limited.Knowledge of Chemistry – Profound.Knowledge of Anatomy – Accurate, but unsystematic.Knowledge of Sensational Literature – Immense. Plays the violin well.Is an expert singlestick player, boxer and swordsman.Has a good practical knowledge of British law.

Answer

Question 2

He was born on March 11, 1962 in Lower Downtown, Capital City, USA according to his criminal records. His mother was Michelle McGahey-Anderson and his father was John Anderson. He attended Central West Junior High and Owen Patterson High. In high school, he excelled at science, math and computer courses, and displayed an aptitude for English and History. Although he had disciplinary troubles when he was thirteen to fourteen years old, he went on to become a respected member of the school community through his involvement in football and hockey. He was a software engineer for a respectable software company called Metacortex and also worked as a hacker.

Who?

Answer 2

Question 3

Some of the aliases he has used are:-

Matches MaloneRagmanDetective HawkeMordecai WayneSir Hemingford GreyFrank DixonDr. Fledermaus

He’s a master of stealth and disguise.

Answer 3

Some of the aliases he has used are:-

Matches Malone – To get into placesRagman – Homeless Man that lives on streetsDetective Hawke – To gain trust of people who would talk to copsMordecai WayneSir Hemingford Grey – Uses to purchase landFrank Dixon – To get under the cover of a normal personDr. Fledermaus – To get full access of people who have been locked at the aslyum

Answer 3

Question 4

Question 4

Name the dog.

Question 4

Muttley

Question 5

Whose family tree?

Answer 5

Answer 5

Question 6

Who about what – It took 7882 different jobs to complete one unit. He noted that of these 7882 specialised jobs, 749 required ‘strong able bodied and physically perfect men, 3338 need men of merely ordinary physical strength, most of the rest could be performed by women and older children’. And he continued coolly ‘ we found that 670 could be filled by legless men, 2637 by one legged men, two by armless men, 715 by one armed men and 10 by blind men’.

Answer 6

Henry Ford on the Model – T

Question 7A lady in a faded gingham dress and her husband, dressed in a homespun threadbare suit, stepped off the train in Boston, and walked timidly without an appointment into the president of Harvard's outer office. They had a son who attended Harvard for one year. He died in an accident. They had their meeting with the President. They wanted to erect a memorial for him but were denied by the authority. What did this event give birth to?

Answer

Stanford University, Mrs. And Mr. Leland Stanford

Question 8

X was born in a Maharashtrian family, to mother Jijabai and father Ramoji Rao Gaikwad, on 12 December 1950 in the Indian city of Bangalore in Mysore State, present-day Karnataka. He was the youngest of four siblings and has two brothers and a sister. After the death of his mother at his age of 5, he struggled with an impoverished lifestyle during his childhood. During that time, he often did odd jobs as a coolie in his community. He attended the Government Model Primary School at Gavipuram, Bangalore, where he had his elementary education in Kannada. He also worked as a bus conductor.

Who is X?

Answer

Rajnikanth

Question 9

Name all three.(1 Mark for name of guy and girl, 1 for the name of Cat)

Answer

James, Jessie, Meowth

Round 2

Brands and Companies

Question 10

These German brothers were partners in a shoe company which the younger one had started, Gebrüder Dassler Schuhfabrik (Dassler Brothers Shoe Factory).However the brothers became rivals following World War II and started their own companies in 1948.

Both the brothers named the companies after their respective names. The older one kept it as Ruda, but later changed it to the German word for “cougar”.

Both the companies are famous worldwide today. Name them.

Answer 10

Rudolf Dassler

Adolf “Adi” Dassler

Question 11

X is an American company founded in 1937 by Bausch & Lomb. X were first introduced for the United States Army Air Corps. In 1999, Bausch & Lomb sold the brand to the Italian Luxottica Group(The world’s largest eyewear company) for a reported $640 million.

It’s headquarters are in Milan, Italy. Earlier it was in New York.

Identify X.

Answer 11

Question 12

 If IBM is the Big Blue, Coca Cola the Big Red, what is Big Brown/ The Big Brown Machine?

Answer 12

Question 13

Koo In-Hwoi established Lak-Hui Chemical Industrial Corp. in 1947. In 1952, Lak-Hui became the first Korean company to enter the plastics industry. As the company expanded its plastic business, it established Y. In 1958, both companies merged and formed XY.

X is how the name of Lak-Hui was pronounced. X brand was famous for its line of hygiene products such as soaps and HiTi laundry detergents, but most associated with its Lucky and Perioe toothpastes. In 1995, to better compete in the Western market, the XY was renamed Z. The company also associates it’s tagline with letters of Z. Identify Z.

Answer 13

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Question 14

On 4 May 1951, Sir Hugh Beaver, then the managing director of the X Breweries, went on a shooting party in the North Slob, by the River Slaney in County Wexford, Ireland. He became involved in an argument over which was the fastest game bird in Europe, the koshin golden plover or the grouse. That evening at Castlebridge House, he realised that it was impossible to confirm whether or not the golden plover was Europe's fastest game bird.

This is the origin what?

Answer 14

Guinness Book of World Records

Round 3

Logos and Taglines

Question 15

This is a 1934 logo of a company depicting Bodhisattva Kwan’on.

Answer 15

Canon

Question 16

The old logo of which Indian company?

Answer 16

Question 17

The company was founded by which person?

Hint

Answer 17

Raj Rajratnam

Question 18

Identify the Logo

Answer 18

Faber Castell

Question 19

Identify the logo

Question 19

Question 20

Answer 20

BBC

Question 21

Probably the best "two letters in one symbol" solution ever. This 'slimeball' is created by Takuya Kawagoi. Although it is meant to look partially like the symbiotic amalgamation of two letters the logo also represents the company's entire design philosophy, as Kawagoi explained. It's both futuristic and organic, designed to invoke the concepts of flexibility and fluidity. It is often shown as a quick animation at the end of television ads: with some extra pyrotechnics. Which company's logo am I talking about?

Answer 21

Question 22

Identify The Logo

Answer 22

Question 23

The current mark consists of three ellipses: the two ellipses inthe center represent a relationship of mutual trust between thecustomer and the company. The space in the background implies aglobal expansion of the company's technology and unlimited potential for the future. Somehow the logo is so shaped that a layman always takes it to be the company name's initial.

Name the company.

Answer 23

Question 24

Three brothers and a sister. Founder of which group?

Answer 24

The Benetton Family

Round 3

Trivia and other Stuff

Question 25

What does HB on a pencil stand for?

Answer 25

Hard Black

Question 26

What does this mark signify?Full Form/Significance

Answer 26

Conformité Européenne meaning European ConformityCE marking factually can be considered to be a quality

mark

Question 27

On March 8, 2012 this Google logo was displayed across it’s search engine.

What’s the occasion?

Answer 27

International Women’s day

Question 28

What did Mr. Albert Humphrey develop while heading a research project at Stanford University in the 1960s and 1970s using data from Fortune 500 companies?

Answer 28

SWOT Analysis

Question 29

In 2011, it defeated two of jeopardy’s biggest players - Brad Rutter and Ken Jennings and received a first prize of $1 million. A couple of days back, it took up a job on Wall Street helping the banking giant, Citibank analyze data. Apparently, Citibank is its first financial services customer.  It will help analyze customer needs and process financial, economic and client data to advance and personalize digital banking.

Who?

Answer 29

Watson

Question 30

My  Best  Friend's  Birthday,  was  written by  Craig  Harmann and  X, when X  was  working  at  the Video Archives( now defunct).  The  original  short  script  later  expanded  to an 80 page  script, and  X  directed the movie  along  with  Harmann.  Only a  36  minute cut  of  the  movie  survived  from the original 70 minutes, and  while  it  has been shown at  film festivals, never been officially released. X often  referred to this  as  his  "film school"  and  some of the actors  here, appeared in  his more famous  movies. Name X.

Answer 30

Quentin Tarantino

Question 31

Which company was once known as the Bachraj trading Company?

Answer 31

Bajaj

Question 32

Thee registrar of companies did not accept the name of 7D, or 'Seven Dudes' as the name of the company started with a number. How do we know this company today?

Answer 32

RedBus.in

Question 33

Richard Branson in an ad which is not of Virgin? Identify the ad.

Answer 33

Question 34

Who said ‘I have done more than anyone else to change the face of mankind’?

Answer 34

King Camp Gillette, founder of The Gillette Company.

Question 35

Which vehicle did J C Bamford give his name to?

Answer 35

Question 36

In Chacha Chaudhari comics, what was the name of Chachi?

Answer 36

Binni

Question 37

This product is manufactured only by one company - The Mysore Paints & Varnishes Ltd.What?

Answer 37

The voters indelible ink.

Question 38

When Henry Ford died, amongst his last possessions was a test tube. What did it supposedly contain?

Answer 38

The Last Breath of Thomas Alva Edison

Question 39

What do you call a stock market trend which is neither bearish nor bullish?

Answer 39

Chicken Market

Question 40

It is made from thermo-plastic paper and manilla hemp used to make the rope. It is used to withstand boiling water. What?

Answer 40

A Teabag

Question 41

 In 1980, Sir Ernest Harrison chairman of Racal Electronics plc' the UK's largest maker of military radio technology, agreed a deal with Lord Weinstock of General Electric Company plc to allow Racal to access some of GEC's tactical battlefield radio technology. Inception of which compay was his?

Answer 40

Vodafone

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