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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
.
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
Thank You!