Xquizzite Quizzing League - Brands and logos.pptx

Rules

The team size would be decided by the quiz masters.

The quiz consists of descriptive as well as audio-visual questions.

The top scoring teams will be proceeding to the next round . The number of teams would be decided by the organisers.

The first round consists of 20 questions. All the teams are required to write their answers in a sheet and submit it for evaluation to the quiz masters.

This round has in-built tie-breakers as star marked questions.

Hints would be provided for a question if there is a majority consensus for the question.

• X was a file hosting and cloud storage service offered by Microsoft.

• In 2011 a trademark – infringement lawsuit was filed against the company by Rupert Murdoch’s British Sky Broadcasting Group, which also offers Internet storage. As a result of which Microsoft rebranded X as Y keeping the user interface of the Y site virtually identical to that of the old X site.

• Y was launched on February 19,2014.

• Id X and Y

Q1.

The X logo was created in 1971 by graphic design student Carolyn Davidson, for $35.00, based on a billing rate of $2.00 per hour. A faculty member asked Davidson to help him with some work for his new sportswear company, Blue Ribbon Sports. Of the various choices , the teacher picked one saying “ I don’t love it, but it’ll grow on me.”. Which logo ?

Q3.

Identify the company that owns this brand.

Q4.

When Francesco Baracca died in WWI, his mother asked her industrial friend to immortalize her son in a certain way. He choose his company’s logo as a tribute to Baracca’s plane. Which company ?

*Q5.

Odhavji Raghavji Patel, the founder of the world’s biggest wall clock manufacturing company, established Ajanta Transistor Clock Manufacturing Company in 1970 in Gujarat. What is the name of this second most popular brand which they use for electronic products like calculators, phones and time pieces ?

Q7.

Identify the company.Q8.

• Founded in 1862, and family-owned for seven generations, X employs 6000 people, manufactures at 27 facilities in 16 markets on four continents, with sales in more than 150 countries.

• However it does not have a presence anymore in the country where it was founded.

• At the time it was founded, X’s chief product today was cheaply made and not considered a refined drink, and rarely sold in upmarket taverns. Its founder began attempting to “tame” the product by isolating a proprietary strain of yeast still used in X production. This yeast gives X’s product its flavour profile. After experimenting with several techniques he hit upon filtering the product through charcoal, which removed impurities. In addition to this, he aged the product in white oak barrels, which had the effect of mellowing the drink.

• X’s logo derives from ___________________, which lived in the rafters of the building where the founder and his brother opened their first processing unit in 1862.

Q9.

In a special episode of Top Gear held at the Beaulieu National Motor Museum in Hampshire, X won the title of the world’s best taxi. Other competitors included the 1997 Fairway Driver, 1970 Volkswagen Beetle, Ford Crown Victoria, Toyota HI Ace and the Mercedes E-Class.

Id X

Q10.

Which fruit-based drink was formulated by the German Cola bottling company due to shipping restrictions between the US and Germany during World War II when the German plant could not get Coca-Cola syrup ?

Q12.

Her full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts. She has been said to attend Willows High School and Manhattan International High School in New York City. She has an on-off romantic relationship with her beau Ken Carson. How is she popularly known ?

Q13.

She has been a traffic stopper since 1967. Her wit, her sharp sense of humour and her unique style of analysing current affairs have always been a subject of fascination. Towering over at all prominent landmarks of all major Indian cities, she has been attracting more eyeballs than even Bollywood bombshells. And at over 40, she continues to be envied by even the best in the industry. Who has been described ?

Q15.

Identify the manufacturer of the car used extensively in the movie.*Q17.

This French automobile manufacturer shocked the world in 19334 with the innovative traction Avant, the world’s first mass-production front wheel drive car. Its significant models include HY, The Duck, Goddess and CX. Being a keen marketer, it used Eiffel Tower as the world’s largest advertising sign as recorded in the Guinness Book of Records. Identify the automobile manufacturer.

*Q18.

• Jean Rene X was a French tennis player and businessman. He was nicknamed “the Crocodile” by fans because of his tenacity on the court.

• He is also known worldwide as the creator of the X tennis shirt, which he introduced in 1929.

Q19.

• X was a file hosting and cloud storage service offered by Microsoft.

• In 2011 a trademark – infringement lawsuit was filed against the company by Rupert Murdoch’s British Sky Broadcasting Group, which also offers Internet storage. As a result of which Microsoft rebranded X as Y keeping the user interface of the Y site virtually identical to that of the old X site.

• Y was launched on February 19,2014.

• Id X and Y

Q1.

X – Skydrive

Y - OneDrive

The X logo was created in 1971 by graphic design student Carolyn Davidson, for $35.00, based on a billing rate of $2.00 per hour. A faculty member asked Davidson to help him with some work for his new sportswear company, Blue Ribbon Sports. Of the various choices , the teacher picked one saying “ I don’t love it, but it’ll grow on me.”. Which logo ?

Q3.

Swoosh by Nike

Identify the company that owns this brand.

Q4.

When Francesco Baracca died in WWI, his mother asked her industrial friend to immortalize her son in a certain way. He choose his company’s logo as a tribute to Baracca’s plane. Which company ?

Q5.

Odhavji Raghavji Patel, the founder of the world’s biggest wall clock manufacturing company, established Ajanta Transistor Clock Manufacturing Company in 1970 in Gujarat. What is the name of this second most popular brand which they use for electronic products like calculators, phones and time pieces ?

Q7.

Identify the company.Q8.

• Founded in 1862, and family-owned for seven generations, X employs 6000 people, manufactures at 27 facilities in 16 markets on four continents, with sales in more than 150 countries.

• However it does not have a presence anymore in the country where it was founded.

• At the time it was founded, X’s chief product today was cheaply made and not considered a refined drink, and rarely sold in upmarket taverns. Its founder began attempting to “tame” the product by isolating a proprietary strain of yeast still used in X production. This yeast gives X’s product its flavour profile. After experimenting with several techniques he hit upon filtering the product through charcoal, which removed impurities. In addition to this, he aged the product in white oak barrels, which had the effect of mellowing the drink.

• X’s logo derives from ___________________, which lived in the rafters of the building where the founder and his brother opened their first processing unit in 1862.

Q9.

In a special episode of Top Gear held at the Beaulieu National Motor Museum in Hampshire, X won the title of the world’s best taxi. Other competitors included the 1997 Fairway Driver, 1970 Volkswagen Beetle, Ford Crown Victoria, Toyota HI Ace and the Mercedes E-Class.

Id X

Q10.

Hindustan Ambassador

Which fruit-based drink was formulated by the German Cola bottling company due to shipping restrictions between the US and Germany during World War II when the German plant could not get Coca-Cola syrup ?

Q12.

Her full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts. She has been said to attend Willows High School and Manhattan International High School in New York City. She has an on-off romantic relationship with her beau Ken Carson. How is she popularly known ?

Q13.

DURACELL

She has been a traffic stopper since 1967. Her wit, her sharp sense of humour and her unique style of analysing current affairs have always been a subject of fascination. Towering over at all prominent landmarks of all major Indian cities, she has been attracting more eyeballs than even Bollywood bombshells. And at over 40, she continues to be envied by even the best in the industry. Who has been described ?

Q15.

Amul Girl

Identify the manufacturer of the car used extensively in the movie.Q17.

Ford Model A

This French automobile manufacturer shocked the world in 19334 with the innovative traction Avant, the world’s first mass-production front wheel drive car. Its significant models include HY, The Duck, Goddess and CX. Being a keen marketer, it used Eiffel Tower as the world’s largest advertising sign as recorded in the Guinness Book of Records. Identify the automobile manufacturer.

Q18.

Citroen

• Jean Rene X was a French tennis player and businessman. He was nicknamed “the Crocodile” by fans because of his tenacity on the court.

• He is also known worldwide as the creator of the X tennis shirt, which he introduced in 1929.

Q19.

Round 2

Rules (Round 2)

+10 for correct answer (Direct or pass). No negatives.

If a team answers the question, the next direct goes to the team numbered next to you. If no one answers, the next question goes to the next team.

Pounce – Gives you a chance to score off an easy question, eve if its not your direct.

Register your pounce in the pounce time when the question is made public for all. +10/-5

Show your answer in writing. Wrong/No answer gives you negative points

Which game originally appeared in 1896 is a simplification of the traditional Indian Cross and Circle game Pachisi and is called “Fia” in Sweden ? It shares its name with an alternative rock band from St. Louis, Missouri.

Q1.

On may 4, 1951, Sir Hugh Beaver, then the MD of a brewery, went on a shooting party in North Slob, Ireland. He became involved in an argument over which was the fastest game bird in Europe. That evening at Castlebridge House, he realized that it was impossible to confirm the same from any reference book. This incident led to the development of what ? The brewery’s storehouse is Dublin’s most popular tourist attraction.

Q3.

Deloitte Consulting mocked PwC consulting over the new brand name which cost $110 mn. What was the rebranded name of PwC?

Q5.

Which bank is also known as the “Queens Bank” to many by virtue of it being reputed to be the bankers to the British Royal Family and an ATM of the bank is in the basement of Buckingham Palace for use by the Royal Family and Household.

Q7.

What is the full form of PVR Cinemas (the multiplex brand)?

Q9.

Priya Village Roadshow

IDENTIFY THE PARENT COMPANY OF THE FOLLOWING BRANDS.

Q11.

INDITEX

WHO IS X ?

Agunnaryd is a locality situated in Sweden with 220 inhabitants in 2010. Agunnaryd is chiefly associated with a famous industrialist X, who founded ***A (the A of which stands for Agunnaryd).

Products of the company ***A are named rather than numbered because Mr. X is dyslexic.It was simply a matter of necessity to keep things easier. And their crazy names follow an elaborate system: beds take Norwegian place names, sofas are named after Swedish towns, kitchen tables are Finnish geographic points of interest, chairs are male first names, glasses and cups are given adjectives, etc.

Eg. - How do you like dem applen?

Q12.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_areas_in_Sweden

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweden

X - Ingvar Feodor Kamprad

IKEA - Ingvar KampradElmtaryd (where the founder grew up) Agunnaryd (a village near his hometown).

This brand of beer derives its name from a city in Southern Bohemia. It is one of the major breweries that emphasizes humorous advertising campaigns such as the “Real Men of Genius” radio commercials. Which brand of beer ?

‘Whassup?’ was a commercial campaign for X from 1999 to 2002. The commercial made ‘Whassup’ a part of American lingo.

Q14.

Budweiser beer ; the city is Budweis

CONNECT. IDENTIFY THE COMPANY.

Q15.

Which company owes its origin to a distribution business of speciality chemicals manufactured by a German company by BK Parekh ? The name of the most famous brand of this company comes from “Federal Dyes’ ?

Q16.

Proctor & Gamble

IDENTIFY THE COMPANY.

Q20.

MERCEDES BENZ

CONNECTQ22.

RocketMail

GUERLAIN

Titan Company Limited

• The origins of this product lie in the setting up a factory in 1916 to use excess reserves of a particular product which could not be exported to Europe due to the first world war.

• The company which manufactures the product today holds a geographical tag on this product.

• In 2006, Mahendra Singh Dhoni became its first brand ambassador.

Q28.

Mysore Sandal Soap

Mahindra Flyte

HEINEKEN JAMMING FESTIVAL AD

TIE BREAKERS

Q1.

It was created by an illustrator named Tom Browne to be a likeness of John Walker in traditional attire. In th logo, the man is walking forward, which Diageo says symbolizes forward thinking and the pursuit for excellence. How do we popularly know this logo ?

STRIDING MAN LOGO

Q3.This brand’s image is the brainchild of founder’s son Murari Mohan Dutta. On 15 August 1947, Calcutta news papers carried an advertisement informing audiences that from two specified city outlets, it would be distributed free to anyone who asks for it during the day. Which brand ?

X is a restaurant company. The company operates 175 full service dining restaurants: of which 13 are under the Grand Lux Cafe marque and 1 under the Rock Sugar Pan Asian Kitchen marque. It also operates two bakery production facilities - one in Calabasas, California and the other in Rocky Mount, North Carolina. David Overton, the company's founder, established the future chain's pattern of offering an eclectic menu and signature product. According to him, it "does not have any sort of arrangements with the TV show is and really pleased to be featured in such a funny and wildly popular TV show." Identify X.

Q5.

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