Friday, March 25, 2011

Question set 11

1) Identify the person
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2)Id the logo

3)Indo-Thai synthetics was the first  incorporated in 1969 in Thailand, started operations in 1970, this was X's  first foray into international venture.X then incorporated T. Elegant Textiles in 1973 in Indonesia. Thai Rayon incorporated in 1974, this was X's second company in Thailand... X's Indian textile wing, Indian Rayon, is now known as "Y" .. id X and Y

4)This is a joint venture between two telecom giants.. Head quartered in the European city of Espoo, the company is headed by an Indian, Rajeev Suri.. Id the company


5) What connects Alcatel-Lucent, Huawei,IBM  and Ericcson with India ?



Answers


1)  Gautam Adani

2) Wilmar Logo

3) Aditya Birla, Birla Nuvo

4) Nokia Siemens

5) Bharti Airtel's strategic partners

Sunday, March 20, 2011

Question set 10

1) ID the person


2)ID the logo





3), Nalvadi Krishnaraja Wodeyar, the king of Mysore took the advice of his diwan, Sir X and established the Government  Factory in Bangalore. This factory, which was set up in 1916, started manufacturing  under the brand-name Y using sandalwood oil as the main ingredient... ID X and Y


4) According to Unilever records, _______ was the world's first registered brand and is therefore the world's oldest continuously existing brand.


5)Listen to this old audio clip and  put fundae 





Answers

1) Bernard Arnault, Europe's most richest person

2) Ponds

3)Diwan Sir Visweswariah  and Mysore sandal soap

4)Pears soap

5) It features " Body odour" tone, the word coined by Lifebouy

Good Job Sid!

Thursday, March 10, 2011

QUESTIONS SET 9 (Theme - sports Industry)

1) Identify the person (clue he is the owner of various sport teams too)





2) Id the logo


3)Since its founding, X has never worn corporate advertisements on their shirt. On 14 July 2006, X announced a five year agreement with Y, which includes having the Y logo on their shirts. The agreement has X donate €1.5 million per year to Y, via X foundation.. The X Foundation is an entity set up in 1994 on the suggestion of then-chairman of the Economical-Statutory Committee, Jaime Gil-Aluja.. Identify X and Y


4) It was developed by engineers at Roke Manor Research Limited of Romsey, Hampshire in the UK, in 2001. A UK patent was submitted but withdrawn by Dr Paul Hawkins and David Sherry. Later, the technology was spun off into a separate company, ___________ Innovations Ltd., as a joint venture with television production company Sunset + Vine, which was bought outright by Sony in March 2011.


5) What is peculiar about this video.. put fundae





Answers




1)Andre Agneli - Head of Fiat  and Juventus


2) Prudential, the sponsor of  the first three Cricket World Cups


3)X- Barcelona Y- UNICEF


4) Hawk Eye


5) Nike video released on the eve of  Vancouver Olympics, celebrating perseverance in Sports venues. The campaign is called as human Chain



Tuesday, March 8, 2011

QUESTIONS SET 8

1) Id this sports person cum entrepreneur





2)  Id the logo



3) X was found in 1891 as baking powder/soap manufacturer.. On 2004, X acquired  Life Savers and Altoids from Y. In 2008 April, Z acquired X .. Id X , Y and Z


4) Which famous Indian Company was found by N Rangarao and sons in Mysore , in the year 1918


5) What is peculiar about this video.. Put Fundae





Answers



1) Rene Lacoste - Lacoste founder

2)United Airlines

3) X- Wrigleys , Y - Kraft foods, Z- Mars Inc

4)Cycle brand Agarbhati

5)United Breaks Guitars is the "viral video" used for customer service training in United Airlines


Good Job Sid!


Saturday, March 5, 2011

QUESTIONS SET 7

1) Id the person




2)Id the logo





3)X was launched in 1993 by Dr. Simon King, a British researcher at the University of Minnesota with help from students and researchers at universities around the world, remained as  a volunteer run organization till 1999.In 2002 ,A merger with the better capitalised Y (then owned by Sir Paul Getty) took place.In June 2007, "Z" Networks announced that they had acquired X from Y Group, though the brand name and identity will still remain in use. Currently X receives over 7 million hits daily on average.X records in excess of 250 million pageviews per month.. Id X , Y and Z


4) Robert Wood Johnson, inspired by a speech by antiseptic advocate Joseph Lister, started this company with his brothers, name it.



5)What is special about this video? put fundae








Answers


1) F.W. Taylor

2) SKS Micro finance

3) X- Cricinfo Y- John Wisden group Z- ESPN

4) Johnson&Johnson

5) Its the most watched video till date in Youtube

Excellent job Sid !

Friday, March 4, 2011

Questions set 6

1) Id the person

2) Id the logo


3)X 's head quarter's is located in  Moriguchi, Osaka prefecture, Japan.In 1952 it made Japan's first plastic radio and in 1954 Japan's first pulsator-type washing machine. On December 21, 2009, Y completed a 400 billion yen ($4.5 billion) acquisition of a 50.2% stake in X, making X a new subsidiary of Y. Id X and Y


4) The  training facility of which fast food chain is called as " Hamburger University" ?



5) Connect











Answers


1)Carol Bartz, CEO of Yahoo! inc

2)Telstra 

3)X- Sanyo, Y- Panasonic

4) Mcdonalds

5) SUN micro systems which owns My SQL (First emblem) , started @ Stanford University (The second logo) and was taken over by Oracle, which had taken over I-flex 



Excellent job once again from Siddharth
                        

Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Questions set 5

1) Identify the person







2) Id the logo


3) X was a 100% Subsidiary of Y  till March 1, 2009. when its After market and Accessories branch including the brand name were sold to Aurelius AG of Germany for an undisclosed amount.. id X , Y 



4)A sitter .. name the Father of Six sigma system 



5) Connect







                        
Answers


1) Divya Narendra, Who along with Winklevoss brothers, was behind the idea of "Facebook" ,who sued Mark Zuckerburg 


2)World Bank Logo


3)X- Blaupunkt Y- Robert Bosch


4) Bill smith, the Motorola guy


5) Toyota and JIT..

Excellent work Siddharth

Tuesday, March 1, 2011

Question set 4

1) Identify the person,he was in news recently.. although Indirectly 



2) Id The logo


3)X was Founded By Y, following the split of Gebrüder Dassler Schuhfabrik between him and his older brother, Rudolf Dassler. Rudolf later established  Z, Id X , Y and Z

4)A sitter.... This is a Mobile application whose Name means "door " In Finnish was released on August 28, 2008.
 Id the application

5) Connect
                            






Answers




1)George VI (Albert Frederick Arthur George)- The original character of the movie " King's speech"




2)Logo of Prometric




3) X- Adidas 


    Y-  Adolf Adi dassler
     
     Z- PUMA 



4)Nokia's OVi  






5) Different versions of Mac OS X
    
  Cheetah (Lamborghini Cheetah)


 Jaguar   ( Mark Webber's first F1 team is Jaguar racing)


 Tiger


 Kodiak ( Kodiak Bear)






 Excellent job Aakash