Friday, October 29, 2010
Quiz Circuit - Cricket - Answers
In a world cup match played at Lord’s in 1975, Sunil Gavaskar played through the innings (facing 174 balls) and scored .... how much?
36 with a strike rate of 20.68
He hails from Dombivili and made a name for himself by taking a wicket with his first ball in Test cricket. He is also the only Indian bowler to achieve this feat. Identify him.
Nilesh Kulkarni
Which team won the ICC Women's Cricket Twenty20 Challenge 2010 after crushing Sri Lanka in the final?
West Indies
We all know that Bradman has the best average in test cricket – 99.94. Do you know who has the second highest average in test cricket?
Robert Graeme Pollock
Ok, time for some trivia. Which country do/did Sunil Dhaniram, WD Balaji Rao, Nitish Kumar, Hiral Patel and Parth Desai represent?
Canada
36 with a strike rate of 20.68
He hails from Dombivili and made a name for himself by taking a wicket with his first ball in Test cricket. He is also the only Indian bowler to achieve this feat. Identify him.
Nilesh Kulkarni
Which team won the ICC Women's Cricket Twenty20 Challenge 2010 after crushing Sri Lanka in the final?
West Indies
We all know that Bradman has the best average in test cricket – 99.94. Do you know who has the second highest average in test cricket?
Robert Graeme Pollock
Ok, time for some trivia. Which country do/did Sunil Dhaniram, WD Balaji Rao, Nitish Kumar, Hiral Patel and Parth Desai represent?
Canada
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Quiz Circuit: Personality Quiz
What is common to Dileep Padgaonkar, Radha Kumar and M M Ansari?
The interlocutors who have gone to J&K to interact with the people.
Who is Timothy Geithner?
The US Treasury Secretary
Who is Paritala Ravi?
He was a naxalite turned ganglord turned politician on whom Ram Gopal Varma has filmed a bio-pic
Who is Kim Jong-Un?
The youngest son and heir apparent of North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il
Who is the CPM general secretary?
Prakash Karat
The interlocutors who have gone to J&K to interact with the people.
Who is Timothy Geithner?
The US Treasury Secretary
Who is Paritala Ravi?
He was a naxalite turned ganglord turned politician on whom Ram Gopal Varma has filmed a bio-pic
Who is Kim Jong-Un?
The youngest son and heir apparent of North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il
Who is the CPM general secretary?
Prakash Karat
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
Quiz Circuit: CWG - Answers
British Empire and Commonwealth
What was the tagline of CWG – Delhi 2010?
Come Out and Play
Arjan Bhullar won the Gold medal in the Men’s 120kg Freestyle Wrestling, defeating Joginder Kumar. To which country/countries did Arjan and Joginder belong?
Canada & India
India bagged its first ever Commonwealth Gymnastics medal in Delhi. Who was the contestant and what was the event?
Ashish Kumar in the Floor Exercise category
India was pounded into second place in hockey by Australia. Which country came in third?
New Zealand
Thursday, October 14, 2010
Business Quiz: Silicon Valley - Answers
Chris Hughes has served as the Head of online organizing for President Obama's presidential campaign. He holds a bachelors degree in history and literature from Harvard University. Which brand did he help co-found?
Facebook.
Chris Hughes is also a founder of Jumo, a startup that aims to use the social web to create relationships between individuals and organizations working to change the world. Prior to founding Jumo, Chris worked as an Entrepreneur in Residence (EIR) at General Catalyst Partners in 2009.
The two founders of this brand insist that they selected its name because of its definition: "rude, unsophisticated, uncouth." What a name to give a brand! Which brand are we talking about?
Yahoo!
Yahoo was founded in 1994 by Stanford Ph.D. students David Filo and Jerry Yang.
The Web site started out as "Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web" but eventually received a new moniker with the help of a dictionary. The name Yahoo! is an acronym for "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle," but Filo and Yang insist they selected the name because they liked the general definition of a yahoo: "rude, unsophisticated, uncouth." Yahoo! itself first resided on Yang's student workstation, "Akebono," while the software was lodged on Filo's computer, "Konishiki" - both named after legendary sumo wrestlers.
This brand was founded by Kevin Rose and launched in November 2004. It has since grown into one of the most popular sources of information on the Web. Identify it.
Digg.com
Digg is a user driven social content website. Everything on Digg is user-submitted. After you submit content, other people read your submission and “Digg” what they like best. If your story receives enough Diggs, it’s promoted to the front page for other visitors to see. Kevin Rose launched it in December of 2004. In February of 2005, Paris Hilton’s cell phone was hacked. Images and phone numbers from the phone were posted online and it didn’t take long for a user to post the link on Digg. There was no looking back after that. ;-)
BVP is a VC firm based in the US, one of its Partners was once asked by his friend to meet two entrepreneurs who had hired his, the friend’s, garage. The Partner’s response? “How can I get out of this house without going anywhere near your garage?” Which two entrepreneurs did he refuse to meet in this way?
Sergey Brin and Larry Page of Google fame.
The online e-commerce giant eBay has, agreed to sell the majority stake in a ‘unit’ of its company. Name the unit.
Skype for $1.9 billion. It still retains a 35% stake.
Those who got ALL the five answers right are:
Maulik
rucha
Rohit Kiran
anand
Shulmit Bapat
Nishant
Sarthak Bhadauria
ravi patel
Ankit Daftery
swati
Hemangi Hanote
Saniel Bhelekar
ridhi
Facebook.
Chris Hughes is also a founder of Jumo, a startup that aims to use the social web to create relationships between individuals and organizations working to change the world. Prior to founding Jumo, Chris worked as an Entrepreneur in Residence (EIR) at General Catalyst Partners in 2009.
The two founders of this brand insist that they selected its name because of its definition: "rude, unsophisticated, uncouth." What a name to give a brand! Which brand are we talking about?
Yahoo!
Yahoo was founded in 1994 by Stanford Ph.D. students David Filo and Jerry Yang.
The Web site started out as "Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web" but eventually received a new moniker with the help of a dictionary. The name Yahoo! is an acronym for "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle," but Filo and Yang insist they selected the name because they liked the general definition of a yahoo: "rude, unsophisticated, uncouth." Yahoo! itself first resided on Yang's student workstation, "Akebono," while the software was lodged on Filo's computer, "Konishiki" - both named after legendary sumo wrestlers.
This brand was founded by Kevin Rose and launched in November 2004. It has since grown into one of the most popular sources of information on the Web. Identify it.
Digg.com
Digg is a user driven social content website. Everything on Digg is user-submitted. After you submit content, other people read your submission and “Digg” what they like best. If your story receives enough Diggs, it’s promoted to the front page for other visitors to see. Kevin Rose launched it in December of 2004. In February of 2005, Paris Hilton’s cell phone was hacked. Images and phone numbers from the phone were posted online and it didn’t take long for a user to post the link on Digg. There was no looking back after that. ;-)
BVP is a VC firm based in the US, one of its Partners was once asked by his friend to meet two entrepreneurs who had hired his, the friend’s, garage. The Partner’s response? “How can I get out of this house without going anywhere near your garage?” Which two entrepreneurs did he refuse to meet in this way?
Sergey Brin and Larry Page of Google fame.
The online e-commerce giant eBay has, agreed to sell the majority stake in a ‘unit’ of its company. Name the unit.
Skype for $1.9 billion. It still retains a 35% stake.
Those who got ALL the five answers right are:
Maulik
rucha
Rohit Kiran
anand
Shulmit Bapat
Nishant
Sarthak Bhadauria
ravi patel
Ankit Daftery
swati
Hemangi Hanote
Saniel Bhelekar
ridhi
Monday, October 11, 2010
Mixed Bag - Answers
1. Who or what is a Chinaman?
Ans. The Chinaman is a mirror image of the right-arm leg break – bowled by turning the wrist so that the ball turns the opposite way to left-arm finger spin.
2. We sometimes use the term "All hell broke loose". Who used it for the very first time?
Ans. John Milton in Paradise Lost.
3. What does the Geographical Indications (G.I.) registration for a product indicate?
Ans. A G.I. registration for a product denotes that it originates from a particular place of production that has a reputation for certain characteristics attributable to that place. It is distinguished from a trademark, which is used by an enterprise in relation to goods or services so as to distinguish them from others. Well-known examples of G.I. include Darjeeling tea, Kanjeevaram silk and Benaras silk. Recently the Geographical Indications (G.I.) Registry in Chennai for the famous Tirupati laddu, produced by the Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams (TTD), has stirred up a controversy within intellectual property circles.
4. Who or what is an 'HNI'?
Ans. High Networth Individuals
5. What is the "Dunbar's number"?
Ans. Dunbar's number is a theoretical cognitive limit to the number of people with whom one can maintain stable social relationships. These are relationships in which an individual knows who each person is, and how each person relates to every other person. Beyond this, proponents believe, the relationships would generally require more restricted rules, laws, and enforced norms to maintain a stable, cohesive group. No precise value has been proposed for Dunbar's number, but a commonly cited number is 150.
The list of those who got ALL five questions correct:
Anand Singh
Sourabh Tibrewala
saloni
Digvijay Naik
Siddharth Shukla
Aquil Arif
Shreya
Namrata Mehra
Maulik
Atique
AA
Ravi Tahiliani
Aashish
Praveen Tamhankar
priti
Ans. The Chinaman is a mirror image of the right-arm leg break – bowled by turning the wrist so that the ball turns the opposite way to left-arm finger spin.
2. We sometimes use the term "All hell broke loose". Who used it for the very first time?
Ans. John Milton in Paradise Lost.
3. What does the Geographical Indications (G.I.) registration for a product indicate?
Ans. A G.I. registration for a product denotes that it originates from a particular place of production that has a reputation for certain characteristics attributable to that place. It is distinguished from a trademark, which is used by an enterprise in relation to goods or services so as to distinguish them from others. Well-known examples of G.I. include Darjeeling tea, Kanjeevaram silk and Benaras silk. Recently the Geographical Indications (G.I.) Registry in Chennai for the famous Tirupati laddu, produced by the Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams (TTD), has stirred up a controversy within intellectual property circles.
4. Who or what is an 'HNI'?
Ans. High Networth Individuals
5. What is the "Dunbar's number"?
Ans. Dunbar's number is a theoretical cognitive limit to the number of people with whom one can maintain stable social relationships. These are relationships in which an individual knows who each person is, and how each person relates to every other person. Beyond this, proponents believe, the relationships would generally require more restricted rules, laws, and enforced norms to maintain a stable, cohesive group. No precise value has been proposed for Dunbar's number, but a commonly cited number is 150.
The list of those who got ALL five questions correct:
Anand Singh
Sourabh Tibrewala
saloni
Digvijay Naik
Siddharth Shukla
Aquil Arif
Shreya
Namrata Mehra
Maulik
Atique
AA
Ravi Tahiliani
Aashish
Praveen Tamhankar
priti
Sunday, October 10, 2010
Business Quiz - Answers
Hi Folks,
Here are the answers to the Business Quiz. The names of those who got ALL five questions correct have been given below. Good Show.
This company’s motto when translated means: God is our leader. When God leads, nothing can harm. Its CEO is Sanjiv Mehta and its flagship store is at 7-8 Conduit Street, London. Name the company.
The East India Company
This brand was funded initially by Obvious, a creative environment in San Francisco. It was launched publicly in August 2006. The tag line on its site is “Share and discover what’s happening right now, anywhere in the world.” Which brand are we talking about?
Twitter
He schooled at Cathedral and John Connon, and graduated from Delhi's St. Stephen College with a BA (Hons) in Economics. He spent most of 1961-62 as a junior purchase officer at Mukand and with some work experience under his belt, he left for Harvard. He passed out of the class of '64 with an MBA degree. Who is he?
Rahul Bajaj
Biman belongs to which country?
Bangladesh
Amalgamated Bean Coffee Trading Co Ltd. owns which famous outlet?
Café Coffee Day
The list:
1. Harsoonu
2. aksha
3. Atique
4. Parvez
5. Harsh Bhoklay
6. sharmila
7. Neha Birari
8. Gaurav singh
9. kavita
10. shardul
11. harsh
12. Siddharth
13. suhas kodiyalamath
14. swaroop deshpande
15. Nikhil Kuchroo
16. Akhil gupta
17. MS.RM
18. Charuhaas Shenai
19. Ramesh
20. Nikesh
21. H. Abhinav Gokari
22. Namrata Mehra
23. Priyanka Daswani
24. Vipul Mantri
25. Akshay Shetye
26. SHREYA GAJANE
27. Sonali
28. Anubhav
29. hardik bhatia
30. Ruhi Shaikh
31. Ankit Daftery
32. atish suresh gaikwad
33. Sameer Alodia
34. Nishant Dharamshi
Ciao
Here are the answers to the Business Quiz. The names of those who got ALL five questions correct have been given below. Good Show.
This company’s motto when translated means: God is our leader. When God leads, nothing can harm. Its CEO is Sanjiv Mehta and its flagship store is at 7-8 Conduit Street, London. Name the company.
The East India Company
This brand was funded initially by Obvious, a creative environment in San Francisco. It was launched publicly in August 2006. The tag line on its site is “Share and discover what’s happening right now, anywhere in the world.” Which brand are we talking about?
He schooled at Cathedral and John Connon, and graduated from Delhi's St. Stephen College with a BA (Hons) in Economics. He spent most of 1961-62 as a junior purchase officer at Mukand and with some work experience under his belt, he left for Harvard. He passed out of the class of '64 with an MBA degree. Who is he?
Rahul Bajaj
Biman belongs to which country?
Bangladesh
Amalgamated Bean Coffee Trading Co Ltd. owns which famous outlet?
Café Coffee Day
The list:
1. Harsoonu
2. aksha
3. Atique
4. Parvez
5. Harsh Bhoklay
6. sharmila
7. Neha Birari
8. Gaurav singh
9. kavita
10. shardul
11. harsh
12. Siddharth
13. suhas kodiyalamath
14. swaroop deshpande
15. Nikhil Kuchroo
16. Akhil gupta
17. MS.RM
18. Charuhaas Shenai
19. Ramesh
20. Nikesh
21. H. Abhinav Gokari
22. Namrata Mehra
23. Priyanka Daswani
24. Vipul Mantri
25. Akshay Shetye
26. SHREYA GAJANE
27. Sonali
28. Anubhav
29. hardik bhatia
30. Ruhi Shaikh
31. Ankit Daftery
32. atish suresh gaikwad
33. Sameer Alodia
34. Nishant Dharamshi
Ciao
Friday, October 8, 2010
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