SPQC E-cell Quiz

• Teams of two
• Elims written round followed by finals in
infinite rebound format.
• Ten points per question unless indicated other
wise.
• Tie breaker questions marked with star.
• The quiz masters decision is final.
• Gautam.C as always starts at -10.

1.
• X came into existence on 29 November 1945 as M/s Bachraj Trading
Corporation Private Limited. It started off by selling imported two- and
three-wheelers in India. In 1959, it obtained license from the Government
of India to manufacture two- and three-wheelers and it went public in
1960. In 1970, it rolled out its 100,000th vehicle.
• The company is headed by Y who is worth more than US$1.5 billion.
• The Forbes Global 2000 list for the year 2005 ranked X at 1,946.It features
at 1639 in forbes 2011 list.

2.
This was a former mascot
for a particular food brand.
Name the Brand.

3.
• The logo of this company was designed by the
Wolff Olins consultancy. The logo is meant to
signify fluidity or a tree of trust under which
people can take refuge under.

5.
• In 1976, X went to work at the manufacturing conglomerate 3M, but left after her
request to transfer to the headquarters was denied; she was told that "women
don't do these jobs". She moved on to the computer industry, including jobs at
Digital Equipment Corporation and Sun Microsystems.
She became CEO of Autodesk in 1992. According to Forbes, X "transformed
Autodesk from an aimless maker of PC software into a leader of computer-aided
design software, targeting architects and builders."She is credited with instituting
and promoting Autodesk's "3F" or "fail fast-forward" concept — the idea of
moulding a company to risk failure in some missions, but to be resilient and move
on quickly when failure occurs. She stepped down as CEO in 2006 and became the
executive chairman of the board. Autodesk's net revenue substantially increased
during her tenure.
She served on several boards of directors, including those of Intel, Cisco
Systems, Autodesk, BEA Systems, Network Appliance, and the Foundation for the
National Medals of Science. Additionally, she has been a member of the United
States President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology.
Identify X.

6.
• Connaught Plaza Restaurants and Hardcastle
Restaurants have had the responsibility for the
entry of Which MNC to India ?

7.What are these towers known as?

8.
Name the brand that appears in Harry
Potter movies and shares its name with an
Indian Creative Company.

10.
• Around 1900, seven brothers named ____________
immigrated to the United States from Italy. They eventually
settled on the West Coast in Berkeley, California and
became machinists. One of them, Rachele, began making
aircraft propellers, inspired by an airshow he saw at the
1915 Panama Pacific Exposition in nearby San Francisco.
Rachele and his brothers created an aircraft manufacturing
company in Berkeley called "____________
Brothers", which remained in business until 1976, although
their product line changed over the years. Name this family
that shares its name with the company and is quite a
genericized trademark today.

11.
• How do we better know the Fabbrica Italiana
Automobili Torino?

*12.
• He started out big time by manufacturing
• toothpaste tubes. Now he is a media moghul.
• Who?

*13.
• X was established in October 2007 by Sachin Bansal
and Binny Bansal.
• Both are alumni of Indian Institute of Technology
Delhi and worked for Amazon.com before quitting and
founding their own company. Initially they used word
of mouth marketing and social networking websites to
popularise their company. A few months later, the
company sold its first book on X - John Woods' Leaving
Microsoft to Change the World. Within two years
through word of mouth of their services, X became one
of the top 100 Indian sites .

14.
• It was 1894, and 26-year old Václav Klement, a
bookseller, was unable to obtain spare parts to repair
his bicycle. Klement returned his bicycle to the
manufacturers, Seidel and Naumann, with a letter, in
Czech, asking for them to carry out repairs, only to
receive a reply, in German, stating: "If you would like
an answer to your inquiry, you should try writing in a
language we can understand". A disgusted
Klement, despite not having technical
experience, decided to start a bicycle repair
shop, which he and Václav Laurin opened in 1895.
Which company was born henceforth?

15.

• X is one of the few websites or blogs in India
using the tools of sarcasm and humor to
publish news satire, as is widely done in the
western countries, a trend pioneered by Y of
USA. According to the latest Alexa rankings, X
lies second, although a distant second, to Y
among all the news satire websites in English.

16.
• Which famous corporate was founded in 1894
in Zlin and made its presence in India in 1931
and commenced the manufacturing of shoes
at Batanagar plant in 1936?

19.
• The X has become a visual trademark and brand for Singapore Airlines
together with the slogan - "A Great Way To Fly". The X is said to engender
"Asian values and hospitality" and has been described as
"caring, warm, gentle, elegant and serene". A wax figure of the X was
created and shown at Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum in London in
1994, as the first figure to represent a commercial undertaking. In March
2004, the X won the Outstanding Contribution to Tourism Award for the
18th Singapore Tourism Board (STB)'s Tourism Award.

20.Connect
• Sara Lee
• Xerox
• Yahoo
• Kraft Foods
• PepsiCo

21.
• Its first product was “Farine Lactée”in 1867
Anglo-Swiss Condensed Milk Company in 1905
its first investment in India in Moga in 1961
It holds 26.4% of the shares of L'Oréal.
which company?

• Bajaj Auto
• Y- Rahul Bajaj

• McDonalds
• The Mascot was called
Speedee

Nimbus. [remember the broomsticks for
Quidditch. Malfoy gets Nimbus 2001 for all
players and gets admitted into Slytherin team.
Harry gets a Nimbus 2000 when he is
admitted as a seeker into Gryfindor.The Indian
connection is Nimbus communications
private limited which makes entertainment
software for TV channels.]

• Subhash Chandra of Zee Network. [He
• started Essel Packaging Ltd. that
• manufactured toothpaste tubes]

*13.
• X was established in October 2007 by Sachin Bansal
and Binny Bansal.
• Both are alumni of Indian Institute of Technology
Delhi and worked for Amazon.com before quitting and
founding their own company. Initially they used word
of mouth marketing and social networking websites to
popularise their company. A few months later, the
company sold its first book on X- John Woods' Leaving
Microsoft to Change the World. Within two years
through word of mouth of their services, X became one
of the top 100 Indian sites .

• X-Flipkart.com and was credited for being
India's largest online bookseller with over 7
million titles on offer.
• Flipkart sells nearly 10 products per minute
and is aiming at generating a revenue of 1
billion US$ by 2015.

• West Indian Vegetable Products Ltd

• DataWind Net Access
Corporation, "DataWind," a leading provider
of wireless web access products and services

20.
• Sara Lee
• Xerox
• Yahoo
• Kraft Foods
• PepsiCo

All companies have women CEO’s
Brenda Barnes
Ursula Burns
Carol Bartz
Irene Rosenfeld
Indra Nooyi

• Teams of two
• Elims written round followed by finals in
infinite rebound format.
• Ten points per question unless indicated other
wise.
• Tie breaker questions marked with star.
• The quiz masters decision is final.

• Name the two Japanese engineering giants
that will merge soon to make a megacorp in a
bid to become profitable.

• Big Blue is IBM. Which corporate is referred as
'Big Black' ?

• What was invented by Dr. Willis Haviland
Carrier, an American engineer, in 1902?

• A Sitter. What does BSA stand for as seen in
BSA SLR cycles?

• The two pioneers in their field were working
within 50 kms and both produced a motorized
vehicle in 1850's. They never met each other
but their companies merged after their death.
Identify the duo?

• Gottlieb Daimler and Carl Benz

• Bankia, a group of savings banks has now
allegedly requested a loan from the European
Central Bank, and when the latter asked for
guarantees, it is believed that X and Y have
been allegedly cited as collateral and could
theoretically be handed over if it becomes
insolvent

• Which mobile phone manufacturer is
popularizing mobile-telephone etiquette with
its 'mobile manners' campaign?

• What was advertised with the slogan “You
press the button and we do the rest” ?

• This was the classification of the highest
quality of ships, by the Lloyds shipping
Registrar of the world famous insurance
association Lloyds. It has now become a
phrase in the language meaning something of
superior quality. What?

which is the most expensive domain name to be
auctioned on the net till date?

• In which country's coins you can found
• the following lines imprinted, 'This is the root
• of all evils' ?

• Which product was first certified by
• ISI?

• This Scandinavian manufacturer used the
following in an American campaign:

• "Nothing sucks like an [company
• name]."

Idiots Price Our Devices'! This was one
famous comment among the many that were
seen on the Internet when this company
launched a product
Which product are we referring to? Also,
which is the company?

• Under what brand name does Bengal
• Waterproof Ltd, whose subsidiaries include
• Bihar Rubber Company Ltd and Bensri
• Rubber Products, sell its products?

• Who said “I have done more than anyone else
to change the face of mankind”.

• The founder of Gillette King Camp Gillette

• Usually found on letters what do these words
stand for ?
• OIGS
• UPC

• OIGS : On Indian Government Serice
• UPC : Under Postal Certificate

• X and Y have a lot in common. Apart from having a
similar etymology, they both are hailed to be the next
big things for knowledge, freedom and the world in
general. Both it’s founders have been on the list of
TIME’s most influential people. Both are non-profit
organizations and have always been in the want of
money, one for the lack of donations and the other for
irregular funding. Both are regularly ”cited” as working
together in tandem.
• Still X’s page on Y says something that actually implies
“Don’t even think about it”
• Id X and Y.

• X: Wikipedia
Y: Wikileaks

• When Dietrich Mateschitz visited Thailand in
1982 he discovered Krating Daeng a local
energy drink in Thailand which helped cure his
jet lag.
• Subsequent development of krating daeng led
to the creation of what?

• Born in St. Johns, Michigan, he studied journalism at
the University of Michigan.
• His first job was as a reporter at the Peoria
Journal in Peoria, Illinois.
• In 1917, he moved to Detroit, where he went to work for
the Cadillac Motor Company as a copywriter and became
advertising manager in 1919. After a marriage to Naomi
Geddes in 1918 he moved toIndianapolis, Indiana, where
he worked for an advertising agency from 1923–1930.
Later, he worked at Homer McKee Advertising in
Indianapolis. In 1930 he was hired away from McKee by
Erwin Wasey & Company of Chicago to assume the position
of vice-president/creative head. Five years later X left
Wasey & Company to form his own agency.

Connect/In which brand ad would u
find them?
• Jermey Scott designer
• Artists Katty Parry and B.O.B
• NBA Superstar Derrick Rose,
• Football Stars David Beckham and Lionel
Messi.

'X' shown in pic co-
founded a company 'Y'
in 2000s..'Z' later
acquired 'Y' making its
wholly owned
subsidiary...

• X-andy rubin
• Y-android
• Z-google

• The ad campaign for which cigarette brand
allured generations of smokers with it “Made
for each other” tag line?

• This man, one of the richest men in the
world, get his last name from his adoptive
father, a Russian immigrant Jew from Crimea
who named himself after his point of entry
into the United States. He co-authored a
project for the CIA which was given the
working title “One Real Asshole Called _____
_______”.
• Identify.

• An electrical engineering graduate from
BITS, Pilani, Phani was happy with his Texas
Instruments job. But seeing the potential of organizing
a certain ticketing platform, he immediately brought in
partners. He then went to the registrar of companies
with the idea of calling his company 7D, or 'Seven
Dudes'. The registrar declined this name, telling them a
company's name cannot start with a number. Finally
the proposal to name the company Pilani Soft
Labs, was accepted in their third visit to the registrar
with ______________ being their brand name.

• Drew Curtis states that the word X originated either from a chat room
euphemism for the word "fuck" or from a drunken misspelling, although
he tells people it's the former because it's a "better story that way." He
registered X.com in September 1997, when a friend mentioned that all the
four letter domain names were disappearing. Originally, X.com contained
no content except for an image of a squirrel with large testicles.
Since 1993, Curtis had frequently read morning news stories and
exchanged them with friends. Although this would later become the
inspiration for X, Curtis toyed with the idea of starting an online curry
recipe database. In 1999, eighteen months after registering the domain
name, he launched X as a way to share interesting news postings with his
friends rather than sending them numerous emails. The first story posted
was an article about a fighter pilot who crashed while attempting to moon
another fighter pilot. Identify this very popular website X.

• Jerry Yang & David Filo
• founders of Yahoo

• X is an Indian weekly political magazine under the
editorship of Tarun Tejpal known for its undercover
exposé style of journalism. Its cover price is Rs 20 per
issue. The publication began in 2000 as a news
website, X.com. It transitioned through a printed
newspaper format until it became a magazine in 2007.
• It first received local prominence in 2001 when it
exposed match-fixing in Indian professional cricket. The
same year, an investigation it carried out on defence
procurement, called Operation Westend, received
international attention, and led to the resignation of
Indian Defence Minister.

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