Friday Quiz - XI

Here is a new quiz to get cracking at:

1. Which team in sports was in the news recently due to a bid by Vijay Mallya as part of consortium Orange India Holdings?
2. What is OpenID? (even a close answer is fine.)


3. Identify him.
4. Connect Finding Nemo, Monsters Inc, Incredibles, Cars.
5. Whose punchline is : "Let your fingers do the walking. "
6. "Think Small."
7. Name the missing in the Apu Trilogy: _____ , Aparajito and Apur Sansar. Which famous person would you link this to?
8. Which company recently tookover Dow Jones (or with which it was merged), the publisher of 'The Wall Street Journal'?
9. What is the name of the new free office suite from IBM?
10. What is called a 'Nelson' in cricket?

Check out the answers in comments.

Himanshu

Friday Quiz - X

Hi friends,

After a long gap, I am back with this week's quiz. There are a few questions keeping up with the spirit of Indian Independence Day that was a few days ago.

1. Who lives at 4 Privet Drive?


2. Who lives at 221B Baker Street?


3. Where is the only licensed Indian flag manufacturing unit located in India?


4. According to official specification, what is the only material allowed in the making of the Indian Flag?


5. What is the code-name of the latest 4th generation Centrino platform by Intel released in May 2007?


6. Who is the world's largest manufacturer of digital camera?


7. Which Indian company has an in-house magazine called 'Namaste'?


8. Identify this product.


9. Who is the official timekeeper for F1?


10. Whose motto is "Dictum Meum Pactum” meaning "My Word is My Bond"?

P.S.: Q 6-10 are from the Delhi and Hyderabad rounds of Tata Crucible Business Quiz and not my own.

For answers check out the comments...

The next quiz will be in 2 weeks (tentatively ;).

All the best,
Himanshu

Friday Quiz - IX

Hi friends,

Here follows this week's quiz...

1. Who is the new CEO of Infosys?
2. In which country does Cannes lie(of Cannes Film Festival and Cannes Advertising Festival)?
3. Whose logo is this?
4. Who is the new Prime Minister of Britain?
5. What is name of the latest album by Enrique Iglesias?
6. Which comic character has a dog named 'Hot Dog'?
7. Who will be the next World Bank Chief replacing Paul Wolfowitz?
8. When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it..." Where is this famous quote from?
9. Which famous family owns Hero Cycles? They started with Hero Cycles and moved onto Hero Honda in collaboration with Honda?
10. Connect: Antonio, Bassanio, Shylock, Portia. Which masterpiece are these characters from?

All the best...

Check the comments for correct answers.

Quiz

Hi frenz..

Sorry, no quiz again this week. Guess this shows how busy work is keeping me these days ;)

Quiz - VIII

Friday and its Quiz Time:

1. What is the name of the last(soon to be released) Harry Potter book in the series.
2. Now most of us must have travelled by Indian Railways. What does reservation status RAC stand for?
3. Whose logo is this?
4. Which brand has the punchline "How many do you have?"
5. Which company recently purchased the online portal CricInfo and from which company?
6. Connect: Spiff, Rosalyn, Susie Derkins, Moe, Wormwood. (Sitter... moreso if you know me:)
7. Another Connect: Home, Home Premium, Business, Enterprise, Ultimate
8. We all know the the Amul ads with witty takes on several topics. What is the advertisement below a take on?
9. Who coined the term BRIC (as in BRIC Countries, when they came out with BRIC report)?
10. Which films had the following tagline:
    The Fastest Hands In The East Meet The Biggest Mouth In The West
    A Hero Will Rise

Check out the comments for the answers.

Friday Quiz

Sorry, no quiz this week.
But do check out next week.

Quiz - VII

Here goes this week's quiz:

1. Which airline is going to be the first to introduce the Airbus A380, world's largest aircraft in its fleet?
2. Expand NASDAQ.
3. Whose logo is this?
4. Identify the advertiser.
5. Connect: Green, Gellar, Bing, Buffay, Tribbiani.
6. What are you referring to when you say 'Google Doodle'?
7. There are 6 Indian companies on Fortune 500 list currently. Reliance Industries, IOC, Bharat Petroleum, HPCL, ONGC are five of them. Name the missing one.
8. Though the theory has note been proved conclusively, what does 'six degrees of separation' mean/state?
9. what is ISBN and what is it used for?
10. Where is the famous museum Louvre located? (yes, the same museum from the Da Vinci Code)
    

Good goin everyone... for the answers chek out the comments...

Quiz - VI

Its Friday again.. and here is this week's quiz:

1. B.Tech.,Chemical Engineering ,Osmania University; MBA- IIM Ahmedabad; Member of the Rohinton Baria award winning Osmania Univ. team; Biographer for Mohammed Azharuddin; Worked for sometime at the Clarion ad agency; researcher for Sunil Gavaskar presents on Doordarshan.Now a scribe in his own right. Whom am I referring to?
2. Which four titles together constitute the Grand Slam in Tennis?
3. Connect Alerts, Labs, Scholar, Sets and Trends ?
4. Whose strapline is : "Kal par control" ?
5. In Bollywood, how do we better know Mumtaz Jahanara Begum?
6. Which state in India has its only official language as English?
7. What is the meaning of the word "Hi-Fi"?
8. Identify this.
9. In 1939, Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel 'Gadsby'. What is its claim to fame?
10. Who wrote Jana Gana Mana - the Indian national anthem? (u ought to get this...)

Check out the comments for the answers...

Quiz - V

Here goes this Friday's Quiz:

1. Name the films with the following taglines:
   The film they didn't want you to see...Is now the film you have to see!
   The question of whether or not we are alone in the universe has been answered
2. Name the brands with the following straplines:
   Better sound through research
   God's own country! (Has two answers, either is acceptable, getting both is a bonus:)
3. Which well-known company, headquartered as Silicon Valley, was the first to build an IT product with "Made in India" tag as it was fully made by their development centre in India?
4. In net jargon, what do the letters DQM stand for?
5. Which sports event is watched physically by the largest number of people?
6. Name the only country which does not have its name on postal stamps? (Sitter)
7. Why was 26 January selected as the Republic Day of India?
8. Which organisation's tagline or motto is: "Where the people meet the people"?
9. Which other country shares India's Independence day, August 15th as its Independence/Liberation Day?
10. What is the term used to describe the object in the picture? Also what is so peculiar about it?
    

For answers check out the comments.