It's been six long months since I have even signed into my blog... and ryt now getting back to this time pass of mine has been motivated by an unknown visitor. :) I juz came to know thru a friend of mine dat there are people who do follow dis blog and so I have decided to restart it.... Thnx Balaji of Anna University for mentioning this blog :)

Our department had a small quiz conducted by the students themselves two months back. I am posting 25 questions which was part of the prelims. Answers are requested to be sent to yahoo mail  or to sadiyasalim@aol.in. the general feedback was it was a bit tough,... Hope to get a good response :)

Answers to be posted in a week....

1)     * Ruben Rausing invented the ‘ tetrahedron – shaped,cardboard carton for holding liqiuds in the year 1952. Identify the famous company run by Rausing family?

2)     Which indian company introduced the eight hour work day even before the system was made mandatory in most western countries?

3)     Which company has banned the term cell phone and instead uses the term ‘personal network device’?

4)     Europes largest car manufacturer VolksWagen and the maker of Beetle launched its locally assembled car in India. What is it called?

5)     Which sports good company make cricket bats by the brand name s Ballistic, Stealth, Velocity and Atomic?

6)     Which company entered into the hospitality sector with its luxury resorts and SPA’ The Serai?

 7)     Over the past decade, M TV has become one of the more, if not the most, popular music channels in India Who owns this channel. The company in question also owns Nickledeon, the childrens channel?

8)     * Who is the world’s largest provider of exchange traded funds in the world?

9)     Richard Branson usually associated the word Virgin with almost all of his business ventures. However the only exception was when he launched his condoms brand, he came up with this other name. Now what is the name of this brand? 

10) He called his wife ‘The believer’ because she encouraged him at a time when everyone else called him crazy…who is he?

 11)  Which group’s history tracks back to a family of shipbuilders in Surat in the  mid 1700’s

12)  Which Hollywood studio did Coca-Cola acquire in the early 1980’s?

13)  *Known as ASDA in UK, Seiyu in Japan

14)  The founder of which brand , now a part of P & G,once said “ I have done more than anyone else to change the face of mankind”?

 15)  * Hyssenkrup is the world’s largest manufacturer of autoparts. Which Indian company is the second largest? 

16)  Which Indian company has in-house magazine ‘namaste’?

17)  If you were to buy WIT on the New York Stock Exchange, which Indian company’s equity would you be investing in?

 18)  Which is the first company to manufacture tractor in India?

19)  What was formed under the banyan tree at Hormiman circle?

20)  Which company entered India by the name Hindustan Milk Food Company?

21)   Name the famous personality who founded Pratichi Trust with the use of his  Nobel Prize money.

 22)  Which is the parent company of the distributor of Blaupunkt in India?

       23)  The colours define the corporate. In this logo blue denotes imagination, red for action, yellow for joy nd it was designed by Chetan, a child from Spastic Society of India. Name it.

 24)  What does the abbreviation FFP stand for as in airlines jargon?

 25)  What was known as the Blue Ribbon Sports company earlier?

 

Stimulus 08...... " Race of master minds"

Here are the prelims and the finals of Stimulus 2008, a manmeet conducted by Calicut University. The answers will be posted soonnnnnnn..

PRELIMS

1. The first president of World Bank?
2. Official ad agency of India?
3. Ad agency of the Sumo Grande?
4. New MUV of Chevrolet?
5. Dettol is a product of ____________
6. Glucon D is a product of __________
7. What is "Tankan"
8. The first client of Reliance' Video Conferencing?
9. A question abt myspace.com (cudnt write down and try to guess the answer too...... so missed the real question)
10. A mineral water acquired by Ramesh Chauhan in 19--(cant remember the year) .
11. Red Cafe a club can be associated with which football league?\
12. Quandt Family ---connect with an automobile company
13. Some question abt a company which started as a spinoff of SKF
14. Manufacturer of Onida.......
15. Whose tagline is Race of masterminds???????

cant remember the other 5 questions. The remaining 5 were personality and another 5 logos.

the logos were SKF, Renault, JP Morgan, Deutsche Bank and----------

FINALS

There were 7 rounds in all......

1st Round

1. Who was called as the Tiger Woods of Mgmt By Warren Buffet
2. Expand VAIO
3. The brand of Nestle initially produced in New York , by another company
4. The man who left Edison Automobiles _____
5. How do we know Bob Noyce and Gordon Noore
6. The firm first Japanese company to be listed on NYSE
7. "land of Thunder Dragon"
8. The concept put fwd by Robert Kaplan and David Norton
9. The model on which Ambassador was based?
10. The brand of transponder used by Armstrong

Round 2

Personality Quite easy ....

• Nareh Goyal
• C.B Bhave
• C.K Prahlad
• Kishore Biyani
• O.P Bhatt

LOGOS

• Cognizant Technologies
• Central Bank
• Puma
• Reuters
• Boeing
• Bank of India
• Amd
• Qantas
• SAIL
• Rolls Royce

Taglines and Abbrevations

• ESSAR -
• Park Avenue
• Pand G
• ?NASDAQ
• Air France
• Mothilal Oswilal
• Business Standard
• Bank of Allahabad
• Canon
• Rolls Royce( drivers Wanted)
• NAFTA
• AOL
• ILO
• WPI
• HACCP

Round 4

Identify :

1. The worlds fastest car ( sry cant remember the name)
2. Burj Al Arab
3. Parand
4. Blackberry
5. Freekonomics (a hard one...... they showd the buk cover)

the last two round were links and rapid fire........

Thats it for now .......... tc

Answers of Verve Prelims

1.P Chitambaram

2.Intel

3. Jaguar

4.The Formula One Track

5. Akbar

6. Social networking sites of India

7.Youngistaan

8.Veta

9. Warren Buffet

10.Bata

11.Electronics City

12. Pencils

13. ATM at highest altitude.

14.Zodiac

15.KitKat

16.Sensex

17. Moserbaer

18. Yellow Pages

19.i-Pill

20.Verve

Acronyms ........

I had this sudden urge to go through acronyms. But when I googled, I was surprised to find that no blog had the acronyms listed down. So here are a few, to those who might need it in future. Please feel free to add more - either as a comment or by sending me thru mail... I'd prefer it being send to mail . My email id for quizzing purpose is sadiyasalim@aol.in


Starting from the most popular:

1. Zen - Zero Engine noise
2. HBO - Home Box Office
3. DLF -Delhi Land and Finance
4. HMT - hindustan Machine tools
5. AMD - Advanced Micro Procesor
6. Exide - Excellent Oxide
7. Intel - Integrated Electronics
8. L&T - Larsen and Toubro
9. SX4 - Sports Relax 4 Season
10. MRF - Madras Rubber Factory
11. TIPs - To improve and Promote Singing
12. NASDAQ -- National Association for Securities Dealers Automated Quotation
13. Titan - Tata Industries and Tamil Nadu Industrial Devpt. Corporation
14. HSBC - Hong Kong Shanghai Banking Corporation
15. ABN AMRO - Algemene Bank nederlande - Amsterdam Rotterdam

Dats it for now. Much more to follow.

Verve Prelims

HI guys..... Warm welcome once again. St Aloysius held a Man Meet and as a part of the meet, there was a biz quiz. My friends Sandeep n Vineeth attended it, and as usual, came out in flying colors. Congrats guys, you guys are really something... Keep this up.So here are the questions asked for the prelims.

Have fun quizzing guys,

1. R.K Shanmukhan Shetty:1947::_________:2008
2. After more than 20 years of service, it let go of its famous tagline in favor of a new logo and tagline. Its new tagline is "Leap Ahead', with the same swoop around the word that has encircled the old tagline.
3. Which automobile brand derives its name from an animal whose scientific name is "Panthera Onca"
4. JP Associates have been signed to build something for the first time in India in Greater Noida. What is it?
5. Who first abolished Jizya, a per-capita tax levied on non-Muslims in India?
6. What are minglebox,ibibo,indyarocks,desimartini,bigadda?
7. What is the outcome of Young Underwear and Hindustan Supermarket?
8. Which Chennai based institution offers - Foundation, Fluent, Pro, Accent, Sureshot
9. In 1989, he spent nearly 7 million dollar of his company's funds to buy a corporate jet and named it 'The indefensible'. The reason: He himself has been critical of such purchases by corporate chiefs.. Who is HE?
10. The company was founded in Zlin, Czhechoslvakia and soon came to have other centres, known as Zkin Satelittes, such as Mohlin (Switzerland) Hellocourt (France) Tilbury (england) Best (Netherlands) Belcamp (USA) and one centre on the South Western outskirts of Kolkatta. Identify the company.
11. It lies over 330 acres in Konappana Agrahara and Doddathogar villages. It was a brainchild of R.K Baligathe first Chairman and MD of Keonics.What?
12. Whats manufactured in H,F,B,HB,4H,2B,7b
13. The first record was held bu Agricultural Bank of china at Naqu. The record was held by the UTI bank at Thegi, but it is to be overshadowed soon by Union Bank of India at Sherathang. What are we talking about?
14. Which brand derives its name from Greek meaning 'a circle of animals'
15. Launched as Chocolate Crisp, it was later changed to an 18th century London Club. Name the brand?
16. What is calculated using the Free float Market Capitalisation methodology? As per this, the level of index at any point of time reflects the Free float market value of 30 stocks relative to a base period.
17. It is a world leader in the development of removable data sorage media,incorporated in 1983, the ccompanys is today one of the leading technology companies in Idian and ranks three in the optical storage media manufactures in the world. Headquartered in New Delhi, it has abroad and robust production of floppy diskd, CDs and DVDs.
18. It's birth orginates in 1883 when there was a delay in shipment of white paper . In 1986, Rueben H Donnelley published the first version. today it is business in US accounts for more than $ 14 billion. In US alone there are 2300 of them produced by 250 piblishers. What?
19. This 'Bring Back to Life' product contains Levovogestrel - a progestogen which prevents the implantation of egg in the uterus, stop egg being released from ovary, prevents sperm fertility.
20. Connect: one of India's international fashion mag, american Jazz record label, an energy drink, an online radio.

For answers email me at sadiyasalim@aol.in.

A rendezvous with Germans

Our university has a MoU with two German Universities- CALW and Reidleign. As a part of this MoU , nine students from Germany visited out department. The main reason behind this collaboration is cultural exchange. And the programme was great, as far as I am concerned.
The students who came here stayed and experienced the magic of God's own Country for one whole month. The students are - Rainer Heck, Alexander,David , Franziska, Clara, Chantala, Karin, Sarah and Ksenija. Life in Kerala seemed entirely different from Germany for them, and they were fascinated and a bit in awe about the Keralite culture.
As a part of their visit an International Conference was held at Kairali Heritage, Kannur which was attended by various emminent personality from different countries. Various researsh scholars presented their papers related to the topic "Globalisation, Development, Public Policy and Management: emerging Issues."
During the various interactions with the students I came to know much more about the study system, the life styles, family values, and loads more.
Hope this program takes us, as well as our department, to a new heights.
Next batch of students are eagerly waiting for their chance to fly to Germany this October.

Answers to Quiz No. 3

Hi guys and gals.
This time too the response was good. Thnx for the replies, feedbacks and additional information. N sorry I made a mistake.... Vitara is not an MUV. Thanx Gaurav for pointing it out. Had a feedback that the quiz was too easy. Will try to include more questions of different levels....
Keep quizzing guys.
Regards,

Sadiya Salim
Department of Management Studies
Kannur University.


Here are the answers to the quiz:
Answers:
1) Gladrags magazine
2) all sub-brands of Onida
3) His Masters voice (HMV)
4) BigAdda
5) Essilor SRF Optic Pvt Ltd
6) Suzuki Grand Vitara
7) Shahrukh khan
8) Royale from Asian Paints

Once again thanx for the replies......

ICFAI National College Quiz

Hi,
Some days back I happened to attend the management meet of INC -Confluence.
The quiz was not at gr8, but still here are the preliminary questions. It's pretty much easy but and I got the questions from my friend who attended it.....

Here is the questions:

1. What does SIM stand in cellular telphone industry?
2. First Indian Company to be listed in NASDAQ?
3. Which co. introduced the technique of six sigma?
4. Bravia is the LCD from ________
5. First Private Mutual in India?
6. New CEO of Citigroup
7. Peter England belongs to _____
8. Which is the world;s largest tractor company?
9. Which yesteryear actress is the new brand ambassador of Jose Alukkas group?
10. Which company owns Onida?
11. New MD of Maruti?
12. Expand INTEL
13. Expand Wipro
14. Magazine owned by Vijay Mallya
15. First ever IPO in bollywood
16. Indias largest mortgage bank?

Identify Taglines:

1. Welcome to a cashless world?
2. If you have a reason, we have the job
3. Tyres with Muscle
4. Honestly Impressive
5. Always low Prices

LOGOS (Pretty easy Ones)

1. Mitsubushi
2. Rolls Royce
3. Satyam
4. Monster

Hope to get the answers soon........ Mail the answers at sadiyasalim@aol.in

Have fun googling.

Quiz #3

1. Magazine owned by Maureen Wadia ,wife of Nusli Wadia?
2. Connect Oxygen, Poison, Black
3. Nipper the dog can be seen on _______
4. Social networking from ADAG?
5. Varilux has Shabana Azmi as the brand ambassador. Whose sub-brand is this?
6. The MUV from Maruti priced at 15 lacs plus.........
7. The first celebrity brand ambassador of Nokia India
8. The paint brand endorsed by Mansoor Ali Khan Patodi.

Here are the next set of questions. Hope to get some full correct entries.

Regards

Sadiya.

Answers to Quiz #2

Hi everybody,
Thnx for the answers posted through quizreig.
Here are the answers for the last quiz.

1. Krishna Kumar Birla
2. Double Click
3. Omega
4. Jaypee Group
5. Accuvue
6. Tata Nano
7. Body Shoppe
8. Bajaj

Thnx again for the good response. The last answer was a bit dodgy and nobody got it correct.

Regards,

Sadiya

Quiz No, #2

1. The furniture chain STYLE SPA is owned by Kumarmangalam Birlas great uncle.Name him.
2. Google's latest ad agency take-over is ________
3. The first watch to go on moon.
4. The business group with a tagline No dream too big
5. The contact lens from Johnsonand Johnson is named ______
6. "Small is big" is associated with ______
7. Anitha Rodicks is the founder of _____
8. The company which has an R and D called "Ahead".

Please dont google...... N send in the answers to sadiya1501@gmail.com

Answers to quiz #1

1. Product of Paras
2. Marico of Parachute Fame
3. Ingenio
4. Chandra Babu Naidu
5.Duracell
6.Walmart Mascot
7.Aditya Birla (Madhura Coats)
8.Pizza Hut

Thnx for thw over whelming response...... Hope to get the same for the coming quizzes.

Regards,
Sadiya.

Favourite sites

Hi friends .....

Here are a few sites which I simply luv to visit. The positive and negative aspects have been included too....

http://www.brandsum.com/ ( The best site for all Indian print ads. It requires a registration with fees but a free trial for 30 days is available. There is a large collection of ads from all categories and the quality of ads are good)

http://www.agencyfaqs.com/ (Another good site for ad buffs. It has a discussion on story boards and print ads to a small extent. Latest video ads can be viewed and there is a wonderful collection of old day ads with agencies)

http://www.indibiz.tv/ ( To get the tvc aired in Indian channels this is a free online site. The collection isn't vast, and I haven't been able to download videos. But still it has a few good ads. This site is definitely worth more than a visit.)

http://www.magindia.com/ ( Yet another site for good ad content. Latest ads can be viewed by free users. For other archive you need to register.)

Dats it from me now.

Hope to get atleast a few responses, and a few more sites from the ad mad people around the globe........