Bizarre @ IIMB

Here are the questions of Bizarre from the house of Derek O'Brien and Associates. The questions follow the predictable pattern of other O'Brien quizzes - short questions with tricky answers. Enjoy!!!!

Q.1) Which is the most highly used liquid in the pharmaceutical industry ?

Q.2) Which city has largest deployment of rooftop solar water heaters in India?

Q.3) We all know what a blog is...but what is a flog?

Q.4) In 1846 what was sold to Maharaja Gulab Singh for a sum of 7.5 million rupees?

Q.5) Whose motto is "the capitalist tool" ?

Q.6) Identify the company from this latest advertisement.


Q.7) According to the ad agency veteran Al Ries, what is the most important thing for a product in relation to marketing?

Q.8) Everyday, the world listens to this 1.8 billion times. What?

Q.9) What are the Arabic names for Spring and Autumn?

Q.10) What are the Blue Ocean strategy and the Red Ocean Strategy?

Q.11) What is the first Chinese company to be a sponsor at the Olympic Games?

Q.12) In this year's republic day parade, 12 people from Maharashtra represented their state in the tabluex. What was common between those 12 people?

Q.13) This tourist city whose literal translation means 'Younger Daughter's Town' was presented as a dowry to the younger daughter of Rukmangada, the chief of Sakrepatna. It is also known as the land of coffee. The main headquarters of the Indian chain, Coffee Day is also located here. Name the place.

Q.14) According to new government regulations, what is to be done with the carcasses of big cats after they die?

Q.15 ) Which famous Indian company did the first finance minister of Pakistan co-found?

Q.16) Which was the most pirated book in the world in 2009? (In fact, this book holds the record for more than 5 years in a row)

Q.17) Identify the singer...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjFH6yZ8LIA.
(Im sitting in office right now...so i decided to paste the link rather than download it, convert it and upload it..)

Q.18) Who are the T-shirt sponsors for the Manchester City football club?

Q.19) Which indsutry in India is the largest harvester of solar energy?

Q.20) What device did Adam Smith use to explain the division of labour in his landmark book, The Wealth of Nations?

Q.21) After Saffron, which is the most expensive spice in the world?

Q.22) Which train (as in a group of trains) is the fastest in the fleet of trains currently operating under the Indian Railways?

Q.23) We all know what is monopoly. But what is monopsony?

Q.24) Identify the logo.



Q.25) What is the title of this book? (six blanks)\




Q.26) What is the significance of this place?





(The questions from the Corporate Quiz in my next post...)

Quizzes at IIM Bangalore

They say that Bangalore is the intellectual capital of the country. Justice was made to this fact by two stunning and highly entertaining quizzes at the Indian Institute of Management this weekend. The first quiz was simply titled "the Corporate Quiz". The quiz was only for corporates. This was my first ever foray into an out and out corporate quiz. Our team sounded like a formidable one (Oracle + Texas Instruments) but didn't live up to its name! LOL!!! The quizmaster was Mitesh Agarwal, popularly known as the practising quizmaster(remember, he won the ACM Bangalore quiz last week). The prelims were absolutely fantastic...TQC Style workoutable questions. But the final was a lot geeky and meant for pure bred corporate quizzers. I was left absolutely clueless in most questions. There were 30 questions in the prelims with 19 as the cutoff. We got something around 13.

The second quiz was titled, "Bizarre", an Open Business Quiz organized by Derek O'Brien and Associates and conducted by Derek himself. Derek is a strict guy and very specific about his rules. The quiz started bang on time. Unfortunately, Derek did not allow me to participate competitively (even though i pleaded to him personally)since I was late by 5 minutes and I did not possess 2 other team-mates. Anyway, I spent my time enjoying the quiz as a third person and it was one hell of an experience. The quiz was absolutely fantastic! The best thing about the O'Briens' quizzes are that they are totally logical. These guys focus on common sense more rather than out and out thoroughbred knowledge. And that is what I like about them. Quizzing needs to transform from a geeky activity to a fun activity. I hope we manage to produce more like the O'Briens who can take this form of popular quizzing to the masses.

Judging from a purely cognitive point of view, the entire quiz was damn easy. But the questions were damn tricky as well. After attending the entire quiz, I was sure as hell that if team Blitzkrieg had participated in this quiz, it could have easily come 2nd or 3rd. (and won ourselves a few lenovo laptops and some 70k prize money :) ). The finals were conducted at the amphitheater and Derek was at his scintillating best. The quiz was amazing fun. (I am repeating this again and again to give justice to this event :D). I really enjoyed the parts when Derek snubbed those ultra-geeky quizzers on stage who wanted to boast off their knowledge by saying stupidly weird things when the answer was oh-so-simple.

Quizzing is not all about asking questions and answering them. It's also about entertainment, fun and something which everyone can enjoy...

I'll put up all the questions on my next post...

ACM Bangalore Computer Quiz 2010

Quizzing is indeed one of my passions. I justified this fact by finding for myself a quiz in my very first days at Bangalore :). It was the inaugural ACM Bangalore Computer quiz. They plan to hold it annually now. Thinking that computer quizzes were my forte, I went to the Taj Residency(another reason for attending the quiz) to take part in this quiz. However, the level of the quiz proved to be way over my head. In fact, I had just managed to get 2 questions correct in the 20 question prelims (the cutoff was 10). However, the final round proved to be relatively easier and I knew the answers for quite a few questions. It was an open quiz. Most of the finalists were famous (in the Bangalore quizzing circle) quizmasters themselves! Here are some of the questions...


Q1. What unique feat connects Chorme, Droid and Nexus One?

Q2. Who recently said, "The "//" after the colon in Web addresses, was unnecessary. "

Q3. Which famous personality credited with the development of a file system in Linux was convicted for the murder of his wife?

Q4. If Firefox:Gecko and Safari:Webkit then IE: ________

Q5. Jane Silber will become the CEO of which company in March 2010?

Q6. _______________ is a neologism that posits a form of repetitive strain injury caused by the frequent use of the thumb(s) to press buttons on PDAs, smart phones, or other mobile devices

Q7. J. Allan Toogood a _____ programmer once said, "God is Real, unless declared integer." Give the funda.

Q8. Developed by Ludicorp, a Vancouver-based company, this service emerged out of tools originally created for Ludicorp's Gmae Neverending, a very famous MMORPG. Identify the service.

Q9. what is the claim to fame of the V838 Manocerotis (as captured by the Hubble Space Telescope)?


Q10.What is the claim to fame of this music album by ABBA?


Q.11 Identify the product.




Q12. Who is the person and what is the claim to fame of this device?


Q13. What is this? ("Give the funda"- in the words of that quizmaster)



Q14. What is this device and what's special about this?



Q15. Who is he and what is his claim to fame?


Q16. Connect...









Q17. Intel recently posted a $10,000 bounty on eBay for someone who could provide it a copy of teh April 19, 1965 edition of the Electronics Magazine. Why?

Q18. Connect/Explain.

Connect

Happy new year to all!!Looking forward to some imba quizzing on the blog in 2010!

This is a typical connect quiz...not as good as my previous quizzes though...but I hope it is fun!

For each question, connect the pictures and explain the connect

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Entertainment.....

1. Which was the first African - American music video to be aired on MTV ?

2.What is the significance of this image ?

3. Which is the best selling album of all time ? The album is cited as selling as many as 110 million copies worldwide. The only album to have sales above 100 million!!!!!

4. X has been ranked the richest African American of the 20th century and beyond, the greatest black philanthropist in American history, and was once the world's only black billionaire. X is also, according to some assessments, the most influential person in the world. Identify X.


5. Identify the building...

6.  " You asked me earlier if I catch fish - maybe I might use him as a bait to catch a fish... He's soft. He only looks big and strong, but he's soft. "
Identify me and he.

7. The group set a chart record when its first four singles  peaked at number one on the Billboard Hot 100.
    Identify the group and the singles.

8. Identify the lady in white.

The Hannah-Barbara (or Cartoon Network) Toon Quiz

Running with the popular quizzing theme, after the TV serials, its time for the cartoons. Cartoon Network has shaped our lives. I remember that when we were kids the channel used to alternate with TNT and then went on to have a complete channel on its own. This is a quiz on those cartoons we loved watching....

Q.1) Created by Christian Tremblay and Yvon Tremblay, this series features the adventures of Chance Furlong and Jake Clawson and was the number one syndicated animated show of 1994. Identify

Q.2) Although cartoon network is broadcast in more than 50 countries, Cartoon Network India(south asia) was the only one to broadcast the English dubded version of X. X is a 1974 anime series by Zuiyo Enterprises based on the Swiss novel "X's Years of Wandering and Learning" by Johanna Spyri. Identify X

Q.3) The characters of this show were inspired by the characters from the popular sitcom comedy The Phil Silvers Show.A frequnet plot line revolved around the local NYPD cop, Officer Charles Dibble. The name Dibble has passed into the vernaculaar as slang for police officers.

Name the cartoon series...

Q.4) X was usually depicted as a sheriff in the American Old West. He was often accompanied by his sidekick Baba Looey, both the characters parodying the legendary duo of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza. In some episodes, X would assume the identity of the masked vigilante Y (a parody for Zorro). Name X and Y.

Q.5)What is this list?

1.The Swiss Alps and Tokyo, Japan

2.Acapulco and England

3.Florida and China

4.The Sahara Desert and Scotland

5.France and Australia

6.Athens, Greece and the Ozarks

7.Italy and Kitty Hawk, North Carolina

8.Egypt and Sherwood Forest

9.Spain and the Himalayas

10.India and Israel

11.Africa and San Francisco

12.The Grand Canyon and Ireland

13.Hawaii and Norway

14.North Pole and Tahiti

15.Arizona and Holland

16.Quebec and Baghdad

Q.6) How are Major Glory, The Infraggable Krunk, and Valhallen better known as?

Q.7) His real name is Susan Astonomonov. His assumed name is the short form of monarch of darkness. His parents are Hippies and apparently his mother OceanBird gave birth to him in water. How is he better known?

Q.8) X lives in a cavern, which he constantly tries to make more habitable for himself and is best known for his famous catchphrase, "Heavens to Murgatroyd!" along with phrases such as "Exit, stage right!". X is also the co-host of the Laff-a-lympics. Identify X.

Q.9) X wears white gloves and boots, a blue suit with a white belt, and a long, wavy, purple cape. While he is portrayed as serious and arrogant, he is often used to make humorously long speeches or sarcastic statements, and has a tendency to rephrase a statement in different ways over and over again. Despite his high intelligence, he is known for planning his schemes badly. According to a countdown of the 10 worst villains in the series held by Cartoon Network, he's the number 1 worst villain in the series. Who is X?

Q.10) Which famous series based on a DC comic cartoon strip features Max 'Brilliant' Ray, Jake 'Rugged' Rockwell and Ace 'Daring' McCloud.

Q.11) It was initially launched as a one-off episode, 'The Chicken from Outer Space' which was nominated for the Oscars in 1996. Later on, it became a regular Cartoon Netowrk series. Identify the series.

Q.12)X is an ordinary human endowed by the sun god Ra with the ability to shoot solar rays from his fists and project “solar shields” to defend himself against attacks. He was recruited by a top-secret government agency, Inter-Nation Security, and now works full-time fighting crime, assisted by his sidekick Avenger. Who is X?

Q.14) The famous Belgian cartoonist Peyo, was once having a meal with his colleague and friend André Franquin in which, having momentarily forgotten the word "salt" Peyo asked him (in French) to pass the schtroumpf. Franquin replied: "Here's the Schtroumpf — when you are done schtroumpfing, schtroumpf it back" and the two spent the rest of that weekend speaking in schtroumpf language. What was the result?

Q.15) The James Bond film Dr. No inspired Joseph Barbera to develop an action-adventure program. Hanna-Barbera had originally intended to produce an animated adaptation of the radio serial Jack Armstrong. Hiring noted comic book artist Doug Wildey, the company began negotiations with Jack Armstrong's copyright owners, and produced a short (approximately two-minute) Jack Armstrong test animation sequence in 1962. Negotiations fell through, and the Jack Armstrong project was retooled into X. Working titles for the series included The Saga of Chip Baloo (the protagonist's original name) and _____ File 037, finally settling on X. Identify X.

Q.16) Identify(the easy part) and connect(the not so easy part)

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Q.17) (Not exactly a Hannah-Barbara question...) Identify this cartoon series that appears within another famous cartoon series. It is a parody of the Hannah-Barbara all time classic - Tom and Jerry.

Q.18) Identify both the characters....(used to be my favorites)

Q.19) This is the poster of a famous series that went on to inspire a famous cartoon. Identify the cartoon.

Q.20) Identify this spin-off cartoon series.

Q.21) Identify this producer who has won 7 academy awards.

Qu33k Beta

1. Connect:





2. Connect again

3. Identify the person (guru for many, known for his rants) and the language X, that led to a popular saying on the Internet that he doesn't know X

X is a horrible language. It's made more horrible by the fact that a lot of substandard programmers use it, to the point where it's much much easier to generate total and utter crap with it. Quite frankly, even if the choice of C were to do *nothing* but keep the X programmers out, that in itself would be a huge reason to use C.

4. Identify (easy):

5. Identify this, which in the world of computer software takes a long long time to install and yet is the fastest in its field:

6. Identify, (video game programmer) of one of the most popular game of all times.

7. Connect again:

8. Which famous open source project began as a program to implement a client and server to stream videos across a campus network at the Ecole Centrale Paris?

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Mammon slept. And the beast reborn spread over the earth and its numbers grew legion. And they proclaimed the times and sacrificed crops unto the fire, with the cunning of foxes. And they built a new world in their own image as promised by the sacred words, and spoke of the beast with their children. Mammon awoke, and lo! it was naught but a follower.

What is being talked about here (identify the software).

10. Connect:

11. Identify

X was already studying at Stanford University, when he volunteered as a guide for potential first year students. His duty was to show new recruits to the campus, in which Y was also there. When they first met, they clashed incessantly on almost everything, yet they went on to form a powerful company we worship. Identify X and Y.

12. Whose mascot?

13. Connect

14. Identify the logo: