Roy's Quizzing Baatein Part-6

 In feb- 2012, this is what we wrote:

"What is common to Devdas, Don, Sholay? - Blockbuster Classics which lived in our memories and got re-created with modern flair and extravaganza....Critics debate whether the original was good or the re-make is better. While one does not get definitive answers for such questions, but everyone does agree to one thing - the plot remains fresh as ever.

We at Bizdom too are at attempting to launch or rather re-launch one of the blockbuster quizzing series ever created during the days of Yahoo-Group-Era-of-Quizzing. Starting from tonight we re-visit one of the most vintage collections of quizzes from one of the best quizzers in India - Shri Sudip Roy. It is our honour and delight to present his famed quizzing series on our blog as- "Roy's Quizzing Baatein".
We are grateful for his consent to post his questions.
Thank you sir for allowing this!!!"


All thanks to the uncertainty of our life, we stopped blogging, and now when we are back, it's high time to revive this great series also.  

So, here is the sixth edition of the same. 

Q1.  This word in the glossary of cricket perhaps comes from the sheep rearing southeastern part of England where the shephards might have played the early form of cricket inside the ranch with woolen balls and herding stick. The short grasses in the area made the ball roll possible. A particular feature of the fencing is said to have given rise to this term. Can you guess what it is?

Q2.  White, scarlet, royal blue and royal green. How do you connect these colours to English football league?

Q3.  If Hindi is written in Devnagri script, then which language is written in Cyrillic script?

Q4.  Name of which small grassland plant with composite flower is derived from its petal's opening and closing behavior?

Q5.  What in Australia was known as 'Charlie's angels' ?

A1.  'Wicket' from the wicket gate of the sheep pasture which they might have used as stumps.

A2.  These are the only four colours permitted for goalkeeper's jerseys.

A3.  Russian

A4.  Daisy ( from corruption of the name 'day's eye' .... it opens with daybreak and closes in the evening )

A5.  Ric Charlesworth's Australian hockey team in early eighties.

 

The GuestQuiZMAster (GQM): Aniruddha Dutta Part 5

Q1. To date, which is the only national political party to have contested all the general elections using the same electoral symbol?


Q2.  The 1980 Moscow Olympics were first to feature women's hockey. For the winning team, it was the country's first Olympic medal of any color. The squad was assembled less than a month before the Olympics began to help fill the gaps the American-led Olympic boycott created.

In sporting circles, the victory has been called an "irresistible fairy story". Each member of the team was promised an ox by the Prime Minister's wife
but ultimately received a package of meat instead.
Which country?
Hint: The captain of this team is related to a person who keeps on making headlines in India for good or bad reasons all through the year. For bonus, identify this person.


Q3. In 1825, the painter was in Washington working on a commissioned painting when he received a one-line letter by horse messenger telling him that his wife was ill. He left immediately for his home but by the time that he arrived his wife had already died and had been buried. This single event spurred him to move from painting to the development of something else. What?

Q4. The earliest known citation of this phrase is from the 17th-century English theologian John Owen who used the words in 1657 when he told a governing body at Oxford University that "our critical situation and our common interests were discussed out of journals and newspapers by every ___________."
English-speaking medical students use the phrase in memorizing the order of an artery, and a nerve, and the three tendons of the flexor retinaculum in the lower leg
In popular culture, the Galapagos Island tortoises brought back to England aboard the HMS Beagle by Charles Darwin in 1835, as documented in his book, The Voyage of the Beagle were named ___________.
The Indian equivalent of the phrase has been the topic of interest for quite some time now.
Which phrase?

Q5. When first used in the US military, during WWI, incoming German shells were nicknamed "____ cans" because of the material they were made of. Eventually, the term became an adjective to describe anything associated with the Army. If the term is Government Issue and the blank is to be filled with "GI", what did "GI" originally stand for?


Q6. It is a U.S.-based video-sharing website founded by Jake Lodwick and Zach Klein in November 2004. The name is a play on the words video, me and movie. The White House posts high-definition versions of its broadcasts on this site. Starting 4 May 2012, the site has been blocked in India by several ISPs under  orders from the Department of Telecom, without any stated reasons. Which site?


Q7. Adam founded his company in 1863, first making sewing machines in a cowshed. Commercial success brought new premises and a new product line in 1886, namely penny-farthing bicycles. He died in 1895, leaving his two sons with a company that made more penny-farthings and sewing machines than any other company in the world. In 1899 the two sons partnered with a locksmith, and started to make cars, but not very successfully. Two years later, the locksmith was dropped in favor of a licencing arrangement with a French car company. By 1914, it was the largest manufacturer of automobiles in Germany. Which company is this?


Q8. When the first edition came out in February 1922, it contained 64 pages. It measured about 5.5 inches by 7.5 inches which was a unique innovation at the time. The lead article was by Alexander Graham Bell and was on the importance of self-education as a lifelong habit. What?                                                              


Q9. The term arose in the days of theater common in the United States in the 1880s. The rowdiest audience members were in the cheapest seats, and ate the cheapest snack available. Sometimes these rowdy patrons would throw their snacks onto the stage, all of which led to the cheapest seats known by this term. What Term?















 A1. CPI, sickle and grain
A2. The team took part as Zimbabwe. Ann Grant sister of Duncan Fletcher
A3. Samuel Morse
A4. Tom dick and harry. The Indian equivalent that I had in mind was "Aam Aadmi"
A5. Galvanised Iron
A6. Vimeo
A7. Opel
A8. Readers Digest
A9. Peanut Gallery
 

The GuestQuiZMAster (GQM): Aniruddha Dutta Part 4

Q1. The East India Company thought that this project would take about 5 years but eventually it took more than 60 years, draining the profits of the Company, so much so it was brought under the Crown after 1857. Because of the extent of the task at hand, at times the party to carry out the exercise numbered 700 people. It started on 10 April 1802 near Madras.
What?

Q2. As a traditional homage, whose nose do students in MIT rub, hoping it would result in good luck. Generations of MIT students have rubbed the nose to a high sheen, many of them en route to an exam.

Q3. X had registered its trademark in India in 1979, but had neither launched their products nor had any franchisees till date. Recently they were involved in a Pune high court interim decision which said that even advertisement of trademark without the existence of goods in the market amounts to the use of the trademark. The namesake which was taken to court by X has been in existence since 1989 and is owned by Shapoor and Anahita Irani.Identify X.   

Q4. This body was was recommended in 1945 and formed in 1946 to oversee the work of the three Central Universities of Aligarh, Banaras and, Delhi. It was formally established in November 1956, by an Act of Parliament in 1956, as a statutory body of the Government of India. As of 2009, it also is responsible for forming regulations on curbing the menace of Ragging in Higher Educational Institutions. In 2009, the Union Minister of Education made open the government of India's plans to close down the body in favour of a higher regulatory body with more sweeping powers. However, as of 2012, the body still operates. Which body is this whose motto is" Gyan Vigyan Vimuktye"?

Q5. In 1910, two Chinese cooks at Tokyo’s Rairaken restaurant introduced a signature dish with salty broth and noodles. They called it Shina Soba. What is the present name given to this preparation?                          
Q6. In 1928, Henry Ford set up an industrial town in the Amazon Rainforest for the purpose of securing a source of cultivated rubber for the automobile manufacturing operations of his company. The mostly indigenous workers on the plantations, given unfamiliar food such as hamburgers and forced to live in American-style housing, disliked the way they were treated. Ford forbade alcohol and tobacco within the town, including inside the workers' own homes. The inhabitants circumvented this prohibition by paddling out to merchant riverboats moored beyond town jurisdiction and a settlement was established five miles upstream on the "Island of Innocence" with bars, nightclubs and brothels. What was the town that Ford setup called?

Q7. She sat on the boards of many corporations and organizations including The Walt Disney Company, Del Monte Foods, and the National Wildlife Federation. In 1967, she ran unsuccessfully for United States Congress, and was appointed United States Ambassador to Ghana in 1974 and to Czechoslovakia in 1989.

Q8. By the early 1920s, he had become increasingly frustrated by the fact that college graduates applying to work for him didn’t have a wealth of knowledge comparable to his own. To test the mental mettle of incoming job seekers, he administered to each a series of 150 questions, tailored to the position for which they were applying. Of the over 500 who took the test, only about 35 passed to his satisfaction. Since he refused to release his questions and answers, so the public had to rely largely on the memory of his “victims” for the complete list. Magazines subsequently began running “_____ pop quizzes,” and rival employers began conducting employment quizzes of their own.   

Q9. Founder Richard Schulze called his company Sound of Music when a tornado whipped through Roseville on June 14, 1981, destroying the store and littering the area with merchandise. Employees recovered the scattered inventory and stacked it on tables in the store’s parking lot. Sound of Music slashed prices and advertised a “Tornado Sale.” The sale also was promoted as a “___,” and people stood in long lines to buy the discounted goods. The event’s success led the company to develop a strategy of heavy advertising, steep discounts and stores with expanded selling space. Two years after the tornado, the company’s name was changed to ____, and it opened its first big-box store in Burnsville.   





















1. The great India trigonometrical survey
2. George Eastman
3. Burger King
4. UGC
5. Ramen Noodles
6. Fordlandia
7. Shirley Temple
8. Edison
9. Best Buy

The GuestQuiZMAster (GQM): Aniruddha Dutta 3

It's wednesday and we are ready with the third edition.

1. In the midst of the 1977 debacle for the Congress, this person made his debut on the Election scene and won his first election on a Congress ticket. He retained his seat 8 times post that making it to a few Parliament committees but never became a Minister.
In 2009, he was denied a Congress ticket and switched his allegiance. In 2014, his daughter makes a debut contesting in the same seat which her father represented. Identify the person and the constituency.
2. X is an orange coloured stomach healer that all Bengalis swear by. Found in most of our homes, it is considered more valuable than gold. Bengal Chemicals and Eastern Drug are some of the prominent manufacturers of this. Made by the small seed-like fruit of the Bishop's Weed plant, what is X? For bonus points, what is the common name we know it by?
3. The word is most commonly used for a small group of experienced personnel at the core of a larger organization that the small group trains or heavily influences. Its origin is in the French word meaning a "frame". The word is used in the sense that the small group provides a "framework" for the larger organization. Which word?
4. The city got its name from the Managing Agency house which promoted IISCO (Indian Iron & Steel Company) in 1918. The township came up with the construction of the iron-making plant. The Indian Standard Wagon factory was also set up in 1918 and shared the township with IISCO. Which city?
5. Which company sponsors the New Year's eve in Times Square, New York and also runs the ‘Kiss of the Year’ contest in several places as a run-up to the New Year celebrations?
6. In the 1970s, after taking up the job of the editor of this magazine, which very few would have vouched for and doing it successfully, he gave it up even though he was complemented by Atal Bihari Bajpayee on bringing out a "good magazine", but one which he had to "keep under the pillow". Identify the editor and the magazine.
7. It was founded by Alfred Escher in 1856 in order to fund the development of Switzerland's rail system. It issued loans that helped create Switzerland's electrical grid and the European rail system. It also helped develop the country's currency system and funded entrepreneurship. What are we describing?
8. What event, one of the first of its kind in the world started as the "Press Week" in1943, to divert attention away from the French industry during World War II and showcase the American industry which till then had been ignored?
9. Kashmiri Shawls became international brand when this ruler decided to gift one to his wife. Who?































1. Manoranjan Bhakta from Andaman and Nicobar Islands. 8 time Congress MP. Switched to Trinamool Congress. Daughter Anita Mandal contesting as the Trinamool Congress candidate.
2. Aqua Ptycotis commonly known as JowanerAarok or AjwainAarak
3. Cadre
4. The answer is Burnpur after Burn & Co.
5. Nivea
6. Vinod Mehta and Debonair
7. Credit Suisse
8. The first fashion week. New York Fashion Week
9. Napoleon

The GuestQuiZMAster (GQM): Aniruddha Dutta Part 2

It is our pleasure and honour to announce that a multiple time National Level Champion Quizzer - Aniruddha Da has accorded his approval for re- publishing his content (that was posted on his facebook group) on Bizdom blog.


Q1. In 2013, Armenian-born Aro Agakhanyan's company entered the Guinness World Records for his creation that is commercially now available at $199.99. However, a feat undertaken recently by one of his employees Mr. Martirosyan has brought the company a lot of press.

Identify the company and its recent claim to fame.



Q2. On March 6, 1912, almost 100 years ago, it was first sold to a grocer in Hoboken named S. C. Thuesen for 30 cents per pound. They were packaged in bulk tins then. Around 450 billion of them have been sold worldwide since they first hit the market. The stretch of West 15th Street between 9th and 10th avenues in New York City where they were first produced now bears its name. What, first produced almost a 100 years back, is this?

Q3. The Grass Ceiling, Inc. was established in 1995 and has been a leading service provider to the sporting industry, offering professional consultation and management. Which specific category of people do they cater to?

Q4. He was born in Pakistan in 1957, one of three children.His parents were medical missionaries, and he spent most of his early life in Pakistan, India and Afghanistan. He studied at a boarding school in the Himalayan mountains of India, Woodstock School, before moving to a boarding school in Bath, England. At Oxford University, he studied Physics, then changed to Politics, Philosophy and Economics, to eventually graduate in 1978. He began a career in journalism, working on local newspapers, then producing a world news service in the Seychelles. In August 2010, he went back to his birth place of Pakistan to distribute LifeSaver jerry cans in aid of the floods there. Identify this entrepreneur and his acquisition.

Q5. It was launched on August 12, 1999, as a spare time project by Senh Duong. His inspiration came when, as a fan of Jackie Chan, Duong started collecting all the reviews of Chan's movies as they were coming out in the United States. What?    

Q6. The most popular brand to date in the United States for the Kellogg company is not a cereal. Which non cereal brand is this, millions of which are sold each year.

Q7. The term was first used by Sir Walter Scott in Ivanhoe to describe a "medieval mercenary warrior" indicating that he is not sworn to any lord's services and not available free of charge. It changed to a figurative noun around the 1860s and was recognized as a verb in 1903 by authorities in etymology such as the Oxford English Dictionary. Only in modern times has the term morphed from a noun into an adjective , a verb and an adverb. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U.S. Department of Labor, in 2005, there were approximately 10.3 million of them. Which term?

Q8. The word comes from the Old English word for a torch of burning piece of wood. It also came to mean an "identifying mark made by a hot iron". Popular folklore has it that American distilleries would do this to the wood casks they shipped alcohol in and that this is the origin of the term. They are certainly the ones credited with the term, although details are hard to find. Which word?

Q9. What phrase is said to be the most oft-printed warning in the history of the printed word? And its not - Cigarette Smoking is Injurious to Health.    








1. Papa John's
2. Oreo
3. Corporate female golfers as in women who wouldn’t get promoted coz they weren’t golfing buddies with upper management
4. Chris Anderson of Ted.com
5. Rotten Tomatoes
6. Pop Tarts
7. Freelancer
8. Brand
9. It’s on the Matchbox - Close Cover Before Striking

The GuestQuiZMAster (GQM): Kaushik Saha

Here is Political quiz by Kaushik da

Q1. An IIT Kanpur – IIM Ahmedabad graduate and Eisenhower Fellow Prem Das Rai is the first IIT-IIM graduate to be a Lok Sabha MP. He is the lone MP from his party. Name the party he represents and the state he belongs to.

Q2. What is happening?

Q3. The gentleman in the picture was a polymath who has an equation, an institute in Kolkata and a hostel at IIT KGP named after him. He prepared the original plan for the Damodar Valley Project. In the first Lok Sabha election, he won from the Dumdum constituency as an independent. Name him.

Q4. Bidzina Ivanishvili is the richest man in his country, his net worth being 32% of his country’s GDP. He was also the PM of his country for a year. Which is his country?

Q5. This person organized V-Day celebration in his native country where the "V" stood for vaffanculo ("fuck off"). He started a political movement Five Stars Movement to bring together, via the Internet, people who share his ideals about honesty and direct democracy. The motto of this movement is saying that politicians are the servants of the people and that they should work for the country only for a short time; that they should not have criminal records; and that they should focus their attention on the problems of the country without any conflict of interest. Who and which country?

Q6. This person  a member of the 1st Lok Sabha from Vijayawada constituency. He founded and administered the Hyderabad College, which later became the Nizam's College. He was a poet and his song Rail Gaadi  was memorably sung by Ashok Kumar in  Aashirwad. However, he is most remembered for his roles in movies which include -the patriarch of Bawarchi, Mr. Pinto of Teen Deviyan and Barfi of Goopy Gune Bagha Byne. Name him

Q7. Name the man and his 3rd father-in-law

Q8. Why is this guy unique as far as voting is concerned?

Q9. Connect this to the song “Mamaya Kero Mama”

Q10. Which constituency?

The GuestQuiZMAster (GQM): Aniruddha Dutta 1

It is our pleasure and honour to announce that a multiple time National Level Champion Quizzer - Aniruddha Da has accorded his approval for re- publishing his content (that was posted on his facebook group) on Bizdom blog. We shall be publishing his questions in a weekly series starting today.

1. It is a term referring to the unintended consequences of a company pre-announcement made either unaware of the risks involved or when the timing is misjudged, which ends up having a negative impact on the sales of the current product. This is often the case when a product is announced too long before its actual availability. This has the immediate effect of customers canceling or deferring orders for the current product, knowing that it will soon be obsolete, and any unexpected delays often means the new product comes to be perceived as vaporware, damaging the company's credibility and profitability. Which term?

2. It is one of the largest in its trade in the world. It became involved in the print trade around 1480, and grew into a major printer of Bibles, prayer books, and scholarly works. To meet its most important publication's rising costs, the last hundred years has seen it publish children's books, school text books, music, journals, the World's Classics series to match its academic and religious titles. Which publishing house is this?

3. The word was originally used for a “drawing on strong paper” or a durable drawing used as a model for another work. The term comes from the French word for “heavy paper, pasteboard”.

4. The Oxford English Dictionary states that perhaps it is a corruption of the word recruit. The earliest example from the OED is from Rudyard Kipling's Barrack-Room Ballads referring to the term in the sense of raw recruits to the British Army.

5. UNICEF originally set up the Bombay Education Initiative in Mumbai to establish a tripartite-partnership between the government, corporate and civil society to improve India’s primary education in 1994. Today, it is the largest non-governmental organisation in India. How is it known today?   

6. X originated in the seventies, in an advertising campaign that ran only in Europe.It was brought to the US in 1988 on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the brand. A 1991 study found that 5-6 year old children could recognize X morereadily than either Mickey Mouse or Fred Flintstone. After is introduction, the brand's share of the illegal market went up from 1% to just under 33%.Identify X and the brand.

7. In 1992.which non smoker did the Philip Morris tobacco company is hire for $1 million to serve as its international political consultant and provide advice "on controversial issues, including the penetration of tobacco markets in Eastern Europe and the Third World"?

8. She started work as a receptionist for the Town & Country magazine, and was the only unofficial photographer on board the SS Sea Panther yacht on the Hudson River who was allowed to take photographs of The Rolling Stones during a record promotion party. She photographed Clapton for Rolling Stone magazine, becoming the first woman to have a photograph featured on the front cover. In 1974, she herself appeared on the cover, making her the only person both to have taken a photograph, and to have been photographed, for the front cover of the magazine. In 1991, she introduced a line of frozen vegetarian meals, which made her wealthy independently of her husband. Heinz Company acquired the company in 2000 and later sold it off in 2007.

9. It was launched in 1931 in the United States as Apparel Arts, a magazine for the clothing trade, aimed primarily at wholesale buyers and retail sellers. Initially it had a very limited print run and was aimed solely at industry insiders to enable them to give advice to their customers. Apparel Arts continued until 1957 when it was transformed into a quarterly magazine which was published for many years by Esquire Inc. Apparel was dropped from the logo in 1958 with the spring issue after nine issues, and the current name was established. Which magazine?















                                       
1. Osborne Effect
2. Oxford University Press
3. Cartoon, from Carton
4. Rookie
5. Pratham
6. Joe the camel and Camel Cigarettes
7. Margaret Thatcher
8. Linda McCartney
9. Original Name was Apparel Arts. Clue was in the word - Quarterly. GQ  stands for Gentlemen's Quarterly.

The GuestQuiZMAster (GQM): Suman Doogar

About the QuiZMaster: She is "a simple and docile girl from the ‘Land of Mighty Bengal‘". A blogger and a quizzer by choice. Teacher and psychologist by profession.

Q1. Preceded by Swaroop Sampat and succeeded by Ruchita Kumar, this Miss India first came into limelight with her famous Vicco Turmeric cream advertisement. Known by the name Ayesha she is married to a Muslim and both of them runs a company named after them. Identify this lady who was unable to establish herself in Bollywood even after her stint of 16 movies.

Q2. X is the Friday-to-Friday star. Chubby cheeked, round eyes, winking at you from the corner of the eye. For more than 30 years, X has kept the fan following intact due to which the Guinness Book of World Records honored X as the longest running ad campaign ever. The birth of X is due to Y. Name X and Y.

Q3. Who doesn’t know SavitaBhabhi, the infamous fictional animated homemaker, who gathered much popularity for her sex life. The government did play a spoilsport in 2009 by banning the actual site, yet the fans saw a reincarnation of the website. Name the site where you can still catch her naughty antics. (Sitter)

Q4. In France, theyare called Robinsons whereas the Londoners referred to them as Hanways.In 1813 Arthur Wellesley put a stop in the military from the use of it.Later a journal named Punch suggested the troops should have these attached to their guns for personal protection.Churchill also put a ban to their manufacturing during the world war-2 to which ‘The Times’ remarked that the one of the freedom for which we are fighting is the freedom to make them without permission.Name thisobject that has become a fashion accessory in recent times?

Q5. Connect.

The GuestQuiZMAster (GQM): Sourabh Shukla

QuiZMAster: Mr. Sourabh Shukla

1. It is listed on the NYSE under the ticker BEN, in honor of Benjamin Franklin, who was admired by founder Rupert Johnson, Sr. In 1973 the company's headquarters moved from New York to San Mateo, California. Identify this great investment firm originally founded in New York in 1947.

2. In 2007 it was the only bank in the United States to be rated AAA by S&P,though its rating has since been lowered to AA- in light of the financial crisis of 2007–2011. In its present form is a result of an acquisition of California-based firm by Minneapolis-based Norwest Corporation in 1998 and the subsequent 2008 acquisition of Charlotte, NC based Wachovia. Although Norwest was technically the surviving entity in the 1998 merger, the new company renamed itself ___________, capitalizing on the 150-year history of the nationally recognized name and its trademark stagecoach. Identify this fourth largest bank in the U.S. by assets and the largest bank by market capitalization as presently it is one of the Big Four banks of the United States with Bank of America, Citigroup and JP Morgan Chase.?

3. It is the successor to American Express Financial Advisors (AEFA), a former subsidiary of the American Express Company. In 2005, American Express spun off AEFA as an independent company. The holding company is incorporated in Delaware. The company's headquarters are in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It's primary subsidiaries include Columbia Management Investment Advisers and RiverSource Life Insurance Company. Identify this leading diversified financial services companies in the U.S.?

4. This financial services organization was officially formed on January 1, 2002 with the merger of Aid Association for Lutherans and Lutheran Brotherhood. The organizations were established in 1902 and 1917 respectively. The merger formed the largest fraternal benefit society in the United States. It today maintains a network of nearly 1,400 local chapters. It is also the only not-for-profit organization listed on the Fortune 500. They also supplemented donations to the Haiti relief for the 2010 Haiti earthquake and provided funding for the 2003 film Luther. Identify this Fortune 500 financial services organization with dual corporate headquarters based in Minneapolis, Minnesota and Appleton, Wisconsin?

5. Founded in 1865, it is now the largest privately held corporation in the United States in terms of revenue. If it were a public company, it would rank, as of 2011, number 13 on the Fortune 500, behind AT&T and ahead of JP Morgan Chase. In 2003, it split off a portion of its financial operations into a hedge fund called Black River Asset Management, with about $10 billion of assets and liabilities. Identify this family owned business?


6. It was created in 1968 by Union Tank Car Company as their holding company. In 1981, it was acquired as a subsidiary of Marmon Group, a holding company formed by Jay Pritzker and Robert Pritzker. It was spun off as a separate company under Pritzker control in 2005. The wealthy Pritzker family, most famous for owning the Hyatt hotel chain, began divesting the family's assets in late 2001 following the death of Jay Pritzker. Notable major divestitures include Hyatt Hotels Corp. public in 2009 and selling majority stake in this firm in 2010.

In April 2010, the Pritzker family, with Penny Pritzker sold controlling interest of this firm to a new majority owner, the Chicago-based private-equity firm Madison Dearborn Partners and they acquired 51% stake and the Pritzker family maintained 49% ownership. Identify his firm with 250 offices in the U.S. and in 25 other countries which is based in Chicago, Illinois and filed with the SEC to raise up to $325 million in an initial public offering in July 2011.

7. It traces its history back to July 20, 1841, with the formation of The Mercantile Agency in New York City by Lewis Tappan. The company was formed to create a network of correspondents who would provide reliable objective credit information. The company previously spun off Moody's and Nielsen and it also spun off Cognizant Technology Solutions as an independent organization in the year 1994.Identify this Fortune 500 public company headquartered in Short Hills, New Jersey, USA.


8. It is an American pulp and paper company based in Atlanta, Georgia, and is one of the world's leading manufacturers and distributors of tissue, pulp, paper, packaging, building products and related chemicals. Identify this independently operated and managed company of Koch Industries since November 2005?

The GuestQuiZMAster (GQM): Santanu Dey

For this week we have 2009's Tata Crucible National Winner (Non-Tata Track), Mr. Santanu Dey. A great set of questions.

Q1. Mattighofen is a town in the district Braunau am Inn, part of the Innviertel region, in the Austrian state of Upper Austria. In 1934 engineer Hans Trunkenpolz started out a metalworking shop in Mattighofen. In 1953 they began production of their most famous product with just 20 employees, at the rate of three per day. Name the brand.




Q2. The last name of the main protagonist gives the feel of someone low on the social ladder and unlikely to succeed.
The author said …"I don't say he's a great man. .. never made a lot of money. His name was never in the paper. He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid. He's not to be allowed to fall in his grave like an old dog. Attention, attention must finally be paid to such a person."
Id the book.

Q3. “Hey Nikita is it cold
In your little corner of the world
You could roll around the globe
And never find a warmer soul to know

Oh I saw you by the wall
Ten of your tin soldiers in a row
With eyes that looked like ice on fire
The human heart a captive in the snow”

Nikita by Elton John…

Name the lady (remember it is a Biz Quiz)

Q4. Id the logo/seal

Q5. Connect…
A movement which was founded on May 1, 1776, in Upper Bavaria with an initial membership of five, by Jesuit-taught Adam Weishaupt .
A very famous brand by a company which was started in 1851 as Maullin & Blanchard.
Mahendra Sandhu

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Roy's Quizzing Baatein Part-5

Q1. International Federation for this sport was formed in 1988. The first world championship was held in 1991. Asian Federation was formed in 1995. In the Athens Olympics, this sport was displayed out of the competition for global exposure. which sports ?

Q2. Which category of employees of Kerala Goverment are allowed to retire from service at the age of 65 years, whereas the otherwise retirement age there is 60 years for Doctors and 55 years for others.

Q3. Gandhi was known for his Penchant for simple Khadhi. Very few however know that he patronised silks as well. He once visited one Joshi family in Ahmedabad who were the only family in the country with know how for manufacture of a very exclusive silk textile. With Mahatma's blessings, the Joshi family started sales outlets for the particular brand which today has spread to other parts of the country. Which exclusive textile was this?
Q4. International airport in Delhi is named after Indira Gandhi. Which other airport in India is named after a woman?
Q5. The dancers perform this dance straight legged with anckle belts, similar to those depicted in Mughal miniature paintings. Wajid Ali Shah of Lucknow patronised and perfected this style in his court. Which dance?


Answers:
1. Carrom
2. Elephants employed by the Kerala Government.
3. Tanchoi Silks. The three Joshi brothers were sent to China by the Maharaja of Jamnagar to learn this exclusive art. Tanchoi means 'three brothers'.
4. Rani Ahalya Bai Holkar Aiport in Indore.
5. Kathak.

Roy's Quizzing Baatein Part-4

Q1. His father used to affectionately call him by nickname 'bhou', that's the barking sound of a dog, but his voice was destined to charm India. The more commonly used pet name among close relations and friends of this bollywood celebrity who started his career at a rather young age is 'Raja'. One of his cousin is a much acclaimed champion sports person of India. Name the two celebrities.

Q2. In Hindu Mythology, most of the gods and goddesses are depicted either as barefooted or with very light footwears except one who is seen with heavyduty shoes. Who and why are his feet protected such ?


Q3. Which great ancient learned thinker was known as a 'king without a throne' ?

Q4. Much perturbed by the very rigid stance taken by the Indian Congress and Muslim League leaders on the matter of accession of states, Lord Mountbatten was once heard quipping to an indian leader ' you always talk about wooing people, yet in the case of states, you threaten. Would you woo a girl you want to marry with a stick and expect her to accept ?' Who did he dare to utter these extreme frustating words ?

Q5. This famous cricketer was also a very successful business executive who retired richy rich as the Managing Director of a large Tea Trading company. He was perhaps the first cricketer to resent and opt out from the national side for a test match when he protested for the selection of a particular player over another and despite himself being selected, didn't turn up to play for the test match. His resentment forced the selectors to take the dropped player in the team for the next test when he also returned to the team. Who ?



Ans 1 : Singer 'Shaan' ( Shantanu Mukherjee ). His cousin sister is Dola Banerjee, the champion archer.
Ans 2 : God Surya or the Sun God . It is said that when his wife Sanjana returned to him after deserting him once, not being able to withstand his brightness and heat, her father sage Vishwamitra planned to timid his son-in-law's energy down. His brahmana power started taking the heat out of Surya. The son in law could only save his feet to retain brightness from the sacred power of the Rishi by covering them by highneck boots.
Ans 3 : Confucius, the great Chinese philosopher / thinker. He was born in 551 BC.
Ans 4 : Mahatma Gandhi ( source - confidential reports of Lord Mountabatten on 'The transfer of power, 1942 - 47' , made public some years back )
Ans 5 : Australian fast bowler Fred Spoforth ( nicknemd the 'demon bowler' for his menacing speed ). He didn't take part in the first ever test match in 1876 - 77 for Australia against England as his friend wicketkeeper Billy Murdoch did not get a place in the team and instead Jack Blackham who was a lesser player played in the inaugural test. Spofforth is also the first bowler in the history of test cricket to take a hattrick.

Roy's Quizzing Baatein Part-3

Q1. Nickname of which famous EPL team is believed to have come from the goodies that a shop adjacent to their homeground used to sell, including a particular product on match days. Which club am I referring to ?

Q2. Half of this landmark engineering marvel was made in england and the other half in india. It was commissioned in the third quarter of the nineteenth century, but got severely damaged in a cyclone. Initially it had a provision for rail movement. Later the original structure was replaced by the one which now stands across. What am I talking about ?

Q3. Which currency has the root of it's name from a word meaning 'a fistful' ?

Q4. This world famous brand was first developed for the armed forces but later found more business as gift items for little boys and popular among adventure sports enthusiasts through outlets in duty free shops. The company's business fall after 911 as airport safeties banned this item in the personal belongings of the passengers. The owner has now again concentrated on its original armed force clients worldwide. Which product?

Q5. Who says scientists are not popular among masses ? There are at least two living scientists today who have been the central character of popular dramas played regularly at New York during their life time. One is stephen Hawking. Who is the other ?


Anwers:
1. Everton F.C. Their nickname 'The toffeemen'. there was a business near the ground named Mother Noblett's Toffee Shop which advertised and sold sweets, including the Everton Mint, on match days. The nickname is inspired from those special toffees.
2. Howrah Bridge over river Hooghly.
3. 'Dirham' of UAE and some other islamic countries. It has its root from earlier Greek Currency 'drachma' which is from the ancient Greek word 'drassomai' meaning 'to take a fistful'.
4. Swiss Army Knives
5. Andrew Wiles, the famous mathematician who proved Fermat's last theorem. He is considered one of the greatest brains of modern age and is decorated with several awards. In 199, an asteroid was named after him.

Roy's Quizzing Baatein Part-2

Q1. 'Teesri Manzil' in the history of film music used a musical instrument for the first time. Which instrument and for which song ?



Q2. This cousin of Hanuman was a great musician and invented a musical instrument which is still in existence in parts of a northern Indian state where he was said to have been married. Name this cousin of Bajrang and the musical instrument he devised. Clue ? He is considered as an exceptionally learned and wise person in another religion other than Hinduism.



Q3. In which temple, the idol of the deity has one of its four faces bearded and the other three clean shaven ? there are not many temples of this god as principle deity.



Q4. Historically, the coins issued by Indian royal dynasties contained pictures of gods / royal emblem on one side and the name / image of the king who issued it and his other personal details on the other. No information used to be there on the royal queens. One Indian royalty however made it a point to always mention the name of the principal queen also along with the king on the coin face. This is unique example of no gender bias in royal families. Which dynasty ?



Q5. This famous brand is distinct by a four digit number which is present in all its major products at very strategic place, being a very important statistics of a famous geographical object. This was a favorite of Satyajit Ray who always used this brand for one of his many creative activities. What am I talking about ? More clue ? well, coming to cricket, we can cryptically say that the spin puncher is making good business of it .... . Now this clue is a giveaway.










Answers:
1. Ans : Electronic Organ was introduced for the first time in film music ( RD Burman ) in the song 'O mere sona re ..'
2. Ans : 'Ravana', the Rakshasa King of Lanka and the stringed instrument 'Ravanhatta'. Ravana's paternal great grandfather was Hanumana's maternal great grandfather.Ravana was stateed to have been married to mandodari at Manesar in Rajasthan.In 'Buddhism', Ravan is held in high esteem. Buddhist scripture 'Lankaswra Sutra' is a proof.
3. Ans : At the Carambolin temple for Brahma in Goa
4. Ans : Tripura's Deb Burman royal dynasty
5. Ans : Mont Blanc pens. The nibs of these pens has the number 4810 which is the height of Mont Blanc, the highest Alpine peak of Europe. Ray was known to have used one particular golden nib model of Mont Blanc for his literary writings. coming to the giveaway clue, yesteryear's cricketer Dilip Doshi's company Entrack is the indian distributor for Mont Blanc pens in India. Dilip Doshi's autobiography is titled 'spin punch'.

The GuestQuiZMAster (GQM): Subrata Dass

For this week we have Subrata Dass as our GQM

1. Which company has started an initiative called “ Bedhadak Bolo” to egg on their employees to speak up their minds in internal meetings?

2. X and Y had built a “Blue Box,” a device that allowed them to make long-distance calls for free by fooling the networks’ routing switches. The two pranksters used the box to call the Vatican, with X pretending to be Henry Kissinger and asking to speak to the pope. They spoke to several Vatican officials but never actually got the pope on the line. Id X & Y .

3. Russian Nobel laureate Elie Metchnikoff, shared the Prize for Medicine in 1908 for his work on the immune system. But his lasting cultural importance may lie more with work on the healthful properties of yoghurt which he thought was the reason for the long lifespans of peasants in Bulgaria Metchnikoff's theories were more optimistic than accurate; yoghurt is certainly healthy but no miracle worker. But he popularised yoghurt as a health food and in 1919, three years after his death (at 71, after years of yoghurt) a Spanish doctor named Isaac Carasso who had read his work started a small business in Barcelona to sell yoghurt as a medicine. He named it X , after his son Daniel, who grew up to take the business to France and expand it into the dairy foods empire it is today. Id X

4. The name A is part of Y's naming tradition of using the name Crown for primary models: the B, for example, gets its name from the Latin word crown; A in Latin means small crown; and C is an Anglicized pronunciation of the Japanese for crown, kanmuri.
Id A,B,C and Y

5. What is the best known product of the organization called Outfit 7 owned by Narry Singh?