Tata Crucible Campus Quiz - International Finals 2010

Dear All,

Thanks to some visa problems for the Singapore teams in Mumbai,Delhi got a chance to witness the second International Finals of the Tata Crucible edition.Probably the best way to spend a Saturday afternoon - attending a high tea at the Taj Mansingh, winning audience prizes and catching up with some old quizzing mates,one could not ask for more.

The first two rounds of the quiz saw IIM L , National University of Singapore,University of Oxford and IIM L racing each other for top honours,however the next two rounds saw amazing answering from team IMT G to surge ahead of all the teams.According to my views they answered some of the toughest questions of the quiz.

However as fate played it's part IMT G messed up on an easy question of the last round and lost ten points thus effectively putting them out of contention and as ones loss would be others gain IIM L pressed the buzzer for the five pointer and got it correctly, and hence becoming the new International Champions.

On the whole the quiz cud have been a lot more tougher,but what i get to read from the National finals review i think International finals was a much better show.

Questions from the quiz follow : -

1.Originally designed in 1889 by Benjamin Franklin for the Army soldiers,they were first made commercially availalble as Lister's Towel in the year 1896,What?

Sanitory Napkins

2.InGen (International Genetic Technologies, Incorporated) is a company.The company is based in Palo Alto, California, and has one location in Europe. Nevertheless, most of InGen's research took place on both the islands of Isla Sorna and Isla Nublar.What is so famous about this company.

They brought back the Dinosaurs in the film Jurassic Park

3.This term was coined by the Royal Society of London for the Improvement of Natural Knowledge, primary reasons for its occurrence are: due to conflict (or wars), lack of opportunity, political instability, and health risks. It’s the biggest challenge for any developing country.

Reverse Brain Drain 

4.What is the Greater fool's theory

There will always be a buyer at a higher price,and thus the buyer convinces himself to buy the product at a high price

5.August 1967 Wimbledon center court held a tournament involving 8 professional players at the center court to mark the introduction of something during that period,what?

First Color television

Clue Round

This term was coined be Ragnar Frisch in 1939 - Macro Economics

Started in May 17,1792 as the buttonwood agreement - NYSE

John Maynard Smith was awarded the Crawford Prize for his application of this in biology. - Game theory

Docs.com, by Facebook & Microsoft

Facebook is collaborating with Microsoft to launch Docs.com, which will allow its over 400 million users to create and collaborate Office documents through Facebook.

Docs.com has been developed by Microsoft FUSE (Future Social Experiences) Labs. The user can create documents from within the web app or upload from a computer. Once uploaded, a document can be edited in real time online — a definite change from Microsoft's previous cloud offerings like the Sharepoint, which requires users to check in and out of documents when they want to edit these.

Byte:-

Microsoft owns a 1.6 per cent stake in Facebook.

Bipasha Basu -Brand ambassador for Real Activ

Dabur India has roped in Bipasha Basu as the new brand ambassador for Real Activ. 

The company will partner with the actress in its brand communications endorsing Real Activ's new Snack Healthy campaign.

Brand Profile: The Body Shop

Anita Roddick, (23 October 1942 – 10 September 2007) was a British businesswoman born as Anita Lucia Perilli in a bomb shelter in Littlehampton, Sussex, in an Italian immigrant community. In 2003, Queen Elizabeth II appointed Roddick a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire.

In the early 1970s, Anita Roddick visited a shop called The Body Shop in Berkeley, California run by Peggy Short and Jane Saunders. This inspired her to open her own shop back in the UK. In 1987, Anita purchased the naming rights from the original Body Shop. Its stock was floated on London's Unlisted Securities Market in April 1984, opening at 95p. After its full listing on the London Stock Exchange, the stock was given the nickname "The shares that defy gravity," as its price increased by more than 500%.

          The company created a doll in the likeness of Barbie but with a lifelike voluptuous figure and luxuriant red hair, that came with the tag line, "There are 3 billion women who don't look like supermodels and only 8 who do" Her name was Ruby, a real-life size 16 plastic doll that Mattel thought looked too much like Barbie.

In 1993, She told in an interview to Third Way Magazine:-

"The original Body Shop was a series of brilliant accidents. It had a great smell, it had a funky name. It was positioned between two funeral parlours--that always caused controversy. It was incredibly sensuous. It was 1976, the year of the heat wave, so there was a lot of flesh around. We knew about storytelling then, so all the products had stories. We recycled everything, not because we were environmentally friendly, but because we didn’t have enough bottles. It was a good idea. What was unique about it, with no intent at all, no marketing nous, was that it translated across cultures, across geographical barriers and social structures. It wasn’t a sophisticated plan, it just happened like that."

Sahara IPL Awards

The Indian Premier League (IPL) and Sahara India Pariwar have announced a 3 years partnership to organise the IPL awards. The awards will be called ‘Sahara IPL Awards’.

The inaugural Sahara IPL Awards night will be hosted by Karan Johar, who will be joined by co-host, Shah Rukh Khan at the Grand Hyatt in Mumbai on Friday, April 23rd, 2010.

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Kevin Pietersen brand ambassador for Whyte & Mackay

United Spirits Limited (USL) announced Kevin Pietersen as brand ambassador for Scotch whisky brand Whyte & Mackay.

Sweat Equity

Thanks to Shashi Tharoor & Sunanda Pushkar who have given a limelight to a sweet term called as Sweat Equity.

Sweat equity is a term used to describe the contribution made to a project by people who contribute their time and effort (by sweating). It can be contrasted with financial equity which is the money contributed towards the project.

The concept of Sweat equity is a familiar thing in startup companies. It happens often in a start up company that an employee does not have cash but he or she has the talent and skill to make the company successful. Sweat Equity Shares are given to the employees at a discounted rate of market value.

The whole idea behind giving Sweat Equity is to make the employee feel that he/she is a part owner in the company. When employees feel their company has their own funds invested in it, they get better motivated and work more earnestly towards company’s progress.

Casual Six 3

Hi Everyone,
Third edition of casual six is up for answering.
Replies solicited.Please take care to send in your replies to bizdomonline@gmail.com

Answers to only those who reply to care.

Q.1. Identify this man from the annals of Indian political and economic history

Q.2.Identify the advertiser

Q.3.This man was a multi millionaire during his time,Identify the man in this picture

Q.4.This is a diamond which is named after someone very famous in the diamond industry/trade.Name the diamond

Q.5.In which building would you find this object?

Q.6.Connect the man on the left and the letter on the right to a sporting goods company.Funda in this would be welcome.

Saif Ali Khan the brand ambassador for Wynn Telecom

Wynn Telecom, the company which recently forayed into the mobile handset market through 'Wynncom', a brand launched by Luminous a Power & Energy Storage company, has roped in Saif Ali Khan as brand ambassador.

Starbucks Discoveries

Starbucks has joined with Lurpak owner Arla Foods to launch a chilled range of ready-to-drink coffees Starbucks Discoveries. It consists of three latte-based drinks plain Seattle, chocolate-flavoured Aztlàn Mocha and caramel-flavoured Oandi.