The Daily Grill-38

Q 1: Identify the retail chain.
[Hint: The MD can be seen in the pic]

Q2: Identify the adv.

Q 3: Who is this famous duo: [Hint: Travel]











Q 4: Connect it to a personality:

Q5: These are the old logos of which famous company:

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Answers:

1. Titan Eye+ Retail chain (Noel Tata, MD)

2. Economic Times (if you think you can ad)

3. Wilbur & Orville Wright (Inventors of Airplane)

4. Ekta Kapoor

5. IBM

Winner : None

The Daily Grill-37

Q1: Connect:

Q2: Identify the famous place from its map:

Q3: Identify the advertisement:

Q4: Identify the logo from the world of Finance:

Q5: What is the theme of this social awareness campaign:

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Answers:

1. Gita Press - one of the world's largest publishers of Hindu religious texts located in Gorakhpur.

2. The Louvre - one of the world's most visited art museums, a historic monument, and a national symbol located in Paris, France.

3. Big FM India - 92.7 FM

4. KeyBank - a bank headquartered in the Key Tower in Cleveland, Ohio.

5. Rajasthan Patrika Newspaper AIDS awareness Advertisement

Winner [First to answer all correct answers]

Yogesh Bhale(USA)

The Daily Grill-36

Q 1: Identify the logo of the Retail Giant:

Q2: Connect

Q3: Identify the famous personality:
[Hint: IT]

Q4: Identify the advertisement:

Q5: In 1960s, when the company planned to name its product, the marketing team thought to give product a name which already existed. So, they tookthe telephone directory of Cincinnati and named the product on the name of a street. Name the product.

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Answers:

1. SPAR

2. Kurkure Express

3. Lawrence "Larry" Joseph Ellison

4. Maggie Noodle

5. Pringles

Winner [First one to give all correct answers]:

Saurabh Maiwal - Oracle

And we are back!

This was indeed a loooOoooong break!

Though we did not eat as many Kit-Kats as we were supposed to do during such a long break, we certainly did make our brains eat a lot of trivia during Summers.

Now that we are back, we'll be continuing with the same old pattern having series of five questions in a week of quizzing. So be ready for the restart of some real fun!

Official Restart Launch: Wednesday, July 16, 2008; 00:00 IST
Happy Quizzing :-)

The Looong Break!

Hey Friends! The Daily Grill shall be taking a loong break from today. Well, plenty of reasons for the same - upcoming final submissions for end of first year and exams after that.. also Summer Training starts from April first week hence internet access shall be limited. We'll inform you as soon as we'll return! Keep posting and Enjoy! Cheerios!

The Daily Grill-35

Q 1: Can you identify the encircled person. The pic is taken when he fled from his native country. This famous world leader endorses Himachal Pradesh Tourism.

Q 2: Connect.

Q 3: Identify the logo. This company was acquired by a major FMCG giant. The company now does not exist but the main product is still famous with the same name as the old company name even today.

Q 4: Identify the person sitting with Albert Einstein and discussing a physics theory of which he was also a part.

Q 5: Explain the following poster. Which group has made this?

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Answers:
1. Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama
2. Ravi (Sri Sri Ravi Shankar -Art of Living Logo, Ravi Shastri, Ravi Verma painting, Jeetendra aka Ravi Kapoor in Om Shanti Om song)
3. The Gillette Company acquired by P&G
4. Niels Bohr
5. Free Tibet movement

Winners:
Saurabh Maiwal- Oracle
Santosh Patil (Milawaukee, USA)
Yogesh Bhale (TCS, USA)
Ashwini Pore - Infosys

Winners for Week 5:
Yogesh Bhale (TCS, USA)
Ashwini Pore - Infosys

The Daily Grill-34

Q 1: What is so special about this picture? Explain.

Q 2: Whose grave is this?
[Hint: Langdon]

Q 3: Which brand is being launched here? Recent event in Mumbai.

Q 4: A very old newspaper clip of TATA Sons Ad. Can you indentify the personality in the centre of the ad?

Q 5: Identify the sword.

[Hint: Bike]

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Answers:
1. On February 10, 1929, JRD Tata became the first Indian to pass the pilot's examination with No. 1 endorsed on his flying license. It's his licence in this pic.

2. Issac Newton’s grave

3. Virgin Mobile Launch, Richard Branson in the pic

4. Jamshedji Nusserwanji Tata

5. Excalibur

Winners:

Arnav Kumar Patra - IT, BHU

Shubhendu Saha - DTZ

Saurabh Maiwal- Oracle

Santosh Patil (Milawaukee, USA)

Vinay Nayak - Cognizant

Ashwini Pore - Infosys

Yogesh Bhale (TCS, USA)

The Daily Grill-33

Q 1: Identify the ad.
[Hint: Font]

Q 2: Bull $%#&*^$& !!! Can you identify all the Bulls in the picture?

Q 3: Connect.

Q 4: Which country's emblem is it?

Q 5: Connect!

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Answers:
1. Aerial - Stain removal pen
2. (1)GNU (2)Lamborghini (3)Red Bull (4)Merrill Lynch (5)Chicago Bulls
3. Dr APJ Kalam (Alumni of King's College London,Born in Rameshwaram, Presidential Standard)
4. Nepal
5. Dr Homi J Bhaba (Cambridge, Died in an air crash on Mont Blanc, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research logo of the Banyan Tree)

Winners:
Yogesh Bhale (TCS, USA)
Ashwini Pore - Infosys
Santosh Patil (Milawaukee, USA)

The Daily Grill-32

Q 1: Identify the ad.

Q 2: Identify the World Heritage Site.

Q 3: Radio Today launched Meow 104.8 FM, India’s first radio station in what way?

Q 4: Connect

Q 5: Identify the player with Azharuddin.
[Hint: He played only 3 ODIs and he was the captain in those matches.]

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Answers:
1. Nerolac Paints
2. The Terracotta Army or Terracotta Warriors and Horses is a collection of 8,099 larger-than life Chinese terra cotta figures of warriors, horses, acrobats and other figures located near the Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor.
3. Radio Today launched Meow 104.8 FM, India's first Just-For-Women radio station.
4. Titan Watches - has Brands like Sonata(Hyundai Sontata picture), Raga(Morning Raga Poster), Bandhan(Bandhan Poster), Nebula(picture of the Crab Nebula), Octane(Gas pump shows Octane values to select the fuel)
5. Clive Rice, Ex. Captain of South Africa. He Was captain of the SA Team for the first tour after their return from sporting isolation in 1991.

Winners: None.

The Daily Grill-31

Q 1: What does this image mean?

Q 2: Whose self potrait is this?

Q 3: Identify the logo
[Hint: Cow]

Q 4: Connect.

Q 5: Identify the person.

[Hint: CPG]

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Answers:

1. SOS (Morse Code Distress Signal)

2. Leonardo Da Vinci

3. Wrigley

4. Force India Formula One Team(Driver Giancala Fisichella in the pic, sponsor companies like Alpinestars,Medion,ICICI Bank, Samsung,technology support partners Airbus and EADS, Official Flag)

5. Nitin Paranjpe, CEO Hindustan Unilever [CPG = Consumer Product Goods]

Winners: None. Nobody could get all correct answers.

The Daily Grill-30

Q 1: Identify the ad.

Q 2: Identify the logo.
[Hint: Salaam Namaste]

Q 3: Identify the movie.

Q 4: Identify the painting.

Q 5: Idnetify the famous fictional personality.

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Answers:
1. indiatimes.com
2. Ben & Jerrys brand of Ice Cream. Saif and Priety sing a song when they go for eating this icecream in the movie Salaam Namaste.
3. Pather Panchali, (First Film from Apu Trilogy) of Satyajeet Ray.
4. "The Kiss of Judas"
5. James Bond, a fictional character created in 1952 by writer Ian Fleming.

Winners:
Ashok Kumar - IT, BHU
Yogesh Bhale (TCS, USA)
Ashwini Pore - Infosys
Arnav Kumar Patra - IT, BHU
Santosh Patil (Milawaukee, USA)

The Daily Grill-29

Q 1: Identify this incident.

Q 2: Identify the personality in the field of transportation.

Q 3: Which famous painting is mocked here? Name it.

Q 4: Identify the advertisement.

Q 5: Identify the painting and the painter.

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Answers:
1)Peter Fechter lies dying after being shot by East German border guards while trying to cross the Berlin Wall. He was a bricklayer from East Berlin, who at the age of eighteen became one of the first victims of the Berlin Wall's border guards.

2) E Sreedharan (Delhi Metro/ Konkan Railways)

3) The Creation of Adam painting by Michelangelo. It was mocked by Simposons in The Homer of Seville

4) Pantene Shampoo

5) The Persistence of Memory by Salvador Dali. The painting has also been popularly known as Soft Watches, Droopy Watches, The Persistence of Time or Melting Clocks.

Winners:

Vinay Nayak - Cognizant

Yogesh Bhale(TCS, USA)

Ashwini Pore - Infosys

Arnav Kumar Patra - IT, BHU