The Daily Grill-21

Q 1: Identify the businessman.
[Hint: Dhoni, Preity, Tendulkar]

Q 2: Identify the advertised brand.

Q 3: Identify the logo.
[Hint: This company is more famous for other businesses but it is this business in which it is a Global Leader]

Q 4: Invented by a sculptor and architect in 1974, this is a very popular mechanical puzzle and one of the world's best selling toys. What are we talking about?

Q 5: People have unique hobbies. One such hobby is collecting match boxes. What is this hobby known as?

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Answers:
1.TVS Iyengar [TCS Motors Founder]
2.Samsonite
3.Essel Propack [The more famous business is ZEE Network & Essel World]
4.Rubik's Cube or Magic Cube invented by Enzo Rubik
5.The hobby is called Phillumeny.

Winners: None of the respondents could get all correct answers.
Winner of Week 3: Yogesh Bhale (TCS, USA )
Just one question behind the winner was Santosh Patil (Milwaukee-USA).
Well done!!

The Daily Grill-20

Q 1: The name of this company is supposedly derived from the transcendental god of Zoroastrianism as shown in the picture below. The company uses the word "Zoom" in its slogan. Name the company.

Q 2: Logo of a tournament where one of the venues is the city of Johor. Name the tournament and the country.

Q 3: Identify the personality.
[Hint: Penguin]

Q 4. Name the missing brand.

Q 5. Identify the brand advertised.

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Answers:
1. Mazda (Derived from Ahura Mazda and its slogan is Zoom-Zoom)
2. The Under-19 Cricket World Cup-2008 in Malaysia
3. Linus Benedict Torvalds, creator of Linux which is popularly known by its penguin logo named Tux
4. KPMG (One of the Big Four auditors)
5. Bournvita

Winners:
Santosh Patil (Milwaukee-USA)
Yogesh Bhale (TCS, USA )

The Daily Grill-19

Q 1: Connect.

Q 2: Identify this person who was called the "Black Prince of Cricketers".

3. Identify the logo.
[Hint: F1 ]

Q 4. Connect.

Q 5. Identify the logo of a very popular internet based 3-D world.

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Answers:
1. Aruther Anderson - Schiltz Beer(advertisement) was the first client for Aruther Anderson(photo), Enron(Logo) was also one of their main clients, In 2001 Anderson Consulting got independance from Aruther Anderson by paying $1.2 Bn and has to change the name to Accenture(Logo)
2. K. S. Ranjitsinhji( On whom Ranji Trophy is named.)
3. Agip (Azienda Generale Italiana Petroli)
4. Ashutosh Gowarikar(NASA for Swades, Cricket for Lagan, Sign is of AGPPL(Production compnay of Ashutosh), Durga Khote played role of Jodha in Mughl-E-Azam)
5. Second Life

Winners:
Yogesh Bhale (TCS, USA )
Santosh Patil (Milwaukee-USA)
Ashwini Sharad Pore - Infosys Tech Ltd

The Daily Grill-18

Q 1: Identify the famous author:
[Hint: First Name = One of the zodiac sun signs]

Q 2: Identify the book from its cover:

Q 3: Identify the logo:
[Hint: Recently in news]

Q 4: Identify the advertisement:

Q 5: Connect:

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Answers:
1. Leo Tolstoy
2. Jungle Book
3. Societe Generale
4. ITC Welcome Group Hotel
5. Bharti Enterprises [Bharti group has partnerships with Axa for insurance and with the Rothschild family for exporting fruits and vegetables, Bharti JV with Walmart, Bharti has joined hands with AIFF to promote Football in India]

Winners:
Yogesh Bhale (TCS, USA )
Santosh Patil (Milwaukee-USA)

The Daily Grill-17

Q 1: Identify this businessman.
[Hint: The image has enough of hints!]

Q 2: Identify the Ad.

Q 3: The company is named after two founders who died within days of each other in 1948. The founders never met each other in real life. 41 years later after their death, their companies merged, and is among the "Big Four". Name the company.

Q 4: Connect:

Q 5: Identify this personality.
[Hint: Japanese Manufacturing]

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Answers:
1. Karan Bilimoria (Founder and CEO of Cobra Beer)
2. Western Union Money Transfer
3. Ernst & Young
4. Hum Log (All the personalties were the part of DD's daily TV soap)
5. W. Edwards Deming

Winner
Saurabh Maiwal - Oracle

The Daily Grill-16

Q 1: Connect.

Q 2: Identify the ad.

Q 3: This company was started with a lumber mill business and was named after the river which flowed through the town. Name the company.

Q 4: Cox & Kings is involved in various brand promotional activities on completing 250 years in 2008. In one such activity, they are taking something on lease in Switzerland to promote foreign tourism in India. What are they taking on lease?

Q 5: This garage is the origin place of a global IT company. Name the company.

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Answers:
1. Chacha Choudhary (Diamond Comics logo,Raghuvir Yadav in the picture played the role of Chacha CHoudhary in the TV serial,Praan the cartoonist of Chacha Choudhary in the picture , Lotpot the magazine in which the Chacha Choudhary comic strip first appeared)
2. Durex condoms
3. Nokia
4. Cox & Kings has decided to lease a mountain in Switzerland and brand it under its own name as Mt. Cox & Kings.
5. Hewlett-Packard

Winners: None of the respondents could get all correct answers!

The Daily Grill-15

Q 1: Connect

Q 2: Identify the company.
[Hint: Island]

Q 3: Which computer game is the evolved form of a game which has a logo of a "lambda in a circle". Name the games.

Q 4. What is described in the picture below?

Q 5. Connect.

[Hint: Amitabh Bachchan]

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Answers:
1) Liverpool [Beatles had their origin in Liverpool, Everton FC logo which is based in Liverpool + Liverpool FC Manager Rafael Benitez]

2) Al Jazeera TV Channel [Al Jazeera means Island in Arabic]

3) Half Life and Counter Strike, Counter Strike has evolved from Half Life

4) The First "Computer Bug". Moth found trapped between points at Relay # 70, Panel F, of the Mark II Aiken Relay Calculator while it was being tested at Harvard University, 9 September 1947. The operators affixed the moth to the computer log, with the entry: "First actual case of bug being found".

5) All the names have the a nick name with the word "BIG".

UPS - Big Brown

Coke - Big Red

Kodak - Big Yellow

IBM - Big Blue

Amitabh Bachchan - Big B

Winners: None of the respondents could get all correct answers!

"Break"ing News.

We are taking a short break from Feb 15, 2008 to Feb 20, 2008 'coz of our mid-term examination. :(

Till then, have a KitKat! :)

See you all with Week 3 of quizzing at 12:01 AM IST on Feb 21, 2008.

The Daily Grill-14

Q 1: Identify the brand.

Q 2: Connect.

Q 3: Identify the personality.

[Hint: Museum]

Q 4: Identify the ad.

Q 5: Which "global" brand's logo is seen here along with Mother Earth?

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Answers:
1. Lux Soap
2. Ivy League [All 8 Universities are together called as Ivy League]
3. Mir Yousuf Ali Khan Salar Jung III [Salar Jung Museum, Hyderabad]
4. Baygon
5. Pepsico
Winner:
Ashwini Pore (Infosys)

Winner of the Week:
Santosh Patil (Milwaukee,USA)

The Daily Grill-13

Q 1: Identify the ad.

Q 2: Connect to a brand.

Q 3: The base is defended by towers. "Ancient" must be protected to avoid defeat. Individual heroes fight against the enemies. What are we talking about?

Q 4: Identify the logo.

Q 5: Connect to a personality.

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Answers:
1. Surf (Famous "Lalitaji" Ad)
2. Hercules ( The constellation shown is Hercules. Walt Disney made an animation movie called Hercules. Hercules is a brand of TI Cycles from the conglomerate Murugappa Group whose logos are given in the picture.)
3. Defense of the Ancients or DotA, a LAN game.
4. Commonwealth Bank (Sponsor of the tri nation ODI cricket series in Australia 2008)
5. Tony Blair ( Appointed Senior Advisor to JPMorgan Chase(logo) and former PM of the UK. Also, Cherie Blair his wife in the picture.)

Winners [All correct]
1. Santosh Patil (Milwaukee, USA)
2. Yogesh Bhale (TCS, USA )
3. Ashwini Sharad Pore (Infosys)

The Daily Grill-12

Q 1: Connect.

Q 2: Identify the personality and his claim to fame.

Q 3: 'The Grand Lady of Boribundar' started something called Clares. What are we talking about?

Q 4: Identify the logo.

Q 5: Which game is arguably inspired by the following picture?

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Answers:
1. Solitaire[Microsoft has included the game as part of the Windows operating systemsince Windows 3.0, The game was developed by Wes Cherry. [cherries] Solitaire also means diamond and Club Card suggest a card game.]

2. Dutch ophthalmologist Hermann Snellen developed the eye testing "Snellen Chart" which has eleven linesof block letters of decreasing size.

3. Filmfare Awards were known as clare awrds. 'The Grand Lady of Boribundar' is the The Times of India.
4. Future group (Pantloon retail India)
5. Pac-man

Winner: [All correct]
Abhishek Singh Chauhan [TCS]

The Daily Grill-11

Q 1: Identify the advertisement:

Q 2: Identify them and the occasion:

Q 3: Identify this famous person:
[Hint: No one can escape from him, atleast in MBA]

Q 4: Connect to get a famous personality:

Q 5: Identify the movie:

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Answers

1. Kodak

2. Trix and Flix EURO 2008

3. Philip Kotler

4. The Mickey Mouse [ Oswald the Lucky rabbit was replaced by Mickey Mouse, Ub Iwerks created Mickey Mouse, Plane Crazy was Mickey Mouse's first movie, Walt Disney do we need to say]

5. Sciendler's List

Winner [All Correct]

Varun Singh IIM K

Yogesh Bhale (TCS, USA)

Ashwini (Infosys)