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Wednesday, March 19, 2008

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!

Tuesday, March 18, 2008

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

Monday, March 17, 2008

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)

Thursday, March 13, 2008

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)

Wednesday, March 12, 2008

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.

Tuesday, March 11, 2008

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.

Sunday, March 9, 2008

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)

Saturday, March 8, 2008

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

Friday, March 7, 2008

The Daily Grill-28

Q 1: Identify the Advertisement.

Q 2: Tantra Entertainment Pvt. Ltd. and Sensazinone Leisure Pvt. Ltd. are companies launched by which Indian actress.

Q 3: Connect.

Q 4: Identify.
[Hint: Corporate Finance]

Q 5: Seeing the dirty walls of India because of paan juice (Betel Leaf juice), this brand came up with paan flavoured chewing gums in India with a campaign - "Keep your city clean". Name the brand.

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Answers:
1) Makemytrip.com
2) Sushmita Sen
3) M Night Shyamalan (Joined American Express Company's "My life. My card." global brand campaign, Bruce Willis starred in his movies Sixth Sense, Bryce allas Howard, The Buried Secrets of M Night Shyamalan, The Happening )
4) J. P. Morgan
5) Frazer Pan Flavored Gum

Winners:
Swati Gaitonde (Milwaukee, USA)
Saurabh Maiwal - Oracle
Vinaytosh Mishra - IM, Nirma Univ.
Rupali Verma - IM, Nirma Univ.
Ashwini Pore - Infosys
Santosh Patil (Milwaukee-USA)
Yogesh Bhale (TCS, USA )

Winners of the Week:
Ashwini Pore - Infosys
Yogesh Bhale (TCS, USA )

Thursday, March 6, 2008

The Daily Grill-27

Q 1: Identify the product advertised and the brand

Q 2: Which organization was formed as a result of a bicycle tour organised by John Dengler in 1933?

Q 3: Connect.

Q 4: Identify.
[Hint:Item Song in the Hindi movie Gangajal]


Q 5: This is a brand promotion ad for a Golf event. Which brand is advertised?

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Answers:
1. Samsung Mobile Phone with Tracking Technology.
2. Students International Travel Association(SITA)
3. Hawk-Eye [Hawk-Eye is a computer system used in cricket, tennis and other sports to track the path of the ball.]
4. Rhea Pillai [Item girl in Gangajal was Manyata who married to Sanjay Dutt recently. Rhea Pillai is Sanjay's ex-wife.]
5. Audi

Winners:
Ashwini Pore - Infosys Technologies
Yogesh Bhale (TCS, USA )

Wednesday, March 5, 2008

The Daily Grill-26

Q 1: Identify the product advertised and the brand name [if you can guess looking carefully at the picture;)].

Q 2: What is the significance of this phrase?
"Ray, Ray' Ray! TIGER, TIGER, SIS, SIS, SIS! BOOM, BOOM, BOOM! Aaaaah! PRINCETON, PRINCETON, PRINCETON!"

Q 3: Connect.

Q 4: Identify.
[Hint: Cheap Goods]

Q 5: Which nickname is derived from this man as seen in the picture. Identify the event.

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Answers:
1. Ferrero Rocher Chocolate. [Notice the wrapper like border! ;)]
2. Cheerleading - first organized, recorded cheer at Princeton University in 1884
3. Leo Burnett - [ Leo Burnett himself with the first office in 1935, Hand Reaching Star created by Leo, Leo used to keep bowl of Apples @ every receptionist's desk; Black pencil, an Alpha 245 of the type commonly used by Burnett in his lifetime, Pillsbury Doughboy, Marlboro Man and Tony the Tiger creations of Leo.]
4. Samuel Moore Walton founder of Wal-Mart
5. Tank Man or the Unknown Rebel - an anonymous man who became internationally famous when he was videotaped and photographed during the Tiananmen Square protests on 5 June1989

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

Tuesday, March 4, 2008

The Daily Grill-25

Q 1: Identify the product advertised in this Ad. Also identify the brand.

Q 2: Which brand derives its name from the lead character in the picture below?

Q 3: Connect.

Q 4: Identify the personality.
[Hint: Auto]

Q 5: Identify the brand.
[Hint: Look carefully.]

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Answers:
1. Bausch & Lomb Contact lenses. Notice that Gandhiji is not wearing glasses. ;)
2. Nivea. It means Snow-White.
3. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) [ The Silver Spring monkeys because of which it gained popularity, the two founders Ingrid Newkirk and Alexander Fernando Pacheco. They generally promote the group by "nude" ads advocating no use of animal fur.]
4. Lido Anthony "Lee" Iacocca [Famous for Ford and Chrysler Corp.]
5. Home Lights match sticks! [Yaya, we know it's tough to get the exact Brand name! Guessing the product is also fine!]

Winners: None. Nobody could answer all answers correctly.