Friday, July 15, 2011

Just Quizzing @ 4

1.  What according to the Indian government is the only 3 wheeler that you can drive without a license?

2.  In 1935, Carl Van Ossietzsky, German journalist and pacifist won the Nobel Prize by beating a much more famous person whose nomination for the Prize was vehemently opposed by the British. Who?

3. What is Spanish for a "tall pole"?

4.  If you went to a bar in Bombay and asked for a Sunil Gavaskar what would you get?

5. What did Walt Disney ban his employees, by contract from having?

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Thursday, July 14, 2011

Just Quizzing @ 3

1.During the late 80s the Times of India group had launched a super premium tea brand which met with a quick death in the market. Name the brand.

2. If IBM is the Big Blue, Coca Cola the Big Red, what is Big Black?

3. The name of which Japanese company literally means ’50 Bells’?

4. Which was the first commercial symbol to be displayed at Madame Tussaud’s wax museum?

5. Who once advertised with the slogan ‘Nothing improvises the circulation of a magazine like a dirty picture’?

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Wednesday, July 13, 2011

Just Quizzing @ 2

1. What was advertised with the slogan “You press the button and we do the rest” ?

2.The highest ever wicket partnership in England was between Herbert Sutcliffe and Percy Holmes in 1923 against Essex in Leyton. How is this significant to the present day corporate world?

3. Ads for which Indian product feature the following – a raunchy novel titled ‘fantasies’, perfume and a registered postal package?

4. If you find yourself in an Infinite Loop in the Bay area, where would you be?

5. In the film Mr. And Mrs. 55 Guru Dutt was a cartoonist. Who actually drew the cartoons?

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Tuesday, July 12, 2011

Just Quizzing # 1

Q.1  When Henry Ford died, amongst his last possessions was a test tube. What did it supposedly contain?

Q.2 What are ‘Toast in New York’, ‘Mad about Mauve’, ‘Raisin’ rage’?

Q.3 What is common to Aspirin, Cellophane, Corn flakes, Escalator, Kerosene, Nylon, thermos and Zipper?

Q.4 What did a newly wed Johnson and Johnson employee named Earl G Dickson come up with in 1920 because his wife, who was inexperienced in the kitchen kept burning and cutting herself?

Q.5 By 1861, this product, produced in USA, enjoyed higher sales abroad than in the USA. In Africa, salesmen had to customise the machine because the tribesmen wanted it to be noisier, because they believed ‘good iron made more noise’. Mahatma Gandhi described it as ‘One of the few useful things ever invented’. What?

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