Please find below the answers of the last two parts of my series alongwith the winner/s mentions ….
RVs Viktoriin Serial Kwizzer 3 - 2009 Happy New Year Special – ANSWERS
Hey guys great show once again !! Thanks for your kind patronage.
Congrats winners ... Great work by all of you .... but I really had to assess and re-assess the responses due to very close finishes for all spots – very close gap between the winners made my job very very hard .. hence the delay .. next time aisa hoga then I am gonna jump off the Qutab Minar – can’t take so much of EmotionalAttyachar !
1st Prize of Rs 5000 - joint winners Krish Ganesh & Saket Ranjan
1st Runners Up Prize of Rs 3000 - joint winners Udai Bhan Singh, Chandan
Shahi & Rishabh Banthia
2nd Runners Up Prize of Rs 1000 - joint winners Deepanshu Berry & Aditya Modi
Gift Hamper winners -- Ashish Bhatt, Arun Chatterjee, Pranesh, Mridul Tewari, Manjul Tyagi, Vishal Singh, Alex and S Rajashekhar Keep up the good show ... The moolah maybe insignificant but the spirit of quizzing is paramount !
Once again HATS OFF 2 you all who responded to this insignificant series !
Mail me your a/c nos / addresses asap.
Check out my blogs by Valentine’s Day to crack RVs Viktoriin Serial Kwizzer 4 - Valentine Special Biz Quiz and win a lotta bucks !!DIL SE.......QUIZZICALLY YOURSRanjeet Varma, New Delhi
RVs Viktoriin Serial Kwizzer 3 - 2009 Happy New Year Special – ANSWERS1.) Logos –a) McGrath Foundation
b) Vedanta Resources
c) Betfair
d) 99acres.com
2.) Whatzzit –a) Bernard Madoff Disaster Recovery kit/s on auction on eBay
b) This visual /ad can be found on the McGrath foundation’s website asking for donation – more donation , more nurses .. as depicted in the visual. Fundoo idea.
c) The Retail DNA test – Time Magazine’s Invention of the Year 2008
d) Google doodle on the American Presidential elections
3.) B. Ramalinga Raju
4.) Gatorade
5.) Terms – a) iCrime - The theft of a personal media device, particularly an iPod or iPhone.
b) liquor cycle - A moped or scooter that does not require the rider to have a license, and so can be used by a person who has a suspended license due to a drunk driving conviction.
c) Murketing - A form or marketing where the product or service is not mentioned or shown. [Blend of murky and marketing]
d) Pinkwashing - Used critically of corporate campaigns and practices in which the sponsoring companies position themselves as leaders in the struggle to eradicate breast cancer while engaging in practices that may be contributing to rising rates of the disease. [Blend of pink, the color associated with breast cancer research, and whitewashing, "concealing flaws"]
6.) Nivea
7.) Book Covers –a) Planet Google
b) Tribes
c) Buyology
d) Outliers
8.) Starbucks
9.) Bayer
10.) Dunkin’ Donuts
11.) The newspaper ‘DIE BURGER’
12.) Nouriel Roubini ( Dr DOOM )
13.) Potrzebie System of Weights and Measures is set of standards that came up in a issue of MAD magazines comic series in which the unit was based on the thickness of the MAD magazine issue. The basis of this revolutionary system, according to Knuth, is that 1 potrzebie is equal to the thickness of the Mad magazine issue #26 or 2.63348517438173216473 mm.
14.) Charles Ponzi
15.) Carlos Slim Helu
AU REVOIR !RVs Viktoriin Serial Kwizzer 2 – ANSWERSJay Prakash Chhajer and Rabi Shankar Saha jointly win RVs Viktoriin Serial Kwizzer 2 and 1000 bucks.
Great work "Jazzy" Jay and Rabi "QuizDada" – thanx 4 responding. But you had very very tough competition from Ashok Prabhu ( Wipro, Bangalore ) – a cliff hanger of a finish !
Chandan Shahi from New Delhi ( who just missed being on the top of RVs Viktoriin Serial Kwizzer 2 by a few hours and Siddharth Mukund Srivastava jointly win Quinkie Anniversary Special posted on bizdom.blogspot. com and 1000 bucks each – questions and answers of the same would be uploaded on my blogs soon !)
Took into account correct answers & explanations & the early bird / time factor while deciding on the winner ---- please spare me so many cliffhangers or I will jump off a cliff !
Notable mentions – Manjul, Kumar Vaibhav, Jayant Gupta, P. Rajesh, Miraj Vora, Anubhav, Tanuka Chatterjee, Ashish Jain etc.
PS* - Keep up the good show ... the moolah is insignificant but the spirit of quizzing is paramount!
Mail me your a/c nos / addresses asap.
Check out this blog to crack RVs Viktoriin Serial Kwizzer 3 and win Rs 5000/- , 3000/- , 1000/- bucks !!DIL SE.......QUIZZICALLY YOURSRanjeet Varma, New Delhi
RVs Viktoriin Serial Kwizzer 2 – ANSWERS1.) Taco Bell
2.) The scarf she was wearing resembled a Arabic Kaffiyeh scarf, perceived in the West to be worn by Islamic hardliners / fundamentalists or simply put – terrorists / jehadis.
3.) Leap Year ( 2008 was a leap year and hats off to Google for this “leapy” idea – Croak Croak !)
4.) Lalit Modi ( IPL ka Big Boss ! )
5.) Global Warming
6.) Save the Tiger - the national animal of India ( the reference to Kangaroos And Kiwis - the national animals of Oz and NZ respectively was brilliant ! )
7.) Google ( This was an intended Googly / Doosra ). Foxed you 0r not ?
8.) Lego
9.) Hershey’s
10.) Vijay Mallya
11.) Heinz
12.) Absolut Vodka
13.) Wal-Mart
14.) Ceat
15.) Glaxo ( the Ribena controversy in New Zealand – thanx to the smart schoolgirls)
16.) Penguin Books
17.) Fedex ( Fedex carrier carrying the UPS carriers - Brilliant ! )
18.) Because "Yahoo" had already been trademarked for barbecue sauce (and knives (by EBSCO Industries). Therefore, in order to get the trademark, founders Jerry Yang and David Filo added the exclamation mark to the name.
In January 1994, Jerry Yang and David Filo were Electrical Engineering graduate students at Stanford University. They started a list of web pages in a campus trailer in February 1994, as a way to keep track of their personal interests on the Internet. The lists were published as a web site named "Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web", and grew large enough to require categories and subcategories organized in a hierarchy. In April 1994, "Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web" was renamed "Yahoo". Filo and Yang said they selected the name because they liked the word's general definition, which comes from Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift: "rude, unsophisticated, uncouth." Its URL was akebono.stanford.edu/yahoo.
19.) The technique used to get the phone bills ( which was admitted by HP in 2006 to be committed by its non-executive chairman, Patricia Dunn - subsequently shown the door owing to this scandal ) which usually means pretending to be the person whose records you're after to get a copy of those records but however it's done it definitely means lying about who you are to get those records. There's a federal law against pretexting to get financial records, but other than that it appears it's a legal gray area.
In a series of whipsaw revelations over a few days in September 2006 - on which more ink was spent than Enron got - it had come to light that HP's non-executive chairman Patricia Dunn, who was then supposedly one of the most powerful women in America and was instrumental in removing HP CEO Carly Fiorina, set in train a search for a boardroom leak that involved getting the home and cell phone records of the HP board, nine journalists and two unidentified HP employees to see who was leaking to the press.
20.) A computer device with an embedded Trojan Horse left in a conspicuous location.
21.) Herbalife
22.) Pedigree ( renowned K9 food products brand )
23.) Percept Limited
24.) Hertz Car Rental ( Great Idea to warn against drunken driving )
25.) Amnesty International
26.) Landmine Detection Plants courtesy a Danish company Aresa Biodetection which in 2004 announced that it had produced an unusual new variant of thale-cress, a small flowering weed: a strain that turns red in the presence of land mines. Aresa scientists had genetically modified the weed so that it reacts to nitrogen dioxide, a gas commonly emitted by explosives. A result is a new way to detect mines: sprinkle the seeds over a suspect area, wait a few weeks for the thale-cress to grow and -- presto -- wherever they turn red, you have danger.
27.) Explain the terms –
a) Phantom Load - Standby power or leaking electricity refers to electricity consumed by devices while they are switched off
b) Tuxeda - A tuxedo designed for a woman
c) Burqini - A type of swimsuit for women designed by Lebanese Australian Aheda Zanetti. Burqa and bikini - combinedly called burqini;.
d) Scuppie - Socially Conscious Upward Mobile Person.
e) Entertoyment - The massive marketing and product tie-ins that accompany blockbuster movies such as Batman and Toy Story.
28.) Countries with McDonald's stores ( till the date of the framing of the question – Source : Wikipedia )
29.) All fictitious companies used in / associated with famous comics and their leading characters.
30.) Firsts / superlatives ( obviously Biz Connected ! ) –
a) Reg Varney, British actor becoming the first user of the world's first ATM ( naturally ) in 1967, located at a branch of Barclays Bank, Enfield
b) Believe it or not – the first Anti McDonald’s Campaign in India at a retail outlet
c) Anousheh Ansari – world’s first female private space explorer – founder and chairman of Prodea Systems
d) World’s first Cinemascope movie release – The Robe ( 1953 )
e) World’s first million dollar laptop made by Luvaglio
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I am not disclosing the answer to this question as nobody answered rightly to this one … Try again and win a special prize !AU REVOIR !
