Quiz at NMIMS

After NITIE (where we falied to be on stage again), it's time to head back to our alma mater NMIMS. Our track record here has been better and hopefully it will remain lucky for us.

There will be a Corporate Business Quiz - Solomon’s Stride, as part of the Annual B-school Event Paragana 2009, at the Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies (NMIMS), Mumbai.

Details:
Date : 15th November, 2009 (Sunday)

Timings : 5.45 pm
Venue : NMIMS Campus, Mumbai
Quiz Master : Amit Pandeya
Registrations : Opens at 5.15 pm & On the spot. You can also drop a mail at mantavya.nmims@gmail.com

Team Composition : Mixed teams allowed amongst Corporates & Mixed teams allowed amongst Students. No mixed teams between Corporates & Students.
Quiz Pattern : Top 7 teams make it to the Finals after a written Prelims. Out of these 7 Teams, a minimum of 2 Student Teams will qualify for the Finals i.e. 5 team positions are open.

As per the quizmaster, the quiz will essentially cover a gamut of business related topics but may have questions on general interests as well.

Registration: Rs 300 for the Corporate Teams.

Entry free for the Student Teams.

Prizes : 1st - worth Rs 40k, 2nd - worth Rs 20k

Business Quiz at NITIE

NITIE is organizing a business quiz as part of its annual management fest 'Prerana.'

Details:
Date - 7th November, Saturday
Time - Registration starts from 4.30pm
3+3 quota
Rs 500 registration for corporates
Prizes worth Rs 50k
QM: Radhakrishnan (research by Dhananjay & team)

On a personal note, NITIE has not proved lucky for me yet; never reached the finals. Last year hoped to reach the finals for the first time after seeing the prelims paper. Sadly, it proved to be a rare occassion when the prelims paper got changed. The new prelims completely stumped us and left us grounded in the audience :P

Keeping fingers crossed this time.

Change in timings of Quriosity@ IMTG

This was just a reminder about the 'Quriosity' Business Quiz taking place tomorrow (1st November) at 'Passion 2009' in IMT Ghaziabad.

Please note the change in timings:

Prelims start from 3:00 PM; prelims to be followed immediately by the Finals.

Other details remain unchanged. Look forward to seeing you all tomorrow.

'Quriosity' Business Quiz at IMT Ghaziabad 'Passion 2009'

IMT Ghaziabad is having a quiz 'Quriosity' as part of the institute's annual management fest 'Passion 2009'.

Details:
Event - Quriosity
Flavour - Business Quiz
Open to - Students of B-School only
Team Size - 2 (Both members should be from same insti, any no. of teams from an insti)

Date - 1st November, 2009 (Sunday)
Timings - Prelims: 1.30 PM onwards, finals immediately after prelims

Research - Trivia Tales
Quizmaster - Souvik Basu (yours truly)

Prizes: 1st prize - Rs. 20,000 ; 2nd prize - Rs. 10,000
No quotas or reservations, top 6 teams make it to the finals.

Please visit the official link here: http://passion-imtg.com/Quriosity.html

SIBM Transcend 2009

Diwali greetings! Hope the festival of lights fills your lives with health, wealth & happiness.

Had conducted the business quiz 'BizArena' at SIBM 'Transcend 2009' in March along with SIBM alumnus Samrat Mukherjee. Here are a few questions from the prelims.

1. Percept Picture Company, Congress’ media campaigner for General Elections 2009, had bought the exclusive rights for what from Super Cassettes Industries for around Rs 1 crore, to use in Congress' election campaign?
2. Some belongings of Mahatma Gandhi that were in the possession of documentary film-maker James Otis grabbed headlines recently. The famous hotel baron Sant Singh Chatwal said he would bid for them. Ultimately it was Vijay Mallya who bought them. Which auction house carried out this auction?
3. Institute of Development in Automotive Engineering was where it was designed. The parent company has filed 34 patents for it. What are we describing?
4. Identify this person.

5. Which company’s waste management program and environment friendly initiative in India is called eKO?
6. Who trades on NYSE as 'COP'?
7. This brand recorded a retail value – i.e. what the end consumer paid on the street of $1.6 billion or Rs 8300 crores during 2008. These figures were reported by the company to New York-based Impact International, a leading industry digest, as part of its annual listing of the world’s top spirits brands and their marketers.
The reported retail value makes it probably the eighth biggest spirits brand globally.
Which brand? (specific answer)

Answers:
1. The rights to the song 'Jai Ho'
2. Antiquorum Auctioneers
3. Tata Nano
4. AS Murthy
5. Coca Cola
6. ConocoPhillips
7. McDowell's No. 1


Finals:
1. Minimally Invasive Education (or MIE) is a term used to describe how children learn in unsupervised environments. It was derived from an experiment done by Sugata Mitra while at NIIT in 1999 often called The Hole in the Wall (HiWEL).
Under this project, computers could be installed in backward areas. Young children taught themselves about the use of computers without intervention from the experimenters.
What was inspired by this and is huge news and has done huge business recently?


2. The Ministry of Finance has recently launched a nation-wide competition for the design of a symbol. The symbol should:
¡Represent the historical and cultural prominence of the country
¡Be widely acceptable across the country
¡Be applicable to standard keyboard
¡Be in the Indian National Language Script or a visual representation
The top 5 selections will receive Rs 25K each irrespective of getting selected as the final symbol. The jury of examiners would consist of seven members drawn from various organizations in the field of arts, finance, culture, history etc. Entries must reach the right people latest by 1300 hours on 15th April 2009.
What symbol are we talking about?
3. Ad for?

Answers:
1. Slumdog Millionaire

The movie Slumdog Millionaire is adapted from the book Q & A (novel). Vikas Swarup in various interviews has acknowledged HiWEL as the inspiration behind the book.The author has said that he was inspired by the Hole in the Wall project which installed a computer in a Delhi slum.

2. A new symbol for Indian Rupee instead of writing Rs. or Re.

3. Viagra

The quiz was jointly won by SIBM and SLS (Symbiosis Law School). The teams agreed to split the prizes among themselves.

Brand Equity Quiz 2009 (Mumbai)

Went to see the Mumbai round of BEQ yesterday. Nice quiz overall. However, if you are someone who only enjoys tough questions, then you may have been disappointed.

Here are some questions from the prelims.
1. Mr. Foster of M/S Crompton Greaves company in Mumbai was the first to own a ____ in India.
Ans - car
2. Du Pont pioneered this concept of feedback where feedback was got from peers, superiors, suboridnates. (something like this).
Ans - 360 degree
3. Sylla Petit was the 1st woman pilot of India. Who was her brother?
Ans - JRD Tata
4. With which industry will you associate the Geneva seal?
Ans - Watches
5. Melinda Gates very few things banned in her household. Among them are ___ & ___.
Ans - i-phones & i-pods (1 choice was fish & chips)
6. If 16 annas equal to 1 Re, what did 15 rupees equal to? (1 mohur, 1 cowpie, 1 cent)
Ans - 1 mohur
7. Every year 13 billion ___ bags are haned over to British shoppers.
Ans - polythene
8. If it is Dharavi in Mumbai, Bronx in New York, where is Favelas?
Ans - Rio de Janerio
9. According to Peter Drucker, a company has only two finctions: marketing & ____.
Ans - innovation (1 choice was segmentation)
10. In monopsony, there is only one ____. (buyer/seller/agent/regulator)
Ans - buyer
11. Which city's name comes under the brand name Haldiram in packages of Haldiram products?Ans - Nagpur
12. What is run by Corrections Corporation which is the largest of its type in US?
Ans - prisons
13. Grey Goose is a brand of ____ (product)?
Ans - vodka
14. The copyright on the works of which Indian expired on Jan 1, 2009?
Ans - Mahatma Gandhi
15. For what did Max Yesgur rent out his dairy farm in Bethel, New York, for 3 days in 1969?Ans - Woodstock
16. After the 2006 world cup, with which player did Adidas colloborate to come up with Powerserve?
Ans - Zinedine Zidane
17. According to the site, you can win an i-pod by hitting whose face with rotten egg on the site Nailthethief.com ?
Ans - Ramalinga Raju
18. Which district in UP is called the Suha-gs Nagri as it fulfils what a suhagin needs?
Ans - Ferozabad
19. visual N. Hiranandani
20. print ad for Vadilal
21. logo of Deccan Chargers
22. visual of Rajkumar Santoshi
23. print ad for De Beers

1 bad thing about the prelims was that q's were not repeated. The teams even did not get any time at the end also for any last moment changes.

Absolute Pharma Quiz at NMIMS SPTM on 21st February

SVKM's NMIMS School of Pharmacy and Technological Management (SPTM) is oraganizing an open quiz called 'Absolute Pharma Intellect' at their annual corporate event 'ISTHMUS 2009'.
Date - 21st February, 2009
Registration - 5 pm Time
Prelims from 6:00 PM sharp, followed by finals. The entire quiz will be around 2.30 - 3.0 hrs duration.
Venue - Usha Praveen Gandhi Pavilion, JVPD Scheme, Vile Parle West, Mumbai. (Landmarks NMIMS & Mithibai College)
Quiz Details - It will be a smattering of General & Business Quiz, covering entire gamut of topics under the Pharmacy, Healthcare & Medicinal fields.
Quiz Masters - Amit Pandeya & Souvik Basu
Prizes :
1st Prize - Rs 10,000/-
2nd Prize - Rs 6,000/-
3rd Prize - Rs 4,000/-
( Additionally, there might be some Gift Vouchers ).
Other details :
1. 2 member teams
2. Open to both corporates and students
3. Mixed teams allowed amongst Students, Corporates & Corporates - Students
4. No registration charges.
5. On-the-spot registration will start from 5 PM.
For any further details, please contact : Mr. Manish Misra (Contact no. - 98194-62737).