Claim to fame

Camille Gutt , a Belgian Jewish Economist is believed to have been responsible for the saving of the Belgian Franc before and after World War II. Before the war, he saved the Belgian currency by secretly transferring the gold reserves of the Belgian National Bank out of Nazi reach. After the war, he stabilized the Belgian franc and forestalled inflation, with what still is known as the Gutt operation. However his claim to fame comes as being the first person to be something. What?

First president of IMF

Aima Quiz 2009 Chennai Questions and Review

A few questions from the prelims of the AIMA quiz

1. Satyam, Sharam, Scandalam -- Who ran this ad?

Amul

2. Showed the picture of a green and purple train -- Non Stop Air Conditioned from city to city -- what is the name of this train?

Duranto

3. Cineblitz cover -- With which Airline would you connect this magazine

Kingfisher

4. Google Doodle of the 40th year of Moon Landing -- ID

5. Complete the tagline --- There are somethings money can buy -- for everything else there is -----------------

Mastercard

6. Q5,Q7,TT,R8 are brands of which automobile company?

Audi

7. Pic of Devi Shetty

8. Pic of Arvind jaadhav

9. Pic of Lord Megnad Desai

10. Territorial Army's Lieutenant --- South Indian Actor -- Who?

Mohan Lal

11.Who will be replacing David Backham as the Global Ambassador of Motoralo for a contract of 23 Crores?

A.R.Rahman

12. CISF Logo shown -- which Indian Private company is the first company to get protection from this agency?

Infosys

13.askforOriginal.com is whose website?

Microsoft

14. Snow Leopard is the new OS from which company?

Apple

15. Connect Ruchi, Chinni, Maa , Coty?

CavinKare

Had participated in last years quiz and had been on stage last year -- but was totally disheartened by the cheesy presentation and the "either you know it or you don't know it" questions.

Due to shift in companies -- Didn't participate in quiz (the quiz entry fee was 6k) and sat peacefully in the audience and started attempting the questions. Half way through the quiz , I realized that the same cheesy presentation had to be endured this year as well. However the questions were surprisingly decent. In fact didn't mind sitting thru the quiz.

The cutoff for the prelims was 19 on 30 -- And I think CTS with Shubham Roy and Venkatesh NA topped the prelims with 26. A relatively easy prelims but kept everyone interested.

Just a couple of things that the quizmaster probably have to take care

-- The Length of the quiz -- With just 5 round of quizzing -- the quiz is extremely short and is totally unfair to the participants who spend 6k for the quiz. The quiz should definitely be longer.

-- The Scoring system -- Was extremely skewed -- having 20 points in one round and 10 points for each buzzer basically ensures that you win the quiz -- if you are awake through just two rounds.

Questions in rounds 1 and 3 in the finals ( the Bonus round and Killer Fields Round) might give immense pleasure to the QM but if the questions are archane -- it is pure luck -- not quizzing.

Especially in the Killer Fields round -- after the grids for the first four teams , I think the 5th and 6th teams were stunned to get lists that you wont get even if you mugged.

Overall a better show compared to last year with respect to the questions -- but a lot of improvement is still possible.

Review of Inspiron 2009 -- UVCE Quiz

The day started with two petrol heads meeting at Thirumangalam at 5:15 in the morning. A nice peaceful drive saw Anish and I reach Bangalore by 9:45 -- well ahead of the scheduled time for the quiz. Having had breakfast we decided to sit down for the quiz , when the organizers decided to hold two events Biz Wiz and the corporate quiz at the same time. Corporate Quizzers found themselves in a lecture hall while the quiz was about to begin in a quadrangular. After that little hiccup everyone turned up again at the quadrangular and the prelims went thru. Slisha on the tough side but there were enough clues in each question.

Some prelims questions

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1.What two words connect Yes Bank and Karnataka Bank?

Money Plant

2. Gave the conditions put forward by the depart ment of enterprises to determins something -- final score had to be atleast 60

These were the conditions to determine if a PSU was a Navaratna or not

3.Freaks ,Irregulars, Defects, Oddities -- where would you encounter these?

These are defective coins

4. Who makes the trophies for the Vince Lombardi Trophy(NFL), NBA , World Series ( MLB)?

Tiffany's

5.Steve Jobs in his book iCon had mentioned about these 4 people as the inspirational model for business -- although four different personalites -- they pulled in the same direction as a team. Who?

The Beatles

6.Funda about Red Ocean and Blue Ocean Strategy.

7. Whose next book is The Little Big Things , 179 more ways of Pursuing Excellence

Tom Peters

8. VSS mani started this company, when he got a telephone line from MTNL etc etc... what company which calls itself the no. 1 in its space?

Just Dial

9. Connect Steve Jobs and Rashmi Bansal

Stay Hungry Stay Foolish

10.Steven Speilberg Colloborated with this company for the realism of intimate.... (couldnt get it fully). Which company and what technology?

Telepresence by Cisco

The finals had some really good teams JK+Kid , Udupa+Ajay , Vinod Rajamani+Tanmay , Apu + Tups , Naveen Giles + Team , Nikhil Lasrado + Team. A very nice finals , but the only grouse was that it was a bit of a hurricane final. The organisers really need to know about scheduling events. Mitesh had to rush through the finals , in order to not reduce the number of rounds. Otherwise the questions were really nice and was good fun. The day ended with a nice drive down to Chennai.

Bottom line -- A great Trip , a Good Quiz , and Bad scheduling and organizing by college.

Sports Kwij #6

Identify this person who was known by his nickname -- Shifter due to his drastic step up of pace during the finish of a race?

Sports Kwij #5

Id the mountain on which you would find this memorial -- This is one of the most famous climbs in the Tour de France

Didn't expect anyone to answer this but was pleasantly surprised to find a Tour de France follower -- V gets it right . It is Mont Ventoux.

Sports Kwij #4

Dedication to my cousin -- who is a major F1 fan.

Identify the circuit and the two drivers ( bonus point for the year)

Check the Comments for the complete answer. -- Turned out to be a pretty easy one.

Sports Kwij #3

Easy one :
Identify the stadium in front of which you would find this statute.

Anish got it right -- It is the United Center Stadium in Chicago -- and it obviously number 23.

Sports Kwij #2

Connect The Two Pictures

Only Ashwin was able to get Lamar Hunt.

The guy is Lamar Hunt -- the person who created the AFL and the concept of a SuperBowl. He got the name Superbowl after looking at his kids play with the balls in the second pic -- called as superballs.

Sports Kwij #1

Starting a new set of questions -- Sports related questions -- 1 Question per day -- the questions go up at 11PM everyday.

Identify this legend ( all clues in the background)





Two of you got it right -- Gururaj and Dinesh

It is Bill Shankly the legendary coach of Liverpool

Tata Crucible Preparations 2009 #145

Which Indian company sold it pharma division to Singapore based Frensius Kabi?



Answer to Tata Crucible Preparations 2009 #144

Benetton