BIZZARD, the BIZ Quiz

BIZZARD*
*Biz Quiz with a General touch

Note of Gratitude
Special thanks to the founders of Google and
Wikipedia for their wonderful invention. Also,
to the Official Sites of various companies, News
agencies/Newspapers for their reports, articles.
Most of the information have been sourced/cross-
checked from the above mentioned references.

Your Quizmaster for the day:
Kumar Shivam
(or Shivam Kumar, as he is known in Facebook
and other Social Networking Sites)
www.facebook.com/ShivamKumar252

Disclaimer: All the questions asked here have been
researched by me and not lifted from any other
Quiz blog/Page/Group. Any resemblance whatsoever
is purely Co-Incidental.
Some of the questions (4 to be Specific) have been
previously asked in my Page Quizzing India
(www.facebook.com/QuizzingIndia)

Rules:
All Questions on Pounce.
+10/-10 on Pounce
+10/0 on Direct/Pass Question.
N.B. The Quizmaster is always right.
(alteast for the next one hour )

What is defined in the Oxford dictionary as “a place or a situation in
which people or ideas are decided severely, often creating something
new or exciting in the process”
X, as all of the Science students would also know, is fire resistant
and is used for work involving very high temperatures. It withstands
extreme heat and comes out undamaged at the end of the process.
The name X was chosen as it signifies test of fire, where-from the
individual comes out unscathed and successful if he is able to
withstand the test of fire.
Which word am I talking about?

Ans: Crucible. (Of TATA Crucible fame).
The Quizmaster being East Zone Champion and National
Finalist of TATA Crucible 2015, is bound to ask a Question on
it 

Originally named Peleus, ‘In-Q-Tel’ is a
not-for-profit venture capital firm that
invests in high-tech companies. It’s list
of investments include Facebook,
Inktomi, Spotfire, 3VR, Contour,
Quanterix, Skytree among others.
Which unlikely organisation owns this ?

Ans: Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)

MSTC Ltd (Metal Scrap Trading Corporation) is a Mini
Ratna Category-I PSU under the administrative control
of the Ministry of Steel. It is the first Public Sector
Company in India dealing in e-Commerce. Among other
things, It is involved in quarterly e-auctions of a
‘commodity’, which boasts of ‘Bhavani Enterprises’,
‘Uja Export and Import’ as major companies in this
trade. Which commodity am I talking about?

Ans: Hair tonsured by devotees in Tirupati Temple.

In this particular year, Sachin Tendukar,
Manmohan Singh, The Pope were declared
the TIME ‘Person of the Year’ among others.
Which year?

2006
The TIME Person of the year was “YOU”

This is the obverse side of ‘Fugio
Cent’, the first official cent of the
United States, designed by
Benjamin Franklin. As a reminder
to its holders, he put at its
bottom, a message which is a very
famous phrase. Which phrase?

The origin of the word dates back to the time of Saint
Albertus Magnus who lived between 1193 and 1280 A.D.,
while French writer Villiers popularized the term in his
1886 novel “L’Eve Future”. The word appeared in US
patents as early as 1863 in reference to miniature human-
like toy automations. Irina Blok created its logo, inspired
by the Male/Female sign infront of toilets.
What am I talking about?

“www.paisaboltahai.rbi.org.in”
is a Reserve Bank of India initiative
with a tagline ‘Pehchano Paise Ki
Boli, Kyunki Paisa Bolta Hai’ to
create mass awareness and provide
information on ‘something’. What?

Ans: It provides information on various
security features of the Indian Currency
Notes and thus helps in detecting Fake Notes

Ans: YAHOO!
These are the characters named ‘Yahoo’ from the
novel ‘Gulliver's Travels’ by Jonathan Swift

Giovanni Antonio Gammarelli started his activity
as tailor in 1798. He was followed by his son
Filippo, and then by Filippo's son Annibale who in
1874 transferred the shop in Via Santa Chiara 34,
in the building of the Pontifical Ecclesiastical
Academy, where it still is. When Annibale died,
his sons Bonaventura and Giuseppe decided to
retain the name “Ditta Annibale Gammarelli”, as
an homage to their father. What is the claim to
fame of the clothing company “Ditta Annibale
Gammarelli” ?

Ans: They are the official clothes supplier to
‘The Pope’

During the 6th Ministerial level meeting of
the India-US Trade Policy Forum (TPF) in April
2007, US allowed import of Mangoes from
India. What did India allow to import from US
in exchange ?

This is the menu of the Nobel Banquet,
organised for the 2014 Nobel Prize
winners. What has been blanked out,
which was created in collaboration with
Vernon Mauris in memory of a person
who owned the company ‘Bofors’ from
1894 until his death in 1896, and is a
blend of X and Chinese Keemun ?
(Pic. in the next slide)

Ans: ‘Nobel Museum Tea Blend’, created in
honour of Alfred Nobel. The blend is made of
‘Assam and Chinese Keemun tea’

Air India's then commercial director Bobby Kooka
and Umesh Rao, an artist with J. Walter Thompson
Ltd created ‘it’ which was adopted in its present
form in 1946. In 2014, the new Indian PM Narendra
Modi reportedly asked the minister concerned to
replace ‘it’ with something. What change did he
suggest which reminds us of a political party
among others?

Ans: Replacing the Air India Mascot ‘The
Maharajah’ with something that represents
the ‘Aam Aadmi’

Incorporated on January 30, 1997 in Chennai, it was set up
on the recommendations of the ‘Expert Group on
Commercialisation of Infrastructure Projects’ under the
Chairmanship of Dr. Rakesh Mohan.
Set up in 2001 by Chandra Shekhar Ghosh, this Kolkata-
based company began with a focus on working with
‘socially disadvantaged and economically exploited
women’
What Connects this two companies?
(Logo of the two companies in the next slide)

They are firms named ‘IDFC’ and ‘Bandhan
Financial Services’, which were granted
“Banking license” by RBI from among 25
applicants which included corporate
heavyweights like Reliance, Aditya Birla
Group, Bajaj Group etc.

In a list compiled by the Forbes Magazine for the
year 2014, Michael Jackson tops the list, followed by
Elvis Presley, Cartoonist Charles Schulz (best known
for the comic strip Peanuts) and Elizabeth Taylor.
Other notable persons in this list include Bob Marley,
Marilyn Monroe, John Lennon, Albert Einstein
and Bruce Lee.
What is this list all about?

Ans: World’s Top-Earning “Dead Celebrity”

What connects these three companies ?

Ans: First Indian start-ups to be acquired by
Facebook, Google and Yahoo respectively

She is Vimla Mehra, an IPS officer of the 1978
batch. Her statue in the premises of ‘this
organisation’ resulted in a lot of controversy,
which ultimately resulted in her transfer. The
picture is a part of the statue which featured
in the in-house magazine of the organisation
named ‘Ek Nayi Pahal’.
Which organisation am I talking about ?

Ans: Warner Bros. They are Albert, Harry, Sam
and Jack

Who is this person featuring in the Swiss Currency
Note ?
(Larger pic in the next slide)

As per legend, Pandya king Harikesari Parakkirama wanted to
construct a temple for Hindu god Shiva at Tenkasi and went
to Kashi to bring a lingam (an iconic representation of Shiva). While
returning to his palace with the prized lingam, he rested under the
grove of a vilva tree, the favourite tree of Shiva. When the cow
carrying the lingam refused to move from the point, the king realised
that the wishes of Shiva were different from his own, and he placed
the lingam in the place where the cow halted. Thus, this place got its
name. This Town was nicknamed “Mini Japan” by Jawaharlal Nehru
and produces about 70% of the country’s produce of a particular
product and also 30% of the total ‘diaries’ produced in India giving
rise to an emergent printing industry. Which town am I talking about??

Ans: Sivakasi. Famous for firecrackers
and match factories.

Ans: Kumar Sangakkara and Mahela Jayawardene

Evangelical Christians in Brazil had apparently banned
the use of ‘it’ after claiming that the technology is
the mark of Satan-worshippers. According to them,
this symbol resembled a trident. Ajay Bhatt (pic in
next slide) of Intel is the co-founder of this
technology, the development of which began with
the collaboration of seven companies namely Compaq,
DEC, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, NEC, and Nortel. What
technology am I talking about ?

The literal meaning of this term is “to chop”. A symbol was
used for it between the 16th century and the 18th century.
The symbol consisted of the letters "Р" (rotated 90° counter-
clockwise) and "У" (written on top of it). The symbol was
placed over the amount number it belonged to. This symbol,
however, fell into disuse during the 19th century and
onward. In December 2013, the official symbol of this
currency was chosen which was a Cyrillic letter ‘Er’ with a
single added horizontal stroke. Which currency is described
above?
(Pic of the Present and the former symbol in the next slide)

Present Symbol Previously used Symbol

Ans: Russian Ruble (or Rouble)

Identify this Indian Economist. He was the fictional
winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics in “The
Simpsons” episode ‘Elementary School Musical’ and
has co-authored books like “India's Tryst with
Destiny” and “Why Growth Matters” with Arvind
Panagariya.
(Larger pic in next slide)

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