The Shattacs Quiz 2010. Genre Answers to all questions are ones that you have come certainly come across during everyday life A generic application is.

The Shattacs Quiz

2010

Genre

• Answers to all questions are ones that you have come certainly come across during everyday life

• A generic application is all that it take to crack every question

• More than anything else, get creative. The wackiest of answers will get prizes as well!

General Round

Question 1

• What is believed to have been invented by Mavalli Tiffin Rooms during World War II when rice was in short supply?

Q 1: Answer

• Rava Idly!

Question 2

• Every year, 15th September is celebrated as ______ Day in India celebrating the birth anniversary of Sir M Visveswaraya. Fill in the blank.

Q2: Answer

• Engineers Day!

Question 3

• The upper limit to define what is given by the World Bank as $1.25 per day, and by the Asian Development Bank as $1.35 per day?

Q3: Answer

• Poverty

Question 4

• Which is the only Summer Olympics sport that does not include events for women?

Q4: Answer

• Boxing. Women’s boxing which was not included in the Beijing Games is again being considered for the 2012 Games.

Question 5

• Where would one find this allegory of the developing Indian economy – a man on a harvester, a woman at a computer, an offshore oil rig, a satellite, and an automated steel production plant?

Q5: Answer

• The Rs.1000 note

Business

Question 1

• Which innovative vehicle is marketed as the G-Wiz in UK and qualifies for exemption from the “London congestion charge” because of its unique nature?

Q1: Answer

• Reva!

Question 2

• Connect the three:

Question 3

• Expand NASDAQ

Q3: Answer

• National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations

Question 4

• Connect the following: A character in Salman Rushdie’s Satanic Verses, direct descendants of Chatrapathi Shivaji’s caste and Six Sigma.

Q4: Answer

• The Dabbawallas of Mumbai. In Rushdie’s novel the character Gibreel Faishta worked as a Dabbawalla. 

Question 5

• Whose old advertisements had this line: When in doubt “look it up in” _________?

Q5: Answer

• Encyclopedia Britannica 

Question 6

• The refusal of one Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt to eat what was served to him, as he found it too thick to eat, lead to the invention of what in 1853?

Q6: Answers

• Potato chips. Chef George Crum took back the french fries that were refused by the commodore and served him potato chips. 

Up the Ante!

Question 1

• This drink was originally launched in Spain and it means ‘Amazing’. It is sold in India too and for some time it was sold in apple and berry flavours. Identify it.

Q1: Answer

• Mirinda, the soft drink brand 

Question 2

• This invention was made in a US lab in 1964, and its inventor said “The story of the ____ technology has all the ingredients of a good novel. There was excitement, frustration, success, failure and personal tragedy”. Subsequently, the Japanese became masters of this technology. Name it. 

Q2: Answer

• The liquid crystal display, invented by George Heilmeier of RCA 

Question 3

• A hill in the Manmad region has a natural top that resembles the logo of a particular Indian brand. Name the brand

Q3: Answer

• Thums Up

Question 4

• Which company teamed up with top international designers such as London’s Tim Wallace, New York’s Eric Chan and Toronto’s Conrad Marini to bring world-class premium furniture to India? 

• Wipro!

Question 5

• What kind of business fraud is the Salami technique?

Q5: Answer

• Computer professionals rounding up balances in customers’ accounts and transfering them into their own accounts 

World First’s

Question 1

• Douglas Richard Hofstadter is an American academic who’s work focuses on consciousness, thinking and creativity. In the early 1990’s he authored  Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies: Computer Models of the Fundamental Mechanisms of Thought that went down in history as a world first! What was the reason?

Q1: Answer

• The first book to be sold on Amazon

Question 2

• www.Symbolics.com is used as the personal blog of Aron Meystedt who already owns XF.com. What is so special about this?

Q2: Answer

• The worlds first domain!

Question 3

• On 1st Jan 2000, New Zealand's Finance Minister, Trevor Mallard traveled upto the city airport and purchased a few euro’s. There was however no evidence to indicate that he was fleeing the country to central Europe. Why did he then do this?

Q3: Answer

• World’s first ever Euro transaction!

Question 4

• In a break from tradition, the company revealed that that a single _____ can consume the processing power of 1000 machines. What?

Q5: Answers

• Google search!

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