YUKTHI'09 - TSM BIZ Quiz Review & Questions

Thiagarajar School of Management's Yukti'09 - Management Fest was conducted on 4th & 5th April at Madurai.

Here is the review of the Biz Quiz that was held as part of Yukti'09! It was open to colleges as well as corporates!

Winners: Satyam + BPCL
Runners: SSN, Chennai

Other finalists
Team TCS
PSG Tech, cbe
DOMS, Pondichery Univ
BIM, Trichy

The runners up were decided on a tie-breaker! SSN held their nerves to beat Team TCS!

Few questions From YUKTI'09

1.If BIG BLUE : IBM :: BIG YELLOW : ???
Ans : Kodak

2. Identify the personality

Ans: Charles Ponzi

3. ZEE MUZIC has been rebranded as what??
Ans : Zing

4. Who has launched the "Internet Bus" which will travel all over India to spread awareness about Internet?
Ans: Google

5. Identify the logo

Ans: HTC

6. Connect Deutche Bank, Hyundai, TVS???
Ans: Sania Mirza

7. Connect : Dhoni, Maxis , CSK logo, Surya
Ans: Aircel

8. Which Ad agency manages the TATA NANO creative account?
Ans: Rediffusion DY&R

9. Identify the Personality

Ans: Bernard Madoff

10. Which Indian Organisation was found in 1935 in Kolkata,has a lion and Palm tree on its emblem??
Ans: Reserve Bank of India

Check out the questions which were part of the prelude to the event - click here!

-Happy Quizzin!

B CUBE @ Sona School of Management, Salem

B cube - Business Brain Busters - National Management Quiz

Sona Institute of Management's initiative to bring quality quizzing to this part of the country is very much laudable. We don't get to witness quality quizzes except for the regional leg of competitions like "Tata Crucible" or "ET in Campus". So, it is defenitely an event to look out for, from now on. Our wishes to Sona & Team B^3! Hope it becomes a regular on the quizzin calendar from now on!Though the event was meant to be a National Level Management Quiz - the abscense of teams with pan-Indian representation was felt starkly!

Quiz Master - Mr. Lloyd Saldanha, Grey Caps.
Quiz Anchor - Mr.Vijay Athiraj (Small Screen Actor)

Results:

Winners : Saravana Kumar & Ram Kumar - Madras School of Social Work
Runners : Mohamed Rinaz & Rithu Parnan - PSG College of Technology

The MSSW team did well to snatch the lead from PSG Tech in the last round!

Other finalists

Anna University, Cbe
IIPM, Chennai
Kumaraguru coll of Tech, Cbe
PSG coll of Tech(Team2)

Click to enlarge the picture!!!


Questions from B CUBE!

1. If US's space venture was called USS, Who owns VSS?

2.We know about VCDs & DVDs. What's a BD?

3. Connect
Uncommon Sense - Mariwala - Deepika Padukone - Innovation Academy

4. Connect
Sachin Tendulkar - Indianwomenshealth.com- Song from the movie Tarre Zameen Par

5. Which term orginally used by the United States Navy in 1920s is now being used as an marketing terminolgy maily by restaurants and bars?

Happy Quizzin!

BRAINIAC - Biz Quiz @ Hindustan College - Questions!

As per Nigil's request... here are a few freshly baked questions - straight from Mr.Rangarajan's Quiz show at Hindustan College's EXEMPLAR'09!

BRAINIAC - Biz Quiz @ Hindustan COll, CBE
Winners : Mohammed & Vishal, GRD college
1st Runners up : Mohamed Rinaz & Rithu Parnan, PSG Tech
2nd Runners up : Anna University, Cbe

1.Which company's tagline - "Where vision gets built"?

2.Pepsi launched "Pepsi One" in 1997. Why was it branded so?

3.Identify the person who spoke these words at a convocation at Stanford University!
Audio : Stewart and his team put out several issues of The Whole Earth Catalog, and then when it had run its course, they put out a final issue. It was the mid-1970s, and I was your age. On the back cover of their final issue was a photograph of an early morning country road, the kind you might find yourself hitchhiking on if you were so adventurous. Beneath it were the words: "Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish." It was their farewell message as they signed off. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. And I have always wished that for myself. And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you. "Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish"

4.Who is called as a Recessionista???

5.Connect Ratan Tata & Sabeer Bhatia???

6. What is the official address of the "Second Lord of the Treasury in Britain", who in modern times has always been the "Chancellor of the Exchequer". (Clue : The PM of Britain is the First Lord of the Treasury.... work it out now!!!)

7. The Air Jordan XIX basketball shoe's design was inspired by this. Which Creature? Clue : It's one of the Fastest!!!

8. Which word used in English is actually from the latin word meaning - "to wipe off"?

9. It's a nightmare for Coca-Cola & Pepsi - the popular Cola Brands in India!!!
A newly researched soft -drink is expected to hit the market by late 2009!
"Its USP will be that it's going to be very healthy. It won't be like carbonated drinks and would be devoid of any toxins."
What is the basic ingredient of this drink? And who is behind this new product launch??!!!

10.What was used for the first time to raise finance during the naepoleanic wars?

11.Barbie modelled on whom???


12.Which word is actually derived from the French word - meaning "Little Bag"? (This is certainly not for you...Nigil!!!)

Post your answers as comments!Ans will be posted on Monday!

Happy Quizzin!
-Team PSGIM

MASTERMINDS'09 - Winners!

It was a riveting finale at this year's Masterminds'09 - The Quiz that happens ever year to crown the champion team in Campus!

The contest was held Xclusive for the first year students - who from now on will take on the reigns of the PSGIM Quiz Club!

Though the turn out was not good, we had an exciting quiz! And it did live up to our campaign which said - LIVE THE THRILL OF QUIZZING!(Remember,it was held on Friday, the 13th!!!)

The contest very much went down to the wire! Going into the final question, we had a tie with the 2 lead teams on 90pts each!!! And more than Knowledge, Reflexes decided the Winners!

The Masterminds!
However, Mithun Kamal & Vijaya Kumar(I PGDM) held their nerves to hit the buzzar & hit the bull's eye on the final question which was the video Ad of Tata Indicom that had The Pathan family on it!
The runners-up : Karthik Kannan & Sravan(I MBA) came up with some brilliant answers all throughout the show! Manikandan & Saravanan Palanichamy came third.

The other finalists:
Arvind Iyer & Sudharsan Bellie -I PGDM
Ramesh & Karthikeyan - I MBA
BaluMahendran & Roopesh Balaji - I MBA

Of the 6 finalists - 4teams were direct qualifiers and the next 6teams fought it out with their brains for the other 2wild card entries to the finals.

Well done Winners! It's time take on the mantle from your seniors and live up to the expectation & tradition!

Wishing you the best for the year ahead...

Happy Quizzin!
- PSG IM Quiz club

EVENT REVIEW : TATA CRUCIBLE2009 - CAMPUS EDITION - COIMBATORE

The Take-away from TATA Crucible 2009 - Coimbatore Edition:
"Not just the Record number of teams that participated in TATA crucible's debut at kovai, but the quality of quizzing has sent out a strong message - Coimbatore is shaping up into a "powerhouse of Biz Quizzing"!

And With TATA crucible debuting @ kovai(Record no of turn-out for a debut city!!!-->240Teams), it presented an entirely new scenario!! Local colleges in Coimbatore(PSG, GRD, KCT, amirta...) got a chance to take on the might of IIM-K & BIM-Trichy who were the favourites to win the Quiz!!!

Results:
Winners - GRD college - Mohamed & Vishal
Runners - IIM-K (We heard it's their 1st loss in their quizzin career?!!)

Other Finalists - PSGIM, Amirta, PSG Tech & BIM-Trichy

Special Mention - KCT team & the 2gals(ET- trichy winners)from Cauvery College, trichy who put up a good show in the Wild Card Round.


But for the technical/logistical glitch (as claimed by Giri himself) the result could have been otherwise(Could have been a twin victory for Kovai on debut @ home)! And the whole crowd at the show knows it!!! We were particularly unhappy with the IIM team from Kozhikode participating in Coimbatore(rather than Kochi) leg of the Quiz!!

This we feel, defeats the primary objective of the Tata's - "to take its quiz to smaller cities and give teams from such cities some representation at the national level". If IIM's can keep travelling to every other venue by getting some special permissions... even a 20 location Quiz wouldn't make any difference.

Look at the volume of teams that turned up at the Kovai round - 240!! That includes Teams from the entire western, central & southern Tamil Nadu plus we were forced to play gracious hosts to IIM-K and a few more teams from Chennai as well! Teams had to take up the prelims standing and were asked to look at innovative ways to write on the Answer sheet standing!(This could be an another record - Bad Choice of venue!)
Atleast, they could have arranged for an annex where the prelim could have been conducted simultaeneously.



Giri seems to be consistent in under-estimating coimbatore's quizzing potential. This is evident from the prelims of both the recently conducted ET & TATA Crucible Quizzes!

But, finally everyone, we guess...went back home - Happy!!!

After all the GRD - the wild-card entrants, the under-dogs...won! - perfectly matching the flavour of the season! Jai HO!!!

Let's all Cheer the Coimbatore Champs at the National Final!

-Happy Quizzin!
PSG IM Quiz Club

TATA CRUCIBLE2009 -CAMPUS EDITION - COIMBATORE PRELIMS

There were 20 Questions in all. The prelims was very easy.
4 teams qualified directly and 2 other teams were selected from the tie-breaker round.

Sample these questions...

1. Whic indian airline has started off an Royal Concierge service?
Ans: Paramount
2. Which retail chain has the tagline - Start something new!?
Ans: shoppers stop
3 Who has written the book "Winning" along with suzy?
Ans: Jack welch
4Who is the Time - man of the year 2008
Ans: Barack Obama
5.ICICI prudential - video ad
6.Peter drucker - Identify the pic.
7.Adi godrej - Identify the pic
8.Which brand in India is almost synonymous for an anti-septic solution and is from the stable of Reckitt Benckiser?
Ans: Dettol
9What's the name of the soverign wealth fund of Singapore?
Ans: Temasek Holdings
10. Which company that has a large base at coimbatore was originally part of Dun&Bradstreet?
Ans: Cognizant
11. Benetton - print ad
12. Which channel was a long time sponsor of Lance Armstrong and shark week is one of its most popular show?
Ans: Discovery
13. Philips Iron - Ad
14. Xylo - "Out grow ur sedan" - Print ad
15. i got it all - who's tagline
Ans: Hyundai i20

For the event review click here

More Questions to follow soon!!!

Happy Quizzin!
-PSG IM Quiz Club

ET in campus 2009 - Coimbatore Prelims

ET in campus quiz @ coimbatore saw more than 100 teams battling it out at GRD college. The prelims were easy and Pickbrain made it even more easier with his trade mark clues!

Prelims:

1. expand 3G with reference to telecom?

2. what is the browser that google launched recently?

3. logo - canara bank

4. What was formed as Newton Heath L & YR F.C in 1878?

5. What famous transport in US was started by a miner named, carl wickman to take miners from Hibbing to Alice?

6. logo - dlf

7. Samuel Lovell went into partnership with William Hawkins, Holyland and Edwin to form which consultancy?
(Giri's clue: it is know today for all wrong reasons)

8. Which Phrase by U.S president Franklin roosevelt in his April 7, 1932 speech was popularised by an indian management guru?

9. print ad - fiat linea

10. Question on Alex Ferguson

11. which corporate group owns 'more' retail store chain?

12. pic - kishore biyani (slightly deceptive)

13. What was launched by the indian railways with complete airconditioned coaches but at comparitively low cost?

14. With Which company can you associae the charecter HARI SADU?

15. pic - Piyush Pandey

16. A question on a book about Daimler&Chrysler merger.

17. pic - Rahul Bajaj

18. What was presented in the Indian parliament for the first time by Shanmuga Sundaram Chetty in 1947?

19. video Ad - Crocin

20. Video Ad - Tata AIG

Finalists:

PSG college of Technology(U.G),GRD college,Anna University(cbe),Amrita School of Business, Kumaraguru Coll of Tech & PSG college of Technology(MBA)

Finals had questions on Bryllcream, Religare, Toshiba, Lenovo, Roohafza & more...Questions of Finals to be posted soon!!!

Winners : Mohamed Rinaz & Rithu Parnan, PSG Tech(MBA)
Runners : GRD College

Next up we have Tata Crucibles visiting Coimbatore on 28th February!

- Happy Quizzin!
PSGIM Quiz club

AIMA NSMQ'09 - Coimbatore regionals - RESULTS!

Hi!

The regional round of AIMA NSMQ at coimbatore recieved a poor response with only a handful of teams turning out!However it was heartening to see a few teams coming all the way from Banglore & Manglore for the event!!!

Results

Winners - Rohit Nair & Chetan, UVCE,bglr
Runners - Ajay Kumar & Vignesh,PSGIM,cbe
(Winners & Runners qualify for the semi-final to be held at Delhi on 27thFeb)

Other teams that made it to the final

Avinash & Avinash - Acharya Institute of Mgmt,Bglr
Rithu Parnan & Mohamed Rinaz - PSGIM,cbe
NS Manikandan & Saravanan Palanichamy - PSGIM,cbe
Surendhar & Santosh - Anna University,Cbe

QM - Mr.Bhanik

Questions will be uploaded at the earliest!(X'ams goin on!!!)

Happy quizzin!
-Quiz Club-PSGIM.

GLADIATRIX'08 - CAMPUS QUIZ REVIEW!

Hi ppl..

Foreword : Sorry for the delay in posting this review!!

Gladiatrix'08... the 1st quiz show to be hosted at the AmphiTheatre after a looooong time(almost after 2-3yrs is what we heard) turned out to be an instant hit! We had more than 50 teams which bet all our expectations!!!

All about the event:
5.30pm... and the Amphi was almost packed to its full capacity! But the prelims didn't start yet.. Why??? Well though we ran a test show the day before the event... and confirmed that the projection from the LCD was visible after 5.30pm... somehow the next day the sun took some more time to set and so.. we had to wait for some time before we could started the prelims.. Technical problems did bother us as well..

The evening started off with Ajay(the man who got us the questions for the very interesting online quiz Q-Factor!) discussing the answers of Q-Factor and declaring the Winners!

6.20pm..
Finally, the prelims started off and the results were out by 6.55pm. The Finals kicked off in style with Round1 - Starters!

7pm... and we had the finalists on stage...
The Finalists were

Team A - Suriya Prakash & Team I MBA
Team B - Sangamoovan & Team II PGDM
Team C - Karthikeyan & Team I MBA
Team D - Ajay & Indra Kumar II MBA
Team E - Anand & Rafi II MBA
Team F - Vasanth&ManojKumar II PGDM

Round1 - Starters
Round2 - Unscramble
Round3 - Connect
Round4 - Formula of Success - Formula Round
Round5 - Audio/Visual

We were forced to cut it down to 5rounds against the actually planned 6rounds for the lack of time.

Team D took the early lead and retained it all through the finals but they were always at vigil as Team E was always following close behind them.
The final round of the show - the AV round was riveting finale to the event.. With cracker of questions and incredible answers both from the finalists and the audience!
Audience kept the show very much alive... all fighting it with their wit for loads of chocolates and gift vouchers!

Final scores
Team A - 15pts,Team B -
25pts,Team C - 30pts,Team D - 65pts,Team E - 52pts,Team F - 28pts

Team F(Ajay & Indra Kumar) were crowned the winners of Gladiatrix'o8. They won themselves gift vowchers worth Rs.2500!!!
Keeping them in good competition all through the way was Team E(Anand&Rafi) - who were the runners-up of the event. They won gift vowchers worth Rs.1000!

Others teams won Gift Vowchers worth Rs.100 each. Audience also won a few Vowchers for their answers!

In all it was a great evening for the students who turned up and most importantly turned out to be great eveing for the legacy of quizzing at PSGIM! For sure.. this is a rebirth!

Quiz Masters &
Content Preparation : Vignesh, Rithu Parnan & Mohamed Rinaz
Tech Support&video content : Feroze & Santosh
Operations : PremNath, Benny, Nandhini & Anand...

We would also like to thank the support of Satish sir & Ajit sir who helped us in evaluating the prelims and sitting all through the event! And of course Kavitha mam who guided us all thro the event! Thanks to our director as well for sponsoring the event in a big way!

We thank all of you guys for supporting us in a big way! Xpect more such quizzes from now on..

Happy Quizzin!
- Team Gladiatrix'08

"Q" Factor - Online quiz contest - WINNERS, Solutions & more!! - Event review

Hi Folks,

It was gr8 to receive all your entries for the 1st ever Online Quiz contest conducted on this blog!

We shd say that the Contest was closely fought...and the winners won the contest by a whisker!

It's time to declare the winners!!!

WINNER OF "Q" Factor online quiz contest is VIGNESH(08AB43) - Team Cruizers

RUNNERS-UP : Jayachandran.K (08AB15) & Balumahendran.S(08AB06)

Congrats Guys!! Keep up the good work...

It's worth mentioning a few names who came very close..

* Team Verdana : Sabari giriesan O8ab04 & 08ab35
* Team Dziders : MuthuKumar 08ab29,Jittender 08ab19
* Team Mindstorm : Aishwarya 08PGDM33 & 08AD03
* Team GLADIATORS: Dheenathayalan.B(08AB09)
* Team Salim & Dhanush

The Winners won gift vouchers worth Rs.250 while Runners-up won gift vouchers worth Rs.100.

The Solution to the Questions

1. MC^2 = ? The Ans is E which is ENERGY... isn't the future at stake???
2. Ans : Compact Disc, A 115mm diameter cd(developed by Phillips)could hold only 60min of recording. But then it was suggested that the capacity be extended 74 minutes(Which now is the standard) so as to accommodate a performance of Beethoven’s 9th Symphony - ODE TO JOY!
3. Ans : ORKUT, Rotate the x&y axis and set them right to read - "Who do you know", its tagline!
4. Ans: PALANIAPPAN CHIDAMBARAM
5. Ans: NSG - NATIONAL SECURITY GUARDS, This question was a tribute to heroes who were still fighting terrorists at Taj!
6. Ans: MOBILE - Sum the Nos... you get 37180.. Add the W after the 0... You get 37180W.. Invert it.. and you get our answer
7. Ans: www.gahooyoogle.com
8. Ans: Taj Hotels & Resorts
9. Ans: Ray-Ban
10.Ans: Mohan Singh Oberoi, Founder of Oberoi hotels - Removing the MAN from MANMOHAN SINGH(India Afternoon -Indian P.M)

THE FUNNY PART :)

It was Gr8 FUN to evaluate your (imaginative!!)answers to some of the questions...

Sample SOME OF the answers we recieved...

For the 1st question.. MC^2=??
one of the teams answer was OBAMA!!!!
One another ans was Chandraayan II!!
Another ans was that the future is at stake for blue chips!!???
Even more interesting was this ans..
Ans:Moon Magic Square: the magic costant is 369, formed by 3x1, 3x2,3x3. The sum of all the numbers of the square is 3321.!!!??
WE were truly clueless.. We are still trying to understand this answer!

Hope no one is hurt! We jus wanted you to enjoy the responses to this contest... No other intentions!

You can expect More online contests for now on...

So.. Keep hitting this space more often!

Happy Quizzin!
- Team "Q"Factor