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QUIZ

QM: PRAJWAL S

TEST YOUR GK

Rules

• One question per team.• Non-Transferable Round. • No Negative Marking.• Correct Answer – 10 Points.• Scoring will be explained after each round• The Quizmasters’ Decision is final and binding

1.

• The way in which Frank Robinson wrote the name of a product was so elegant and original, it was decided to use his handwriting for the logo of the product. Name the product that even today uses Robinson’s script as its trademark.

2.

What did HT Media Ltd (based in India) start with the Wall street journal?

Mint Newspaper

3.

Mona Simpson is a popular American novelist and essayist, known for Anywhere But Here, Lost Father and A Regular Guy. She's the younger sister of X, whom she met only as an adult, since X, born out-of-wedlock, had been placed for adoption as an infant. Identify X

Steve Jobs

4.

Scorite, Matchcast, Startrek are all softwares by a Bangalore based company whose logo is given below. Who heads this company?

Anil Kumble

5.

_____________is a joint venture in India with Dairy Farm International Holdings Ltd of Hong Kong and Arko Limited.

Health & Glow

6.

With which brand do you associate the following:

'Mithas Mazzedar. Namkeen lazzadar.'

Parle Krackjack

Which high profile gentleman’s son Massimo runs an office in Bangalore which advises the Luxemberg based firm Clubinvest on business opportunities in India?

7.

Ottavio Quattrocchi

8.

What revolutionary thing was launched in January 2001 by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger?

9.

As a part of the re-launch strategy of this particular product, a faceless person called ‘Digen Verma’ was created, the packaging was changed and the baseline changed to 'Just like that.‘

Name the product.

Frooti

10.

While provisions were being made for the under-privileged through the Women and Child Welfare Department, the erstwhile Miltone Project was started during the year 1973 under assistance from Government of Karnataka. Out of 80,000 beneficiaries, mainly children, more than 70% belonged to Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe. The production of Groundnut protein enriched Miltone, which was started in year 1973, was discontinued and introduced again during the year 1992. It got a new name in 1995. How do we better know it today?

Nandini Milk