EPIC QUEST

FINALS

DRY ROUND

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Q1

• ____ Arena is a large entertainment and sporting complex located in Homebush in Sydney, Australia.

• It is situated in Sydney Olympic Park, and was completed in 1999 as part of the facilities for the 2000 Olympic Games.

• The arena was originally known as the Sydney SuperDome until ___ purchased the naming rights in 2006.

• ____ Arena Capable of holding up to 21,000 people,_____ Arena is the largest indoor venue in Sydney and the largest in Australia.

• ____ Arena is home to many sporting teams, including Netball and Basketball, as well as many conferences and events.

ACER Arena

Q2

Alexander Wilson founded the company in _______-, London in 1857.Originally named Alex Wilson and Company, then ____ Iron Works, the company built pumps and marine engines.In 1903, the

company built its first car 1907 the modern name of _____ Motors was adopted.During World War I ______ made large numbers of cars for use

as staff cars for the British forces.Bedford Vehicles, a subsidiary constructing commercial vehicles, was established in 1930 as the Stock

Market Crash of 1929 had made importing American lorries uneconomical.During World War II, car production was suspended to allow ____ to work on the Churchill tank. Over 5,600 Churchill tanks

were built.

VAUXHALL

Q3

_______ Techwin is a Asain aeronautics, optoelectronics, automations and defense company.It is currently the world's third largest digital camera

manufacturer.It is one of the subsidiaries of ______ Group.The company established precision instrument laboratory in 1978.It started

making cameras in 1979 and is still a world leader today.It acquired Rollei, a German camera manufacturer, and Union Optics of Japan, a

manufacturer of semiconductor equipments.Began selling digital cameras under the brand of ______ Kenox in 1997.In

2005, the company marked first place in Asian digital cameras market share and started a technical co-operation with Pentax.It will now be a

conjoined partnership with ______ Electrics. Where its latest CCTV Cameras and Digital Imaging technology is then passed on for further

products.

SAMSUNG

Q4

____ has historic roots through the involvement of Wilhelm who was the technical director of the Daimler-Motoren-

Gesellschaft.The company originally developed and manufactured diesel and gas engines for the rail cars.The

company first built an experimental car in 1919.The company also continued to build heavy duty diesel engines

for marine and rail purposes._____ contributed to the German war effort in World War II by producing the

engines for the formidable Panther and Tiger tanks.After the war the factory performed some repair work, but

automotive production was never restarted, and some 20 years later, the company was renamed into MTU

Friedrichshafen.

MAYBACH

Q5

• ___ sponsors the Indian derby• In September 2007___ joined Epic Aircraft as

a strategic partner.• On March 06, 2009 Ms. Soni lied to the nation

that __ participated in the auction for Gandhi's personal items on Congress Government's behalf which ___ himself rubbished the same day

Vijay Mallya

Q6

The origins of ______ go back to the early 1890s where the company started out with the manufacture of bicycles.It was 1894, and 26-year old Václav who was a bookseller by trade, was unable to obtain the right spare parts to repair his

bicycle.Vaclav returned his bicycle to the manufacturers,with a letter, asking for them to carry out repairs, only to receive a reply, in Stating: "If you would like an

answer to your inquiry, you should try writing in a language we can understand".A disgusted Valcav, despite not having any previous technical experience, then

decided to start his own bicycle repair shop, which he and Václav Laurin opened in 1895 .Before going into business partnership with Valcav, Laurin was an already established bicycle manufacturer.The press credited them as makers of the first

motorcycle.By 1905 cars were being produced by the firm.During the First World War ______ was engaged in war production.After WWI it began producing trucks, but in

1924, after running into problems and being hit by a fire, the company sought a partner.As a result it merged with ______ Works.Most later production was under the

______ name.

SKODA

Q7

• CV Madhukar concurrently helped set up the X(A NGO), an initiative of ______. The initiative combines technology & rural India.

• In 2005 he won the Faraday Medal.It is a medal awarded by the Institution of Electrical Engineers.

• He studied in St. Mary's School,Mumbai• The Kamla Bhatt Show has included interviews with _____ at the

New York Stock Exchange.• _____ is one among the famous residents of Breach Candy is a

niche up-market residential and semi-commercial locality of South Mumbai.

• In July 2004 ____ threatened to pull his company out of the city unless there was a drastic improvement in infrastructure over the next few years, stating "We do not see the situation improving in the near future"

Azim Premji

Q8

Son of a famous sculptor and respected artistic carpenter Ettore was born into an artist's family, in Milan, Italy, on September 15th, 1881.After finishing school

Ettore began his training with the bicycle manufacturers.Prior to the end of the century, he took part in a race with his first vehicle.In 1901, Ettore presented his

first self-made automobile at the international exhibition in Milan.Because Ettore had not yet reached the legal age of 21, his father had to sign the

contract with de Dietrich.They obtained the license to build the car, and Ettore was named the leader of the production department in Cologne.

Ettore with the help of a banker opened a business of his own in a disused dyeing works in the town of Molsheim.

Buggati

Q9

• ____ was created by B.J. Johnson in 1898.• The _____ Building, formerly the Playboy

Building, is a 37 story Art Deco building.• The _____ Hour was a critically acclaimed radio

concert hour which was sponsored by ______ and broadcast on NBC from December 9, 1927. The _____ Musical Stock Company offered a mix of jazz, show tunes and opera selections.

• Ian M. Cook, CEO of the parent company.

Palmolive Soap

Q10

• Renigunta-Cuddapah Road,Karakambadi, Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh, 517520.

• Jayadev Galla is the Managing Director.

• The promoters are Ramachandra N. Galla & his wife Smt. Amarakumari N. Galla.

A10

Amara Raja(Amaron)

Q11

Asian Hotels Ltd operate an international hotel chain in India.Which hotel chain do they

operate.They have 7 hotels under there name?

A11

HYATT

Q12

_____was born of a vision. Founded in 1986 by Mr. P.V.Ramaprasad Reddy, Mr. K.Nityananda Reddy and a small, highly committed group of professionals, the company became a public venture in 1992. It commenced operations in

1988-89 with a single unit manufacturing semi synthetic penicillins (SSPs) at

Pondicherry.Although the companies registered headquaters are in Hyderabad but company get

its name as it first started manufacturing in Pondicherry?

Aurobindo Pharma

Audience

Its price has been one of its highest USP. It was sold at Rs.4 for 25 years until 1994 when the

price was raised by 25 paise to offset the overall hike in costs.

Audience

Which channel has british telecom decided to distribute in the US.It was earlier distributing the

channel in Dubai?

CLUE ROUND

• 4 clues all in different slide• 1st clue +40,-20• 2nd clue +30,-15• 3rd clue +20,-10• 4th clue +10,-5• Only Fairplay

Q1

Clue-1(+40,-20)

Harvey Golub CEO from 1993 to 2001. James D. Robinson III CEO from 1977 to

1993.

Clue-2(+30,-15)

• On 18 September 2007, it was announced that Standard Chartered Bank agreed to acquire ____ Bank Ltd, a commercial bank, from _____

• ____ became one of the monopolies that President Theodore Roosevelt had the Interstate Commerce Commission investigate during his administration. The interest of the ICC was drawn to its strict control of the railroad express business. However, the solution did not come immediately to hand.The solution to this problem came as a coincidence to other problems during World War I.

Clue-3(+20,-10)

• On November 10, 2008, during the financial crisis of 2008, the company won Federal Reserve System approval to convert to a bank holding company, making it eligible for government help under the Troubled Assets Relief Program

• CEO is Kenneth Chenault, who took over in 2001.

Clue-4(+10,-5)

• _____ formed a joint venture with Warner Communications in 1979 which created Nickelodeon.

AMERICAN EXPRESS

Q2

Clue-1(+40,-20)

• Michel Rollier is the CEO• 1988 acquired B.F. Goodrich Company

American divisiosn• 1990 acquired Uniroyal Ltd

Clue-2(+30,-15)

• Euronext Tickr – ML• Michel Rollier was made the ceo as the

previous CEO drowned while fishing

Clue-3(+20,-10)

Clue-4(+10,-5)

• ___ owned the automobile manufacturer Citroën between 1934 and 1976.

• ___ is the Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) supplier to Volvo's Mark II vehicles,General Motors, Volkswagen Group, and many other marques of vehicles.

MICHELIN

Audience

John hendrich is the chairman and founder of.His company also owns the website

Howstuffworks.com?

Audience

1991 who did the India media refer to or call the "Big Bull"?

DRY QUESTIONS

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Q1

• Was a boxer when he was young• His daughter Sunaina is married to Manish

Kejriwal,head of Temasek india• He had a clash with his son regrading the

ways to handle & run daily operations in there business

• Council member of world economic forum

Rahul Bajaj

Q2

• Estimated Net Worth $3.2Bn• Started his carrer with a jute-mill• When his father spilt the entire funds of the family

among 4 brothers he got Rs3,00,000 & a truck,which he later went on to use for entreuprenership

• Was the first member of his family to go to college• He set up <X> Varalaskmi Foundation to fund

intiatives in employment & rural empowerment(<X> being the name of the company he founded)

GM Rao

Q3

• ______wants to use NASA technology to boost the fuel efficiency of its luxury cars and lower emissions of harmful greenhouse gases

• Norbert Reithofer is the Chairman & CEO• The company created a controversy by calling

Kerala unfit for industrial development due to marxist culture among the workforce

BMW

Q4

______ was born to Jewish parents.He graduated from Far Rockaway High School in 1956, attended the University of Alabama for one year, then transferred to and graduated

from Hofstra University (then Hofstra College) in 1960 with a degree in political science.The following year, he attended Brooklyn Law School, but did not continue._____ is married to his high school sweetheart, Ruth Alpern, who has been

involved with the firm and in the ______ Charitable Foundation.They have two sons, Mark and Andrew.

Bernard Madoff

Q4-Identify the CEO (who sold it all)

Manoj Kholi

Q5

• _______ is kicking off an exercise to re-label all its products with a ‘green panel’—informing the consumers on optimal usage and how to best dispose of products?

• Chander Mohan Sethi heads its Indian Operations

• Adrian Bellamy is the Global Chairman & Bart Becht CEO.

Reckitt Benckiser

Q6

• He recently joined the Marvel Entertainment Inc global advisory board.

• He is the major stakeholder of iRock Media• His daughter Pooja who got married to the son

of Milind Murli Deora heads Walk Water Media• He was one of the promoters of IMAX Dome

theatres

Manmohan Shetty

Audience

The rural empowerment intiative taken by Unilever is Branded as?

Audience

____ was born to a professor of French, and mother, Shalini was a professor of

psychology.They are a Maharashtrian Konkanastha Brahmin family.He went to

Hyderabad Public School. He studied chemical engineering at Osmania University and later

graduated from Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad.___ joined ad agency Rediffusion soon after graduating from IIM Ahmedabad. He worked on assignments such as Colgate, Halo

shampoo, Palmolive, Charmis etc.

ASSET MANAGEMENT

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Topics

• Hospitality Industry• Sportsmans In Business• Brand Ambassador• Brand History/Origin• CEO & TICKR• Indian Business Women

Hospitality Industry

Q

• _______is acquiring Radhakrishna Hospitality Services Group (RKHS), India’s pioneer in the food and facilities management sector, in a transaction valued at roughly Rs 520 crore.

• ______ started the STOP Hunger initiative in 1996 in the USA to fight hunger and its root causes.

• Kalyx (formerly United Kingdom Detention Services), a subsidiary of _______, is a company that provides custodial, immigration and post-release facilities for the United Kingdom Home Office.

Sodexo

Sportsmans In Business

Q• ______ Enterprises is a company owned by sportsman ______.

• It owns various movie theatres and restaurants in the United States, including several Starbucks, Sodexho, T.G.I. Friday's and Burger King locations. The company is affiliated and partnered with Carlson Companies.

• The Beverly Hills-based ______ Enterprises has AMC ______ Theatres in four cities, 116 Starbucks in 14 states and Washington, 31 Burger King restaurants in the Southeast, and 13 24-Hour Fitness/______ Sport health clubs.

• ______ also owns a nearly 5% share of the Lakers.

• In March 2008 _______ signed a multiyear marketing deal to help electronics retailer Best Buy Co. bolster sales in urban neighborhoods.

• ______'s urban investments were formed in 1998 as the Canyon-______ Urban Fund, an alliance with Canyon Capital.The alliance has financed 31 real estate developments in 13 states and Washington.The fund also had a stake in Sunset+Vine in Hollywood, which was built for $125 million and sold for $160 million._____'s son Andre works at Canyon-______ Urban Funds and manages business development for ______ Enterprises.

Magic Johnson

Brand Ambassador

In 2006, _____ was selected as the first

brand ambassador of the Mysore Sandal Soap?

MS Dhoni

Brand Origin/History

Q

In 1945, the National Research Corporation of Boston, Massachusetts developed a method of concentrating juice into a powder using a high-vacuum evaporation process previously developed for dehydrating medical products for use in the

U.S. war effort.The US Army had a need for 227,000 kg for the war, so NRC created a new branch, the Florida Foods Corporation. Led by John M. Fox, the

company won the government contract for $750,000.The war ended and the contract was canceled before the factory could be built, but with investment, the company moved forward with a product.Rather than selling powder to the

public market, the company decided to create frozen juice concentrate, using a process that eliminated 80 percent of the water in the fruit juice.A Boston

marketing firm came up with the name ______ .With limited funds for advertising, Fox himself went door to door giving free samples, until demand

skyrocketed.In October 1949 the company adopted the name ____Corp.In 1970 the company was involved in a scandal in the United States about bad housing,

often referred to as "slave quarters," and working conditions of ___ farm laborers in Florida.

Minute Maid

CEO & TICKR

• NYSE TICKR:- T• CEO - Randall L. Stephenson

AT&T

• Managing Director of a company her father founded• She was born in 1957 in Hyderabad, but spent her

early years in Chennai and attended Besant Arundale School.

• Artistically inclined (she finished school from Kalakshetra, the famous school started by Rukmini Arundale)

• She is a graduate from Madras University• Her husband is the chairman of the board of

trustees at the famous Kapaleeshwarar temple

Prettha Reddy MD, Apollo Hospitals

Audience

How do we popularly know Poppin' Fresh?

Audience

Docutalk is the In-House Journal of?

PRINT ADS

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Audience

Shahid Mustafa who was asked to leave Hutchinson Essar Ltd in Mumbai.Currently

Which company is he heading which company?

Audience

Allendale, Conroe, Merom-2M, Merom, Kentsfield, Wolfdale, Yorkfield,

Penryn,Covington,Mendocino,Bloomfield,Katmai are all code-names of?

DRY QUESTION

• Fairplay• +10 on a direct• +5 on a pass• Clues to be given if all teams agree

Q1

• Received her Bachelor's Degree in Economics from LSR at the University of Delhi

• MBA at the Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies at Bombay University

• Started her career with Voltas Ltd• In 1980 she joined Cadbury India• She is considered responsible for the lauch of

Rasna• The Coca-Cola Company chose her as its

worldwide Marketing Director in 1994

Vinita Bali,CEO Britannia.

Q2Born in Pune, ____ moved to Mumbai after her

marriage.She started her experiments in the kitchen began soon after she discovered her husband was an

avid food lover.Soon she was teaching these recipes to 6 young girls cooking during there summer vacations which was the beginning of her cooking career.She

wrote her fist cookbook as medium to move ahead in the profession she got Rs 5000 for it.After the first

books huge success She has published 20 cookbooks internationally.Her cookery show "Cook it Up with

_____" is viewed to 40 different countries across the world.In the show comes on Sony Television

Channel.She has made her way into the Top 50 richest women in India.

Tarla Dalal

Q3

When Jayadev Raja (CEO of the indian arm of a MNC) bought the companies asset in the early 1990`s he blamed them of using obslete & outdated technology

Three members of the owner family have died in air accidents.

The company is riduculed for being intimidated of globalization

Parle

Q4

• Earlier known as MIRC electronics• Monica Electronics was established in 1975

and initially manufactured ____ watches before it ventured into its current field.

ONIDA

Q5

• ____ is a brand owned by X.• The Name X came from an earlier advertisement of

____.• In 1940 X had used a a little man with a big smile in its

ads he was known as the ____ boy.• When X devloped the product _____ they thought the

name would extend well from the ____ boy.• The ____ boy was created by artist Haddon Sandblom.• X filed a suite against Victorias Secret because

Victorias Secret laucnhed a magazine under the name ____ which was already in use by X.

SPRITE

Q6

Ever since the company was founded the logo has always participated in activities to stand upheld with the company.

Nevertheless, ______ logo has experienced several alterations over the last seventy years. The pre-eminent shield of the _______ logo is widely recognized by all due to its extra

ordinary features._____ logo grips to a shield-like structure which gives it a prominent position. This shield shape of _____ logo has been utilized ever since the logo design was created. Strength, power and supremacy are clearly depicted from the shield-like shape of _____ logo.there are the two alphabets

inscribed in the ______ logo design. The typeface is kept quite simple and easy to understand however it is presented in a large and bold font. The alphabets methodically compliment with the shape of _____ logo, portraying the logo design in a beautiful

fashion.

Audience

___ was founded in Austria in 1923.Following the Austria's annexation by Nazi Germany in 1938, the organization fell under

the control of Nazi Germany and the Commission's headquarters were eventually moved to Berlin in 1942.After the

end of World War II in 1945, the organization was revived as _____ by European Allies of World War II officials from Belgium,

France, Scandinavia and the United Kingdom. Its new headquarters were established in Saint-Cloud, a town on the outskirts of Paris. They remained there until 1989, when they

were moved to their present location, Lyon.

Audience

Avinash Bajaj & Suvir Sujan,2 Harvard Busines School classmates started this hugely popular

website?

STAGE 2THE THEME ROUND

• Slab after first two questions• Every Question the slab opens

Braeburn Capital is an asset management company based in Reno, Nevada and a

subsidiary of ____?

Apple

• In A Beautiful Mind, the Academy Award-winning film about the famous mathematician John Forbes Nash, the depiction of Nash's initial days at _____ were filmed on campus. Although the film is a fictionalized biography, in real life Nash did receive his doctorate from _____ and is currently a Senior Research Mathematician at the university's mathematics department.

• Bruce Wayne, Christian Bale's character in the film Batman Begins, attends ____ as an undergraduate. Though he informs butler Alfred Pennyworth that he likes the university "just fine", he drops out and flees to China.

PRINCETON UNIVERSITY

GOING FOR THE THEMEITS

+60/-30

____ was the research organization of of the American Telephone & Telegraph Company (AT&T).In 1925 Western Electric Research

Laboratories and part of the engineering department of the American Telephone &

Telegraph company (AT&T) were consolidated to form ______.

BELL LABS

GOING FOR THE THEME+50-25

_______ owes its beginnings to the Eyring Research Institute (ERI) in Provo, Utah. Dennis Fairclough, Drew Major, Dale Neibaur and Kyle

Powell left their employment with ERI and took with them the experience and technology necessary to start and support the

development of ___.Dennis Fairclough was the member of the original team that started ___ Data Systems.Drew Major, Dale Neibaur and

Kyle Powell continued to supply support for _____ through their SuperSet Software Group.The company brought about the concept of

cutting cost through LAMP.

NOVELL

GOING FOR THE STAGE 2+40-20

Q

The company has got one of its NASDAQ symbol as one of its premium products.This product is the most recognizable by the company hence

became its NASDAQ symbol.Chris Malachowsky, co-founder of NVIDIA & Edward

Zander former CEO of Motorola were the employees of this company?

Sun Microsystems

GOING FOR THE THEME+30-15

In 1969, Chief Scientist at Xerox Jack Goldman approached Dr. George Pake, a physicist specializing in nuclear magnetic resonance and provost of Washington University, about founding and generously

funding a second research center for the company.Dr. Pake selected _____ as the site of what was to become known as ___. While the 3,000 mile buffer between it and Xerox headquarters in New York afforded scientists at the new lab great freedom to undertake their

work, time was to prove the distance also served as something of an impediment to the researchers' ability to persuade management of the

promise of some of their greatest achievements.____ West Coast location proved to be proptitous in the mid-'70s when the lab was able

to hire many employees of the nearby SRI Augmentation Research Center when that facility's funding from DARPA, NASA, and the U.S.

Air Force began to diminish.Much of ____ early success in the computer field followed from the inspired leadership of its Computer

Science Laboratory manager Bob Taylor, who guided the lab as associate manager from 1970–77 and as manager 1977–83.

PARC

GOOGLEPLEX

GOOGLE

GOING FOR THE THEME+20-10

THE STAGE 2IS

...............

Eric E Schmidt the CEO of Google.