Yukti 2010 Prelude

1. Business Quiz Prelude - 2010
Best of YUKTI 2009 Finals
YUKTI 2010 – March 20th & @ 21st
Thiagarajar School of Management, Madurai
www.yuktitsm.net

2. Question - 1
Connect the following

3. Question - 1
Answer
Tata Nano
• Logo of Trinamool Congress Party – Protest led by Mamata Banerjee – Singur
Land issue – TATA Nano
• Narendra Modi offered land for TATA Nano plant in Gujarat
• Photo of Girish Wagh – Head of TATA Nano Project
• London olympics logo – Designed Wollf Olins Brand Consultancy who have
designed the TATA Logo.

4. Question - 2
N.Thanu got a double first class in BA from
Loyola College, Madras. He worked as an
illustrator in Ananda Vikatan and later with
The Indian Express and Swarajya.
Which famous educational organization
was founded by him?

5. Question - 2
Answer
Brilliant Tutorials

6. Question - 3
Identify this logo.

7. Question - 3
Answer
Amrita TV

8. Question - 4
You would see this
memorial in one of world’s
largest departmental store.
Name the store and name
the personalities in the
memorial.

9. Question - 4
Answer
Harrods
Princess Diana & Dodi
Alfayed

10. Question - 5
Connect the following

11. Question - 5
Answer
Oracle
• Famous photo of their headquarters
• Warren Buffet – nicknamed as “ Oracle of Omaha “
• The name “Oracle” came from the code name of a CIA project
• Rising Sun – name of the luxury Yacht owned by Larry Ellison
( logo of DMK Political Party )
• Photo of Melanie Ellison – Larry Ellison’s wife

12. Question - 6
Identify this personality.
Clue 1: Born in Kerala and grew up in Chennai and US.
Clue 2: Daughter of a Pfizer executive and his first wife, Vijaya, a nurse who
currently specializes in suicide prevention.
Clue 3: She was the first Indian model to have a career in Paris, Milan and New
York. Modelled for top designers such as Emanuel Ungaro, Ralph Lauren, and
Alberta Ferretti.
Clue 4: Her first cookbook Easy Exotic was awarded Best First Book at the
1999 World Cookbook Awards at Versailles.
Clue 5: Got divorced from her KNIGHTHOOD husband.

13. Question - 6
Answer
Padma Lakshmi

14. Question - 7
Connect the following
K

15. Question - 7
Answer
Yahoo
• Founders - Jerry Yang and David Filo were Electrical
Engineering graduate students at Stanford University
• Computers of David and Jerry named after world famous
sumo wrestlers “Konishiki” & “Akebono”. Yahoo was
developed in these two workstations.
• Yahoo was first funded by Sequoia Capital
• Yahoo – Creature in Gulliver’s Travel by Jonathan Swift
• Tim Koogle – First CEO of Yahoo

16. Question - 8
Coffee with Karan !!
Coffee with Kumar??

17. Question - 8
Answer
Coffee with Kumar is an
initiative launched by
Kumaramangalam Birla,
where he responds to the
queries by his managers.

18. Question - 9
Identify this personality.

19. Question - 9
Answer
Bernard Madoff
(Bernard Madoff Ponzi Scheme - Former
NASDAQ chairman Bernard Madoff ran
his $50 billion hedge fund as a Ponzi
scheme, paying investors fake returns
from other investors money)

20. Question - 10
A high school track coach, Bill liked this job. He loved his wife .
And insisted that his kids go to church.
If he wanted one thing, he wanted his team to win. Every time.
Like clockwork. He knew they were faster than they were.
A short while later his wife came home to find her husband in
his boxers, a crazed look in his eye, melting old bicycle tyres
overs the stove and squealishing them in her waffle-maker.
The stove and waffle-maker succumbed to a painfully slow
death. But his team won.
What are we talking about ?

21. Question - 10
Answer
Nike
William "Bill" J. Bowerman
Track and field coach, co-founder of Nike, Inc.

22. Business Quiz - 2010
• This quiz event is open to all (Students & Corporates )
• Event Date : 20th March 2010
• 2 members per team
• No limitations on number of teams per college*
• Participants should produce the Identity Cards
• No registration fee
• Visit : www.yuktitsm.net for details and online registration
* Applicable only for Business Quiz Event

23. Business Quiz - 2010
Its time for your Kodak Moments !

24. Produced by
Vivek Ramp
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