Tuesday 25 September, 2007

Some quiz kostins from maah side!!!

Here are some of the quiz questions which I would like all of you to try without googling. :)

1. What is the strategy called, when a company targeted for takeover launches a counter offer and actually ends up buying the company trying to acquire it?

2. This one is for comic book fans. Where will you find a fish tank, a glass of a favorite pirate drink, an opium tincture, and a collection of books?

3. Who said "Tom, the playing field is being leveled" to whom about outsourcing?

4. How do we better know a technology that promises ‘best resolution audiovisual’ and also has an Integrated Architecture for it?

5. According to Thomas Friedman, there are two responses to Globalization. One is Infosys, which is the other?

6. The 2006 Light of Truth award given by the Dalai Lama for significant contribution to public understanding of Tibet was given to Desmond Tutu and who?

7. One for rock fans. The album cover for Hotel California features which real-life hotel?

8. Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Kashmiri, Konkani, Malayalam, Marathi, Nepali, Oriya, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Tamil, Telugu, ____. Fill in the blank.

9. Who was Respondent #8 in a case of RBI against P. M. Sahakari Bank of Jalgaon in 2003, when the bank had illegally waived off interest on many loans?

10.What do the following banks do together, twice daily? Scotia-Mocatta (a part of Bank of Nova Scotia), Barclays Capital, Deutsche Bank, HSBC and Societe Generale.

Will post the answers on 3rd October. Happy Solving!!!

5 comments:

Nikesh Rathi said...

An interesting change from routine posts !

Some of my responses, consisting mostly of random guesses -

1. White knight
2 Tintin's room (100% random guesS)
3 Gates to Kerry
4
5 Bankruptcy !
6
7
8 Hindi
9 Pratibha Patil
10 Decide upon inter-bank transfer rates in case liquidity falls below some minimum

Anonymous said...

Cool Sid... interesting questions..

3. It was Nandan Nilekani to Thomas Friedman I think, if I remember correctly from The World is Flat

4. Bravia !??

6. Larry Page !?? Wild guess :D

8. Errr.... Hindi ??

9.

10. Square off positions or some sh*t like that!??

Arjun

Munmun said...

Too 'geek'ish!! :o

Nikesh Rathi said...

Sid,

Let there be answers to everything...
For the time has finally 'arrived'

Anonymous said...

I think the other answer to globalization is Al Qaeda...