Ecowhizz Prelims

Researched & Conducted bySomnath Chanda

Elimination Round

Rules * 20 questions.* Each question carries 1 mark.* Star-marked questions (i.e, 1, 5, 10, 15 & 20) will be counted to break the ties.* Every decision of the QM is final.

Round

No googling or else u’ll b fired…

All the

best…

What is the one word expression for ‘rules of the house’ or ‘laws of the

house’?

1

A quiz by Somnath Chanda

Ecowhizz – YESM : 2016

Hallmarked as per the BIS standards, tamperproof packaging

and advanced anti-counterfeit features of the products make these

very safe and easily recyclable. Distributed through designated state-owned Metals and Minerals Trading

Corporation of India (MMTC) outlets, they will be engraved with the

emblem of Ashok Chakra and the face of Mahatma Gandhi on both the

sides, respectively. What is being talked about?

2



This popular company, which owes its origin to a catering service run by two Italian brothers in Mumbai, was later given a new identity by a Parsee

family in 1958. Recently, a legal dispute led to the outlets in Eastern India to embrace a new name which

literally translates to ‘my love’. Put funda.

3



Italian painter Giuseppe Arcimboldo was best known for creating imaginative

portrait heads made entirely of objects such as fruits, vegetables and other items.

Some of the examples are :--

4



The Librarian The Jurist The Waiter

Which ‘profession’ has been depicted in this Arcimboldo

creation?

4



What is this ghazal doing in a biz-quiz?

5



Why this tech-savvy lady, co-founder of Flickr and Hunch, is not allowed to

open a Facebook account?

6



Who is responsible for all these recent memes?

7



Whom do you get from the clues?

8



How would you connect a Civil Engineer named Georges

Nagelmackers, who proposed something for the European market in 1870 (became functional in 1893) and

novelist Agatha Christie?

9



Nintendo Power once blocked a certain ‘player’ because of his complete

domination as the America’s #1 Tetris champion for a long period. In the new

rankings published thereafter, who became the topper?

10



As revealed recently, ‘what’ is said to be responsible for this run-out?

11



Which brand in the world of cosmetics, was started by a 19-year-old entrepreneur named Tom Lyle

Williams when he noticed his older sister applying a mixture

of Vaseline and coal dust to her eyelashes to give them a darker,

fuller look?

12



Who has recently been appointed as the Tourism New Zealand’s first

Indian Brand Ambassador?

13



What word, now used as a generic term for a particular type of business-establishments, comes from the name

of this building in Paris?

14



The story began in 1965, when a 35 year old gentleman, known as ‘Barobabu’ in his

close circles, acquired a small shop in

Chitpur, Kolkata. Just, name the

company.(The vis. will work as a

clue)

15



Ebrahim Rahbari, an Economist in the Global Economics Team at

Citigroup coined a portmanteau word in 2012. But that word has been in

most business headlines in mid-2015 because of something which happened

during that time.Which word was that?

16



Keeping up with the

tradition of featuring older spokespersons, this 2009 ad by Louis Vuitton, was made by O&M to mark

the 40th anniversary of

which momentous

occasion in the history of mankind?

17



The logo of the ATK features five stars which symbolically represent the five

owners who forms the consortium Kolkata

Games and Sports Pvt. Ltd.

Apart from Sourav Ganguly,

Harshavardhan Neotia, Sanjiv

Goenka and Utsav Parekh, who is the 5th

member of that consortium?

18



Implemented in multiple regional editions of Amazon, including the UK, French, German, Italian, Canadian and

Japanese storefronts, the Amazon Standard Identification Number is a 10-character alphanumeric unique code assigned by Amazon.com for

product-identification. How do the Indians, especially the

South Indians, remember the name of this new code better?

19



Which company made this funny video to encash the 2015-festive season and

tried to make a grand entry in this part of India through one of their marquee

projects?

20



What is the one word expression for ‘rules of the house’ or ‘laws of the

house’?

1



Economics1



Hallmarked as per the BIS standards, tamperproof packaging

and advanced anti-counterfeit features of the products make these

very safe and easily recyclable. Distributed through designated state-owned Metals and Minerals Trading

Corporation of India (MMTC) outlets, they will be engraved with the

emblem of Ashok Chakra and the face of Mahatma Gandhi on both the

sides, respectively. What is being talked about?

2



India’s Gold Coin2



This popular company, which owes its origin to a catering service run by two Italian brothers in Mumbai, was later given a new identity by a Parsee

family in 1958. Recently, a legal dispute led to the Kolkata outlets to embrace a new name which literally

translates to ‘my love’. Put funda.

3



Monginis became Mio Amore3



Italian painter Giuseppe Arcimboldo was best known for creating imaginative

portrait heads made entirely of objects such as fruits, vegetables and other items.

Some of the examples are :--

4



The Librarian The Jurist The Waiter

Which ‘profession’ has been depicted in this Arcimboldo

creation?

4



The Fruitseller4



What is this ghazal doing in a biz-quiz?

5



5



Why this tech-savvy lady, co-founder of Flickr and Hunch, is not allowed to

open a Facebook account?

6



Caterina Fake is not allowed because ‘Fake’ is a banned word in

fb-account names

6



Who is responsible for all these recent memes?

7



Neil Nitin Mukesh7



Whom do you get from the clues?

8



Dominique Strauss-Kahn8



How would you connect a Civil Engineer named Georges

Nagelmackers, who proposed something for the European market in 1870 (became functional in 1893) and

novelist Agatha Christie?

9



Orient Express9



Nintendo Power once blocked a certain ‘player’ because of his complete

domination as the America’s #1 Tetris champion for a long period. In the new

rankings published thereafter, who became the topper?

10



Steve Wozniak10



As revealed recently, ‘what’ is said to be responsible for this run-out?

11



Viagra11



Which brand in the world of cosmetics, was started by a 19-year-old entrepreneur named Tom Lyle

Williams when he noticed his older sister applying a mixture

of Vaseline and coal dust to her eyelashes to give them a darker,

fuller look?

12



Maybelline12



Who has recently been appointed as the Tourism New Zealand’s first

Indian Brand Ambassador?

13



Sidharth Malhotra13



What word, now used as a generic term for a particular type of business-establishments, comes from the name

of this building in Paris?

14



Bourse (for Stock Exchanges)14



The story began in 1965, when a 35 year old gentleman, known as ‘Barobabu’ in his

close circles, acquired a small shop in

Chitpur, Kolkata. Just, name the

company.(The vis. will work as a

clue)

15



Khadim’s15



Ebrahim Rahbari, an Economist in the Global Economics Team at

Citigroup coined a portmanteau word in 2012. But that word has been in

most business headlines in mid-2015 because of something which happened

during that time.Which word was that?

16



Grexit16



Keeping up with the

tradition of featuring older spokespersons, this 2009 ad by Louis Vuitton, was made by O&M to mark

the 40th anniversary of

which momentous

occasion in the history of mankind?

17



Apollo 11 Mission / First Moon Landing

17



The logo of the ATK features five stars which symbolically represent the five

owners who forms the consortium Kolkata

Games and Sports Pvt. Ltd.

Apart from Sourav Ganguly,

Harshavardhan Neotia, Sanjiv

Goenka and Utsav Parekh, who is the 5th

member of that consortium?

18



Atletico Madrid 18



Implemented in multiple regional editions of Amazon, including the UK, French, German, Italian, Canadian and

Japanese storefronts, the Amazon Standard Identification Number is a 10-character alphanumeric unique code assigned by Amazon.com for

product-identification. How do the Indians, especially the

South Indians, remember the name of this new code better?

19



ASIN19



Which company made this funny video to encash the 2015-festive season and

tried to make a grand entry in this part of India through one of their marquee

projects?

20



Star Cement20



Final coming

up…

Education

Ecowhizz Prelims