Cognizant Biz Quiz!

We are not supposed to participate it as lack of preparation had made us shivering at our knees and Business Gyan of the others were the things to be panicked. Any way, after a lot of hassle and passel we finally sit for the prelims. It was writing test and I have an impressive record of getting filtered every time whenever I had appeared for written prelims. Writankar Da and Indrajit Da were both in a chanting mood from the very beginning. As soon as the hall became congested with the biz quizzards the lovely host Shounak had started the show off. People were excited; they were waiting for the 1^st questions to unleash their biz fundaes.  Except us; Writankar Da was thinking about some dirty superstitions, Indra Da was desperately searching for a cigarette and I was smiling as some mystic things are facing me.

The first one was quite an easy one for my partners but after that it went all blank. Some 6/7 questions later Writankar Da was confidant to score another. After that quite a fair balance of corrects and wrongs made our score fairly polished. Indra Da was extremely deadly in Kolkata questions as usual & I contributed some visuals. Any way, our confidence level was slackening as some 10/11 questions were we managed to get correct out of 25.

There are total of 6 teams qualified for the final. Some names which I can recollect “42”, “Team D”, “Three Amigos”, “Biz Kyun” like these. Unfortunately the sixth was “Bayer Neverloosen” was belongs to us. Man, we placed in the 3^rd spot in the prelims and the team name credit should go for me (Quiet selfish! Isn’t it?) Shounak again excellently constructed the infinite bounce quiz with some segmentation like “Bodhan”. “Maha Shasthi”, “Maha Saptami” … “Bijaya Dashami”. Bodhan was dedicated only to great Google Doodles’.  We performed average in it though it is one of my favorites. Things were gone not good after then for us. 2/3 questions which we knew the answer, were pulled of by the “Biz Kyun” team. The team seating right to us - “Three Amigos”- consisted with some IIM pass outs – were performing supremely. We were getting out of the track slowly, we could realize that. Suddenly some wildest of guesses and sheer luck factor powered us to remain in the competition. I was going crazy that time. I even still can’t understand how the hell I was working out those tough problems and crazy connection on the spot and most of them were bang on target. Amazingly in an Infinite Bounce Quiz, we had answered 4 consecutive questions – you can understand how difficult and fortunate job we had done. After the very last round we climbed at the top with a mere 10 point lead from the big IIMs.

We were tensed in fact and the structure of the rapid fire round made us even more worried.  But thanks to Writankar Da, who pulled off the thing with perfect execution of experience and knowledge, answering the entire question set in strong nerves. We won the battle eventually. After long span of barren attempts, we managed to finish it on such a big stage & finish in style.  Long live “Bayer Neverloosen”.   

Some questions I found extremely brain storming and those which I can remember I am posting below. Please try to answer those in the comment section. I will post the answers very soon. Try your luck buddies and please do not Google it to spoil the fun.

 

1.       The room number 374 in the Jamaica Pegasus hotel became tourist spot for the last 10 months. What is the reason?

2.       The guarantee of some company was dropped in 1993 because of the "public perception of reckless driving and irresponsibility". Name the company.

3.       Who is the CEO of the company which is the sole distributor of Walther arms in India?

4.       Which company has the NYSE ticker symbol BUD?

5.       The ORIX Auto Infrastructure Services Ltd. (OAIS) has introduced a new service on Friday, August 9. Which one?

6.       What is STAYCATION?

7.       Which Brand print ad is this?

8> Identify them :

9.  What is so special about this sea food chain ?

  10. According to a survey by BBC, which indian city used 600000 condoms per day? and why ?

As soon as I get the complete set of questions I will post it for you guys. Please do commenting the answers... lets c who will get the cherry!!

Regards

Srinwantu