Vignettes from the inaugural VBQuiz which was held in Chennai on 14 September 2007.
Mr. A. K. Banerjee, Vice President, Valves Business Group, inaugurating VBQuiz
The Quiz Master
The team behind the event
The Winners
The VBQuiz-I Q&A are given below.
Round 1 – General Knowledge
1. Name the smallest bird in the world ?
The Bee Hummingbird
2. What is the name of the first newspaper published in Madras (Chennai)?
The Madras Courier, started in 1785
3. What is “Royal Mail”?
Royal Mail is the national postal service of the United Kingdom
4. Name the first bank in India?
The General Bank of India, set up in 1786 in Kolkata
5. Name the world’s smallest country (in area)?
The Vatican City
Round 2 – Current Affairs
1. Which battery model in Nokia phones was recently in the centre of a controversy?
BL-5C battery manufactured by Matsushita Battery Industrial Co. Ltd.
2. What is Wipro “Mission 10X”?
Initiative to train engineering faculty along industry standards
3. Name the Indian commercial vehicle manufacturing company to join hands with the Japanese Auto major Nissan Motors.
Ashok Leyland
4. GSLV-F02 carried a Satellite, Name the Satellite in full.
INSAT-4CR
5. Name the four New Business Verticals of L&T
1. Ship building
2. Power equipment
3. Financial Services
4. Railways
Round 3 – Sports
1. Which is known as “The Royal Game”?
Chess
2. Name the city hosting the 2008 Olympic Games?
Beijing
3. Name the event in which R.S.Rathore won the Olympic Silver Medal?
Double Trap
4. Name the cricket ground in which a tree was within its boundaries?
St. Lawrence Ground, Kent
5. Who is the captain of Indian hockey team which won the Asia Cup 2007?
Prabodh Tirkey
Round 4 – Inventions & Discoveries
1. Who invented Cell phone?
Dr. Martin Cooper
2. Who invented Laptop?
Adam Osborne
3. Who invented eMail?
Ray Tomlinson
4. Who invented the first practical automobile?
Karl Benz (Carl Benz)
5. Which company launched the first floppy disk?
IBM
Round 5 – Larsen & Toubro Limited
1. What is Market Cap of L&T (as on September 14, 2007)
65606 Cr
2. Name any one eminent personality mentioned by AMN during the HHL celebrations, likely to address L&T-ites.
1. Dr.Abdul Kalam
2. Dr.Manmohan Singh
3. Mr.P.Chidambaram
3. In which year did we demerge L&T Cement?
2003 September
4. In which year did AMN take over as CMD ?
December 30, 2003
5. L&T recently won an order for the construction of two ships. Name the customer.
RollDock BV of The Netherlands
September 20th, 2007 at 6:31 pm
Good initiative!!!
It was very interesting and we all had good fun…
November 14th, 2007 at 4:21 pm
Nice, such events kindle our creativity and interest in learning whats happening around us