Prelims of the Rajagiri National Quiz 2011 hosted by Rohit Nair of QuizWorks. Winners: TCS, Chennai - JK +Sreekant Runners Up: Symbiosis Law School, Pune - Sachin + Ravi

3. With interests varying from Financial Services and IT to
Q.1 Plantations & Precious Metals, this family group runs a 143
year old business house that is based in Kerala.
Identify the business group.

4. Q.2
Inspiration for the symbol came from the Greek
epsilon – a reference to the cradle of European
civilization crossed by two parallel lines to ‘certify’ the
stability.
Which symbol are we discussing?

5. Q.3
Which was the third club , after Manchester United
and Barcelona F.C, to have launched a co-branded
credit card in their name?

6. Q.4
This stamp was launched by India Post in 1998 to
celebrate 100 years of this company.
Which company ?

7. Q.5
Where would
you find this
landmark
plaque?
(Looking for a
company’s name)

8. Q.6
"It's not an apple, it's not an orange, it's not a strawberry,
it's not a root beer, it's not even a cola. It's a different
kind of drink with a unique taste all its own."
The CEO of which brand about its unique taste?

9. Q.7
What is calculated using this formula?

10. Q.8
Founded in 1994 by children's rights activist Kailash
Satyarthi, this is a network of non-profit organizations
dedicated to ending illegal child labour in the industry.
What foundation/logo?

11. Q.9
This brand of Cigar was established in 1968 as a limited
production private brand supplied exclusively to Fidel
Castro and high-level officials in the Communist Party of
Cuba and Cuban government.
The brand was launched as a Premium Cigar brand into
markets in 1982 in conjunction with the World Cup held
in Spain.
Which Cigar Brand?

12. Q.10
Govinda’s is a chain of pure vegetarian restaurants run
by which organization?

13. Q.11
EURion, Microlettering, Latent Image, Fluorescence,
Optically Variable Ink, Silver, Open Space, Interwoven
Fibres
are techniques used on what?

14. Q.12
Codified in the 15th Century by Luca Pacioli,
which system is a set of rules for recording financial information
in which every transaction changes two different ledger
accounts.

15. Q.13
This entrepreneur and his wife Poonam started this
company in their house, naming one room as ‘US’ and the
other as ‘India’.
In one room, they wrote instructions to convert data from
paper documents to computers. In another room, a group
of MIT students typed out the data into a Flexowriter
machine.
Which Indian company’s history?

16. Q.14
Derived from the old French term for purse,
this is a plan of all expenses and revenues.
What word?

17. Q.15

18. Q.16
Which term refers to how sailors would wind twine
around rolls of tobacco leaves allowing them to
mature under compression, and then slice off the end
shredding the tobacco.

19. Q.17
- Is a type of fish
- A Business & Technology Magazine
- A financial expression used to divert attention from the item of
significance.
What common word?

20. Q.18

21. Q.19
The first recorded use of the Electronic Voting
Machine was for the Assembly elections of which
state, in 1982?

22. Q.20
Founder Chairman and
Managing Director of
Mudra
Communications, who
is the author of this
book?

23. Q.21

24. Q.22

25. Q.23

26. Q.24

27. Q.25