IIT - Kanpur Experience

For Quizzers

Qns

A few Prelims qns:

1) It is easier to be a Billionaire in US than in Britain. Why ?
In UK a million million is one billion, while in US it is 1000 million

2) Which motor companies' logo is referred to as 'Bow Tie' ?
Chevrolet

3) Which Canine breed is named after a tax collector?
Doberman

4) Which Companies' tagline is 'Better Sound through Research' ?
Bose

5) Almost 4.3% of milk prod in Ireland is used for ?
making of Bailey's Irish Cream

6) official car of French President?
Citroen

7)Which language was named 'Oak' by founder James Gosling ?
JAVA

8) Which clothes brand gets its name from the Wild West term for a cow hand who rustles up stray cattle?
Wrangler

9) Which software giant of the eighties from the favourite yogic asana of founder Mitch Kapur ?
LOTUS

10) Which Country's ad campaign has the line " Where the bloody hell are you? "
Aussie !

11) MTV's Film division tying up with ADAG - What is its name ?
Fully Faltoo Films

12) In the NYSE, The change of curve from a bear to bull run is commonly known as a ____ ___ Rounded bottom pattern
Jennifer Lopez

13) This co was founded in 1923 as 'Ideal'. Its Core business was manufacturing of head phones. If the Head phones came through quality tests, they wud be given a 'blue dot' or a ____ . the quality symbol later became the company name in 1938. Which co ?
Blaupunkt

14) What was updated on the occasion of its 70th anniversary and features the following (among others) Toyota prius, New Balance Shoe, McDonald's French Fries, Labradoodle, Motorola RAZR, Lap top etc ..
The board Game of MonoPoly

For Readers:

Joy Bhattarya (or bhattacharjee, am not sure ) of ESPNSTAR is also a good quiz master. So he was to conduct a Corporate quiz on 7th April @ IIT-Kanpur, as a part of their fest MEGABUCKS 2007. As the name would suggest, The event promised Mega bucks. Now quizzers are smart people, who claim that they quiz for the joy of quizzing. Cut a zero from the prize money and you'll know the truth :)

Thus dumping all my stuff into that magic bag of mine, i left for kanpur, hopeful of some podium finish. The train reached kanpur an hour late, quite acceptable by Indian Railways' standards. ( now friends, being a tamil guy, i rarely had an opportunity to learn hindi. my hopes of learning hindi @ IIFT were shattered by the huge Tamil junta thats here with me. Or in short, i dont know hindi ! ) Now it was quite a tuff time to even tell people around that i needed to go to IIT. i thought that was the only notable landmark in Kanpur, and a couple of locals whizzed past me answering me that no such college existed by IIT in kanpur !

now an empathetic on-looker came towards me and told me syllables i needed to stress to let people know that it is IIT. it is supposed to sound "aaaaaaai aaaaaaaaaaai Teee" it seems. hmm lots of things remain to be learnt in this world huh. Wow ! more bad news ! 7th of April is coincidentally the day of UP elections. No buses/autos plying. Tom hanks in philadelhia says "every problem has a solution" .. Oh yeah !

20 mins since the train arrived and i am still in the Kanpur railway station getting views and opinions on how to reach IIT.