The IIM b Biz quiz , part of Convergenz 2008

I'd been to this biz quiz at IIM B recently, the "Biz/IT Quiz for Corporates", conducted by KQA , wit the quizmaster being Prof.Rajeev Gowda of IIM B , who's also a founder of KQA.

An Infosys team walked away with 15k at the end of the day, which also saw teams from TCS, Sun microsystems, Yahoo among others steal the limelight.

I got an extra copy f the prelims sheet to post here.. Gosh, how bad i felt when i realised i cud actually only mange to know 6 of the answers (but at that moment, i cracked only 3 :D ), while the cutoff was double that(11) !! I knew i was bad at BizQuiz , but it took this to know how bad!

These prelims questions were taken by a Mr.Arul Mani, also of KQA. My first quiz in Bangalore proved to be a total entertainer, while i knew 50% of the questions asked in the finals (but the finalists knew more than 90% of them :) )


1. According to James Kovacs, the name of this programming language was musically inspired. The creators felt that it was a step above some of the existing popular languages. So they added the musical notation meaning a semi-tone above the note to the name of the existing language. Its opponents jokingly referred to it ad Db(d flat) , which is the same note as ______, but has different connotations. Which language, introduced in 2001? [EVEN I GOT THIS ONE. SO I GUESS U SHOULD!]

2. Electronic Arts recently donated the original classic version of ____ to the One Laptop per Child project. ____ has been widely used by educators to unlock and speed up the transformational skills associated with creative thinking. It's also been used in US national level competitions by seenth and eighth grade students to foster engineering skills and inspire students to explore futuristic concepts and careers in engineering. What?

3. This term was used in middle english literature to mean "to know". The term can be found in Geoffrey Chaucer's The Wife of Bath's tale : "For well ____ thy pacience is gon.. " It gained much attention in the International media because "it blends whimsy and new technology". Identify the term.

4. In 2007, Pepsi Cola announced a limited edition variant of Mountan Dew called Game Fuel. It was a citrus cherry flavoured drink (followed by its composition. too lazy to type.) What was the occasion for this launch?

5. What variation of a six letter word resulted because Silicon Valley engineer Tim Beauchamp refused in 1997 to relinquish the domain that he was using as a site for math and astronomy?
(I was cursing myself for missing this one)

6. Which Social networking service uses the baseline "Blog Early Blog Often"?

7. The name for the company was suggested by the founder's wife who mistakenly thought that the word meant new in a classy european language. The word exists in the Catalan language, where it denotes the property of being "recent" or a "beginner". For example, "__" wine is a term used in Catalan to suggest that it is the wine of the last year. Which company?

8. The Chance RT-52 is a small unit built by Chance coach Inc., measuring only 25' 11" in length. It normally carries 19 to 23 passengers and is built to handle short run abouts. The most well known use of this unit resulted in what well known term?

(total 25 questions. To be continued!)