SQ-02

­­­­1. ________ was born in Poland and his family emigrated to West Germany when he was 2 years old. His mother is a polish handball player and his father is a polish football professional. He still has Polish citizenship, but he travels with a German passport. On 1 July 2009 X created a website where people can buy pixels of an image of _________ for €25 each, in order to gather €1 million to reduce the cost of the transfer. Fill in the blank

Ans: Lukas Podolski

2. Name the father son pair which created history when the son came in as the substitute for his father in an International friendly against Estonia on 24 April 1996. It happened so that the president for the country’s FA, Eggert Magnússon sent an express order to the coach not to play them together as he wanted that to happen on the home turf which was due in 2 months. But it never happened as the son broke his ankle while playing for the youth national team.

Ans: Arnór and Eidur Gudjohnsen

3. Identify the player

Ans: Zoran Tosic

4. Identify the club from the logo

Ans : Wolves

5. They were famously the first British professional club to wear a sponsor’s logo on their shirts, agreeing a deal with Hitachi in 1979. In the years since, the club has had relatively little variation in sponsorship deals linking up with Crown Paints and Candy before signing their current deal in 1992 , a deal which is the longest standing current agreement in English top-flight football. Name Club and the sponsors?

Ans: Loserfools also called as Liverpool

Biz Quiz-02

1. X was launched in 1993 by Simon King and Dr.Badri Seshadri. It is one of the largest website in the world with more than 20 million users. In the year 2007 Y bought X from Z. Identify X, Y n Z.

X-cricinfo.com Y-ESPN Z- Wisden

2. This company based in Chicago was created in 1982, when the Ryan Insurance Group (founded by Pat Ryan in the 1960s) merged with the Combined Insurance Company of America (founded by W. Clement Stone in 1919). In 1987, the company was introduced to Wall Street as ____, a Gaelic word meaning “oneness”. The company has recently signed a four year shirt sponsorship deal with the “ Red Devils” and will be replacing AIG in 2010. Name the company.

Ans: Aon

3. Identify the personality

Ans: Pierre Omidyar

4. Identify the logo.

Ans: Bentley

5. Identify the brand

Ans : Pioneer

SQ-01

1. Only three male tennis players have won all the four grand slam titles in the open era. Roger Federer is one of them. Name the other two.

Ans: Andre Agassi n Rod Laver

2. Which player holds the record for most number of goals for his club in his debut season and whose record did he beat?

Ans: Fernando Torres. He broke Van nistelrooy's record

3. X is a Spanish footballer born to a Serbian father and a Spanish mother. X made his club debut in 2007. X is first player born in 1990s and the second youngest player to score in Champions league. Identify X.

Ans: Bojan Krkic

4. Identify the sports person

Ans: Jamie How

5. Connect

Ans: Fly Emirates

Biz quiz -01

1. This company (X) headquartered at 770 Broadway in New York was started as Quantum Computer Services. Tim Armstrong is the present CEO of the company. X began life as a short-lived venture called Control Video Corporation (or CVC), founded by Bill von Meister. Its sole product was an online service called Gameline for the Atari 2600 video game console after von Meister's idea of buying music on demand was rejected by Warner Brothers. Name X

Ans: AOL

2. Founded in December 1998 by Peter Thiel and Max Levchin, it was initially a service for users to send money via PDAs. The company is supposed to have devised the Captcha system of making the user enter numbers from a blurry picture. Currently owned by eBay, its domain name is www.x.com. Identify.

Ans: PayPal

3. Identify this personality

Ans: Karl albrecht

4. Identify the logo

Ans: Stella Artois

5. “I knew a trade name must be short, vigorous incapable of being misspelled to extent that it will destroy its identity and in order to satisfy the trademark laws, it must mean nothing” Name the person who said this and his brand.

Ans: George Eastman n KODAK

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