Saturday, April 04, 2009

FYEO QUIZ 1

FYEO stands for "For Your Eyes Only". As is evident from the name this series of quizzes will contain only questions based on visuals.So do keep your eyes glued to the screen :).


28 people replied to the quiz.The highest score being 9.Congratulations !! to Rabi.
Answers have been mailed to those who left their mail ids with the answers.Those who are yet to recieve the answers kindly drop me a mail .

Scores can be accessed here


1.The actress in the visual along with music composer George Antheil received patent number 2,292,387 for their "Secret Communications System." in 1942 ,but the invention could be implemented only 1962.Identify the actress and what was the importance of this patent?

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2.This chain operates in 89 countries with around 30832 franchises.The visual shows one of its branch in Dar Es Salam,Tanzania.Identify.

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3.This financial institution,( headquarters shown in the visual below) celebrates its birthday on All Fools day.This year it turned 75.

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4.In the 1970s the compnay ran an advertising campaign where the following mathematical formula was displayed on a piece of paper.The result was that they received several inquiries from the scientific community for the meaning of the formula, as they could not figure it out.Who was behind this unusual advertising

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5. Identify the flag shown here.

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6. Identify the author,whose work reaches daily through some newspapers.

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7.This logo was recently replaced.Which Indian company's logo was this.

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8.What technology is being demonstrated in the visual below?

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9,Identify this British motor sport engineer ?

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10.The visual shows an ad of The Zimbabwean newspaper.What has been blanked out from the visual

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24 comments:

  1. The EditorApr 6, 2009, 11:52:00 PM

    1. Hedy Lamarr for Spread Spectrum Communications

    2. Subway

    4. The Parker Pen Ad outlining a formula for the perfect Martini

    10. Robert Mugabe

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  2. SaketApr 6, 2009, 11:56:00 PM

    1. Hedy Lamarr, invented spread spectrum technology now used in cellphones.

    2. Western Union?

    3. SEBI

    4. Coke

    5. NATO

    6. Scott Adams of Dilbert

    7. Mafatlal?

    8.

    9.

    10. Mugabe

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  3. AntonyApr 7, 2009, 10:38:00 AM

    2) walmart

    3) Reserve bank of India

    6) Scott Adams

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  4. RabiApr 7, 2009, 3:26:00 PM

    Ans:
    1. Antijamming, nowadays it's used for antijamming of mobile signals etc. & she's Hedy Lamarr.
    2. Subway Restaurant.
    3. Reserve Bank of India.
    4. Parker Pen & the formula is called Martini Formula.
    5. NATO.
    6. Scott Adams of Dilbert fame.
    7. National Insurance Co.
    8. Laser Ray Computer Keyboard.
    9. Ross Brawn of Brawn GP Team.
    10. Mugabe

    Rabi

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  5. chandanApr 7, 2009, 5:02:00 PM

    3.RBI
    6.Scott Adams
    7.National Insurance Corporation
    9.Ross Brawn
    10.Inflation

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  6. sinister.ankitApr 7, 2009, 7:48:00 PM

    1.hedy lamar
    2.subway
    3.parker pen
    4.nato
    5.scott adams
    9.ross braun
    10.robert mugabe??



    Ankit Suman

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  7. AjithaApr 7, 2009, 9:37:00 PM

    1) The Actress is HEDY LAMARR and the invention is frequency hopping....

    2) Its the SUBWAY - the largest submarine sandwich franchise.

    3) RBI , INDIA.

    5)Its the NATO - North Atlantic Treaty Organisation.

    6) Scott Adams
    Author and Illustrator of popular syndicated comic "Dilbert"

    8) laser keyboard

    9) Ross Brawn

    10) MUgabe

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  8. SiddharthApr 7, 2009, 10:54:00 PM

    1. Hedy Lamarr: Spread Spectrum Technology for mobile communications.

    2. Subway

    3. Bombay stock exchange

    4. Hawkins pressure cooker?

    5. NATO

    6. Pass

    7. LIC?

    8. Sixth Sense

    9. Ross Brawn

    10. Mugabe?

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  9. Arpan MajumderApr 7, 2009, 10:58:00 PM

    1)Hedy Lamarr
    2)Subway
    3)J.P. Morgan?
    4)Vodka Martini formula (Smirnoff?)
    5)
    6)Scott Adams
    7)
    8)
    9)Ross Brawn
    10)Mugabe

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  10. UnknownApr 8, 2009, 12:28:00 PM

    7)National insurance

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  11. AnonymousApr 8, 2009, 6:43:00 PM

    Answers:
    1.Hedy Lamarr
    2.Subway
    3.BSE
    4.Martini
    5.NATO
    6.Scott Adams
    7.IIS
    8.
    9.Dave Ryan
    10.Mugabe

    John Philip ,an old hand

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  12. vivek rao , vivekrao11@yahoo.comApr 9, 2009, 9:12:00 AM

    1.hedy lamarr, torpedo frequency hopping technology later used to load info on computers via paper tape
    2.subway
    3.federal reserve
    4.parker, formula for martini
    5.
    6.scott adams
    7.national insurance company limited
    8.projector keyboard
    9.brawn
    10.mugabe

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  13. shibin azadApr 9, 2009, 10:45:00 AM

    1.audrey hepburn.??
    2.mc donalds??
    5.nato
    7.united india insurance
    8.bluetooth
    10.mugabe

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  14. iamniradApr 9, 2009, 4:28:00 PM

    Nirad Inamdar

    1. no idea. JUDY GARLAND (ENIGMA)?

    2. on reading closely, i saw "we make our own bread", so that says SUBWAY

    3. RBI (my 1st guess was Canara Bank, but i googled for this 1)

    4. 360 degrees means 1 circle, so i'll try to think of 3 circles. Toyota is my 1st guess, but it doesn't begin with M. MERCEDES???

    5. MERCHANT NAVY?

    6. ooh my, i can't remem the name.
    MICHAEL PORTER?

    7. pass

    8. TOUCH SCREEN PANELS

    9. ROSS BRAWN
    7.

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  15. Aman A.Apr 11, 2009, 3:38:00 AM

    2. hertz
    3. rbi
    4. parker
    7. united india assurance
    8. pranav mistry's 6th sense
    10. mugabe


    Aman A.

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  16. DKApr 11, 2009, 2:27:00 PM

    1. hedy lamerr(radio comm with torpedos making jamming too difficult)
    2.Subway
    3. RBI
    4. McD may be
    5. NATO
    6. Scott Adams
    7.
    8. some sort of optical bluetooth thing
    9. Ross Brawn
    10. Mugabe

    by Deepanshu

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  17. VijayApr 11, 2009, 7:07:00 PM

    1 hedy lamarr and fh spread spectrum
    2. mcdonalds
    3 world bank
    4 martini formula
    5 nato
    6 scott adams
    9 ross brawn

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  18. Udaibhan singhApr 12, 2009, 8:12:00 PM

    1. hedy lammer
    2. Subway
    3. Reserve Bank Of India
    4. Parker Pen
    5.
    6. Scott adams
    7. National Insurance Corporation
    8.
    9. Ross Brown
    10. Mugabe

    By Udaibhan singh
    http://confusedgyani.blogspot.com/

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  19. Jagdish PrasadApr 13, 2009, 8:30:00 AM

    Answer
    1 Actress Hedy Lamarr. That early version of frequency hopping used a piano-roll to change between 88 frequencies, and was intended to make radio-guided torpedoes harder for enemies to detect or to jam.
    2 Subway
    10. Mugabe
    Jagdish Prasad

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  20. AnonymousApr 13, 2009, 11:53:00 AM

    Ans-1-Hedy Lamarr

    2-Subway

    3-

    4-

    5-NATO

    6-Susan estrich

    7-
    8-
    9-Donald healy

    10-Mugabe

    Debasis Acharya
    UIICL,Vadodara

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  21. RamkiMay 19, 2009, 11:32:00 PM

    1. hedy lamarr.. frquency skipping
    2. subway
    3.reserve bank of india
    4. (3.5G + V/2)/4(H2O)3 + 3(360o) = M Translated: 3.5 shots gin and 1/2 shot vermouth over 4 parts ice (water cubed), then 3 stirs = MARTINI

    5.
    6.Scott adams
    7.
    8.Sixth sense developed at MIT labs by indian pranav mistry
    9.ross brawn
    10.Mugabe

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  22. Aniruddha BiswasMay 20, 2009, 2:12:00 PM

    @Aman

    Your scores are present in the shared excel sheet.If you could drop me mail ,I'll send you all the answers.

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  23. LJul 16, 2009, 7:53:00 PM

    1.
    2.Subway
    3.RBI
    4.Parker pen company
    5.The NATO flag
    6.Bill Watterson
    7.
    8.
    9.Ross Brawn
    10.Robert Mugabe

    -Rahul

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  24. UnknownDec 7, 2012, 11:54:00 AM

    amazing questions bro

    ReplyDelete

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