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Ad Club Bangalore Quiz April 2011 Welcome to the Finals. Venkatesh S and Vivek K – Team Nexus. Brought to you by. Write to Score 8 visuals All-written +5 for each; +10 if you are one of the only 1 or 2 teams to get it Bonus 10 if you get all 8. 1. Fan comic for?. 2. Identify the book.
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Ad Club Bangalore Quiz April 2011 Welcome to the Finals Venkatesh S and Vivek K – Team Nexus
Write to Score • 8 visuals • All-written • +5 for each; +10 if you are one of the only 1 or 2 teams to get it • Bonus 10 if you get all 8
1 Fan comic for?
2 Identify the book
3 Identify this famous endorser
4 A classic ad of a Pfizer brand that is almost a generic name. ID
5 An 1980s ad for which game?
6 What’s blanked out?
7 ID the logo
8 Identify
Answers • Big Bang Theory • Requiem for a Dream • Ronald Reagan • Chapstick • TRON • Facebook • FIFA World Cup 2014, Brazil • Onion
Clockwise – Infinite Bounce • 12 Questions • +10 for direct and pass
1 A mixed-up response involving the two pictures on the right caused much embarrassment during trials. Explain
Watson – IBM’s Jeopardy computer once confused Dickens' Oliver Twist with the Pet Shop Boys, a 1990s techno band
2 This is the idea that there are other ways to use the Internet to communicate a marketing message. These include sponsoring a Web site or a particular feature on it; advertising in e-mail newsletters; co-branding with another company and its Web site; contest promotion; and, in general, finding new ways to engage and interact with the desired audience. Can also include the interstitial and streaming video infomercial. What three word term is used for this, as it takes other ways apart from the usual one?
3 The precise time of 53 seconds, 26 minutes after 9 AM on March 14, 2015 will be looked forward to by geeks all over the world. Why?
4 The term is reportedly onomatopoeic, the sound it makes when one taps it with a finger. An oft-repeated, but false, alternative explanation for the term says that at some time in the early 20th century, the United States military had two classes for airships: Type A-rigid and Type _-___. What are we talking about?
5 An audit shows that last year, they controlled 30 of these and 659 people. At an average take home of $5.4 Million, their total income was $238 Million last year. Their negotiations have often taken months, and recently one of them has offered a 20% discount for “early bird” negotiation completion. What, very African in nature, is being described?
6 Three recent books on Indian films. Name all three.
Jaane Bhi Do Yaaron Deewar Disco Dancer
7 The brand that issued this ad names multiple competitors – ironically, it acquired the first name blanked out in 1987, and itself got acquired by the second one earlier this month. Name all three
National Semiconductor Fairchild Texas Instruments
8 It began its association with sports in 1927, through advertising on the southern wall of minor league baseball's Nicollet Park in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Michael Jordan holds the record for most depictions a total of 18 times, followed by Tiger Woods at 14 times. The first athlete was Lou Gehrig, the first woman athlete Babe Zaharias and the first African American, Jesse Owens. Which iconic brand and its tagline, the latter being shared with a 1999 American comedy film based on a 1973 novel?
Wheaties Breakfast of Champions
9 An enterprise started in 1993, it has diversified business interests ranging from essential oils, herbal oils, specialty perfumery compounds, wellness, education, agri-business & marble mining. The Group manages various brands like Chandan Sparsh (Spa), ____ Marble (Largest Imported and Indian Marble retail chain in India), Lambency Wellness Products and more. Who and why have they become prominent recently?
10 Fill in the two blanks and connect
Speak Softly and carry a big stick Good to the last drop Both phrases coined / made popular by Theodore Roosevelt, also famous for the Teddy Bear
11 When X (an Indian director) asked Y (actor), (whom X has directed earlier in a book-based movie) to read The Reluctant Fundamentalist, he did so and was all eager to play the role, but was turned down, since they needed a younger hero. More recently, acclaimed international director Z asked Y to read Life of Pi and finally confirmed that Y would act in it as the older version of the protagonist. Y also wanted to star in the film version of Midnight’s Children by Deepa Mehta, but could not accommodate it in his schedule. Name all
X – Mira Nair Y – Irrfan Khan Z – Ang Lee
12 Oslo: 4 cents; Glasgow, Londonderry, Aarhus and Bilund: 6-9 cents; Explain.
Ryanair ads banned after 'cheap sun destinations' turned out to include Denmark and Norway in winter
