Mindful Leadership 2011 Audience Quiz

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Audience quiz I hosted at the Mindful Leadership 2011 finals held at LiBA, Chennai

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AUDIENCE QUIZ

Identify this person

I was the President and Chief Executive Officer of eBay from

1998 to 2008

Meg Whitman

I saw him playing on television and was struck by his technique, so I asked my wife to come look at him. Now

I never saw myself play, but I feel that this player is playing much the same as I used to play, and she looked

at him on Television and said yes, there is a similarity between the two…his compactness, technique, stroke

production… it all seemed to gel!

Who said about whom?

Sir Don Bradman about Sachin Tendulkar

Identify this person

Philip Kotler

Name the author

Benjamin Graham (known as Father of Value Investing)

Identify the woman on the right

Erin Brockovich

The McDonalds clown is called Ronald McDonald all over the world, except in Japan.

What is he called in Japan?

Donald McDonald

Mr. Tupil Rangaswamy Iyengar, a retired Civil Servant of the erstwhile Madras Presidency built his house here in early '20s. When civil authorities approached him for his formal

approval the humble, religious and self effasive gentleman requested it be named after Lord

Ranganatha of Srirangam.

What is “it”??

Ranganathan Street

Who am I?

Here’s a hint: “The virtue of selfishness”

Oh, come on! I wrote “The Fountainhead”!

Ayn Rand

The word ________ is a Greek military term that means, the “art of the general”

STRATEGY

Name the player on the right

Marco Materazzi

I killed one-fourth of mankind. Who am I?

Cain (son of Adam and Eve, who killed his brother Abel)

Identify this sport

Sepak Takraw

Where can you find these markings?

Lunch boxes delivered by dabbawalas of Mumbai

Who wrote these words?

“When I write I can shake off all my cares. My sorrow disappears, my spirits are revived! But, and that’s a big question, will I ever be able to write something great, will I ever become a journalist or a writer?”

Anne Frank

Name the movie!

My Fair Lady

What is a chicken market??

A market that is neither bullish nor bearish!

“The best way to discover what’s new in your world.” What am I talking about?

Twitter

Name this person

Harold “Dickie” Bird

Who am I?

• I had written a postcard to JRD Tata complaining of the gender bias in Tata Motors

• I was the first woman engineer to be selected in Telco (now Tata Motors)

Sudha Murthy

________, also known as fast leg theory, was a cricketing tactic devised

by the English cricket team for their 1932–33 Ashes tour of Australia,

specifically to combat the extraordinary batting skill of

Australia's Don Bradman

Fill in the blank

Bodyline

Who am I?

Shikha Sharma, MD and CEO, Axis Bank

“I float like a butterfly, sting like a bee!”

Who am I?

Muhammad Ali