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Sunday, December 17, 2006

Quirvana 9

Hi all,

Here are the asnwers for Quirvana 9. Thanks for the response.

1. Identify the legendary actor and the watch brand he is endorsing from a legendary movie about races.

STEVEN McQUEEN in the movie Le Mans. The brand is TAG Heuer

2. Which famous psychological response condition is owes its origin to this incident in the history?

STOCKHOLM SYNDROME

3. Which famous law can be mathematically illustrated as follows?

MURPHY'S LAW (If anything can go wrong, it will go wrong)

U is urgency, C is complexity, I is importance, S is skill, F is frequency (in which you perform the task), and A is aggravation. A was set to 0.7 after a poll. The other factors have to be estimated on a scale between 1 and 9.


4. Which fictional character’s television debut revolved round this product?

DILBERT

5. Identify the legendary advertising duo.

JOHN ORR YOUNG and RAYMOND RUBICAM

6. What was founded by the two gentlemen?


SUBWAY (FRED DA LUCA and PETER BUCK)

The scores are as follows.


Kedar Shastry 4.5
Ramaswamy 4
Harsha Belludi 3
Varun Reddy 2.5
Sridharan Doraivelu 2.5
Santanu Dey 2
Prateek 1
Shrinidhi Rai 1

- Deepak Karamungikar

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