Business quiz

Business Quiz
Quizzing Section, IITR

Instructions
1.Prelims: 20 Questions
2.Kindly refrain from Cybernetic investigations.
3.No Negatives. Guess away!
4.The more you stare at the question, the more answer
stares back at you.

1.
Founded in 1952 by late Shri Keshav Vishnu Pendharkar, the X Industrial Chemical
Company has emerged today as the maker of internationally known products of
Ayurveda, the ancient Indian system of natural medicines. Having production units
at Dombivli, Nagpur and Goa in India, its products include herbal tooth paste,
herbal tooth powder, a natural skin cream, herbal shaving cream, etc.
Give X and the company’s household name.

2.
Grupo X-San Miguel is a Spanish brewing company, founded in Madrid
in 1890 under the name of Hijos de Casimiro X, fabrica de hielo y
cerveza (The Sons of Casimiro X, production of ice and beer). X-San
Miguel is the leading brand in the Spanish beer market.
In 1890, Enrique, Luis, and Carolina, the children of a French
entrepreneur born in Lorraine, founded Hijos de Casimiro X in Madrid.
The French surname was to become the flagship name of one of
Spain's most famous beers.
Give X.

3. Tu banega Roadie?
"Say the pensioner wants to buy ____ and at the beginning of the
period, they cost Rs. 50 per ____. Let us say he has savings of Rs.
1,00,000. He could buy 2,000 _____ with the money today, but he
wants more by investing. At 10 per cent interest, he gets Rs. 10,000
after one year plus his principal. With _____ having gone up by 10 per
cent to Rs.55, he can buy 182 _____ approximately with the Rs. 10,000
interest. At 8 per cent interest, he gets Rs. 8,000. With _____ having
gone up by 5.5 per cent, each _____ costs Rs. 52.75, so he can now buy
only 152 _____ approximately. So the pensioner seems vindicated: with
lower interest payments, he can now buy less.”
Explain the funda and name the fundebaaz.

4. Fugazi, Fugazi. It's a wazy. It's a woozie. It's
fairy dust.

6. Thanda matlab?
“I like to be near water,” says Ravi Jaipuria seated in his office on the
top floor of a building that bears his initials and is located in Gurgaon, a
bustling township adjacent to Delhi. But the ocean is nowhere close, so
the chairman of the $1 billion (revenues) privately-held RJ Corp has to
make do with an artificial waterfall in the terrace adjoining his office.
Water of the flavored kind has made Jaipuria, 58, a fortune: _____ by
far in India–he claims to be among the multinational giant’s top three
globally-is India’s newest billionaire with a fortune estimated at close to
$1.5 billion.

8.
• KERALA has almost all banks both nationalised and private competing
with each other for providing more and more value-added services.
The latest in this series is going to be a ________ ATM (automated
teller machine), first of its kind in India and perhaps in the world.
• The State Bank of India would be launching the first-ever ________
ATM here soon. The ____, which will be fitted with the ATM is in the
final stages of completion and would become operational soon,
according to sources.

9.
• SumZero is a company started by X and Aalap Mahadevia. X described
how he came up with the concept in an interview. "SumZero was
initially inspired by a need for a simple, centralized, and searchable
platform in which professional investors working at hedge funds,
mutual funds, and private equity funds could share rigorous
investment ideas and network with one another. Since then the
concept has expanded and SumZero is taking steps to bring a subset
of high-level investment research to the investing community at large.
X is of Indian origin, attended Harvard.

10. Principles of what?
(1) Place the tools and the men in the sequence of the operation so that
each component part shall travel the least possible distance while in
the process of finishing.
(2) Use work slides or some other form of carrier so that when a
workman completes his operation, he drops the part always in the
same place—which place must always be the most convenient place
to his hand—and if possible have gravity carry the part to the next
workman for his own.
(3) Use sliding ______ by which the parts to be assembled are delivered
at convenient distances.

12. To err, is inhuman.
It is by his own admission, Warren Buffet’s biggest mistake. Had he not
committed it, it is predicted that his net worth would be around 200
Billion USD. What’s the blunder?

13. What modern logo did the following
inspire?

14. Aladeen muthafucka
X’s value has been estimated at anywhere between US$1.25 trillion and
US$10 trillion making it the world's most valuable company.

15.
• On Thursday, mobile payments and e-commerce company One97
Communications Ltd, which operates under the X brand, won the title
sponsorship rights for all cricket matches, domestic and international,
played in India under the aegis of BCCI for four years in a deal
worth Rs.203.28 crore.
• The deal covers 84 matches. X will pay Rs. 2.42 crore per match,
higher than the minimum bid price of Rs. 2 crore per match.

Vishnu Industrial
Chemical Company

“Beer kaun kaun si hai?”
“MHAAAU hogi.”

David Ogilvy of the Ogilvy and Mather ‘fame’.

PepsiCo’s largest franchise bottler

Precision Parking by Volkswagen

Divya Narendra (Chutiya hehehuheuhueh)

Apple and Alphabet’s market cap.

14. Aladeen Muthafucka
X’s value has been estimated at anywhere between US$1.25 trillion and
US$10 trillion making it the world's most valuable company.

Saudi Arabian national petroleum and natural
gas company based in Dhahran.

1. 
1. X
2. Robert Mercer
3. Toby Neugebauer, C.V. Starr & Company Inc.
4. George Soros

2. Who?
• Founder and current chair of the Alliance for Climate Protection
• Co-founder and chair of Generation Investment Management and the
now-defunct Current TV network
• Member of the Board of Directors of Apple Inc.
• A senior adviser to Google.
• A partner in the venture capital firm, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers,
heading its climate change solutions group.
• Former US vice-president.

3. http://www.painlessdrz.com/

Edward Zuckerberg, dadu of Maxima Zuckerberg,
daughter of Mark Zuckerberg, son of Edward
Zuckerberg.

4.
Yoshida Kōgyō Kabushiki geisha is the world’s foremost _____
manufacturer, making about 90% of all _____ in over 206 facilities in 52
countries. In fact, they not only make the _____, they also make the
machines that make the _____. Their largest factory in Georgia makes
over 7 million _____ per day.

5.
• X is a historical tribe (and region) in Northern Albania (see Malësia).
With expansion of the Ottoman Empire, part of the tribe migrated to
Rugova beginning in ca. 1700, after which they continued to migrate
into the Sandžak region (today in Serbia and Montenegro). The X tribe
converted into Islam in the 18th century, while the X in Sandžak
(known as ____/Serbian: Шкријељ) over time were Islamized and
today declare Bosniak ethnicity. There are minor families which still
adhere to Christianity (most of whom are Catholic, the
rest Orthodox).
• X is also associated with popular douchebaggery in recent times.

6.
"The dirty bastards are back again.”
This line allegedly marks an important event in the history of sports and
business.
The misunderstanding caused by this line led to a rift between two
personalities who went on to form their very special companies.
Explain the whole situation.

• In the 1920s, German brothers Adolf and Rudolf Dassler launched a
shoe company together in their mother's laundry room. Their
business boomed after Dassler shoes adorned the feet of gold-medal-
winning Olympians in the 1930s. But as their sales spiked, so did the
tension between the two brothers.
• After an Allied bomb attack, Adolf and his wife took cover in a bomb
shelter already occupied by Rudolf and his family. "The dirty bastards
are back again," Adolf said, apparently referring to the planes, but
Rudolf thought the comment was an attack against his family.

7. What is? Also, explain what is blanked out.

8. X?
• The accused, Ram Niwas Pal (40), was arrested from Whitefield Road in Bangalore, where he was
residing under a fake identity — Abhay Singh Chandel — and had changed his appearance. He
was in the process of developing a business plan for a Malaysia-based IT firm trying his luck for
certification of popularity for online advertisements of various websites. Ram Niwas Pal was
wanted in nine cases in Mumbai, Andhra Pradesh, Haryana and Madhya Pradesh.
• On November 26, the Crime Branch arrested Ram Niwas Pal's brother Ram Sumiran Pal (37). He
told police that his elder brother and an associate Manoj Kumar Sharma were running the online
survey marketing company called X, which had been registered in Singapore.
• They had reportedly created several companies and sold web subscriptions for Rs 11,000 each. In
return, the investors were asked to fill survey forms for certain multinational firms. They were
promised an annual payment of Rs 52,000.
• Explaining the process, police said, members who paid Rs 11,000 would get a password to open
an account on the company site. At least two survey forms were displayed to each member. For
completing these, members would get more than Rs 4,000 per month. Apart fom that, each
member would get Rs 1,000 as commission for referring others. However, the surveys were later
found to be fake.

9. X and Y, please?
X doctrine asserts:
• Continuous efforts to achieve stable and predictable process results (e.g.
by reducing process variation) are of vital importance to business success.
• Manufacturing and business processes have characteristics that can be
defined, measured, analyzed, improved, and controlled.
• Achieving sustained quality improvement requires commitment from the
entire organization, particularly from top-level management.
X is a set of techniques and tools for process improvement. It was introduced
by engineer Bill Smith while working at Y in 1986.

• X - 6 Sigma
• Y - Motorola

10.
• In 2008, New Zealand’s family court ordered a nine-year-old girl,
whose parents had called her Talula Does The Hula From Hawaii,
should have her name changed.
Judge Rob Murfitt said it was embarrassing and ‘makes a fool of the
child’. He also criticised parents who gave their children bizarre
names, citing examples such as ‘Number 16 Bus Shelter’, ‘Midnight
Chardonnay’ and twins called ‘X’ & ‘Y’.

11.
• The X Foundation , formerly known as the Y Foundation , is a United
States non profit organization that provides support for people
affected by cancer.
• The X wristband is a yellow silicone gel bracelet program launched in
May 2004 as a fund-raising item. The bracelet was developed
by Nike and its advertising agency, Wieden + Kennedy.
• Following Y’s doping scandal, people in agitation started striking off a
letter from ‘X’ to make it Z which became more relevant after Y’s
admittance of doping.
• Give me X, Y and Z.

• X : Livestrong
• Y: Lance Armstrong
• Z: Liestrong
• People struck off the letter ‘V’ from the band.

12.
• In April-May 2015, due to outbreak of Avian Flu, United states
suffered an “egg shortage”. Some egg-dependent companies started
importing eggs from overseas or looking to egg alternatives.
• Meanwhile, X, world’s largest of its kind, which was mired in its worst
slump in more than a decade announced a new plan to revive its
domestic sales. The new plan worsened the egg crisis of United
States.
• “It’s going to make it harder for everyone,” Darren Tristano, an
executive vice president at research firm Technomic, told Bloomberg.
“It’s going to lift prices across a lot of those products that use eggs.”
• Give me X and it’s new strategy.

X- McDonalds
• McDonalds announced its plan to sell breakfast sandwiches (Egg
McMuffin) throughout the day.
• Analysts reported that the all-day breakfast offering exacerbated the
growing egg shortage brought on by the worst outbreak of avian flu in
the last three decades.

13. X, Y, Z bata do. Jaldi.
• Prior to 2014 season , X and the NFL struck a 5-year, $400 million deal with
one of the major components being that the X’s Y would become "the
official ______ of the NFL" with coaches and players using Y on the side
lines during games.
But X and the league ran into a problem during week one of the season
when at least two television announcers mistakenly referred to the Y as Z
giving a huge rival some unexpected exposure.
• The biggest blunder for the league came during the nationally televised
Monday Night Football game when ESPN's Trent Dilfer joked about how
long it took Cardinals assistant head coach Tom Moore to "learn how to use
the Z to scroll through the pictures."

• X: Microsoft
• Y: Surface tablet
• Z: iPad

14.
• Recently a $7.2 billion pharmaceutical company changed its name
from 'X Pharmaceuticals' to ‘Ionis Pharmaceuticals’ and thereby
changing the ticker symbol from 'X' to 'IONS'. The former name was
derived from 'X', the Egyptian goddess of health, marriage, and
wisdom. In a similar manner 'X Mobile Wallet' which was started by
AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon changed its name in September 2014 to
JVL Ventures LLC and the business name as Softcard which was later
acquired by Google and integrated into Google wallet. Identify X.

15.
• In July 2015, Motor Trend ran an article that provided a few specifications
for X’s proposed electric vehicle: it will have 15 percent higher specific
energy than a Tesla Model S, it utilizes a multi cell solution where both
individual cells and groups of cells can be replaced, and it will have a
modular design for improved mass-production methods.
• On January 4, 2016 at the US Consumer Electronics Show, they revealed
their 1,000 hp (750 kW), 200 mph (320 km/h), single seat race-car
concept. It has a style similar to the 1960s Batmobile. They showed a video
demonstrating how their basic design would allow for many body styles
and battery configurations.
• Id this US-based, Chinese-backed[2] global company.

16.
• On 15th August 1947, Calcutta newspapers carried an advertisement
informing audiences that from two specified city outlets, X would be
distributed free to anyone who asks for it during the day.
• X has travelled all the way to the Antarctica with a woman scientist
who was part of the Expedition in 1983. It has also accompanied a
soldier posted at a high altitude in the Himalayas who thanked X for
aiding his survival in the hostile climate

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