Business Quiz Final, Institute of Cooperative Management, Kannur

1. MASK ‘16
Business Quiz Final

2. Round I

3. Connect
2016 Jan 1. Issue 2013 April 14. Issue

5. • In 2015, one of the world’s largest nonprofit
scientific and educational organizations,
selected Jaipur Rugs, manufacturer of hand-
knotted carpets, as a new licensee, to launch a
line of unique and colourful rugs based on
images from their photographic archive.
Which organisation?
• (Image)

8. • It was one of the first
US coins, United States
inventor Benjamin
Franklin designed this.
• Instead of saying In God
We Trust, it carry
another English phrase,
usually we use to asks
for a respect to our
privacy. What?

9. Mind Your Business

10. • Originally called
the Hansom safety cab, is a
kind of horse-
drawn carriage designed
and patented in 1834
by Joseph Hansom,
an architect from York. One
among the surviving unit of
this vehicle, owned and
operated by a museum in
London.
• What is the famous address
of this museum?
• (Image)

12. • 221B, Baker street, London

13. Identify the book from the cover?
What is it about?

14. • On 50 Years of Amul
Advertising

15. Connect these three entities, all of them formed for a
common purpose in different countries…

16. • East India companies (Dutch, French and
English East India company respectively)

17. Round II

18. • Coca-Cola was a pioneer in recognizing X as a key
asset to be protected. But in Europe, European
Union General Court recently refused the same
followed by their application in 2011.
• In a similar verdict, Court of Justice of the
European Union denied the application from
Nestlé also on 2016 Jan 16.
• Duracell, Toblerone chocolate, Pringles Potato
Crisps are the successful cases. What are we
talking about?

19. Trademark shapes

20. • This technology is called next Industrial
Revolution, Kevin Ashton coined the phrase
“X" while working for Procter & Gamble in
1999
• Major application of this technology in various
industries are as follows…

21. • Agriculture: Sensors placed in soil to track acidity
levels, temperature etc
• Retail: Beacons, paired with mobile apps, are being
used in stores to monitor customer behavior.
• Infrastructure: Monitoring and controlling operations
of infrastructures like bridges, railway tracks by using
sensors
• Manufacturing: Enable rapid manufacturing of new
products and real-time optimization of supply chain
networks, by networking machinery, sensors and
control systems together
• What technology are we talking about?

22. • Internet of Things

23. • What is Moneygami or Orikane?

24. The art of paper money folding

25. Locations of new institutes serves for a particular
purpose marked in the map.

26. Few of them are listed below. The first and the
popular one is located in the Highlands
of Scotland. What?

27. Hogwarts

28. • Trypophobia! (fear of small
holes, circular patterns. Up
to 15% of all people (18% of
females and 11% of males
suffer from it).
• They can’t really face small,
irregularly placed holes or
circular patterns. It makes
them feel disgusted with
shivering sensation around
neck or throw up in mouth.
• In 2015 December, a series
of incident happened in
Kannur, when its
photographs published in
print medias people
reported trypophobic
sensation! Which incident?

30. Excavation of cannon balls from Kannur St.
Angelos Fort

31. • Biscuit maker Parle Products' customer care desk has
been getting at least five calls a day from irate buyers.
• The conversation usually goes like this — That person
have found some sort of contaminant in the biscuit
and ends with a demand for compensation ranging
from Rs 5,000 to Rs 5 lakh. Some even warn the
country's largest food company that if it doesn't cough
up, they'll go to the media and even the regulator.
• In business point what do you call this kind of
consumer behavior, a recent terminology?

32. • Maggi effect

33. Round III
Tech Trends

34. • It started for the first time
for a malayalam movie
‘Rathrimazha’ by this
person shown here.
• First successful attempt
was ‘Traffic’.
• Sandeep Varma, Gokul
Nath, Krishnabhaskar
Mangalasseri were the
trend setters in this
market segment.
• What business am I
talking about?

35. • Online movie promotion

36. Cities at Night is a project lead by Scientists at the Complutense
University of Madrid to create a gallery of photos taken from
the International Space Station. And they found something
surprising… (Continue)

37. This transformation is happening through a significant
growth in the market of X, it will continue to grow
throughout the next decade with market share
reaching about 70 percent.
Identify the process by which cities around the world
saves a lot of energy? What is the negative part of the
story?

38. • Cities around the world are replacing
traditional streetlights with LED
• Light Pollution

39. • This practise was first became prominent in the United
States as a rationing tactic during World War II. It returned
in the mid-1970s due to the 1973 oil crisis and the 1979
energy crisis.
• Recently, the popularity of the Internet and mobile phones
has greatly helped the concept to expand. In Europe, it has
become increasingly popular over the past years, because
of Germany's Mitfahrgelegenheit.com, and France's
BlaBlaCar. In India, all applications providing similar service
achieved a great traction during the first two weeks of 2016
at Delhi.
• What are we talking about?

40. • Car pooling

41. 2 activities lead by different people for same purpose!
What was the result of these activities?
Sandeep Pillai Karthik Balakrishnan
• He Started a zero budget
campaign
• A campaign with an initial goal to
reach 10,000 emails, which was
achieved in six hours of the
launch and the target was
revised to one million on the
second day.
• The domain is borrowed, Heroku
free servers are being used for
the website, Github is used for all
collaboration and Slack for
internal communication.

42. • TRAI supports Net Neutrality, effectively bans
Free Basic in India

43. • “This was brought to you by the digital revolution. It was
the first time traditional news was usurped by the
Internet, a click that reverberated around the whole
world…. I was Patient Zero of losing a personal reputation
on a global scale almost instantaneously. When this
happened to me, 17 years ago, there was no name for it.
Now we call it cyber-bullying. I was the world's first
cyberbullying victim.”
• Whose quotes?
• Now she is a dedicated anti-cyber bullying activist, working
and campaigning against it who was once humiliated by
online trolls during the early stage popularity of Google?

44. Monica Lewinsky

45. This organization in USA and military doctor in China
providing same service in relation with ‘Internet’.
What?

46. • Treatment for Internet Addiction

47. Round IV
Biz Trends

48. Bitcoin Vs X
Bitcoin is a currency & X is an informal money transfer system
Similarities
• Exchanging money for lower
fees than credit cards or
wire transfers.
• Bitcoin and X avoid the
overhead and fees of banks
by not needing a trusted,
central authority to mediate
transactions .
Differences
• Bitcoin uses open-source code
to decentralize trust among a
peer-to-peer network. X relies
on the honor system and the
power of personal reputation.
• X go under various names—
Fei-Ch'ien (China), Padala
(Philippines), Hui Kuan (Hong
Kong), and Phei Kwan
(Thailand).
• What is X?

49. • Hawala

50. • Denmark police recently started to train
eagles to take care of a special case, what
might be called X abuse. A company called
Guard from Above has been contracted to
train the raptors, following a reported
increase in the number of X incidents in
Denmark. What is X?

51. • Drones

52. • During the early modern period, India was the world’s main
producer of X, with a substantial export trade. Indian X were
exported to Britain on a large scale from the seventeenth century.
• By the early nineteenth century, however, Britain had become the
world’s most important producer of the same, dominating world
export markets, and even exporting to India. This dramatic change
in international competitive advantage during the Industrial
Revolution was one of the key episodes in the great divergence of
living standards between Europe and Asia.
• This industry was first introduced into Britain by immigrants from
the European continent, and took route in the English county
Lancashire. In this period Lancashire influenced Indian tariff policy
to such an extent and played such a central part in Indo-British
economic relations. Which industry are we talking about?

53. • Textile/cotton

54. • This was first discovered
69 years back and it can
be purchased for €599.
• It is is marketed by two
companies LGC Standards
(headquartered in the UK)
and ATCC (headquartered
in the US), with royalties
accruing to the
Rockefeller Foundation.
• What am I trying to buy
here?

55. Zika Virus

56. In April 2012, Clive Palmer, an Australian businessman/politician
announced that he had signed a memorandum of understanding
with CSC Jinling to construct exact replica of X built by Harland &
Wolff Heavy Industries Pvt Limited, which was owned by the 2nd
personality. What?, a project postponed to launch in 2018?

57. Titanic II

58. What comes over ?

60. Round V

61. Mind Mapping Round

62. • A written round with questions common to all
team. Each correct answer carry 5 mark.
• In the first slide, a reference image will be shown
in a green circle
• Next slide will contain series of interconnected
questions starting from green circle with an
arrow connecting each question.
• Your ability to identify reference image in green
circle is very important. Still you can expect clues
in the following slide

63. Trial Question!

64. Founder of the company?
Highly controversial initiative to bring affordable
access to selected Internet services
Name the app delivering these services
Name of his daughter?
Movie based on the company?

66. Entered India's e-commerce space with 25%
stake in
Founder? NYSE Ticker?
?

68. Biological Brother?
Company co-founded in 1976?
1984: Successful innovation?
Author

70. Parent Organization?
Founder?
Spouse? Founded X in Ahmedabad?
Mother?

72. Makers of this laptop?
In January 2014 bought X from Y for $2.91 billion
@ What price Y bought X?
What was major advantage to Y in that deal?

74. Largest Individual
Shareholder in X
Chairman of Which
Business Group?
Joint venture between
Electrolux & their
Forbes & Company
Ltd?
Founder of X?

76. Chairman & MD of the world's largest producer of
worsted suiting fabric. Which Group?
50:50 joint venture with Ansell Limited in 1991.
Which condom brand?
Story of this group started with the establishment of the
Wadia Woollen Mills in Thane. Which business family
took over it in 1925 and renamed?

78. What was his role from 1956–1958?
Forced to resigned from the post after the Mundhra
scandal when X highlighted the scam in Parliament?
First Managing Director of 'Maruti Motors Limited’?
(Son of X)
Name the pressure cooker brand
from the business Group he
founded?

79. Answers

81. Entered India's e-commerce space with 25%
stake in Paytm
Founder?
Jack ma
NYSE Ticker?
BABA

83. Biological Brother?
Steve Jobs
Company co-founded in 1976?
Apple
1984: Successful innovation?
Macintosh
Author

85. Parent Organization?
ISRO
Founder?
Vikram Sarabhai
Spouse?
Mrinalini Sarabhai
Founded X in Ahmedabad?
Darpana Academy
Mother?
Ammu Swaminathan

87. Makers of this laptop? Lenovo
In January 2014 bought X from Y for $2.91 billion
Motorola Mobility, Google
@ What price Y bought X?
$12.5 billion
What was major advantage to Y in that deal?
Patents/Android domination

89. Largest Individual
Shareholder in X
Tata sons
Chairman of Which Business
Group?
Shapoorji Pallonji Group
Joint venture between
Electrolux & their
Forbes & Company
Ltd?
Eureka Forbes
Founder of X?
Jamsetji Tata

91. Chairman & MD of the world's largest producer of
worsted suiting fabric. Which Group?
Raymond
50:50 joint venture with Ansell Limited in 1991.
Which condom brand?
Kamasutra
Story of this group started with the establishment of the
Wadia Woollen Mills in Thane. Which business family
took over it in 1925 and renamed?
Sassoon family

93. What was his role from 1956–1958?
Finance Minister of India
Forced to resigned from the post after the Mundhra
scandal when X highlighted the scam in Parliament?
Feroz Gandhi
First Managing Director of 'Maruti Motors Limited’?
(Son of X) Sanjay Gandhi
Name the pressure cooker brand
from the business Group he
founded?
Prestige

94. • Thank You 