The Finals of TinQ Corporate Quiz at Amrita School Of Business Pragati 2018 (Coimbatore)

1. AMRITA SCHOOL OF BUSINESS
PRAGATI 2018
TinQ FINALS
CORPORATE EDITION
25th January 2018

2. ROUND 1
BOUNCE AND POUNCE
CLOCKWISE
+15 on BOUNCE
+15/-15 ON POUNCE

3. 1
The first X was manufactured in Germany in 1938 and the last X,
number 21,529,464, left the production line at Puebla, Mexico in 2003.
Sales for X in the United States were initially slower than in other parts
of the world, due to historic Nazi connections as well as its small size
and unusual rounded shape. In 1959, the advertising agency Doyle
Dane Bernbach launched a landmark campaign with the "Think Small"
and "Lemon" advertisements.
What is X?

4. BUFFER SLIDE

5. 1
Volkswagen Beetle

6. 2.
(i) Khan Bahadur Haji Abdullah Haji Kasim Saheb Bahadur, trader and
philanthropist, set up Canara Banking X (Udipi) Ltd in Udupi. After 2
name changes and nationalisation in 1980, it was renamed to X Bank.
(ii) In 1925, Upendra Ananth Pai, Vaman Kudva, and T.M.A. Pai started a
joint stock company called Canara Industrial and Banking Y Ltd in
Udupi. The name was changed to Y Bank Ltd in 1963.
(iii) Ammembal Subba Rao Pai, lawyer and educationist, established Z
Hindu Permanent Fund Ltd in Mangalore in 1906. It was renamed to
Z Bank in 1969.
Give me X, Y and Z

7. BUFFER SLIDE

8. 2.
X- Corporation
Y- Syndicate
Z- Canara

9. 3
Marchesa - a privately held apparel brand designed by Georgina
Chapman and partner Keren Craig, till quite recently popular with
celebrities has faced boycott calls and a major dip in popularity since
October 5th 2017. What is the reason?

10. BUFFER SLIDE

11. 3
Chapman's husband Harvey Weinstein accused of sexually harassing
and assaulting women on October 5th.

12. 4
Monitor, the PR firm had to file for bankruptcy following its 2011
admission that it was paid $250,000 a month from 2006 to 2008 for the
Project to Enhance the Profile of ______ and X. Among other things,
this involved advising X on the creation of a National Security Council,
writing this 22-page proposal (PDF) for a biography, and helping his son
write his PhD thesis at the London Schoool of Economics. Who is X?

13. BUFFER SLIDE

14. 4
Muammar Gadaffi

15. 5.
The Griffin logo based on a mythological creature is used by 2 Swedish
companies that were one entity between 1968 and 1995. The first is an
aerospace and defense company and the second is a commercial
vehicles manufacturer which shares its name with a Swedish region,
the coat of arms of which is the Griffin.
Which companies?

16. 5.
Griffin

17. BUFFER SLIDE

18. 5.
SAAB and Scania

19. 6.
Amol Surve, a fresh design graduate from Arizona State University,
eager to attend the World Design Conference by ICSID being held in
October of 2007 in San Francisco, spent US $ 1,000 he had on the
conference ticket leaving himself with little cash.
What did cash strapped Amol Surve become on October 16 2007 at
Unit C on the top floor of 19, Rausch Street, the first of over 200 million
people (and counting)?

20. BUFFER SLIDE

21. 6
First Airbnb guest

22. 7
Jacob Zuma in 2015 had claimed that it was 3% based on the NEF data.
The NEF had actually calculated the numbers for control and
management, not ownership. The Johannesburg Stock Exchange based
on research by advisory group Alternative Prosperity claims it is 23%
(10% direct and 13% indirect) with 23% of the data unanalyzed.
What is the disagreement on?

23. BUFFER SLIDE

24. 7
Black ownership of companies

25. 8.
Name the three corporate giants who got together to create an equal
three-way telecommunications joint venture popularly known as
BATATA and what was it renamed to/branded as in 2002?

26. BUFFER SLIDE

27. 8.
A V Birla, AT&T, Tata
Idea Cellular

28. 9.
According to researchers, the optimal option is to proceed in powers of
three but that is not possible due to ‘technical reasons’. Instead, many
countries have adopted a near variation of the international standard
of Renard Series (named after French Army Engineer Colonel Charles
Renard) also known as ‘preferred number’ series. India, brought about
a change in 2017 to fill a logical but missing link in the Renard series.
What am I talking about?

29. BUFFER SLIDE

30. 9.
Introduction of Rs.200 currency notes
The ratio works out to be 1:2, or 1:2.5 between adjacent denominations

31. 10.
Which financial institution (founded in Mumbai in 1941) and its New
York branch were fined $225 million by the Department of Financial
Services (DFS) for failure to comply with New York laws and regulations
designed to combat money laundering, terrorist financing, and other
illicit financial transactions in September 2017?
(Countries with branches, subsidiaries and/or representative offices
highlighted in next slide)

33. BUFFER SLIDE

34. 10.
HBL Pakistan or Habib Bank

35. ROUND 2
CONNECT
WRITTEN ROUND- +10 PER CORRECT ANSWER
POINTS FOR CONNECT ON RESPECTIVE SLIDE
NON EXHAUSTIVE

36. 1- 60/-30
Dr. Burman was a physician from Bengal who prepared natural cures for
the killer diseases of those days, like cholera, malaria and plague. His
venture which he founded in 1884 got its name from the Devanagri
rendition of his name. Which company?

37. 2 50/-25
Where were the following heroes featured?
Vijaylaxmi Sharma- movement to eradicate child marriages (Rajasthan)
Chewang Norphel, created 15 artificial glaciers to solve water crisis
(Ladakh)
Bipin Ganatra- rescued people from more than 100 fires (Kolkata)
Omkar Nath Sharma- collects medicines from people who no longer
need them, and distributes it to the poor (NCR)
Karimul Haque- converted his bike into an ambulance, and offers a
24X7 ambulance service free of cost

38. 3 40/-20
Which company meets 100% demand of the Indian Navy with
indigenous submarine batteries and also exports to Algeria and Russia
according to their website?

39. 4 30/-15
A close associate of Mahatma Gandhi, he was elected to the Central
Legislative Assembly of British India in 1926. He became the founding
president of Harijan Sevak Sangh founded by Mahatma Gandhi in Delhi
in 1932. What is he doing in a business quiz?

40. 5 20/-10
Connect

41. 6 10/0
Sardar Dayal Singh Majithia, Lala HarKishen Lal, Lala Lalchand, Shri Kali
Prosanna Roy, Shri E.C. Jessawala, Shri Prabhu Dayal, Bakshi Jaishi Ram,
Lala Dholan Dass were nationalists from undivided Punjab. What did
they establish in 1894 at Lahore?

42. BUFFER SLIDE

43. Connect Answer
Dabur
Bajaj
Exide
GD Birla
Bank of Baroda
PNB

44. Life Insurance Companies in India
Dabur- Aviva
Bajaj- Bajaj Allianz
Exide- Life Insurance
GD Birla/ABG- Birla Life Insurance
Bank of Baroda- India First Life Insurance
PNB- PNB MetLife India Insurance Company

45. ROUND 3
CONNECT
POINTS FOR CONNECT ON RESPECTIVE SLIDE
NON EXHAUSTIVE

46. 1. +45/-20

47. 2. +30/-15

48. 3. +15/0

49. BUFFER SLIDE

50. ANSWER
Australian Open Partners/Sponsors

51. ROUND 4
BOUNCE AND POUNCE
ANTI CLOCKWISE
+15 on BOUNCE
+15/-15 ON POUNCE

52. 1.
Malcolm McLean was a North Carolina
truck driver, who with his siblings
founded a trucking company. Malcolm
McLean bought a steamship company
in 1956. What did he invent and patent
in 1956 that revolutionized trade?

53. BUFFER SLIDE

54. 1.
Containerization
Intermodal Shipping Container

55. 2
Sugalchand Jain started selling X from his cycle 48 years ago. Today,
Sugal & Damani (S&D) is one of the largest marketers of X in India. They
claim to have over 75% market share in online X business, over 20,000
point-of-sale terminals and 15 million transactions per day.
They are present in Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Mizoram, Sikkim,
Punjab, West Bengal, Goa, Maharashtra and Kerala today.
What is X?

56. BUFFER SLIDE

57. 2
Lottery

58. 3
The X-Y Corporation is an American-based,
global diversified product manufacturer and
service provider for the commercial,
industrial, defense, and energy markets.
Created in 1929 from the consolidation of X
Aeroplane and Motor Company, (founded
January 1916 by Glenn Hammond X) Y
Aeronautical (founded by Glenn L. Martin
and the Ys as Y-Martin), and others.
What is X-Y?
X

59. BUFFER SLIDE

60. 3
Curtiss-Wright Corporation

61. 4
The system was created in New York in 1937 as a government imposed
limitation on the number of Y, requiring that a “X" be purchased for the
right to operate a Y. New York did not sell any Xs for 60 years, until
1996, after which it auctioned slightly more than 2,000, resulting in
such a shortage of Xs that by 2014 they were selling for more than $1
million each, with about 14,000 Xs in existence. Since then, the
increase in technology enabled Ys, which number over 63,000 as of
2017 has drastically reduced the market price of Xs.
What is X?

62. BUFFER SLIDE

63. 4
Taxi Medallions

64. 5
List of?
Bhushan Steel Ltd; Bhushan Power & Steel Ltd;
Essar Steel Ltd; Jaypee Infratech Ltd;
Lanco Infratech Ltd; Monnet Ispat & Energy Ltd;
Jyoti Structures Ltd; Electrosteel Steels Ltd;
Amtek Auto Ltd; Era Infra Engineering Ltd;
Alok Industries Ltd; ABG Shipyard Ltd

65. BUFFER SLIDE

66. 5
RBI’s list of 12 defaulters against whom it wanted creditors to invoke
bankruptcy proceedings

67. 6
Double Insight Inc was founded by Robert Wang, Yi Quin, and three
other partners in 2009. They are the distributor and designers of the X.
Wang has a PhD in computer science with a specialty in artificial
intelligence and is credited as the inventor of the X.
X has a significant following on Instagram and Pinterest, as well as a
Facebook group with around 1,000,000 members. The internet
community that associates themselves with X has come to be known as
“______heads".
What is X?

68. BUFFER SLIDE

69. 6
Instant Pot

70. 7.
Power Games: The X-Y War was an Australian drama-miniseries which
screened on the Nine Network in 2013. The miniseries is set in the
period 1960-75, when the Y and X families collided as they battled for
control of Australia’s newspaper and television industries.
Lachy Hulme and Luke Ford starred as the father and son from the X
family while Patrick Brammall starred as the famous Y who later took
up US citizenship in 1985.
What are X and Y?

71. BUFFER SLIDE

72. 7.
Power Games: The Packer-Murdoch War

73. 8.
Satish Chandra Chona started X in Karachi in 1944, but within three
years, following partition, had to wind up and cross the border. He
went to Dehradun and then to Indore, where he tried to restart his
business but failed. In Ahmedabad, however, where he moved in 1951,
he reestablished X.
In 2017 X, now India's seventh largest brand in the segment, was
scooped for Rs. 1,020 crore in an all-cash deal by Lotte.
What is X?

74. BUFFER SLIDE

75. 8.
X- Havmor

76. 9
Which pharmaceutical company
named after a flower of the same
name was founded by Desh Bandhu
Gupta in 1968?

77. BUFFER SLIDE

78. 9.
Lupin

79. 10. Connect
Rajiv Hari Om Bhatia
Jeetendra Madnani
Uttam Mohanty
Sachin Khedekar
Puneet Rajkumar
Daggubati Venkatesh
Mohanlal Viswanathan Nair
Kennedy John Victor

80. BUFFER SLIDE

81. 10.
Manappuram advertisement
Akshay Kumar- Hindi belt
Jeetu Madnani- West Bengal
Uttam Mohanty- Odisha
Sachin Khedekar- Maharashtra
Puneet Rajkumar- Karantaka
Venkatesh- AP/Telangana
Mohanlal- Kerala
Vikram- Tamil Nadu