Reverberate 2017 Business Quiz Prelims Answers

2. RULES OF
THE GAME
 25 Questions in the prelims
 6 teams will move into the finals
 Starred Questions will resolve ties
 Switch off your gadgets

3. 1
 The guy who is pictured is
a Welsh merchant who was instrumental
in realizing the potential for business
and commerce in India. He moved to a
south Indian city and set up a modest
business of piece goods and banking and
became a household name in the city.
 Name the location which is named after
this merchant which created confusion
and amusement in the minds of two
loved people who visited this city for the
first time believing they were some
where else.

5. 2
 What did Vadilal Shah founded in
1981 which was named after a
geographical wonder, after he took
inspiration from the ancient and
traditional culinary practices to
create 20 different blends of spices,
herbs and condiments?

7. 3
 The image is of a plant
which is commonly called
as Barleria in English and
Saireyaka in Sanskrit.
 How can you relate this
annual prickly herb with
yellow flowers commonly
found in rainy season
throughout the country
with a brand?

8. ⊡Vajradanti

9. 4
"The Secret of the _____ ______ - Nancy Drew, The Hardy
Boys and the Million Dollar Fiction Factory" is a book by
Carol Billman. Fill in the blank with a book packager?

11. 5
 Before the twentieth century usage of a particular item was
considered as corrupt and inappropriate for women.
 Dutch painters used this item as a symbol of human
foolishness and were perceived as props of “fallen women”
and prostitutes.
 A psychoanalyst named A. A. Brill coined the phrase
"Torches of Freedom“ which was used by many
companies to encourage something by exploiting women's
aspirations for a better life during the women's liberation
movement in the United States.
 What was they encouraging?

12. ⊡Smoking Ciggarattes

13. 6
⊡V.P. Dhananjayan and
Shanta Dhananjayan called as
Dhananjayans, are regarded
as the legendary dancing
couple of India.They're both
Padma Bhushan winning
Bharatnatyam dancers, who
teaches dance in
Chennai.Why are these
people featuring in a Business
Quiz?

15. 7
According to him,his success story started when he met Brigadier
Sulaiman Al Adawi,then a captain in the army of the sultanate of
Oman at a hotel lobby in Kochi.He along with this guy cofounded
an interior and fit outs firm in Muscat now known as S&T
Interiors.
Later during the middle of 1990s he started expanding his
business empire .When quizzed about why he named his empire
as _______ he jokingly answered “If you are scared of your wife,you
put her name”.
Who is this guy?

16. ⊡PNC Menon of Sobha Group

17. 8
⊡From early 1980s,China changed its policy and
decided to make a little money off by renting out X’s
which was given as a gift earlier.
⊡Today China charges around $500,000 to $1,000,000
per year for the loan of a X and a considerable amount
of that money is used for X’s conservation efforts.
⊡What is X which became a leveraging tool for China
in International Trade?

18. ⊡Pandas

19. 9
⊡LoveVivah is an Indian Matrimonial site which
began its operation on Nov 2016.
⊡In order to tackle with the problems of fake profiles
which is very much common in platforms like this,
they have collaborated with another body to diminish
the chances of fraud and fake profiles.
⊡What is the method which is mandatory for all users
did this site take for checks on fake profiles?

20. ⊡Linking the account with
Aadhar number

21. 10
⊡The ______ Train concept comprises a network of small, light-weight,
self-propelled coaches supported on poles bent into arches. This idea
meant to take the train system to residential areas,was developed by
Ashwani Upadhyaya a railways officer.
⊡Explaining the nomenclature, Upadhyaya said“The system looks rather
like a _______. We were sitting in our lab, looking at the drawings, and it
just struck us.This concept by Upadhyaya has run into a legal hurdle
after US-based company _______ slapped a legal notice against him,saying
the proposed name cannot be used to describe the train system.
Name the the concept?(Image follows)

24. 11
⊡These coffee mugs
became a rage during
1990s and was
advertised under the
tagline Buy the
Unusual,Be the unusual.
⊡What was the
inspiration for these
mugs?

26. 12
⊡This happened before the formation of Kerala. The Maharaja of
Kochi invited a certain group of traders from another, very famous
part of Kerala to settle down near the children's hospital in
Amaravati, Fort Kochi.The traders accepted the invitation of the
Maharaja and continued to carry on their traditional line of
business in shops built for them by the maharaja behind the
hospital. Even today, the descendants of these traders can found
carrying out the same traditional line of business precisely at the
same spot.
⊡Which group of people? From which place?

27. C
⊡Sweat Meat Traders
from Mittayi Theruvu

28. 13
⊡Miguel Callabro is clothing company based out in Latin America
which provides satisfied clothing styles to people such as President
of America and various other powerful names in Latin America
and Middle East.
⊡This company is popularly dubbed as the Armani of ___________
where the blank stands for the particular offering from this
company.
⊡FITB

29. ⊡Bullet proof clothing

30. 14
⊡Two of these people normally
start the day by rifling through
the morning newspapers.And
the other guy who is named as
Jayant Rane is responsible for
giving life to something which
is produced six days a week.
⊡What is the job of these three
men who works together as a
team?

31. ⊡Amul Moppet Girl Features

32. 15
⊡Pictured is a painting by
Joshua Reynolds which is a
personification of one of the
four cardinal virtues;the others
being Justice,Fortitude and
Temperance.
⊡This image was used by a
company as its seal which
actually took its name from the
mentioned virtue.Name the
company.

34. 16
⊡This product is the brainchild of Max Morgenthaler,
who began work on it in 1929, when the Brazilian
government asked a particular company to find an
outlet for its huge surplus for a product the country is
famous for.
What was thus came into market as a result from the
request of the Government of Brazil?

36. 17
Along with Dr G Krishnamurthy, X founded
Travancore Chemical and Manufacturing company in
1943.The first unit was set up at Kundara Kollam to
produce Potassium Chloride.
It is now a public sector company of Kerala
Government under the name Travancore Cochin
Chemicals.
Name X who is well known figure in an other field?

37. ⊡C.V Raman

38. 18

39. ⊡Blood Donation

40. 19
⊡In which tournament would you find these teams?

42. 20
 The primary centre of origin of this GI tagged item is
Kurnool district comprising _______, Paanyam and
Nandyal mandals, according to the Andhra Pradesh
government.
 What item which was granted a GI tag will have a
logo— featuring a bright yellow item around which
the tagline says “__________ ________of Andhra
Pradesh,”with images of a man and a woman
appearing to be farmers?

43. ⊡The Banganapalle mango

44. 21
⊡This novella is a love story between
Lady Madeline Parker and X’s
founder which was brought in by
Wieden and Kennedy as a publicity
stunt for Mothers Day. According to
X,Mothers Day is its busiest day of
the year. Hence this reading
material will create joy for every
mother who comes in for a
celebratory bite.

46. 22
⊡Vachellia nilotica and Salvadora Persica gives their name to 2
Indian brands which are owned by the same company.Both these
trees are known in a same nickname because of its common
usage.Which 2 Indian Brands?

48. 23
⊡After WWII, when this company sought to make its re-entry
into the commercial sector, it wanted to choose a naming
convention for the same. The first two sequences were left for
other fields that the company wanted to invest in, and the others
four were left for existing divisions such as turbine engines,
rockets and missiles. They then decided to create a new division
for the commercial sector.
Which company and what thus started?

49. ⊡Boeing:7xx series
of Airplanes

50. 24

52. 25
⊡According to various historical evidences this technique was actually the
brilliance of migrants belonging to the Chaliya or Saliya communities from
Tamil Nadu and Andhra .
⊡When the noble classes decided to go colorful , technique of Chaliyas
made it easier and the end products were heavily exported to Europe.
⊡By the early eighteenth century, worried by the popularity of these
items,the British government enacted a legislation restraining the use of
these items which were also known by the name ‘chintz’.
⊡What were these items ?

54. ⊡End of Prelims