Presenting you the all new edition of my B-Quiz series 'AGNIPADH'. This one belongs to the final round of quizzing at ITRIX-2K18 at Marthoma College,Thiruvalla. I had a very good time there as quiz master!. Am sorry that the audio & video links in the presentation wont work. Rest assured, enjoy the quiz. And pls let me know if you want me as your quiz maser for your quiz too!
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4. ALPINE SKI HOUSEALPINE SKI HOUSE
Q1
‘La Vecchia Signora’ or the ‘Old lady’ managed to sell
about 8,50,000 of these in a whole year. Then she
bought something precious from ‘The Whites’ and all
of a sudden, things changed and she sold about a
whopping 5,20,000 of these just in 24 hours. What are
we talking about.
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7. ALPINE SKI HOUSEALPINE SKI HOUSE
Q2
This is basically an idea of decorating the company
logo. It all started when the founders placed a stick
figure drawing behind the second “O” in the company
name. This however was well received by its users and
now the company even has a dedicated team working
on this specialised decoration.
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10. ALPINE SKI HOUSEALPINE SKI HOUSE
Q3
This iconic brand got its name from a tasting trail. The
founders of this company made 100 different blends of
their product and arranged them in 100 different
caskets. The people who were invited to taste them
judged the blend in a particular casket to be the best. It
was selected for manufacturing and it was given the
name which was the number of the casket in which it
was placed.
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13. ALPINE SKI HOUSEALPINE SKI HOUSE
Q4
“One day I was in San Francisco in a coffee shop, and I was
thinking XXX is a good name. And then a waitress came, and
I said, "Do you know about XXX?" And she said yes. I said,
"What do you know about?", and she said, "Open Sesame".
And I said, "Yes, this is the name!" Then I went on to the
street and found 30 people and asked them, "Do you know
XXX?" People from India, people from Germany, people
from Tokyo and China … they all knew about XXX”
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17. ALPINE SKI HOUSEALPINE SKI HOUSE
Q1
It was Mahatma Gandhi, who advised G.D Birla and
Purushotham Das Thakurdas to establish this
organisation back in 1927.This unlikely thought from
Mahatma proved to be a true visionary because this
organisation grew into the largest and oldest of its kind
in India.
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20. ALPINE SKI HOUSEALPINE SKI HOUSE
Q2
This company with a recorded revenue of just Rs.
50,000 during 2014-15 made a mind blowing growth by
16,000 times over to reach 80,00,00,000cr within an
year by 2015-16. Its business flourished from a mere
stock broking agency to engineering , windmill
generation and more. ID this infamous Indian company.
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23. ALPINE SKI HOUSEALPINE SKI HOUSE
Q3
This iconic vehicle was named after the horse of the
glorified Indian warrior Rana Pratap. It was built for the
first time in India in 1972 based on a famous Italian
model. The production continued till 2006 after which
it was pulled off from the market.
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26. ALPINE SKI HOUSEALPINE SKI HOUSE
Q4
Kasinadhuni Nageswararao, better known as
Nageswara Rao Pantulu, was an Indian, journalist,
freedom fighter and a staunch supporter of Khaddar
movement. But the world of business know him better
for his entrepreneurship. He developed a particular
product and popularised it by distributing it free-of-cost
at music concerts.
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45. ALPINE SKI HOUSEALPINE SKI HOUSE
Q1
This city got its name from a wooden wall/palisade
built by its settlers on the northern boundary of the
New amsterdam settlement to protect themselves
from native Americans and the British.
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46. ALPINE SKI HOUSEALPINE SKI HOUSE
Q2
Which very popular food item got its name from its
special making process where its’ cooked twice!
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47. ALPINE SKI HOUSEALPINE SKI HOUSE
Q3
This brand got its peculiar name because its’
manufacturers used castor seed’s oil in a special way to
enhance its performance.
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60. ALPINE SKI HOUSEALPINE SKI HOUSE
Q1
The GST system in India is an adaptation from a similar
dual model system established in another country.
From where did we adapted?
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61. ALPINE SKI HOUSEALPINE SKI HOUSE
Q2
The GST number allocated to the traders includes 15
alphanumeric characters. The first two numbers
represents the State/UT code. What do the next 10
characters represent?
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62. ALPINE SKI HOUSEALPINE SKI HOUSE
Q3
What do HSN stands for in the context of GST?
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66. ALPINE SKI HOUSEALPINE SKI HOUSE
Q2
Which company tried different names like PHOENIX
and FIREBIRD and had to change them owing to
trademark infringement suites filed against them ,
before settling with its current name.
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67. ALPINE SKI HOUSEALPINE SKI HOUSE
Q3
Which application became the first in Google Playstore
to cross one Billion downloads in Android devices.
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82. ALPINE SKI HOUSEALPINE SKI HOUSE
Q1
Founded in 2008, this company was India’s first youth
focused mobile service. It had such a predatory
marketing strategy that in a revolutionary campaign, it
started paying back all its customers for every incoming
call they received!. It’s the only company in India till
date, which used unmanned kiosks for customer
service!. It is no longer in existence in India.
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88. ALPINE SKI HOUSEALPINE SKI HOUSE
Q3
In 1998, the directors of this company decided to sell
the 50% stake they had in Lakme to HLL. This was
because they believed that it would be much more
difficult for an Indian company to release new
cosmetics products in a market, that had opened up for
the global companies. The used this money (apx 200cr)
to start this retail chain.
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91. ALPINE SKI HOUSEALPINE SKI HOUSE
Q4
This particular brand derive its name from one of the
highest hills in south India. These hills were given on
lease in 1877 by the then king of the princely state to
John Daniel Munroe for plantation purposes, who in
turn made the place what it looks like today.ID the
brand.
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94. ALPINE SKI HOUSEALPINE SKI HOUSE
Q5
This brand is regarded as a
British icon, and was
granted a Royal Warrant by
King George VI in 1951.
Very popular for its
powerful four-wheel drive
engines.
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