A General Quiz with a touch of Business

4.  Do not expect the quiz to be fair to you, Life
is Not!!
 The Quizmasters are obsessed with
themselves, questions will be on very weird
topics. Buck up and wait for your turn!
 Please keep any extra knowledge about the
questions or answers to yourself, we have big
ego problems.

5.  20 questions
 Star marked questions for tie.
 Top 6 in the finals.
 Switch off phones and other gadgets.

6.  In economics, the X is a metaphor used by
Adam Smith to describe unintended social
benefits resulting from individual actions.

7.  Invisible Hand

8.  The origin of this supermarket chain can be traced
back to Arumuga Mudaliar of Erode district inTamil
Nadu, who was a mail runner for the British in colonial
India.
 Arumugam Mudaliar carried letters and cheques for
the British from Coimbatore to the hill stations of
Ooty and Coonoor.As he was flooded with requests to
carry dairy products and other items, he opened a
small shop in 1905, after buying the butter business of
an Englishman inVannarpet.
 Id the company.

9.  Nilgiris.

10.  After India became independent in 1947, the Planning
Commission was entrusted to oversee and direct the
development of the nation.
 India grew rapidly in the 1950s, and in the late 1950s the
Commission started facing difficulties in finding suitable
people for the large number of enterprises that were being
established in India as a part of its industrial policy.
 To solve this problem, the Planning Commission in 1959
invited Professor George Robbins of the University of
California.
 What resulted?

11.  IIM Calcutta (IIM will do)

12.  "A person with ___________ is open and
available to others, affirming of others, does not
feel threatened that others are able and good,
for he or she has a proper self-assurance that
comes from knowing that he or she belongs in a
greater whole and is diminished when others are
humiliated or diminished, when others are
tortured or oppressed."
 What modern-day product takes its name from
the above mentioned philosophy mostly
because it is based on the same principle?

13.  Ubuntu

14.  Starting in 1931, magazine ads for _____
featured Santa Claus as a kind, jolly man in a
red suit. Because magazines were so widely
viewed, and because this image of Santa
appeared for more than three decades, the
image of Santa most people have today is
largely based on this company's
advertising.Which company is this?

15.  Coca Cola

16.  MarkWaugh when on a tour to the
Subcontinent was highly unsuccessful in
scoring runs and ended up with four
consecutive ducks which read 0000. What
nickname, did he earn due to this incident?

17.  Audi

18.  The BigThree credit rating agencies hold a
collective global market share of "roughly 95
percent“.
 Give me any 2 of the 3.

19.  Standard and Poor
 Moody’s
 Fitch

20.  The Swedish Royal Academies stated, when awarding
the nobel prize, that he "has done more than any
other contemporary economist to raise the level of
scientific analysis in economic theory".
Economic historian Randall E. Parker calls him the
"Father of Modern Economics“.
The NewYorkTimes considered him to be the
"foremost academic economist of the 20th century".
Who?

21.  Paul Samuelson

22. Tourism in Croatia is flourishing for the last 4-5 years for a particular reason. Most
visited locations include the walled city of Dubrovnik on the Adriatic Sea, a Unesco
World Heritage site, the Diocletian Palace, which dates from 300AD and
another World Heritage site, the Klis Fortress, and the Krka National Park and its
waterfalls.What is making people from all around the world to visit these places?

23.  Game ofThrones Shooting locations

24. Whose brand of perfume?

25.  MS Dhoni

26.  “Punchtantra: Business and Life
Management the _______Way” is a
management book written by P. C.
Balasubramanian and Raja Krishnamoorthy.
What does this book discuss?

27. In this book, P.C. Balasubramanian and Raja
Krishnamoorthy attempt to interpret some of
Rajinikanth's most famous punchlines and
demonstrate how each of them can be adapted
as a motto for any business organization or in
any life situation. A management guide with an
innovative twist, Rajini's Punchtantra gives you
a unique perspective on thirty of the most
fundamental and effective mantras for both
business and life.

28. What is the significance of this image?

29. Picture of Mahatma Gandhi used in Indian
Currencies.

30.  The Delhi-Agra Gatiman Express will have a
high-power emergency braking system,
automatic fire alarm, GPS-based passenger
information system and sliding doors in the
coaches.There will also be liveTV service as part
of infotainment.The Indian Railway is going to
introduce something new through this train
from next month onwards.
 What is this introduction?

31.  Train Hostesses.

32. Give Funda behind this coke ad.

33.  The ad is for the colour blind.Those who are,
will see the word LIFE in the circle.

34.  X is a famous trilogy, and the name comes from the name
of the ship, where the characters of the book first met.
 The protagonist of the trilogy, the woman, sees the ship in
her dreams, as it was to become the central to her destiny.
The trilogy is a historical fiction and describes ‘The Great
Experiment’ between the two countries.
 Sea turned in to a river, and the river will turn in to a flood.
 Id theTrilogy.

35.  Ibis trilogy.

36.  Who is the firts person to have scored a
double century in ODI cricket?

37.  Belinda Clark

38.  This flower calledThistle is the national flower of Scotland
and features on many national symbols of Scotland like
coins, awards etc.
 Its most famous use however is in the logo of a now almost
obsolete entity, which spreads knowledge.

39.  Encyclopaedia Brittanica

40.  X was a motivational poster produced by the British
government in 1939, during the beginning of the
second world war, intended to raise the morale of the
British public in the aftermath of widely predicted
mass air attacks on major cities.
 The poster was third in a series of three.The previous
two posters in the series, "Freedom Is In Peril.
Defend it with all your Might" and "Your Courage,
Your Cheerfullness,Your Resolution Bring Us
Victory" were used and issued across Britain for
motivational purpose .

43.  Johnson and Johnson advertising for baby
models.

44.  It is a derogatory alternative name
for economics coined by
theVictorian historianThomas Carlyle in the
19th century.e
 Some theories state that it was as a response to
the late 18th century writings ofThomas
Malthus, who grimly predicted that starvation
would result as projected population growth
exceeded the rate of increase in the food supply.
 Id the term.

45.  The Dismal Science.