A Small Biz-quiz I conducted in Madurai for college students

1. FINALS

2. SOME RULES AND POINTERS
• Infinite Pounce
• +10 for direct
• +10/-20 for pounces
• Quiz is heavily weighted towards current affairs and
recent business events (less workoutable questions,
sorry) so if you have been reading the papers this year
you should find this fairly easy
• Any feedback on the quiz is appreciated
• All the Best. Lets get down to Business!

3. CLOCK WISE ROUND
10 QUESTIONS

4. 1.WHO IS THE BIG BOSS?
S.S Mundra R. Gandhi Urjit Patel Harun R. Khan
??

5. SAFETY SLIDE

6. ANSWER
• Raghuram Rajan,
These are the Dpty.
Governors
S.S Mundra R. Gandhi Urjit Patel Harun R. Khan

7. 2.
• Ad by which Company?
What is their product
featured in the ad ?

8. SAFETY SLIDE

9. ANSWER
• Dassault Aviation, Rafale

10. 3.
• Time Warner announcing its quarterly earnings in
January this year partially attributed a $13 million
operating loss in the publishing vertical to a $14 million
settlement of a class action suit over its right on a song.
Which Song ?

11. SAFETY SLIDE

12. ANSWER
• “Happy Birthday To You”

13. 4.
• If these are roughly the reasons. What is the question ?
• It comes under the purview of Coinage act of 2011 which
tookover the Coinage act of 1940. Further it is not included as
per section 24(1) of the RBI Act 1934.
• It is the base unit and not promissory in nature.
• It is an Asset and not a Liability.

14. SAFETY SLIDE

15. ANSWER
• Why Does the finance Secretary sign on the 1 rupee
note as opposed to the governor of the RBI ?

16. 5.

17. SAFETY SLIDE

18. ANSWER
• Bajaj V launched earlier this month

19. 6.
• Snopes.com is a popular mythbusting website. Their
archives is categorised and two companies/ brands get
their very own sections. One is Disney and the other
section is a portmanteu of the brand and the word
Folklore. Name the brand ?

20. SAFETY SLIDE

21. • Coke / Cokelore

22. 7.
• Somewhere near Billund, Denmark is a secret vault
named “Memory Lane”(exact location is undisclosed)
with one copy of every product this company has made
from around 85 years back. What product ?

23. SAFETY SLIDE

24. • Lego

25. 8.
• What did Warren Buffet name as “The Indefensible” as
he was critical of other companies and their top
managements purchasing the same but ultimately he
himself succumbed to buying one for his use. Whats
more he has a company called NetJets which sell’s
fractional ownership of the said item purchased.

26. SAFETY SLIDE

27. ANSWER
• Private Jets

28. 9.
• This is the market cap of two companies whose main
line of business is recreational motorcycles. Name them
?

29. SAFETY SLIDE

30. • Eicher Motors & Harley Davidson

31. 10.
• “Can’t Get Enough of that wonderful _ _ _ _” is the
official slogan X(there have been other slogans but this
is the most popular) for which fictional beverage ?
Though there have been attempts to bring it into real
world, 20th century fox has so far not granted license to
produce this ?

32. SAFETY SLIDE

33. ANSWER
• Duff Beer from Simpsons

34. WRITTEN ROUND

35. IDENTIFY THE COMPANY OR FLAGSHIP
PRODUCT OF THESE COMPANIES
• Pilani Soft Labs
• Interglobe Aviation Ltd.
• Hector Beverages
• Amalgamated Bean Coffee Trading Company
• Kasturi & Sons Ltd

36. SAFETY SLIDE

37. ANSWERS
• Pilani Soft Labs : Red Bus
• Interglobe Aviation Ltd.: Indigo
• Hector Beverages : PaperBoat
• Amalgamated Bean Coffee Trading Company : Coffee
Day
• Kasturi & Sons Ltd : The Hindu

38. ANTI - CLOCK WISE ROUND

39. 1.
• Currently the vice
chairman in Biocon
Limited. Please name
him. Surname will do.

40. SAFETY SLIDE

41. ANSWER
• John SHAW

42. 2.
• Aileen Lee’s 2013 article for Tech Crunch titled
“Welcome to the ________ Club – Learning from Billion
dollar Startups” is possibly the earliest usage of which
term to refer to such companies.

43. SAFETY SLIDE

44. ANSWER
• Unicorn

45. 3.
• .Identify the logo of the
bank which is soon to be
headed by KV Kamath
and headquartered in
Shanghai.

46. SAFETY SLIDE

47. ANSWER
• Brics Bank or officially New Development Bank

48. 4.
• Sameer Sain and Atul Kapur led Everstone are the
master franchisee in India for which Fast Food Brand
whose signature dish is called the Whopper.

49. SAFETY SLIDE

50. ANSWER
• Burger King

51. 5.
• Pictured here is Nirmal
Singh Bhangoo. Who was
arrested for flouting SEBI
Collective Investment
Scheme norms in what
could possibly be Asia’s
largest Ponzi to date
(49,000 crore Rupees).
Name the company

52. SAFETY SLIDE

53. ANSWER
• Pearls Agrotech Corporation Limited

54. 6.
• The original script of Gladiator had the protagonist
Maximus ( starring Russell Crowe) doing something
which is considered commonplace today and would have
been historically accurate as well. But the makers
dropped it fearing people would think this as an
anachronism. What did Gladiators do which is
commonplace today in the world of advertising ?

55. SAFETY SLIDE

56. ANSWER
• Celebrity Product Endorsements

57. 7.
• The one on top is being
developed in Pune in
partnership with
Panchsheel Builders and
the one in the bottom in
Mumbai with Lodha
Group. Name either of
these projects.

58. SAFETY SLIDE

59. ANSWER
• Trump Tower

60. 8.
• In a move that could perhaps create the first listed
company with a trillion dollar valuation. Which company
currently wholly owned by the government is likely to be
listed primarily to shore up some finances.

61. SAFETY SLIDE

62. ANSWER
• Saudi Aramco

63. 9.

64. 9.
• What is this kind of advertising where the advertising is
“disguised” as content which matches the form and
function of the platform on which it appears.

65. SAFETY SLIDE

66. ANSWER
• Native Advertising

67. 10.
• Spot the Odd Man out. Also tell why he is the odd man
out

68. SAFETY SLIDE

69. ANSWER
• Hashim Amla Doesn’t wear the team sponsors name in
his jerseys since its an Alcohol brand

70. THEME ROUND

71. QUESTION 1

72. QUESTION 1
• Name the Company named after the Finnish Town which
is named after the river in the map, which is named after
an animal now extinct. (Hint : The company is battling its
extinction as well)

73. SAFETY SLIDE

74. ANSWER
• Nokia / Nokianvirta River

75. • Which product is these
meme making fun of ?

76. SAFETY SLIDE

77. ANSWER
• Microsoft Internet Explorer

78. • Formed by the Merger of Guiness and
Grandmetropolitan in 1997 this company was given its
current name by brand Consultancy Wolff Olins. The
name is derived from a Latin word meaning day and
Greek word meaning world. Name the company which
now controls United Spirits in India as well.

79. SAFETY SLIDE

80. ANSWER
• Diageo

81. • Chloroxylenol pictured on
the right has anti microbial
properties and is the
active ingredient of which
product ? It also gives it
its distinctive odour and
coulur.

82. SAFETY SLIDE

83. ANSWER
• Dettol

84. • This D Shivakumar who is largely associated with his
stint at Nokia in India. Which company does he head in
India now ?

85. SAFETY SLIDE

86. ANSWER
• Pepsi

87. • Seen in the picture is a balloon crash debris recovered
from a tea plantation in Sri Lanka. Sometime last week.
What is the baloon for and who is sponsoring the same ?

89. SAFETY SLIDE

90. ANSWER
• Project Loon by Google.

91. CONNECT
• Indian Heads/CEO’s of MNC Companies
• Nokia : Rejeev Suri
• Microsoft : Satya Nadella
• Pepsi : Indra Nooyi
• Diageo : Ivan Menezeas
• Reckitt Benckiser : Rakesh Kapoor
• Google : Sundar Pichai