Biz quiz at BQC Feb 2017

1. Biz Quiz at BQC
Kaushik Saha

2. • Infinite Bounce, Pounce
• +10/0 for Bounce, +10/-5 for Pounce
• 15 clockwise, 15 anti-clockwise, 1 LVC
• LVC points given on slides

3. Clockwise starts
• Ruchi Soya encountered terrible losses in 2016-17 in its edible oil and
agro business. It was forced to tie up with which organization to
processing and packaging soya, sunflower and mustard oils?

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5. • Patanjali Ayurved Ltd

6. • The original, dating back to 1952, is owned by Steven Spielberg, who
has no intentions of selling it. Market buzzes places the value of this
item at $100,000 or higher. It is done largely in blue and has three
people cowering up against a wall while a shadow lengthens in their
direction. It also contains the immortal lines "That thing,
that slithering blob coming towards us... What is it...It's Melvin".
What is being talked about?
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8. • Ans – first issue of “Mad” magazine

9. Serial entrepreneurs K. Ganesh and Meena Ganesh started
this venture in 2013 when a relative was diagnosed with
cancer and treatment options including doctors were not
available easily. Now this venture has become the largest of its
kind (in home care) and raised several rounds of funding. The
name might sound Shakespearean. Which venture?

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11. Portea

12. Karrm Infrastructure Private Limited is a real estate company
based out of Maharashtra which states that it is inspired by
PM Narendra Modi’s vision of “Housing for all” and will build 5
million low cost housing for poor in the next 10 years. Who is
the proprietor of Karrm Infrastructure Private Limited ?

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14. Vivek Oberoi

15. Shantigram Realty is a Adani Real Estate group venture which
is to have its own housing, golf course, guest houses, Olympic
size swimming pools, even a cricket stadium around 20
kilometers from Ahmedabad. To check pollution in the
Shantigram complex, a concept borrowed from certain
European countries is applied here. Even China is
contemplating of implementing the same in Beijing. Which
concept?

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17. Cycle terminals. Motor vehicles are restricted beyond a certain
point and only cycles can be used. These are free to use, and
one just needs to borrow a cycle from one terminal and drop
it off at another inside the complex. Even high profile visitors
have to abide by the rules

18. Kerala State Financial Enterprises is a NBFC fully owned by
Government of Kerala. It was started in Thrissur in 1969, but
now operates out of 7 locations in Kerala and serves more
than a crore people. What is its main line of business,
alternately, it is the only Government owned entity to offer
what product?

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20. Only Government owned / operated Chit Fund
in India

21. • Shahi Exports is a Delhi based traditional apparel manufacturing
organization. In 2013, a spin off of Shahi Exports named Bhane
started offering street fashion apparel. How has been the CEO of
Bhane been in the news recently?

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23. • Sonam Kapoor’s fiancée Anand Ahuja

24. • Dark Forest Furniture Company is an upcoming furniture
manufacturing firm which will have a 600,000 square feet factory in
Chikmagalur, Karnataka. Who will be the only customer of the Daffco
Furniture in its initial years?

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26. • Café Coffee Day – Daffco is a company started by the CCD founder VG
Siddhartha

27. • Manish Kumar and Puja Bharti are the co founders of a startup known
as Back2Village, an initiative had taken shape with the view to
achieving overall rural development by making the villages
prosperous and self reliant. Manish, due to his extensive work in
villages and grassroots, is very close to the members of a certain
organization. This helped him connect a college senior of his to that
organization, an association that brought about a significant change in
a North Eastern state of the country in 2016. Which organization and
who is the senior?

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29. • RSS and Rajat Sethi. Both alumni of IIT Khragapur. Sethi was
instrumental in BJP winning Assam Assembly Elections last year

30. • Deepak Garg is a McKinsey Alum. In 2013, he was having food ad a
roadside dhaba when he had a conversation with a truck driver who
was carrying some freight to a nearby port. This led to him quitting
his job and start which organization along with 6 other McKinsey
alums?

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32. • Rivigo Services Pvt. Ltd., which deploys Internet-connected trucks
loaded with sensors that feed data to coders, who then try to work
out how to cut travel times while improving reliability and customer
experience

33. • In 2016, this well known Indian invested in Bangalore-based Internet
of Things (IoT) company Smartron India and an undisclosed stake in S
Drive (healthcare and fitness products maker). Who?

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35. • Sachin Tendulkar

36. • The clients of this now famous Indian startup include Zee News, Aaj
Tak, Sahara Samay, Mint, Times Now, ABP and The Hindu, Reliance
Infrastructure Ltd, Gazprom, Thomson Reuters and North Delhi Power
Ltd. It has been backed indirectly by Godrej Agrovet. Which startup?

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38. • Skymet

39. • Pulse is a new age photo sharing mobile app that has a combination
of articles and user-generated content. Popular with college going
crowd in and around Delhi, the app is a bit like Snapchat but with
more contributable streams. One major point of difference is that one
can not take screenshots on this one. It was founded as InstaLively by
Karthik Vaidyanath and Prakhar Khanduja in October 2016. Which
school senior of Prakhar is the single biggest stakeholder of Pulse?

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41. • Chetan Bhagat

42. • On March 3, 1856, a civil engineer, George Alfred De Penning of 7,
Grant's Lane, Calcutta petitioned the Government of India for grant of
exclusive privileges for his invention — "An Efficient Punkah Pulling
Machine". On September 2, De Penning, submitted the Specifications
for his invention along with drawings to illustrate its working. What
started as a result of this?

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44. • The Indian Patent Office, administered by the Office of the Controller
General of Patents, Designs & Trade Marks (CGPDTM)

45. • Joravar Singh Rajput runs this organization now, though the business
was started and made famous by his aunt. The organization came into
prominence in 2013 when, in a speech at FICCI, the then Gujarat CM
Shri Narendra Modi used the name of this organization as a prime
example of women led entrepreneurship. Till 2014 the organization
made only one product, but due to a huge influx of people from a
neighboring state, an additional product was introduced in 2015.
Name the organization and the additional product

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47. • Jasuben Pizza. Vada Pav

48. LVC -1 (27/-8)

49. LVC-2 (18/-6)

50. LVC-3 (12/-4)

51. LVC-4 (8/-2)

52. LVC-5 (4/0)

53. Answer
• Companies / organizations / institutes / buildings owned by present or former
Presidents of sports bodies in India.
• Babu Banarasi Das University – Akhilesh Das, present President, Badminton
Federation of India is the CEO of the BB Group of Educational Institutions.
• Kuvempu University – K Govindraj, present President, Basketball Federation of
India, is one of the founder trustees of Kuvempu University.
• Nandini Nagar Mahavidyalaya – Brijbhushan Sharan Singh, present President of
the Wrestling Federation of India, is the owner of the Nandini Nagar Group of
Educational Institutions.
• Asian Age – Adille J. Sumariwalla, present President of the Athletics Federation of
India, owns the Asian Age.
• Thanthi TV – owned by Dina Thanthi media Group. Dr. Sivanthi Adithan, Padma
Shree, who has been a former IOA head and past President of Volleyball
Federaion of India.
• Spicejet – Ajay Singh is the present President of the Boxing Federation of India.

54. Batra Group – Narinder Batra, former President of Hockey Federation of India, is
the promoter.
Rebound Ace – owned by Anil Khanna’s family. Anil Khanna is the former president
of the All India Tennis Federation.
Ceejay House – owned by Ceejay Group. Praful Patel of All India Football
Federations is the promoter of Ceejay Group.
India Cements Limited – Promoter is N. Srinivasan, former President of BCCI.

55. Anticlockwise
• The 2014-15 Ranji trophy group match between Bengal and Uttar
Pradesh was played at a stadium in Ghaziabad owned by a Corporate
entity. Which Corporate entity, known for selling Golden Eagle bottled
water?

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57. • Mohan Meakin

58. • A company called Kidco based out of Karachi, Pakistan used to make a
hard boiled sugar candy called “Chintoo Candy” in the 2000s. As an
Indian, though most of you would not like to admit it, where have you
come across ads of Chintoo Candy in the mid-2000s?

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60. • Pirated videos / DVDs / VCRs of Bollywood movies which were
allegedly made in Dubai

61. • Bingu Wa Mutharika was the 3rd President of Malawi and perhaps the
well known economist from the country. Mr. Mutharika’s purchase of
a Presidential jet worth 13.26 Million USD in 2009 caused a fuel
shortage in Malawi as the jet was bought with money meant to buy
fuel. Where did Mr. Mutharika earn his bachelor’s and master’s
degrees in Economics from?

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63. • Shri Ram College of Commerce and Delhi School of Economics
respectively. He had come to India on an Indira Gandhi Scholarship

64. • Darshan Patel while working at Paras Pharma developed and
marketed some of the most well known and used products like Krack
cream, Itch Guard, Set Wet, Dermicool and Livon. He resigned from
Paras, sold off his stake to a VC firm and set about to launch his own
brand of FMCG products. Based out of Ahmedabad, which market
disrupting FMCG product did he launch in end-2011 which is now the
2nd largest in its category in India?

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66. • Fogg perfumes, which recently toppled Axe deodorants to be the
number 2 deodorant brand in India. Park Avenue is the number 1.

67. • The ad for a traditional Indian menswear brand has recently been
shot in a open sky bungalow in a building in Worli, Mumbai called
Omkar 1973. Who owns the Bungalow? Which is the menswear
brand?

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69. • Virat Kohli, Manyavar

70. • WatchDox is an app which was initially designed to work in Blackberry
phones, and after BB went down, was developed as an Android app.
Now it offers a whole range of features, some as complicated as
editing excel files and presentations. However , what was the primary
purpose for which Watchdox was built?

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72. • Cut Copy Paste

73. • During the early days of iPhone of India, an app called FontSwap was
developed by a group of Engineering students. The app let users
change fonts used in the iPhone. It was the first of its kind back then,
and was a minor hit among users. Who was the lead developer?

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75. • Taapsee Pannu

76. • When Nikhil Kumar, Head of Developer Ecosystem at India Stack was
asked in 2016 how long he would take to develop the app, he said –”3
weeks”. But his client, unused to such pace, thought it would be 3
months at least. So the client were pleasantly surprised when Nikhil’s
team turned up with the developed app in 3 weeks and had little or
no preparation to check the same. Who is the client?

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78. • NITI Aayog – BHIM App

79. • During the world war II, the German pilots rolled their aircraft in a
certain way as they returned to the base. What was the reasoning
behind it?

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81. • This was an ingenious Identify Friend or Foe (IFF) system. The
Germans discovered that if pilots rolled their planes as they returned
to base, it would change the radio signal reflected back. This crude
method alerted the radar crew on the ground that these were
German planes and not Allied aircraft (this is, essentially, the first
passive RFID system).

82. • They came into use after the ban in early 2000s on the employment
of lightweight children some as young as 2 or 3, importing them from
countries like Bangladesh, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Sudan & as a
result of trading, bartering and kidnapping, as well as accusations of
physical and sexual abuse. It’s made up of dewalt power drill which is
the heart and lungs, rechargeable batteries & remote-entry clickers
(the kind used for cars) combine with long ribbons of plastic wrapped
in cotton to make a spinning whip that can be activated from afar.
Tailored silks and a sponge is used for head. Who/what are they?

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84. • Robots as Camel Jockeys in the Middle East.

85. Why is this company is news?

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87. • Parag Shah, the owner of Man Infracon is the richest candidate ever
to contest an election anywhere in Maharashtra. He is contesting the
BMC election from ward number 132 in Ghatkopar.

88. • The first example of this was Coca Cola in June 2001 and latest is HRX
in January 2017. Put funda

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90. • Hrithik Roshan movies having placements of products endorsed by
him in real life. Coca Cola in Yaadein, HRX in Kaabil

91. What’s wrong?

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93. • The underwear brand NITEX was started in early 90s. Raees’s timeline
is shown to be 1980s

94. • If your boss is giving you a hard time. Or your significant other is
stressing you out. Or your ex just got married. Or, god forbid, you
were stuck in Delhi traffic for HOURS! Whatever your reason or maybe
no reason at all, the X provides you with a place to let loose. You've
tried Yoga and Meditation, try something different.
• Ad for what?

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96. • BreakRoom at Gurugram

97. • Sarah Al Suhaimi last week became the first woman to hold a post.
Who is her Indian counterpart?

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99. • Chitra Ramakrishna, former CEO of NSE. Sarah Al Suhaimi is the first
woman CEO of Tadawul, KSA’s biggest stock Exchange

100. Thanks for coming