Minutes to Midnight BIZ QUIZ at gec thrissur

 1) Nial McGuinness, was credited by the BBC to have been responsible for a
discovery that went on to command a value of 647 crores in the market.
What discovery was he credited with?

 2) It was started by PR Nambiar, the great-grandfather of the lady shown in the
image in 1957. One reason the venture fell into disrepute was due to the fact that
similar ventures sprang up in the nearby areas and the fact for specific genre of
‘products’, no advance was necessary. What am I talking about?

 3) Vincenzo and Giacomo Barbato trademarked this name in 2012. They won a
trademark case against a huge multinational corporation, when the court rejected
the contention and amongst others, made the remark that the central part of the
logo was not an edible item, and the missing chunk thus could not be a bite. What
was the company started by them named?

 4) When X remarked that Y might be the person who had made the most
amount of money from doing business with Capra aegagrus hircus, Y
replied that his business changed with seasons and during March the
business was in Sus scrofa domesticus. Y went on to add that X should
now take prior permission from a person whose alias will remind of a
refugee who recently returned back home.
 Who was this person?
 X and Y? Or, what are these ‘business ventures’ being talked about?

 5) Estoque is a four-door sedan built by Lamborghini. As with its other models, the
name of the car is derived from the sport of bullfighting. What is an estoque?

 The sword used by the matador

 6) Who has been appointed as the brand ambassador of the Poker Sports League
started by Burman and Anuj Gupta? The league has received a commitment of 150
crore rupees over the next five years. The brand ambassador on his unveiling
remarked that Poker is a game of skill, which involves a lot of strategy and a
defined skill set, much like the game he was associated with.

 7) Which cognac brand manufactured by French firm Remy Martin, collaborated with
Pharrell Williams to highlight the threat of global warming? He recorded a song
which is only destructible when submerged in water. That way, if we failed to take
care of the planet, the sea levels will rise and record will be lost, or the record can be
heard in 2117, after 100 years of the song being recorded. The cognac is also aged
100 years and each bottle costs around 3.7 lakhs.

 8) Deen Brothers, the business founded in 1940 by Deen siblings - S.M.M. Shareef
Deen & S.M.M Nazeer Deen, was a prominent business in Matara, Sri Lanka. In
1990, it ventured into deal with industrial , mechanical tools, equipments and
machinery which was a revolutionary step for the benefit of small scale
industrialists and entrepreneurs. A couple of days, one of its brand ambassadors
was in news. Who is this brand ambassador?

 Gayan Senanayake
 Srilankan fan at the Anushka Sharma-Virat Kohli wedding

 9) This is India’s first craft gin,
launched by Neo Spirits.
Regarding the naming of the
brand, the founder remarked that
it conveyed the mathematical
inclination that we all had and the
desire to create something a
better drinking experience than
others. What is the name of this
brand?

 10) A recent article explained how one thing we commonly encounter and
find a nuisance, is actually not a sinister ploy by the company/companies
in question to cut down costs and save money, but a deliberate attempt at
keeping the product fresh and preserving its taste, as the element used is
concentrated to a more higher level than the little more than the 3/4th
level it is usually found in?

 Chip bags having lot of ‘air’

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_Eu56Wu6HY

 11) Identify the person opening his first store in the ground floor of Batavia
chambers in central Bengaluru in the 1990s. His company went on to become a
Fortune 500 company.

 12) He was born in Barmen, Germany, on this day in 1852. He studied medicine
at the Kaiser-Wilhelm Academy for Military Physicians in Berlin, receiving his
degree in 1876. He then worked at the worked at the Imperial Health Office with
Robert Koch, who is known the world over as "the father of bacteriology". What
eponymous item did he invent? Robert Koch had used potato slices in place of
what his assistant went on to invent.

 Julius Petri of the Petri dish fame

 13) James Park and Eric Friedman co-founded this company. They were fascinated
by the way Nintendo Wii combined sensors with software. James Park had
previously worked with Morgan Stanley and they had co-founded the Epesi
technologies and Windup Labs, prior to their most successful venture. The logo of
the company evokes the original hardware product’s OLED display. Which
company am I talking about?

 14) The origin of this brand was actually triggered by the founder’s love for
painting. He decided to get one of his artwork printed on a T-shirt and wore it to a
function. He saw many copy of the design on the streets and thought he should
get into it and entered into a partnership with Cottonworld at first. But, now the
license is with Mandhana Retail Ventures Limited. Which brand or tell me the name
of the founder.

 15) Which restaurant chain was started by Nagaswamy Naidu in 1957. It now
operates more than 42 restaurants. The meat for the dish they are the most
associated with, comes from a specific type of goat called ‘Kannivadi goat’. The
name of the chain comes from the fact that he always wore a turban around his
head.

 16) Pizzaiuolo, art of pizza twirling has joined Unesco’s list of “intangible heritage”. It
was approved by the UN cultural body’s world heritage committee, which met on
the South Korean island of Jeju. Which city, making waves in the sporting field, does
this method originally belong to?

 17) Who was a huge fan of the film ‘Scarface’ and had set up Montana
Management, named after the lead character ‘Tony Montana’ in the film
played by Al Pacino, to launder money? It was forced to be listed in 2004
as part of an UN resolution taken in 2003.

 18) The animal(scientific name:Leontopithecus rosalia) shown in this bank note gets
its name from its bright reddish orange pelage and the extra long hairs around the
face and ears which give it a distinctive mane. Its face is dark and hairless. It is
believed that the hair color from sunlight and carotenoids in its food. Identify.

 19) Pantone, the American corp. with its headquarters at New Jersey
selected Ultra Violet as the colour of the year for 2018. Although, normally
humans cannot see UV rays, a condition called ‘Aphakia’ can make it
possible. This condition may be caused due to eyes that do not have
lenses, which may be due to a birth defect, disease or surgical removal.
Who is, perhaps, the most famous person to have got this condition when
he underwent a cataract surgery at the age of 82 in 1922?

 20) He is considered as the founding father of Israel and was the first Prime Minister
of Israel as well as the first Defence Minister. He was the first to sign the Israeli
Declaration of Independence, which he had helped to write. He was named one
of Time magazine's 100 Most Important People of the 20th century. The Tel Aviv
airport is named after him. Identify.

 21) ‘One currency, one world’ is needed for sustainable progress of
economies, Anil Bokil, founder of Pune-based think-tank said. He was
at the All-India Customer Panchayat on ‘Present Economic Policy and
Customers’, where he was the keynote speaker. For what path-breaking idea
did he came into the limelight a little more than a year ago?

 22) “Wine is 70 percent grape and 30 percent skil. X is 70 percent skill and
30 percent rice.” About which Japanese drink is the quote about?

 23) It was one of the six new measures suggested by the Central Railways
to strengthen security of women commuters. This change according to a
note will inspire women passengers to rise against male encroachers, and
male passengers will desist from entering into coaches reserved for
women passengers as sacrifice and chivalry on their part. What measure
was suggested?

 24) What record does this card created from platinum-coated silicon
nitride by the National Physical Library in the U.K hold?

 25) China recently made the world’s largest amphibian aircraft in
production AG600, codenamed Kunlong. It has a wingspan of 38.8 metres.
But it is still considerably smaller than the Spruce Goose, which had a
wingspan of 97 metres and a length of 67 metres and was made out of
wood. Which aviator was instrumental behind the making of Spruce
Goose, aka Hercules H4?

 26) Poovaiah is a Managing Partner in a company called Coorg
Consolidated Commodities(CCC) which produces something under the
brand name ‘Ainmane’. Poovaiah was instrumental in noticing the relative
abundance of a particular mammal which enabled CCC to produce the
product in question. What is it?

 27) What is this a print ad for?

 28) Shown here is the FIDE World Championship 2018 logo. Apart from the obvious reasons for
which it garnered criticism, what other aspect was wrong about the logo?

 Pawn is placed in the back rank

 29) What is the name of this exercise device?
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1gy4MoGhXI

 30) Haven is an open source app that will run on any Android phone,
particularly inexpensive and older devices. It operates like a surveillance
system, using the device’s camera, audio recording capability and
even accelerometer to detect movement and notify a user. The idea is that,
even with the best encryption in the world, a device is vulnerability to
physical, in-person tampering — also known as “evil maid” because
literally a hotel maid could access it.
 Who collaborated with The Guardian Project and Freedom Of The Press to
develop the app?

 31) The Nordmann fir shown in the image is named after Alexander von
Nordmann, a Finnish biologist and son of a Russian imperial army officer.
In 1834 he became the director of the Odessa Botanical Garden. It sells for
anything between 35 an 6o dollars based on its height. What is it used for?

 32) This NBA team gets its name from the 19th century mining boom in
Colorado, when people rushed to the area, hoping to make their fortunes
by panning for gold and silver. The piece of gold thus produced through
mining and extraction is called as ______, though we commonly associate
with a fast food item.

 33) Which 1961 movie inspired this ‘Blue Box Café’? Breakfast costs around 29$
and you have to line up at 5 pm to get a seat.

 34) To promote which film did Southwest Airlines unveil this airplane?

 35) Although conclusive proof is not available, the restaurant Classic Café
located at 679 Greenwich street declared itself to be the one in a 1942 work and
renamed itself in 2014 after the work. What did the restaurant rename itself to?

 36) ‘33 theses for economic reforms’ was a symbolic manifesto which was ‘nailed’
on the door of London School of Economics. These economists want a change in
the way Economics is taught, funded and how research takes place. Their act was in
part, tribute to an event took place in Wittenburg in Germany and marked its 500th
anniversary in 2017. Which was this event?

 Martin Luther’s 95 theses

 37) How did this chain get its name?

 38) To pay homage to which historical person did Mont Blanc release this limited
edition pen? He had famously declared, “I will either find a way, or make one.”

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