Antarag Management Fest, Business Quiz final,Center for M.B.A, Kannur University, Neeleswaram

2. General Quotient
6

3. • What connects Chirasmarana- (Novel by
Niranjana about the 1943,Kayyoor strike) and
Technopark Trivandrum?

5. • River Thejaswini
• (Technopark buildings are named after rivers
in kerala. Pamba, periyar, nila,gayathri and
bhavani are others.)

6. Recently this image became a historical irony
when it was published by an American
multinational corporation in their website. What
was the irony? Which corporation?

8. • Wallmart advertised prints of Banksy’s piece
‘Destroy Capitalism’ on its website.

9. Recently buzzing in news.. What is
MT.GOX?

11. • Largest Bit coin Exchange

12. • As a result of the sale of The Washington Post
newspaper to Amazon, The Washington Post
Company has changed its name effective from
November 29, 2013 onwards. What is the new
Name?

15. What is the secret being mentioned in
the picture?

17. • Coco cola secret recipe
• As part of the company's 125th anniversary
celebration, the secret formula for the popular
soda has been moved to a special vault within
the Coca-Cola museum in downtown Atlanta.
The formula had been held at SunTrust Bank
in Atlanta since 1925.

18. • Robin Li, He is the founder of China’s largest
search engine, recently he became the richest
person in China. Name the search engine

21. Identify the personality?

23. • Amish Tripathi

25. Business Quotient
12

26. • As a convenient way to
pay for purchase X
launched this card priced
at $450, A limited-edition
line of rose goldcolored, all-metal gift
cards sold out in seconds
this year in USA. The
fancy cards come
preloaded with $400. X
pulled the same gambit
last year with Gilt.com.
Identify X?

29. Identify the company in News

31. Saradha Chit Funds

32. • India’s branded packaged juice market is lead
by Dabur India Ltd, with 54 per cent market
share through its Real fruit juice brand, and
PepsiCo India with a 25-30 per cent market
share through its Tropicana juice brand. Which
Indian company is set to enter India’s branded
packaged juice market by acquiring Bangalorebased Balan Natural Food Pvt Ltd’s B Natural
brand?

35. Connect…
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PrimeSense – Nov. 2013
HopStop and Locationary – July 2013
Cue – Oct. 2013
4. AuthenTec – 2012
C3 Technologies – 2011
Siri –2010
P. A. Semi – 2008

38. • X earlier known as Karnataka Consumer Products Ltd was
conceived when Y was in Germany in 1962.
• He found that car seat cushions were manufactured out of
rubberized coir. In India, the coir industry has developed
very well, mostly in Kerala. Austrian technology was
available to extract fiber from the dried coconut husk and
curl it into ropes and keep it in that state for minimum 3
months. When uncurled, they become tiny springs.
• But the cars manufactured in India in 60’s were very few in
numbers. It was uneconomical to start the molded product
out of the rubberized coir to manufacture car seat
cushions. After a lot of experiments and quality control
steps, Y thought of entering into another product under the
brand name X. Identify X and Y?

40. Kurlon Mattress & Ramesh Pai of Manipal Group

41. • He was named Time magazine's Person of the
Year in 1999
• In 2000, he founded a human spaceflight
startup company, partially as a result of his
fascination with space travel.
• "This is an uncharted terrain, and it will
require experimentation”. On August
5, 2013, he told the newspaper after a $250
million purchase in cash.

43. Jeff Bezos of Amazon.com

44. • What is commonly knows as Lynx in UK?

47. • In the advertising context who is a Sandwich
man?

49. • A human billboard who wears a
advertisement board on front and back.

50. • What is ‘Cyber Monday’?

52. • It is the first Monday after the Thanksgiving
day. The term was created by marketing
companies to persuade people to shop online.
The term made its debut on November 28,
2005.

53. • The terminology is used as a short summary
to quickly and simply define a
person, profession, product, service and its
value proposition. A commonly used term
among entrepreneurs. What is the term?

55. • Elevator pitch or elevator speech.
• The term itself comes from a scenario of an
accidental meeting with someone important
in the elevator. If the conversation inside the
elevator in those few seconds is interesting
and value adding, the conversation will
continue after the elevator ride or end in
exchange of business card or a scheduled
meeting

56. • In Japan it is – Strudds
• China – Little Mouse
• Germany – Spider monkey
• Sweden - Elephant trunk
• Italy – Snail
What is being referred here?

58. • The ‘@’ sign

59. • What is known as Mexican Raise in the
business world?

61. • American slang for a job promotion but
without any increase in salary.

62. The company should satisfy the following
criteria
• Three years with an annual net profit of over
Rs. 2,500 crore
• Net worth of Rs. 10,000 crore
• Turnover of Rs. 25,000 crore.
Criteria for what?

64. • Maharatna status to a PSU

65. Different scholars have translated the title of a
particular text in different ways. Identify the original
text?
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R.P. Kangle – “Science of politics”.
A.L. Basham – a "treatise on polity“.
D.D. Kosambi – “Science of material gain”.
G.P. Singh – “Science of polity“.
Roger Boesche – “Science of political
economy"

67. • Arthashasthra

68. Brands Quotient
12

69. Here is how they explain the company
name…
• The name X is motivated from scientific unit of angular
measurement "radian". Radian measures angles in two
dimensional planes and Steradian measures angles in three
dimensional space. A new word “X" was coined to describe the
experience on the next dimension.
• This logo in the direct sense it portrays the concept of angle of
the term "radian" and the number "4" created by the logo and
its shadow. Identify the world’s leading provider of enterprise
software solutions for education institutions, a tech start up
from Kasargod?

72. • Name the Japanese automaker whose name
evolved from the Zoroastrian God of wisdom?

74. • Mazda

75. • Having been successful in the fashion business
since the early 1970s, in 1997, French
Connection began using the branding “X"
(usually written in lowercase) in advertising.
• Reportedly, the first use of the acronym was
on faxes sent between their Hong Kong and
London offices. But later it caused controversy.
Identify the popular Acronym?

78. • In 2003 IRCTC set up a plant in Nangloi, West
Delhi. The purpose was to supply safe drinking
water to important Rajdhani and Shatabdi
trains originating from New delhi and
Nizammudin. Name the brand launched?

81. • Which is India’s largest selling condom brand?

84. Connect …

86. • Retail chains owned by Tata groups Trent

88. • In Danish this means ‘Krating Daeng’ . Which
syrup is been referred to which was initially
used as a medicine?

92. Logos

115. • 'Desert storm' we all know as the codename of
the popular Gulf war waged by a U.N.-authorized
coalition force from 34 nations led by the United
States against Iraq in response to Iraq's invasion
and annexation of Kuwait.
• In 1998, mainstream medias used this term once
again, to denote something happened against
Australia in the Gulf region. What was actually
happened who was the person in news?

117. 1998 SHARJAH CUP
• The tournament is best known for Sachin
Tendulkar's back to back centuries against
Australia popularly known as Desert Storm

118. • His father Nagavara Ramarao taught biology
and mathematics in high school.
• His son Rohan has a Ph.D. in computer science
from Harvard.
• His daughter Akshatha completed her MBA
from Stanford Business School.
• Identify the Kanpur IIT alumni?

120. • N R Narayana Murthy

122. • As President of the Student Government at the University of Texas
at Dallas, he displayed the Indian flag whenever possible, inspired
by the American tradition. He continued to do so when he returned
to India, flying the flag at his factory premises in Raigarh in presentday Chhattisgarh. However, the Commissioner of Bilaspur objected
to this practice, citing the Flag Code of India which at the time
permitted private citizens to fly the Indian Tricolour only on
Independence Day and Republic Day. So he filed a writ petition in
the Delhi High Court in February 1995. On January 15, 2002, the
Union Cabinet accepted the report of the Dr P.D. Shenoy
Committee that it had constituted to look into the matter, and
announced that citizens will be free to fly the national flag on all
days of the year from January 26, 2002.He established the Flag
Foundation of India with his wife Shallu.
• He is an Indian politician and Member of Parliament from the
Kurukshetra Lok Sabha constituency in Haryana?

124. • Naveen Jindal

125. Web screenshot : Identify the founder of this organization a
British-born Indian architect, renowned for his initiatives in costeffective energy-efficient architecture?

127. Laurie Baker

128. The design of this bangles evolved from the concept of
converting corporate social responsibility into corporate social
opportunity. Identify the personality behind the initiative?

130. • The idea for the 46664 Bangle was born out of more
than just a need to provide ongoing funding for the
46664 campaign, but out of a desire to directly
influence the lives of those who are most affected by
HIV AIDS.
• 46664 takes its name from Nelson Mandela's Robben
Island prison number. He was prisoner number
466, incarcerated in 1964.
Inspired by the vision and leadership of Nelson
Mandela, 46664 is an African ressponse to the global
HIV AIDS epidemic that invites the whole world to take
the fight in hand.

131. • X who is known as the 1st
Duke of Wellington was a
British soldier and
statesman. He was
appointed as the
governor of Mysore in
1799. In the business
world, this kind of boots
were worn and
popularised by him. What
was his significant
achievement in history in
the year 1815?

133. • Defeated Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo.
(Arthur Wellesley).

134. Identify them…

136. • Sachin Bansal and Binny Bansal of
FLIPKART.COM

137. Thank You
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