Grey matter presents several documents for summarization. The key details are: 1. The documents contain trivia questions about brands, inventions, and business leaders with the answers provided. 2. Examples include the origins of Frito-Lay, Vaseline, and Virgin, as well as details on Henry Ford, IKEA, and others. 3. The purpose is to test knowledge of business and product history through multiple choice and fill-in-the-blank questions.

1. Grey matter presents
Biz Tech 1.0
Quizmasters
Vinaichandra Ghanshyam

3. 1. The word X is derived from the Old Norse
word meaning "to burn".
It refers to the practice of producers burning
their mark onto their products.
ID X.

4. Brand

5. 2.Id the castle and what is this the
inspiration for?

6. The neushwanstein castle, the
inspiration for the castle in the disney
logo

7. 3. For one hour on Diwali, the stock
brokers of the BSE Sensex trade in a
what is considered to be a traditional
auspicious special trading session
called _____ trading.

8. The Muhurat trading session, it happens
usually from 4-6 pm on diwali evenings.

9. 4. Which company’s ad?

11. 5. Put Funda

12. The only two instances that TIME had
changed its iconic red border to some
other colour, the green border was to
show support for earth day in 2008 and
the black one was in the aftermath of 9/11.

13. ***
6.In 1957 two inventors named Alfred
Fielding and Marc Chavannes were
attempting to create a 3-dimensional
plastic wallpaper. Although the idea
was a failure, they found that it did
make for great packing material and
thus Sealed Air Corp. was co-founded
by Alfred Fielding in 1960.
What product did they develop.

14. Bubble wrap

15. 7. XY gets it's name from the material it is
made from as opposed to the
misconception that the name is derived
from it's shape.
The material used is Pygg clay. ID XY.

16. Piggy bank

17. 8. X is credited with starting the 5 day work
week system with the pay being kept the
same as the 6 day work week. X also
introduced the 8 hour work day at his
plants which are now a widely followed
practice for office workers in several
countries.

18. Henry Ford

19. 9.Put funda

20. The patent that Apple inc. filed in 1985 for
the first ever mobile phone, but after Jobs
got fired from Apple the plans for its
production got shelved.

21. 10. This company’s musical origins
are still reflected today in it's logo of
three interlocking tuning forks. This
company is known for it’s expertise
is some other field entirely these
days. Id the company.

22. Yamaha

23. 11. This Kerala businessman named ______
secured control of the Britannia group in the
late 1980s, becoming known in India as the
'Biscuit King'

24. K Rajan Pillai

25. ***
12. Karsanbhai Patel used to make
detergent powder in his house in
Ahmedabad and then travel door-to-
door to sell his product. He later
established a detergent company
named after his daughter. Id the
company.

26. Nirma, he had named it after his
daughter Nirupama

27. 13. The _______ Manual of Diagnosis
and Therapy often called the ______
Manual is the world’s best selling
medical textbook.

28. Merck

29. 14. _______ operates the largest cargo
fleet in the world with 648 aircraft. The
unique thing about their fleet is that
each aircraft in the fleet is named after
the children of it’s employees.

30. Fedex

31. 15. The ______ cap has to be worn by all new
Y employees on their first Friday of work as a
tradition. The ________ cap got it’s name
from a combination of the words X and Y. Id
X & Y.

32. Noogler cap
X- Nerd
Y-Google

33. 16. Roy Raymond was an American businessman who
founded X.
Raymond, an alumnus of Tufts University and
Stanford Graduate School of Business, opened the
first store at the Stanford Shopping Center after
feeling embarrassed trying to purchase lingerie for his
wife in an awkward, public department store
environment.
In 1982, after five years of operation, Raymond sold
off X and started My Child's Destiny, a retail store for
children, that went bankrupt in 1986.
On August 26, 1993, Raymond committed suicide by
leaping off the Golden Gate Bridge at the age of 46.
ID X

34. Victoria’s secret

35. 17. What is surrogate advertising? Keep
it very brief, we just want the main idea
from you.

36. Surrogate Advertising is a form of advertising
which is used to promote banned products like
Cigarettes and alcohol, in the disguise of
another product.

37. ***
18. Jerker, fukta, fartfull and lykhem are
some of their names of the products of
this company which has over 12000
products in it’s entire range. These
names had to be withdrawn in english
speaking countries due to the obvious
repercussions, however benign their
names may have sounded in their
original language.

38. IKEA

39. 19. In 1859,Robert Chesebrough went to the oil fields
in Titusville, Pennsylvania, and learned of a residue
called "rod wax" that had to be periodically
removed from oil rig pumps. Chesebrough took
samples of the rod wax back to Brooklyn,
processed it and began manufacturing a certain
medicinal product named X that healed cuts and
wounds.
The word X is believed to come from German word
Wasser meaning water and a Greek word meaning
oil.
ID X

40. Vaseline

41. 20. Introduced in 1998, name the
first Indian Nokia ring tone
introduced in the Nokia 5110.

42. Saare Jahan Se Accha

43. 21. X was first introduced as "Brad's Drink" in
New Bern, North Carolina, United States, in
1893 by Caleb Bradham, who made it at his
drugstore where the drink was sold.
Bradham sought to create a fountain drink
that was delicious and would aid in digestion
and boost energy.
Barney Oldfield , an automobile race pioneer,
was the first celebrity to endorse X,
describing it as "A bully drink...refreshing,
invigorating, a fine bracer before a race."

44. Pepsi

45. 22. Several names were considered for
this system when it was created — for
instance, ‘Moi’ (mine of information)
and ‘Tim’ (the information mine) — and
finally, the name with which it is known
today was given during the late 1980s.
Name it.

46. WWW (The world wide web)

47. 23.“I promise that whenever I come within 10
feet of a customer, I will look him in the eye,
greet him,, and ask if I can help him”
This is famously known as the 10 foot rule.
Who insists on the new associates joining his
company to take this pledge?

48. Sam Walton of Walmart

49. 24. X was formed in 1932,when Charles Elmer
Doolin, manager of the Highland Park
Confectionery in San Antonio, purchased a corn
chip recipe, a handheld potato ricer and 19 retail
accounts from a corn chip manufacturer for $100,
which he borrowed from his mother. Doolin
established the business in his mother's kitchen.
Doolin and his mother and brother produced 10
pounds of the corn chips per day.Daily sales
totaled $8 to $10 and profits averaged about $2
per day. In 1933, the production increased from 10
pounds to nearly 100 pounds due to the
development of a "hammer" press. By the end of
the year, production lines were operating in
Houston and Dallas. X moved its headquarters a to
Dallas to capitalize on the city's central location
and better availability of raw materials.
ID X

50. Frito-Lay

51. ***
25. Reginald Alfred "Reg" Varney , was an English actor, most
notable for his role as Stan Butler in 1970s TV sitcom On
the Buses.
What is he seen doing in the pic below.

52. This is the first ever ATM and Reg had the honour of
performing the first ever ATM transaction for the
Barclays Bank.

53. ***
26. X and Y have a tradition of sending
cakes every time the other launches a
new version. One such cake was
delivered to X just yesterday.
ID X and Y.

54. With the launch of Windows 8 at midnight
yesterday and hence the launch of IE 10, Mozilla
sent them this cake.
So X-IE, Y-Mozilla.

55. ***
27. This brand name has been
coined by using the fist two
alphabets of the parent group’s
name and a sanskrit word meaning
gold coin. Id the brand.

56. “Ta” comes from TATA and “Nishq” is the sanskrit
word meaning gold coin.

57. ***
28. X has it's servers named after
Aishwarya Rai, Bipasha Basu, Riya Sen
, Celina Jaitley, Katrina Kaif and a few
other Bollywood beauties. These severs
are referred to as the beautiful servers.
ID X.

58. Slideshare

59. ***
29. One of the first offices of the Student magazine
and the Student Advisory Center was the crypt of
St.. John's church, Bayswater Road, London.
X writes in his autobiography :
"We decided to come up with another name for the
mail order business....
'slipped disk' was one of the favorite suggestions.
We toyed with it for a while, until one of the girls
leant forward :
'I know' , she said. 'What about Y ? We are
complete Ys at business'.
'And there aren't many Ys left around here' laughed
one of the other girls. ' it would be nice to have one
here in name if nothing else'.
'Great' , I decided on the spot. 'It's Y' "
ID X and Y

60. X-Richard Branson
Y-Virgin

61. Fin