Bizzdom :The Business Quiz 2015 Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar Finals

1. FINALS

2. Round 1
• Infinite Bounce (with pounce)
• Pounce : +10/-10
• Direct/Passed Question : +10/-0

3. Economic historians usually attribute the
start of the Great Depression to the sudden
devastating collapse of US stock market
prices on October 29, 1929. This day is
known as……..

6. In continental Europe, it means a small hotel or lodging or boarding house .
When used as a verb, this word also means to discard something because it
is too old. Incidentally, the word also alludes to the nickname of Chelsea
Football Club, London, in the first half of the twentieth century.
Historically it meant a payment made to a royal favourite or to an artist or
scholar to enable them to carry on work of public interest or value.
Identify the word.

8. PENSION

9. Currency of which place?

12. The original choice was the sketch of the Lion and Palm Tree.
However it was decided to replace the lion with the tiger, the
national animal of India.
What are we talking about?

14. RBI Seal

15. In 2000–2001, X was President of the All India Organization of Employers.
He was also a member of the Prime Minister's Council of Trade and Industry
(1996–2001).
He is a member of the Executive Committee of Federation of Indian
Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI). He has a strained relationship
with his homosexual son.
In 2012, he was accused X of physically and mentally harassing him and his
partner, Avi Mukherjee because of their sexual orientation. X was also accused
of using his immense clout to get his son beaten up by the police in a Mumbai
restaurant in 2012. Who is X?

17. N. SRINIVASAN

18. In the early 18th Century, Lahore was famous
for its weekend markets.
Which term gets its name from the tradition
that the first sale on every market day was
made to a dwarf?

20. BONI OR BOHNI

21. Which recent ecommerce deal is being talked about as
‘It was simply Kunal calling Kunal.’ ?

23. Snapdeal acquiring Freecharge.
Kunal Bahl and Kunal Shah

24. ROUND 2
 6 Questions based on pictures
 Write your answers in a sheet.
 Please exchange the sheets after the final question
 +5 for correct answer

25. Logo of which Organization.

26. Amul Poster for which
incident ?

27. Identify this famous personality.

28. The book “ The Lion Wakes” is a
historical account of a global Bank X.
Identify X.

29. Portrait of which famous
personality on this Israeli
bill ?

30. Old logo of which Bank ?

31. ANSWERS

33. SATYAM SCANDAL

34. PETER LYNCH

35. HSBC

38. Round 3
• Infinite Bounce (with pounce)
• Pounce : +10/-10
• Direct/Passed Question : +10/-0

39. After the great fire of London, Nicholas Barbon and a doctor
started the first fire brigade.
They also started a concept/industry which has become quite
popular today ?
Name the industry or the concept.

41. INSURANCE

42. The dictum “Kosha moolo dandah“ was laid
down by a great administrator and diplomat X,
which means revenue is the backbone of the
administration.
These words are written on the emblem of the
Income Tax Department.
Identify X.

45. Jim O’Neill coined the term X in 2001
“Building Better Global Economic X’s” a paper
written for Goldman Sachs global economic
paper series
Identify X .

48. Company X was registered on 19 May 1894 under the
Indian Companies Act, with its office in Anarkali
Bazaar, Lahore by several leaders of Swadeshi
movement and now has headquarters in Delhi.
Identify X

51. 40 devotees of Maa Manglagauri Mandir in Gaya town,
Bihar have opened a bank for their financial betterment.
Who are the principal founders of the bank or what is this
bank’s uniqueness?

53. BEGGARS

54. Who started out as a stock broker before trying his hand
at the family business of PVC pipe making and later went
on to be the chairman of Gujarat State Finance
Corporation in 1995?

56. AMIT SHAH

57. X is the ownership interest, or increase in value, that is created
as a direct result of hard work by the owner(s).
It is the preferred mode of building equity for cash-strapped
entrepreneurs in their start-up ventures, since they may be
unable to contribute much financial capital to their enterprise.
Identify X

59. SWEAT EQUITY

60. Identify the missing company.

62. MYNTRA.COM
Companies Acquired by
Flipkart

63. Satinder Mohan Bhagat is a professor of physics at the university of Maryland
in college park, Maryland with over 200 research papers to his name.
In 2001, while travelling back home to India he found himself being harassed
by petty extortion demands of government officials and realized that the
common people were also facing such problems on a daily basis.
He devised a method to curb corruption which became more popular in the
subsequent years. This method is nowadays being employed in corruption
stricken countries like Ghana, Benin, Nepal etc.
What method did he devise?

66. Formula for calculating what ?

68. Tr – (TEMPLE RUN)

69. “Where truth doesn’t hide, where truth doesn’t hurt”
is the masthead of which news source?

72. Connect the pictures to identify this famous Personality from India

74. NAINA LAL KIDWAI

75. _________was the first credit card started in 1950 by
Frank McNamara, Ralph Schneider and Matty Simmons
after conceiving the idea at Major’s Cabin Grill restaurant
in New York City in 1949 ?

77. DINER’S CLUB
CREDIT CARD

78. What is the financial
connect between these
countries?

80. Countries that have Rupee
as currency

81. lynda.com is a privately held online education
company offering thousands of video courses in
software, creative, and business skills. Founded in
1995, the company produces video tutorials taught
by industry experts.
On April 9th, 2015, _______ announced its
purchase of lynda.com for $1.5 billion.

84. Once a dump filled with nothing but garbage and coconut shells, today X is one
of the few natural paradises left in the city of Mumbai. It stands out in the
concrete jungle that surrounds it.
The X, a rather welcome cluster of grass and greens, is surrounded by some of
the bigger banks of the country and is spread over 12,081 square yards. It has a
neo- classical colonnade that faces a park and overlooks the town hall.
Just outside the garden is the legendary banyan tree, which is the root cause
(literally speaking) of something truly historic in context of the business
scenario in India. Identify this place, and give what the tree is known for.

86. Horniman Circle Garden
The BSE was founded here, when just
22 stock brokers started trading under
this tree in 1851, which finally led to
318 brokers forming the BSE in 1875

87. The term ________ is defined as Corrupt, thieving Government, in which
the politicians and bureaucrats in charge use the powers of the state to feather
their own nests.
Russia in the years immediately after the fall of communism was a clear-cut
example, with mafia-friendly Government members allocating themselves
valuable shares during the Privatisation of state-owned companies, accepting
bribes from foreign businesses, not collecting taxes from “helpful” companies
and siphoning off International aid into their personal Offshore bank accounts.

89. KLEPTOCRACY

90. In 2010 Rajesh Jethpuria a 38-year-old businessman from Bhopal
made a Rs 7 lakh purchase on the occasion of Dhanteras,
becoming India's first individual owner of ____________

92. AUTOMATED TELLER
MACHINE (ATM)

93. ___________ is a payment system invented by Satoshi
Nakamoto,who published the invention in 2008 and released it as
open-source software in 2009.
The system is peer-to-peer; users can transact directly without
needing an intermediary.
Transactions are verified by network nodes and recorded in a
public distributed ledger called the block chain

95. BITCOIN

96. Evolved from old French word ’tailler’ which means
"to cut off, clip, pare, divide" in terms of tailoring.
Identify the popular word?

98. RETAIL

99. ROUND 4
THE LONG CONNECT
• The question has a series of pictures leading to a common answer
• The earlier you guess the more points you get
• Answering at various intervals may result in positive or negative
points

100. +40/-20

102. +35/-15

104. +30/-15

106. +20/-10

108. +10/-5

110. +5/0

112. ANSWER
COMPANIES THAT STARTED IN A GARAGE

113. THANKYOU