The document discusses several brands and companies. Some key points: - Tesla and another brand are electric vehicle manufacturers, with the latter named after an English scientist related to electric motor technology. - Thousands have protested in India against a Supreme Court ban on Jallikattu, a bull-taming tradition that helps the dairy industry by using untameable bulls for breeding. - A philosophy started in 1925 in Kerala by a spiritual organization still prevails as an ISO-certified organization expanding across industries. - The document asks questions about various brands, companies, and historical facts in an apparent quiz or test format.

2. What connects these two statue?

3. France

5. • Both companies are electric vehicle
manufactures. Tesla is named after electrical
engineer and physicist Nikola Tesla. The other
brand is named for one of the founding
principles of electric motor technology. That
itself was named after an English scientist.
Who?

7. What is happening here?

8. Go

9. • Thousands of people in Chennai and much of
the Tamil diaspora across the globe have come
out in protest against the Supreme Court's
ban on Jallikattu. The main objective of
Jallikattu is taming the bull.
• How does this practice of Jellikkettu, directly
helps the diary industry?

10. • Untameable strong bulls are used for breeding

11. • Something started in Kerala in 1925, with a
philosophy evolved from a spiritual organization,
is still prevailing and expanding beyond all major
industrial segments as an ISO 9001:2008
organization.
• They are instrumental in advancing the
development of class organisation among
peasants of the region, spreading Marxist–
Leninist ideas even before it became popular in
China or Russia.
• Name the co-operative body mentioning here?

12. ULCCS

13. • The Gulf Rupee was a
currency used in the
countries of the Persian
Gulf and the Arabian
Peninsula between
1959 and 1966.
• Which authority issued
this currency?

14. Government of India and the Reserve
Bank of India

15. Round II

16. • In 2017 January, Premji Invest, the investment
arm of Wipro billionaire Azim Premji, has
acquired a 25% stake in iD Fresh Food,
Bengaluru-based food company for Rs 170
crore. What does I and D stand for in iD Fresh
Food?

18. • Airlines are often advertise their brand
targeting affluent segment, hence usually
keep their advertisements in luxury magazines
and international television channels.
• Which airline, popular with their hybrid model
as part of low cost strategy, you can even see
their ads in local news papers, even in their
local news page?

20. • Anclide Lab, is a new
business venture, with a
range of organic products,
including mosquito
repellent, pest control
product Mr Fly, cockroach
killer Gockroach, termite
controller Terfive and
mites and poultry lice
remover Golice.
• Which Mollywood
celebrity is behind this
venture?

21. Mamta Mohandas

22. • Which French car manufacturer has bought
Ambassador Car, a brand owned by Hindustan
Motors and a part of C K Birla Business Group?

24. US based SpaceX and the
French Arianespace simply
cannot compete with ISRO
because of two reasons.
1. The PSLV is reliable, and
has failed entirely only on
its maiden flight in 1993,
and partially in a 1997
flight.
2. Antrix, the commercial
arm of Isro, provides
launch services much
cheaper than competition
Projects Cost
Falcon 9 Costs $57 million
(about Rs 381
crore).
Russian Proton $68 million (About
Rs 455 crore).
PSLV C37 ?

25. • US$15 million (Roughly 100 Cr)

26. • Which coffeehouse chain declared it will hire
10,000 refugees over the next five years, a
response to President Donald Trump's
indefinite suspension of Syrian refugees and
temporary travel bans

27. • Starbucks

28. • Currency chests are branches of some
selected scheduled banks, which are
authorised by the RBI to facilitate a specific
responsibility. What?

29. • Distribution of notes and coins to other banks

30. • This is originally a Persian title, at various
points in Islamic history, designated as a
powerful government official, minister or
ruler.
• The original meaning was ‘bundle (of written
sheets)’, hence ‘book’, especially ‘book of
accounts’.
• India's first finance minister held this title in
the Kochin Kingdom from 1935 to 1941.

31. • Diwan

32. • NCR, Diebold, Wincor, Hyosung & Triton
• Are major brands of what?

33. • ATM Brands

34. • Which Indian multinational software
company earlier known as Peutronics, was co-
founded in 1986 by Shyam Sunder Goenka
and his son Bharat Shyam Sunder Goenka
• was running a company that supplied raw
materials and machine parts to plants and
textile mills in southern and eastern India.
• Their first software was named as and was
named Peutronics Financial Accountant

36. • Released as a prequel
to ‘Baahubali’ and the
first book in the trilogy
written by Anand
Neelakantan. Name the
Book 1 of Bahubali
series?

38. • This term is used to highlight the negative
consequences of the diamond trade in certain
areas. Diamonds mined during the recent civil
wars in Angola, Ivory Coast, Sierra Leone, and
other nations have been given this label.
• Identify the term also name of a 2006 political
war thriller film in the similar context

39. • Blood Diamond

40. Round III
Quotes and Context

41. • “Your time is limited, so
don't waste it living
someone else's life. Don't
be trapped by dogma -
which is living with the
results of other people's
thinking. Don't let the
noise of others' opinions
drown out your own
inner voice. And most
important, have the
courage to follow your
heart and intuition.”

42. Harvard Commencement Speech

43. • “Indigo does so well but
X failed because they
didn’t have any
business models it just
had models”
• What is X?

46. Jordan Belfort

49. • “It’s not that other countries steal jobs from
you guys. It’s your strategy. Distribute the
money and things in a proper way,” X said,
adding, “You’re supposed to spend money on
your own people.”
• Who said about what at World Economic
Forum, Davos

51. Which German automaker Hitler
referring here?

53. Round IV
Brand Legacy

54. 1
• All employees of AVA Cholayil Health Care Pvt Ltd
start their day with a 15-minute yoga session
• The 262 employees, spread across two factories
in Chennai and one each in Pondicherry and
Bangalore, make 10 crore bars of bathing soap
every year by hand, without the help of machines
and without using a single unit of electricity.
• They are the largest handmade soap maker in the
country, and probably globally. Which group and
brand I am mentioning here?

55. • AVA Cholayil
• Medimix

56. • Vishnu Industrial
Chemical Company,
Founded in 1952,
Thousands of ordinary
Indians are the loyal
patrons of this
conglomerate and their
Ayurvedic Herbal Product
range. Actress Mrinal
Kulkarni, was the long
term face of this brand in
their advertisements.
Which brand?

57. • VICCO

58. • Citizen Holdings Co., Ltd. a
Japanese global corporate group,
is known as the manufacturer of
Cincom precision lathe machine
tools and Citizen watches.
• They were instrumental in setting
up a watch manufacturing Unit at
Bangalore in collaboration in
1961. It was the result of Nehru’s
vision to bring-in a sense of time
consciousness among the Indians
• The first batch of Hand Wound
Wrist Watches was released by
the Hon’ble Prime Minister
Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru. The
story of which company?

59. • HMT

60. • This brand, launched 1950s, took on the positioning in
eighties that marked it apart from competitor Hawkins.
• Addressing the safety concerns around the use of the
pressure cooker, their ad campaign was used to declare
the gasket inserted in the cooker lid for a safe release
of excess pressure.
• 1982 onwards this company has been featuring a
husband-wife duo in their ads and pitching the same
positioning strategy for last 25 years, i.e. his concern
for the safety of wife in the kitchen. Which brand?

61. • Presting pressure cooker

62. • Robert Augustus Chesebrough,
a 22 year-old British chemist,
travelled to Titusville, a small
Pennsylvania town where
petroleum had recently been
discovered.
• After five years of perfecting
his extracting technique, in
1865 Chesebrough patented
this process of making
petroleum jelly – the
beginning of the triple-
purification process unique to
the formation of a famous
brand. What?

63. • Vaseline

64. • This product came in the market as a solution to
problem that most of the mothers faced which was a
need of mix that does not only adds flavour to milk but
is also rich in nutrients and vitamins. Its unique and
rich taste was reason behind becoming an instant hit.
• The brand has got visibility due to its endeavours like
Confidence Academy (reality show), plastic mugs, and
chess and other games under the brand name. The
brand has a visible presence in the knowledge segment
in relation with a famous quiz contest. Identify what?

65. • Bournvita

66. • Sholay's massive success
continues to inspire
advertisements and radio
jingles.
• Soon after the movie was
released, Britannia came
out with an ad campaign for
one of its biscuit brand. It
chose Amjad Khan as the
brand ambassador and the
ad's punch line was "Gabbar
Ki Asli Pasand.“
• Which brand?

67. • Glucose D

68. • According a popular blog that
started documenting movies in
which the food brands makes an
appearance, X, an alcoholic brand
is easily found in at least 25 films
in a year.
• This is not due to paid
placements, rather "more as an
outcome of the brand’s place in
Indian popular culture.“
• Bollywood became so taken with
the drink that popular Indian
actor Badruddin Jamaluddin Kazi
even changed his screen name to
“X" after playing the character of
a drunkard. What is X?

70. • The whole journey of building this Marico brand has been
primarily because of innovation and through packaging. In
80’s coconut oil was sold 100% in tins. They took almost ten
years for to convert the market from tin to plastics, which
gave them a huge increase in market share, from 0%
market share to market leaders.
• When Harsh Mariwala started his business investors
advised him that you are entering into a dying segment.
Still he continued his efforts to build the brand because he
was confident that a particular habit among Indians will
not die down, hence he could find a market for his product.
• Which brand and what habit?

71. • Parachute and Hair Oiling

72. • Which Hyderabad-based herbal cosmetics
company has stopped production of fairness
creams last year, in line with their campaign
against obsession on fairness.
• MD of this company said "We had saffron-based
creams and face washes which are primarily used
to improve complexion. We have stopped their
production as we undertook a campaign against
the idea that fair is beautiful“ Which brand?

74. • This famous Indian company, targeting education
segment, was not only recognised as a stationary
manufacturer but also a pharmaceutical company
when the State Food and Drug Administration of
Maharashtra certified their Analytical laboratory at
Andheri.
• Their product line occupies a special place in the
memories of every Indian child as the company is
present in all aspects of school life.
• Established in 1939 by G.P. Dandekar, with "Horse
Brand" Ink powders and tablets in 1931. Identify the
Indian stationery company based in Mumbai?

75. • Camlin Ltd (Kokuyo Camlin)

76. • After having used the best
of European and American
soaps, Dr, Annie Besant
once wrote in her paper –
New India,
• “X’s soaps are the best I
have ever used and I am
recommending them to my
friends”
• Mahatma Gandhi, in a
letter to a favour
seeking competitor,
says:
• "I hold my brother X in
such high regard that if
your enterprise is likely
to harm him in any
way, I regret very much
that I cannot give you
my blessings."

77. • This Indian conglomerate says that
their products are endorsed by stalwarts like
Annie Besant and Rabindranath, and providing
few statements of proofs as mentioned above.
• Which Indian group with an initial product
line chavis and soaps?

78. • Godrej

79. Thank You