Pragathi business quiz

Amrita School Of Business
Presents

GNOSIS

Prelims - Rules
 25 Questions 25 points
 Questions 10 – 15 are tiebreakers
 No negatives
 Excuse typos
 Top 6 Teams to Finals

Quizmaster for the day
 Arunkumar B
 Working as Senior Business Analyst with Mu Sigma
Inc

LET’S START
Happy Quizzing to One and All

1)
 Which Government of India undertaking had a
modest beginning in Delhi on 15 September 1959
with a small transmitter and a makeshift studio.

2) General Awareness
 If Form 16 is for filing income tax returns what is
Form 6 filed for?

4)
 The painting is “The
destruction of the tea at
Boston harbor” by
Nathaniel Currier
 The event which the
painting is based on
happened as a protest
against the taxation
policies of British Empire
and monopoly of which
company who
controlled all the tea
imports to the colonies

5)
 Which company headquartered in Coimbatore is
among the top 15 language service providers in
Asia

7) Management from a different angle

 The gentleman you can see in the
picture is James Ernest Mangnall.
What is his unique distinction among
football managers?

8)Give the Event and the Sponsor of
the Event

9)
 Only 2 companies feature in the top 10 of
Fortune Global 500 in 2012 which is neither a
petroleum nor a power company
 One of them is The Walmart Stores at 3rd position
 Which is the second Non Power/Oil Company to
feature in the top 10 list at 10th Place

10)
 Which logo was the first image to be trademarked
in 1875 ?

12)
 What was described as the symbol of India's
emerging independence and industrialization by
then Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru ?

13)
 In March 22 2011 Warren Buffet made a
statement in which he said “he probably made a lot
more money for Berkshire than I have”
 Who is Warren Buffet Referring to ?

15) Who designed the cover page of
this book ?

16) When a person register on this site they get this personalized
message form the CEO that He/She have made the right decision ?
Which Site ?

17) Which company’s spokesperson
said so ?
 Basically, we're the Apple Computers of toilets

18) Current affairs
 As per the consumer bill of rights there are four
basic rights of a customer
 1) The Right to Safety
 2) The Right to Be Informed
 3) The Right to Choose
 4) __________________

 Give the fourth one

19)
 The film Baghban received an award at the EMVIE
2004 for best media innovation, cinema for the in-
film placement of which Group ?

21)
 Who last year acquired Slideshare for $119
Million in cash and share ?

23)
 What is a small, brief recovery in the price of a
declining stock called ?

24)
 Which bank installed the first ATM in India at
Andheri East in Mumbai in 1987.

25)
 If Munjal : Hero then Firodia : ?

BE READY FOR THE FINALE
Answers of the prelims will follow

 Inclusion of your name in the voter’s list

 British East India Company

 Abraham Maslow and The Hierarchy of Human
Needs

 Only person till date to manage both Manchester
City and Manchester United

 Felix Baumgartner’s Jump From Stratosphere to
earth
 Red bull

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Have to Identify the Event(Not the Person)

6 Questions

Differential Scoring = 10 + 2*(Number of Teams Not answering)

No Negatives

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25)
 Which corporation got its name after the founder
who dropped the final letter of his surname to
avoid a potentially inappropriate English
pronunciation of the name.

You are free to take a guess at what
letter he dropped

26)
 There was a substitute Indian brand for coca-cola
from late 70s named 77(Double seven)Cola
 Why was it named double seven cola ?

 1977 Janatha Party Coming to Power

28)
 What is a Low cost market entry strategy in which
two or more firms represent one another's
complementary (but non-competing) products in
their respective markets.

29)
 What term was coined by Bill James a member of
Society for American Baseball Research who is
one of its pioneers and is often considered its most
prominent advocate and public face
 This was prominently featured in a 2003 book by
Michael Lewis and in a 2011 Movie starring Brad
Pitt

30) Its X again
 While working as a salesman for the Crown Cork
and Seal Company in the 1890s, X saw bottle
caps, with the cork seal he sold, thrown away after
the bottle was opened. This made him recognize the
value in basing a business on a product that was
used a few times, then discarded and thus went on
to create Y
 Give X or Y

 King C Gillette and Gillette Razor Blades

31)What is this Definition famously
known as?
 Economics is a study of mankind in the ordinary
business of life. It examines that part of individual
& social action which is most closely connected with
the attainment & with the use of material requisites
of well-being

 Marshall’s Welfare Definition of Economics

32) Which advisory phrase in stock market which discourages
you from betting against the trend in the stock market, owes its
origin to the contraption you can see below ?

 Don’t Fight the tape
 The term "tape" refers to the ticker tape used to
transmit the price of stocks.

33) Expand UL
Sustainability Standards
 UL 106, Standard for Sustainability for Luminaries (under development)

 UL 110, Standard for Sustainability for Mobile Phones

Standards for Electrical and Electronic Products
 UL 153, Portable Electric Lamps

 UL 197, Commercial Electrical Cooking Appliances

 UL 796, Printed-Wiring Boards

 UL 1492, Audio/Video Products and Accessories

 -

 -

 -

 -

 Lot more

34) Identify the company he founded

IND - 1
 This term originated from Sanskrit word yukti,
colloquial yugati and is commonly used when
describing a workaround to get through
commercial, logistical, or legal issues or refer to
an idea from which a person can control his or her
budget, or from which they may acquire luxuries
through parallel means, such as the theft of
electricity, gas

IND -2 Company and the Founder
 X is commerce graduate and a diploma holder in
mechanical engineering
 Initially X was into Textile business in Gujarat
 But he found the prospects stunted due to
infrastructural bottlenecks. The biggest of them all was
the cost and unavailability of power, which formed a
high proportion of operating expenses of textile
industry.
 This is the summary of the story leading to the
foundation of company Y
 X and Y please

 X Tulsi Tanti
 Y Suzlon Eneargy

IND – 4
 This company was incorporated as a joint venture
with the objective of providing mobility to the
common man in the form of a bicycle and has
since then diversified into making components to
build two-wheelers, passenger cars, commercial
vehicles and Railway wagons and coaches.
 Today this company is the market leader in
precision tubes and doorframes and have turnover
of Millions of dollars

IND – 5
 This company was started in 1954 after forming a
joint venture with Daimler-Benz of Germany. After
years of dominating the commercial vehicle market
in India, They entered the passenger vehicle
market in 1991 by launching the Sierra, a multi
utility vehicle
 Recently they became the newest member of the
Rs 1 Trillion Club
 Id the company

Company
 This company’s Name is the anglicized version of
Sanskrit word for space or sky.
 It is Wholly owned by Govt of India and have a
Miniratna status
 Some of the services provided by the company
include Remote sensing, Transponder lease and
Ground Support services

Audience – Commemorative stamp for
whom?

35)
 Which famous brand have rumors associated that
its most important ingredient is the sweat of a
Whipped Tortured Abyssinian cat ?

36) Give X and Fill in the Blanks
 N.W. Ayer & Son, a leading advertising agency in the
United States, and the Oppenheimer family,
encouraged by his bankers, sought to reverse the
declining price of X with a well-funded advertising
campaign. Europeans were not yet taken with the idea
of purchasing X for weddings. Moreover, impending
war in Europe forced Oppenheimer and his bankers to
promote their interests in their biggest market - the
United States and thus was born
 _ ___ ___ ______

 “A Diamond is Forever”

37) What object
 The name of the object in question is reportedly
onomatopoeic, the sound the airship makes when
one taps the envelope (balloon) with a finger.
Although there is some disagreement among
historians, credit for coining the term is usually given
to Lt. A.D. Cunningham of the British Royal Navy in
1915
 This object once used for war patrolling is now
finding heavy use in advertising

Suicide Note OF George Eastman

40)X again
 His presented two versions of the
same thing . One with and one
without the X. Fortunately the
firm went with the one that
gave it the most personality
with the X. Including X will make
it more relevant to the business
because there is a similar
sounding term Y which is very
specific to the field
 One more version of the story
suggest that he did not want
people to mistake what he
designed for a tomato
 Who is he What is X,Y ?
 Give either of them

41. Which Business Term?
 X are sedimentary
rocks consisting of
individual rounded
fragments or chasts
within a finer-grained
matrix that have
become cemented
together

42) What is this list
 Suvarnabhumi Airport (BKK); Bangkok
 Siam Paragon shopping mall; Bangkok
 Disneyland Park; Anaheim, Calif.
 Times Square; New York City
 AT&T Park; San Francisco
 Los Angeles International Airport (LAX)
 Dodger Stadium; Los Angeles
 Eiffel Tower; Paris
 Staples Center; Los Angeles
 Santa Monica Pier; Santa Monica, Calif.

 Top 10 Instagram Locations of 2012

43) Which Term
 This word applies to all aspects of the
entertainment industry from the business side
(including managers, agents, producers and
distributors) to the creative element (including
artists, performers, writers, musicians and
technicians). The term was in common usage
throughout the 20th century but the first known use
in print dates from 1850. At that time and for
several decades it always included an initial “the”

44)
 When the first cars rolled on to the Indian soil , only
one company made a particular component for
them. This company itself was named after a street
in Llanelli, Wales where it was located. The name is
today used as generalization of the product
involved.
 Which company?

45)
 What distinction does Indian Institute of Social
Welfare & Business Management (IISWBM) have
among Indian Business Schools

 1st College in India to offer an MBA

48)
 What is the trademark name of Indian Postal
Department

49) What does this company
manufacture

50) What ?
 People have an inherent dislike for work and will
avoid it whenever possible.
 People must be coerced, controlled, directed, or
threatened with punishment in order to get them to
achieve the organizational objectives.
 People prefer to be directed, do not want
responsibility, and have little or no ambition.
 People seek security above all else.

51)Selling like hot cakes in the pharmacy market
what are these pens used for ?

 Self Administer Insulin for Diabetes Patients

52
 who owned Bofors from 1894 until his death in
December 1896. He played the key role in
reshaping the former iron and steel producer to a
modern cannon manufacturer and chemical industry
participant.

53)

 “In troubled times, adults are looking for things
that remind them of happier days”

This is the Reason given by an analyst for 15
million units of X being sold World wide

 Id X

54)
 Connect “Brand Equity”, “Corporate Dossier”,
“ZigWheels” and “Investors Guide”

 Supplements of Economic Times

55)
 There are two major MICR fonts in use: E-13B and
CMC-7. E-13B has a 14 character set, while CMC-7
has 15 - the 10 numeric characters, plus control
characters.

 What are these Fonts for ?

 Cheque fonts for Magnetic Ink Character Recognition

56) Heir apparent to which
organization ?

 Chitra Ramakrishna, Next CEO of NSE

58)
 Which brand of Indian confectionery was banned
by FDA in USA and India last year in October?

59) An Article in HBR says
 Your 118 must:
 •Grab the attention of your prospect
•Convey who you are
•Describe what your business offers
•Explain the promises you will deliver on

 What is 118 ?

 Elevator Pitch
 118 seconds is average time of an elevator ride in
New York

 Pumpkin and Honey Bunny From the movie Pulp
Fiction
 They Inspired the Idea Jingle
 Campaign by Lowe Lintas

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