This document contains questions and answers from a business quiz. It includes 25 multiple choice questions testing knowledge about major companies, business terms, and current events. The questions cover topics like the history and founders of companies like Expedia, MakeMyTrip, Inc. Magazine, BMW, UPS, Google, Amazon, Campbell Soup, and Britannia Industries. Economic terms like "invisible hand" and businesses in the news like Rotomac and Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanam are also addressed.

3. High On Biz(The Business Quiz)-Prelims
INSTRUCTIONS
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• Q21-25 are star marked questions which will be used in case of
Tie.
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• In case you find QM wrong, refer to above point again.
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• Please write your names, contact no. , Email, Course name and
Year

4. Founded as a division of Microsoft in October 1996, X
was spun off in 1999.In 2003, it was purchased by
IAC/InterActiveCorp. In August 2005, IAC spun off X inc.,
which owned its travel group of businesses, including X,
X Corporate Travel , TripAdvisor, Classic Vacations, eLong,
Hotels.com, and Hotwire.com. The company operates
about 200 travel booking websites in about 75 countries,
and has listings for about 350,000 hotels and 500
airlines. Identify X
1

5. Expedia
1

6. X was founded by Deep Kalra, an alumnus of IIM-
Ahmedabad. It was launched in the US market in
2000 to cater to the overseas Indian community for
their US-to-India travel needs. X started its Indian
operations in September 2005,offering online flight
tickets to Indian travelers. The company also started
to focus on non-air businesses like holiday packages
and hotel bookings. On 13 August 2010, X was listed
on the NASDAQ and went public, making a debut in
the US market.
2

7. MakeMyTrip.com
2

8. X was founded in Boston by Bernie Goldhirsh, and its
first issue appeared in April 1979.The magazine
publishes annual lists of the 500 and 5000 fastest-
growing privately held small companies in the U.S.,
called the "X 500" and "X 5000"In October 1981, X
became the first magazine to feature Steve Jobs on its
cover, alongside the proclamation, "This man has
changed business forever"
3

9. INC.
3

10. X was formed in 1847 in partnership with John X’s brother, Benjamin
X. In 1969, X merged with famous beverage brand Schweppes to
form X Schweppes. After this, the acquires more beverage
companies in the US, like Sunkist, Canada Dry, and Typhoon Tea.
Later in 2007, with changing business environment and customers’
tastes and preferences, and diversified itself into two product lines .
It is internationally headquartered in Uxbridge, West London, and
operates in more than 50 countries worldwide. Id X.
4

11. Cadbury
4

12. 5
Considered the first globally for a Shrine Management Board,X has
opened demat account (1601010000384828) with the Stock Holding
Corporation of India.
It is to enable devotees to donate shares and securities, after finding
it a tedious task to get physical share certificates transferred on its
name.
Which Entity?

13. 5
Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanam

14. Starting in 1931, magazine ads for _____
featured Santa Claus as a kind, jolly man in a red
suit. Because magazines were so widely viewed,
and because this image of Santa appeared for
more than three decades, the image of Santa
most people have today is largely based on this
company's advertising. Which company is this?
6

15. Coca-Cola
6

16. In the early 1970s, just a few years after X was formed, the
fledgling company was already in dire straits, losing up to a
million dollars a month, At one point, it looked like they
wouldn't be able to meet their financial commitments.
While waiting for a flight, Y the founder of the company,
impulsively hopped on a plane to Las Vegas, where he won
$27,000 playing Blackjack. The company was saved and Y
had one helluva story to tell . Identify X and Y
7

17. Fedex; Frederick W. Smith
7

18. X originally started off as an aircraft
manufacturing company. After Y's defeat in
WW1, all airplane manufacturing companies
had to cease production, one of the many
terms of the Versailles Armistice Treaty. With
the company facing bankruptcy, X shifted to
motorcycle production, soon followed by the
manufacture of cars in 1928. Their current logo
is a tribute to their aviation heritage.
8

19. BMW
8

20. Company X had extremely humble beginnings. In
1907, 19 year-old James Casey founded the company
with $100 borrowed from a friend and a bicycle. The
teenager also served as president, CEO and chairman.
Today, the company is the world's largest package
delivery company. Not bad for a kid with a cycle.
Identify X
9

21. UPS-United Postal Service
9

22. 10
X was initially funded by an August 1998 contribution of
$100,000 from Andy Bechtolsheim, co-founder of Sun
Microsystems; the money was given before X was
incorporated.X received money from three other angel
investors in 1998:Y founder Z, Stanford University computer
science professor David Cheriton, and entrepreneur Ram
Shriram.
Id X,Y and Z.

23. 10
X-Google;
Y-Amazon.com;
Z-Jeff Bezoz

24. X started out as Dyer Breweries was back in
1855, set up by infamous General Dyer’s family
at Kasauli, Uttaranchal. It was listed on the
London Stock Exchange and produced Asia’s
fist-of-its-kind branded alcoholic beverage.
Name X.
11

25. Mohan Meakins
11

26. 12
Which Historic Newspaper is this?

27. 12
Dawn

28. 13
Alphabet Inc. is an American multinational conglomerate
headquartered in Mountain View, California. It was created
through a corporate restructuring of Google on October 2,
2015 and became the parent company of Google and several
former Google subsidiaries.The two founders of Google
assumed executive roles in the new company, with Larry Page
serving as CEO and Sergey Brin as President.
What is it’s domain name?

29. 13
Abc.xyz

30. 14
X heads many businesses,some of which are
•Crown Alba ______ Instruments
•Mohan Steels Limited
• RFL Infrastructure Pvt. Ltd.
•Rave Entertainment Pvt. Ltd
• Group's real estate ventures at Kanpur, Lucknow, Dehradun &
Ahmedabad
X has also been awarded by the then prime minister Atal
Behari Vajpayee, with the Best Exporter Award, conferred by
FIEO – in conjunction with Union Ministry of Commerce,
Government of India
Who is X? ( He is very much in news currently)

31. 14
Vikram Kothari(Rotomac Owner)

32. This successful global company whose brand is a household
name was started in 1892 with an initial investment of Rs.
295 out of a house in Calcutta. A few years later, a local
entrepreneur named VS Gupta bought it over from the
original owner whose name is now lost to time. He
subsequently brought in CH Holmes, a British businessman,
as partner and the two gave it the name it has today. Name
the company and the brand.
15

33. Brittannia Industries;Brittannia
15

34. After the collapse of Lehman Brothers, 29 Sept 2008 has come
to be known as ‘Black Monday’ in the history of American
economy. At the New York Stock Exchange, in six-and-a-half
hours of frantic trading after the opening, $ 1.2 trillion had
vanished from the United States stock market. All except one
stock on the S&P 500 fell. Name the stock and the reason for its
solitary rise.
16

35. Campbell Soup Company, the only company whose stock rose
while the others fell on the Black Monday of 2008 on the
expectation that a great depression would lead to an increase
in soup kitchens.
16

36. Adam Smith called it the ‘Invisible Hand’; business
historian, Alfred Chandler ‘visible hand’ of management
and, economist Joseph Schumpeter coined the term
‘creative destruction’. The term refer to a concept that is
an extremely popular management term today. What
are they referring to?
17

37. Innovation
17

38. In 1894 a successful businessman and his wife from Wardha,
while on a visit to their village in North India, spotted a
spirited young boy whom they subsequently adopted. The
businessman urged the boy’s parents to accept some
compensation. They asked for a well to be dug in their
village. This well exists even today and the adopted boy
founded one of the India’s biggest business empires. This
boy was also referred to by Mahatma Gandhi as his fifth
son. Name him.
18

39. Jamnalal Bajaj. Sett Bacchraj a businessman from Wardha
adopted Jamnalal from his native village, Kashi-kabas in
Sikar Rajasthan.
18

40. In India, the first telegraph message was transmitted live
through electrical signals between Calcutta (now Kolkata) and
Diamond Harbour, a distance of about 50 km, on November 5,
1850; and the service was opened for the general public in
February 1855.
The last message was booked at the counter of Central
Telegraph Office Janpath, sent by Ashwani Mishra to X.
Who is X?
19

41. Rahul Gandhi
19

42. What's the blanked out
word?
Also, tell the funda.
20

43. PNG; The file format for pictures,has transparency properties.
20

44. HDFC
IDFC
L&T
ITC
ICICI
Connect(Non-exhaustive List)
21

45. 0% Promoter Shareholding.
21

46. 22
The oil and gas industry is usually divided into three major sectors: X,Y
and Z
The X sector includes searching for potential underground or
underwater crude oil and natural gas fields, drilling exploratory wells,
and subsequently drilling and operating the wells that recover and
bring the crude oil or raw natural gas to the surface.
The Y sector reaches consumers through products such as gasoline or
petrol, kerosene, jet fuel, as well as hundreds of petrochemicals.
Z operations link the X and Y entities. Z operations mostly include
resource transportation and storage, such as pipelines and gathering
systems.
What is X,Y and Z?

47. 22
X-Upstream
Y-Downstream
Z-Midstream

48. 23
This is first Office of an entity,opened For Business On 12th
April 1895 At Ganpatrai Road, Lahore,
Which entity?

49. 23
Punjab National Bank

50. 24
Digiflip
Citron
Marq
Billion
Smartbuy
Perfect Homes
Supermart
Flippd
Non-exhaustive List of What?
Or Connect

51. 24
Flipkart’s In-house Brands

52. 25
HM treasury is situated at 1 Horse Guards Road, often referred
to as the Government Offices, Great George Street (GOGGS).
Bodies Reporting To HM Treasury are
Valuation Office Agency,
National Savings and Investments,
Office for Budget Responsibility
Office of Tax Simplification
____ Financial Investments
What is the full form of HM?

53. 25
Her Majesty/His Majesty

54. 25
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