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Vimal Jyothi
College Business
Quiz
29 NOVEMBER 2016

 Prelims
 25 questions
 1 mark each, no negatives

 1) What has been blanked out?

 2) Rakuten, is Japan’s largest e-commerce site and
owns Viber. With which football club did it recently
sign a €220m deal to be the shirt sponsor from the
2017 season?

 3) Which franchise had its origins in the building
that is shown? When it was first opened it also had
a gas station and a model motel room.

 4) Who was served these questionnaire by the
Income tax department recently?

https://www.youtube.com/w
atch?v=G6RR2_NQ530
 5) Where has this song from the movie
2 States been shot?

 6) Id this island country from its flag. The country
signed a Double Taxation Avoidance Agreement
with India that will come into force from 1 April
2017.

 7) The helicopter shown in the picture is
manufactured by Boeing. Its primary roles are troop
movement, artillery placement and battlefield
resupply. It shares its name with a type of wind
whose etymology is popularly believed to mean
‘ice-eater’. What is the name of the helicopter?

 Chinook
 The helicopter is named after a group of native
American people.
 The wind is also said to get its name from the same
set of people.

 8) BRBNMPL was incorporated as a Private ltd
company in 1995. It became a deemed Public ltd
company in 1997 and again became a Private ltd
company in 2002 due to amendments in Company’s
Act. What does it deal with it?

 9) Subaskaran Allirajah, is a British Sri Lankan
entrepreneur who is the founder and chairman of
Lycamobile launched in 2006. He is also behind the
financing of a project, which will be the most
expensive of its kind in India at a cost of around 360
crores and is scheduled to be completed in 2017.
What project is this?

 10) The person in question had cleared both IAS
and SBI’s Bank PO exam. He wanted to go for IAS
but his parents persuaded him to join SBI as the
salary for a bank officer was 925 a month, which
was 75 more than the salary of an IAS officer in the
early 1970s. Who is this person?

 11) What has been blanked out?

 12) This golden pheasant bird from China has been
in news for the past 2 weeks because of its
similarity to a person who has also been in news. Id
the person.

 13) The company's founder, X, was a clock
merchant. Once, when he had an unbearable
toothache, an ayurveda pundit gave him an herbal
remedy. It helped. He then started offering it to
others, free at first and later for a price. The
company offer a 40 g container to the deity at
Guruvayoor temple for every 10 kg that they
produce. Id the company.

 14) In the Forbes’ list of highest paid TV actors in
the world this year, Jim Parsons was at the top with
25 million dollars, second was Johnny Galecki, 3rd
was Simon Helberg and fourth was Kunal Nayyar.
Which TV show is the primary reason behind these
four people topping the list?

 15) X wore 2 Rolexes during his visit 2 Soviet Union
in 1963. After his death, this was pointed out by his
critics to be an antithesis of his image as a
champion for the common people, but his
supporters said that this was to keep track of
different time zones, one of his home country and
the other of Soviet Union.
 X?

 16) Which retailer set up 2 ATMs during Diwali to
dispense gold coins? One was set up at Forum mall
in Koramangala, Bangalore and the other one at
Delhi’s Select city walk mall.

 17) This company will be the first one to launch a
payments bank, out of the 11 that were given
approval by the RBI in 2015. The company will
launch its pilot banking service in Rajasthan and will
offer a high 7.25% interest on deposits in savings
account. The logo of this company is called the
wave. Id the company.

 Airtel Payments Bank by Airtel

 18) Satjeet Singh Bedi, is the founder of the start up
“BookMyChotu.com”. Chotu is a generic name for
an errand boy and they can be booked for Rs.90 an
hour. What purpose do the chotus serve?

 To stand in queue at Banks to exchange money

 19) Which country’s currency won the International
Bank Note Society’s currency of the year in 2012?
The country has won the award max no. of times(3).

 20) Due to its ability to fold itself to perform
functions what name was given to the
robot?
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVYz7g
-qLjs

 Origami robot- Origami comes from ori meaning ‘to
fold’ and gami meaning ‘paper’

 21) Which GI product is shown in this Bajaj Platina
ad?
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j58DNZUk0kw

 Thanjavur dancing doll
 Thanjavur Thalayattu Bommai

 22) Which company used Gidget, a Chihuahua, as
its mascot for some time before it was
discontinued? The company was criticized for the
use of Chihuahua as it was believed to be a cultural
stereotype.

 23) The character that lends its name to this
restaurant chain is from which classic book?

 24) Id the logo. The
brand is named
after a person. The
watch company
Hublot also released
a special edition in
tribute to this
person.(image in the
next slide)

 25) Id the advertiser from this Superbowl ad
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkavReH4LE0

 Round 1
 Written round
 Based on business cards
 5 points for each correct answer
 5 points additional in case you get all of them

 Exchange answer sheets
 Answers

 Round 2
 Infinite Pounce
 Clockwise
 12 Questions
 10/-5 for pounce

 1) William Rosenbur ran a tidy business selling
coffee, pastries and sandwiches to factory workers.
First he called it the Industrial Luncheon Service,
then Open Kettle, but then in 1950 he changed it
again realizing 40% of his sales were coming from
coffee and X. What did he change the name to?

 2) Akshaya Mukul won
the Shakti Bhatt First
Book Prize 2016 for his
book about the world’s
largest publishers of
Hindu religious texts. It
was founded in 1923 by
JD Goyanka and GD
Jalan and has its
headquarters in
Gorakhpur, UP. Id.

 3) “Rows and rows of rock-hard ___ _____ can be
brutal on the wrists,” he wrote. “As a teenager
working behind the counter at ______-_______ in
Honolulu, I was less interested in what the job
meant for my future and more concerned about
what it meant for my jump shot.”
 Who said this? Also tell me the retail chain where
he worked during the summer of 1978?

 Barack Obama
 Baskin-Robbins

 4) Which brand came up with the animated short
films titled “Fastening Days” to promote their
brand? An American is credited with being the first
to invent the product that the brand deals with it.

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=BA8nHe7SQv

 YKK, the company which manufactures zippers and
hence, fastening.

 5) This company was started by William Wallace
_______ and is the largest privately held
corporation in the United States in terms of
revenue. If it were a public company, it would rank
12 on the list of Fortune 500 companies. The name
of the company sounds similar to a place that came
into the limelight in the year 1999.

 6) In 1996 this Olympic
champion wore contact
lenses which clearly
showed the logo of
PUMA. This created a
controversy as the
official sponsor of the
games was Reebok.

 7) The magazine's first
cover illustration, a dandy
peering at a butterfly
through a monocle, was
drawn by Rea Irvin, the
magazine's first art editor,
based on an 1834
caricature of the then
Count d'Orsay. It has
become the de facto
mascot of which magazine?

 8) The book shown
was the favorite
book of the lady
who is featured in
the video. Her
mother decided to
name her candle
manufacturing
business after the
book. Name the
mother.

v=KsFCVaDiegU

 9) Which company did they co-found?

 MIG
 Artem Mikoyan and Mikhail Iosifovich Gurevich

atch?v=MMmM02J3qiM
 10) Id the advertiser

 11) Founded in 1996 by Ajay Gupta, this brand deals
with Desi Chinese food products and is owned by
Capital Foods. It created quite a splash with the
costliest advertisement ever made in India rumored
to cost around 75 crores. The ad was directed by
Rohit Shetty and has a runtime of 5’33”. Id the
brand.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yg1V54WjjWI

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tV7Zo9UNiVo

 Round 3
 Brands and Colours
 5 for each correct answer
 5 extra for all correct

 1) The color was
inspired from an Andy
Warhol painting titled
“Flowers”

 2) This colour is also called robin’s egg blue or
forget-me-not blue.

 Round 4
 Infinite Pounce
 Anti-Clockwise
 12 questions
 10/-5 for pounce

 1) Karl Lagerfeld, a
fashion designer, once
used the model in the
picture for a fashion
show, which didn’t go
down well with Vogue
editor Anna Wintour
and she walked out. She
shares her name with a
Disney film released on
23 Nov 2016, that will
be titled differently in
Italy, the country she
was born in.

 2) Which company is behind the mannequin
challenge shown in the video. Also tell me where
was it shot?

v=fCYs8JU-AzI

 Singapore Airlines
 Madame Tussaud’s Wax Museum

 3) From the late 1970s to the early 1990s, Indian
Airlines had to take permission of the Gujarat High
Court every time they wanted to do something.
What purpose was this permission sought for, which
is now done by almost all travel services?

 To revise the airline fares

 4) The book shown
was in the list of 17
books everyone
must read in a list by
Bill Gates. The book
is based on a blog, a
collection of cartoon
illustrated answers
to hypothetical
scientific questions.
The author is the
creator of which
blog?

 5) AM-RB 001 is a hyper car created by renowned
F1 designer Adrian Newey and Marek Reichman,
with numbers big and bold enough to fry your
brain: 1,000bhp, 1000kg and therefore 1000bhp-
per-tonne. What does the AM stand for?

atch?v=l4qGfCc0qik

 7) The first part of the name of this beer
comes from an Austrian village, while the
second part comes from the German word
for ‘pale’. What is the name of this beer
brand? It is also a phrase used to express
anger.

 8) The image shows the Barbie that the company
released in tie up with another brand. The doll
attracted controversy because the name of the
other brand was also used as an ethnic slur for an
African American who acts white. With which brand
did Mattel tie up with to make this Barbie

 9) Id the manufacturer which takes its name from
the animal shown in the video.

v=axKMUdPlAeQ

 10) The new logo combines the letters “ i “ and “ j ”
to form the first letter of the name of the phone
brand and subtly conveys the message, “I am
joyful”. It is orange in colour. “Make smiles” is the
company’s new tagline. Which brand is this?

 11) Id the name of this campaign started by the
Times of India and the Jang group in Pakistan. The
campaign means “Hope for Peace”
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dz6YylorUGM

 12) A company known for its efficient delivery
system is trying out an unconventional delivery
method in Japan, where La Nina is expected to
bring tons of snowfall. One site reported that initial
attempts in training in this new delivery method,
made the packages fall off. So, they have reverted
back to the tradition of pulling the packages.
 Which company and what delivery method are they
trying out?

 Differential Scoring
 15, if only 1 team gets it
 10, if 2-3 teams get it
 5, if more than 3 teams get the answer right

 1) X are a Hindu caste found mainly in Northern
India, who are traditionally shoe makers. They used
to make protective leather dresses for soldiers. The
community have a traditional caste council, with
each council headed by a Chaudhary, a position that
tends to be hereditary. Which caste is this?

 2) Started by Patu Keswani in 2002, this chain of
hotels shares its name with the title of the song in
the audio clip. Their budget chain of hotels is called
the Red Fox.
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJQYoGyEtDs

 3) Due to regulations by the DFB, the team couldn’t
be named after a brand. So, the team used initials.
Contrary to popular perception, the initials officially
stand for “RasenBallsport” which means lawn
sports and not the brand which sponsors the team.
Which team is this?

 4) Bb 360 is a camera built at a cost of 10 crore and
took 6 months to build. It was made specially for a
movie. The director of the movie approached his
cousin, Raja Koduri, who works at a multinational
company founded by Jerry Sanders to make the
camera.
 For which movie was the camera built? And which
company built it?

 5) This Siamese fighting fish, or Betta was sold for a
species record price of 1200 pounds or 53,500 baht.
Why did it command such a high price after the
online bid started at 99 bahts?

 6) Mayin Muhammed, MD of the company pays 250
per metric tonne for something that has been
discarded. They use this item along with wood and
timber to make pulp to manufacture plywood and
other products at a factory in Kannur. The MD says
that use of the discarded material has increased the
quality of the products.
 Which company is Mayin Muhammed the MD of?
 What is the discarded item in question?

 2) Started by Patu Keswani in 2002, this chain of
hotels shares its name with the title of the song in
the audio clip. Their budget chain of hotels is called
the Red Fox.

 Because the fish had the colours of the Thai flag

 Western India Plywoods
 Discarded currency notes

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