X-Quiz-It (Finals)

RULES OF THE GAME
 4 Rounds – 30 Questions
 Scoring will be explained as and when
 No EOQ Calculations
 QM is Taaichi Ohno (read God!!)
 Special thanks to Pushkar and Flavian!!

Rules
• Written round
• Total 6 questions
• Scoring ( +10, 0)
• Feel free to guess
• All answers are names of companies

These are the products that this company manufactures
1. Under its Praga division, industrial machines and tools
2. Tractors
3. _______________, as a separate division
In Sept, 2014 ToI headlines read TimeUp: _________ to
wind down after 53 years
Question 1

This company is known for its delivery trucks
and uniforms being in a particular colour, hence
even its nickname is the same colour.
Question 2

 This company had warned Volkswagen way back
in 2007 that it was illegal to use engine
management software that were configured to
cheat US emission tests.
 They had supplied this for test purposes but it
ended up on road.
Question 3

 In 1945, A businessman purchased a branch of the
Ben Franklin Stores from the Butler Brothers. His
primary focus was on selling products at low prices to
get higher-volume sales at a lower profit margin,
portraying it as a crusade for the consumer. He
experienced setbacks, because the lease price and
branch purchase were unusually high, but he was able
to find lower-cost suppliers than those used by other
stores. When the lease for the location expired, he
was unable to reach an agreement for renewal, so he
opened a new store.
Question 4

 Second largest Chinese ecommerce player which
though started in electronics, is rapidly gaining
market share in other areas too.
 It recently filed an antitrust suit against its
competitor, citing it was forcing vendors to
choose only one of these two platforms on Singles
Day.
Question 5

 This factory established in 1879 was a pioneer in
many way, including cricket and football grounds;
a garden and playground for the girls; a kitchen
where workers could heat up their meals, and
properly heated dressing rooms where they could
get changed.
 The company even has a brand named after the
location of this factory
(pic on next slide)
Question 6

 These are the products that this company
manufactures
 Under its Praga division, industrial machines and
tools
 Tractors
 _______________, as a separate division
 In Sept, 2014 ToI headlines read TimeUp:
_________ to wind down after 53 years
Question 1

 In 1945, A businessman purchased a branch of the Ben
Franklin Stores from the Butler Brothers. His primary
focus was on selling products at low prices to get
higher-volume sales at a lower profit margin, portraying
it as a crusade for the consumer. He experienced
setbacks, because the lease price and branch purchase
were unusually high, but he was able to find lower-cost
suppliers than those used by other stores.
 When the lease for the location expired, he was unable
to reach an agreement for renewal, so he opened a new
store.
 What began like this?
Question 4

 Second largest Chinese ecommerce player which
though started in electronics, is rapidly gaining
market share in other areas too.
 It recently filed an antitrust suit against its
competitor, citing it was forcing vendors to
choose only one of these two platforms on Singles
Day.
 ID the company
Question 5

 This factory established in 1879 was a pioneer in
many way, including cricket and football grounds;
a garden and playground for the girls; a kitchen
where workers could heat up their meals, and
properly heated dressing rooms where they could
get changed.
 The company even has a
brand named after the
location of this factory
Question 6

Rules
Total 12 questions
Each team will be asked question (+10, 0)
If pounced (+20, -10)
Risky but profitable quizzing

Question 1
 This successful international convenience stores
corporation was initially called Totem Stores
since customers toted (carried) away their
purchases. In 1946, the name was changed to its
current name to reflect its working hours.
 What is its current name?

Question 2
 The first case involved the U.S Navy, which at that time was
concerned with the control of contracts for its Polaris Missile
project. These contracts consisted of R&D work and
manufacturing that were unique. Neither cost nor time could
be accurately estimated. Hence, completion times were based
on probabilities. Time estimates were based on optimistic,
pessimistic and most likely. These three time scenarios were
mathematically assessed to determine the probable completion
date.
 What do we know this technique as now?

Question 3
 Its store layout previously consisted of “floaters” with
software for troubleshooting. LCD screens play
looped videos which offer tips to customers waiting
for help. Stools can be found in front for people to sit
and chat with each other or with employees. There is
a "Red Telephone" sometimes seen that was a direct
line to company product specialists, allowing for
problems and questions too complicated for the in-
store employees to answer. As of August 2009, this
phone is no longer installed.
 Which company’s store are we talking about and
what is its specific name? (Part points for direct, not
for pounce)

Procurement to Processing to Destination of what
Question 4

Question 5
 The Future Group has operations predominantly in
west and north India. The acquisition was expected to
help the Future Group to strengthen its presence in
south India with 140 stores acquired in Karnataka,
Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu. The acquired
company also handles the back-end operations,
including procurement, logistics and information
technology infrastructure, for the stores and has eight
distribution centers with its own fleet of vehicles.
 Which acquisition are we talking about?

Question 6
 In the movie Transformers, the cars are the real
stars. Hence taking product placement to a new
level, most of the Autobots were all
transformations of this automobile major
 ID it

Question 7
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeK5Zjtp
O-M
New Yorker called it one of the most memorable
ads. Which company’s ad is this?

Question 8
 Two automotive companies X and Y are involved
in a strategic alliance and their Indian subsidiary
has a manufacturing plant with a capacity of
400,000 crores per annum. A unique case of two
different (an technically competing) cars being
produced from one factory itself with the
production of the facility divided between these
two
 X and Y?

Question 9
 A Padma Shri in 2001, the Padma Vibhushan in 2008,
the Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur[in 2005, Asia's
Heroes by TIME magazine in 2003, these are some of
his honors
 In 1970, he was put in charge for implementation,
planning and design of a first of its kind project in
India , which has also earned him a nickname. Before
this he was involved in the repair of Pamban Bridge,
which got washed by cyclones in half of the
stipulated time

Question 10
 Although popularized by Japanese, this term has its
origin in German. It designating a bar on sheet music,
but also an engine stroke as in Viertaktmotor (four-
stroke engine), and the interval between trains on a
line where they run regularly.
 Which term?

Question 11
 One of military’s greatest feats of military engineering was to
construct pipelines under the ocean between England and
France to support the Normandy invasion in 1944
 It was aa Second World War operation by British engineers, oil
companies and armed forces to construct undersea oil
pipelines under the English Channel between England and
France for fuel. Arthur Hartley, chief engineer with the Anglo-
Iranian Oil Company, Geoffrey William Lloyd, the Minister
for Petroleum, met Admiral Mountbatten, Chief of Combined
Operations, were all involved in this
 What was this operation codenamed ?

Question 12
Tesco was initially was a wholesale supplier to
this retail chain. In March this year, it picked up
a 50% stake in this chain. Which retail chain are
we talking about?

Rules
Question is open for all
No.of teams answered incorrectly or
unanswered *10
Bumper scoring, Go for it

 (Peer Opinion * 25%) + (________ Research
Opinion * 25%) + (ROA * 25%) + (Inventory
Turns * 15%) + (Revenue Growth * 10%)
 What are we talking about?
Question 1

 (Peer Opinion * 25%) + (________ Research
Opinion * 25%) + (ROA * 25%) + (Inventory
Turns * 15%) + (Revenue Growth * 10%)
 What are we talking about?
 Score = no of teams x 10, 0
Question 1
ANSWER

Gartner supply chain top 25 composite
score

 Solve for X
 The Auto-ID Labs network is a research group in the field of
networked RFID). The labs consist of seven research
universities located on four different continents. These
institutions were chosen to design the architecture for X
together with EPCglobal in 1999. The network they have
developed is at the heart of a proposal sponsored by Wal-Mart,
Hewlett-Packard, and others to use RFID and the Electronic
Product Code (EPC) in the identification of items in the supply
chain for companies.
 X itself was coined in that year by Brit entrepreneur Kevin
Ashton
Question 2

• Japanese grocery stores are much smaller than
their US counterparts and therefore don’t have
room to waste. Watermelons, big and round,
wasted a lot of space.
• So, to overcome this, what did they do?
• (No, They did not stop selling watermelons)
Question 3

 Management of the Toyota Corporation were inspired
by this company’s Just-in-time inventory strategy
and used this model to develop its Toyota Production
System. The story of its name goes like this, while
riding a train, he looked out his window and saw
several little pigs struggling to get under a fence,
which prompted him to think of the rhyme. Someone
once asked him why he had chosen such an unusual
name for his organization, to which he replied, "So
people will ask that very question”
 Which company is this?
Question 4

 IKEA’s original furniture business began as a
mail-order sales business. Most of the products
were identifiable by a set of numbers, but
Kamprad had trouble remembering the codes
for each product, because of his dyslexia.
 He used his disability to his advantage by
coming up with a more creative system for
organizing his products. What did he do?
Question 5

 Sunday New York Times publishes an early edition, about
100,000 copies, for distribution around the country, at about
noon on Saturday. Such an edition is called by a term which
dates back to New York City’s newspaper wars of the 1890s,
when rival papers were competing for morning readers with
special editions sold by street vendors very early in the day.
These papers were baptized so presumably because the
publishers fought like ______over circulation.
 ID the term or FITB (specific name)
Question 6

Rules
Questions open for all
Long Connect - 6 questions connecting to a
theme
Each question – (10,0)
Theme starting from (60,-30).

Started as an automobile portal in 2007, later
turned into an online retailer. In 2010, it lunched
“Pi’, India’s first Ebook Reader
Question 1 60, -30

 An American comedy-drama television series
created by Jill Soloway that debuted on
February 6, 2014. It is the first series from a
streaming video service to win a Golden Globe
for best series. The story revolves around a
Los Angeles family and their lives following
the discovery that the person they knew as
their father is transgender.
 ID the series
Question 2 50, -25

Harrison Gray Otis was the founder of LA times. Till
Otis Chandler II, the fourth generation of Otis, LA times
was published within the family. However his grandson,
OTIS Chandler II, went on to start a “Social Cataloging
Website” . A famous feature of this website is the
Readers Choice Program
Question 3 40, -20

Which city in the United States:
 Queen City
 Emerald city due to lush evergreen forests
 Rain City
 Jet City – Local influence of Boeing
 Gateway to Alaska
 City of Flowers, City of Good Will
Question 4 30, -15

What is this a patent of?
Question 5 20, -10

A portmanteau of the company’s name and a
cuss word, a derogatory nickname was formed
for employees of a particular company because
they were aggressive and highly competitive and
hence make very bad colleagues
Question 6 10, -5

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