Business Quiz Final: Management Fesr ITm Mayyil

1. ITM BQ

2. Round I
• 8 question, +5, No negative marks

3. Known as ‘Three strategic circles’ Who was the
proponent of these concept created for GE?

4. Identify the print ad?

5. • In marketing age-group demographics, if
DINKS stand for ‘Double Income No Kids’, then
what does SKIPPIES stand for?

6. • Which is India’s biggest non-life insurance
company which was established by Sir
Dorabjee Tata in 1919 ?

7. • When Infosys was started in the early 1980’s
its promoters had difficulty in raising funds. A
low profile bank provided loan for a modest
sum. Its is the only entity that is not directly
to its business now in which Infosys still holds
shares. Which bank provided the lifeline?

8. Identify the business Group from this
logo?

9. • N M Electronics was formed in order to
manufacture large scale integrated (LSI)
circuits. But when Andrew Grove joined the
company the new company soon changed its
name to what?

10. • Who beat former Presidents Jimmy Carter &
Bill Clinton to the grammy awards 2008 for the
best spoken word for the audio of the book-
The Audacity of Hope – Thoughts on
reclaiming the American dream

11. Round I - Answers

12. Known as ‘Three strategic circles’ Who was the
proponent of these concept created for GE?

14. Identify the print ad?

15. Bausch & Lomb

16. • In marketing age-group demographics, if
DINKS stand for ‘Double Income No Kids’, then
what does SKIPPIES stand for?

17. • School Kids with Income and Purchasing
Power

18. • Which is India’s biggest non-life insurance
company which was established by Sir
Dorabjee Tata in 1919 ?

19. • New India Assurance Company

20. • When Infosys was started in the early 1980’s
its promoters had difficulty in raising funds. A
low profile bank provided loan for a modest
sum. Its is the only entity that is not directly
to its business now in which Infosys still holds
shares. Which bank provided the lifeline?

21. • The Saraswat Co-operative Bank Ltd

22. Identify the business Group from this
logo?

24. • N M Electronics was formed in order to
manufacture large scale integrated (LSI)
circuits. But when Andrew Grove joined the
company the new company soon changed its
name to what?

25. • INTEL

26. • Who beat former Presidents Jimmy Carter &
Bill Clinton to the grammy awards 2008 for the
best spoken word for the audio of the book-
The Audacity of Hope – Thoughts on
reclaiming the American dream

28. Round II
• Pounce with +10/-10
• Direct +10/0
• Infinite bounce…

29. • In 2005, Former ICICI Bank chairman K V
Kamath had been entrusted with a special
task by one of his family friend.
• That task officially completed in March that
year, and his recommendations were
implemented successfully on 18th June 2005.
On the same date famous business executive
Anant Jain resigned as the director of IPCL.
What happened on 18th June 2005?

31. • Reliance split

32. • Which real estate mogul, an Irish citizen, was
the former chairman of ACC and currently
owns Forbes Textiles, now residing at Malabar
Hill, Mumbai?

34. Pallonji Shapoorji Mistry

35. • Formation of this organization can be considered as
one among the largest association of farmers in the
country. It was registered as a trust on May 14th 1982.
• A group of farmers motivated by Dr. B.V. Rao travelled
across the country, organizing over 300 meetings with
groups, individuals, and traders to form this
organisation.
• The crisis leading to the formation of this organization
was created by market middlemen who had forced
down prices and farmers were being paid less than
their production cost.
• What?

39. • muda, mura, muri are the key concept in
the Toyota Production System.
• Toyota adopted these three words beginning
with the prefix mu, which in Japan are widely
recognized as a reference to a product
improvement program.
• In a production system what exactly these
process concentrates on?

41. • Waste reduction

42. Connect these images with a
Hollywood celebrity

44. • Pierce Brosnon

45. • “The first time I met X, I was working at Patni
Computer Systems as head of the Software
Group.
• He took me to Willington Club in Mumbai for a
discussion. He was very courteous and very easy
to transact with. Apparently, I did not come up to
his satisfaction and I did not get the job. I am
grateful to X that he rejected me, else my
founding of Y would have been delayed by a few
years.”
• Who said about whom? Not X and Y.

48. Round II
Image Round

49. You can see a screen in the image.
What is that?

52. Invisible TV/Transparent television
from Panasonic

53. Identify the location and claim to
fame?

55. Ecuador Embassy, London

56. American multinational agrochemical and
agricultural biotechnology corporation. Identify

59. Identify the musical instrument which in recent
years became a popular alternative to Piano?

61. • Roli seaboard

65. • In 2005 November, this Indian industrialist
became the first man to soar 69,852 feet
above sea level in a hot air balloon.
• In the process, he broke the world record of
64,997 feet, set by Per Lindstrand, in June
1988, in Texas.
• The industrialist and his son in the image.
Which Business group?

69. Round III
Tech & Trends

70. • This project became an instant hit because the
parent company owned 25% stake in Indian
Television market which was used as a means
to large scale promotion.
• They have selected Accenture and invested
over 15 months of hard work to develop this
product. Owned by a company formerly
known as Indya Interactive Services Private
Limited. What?

73. • On October 20, 2016, Uber-owned Otto
completed the world’s first shipment by self
driving truck.
• The self-driving truck left Fort Collins,
Colorado at 1 a.m. and drove itself 120 miles
on I-25 to Colorado Springs. The driver was
out of the seat during the entire 120 mile
stretch of highway.
• What was the cargo loaded in the trailer?

76. Budweiser Beer

77. • “I have always liked him. He is very positive, But
karma is a bitch.”
• This Facebook remark was posted by Rahul Yadav, The
bad boy in Indian startup industry, in response to
someone’s exit from a multinational internet
corporation which had a 38% stake in Housing.com
• This organization is pretty famous among startups
because they have already made huge investment in
the sector, plunged $627mn in Snapdeal and $210mn
in Ola.
• Which Japanese telecommunication/internet
corporation?

80. • News articles and Twitter postings for climate
change or global warming.
• Time trends show daily trends for news
articles and Twitter postings that included the
terms climate change or global warming

82. • 1st spike Earth day 2015
• 2nd Spike: November 2015, Lima, Peru hosted
the 20th yearly session of the Conference of
the Parties, Paris Conference
• 3rd spike: February 28, 2016 what happened?

85. • An establishment managed
under terms spelled out in a
tripartite agreement between
the Norwegian government,
the Global Crop Diversity
Trust (GCDT) and the Nordic
Genetic Resource
Center (NordGen)
• The Norwegian government
entirely funded construction
of this project with Norway
and Global Crop Diversity Trust
paying for operational costs.
• Identify what project?

87. Svalbard Global Seed Vault(Doomsday
vault)

88. • 18 years after the exit of LAKME, TATA group is
back into the cosmetics business. Which
Brand?

92. Round IV
Bridging the Gap

93. • Athleisure is a recent trend in fashion. What is
that?

95. • Athleisure is a trend in fashion in which
clothing designed for workouts and other
athletic activities is worn in other settings,
such as during work, casual or social occasions

96. What do you call these guys in the internet
world? Or What exactly they are doing?

99. • Lifeloggers
• Lifelogging is the act of tracking and recording
every single moment of your daily activities to
capture their entire lives, or large portions of
their lives.

100. • According to World Economic Forum studies, X can be
considered as a form of currency in nearest future,
because of the huge value it accumulated along with
the exponential growth of technology*. Ninety
percent of the X in the world today was created in the
last two years. Between now and 2020, the global
volume of it is expected to multiply another 40 times
or more.
• *There will be an estimated 4.9 billion connected
devices by the end of the year, an increase of 30% from
last year and that figure could hit 25 billion by 2020
• What is X?

102. • Data

103. CEOs and corporate leaders describe him
as ‘Sherlock Holmes of brand consultants’.

105. • Martin Lindstrom

106. 4
• What is Haptics or Haptic Communication?

108. Any form of interaction involving touch

109. A lifestyle practice increasingly becoming
popular among Japanese youth. What?

112. • Minimalism

113. Round V
Inventions & Business

114. • Pounce: +Point/-Point
• Direct: +Point/0

115. Posters of an event happened in 1989 in a
Canadian City. Connect these images with a
product which is a registered trademark of The
Chemours Company that was founded in July
2015 as a spin-off from DuPont. (15)

117. • Freon

118. For what common purpose this entity was
formed in London in Year 24th June,
1878(5)

120. • Ambulance/First Aid

121. There has been a popular myth that
cat's have nine lives

122. • This myth has a connection with a company
organized by Conrad Hubert, a Russian who
invented flashlight. Later this company
merged with National Carbon, and bought by
Union Carbide.
• Connect these cat myth with the company
formed by Conrad Hubert? (10)

124. Eveready Battery Company

125. • A Belgian by birth, In his own
day he was the world's most
famous geographer but in
addition he had interests in
theology, philosophy, history,
mathematics and magnetism.
In 1569, one of his innovative
creation simplified global
navigation system.
• Who is he? (10)

128. • Gerardus Mercator

129. • Gordon Gould is best
known for his thirty-
year fight with the
United States Patent
and Trademark Office to
obtain patents for
what? (5)

131. • LASER

133. Where can you see this? (15)

135. Plimsoll Line

136. • The Plimsoll line is a reference mark located
on a ship's hull that indicates the maximum
depth to which the vessel may be safely
immersed when loaded with cargo

137. Round VI
Culture & Tradition

138. • Pounce: +Point/-Point
• Direct: +Point/0

139. • Asprey & Garrard Limited is a United
Kingdom-based designer, manufacturer and
retailer of jewellery.
• What special jewellery they designed in 1997
became widely popular as an exceptional gift
item, currently manufactured with Sworovski
blue crystal elements (10)

142. Heart of the Ocean Necklace in Titanic

144. • In 1733, John Kay invented something, which
later became critical to the development of a
commercially successful version of this simple
machine.
• It was one of the key developments in the
industrialization during the early Industrial
Revolution.
• Both inventions has largely influenced one of the
dominant industry in North Malabar for a long
period of time. Give me both names?(15)

146. • Handloom and Powerloom

147. Both entities are very popular in their segment
regarding their very special X. Identify A&B(10)
A
• Their journey began
in 1939 under the visionary
leadership of Govindan
Panhikeyil along with his
son P.M Valsan who opened
their first establishment in
Calicut.
B
• Its original entity was
started as a confectionary in
Ceylon during 2nd World
war foujnded by Late Mr.
M. K. Ahmed Haji in the
year 1942
• Currently its business is
overlooked by a woman
named Sareena Azees in
Thalassery.

150. • This is a program to restore
all the tanks and lakes in
Telangana State, India,
inaugurated on 12 March
2015 by chief minister
Chandrashekar Rao.
This mission is named as a
tribute to a South Indian
dynasty who developed
large number of the
irrigation tanks. What?(15)

153. • Mission Kakatiya

154. • An ancient science existed as part of Vedic
tradition in India, something related with modern
day mentalism, face reading, body language
analysis, micro expression study etc
• Famous as one of the themes incorporated into
the ancient Hindu text, the Garuda Purana
• Nowadays often used as a quality statement
related with silk clothes. Which Sanskrit word I
am talking about? (10)

156. • Samudrika

157. • In 1908, British Chief Engineers drew a plan for a project,
the approximate cost of which was estimated at about Rs
2.5 crores, an amount that overshot the State Budget itself!
So they rejected the proposal initially
• But since the project was a beneficial one to the people of
that region, the then Regent Queen Vanivilasa Sannidhana
and her young son came up with an ingenious solution to
overcome the fiscal deficit.
• The jewels, costly diamonds, ornaments and gold and silver
plates of the royal family were dispatched to Bombay and
sold at competitive prices there. The money so obtained
was used as seed-capital for the project.

158. Connect the story with this idol? (15)

160. Krishnaraja Sagara Dam