Business quiz

Time 2 get Bizzy

QM: Siddhartha Roy, Madanish Kanna

Time 2 get Bizzy

QM: Siddhartha Roy, Madanish Kanna

1. KCL

• The seed for the making of the modern family X was planted in 1934 when the Central Excise Duty on ____was promulgated. Until the outbreak of WW I, there were only a handful of factories in India. What started as 1 or 2 factories in 1923, rose to 3 in 1942 and by 1980 it was 189. 1986 – 260 in T.N alone. Which industry are we talking about here?

• Fireworks!

2. T

• Debit n Credit

3. Connect

• C K Prahalad

4. Gimme the manftr!

• Leyland

5. Fill up

• Agilent Technologies• Barnes Group• _____• Dominion Resources• Eni SpA• Ford Motor Co• _____

• Citigroup n Genpact

6. Print ad for?

• Sequoia capital

7. Who are they?

• Eureka Forbes

8. What’s this?

• In response to a common question, various answers from selected 15 people included,

• A: My life is like a ____ ,dream of ____ and dive into the new challenges that life brings

• B: I will add a different look and feel to it, as opposed to most others

• C: I know I am prepared for it• D: I have potential• E: I just fit the bill perfectly and I deserve to be the

one. Given a chance, I will prove myself worthy.

• Model for Kingfisher Calendar

9. Who says it?

• Vineet Nayar, HCL

10.Wher r they?

• Big Baazar Sale

11.

• As per March 2011 report, X witnessed 11530099 transactions out of which 8652518 were successful (i.e. 75% success rate).

• Failure rate for Credit/Debit card transactions were 24%

• Failure rate for Net Banking transactions were 32% (Rajasthan Bank leads the race with 59% failure rate).

• As far as cash cards are concerned, failure rate stood at 13%.

• IRCTC.CO.IN

12.

• Following is an excerpt from the preface of 'Every Man His Own Broker' written by Thomas Mortimer and published in 1775. Complete the lines.

• "An act for the better preventing the infamous practice of Stock-jobbing; by which the most palpable and glaring frauds then in vogue, were indeed suppressed: the Bubbles burst, and the Racehorses of Exchange Alley, expired with the date of that act; but _____________ still exist in full vigour."

• Bull n bears!

13.

• Metro man E Sreedharan

14.

• DABUR!

15.

• Id the ad!

• Ajanta clocks

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2

• Which instant food company is famous for its '57 varities' slogan?

3 Identify the brand in this advertisement?

• Absolut Vodka

4 Company Ad?

5 Id

• Edelweiss

6

• The only three currently functioning establishments were started by Pandit Kanhaiyalal Durgaprasad, Pandit Dayanand Shivcharan and Pandit Baburam Devidayal. What is being talked about ?

Paranthewali gali

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• During the ramjan period, the timing of the offices changes in the Gulf countries. People work from 9 in the evening till 4:30 in the morning and keep their shops closed during the daytime. Since playing cards is considered haram (profane), people prefer to do something else that is considered a great leisure activity for the entire family .This increase the business of a meerut based industry by almost 50 per cent in the month of Ramzan, the fasting period that culminates in Id-Ul-Fitr, the biggest festival for Muslims.

7

Carrom

8• X is a Uruguayan football club based in Montevideo.

The club joined the first division for the first time in 1919.The club took on the name X as there were many cultural links between the two areas; the majority of coal ships arriving in Montevideo came from the busy port city of X. Ironically, X have failed to win any domestic title. They are famously dubbed as the greatest team in the league never to win the title of champions. They have also never won either of the major cups. Explain the irony.

• This Uruguayan club call themselves Liverpool Football Club

• Guitar Hero1. The original lineup of Metallica (1983) 2. Van Halen3. Aerosmith4. RedOctane: producer5. Neversoft: designer

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• Fool’s Gold

11

• This form of a taxi, known as Boda-Boda from border to border, has been a part of East African culture especially along the Kenya Uganda border. What are Boda bodas ?

• Bicycle taxis

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• Less romantically referred to as "the bird splat" by some, which logo was misinterpreted by one of the hijackers of Lufthansa Flight 181 as the Star of David when he found a product with the logo in one of the handbags belonging to a passenger whom he assumed to be a Jew .

13.

• Freight costs and large volume discounts introduce the major flaws in this Purchasing power parity indicator(X) started by a wing of the Commonwealth Bank as an attempt to provide an alternative to a similar initiative started by an institution which was first headed by James Wilson in 1843(Y).

• Australia slipped from the top spot in 2010 and was replaced by Hong Kong though surprisingly China is somewhere in the middle.

Id X and Y

Ipod n Big Mac Index

14.

• The herbalist, Aw Chu Kin, told his sons to develop this product in his deathbed in the 1870s in Rangoon. Interestingly, the producers of this item also started three of the first few theme parks in Asia – in Hong Kong, Singapore and Fujian (in China). Identify this product, which comes in two colours, red and white.

15.

• AAAAA (1st Quality):• Highest quality in the marketplace. Like new, perfect to very

near perfect.• AAAA (2nd Quality) :• Very slightly blemished . May have minor imperfections.• AAA (3rd Quality) :•  slightly scuffed or blemished that may have minor

discoloration.• AA (4th Quality):•  Appropriate for practice• What am I talking about?

GOLF BALLS

Alyque Padamsee

Liril Girl was created by him when he was the head of Lintas

Sharon Prabhakar – his wife

Mohammad Ali Jinnah – He played the role of Jinnah in Gandhi (1982)

• Theme

• Thomas Watson of IBM

• Ralph Lauren

Theme

• Official Wimbledon Sponsors