SCMHRD Business Quiz- Gautam Bose – Finals

1) Identify this currency.

2) Connect

 

 

3) It is an acronym for favored emerging markets coined in late 2009 by Robert Ward, Global Forecasting Director for the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU). The term has also been used by HSBC’s chief executive Michael Geoghegan. These countries are favored for several reasons, such as a dynamic and diverse economy and a young growing population

4) Which company built the engine for The ‘Sprit of St. Louis’ plane?

5) Company’s history- Key word ‘wood’

6) This brand dates back to 1851 in Rhode Island when Robert Knight, a textile mill owner, visited his friend, Rufus Skeel. Mr. Skeel owned a small shop in Providence, Rhode Island that sold cloth from Mr. Knight’s mill. Mr. Skeel’s daughter painted images of apples and applied them to the bolts of cloth. The ones with the apple emblems proved most popular. Mr. Knight thought the labels would be the perfect symbol for his trade name. What?

7) Who are Open collar workers?

Answers:

1) John Boyd Dunlop

2) Connect: Bubba Gump Shrimp Co.

Mykelti Williamson- best known for his role as Benjamin Buford (Bubba) Blue in the 1994 film Forrest Gump

Landry’s- Current owner of the restaurant chain

Bubba Gump Shrimp Co. Restaurants, Inc. was formed as a new restaurant chain in a joint enterprise with Paramount Pictures

3) CIVETS (Colombia, Indonesia, Vietnam, Egypt, Turkey and South Africa)

4) Ryan Air

5) Gibson

6) Fruit of the Loom

7) One who work from home- No fixed location

Round 2

1) It was founded in Kolkata in 1974 in collaboration with Heinrich Schmid AG of Switzerland by Mr. Bijon Nag, a technocrat entrepreneur. Which company?

2)
A partridge
Two turtle doves,
Three French hens,
Four calling birds,
Five golden rings,
Six geese
Seven swans
Eight maids
Nine ladies
Ten lords
Eleven pipers
Twelve drummers

3) “X” came to India in 1912, and learned of the existence of the “Y” shortly after they were set up in 1920. They had a brief legal tussle over the use of the telegraphic address ‘Oxonian’, but in general tolerated and even encouraged the firm, giving them special terms for OUP and Clarendon Press titles. ‘An enterprising firm, certainly good at display,’ H.S. Milford, Publisher to the University, commented to Sir Maurice Gwyer.

“Y” was established in 1920 by the Primlani family, a Sindhi business house. The outlets are now managed by the Apeejay Surrendra Group, a Calcutta-based conglomerate.

What are “X” and “Y”?

4) It was originally launched to compete with Estée, a fragrance released by Estée Lauder

Oprah Winfrey dedicated a segment of her talk show in 2007 to discuss the impact of its advertising. She stated that the ads inspired her. She wanted to be “confident and fabulous” like the “________ girls”. Which brand?

5) Perfume brand 6126 by Lindsay Lohan. Why is it named so?

6) It refers to the practice of making spoofs or parodies of corporate and political advertisements. It may take the form of a new image or an alteration to an existing image or icon, often in a satirical manner. What’s the term?

7) Bansibhai Vaghani and Dinesh Vaghani launched the company in 1972 on a triple-layered foundation of value, commitment and quality. Which company?

8) Hardtack (or hard tack) is a simple type of cracker, made from flour, water, and sometimes salt. Inexpensive and long-lasting, it was and is used for sustenance in the absence of perishable foods, commonly during long sea voyages and military campaigns. How are they known better? There is also a Movie by the name.

9) The name of the brand is legally and officially uncapitalized. It is an American clothing retailer founded in 1976. The name was inspired by, and is pronounced as in, the phrase “to be or not to be” from the play Hamlet.Manny Mashouf, who emigrated to the United States in the early 1970s, opened the first store in San Francisco. Name the brand

10) It was started as joint venture of lndustrial Development Trust of the Nizam’s Hyderabad Government and M/s Alladin & Company. Which company?

11) Margaret Rudkin, discovered that one of her sons had an allergy to commercial bre Encouraged by her family and her son’s doctor, she begins a small business out of her kitchen selling her bread to local grocers. Named for her family’s farm in Fairfield, Connecticut, consumers recognized her homemade bread’s quality and bought every loaf she baked. Which brand?

12) It is a German brewery in Munich, Bavaria, that produces a traditional Munich-style beer. It is currently owned by the American-Brazilian-Belgian company Anheuser-Busch InBev. Like other premium German beers, it is brewed according to the German “Reinheitsgebot” (Purity Law) dating back to 1516. Which brand?

13) Connect

14)
Karen Lunel Hishey
Identify Mrs Tashi Hishey

15) In the center of the state emblem of Pakistan is a quartered shield, with each quarter containing a major crop of Pakistan at the time of its adoption: cotton, jute, wheat and ___.
The 4th crop Pakistan was a big producer but now it imports. Which crop?

Answer:

1) IFB INDUSTRIES LIMITED

2) Christmas carol “The Twelve Days of Christmas”

The Christmas Price Index chose the items in the popular Christmas carol “The Twelve Days of Christmas” as its market basket: a partridge in a pear tree, two turtle doves, three French hens, four calling [sic] birds, five gold(en) rings, six geese, seven swans, eight maids, nine dancing ladies, ten leaping lords, eleven pipers, and twelve drummers.

3) X: Oxford University Press | Y: Oxford Bookstores

4) Charlie

5) Marilyn Monroe’s Birth date

6) Subvertising

7) Milton

8) SeaBiscuit

9) Bebe

10) Allwyn

11) Pepperidge Farm

12) Löwenbräu-Löwenbräu means “lion’s brew”.

13) R E Olds | band REO Speedwagon

14) Karen lunel-Liril Girl

15) Tea

Round 3

1) In 1996 he launched an unsuccessful campaign to elect Ernest, his Bernese Mountain Dog to Congress. Shugart later wrote about that experience in a book, Ernest Goes to Washington (Well, Not Exactly). He backed a failed ballot initiative in 2000 to give California voters the option of choosing “none of the above” in elections. Who?

2) It is the name of more than 200 hotels around the world. The first known Hotel was in Place Vendôme in Paris. What?

3) The ________Effect usually refers to the cost of tuition at private colleges and universities. Many parents assume that a higher-priced education is a better education. “The theory of it was, basically, we will raise the tuition as much as the market will bear,” said William Massy, a former Stanford University finance officer.

The ________effect is based on the commonly accepted perception that you get what you pay for. In the 1950s, Coca Cola was twice as expensive as Pepsi. Yet, Pepsi sales increased after they raised the price of the soda.

4) In medieval England there were nomadic mercenaries who wandered the country side and would sell their services to the highest bidder. These were hardened fighters who lived solitary lives in the wilderness. They did not have the luxury of servants to polish their armor and it would oxidize to a blackish hue, and they came to be known as black knights. At local town festivals they would have exhibition jousting matches in which the winner of the fight would win the loser’s weapons and armor. The local gentry, softened by the good life, would lose to these black knights. The nomadic knights didn’t have much use for an extra set of armor and would sell it back to them immediately after the fight. Origin of what?

5) The phrase from Washington Irving’s short story The Creole Village is: “The___________, that great object of universal devotion throughout our land, seems to have no genuine devotees in these peculiar villages; and unless some of its missionaries penetrate there, and erect banking houses and other pious shrines, there is no knowing how long the inhabitants may remain in their present state of contented poverty. Fill in the blanks

6) It is a sale of assorted secondhand objects contributed by donors to raise money for a charity. What?

7)Images.

8) Factory Near his hometown of Derry Church, Pa, … “Sweetst Place on Earth”

Answers:

1) Alan Shugart
2) Bristol
3) Chivas Regal effect
4) Black Market
5) Almighty dollar
6) Rummage Sale or Jumble sale
7) Bugatti Veyron named after Pierre Veyron
8) Hershey

Round 4

1) Ad- Google earth

2) The company’s first product was a turboprop transport. The Brazilian Government contributed to its early growth giving it contracts and helping to increase its product line, and the company sold solely to the domestic market until 1975.
While military aircraft made up the majority of its products during the 1970s, by 1985 a regional airliner had debuted, the Brasilia. Which company?

3) Question on Alfa Laval- Heat exchanger…inspired by nature, birds or some such

4)  Give Funda

5) It was originally created as a neutral global distribution system (GDS) by Air France, Iberia, Lufthansa and SAS in 1987 in order to connect providers’ content with travel agencies and consumers in real time. The creation of it was intended to offer a European alternative to Sabre, the American GDS. It was built from core reservation system code coming from System One, an American GDS that competed with Sabre but went bankrupt, and a copy of the Air France pricing engine. What?

6) Pic http://goo.gl/JMbvl
The notes are not an officially recognized currency or legal tender since their sole intended purpose is to be offered as burnt-offerings to the deceased as often practiced by the Chinese and several East Asian cultures. What are they called?

7) The name apparently is the anglicization of the Sanskrit term for an untranslated and forbidden sex position in the uncompiled Kama Sutra texts that involves the penetration of all of a woman’s orifices, much like the mythical Venus Butterfly position in the West. This position is known as the “_______”.

Answers:
1) Google earth ad
2) Embraer
3) Alfa Laval
4) Mr. Yuk was conceived by Dr. Richard Moriarty to help children learn to avoid ingesting poisons. Living in Pittsburgh, the skull and crossbones previously used was not terribly helpful, because the Jolly Roger was the mascot for the local baseball team, the Pittsburgh Pirates. it had little meaning to children who equate the symbol with exciting things like pirates and adventure.
The color was chosen when Moriarty was showing different colors to students, and the green that was chosen was christened “Yucky!” by a young child. Hence, the name and the color. The design for Mr. Yuk was created by Wendy Courtney Brown, then a 4th grade student at Liberty Elementary in Weirton, West Virginia, as part of a Pittsburgh Poison Control design contest.

5) Amadeus
6) Hell bank notes
7) kirtu | Kirtu.com| Savita Bhabhi

Wildcraft TBQ Infinite Loop #1 – Answers and List of winners

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  1. Saikumaar Nagarajan – IIM Indore
  2. V.K.Handa – IOCL
  3. Vikash Kumar – NITIE
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1) The mines,first developed in 3000 b.c. by the Iberians and Tartessans changed hands many times in history. They were rediscovered by Spain in 1556 and reopened in 1724, only to be sold to the British in 1871. A company is named after them. Which one?>> Rio Tinto

2) Expand BWA from the world of telecom.

>> Broadband Wireless Access / Broadband Wireless Association

3) Caterham Cars recently entered India. Which business family is their Indian partner?

>> Burmans of Dabur

4) Which Central PSU was incorporated in 1984 to take over the responsibility of running two nationalised companies namely Incheck Tyres Ltd and National Rubber Manufacturing Ltd. ?

>> Tyre Corporation of India Ltd (TCIL)

5) It began as Mysore Iron Works, founded by Nalvadi Krishnaraja Wodeyar, the king of Mysore, under the guidance of his Diwan, Sir M Visvesvaraya on 18th Jan 1923. What?

>> Visvesvaraya Iron and Steel Limited

6) Which company launched 1.4 billion special edition white cans onto the market as part of its Arctic Home campaign to raise funds for, and awareness of, attempts to protect the endangered species – a first for this brand?

>> Coca Cola

7) Who attempted in vain to get into airlines business twice, by starting Crown Express and Magic Air?

>> Niira Radia

8) Which organization is behind www.canyoucrackit.co.uk?

>> GCHQ-British intelligence agency

9) Facebook recently acquired a company founded by Josh Williams. Name it.

>> Gowalla

10) With which compound’s isolation would you associate Hieronymus David Gaubius with?

>> Menthol

SCMHRD Business Quiz – Gautam Bose- 10 Dec 2011

 

SCMHRD Business Quiz – Gautam Bose- 10 Dec 2011

Winners: Amit Pandeya & Francis Rodrigues

Prelims

 

1)      He is known as the Phantom of Bombay House. Who?

 

2)      These Two companies co-marketed an electronic notepad called the___________. The special pen contained a small radio transmitter which told the special pad where it was writing. Which two companies?

 

3)      In 1976, during lunch time at Delhi Cloth Mills, DCM, a group of six young engineers in the office canteen were discussing their work woes at DCM’s calculator division.Despite them all have having jobs that paid them well, they were an unhappy lot — they wanted to do more, riding on their own gumption. They decided to quit their jobs and start a venture of their own.Which company did they start?

 

4)      It was built between 1731 and 1735 as part of the development of the Burlington Estate, and is named after Lady Dorothy _________, wife of the 3rd Earl of Burlington. What?

 

5)      Having become the leading global company in the production of ultra high temperature (UHT) milk, the company collapsed in 2003 with a €14 billion ($20bn; £13bn) hole in its accounts in what remains Europe’s biggest bankruptcy. Which company? Logo was shown  http://www.parmalat.com/en/

 

6)      The name _______ is derived from the Spanish term meaning branch and was applied to temporary open air structures that were made of brush or branches (similar to an arbor) and were popular inArizonaduring harvest time. What?

 

7)      Brand ‘X’ is owned by Company ‘Y’. Brand ‘X’ was a primary competitor of Johnny Lightning & matchbox. ‘X”s logo was designed by Rick irons, a Californian Artist who worked with ‘Y’. What are X and Y?

 

8)      Opera Web Browser was a spin off of this company. Name it

 

9)      It was created by Minoru Shirota and is named after the Esperanto word for “yogurt”. A Bollywood actress endorses it. Name the Brand

 

10)   Which FMCG is behind ‘Devil’s Workshop?’

 

11)  It is a genre of Music that originated inYemenin the early 70s. It is also a part of a name of an Indian conglomerate. What’s the good word?

 

12)  This Hip Hop artist has struck some lucrative partnership deals with HP and Chrysler, the latter of which is integrating ______ into its sound system for its 2012 Chrysler 300S.

 

13)   Known as “the man who sold the ________  _______” twice, Victor Lustig was one of the most talented confidence tricksters who ever lived. Born in 1890 inBohemia,Czechoslovakia, he was a glib and charming conman, fluent in multiple languages. Fill in the blanks.

 

14)  He was born in the department ofJura,France. In 1835, he moved toParis. The trip from his hometown toPariswas over 400 kilometres, and he travelled the distance by foot. On his way there, he picked up a series of odd jobs to pay for his journey. There, he became an apprentice Layetier to prominent households. Because of his well established reputation in his fields, Napoleon III of France appointed Vuitton as Layetier to his wife, Empress Eugénie de Montijo. Who?

 

15)  Founded by Prasad Pabrekar, few of the brand sof this company are Helium * Forays. Which company?

 

16)  ___________is the day following Thanksgiving Day in theUnited States, traditionally the beginning of the Christmas shopping season.

 

17)  In Muslim countries, esp North Africa and theMiddle Eastit is an open-air marketplace. It is a public marketplace where food and merchandise is sold. What?

 

18)   It was founded inLondonon 11 March 1744 when Samuel Baker presided over the disposal of “several hundred scarce and valuable” books from the library of a certain Rt. Hon. Sir John Stanley. In February 2000, A. Alfred Taubman and Diana (Dede) Brooks, the CEO of the company, stepped down amidst a price fixing scandal. On 15 December 2007, it auctioned a limited edition copy of The Tales of Beedle the Bard, written by J.K. Rowling. What are we talking about?

 

19)  Resort Condominiums is a division of the firm Wyndham Worldwide (spin-off from Cendant).Founded in 1974 by Jon and Christel DeHaan, it has grown to become one of the larger brokers of timeshare trades. How do we know it as?

 

20)  It is a 5% ABV lager brewed inLeuven,Belgiumsince 1926. The first name is Latin for Star. Which brand?

 

 

 

 

 

 

Answers:

 

1)      Shapporji Palonji Mistry

2)      IBM & A. T. Cross company | Blank: Crosspad

3)      HCL

4)      Savile Row

5)      Parmalat

6)      Ramada

7)      X: Hot Wheels | Y: Mattel

8)      Telenor

9)      Yakult | Kajol

10)    Rasna

11)   Adani

12)   Blank: Beats | Dr. Dre

13)  EiffelTower

14)  Louis Vuitton

15)  Spykar

16)  Black Friday

17)  Souk

18)  Sotheby’s

19)  RCI

20)  Stella Artois

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NMIMS Business Quiz 2011- Amit Pandeya

Narsee Monjee Business Quiz

Prelims

1)      This Hotel in Mumbai ha a suite called Shantaram Suite. It also keeps a copy of Shantaram in every room, along with Suketu Mehta’s Maximum City. Which hotel?

2)        After searching for and documenting millions of images on Flickr, researcher Eric Fischer has pinpointed New York City’s most photographed attraction, which one?

3)      Hoechst… It’s molecular formula is C9H6Cl6O3S… 500 crore Industry. What?

4)      This Mascot has a scarf, a chef’s hat, two big blue eyes, a blush when girls kissed him, and a soft, warm chuckle when poked in the stomach.What are we talking about? For complete 2 points give the name of the Mascot

 

5)      Whose ad? http://www.madtrash.com/?id=112

 

6)      Rekha promoted this brand… Dhoni currently endorses it…

 

7)      He was taught English by the famous Marathi writer P. L. Deshpande. He started “Partha Institute of Personality Development” in August 1978. Who?

 

8)      An alumnus of the Indian Institute of Technology ( IIT) Bombay, Vasant Mehar, has won the nation-wide competition for designing this which is  is modeled after Japan’s design.What?

 

9)      _________is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway.Whose quote and fill in the blank

 

10)  It began life in Brazil as a one-time marketing plan to sell pre-packaged music on Nokia 5310 phones – where two different Brazilian artists recorded a show fusing different styles of music. What?

 

11)  Guru in Chennai, Sri Sri Muralidhara Swamigal came upw ith the name of this PE Venture. Which one?

 

12)   Sued by X, the company Y  defends its position stating that shoes with red soles have been used for centuries, dating as far back to as the 1600’s when King Louis XIV donned red soled shoes, or more recently (relatively speaking) in the Wizard of Oz (you know, the ruby red bottoms on Dorothy’s iconic slippers). What are X and Y?

 

13)   This company’s “The Tomorrow Project” introduced four science-fiction writers to the latest research in photonics, robotics, telematics, dynamic physical rendering and intelligent sensors. Then, the writers let their imaginations run wild. The end results are four short science-fiction stories that imagine a future where this latest research is the old research. This company hired a famous musician.

 

14)   Headquartered in Kolkata,founded in the year 1994 by  Shri S.M.Jalan, it is endorsed by katrina Kaif & Shahrukh Khan. Which brand?

 

15)   kanti, Dant Kanti, Ojas, Tejas Beauty cream. Whose brands?

 

16)  KPCB has invested in it. Its conference rooms are named after these famous places in hanoi, Amsterdam…

 

17)  In 1934, the brothers Giovanni and Giacomo  founded a tailoring workshop dedicated to the manufacture of high quality clothing. Gene Hackman wore its business suit in the film ‘The Firm.’

 

18)   The term originates from chiseled horizontal marks, that surveyors made into which an angle-iron could be placed to bracket a levelling rod, thus ensuring that the levelling rod can be accurately repositioned in the same place in the future. These marks were usually highlighted with a chiseled arrow below the horizontal line. What term?

 

19)  The company was founded by Dr. August _____ in 1891; the first product developed was “Backin”, a pre-measured amount of baking powder that, when mixed with 500g of flour and other ingredients, produced a cake.Logo represents a housewife

 

20)    He along with vice president Greg Hart has been named as co-inventors of “a system and method for protecting devices from impact damage.” He was once Time magazine’s man of the year

 

21)  This brand has asked Norwegian police to ban Anders Breivik from wearing its label amid fears it could seriously harm the brand. Breivik, the gunman who murdered 77 people in a shooting rampage at a youth camp and bombing in Oslo in July, has been spotted on numerous occasions wearing the company’s clothes. This company has a campaign ___________ 2083

 

22)  What is the Three letter ticker symbol of Molson Coors?

 

23)  This company will use gold fromMongoliato make medals forLondon’s 2012 Olympic Games. Which company?

 

24)   Barbie is morphing not into a lawyer or doctor, but into Adele Bloch-Bauer. Adele’s visage was immortalized by painter _________ in Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I. Adele came from a wealthy Austrian banking family and was one of  his most important sponsors.

25)  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWaUUpaI9i8  Whose voice?

 

 

Answers:

1)      Four Seasons

2)      Apple Store on Fifth Avenue.

3)      Endosulfan

4)      Pillsbury Doughboy Poppin’ Fresh

5)      MAD magazine

6)      Emami

7)      Anant pai

8)      India Design Mark or I-Mark

9)      Blank: Wall Street | Warren Buffett

10)   Coke Studio

11)   Multiples | Renuka Ramnath

12)   X: Louboutin | Y:YSL

13)    Intel | will.i.am

14)   Linc Pens

15)   Patanjali | Baba Ramdev

16)   Square

17)   Canali

18)   Benchmarking

19)   Oetker

20)   Jeff Bezos

21)    Lacoste

22)    Tap

23)  RioTinto

24)   Gustav Klimt

25)   Prasoon Joshi