Business Quiz at quiz forum by Omkar Bhatnagar. Omkar is pursuing B.Tech in Civil engineering at ZHCET, Aligarh Muslim University. His field of interest include Business, Tech, Mythology and Trivia.
3. RULES
Diffrential pounces.
If there are n teams , and x teams pounce (correctly) the question will
be of (n-X)x10.
For ex. If there are 4 teams and 2 team pounces the quess will be of
20/-20.
But if only 1 team pounces correctly; it will get +40(i.e no of teams
*10).and there will be no pass or bounce in that quess.
And if all teams pounce correctly , it will be scrap.
4. ROUNDS.
There will be 4 rounds
1st=gen biz tech.
2nd=indian biz
3rd =advertisments
4th =only for googlers (googling is allowed)
Q.m advice= don’t forget to bring your cell phones.
5.
6.
7. 1.CHINA HAS BEEN FLEXING A LOT
GEOPOLITICAL MUSCLE LATELY, HOWEVER
ITS FIRST "TOOL" OF GEOPOLITICS WAS
MUCH MORE BENIGN (SOME WILL SAY
ADORABLE) AND IT STARTED WITH
EXTENDING IT TO USA AND JAPAN.
HERE IS THE WORLD MAP OF WHERE CHINA
HAS USED THIS TOOL AND HOW MUCH!
EXPLAIN ME WHAT GEOPOLITICAL TACTICS
AM I REFERRING TO?
11. 2. Everything was on track in the early days of this now famous
company, until the Arab oil embargo hit in 1973. Suddenly the company
costs increased and there was a cash crunch. The founder knew how to
play blackjack from his days during the Vietnam war. His $27,000
winnings at the casino lifted the confidence and later helped the
company save itself. Who is this ‘great gambler’ whose ‘world changed
overnight’?
12.
13. Fred Smith, FedEx founder. Infact, FedEx uses the
tagline ‘The World Overnight’, which has been used
as a subtle clue in the question!
18. X innovation is a clever way to jump-start your innovation efforts by
drawing analogies and transferring approaches between contexts,
beyond the borders of your own industry, sector, area or domain.
21. 4.
X planned on using the money earned with Loewenstern to pay
for dental school, and he enrolled at the University of Maryland
School of Dentistry, the oldest dental school in the United States
however, he left after the dean of the school said to him on his
first day at the college: "The golden age of dentistry is over. If
you’re here simply because you’re looking to make a lot of
money, you’re in the wrong place.
25. 5.MOTO V/S X
At Motorola, Cooper and designer Rudy Krolopp worked on the "shoe"
phone, using many of the company's existing electronics patents. They
produced the Motorola DynaTAC (for DYNamic Adaptive Total Area
Coverage): 9 inches tall, 2½ pounds, with 30 circuit boards. You could
talk for 35 minutes, and it took 10 hours to recharge.
Cooper set up a cellular base station in New York and made his first call
to Joel Engel, Bell Labs' research chief. Ouch.
Joel, this is Marty. I'm calling you from a cell phone, a real handheld
portable cell phone.
26. Eight Nobel Prizes have been awarded for work completed at Bell
Laboratories.
X began its history as Southwestern Bell Telephone Company, which
was a subsidiary of the Bell Telephone Company founded by Alexander
Graham Bell in 1880. Bell Telephone Company evolved into X in 1885 .
32. 7.XY?
Christian Dior, the luxury goods group, is the main holding company of XY,
owning 40.9% of its shares, and 59.01% of its voting rights. Bernard Arnault,
majority shareholder of Dior, is Chairman of both companies and CEO of XY.
In 2017, Arnault purchased all the remaining Christian Dior shares in a
reported $13.1 billion buy out. The Dapifer reports that XY will gain
ownership of Christian Dior haute couture, leather, both men’s and women’s
ready-to-wear, and footwear lines
The company was formed in 1987 under the merger of fashion house X with
Y, a company formed after the 1971 merger between the champagne
producer Moët & Chandon and Hennessy, the cognacmanufacturer.
36. X is a technology company that focuses on competitive
programming challenges for both consumers and businesses, where
developers compete by trying to program according to provided
specifications.
X programming challenges can be solved in a variety of programming
languages (including Java, C++, PHP, Python, SQL, JavaScript) and span
multiple computer science domains
X for work had over 1,000 paying customers for their subscription
service. Notable enterprise customers include Adobe, Amazon,
Atlassian, Citrix, EA Sports, Evernote, Quora, Facebook, Twitter, Walmart,
Yahoo!, and Zynga.
40. NO PART POUNCES.
29 jan is the 153rd birth anniversary of freedom fighter
businessman X. He was the founder of Punjab National Bank is
well known. Which insurance company (now defunct) did he
found.
Till date you cant start a venture without Y.
43. He is an alumnus of the Cathedral and John Connon School, Bishop
Cotton School , Cornell University & Harvard Business School.
The x Hall is located in the northeast corner of the HBS campus, the
facility is devoted to the Harvard Business School's mid-career
Executive Education program. It is seven stories tall with about 150,000
gross square feet.
46. X is an Indian publishing company based in Kolkata which was founded in
1936 by D. Mehra at College Street in Calcutta.
He was looking for a name to give his company. He had gone to see a
play in which there were two characters — X and Sona. He found Sona too
glamorous a name and instead picked X.” Mehra started the company with
a loan of Rs.590 from Pearl Assurance Company.
47. HINTS
The logo of the company was designed by the film
maker Satyajit Ray and he asked for some books as
fees for his job.
His first customer was Humayun Kabir, who later
went on to become the Education and Culture
Minister of independent India.
52. BRITANNIA
1st image: Rajjan Pillai( the biscuit king)
2nd image:The Armada Memorial in Plymouth depicting Britannia, the
female personification of Britain.
3rd image: Salman khan the brand ambassador of tiger(subsidiary of
Britannia ) which was in lot of controversies.
70. This was justly her first claim to fame. As an aspiring model four years ago,
she had signed up with DCM to model for their entire campaign of towels
that were being launched in 1973. This is one of a series of advertisements
that received wide publicity in the leading national magazines and
newspapers in 1974. At about the same time X had modelled for U-Foam
mattresses.
But her success on the modelling scene was short-lived. By the time she
became engaged to ________, the advertising agency MCM (Mass
Communication and Marketing) which was conducting the campaign, was
summarily commanded to withdraw the campaign and clean up all possible
remaining records of it.
77. IDENTIFY ?
The image is a manipulated photo of X created by a friend and classmate of Mark
Zuckerberg.
This is the fact David Kirkpatrick has revealed in his book "The Facebook Effect".
81. HINTS:
He was conferred the honorary rank of group captain by the Indian Air
Force in 1948, was promoted to the Air Commodore rank (equivalent to
Brigadier in army), and was further promoted on 1 April 1974 to the Air
Vice Marshal rank.
Several international awards for aviation were given to him – The Tony
Jannus Award in March 1979, the Gold Air Medal of the Federation
Aeronautique International in 1985, the Edward Warner Award of the
International Civil Aviation Organisation, Canada in 1986 and the Daniel
Guggenheim Medal in 1988.
He received the Padma Vibhushan in 1955.
93. British artist Stuart Semple created the fluorescent pink paint pigment
earlier this year, in retaliation to "rotter" Kapoor buying the exclusive
rights to the Vantablack pigment, said to be the blackest shade of black
ever created.
The cerise pink shade is available to all artists except Kapoor, who is
legally banned from purchasing it.
They are obliged to agree to a legal declaration that states: "You are
not Anish Kapoor, you are in no way affiliated to Anish Kapoor, you are
not purchasing this item on behalf of Anish Kapoor or an associate of
Anish Kapoor.“
Kapoor posted a picture of his middle finger dipped in the paint to
his dirty_corner Instagram account with the caption "Up yours #pink".
99. Booze can give you more than a hangover!
Well a bottle or two of whiskey certainly helped a German company to
buy a trademark from this Finnish company, and since then that
trademarked logo can be seen pretty much everywhere in the world.
A Finnish sports brand Karhu Sports sold the three stripe trademark to
Adidas for (the equivalent of) €1,600 euros and two bottles of Whiskey
131. THE EXPORTED BOTTLES ARE MARKED AS ‘AN
INDIAN DRINK’ WITH A TRI-COLOURED
BACKDROP.
X is an Indian aerated drink, produced and marketed mainly in the
western and northern states of
India; Gujarat, Maharashtra, Rajasthan Uttar Pradeshand Madhya
Pradesh. It is based in Surat.
X is the product of the Swadeshi movement of Indian independence
struggle. Mohsin Hajoori introduced X in 1927 in Surat, as an Indian
option to the UK drink Vimto.
Originally X was called Whisky No, to attract alcoholics in the dry state
of Gujarat, India. It was sealed with a marble in a factory in Salabatpura
by Hajoori and Sons.
134. The X brand of scotch whisky was struggling to gain market share and
its sales were low. Its owners doubled its price -- without changing the
whisky -- and saw unit sales double. Consumers saw the increased
price as evidence that this must be a quality brand. In the 1980s, some
U.S. universities adopted the same kind of policy.
The X effect became more associated with tuition costs than whisky.
Colleges started to raise tuition fees to bring in more money and
typically saw a significant increase in enrollment. At the time, parents
equated higher tuition costs with a better standard of education
137. BASIC FOOD INGREDIENT
In the 1830s, X was sold as a medicine, claiming to cure ailments like
diarrhea, indigestion, and jaundice. The idea was proposed by Dr John
Cook Bennett, who later sold the recipe in form of 'pills'.
As numerous people began to sell X as a medicine, the market
reportedly collapsed in the 1850s.
around 1800, North Americans widely regarded --------------- as
poisonous. That’s why X didn’t contain --------------- back in those
days. Different varieties of X were made of berries, grapes, mushrooms,
and other foods
138. HINTS:
According to the company, the X flows 0.045 kilometers (0.028 mi) per
hour or about 1.3 centimeters (0.5 in) per second. To put things in
perspective, some turtles travel at 0.8 kilometers (0.5 mi) per hour on
land.