Business Quiz Finals

Chapter- I
BREAKING THE ICE
• Round moves anti-clockwise following infinite bounce method
• Pouncing is ON
• Scoring possibilities are as follows: (+10/-5) on pounce ; (+10) on direct as
well as carried over questions
• In case of an emergency or doubt, don’t pull the chain, ask the QM
instead,his acts of tolerance are famous far and wide

Welcome to the finals
• This is the web version, so safety slides have been removed to avoid
unnecessary buffering
• The quiz was a part of the 3 day quiz fest “ Braingrill” held at Jorhat
Engineering College
• The quiz was won by Bedanga Das and Rituraj Kashyap from NIT Silchar
• Snehashish Parashar and Mrinmoy Kshattri from Tezpur University came
2nd

1
A certain brand of a product by Bharat Petroleum was initially named
"Bharat X"
However, to bring all such products by Bharat Petroleum under a
single umbrella, they decided to re-christen it after a very popular
German German company that designs and
constructs amusement rides as the product was initially tested here.
Give me the brand or the German Company

MAK lubricants
named after MACK Rides

2
The term X was first coined by British entrepreneur Kevin Ashton
in 1999 while referring to a global network of objects connected to
radio-frequency identification. X has now become the next hot topic
that has conquered the world by storm and is on the lips of not
only the, ICT industry but also many other businesses.
X is basically a network of physical objects—devices, vehicles,
buildings and other items embedded with electronics, software,
sensors, and network connectivity—that enables these objects to
collect and exchange data

The four minerals cassiterite (for tin), wolframite (for tungsten),
coltan (for tantalum), and gold ore also known as X minerals,are
essential in the manufacture of a variety of devices, including
consumer electronics such as mobile phones, laptops, and MP3
players . The company profit from the mineral trade is one of the
main motives for groups on all sides of an ongoing crisis,the
deadliest since World War II.
A number of organisations have started campaigns asking
multinational electronic companies to stop indirectly funding the
crisis by integrating responsibly mined minerals into their supply
chain.
What is the common name given to these four minerals and what is
the crisis which their illegal trade is allegedly funding?
3

• X: Conflict minerals
• The profits from the sale of these minerals has
financed fighting in the Second Congo War and
ongoing follow-on conflicts in eastern Congo

Cowboy Ventures founder Aileen Lee coined the term X as a label
for such corporate creatures in November 2013
According to VentureBeat, there were 229 Xs as of January 2016.
The largest X included Uber, Xiaomi, Airbnb, Palantir, Snapchat,
Dropbox and Pinterest
The rise of the X has occurred rapidly and without much
warning, and it’s starting to freak some people out. It used to be
that Xs were these mythical creatures . Now there are herds of Xs
4

X: Unicorn Clubs- startups with 1 billion $ valuation

5
• The founder of X has been interested in space from an early age.
Once in an interview he said he wanted to build space hotels,
amusement parks and colonies for 2 million or 3 million people
who would be in orbit. 'The whole idea is to preserve the earth'
he told the newspaper .The goal was to be able to evacuate
humans. The planet would become a park”
• Recently X accomplished a rocket landing of its own becoming
the first rocket to land back on earth safely

X : Blue Origin
Founder: Jeff Bezos

6
• At this time, X was dating his female lab assistant. X suddenly
left her during a vacation . She eventually went on to marry
another guy instead and Y ( which was a founded by X) became
a highly successful company
• In 2008 the company was nominated for a Nobel Prize
• X sold his share of the company for $5,000 due to some unknown
reasons. As per latest reports, Y has a net worth of 2.16 billion
dollars.

Located in south Bopal in Ahmedabad, the Real Poseidon Restaurant has been
officially sealed by the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) for want of
necessary building use permissions.
The restaurant had allegedly begun operations in South Bopal without the necessary
development permission from the civic authority. The theme restaurant that seats 32
persons was built at a cost of Rs 2 crore-2.5 crore offered Punjabi, Chinese, Mexican
and Thai cuisine. The restaurant that had caught the fancy of Amdavadis had begun
operations on Monday but was closed down on Tuesday
What is the unique feature of the restaurant?

India’s first underwater restaurant

Round 2
• Differential scoring
• 1 team: +25/-10
• 2 to 3 : +20/-10
• 4 to 5 : +15/-10
• 6 : +10/-10

1
•
X quit her secure job to establish Y , the first of its kind in North East and
her dream institution opened its doors to customers in 1998. Despite many
teething troubles and fiscal challenges, Y, which received its license in 2000,
has only grown over the years. X has opened three branches in the district
reaching out to over 28,000 customers. A large section of Y’s clients are
labourers, daily wage earners or scavengers. Most of them have very low
levels of literacy, which is why X insists that all the 27 employees treat the
women with compassion. X was chosen one among the TIMES NOW
Amazing Indians for the year 2015
• Who is X? or Name the organization and its significance

• X: Lakhimi Barua
• Y: Kanak Lata Mahila Urban Co- operative Bank Ltd, Jorhat

2
X is an early 20th-century Sanskrit text the existence of which was revealed in 1952 by G. R.
Josyer who asserted that it was written by Pandit Subbaraya Shastry (1866–1940), who dictated it
during the years 1918–1923. A Hindi translation was published in 1959, while the Sanskrit text
with an English translation was published in 1973. It contains 3000 shlokas in 8 chapters which
Shastry claimed was psychically delivered to him by the ancient Hindu sage Bharadvaja.[ The
text has gained favor among proponents of ancient theories.
A study by researchers at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, in 1974 concluded that
description in the text were "poor concoctions" and that the author showed a complete lack of
understanding of the subject . The study noted, "If it is taken to mean what the drawing and the
text say, it can be stated that it is a decided impossibility".
What was the script all about?

3
• A boy of Class VIII standard left the school for Calcutta (now Kolkata)
and came to get in touch with of some persevering nonresident Assamese.
The boy for his assiduous character got a chance to work as mechanic
helper and passed metric there. While working in this garage he could
draw the attention of a British gentleman who gave him a chance to work
in famous “Warne and Company . The British gentleman seeing the
technical expertise of this boy sent him England for higher training at
Institute of Mechanical Engineering.
• He was no one other than X of Barpeta, Assam. During this training
period X made significant improvement in his technical skill and got the
opportunity to do research. After a period of five years relentless work in
this field X invented the Y ,later names “Seamless Coil ____ “ for Trains
Who is X and what his invention?

• X : Guruprasad Das
• Y: Vaccum Brakes for trains

4
• The catalytic experiment was divided into two parts.
• The first one was on the decolourisation of Methyl blue
dye using iodine
• The second one was aimed at the formation of three
coloured foam .
• Both the experiments, however, were completed in less
than one hour.

• India enters Guinness Book for Largest Practical Science Lesson

5
• X set up in 1925 by a renowned Swedish company which had all the justifications for
setting up the industry here as Y had the required raw materials for the then
woodbased enterprise. Incourse of time, the venture flourished into the biggest
factory of its kind in the country. But, in 1988, the management reduced the number
of workmen on the plea of introducing new machineries and this resulted in a tussle
between the management and the workers of the factory. When the Supreme Court
ordered a ban on felling of trees in 1997, the management of the factory let off its
steam.
• The fate of the 86-year-old famous industry is now hanging in the balance. Due to
the alleged mismanagement of the authorities, the unit, has remained shut down
since 1997.
• Name the company or one of its most popular products

6
• The X Group, is an Indian business conglomerate was started in 1928 by a future
cabinet minister who had the dubious distinction of being the first minister in free
India to have resigned due to his involvement in a scam.
• While the company started as an indenting agency for household brands the group
has grown to what it is today with path-breaking marketing ideas. By 1940, it had
achieved more than a decade of tremendous growth and began offering a new breed
of products including Prestige Pressure Cookers
• X were the pioneers of the manufacturing and marketing of a certain product in the
country. From establishing India's first manufacturing plant in 1963 to installing the
country's first electronic testing facility
• Y is X’s trophy product and a brand that is very quickly becoming popular across
India. It is a refreshing, stylish and cool brand that fits in with the changing socio-
cultural trend in the country

ROUND 3
• Differential scoring
• 1 team: +25/-10
• 2 to 3 : +20/-10
• 4 to 5 : +15/-10
• 6 : +10/-10

1
• Antoine de la Mothe X was a French explorer and adventurer in New
France, an area of North America that stretched from present-day
Eastern Canada in the north to Louisiana on the Gulf of Mexico in
the south.
• The city he helped found became the world center of something in the
20th century. The founders of the X company, paid homage to him by
using his name for their company and his armorial bearings as its logo
in 1902

2
• Without The Company our world would not be as it is today.
• It changed the world’s tastes, its thinking, and its people. It created new
communities, trading places, cities and shaped countries and commercial routes.
• They were pioneering; creating many of the means and rules of commerce we use
today.
• They were individuals, living by the rules of their times – determined,
entrepreneurial and human – who were driven by their passion and enthusiasm; the
same qualities that drive our team today.

3
• X is a structured planning method that evaluates those four elements of a project or
business venture. X can be carried out for a product, place, industry, or person. It involves
specifying the objective of the business venture or project and identifying the internal and
external factors that are favorable and unfavorable to achieve that objective. Some authors
credit X to Albert Humphrey, who led a convention at the Stanford Research Institute (now
SRI International) in the 1960s and 1970s using data from Fortune 500 companies.However,
Humphrey himself does not claim the creation of X, and the origins remain obscure.
• Identification of X is important because they can inform later steps in planning to achieve
the objective. First, decision makers should consider whether the objective is attainable,
given the Xs. If the objective is not attainable, they must select a different objective and
repeat the process.

4
• Invented in the 1960s, the interrobang is a clever solution to a punctuation challenge. To ask
a question excitedly, writers often used a question mark (“interrogation point”) followed by
an exclamation point (“bang”)–or vice versa. The interrobang simply combines the two
symbols.
• Which company recently adopted the interrobang as brand mark because it captures two
essential principles at X–the curiosity to know and discover, and the excitement and fun of
learning.
• The customized interrobang brand mark has been carefully crafted and encapsulated in a
thumbprint, which symbolizes a human-centric approach of putting the learner at the heart
of everything

5
• The phrase “Halcyon Days” has originated from Latin Alcyone, daughter of
Aeolus and wife of Ceyx. When her husband died in a shipwreck, Alcyone
threw herself into the sea whereupon the gods transformed them both into
halcyon birds . When Alcyone made her nest on the beach, waves threatened
to destroy it. Aeolus restrained his winds and kept them calm during seven
days in each year, so she could lay her eggs. These became known as the
"halcyon days," when storms do not occur. Today, the term is used to denote
a past period that is being remembered for being happy and/or successful.
• Why the phrase and the word “ Halcyon” in the news?

• . The first pair of the mythical-bird Halcyon
(kingfishers) were created from a marriage
of Alcyone and Ceyx. As gods, they lived the
sacrilege of referring t. The first pair of the
mythical-bird Halcyon (kingfishers) were created
from a marriage of Alcyone and Ceyx. As gods,
they lived the sacrilege of referring to themselves as
Zeus and Hera. They died for this, but the other
gods, in an act of compassion, made them into
birds, thus restoring them to their original seaside
habitat.o themselves as Zeus and Hera. They died
for this, but the other gods, in an act of
compassion, made them into birds, thus restoring
them to their original seaside habitat.

6• On the World Day Against Cyber Censorship agreed to partner with Y to replace
something not with blank placeholders but with anti-censorship ads from Y —featuring
Edward Snowden, Pussy Riot and Ai Wei Wei, who were also partners on the campaign.
That's because X found an ad campaign whose ideology it could get behind . X users
were probably pretty surprised on Saturday to see _____ instead of the blank spaces
they're used to—in the banner slots on webpages.
• X and Y just come at the issue from opposite sides: Y is opposed to having wanted
content blocked; X is opposed to having unwanted content served.
• The banners were translated into six languages and became a global trending topic on
Facebook
• What are X and Y , or what was the campaign ?

X: Adblock Y : Amnesty International
On that day , AdBlock used pictures with messages agains cyber
censorship instead of blank banners

1
In X’s ongoing effort to add more letters to its parent company, they've recently
spun off their New York-base technology think tank to become a subsidiary
the parent company. It has been renamed as Y ans is now described as a
technology incubator that can tackle big issues, including geopolitical ones.
According to a post by Eric Schmidt on Medium, "the new name
acknowledges that the world is a complex puzzle of physical and digital
challenges".Y will help put that puzzle together.
The visual identity for Y was developed by Spin, according to Design Week.

2
• X products made waves at Mumbai in the 7th Edition of Panacea (South
Asia's largest annual food and hospitality trade show) 2016] among people who want
advice on healthy living with quality products.
• Adhering to high quality norms, X products has standardized the products according
to consumer's needs . X launched its wide range of organic products on 24th
January, 2016, to provide natural and organic products to the consumers. A total of
150 products were launched initially, some more products have been added this
month, and more products are under way targeting the total of 400 odd products.
These include a wide range of natural products right from grocery, lifestyle products
including health and dietary supplements, instant meals, cosmetics, body care
products, detergents etc
• Name the company and its founder which is about to take the FMGC industry by
storm

3
• In Thailand, royally-granted family names have been bestowed particularly on the Monarch's
retainers since the reign of King Vajiravudh (Rama VI, r.1910 – 25). It is a tradition of His
Majesty to grant surnames to members of the royal family, government officers, and private
citizens who have contributed significantly to the good of the country.
• In the year 2013, King Bhumibol of Thailand bestowed their family name on X who has
contributed in, not only by bringing 'Thai Spirit' to the world sports but also by supporting
Thai sports culture through ‘THAI FIGHT’. Over the years the group owned by X has
taken part in initiatives to develop Thailand's capabilities in terms of employment and it is
also an enthusiastic participant in many corporate and social responsibility programmes
dealing with education, charity work, children’s health issues, sports and Thai culture.
• Who is X and why something that he owns is making waves in a certain field?

Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha, owner of Leicester City

4
• Pierre Lacroix was inspired to begin the production of this product when, in the
year 1532, he traded some of it for a bottle of fine champagne and realized their
potential market.
• In 1660, having perfected the product, Philippe Lacroix began production. Despite
the early success, it was not until 76 years later in 1736 that the family acquired their
own mill. In 1796 Napoleon granted the Lacroix company a licence to produce it
for his troops.
• In 1865, a change was made to the formula—the tissue previously used was
replaced with rice. It is this change to rice that caused the name X to finally emerge:
a combination of two French words meaning rice and a cross, representing the
Lacroix family name, which literally means "The Cross"

5
• X is a sponsored top-level domain (sTLD) intended as a voluntary option for
pornographic sites on the Internet. The sponsoring organization is the
International Foundation for Online Responsibility (IFFOR). The registry is
operated by ICM Registry LLC. The ICANN Board voted to approve the
sTLD on 18 March 2011.It went into operation on 15 April 2011.
• Which company from an entirely different field registered a X domain
creating an new genre of porn?

6
• “X”Script is a "programming language," developed by a group of Rice
University computer science students. Its GitHub page mission statement states.
"Just like he is making America great again, we hope our efforts will make
programming great again.“
• Some "features" of XScript include:
1. No floating point numbers, only integers.
2. Only the most popular English words, X's favorite words and current politician
names can be used as a variable names
3. .All programs must end with "America is great.“
What is X ?

If both the hen and the egg came second , who
claims to have come first ?

• NAAM foundation is a manifestation of human spirit in response to the
outbreak due to lamented turmoil happening around. Mission of NAAM
foundation is to build sustainable & progressive society by facilitating
development in rural areas by working on different issues like infrastructure,
education, employment, food & so on.
• NAAM foundation has been started by Makarand Anaspure and one of his
best friends in September 2015.
• Who is this friend of Makarand Anaspure who is a respected and extremely
popular personality from an entirely different field?

• The term ________ _____ is used to refer to rupee-denominated
borrowings by Indian entities in overseas markets. The International
Finance Corporation (IFC), the investment arm of the World Bank,
last November, issued a ₹1,000 crore bond to fund infrastructure
projects in India. These bonds were listed on the London Stock
Exchange (LSE). IFC then named them to give a local flavour by
calling to mind Indian culture and cuisine.
• Which term?

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