St Thomas Business Quiz

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• 1) The song Jalebi Baby, by a Canadian-Indian rapper, was released in
2020, and went on to become a huge hit. This was remixed in July
2021, in partnership with a company. The fact that the re-release of
the song coincided with the IPO of the company was “absolutely
unintentional”.
• Which was the company that was featured in the music video, which
had its IPO in July 2021?
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFtwhMK64H8

• 2) The name of which element has
been blanked out from this
infographic.

• 3) During the Lok Sabha debate, CPI(M) member MM Arif, asked the
government to allocate an additional 500 crores to the Animal
Husbandry Department, on top of the 4000 crores already allocated
in the budget. For what purpose, was the budget to be utilized for,
according to the MP?

• 4) In startups, what term is used to describe revenue growth, or drop
patterns that has a steep upward or downward curve, representing a
sudden rise or drop in revenues, respectively? Usually, it represents a
turning point for a startup – which may either be good or bad.

• 5) In which apparel store will you be, if you can see this snippet about the brand’s
history?

• 6) Iñaki Williams had been on the pitch for every single league game
in 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022. On 29 January 2023 he
watched his teammates lose 1-0 to Celta Vigo. It was the first time
Athletic Bilbao had played without him since Málaga in April 2016,
back when ______ was a beer, Trump hadn’t made America great
again, and Britain was in Europe; when Real Madrid had only 10
European Cups and Málaga could just about aspire to play in one.
• What brand name has been blanked out?

• 7) In 2006 when late Edith Macefield, then 84 years old, forced
the developers of a mall to change their construction plan. Edith
turned down a million-dollar offer from the developers to buy her
house. She had bought her house for $3,750 in 1952. Now, the
small house with an area of 1,050 square feet remains
surrounded by a five-story complex as developers were
compelled to build the mall around it.
• This was rumored to be the real-life inspiration of which 2009
Disney movie?

• 8) Who designed the
costume for this ad from
1996? Also, identify the
company behind the ad.

• 9) “Green like American
money” is the only way to
describe the bright green
sauce on this oyster
preparation that made early-
eaters of this dish think of an
American millionaire, who
was the richest man in
America, when the dish was
first made in 1889.

• 10) Phased Array Tracking Radar for Intercept on Target, is a theatre-
wide surface-to-air missile defence system built by Raytheon
Technologies corp and considered one of the most advanced air
defence systems in the US arsenal. First used in combat during the
1991 Gulf war, how is it more popularly known?

• PATRIOT
• Phased Array Tracking Radar for Intercept on Target

• 11) Identify the person who
was announced as the nominee
by US President Joe Biden to
lead the World Bank. He had
previously served as the
President and CEO of
MasterCard from 2010 to 2020.

• 12) When Ubisoft wanted to create a particular game, they wanted to
get the period details right. This meant working with Egyptologists to
recreate Cleopatra’s Egypt from the 1st century BCE. Ubisoft set up
the Hieroglyphics initiative, applying machine learning to speed up
the tedious translation process. Google took over the project in 2017,
and subsequently launched Fabricius, in 2020.
• For developing which game, was the initiative set up?

• Assassins Creed : Origins (2017)

• 13) Gullak, is a savings investment app, founded by former executives
of payment tech platform JusPay. It raised $3 million in a seed funding
round co-led by Y combinator and Better Capital in January 2023.
• Gullak users save small amounts regularly and then invest in digital
gold. The platform also allows users to lease gold and get extra 5 per
cent returns every year.
• What does the name ‘Gullak’ mean, that fits in with how the app
works?

• 14) In 1990, Southwest introduced a new slogan ‘Just Plane Smart’,
and after using the slogan for 15 months they got a call from Stevens
Aviation that they had been using the slogan prior to Southwest.
Instead of spending thousands of dollars on legal fees, they decided
to settle the dispute, with an event called ‘Malice in Dallas’.
• The event generated a lot of publicity for both companies, with the
then President of the United States, sending a congratulatory
message to both the participants calling it a ‘win-win’.
• How did they settle the dispute?

• 15) Which bank came out with this print
ad?

• Axis Bank
• Its logo is Burgundy in colour

• 16) These two gentlemen had worked together for a considerable
amount of time, as the Prime Minister and Deputy Chairman of the
Planning commission. Before that, they had worked together as the
Finance Minister, and the Finance Secretary. During this time, the
finance ministry was briefly known to the journalists as Gurudwara
IMF Sahib.
• Identify both the individuals.

• Dr Manmohan Singh, Montek Singh Ahluwalia

• 17) Shown in the next slide, is an acrylic painting by artist GS Smitha.
It portrays parallels in time through the planes of memory, recreating
colorful landscapes filled with chameleons, grasshoppers,
microorganisms, and aquatic creatures. The surreal painting
simultaneously reveals the enigma of tiny creatures and the enormity
of hills and flowerbeds.
• It was copied on to a 25 foot space which ensured that the artwork
garnered higher visibility. Where was this artwork copied on to?

• 18) For the promotion of which Marvel movie was Neeraj Chopra,
signed on as an ambassador? The video showed Neeraj Chopra
throwing his javelin, which turned into a weapon of choice for a
character from the movie.

• Black Panther : Wakanda Forever (2022)
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFOM9EbMZoQ

• 19) Who launched this apparel brand on 26th January 2023?

• 20) Which company was co-founded
by Mukesh Bansal, apart from
Myntra? He is the CEO of the
company as on March 2023.

• 21) What feature is being advertised here by Ather?

• 22) Peter Gainsford, a classicist from New Zealand said that no
classical source whatsoever reports that Roman soldiers were paid
using this item. He calculated that Roman soldiers’ daily pay would
have bought about 6.6 kg (over 14 pounds) of the item, and had they
consumed it all, the army would have collapsed from hypertension
before conquering the known world.
• What item was this?

• 23) Which fintech company
put up this ad in the form of
a classified ad in
newspapers in December
2022?

• 24) The image shows the Toronto Maple leafs goalie Jack ________ (8),
who is known amongst his teammates as ‘Soupy’. What is his surname?

• 25) This watch company was initially started by Hans Wildorf, the founder of
Rolex, to offer a more affordable watch brand. It takes its name from the
traditional floral heraldic emblem of England.
• Which brand is this?

• 26) Barroz, is the name of the ghost, who guards the treasure of
Vasco Da Gama. He guards it so that he can hand it over to the heir of
Vasco Da Gama. The story is based on an Afro-Indian-Portuguese
myth. Who will make his directorial debut with this venture?

• Finals
• Prelims cut off-14.5
• Highest -24

• Written round
• Based on cars
• +10 for each correct answer

• 1) Mada 9, a mid-engine supercar is made by ENTOP, in collaboration
ATVI. This uses the engine of a 2000 Toyota Corolla. In which country,
was the car made?
• Images follow.

• 2) Polestar's CEO insists this isn't a gimmick, but rather a way of enhancing the
driving experience and helping people create memories they can look back on.
For what purpose, will the highlighted body design of 02 by Polestar used for?

• 3) The car is built on a modified golf cart chassis with a 48-volt
electric motor that generates 3.5 horsepower and propels the vehicle
to a top speed of 17 mph. Its hand-molded fiberglass body contains
all the important details like the long nose, rounded hood, and grille
with vertical slats.
• What was the design inspired from?

• 4) Who was gifted this Mercedes Benz AMG G-T 63 S E Performace upon his
retirement?

• 5) In the US, Reddys lived the high life. “My father loved cars. Every
time I bought a car, I would send him a picture,” Dr Reddy says. “In
response, on one of my birthdays, he said… “suppose you did
something for the country, how would that be?”
• What did Dr Reddy start in response to this question?

• For Drone landing!
• https://www.youtu
be.com/watch?v=9
3jwh0wkcjs

• Bounce and Pounce
• +10/-5 on the pounce

• 1) This composite image shows an exoplanet (the red spot on the lower left),
orbiting the brown dwarf 2M1207 (center). 2M1207 b is the first exoplanet
directly imaged and the first discovered orbiting a brown dwarf. How did this
piece of information end up being a “$100 billion mistake”?

• 2) Kizhakke Palat Krishna Menon, a
sub-judge of Mangalore, met
someone in Calicut, on his way back
home from Mookambika, in 1870,
and paid him a certain amount of
money to carry out a particular
task. The fact that the other person
accepted the amount, caused more
of an issue, than the task he
completed. What first, did this
exchange lead to?

• Raja Ravi Varma’s first commissioned artwork

• 3) Pret A Manger, was founded in London in 1983, with the first shop
opening the following year. After the original company went into liquidation
the brand was bought by college friends Sinclair Beecham and Julian
Metcalfe, with their first store opening in 1986. In June 2022, they entered
into a deal with Reliance brands, to start operations in India.
• What does the name of the company mean in French? It is fitting in the
sense that it operates as a quick service restaurant.

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• 4) Chandramohan Nallur and Sargheve Sukumaran, thinking on how best
to use five containers (about 20,000 kilogram) of parboiled rice flakes that
had been imported by Varanasi-based KS Global in Uttar Pradesh led to
the birth of this brand. The war between Russia and Ukraine was making it
difficult to find buyers for the rice flakes that was to be used to make
cereal. So, they decided to make beer. What name, which also refers to
the roots of the founders, was the name given to the beer brand?

• 5) On February 2023, an airplane of the Atlas Air company’s followed this
flight path. What was the significance of this flight?

• This was done using the last ever Boeing 747-700 ever manufactured.
•

• 2) Which iconic line from a movie, is this taco bell ad referring to?
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_x2q0w9Pw5s

• Jaws – We are gonna need a bigger boat
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QT9BeGNnCqw

• 7) In the 2019 movie Knives
Out, what ‘business
connection’ gives away the fact
as to who the culprit is? This
was subsequently mentioned
by the director. To avoid giving
away who the culprit is, in the
sequel, Glass Onion : A Knives
Out Mystery, what change does
the director adopt?

• Only the villain used an android phone!
• In Glass Onion, all the suspects use Android phones.

• 8) In whose tribute has this mannequin been installed atop a store of Louis
Vuitton?

• 9) In this puzzle, a spherical version of the ‘15 Puzzle’, it’s the
hexagonal tiles that are scrambled. (The pentagons are
recessed and remain stationary.) “One of the hexagons, this
one in the South Pacific, comes out,” Dr. Segerman explains.
“We can then activate the San Andreas fault and slide California
south into the ocean. And we can keep going, mixing up all of
the continents.”
• What is the name of the puzzle?
• Bigger image in the next slide.

• 10) Only 500 of these watches were made by the company Bell and
Ross, in association with an aviation company and costs around 3.5
lakhs. It was worn by the Tamil Nadu BJP chief K Annamalai, and he
was criticised by the DMK for wearing it. They alleged that it was
suspicious that how a man who claims he had only two goats, could
afford such a watch.
• K Annamalai responded by saying that ‘it represented him as a
nationalist’. What was the name of this specific model by Bell and
Ross?

• 11) Piers Morgan derisively compared
the ‘Spare’ cover to that of a 2009
book, also ghost-written by JR
Moehringer. The 2009 book, a sports
autobiography, also featured the
subject’s head front and centre, full-
bleed on the cover. An expert said
that it is a calculated choice, placing
the memoir in the tradition of books
noted for their honesty, rather than
their airbrushing of history.
• Which 2009 book?

• 12) ____ ____ ___ is a wispy network of fungal filaments
hypothesised to shuttle nutrients and information through the soil
and help forests thrive. The idea sprouted in the late 1990s from
studies showing that sugars and nutrients can flow underground
between trees. In a few forests, researchers have traced fungi from
the roots of one trees to those of others, suggesting that mycelial
threads could be providing conduits between trees.
• What has been blanked out? The name given to it, is a nod to an
invention from 1990.

• Mixed Bag – Written round
• +10 for every right answer

• 1) Which brand came out with this video titled ‘reverse selfie’?
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2T-Rh838GA

• 2) 17-year-old Zoe Gabriel posted on TikTok about her "first
luxury bag": a tote bag from retailer Charles & Keith,
purchased by her father for the princely sum of S$79.90 ($60;
£50)
• The post snowballed into a wider debate about class and social
inequality in Singapore.
• Also popular in India, what is the brand dubbed as? A dimunitive
referencing another luxury brand.
• Image in the next slide.

• 3) Identify the singer, whose sing has been used in this audio. Also,
identify the city which is referenced.
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYsFUFgOEmM (audio)

• 4) Atul Malikram, 54, had opened Café Bhadaas in 2017. A similar
facility was started in Hyderabad by Suraj Pusarla. In Hyderabad,
visitors pay 2800 Rs for a 20 minute session, and are provided with a
protective suit, a helmet with a visor, gloves and shoes. The end
product of these sessions goes to the same place, from where the
materials are originally sourced. What kind of facility do they provide?

• 5) Which company launched this
perfume Loubirouge?

• 3) Identify the singer, whose sing has been used in this audio. Also,
identify the city which is referenced.

• Detroit, Eminem
• Ad by Chrysler
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYsFUFgOEmM

• Anti-Clockwise
• +10/-5 on pounce
• +10 on bounce

• 1) The logo of this hotel chain is inspired by the Travellers’ Palm. With
leaves that grow in an East-West direction, each branch of the palm
turns either toward or away from the sun. Serving as a compass for
travellers, pointing them back on track.
• Image on the next slide.

• 2) The TVC campaign from this brand which was titled ‘Yeh nahi to
kuch nahi’ was lauded by some critics as to have succeeded in
breaking the mould of “damsel in distress” trope. Created by Yellow
Beetle films, the ad hopes to succeed in brand recall, as too many
male celebrities endorsing different innerwear brands, can lead to
confusion amongst consumers.
• Which brand is this? Who was signed on as the brand ambassador?

• Lux Cozi, Jacqueline Fernandez
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8g37SgJtGQ

• 3) Guneet Monga is the producer of ‘The Elephant Whisperers’, shortlisted for
the Documentary Short film at the Oscars. The saree worn by her is a GI tagged
product, from a town near Ernakulam. The place is known for its fine cotton spun
here by the Devanga Chettiars, a community of weavers originally from
Karnataka, and invited to settle here by the Paliam family, who served as prime
ministers to the Cochin maharajas.
• Id the town/the product.

• 4) Floki Inu is a cryptocoin which claims to be the only cryptocurrency project
officially partnered and linked to the “Million Garden's Movement” which is
a pro-plantation movement. Who owns the dog, Floki, after whom the
cryptocurrency is named?

• 5) Brendan O’Regan was credited with the invention of Irish coffee. To
promote agricultural produce of the country, he lobbied with the Irish
govt to grant the town of Shannon, an exemption that was given to
the transatlantic liners that came there. He argued that Shannon was
like a ship, since most of its passengers were only transiting through.
• Later, this idea was adopted by other countries, including India.
• What first does the place of Shannon has to its credit?

• Shannon was the world’s duty free/trade free zone

• 6) Firozabad is famous for its local industry with a turnover of over Rs
10000 crores. It has over 6 lakh people involved in it. However, they
are in a temporary crisis currently since their biggest market is
unavailable, and payments worth crores have been delayed.
• What moniker is given to Firozabad due to this industry? What gave
rise to the crisis due to events that took place in February 2023?

• Glass city of India
• Turkiye earthquake

• 7) On Oct 2022, 100 black professional footballers came together to
form ‘The Black Footballers partnership’ to demand change and call
for better representation of black footballers in coaching and
leadership roles. Viv Anderson, Chris Hughton, Les Ferdinand are
amongst the members, who are all calling for a greater recognition of
black talent in the game.
• What did they wanted to ‘break’? It was a play on a term coined by
Marilyn Loden.

• 8) We R Wellness is a premium wellness
delivery company. WRW fuses modern
scientific techniques & technology for
diagnosis, with ayurveda for deliverance of
Health & wellness. Who is the founder of this
company?
• He has served as the brand ambassador for
India for his country’s tourism campaign,
which is fitting, considering that after
retirement, he has spent nearly half of his
time in India.

• 10) When the skincare brand Plum Goodness advertised their
haircare products, in the month of February, they used a tagline,
which was a pun on a phrase often used during the same period.
What tagline did they use to advertise their hair care products?
• The title of the Turkish TV series ‘Sen Cal Kapimi’ can be translated as
a clue.

• 9) This is a video from the 2022 movie Bullet Train. The song ‘I’m forever blowing
bubbles’, performed by Englebert Humperdinck can be heard in the background.
He is said to have inspired someone, who later went on to become one of the
highest grossing dead celebrities in the Forbes list.
• Video in the next slide.

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSptISykMrs

• 11) In 1997, Fendi launched this bag. It named it after the way women would
carry this French loaf of bread, under their arm. It celebrated its 25th anniversary
in September 2022. The bag’s status as a pop cultural icon was cemented when
Carrie Bradshaw, a character from the show ‘Sex and the City’, declared “it’s not a
bag, it’s a ________ (8)”

• 12) Who became the first Indian artist to be featured on Spotify’s Times Square
Billboard for his work ‘Control’? He also collaborated with Allu Arjun, and the
Korean band TRI.BE, which was Coke Studio India’s first original work.
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dS_wr57Zpis

• Did they really do this?!
• Unusual product launches from companies
• +10 for each correct answer

• 1) Volvo had launched a cap, as part if its merchandise. To pay a
homage to their heritage, how was the adjustable strap of the cap
designed as?

• 2) Which QSR launched these playing cards? Explain how the choice of
food items held by the King and Queen in these cards is a perfect fit.

• 3) Some dealerships of which car
brand, sells these merchandise,
along with the car. The name of
the car brand, as well as the name
of the sport, that arises from the
ball used for it, is the same.
• Id the car brand/sport.

• 4) Which company that makes instructional reference books is behind
the wines shown in the image?

• 5) Which company came up with these nail polishes?

• Strap was designed like a seatbelt!

• McDonald’s,
• Queen is holding the Burger, so there is no Burger King!

• As to the answer to the question about how a recently released
movie was, few people opined that the gist of the movie may be
found in an old advertisement for a company.
• Give me the name of the company, and the name of the movie which
prompted this response.
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=po9E1LCnoBA

• When Adani group sent the rejoinder to Hindenburg Research LLC,
they accused them of being Xs of Y.
• X, is the individual who was jailed for running the biggest Ponzi
scheme in history, and
• Y is the smallest of the five boroughs of New York city.
• X and Y, please.

• Which car brand came out with this print ad?

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