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1. Quidders
The Business Quiz
February 12th
, 2016
College of Business Studies, Delhi.
Researched and conducted by: Sreshth Shah
Quidders | Sreshth Shah | Business Quiz

2. Prelims
25 (+ 1 bonus) Questions
Top 8 teams qualify to finals
Team size <2
Questions 11-20 are starred
Use of cellphones equals instant disqualification
Best of luck!

3. 1
This 2011 biopic is about the co – founder of?

4. 2
Which company owns the patent to the “pinsetter”, a
device used to set the some contraptions during a
game?

5. 3
List of the last six what?

6. 4
The gold _____ was an early Islamic coin corresponding to
the Byzantine _____ius auri. A gold coin known as the
_____a was also introduced to India by the Kushan
Empire in the 1st century AD, and adopted by the Gupta
Empire and its successors up to the 6th century.The
modern gold _____ is a modern bullion gold coin. Fill in
the blank, now in 9 countries.

7. 5
These two gentleman lent their names to which
company?

8. 6
Since 1851, in Chess, compiled statistics support the
view that White consistently wins slightly more often
than Black, usually scoring between 52 and 56
percent. What phrase is used for this phenomenon,
also a prominent concept in business?

9. 7
This company has a monopoly in supplying for the
NASCAR series. To the surprise of many, it was
started by Frank Seiberling and is an iconic part of
an advertising tradition in a watersport. Identify this
company.

10. 8
When the founder was having a hard time trying to come up
with a name for his product, he finally chose this particular
name because it contained the operative word for which the
product's service showed, but also because it contained the
letters of an abbreviated internet language. Which company?

11. 9
Bershka, Stradivarius, Pull &
Bear, Massimo Dutti and
Oysho are some of it's other
famous retail brands. It's
flagship brand originally got it's
name from the movie poster
you can see, before settling on
it's current name. Identify the
company.

12. 10
In 2015, who used the Omega Seamaster Exploding
Watch and the Nine Eyes Surveillance System to
good effect?

13. 11
On the right is husband and Vice-Chairman, John.
Identify the wife.

14. 12
A spin-off from AT&T, it was named thus because it
meant "luminous" or "glowing with light" since
"light as a metaphor for visionary thinking reflected
the company's operating and guiding business
philosophy", according to the Landor Associates staff
who chose the name. In it's current form, it forms
part of a larger name, after a takeover in 2006.
Which company?

15. 13
Toy company Funskool was started in India in 1989
with Hasbro's collaboration with which other
company?

16. 14
Who is the owner of this company?

17. 15
This restaurant chain, shares it's name with this
musical. Identify, with branches in Nehru Place and
Greater Kailash and around the country.

18. 16
He developed this concept when he observed that 20%
of the peapods in his garden contained 80% of the
peas. Which eponymous concept?

19. 17
This Asian country's national oil company sells its
products under the brand name which is derived
from a letter AND from the fact that it supplies to
eight countries namely: Italy, Denmark, Belgium, the
Netherlands, Luxembourg, Sweden among others.
What's the name of the countrycompany?

20. 18
It comes from an old french word which means to 'cut
off, clip, pare or divide' in terms of stitching and
tailoring. It was first recorded as a noun with the
meaning of “a sale in small quantities”. Like in
French, the word means the same in old Dutch and
German, referring to the sale of small quantities of
items. Whats the good word?

21. 19
His most successful copywriting piece was for this ad, while
working for Ogilvy & Mather – who?

22. 20
This man started his
eponymous brand by
opening a refreshments room
in 1706. It's logo, created in
1787, holds the record for
the oldest logo in continuous
use. Quintessentially British,
it also holds a royal warrant.
What company is this,
owned by the Associated
British Foods since 1964?

23. 21
The colour shade Pullman brown, get's its name from
the Pullman trains of USA. Which company, other
than Pullman trains, of course, uses this colour for
their branding?

24. 22
Which European company, often synonymous with it's
location get's its name from the portmanteauic
formation of the founder's mother's name and the
french word for stainless steel? The french word for
stainless steel is also the name of an entertainment
chain throughout India – seen in Delhi, Mumbai and
Kolkata, prominently.

25. 23
He took a buyout of a third of his business for a
meagre $5,000 back in the day – the business
founded by him and his friend Elliot Schwartz.
Before his switch in projects this poor business
decision was his biggest financial regret, since this
ex - company of his ended up being worth $2.16
billion dollars at one point. Who?

26. 24
Which company has invested in the following new
brands?

27. 25
Pioneering a concept used by all of us here at some
point in our lives, which company is she the CEO
and founder of?

28. Bonus
What's missing?

29. ANSWERS!
The Business Quiz
February 12th
, 2016
College of Business Studies, Delhi.
Researched and conducted by: Sreshth Shah
Quidders | Sreshth Shah | Business Quiz

30. Prelims
25 (+1 bonus) questions
Top 8 teams qualify to finals
Team size <2
Questions 11-20 are starred
Use of cellphones equals instant disqualification
Best of luck!

31. 1/A
This 2011 biopic is about the co – founder of?

32. Answer
Alcoholics Anonymous

33. 2
Which company owns the patent to the “pinsetter”, a
device used to set the some contraptions during a
game?

34. Answer
Brunswick

35. 3/C
List of the last six what?

36. Answer
Chancellor of the Exchequer

37. 4/D
The gold _____ was an early Islamic coin corresponding to
the Byzantine _____ius auri. A gold coin known as the
_____a was also introduced to India by the Kushan
Empire in the 1st century AD, and adopted by the Gupta
Empire and its successors up to the 6th century.The
modern gold _____ is a modern bullion gold coin. Fill in
the blank, now in 9 countries.

38. Answer
Dinar

39. 5/E
These two gentleman lent their names to which
company?

40. Answer
Ernst & Young

41. 6/F
Since 1851, in Chess, compiled statistics support the
view that White consistently wins slightly more often
than Black, usually scoring between 52 and 56
percent. What phrase is used for this phenomenon,
also a prominent concept in business?

42. Answer
First Mover Advantage

43. 7/G
This company has a monopoly in supplying for the
NASCAR series. To the surprise of many, it was
started by Frank Seiberling and is an iconic part of
an advertising tradition in a watersport. Identify this
company.

44. Answer
Goodyear Tyres

45. 8/H
When the founder was having a hard time trying to come up
with a name for his product, he finally chose this particular
name because it contained the operative word for which the
product's service showed, but also because it contained the
letters of an abbreviated internet language. Which company?

46. Answer
HoTMaiL – HTML features in the name

47. 9/I
Bershka, Stradivarius, Pull &
Bear, Massimo Dutti and
Oysho are some of it's other
famous retail brands. It's
flagship brand originally got it's
name from the movie poster
you can see, before settling on
it's current name. Identify the
company.

48. Answer
Inditex – Zara was originally
named Zorba

49. 10/J
In 2015, who used the Omega Seamaster Exploding
Watch and the Nine Eyes Surveillance System to
good effect?

50. Answer
James Bond in Spectre

51. 11/K
On the right is husband and Vice-Chairman, John.
Identify the wife.

52. Answer
Kiran Mazumdar - Shaw. Her husband is John Shaw.

53. 12/L
A spin-off from AT&T, it was named thus because it
meant "luminous" or "glowing with light" since
"light as a metaphor for visionary thinking reflected
the company's operating and guiding business
philosophy", according to the Landor Associates staff
who chose the name. In it's current form, it forms
part of a larger name, after a takeover in 2006.
Which company?

54. Answer
Lucent –
– now Alcatel - Lucent

55. 13/M
Toy company Funskool was started in India in 1989
with Hasbro's collaboration with which other
company?

56. Answer
MRF – Madras Rubber Factory

57. 14/N
Who is the owner of this company?

58. Answer
Nadia Comaneci

59. 15/O
This restaurant chain, shares it's name with this
musical. Identify, with branches in Nehru Place and
Greater Kailash and around the country.

60. Answer
Oh, Calcutta!

61. 16/P
He developed this concept when he observed that 20%
of the peapods in his garden contained 80% of the
peas. Who?

62. Answer
Pareto
Pareto Principle

63. 17/Q
This Asian country's national oil company sells its
products under the brand name which is derived
from a letter AND from the fact that it supplies to
eight countries namely: Italy, Denmark, Belgium, the
Netherlands, Luxembourg, Sweden among others.
What's the name of the countrycompany?

64. Answer
Q8 – from Kuwait

65. 18/R
It comes from an old french word which means to 'cut
off, clip, pare or divide' in terms of stitching and
tailoring. It was first recorded as a noun with the
meaning of “a sale in small quantities”. Like in
French, the word means the same in old Dutch and
German, referring to the sale of small quantities of
items. Whats the good word?

66. Answer
retail

67. 19/S
His most successful copywriting piece was for this ad, while
working for Ogilvy & Mather – who?

68. Answer
Salman Rushdie

69. 20/T
This man started his
eponymous brand by
opening a refreshments room
in 1706. It's logo, created in
1787, holds the record for
the oldest logo in continuous
use. Quintessentially British,
it also holds a royal warrant.
What company is this,
owned by the Associated
British Foods since 1964?

70. Answer
Twinings Tea

71. 21/U
The colour shade Pullman brown, get's its name from
the Pullman trains of USA. Which company, other
than Pullman trains, of course, uses this colour for
their branding?

72. Answer
UPS

73. 22/V
Which European company, often synonymous with it's
location get's its name from the portmanteauic
formation of the founder's mother's name and the
french word for stainless steel? The french word for
stainless steel is also the name of an entertainment
chain throughout India – seen in Delhi, Mumbai and
Kolkata, prominently.

74. Answer
Victorinox – from Victoria and Inox

75. 23/W
He took a buyout of a third of his business for a
meagre $5,000 back in the day – the business
founded by him and his friend Elliot Schwartz.
Before his switch in projects this poor business
decision was his biggest financial regret, since this
ex - company of his ended up being worth $2.16
billion dollars at one point. Who?

76. Answer
Walter White – Breaking Bad

77. 24/Y
Which company has invested in the following new
brands?

78. Answer
YouWeCan

79. 25/Z
Pioneering a concept used by all of us here at some
point in our lives, which company is she the CEO
and founder of?

80. Answer
Zipdial – she is Valerie Wagoner

81. Bonus Answer?

82. X is missing. Answers are in Alphabetical order

83. Finals
+10/-10 on Pounce
+10 on Bounce

84. 1
Rob Reiner named his company after a town in Maine
which was the setting for a few of his projects. The
original inspiration for the town name comes from a
location from The Lord of the Flies. Which
company?

85. Answer

86. 2
He served as Diwan of Cochin from 1935 to 1941. During his tenure, new
reforms were brought in the administration of the princely state. He
introduced schemes for the improvement of Cochin port. He also tried
to do away with Hindu religious superstitions and introduce Periyar's
schemes. He returned to Madras in 1941 and was succeeded by E. F.
W. Dickinson.
In 1938, he visited Geneva as the Indian delegate to the League of
Nations. He was also India's delegate to the World Monetary
Conference at Bretton Woods in 1944. During this period, he tried to
revive the staggering Justice Party but failed. For a short period, he
served as constitutional advisor to the Nawab of Bhopal.He also served
as President of the Indian Tariff Board. Due to his pro-British views,
he was not included in the first Constituent Assembly. Who?

87. Answer
R. K. Shanmukham Chetty - independent India's first
finance minister from 1947 to 1949

88. 3
In internet terms, what is the Paris Hilton problem?

89. Answer
Searching for Hilton Hotel in Paris will lead you to
search results containing socialite Paris Hilton

90. 4
The company was founded by Cecil Rhodes in 1888.
In 1926 an Ernest Oppenheimer along with JP
Morgan were elected to it's board of governers.
Oppenheimer consolidated the company's global
monopoly over the next few decades, until his death
in 1957. During this time, he was involved in a
number of controversies, including price fixing,
antitrust behaviour and an allegation of not releasing
industrial ________ for the US war effort during
World War II.
Early history of which company?

91. Answer

92. 5
Put funda.

93. Answer
Ai Wei Wei tweeted this picture of lego bricks in the
toilet after Lego refused to ship him lego bricks he
had ordered for his anti – establishment artwork

94. 6
Identify this company, seen
prominently, in the 1996
film – Executive Decision
and throughout the
existence of a TV show in
the mid 2000s.

95. Answer
Oceanic Airways – a fictitious company, since no real
airline wants to be associated with plane crashes.
Featured in the TV show LOST.

96. 7
What business strategy does this all encompassing icon
represent if it appears at the corner when a film or
TV show starts?

97. Answer
It contains some form of Product Placement

98. 8
Bahadur Shah Zafar Marg, connecting ITO crossing to
Daryaganj, is called _____ ______ of India due to
the presence of many offices of a particular industry
there. What rhyming nickname and what industry?

99. Answer
Fleet Street – newspapers have their offices there -
The Times of India, The Economic Times, The
Indian Express, The Financial Express, Business
Standard, The Pioneer, Metro Now

100. 9
What in 2015 connects to these two companies?
4 2

101. Answer
NBA finals – Golden State Warriors won 4-2 against
Cleveland Cavaliers – GSW's home stadium is
Quicken Loans Arena while CC's is Oracle Centre

102. 10
After whom is this Vodka brand
named – one can consider it apt
since he worked on alcohol
strength comparisons and was
an early fixer of alcohol % level
of the drink.

103. Answer

104. 11
Ritu Nanda is the daughter of Raj Kapoor and sister of
Randhir, Rishi and Rajiv Kapoor. She is in the
Guinness Book of World Records for selling 17,000
products in a single day in the ’80s. What does Ritu
Nanda sell?

105. Answer
Insurance policies, she is India’s most successful LIC
agent

106. 12
For what specific purpose did a boardgame inventor
Alfred Butts use the New York Times? He had to use
the NYT to put the finishing touches to his creation.
Also what game did he come up with?

107. Answer
Scrabble – allocation of letter points in scrabble after
checking frequency in NYT

108. 13
In this royal wedding in 1660s, she got military support
against Spain and liberty of worship. In return, he
got Tangier, trading privileges in Brazil and the East
Indies, commercial freedom in Portugal, two million
Portuguese crowns and which other gift?

109. Answer
The seven islands of Bombay – Marriage of Catherine
and Charles II

110. 14
This man admitted that he had been called a liar more
often than any other person on this planet. He made
his reputation based on the perfectly true fact that
Lindberg was actually the 67th person to cross the
Atlantic by flight (he was actually just the first solo
flier). Identify the man – who's first project was titled
“Champs n Chumps”?

111. Answer
Robert Ripley of Ripley's believe it or not!

112. 15
Haddon Sundblom, an illustrator employed with a
corporate giant in the 1930s was tasked to create this
particular image, now synonymous with the person.
He was paid $1,000 per artwork – and he took
inspiration from a Clement Clarke Moore poem,
“Twas the night...........”. Sundblom did well to use
his company's colours to create what?

113. Answer
A red Santa Claus, now eponymous with Santa. He
used to be Green earlier – he was employed by Coca
- Cola

114. 16
Subdivided into 100 thebe, the currency of this country
is Pula, having moved on from the South African
Rand in 1976. It's name was chosen after members of
the public were asked to sent in their suggestions.
Which country is this – home to much of the
Kalahari desert and therefore what does Pula mean?

115. Answer
Botswana, Pula means Rain(Botswana has a massive
rain shortage)

116. 17
These flowers, also the national flower of a country
shares its name with which brand, used by many of
us in our schooldays?

117. Answer

118. 18
_____ _____ is an American bar game that combines
statistical reasoning with bluffing, and is played with
the eight digits of the serial numbers on a U.S. dollar
bill. The numbers are usually ranked with a zero
counting as a ten, and a 1 being highest as "ace".
Normally the game is played with a stack of random
bills obtained from the cash register. The objective is
to guess how often particular digits appear across all
bills held by players, with guesses increasing in
value or quantity until a player challenges the most
recent guess. Fill in the blank and who's first book
was so titled?

119. Answer
Liar's Poker, Michael Lewis of Moneyball, Big Short
fame

120. 19
Currently owned by Citizen, it achieved a first of a
kind in 1926 and another first of a kind in 1941. It
missed out on a hard fought battle to be chosen as
Buzz Aldrin's companion into space. Which
company and what first did it achieve in 1941?

121. Answer
Bulova
1941 – First TV Ad – america Runs on Bulova Time

122. 20
The company was founded by Thomas ___________,
who moved to London in 1821 and set up in business
as a stationer and printer. Working as a "boy of the
streets", in 1831 he secured his business a Royal
Warrant to produce playing cards. In 1855 it started
printing postage stamps and in 1860 it began
business in producing something else. Employed by
many governments, ID this company and what they
produce now?

123. Answer
De La Rue co.
Banknotes

124. 21
The ______ corporation says it has offices in New
York City and Boston. The company manufactured
the "Obesity Slayer", the product which gained
recognition in 1944 and 1948 especially and now
etched in memory of fans. Which company and
who was their model?

125. Answer
Reduco Corporation – a fictional company seen in
Lifeboat and Rope. Alfred Hitchcock was the model.

126. 22
Paul Major, CEO of this company accused who of
blatant stealing? Put context.

127. Answer
He accused Rio Olympics of copying their logo

128. 23
Which company's mascot
– an English Bull
Terrier, was the second
dog ever to have his
likeness displayed at
Madame Tussaud's? The
mascot's name refers to
a concept synonymous
with the company's
name.

129. Answer
Target

130. 24
Which leading company comes from two root words –
Latin for 'day' and Greek for 'world' – which
company?

131. Answer
Diageo - owns brands like Johnnie Walker, J&B,
Smirnoff, and Baileys.

132. 25
This brand/product gets its name from the Nahuatl
language, known informally as Aztec, spoken by an
estimated 1.5 million Nahua people, most of whom
live in Central Mexico. This was the first sugar or
candy coated product in its category and was
apparently inspired by the coating used on Jordan
Almonds in the early 1900s. Name the product,
where tziktli was the Nahuatl word and now refers to
any chewy sweet object?

133. Answer
Chicklet – referring to a chewing gum

134. 26
American senator, Joseph G. Cannon from Illinois
features in a business quiz because of a certain
achievement of sorts , when he became the first to be
honoured with something in March 3rd
1923. What
am I talking about?

135. Answer
Appeared on first cover of Time Magazine

136. 27
Since Mid 2015, why has there been a steep rise in
bookings of this company from India due to it's
appearance where it's luxurious services were shown
on the big screen prominently?

137. Answer

138. 28
This brand gets its name from an American pioneer
nurseryman (also a famous placeholder) who
introduced apple trees to large parts of Pennsylvania,
Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois and became an American
legend while still alive due to his kind, generous
ways, his leadership in conservation, and the
symbolic importance he attributed to apples AND an
Oldsmobile car model. Name it.

139. Answer
Johnny Rockets from Johnny Appleseed and
Oldsmobile Rocket 88

140. 29
Apart from the US flag, which other flag was carried
by John Glenn on the first US orbital space flight in
1962 and taken to the moon by Apollo 11 astronauts
in 1969?

141. Answer
Flag of the National Geographic society

142. 30
This concept, was first proposed by an entomologist
from New Zealand in the 1890s named George
Vernon Hudson. It gave him leisure time to collect
insects and led him to value the after-hours since he
had a shift-work job. Now it's an essential business
practice in offices around the world. What?

143. Answer
Daylight Saving Time

144. 31
This country has brought in KPMG to implement uniform
internationally accepted accounting practices in his country,
Ernst & Young to scrutinise the management of its utilities
and municipal services, Deloitte & Touche to audit its bank,
McKinsey along with Chris Patten (former head of BBC and
Governor of Hong Kong) to restructure its media operations
and Spencer Stuart to recruit top management talent from
around the globe. Name the country and its head of state.

145. Answer
Vatican City State, Pope Francis

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147. 32
Though Stephen Perry patented this in 1845, William
H Spencer, a railroad engineer from Ohio,
popularized it's use. He used to take out the inner
lining of used tyres and make these. When he saw
pages of the Akron Beacon strewn across the floor,
he suggested the use of these to the newspaper – the
success of this led him to open his own company to
produce these. What, that caused a lot of expenditure
to a certain Emilio Gaviria as well?

148. Answer
Rubber Bands – story goes that Pablo Emilio Gaviria
Escobar used to spend a lot of money just to buy
rubber bands to store his money.