business quiz finals : inceptra 2016

Business Quiz Finals

QM : Melbin Abraham

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General Rules

• Infinite bounce• Infinite Pounce• 6 rounds of 4 questions each Points:

+10 for every right answerNegative points (-10) only for pouncing.

Round 1

1) Which is the personality featured in this IMDB page?

Answer

Big Ben

Raghuram Rajan

2) Identify this engineering and robotics design company which is best known for the development of BigDog, a quadruped robot designed for the U.S. military with funding from Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) which was later acquired by Google on 13 December 2013. Currently this entity is falls under Google X, Alphabet Inc (Google).The next slide shows a video which was released by them for last Christmas.

Answer

Boston Dynamics

3. Founded by Bill McKibben, 350.org is one of the largest green lobby group in the world. How was the name 350.org conceived?

Answer

350 parts per million (ppm) is what scientists, climate experts, and progressive national governments says as the safe upper limit for CO2 in our atmosphere

4. Clydesdale is a famous horse breed that was derived from the farm horses of Clydesdale, Scotland. Which famous brand owns one of the largest Clydesdale herds in the world and also uses them for promotions and commercials since 1930's especially in the super bowl commercials.

Clydesdale Horses

Answer

Budweiser

Q) Lush Cosmetics of UK has a product named ‘Smuggler’s Soul’ which they promote with the picture of an (in)famous Indian. Identify this Indian.

Answer

Veerappan

Round 2

1) Identify this company whose ticker symbol is RACE (Listed in NYSE on October 21, 2015). It was the most valuable brand in 2014 and 9th most valuable brand in 2015 according to Brand Finance.The logo of this company is ‘Cavallino Rampante‘.

Answer

Ferrari

2) Recently a $7.2 billion pharmaceutical company changed its name from 'X Pharmaceuticals' to ‘Ionis Pharmaceuticals’ and thereby changing the ticker symbol from 'X' to 'IONS'. The former name was derived from 'X', the Egyptian goddess of health, marriage, and wisdom.

In a similar manner 'X Mobile Wallet' which was started by AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon changed its name in September 2014 to JVL Ventures LLC and the business name as Softcard which was later acquired by Google and integrated into Google wallet.

Identify X.

Answer

ISIS ISIS Pharmaceuticals, ISIS Mobile Wallet

3) Identify this new company which is said to be a close competitor to ‘Tesla Motors’ which was named after famous 'Nikola Tesla' and in a similar way this company is also named after another famous counterpart whose discoveries in the early 1800s laid the groundwork for the modern electric motors. Backed by Chinese billionaire Jia Yueting, it plans to put an electric car on sale by 2017 and to built a new $1 billion factory in Nevada.

Answer

Faraday Future

4) The Coca-Cola Company last year deployed this advertising campaign in Denmark and it features an image that looks to most people like one large circle comprised of smaller, green and brown-ish coloured circles arranged in a unique pattern. What is so special about this advertisement?

Answer

Ad for color blind people

The ad comes with a headline: ‘Only 10 percent of Danes can see what it says here: Can you?’The image’s pattern reveals the word “Life” but only people who are colour blind are able to pick up the message. This ad, promotes Coke’s reduced-calorie Coca-Cola Life, which uses the sugar substitute Stevia.

Q) On September 11, 2015, which marked the fourteenth anniversary of New York’s World Trade Center attack, a crane of a construction conglomerate collapsed in Mecca causing 107 deaths and almost 400 injuries. Later this company was banned from taking on new projects and their ongoing works were reviewed.Which construction group from Saudi Arabia is being talked about?

Answer

Saudi Binladin Group (Bin Laden construction company)

Round 3 Connect

1)

Answer

The Walt Disney Company

2)

Answer

Donald Trump

3)

Answer

Silvio Berlusconi

4)

Answer

Richemont (Compagnie Financière Richemont SA)

Q)

Answer

Bajaj VThe new motorcycle is made from the metal of INS Vikrant which had an important role during 1971 Indo-Pak war. INS Vikrant was decommissioned in 1997, and was preserved as a museum ship in Mumbai till 2012. It was finally scraped in January 2014

Round 4

1) Which Asian conglomerate owns ‘The Face Shop’ a skincare and cosmetics retailer and manufacturer.

Answer

LG

LG owns through its subsidiary LG Healthcare

2) 'Green Horizons' is an initiative by which international giant that uses the latters advanced machine learning and Internet of Things (IoT) technologies to ingest and learn from vast amounts of Big Data, constantly self-configuring and improving in accuracy to create some of the world’s most precise and accurate energy and environmental forecasting systems.This initiative was first launched on July 2014 to help address Chinese government target over a ten year horizon for a 25% reduction in fine air ppm and achieving a 45% carbon intensity reduction by 2020.

Answer

IBM

3) US Magazine 'Newsweek' said in March 2014, it is 'Dorian _________', however Dorian _________ sued Newsweek for this article but ‘Wired’ magazine and Gizmodo points it to 'Craig Steve Wright'. What are they referring to?

Answer

Satoshi NakamotoSatoshi Nakamoto (Nakamoto Satoshi) is the name used by the person or people who created the bitcoin protocol and its reference implementation

4) In 2014, backed by the likes of Stephen fry, Stella mcCartney and Richard Branson - the rich, famous and the chic were urged not to book into any of the Dorchester Collection venues including the Dorchester in London, Le Meurice in Paris, the Beverly Hills Hotel in LA and Il Principe in Milan. Who owns the Dorchester Collection?

Answer

Brunei Investment Agency

Q) Bayer AG introduced a ‘drug’ in late 1890s which was a ‘high’ hit then. It was a drug for cough and was a trademark of Bayer till WWI. Name the drug.

Answer

Heroin

Round 5

1) Identify the company founded by Nick Woodman in 2012 and formerly known as Woodman Labs Inc. It is an American manufacturer of action cameras.Woodman started the company following a 2002 surf trip to Australia in which he was hoping to capture quality action photos of his surfing, but could not because amateur photographers could not get close enough, or obtain quality equipment at reasonable prices. His desire for a camera system that could capture the professional angles lead to the creation of this company which currently has a market capitalisation of around $ 2.5 Billion.

Answer

GoPro

2) X is German luxury fashion and style house based in Metzingen, Germany named after its founder. The founder started a clothing company but was forced into bankruptcy and in 1931 reached an agreement with his creditors, leaving with him six sewing machines to start again. Later he became a member of the Nazi Party and also said to be a member of Schutzstaffel (SS). Soon his sales increased and he used prisoners of war and forced labour.A partnership between X and Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation was launched in 1995, resulting in the X Prize, which is a biennial award established in 1996 to recognize artists whose work is among the most innovative and influential of that time.Identify X.

Answer

Hugo Boss

3) Biography of ?

Answer

Jack Daniel

4) To which technology company which was founded in 2014 would you connect a dog named ‘Una’.

Answer

OnePlus

Q) Mansukhbhai Kothari (Mansukh Lal Mahadev Bhai

Kothari) is the founder of Kothari Products Limited / Kothari Group which is most (in)famous for a brand/product brand that was introduced in 1973.Which brand/product is being talked about?

Answer

Pan Parag

Using Pan Masala is injurious to health

Round 6

1) This brand / product was introduced in 1964 and quickly became a huge success throughout the world that a French court once stopped the parents from naming their child after this household brand name, ruling that it would make the child target of derision and ordered that the child be called Ella instead. The first jar of this product, was invented after revamping his father's original recipe known as 'gianduja' in local dialect.Forbes magazine hailed the founder as "the richest candyman on the planet". The founder has many other world successful products in his credit.One company legend was that the shape of another famous product was inspired from the rock grotto at Lourdes at which Mary is reputed to have made a miraculous appearance in 1858. Identify this brand / Product.

Answer

NutellaNutella owned by Ferrero Rocher. The founder is Michele Ferrero

2) Roshen chocolates / Roshen Confectionery Corporation is a prominent chocolates manufacturer in the European region and was founded in 1996 by merging dozens of enterprises specializing in the production of sweets, chocolate, biscuits.Who is the founder and majority shareholder of this company?

Answer

Petro Poroshenko (Petro Oleksiyovych Poroshenko) President of Ukraine.

3) Two days back Chet Kanojia (Chaitanya Kanojia) announced a new company 'Starry Internet' aimed at providing wireless Internet access for a fraction of the cost of existing players. However he was famous for another disruptive company, which he started in 2012 but was later shut down in 2014 after the Supreme Court of the United States ruled against it in a case brought by several broadcast networks.Which is the above mentioned company that was shut down?

Answer

Aereo

4) Ai Weiwei is a Chinese Contemporary artist and activist who in last October said that a company refused to sell their product on the grounds of political activism. However this company very recently changed that policy.Which company are we talking about?

Answer

LEGOIn October, Lego had refused to sell the bricks to Weiwei, for an exhibition on free speech at Australia's National Gallery of Victoria. He intended to use the bricks to create portraits of freedom advocates. Lego is reversing its policy on bulk purchases and will no longer ask customers what they want to use the bricks for. Lego faced a lot of criticism for refusing to sell the products to Weiwei that he set up collection points across the world. While many fans and supporters had donate Lego blocks.

Q) Tablez Food Company is a famous F&B business company having two divisions of which one is ‘Papermill’. It has franchise agreement with Galito’s, Famous Dave’s, Sugar Factory…

To which famous business group do you associate Tablez Food Company?

And the other division is

Answer

Lulu CEO and Founder is Shafeena Yussuf Ali (Daughter of M. A. Yousuf

Ali of Lulu Group)

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