udgam business quiz

Udgam Biz QuizFinals

Quizmaster : Vishal Vaibhav

Round 1

8 questions

10 points each on direct.

+10/ -10 on pounce

Infinite bounce

1.

This venture capital firm founded in 1972 has built a remarkable track record

over the years, as an early investor in technology giants like Apple, YouTube,

Google, Yahoo and Oracle.

Its recent success include early investment in WhatsApp and Instagram.

Safety Slide

Answer

Sequoia Capital

2.

In 1984, ________ won a Rotary Foundation Scholarship that offered him a

ticket to the US and a place at Willamette University’s Atkinson Graduate

School of Management.

“They were prepared to pay me $37,000 in the early 1980s and they wanted

to hire me. And that’s how I ended up with Y,” _______ explained in 2014.

“And 28 years later, I’m chairman of the firm.”

Safety Slide

Answer

Punit Renjen

Y - Deloitte

3.

Ticker tape was the earliest digital electronic communications medium,

transmitting stock price information over telegraph lines became obsolete in

the 1960s, as television and computers were increasingly used.

Although telegraphic printing systems were first invented by Royal Earl House

in 1846, early models were fragile, required hand-cranked power, frequently

went out of necessary synchronization.

One of the earliest practical stock ticker machines, the Universal Stock Ticker

developed by X in 1869 by which earned

Safety Slide

Answer

Thomas Alva Edison

4.

X is a privately held, San Francisco–based American transportation network

company. The company's mobile-phone application facilitates peer-to-peer

ridesharing by connecting passengers who need a ride to drivers who have a

car.

The oversized mustache has been a defining part of X’s brand from the

start.(Image on next slide)

As per X President John Zimmer, it made people smile.

Safety Slide

Answer

5.

Symbolics was a computer manufacturer headquartered in Cambridge,

Massachusetts.

Symbolics designed and manufactured a line of Lisp machines, single-user

computers optimized to run the Lisp programming language.

Though it now defunct , but it still holds relevance in the dot.com world. How

?

Safety Slide

Answer

Symbolics.com was the first Registered ‘.com’ Domain

6.

Y was founded in 1935 by Sir Allen Lane and X.

Y revolutionized publishing in the 1930s through its high quality, inexpensive

paperbacks, sold through Woolworths and other high street stores for

sixpence.

U.S. president Dwight D Eisenhower characterized X as a "menace governed

by an ambition to prove himself the master international manipulator and

politician of the age”.

Hint

Safety Slide

Answer

Y - Penguin Books

X - V. K. Krishna Menon

7. Identify X,Y,Z

Z is produced globally by X (which acquired Rowntree in 1988) with the

exception of the United States where it is made under license of Y (due to a

prior licensing agreement with Rowntree).

No half Points

Safety Slide

Answer

X – Nestle

Y – The Hershey Company

Z – Kitkat

8. Name the country through which highest

amount of FDI in India comes. 5 Bonus point

for telling the reason.

Safety Slide

Answer

Mauritius

Double Taxation Avoidance Agreement

According to the tax treaty between India and Mauritius, capital gains can

only be taxed in Mauritius. Thanks to its low 3% capital gains tax, historical

ties with India, Mauritius is the most attractive conduit for investments into

India

Written Round – 5 points for correct

A stock symbol or ticker symbol is an abbreviation used to uniquely identify

publicly traded shares of a particular stock on a particular stock market. Ex.

GOOG - Google

Symbol Company

KO

HOG

LVB

BUD

BKS

V

Safety Slide

Answer

Symbol Company

KO Coca - Cola

HOG Harley Davidson

LVB Steinway

BUD Budweiser

BKS Barnes and Noble

V Visa

Round 3

10 questions

10 points each on direct.

+10/ -10 on pounce

Infinite bounce

1. Which news broadcaster ran this

brilliant campaign.

Safety Slide

Answer

2.

After being denied supercomputers because of a technology embargo, India

started a program to develop an indigenous supercomputer in collaboration

with Russia.

As a result which institution was established.(acronym of name of institution

will do)

Safety Slide

Answer

3.

The company is managed by the Poonawalla group which is fully owned by

Cyrus Poonawalla (14th richest Indian (2014)) . Half Points for telling what the

company makes.

Safety Slide

Answer

Serum Institute Of India

Manufacturer of immunobiological drugs including vaccines in India.

4.

From a Forbes article Titled ‘The Secret Of X's Venture Capital Success’.

“X also made some solo investments before A-Grade was founded. He owns a

portion of Foursquare, the social network which allows users to “check in” to

locations, and in 2009 he was persuaded by Marc Andreessen, one of Silicon

Valley’s most prominent investors, to take a stake in Skype .It was a good tip.

Two years later, Microsoft bought the online video call company for $8.6bn.

According to reports, X tripled his money”

Safety Slide

Answer

5. Identify X and Y.

This graph shows competition between two corporations who have duopoly control of a

particular sector.

Safety Slide

Answer

6.

________ Amazon Partnership as An Affiliate Channel.

With _______, Amazon has gone one step ahead compared to an ordinary

affiliate – when any user comes from _______homepage, they show a

_______ logo next to Amazon’s logo, giving the user the impression that

they are buying from a site related to________, but that is not the case.

This helps in monetize the millions of people who visit the website every

month

Safety Slide

Answer

7.

Its most famous logo, the peacock, was first used in 1956 to highlight the

network's color programming.

Since then it has been modified by simplifying peacock’s body and the eleven

feathers of its previous peacock logo were pared down to six to represent its

six divisions

Hint

Safety Slide

Answer

8.

According to blog of company X, Y was chosen as the logo because X was

looking for a nautical theme to capture the spirit of Seattle.

In mythology, Y are consistently seen as a personification of the ocean -- and

that's not a good thing. According to scholars, they would sing an "irresistibly

sweet" song that "lapped both body and soul into a fatal lethargy." Sailors who

crossed paths with a Y would become so obsessed that they would crash into

the rocks and die

Safety Slide

Answer

X – Starbucks Y – Sirens

9.

Identify X , Y and Z.

Safety Slide

Answer

10.

The name X became popular for businesses by the 1920s, when alphabetized

business telephone directories such as the Yellow Pages began to be

widespread.

X is a Greek word denoting the best of something

Safety Slide

Answer

Written Round - Vintage Ads

Identify the brand or tagline from following vintage ads

5 questions

5 marks each

5 marks bonus for all correct

Answer

Answer

Answer

Answer

Answer

Written Round - Infographics

4 questions

10 marks each

10 marks bonus for all correct

Identify X

FITB

Identify X and Y

Identify X

Answer

1. X – Smartwatch

2. X – Democracy

3. X – Alibaba , Y – Visa

4. X – International Students

FINAL SCORES