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Dirty Minds – The Business Quiz

IQL Anniversary Quiz 3

About the Quiz…

This quiz contains questions that were used in the recent Business Quiz @ IIT Bombay.

The quiz was designed & conceptualized by the Indian Quizzing League (IQL)

Rules of the game

• 15 questions, total of 40 points.

• All questions related to Business / Corporate World

• Answer all questions as comments to the post where the quiz was uploaded

• Answers follow the questions

• Googling is discouraged, although we cannot stop you from doing so if you want to.

• All the best

Question 1 (2 points)

Goan Feni, Tirupati Laddu are some of the popular products already enjoying GI tags. But which is the only GI-tagged product that will have a list of authorised users (21 cooperative societies and 10 individuals) of a term?

And the answer is…

Kancheepuram Silk Sarees


The name of a subsidiary company comes from a cultivar which was discovered in New Zealand. In 2006, this company was formed by the parent company to avoid state taxes and to manage certain aspects of the parent company. The name of the subsidiary was specifically chosen by the parent company to reflect closely with their name. Name the subsidiary and the parent company.


Braeburn Capital and Apple Inc.


Identify the person in the picture. The logos of the companies that he has invested are displayed in the laptop.

[Full name required]


Ashton Kutcher in “Two and Half men” doing a cheeky promotion for the companies he had invested in…


A Gujarat based company started selling this product in 1976 and roped in another company to distribute it. Public opinion was that this company did not know anything about marketing since they started off as an engineering firm.

However, the tie-up was a success and the product was renamed to what we all know now. This lead to one of the most well recognized ad-campaigns in Indian TV history.

Name both companies and the product


Pioma industries / Jaffe

Voltas

Rasna

Question 5 (1 point)

After the Wall Street Journal began targeting the India market with an India specific site, this company launched a website “India Ink” that offers news and analysis targeting Indians. Name the company.

This is a very recent news…


The New York Times


What does this company do?


Contoso is a fictional company used by Microsoft as their example company and domain. The board of directors consists of industry insiders led by visionary giant and CEO Dan Jump

Contoso.com will redirect to Microsoft site


Identify this person. After Sep 27, 2011, bulk SMSs from this person would have stopped

Surname accepted

And the answer is… Dr. Mukesh Batra of Dr.Batra's fame


These are brand mascots of a famous company. These mascots are used only in Japan. Name the brand.


Pepsi


At a net worth of $ 13.2 billion, this Indian steel baroness, is the wealthiest woman in India and is ranked 56th in Forbes billionaires list.

She is member of the Haryana Vidhan Sabha, (Legislative Assembly) MLA and had served as a Minister of Power in the Government of Haryana until 2010. She became the chairperson of her Group after her husband died in a helicopter crash in 2005.

Name her.


Savitri Jindal


Connect and identify the missing logo


The Companies owning i-League Football Teams. UB group is missing who own Mohun Bagan and East Bengal. Shillong Lajong and Sporting Ci Da De Goa are owned by individuals


Identify the company that developed the 5 seater aircraft NM5 in collaboration with the National Aeronautical Laboratories (NAL)

The prototype for this aircraft was built at Gippsland Aeronautics, an Australian aircraft manufacturer, which is also a subsidiary of this company


Mahindra


What are these?


Various hand signals used in Bombay stock Exchanging during trading hours amidst the noise (1946)

They are no longer in use now.


St. Croix Shop is an independently owned Men’s clothing boutique house based out of Minnesota, US. It was founded by a community of 7 designers. Although they specialize in men’s sportswear, it boasts of being the sole producer of a particular apparel for an esteemed customer.

What do they make and who adorns it?


They make black mock turtlenecks for Steve Jobs


Come up with a slogan based on this picture and explain the business connect


Six Flags Over Texas is the slogan used to describe the six nations that have had sovereignty over some or all of the current territory of the U.S. state of Texas. This slogan has been incorporated into shopping malls, theme parks (Six Flags), and other enterprises. The "six flags" are also shown on the reverse of the Seal of Texas. In 1997 the Texas Historical Commission adopted standard designs for representing the six flags.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/91/Six_Flags_of_Texas.jpg


Checker Motors Corporation was established by Morris Markin in 1922 through a merger of 'Commonwealth Motors' and 'Markin Automobile Body'.

This company started creating something which was valued by the industry for its durability in heavy use. The final models were produced in 1982.

On January 16, 2009, the company filed for Chapter 11 protection in U.S. Bankruptcy Court. What was their most famous creation?


The American Taxi Cab

The scores for Round 3 are…

Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q5 Q6 Q7 Q8 Q9 Q10 Q11 Q12 Q13 Q14 Q15 Total Score

Points per question 2 3 2 3 1 3 2 5 2 3 2 5 2 3 2 40

1: Right Answer; 0: Wrong Answer; 0.5: Partial Points

SKG 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 31

Subhasree Srinivasan 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 0 1 25

Gaurav Makker 1 1 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 18

Chanchal Pati 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 17

Navdeep Shukla 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 14

GZ Ramharish 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 7

Anurag Singh 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 4

Thank you for attempting

The overall scores will be declared once the 5th round ends

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