The Dismal Science Quiz

Prelims

Researched by: George K, Rahul R Nair, Nithin M, Anandhu Krishna M and Anurag Panicker

Conducted By: Anurag Panicker

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Rules

20 questions

Star marked questions for tie.

Top 6 in the finals.

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1

In economics, the X is a metaphor used by Adam Smith to describe unintended social benefits resulting from individual actions.

Ans.

Invisible Hand

2 The origin of this supermarket chain can be

traced back to Arumuga Mudaliar of Erode district in Tamil Nadu, who was a mail runner for the British in colonial India.

Arumugam Mudaliar carried letters and cheques for the British from Coimbatore to the hill stations of Ooty and Coonoor. As he was flooded with requests to carry dairy products and other items, he opened a small shop in 1905, after buying the butter business of an Englishman in Vannarpet.

Id the company.

Nilgiris.

3 After India became independent in 1947, the Planning

Commission was entrusted to oversee and direct the development of the nation.

India grew rapidly in the 1950s, and in the late 1950s the Commission started facing difficulties in finding suitable people for the large number of enterprises that were being established in India as a part of its industrial policy.

To solve this problem, the Planning Commission in 1959 invited Professor George Robbins of the University of California.

What resulted?

IIM Calcutta (IIM will do)

4 "A person with ___________ is open and available

to others, affirming of others, does not feel threatened that others are able and good, for he or she has a proper self-assurance that comes from knowing that he or she belongs in a greater whole and is diminished when others are humiliated or diminished, when others are tortured or oppressed."

What modern-day product takes its name from the above mentioned philosophy mostly because it is based on the same principle?

Ubuntu

5

Starting in 1931, magazine ads for _____ featured Santa Claus as a kind, jolly man in a red suit. Because magazines were so widely viewed, and because this image of Santa appeared for more than three decades, the image of Santa most people have today is largely based on this company's advertising. Which company is this? 

Coca Cola

6

Mark Waugh when on a tour to the Subcontinent was highly unsuccessful in scoring runs and ended up with four consecutive ducks which read 0000. What nickname, did he earn due to this incident? 

Audi

7

The Big Three credit rating agencies  hold a collective global market share of "roughly 95 percent“.

Give me any 2 of the 3.

Standard and Poor Moody’s Fitch

8 The Swedish Royal Academies stated, when

awarding the nobel prize, that he "has done more than any other contemporary economist to raise the level of scientific analysis in economic theory".

Economic historian Randall E. Parker calls him the "Father of Modern Economics“.

The New York Times considered him to be the "foremost academic economist of the 20th century".

Who?

Paul Samuelson

9Tourism in Croatia is flourishing for the last 4-5 years for a particular reason. Most visited locations include the walled city of Dubrovnik on the Adriatic Sea, a Unesco World Heritage site, the Diocletian Palace, which dates from 300AD and another World Heritage site, the Klis Fortress, and the Krka National Park and its waterfalls. What is making people from all around the world to visit these places?

Game of Thrones Shooting locations

10.Whose brand of perfume?

MS Dhoni

11

“Punchtantra: Business and Life Management the _______Way” is a management book written by  P. C. Balasubramanian and Raja Krishnamoorthy. What does this book discuss?

 In this book, P.C. Balasubramanian and Raja Krishnamoorthy attempt to interpret some of Rajinikanth's most famous punchlines and demonstrate how each of them can be adapted as a motto for any business organization or in any life situation. A management guide with an innovative twist, Rajini's Punchtantra gives you a unique perspective on thirty of the most fundamental and effective mantras for both business and life.

12What is the significance of this image?

Picture of Mahatma Gandhi used in Indian Currencies.

13 The Delhi-Agra Gatiman Express will have a

high-power emergency braking system, automatic fire alarm, GPS-based passenger information system and sliding doors in the coaches. There will also be live TV service as part of infotainment.The Indian Railway is going to introduce something new through this train from next month onwards. 

What is this introduction?

Train Hostesses.

14.

Give Funda behind this coke ad.

The ad is for the colour blind. Those who are, will see the word LIFE in the circle.

15. X is a famous trilogy, and the name comes from the name

of the ship, where the characters of the book first met. 

The protagonist of the trilogy, the woman, sees the ship in her dreams, as it was to become the central to her destiny. The trilogy is a historical fiction and describes ‘The Great Experiment’ between the two countries.

Sea turned in to a river, and the river will turn in to a flood.

Id the Trilogy.

Ibis trilogy.

16.

Who is the firts person to have scored a double century in ODI cricket?

Belinda Clark

17. This flower called Thistle is the national flower of

Scotland and features on many national symbols of Scotland like coins, awards etc.

Its most famous use however is in the logo of a now almost obsolete entity, which spreads knowledge.

Encyclopaedia Brittanica

18. X was a motivational poster produced by the

British government in 1939, during the beginning of the second world war, intended to raise the morale of the British public in the aftermath of widely predicted mass air attacks on major cities. 

The poster was third in a series of three. The previous two posters in the series, "Freedom Is In Peril. Defend it with all your Might" and "Your Courage, Your Cheerfullness, Your Resolution Bring Us Victory" were used and issued across Britain for motivational purpose .

19. Put Funda.

Johnson and Johnson advertising for baby models.

20. It is a derogatory alternative name

for economics coined by the Victorian historian Thomas Carlyle in the 19th century.e

Some theories state that it was as a response to the late 18th century writings of Thomas Malthus, who grimly predicted that starvation would result as projected population growth exceeded the rate of increase in the food supply.

Id the term.

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