Weekly Business Quiz # 27

WEEKLY BUSINESS QUIZ # 27

1.       Which automaker has launched its cheapest scooter Cliq at Rs 42,500. It’s based on the Navi platform and uses the same 110cc engine which is seen on the largest selling two-wheeler in India.

Ans. Honda

2.       Scott Gottlieb has been appointed as the commissioner of which US organization?
Clue: Indian Pharma companies manufacturing generics drugs expect a big boost

Ans. US FDA

3.       The world’s first ATM has turned 50. To commemorate the anniversary, it has been transformed into gold. Which Bank established this in Enfield, north London?

Ans. Barclays

4.       96 dealers, loss of 1000 cr and 15,000 people losing their jobs. The exit of which automaker has triggered protest from the nationwide network of the carmaker’s dealers?

Ans. General Motors

5.       Which $100 bn Chinese car manufacturer has plans afoot to start production in India by 2019?

Ans. SAIC (Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation)

6.       Name the advertiser who wished Eid to all its customers with creative moon-mango design hoarding.

Ans. Frooti

7.       “There’s always a L ________ N   T _____E near your home.” This slogan is from which hotel chain? Clue: think budget hotels. Founder: Pattu Keswani                 Year: 2002

Ans. Lemon Tree

8.       Which channel is planning to enter the sports leagues business with three different leagues – basketball, tackle football, and kabaddi.
Addnl info: Its Director General is Supriya Sahu

Ans. Doordarshan

9.       Fabelle luxury chocolate brand is from the staples of which Indian conglomerate?
Addnl info: Chocolate boutiques of this brand will be operational in September end 2017

Ans. ITC

10.   HMD Global has collaborated with which operator in India to offer additional 4G or 3G data benefits to users who purchase Nokia 3, Nokia 5, and Nokia 6 smartphones?

Ans. Vodafone

Landmark Quiz 2016 Chennai Prelims

LANDMARK QUIZ 2016
Prelims

0.      Video: In the clip that you saw…
A. Name the ship.
B. Bajaj made this video because a two wheeler made by it contains metal from the ship.
Name the vehicle

Ans. INS Vikrant / Invincible

1.      Name these two women who played a supporting role in the freedom struggle
First names will do

Ans. Manu Ben and Abha Gandhi

2.      What cultural phenomenon caused this spike in Google searches for “miles to kilometres” especially in the US in July 2016?

Ans. Pokemon GO

3.      This celebrated figure was aptly described thus in 1973 by Mortimer Wheeler: “She’s about fifteen years old I should think, not more, but she stands there with bangles all the way up her arm and nothing else on. A girl perfectly, for the moment, perfectly confident of herself and the world. There’s nothing like her, I think, in the world.”
She has captivated us since Ernest Mackay encountered her in 1926.
Who was described in such glowing terms?

Ans. Dancing girl of Mohenjo Daro

4.      The phrase “al fresco” is borrowed from Italian for “in the fresh air”, but Italians don’t use it to refer to dining outside – as we understand it. Instead, Italians use the phrases “fuori” or “all’ perto” for an outdoors lunch.
Where would one be if one was taking in the “fresh air” in Italy (or Spain)?

Ans. In Jail

5.      This word  means “age” in Sanskrit and is commonly used as a blessing. It is also the name of a central government ministry that initially started in 1995  as a department that oversaw Indian systems of health.
What is this name?

Ans. Ayush (Ayurveda Yoga & Naturopathy Unani Siddha Homeopathy)

6.      Only 10% of all humans have this trait but this number is a significant 23% amongst Wimbledon winners since the open era (22 winners), around 30% of Test cricket batsmen and about one third of elite fencers.
What sinister trait is this?

Ans. Left handedness

7.      Which former dictator tried to sue the makers of Call of Duty for using his likeness?

Ans. Manuel Noriega (of Panama)

8.      Name this lady and Padma Shri awardee who is the cofounder and current chair of Dastkar – an Indian NGO founded in 1981 that works with craftspeople across India, for promotion and revival of traditional crafts of India.

Ans. Laila Tyabji

9.      Ecuador may be the smallest Andean country, but it has four distinct and contrasting regions. The Costa, or coastal plain, grows enough bananas to make the country the world’s largest exporter of the fruit. The Sierra, or Andean uplands, offers productive farmland, Oil from the Oriente, jungles east of the Andes, enriches the country.
What is the fourth region that is volcanic in origin and brings in tourism revenue?

Ans. Galapagos

10.  What common 2-word term would describe these object/s?
- Impact tolerance of 3,400 Gs
- Fire resistance of 1100 degree C/ 30 minutes
- Resistance to water pressure up to 20,000 feet
- Locator beacon with a six-year shelf life and 30-day operation capability

Ans. Black boxes – FDR / CVR

STAR QUESTIONS

11.  This historical site and a war memorial at the Esplanade Park is located at Connaught Drive in downtown Singapore. It commemorates the “Unknown Warrior.” The words inscribed on the war memorial are – Unity (Ittefaq), Faith (Etmad) and Sacrifice (Kurbani).
This is a memorial to….?

Ans. INA (Indian National Army)

12.  This lady’s specialisation in X Ray crystallography techniques resulted in photographs taken in 1951-52 (visual) that were described by the scientist JD Bernal as “the most beautiful X-ray photographs of any substance ever taken.”

Name the scientist whose path-breaking work went unrewarded in 1962 as she died of cancer in 1958.

What molecule did she photograph? The suggestive photograph might provide a clue for you to decode!

Ans. Rosalind Franklin / DNA

13.  The name, meaning “I roll” in Latin was originally registered in 1911 by the company SKF (Svenska Kullagerfabriken AB: Swedish ___ _______ Factory AB) to name certain products they made. This idea was only briefly used with SKF later deciding to simple use “SKF” for these products.
In 1924, an SKF sales manager and engineer colleague took over the original name for an internationally famous brand.
What was the Latin word?
What product was this name used for initially (FITB)?

Ans. Volvo / ball bearings

14.  Penguin books first came out in two genres with distinctive colour codes for the books – Contemporary Fiction (orange covers) and Biography (dark blue).
The popularity of which genre motivated Penguin in 1935 to start a new series with its own unique colour code – green?

And. Crime fiction

15.  The Indian Constitution borrowed the idea of a nominal Head of State from the unwritten British Constitution (the role of the King/Queen of England).
Apart from naming this position “President of India” what other aspect pertaining to this position was borrowed from the Constitution of the United States of America?

Ans. Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces

16.  Karsten Solheim named his putter “__ __ __ __” because of the sound it makes

upon contact with a golf ball.

Ans. Ping

17.  “_____ is a source of energy, source of life. Life begins here, attains infinity here.” So said this artist about his lifelong fascination with a certain geometric figure. The story goes that when he was 9, his teacher Nandlal Jharia drew a _____ on a white wall and made him stare at it to check his restlessness which he said “awakened a latent energy inside me.”
FITB

Ans. Bindu (Syed Haider Raza)

18.  The Indian word for broken wheat (commonly cooked as a porridge or an “upma”) originates from a Sanskrit word meaning divided, split, or broken.
The same Sanskrit word is also the origin of a socio-cultural word perhaps first coined by Mahatma Phule in the 19^th century. Although the “other” Mahatma preferred a more passive religious term Phule’s more direct descriptive word says it as it is, and is the word used today.
What related words are these?

Ans. Dalia / Dalit

19.  This unusual antelope roams the Horn of Africa, (Djibouti, Eritria, Ethiopia and Somalia). It has a small head, long neck, and a short tail ending in a tuft of black hair, and feeds on the tender leaves of high branches by standing on its hind legs and stretching its long neck.
Also known as Waller’s gazelle what is the more common Somalian name of this antelope?
This name is because of the similarity in appearance of a certain part of its anatomy to another animal of Africa. Which other animal?

Ans. Gerenuk meaning “giraffe-necked”

20.  This font was used for the poster of Titanic and in the titles and captions for The West Wing book.

Ans. Trajan

21.  This visual shorthand first appeared on US maps in a 1976 NBC election broadcast. Varying and sometimes contradictory systems subsequently featured but all are agreed that the present standardisation first appeared in the 2000 Bush/Gore battle on a Today show of NBC.
In this context what term describes the battleground swing states?

Ans. Purple States

22.  In April 2016 NASA tweeted and released this stunning photo of the Crab Nebula  whose structure is shaped around a supernova remnant – a star that burnt bright and then died young. The image was made up by combining images from NASA’s own Hubble Space Telescope and the European Space Agency’s Herschel Space Observatory.
What was the occasion?

Ans. The death of Prince

23.  On Friday February 20, 1942 President Roosevelt asked Americans to get something before one of his Fireside Chats the following Monday. Over the  weekend booksellers witnessed an unprecedented rush of business, oil companies gave this away free at gas stations, department stores advertised sales of this in the papers, newspapers published this on the Monday of FDR’s address, and movie theatres projected it onscreen while broadcasting the President’s message which the New York Times later described as FDR’s best speech of his career.
What was this?

Ans. World map / atlas

24.  First aired on October 3^rd, 2014 which programme has become a major source of revenue for the All India Radio? While the usual ad slots sold for Rs 500 per 10 seconds, a 10-second ad slot for this programme cost Rs 2 lakh!

Ans. Mann ki Baat

25.  FITB (two words) of this famous quote from a memoir of a struggling, young expatriate journalist and writer in Paris.
“If you are lucky to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a _______ ____.”

Ans. A Moveable Feast

26.  This incident in a classic is considered a farcical allegory of Irish mathematician William Hamilton’s quaternion theory in algebra.
In the scene the title character meets characters who could be said to represent three terms of a quaternion, in which the all-important fourth character/term is missing. Without it, we are told, the characters are stuck at a certain location and constantly have to move around in search of clean tableware.
Which novel is this?
Who is the missing fourth character who is responsible for this situation?

Ans. Alice in Wonderland (The Mad Hatter’s Tea Party) Time

27.  These two characters in the Simpson universe are a parody of Batman and Robin. The superhero is Radioactive Man who acquires his powers after surviving an atomic explosion. The kid’s name also references the consequences of such an event.
What is the name of his sidekick – a role Bart Simpson often fantasises about taking on??

Ans. Fall Out Boy

28.  VIDEO: Name the singer appearing in this ad for a “118 118” directory enquiry service in UK, singing a version of song made famous by him in a 1984 cult comedy. The film was remade and gender – swapped in 2016.

Ans. Ray Parker Jr.

29.  The most famous painting “The Nightwatch” is by __________?

Ans. Rembrandt

30.  This publication by Wisden is a quarterly collection of essays currently in its 14^th edition. The publication is named after a role played by a non – batsman in a Test match.
Its name?

Ans. The Nightwatchman

31.  Originally called “Reversi” the modern version of this 19^th century board game was patented in 1971 by Satoshi Hasegawa, a salesman. The goal is to fence in your opponent (discs of one colour – black or white) with discs of your colour and flipping your opponent’s trapped discs to display your colour. The winner is the one left with the most discs.
The name of this version references a famous jealousy. The board’s colour denotes the underlying “green – eyed monster.” The black discs represent a tragic character while the white ones either stand for his innocent wife or his villain. Name the game.

Ans. Othello

32.  VIDEO: This scene of a play from a 1963 film Ratha Thilagam stars Sivaji Ganesan and Savithri and is set in the backdrop of the Sino – Indian war. In this scene Shivaji and Savithri are playing characters in a famous tragedy.
Which two theatre legends lent their voices for this scene?

Ans. Utpal Dutt and Jennifer Kendall
The landmark 2-in-1 ROUND

33.  ID the clan’s sigil and its real-life inspiration.

Ans. Lannister / Lancaster

34.  A A

Ans. Alcoholics Anonymous

35.  N N – A close finish

Ans. Neck and neck

36.  D D

Ans. Delhi Durbar (of 1911)

37.  M M – A lost opportunity

Ans. M&Ms

38.  WW2 Anti – Aircraft guns named after the spelling alphabet used for radio transmission of the letters “AA”

Ans. Ack ack guns

39.  R R – Not for Hunting Deer

Ans. Russian Roulette

40.   K K – Carl Denham: Oh no, it wasn’t the airplanes. It was the beauty killed the beast.

Ans. King Kong

Great Lakes Business Quiz 2016 prelims

Prelims

1) In early 1940s, which popular term meant the largest of aerial bombs, single bombs capable of destroying a whole city area was also known as ‘cookies’ during the firebombing of Hamburg? 

Ans. Blockbuster

2) 

Ans. Burger King ad

3) Which famous Indian’s fiction book was called ‘The Hotel Rivera’? 

Ans. RK Laxman

4) Which country first introduced tobacco packaging warning messages?

Ans. Australia

5) Identify the author: (Giri: This is probably the only book in which Bipasha Basu and Abhishek Bachchan's remarks have appeared on the front cover) :)

Ans. Raj Kundra

6) What formula is this used for?

Ans. Temple Run scoring formula

7) Which businessman appeared as FDR in the short film '1944'?

Ans. Steve Jobs

8) Which brand named after Nihal & Vijay Kharbanda is the official apparel partner of Bharat FC in i-League?

Ans. Nivia

9) Pasta Gianduja was the first variant of which international brand started by Pietro, a baker in Alba, Italy? 

Ans. Nutella

10) Which company headquartered in Ingolstadt, Germany was sued in 1995 by International Olympic Committee in the International Trademark court for their logo? 

Ans. Audi 

11) Russia introduced it in 1704; the US introduced it in 1792. What was introduced in India in 1957?
Ans. Decimalization of Indian rupee

12) Which company started as Kraftfahrzeug Trunkenpolz Mattighofen in 1934 in Austria, but was later renamed when a businessman named Ernst Kronreif invested in it? 

Ans. KTM

13) What co. did the duo start?

Ans. Quora

14) Which term means a wealthy, powerful person in business or industry derives from the title applied by Foreigners to the bosses of Japan in the 18^th century?

Ans. Tycoon

15) Who is the only Indian to have won both the ‘Bharat Ratna’ and ‘Nishaan-e-Pakistan’, the highest civilian award in Pakistan? 

Ans. Morarji Desai

16) Ananda Vikatan’s founder SS Vasan also set up ___________ ___________?

Ans. Gemini Studios

17) Which two word term was first used in Chicago Tribune at Christmas Eve 1986 and meant doing an act specifically for the reason of cheering oneself up? 

Ans. Retail Therapy

18) Which Geneva headquartered organization adopted its abbreviated name in reference to a Greek word meaning ‘equal’? (Giri: Every organisation wants to earn it)

Ans. ISO

19) For which company Evelyn Venable lend her face? (clue: entertainment)

Ans. Columbia Pictures

20) CVC Capital Partners holds the controlling stake of 35% in Jersey based ‘Delta Topco’, the parent company that holds the license the run what event until 2110? 

Ans. Formula One

21)

 

Ans. Silicon Valley TV Series

 

22) Which currency replaced the Indian Rupee in Bhutan from 1974? 

Ans. Ngultrum

23) 

Ans. Nike MAG patent

24) ‘Sarah Whitehead’ also known as the ‘Black Nun’, a woman whose ghost is said to have haunted which famous bank giving the bank its popular nickname ‘The Old Lady of Threadneedle Street’? 

Ans. The Bank of England

25) 

Ans. Survey of India Logo

BUSTLE 2015 - Corporate Quiz at MOP Vaishnav College

Prelims

1) Whose headquarters is this – Its architect was Charles Correa? 

Ans. MRF

2) It was created in a South African lab by an Ex-Unilever Employee called Graham Wulff. It was originally a thick pink liquid which was marketed as anti-ageing ‘Beauty Fluid’. It was created as a gift for his wife who was frustrated with the thick, waxy beauty creams that came in shoe-polish tins that left her skin looking greasy. Name it?  

Ans. Olay

3) After refusing to endorse any brand for almost five decades, Actor Kamal Haasan appeared in his first television commercial for?

Ans. Pothy’s

4) Which brand would come to mind with an incident on July 15 1997, that involved the man below? 

Ans. Versace

5) At 36, he was the very young president of Jenson & Nicholson (India) Ltd, his reputation already secure with this advertising slogan. Who? 

Ans. Arun Nehru 

6) Whose logo was this – It may be familiar to many of you from childhood?  

Ans. Indrajal Comics

7) Whose currency is this?  

Ans. Seychelles 

8) Who is she protesting against? 

Ans. Hindustan Unilever Ltd – Sofia Ashraf  

9) The National Airline of which Asian country has been named as the worst airline on the planet for the fourth year running. Indeed, it is the only airline on the planet to be given just one star by the Skytrax Rating System?

Ans. North Korea - Air Koryo

10) Pearson reached a deal to sell its 50% stake in The Economist. The British education services company is selling 60% of the shares it owns to Exor, the holding company of which Italian family?

Ans. Fiat

11) Which company has a range named after the person seen in the visual?

Ans. Vibram - Spyridon Louis 

12) Herb Kelleher, founder of this company believed that a company can be run either by fear or by love, and it’s obvious which he chose. Its logo has a heart and the day they hold their corporate annual meeting is February 14 – Valentine’s Day. Name it? 

Ans. Southwest Airlines

13) Its packaged in a Green glass bottlewith a silver-coloured medallion, with past famous spokemsan such as Joe Namath, Muhammad Ali and Jimmy Connors, this brand has positioned itself to live up to their tagline ‘The Essence of Man’. Name it? 

Ans. Brut

14) It’s the world’s largest, not-for-profit product safety testing and certificatioin organization with global name recognition and acceptance. Founded in 1894 in the US, it permits the use of its listing mark as its stamp of approval on Goods and Materials after standardized and stringent testing. Name it? 

Ans. Underwriters Laboratries

15) When Google changed its logo recently, what did it lose in its font?  

Ans. Serif from Sans Serif

16) At whose factory was this picture clicked?

Ans. (Company Name) Tesla Motors

17) What popular brand of antiseptic connected with personal hygiene is named for this British surgeon, who pioneed the idea of sterile surgery? 

Ans. Listerine

18) Video – Spiderman – Live Young – Evian

19) What word has these two meanings attributed to it – An unauthorized office for speculating in stocks or currency using the funds of unwitting investors – A travel agency that specializes in providing cheap air tickets? 

Ans. Bucketshop

20) On the Occasion of the first anniversay of certain event, Fox Star Studios recently hosted a special screening of a movie starring Matt Damon to a certain group of people belonging to which organization? 

Ans. ISRO

21) The name for this product came from the BF Goodrich company when they decided to use it on a new type of rubber boots. They renamed it after the sound it made when used. What name did they give it? 

Ans. Zipper

22) FIB – It began on an Ebay owned platform called Kijiji. Kijiji means community in Swahili, but it was difficult to pronounce and didn’t mean much for the company. So they decided to go with the name _____? 

Ans. Quikr

23) ‘Bilbo baggins was a hobbit who lived in his hobbit hole and never went for adventures, at last Gandalf the wizard and his dwarves persuaded him to go. He had a very exiting (sic) time fighting Goblins and Wargs. At last they get to the lonely monutain; Smaug, the dragon who gaurds it is killed and after a terrific battle with the Goblins he returned home – rich!. This book, with the help of maps, does not need any illustrations. It is good and should appeal to all children between the ages of 5 and 9. This report by the 10 year old son of the founder of which publishing firm helped the Tolkein’s ‘The Hobbit’ published? 

Ans. Unwin – Not a very good piece of literary criticism, Rayner Unwin later said of the report, ‘But in those happy days, no second opinion was needed, if I said it was good enough to publish, it was published

24) It was the answer to the problem of providing beer of the British Empire in the east. It was too hot to brew in the native country, so what was needed was a beer that could survive the gruelling six-month journey from Britain intact. In the 1780s, a London brewer called Hodgson answered the call by sending out a strong, heavily hopped beer that would normally be aged like wine before drinking. The beer not only survived the journey, but was found to have improved immeasurably. This was the prototype to which type of beer?

Ans. India Pale Ale

25) It’s a Spanish clothing and accessories retailer based in Arteixo, Galicia, and founded in 1975 by Amancio Ortega and Rosalia Mera. It is the flagship chain store of the Inditex Group, the world’s largest apparel retailer. Name it? 

Ans. Zara