business quiz @ stalwart 2017

What connects these two statue?

France

• Both companies are electric vehicle manufactures. Tesla is named after electrical engineer and physicist Nikola Tesla. The other brand is named for one of the founding principles of electric motor technology. That itself was named after an English scientist. Who?

What is happening here?

Go

• Thousands of people in Chennai and much of the Tamil diaspora across the globe have come out in protest against the Supreme Court's ban on Jallikattu. The main objective of Jallikattu is taming the bull.

• How does this practice of Jellikkettu, directly helps the diary industry?

• Untameable strong bulls are used for breeding

• Something started in Kerala in 1925, with a philosophy evolved from a spiritual organization, is still prevailing and expanding beyond all major industrial segments as an ISO 9001:2008 organization.

• They are instrumental in advancing the development of class organisation among peasants of the region, spreading Marxist–Leninist ideas even before it became popular in China or Russia.

• Name the co-operative body mentioning here?

ULCCS

• The Gulf Rupee was a currency used in the countries of the Persian Gulf and the Arabian Peninsula between 1959 and 1966.

• Which authority issued this currency?

Government of India and the Reserve Bank of India

Round II

• In 2017 January, Premji Invest, the investment arm of Wipro billionaire Azim Premji, has acquired a 25% stake in iD Fresh Food, Bengaluru-based food company for Rs 170 crore. What does I and D stand for in iD Fresh Food?

• Airlines are often advertise their brand targeting affluent segment, hence usually keep their advertisements in luxury magazines and international television channels.

• Which airline, popular with their hybrid model as part of low cost strategy, you can even see their ads in local news papers, even in their local news page?

• Anclide Lab, is a new business venture, with a range of organic products, including mosquito repellent, pest control product Mr Fly, cockroach killer Gockroach, termite controller Terfive and mites and poultry lice remover Golice.

• Which Mollywood celebrity is behind this venture?

Mamta Mohandas

• Which French car manufacturer has bought Ambassador Car, a brand owned by Hindustan Motors and a part of C K Birla Business Group?

US based SpaceX and the French Arianespace simply cannot compete with ISRO because of two reasons.

1. The PSLV is reliable, and has failed entirely only on its maiden flight in 1993, and partially in a 1997 flight.

2. Antrix, the commercial arm of Isro, provides launch services much cheaper than competition

Projects Cost

Falcon 9 Costs $57 million (about Rs 381 crore).

Russian Proton $68 million (About Rs 455 crore).

PSLV C37 ?

• US$15 million (Roughly 100 Cr)

• Which coffeehouse chain declared it will hire 10,000 refugees over the next five years, a response to President Donald Trump's indefinite suspension of Syrian refugees and temporary travel bans

• Starbucks

• Currency chests are branches of some selected scheduled banks, which are authorised by the RBI to facilitate a specific responsibility. What?

• Distribution of notes and coins to other banks

• This is originally a Persian title, at various points in Islamic history, designated as a powerful government official, minister or ruler.

• The original meaning was ‘bundle (of written sheets)’, hence ‘book’, especially ‘book of accounts’.

• India's first finance minister held this title in the Kochin Kingdom from 1935 to 1941.

• Diwan

• NCR, Diebold, Wincor, Hyosung & Triton• Are major brands of what?

• ATM Brands

• Which Indian multinational software company earlier known as Peutronics, was co-founded in 1986 by Shyam Sunder Goenka and his son Bharat Shyam Sunder Goenka

• was running a company that supplied raw materials and machine parts to plants and textile mills in southern and eastern India.

• Their first software was named as and was named Peutronics Financial Accountant

• Released as a prequel to ‘Baahubali’ and the first book in the trilogy written by Anand Neelakantan. Name the Book 1 of Bahubali series?

• This term is used to highlight the negative consequences of the diamond trade in certain areas. Diamonds mined during the recent civil wars in Angola, Ivory Coast, Sierra Leone, and other nations have been given this label.

• Identify the term also name of a 2006 political war thriller film in the similar context

• Blood Diamond

Round III

Quotes and Context

• “Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.”

Harvard Commencement Speech

• “Indigo does so well but X failed because they didn’t have any business models it just had models”

• What is X?

Jordan Belfort

• “It’s not that other countries steal jobs from you guys. It’s your strategy. Distribute the money and things in a proper way,” X said, adding, “You’re supposed to spend money on your own people.”

• Who said about what at World Economic Forum, Davos

Which German automaker Hitler referring here?

Round IV

Brand Legacy

1

• All employees of AVA Cholayil Health Care Pvt Ltd start their day with a 15-minute yoga session

• The 262 employees, spread across two factories in Chennai and one each in Pondicherry and Bangalore, make 10 crore bars of bathing soap every year by hand, without the help of machines and without using a single unit of electricity.

• They are the largest handmade soap maker in the country, and probably globally. Which group and brand I am mentioning here?

• AVA Cholayil• Medimix

• Vishnu Industrial Chemical Company, Founded in 1952, Thousands of ordinary Indians are the loyal patrons of this conglomerate and their Ayurvedic Herbal Product range. Actress Mrinal Kulkarni, was the long term face of this brand in their advertisements. Which brand?

• VICCO

• Citizen Holdings Co., Ltd. a Japanese global corporate group, is known as the manufacturer of Cincom precision lathe machine tools and Citizen watches.

• They were instrumental in setting up a watch manufacturing Unit at Bangalore in collaboration in 1961. It was the result of Nehru’s vision to bring-in a sense of time consciousness among the Indians

• The first batch of Hand Wound Wrist Watches was released by the Hon’ble Prime Minister Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru. The story of which company?

• HMT

• This brand, launched 1950s, took on the positioning in eighties that marked it apart from competitor Hawkins.

• Addressing the safety concerns around the use of the pressure cooker, their ad campaign was used to declare the gasket inserted in the cooker lid for a safe release of excess pressure.

• 1982 onwards this company has been featuring a husband-wife duo in their ads and pitching the same positioning strategy for last 25 years, i.e. his concern for the safety of wife in the kitchen. Which brand?

• Presting pressure cooker

• Robert Augustus Chesebrough, a 22 year-old British chemist, travelled to Titusville, a small Pennsylvania town where petroleum had recently been discovered.

• After five years of perfecting his extracting technique, in 1865 Chesebrough patented this process of making petroleum jelly – the beginning of the triple-purification process unique to the formation of a famous brand. What?

• Vaseline

• This product came in the market as a solution to problem that most of the mothers faced which was a need of mix that does not only adds flavour to milk but is also rich in nutrients and vitamins. Its unique and rich taste was reason behind becoming an instant hit.

• The brand has got visibility due to its endeavours like Confidence Academy (reality show), plastic mugs, and chess and other games under the brand name. The brand has a visible presence in the knowledge segment in relation with a famous quiz contest. Identify what?

• Bournvita

• Sholay's massive success continues to inspire advertisements and radio jingles.

• Soon after the movie was released, Britannia came out with an ad campaign for one of its biscuit brand. It chose Amjad Khan as the brand ambassador and the ad's punch line was "Gabbar Ki Asli Pasand.“

• Which brand?

• Glucose D

• According a popular blog that started documenting movies in which the food brands makes an appearance, X, an alcoholic brand is easily found in at least 25 films in a year.

• This is not due to paid placements, rather "more as an outcome of the brand’s place in Indian popular culture.“

• Bollywood became so taken with the drink that popular Indian actor Badruddin Jamaluddin Kazi even changed his screen name to “X" after playing the character of a drunkard. What is X?

• The whole journey of building this Marico brand has been primarily because of innovation and through packaging. In 80’s coconut oil was sold 100% in tins. They took almost ten years for to convert the market from tin to plastics, which gave them a huge increase in market share, from 0% market share to market leaders.

• When Harsh Mariwala started his business investors advised him that you are entering into a dying segment. Still he continued his efforts to build the brand because he was confident that a particular habit among Indians will not die down, hence he could find a market for his product.

• Which brand and what habit?

• Parachute and Hair Oiling

• Which Hyderabad-based herbal cosmetics company has stopped production of fairness creams last year, in line with their campaign against obsession on fairness.

• MD of this company said "We had saffron-based creams and face washes which are primarily used to improve complexion. We have stopped their production as we undertook a campaign against the idea that fair is beautiful“ Which brand?

• This famous Indian company, targeting education segment, was not only recognised as a stationary manufacturer but also a pharmaceutical company when the State Food and Drug Administration of Maharashtra certified their Analytical laboratory at Andheri.

• Their product line occupies a special place in the memories of every Indian child as the company is present in all aspects of school life.

• Established in 1939 by G.P. Dandekar, with "Horse Brand" Ink powders and tablets in 1931. Identify the Indian stationery company based in Mumbai?

• Camlin Ltd (Kokuyo Camlin)

• After having used the best of European and American soaps, Dr, Annie Besant once wrote in her paper – New India,

• “X’s soaps are the best I have ever used and I am recommending them to my friends”

• Mahatma Gandhi, in a letter to a favour seeking competitor, says:

• "I hold my brother X in such high regard that if your enterprise is likely to harm him in any way, I regret very much that I cannot give you my blessings."

• This Indian conglomerate says that their products are endorsed by stalwarts like Annie Besant and Rabindranath, and providing few statements of proofs as mentioned above.

• Which Indian group with an initial product line chavis and soaps?

• Godrej

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