FINALS

SOME RULES AND POINTERS

• Infinite Pounce • +10 for direct• +10/-20 for pounces • Quiz is heavily weighted towards current affairs

and recent business events (less workoutable questions, sorry) so if you have been reading the papers this year you should find this fairly easy• Any feedback on the quiz is appreciated• All the Best. Lets get down to Business!

CLOCK WISE ROUND10 QUESTIONS

1.WHO IS THE BIG BOSS?

S.S Mundra R. Gandhi Urjit Patel Harun R. Khan

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• Raghuram Rajan, These are the Dpty. Governors

S.S Mundra R. Gandhi Urjit Patel Harun R. Khan

2.

• Ad by which Company? What is their product featured in the ad ?

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• Dassault Aviation, Rafale

3.

• Time Warner announcing its quarterly earnings in January this year partially attributed a $13 million operating loss in the publishing vertical to a $14 million settlement of a class action suit over its right on a song. Which Song ?

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• “Happy Birthday To You”

4.

• If these are roughly the reasons. What is the question ? • It comes under the purview of Coinage act of 2011 which

tookover the Coinage act of 1940. Further it is not included as per section 24(1) of the RBI Act 1934.

• It is the base unit and not promissory in nature. • It is an Asset and not a Liability.

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• Why Does the finance Secretary sign on the 1 rupee note as opposed to the governor of the RBI ?

5.

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• Bajaj V launched earlier this month

6.

• Snopes.com is a popular mythbusting website. Their archives is categorised and two companies/ brands get their very own sections. One is Disney and the other section is a portmanteu of the brand and the word Folklore. Name the brand ?

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• Coke / Cokelore

7.

• Somewhere near Billund, Denmark is a secret vault named “Memory Lane”(exact location is undisclosed) with one copy of every product this company has made from around 85 years back. What product ?

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• Lego

8.

• What did Warren Buffet name as “The Indefensible” as he was critical of other companies and their top managements purchasing the same but ultimately he himself succumbed to buying one for his use. Whats more he has a company called NetJets which sell’s fractional ownership of the said item purchased.

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• Private Jets

9.

• This is the market cap of two companies whose main line of business is recreational motorcycles. Name them ?

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• Eicher Motors & Harley Davidson

10.

• “Can’t Get Enough of that wonderful _ _ _ _” is the official slogan X(there have been other slogans but this is the most popular) for which fictional beverage ? Though there have been attempts to bring it into real world, 20th century fox has so far not granted license to produce this ?

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• Duff Beer from Simpsons

WRITTEN ROUND

IDENTIFY THE COMPANY OR FLAGSHIP PRODUCT OF THESE COMPANIES

• Pilani Soft Labs• Interglobe Aviation Ltd.• Hector Beverages• Amalgamated Bean Coffee Trading Company• Kasturi & Sons Ltd

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• Pilani Soft Labs : Red Bus• Interglobe Aviation Ltd.: Indigo• Hector Beverages : PaperBoat • Amalgamated Bean Coffee Trading Company :

Coffee Day• Kasturi & Sons Ltd : The Hindu

ANTI - CLOCK WISE ROUND

1.

• Currently the vice chairman in Biocon Limited. Please name him. Surname will do.

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• John SHAW

2.

• Aileen Lee’s 2013 article for Tech Crunch titled “Welcome to the ________ Club – Learning from Billion dollar Startups” is possibly the earliest usage of which term to refer to such companies.

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• Unicorn

3.

• .Identify the logo of the bank which is soon to be headed by KV Kamath and headquartered in Shanghai.

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• Brics Bank or officially New Development Bank

4.

• Sameer Sain and Atul Kapur led Everstone are the master franchisee in India for which Fast Food Brand whose signature dish is called the Whopper.

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• Burger King

5.

• Pictured here is Nirmal Singh Bhangoo. Who was arrested for flouting SEBI Collective Investment Scheme norms in what could possibly be Asia’s largest Ponzi to date (49,000 crore Rupees). Name the company

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• Pearls Agrotech Corporation Limited

6.

• The original script of Gladiator had the protagonist Maximus ( starring Russell Crowe) doing something which is considered commonplace today and would have been historically accurate as well. But the makers dropped it fearing people would think this as an anachronism. What did Gladiators do which is commonplace today in the world of advertising ?

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• Celebrity Product Endorsements

7.

• The one on top is being developed in Pune in partnership with Panchsheel Builders and the one in the bottom in Mumbai with Lodha Group. Name either of these projects.

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• Trump Tower

8.

• In a move that could perhaps create the first listed company with a trillion dollar valuation. Which company currently wholly owned by the government is likely to be listed primarily to shore up some finances.

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• Saudi Aramco

9.

9.

• What is this kind of advertising where the advertising is “disguised” as content which matches the form and function of the platform on which it appears.

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• Native Advertising

10.

• Spot the Odd Man out. Also tell why he is the odd man out

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• Hashim Amla Doesn’t wear the team sponsors name in his jerseys since its an Alcohol brand

THEME ROUND

QUESTION 1

QUESTION 1

• Name the Company named after the Finnish Town which is named after the river in the map, which is named after an animal now extinct. (Hint : The company is battling its extinction as well)

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• Nokia / Nokianvirta River

• Which product is these meme making fun of ?

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• Microsoft Internet Explorer

• Formed by the Merger of Guiness and Grandmetropolitan in 1997 this company was given its current name by brand Consultancy Wolff Olins. The name is derived from a Latin word meaning day and Greek word meaning world. Name the company which now controls United Spirits in India as well.

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• Diageo

• Chloroxylenol pictured on the right has anti microbial properties and is the active ingredient of which product ? It also gives it its distinctive odour and coulur.

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• Dettol

• This D Shivakumar who is largely associated with his stint at Nokia in India. Which company does he head in India now ?

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• Pepsi

• Seen in the picture is a balloon crash debris recovered from a tea plantation in Sri Lanka. Sometime last week. What is the baloon for and who is sponsoring the same ?

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• Project Loon by Google.

CONNECT

• Indian Heads/CEO’s of MNC Companies• Nokia : Rejeev Suri • Microsoft : Satya Nadella• Pepsi : Indra Nooyi• Diageo : Ivan Menezeas• Reckitt Benckiser : Rakesh Kapoor• Google : Sundar Pichai