Tcl 5.0 quiz 2

Thirsty Crows League 5.0
Quiz-2
Business quiz

1. Starting one of the top capital management firms
after denying a job in a multinational company, this
Indian billionaire was termed as Best CEO by
CEOWORLD magazine. Recently he mentioned that
Ramakant Achrekar(coach of Sachin Tendulkar) was
his guru. Identify the person.

2. . Which company are we talking about here:
Marcopolo left one S and occupied another S when
neglected by one M and accepted by another M.

3. Manthan is a 1976 Hindi film made by the filmmaker Shyam
Benegal. This is a crowd-funded film financed by 500,000
farmers of Gujarat who worked for the company whose
story is shown in this film, by donating Rs. 2 each. Which
company’s story is this movie based on?

4. The evolution of the logo of a company is given. The
current one is called the “swirl logo”. Identify the
company

5. The name of this technology is a modified version of the
Scandinavian Blåtand/Blåtann ,which is also the epithet
of a Viking chief. This technology was a revolution in the
mobile industry. What is the technology we are discussing
and which company was the ‘assignee’ in the patent for
this technology?

Technology – Bluetooth
Company- Ericsson

6. Team Rodent is a non- fiction book written by Carl Hiaasen
about an enterprise and its stance towards the outside
world, its effect on the environment and local culture etc.
Which enterprise?

7. Bayer AG introduced a ‘drug’ in the late 1890s which
was a ‘high’ hit then. It was a drug for a cough and
was a trademark of Bayer till WWI. Name the drug.

8. A new product category called Taneira has been
launched by Titan. Titan's this premium category
product segment rides on the parent brand's immense
equity and deep penetration to crack open the
potential Rs 550 billion market segment. What is the
product category?

9. Apple recently launched XS variants of iPhone. A
company trolled Apple by distributing its power
banks to customers who were standing in line to
purchase iPhones in Singapore with the message-
“Here’s a power bank. You’ll need it.” Which
company?

11. As a kid, X suffered from dyslexia. On his last day of school, his
headmaster told him he would either end up in prison or become
a millionaire. X went on to establish Y group which controls more
than 400 companies today. X is the only entrepreneur to build
eight separate billion-dollar companies in eight industries. Known
for his daredevil personality, he is one of the most admired
business people globally. Identify X and Y.

X –Richard Branson
Y- VIRGIN

12. Clydesdale is a famous horse breed that was derived from
the farm horses of Clydesdale, Scotland. Which famous
brand owns one of the largest Clydesdale herds in the
world and also uses them for promotions and commercials
since the 1930s especially in the super bowl commercials.

13. It was a simple five-word tagline given by Ajay
Singh, the co-founder of Spicejet after
brainstorming with other members of the core
management committee. It, when dressed with the
brand’s face, caught the attention of people and
soon found itself all over the hoardings, posters, TV
and print advertisements and played a major role in
outplaying the brand’s competitors. Identify the
slogan.

*14. Print Ad for a well-known brand. Identify the Brand.

15. This is an Indian restaurant chain owned by Indore- based
Sayaji Hotels Limited. The first restaurant opened in
Mumbai in January 2006. The restaurant chain also has
private equity firm CX Partners as its investor. Now it has a
presence in many Indian cities. Name this chain of
restaurants.

16. Designer Joseph Platt made this famous design in the year
1933. This design is small but so powerful that it differentiates
product of a famous stationery brand from the rest. Which
design feature is attributed to him?

17. X derives its name from a wooden palisade (wall)
on the Northern boundary of the New Amsterdam
settlement built for protection from Native
Americans, pirates and the British. Today, it is eight
blocks long, running from Broadway to South Street
and is the most famous location of the world for
something. Id X.

*18. The Black Maria, or the Kinetographic Theatre,
considered to be the world's first film production
studio, was completed in 1893 at West Orange,
New Jersey. The studio made close to 1,200 films.
The majority of the productions were short films,
including titles such as Fred Ott's Sneeze (1894), The
Kiss (1896), The Great Train Robbery (1903), Alice's
Adventures in Wonderland (1910), and the first
Frankenstein film in 1910. Who is the founder of
this studio?

19. X, an Indian Ministry in association with a Spanish Firm Talgo is
undertaking the measures to realize one of the long-awaited dreams of
the Indian Enterprise. Id X and The Dream.

20. The striding man shown below is a logo of the famous brand. Identify the
brand.

CONNECT
Richest family business in Asia ( in India is correct as well )

CONNECT
(Identify X)
26.
X joined the Project Finance Division of ___ bank as a
management trainee in 1971. "Within a few months of my joining
I had interacted with X. He was at that time in the leasing
department and I had more or less made up my mind that he
would be my successor” says the then chairman N Vaghul. Indeed
in 1996, ___ bank welcomed its new Managing Director and CEO,
X.
X went on to receive Padma Bhushan in 2008 and currently
serves as the President of a development bank for the world’s
fastest growing economies.

27. The lady with a fizz, X still retains so much of her Indianness
and dons sari with bindi in most of the office ceremonies. She
believes the corporate world appreciates people who are
genuine.
Focusing on innovation instead of acquisition, the company has
been debuting new product lines, targeted marketing and
repackaging efforts since 2009.

28. X is an economist and a distinguished professor at Booth school
of Business, USA. X warned about the growing risks in the financial
system and proposed policies that would reduce such risks.
Former US Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers called the
warnings "misguided" and X himself a “luddite”. However, following
the 2008 economic crisis, X’s views came to be seen as prescient and
he was extensively interviewed for the Oscar-winning
documentary Inside Job.

29. X is known as the “Pioneer of online travels in India”. Back in
1995, X took a huge risk by quitting his stable & good-paying but
boring job at ABN Bank to join AMF Bowling – an American company
that was hoping to enter the Indian market to setup bowling alleys
and billiard halls. He had a remote boss in America who did not give
him proper guidance and soon X realized that he wanted to do
something of his own!
He noticed that the Internet industry was growing at the speed of
fire and he jumped on the bandwagon. Now, his firm trades on the
NASDAQ and hires the likes of Ranveer Singh and Alia Bhatt for
advertising.

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IIM Graduates ( yes, there are successful IIM grads who
are not authors :p)

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