A set of Questions themed around Business and Finance

1. Biz And Finance
Quiz
Researched and conducted by
Dr. Aakash Roy

3. Rules
• Clockwise (13)
• Anticlockwise (13)
• Written Round (6)
• Infinite Bounce.
• Flat Scoring of Plus Ten. No Negatives

4. Clockwise…

5. 1
• Which modern day discipline, relevant to
topics concerning this quiz, has been derived
from the ancient Greek phrase for “Rules of
the House” ?

7. Economics

8. 2
• A seven lettered name of a merchant has
entered the lexicon as a synonym for the term
“loan shark”.
• This name can be connected with actors Al
Pacino and Henry Irving.
• What name am I looking for ?

10. Shylock

11. 3
• In the early part of the 20th century, debates
raged regarding the supremacy of boxers
belonging to two different weight categories.
• No such comparisons were really feasible since
they never faced off each other.
• Which three word expression which features the
name of a currency of an European nation, was
developed in an attempt to make such a
comparison irrespective of the weight categories
?

13. Pound for Pound

14. 4
• Sagar Dayarani, an alumnus of SXC, Kolkata in
collaboration with his friend set up a company
in 2008 which has grown exponentially since
then.
• It stakes its claim as the first of its kind to have
experimented with its basic product and a
host of other items like burgers, chaats,
sizzlers and even chocolates.
• Which company ?

17. 5
• What is apparently
the secret to all of
their success ?

20. 6
• The cartoon on the right
is an advertisement
featuring the “Brown
Bomber” Joe Louis,
knocking out Buddy
Baer on January 9,1942.
• What item/product is
he promoting ?

22. War Bonds

23. 7
• Which two word sobriquet can be associated
with all these beautiful ladies ?

26. Liril Girl

27. 8
• The following two gentleman are the first and
last entrants in a three member ‘non-
hierarchical’ list.
• Which list and Who is the missing link ?

29. Cyrus Mistry, Only non-Tata to become
chairman of Tata Industries

30. 9
• Bunny Chow, a popular street food staple in
South Africa owes its origins to a small
vegetarian restaurant, established in Durban
in the early 20th century.
• What does “Bunny” refer to ?

32. Baniya

33. 10
• This is a 1998 book by a certain
Hamish McDonald. The Indian
edition ran into trouble.
HarperCollins India, which had the
Indian rights, had completed
editing the manuscript and even
started having pages printed,
though those had not been
collated and bound as a book.
Reliance was seeking injunctions
against the book’s publication at
the high courts in Ahmadabad and
Delhi.
• What is the name of the book ?

35. The Polyester Prince

36. 11
• This picture was tweeted on 7th February 2017
with the following message.
• “Virat Kohli became the 2nd Indian cricketer
after Sachin Tendulkar to shine on the front
cover of Wisden - world's most famous sports
book.”
• Whose twitter handle is this ?

37. 11

40. 12
• The X is an outstanding example of the influence
of an innovative transportation system on the
social and economic development of a multi-
cultural region, which was to serve as a model for
similar developments in many parts of the world.
• The above is a justification for an honour that
was bestowed upon X in 1999, making it the first
of its kind in India and only the second in the
world.
• Identify X which was originally developed to
facilitate trade in a certain region of our country.

42. Darjeeling Himalayan Railways

43. 13
Connect them to a certain person who hails
from this hallowed institution .

45. Laxmi Mittal

46. Anti Clockwise…

47. 14
• Which business entity can be associated with
these local giants, that has been in the news
for all the wrong reasons over the past year ?

49. United Breweries

50. 15
• In 1986, American Express—rival to official sponsor Visa Inc.,
began a marketing campaign in Asia promoting merchandise
from a fictitious "Olympic Heritage Committee," supposedly
based in Switzerland. American Express halted the campaign
following complaints by the International Olympic Committee.
• In a follow-up, American Express released ads featuring a photo
from the opening ceremony of the 1986 Asian Games held in
the same city, captioned "Amex welcomes you to Seoul," which
implied that it was a photo of the Olympics' opening ceremony.
• As a retaliation, Visa ads ran with the tagline ‘the Olympics
don’t take American Express’, which promoted that its
sponsorship deal with the IOC meant that only Visa cards are
accepted at Olympic venues and for purchasing tickets
• What is this known to us in the world of business?

52. Credit Card Wars

53. 16
• The _________ was originally a symbol of
brewers in the Middle Ages in Holland and the
rest of Europe and was said to have mystical
power to protect the quality of the brew.
• However, in the 1960s at the peak of cold war, it
was perceived as a symbol for Communism and
hence the brand saw a decline in its popularity in
the US.
• To counter this, they changed the colour from red
to white.
• What is being discussed ?

56. 17
• An NGO called International Human Rights
Association served it the first legal notice
before the brand X for using their name,
which critics initially thought to be an in-film-
placement.
• If the NGO’s problem was with the word
‘Hindustan’, what was the name of the brand?
• Also, which infamous “item” was the uproar
about ?

59. 18
• Often used interchangeably in
common parlance to denote forms of
taxes, what is the difference between
‘duty’ and ‘cess’ ?

61. 19
• According to Colesworthy Grant in his book “Anglo
Indian Sketches” :
• “ Here may be seen the jewels of Golconda and
Bundelkhand, the shawls of Cashmere, the broad
cloths of England, silks of Murshidabad and Benares,
muslins of Dacca, Calicoes, ginghams, Chintzes and
beads from Coromandel, fruits and firs of Cabul, silk
fabrics and brocades of Persia, spices and myrch from
Ceylon, Spice Islands and Arabia, shells from the
eastern coast and straits, drugs, dried fruit and
sweetmeats from Arabia and Turkey, cow’s tails from
Tibet and ivory from Ceylon”
• Which locality is he speaking about ? (picture next
slide)

62. 19

64. Burrabazar

65. 20
• This is the Viswanatha
temple in a town near
Madurai, which is the reason
behind the naming of this
place. The economy of this
small town depends on a
particular set of products.
The logo of one such product
has been shown on the right.
• What is the name of this
town and what product ?

67. Shivkashi

68. 21
• These are yesteryear brands of a
commonplace item. What ?

71. Matchsticks

72. 22
• He introduced a new system of revenue known
as zabt and a system of taxation
called dahshala. He took a careful survey of crop
yields and prices cultivated for a 10-year period
1570-1580. On this basis tax was fixed on each
crop in cash. Each province was divided into
revenue circles with their own rates of revenue
and a schedule of individual crops.
• Who is this part of navaratna from the court of
Akbar ?

74. Raja Todormal

75. 23
• In 2008, Democrats and Republicans joined to
expand the nation’s oldest federal wildlife law
to cover illegal logging.
• Federal investigators picked this company as
the first target of the new provision,
confiscating _______ of ebony two years ago
that allegedly came from wood illegally logged
in Madagascar.
• Which company ?

77. Gibson Guitars

78. 24
• What is the official term for such an advert ?

80. Surrogate Advertisement

81. 25
• If these two Patels were there, the last time
this happened in India, who are the duo at the
helm, this time ?

83. Arun Jaitley, Urjit Patel

84. 26
• This is a 1898 poster
showing the mascot of
a company founded by
two brothers, who
apart from their
products are also
known for their tourism
guides.
• Which company ?

86. Michelin

87. DAYS OF FUTURE PAST
WRITTEN ROUND
6 VISUALS
5 POINTS EACH
5 BONUS FOR A FULL HOUSE

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