Business & Politics Quiz Finals at The Quiz Fest - 17

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B U S I N E S S & P O L I T I C S
Q U I Z - F I N A L S
T H E Q U I Z F E S T ’ S

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– Q U I Z Z I N G G O O G L E R
“Google can’t guess, So don't search.”

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X was facing financial difficulties in 1924 due to the plunging
industrial demand after WWI
F.E.Dinshaw, a close friend & financier lent to X. Under the
agreement that %age profits from some of the group companies
of X shall be shared
X was unable to repay the loan & the outstanding debt has been
converted into equity
Following F.E.Dinshaw’s death in 1930, his stake has been
purchased by an famous realtor Y in the city
identify X, Y & What did this story lead to/claim to fame of the story ?

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X - TATA S O N S
Y - PA L L O N J I M I S T RY
M I S T RY FA M I LY S TA K E I N TATA S O N S

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Identify the American
businessman,
investor, pilot, film
director and
philanthropist. Stan
Lee has repeatedly
claimed that Tony
Stark’s(s/o Howard Stark)
character is inspired
by this personality

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H O WA R D H U G E S

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I D T H E P E R S O N /
C O M PA N Y
He was Scottish merchant
in England and India who
served as the 4th
President of the INC in
1888, the first non-Indian
to hold that office. He is
co founder of an Indian
industrial conglomerate,
primarily owned by the
GOI. One of their product
is Veedol

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G E O R G E Y U L E
C O F O U N D E R O F A N D R E W Y U L E & C O M PA N Y

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I D T H E C O M PA N Y & P R O D U C T
This German company released this
flagship product in 1997. It is
technically, an optical disc authoring
program. The name is a clever pun
with reference to an emperor who
was associated with the great fire of
Rome

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N E R O B U R N I N G R O M

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F I T B & W H AT WA S C O N S T R U C T E D ?
The Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow
(EPCOT) was an unfinished concept being developed by ….
……
The plan was to build a real city that would 'never cease to
be a blueprint of the future, near the southeastern region of
United States
But the project was stalled after the death of …. …… in 1966,
in 1971 a resort(which went on to become a tourist attraction)
was constructed with the concept loosely based on the
original plan

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WA LT D I S N E Y & WA LT
D I S N E Y W O R L D
S I N G A P O R E I S O F T E N C I T E D A S A R E A L - L I F E E P C O T C O U N T RY

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I D E N T I F Y T H E D O N
Born in Frankfurt(1967), his family has migrated to USA where
he was an chess player & by age 12 was ranked 7th in the U.S.
in the under-13 category
While studying at Stanford law school he founded The
Stanford Review
After selling his most famous venture(2000) he invested in
various initiatives and was ranked No. 4 on the Forbes Midas
List of 2014. One of his foundations offers a fellowship
previously named 20 under 20, intended to fund visionary
dropouts under age 20

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P E T E R T H E I L
D O N O F PAY PA L M A F I A

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I D E N T I F Y T H E P R I N C E
After obtaining ‘degrees’ in international
relations and development studies at the
universities of Rollins and Cambridge, he
worked at the Monitor Group(now Monitor
Deloitte), a management consulting firm in
London, before establishing the Mumbai-
based technology outsourcing firm,
Backops Services Private Ltd(2002)

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R A H U L G A N D H I

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W H AT WA S T H I S C O M P E T I T I O N F O R
D O M I N A N C E K N O W A S ?
First one was between
Microsoft and Netscape in late
90's. Second one was between
Mozilla, Google, Apple,
Opera etc., starting from 2003

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B R O W S E R WA R S
F I R S T A N D S E C O N D B R O W S E R WA R S

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I D E N T I F Y T H E C O M PA N Y A N D B R A N D
This GOI enterprise, headquartered at
Thiruvnanthapuram (estd : 1966) ventured
into maternity care business in 2005 by
starting LifeSpring Hospitals. A famous
brand of this company has recently launched
a website to serve the people who find it
embarrassing to buy their product at retail/
offline outlets

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H L L & M O O D S
H I N D U S TA N L I F E C A R E L I M I T E D

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C O N N E C T

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J A R V I S
J U S T A R AT H E R V E RY I N T E L L I G E N T S Y S T E M

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In 'Dalda', what
does ‘L’ stand
for ?

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L E V E R
L E V E R F R O M U N I ’ L E V E R '

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_ _ _ wast 1st prepared by Kikunae
Ikeda(1908), who was trying to isolate
and duplicate the savoury taste of an
edible seaweed used in Japan. Later
he marketed it under the trade name
Ajinomoto, which was widely used as
an flavour enhancer
F I T B

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M S G
M O N O S O D I U M G L U TA M AT E

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This brand was founded by
Arthur ....... in 1869, when he
opened his first tea shop at
Manchester. He choose the name
because it was his bond to
customers to provide a quality
product

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B R O O K E B O N D

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W H O S E A D ?
Bubbles, originally
titled A Child's World,
is a painting by Sir
John Everett Millais
that became famous
when it was used over
many generations in
advertisements of this
brand

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P E A R S

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W H AT WA S G E R M A N C H A N C E L L O R
W I L LY B R A N T D O I N G ?
T I M E L I N E : 1 9 7 0

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A P O L O G I S I N G
T O P O L A N D
F O R T H E WA R
C R I M E S
C O M M I T T E D
U N D E R G E R M A N
O C C U PAT I O N
D U R I N G T H E
WA R

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C O N N E C T T H E P E R S O N

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W I L L I A M C
D U R A N T
F O U N D E R O F A L L T H E T H R E E
C O M PA N I E S

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I D E N T I F Y T H E Y O U T H F U L B R A N D
This brand was earlier named as 'Sun
Light Flakes'. In the US it is sold as
'Caress'. This was marketed as a laundry
product till 1924. The brand is also known
for pioneering the concept of celebrity
product endorsement by featuring 26
biggest female stars of the day(1929)

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L U X

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C L A I M T O FA M E O F A L - Z A I D I ?
Mahesh Bhatt produced a play
entitled "The Last Salute",
directed by Arvind Gaur and
starring Imran Zahid. It was written
by Rajesh Kumar and based on
Muntadhar al-Zaidi's book

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J O U R N A L I S T W H O
S H O E D B U S H

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W H O S E I N I T I AT I V E S ?
.......gangofgirls.com

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S U N S I L K
S U N S I L K G A N G P F G I R L S . C O M

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W H AT C O N T R O V E R S Y
Ranbir Penal Code was made by Ranbir Singh(1830-85),
on the lines of Indian Penal Code prepared by Tomas
Macaulay
This has been creating political controversy in India since
past 70 years

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P E N A L C O D E O F J & K
T H I S I S T H E P E N A L C O D E O F J & K P R O T E C T E D U N D E R A R T I C L E
3 7 0

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W H AT WA S A C Q U I R E D B Y
U N I L E V E R I N 2 0 0 0
Greenfield and Cohen founded
this company in 1977. However
due to Cohen's loss of sense to
smell and taste(anosmia), he
relied on mouth feel and
texture of food. To compensate
this they kept adding larger &
larger chunks to ice cream
which became their unique
trademark

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B E N & J E R RY ' S
B E N C O H E N & J E R RY G R E E N F I E L D

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W H AT H A P P E N E D ?
This event is sometimes referred as Last war of Indian
Independence. Took place during 18–23 February 1946, with
out any support from the two major parties of the time
Congress & Muslim league. But was strongly supported by
CPI
There were various reasons for this uprising some of them are
trail of top INA officers, slow demobilisation of British airmen,
poor quality food served to the innumerable recruits of WW2
etc.,

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R O YA L I N D I A N N AV Y
M U T I N Y
B O M B AY M U T I N Y

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W H O S E A D C A M PA I G N I S S E E N
T H R O U G H T H E S E P E O P L E ' S E Y E S
• Meera
• Jane
• Arya
• Huna
• Binoy

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R A J A S T H A N T O U R I S M
M E E R A S T H A N , J A N E S T H A N , A RYA S T H A N , H U A N I S T H A N ,
B I N O Y I S T H A N
Quizzers Ko Rajasthan kuch Aisa Dikha

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I D T H E FA M O U S TATA W H O S E T R U S T O W N S
M A J O R S TA K E S I N M A N Y TATA C O M PA N I E S

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S I R R ATA N J I TATA

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C O N N E C T
• 4th January 1975
• 9th September 1999
• 1st January 2000
• 31st December 2000 or 1st January 2001
• 2010
• 2038
• And Leap Centuries

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Y 2 K - M I L L E N N I U M B U G
P R O G R A M M I N G B U G S R E L AT E D T O D AT E S , S I M I L A R T O

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S U C K I N G D O E S N O T K I L L
Which company whose
slogan goes as ‘Stop
smoking, start sucking”’, was
acquired by an Italian group
Prefette Van Melle in 2006?

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C H U PA C H U P S

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W H AT I S T H I S A B O U T ?
World’s 3rd largest asset manager
State Street Global Advisors on March
8th 2017 unveiled this art work by
Kristen Visbal, which faces the
charging bull on the wall street

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F E A R L E S S G I R L

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W H AT WA S T H I S G R O U P K N O W N A S ,
E A R L I E R ?
During 60’s several companies manufactured
mainframe computers. Burroughs, UNIVAC,
NCR, Control Data, Honeywell, General
Electric, RCA & IBM were the key players,
with IBM’s market share much ‘higher’ than
‘seven’ others put together. After GE & RCA
exited the business the group came to be
known as BUNCH

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I B M A N D T H E S E V E N
D WA R F S

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W H O A R E B E I N G T R A I N E D & F O R
W H AT ?

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W h o a c q u i re d ? W h y w a s i t a c o n t ro v e r s y re c e n t l y ?
Lior Ron, worked in Israeli Defence Force
from 1997-2004, then left his career to
pursue MBA and later joined Google in
2007 as the product lead of Google
Maps. In 2016 he along with other high
profile colleagues left google to start a
self-driving truck company, which was
later acquired by a ‘successful startup’ in
the same year

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U B E R , G O O G L E - U B E R
L A W S U I T
O T T O

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F I T B
Samuel T Cooper founded Coopers
Inc(1876). Although in 1902 the company
was doing well in hosiery & undergarments
business, it was nearly bankrupt during
Great Depression. After recovery they
renamed the company as _ _ _ _ _ _ , which
is derived from their uniquely designed
product ‘Macky’(known for its comfort)

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J O C K E Y

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I D T H E W O R L D FA M O U S E N T I T Y
While triskaidekaphobia is a common phobia in
the US, Harrison King …… felt that it was his
lucky number
While his company whose credo goes as ‘Truth
Well Told’ was moving to 50 Rockefeller Plaza,
he demanded for 13th floor. It still remains the
only building in Rockefeller centre with 13th
floor

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M c C a n n
I N T E R P U B L I C G R O U P

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W H Y T H AT N A M E ?
Recently Tesla has
launched a new video
advertisement campaign
called Project Loveday

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B R I A L O V E D AY
N A M E D A F T E R 1 0 Y E A R O L D G I R L W H O P R O P O S E D T H AT I D E A

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I D E N T I F Y X & Y
Prime minister Antonio Costa of
“X”, was the chief guest to an
event on ‘Pravasi Bharatiya Diwas’
He said that he is Very Proud of his
“Y” origin, which he got from his
fathers side

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P O R T U G A L & G O A
J A N U A RY 9 T H - P R AVA S I B H A R AT H I YA D I VA S

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W H I C H C O U N T RY ?
This country’s ruling party ‘The
Sauneri’ has decided to change their
name for the second time in 5 years
to dissociate itself from the
corruption scandal surrounding its
impeached President Park Guen-Hey

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S O U T H K O R E A

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W H AT I S B E I N G D I S C U S S E D H E R E ?
With much fanfare and worldwide media
coverage(timeline : 1999), Volvo B9R carried a
group of Indian celebrities and dignitaries which
included Dev Anand, Satish Gujral, Javed Akhtar,
A.B.Vajpayee, Kuldip Nayar, Kapil Dev, Shatrughan
Sinha and Mallika Sarabhai to witness a strategically
important event in modern world. Although the
spirit of this event has been dissolved very soon.

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VA J PAY E E ’ S L A H O R E
B U S YAT R A
C O M M E N C E M E N T O F D E L H I L A H O R E B U S S E R V I C E

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W H AT A R E W E TA L K I N G A B O U T ?
This was longest ever law enacted by British
Parliament (till mid 1930’s) as a result of Simon
Commission’s report
Nehru called it “ A machine with strong breaks but
no engine.”
Jinnah called it “Thoroughly rotten, fundamentally
bad and totally unacceptable.”

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G O V E R N M E N T O F I N D I A A C T, 1 9 3 5

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I D T H E C O M PA N Y
This company recently launched
eLoc - A six digit code system
which they claim as India’s First
National Digital Address system
which would replace traditional
postal address

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