An informal business quiz

1. ASQ BUSINESS QUIZ

2. RULES
30 Questions.
Infinite Bounce
+10 for every correct answer
+10/-10 on pounce
Quiz Master’s decision is Final

3. What was started in 1985 as a
Departmental Store in Erode named
as Sangeetha Shopping Centre ?
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4. Kannan Departmental Stores

5. The Prime Minister of Y asked X to buy the state-owned
airline.X mortgaged his home and used his personal savings to
acquire the company, comprising two Boeing 737-300 jet
aircraft and debts of US$11 million and transformed it into an
industry player. One year after his takeover, Z had broken
even and cleared all its debts. Its initial public offering (IPO)
in November 2004 was oversubscribed by 130 per cent.X says
his timing was in fact perfect: after 11 September 2001,
aircraft leasing costs fell 40%. Also, airline lay-offs meant
experienced staff were readily available. He believed travellers
from Y would embrace a cut-rate air service that would save
them time and money, especially in a tight economy. Before
the advent of Z, he estimated that only six per cent of Y had
ever travelled by air and about 50% were first-time flyers the
succeeding year.
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6. X – Tony Fernandes
Y- Malaysia
Z - AirAsia

7. 3

8. Coffee / Coffee Break

9. During Larry Page and Sergey Brin’s
visit to India, they met Dr. A.P.J Abdul
Kalam while he was serving his
Presidential tenure. In this visit, Dr.
Kalam expressed his problem of typing
in the google search engine.
This led to the addition of a new feature
in Google.
What feature am I talking about?
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10. He couldn’t type in Tamil and hence
Google was made available in major
languages

11. A series of major flops and the changing
economy saw a drop in the weekly movie attendance
in US.With a financial struggle all movie studios
feared to fund for a movie.Thus the studios became
more interested in distribution contracts in which an
outside investor would pay for the actual film and the
studio would distribute it and then split the income
with the original investor. Wolpert studios was waiting
for a chance to direct a movie and luckily Quaker Oats
was interested in the project.In order to increase the
audience , Quaker Oats also came up with a brand
used in the movie.Though the movie wasn’t a
commercial hit Quaker Oats posted a huge
profit.Movie?Product?
5

12. Charlie and the chocolate factory
Wonka Bars

13. Spoof of ?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l
JgHfCnJ5Os
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14. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v
=TnzFRV1LwIo&feature=kp

15. The Hebrew word X is based on the verbal root for
"weighing" , cognate to the Akkadian, a unit of
weight equivalent to the Sumerian. Use of the word
was first attested in c. 2150 BC during the
Akkadian Empire under the reign of Naram-Sin,
and later in c. 1700 BC in the Code of Hammurabi.
The root is found in the Hebrew words for "to
weigh" and is related to the t.q.l root in Aramaic
and the th.q.l root in Arabic, such as in the Arabic
word for "heavy“.. The word “X" came in to the
English language via the Hebrew Bible, where it is
first used in the Book of Genesis.WITGW ?
7

16. Shekel

17. Wi' a _____ _____, an' a', an' a',
Wi' a _____ _____, an' a', an' a',
We'll up an' gie them a blaw, a blaw
Wi' a _____ _____, an' a', an' a'.
O it's owre the border awa', awa‘
It's owre the border awa', awa‘
We'll on an' we'll march to Carlisle ha‘
Wi' its yetts, its castle an' a', an a'.
CONTD …
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18. This is a scottish song song whose theme is the
aftermath of the Jacobite Rising of 1745 which
was an attempt by Prince Charles Bonnie to
capture Britain and recreate an absolute
monarchy in the Kingdom of Great Britain.
Although they lost , the army was led by _____
______. FITB

19. 100 Pipers

20. Id Her / Company
9

21. Vandhana Luthra / VLCC

22. X was born in Birmingham to Richard Tapper X,
who was from a wealthy Quaker family that moved to the
area from the west of England. As a Quaker in the early
19th century, he was not allowed to enter a university, so
could not pursue a profession such as medicine or law. As
Quakers are pacifist, a military career was also out of the
question. So, like many other Quakers of the time, he
turned his energies toward business and began a campaign
against animal cruelty, forming the Animals Friend
Society.Meanwhile, X’s manufacturing enterprise
prospered, his brother David Boddy joined the business in
1848 and they rented a larger factory on Bridge
Street.Thus was born which company ?
10

23. John Cadbury

24. Which company now owned by the
Tata’s was founded by Maurice Wilks
in 1947 and has a tagline “Above and
Beyond” ?
11

25. Land Rover

26. Id Both
12

27. Sun Pharma
Samsonite

28. Long before X DMA Design, was working on a game called
Race’n'Chase. The aim of Race’n'Chase was to produce a fun,
addictive and fast multi-player car racing and crashing
game.As far as the play testers were concerned, the game
sucked, except for one glitch which made the police in the
game go crazy for no reason. Instead of politely pulling you
over, the cops would ram you off the road. Suddenly everyone
was crashing non-stop. Play testers thought this was hilarious,
and in fact abandoned the missions just to screw around and
see what kind of mayhem they could cause. The designers
decided to not only leave the psychotic cops in there, but build
the entire game around the kind of ridiculously violent car
chases caused by the glitch.How do we know it today ?
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29. GTA

30. Who holds the trademark on the
word “Bitcoin” ?
14

31. Mt Gox / Tibanne

32. 15

34. Sinnaswamy _____ and X’s late uncle setup the
factory for Luckyland Biscuits in 1964. From a two-
man operation the business now has a staff of around
300; 250 on the factory floor and 50 sales
representatives and office staff.Being the third largest
Biscuit manufacturer in Sri Lanka , Luckyland biscuits
has export licences to India , Ghana , England etc..
Income from the biscuits helped fund X passage
through nearby St Anthony's College and the rest is
history.Who is X who said he would have become a
biscuit maker had he not found any success in his
current profession ?
16

35. Muttiah Muralidharan

36. GlobalPost recently carried out a research to see
a country’s most valuable and profitable export.
To visualize this information, GlobalPost
gathered data from the CIA Factbook to
determine each nation’s highest valued export,
and then created a series of maps.Although it
was Oil for many countries , the one for
Afghanistan is very unique.What is considered
as the most valuable export for Afghanistan ?
17

38. Opium

39. EK
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40. Emirates
Open Skies is the in-flight magazine
EK is its IATA code
Tim Clark is the CEO
PIA leased its aircrafts for the initial
operation of emirates

41. Honeycomb Retail is a company based
in Malleshwaram , Bangalore.They run
a chain of Ice Cream parlours across
South India and its first parlour was
opened in Bangalore in 2008. Spread
across Bangalore, Mysore and
Coimbatore, it currently has seventeen
stand alone ice cream Parlours.How do
we know this Franchise ?
19

42. Polar Bear

43. P.M. Møller , who was a deeply religious
Christian, attached a blue banner with a white
seven pointed star on both sides of the black
chimney on the steamship Laura when his wife
recovered from illness. In a letter to his wife,
P.M. Møller explained in October 1886, "The
little star on the chimney is a memory of the
night when I prayed for you and asked for a
sign: If a star would appear in the gray and
cloudy sky, it would mean that the Lord answers
prayers.Where is this seen today ?
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45. Ad for ?
21

46. Twitter

47. Rosy Blue N.V. is one of the world's leading
diamond companies. Based in Antwerp,
Belgium, the company is active in nearly every
area of the global diamond industry, from rough-
cutting to polishing to import/export and
wholesaling. The company is also one of the
largest of the DeBeers-DTC sightholders.It has
its jewellery retail chain in India called
ORRA.Orra created a famous product for four
years since 2008 and the product has been
considered as one of the Best works of
Orra.What was that product ?
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49. McGee’s pub is a pub and restaurant
located at 240 , West 55 Street ,
Manhatten , New York.Although it
started as an ordinary pub , it gained
huge prominence since 2005.It is one of
NY’s most frequently visited
pubs.Customers get 15% off if they
visit the pub through New York TV and
Movie sites tour.Why ?
23

51. It stood as an
inspiration for
Maclaren’s pub

52. 24

53. NAMCO
Owned Atari Japan
Masaya Nakamura is its founder
Namjatown is an amusement park
owned by them

54. In Business , Which term comes
from Latin for “To Roll Together” ?
25

55. Conglomerate

56. King Liu was born in Taiwan in 1934 when the
island was colonized by Japanese.He was an
young and creative entrepreneur.He had some
ventures with Screws and Wooden Boxes.He
then ventured into Eel farming business which
was destroyed by a typhoon in 1971.Undaunted ,
he gathered some friends and started a company
in 1972 in Taichung County.The company ran
successfully and a deal in 1977 with Schwinn
made the company a pioneer in its field.Which
company ?
26

57. Giant Cycles

58. ID
27

59. William S Paley / CBS

60. The Company was founded by George and
Richard ______ in 1835 when they bought their first
ship and established the _____ Line. It diversified into
the distribution of goods rather than the mere shipping
of them and they focused on wholesale distribution of
food.They also operated a sugar industry in Guyana
until it was nationalized c.1970. In 1986, the company
set up a short lived co-venture between the directors of
Siriol Animation to create Kalisto Ltd.They opeated
Retail stores under the names Happy Shopper ,
Premier Stores , Euro Shopper.However, they are
known better for something that was first set up by
Jock Campbell in 1952.What ?
28

61. Booker Group

62. ID this
Management Guru
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63. Fredrick Winslow Taylor

64. The Ministry Of Health in Malaysia gives
“Halal” certification to products as Pork is
forbidden under Islamic Sharia Law.While
doing a random check recently , traces of Pigs
DNA was reported in one of X’s
products.Though the manufacture of X’s goods
has nothing to do with pigs , it is still a mystery
as to what caused the finding of pigs DNA in
X’s products.Countries like Indonesia and Saudi
Arabia has started checking X’s products are
people of Malaysia are calling for the boycott of
X’s products.X please.
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65. Cadbury