Yukthi Business Quiz at GCE Kannur

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• Agnello Dias, chairman and cofounder of Taproot India,
provided insight into why X was chosen for the part:
• “For the role, we were looking for someone who was
confident, could strike a conversation with anyone and
did not look like a professional model. We did not plan
to take someone unconventional, but we liked the
chemistry X had with the camera.”
• Identify?

Sasha Chettri
• Airtel 4G girl.

11
• What is the name given to “an economic condition
which sustains on moderate economic growth and
law inflation, which allows a market friendly monetary
policy”?
• (clue: Think fairy tales)

12
• X said about his brainchild Y
• “Y was made to reach out to people, but it never has. It is
meant to be reachable through out India with our
dealerships. But we made our bunch of mistakes. The
biggest mistake was getting Y branded as cheapest,
rather than most affordable. And that had a negative
impact on Y in the market.
• Who is X and What is Y?

13
• The Mae West Lips Sofa is a surrealist sofa by Salvador
Dali. The sofa was made of wood and it was shaped after
the lips of actress Mae West.
• In 1972, Italian designer group ‘Studio 65’ produced an
updated version to Dali's Mae West Lips Sofa, and it was
designed in honor of another person. Unlike Dali's original
work, the new Sofa has a more practical use in the home,
and has become an icon of classic modern design.
• What was the market name given to this new sofa design?
(Pic Follows)

(Mae West Lips Sofa ) (??????????????)

14
• Edward Louis Bernays was an Austrian-American pioneer
in the field of public relations and referred as "the father
of public relations". He combined the ideas of Gustave
Le Bon and Wilfred Trotter on crowd psychology with the
ideas of his uncle X.
• Bernays drew upon his uncle's ideas for the benefit of
commerce in order to promote commodities. He used one
of the famous theory by his uncle to deal with the public's
conception of communism. This theory was so powerful
that it became a weapon of its own during the Cold War.
• Who was his famous uncle?

15
• This company was founded by Fritz Lanman and Noah Kraft in
2013 with the mission to create wearable tech that makes
computing more immersive and human.
• Their main product is first in-ear system that uses two truly
wireless buds and a connected smartphone app to let you
instantly control and personalize your live audio environment.
• The company says that “In the near-term we are focused on
building “hearables,” wearable technology for the ears that
optimize the way you hear the world.”
• Named after an 19th century Austrian physicist, what
appropriate name is given to this company?
(Pic Follows)

Doppler Labs
• Named after Christian Doppler who proposed the Doppler
effect.

16
• This 1933 Czech movie “Ecstasy” is the first
non-pornographic movie to portray sexual
intercourse and female orgasm. Leading
actress X became controversial as she was
only 18 then.
• Her first husband, Austrian arms
manufacturer Friedrich Mandl, hated the
movie so much he reportedly bought as
many copies of Ecstasy as he could, to
prevent it from being screened in public.
• Who was this actress?

Hedy Lamarr
• She was the inventor of basic technology of Wi-Fi, CDMA
and Bluetooth.

17
• Which fashion designer is being portrayed by Nicholas
Hormann in one episode of the American comedy tele-
series Seinfeld?

18
• Two different covers of the same book. Identify the title of
this international bestselling book by American author
Thomas L. Friedman? The title was inspired from the
speech of an Indian businessman.

The World Is Flat
• Title inspired from the speech of former Infosys head
Nandan Nilekeni.

19
• Created by sales and marketing executive C. E.
Goodman in 1944 "When you care enough to send the
very best” was the slogan of which company?

20
• Which business person was suicide on 14 March 1932 by
leaving this death note?

George Eastman (founder of Kodak)

21
• A Guinness world record of 2865 simultaneous geysers
was set on 17 October 2010, in an event organized by
Perfetti Van Melle at the SM mall of Asia complex in
Manila, Philippines.
• The resulting geysers shoot as high as 6 meters (20ft).
The unofficial record was over 34 feet with use of a
nozzle.
• What they were actually doing?

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• After formal education he first joined a wood industry but
he was axed. Then he joined Gracim and later Tamil Nadu
electricity board. While working there he started a
restaurant there. The Rs 10 paisa bonda was very
famous. He then became a sub contractor for construction
works in Tamil Nadu. He then returned to Calicut and
started his dream business. The company he founded
was introduced different colored product for the first time
in Kerala, though blue and white color was the common.
• Identify him? Founder of a well famous Kerala company
which is named after him.

23
• What term has been used by critics who believe that
Germany exercises a dominant role in the European
Union?

4th Reich
• The first Reich was between 962 and 1806. The second
Reich was between 1871 and 1918-19. The third Reich
was between 1933 and 1945

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• Which Indian company founded by P. P. Chhabria and K.
P. Chhabria gets its name from the two words “Fine and
Flexible” ?

ROUND 1
• 8 Question Clockwise
• Infinite Bounce and Pounce
• +10 & -10 for a Pounce
• Sorry you cant pounce your direct Question
• If a Question is unanswered same team will get the next
Question.
• Here we go…

1
• Just two years after O Chandumenon published “Indulekha”
from Thalassery, this person pictured below published a book
titled “Saraswathee Vijayam” from Kannur. And it was one of first
Malayalam book to strongly oppose the cast system. He was the
only Ezhava novelist of 19th century Malayalam literature and he
was started a school near his home for backward casts. He
imported writing slate for students from Andhra and this school
later became the Mele Chovva Higher Secondary School
near Kannur town.
• He was Kannur municipality chairman
and founder of the Edward press near
Kannur railway station.
• Identify him? And what is his role in a
business Quiz happening in Kannur?

Potheri Kunjambu
• He was the founder of first ever bank in Kannur named
“Kannur Commercial Bank”.

2
• A replica of the 2000 year old arch in the Syrian city of
Palmyra that survived ISIS attempt to destroy, is going to
be erected in London and New York this year. This will be
accomplished under Institute for Digital Archaeology
(IDA), a joint venture between Harvard University, the
University of Oxford and Museum of Dubai.
• How they are actually going to re-erect these structures?

3
• This happened only six times in history. Following are the
respective timeline
• 1. September 1998
• 2. October 1998
• 3. 31 May 1999
• 4. 6 May 2010
• 5. 18 September 2013
• 6. 1 September 2015
• The latest one was more dynamic and adapted three
alternative versions. What am I talking about?

4
• Paintings by Alfred Magnal and Viktor Oliva discussing the
same plot.
• Why these ghosts are colored green? Or the Green color
represents/symbolizes what?

5
• Ajatashatru Rathod is 38, a fakir, and also a faker,
mistakenly believed by everyone in his Rajasthan village
to have magical powers. He persuaded the villagers to
raise enough money for him to fly to Paris to buy himself a
bed of nails from a company.
• This is the plot of an upcoming movie by French director
Marjane Satrapi. Latest news is that Tamil actor Dhanush
is going to be the leading actor. The movie is titled “The
Extraordinary Journey Of The Fakir Who Got Trapped
In An ____ Wardrobe”
• Either identify the company from where he was going to
buy that bed of nails or fill in the blank?
(Pic Follows)

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• Who designed these X shaped trading dusk for his
Business “purposes” in early 1970s?

Michael Milken (The Junk Bond King)

7
• What is the name given to a phenomenon whereby an attempt to
hide or censor a piece of information has the unintended
consequence of publicizing the information more widely, usually
by the Internet?
• This effect was named after an American entertainer, whose
2003 attempt to hide photographs of her residence in Malibu,
California, inadvertently drew further public attention to it.
• Released on 4th March 2015 what work was considered to be the
perfect example of this effect by Indian media?
• The work was banned by the Indian Government and taken
down from internet. This fuelled curiosity and work was re-
uploaded on various platforms going viral all over in India.

Streisand effect named after Barbara
Streisand.
• And “India's Daughter” by Leslee Udwin.

8
• Which artist is being given a tribute through this 100
francs Swiss Banknote?

Round 2: Buzzer
• 8 Questions
• +5 & -5

1
• “Whether you like them straight out of the bag, roasted to
a golden brown exterior with a molten center, or in fluff
form, who doesn’t like a __________?

3
• Ai Weiwei has wrapped Berlin's Konzerthaus concert hall
with 14,000s of an item to make this work. What was used
by him to make this work?

5) What is this upcoming movie about?

This is what Narendra Modi wrote on the
“wall” of Facebook Head Quarters.

8
• Giuseppe “Nino” Farina was an Italian racing driver and
was the first official Formula one World Champion.
• One of his nephew is well famous in India due to a 2015
acquirement.
• How?

Battista Farina
• Founder of Italian design company Pininfarina, recently
bought by Mahindra.

ROUND 3
• 8 Question Anti Clockwise
• Infinite Bounce and Pounce
• +10 & -10 for a Pounce
• Sorry you cant pounce your direct Question
• If a Question is unanswered same team will get the next
Question.
• Here we go…

9
• Based in Bangkok The King Power International Group
is Thailand's leading travel retail group. The company was
founded in 1989 by Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha. The
company was received the royal warrant from the King of
Thailand in December 2009. The Garuda statue in front of
its headquarters symbolizes that privilege.
• From August 2015 onwards King Power is witnessing a
hike in it’s market values due to the success of something
in an entirely different field. What is the reason believed to
be behind this sudden success?

Sponsors of Leicester City (“the Foxes”)

10
• Tweets by Jack Dorsey when he gave one third of his
shares to Twitter employees last year. What was he
actually referring through these tweets?

Pareto principle (80–20 rule)
• "80% of your sales come from 20% of your clients."

11
• 2008 Ig Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to two
sets of team – one for discovering the ‘sperm killing’ ability
of ____ ____ and the other for disproving it by chance.
• Fill in the blank.

12
• Novak Djokovic won 3 grand slams in 2015. As said by
him his three success mantras at this age of 28 are
endless stamina, precision on the court and something
other which is being discussed in the following works.
• What is his other success mantra, being promoted in the
following works?
(Pic Follows)

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• In 2012, French senator Yves Daudigny proposed a
sudden tax increase on palm oil from € 100 to € 400 per
metric tonne. It was called “X tax” by the Italian media, as
palm oil is one of X’s main ingredients.
• Identify X?

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• The famous launching ad of Tommy Hilfiger. Two of the
other three American fashion designers mentioned in this
ad are Ralph Lauren and Calvin Klein. Pictured in the next
slide, the third one in this list was a legendary American
designer who was died at 46 due to AIDS and related
complications. Identify him, founder of an eponymous
sportswear house?
(Pic Follows)

15
• One of Economist cover. This cover
was actually inspired from another
magazine cover released on 29
March 1976.
• What was the original cover?

New Yorker “View of the World”

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• Milind Soman and Madhu Sapre posing
for a 1995 controversial ad. The ad was
very controversial those days and Mumbai
police had registered a case against the
ad makers for nude posing. Another case
was filed under the Wildlife Protection Act
against the advertising agency for illegal
use of the python. The case lasted for 14
years, after which the courts acquitted the
accused.
• Which brand?

Thank You 
• Arjun
Contact:
9645553735
m.arjunknr@gmail.com

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