UDAAN 2015 :The Business Quiz for Corporates organized under the aegis of Network HRD Network Ranchi. The competition was held on 21st June 2015 at MTI Ranchi the corporate training center of SAIL
3. RULES
Answer all 25 questions + 1
The 1st letter of each answer (in order) completes a
very famous tagline
The questions which are the first letters of each
word of the tagline are secondary tie-breakers
Getting the tagline is a primary tie-breaker
No negatives
4. 1
These are the results of a poll conducted by a magazine in
2006. However, these poll results were ignored in favour of
a (hugely critical) choice by the magazine (and this poll was
removed from its online edition). What is being talked
about and who was the eventual choice?
5. 2
Name the term derived from an Arabic root word
meaning ‘change and transform’. It indicates a bill of
exchange or a promissory note.
6. 3
This is a decision principle for time management
popularized by Stephen Covey in his books. Named after a
former US president, what is it called?
7. 4
Which American sports clothing company, founded by
Kevin Plank, overtook Adidas in the U.S. sportswear
market to be number 2 in 2014?
8. 5
Titled 'The Visit' and tag lined 'bold is beautiful', this is
one of the most talked about ad across the country for its
attempt at defying what social taboo?
9. 6
Samson & Goliath are two cranes that dominate the
skyline of Belfast and are landmark structures of the city.
They are located in Harland & Wolff yard. What is H&W's
best know construction?
10. 7
Starting in 1936, this chain is now owned and managed by
its employees. The maximum number of its outlets are in
Kerala. What am I talking about?
11. 8
In a first for the magazine industry, who is 'guest editing'
the July-August issue of MORE magazine? This is also the
third time she will make an appearance on the magazine's
cover.
12. 9
What are these types of -
Calcutta, Camden, Chinese, Demsetz, Vickrey, English,
French, Combinatorial, Reverse, Walrasian and Japanese
14. 11
Traditionally, X is a position at a venture capital firm.
Typically, the goal is for the X to create the next company
that the VC firm will fund.
Usually, it is temporary and not permanent.
What is this position?
15. 12
Identify this stockbroker, famous in a different field. He
bought himself a seat in the Adelaide Stock Exchange in
the 1940s.
19. 16
John is (an angry) founder of the software whose current
owners distanced themselves from John, by rebranding the
software, as he came out with this obscene and profane
video about how to uninstall the software. Which Santa
Clara based company owns this software since 2011?
20. 17
Maintained by Palakkad's District Tourism Promotion
Council, this is the Malampuzha Garden. Who conceived
and designed the garden?
21. 18
Fill in the blanks with one word-
_______ Parachute- large payment made by company
to a senior executive upon termination of employment
_______ Hello- signing bonus when a person is given a
persuasion strategy induced to leave a previous
employer
_______ Handcuff- terms in a contract for substantial
financial penalties in leaving that employment
premature
22. 19
Identify this Army officer famous in a related field and
commemorated in this stamp.
24. 21
The PEN Literary Awards are the most comprehensive in
the United States. Each year, PEN confers more than
$150,000 to writers in various fields. PEN Freedom of
Expression Courage Award 2015 has been ‘controversially’
awarded to?
26. 23
United Nations' World Meteorological Organization
replaced the name of a hurricane from its 2016 list of
hurricane names due to certain recent developments. They
replaced the earlier name which was the name of an
ancient Egyptian goddess with ‘Ivette’. What name was
replaced?
28. 25
Pax Lab, a San Francisco based company, recently got a
$46.7 million funding. They make two products Pax and
Juul. According to their website, they are reinventing the
industry (worth $7 billion in 2014) with their products.
What is their business of interest?
32. RULES2 parallel rounds
First letter of the answer Fills in a letter
12 questions. 6 A -> F
6 F -> A
6 points as base score.
+1 on each pass.
Direct question to team
after the team that
answered correct
No negatives
3 questions. 4 clues each
15/-5, 12/-5, 8/-5, 5/0
All on the buzzer. Only 1
attempt at each clue.
36. 2
Sitting in a bar with a few MBA students after a talk, Ray
Kroc asked them “What business am I in?”
The students laughed, and finally someone said, “Ray, who
in the world doesn't know that you’re in the hamburger
business.”
Ray chuckled. “That is what I thought you would say.” He
paused and then quickly said, “Ladies and gentlemen, I’m
not in the hamburger business. My business is ___ __.”
38. 3
_________ trading is the auspicious stock market trading
for an hour on Diwali. It is a symbolic and old ritual, that
has been retained and observed for ages. As Diwali also
marks the beginning of the New Year, it is believed that
_________ trading on this day brings in wealth and
prosperity. The NSE held this year’s session for 75
minutes.
Fill in the blank.
43. 5
Nicknamed 'The field of Jeans', this is the home stadium
of the San Francisco 49ers. Which San Francisco based
company bought the naming rights to this stadium in
2013?
45. 6D 6
Who wrote this 1952 book? The central character in this
book is the financial expert Margayya, who offers advice
to his fellow townspeople from under his position at the
banyan tree.
47. UB Center is an unusual Alabama attraction that sees over
a million visitors every year. It goes by the tagline 'You
never know what you'll find'. Started in 1970, what is it the
only one of it's kind in USA?
5A 7
48. 8/-5
In India, Regulatory Framework for Over-the-top (OTT)
services was released seeking comments from public
LRU
49. 8
Activists and groups like Human Rights Watch, PEN and
Amnesty International are using #Baku2015 to highlight the
arrests of journalists and arbitrary detention of activists.
This tag is causing a PR disaster for what on going event?
54. Bono became a subject of controversy when he said “We
are a tiny little country, we don’t have scale, and our
version of scale is to be innovative and to be clever, and X
has brought our country the only prosperity we’ve
known.” However, his country's government announced
plans late last year to close X, the country's biggest
loophole , apparently under pressure from OECD and
European Commission. What is X?
7D 10
56. 11
1978- Launched as a tabloid
1980- Changed to magazine format
2006- Tabloid format again and dropped ‘The' from its
name
2012- Back to the Magazine format with a new masthead
Which magazine's life has been discussed here?
61. RULES
6 Teams. 6 sets. 3 choices.
1st choice- What’s yours and only yours.
2nd choice- What’s yours but you can share.
3rd choice- What’s for everybody but yours to
decide
1st – 6/0. 2nd – 6/0 or 4/-4 each. 3rd – 6/-6.
Bonus 5 for answering all 3.
62. SET 1 SET 2 SET 3
SET 4 SET 5 SET 6
Japanese
Management
Airline livery
Forbes lists
Why did Microsoft
Special coins
Scandal
Celeb side
business
Movie Theatre
Guru speak
Corporate jargon
Islam banking
21st c. invention
Controversy
connect
90s ads
Codes
Post 1947
Economics
DRESSING SENSE
Logo inspiration
64. 3A Airline livery
Which flag carrier is celebrating its country's 50th year of
independence with a special livery, featuring a large flag of
the country on 2 Airbus A380s?
65. 5D Forbes lists
Forbes Fictional 15 is a list of 15 richest people in the
realm of fiction. To qualify for the list, members must be
‘both fictional (in the sense that we excluded mythological
and folkloric figures) and characters (meaning they are part
of a narrative story or series of stories), in addition to
being wealthy.’
The one exception to the rule was X, who is now missing
since 2006 as Forbes received letters arguing that X is real.
Who is X?
66. Why did Microsoft
Following is the most credible, but unsubstantiated, reason
for what numerically inconsistent behaviour by Microsoft-
“early testing revealed just how many third party products
had code in the form of X. This was the best solution to
avoid that.”
What is being explained here, by a self proclaimed
Microsoft developer on Reddit?
67. 9A Special coins
Even though France objected to it, Belgium still went
ahead and minted a Waterloo commemorative coin albeit
with a minor change, than what was initially planned, thus
exploiting a loophole. What?
71. Guru speak
Identify the management guru explaining how companies
can 'do well by doing good‘.
72. Corporate jargon
Forbes recently wrote an article about 15 Key Phrases to
Pass Off As a ________ Employee. In it were 15
quintessentially ______ expressions suggested by former
______ employees including,
"What's the so-what?“ "Quick wins"
"At least we now have a better idea of the questions."
"Boiling the ocean“ "Peeling the onion"
Which company's jargons were mocked thus?
73. Islam banking
The Riba is prohibited in Islam, as it implies any excess
compensation without any due consideration. It is thus not
allowed or encouraged. How do we better know Riba?
74. 21st c. invention
Chuck Hull created a process known as stereolithography
and was thus inducted into the National Inventors Hall of
Fame in 2014. How do we better know stereolithography?
78. Post 1947 Economics
Titled A Brief Memorandum Outlining a Plan of Economic
Development for India, how do we better know the plan
drawn by eight influential business leaders (including JRD
Tata, GD Birla) after WWII to develop the Indian
economy post – Independence?
79. 4A Dressing sense
From being called ‘a 1962 Don Draper as he’s taking a dip
in a pool or as the pattern of a picnic blanket in a Little
Miss Muffet nursery rhyme or in a Magic Eye book or on
wallpaper in your grandmother’s powder room' these
shorts, available for $42, made headlines recently for
somebody choice of dressing at an event. Who and where?
80. 2D Logo inspiration
The Kankaria lake in Ahmedabad serves as the inspiration
for the logo of which government owned entity HQ-ed in
Mumbai?
85. 3
Which company launched this feature in October 2014 ‘to
help the community during natural disasters’?
4 10
86. 4 10 4
This is an ad by an airlines using its country’s flag to
inform about the price of flying to various countries whose
flag can be seen inside. Which airline/country?
87. 8D 5
SUV- Sport Utility Vehicle (Chevrolet Carryall Suburban)
MUV- Multi Utility Vehicle (Bolero)
LUV- Life Utility Vehicle (Ertiga)
PUV- _______ Utility Vehicle (Multix)
Fill in the blank.
4 10
88. 1.4
What methodology to understand human behaviour was
created by John Grinder and Richard Bandler?
89. 1.10
In Forbes’ World's Highest-Paid Athletes 2015 list, only 2
women feature, one at #26 and the other at #47. Name the
2 players.
90. 2.4
‘X is Designed to minimize the amount of junk you get
when you perform a search and to help simplify tasks so
you can make the most informed decision and is thus
called a decision engine’. Decipher X.
91. 2.10
This is Boeing testing a service using sacks of potatoes
instead of humans to develop a new method of ensuring
wireless signals are as reliable as possible. This is because
potatoes' dielectric properties and 'other chemistry' is
decent approximation of humans' response to this service.
What is this service that Boeing is testing?
92. 3.4
This is one of the last paintings by M F Hussain. It was
commissioned by Usha _____ as a tribute to Indian
civilization. She showcased these painting's last year in a
London gallery. Who is Usha?
93. 3.10
Meaning mistake proofing, which Japanese concept
eliminates product defects by preventing, correcting or
drawing attention to human error as they occur? An
example; Ethernet cable
94. 4.4
This is Bozo the clown a popular TV character in the US,
being played by Willard Scott. Scott later went on to
become the first __________, till he was replaced because
of his weight.
95. 4.10
Sidewalk Labs is a new urban innovation company that
aims to improve cities. Their mission is to 'improve life in
cities for everyone through the application of technology
to solve urban problems'. Which company has started this
along with Don Doctoroff, former CEO of Bloomberg?
96. 5.4
The term ‘____-collar worker’ was popularized in the late
1990s by writer and social critic Louise Kappe Howe to
denote women working as nurses, secretaries, and
elementary school teachers. Fill in the blank.
97. 5.10
Around the 10th century, the Vikings had great control
over the people of Ireland. At that time they levied a
unique tax on the people of Ireland. If they failed to pay
the tax, the Vikings would cut their nose. What phrase did
it give rise to?
Notes de l'éditeur
Pie Chart: States Modi ji has visited/ States Modi ji will visit
Time Person of the Year 2006 . 'You'
Hawala
Eisenhower Decision Principle
Under Armour
Lesbianism (ad for Anouk by Myntra)
Titanic
Indian Coffee House
Michelle Obama
Auctions
The Ashes (Sky Sports)
Entrepreneur in Residence
Don Bradman. He even agreed to move from Sydney to Adelaide in 1934 to play for South Australia and take up a position with stockbroking firm Hodgetts and Co.
Ratan Tata (Altaeros Energies, Snapdeal, Bluestone, Urban Ladder, Swasth India, CarDekho, Grameen Capital, One97, Xiaomi and Kaaryah)
iTunes
Volkswagen Group
Intel
Nek Chand
Golden
Mikhail Kalashnikov
Advertising
Charlie Hebdo
Harshad Mehta (Gafla)
Isis
Newspapers
E-cigarettes/ vaporizers
Pie Chart: States Modi ji has visited/ States Modi ji will visit
Valencia launched a joint initiative with Red Cross on Sunday when the players wore the jerseys with their names written in Nepali against Celta Vigo.
The jerseys were auctioned to help raise funds and help support the victims in Nepal who were devastated after a series of earthquakes over the past month.
Newspapers
Real Estate
Newspapers
Mahurat
Newspapers
The Pioneer
Newspapers
Newspapers
Levi’s
Newspapers
RK Narayan
Newspapers
Unclaimed Baggage Center
Newspapers
European Games in Baku
Newspapers
Newspapers
Greenpeace to highlight the plight of Indonesian rainforests as Nestle buys palm oil
Newspapers
Double Irish (Ireland's tax competitiveness)
Newspapers
Sportstar by The Hindu
Newspapers
Mars by SpaceX
Newspapers
Start in ascending order. 7 topics with 3 sub topics displayed on screen. 1st choice is only for you followed by audience. 2nd choice is for you but if you can’t then you can seek help from any other team volunteering, however the responsibility of answering rests on you. 3rd- Open for everyone on the buzzer including you. Bonus awarded only if you answer all 3 questions including the buzzer but not with somebody else’s help.
Kaizen
Singapore Airlines
Santa Claus
Microsoft not releasing a Windows 9 but a Windows 10
In the Eurozone, any country can print any coin as long as it is in irregular denomination. So instead of a Euro 2 coin they printed a Euro 2.5 coin, which is not for circulation across the Eurozone.
FIFA scandal (Indicted / convicted corporations)
Chris Gayle
Fun Cinemas
CK Prahalad (extension to fortune at the Bottom of the pyramid)
McKinsey
Interest/Usury
3D Printing/Additive Manufacturing
Maggi
First prepared by this scientist Kikunae Ikeda
Julius Maggi founded the company Maggi
Paul Bulcke, Nestle CEO
Teresa Brewer- Music Music Music (Maggi copied the song)
BPL
Bulk SMS marketing codes. AD- means Tata in Delhi
Bombay Plan
Stanislas Wawrinka
State Bank of India
Start in ascending order. 7 topics with 3 sub topics displayed on screen. 1st choice is only for you followed by audience. 2nd choice is for you but if you can’t then you can seek help from any other team volunteering, however the responsibility of answering rests on you. 3rd- Open for everyone on the buzzer including you. Bonus awarded only if you answer all 3 questions including the buzzer but not with somebody else’s help.