AT 14 Business Quiz Finals

ROUND1

• Written Differential round• Logos will be explained.• Identify the logo.• 3*(number of teams getting it

wrong)

1

• This is the pic of Magdeburg hemispheres. It inspired two logos. Name both.

2

This is Leontopodium alpinum, is a well-known mountain flower, belonging to the sunflower family. Its common name is also the name of a company which uses this flower in its logo.

3

• The new logo was unveiled in May 2012. It was selected through a competition. Out of the entries received, Eric Atkins of USA was announced as the winner of the contest. It has two aspects added into one :

The first two letters of the name of the company is shown and it also looks like a hand holding a device. Which logo?

4

• Thistle is the common name of a group of flowering plants characterised by leaves with sharp prickles on the margins. Which company has incorporated this flower into its logo?

5

• The logo features a a plump infant Hercules, holding a serpent by the neck in each hand, as the famous trademark. Which logo?

• Woodword’s Gripe water

ROUND2-Pradakshine Apradakshine

• 12 Dries going clockwise, next 12 AntiClockwise

• +10/0 on a direct or a pass• +10/-10 on pounce• +5 bonus for an exclusive answer.

1

Complete this punch line from Occupy Wall Street.

2

• Who is the famous owner of this company?

• Ramesh Srivats

3

• X’s collection of music memorabilia began in 1979 when Eric Clapton who was a fan of X gifted a red Fender Lead II. This prompted a drunken Pete Townshend to donate one of his guitars with a note “Mine's as good as his! Love, Pete”.

• Since then several musicians have donated instruments, clothes, photographs and other memorabilia to X.

• Also, X has bought several items from auctions and other sources and the collection (numbering over70000 items) now is one of the largest in the world and includes two vaults, one in Florida (now closed) and the other in London. X?

4

• When it was legalised and formalised in Poland in 1957, people(usually tourists) could buy booklets including coupons from travel agencies. These coupons were exchanged for a certain service on the roads. By the end of each season people who collected the highest number of coupons could exchange them for prizes as a mark of appreciation for being helpful. This so-called "Akcja Autostop" was popular till the end of the 1970s, but the sale of the coupons was discontinued in 1995. What was this service?

• For Hitchiking

5

• Palmiers are a traditional French puff pastry made from rich, buttery dough. Their name, derived from the French word for the palm tree, refers to a supposed resemblance to palm fronds. They are also called Elephant-Ears on account of their shape. Under what trade name have they been marketed in India?(image next slide)

6

• Y Rajeev Reddy’s tryst with real estate started as an early age when he started Amruta Estates in 1981 and from then on expanded rapidly. His main aim was to make a certain sector of hospitality business easy and affordable to everyone. He is often described as the “man with the most famous thumb of India”. Owner of which famous company?

7• The scheme is named after

Charles _________ who became notorious for using the technique in 1920.He did not invent the scheme, but his operation took in so much money that it was the first to become known throughout the United States.

• His original scheme was based on the arbitrage of international reply coupons for postage stamps; however, he soon diverted investors' money to make payments to earlier investors and himself.

• Ponzi Scheme

8

• ‘Soll und Haben’ are the nicknames given to the twin towers of Deutsche Bank HQ. What do they translate to in English?

• Credit and Debit

9

• This company plans to celebrate October 20th as International mobile photography day, also bringing out a mobile photo documentary. Which company and how was the date chosen?

10

How would you connect the following-Mother Nature (a globe)Scribble (an origamiesque cat)Power Pup (a superhero dog)Will (a caricature of William Shakespeare)Bosgrove (a butler)Kairu the Dolphin The most famous of them all, Clippy.

• Microsoft office assistants

11

It is a fairly popular Finnish sports equipment brand. In 1951, Karhu sold something it had been using to a then little known German brand called Adidas for the equivalent of 1600 euros and two bottles of whiskey. What?

The three stripes used by Adidas on all their products

12• They migrated to USA from Poland and changed their names to

Jack, Harry, Albert and Sam. How do we know them?

13

The NatGeo logo is called the

Golden Rectangle for more than a reason. What?

• The length and breadth are in golden ratio

14

• What shape makes up the equivalent in namma Bengaluru?

15.Taco vs who in the twitter war?

16. Since we are talking twitter battles. Who vs Who?

17

• In 1974, Gerard Colby Zilg, wrote ___________: Behind the Nylon Curtain, a critical account of the role of the ________ family in American social, political and economic history. The book was nominated for a National Book Award in 1974.

• A ___________ family member obtained an advance copy of the manuscript and was "predictably outraged".

• The book was about which American giant?

• DuPont

18

• The designer had only five markers at that point of time, and so came about an orange face, blue hair, red polka-dots in the dress, black for the outlines and green for the headline. What resulted thus?

• The Amul Girl

19

This American company is headquartered in Fountain valley California. It is one of the largest players in its field of business. John Tu and David Sun are the founders of this company. Though not very clear ,many say and it is a good argument that the company was named after founder’s favorite travel place as the name of the company/place has absolutely no relation to the kind business they are in. Name the company?

20

This is the ancient greek 'Temple of Parthenon'. Being a UNESCO proteceted site , any commercial use of its image needs a permission from UNESCO. But it has been speculated to have appeared in a very popular logo. Which logo consists of this greek architectural marvel?

21. Who is the author?

22

• Complete this song. Listen to the fairy song of health, the merry chorus sung by Kellogg's

Rice Krispies as they merrily ______, ______ and ______ in a bowl of milk.

If you've never heard food talking, now is your chance.

• Snap, crackle and pop

23

• Identify the logo. Most of us would have heard its name being associated with another company.

• Farm Beaurau( Facebook bought fb.com from them)

24

• In the January edition of Forbes India it published a detailed growth of Micromax in India. The article said one of the key reasons for the success of Micromax mobiles was ‘an uncanny ability to spot product gaps in the market, and the speed with which its supply chain responds to them’. Hence it was compared to ___X___, a fashion giant that launches 10,000 new designs every year, with some going from design tables to stores in as little as two weeks.

• K Nettakallappa who is considered to be a visionary in the history of Karnataka business was key to the development of many small time entrepreneurs, as he funded them through loans and investments. He also was one of the first people in Bangalore to promote football by funding training academies. His elder son Guruswamy established a famous group that is prevalent all over Karnataka. Which group?

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