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 R Y M I S T R Y 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 W A 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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conglomerate_(company)


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G E O R G E Y U L EC 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 W A 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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W A LT D I S N E Y & W A 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 R Y

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singapore


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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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midas_List

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midas_List


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P E T E R T H E I LD 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)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rollins_College

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity_College,_Cambridge

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mumbai


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R A H U L G A N D H I


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W H AT W A 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 W A R SF I R S T A N D S E C O N D B R O W S E R W A 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 SH 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 SJ U S T A R AT H E R V E R Y 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 RL 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 GM 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 W A 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 W A 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 W A 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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arvind_Gaur

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imran_Zahid


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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

http://gangofgirls.com


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

http://sunsilkgangofgirls.com


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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 W A 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 R Y ' SB E N C O H E N & J E R R Y 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 R YA 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 GP 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 W A 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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burroughs_Corporation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNIVAC

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NCR_Corporation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control_Data_Corporation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honeywell_Corporation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Electric

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Electric

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RCA


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I B M A N D T H E S E V E N D W A 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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foodpremiW h o a c q u i r e d ? W h y w a s i t a c o n t r o v e r s y r e 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 nI 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 AYN 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 AJ A N U A R Y 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 R Y ?

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.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dev_Anand

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satish_Gujral

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Javed_Akhtar

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuldip_Nayar

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kapil_Dev

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shatrughan_Sinha

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shatrughan_Sinha

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mallika_Sarabhai


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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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Business & Politics Quiz Finals at The Quiz Fest - 17