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Prelim Round
• 30 Questions• No negatives, guessing is encouraged• Top 6 teams qualify for the finals• 6 star marked questions will come into play in
case of a tie
Q.2
X was a German engineer, automobile pioneer and founder of manufacturing giant Y. Y's name
is based on the surname of X, his surname meaning "listen" or "hear" in German — which,
when translated into Latin, becomes Y.
Identify X and Y.
Q.4 The Macmillan English Dictionary defines XY as a
marketing strategy in which a competing brand connects itself with a major sporting event without paying sponsorship fee.
In other words, it is a type of marketing by a company that is not an official sponsor of an event, but which places advertisements using the event, to induce customers to pay attention to the advertisement.
Identify XY.
Q.7X Krishnamurthy was born in Chennai, and received a
Bachelor's degree in Physics, Chemistry and Maths from Madras Christian College in 1974 and a Post Graduate
Diploma in Management from Indian Institute of Management Calcutta in 1976. She was admitted to Yale School of Management in 1978 and earned a Master's
degree in Public and Private Management.Later on she famously rejected an offer from the
legendary corporate chieftain, General Electric’s Jack Welch in 1994, and instead joined Y.
Identify X and Y.
Q.8
The origins of this bank lay in Calcutta, the then capital of British India when it was born as the Bank of Calcutta on June 2, 1806, mainly to fund General
Wellesley’s wars against Tipu Sultan and the Marathas. It was renamed Bank of Bengal on
January 2, 1809.
How do we know this bank today?
Q.9“Last time there was this much excitement about a tablet, it had
some commandments written on it”
- The Wall Street Journal
In response to which event was this famous quote published by WSJ?
Q.10*
"The most ineffective workers are systematically moved to the place where they can do the least
damage: Management."Name this business principle.
Q.11X word gets its name from the carob seed. Carob seeds were used as weights on precision scales because of their reputation for having a uniform weight. It is said that in order to keep uniformity among regional buyers and sellers of Y; a potential customer could retrieve their own carob seeds on their way to the market, to check the tolerances of the seeds used by the merchant.
Id X and Y.
Q.12X status is conferred by Department of Public Enterprises. To be qualified as an X company, it must meet certain conditions based on six parameters which include:1>net profit to net worth, 2>total manpower cost to total cost of production or cost of services,3>PBDIT (Profit Before Depreciation, Interest and Taxes) to capital employed,4>PBDIT to turnover, 5>EPS (Earning Per Share) and 6>inter-sectorial performance. Additionally, a company must first have Y status and have four independent directors on its board before it can be made a X company.
Q.15*Sonia Gandhi was depicted as a witch in BJP’s in-house monthly magazine Deep Kamal. This was inspired by a famous Bollywood song of the last year.
Name this song.
Q.16X's net worth is estimated at $3 billion. He stars and produces a show for which he charges an estimated $3 million per episode making him one of the highest paid TV personalities. He makes cameo appearances in films as himself, most recently in “Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps”.
He is considered a possible candidate for president of the United States in 2012. In 2004 he filed a trademark application for the catchphrase Y.Identify X and Y.
Q.17we wear cool suits
we wear shiny shoes we're the _________ ______ we're special, we're clever
we're very very clever we're the _________ ______
we do chat
and we do mail we do surf
we do all on the move Oooo,ooo,ooo,hoooo
Cos We're the _________ ______
Q.18
It is derived from the fact that in the merchant navy, its size is such that it lasts exactly for the
amount of time sailors are given a break.
Which term?
Q.19
If Cutting Edge Entertainment is owned by the Tatas, Applause Entertainment by the Birlas then which business house owns Mumbai Mantra?
Q.21"That was a time when nobody when was going to give India any money. People forget that we had to
pawn our entire X stock…...India had to physically move the X stock out of India, abroad. I'm informed, by very, very reliable sources, that the van taking the X to the airport
broke down, and there was total panic", a quote of Meghnad Desai during an interview.
What is X and what is the time that he is talking about called?
Q.22X offers various precision subsystems for spacecrafts,
including solar array deployment mechanisms, camera control, spacecraft power systems and power electronics, transponders and attitude control
systems.
X is also the commercial wing of ISRO, and has been in news recently for its alleged loss making deal with Y, a
Bangalore based start-up.
Identify X and Y.
Q.23In 1984, X banked on his conviction that the potential cost
savings of a manufacturer selling PCs directly had enormous advantages over the conventional indirect retail channel. This
led him to start "PC's Limited", with a manufacturing staff "consisting of three guys with screwdrivers sitting at six-foot
tables."
In 1992 at the age of 27, X became the youngest CEO to have his company ranked in Fortune magazine's list of the top 500
corporations.
He now serves on the governing board of the Indian School of Business in Hyderabad, India. Identify X.
Q.24This is a Danish brewing
company founded in 1847 by J. C. Jacobsen, named after his son.
He also setup a laboratory which is famous for isolating the species of yeast responsible for
lager fermentation; as well as for introducing the concept of pH in
acid-base chemistry.
Identify the company.
It was part of the sting operation carried out by Google on Microsoft’s Bing, to prove that Bing
steals Google’s search results
Q.26Which financial term connects the following:
• The conjectural contemplation or consideration of some subject
• A single instance or process of consideration
• Engagement in business transactions involving considerable risk but offering the chance of large gains, esp. trading in commodities, stocks, etc., in the hope of profit from changes in the market price.
• A financial action that does not promise safety of the initial investment along with the return on the principal sum.
Q.28”V W X” started Arbusto Energy Inc. (arbusto means shrub or X in Spanish), which aimed to
explore for oil. After Arbusto's public issue in 1982 fared miserably, he changed its name to X
Exploration. In 1984, with the company desperately in need of capital infusion, X merged it with Spectrum 7 and took over as it’s CEO. One of the half brothers of Y also invested in this company and this fact became
controversial after the 9/11 attacks. Identify “V W X” and Y.
Q.30*Kidco is a Pakistan based manufacturer of
chocolates. It sells chocolates under the brand names of Chox, Centro, 4Ever, Roma, Rangeeli, etc.
None of its product are sold in India, yet one of its product is quite popular in India because of its ads
being splashed prominently across a particular entertainment medium.
Give Funda.