The ‘Dhanda’(Business) Quiz Elims!

QM’s:- Dhruv Bhatnagar Aniruddha Mitra

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Q. 1

The copper coin (shown below) was first introduced by Sher Shah Suri during his rule of India between 1540 and 1545, along with Mohur, the gold coin and Rupiya, the silver coin. Later on, the Mughal Emperors standardised the coin along with other silver (Rupiya) and gold (Mohur) coins in order to consolidate the monetary system across India. The question is, which english phrase originated from the name of this coin.

1.Dam,since it’s value was very less.

It eventually began to called as ‘I don’t give a dam[n].’

Q.2 Chetan Bhagat in his novel 2 States says “When ‘X’ sees a great future in you, it means you have no life at present”. ‘X’ is which company?

2. Citibank

Q.3 Amul Tribute to?

3 Mario Miranda

Q 4

Which market in Mumbai controls 65% of India’s gold trading & dealing ?

4 Zaveri Bazaar

Q.5 The name for a clothing brand also stands for the legendary sword of King Arthur. Which word?

5 Excalibur

Q.6 Which Company and who?

6.

7.• Video:-

Tell me the name of the company(X) who mad e this ad which depicts some other company(Y) in a negative light. And this ad was inspired by a novel by Z.

7. Apple Macintosh 1984 Ad

• X –Apple Computers• Y –IBM• Z—George Orwell book ‘1984’

IBM is potrayed as a ‘Big Brother’ in a

Q.8.

This brand dates back to 1851 in Rhode Island when Robert Knight, a textile mill owner, visited his friend, Rufus Skeel. Mr. Skeel owned a small shop in Providence, Rhode Island that sold cloth from Mr. Knight’s mill. Mr. Skeel’s daughter painted images of apples and applied them to the bolts of cloth. The ones with the apple emblems proved most popular. Mr. Knight thought the labels would be the perfect symbol for his trade name. What?

8 Fruit Of The Loom

Q. 9. Amazon’s foray into Online Retail in India. Which website?

Junglee.com

Q-10.

This Mascot has a scarf, a chef’s hat, two big blue eyes, a blush when girls kissed him, and a soft, warm chuckle when poked in the stomach.What are we talking about?

10. Pillsbury Doughboy Poppin’ Fresh

Q.11What derives it’s name from the generic ingredients used to make the object below.?

11.Piggy Bank derives its name from the orange clay “pygg” from which it was originally made. In the middle ages people used to store such items such as salt in wide necked jars which were made from a clay called “pygg”.

Q.12 Identify the company?

12 Prometric(they handle the CAT examination)

13.Name the 2 wheeler brand that got associated with the movie ‘3 Idiots.’

13. Mahindra Flyte

Q.14 Highest paying taxpayer politician in India?

14. Mayawati!

15.In 1970’s,this firm did a research for HLL and the insight they got was that the Indian housewife spent her time cooking or managing the house except 10 minutes that she spent taking a bath. Then they commissioned what she dreamed from dawn to dusk. What resulted?

15. Girl in Liril Watrefall

16. Whose ads?

16. Burger King

17. Which conglomerates major acquisitions?

• May 2000 - BSES• Oct 2003 - FLAG Telecom, 207Mn$• July 2005 - Metro Adlabs (51% stake), 74Mn$• Nov 2006 - Travelmate services (100% stake)• July 2007 - Yipes Services USA, 300Mn$• July 2007 -Swan Telecom (now Etisalat DB) (9.9% stake)• Dec 2007 - ND Studio (50% stake), 35Mn$• Apr 2008 - Lowry Digital USA, 7.5Mn$• Apr 2008 - eWaveWorldUK (90% stake)• May 2008 - Vanco• Sept 2008 - Wall street finance (36% stake)• Mar 2009 - Synergy• Nov 2009 - Quant Capital • Jan 2010 - Ilab UK Ltd.• Apr 2010 - Codemasters UK (50% stake)• July 2010 - Digicable • Jan 2011 - Imagine Showbiz• Oct 2011 - Annapurna Studios• Sept 2011 - Bloomberg UTV (66% stake)

17. ADAG

18.* Who vs Who? Name the companies!

V/S

18- Energizer vs Duracell

Breaaaakkkkkk……

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