Business QuizQuizzing Section, IITR

Instructions

1.Prelims: 20 Questions2.Kindly refrain from Cybernetic investigations.3.No Negatives. Guess away!4.The more you stare at the question, the more answer

stares back at you.

1.

Founded in 1952 by late Shri Keshav Vishnu Pendharkar, the X Industrial Chemical Company has emerged today as the maker of internationally known products of Ayurveda, the ancient Indian system of natural medicines. Having production units at Dombivli, Nagpur and Goa in India, its products include herbal tooth paste, herbal tooth powder, a natural skin cream, herbal shaving cream, etc.

Give X and the company’s household name.

2.Grupo X-San Miguel is a Spanish brewing company, founded in Madrid in 1890 under the name of Hijos de Casimiro X, fabrica de hielo y cerveza (The Sons of Casimiro X, production of ice and beer). X-San Miguel is the leading brand in the Spanish beer market. In 1890, Enrique, Luis, and Carolina, the children of a French entrepreneur born in Lorraine, founded Hijos de Casimiro X in Madrid. The French surname was to become the flagship name of one of Spain's most famous beers.

Give X.

3. Tu banega Roadie?"Say the pensioner wants to buy ____ and at the beginning of the period, they cost Rs. 50 per ____. Let us say he has savings of Rs. 1,00,000. He could buy 2,000 _____ with the money today, but he wants more by investing. At 10 per cent interest, he gets Rs. 10,000 after one year plus his principal. With _____ having gone up by 10 per cent to Rs.55, he can buy 182 _____ approximately with the Rs. 10,000 interest. At 8 per cent interest, he gets Rs. 8,000. With _____ having gone up by 5.5 per cent, each _____ costs Rs. 52.75, so he can now buy only 152 _____ approximately. So the pensioner seems vindicated: with lower interest payments, he can now buy less.”

Explain the funda and name the fundebaaz.

4. Fugazi, Fugazi. It's a wazy. It's a woozie. It's fairy dust.

5.

6. Thanda matlab?“I like to be near water,” says Ravi Jaipuria seated in his office on the top floor of a building that bears his initials and is located in Gurgaon, a bustling township adjacent to Delhi. But the ocean is nowhere close, so the chairman of the $1 billion (revenues) privately-held RJ Corp has to make do with an artificial waterfall in the terrace adjoining his office. Water of the flavored kind has made Jaipuria, 58, a fortune: _____ by far in India–he claims to be among the multinational giant’s top three globally-is India’s newest billionaire with a fortune estimated at close to $1.5 billion.

7.

8. • KERALA has almost all banks both nationalised and private competing

with each other for providing more and more value-added services. The latest in this series is going to be a ________ ATM (automated teller machine), first of its kind in India and perhaps in the world.• The State Bank of India would be launching the first-ever ________

ATM here soon. The ____, which will be fitted with the ATM is in the final stages of completion and would become operational soon, according to sources.

9.• SumZero is a company started by X and Aalap Mahadevia. X described

how he came up with the concept in an interview. "SumZero was initially inspired by a need for a simple, centralized, and searchable platform in which professional investors working at hedge funds, mutual funds, and private equity funds could share rigorous investment ideas and network with one another. Since then the concept has expanded and SumZero is taking steps to bring a subset of high-level investment research to the investing community at large.

X is of Indian origin, attended Harvard.

10. Principles of what?(1) Place the tools and the men in the sequence of the operation so that

each component part shall travel the least possible distance while in the process of finishing.

(2) Use work slides or some other form of carrier so that when a workman completes his operation, he drops the part always in the same place—which place must always be the most convenient place to his hand—and if possible have gravity carry the part to the next workman for his own.

(3) Use sliding ______ by which the parts to be assembled are delivered at convenient distances.

11. Kya hai kya ye?

12. To err, is inhuman.It is by his own admission, Warren Buffet’s biggest mistake. Had he not committed it, it is predicted that his net worth would be around 200 Billion USD. What’s the blunder?

13. What modern logo did the following inspire?

14. Aladeen muthafuckaX’s value has been estimated at anywhere between US$1.25 trillion and US$10 trillion making it the world's most valuable company.

15. • On Thursday, mobile payments and e-commerce company One97

Communications Ltd, which operates under the X brand, won the title sponsorship rights for all cricket matches, domestic and international, played in India under the aegis of BCCI for four years in a deal worth Rs.203.28 crore.• The deal covers 84 matches. X will pay Rs. 2.42 crore per match,

higher than the minimum bid price of Rs. 2 crore per match.

Answers

1.

Founded in 1952 by late Shri Keshav Vishnu Pendharkar, the X Industrial Chemical Company has emerged today as the maker of internationally known products of Ayurveda, the ancient Indian system of natural medicines. Having production units at Dombivli, Nagpur and Goa in India, its products include herbal tooth paste, herbal tooth powder, a natural skin cream, herbal shaving cream, etc.

Give X and the company’s household name.

Vishnu Industrial Chemical Company

2.Grupo X-San Miguel is a Spanish brewing company, founded in Madrid in 1890 under the name of Hijos de Casimiro X, fabrica de hielo y cerveza (The Sons of Casimiro X, production of ice and beer). X-San Miguel is the leading brand in the Spanish beer market. In 1890, Enrique, Luis, and Carolina, the children of a French entrepreneur born in Lorraine, founded Hijos de Casimiro X in Madrid. The French surname was to become the flagship name of one of Spain's most famous beers.

Give X.

“Beer kaun kaun si hai?”“MHAAAU hogi.”

3. Tu banega Roadie?"Say the pensioner wants to buy ____ and at the beginning of the period, they cost Rs. 50 per ____. Let us say he has savings of Rs. 1,00,000. He could buy 2,000 _____ with the money today, but he wants more by investing. At 10 per cent interest, he gets Rs. 10,000 after one year plus his principal. With _____ having gone up by 10 per cent to Rs.55, he can buy 182 _____ approximately with the Rs. 10,000 interest. At 8 per cent interest, he gets Rs. 8,000. With _____ having gone up by 5.5 per cent, each _____ costs Rs. 52.75, so he can now buy only 152 _____ approximately. So the pensioner seems vindicated: with lower interest payments, he can now buy less.”

Explain the funda and name the fundebaaz.

Dosa Economics

4. Fugazi, Fugazi. It's a wazy. It's a woozie. It's fairy dust.

Goldman Sachs (@GSElevator)

5.

David Ogilvy of the Ogilvy and Mather ‘fame’.

6. Thanda matlab?“I like to be near water,” says Ravi Jaipuria seated in his office on the top floor of a building that bears his initials and is located in Gurgaon, a bustling township adjacent to Delhi. But the ocean is nowhere close, so the chairman of the $1 billion (revenues) privately-held RJ Corp has to make do with an artificial waterfall in the terrace adjoining his office. Water of the flavored kind has made Jaipuria, 58, a fortune: _____ by far in India–he claims to be among the multinational giant’s top three globally-is India’s newest billionaire with a fortune estimated at close to $1.5 billion.

 PepsiCo’s largest franchise bottler

7.

Precision Parking by Volkswagen

8. • KERALA has almost all banks both nationalised and private competing

with each other for providing more and more value-added services. The latest in this series is going to be a ________ ATM (automated teller machine), first of its kind in India and perhaps in the world.• The State Bank of India would be launching the first-ever ________

ATM here soon. The ____, which will be fitted with the ATM is in the final stages of completion and would become operational soon, according to sources.

World’s first floating ATM

9.• SumZero is a company started by X and Aalap Mahadevia. X described

how he came up with the concept in an interview. "SumZero was initially inspired by a need for a simple, centralized, and searchable platform in which professional investors working at hedge funds, mutual funds, and private equity funds could share rigorous investment ideas and network with one another. Since then the concept has expanded and SumZero is taking steps to bring a subset of high-level investment research to the investing community at large.

X is of Indian origin, attended Harvard.

Divya Narendra (Chutiya hehehuheuhueh)

10. Principles of what?(1) Place the tools and the men in the sequence of the operation so that

each component part shall travel the least possible distance while in the process of finishing.

(2) Use work slides or some other form of carrier so that when a workman completes his operation, he drops the part always in the same place—which place must always be the most convenient place to his hand—and if possible have gravity carry the part to the next workman for his own.

(3) Use sliding ______ by which the parts to be assembled are delivered at convenient distances.

Assembly Line

11. Kya hai kya ye?

Apple and Alphabet’s market cap.

12. To err, is inhuman.It is by his own admission, Warren Buffet’s biggest mistake. Had he not committed it, it is predicted that his net worth would be around 200 Billion USD. What’s the blunder?

Buying Berkshire Hathaway

13. What modern logo did the following inspire?

RBI

14. Aladeen MuthafuckaX’s value has been estimated at anywhere between US$1.25 trillion and US$10 trillion making it the world's most valuable company.

Saudi Arabian national petroleum and natural gas company based in Dhahran.

15. • On Thursday, mobile payments and e-commerce company One97

Communications Ltd, which operates under the X brand, won the title sponsorship rights for all cricket matches, domestic and international, played in India under the aegis of BCCI for four years in a deal worth Rs.203.28 crore.• The deal covers 84 matches. X will pay Rs. 2.42 crore per match,

higher than the minimum bid price of Rs. 2 crore per match.

Paytm

Prelims over. Mains start.

1. 1. X2. Robert Mercer3. Toby Neugebauer, C.V. Starr & Company Inc.4. George Soros

Top donors for US elections.

2. Who?• Founder and current chair of the Alliance for Climate Protection• Co-founder and chair of Generation Investment Management and the

now-defunct Current TV network• Member of the Board of Directors of Apple Inc.• A senior adviser to Google. • A partner in the venture capital firm, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers,

heading its climate change solutions group.• Former US vice-president.

Al Gore

3. http://www.painlessdrz.com/

Edward Zuckerberg, dadu of Maxima Zuckerberg, daughter of Mark Zuckerberg, son of Edward Zuckerberg.

4.Yoshida Kōgyō Kabushiki geisha is the world’s foremost _____ manufacturer, making about 90% of all _____ in over 206 facilities in 52 countries. In fact, they not only make the _____, they also make the machines that make the _____. Their largest factory in Georgia makes over 7 million _____ per day.

Zippers

5.• X is a historical tribe (and region) in Northern Albania (see Malësia).

With expansion of the Ottoman Empire, part of the tribe migrated to Rugova beginning in ca. 1700, after which they continued to migrate into the Sandžak region (today in Serbia and Montenegro). The X tribe converted into Islam in the 18th century, while the X in Sandžak (known as ____/Serbian: Шкријељ) over time were Islamized and today declare Bosniak ethnicity. There are minor families which still adhere to Christianity (most of whom are Catholic, the rest Orthodox).• X is also associated with popular douchebaggery in recent times.

X - Shkreli

6."The dirty bastards are back again.”This line allegedly marks an important event in the history of sports and business. The misunderstanding caused by this line led to a rift between two personalities who went on to form their very special companies.Explain the whole situation.

• In the 1920s, German brothers Adolf and Rudolf Dassler launched a shoe company together in their mother's laundry room. Their business boomed after Dassler shoes adorned the feet of gold-medal-winning Olympians in the 1930s. But as their sales spiked, so did the tension between the two brothers. • After an Allied bomb attack, Adolf and his wife took cover in a bomb

shelter already occupied by Rudolf and his family. "The dirty bastards are back again," Adolf said, apparently referring to the planes, but Rudolf thought the comment was an attack against his family.

7. What is? Also, explain what is blanked out.

8. X?• The accused, Ram Niwas Pal (40), was arrested from Whitefield Road in Bangalore, where he was

residing under a fake identity — Abhay Singh Chandel — and had changed his appearance. He was in the process of developing a business plan for a Malaysia-based IT firm trying his luck for certification of popularity for online advertisements of various websites. Ram Niwas Pal was wanted in nine cases in Mumbai, Andhra Pradesh, Haryana and Madhya Pradesh.

• On November 26, the Crime Branch arrested Ram Niwas Pal's brother Ram Sumiran Pal (37). He told police that his elder brother and an associate Manoj Kumar Sharma were running the online survey marketing company called X, which had been registered in Singapore.

• They had reportedly created several companies and sold web subscriptions for Rs 11,000 each. In return, the investors were asked to fill survey forms for certain multinational firms. They were promised an annual payment of Rs 52,000.

• Explaining the process, police said, members who paid Rs 11,000 would get a password to open an account on the company site. At least two survey forms were displayed to each member. For completing these, members would get more than Rs 4,000 per month. Apart fom that, each member would get Rs 1,000 as commission for referring others. However, the surveys were later found to be fake.

Speak Asia Scam

9. X and Y, please?X doctrine asserts:• Continuous efforts to achieve stable and predictable process results (e.g.

by reducing process variation) are of vital importance to business success.• Manufacturing and business processes have characteristics that can be

defined, measured, analyzed, improved, and controlled.• Achieving sustained quality improvement requires commitment from the

entire organization, particularly from top-level management.

X is a set of techniques and tools for process improvement. It was introduced by engineer Bill Smith while working at Y in 1986.

• X - 6 Sigma• Y - Motorola

10. • In 2008, New Zealand’s family court ordered a nine-year-old girl,

whose parents had called her Talula Does The Hula From Hawaii, should have her name changed.

Judge Rob Murfitt said it was embarrassing and ‘makes a fool of the child’. He also criticised parents who gave their children bizarre names, citing examples such as ‘Number 16 Bus Shelter’, ‘Midnight Chardonnay’ and twins called ‘X’ & ‘Y’.

• Benson & Hedges

11.

• The X Foundation , formerly known as the Y Foundation , is a United States non profit organization that provides support for people affected by cancer.• The X wristband is a yellow silicone gel bracelet program launched in

May 2004 as a fund-raising item. The bracelet was developed by Nike and its advertising agency, Wieden + Kennedy.• Following Y’s doping scandal, people in agitation started striking off a

letter from ‘X’ to make it Z which became more relevant after Y’s admittance of doping. • Give me X, Y and Z.

• X : Livestrong• Y: Lance Armstrong• Z: Liestrong

• People struck off the letter ‘V’ from the band.

12. • In April-May 2015, due to outbreak of Avian Flu, United states suffered

an “egg shortage”. Some egg-dependent companies started importing eggs from overseas or looking to egg alternatives.• Meanwhile, X, world’s largest of its kind, which was mired in its worst

slump in more than a decade announced a new plan to revive its domestic sales. The new plan worsened the egg crisis of United States. • “It’s going to make it harder for everyone,” Darren Tristano, an

executive vice president at research firm Technomic, told Bloomberg. “It’s going to lift prices across a lot of those products that use eggs.”• Give me X and it’s new strategy.

X- McDonalds

• McDonalds announced its plan to sell breakfast sandwiches (Egg McMuffin) throughout the day. • Analysts reported that the all-day breakfast offering exacerbated the

growing egg shortage brought on by the worst outbreak of avian flu in the last three decades.

13. X, Y, Z bata do. Jaldi.• Prior to 2014 season , X and the NFL struck a 5-year, $400 million deal with

one of the major components being that the X’s Y would become "the official ______ of the NFL" with coaches and players using Y on the side lines during games.

But X and the league ran into a problem during week one of the season when at least two television announcers mistakenly referred to the Y as Z giving a huge rival some unexpected exposure.• The biggest blunder for the league came during the nationally televised

Monday Night Football game when ESPN's Trent Dilfer joked about how long it took Cardinals assistant head coach Tom Moore to "learn how to use the Z to scroll through the pictures."

• X: Microsoft• Y: Surface tablet• Z: iPad

14. • Recently a $7.2 billion pharmaceutical company changed its name

from 'X Pharmaceuticals' to ‘Ionis Pharmaceuticals’ and thereby changing the ticker symbol from 'X' to 'IONS'. The former name was derived from 'X', the Egyptian goddess of health, marriage, and wisdom. In a similar manner 'X Mobile Wallet' which was started by AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon changed its name in September 2014 to JVL Ventures LLC and the business name as Softcard which was later acquired by Google and integrated into Google wallet. Identify X.

15. • In July 2015, Motor Trend ran an article that provided a few specifications

for X’s proposed electric vehicle: it will have 15 percent higher specific energy than a Tesla Model S, it utilizes a multi cell solution where both individual cells and groups of cells can be replaced, and it will have a modular design for improved mass-production methods.• On January 4, 2016 at the US Consumer Electronics Show, they revealed

their 1,000 hp (750 kW), 200 mph (320 km/h), single seat race-car concept. It has a style similar to the 1960s Batmobile. They showed a video demonstrating how their basic design would allow for many body styles and battery configurations.• Id this US-based, Chinese-backed[2] global company.

• Faraday future

16. • On 15th August 1947, Calcutta newspapers carried an advertisement

informing audiences that from two specified city outlets, X would be distributed free to anyone who asks for it during the day.• X has travelled all the way to the Antarctica with a woman scientist

who was part of the Expedition in 1983. It has also accompanied a soldier posted at a high altitude in the Himalayas who thanked X for aiding his survival in the hostile climate

X : boroline