THE BURNING BRIDGES

6THE BUSINESS QUIZ

WITH PRATYUSH PRAN SARMA

AT SADDA-ADDATHE COTTON COLLEGE HUB QUIZ

EVENT1ST APRIL CONFERENCE HALL

Before starting the quiz -

Rules -

1. This is a business quiz.

2. The quiz master (me, -_-) has researched all the questions, and has tried to cross-check almost every info. Any resemblance to questions in other blogs/pages/quizzes are purely coincidental. But there may be arguments, and I would like to handle that after the quiz. I am not the God, neither the Boss, I am a mere human. So have pity on me.

There are 5 rounds. All written.

May the force be with you.

Round 1

• Contains 10 questions.

• Each question carries 1 point each.

• Write them down.

1. Henry Barraud (16 May 1811 – 17 June 1874) was an English portrait, subject and animal painter. Henry excelled in painting animals, but his works were chiefly portraits, with horses and dogs, and subject pictures, such as 'The Pope blessing the Animals' (painted in 1842).

What did his son, Francis’s most famous creation inspire?

HMV, His Master’s Voice

2. The red-billed streamertail (Trochilus polytmus), also known as the doctor bird, scissor-tail or scissors tail hummingbird, is indigenous to this country, where it is the most abundant and widespread member of the hummingbird family.

Which national airline has this bird as its logo?

(The reason - the bird being the national bird of that country)

Air Jamaica

3. Duff Beer is the most popular brand of beer in Springfield. It is Homer Simpson's favorite drink, and is enthusiastically promoted by The Duffs, mascots for Duff Beer. They appear as costumed characters at the Duff Gardens theme park. They are Tipsy, Queasy, Surly, Sleazy, Edgy, Dizzy and Remorseful. 

Easy one – what are they referenced to?

The Seven dwarves from Snow-white fame

4. Skåne County, sometimes referred to as "Scania County" in English, is the southernmost county or län, of Sweden, basically corresponding to the traditional province Skåne.  The coat of arms for Skåne County is the same as for the province of Skåne, only with the tinctures reversed and the crown, beak and tongue of the griffin in the same color.

Which company bears the same thing on its logo?

SAAB

5. The label of the product contains the following verse from the poem Weidmannsheil, by the forester, hunter, and ornithologist Oskar von Riesenthal.

Das ist des ______ Ehrenschild,daß er beschützt und hegt sein Wild,weidmännisch jagt, wie sich’s gehört,den Schöpfer im Geschöpfe ehrt.

The translation is:

It is the hunter’s honour that heProtects and preserves his game,Hunts sportsmanlike, honours theCreator in His creatures.

Name the company.

Jagermeister

6. It is a manufacturer of premium chocolates and related products. It was founded in 1926 in Brussels, Belgium, by Joseph Draps who opened his first boutique in the Grand Place in Brussels under its present name, in honour of a legend. In 1967, it was purchased by the Campbell Soup Company. On December 20, 2007, Campbell announced that it entered into an agreement to sell it to Yıldız Holding based in Istanbul, Turkey, which is the owner of Ülker group and the largest consumer goods manufacturer in the Turkish food industry.

Lawyers of the company have sent a series of letters warning the public house of the company in Geneva, Switzerland, that they are infringing upon their intellectual property with the latest, asking them to cease and desist from using the name. Pru Porretta, MBE, who was behind the revival of Dame Goodyver's Daye in Coventry, England, where a procession through the city's streets includes her representing ____ ______ riding a horse commented "I think it's very sad. ______ was a great woman who challenged her husband to stop the terrible things that were happening to the people. I'm sure ____ ______ wouldn't care for a company which seems to be taking something that wasn't theirs originally and want to use it for themselves and nobody else. It's about our rich heritage. I would say it's morally wrong“

Which company?

Godiva ChocolatierNamed after the legend of Lady Godiva

7. Crisis Relief Singapore is a nonprofit organisation that helps the disadvantaged in times of crisis. A series of powerful images depicting people in need shows that its better to truly help those who need it than doing ‘something’. The posters read ”______ ____ _______” “Be a volunteer. Change a life.”

FITB with the name of the campaign or explain what it is about.

Pictures in the next slide

Liking isn’t helpingThe ad shows that it takes more than just liking a status to spread awareness and truly help those who need it. "Liking isn't helping," the ads read. "Be a volunteer. Change a life."

8. ______ was a British multinational involved in the manufacture of various rubber goods. Its business was founded in 1889 in conjunction with Harvey du Cros by John Boyd ______ who had discovered the pneumatic tyre. It was one of the first multinationals, and under du Cros and, after him, under Eric Geddes grew to be one of the largest British industrial companies.

There are two types of latex foam used in making these things – Talalay and _____. But because Talalay is expensive, so ______ is used. And this is the reason why ______ has now become the generic name for these things.

FITB!

DunlopThe reason why mattresses are called Dunlop.

9. After graduating from the local high school, he went on to get his first Bachelor of Science degree from A.C. College at Guntur in 1958. He then earned his BSc-Tech in Pharmaceuticals and Fine chemicals from UDCT, Mumbai followed by a PhD in chemical engineering from the National Chemical Laboratory, Pune in 1969. The Government of India honoured him with the Padma Shri in 2001 and later with the Padmabhushan for his contribution. He was also a member of the Indian Prime Minister's Council on Trade and Industry.

Which company did he found?

Dr. Reddy’sThe man is Kallam Anji Reddy

10. The then 39-year-old, 150-pound Long was described as a "silent man, unassuming and shy, to the point of bashfulness with a face sunburned to the color of saddle leather wrinkles radiating from pale blue eyes." He wore "a ten-gallon Stetson hat, a bandanna around his neck, a bag of Bull Durham tobacco with its yellow string dangling from his pocket, and blue denim, the fabric of the profession“

What is being described here?

Clarence Hailey Long’s picture in LIFE magazine, which inspired the Marlboro Man ads

Round 2

• Contains 5 questions on ads (posters).

• Each question carries 1 point each.

• Write them down.

1.

Chupa Chups

2.

Pedigree

3.

Volkswagen

4.

WWF

5.

FedEx

Round 3

• Contains 5 questions.

• Each question carries 2 points each. Part points is allowed.

• Write them down.

1. ‘X’ in an interview with the New York Times told that he liked movies with heroic presidents, and cited "Air Force One."

"My favorite was ‘Y’ on the plane," said ‘X’. "I love ‘Y’ — and not just because he rents my properties. He stood up for America."

Later in another interview, ‘Y’ said, “It’s a movie”, “’X’, it was a movie. It's not like this in real life, but how would you know?”

Solve for ‘X’ and ‘Y’!

X – Donald Trump

Y – Harrison Ford

2. In Japanese, the word ‘X’ means "to hit the target" or "to receive something fortuitously". The word is used in Japanese when a prediction comes true or when someone wins a lottery. In Chinese and Korean ‘X’ is a term used in this game – ‘Y’ – for a situation where a stone or chain of stones has only one liberty, and may be captured on the next move if not given one or more additional liberties.

Solve for ‘X’ and ‘Y’.

X – Atari Y – Go

3. The series of four ______-style labels had been designed in colours including white and yellow, and pink and teal, and launched on 9 September. The cans appeared on Woolworths supermarket shelves in Australia during June. They were first launched in Target stores in the US last September to commemorate the 50th anniversary of these paintings.

Name the company and the artist.

Campbell Soup Cans

Andy Warhol

4. ‘X’ is a fictional import-export company which acts as a cover for a certain country’s secret service. When an agent needed to make an urgent call to the base, on an insecure line, they played the role of a company representative contacting their ‘managing director’. The operative then proceeded to report in, concealing his real message in corporate jargon. 

The logo of the company shows a globe having three longitudes and the equator.

What is ‘X’ ? And how is the managing director better known as?

Universal Exports (of the James Bond fame); M

5. At the age of twelve, ‘X’ was handed over to the care of nuns, and for the next six years spent a stark, disciplined existence in a convent orphanage, Aubazine, founded by Cistercians in the 12th century. From her earliest days there, the number five had potent associations for her. For ‘X’, the number five was especially esteemed as signifying the pure embodiment of a thing, its spirit, its mystic meaning. The paths that led ‘X’ to the cathedral for daily prayer were laid out in circular patterns repeating the number five.

‘X’s affinity for the number five co-mingled with the abbey gardens, and by extension the lush surrounding hillsides abounding with cistus, a five-petal rose.

In 1920, when presented with small glass vials containing sample compositions numbered 1 to 5 and 20 to 24 for her assessment, she chose the fifth vial. She told her master ________, Ernest Beaux, whom she had commissioned to develop a _______ with modern innovations: "I present my dress collections on the fifth of May, the fifth month of the year and so we will let this sample number five keep the name it has already, it will bring good luck.”

Who is ‘X’? Which product’s name was inspired from the above mentioned reason?

X – Coco Chanel; This is the reason behind the naming of the first perfume Chanel No.5

Round 4

• Contains 5 questions.

• Each question carries 1 point each.

• Write them down.

1. Anna Hill , a North-Carolina based photographer, felt like cosmetic ads were so overly manipulated and plastic looking that they might as well be advertising ‘X’. So she took that idea and ran with it, producing a series of ads that make ‘X’ the beauty product. One of the taglines were - "Immortalize Your Beauty. No one will ever know…as long as you never let anyone see you in person again.“

What is ‘X’ ?

Adobe Photoshop

2. These are provided for free in ____ stores worldwide. They are found in small boxes attached to poles, next to the maps and rulers. They have been known for the wide variety of designs. Through the years the color changed from blue, to yellow to the natural color of wood. Although they are free, but most of the people prefer stealing them.

A spokesman for the Swedish furniture giant said: ‘We provide them to help customers place orders and we are happy to continue this service.’

But staff say the scale of theft is enormous.

‘Some people walk out with handfuls in their pockets,’ said a Glasgow worker.

‘If the same thing happens in Edinburgh and at the other ten stores south of the Border, the number of pencils we are losing in a year must run into millions.’

What are we talking about?

IKEA pencils

3. It is organised annually by the Amaury Sport Organisation. Thierry Sabine was a French wrangler and motorcycle racer. In 1977 he got lost in the Tenere Desert during the Abidjan-Nice Race and realised that the desert would be a good location for a regular rally where amateurs could test their ability. In December 1977 he organised a race from Paris to _____, and devoted the rest of his life to its organization.

What was thus started by this guy?

Dakar Rally

4. Sauza 901 is a tequila line owned by ‘X’ under the mother company Sauza. The singer/tequila maker claimed that his triple-distilled Sauza 901 tequila is so smooth, it didn't need a chaser — not even a lime wedge. Here is an audio of ‘X’ talking about Sauza 901.

Id ‘X’.

Justin Timberlake

5. Prabal Gurung is a Singapore-born Nepali fashion designer based in New York City. The pictures on the next slide are from his designs-collection Fall 2011. The designs were based on a literary character Miss Havisham, a wealthy spinster who lived in her ruined mansion, in the novel ‘X’.

Which novel?

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

Round 5

• Contains 5 questions on ads (videos).

• Each question carries 1 point each.

• Write them down.

There are five questions on video ads. Identify the respective companies/lines/brand.

1.

Nike

2.

Microsoft

3.

Budweiser

4.

Procter and Gamble

5.

Ford

Thanks!