7. 1.
Indian Oil Corp (IOC)
Reliance India Limited (RIL)
Oil and Natural Gas Corp (ONGC)
State Bank of India (SBI)
Tata Motors
Bharat Petroleum Corp Ltd (BPCL)
Rajesh Exports
9. 1.
X was a company manufacturing wire baskets when Y (then financial director
at Saatchi and Saatchi) in 1985 looking for a listed company bought a
controlling stake in it and built through mostly acquisitions a company with
revenues upwards of £15 billion (2017).
Give me X and Y.
12. 2.
X is an iconic American brand. In India, pancake and cake mixes are sold under
the brand.
The character of X was actually invented by Samuel Gale, head of advertising
at the Washburn Crosby Company of Minneapolis in 1921 to answer
household questions received with contest entries. X became a part of radio
shows and in the early 1950s became a television personality in a variety of
programs on CBS and ABC.
What is the brand?
16. 3.
X group has been targeted by environmental groups including Greenpeace for
a coal mine north of the Galilee basin in Queensland.
Y International has been targeted by Greenpeace for their linkages to
rainforest clearing in Indonesia.
XY manufactures consumer goods such as edible oils, rice, soya chunks, besan,
vanspati and pulses.
What is XY?
19. 4.
What is the name of the cosmetics company started by Darshan Patel in 2010
named after the family’s pet turtle?
What was the very first product he launched which has become a market
leader by promising “more bang for their buck” through advertising that
demonstrated this, beginning December 2011?
22. 5.
The Swedish Edward X, who had landed on the shores of India in 1899. had
taken over the Aligarh Dairy Farm and built it into a profitable business. He
established Edw. X. Ltd. and opened a dairy farm in Delhi’s Chanakyapuri area
in 1925.
R.K. Dalmia took over the company in 1946. The Indian government acquired
the land from X’s in 1970 and that lead to the shutdown of the Delhi plant and
dissolution of the brand.
In 2015, R.K.Dalmia’s grandson relaunched the brand X for modern India.
What is X?
25. 6.
Société de Microélectronique et d'Horlogerie (SMH) was formed as a result of
the merger of two financially-troubled predecessor companies, SSIH and
ASUAG. The financial troubles were a fallout of the ‘quartz revolution’ or the
‘quartz crisis’.
SMH came up with the X brand as an entry-level brand to capture the lost
market share. In 1998, SMH was renamed as the X Group.
What is X?
32. 8.
According to the company website, which
brand’s name originates from a small, savory,
deep-fried ball made from cornmeal-based
batter that along with being a side dish was
also used to quiet barking dogs.
The brand uses a Basset Hound, Jason as its
logo. (Random Basset Hound, not Jason in
the picture)
Which brand?
35. 9.
It was formulated by General Foods Corporation food scientist William A
Mitchell in 1957, and first marketed in the current form in 1959.
Currently owned by Mondelēz International, it became popular after NASA
used it on John Glenn's Mercury flight in February 1962 and on subsequent
Gemini missions as it could be mixed into existing water containers easily.
In 1969, the “For Spacemen and Earth Families” ad campaign was launched,
cementing the public’s association of the product with NASA.
What am I talking about?
38. 10.
What was established by Khanchand Ramnani, a Sindhi migrant who left
Karachi, Sindh after the riots in 1947 near Mozamjahi market in Hyderabad,
India in 1952?
41. 11.
What royal commodity produced from desiccated hypobranchial glands,
wrenched from the calcified coils of spiny murex sea snails and used in Roman
and Byzantine courts was a principal export of the Phoenician civilisation?
72. Round 4
Rules:
Written round
Identify the theme
Points mentioned on individual slides
Maximum two attempts per question allowed
Short Visual Connect
79. 1.
In 1951, Godrej received an order of 12 lakh quantities of a certain product at
Rupees 5 per piece. The company’s factory in Vikhroli started operations in July
1951 and produced 15,000 units per day.
For this product, Nathalal Panchal, a workman at Godrej, devised a unique
locking system that could only be opened by breaking a pre-impressed insignia
and manipulating the locking lever through the aperture covered by the
insignia.
What product?
82. 2.
For which pan-national project was this innovative solution come up with in
2002?
Dimensions
(millimetres) Colour
Design
Architecture Century
120 × 62 Grey Classical < 5th
127 × 67 Red Romanesque 11–12th
133 × 72 Blue Gothic 12–14th
140 × 77 Orange Renaissance 15–16th
147 × 82 Green Baroque & Rococo 17–18th
153 × 82 Yellow-brown The age of iron and glass 19–20th
160 × 82 Purple Modern 20th century 20–21st
88. 4.
Anti-X is a board game made by San Francisco State University Professor Ralph
Anspach in response to X in 1973 to demonstrate how harmful the idea of x
could be to the free market.
In 1974, Parker Brothers sued Anspach over the use of the “X" name, claiming
trademark infringement. Anspach based his defense on the grounds that the
game itself existed in effectively the public domain before Parker purchased it,
and therefore Parker's trademark claim on it should be nullified.
What is the game?
91. 5.
Which investment firm named after one of the US founding fathers was
founded in 1947 in New York by Rupert H. Johnson, Sr and is traded in the
New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol "BEN"?
94. 6.
Gelatin is a translucent, colourless, brittle, flavourless protein primarily used in
pharmaceuticals industry for making capsule caps.
Which company had established their first Gelatin production facility in the
mid-1990s in Karakhadi– roughly 35 kilometres outside Vadodara?
Along with lime and hydrochloric acid (HCL), what raw material (by-product of
an industry where India is among the largest exporters) was used by the
company to produce the protein?
97. 7.
What was designed by Swedish
engineer Sten Gustaf Thulin in the
early 1960s to replace composite
creations in use then and was
patented worldwide in 1965 ?
100. 8.
While Delhi has ______ from a consortium of companies comprising Hyundai
Rotem, Mitsubishi Corporation & MELCO, Bombardier and CAF Beasain;
Mumbai has ______ from only CRRC Nanjing Puzhen Co., Ltd.
What?
103. 9.
The original X was placed between Broadway Avenue and Morris Street in
1989
A reddish, younger, stronger X was placed at the Bund, Shanghai in 2010
An X similar to the original X was also placed at Het Beursplein, Amsterdam in
2012
India has an ‘unofficial’ X installed in 2008
What is X?
106. 10.
X was started in 1928 by Y popularly known by his initials ‘X’ who had held
both the Commerce as well as Finance ministries in the Union Cabinet. Earlier
into distribution, the group started manufacturing post independence.
Also, what innovation did the company come up with in the late 1970s to
prevent their products from bursting in Indian homes due to spurious spare
parts?
109. 11.
The company was founded in 1910 by Joyce Clyde Hall and his older brothers.
Though the company’s name was changed to the present name in 1954, it has
been appearing at the back of every product since 1928. The term used by
goldsmiths in the 14th century, fascinated founder J.C. Hall as it not only said
quality in an authoritative way, but it also incorporated the family name.
Which is the company whose slogan is “When You Care Enough to Send the
Very Best”?
112. 12.
What did the merger of Svensk
Interkontinental Lufttrafik, Det
Norske Luftfartselskap and Det
Danske Luftfartselskab in 1951
create?
Clue: Image cropped from the 1980s logo
