The General Quiz with a Business touch

2.  Dries
 Clockwise
 Infinite Pounce: +10/-10
 Infinite Bounce: +10/0

3.  This company is known for producing watches and are
the world’s fifth largest watch makers exporting to over
32 countries.
 Some of the famous brands from the company include
Fastrack, Octane, Raga,Tanishq, Zoya etc. On
September 2013, it unveiled the everyday French Luxury
Perfume line.
 They have three masculine and three feminine
fragrances.Which is this fragrance brand from this
company?

5.  Skinn.

6.  Started in in 1928 when brothers, PaulV. and Joseph E.
Galvin, purchased the bankrupt Stewart Battery Company's
battery-eliminator plans and manufacturing equipment at
auction for $750.
 The company's first products were battery-eliminators,
devices that enabled battery-powered radios to operate on
household electricity.
 Paul Galvin wanted a brand name for Galvin Manufacturing
Corporation's new car radio, and created the name by using
the name used in America for cars and the names of
popular companies Crayola and Maviola.
 Give me the company.

8.  Motorola

9.  Which is the oldest publishing house in the
world, having been Granted letters
patent by HenryVIII in 1534?
 Authors published have included John
Milton,William Harvey, Isaac
Newton, Bertrand Russell, and Stephen
Hawking.

11.  Cambridge University Press.

12.  This is a product from Hidden Reflex, a software product
company founded byAlok Bharadwaj and Peddada Sathi
Babu and based inWashington DC and Bangalore, India
respectively. Built on chromium platform it is engineered to
protect your privacy.This is also India’s first and only
browser. Id the browser.

14.  Epic Browser.

17.  Tour De France.

18.  "As every school-age wizard knows, the fact that we X onY is
probably our worst-kept secret. No Muggle illustration of a
witch is complete without aY and however ludicrous these
drawings are (for none of theY depicted by Muggles would
stay up in the air for a moment), they remind us that we were
careless for far too many centuries to be surprised thatY and
magic are inextricably linked in the Muggle mind.“
 —Kennilworthy Whisp,
from QuidditchThrough the Ages

20.  X- fly
 Y- Broomsticks

21.  This company was originally founded in
Liverpool in 1845 by John Pilkington and
Henry Wilson. It is most known for producing
huge passenger ships including the much
acclaimed Titanic. Which company?

23.  White Star Line

24.  Though not the first to do it, the Sporting
Times had early done it successfully, the
FinancialTimes made certain changes to itself
in 1893 to remain different from the
competitors.
 What was the feature which is now
synonymous with most newspapers of its
kind?

26.  Salmon Pink colour.

27.  It was designed by English sculptorCharles Robinson Sykes and carries
with it a story about secret passion between JohnWalter Edward
Douglas-Scott-Montagu (editor ofThe Car Illustrated magazine) and
EleanorVelascoThornton.
 Eleanor was the secretary of JohnWalter, who fell in love with her.
Their secret love was to remain hidden, limited to their circle of
friends, for more than a decade.The reason for the secrecy was
Montagu was married to Lady CecilVictoria Constance Kerr since
1889.
 Eleanor died on 30 December 1915 when the SS Persia was torpedoed
by a U-boat south of Crete. She had been accompanying Lord
Montagu who had been directed to assume a command in India.
 What did their story inspire in the world of cars?

30.  This word is believed to have been derived
from the Latin word gaggire, meaning "to
chatter", which was used to
describe speech that the listener did not
understand. It is a type of language that is
used in a particular context and may not be
well understood outside of it.Which is this
word used in business excessively?

33.  The ___ ___ _____ is published byThe Economist as an
informal way of measuring the purchasing power
parity (PPP) between two currencies and provides a test of
the extent to which market exchange rates result in goods
costing the same in different countries.
 It "seeks to make exchange-rate theory a bit more
digestible"

35.  The Big Mac index suggests that, in theory, changes in
exchange rates between currencies should affect the price
that consumers pay for a Big Mac in a particular nation,
replacing the "basket" with the popular hamburger.
 For example, if the price of a Big Mac is $4.00 in the U.S. as
compared to 2.5 pounds sterling in Britain, we would expect
that the exchange rate would be 1.60 (4/2.5 = 1.60). If the
exchange rate of dollars to pounds is any greater, the Big
Mac Index would state that the pound was over-valued, any
lower and it would be under-valued.

36.  What you are going to hear is the genius of a
dude called Krish Ashok.

38.  Italian Food items are the lyrics.

39. Which company sells this nail polish brand?

41.  Facebook

42.  What was started in 1978, as a hobby
by Dilip Kapur on his return to India after
his Ph.D in InternationalAffairs in the United
States?

45.  X was founded in the 17th century but officially
became a company in the 19th century under Alan X.
The company is the eighth largest international
conglomerate in universe.
 Today, X continues to achieve excellence across a
wide range of industry sectors and markets,
employing some 170,000 people in 170 countries.
 The current Chairman, Bruce X is a keen modernizer
and continues to grow the business in the financial
sector and in high-end technologies.
 Id the huge conglomerate.

48. Who are these star storytellers, eaturing
on a 1000 mark?

50.  Grimm brothers.

51.  Written round.
 Id the companies from the ads.
 +10/0.

63.  Dries: 16 questions
 Anti-clockwise
 Finite Pounce: +20/-20
 Infinite Bounce: +10/0

64.  London tube administration came up with
an innovative punishment for ticketless
passengers. What is it?

66. Revealing the climax of new star
wars movie…!!

67.  In his first paper "Cours d'économie politique” he
showed that approximately 80% of the land in Italy
was owned by 20% of the population; he developed
the principle by observing that 20% of the peapods in
his garden contained 80% of the peas.
 It is a common rule of thumb in business; e.g., "80% of
your sales come from 20% of your clients.“
 Identify the principle or the economist who proposed
it?

69.  The Pareto principle
Vilfredo Pareto

70.  They at first called it Backrub because this
program analysed the web's "back links" to
understand how important a website was,
and what other sites it related to.
 Backrub operated on Stanford's servers until
it eventually took up too much bandwidth.

 What is it called now?

72.  Google.

73.  Life Mantras” is a book, the first in the
'Thoughts FromTihar' trilogy which was
published in February 2016.
 Name the famous author of this book.

75.  Subrata roy

78.  Color changes in chocolate M&M's

79. This dress is called “Hobble skirt”.
What famous trademarked item is
inspired from the shape of this
dress?

81. Coca Cola contour
bottle

82.  This food item was named after John Montagu, 4th
Earl of ....X....., an 18th-century English aristocrat. It
is said that he ordered his valet to bring him meat
tucked between two pieces of bread, and others
began to order "the same as ....X....!!. It is commonly
said that Lord ......X...... was fond of this form of food
because it allowed him to continue playing cards,
particularly cribbage, while eating, without using a
fork, and without getting his cards greasy from eating
meat with his bare hands.
 Identify the food item named after this English
Statesman.

84.  Sandwich.

85.  What is the name given to the fraudulent
operation that involves paying abnormally
high returns to investors out of the money
paid in by subsequent investors rather than
from revenues generated by any business?

87.  Ponzi Sceme.

88.  He (born February 28, 1953) is an American economist,
Professor of Economics and International Affairs at
the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International
Affairs at Princeton University, Centenary Professor at
the London School of Economics, and an op-ed columnist for
The New York Times. In 2008, he won the Nobel Memorial Prize
in Economic Sciences for his contributions to New Trade
Theory and New Economic Geography.
 He is known in academia for his work on international
economics (including trade theory, economic geography, and
international finance), liquidity traps, and currency crises. He is
ranked among the most influential academic thinkers in the US.
 Identify the person.

90.  Paul Krugman.

91.  X syndrome (also known
as "Folded skin with
scarring), is characterized
by multiple, symmetric,
circular skin creases, or
bands, on the forearms,
lower legs, and often the
neck that are present at
birth.The creases
disappear later in life.
 It is commonly known as
X.

93.  Michelin tire syndrome

94.  X was struggling to gain market share and its sales were low. Its
owners doubled its price without bringing any change, and their
sales were doubled. Consumers saw the increased price as
evidence that this must be a quality brand.
 In the 1980s, some U.S. universities adopted the same kind of
policy, and the X effect came into existence . Colleges started to
raise tuition fees to bring in more money and typically saw a
significant increase in enrollment. Many parents think that higher
priced education is a better education.
 Id the economic term which is named after a blended scotch
whiskey?

96.  Chivas Regal.

97. X Explains:
 “One day I was in a coffee shop in San francisco, and I
was thinkingY is a good name. And then a waitress
came, and I asked, “ Do you know about Y” and she
said “Yes”.And I said, “Yes this is the name”.Then I
went onto the street and found 30 people and asked,
“Do you know aboutY. People from India, people from
Germany, people fromTokyo and China.They all knew
aboutY.Y is a kind,smart businessman and he helped
the village.So easy to spell and globally known.”
 The ticker sysmbol of “Y “ in NYSE is BABA.
 Id X &Y

99.  X-Jack Ma
 Y-Alibaba

100.  Id.

103. X is a game
inspired from
Pacman and based
on a controversy.
Put Funda.

106. X is an American upscale clothing
brand and retailer founded by
brothers Paul and Maurice
Marciano.They moved to Los
Angeles in 1981 and opened their
first store in upscale Beverly Hills
area.They are famous for their
iconic black-and-white ads in 1985.
The company was one of the first
companies to create designer
jeans. Priyanka Chopra is the new
X girl .Id X

109.  Smuggler’s soul is a handmade
perfume made by U K based
ethical cosmetics company Lush,
created by founder Mark
Constantine and his son Simon.
 They were looking for a unique
way to express themselves and
the quality of the product,which
resulted into putting a famous
Indian personality’s face in their
products.
 Who is he?

111.  Veerapan