Finals of the Business, Management & Entrepreneurship Quiz organised by IIT BHU Quiz Club. Held on 17th September 2015 at G7, Mechanical Engg Dept, IIT (BHU) Varanasi.

1. FINALS

2. ROUND 1 +15/-10: Pounce
+10/0: Bounce

3. 1Located on a very busy street in the Lal Darwaza area
of Ahmedabad, the Sidi Saiyyed Mosque is an
unpretentious, small mosque. The mosque was built by
Sidi Saiyyed, an Abyssinian soldier in the service of
the Gujarat Sultanate, in the year 1573. Sidi Saiyyed
Mosque has a total of 10 windows with intricate stone
latticework on them. Of the 10 lattice windows one is
the most popular and is known as ‘Sidi Saiyyed ni jaali‘.
What is so special about it?

5. ANSWER

7. 2
MindGeek is a global IT company headquartered in
Luxembourg City. What is it famous for?

8. ANSWER

9. Pornography.
It is the parent company of many websites like
Brazzers,Pornhub,Youporn etc.

10. 3
She is an American businesswoman, writer, and former model who
joined her family business and is involved with all aspects of the
company's real estate and hotel management initiatives.
In 2003, she was featured in Born Rich, a documentary about the
experience of growing up as a child in one of the world's most affluent
families.
Who’s her super rich dad?

12. ANSWER

14. 4 Throughout its developmental phase it
was called Fibre-66. But when it came to
marketing it, DuPont suggested several
names including ‘DuParooh’. Names such
as novasilk and synthesilk were
discarded because the company wanted
its new synthetic fiber to conquer the
market on account of all its high qualities
and not just as a substitute for silk. After
months of negotiations they finally
decided on X which some say stood for “
now you lose old Nippon” for the Anti
Japanese sentiment that existed in US
during those days. Give me the good
word.

15. ANSWER

16. NYLON

17. 5. Blueprint for which extremely famous
logo? Identify a Logo of a company by
selecting a portion out of it ?

18. ANSWER

20. 6.
X is one of Lavoisier’s assistants, who was among the
people who physically defended King Louis XVI and
Marie Antoinette from a mob during the French
Revolution. After his father narrowly escaped the
guillotine and the family house was burnt down, he
escaped with his family to the United States. In his new
home, he used the expertise he had gained under
Lavoisier in nitrate extraction to set up a gunpowder
manufacturing unit. What was his name (just the
surname will do), under which he set up this company?

21. ANSWER

23. X=Y
7

24. ANSWER

26. 8.
X’s latest product line-up includes a premium 48-inch 4K TV,
a water Purifier and smart shoes.
Also includes air purifiers, game controllers, blood pressure
monitors and weighing scales.

27. WATER
PURIFIER

28. The smart shoes are waterproof, sweatproof and have
latest bluetooth chip to connect with smartphones and will
come with military grade motion sensor chips. The sensor
module is located inside the sole and the smart shoe can
count no. of steps, calories burnt and other fitness related
activities.

29. ANSWER

30. ANS.

31. ROUND 2 +15/-10: Pounce
+10/0: Bounce

32. 1
X is India’s leading homegrown venture fund based out of Mumbai, India led
by Karthik Reddy (IIT-R, Wharton) and Sanjay Nath (BITS-Pilani, UCLA
Anderson)
X provides seed funding in the range of $50K – $300K to early-stage tech-
focused and tech-enabled ventures along with a ’network of advisors, mentors
and domain experts – Blumiers, as they call themselves– who provide active
hands-on support to nurture, grow and scale these companies.’
Their portfolio includes: Taxiforsure, Exotel, audiocompass, bedbathmore.com
and more.

33. ANSWER

35. 2.
The X store is an online store started in December,
2013, It includes producers like T-shirts, stationery
material, masks, kurtas and pen-drives etc. According
to Live Mint, there are plans to launch physical stores
in major cities and the first brick and mortar store
would be in Delhi or Ahmedabad.
The Online sort is from Take India Beyond
Merchandising Pvt. Ltd. Which describes itself as a
“merchandising brand that goes beyond mere profits
and tries to predict the future of India”, Interestingly,
this comes in the wake of X-inspired video games and
mobile phone series that were also launched in 2013

36. Answer

38. 3. X, one of the worlds largest retailers in its
category, doesn’t have an advertising budget.
Instead, the company uses that money to buy
expensive storefronts next to luxury retailers so
that they can make themselves the leaders in
“affordable luxury”, X has an efficient system
for recording buyers feedbacks and
incorporating them into the next batch of
producers in a very short them

39. ANSWER

40. Zara

41. 4.
In a recent statement (Newspaper article dated
20 Feb, 2014) Companies and limited liability
partnership firms floated by private entities
should not use the word X in their names,
government has said. The Corporate Affairs
Ministry’s latest move comes in the backdrop of
instances of private entities using the word X in
their names, including the case of NSEL, which is
embroiled in a major payment crisis.
What is the good word ?

42. Answer

43. The word ‘National’

44. 5.
In 2014, we are going to witness a ‘war’ between
some major ad agencies. On one side you have
JWR, Dentsu and Taproot whereas the WPP
agency, Soho Square is in the other side. The
second side also boasts of advertising stalwarts like
Piyush Pandey, Sam Balsara and Prasoon Joshi.
Ogilvy and Mather declined to participate in the
‘war’ due to strict global guideline.
Which ‘war ’are we talking about ?

45. Answer

46. 2014 Lok Sabha elections, Congress vs BJP

47. 6
In popular imagination, X is a cross between the
Pinkertons, the Men in Black, and Harvey Keitel’s
“cleaner”, Mr. Wolf, in Pulp Fiction. They arrive in
suits and cufflinks and make your problems
disappear. They promise to teach you how to do
whatever you do better than you do it – and
certainly better than your competition does it.
Past empllyees include Sheryl Snadberg, Chelsea
acLINTON, Bobby Jindal and the flounders of
Enron

48. Answer

49. McKinsey

50. THIS CANADIAN MULTINATIONAL,
FOUNDED IN 1942, IS THE “WORLD’S
ONLY MANUFACTURER OF PLANES AND
TRAINS”. STARTING AS A MAKER OF
SNOW MACHINES OR SNOWMOBILES,
OVER THE YEARS IT HAS BEEN A LARGE
MANUFACTURER OF REGIONAL
AIRCRAFT, BUSINESS JETS, MASS
TRANSPORTATION EQUIPMENT,
RECREATIONAL EQUIPMENT AND A
PROVIDER OF FINANCIAL SERVICE
7

51. ANSWER

52. A.

53. 8
ID the hidden one on the list of most
valuable start-ups (2015) by WSJ.
X provides big data software to the
CIA and the FBI. With such high-
profile clients, the company was once
Silicon Valley's best kept secret. Now,
it has managed to raise $900 million
and is valued at $9.3 billion.

55. Palantir

56. BLITZ ROUND
10 question | 30sec
per question
Final score = (no. of
correct answers)2

57. 1.
What portmanteau word coined by Citigroup economist Ebrahim
Rahbari in 2012 has been in most business headlines in mid-2015 and
is easily the most commonly used word from something called the
"Grexicon"?

58. ANS. 1
Grexit

59. 2.
In April 2015, the tech company Microsoft announced a pilot
programme designed to identify talent among people with this
medical condition, because "some have amazing ability to retain
information, think at a level of detail and depth or excel in math or
code.".

60. ANS. 2
Autism

61. 3.
Steve Jobs was the son of a migrant father from which country ? It is
relevant today

62. ANS. 3
Syria (Abdulfattah Jandali)

63. 4.
What unique feat did Facebook achieve for the first time on 24th
August 2015 ?

64. ANS. 4
1 Billion users logged in on a single day

65. 5.
In April-June 2015 Q, Apple Watch is No 2 in the wearables market.
Who is the current No 1 in wearables ?

66. ANS. 5
Fitbit

67. 6.
The keyboard of the early devices of this company resembled the
exterior of a certain fruit. Hence, the eponymous brand name.

68. ANS. 6
Blackberry

69. 7.
Agnelli family of Italy through their investment arm Exor recently
bought a significant stake in a major media house earlier owned by
Pearson.
Which media/publishing house?

70. ANS. 7
The Economist

71. 8.
The canteen at IIM Ahmedabad is aptly titled “TANSTAAFL”. What is
the full form of the canteen, one of the first lessons inculcated by
educators to business students?

72. ANS. 8
There ain't no such thing as a free lunch

73. 9.
IDENTIFY THE
PERSON ON THE
RIGHT, CO-
FOUNDER OF
APPARELS BRAND
RHESON

74. ANS. 9
Rhea Kapoor, sister of Sonam Kapoor

75. 10.
Which recent e-commerce deal is being talked about as ‘It was simply
Kunal calling Kunal’ ?

76. ANS. 10
Snapdeal acquiring Freecharge..Kunal Bahl and Kunal Shah

77. 11.
WHICH
COMPANY’S
AD?

78. ANS. 11
KALYAN
JEWELLERS

79. CONNECT
6 stages
+100  +10
-30  -5

80. +100/-30

81. +80/-25

82. +60/-20

83. +20/-10

84. +40/-15
10100

85. +10/-5

86. GUESSES?

87. ANSWER: NIKESH ARORA