Aditya Gupta (1-4-2016)

Biz QuizBy Aditya Gupta

• 18 questions• +20 on direct• +30/-10 on pounce. • +10 on pass• No hints will be provided

Question 1 • X named his store Y after watching the classic film but apparently

there was a bar that was called the same and the owner of the bar came and said, "this is going to confuse things to have two Ys."

• They had already made the molds for the letters in the sign, so they just rearranged them to see what they could find, and they found Z, which leaves fans wondering where the additional A came from, but there is speculation that they had more than one set of letters.

• In addition, the price for the letters "B" and "O" were double the price as it costs more to make them round and at the time this presented a significant cost for the new company.

• Identify X, Y/Z

Question 1 • X named his store Y after watching the classic film but apparently

there was a bar that was called the same and the owner of the bar came and said, "this is going to confuse things to have two Ys."

• They had already made the molds for the letters in the sign, so they just rearranged them to see what they could find, and they found Z, which leaves fans wondering where the additional A came from, but there is speculation that they had more than one set of letters.

• In addition, the price for the letters "B" and "O" were double the price as it costs more to make them round and at the time this presented a significant cost for the new company.

• Identify X, Y/Z

Answer

• X – Amancio Ortega • Y – Zobra, Z – Zara

Question 2• The origins of “X” date back to the founding of Precision Optical

Instruments Laboratory in 1937. In 1934 the company switched to the name of its first camera, “Y” named in the honor of Japanese Buddhist God of Mercy.

• When the company sought to begin full scale marketing, it needed a brand name that would be accepted worldwide. It was in 1947 when the company renamed itself to “X”. The word “X” comes from the Buddhist bodhisattva Guan Yin and has a number of meanings, including scriptures, criterion, and standard.

• Identify X/Y

Question 2• The origins of “X” date back to the founding of Precision Optical

Instruments Laboratory in 1937. In 1934 the company switched to the name of its first camera, “Y” named in the honor of Japanese Buddhist God of Mercy.

• When the company sought to begin full scale marketing, it needed a brand name that would be accepted worldwide. It was in 1947 when the company renamed itself to “X”. The word “X” comes from the Buddhist bodhisattva Guan Yin and has a number of meanings, including scriptures, criterion, and standard.

• Identify X/Y

Answer

• X – Canon, Y – Kwanon

Question 3• What historic event is being depicted in this picture?

Answer• Buttonwood Agreement, which took place on May 17, 1792,

started the New York Stock & Exchange Board now called the New York Stock Exchange. This agreement was signed by 24 stockbrokers outside of 68 Wall Street, New York under a buttonwood tree.

• The organization drafted its consbal on March 8, 1817, and named itself the "New York Stock & Exchange Board". In 1863, this name was shortened to its modern form, the "New York Stock Exchange".

Question 4 CONNECT• While serving as a lieutenant colonel of the Confederate Army's

Third Georgia Cavalry Battalion, Georgia State Guard, he was wounded in the Battle of Columbus, Georgia(1865). He sustained his injury from a saber with which he was slashed across his chest .

• Vin Mariani was very popular in its day, even among royalty such as Queen Victoria. Pope Leo XIII and later Pope Saint Pius X were both Vin Mariani drinkers. Thomas Edison claimed that Vin Mariani helped him stay awake longer.

• French Wine Coca was advertised as a cure for nerve trouble, dyspepsia, mental and physical exhaustion, gastric irritability, wasting diseases, constipation, headache, and impotence.

Question 4 CONNECT• While serving as a lieutenant colonel of the Confederate Army's

Third Georgia Cavalry Battalion, Georgia State Guard, he was wounded in the Battle of Columbus, Georgia(1865). He sustained his injury from a saber with which he was slashed across his chest .

• Vin Mariani was very popular in its day, even among royalty such as Queen Victoria. Pope Leo XIII and later Pope Saint Pius X were both Vin Mariani drinkers. Thomas Edison claimed that Vin Mariani helped him stay awake longer.

• French Wine Coca was advertised as a cure for nerve trouble, dyspepsia, mental and physical exhaustion, gastric irritability, wasting diseases, constipation, headache, and impotence.

Answer• Coca Cola

Question 5

• Identify the author

Question 5

• Identify the author

Answer

• David Novak

Question 6• Art Deco is an influential visual arts design style that first appeared in

France just before WWI and began flourishing internationally in 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s before its popularity waned after WWII. It is an eclectic style that combines traditional craft motifs with Machine Age imagery and materials. It was used widely in consumer products such as automobiles, furniture, cookware, china, textiles, clocks, and electronic items such as radios, telephones, and jukeboxes. It also influenced architecture, interior design, industrial design, fashion, graphic arts, and cinema. This style was used by X in 1935 to design the logo for Y, a company founded by former president of United Artists . Y was originally created as a painting on several layers of glass and animated frame-by-frame.

• Identify X and Y.

Question 6• Art Deco is an influential visual arts design style that first appeared in

France just before WWI and began flourishing internationally in 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s before its popularity waned after WWII. It is an eclectic style that combines traditional craft motifs with Machine Age imagery and materials. It was used widely in consumer products such as automobiles, furniture, cookware, china, textiles, clocks, and electronic items such as radios, telephones, and jukeboxes. It also influenced architecture, interior design, industrial design, fashion, graphic arts, and cinema. This style was used by X in 1935 to design the logo for Y, a company founded by former president of United Artists . Y was originally created as a painting on several layers of glass and animated frame-by-frame.

• Identify X and Y.

Answer

• X – Emil Kosa, Jr • Y – 20th Century Fox

Question 7• Australia were playing against England in the first test in December

1979. On the second day of the play, X emerged onto the field carrying Y which was manufactured by his friend Graeme Monaghan. It was not the first time X had used Y, as he had employed one 12 days previously in a Test against West Indies, without incident.

• The trouble began on the 4th ball of the second day, when X straight drove a ball from Ian Botham. The ball went for three runs, and nothing appeared untoward. However, Australian captain Greg Chappel thought that the ball should have gone for a four. English captain Mike Brearley complained to the umpires that Y was damaging the leather cricket ball.

• Identify X and Y

Question 7• Australia were playing against England in the first test in December

1979. On the second day of the play, X emerged onto the field carrying Y which was manufactured by his friend Graeme Monaghan. It was not the first time X had used Y, as he had employed one 12 days previously in a Test against West Indies, without incident.

• The trouble began on the 4th ball of the second day, when X straight drove a ball from Ian Botham. The ball went for three runs, and nothing appeared untoward. However, Australian captain Greg Chappel thought that the ball should have gone for a four. English captain Mike Brearley complained to the umpires that Y was damaging the leather cricket ball.

• Identify X and Y

Answer

• X – Dennis Lillee • Y – Combat

Question 8• Founded by Abhishek Mazumdar and Anurag Mazumdar, X is

a digital media publication based in Bengaluru, India. Struggling with their engineering studies and backlog and they loosing all hopes of anyone offering them with any job to secure their future, they started X to take the spice exasperation business out of the news and rather provide high quality content even though none of them were from the journalism or media background, neither did they had any connections with anyone in the media industry. Today, X has more than 10 million monthly visitors.

• Identify X.

Question 8• Founded by Abhishek Mazumdar and Anurag Mazumdar, X is

a digital media publication based in Bengaluru, India. Struggling with their engineering studies and backlog and they loosing all hopes of anyone offering them with any job to secure their future, they started X to take the spice exasperation business out of the news and rather provide high quality content even though none of them were from the journalism or media background, neither did they had any connections with anyone in the media industry. Today, X has more than 10 million monthly visitors.

• Identify X.

Answer

THE LOGICAL INDIAN

Question 9• He is considered to be the

“Father of Toyota Production System”, which became “Lean Manufactu-ring” in the U.S

• He also devised “Muda”, also known as “Seven Wastes”, which is a key concept in TPS as one of the three types of deviation for optimal allocation of resources.

Question 9• He is considered to be the

“Father of Toyota Production System”, which became “Lean Manufactu-ring” in the U.S

• He also devised “Muda”, also known as “Seven Wastes”, which is a key concept in TPS as one of the three types of deviation for optimal allocation of resources.

Answer

Taichii Ohno(1912-1990)

Question 10

• Guess the print ad

Question 10

Answer

• National Geographic

Question 11

Answer

• IKEA

Question 12

Answer

• Fevikwik

Question 13• X was a Costa Rica-based centralized digital currency service that billed

itself as the "oldest, safest and most popular payment processor, serving millions all around a world“. It allowed users to register and transfer money to other users with only a name, e-mail address, and birth date. No efforts were made by the site to verify identities of its users, making it an attractive payment processor to scam artists.

• In May 2013, X was shut down by United States federal prosecutors under the Patriot Act after an investigation by authorities across 17 countries. The United States charged founder Arthur Budovsky and six others with money laundering and operating an unlicensed financial transaction company.

• Richard Weber, head of the U.S. Internal Revenue Service criminal investigation unit, declared, "If Al Capone were alive today, this is how he would be hiding his money“. Identify X.

Question 13• X was a Costa Rica-based centralized digital currency service that billed

itself as the "oldest, safest and most popular payment processor, serving millions all around a world“. It allowed users to register and transfer money to other users with only a name, e-mail address, and birth date. No efforts were made by the site to verify identities of its users, making it an attractive payment processor to scam artists.

• In May 2013, X was shut down by United States federal prosecutors under the Patriot Act after an investigation by authorities across 17 countries. The United States charged founder Arthur Budovsky and six others with money laundering and operating an unlicensed financial transaction company.

• Richard Weber, head of the U.S. Internal Revenue Service criminal investigation unit, declared, "If Al Capone were alive today, this is how he would be hiding his money“. Identify X.

Answer

Question 14

• Identify the co-author

Question 14

• Identify the co-author

Answer

• Peter Thiel

Question 15• Inspired by the idea of collaboration, three IIT Kharagpur

alumni, Ankit D.P, Somnath Meker and Chandrashekhar Iyer, decided to launch X. By October 2011, X got funded and incubated under the Technology Business Incubators (TBI) program by DST, Government of India at Science and Technology Entrepreneurs. X launched Y as its first product. The founders said that they launched Y because “they wanted to start by solving a small yet a very common problem”. The main feature of Y is that it prevents tangling of earphones. Y is available online for Rs 200.

• Identify X/Y

Question 15• Inspired by the idea of collaboration, three IIT Kharagpur

alumni, Ankit D.P, Somnath Meker and Chandrashekhar Iyer, decided to launch X. By October 2011, X got funded and incubated under the Technology Business Incubators (TBI) program by DST, Government of India at Science and Technology Entrepreneurs. X launched Y as its first product. The founders said that they launched Y because “they wanted to start by solving a small yet a very common problem”. The main feature of Y is that it prevents tangling of earphones. Y is available online for Rs 200.

• Identify X/Y

Answer

• X – Witworks • Y – Rewind

Witworks

Question 16• In business, “X” is a friendly investor

that acquires a corporation at a fair consideration with the support from the corporation's board of directors and management. This may be during a period while it is facing a hostile acquisition from another potential acquirer, “Y” or it is facing bankruptcy.

• “X” are preferred by the board of directors and/or management as in most cases as they do not replace the current board or management with a new board, whereas, in most cases, “Y” will seek to replace the current board of directors and/or management with its new board reflective of its net interest in the corporation's equity. Identify X and Y.

Question 16• In business, “X” is a friendly investor

that acquires a corporation at a fair consideration with the support from the corporation's board of directors and management. This may be during a period while it is facing a hostile acquisition from another potential acquirer, “Y” or it is facing bankruptcy.

• “X” are preferred by the board of directors and/or management as in most cases as they do not replace the current board or management with a new board, whereas, in most cases, “Y” will seek to replace the current board of directors and/or management with its new board reflective of its net interest in the corporation's equity. Identify X and Y.

Answer

• X – White Knight• Y – Black Knight

Question 17• X is a restaurant chain specializing specializing in chicken. It is

owned by Yum! Brands, which also owns its sister franchise Pizza Hut. Pizza Hut franchises began offering buffalo chicken wings in 1995. In 2003, Yum! launched X as a hybrid combo unit with an existing Pizza Hut franchise. As of September 2008, there were close to 1,600 locations in the U.S., Canada, and Australia. They are almost always co-located with Pizza Hut.

• X restaurants sell breaded and traditional Buffalo wings for take-out and delivery. Their sauces are: Sweet Chili (formerly Spicy Asian), Spicy BBQ, Honey BBQ, Garlic Parmesan, and Buffalo (Mild, Medium, and Hot). They also have sauce-free wings called Naked Wings. Identify X

Question 17• X is a restaurant chain specializing specializing in chicken. It is

owned by Yum! Brands, which also owns its sister franchise Pizza Hut. Pizza Hut franchises began offering buffalo chicken wings in 1995. In 2003, Yum! launched X as a hybrid combo unit with an existing Pizza Hut franchise. As of September 2008, there were close to 1,600 locations in the U.S., Canada, and Australia. They are almost always co-located with Pizza Hut.

• X restaurants sell breaded and traditional Buffalo wings for take-out and delivery. Their sauces are: Sweet Chili (formerly Spicy Asian), Spicy BBQ, Honey BBQ, Garlic Parmesan, and Buffalo (Mild, Medium, and Hot). They also have sauce-free wings called Naked Wings. Identify X

Answer

• X – Wingstreet

Question 18• Initially it was started as 'Brahmanara Coffee Club' in 1924

and changed the name in 1951 to X. In the mid 1970s when India was under emergency, a Food Control Act was introduced which mandated that food was to be sold at very low prices. This move made it difficult for X to maintain high standards in its restaurant business and forced it to diversify into the instant food business, selling ready-to-eat snacks such as chutneys and rasams.

• X has a restaurant located on the Lal Bagh Road in Bangalore and 6 other branches in the city, as well as one each in Singapore, Dubai and London. Identify X.

Question 18• Initially it was started as 'Brahmanara Coffee Club' in 1924

and changed the name in 1951 to X. In the mid 1970s when India was under emergency, a Food Control Act was introduced which mandated that food was to be sold at very low prices. This move made it difficult for X to maintain high standards in its restaurant business and forced it to diversify into the instant food business, selling ready-to-eat snacks such as chutneys and rasams.

• X has a restaurant located on the Lal Bagh Road in Bangalore and 6 other branches in the city, as well as one each in Singapore, Dubai and London. Identify X.

Answer

• X – MTR

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