BUSINESS QUIZ

AMAN SINHA3rd Year CSE

NAME THE COMPANYThe company was founded in Mumbai in 1938 by two Danish engineers, Henning Holck-X and Soren Kristian Y. The company began as a representative of Danish manufacturers of a dairy equipment. But with the start of the Second World War in 1939, imports were restricted, compelling them to start a small workshop to undertake jobs and provide service facilities. Germany's invasion of Denmark in 1940 stopped supplies of Danish Products. This crisis forced the partners to stand on their own feet and innovate. They started manufacturing dairy equipment indigenously. These products proved to be a success, and their company came to be recognized as a reliable fabricator with high standards.Which Company am I referring to?

• LARSEN & TOUBRO:Its all about

Imagineering!

Which Company?

• It was named after one of the characters in Herman Merville's Moby Dick. The largest company of its kind in the world, it has now extended to other markets like books,music and film. Through the 1990's and well into the 2000's, the company has expanded at an astonishing rate setting up one new unit every working day. It has been a frequent target of protests on fair-trade policies, labour relations, environmental impact and rumours of support from the Israeli military.

• Starbucks

• In mathematics, a paraboloid is a quadric surface of special kind. There are two kinds of paraboloids: elliptical adn hyperbolic.

• What is hyperbolic paraboloid's most famous application?

• It is said that the shape allows the____to be securely stacked in a canister to prevent it during packaging and transport.

• He was India's representative at Bretton Woods Conference which led to the formation of IMF and World Bank. He was also a minister in Nehru's Cabinet from 1950 to 1956 but resigned in protest. Later, he served as VC of University of Delhi, Presidebt of I.S.I and Honorary Chairman of National Book Trust.

• He became the first Indian to hold which post?• Pic in next Slide

• C.D Deshmukh• The First Governor of the Reserve Bank of India.

The Brand Charmin posted this photo on theor ofiicial twitter page in November 2013 with the tagline, "we have always been a/an.the X" While people loved the joke on Twitter, it was soon removed by the brand. ID X. What is Charmin a brand of?

• While high schoolers in the 1970s, X and Y started Traf-O-Data, a computer business that automatically read paper from tapes and traffic counters for local governments. The idea later became obsolute when Washington D.C. offered to tabulate the tapes for citites for free.ID X and Y.

• Bill Gates and Paul Allen

• 6 Questions to Follow.

• Each Question has individual point of +10.

• All the six questions are connected to each other.

• You can guess the connect after any question.

• Points for the Connect is given in each question.

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• Carl Heinrich Theodor_____ married well, and was thus able to go into business in 1838. He set up a acoffee and chicory roasting operation. His sons hit upon ways of selling bean,pea, letil and sago flour in packets, and that eventually led them to the distinctive product now associated with their surnames. What surname?

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• Thomas _____ began travelling the world for new items to stock in his store, one such items was tea, since sales had grown from 40 million pounds from late 1870s to 80 million pounds by the mid 1880s. _____believed that the price was far too high so he started growing his own tea and selling them in packets by the pound, half pound, and quarter pound, with the advertising slogan: "Direct from the tea gardens to the teapot." _____ teas were an immediate success in the United States.

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• The ______ brand started its life in 1957 in the US, with the revolutionary new beauty cleansing Bar. The company says in a world in which girls are too often held back by low self esteem and anxety about their looks, ____s Social Mission is to help encourage girls to develop a positive relationship with beauty, helping to raise their self esteem and thereby enabling them to realise full potential.

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• In 1875, Sir Robert August Cheeseborough, founded the Cheeseborough Manufacturing Co. that in 1955 became a leading manufacturer of personal care products. He also patented the process of making X. Unable to sell it to drug stores until he travelled around New York State demonstrating his miracle product. In front of an audience he would burn his skin with acid or an open flame, then add X on his injuries while demonstrating past injuries, healed, he claimed, by his miracle product.

• In his patent, what name Y did he give to the product, believed to be derived from the German word for "water" and "Oil".

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• In 1925 _____ launched the world's first mass market beauty bar, "made like the costliest French soap". Since then,____ has been associated with over 400 of the world's most glamorous actresses from Hollywood legends like Elizabeth Taylor, Audrey Hepburn, and Grace Kelly, to Bollywood Royalties such as Ashwarya Rai.

Answers.

1.Brylcreem

2.Knorr

3.Lipton

4.Dove

5.Vaseline

6.Lux

• Connect:All are Unilever Products

• 10 Clues

• Non exhausting clues

• Attempt for the THEME answer can be made after every clue

• Marks:

• * Individual answer- 5 marks

• *Theme answer- marks shown on the slide.

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• BlueOrigin, a aprivately funded aerospace company, is developing technologies to enable private human access to space with the goal of lower cost and increased reliability

• What is the most well known venture of the founder of this company?

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• This is the present kit of TSV 1860 Munich. What has been blanked out?

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• It is the third oldest car maker in the world after Daimler and Peugot. Six-times Dakar Rally winner Karel Loprais made this car maker's name a household one.

• Identify this company which has linked a deal with the Indian Army.

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• In 1995, Swedish politician Mona Sahlin had bought, among other things, two 'X' bars using her Riksdag credit card. She was forced to step down as a candidate for the post as Prime Minister. This became known as the 'X' Affair.

• What is 'X'?

• It is the logo of?

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• After leaving Xerox PARC, Charles Geschke and John Warnock established which company in 1982, in order to develop and sell the PostScript page description language?

• MikroMikko was a line of microcomputers produced from 1981 to 1987.

• It is one of the distinguished products of which company?

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During the 1920s, on a visit to BUrma, Mr M. Manal saw a restless elephants being fed with Rauwolfia Serpentina root to pacify them. Fascinated by the plant's effect on elephants, he had it scietifically evaluated.

This led to the foundation of which Indian Company?

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• As a part of a unique promotional campaign, this company teamed up with Virgin Records and EMI for the album Club Nation. It featured many ads for that company, including a logo on the cover.

• Name the company which is one of the official associates of the Wimbledon Tennis Championship.

• References in two versions of The Black Island. What has been blanked out?

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Answers

1.Amazon.com2 Aston Martin3 Tatra4 Toblerone5 MontBlanc6 Adobe7 Nokia8 Himalaya9 Evian10 Loch Lomond

Theme

• Company names derived from Geographical entities• Amazon- Named after Amazon River• Aston Martin- Named after Aston Hill• Tatra- Named after tatra Mountain• Toblerone: Named after Toblerone Mountain• MontBlanc: Named after Mont Blanc,in Alps• Adobe: Named after Adobe Creek• Nokia: Named after Nokia River• Himalaya: Named after the Himalayan Mountain range• Evian: Named after Evian-les-Bains, on south hore of

Lake Geneva• Loch Lomond: Named after a Scottish Waterbody

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