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Udgam Biz QuizFinals
Quizmaster : Vishal Vaibhav
Round 1
8 questions
10 points each on direct.
+10/ -10 on pounce
Infinite bounce
1.
This venture capital firm founded in 1972 has built a remarkable track record
over the years, as an early investor in technology giants like Apple, YouTube,
Google, Yahoo and Oracle.
Its recent success include early investment in WhatsApp and Instagram.
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Answer
Sequoia Capital
2.
In 1984, ________ won a Rotary Foundation Scholarship that offered him a
ticket to the US and a place at Willamette University’s Atkinson Graduate
School of Management.
“They were prepared to pay me $37,000 in the early 1980s and they wanted
to hire me. And that’s how I ended up with Y,” _______ explained in 2014.
“And 28 years later, I’m chairman of the firm.”
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Answer
Punit Renjen
Y - Deloitte
3.
Ticker tape was the earliest digital electronic communications medium,
transmitting stock price information over telegraph lines became obsolete in
the 1960s, as television and computers were increasingly used.
Although telegraphic printing systems were first invented by Royal Earl House
in 1846, early models were fragile, required hand-cranked power, frequently
went out of necessary synchronization.
One of the earliest practical stock ticker machines, the Universal Stock Ticker
developed by X in 1869 by which earned
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Answer
Thomas Alva Edison
4.
X is a privately held, San Francisco–based American transportation network
company. The company's mobile-phone application facilitates peer-to-peer
ridesharing by connecting passengers who need a ride to drivers who have a
car.
The oversized mustache has been a defining part of X’s brand from the
start.(Image on next slide)
As per X President John Zimmer, it made people smile.
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Answer
5.
Symbolics was a computer manufacturer headquartered in Cambridge,
Massachusetts.
Symbolics designed and manufactured a line of Lisp machines, single-user
computers optimized to run the Lisp programming language.
Though it now defunct , but it still holds relevance in the dot.com world. How
?
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Answer
Symbolics.com was the first Registered ‘.com’ Domain
6.
Y was founded in 1935 by Sir Allen Lane and X.
Y revolutionized publishing in the 1930s through its high quality, inexpensive
paperbacks, sold through Woolworths and other high street stores for
sixpence.
U.S. president Dwight D Eisenhower characterized X as a "menace governed
by an ambition to prove himself the master international manipulator and
politician of the age”.
Hint
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Answer
Y - Penguin Books
X - V. K. Krishna Menon
7. Identify X,Y,Z
Z is produced globally by X (which acquired Rowntree in 1988) with the
exception of the United States where it is made under license of Y (due to a
prior licensing agreement with Rowntree).
No half Points
Safety Slide
Answer
X – Nestle
Y – The Hershey Company
Z – Kitkat
8. Name the country through which highest
amount of FDI in India comes. 5 Bonus point
for telling the reason.
Safety Slide
Answer
Mauritius
Double Taxation Avoidance Agreement
According to the tax treaty between India and Mauritius, capital gains can
only be taxed in Mauritius. Thanks to its low 3% capital gains tax, historical
ties with India, Mauritius is the most attractive conduit for investments into
India
Written Round – 5 points for correct
A stock symbol or ticker symbol is an abbreviation used to uniquely identify
publicly traded shares of a particular stock on a particular stock market. Ex.
GOOG - Google
Symbol Company
KO
HOG
LVB
BUD
BKS
V
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Answer
Symbol Company
KO Coca - Cola
HOG Harley Davidson
LVB Steinway
BUD Budweiser
BKS Barnes and Noble
V Visa
Round 3
10 questions
10 points each on direct.
+10/ -10 on pounce
Infinite bounce
1. Which news broadcaster ran this
brilliant campaign.
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Answer
2.
After being denied supercomputers because of a technology embargo, India
started a program to develop an indigenous supercomputer in collaboration
with Russia.
As a result which institution was established.(acronym of name of institution
will do)
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Answer
3.
The company is managed by the Poonawalla group which is fully owned by
Cyrus Poonawalla (14th richest Indian (2014)) . Half Points for telling what the
company makes.
Safety Slide
Answer
Serum Institute Of India
Manufacturer of immunobiological drugs including vaccines in India.
4.
From a Forbes article Titled ‘The Secret Of X's Venture Capital Success’.
“X also made some solo investments before A-Grade was founded. He owns a
portion of Foursquare, the social network which allows users to “check in” to
locations, and in 2009 he was persuaded by Marc Andreessen, one of Silicon
Valley’s most prominent investors, to take a stake in Skype .It was a good tip.
Two years later, Microsoft bought the online video call company for $8.6bn.
According to reports, X tripled his money”
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Answer
5. Identify X and Y.
This graph shows competition between two corporations who have duopoly control of a
particular sector.
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Answer
6.
________ Amazon Partnership as An Affiliate Channel.
With _______, Amazon has gone one step ahead compared to an ordinary
affiliate – when any user comes from _______homepage, they show a
_______ logo next to Amazon’s logo, giving the user the impression that
they are buying from a site related to________, but that is not the case.
This helps in monetize the millions of people who visit the website every
month
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Answer
7.
Its most famous logo, the peacock, was first used in 1956 to highlight the
network's color programming.
Since then it has been modified by simplifying peacock’s body and the eleven
feathers of its previous peacock logo were pared down to six to represent its
six divisions
Hint
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Answer
8.
According to blog of company X, Y was chosen as the logo because X was
looking for a nautical theme to capture the spirit of Seattle.
In mythology, Y are consistently seen as a personification of the ocean -- and
that's not a good thing. According to scholars, they would sing an "irresistibly
sweet" song that "lapped both body and soul into a fatal lethargy." Sailors who
crossed paths with a Y would become so obsessed that they would crash into
the rocks and die
Safety Slide
Answer
X – Starbucks Y – Sirens
9.
Identify X , Y and Z.
Safety Slide
Answer
10.
The name X became popular for businesses by the 1920s, when alphabetized
business telephone directories such as the Yellow Pages began to be
widespread.
X is a Greek word denoting the best of something
Safety Slide
Answer
Written Round - Vintage Ads
Identify the brand or tagline from following vintage ads
5 questions
5 marks each
5 marks bonus for all correct
Answer
Answer
Answer
Answer
Answer
Written Round - Infographics
4 questions
10 marks each
10 marks bonus for all correct
Identify X
FITB
Identify X and Y
Identify X
Answer
1. X – Smartwatch
2. X – Democracy
3. X – Alibaba , Y – Visa
4. X – International Students
FINAL SCORES