Udgam business quiz
Download as PPTX, PDF5 likes1,451 views
This document summarizes the key details of a business quiz competition with multiple rounds and questions. The rounds included direct questions to identify companies, people, logos and other business-related concepts for points, with opportunities to gain or lose additional points by interrupting other players. Questions covered topics like prominent venture capital firms, global companies, logos and branding, and infographics. The competition featured visual clues, hints and 'safety slides' to avoid penalties for incorrect answers.
Udgam business quiz
- 1. Udgam Biz Quiz Finals Quizmaster : Vishal Vaibhav
- 2. Round 1 8 questions 10 points each on direct. +10/ -10 on pounce Infinite bounce
- 3. 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.
- 4. Safety Slide
- 6. 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.”
- 7. Safety Slide
- 8. Answer Punit Renjen Y - Deloitte
- 9. 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
- 10. Safety Slide
- 11. Answer Thomas Alva Edison
- 12. 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.
- 14. Safety Slide
- 15. Answer
- 16. 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 ?
- 17. Safety Slide
- 18. Answer Symbolics.com was the first Registered ‘.com’ Domain
- 19. 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”.
- 20. Hint
- 21. Safety Slide
- 22. Answer Y - Penguin Books X - V. K. Krishna Menon
- 23. 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
- 24. Safety Slide
- 25. Answer X – Nestle Y – The Hershey Company Z – Kitkat
- 26. 8. Name the country through which highest amount of FDI in India comes. 5 Bonus point for telling the reason.
- 27. Safety Slide
- 28. 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
- 29. 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
- 30. Safety Slide
- 31. Answer Symbol Company KO Coca - Cola HOG Harley Davidson LVB Steinway BUD Budweiser BKS Barnes and Noble V Visa
- 32. Round 3 10 questions 10 points each on direct. +10/ -10 on pounce Infinite bounce
- 33. 1. Which news broadcaster ran this brilliant campaign.
- 34. Safety Slide
- 35. Answer
- 36. 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)
- 37. Safety Slide
- 38. Answer
- 39. 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.
- 40. Safety Slide
- 41. Answer Serum Institute Of India Manufacturer of immunobiological drugs including vaccines in India.
- 42. 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”
- 43. Safety Slide
- 44. Answer
- 45. 5. Identify X and Y. This graph shows competition between two corporations who have duopoly control of a particular sector.
- 46. Safety Slide
- 47. Answer
- 48. 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
- 49. Safety Slide
- 50. Answer
- 51. 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
- 52. Hint
- 53. Safety Slide
- 54. Answer
- 55. 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
- 56. Safety Slide
- 57. Answer X – Starbucks Y – Sirens
- 58. 9. Identify X , Y and Z.
- 59. Safety Slide
- 60. Answer
- 61. 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
- 62. Safety Slide
- 63. Answer
- 64. Written Round - Vintage Ads Identify the brand or tagline from following vintage ads 5 questions 5 marks each 5 marks bonus for all correct
- 70. Answer
- 71. Answer
- 72. Answer
- 73. Answer
- 74. Answer
- 75. Written Round - Infographics 4 questions 10 marks each 10 marks bonus for all correct
- 76. Identify X
- 77. FITB
- 78. Identify X and Y
- 79. Identify X
- 80. Answer 1. X – Smartwatch 2. X – Democracy 3. X – Alibaba , Y – Visa 4. X – International Students
- 81. FINAL SCORES