The document provides details about a business quiz competition hosted by Club XQuizIT. It includes 15 multiple choice questions covering topics like brand endorsements, business acquisitions, startup founders, and economic concepts like masala bonds. The final question asks for the name of the current Commerce Minister of India, with the answer being Nirmala Sitharaman.
7. Q2.
Remember this scene..
So there are two people who want a room but are unmarried. Now there is
a start-up who has brought a solution to this problem.. Can you tell the
name of that?
16. Q5. In the year 2010 Reliance industries bought a 96% stake
in Y. Although unlisted, Y was the only firm to win broadband
spectrum in all 22 zones in India in the 4G auction that took
place earlier that year. Later in the year 2013 Y was renamed
as Reliance Jio Infocomm Limited (RJIL). June 2015, Jio
announced that it will start its operations all over the country
by the end of 2015. Identify Y.
19. Q6. This brand was created by a 19-year-old entrepreneur
named Tom Lyle Williams in 1915. Williams noticed his older
sister applying a mixture of Vaseline and coal dust to her
eyelashes to give them a darker, fuller look. He adapted it
with a chemistry set and produced a product sold locally
called lash-in-brow-line. Williams renamed his eye beautifier
X, in honor of his sister, who gave him the idea. In 1917 the
company produced X Cake Mascara, "the first modern eye
cosmetic for everyday use" and Ultra Lash in the 1960s,
which was the first mass-market automatic. Identify X.
22. Q7. A or A B as it is increasingly known, has a long history.
The first recorded examples of a A B comes from the Greek
mathematician Hero of Alexandria who invented a device that
dispensed holy water inside Egyptian temples. Other early
examples include small machines made of brass that
dispensed tobacco found in some taverns in England around
1615. In 1822, an English publisher and bookshop owner
named English publisher and bookshop owner named Richard
Carille built a newspaper dispensing machine that allowed
patrons to purchase banned works. And it was in 1867 that
the first fully automatic A B, which dispensed stamps
appeared.
25. Q8. The history of Y dates back to ancient peoples who must have
snacked on sweet honey straight from bee hives. The first Y
confections were fruits and nuts rolled in honey. Honey was used in
Ancient China, Middle East, Greece and the Roman Empire to coat
fruits and flowers to preserve them or to create forms of Y. The
manufacturing of sugar began during the middle ages and at that
time sugar was so made from sugar. Cacao, from which chocolate is
made, was re-discovered in 1519 by Spanish explorers in Mexico.
Before the Industrial Revolution, Y was often considered a form of
medicine, either used to calm the digestive system or cool a sore
throat. In the Middle Ages, Y appeared on the tables of only the
most wealthy at first. At that time, it began as a combination of
spices and sugar that was used as an aid to digestive problems.
39. A12. Amancio Ortega (owner of Inditex fashion group)
40. Q13. The Dollar a day program is an ambitious program
established in Greensboro, North Carolina in 1990, with other
cities experimenting with the program since. The program aims to
decrease the rate of teenage births by focusing on decreasing the
rate of further pregnancies in teenage mothers (in 2011, 18% of all
teen births were subsequent births).
The program uses a very basic incentive as a nudge; rewarding
teenage mothers with a dollar for each day they are not pregnant.
Because the payment is recurring, it serves as constant
encouragement for young mothers to take necessary steps to avoid
another pregnancy, while also posing the potential to decrease
taxpayer spending (the state spent $392 million on teen childbirths
in 2008). The states peak birth rate in teens is down 55% from
what its high in 1991, and part of that is significant decrease can
be credited to a program based off of nudging behavior.
This is an example of which type of marketing?
43. Q14. During World War II the Boston-based National
Research Corporation (NRC) developed high-vacuum
evaporation processes for dehydrating penicillin, blood
plasma, and streptomycin for U.S. Army. The U.S. Army
wanted to extend this technological advance into the area of
providing its troops nutritious food. So in result NRC created
a new branch named Florida Foods Corp later it changed its
named to Vacuum Foods Corporation. It was purchased by
Coca-Cola in 1960. How do we know this brand today in
India?
46. Q15. After his failure to get admission at IIT, he completed
his bachelor degree from the Uni of Pennsylvania later
received his business degree from the Wharton School. He
also started a detergent company while in college and its
products sold across 4000 Walmart stores there. After a very
brief period at Microsoft he came back to India he started an
offline coupon book business named Money Saver. He
cofounded an e-commerce company along with his school
friend Rohit Bansal. Who is this and what did he start?
49. Q16. The Housing Development Finance Corporation (HDFC)
has become the first Indian company to issue rupee-
denominated bonds masala bonds on London Stock
Exchange (LSE). The bond will help HDFC, Indias biggest
mortgage lender (home finance company) to diversify its
borrowing profile and access global investors. With this
issuance of masala bonds, HDFC is planning to raise 750
million dollars from the overseas market during the current
financial year.
Explain the concept of Masala bonds.
51. A16. Masala bond refers to a rupee-
denominated bond through which Indian
entities can raise money from foreign markets
in rupee, and not in foreign currency.