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The document provides the rules and questions for "The Business Quiz" hosted by Kaushik Subramanian. It includes 4 rounds of trivia questions testing knowledge about business leaders and companies. Many questions require identifying people or companies based on clues provided. The questions cover a wide range of topics including media moguls, Asian billionaires, Indian CEOs, technology companies, and consumer brands.

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Vyapaar The Business Quiz Kaushik Subramanian
Rules 1. Dont argue with me. I havent slept all night. 2. Refer to rule 1 3. Rules for each round will be given before the round itself 4. Audience round after each round. Or even in the middle depends on the noise you make. I love the audience. 5. Feel free to connect: 87kaushik@gmail.com www.facebook.com87kaushik 6. Compliments can be directed towards me, anyone with complaints can walk out
Round 1 Infinite Bounce 10 for pass, 10 for direct Powerplay
Q1 A graduate of Johns Hopkins and Harvard Business School, he started working with Salomon Brothers where he headed equity trading, and systems development for a bit. Being in New York, he realised that people were willing to pay for a particular kind of information as long as it was delivered to them as quickly as possible. He set up his own company to market this product (still a huge revenue driver) and this company has blossomed into a huge conglomerate. Identify the person/company
A1 Michael Bloomberg Bloomberg L.P
Q2 Known as the Superman of Hong Kong The first company he owned was called Chueng Kong Industries, and till date all his companies are still held under the same name (Retail, Real Estate, Telecom, you-name-it). Who?
A2 Li Ka Shing
*Q3 He began his professional career as a journalist for Sportsworld magazine, tried his hand at advertising and worked first with Hindustan Thompson Associates and then shifted to Ogilvy where he worked for eight years . But then he started doing what we know him for. It started with a hugely popular FM slot on Sundays which later went on to become one of the televised shows in future. Which Kolkata based celebrity are we talking about ?
*A3 Derek O Brien
Q4 These two sons were born to an Indian Army General, Harvinder Singh _______ One graduated from IIT KGP, and the other from St. Stephens, but both post graduated from IIMA. Both these brothers were youngest CEOs at the time. One was the CEO of one of the worlds largest FMCGs, the other of a credit card company. Identify either one/family.
A4 Padma Bhushan Vindi Banga Ex CEO of Hul, Board member of Thomson Reuters Ajay Banga President and CEO of Mastercard, Board member of Kraft foods
*Q5 X was born in the Bronx, NY and raised in Bayside, Queens. He is the eldest son of two immigrant doctors from India. He attended Townsend Harris High School, a public school in Flushing, Queens before attending Harvard University in 2000. He is currently attending Northwestern University School of Law and the Kellogg School of Management for his J.D. and MBA, expecting to graduate in 2012. He is currently the CEO and co-founder of SumZero.
*A5 Divya Narendra
*Q6 Born and raised in Saudi Arabia, he graduated from Menlo college, California. He bailed out CitiCorp in the 1990s when Citi was (yet again) in difficulties. Also has stakes in AOL, Time Warner, Apple, Motorola, Fox News, Euro Disney, Four Seasons Hotel, The Plaza Hotel amongst others. Buys by instinct, at the right time. Still lives a bedouin life. Identify.
A6 Prince Alwaleed Bin TalalKingdom Holdings
Round 2 Infinite Bounce 10 for pass, 10 for direct
Q1 X was founded by J. C. Jacobsen; the first product was finished on 10 November 1847. Exportation of X's product began in 1868; foreign production began in 1968 with the opening of an X production unit in Blantyre, Malawi. Some of the company's original logos include an elephant (after which some of its products are named) and the swastika. Use of the latter was discontinued in the 1930s because of its association with political parties in neighboring Germany. X founder J. C. Jacobsen was a philanthropist and avid art collector. With his fortune he amassed an impressive art collection which is now housed in the Ny X Glyptotek in central Copenhagen. Jacobsen set up the X Laboratory in 1875 which worked on scientific problems in Chemistry and Physiology.The species of _______1 used to make pale _______2, Saccharomyces Xensis, was isolated at the Laboratory and was named after it. The concept of pH was developed there as well as advances in protein chemistry. (Pic on next slide). What is X?
A1 X Carlsberg 1 Yeast 2 - Lager
Q2 X is a culture jamming ritual aimed at retail superstores and described by participants as "art and action." An event consists of a group of supposed shoppers who congregate at a large superstore and slowly push empty shopping carts silently through store aisles. Participants will not purchase anything and seek to form a lengthy chain of non- shoppers, continually weaving and _________ through a maze of store aisles for up to an hour at a time. Participants describe their actions as "a collective reclamation of space that is otherwise only used for buying and selling". Xers seek to mimic and mock what they perceive as the absurdity of the shopping process. X?
A2 X Whirl - Mart
Q3 X is an American electronics company based in Santa Clara, California. The company's name has the root of the word video thus implying "the best visual experience" or perhaps "immeasurable display. The sound of the name X suggests Y may have been the root for X; given that X uses the colour green in marketing its products. X?
A3 X - NVIDIA Y Invidia (Envy)
*Q4 Originally founded as Legend computing company, this company headed by Liu Chuanzhi was a parts and materials supplier to the computing industry. Thereafter they started producing personal computers and related accessories, and became the market leaders in their home country. Today, this is one of the top 3 companies in that space. Their current CEO is William J Amelio. Identify.
*A4 Lenovo
*Q5 Identify the person and the company
*A5 Rashmi Sinha/際際滷share
*Q6 This drink was invented in the University of Florida by the football coach. It made a huge change to the way the players performed, and the opposition once quoted We did not have X. That made the difference. It was initially made by a company called Stokeley Van Camp, and later on purchased by Quaker Oats. Y wanted to buy out this brand from Quaker, but Quaker refused, so Y bought out Quaker instead. Identify X.
A6 Gatorade
Round 3 Anticlockwise 20 for pass, 20 for direct Infinite Bounce All connect
Q1
A1 First books to be shipped by Amazon and Flipkart respectively
Q2
A2 Lesser known brands of Procter and Gamble
Q3
A3 Grameen Bank
Q4
A4 British American Tobacco
*Q5
*A5 Shapoorji Pallonji Mistry Group
*Q6
A6 Royal Enfield Eicher Parent Company Charles Townsend Founder Sherpa Model of a bike Made like a gun - Trademark
Round 4 3 clues per question. One attempt allowed. Scoring +20/+10/+5.
Q1 In 2005, Forbes reported him to be the 9th richest man in the World.During the 1970s, after a brief stint at Amdahl Corporation, He worked for Ampex Corporation. One of his projects was a database for the CIA, which he named "X" ( X was later name of the company) In 1977, he founded Software Development Laboratories (SDL). In 1979, the company was renamed Relational Software Inc., later renamed X He also have a colourful personal life and has been married and divorced 4 times. His favourtie pick up line is Can I buy you a car ?Steve Jobs was the official photographer for his wedding. Who are we talking about ?
A1 Larry Ellison
Q2 This brand was launched in the UK in 1954, It is sold under a variety of different names in markets around the world including Elidor, Seda and Sedal Madonna, Shakira, Marilyn Monroe, and Marian Rivera all featured in this brands 2008 advertising campaign Life Cant Wait which launched with a Super Bowl XLII spot In 2008, this brand launched a social networking site for girls in India.
A2 Sunsilk
Q3 This chain was founded by Alan Stillman in 1965. The bachelor perfume salesman lived in a neighborhood with many airline stewardesses, fashion models, secretaries, and other single people on the East Side of Manhattan He hoped that opening a bar would help him meet women. At the time, Stillman's choices for socializing were non- public cocktail parties, or "guys' beer-drinking hangout" bars that women usually did not visit He sought to recreate the comfortable cocktail-party atmosphere in public despite having no experience in the restaurant business and named it after a day of the week
A3 Thank God its Friday
Q4 In 1994, he took a job with Chicago Options Associates, futures and options trading firm in Chicago, Illinois. But Inspired by the remarkable initial public offering of Netscape in 1995, and having accumulated capital through "speculating on interest-rate and foreign- currency fluctuations", he decided to leave the realm of financial trading and become an Internet entrepreneur. In 1996, he and two partners founded Bomis, a web portal featuring user- generated webrings and, for a time, erotic photographs. Wales described it as a "guy-oriented search engine" with a market similar to that of Maxim magazine. The Bomis venture did not ultimately turn out to be successful, He also held a 3 day conference in Mumbai which made a lot of worldwide news. .In the summer of 2012, he is planning to marry Kate Garvey, Tony Blair's former diary secretary, whom he met in Davos, Switzerland
A4 Jimmy Wales
*Q5 This was the first car to be marketed by the Indian Government Due to lack of technical expertise, the government tied up with Nissan to make this car It was later made by the Jabalpur Ordinance Factory, and used exclusively by the Indian Army
*A5 Nissan Jonga
*Q6 Ferdinand _______ set up this company which was initially a design firm. Their first project was designing a tank, which they did not execute. Their second project was designing an iconic car for Y commissioned by the German Government Today they are owned by Y.
A6 Porsche
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  • 3. Rules 1. Dont argue with me. I havent slept all night. 2. Refer to rule 1 3. Rules for each round will be given before the round itself 4. Audience round after each round. Or even in the middle depends on the noise you make. I love the audience. 5. Feel free to connect: 87kaushik@gmail.com www.facebook.com87kaushik 6. Compliments can be directed towards me, anyone with complaints can walk out
  • 4. Round 1 Infinite Bounce 10 for pass, 10 for direct Powerplay
  • 5. Q1 A graduate of Johns Hopkins and Harvard Business School, he started working with Salomon Brothers where he headed equity trading, and systems development for a bit. Being in New York, he realised that people were willing to pay for a particular kind of information as long as it was delivered to them as quickly as possible. He set up his own company to market this product (still a huge revenue driver) and this company has blossomed into a huge conglomerate. Identify the person/company
  • 7. Q2 Known as the Superman of Hong Kong The first company he owned was called Chueng Kong Industries, and till date all his companies are still held under the same name (Retail, Real Estate, Telecom, you-name-it). Who?
  • 9. *Q3 He began his professional career as a journalist for Sportsworld magazine, tried his hand at advertising and worked first with Hindustan Thompson Associates and then shifted to Ogilvy where he worked for eight years . But then he started doing what we know him for. It started with a hugely popular FM slot on Sundays which later went on to become one of the televised shows in future. Which Kolkata based celebrity are we talking about ?
  • 11. Q4 These two sons were born to an Indian Army General, Harvinder Singh _______ One graduated from IIT KGP, and the other from St. Stephens, but both post graduated from IIMA. Both these brothers were youngest CEOs at the time. One was the CEO of one of the worlds largest FMCGs, the other of a credit card company. Identify either one/family.
  • 12. A4 Padma Bhushan Vindi Banga Ex CEO of Hul, Board member of Thomson Reuters Ajay Banga President and CEO of Mastercard, Board member of Kraft foods
  • 13. *Q5 X was born in the Bronx, NY and raised in Bayside, Queens. He is the eldest son of two immigrant doctors from India. He attended Townsend Harris High School, a public school in Flushing, Queens before attending Harvard University in 2000. He is currently attending Northwestern University School of Law and the Kellogg School of Management for his J.D. and MBA, expecting to graduate in 2012. He is currently the CEO and co-founder of SumZero.
  • 15. *Q6 Born and raised in Saudi Arabia, he graduated from Menlo college, California. He bailed out CitiCorp in the 1990s when Citi was (yet again) in difficulties. Also has stakes in AOL, Time Warner, Apple, Motorola, Fox News, Euro Disney, Four Seasons Hotel, The Plaza Hotel amongst others. Buys by instinct, at the right time. Still lives a bedouin life. Identify.
  • 16. A6 Prince Alwaleed Bin TalalKingdom Holdings
  • 17. Round 2 Infinite Bounce 10 for pass, 10 for direct
  • 18. Q1 X was founded by J. C. Jacobsen; the first product was finished on 10 November 1847. Exportation of X's product began in 1868; foreign production began in 1968 with the opening of an X production unit in Blantyre, Malawi. Some of the company's original logos include an elephant (after which some of its products are named) and the swastika. Use of the latter was discontinued in the 1930s because of its association with political parties in neighboring Germany. X founder J. C. Jacobsen was a philanthropist and avid art collector. With his fortune he amassed an impressive art collection which is now housed in the Ny X Glyptotek in central Copenhagen. Jacobsen set up the X Laboratory in 1875 which worked on scientific problems in Chemistry and Physiology.The species of _______1 used to make pale _______2, Saccharomyces Xensis, was isolated at the Laboratory and was named after it. The concept of pH was developed there as well as advances in protein chemistry. (Pic on next slide). What is X?
  • 19. A1 X Carlsberg 1 Yeast 2 - Lager
  • 20. Q2 X is a culture jamming ritual aimed at retail superstores and described by participants as "art and action." An event consists of a group of supposed shoppers who congregate at a large superstore and slowly push empty shopping carts silently through store aisles. Participants will not purchase anything and seek to form a lengthy chain of non- shoppers, continually weaving and _________ through a maze of store aisles for up to an hour at a time. Participants describe their actions as "a collective reclamation of space that is otherwise only used for buying and selling". Xers seek to mimic and mock what they perceive as the absurdity of the shopping process. X?
  • 21. A2 X Whirl - Mart
  • 22. Q3 X is an American electronics company based in Santa Clara, California. The company's name has the root of the word video thus implying "the best visual experience" or perhaps "immeasurable display. The sound of the name X suggests Y may have been the root for X; given that X uses the colour green in marketing its products. X?
  • 23. A3 X - NVIDIA Y Invidia (Envy)
  • 24. *Q4 Originally founded as Legend computing company, this company headed by Liu Chuanzhi was a parts and materials supplier to the computing industry. Thereafter they started producing personal computers and related accessories, and became the market leaders in their home country. Today, this is one of the top 3 companies in that space. Their current CEO is William J Amelio. Identify.
  • 26. *Q5 Identify the person and the company
  • 28. *Q6 This drink was invented in the University of Florida by the football coach. It made a huge change to the way the players performed, and the opposition once quoted We did not have X. That made the difference. It was initially made by a company called Stokeley Van Camp, and later on purchased by Quaker Oats. Y wanted to buy out this brand from Quaker, but Quaker refused, so Y bought out Quaker instead. Identify X.
  • 30. Round 3 Anticlockwise 20 for pass, 20 for direct Infinite Bounce All connect
  • 31. Q1
  • 32. A1 First books to be shipped by Amazon and Flipkart respectively
  • 33. Q2
  • 34. A2 Lesser known brands of Procter and Gamble
  • 35. Q3
  • 37. Q4
  • 39. *Q5
  • 41. *Q6
  • 42. A6 Royal Enfield Eicher Parent Company Charles Townsend Founder Sherpa Model of a bike Made like a gun - Trademark
  • 43. Round 4 3 clues per question. One attempt allowed. Scoring +20/+10/+5.
  • 44. Q1 In 2005, Forbes reported him to be the 9th richest man in the World.During the 1970s, after a brief stint at Amdahl Corporation, He worked for Ampex Corporation. One of his projects was a database for the CIA, which he named "X" ( X was later name of the company) In 1977, he founded Software Development Laboratories (SDL). In 1979, the company was renamed Relational Software Inc., later renamed X He also have a colourful personal life and has been married and divorced 4 times. His favourtie pick up line is Can I buy you a car ?Steve Jobs was the official photographer for his wedding. Who are we talking about ?
  • 46. Q2 This brand was launched in the UK in 1954, It is sold under a variety of different names in markets around the world including Elidor, Seda and Sedal Madonna, Shakira, Marilyn Monroe, and Marian Rivera all featured in this brands 2008 advertising campaign Life Cant Wait which launched with a Super Bowl XLII spot In 2008, this brand launched a social networking site for girls in India.
  • 48. Q3 This chain was founded by Alan Stillman in 1965. The bachelor perfume salesman lived in a neighborhood with many airline stewardesses, fashion models, secretaries, and other single people on the East Side of Manhattan He hoped that opening a bar would help him meet women. At the time, Stillman's choices for socializing were non- public cocktail parties, or "guys' beer-drinking hangout" bars that women usually did not visit He sought to recreate the comfortable cocktail-party atmosphere in public despite having no experience in the restaurant business and named it after a day of the week
  • 50. Q4 In 1994, he took a job with Chicago Options Associates, futures and options trading firm in Chicago, Illinois. But Inspired by the remarkable initial public offering of Netscape in 1995, and having accumulated capital through "speculating on interest-rate and foreign- currency fluctuations", he decided to leave the realm of financial trading and become an Internet entrepreneur. In 1996, he and two partners founded Bomis, a web portal featuring user- generated webrings and, for a time, erotic photographs. Wales described it as a "guy-oriented search engine" with a market similar to that of Maxim magazine. The Bomis venture did not ultimately turn out to be successful, He also held a 3 day conference in Mumbai which made a lot of worldwide news. .In the summer of 2012, he is planning to marry Kate Garvey, Tony Blair's former diary secretary, whom he met in Davos, Switzerland
  • 52. *Q5 This was the first car to be marketed by the Indian Government Due to lack of technical expertise, the government tied up with Nissan to make this car It was later made by the Jabalpur Ordinance Factory, and used exclusively by the Indian Army
  • 54. *Q6 Ferdinand _______ set up this company which was initially a design firm. Their first project was designing a tank, which they did not execute. Their second project was designing an iconic car for Y commissioned by the German Government Today they are owned by Y.
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