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.
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.
6. 2.
In 1984, ________ won a Rotary Foundation Scholarship that offered him a
ticket to the US and a place at Willamette Universitys Atkinson Graduate
School of Management.
They were prepared to pay me $37,000 in the early 1980s and they wanted
to hire me. And thats how I ended up with Y, _______ explained in 2014.
And 28 years later, Im chairman of the firm.
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
12. 4.
X is a privately held, San Franciscobased 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 Xs brand from the
start.(Image on next slide)
As per X President John Zimmer, it made people smile.
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
?
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.
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
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
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)
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.
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
Valleys 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
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 Amazons 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
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 peacocks body and the eleven
feathers of its previous peacock logo were pared down to six to represent its
six divisions
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
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