doms iit roorkee business & general quiz

1. Who is “she” in this statement?

“When we used to get beaten up by the police during the anti-corruption movement, she used to be busy tweeting”

2. The word “Satyamev Jayte” inscribed at the bottom of Indian National Emblem is taken from which ancient scripture?

Mundaka Upanishad

3. Identify them

Larsen & Toubro

4.

Who is the famous brother-in- law of GururajDeshpande?

Gururaj Deshpande is the promoter of Sycamore Networks.

N. R. Narayana Murthy

5.

Identify the character from the visual and name the company that created it.

Swampy , Disney

6. Ruy Lopez , Berlin Defence, Worrall Attack.

What are they???

Chess

7. Identify me ??-- I am married to Dr Akash Singh Rathore, a research professor at University of Luiss, Rome, Italy.-- My father was in IAS and I am also a civil servant.-- I am an illegal beneficiary at the AdarshHousing Society.-- I was born in Tarapur , Maharashtra and I can speak : Hindi , English, German, Marathi.

Devyani Khobragade

8. Remember me??

Nathuram Godse

9.

This brand hasn’t spent a single rupee onadvertising since its launch. It has innumerablenumber of pages and groups devoted to it onFacebook, one of them run with the abbreviation“Comrade”. It is the largest selling brand in theworld in its category. Name it.

Old Monk Rum

10. Id the advertisement….. Think tourism

Odisha Tourism

11. In the early 90s, which publication played aleading role in exposing Jordan Belfort, thestockbroker played by Leonardo Di Caprio in TheWolf of Wall Street?

Forbes Magazine

12.

The ”City of Manchester” Stadium in Manchester, England, is also known as _____stadium for sponsorship reasons. It is the fifth-largest stadium in the Premier League. Fill in the blank.

Etihad Stadium

13. While on a voyage to Calcutta as anapprentice sailor during the 1830s, this personwhittled out of pine wood a prototype of hisinvention that is now a world famous product. Oneof the names for his famous models isPeacemaker. Name him and his invention.

Samuel Colt, Revolver

14.

The ad agency JWT made several attempts topromote this brand as a summer time drinkduring the 1940s. In one of the advertisementsthe copy reads - “As a pick me up ____with alittle Sherry or old Brandy is a drink for theGods”. Name the brand

Horlicks

15.

Name the world’s largest derivative exchangewhere it claims “trading at speed of light.” Twobillion order messages per second.

NSE

16. Id the brand. (Think Tennis)

Sugarpova

17.

Which airline created aviation history when they started to serve passengers with re-useable cookie tins?

Indigo Airlines

18.

Kareena Kapoor and John Abraham were brand ambassadors for a particular product range being sold by an 131 year old company. Name it. (Hint : Recently Kareena Kapoor has been replaced by Alia Bhatt)

Philips

19.

Which company’s marketing philosophy was founded on these three principles — empathy, focus and impute?

20.

For which brand did Jayaprada, Sridevi, Ravi Shastri, Vivian Richards, Allan Border and KabirBedi feature in its advertisements?

21. Id the Brand.

22. Michael Phelps said :

_______________ is even harder than winning eight gold medals in the pool.

What is he referring to?? (Go back to that moment-- Rewind)

Mandarin Chinese

23.

First it was the Smashing Kitty, followed by DrPlet Shuffle,Shruiken Block and Ninja’s Assault. What was the fifth??

24.

The author please..!!!

25.

If the person below, is the oldest recipient(of the privilege), who is the youngest?

26.

Identify me

-- I am a Yiddish Word derived from Hebrew.

-- An award is named after me.

-- A book “Beyond _______” by Norman G Finklestein.. A bestseller

-- Wikipedia says I mean : "insolence", "cheek" or "audacity“.

-- popularized through vernacular use in film, literature, and television.

Chutzpah

27.

Which Bollywood movie poster was inspired by this?

28. Who Said This??

You can’t allow an event like this to change the way you do business or how you are creatively minded. This sounds like a terrible tragedy.

29.

“Seekhna bandh to jeetna bandh”.

Which popular entity???

30.

Monitor CONSULTING was founded in 1983 by six entrepreneurs with ties to Harvard Business School , including Michael Porter, Mark Fuller and Joseph Fuller. Which famous Indian was a former employee here??

31.

One of the reason for this car brand’s name was that its engine gave zero noise. Which car are we talking about?

Zero Engine Noise -- ZEN

32.

With which Indian brand would you associate

- “The Joy of Writing”

- “Your companion for life”

33. Identify the brand and the occasion.

Oreo, Gay Pride Day……

34.

A fitness program initiated by Alberto “Beto” Perez in Colombia in 1990s. Approximately 15 million people in over 140,000 locations across more than 185 countries have benefitted from this program. The program includes music with fast and slow rhythms, as well as resistance training. The program has also released a video game which sold more than 3 million copies.

Zumba

35.

I was a sales director at Dubai Holding subsidiary company and a staskeholder in RSW – a sports consortium. Who Am I?

Sunanda Pushkar

36. Identify the advertiser

37.

I was born in 1974. Done my Bachelors fromSydenham College, Mumbai. MBA from JBIMS,where I was a part of the placement committee.My mother is a former Miss India. Previously, Ihave worked at Star TV and P&G. I am responsiblefor the success of Hungama TV. I am a two timedivorcee. I am the Managing Director of a leadingenterprise in the world of entertainment. Identifyme.

Siddharth Roy Kapur

38.

A telecom giant won the PETA award in 2009 for something unusual. The same institution had raised their voice against this giant some time back regarding a cause. They got the award for their creativity. Name the telecom company as well as their creation.

39. Who Said This??

Jaguar E-Type Series 1 Roadster is the "the most beautiful car ever made“.

40.

What term is used to describe a unit for thesmallest detectable movement of a mouse in thecomputing industry? The cursor moves on thescreen proportionally, at a rate of say X numberof pixels per unit of this measure.

41.

Despite this iconic brand’s founder passing awayway back in 1888, the company has opened atwitter account in his name which has more than79,000 followers. Name the twitter account andthe brand.

• Coca Cola @docpemberton

42. Connect

43. Connect to a brand

44. These are some names of eminent scientists engraved at _________________ . ???

45. Connect

46. Connect

47. What is this?

Palace on Wheels

48. Connect (Recent history)

Cyber attacks

49. Connect (from the world of sport)

50. Connect

Lost Patent wars….

• Smiley

• Tweet

• Mc

• Engine noise & smoke