CCD Quiz

By Samyuktha and Vishnu

Which business district in Hyderabad gets its name from
the Armenian Jewish Nobel in Nijam’s court, Albert Abid?
Abids
 Cycle Agarbatti
N Ranga Rao - Founder, Amitabh Bachchan - Ambassador, They
are sponsors of CPLT20 and some of their products and apps
 Jaguar developed ‘Audible
Vehicle Alert System’ (AVAS)
for its first EV I-PACE. AVAS
was tested with the help of a
well-known charity in the
UK, ‘Guide Dogs for the
Blind’. What will be AVAS
used for?
 An EV does not produce the sound
that emanates from a normal petrol/
diesel car.

AVAS system will automatically create

such a sound when it approaches a
crossing so that the pedestrians can
be alerted and accidents can be
avoided.
THINK
amazon
Logo of which former design bureau?
Mikoyan and Gurevich
Design Bureau
Now Russian Aircraft Corporation MiG
Logo of?
 Chaleo Yoovidhya, launched
………… in 1976, marketed as a
refreshment for rural Thai
labourers. On contrary its
international counterpart(under
different company) marketed it
as a trendy, upscale drink, first
introducing it at Austrian ski
resorts in 1987.
Who made these cash registers in the
early days of their origin?
Who owns?
Jeff Bezos
Many Indian soldiers died because
of lack of groundsheets, raincoats
or boots in WWI.

Surendra Mohan Bose, who had

studied at the Berkeley and
Stanford universities, had an interest
in serving at the military but started
…… ………. ….. to serve army with
waterproof sheets and bags in 1920.
Bengal Waterproof Works.

Who uses this ‘Ultimate Banking Unit’ to

track their properties and cash balance?
Also identify the company making these
units.
Monopoly players
and Hasbro
Whose annual flagship summit?
teri - The Energy &
Research Institute
 It was spontaneously celebrated in 1886
during the inauguration of Statue of Liberty.
Officials of NYC later reserved such
celebrations only for the triumphal events. Till
1960s the main component used for this
celebration was a medium used by brokers to
update stock prices. Now a days, shreds of
used paper from the offices is used for the
purpose.

What are these celebrations known as? and

connect it to the business world.
Ticker tape parade -
Ticker Symbols
Isaac Le Maire has many firsts in his account.
He is the 1st known short seller, 1st person
to start shareholder activism, the first person
to be ousted from the board of directors of a
company(X).

He is responsible for the spread(leaked to

avenge X) of most of the current practices in
the corporate world, which were first
formulated and practiced at X.

X?
Dutch East India Company
• Robin Knox-Johnston, winner in 1968-69
• Sunday Times sponsored the first one in
1968-69
• Abhilash Tomy, participant from India
• Route map
 American version - :)

Japanese version - (^_^)

Why this difference?

1. English script is written from
left to right, whereas Japanese
is written from top to bottom.

2. Japanese animations usually

have distinctive large eyes with
numerous reflective highlights
and detailed color
 Which tech entrepreneur
initially started ‘Ink
Development’ and sold off
to Microsoft, before
starting ‘Auction Web’?
Pierre Omidyar of eBay
- NATO bombing Yugoslavia

- US invasion of Panama

- Kargil War

- South Ossetia war between Russia and

Georgia.

- Russia - Ukraine Crimean crisis.

- 2006 Isreal - Lebanon war

These are the exceptions which disprove the

Capitalist peace theory. What is this theory
Known as?
Golden Arches Theory
of Conflict Prevention
The holding company(X) derives its
name from DeLuca's goal to earn
enough from the business to pay
tuition for medical school, as well
as Buck's having a doctorate in
physics. X(7) is not affiliated with,
nor endorsed by, any medical
organization. In 1968, the
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sandwich shop was renamed Y(6)?

Doctor’s Association
And Subway
This pet animal when thrown
from a considerable height
bounces back and lies inert.
This phenomenon is used to
describe a short-lived
rebound in stock/asset
prices which fails to sustain.
What is this situation called?
Dead Cat Bounce
1850 1918
1890

Present ?
1951
Lysol Lysol
Identify the cofounder and the Company?
Bill Bowerman of
Nike
 Introduced in 1889 by Dr.
Gustav Raupenstrauch. X now
owned my Reckitt Benckiser
was marketed in 1920’s as a
feminine hygiene product. It was
claimed vaginal douching with a
diluted X prevented infections
and vaginal odor, and was also
used as a birth control agent.
Lysol Lysol
Connect this house with a red shield in Frankfurt to the
world of business
 Rothschild
Rothschild family’s family tree started from that house in a Jewish locality where
the houses were recognised by the shapes/signs at the entry of their houses.
This house had a Red Shield, hence ‘Rothschild’.
This is the logo of Mayan Archeology Initiative(MAI). When
submitted for trademark registration, it was opposed by X,
due its similarity with one of the X’s mascots(Y). Cornelius
Rooster is one of the few other mascots of X.
Toucan Sam of
Kellogg’s
Identify the person from a famous German banking family, he was also the person
behind the idea of the US Federal Reserve System
Paul Warburg
What was thus formed?
 OXFORD
OED, OUP & Oxford Bags
?
Who is behind this campaign?
(Their claimed target is to decrease the dependence on their
cigarette business)
Philip Morris
International
IBM
 ……. attract eyeballs in
200 milliseconds and are
used to sell virtually
everything, including cars,
burgers, condoms, even
chewing gum.
Breasts
 ?

Infosys
GST
Identify the person and the entity he created in
1971.
Fred Smith of FedEx
3rd, 1967
 From Left to Right Driving - Dagen H

The "H" stands for "Högertrafik", the Swedish word for "right traffic"
 Bata
Sushant Singh Rajput- Ambassador

Aw Labs- Bata Partners

Sonja Bata and Christine Bata Schmidt

 Gita Gopinath

• Lady Sri Ram- Alma Mater

• Ben Bernanke- Doctoral Guide

• J Pal Director Iqbal- Husband

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Whose two-year old consumer-banking brand is
Marcus, which was named after the founder and
which is currently being moved into its asset
management unit ?
Who owns this?
 WHY ARE YOU WORRYING ABOUT ___-____-___?
YOU SHOULD BE WORRYING ABOUT _-__-___ :
THE CONSTIPATION SENSATION THAT'S GRIPPING THE NATION!“

This is the sign outside a certain shop started by two

brothers, an enterprise which was initiated as mail order
by a form of avian post from a certain burrow. At one
point in time, the enterprise had offered a huge
discount to students of the founders’ school, on the
condition that they eliminate the principal.

After one of the brother’s death, another younger

brother left his job and joined on board as co-manager.

Connect
What was the Occasion?
Apple Bendgate
• The X ( 2 word term ) defense is a tactic in corporate
finance used to counter a takeover or merger bidder who
has made a formal bid to shareholders to buy their
shares.

• When the board of directors of the target company meets

to consider the bid, they "just say no."

• The term refers to a catch-phrase coined by a very

famous lady, who advocated abstinence from recreational
drug use.
Nancy Reagan
• An engineer and an MBA graduate and with work
experience at Infosys and Tutorvista, Porush Jain is the
founder of an online sports platform.

• Porush is a business freak and had written a folder full of B-

Plans.

• Being a sports lover and enthusiast, and seeing opportunity

in the lack of a popular Indian sports website, he zeroed in
on this startup.

• From football and cricket to TT, wrestling and kabaddi, it

caters to everything that a sports enthusiast craves for.

• Identify this website which promotes interactivity and equal

justice to all sports.
Founder of which
company?

Stewart Butterfield and Caterina Fake

Flickr
• All About You is an apparel brand launched by celebrity X
in 2015. Focusing on western-wear creations, the designs
were done in collaboration with French design agency
Carlin and online fashion portal Myntra, over a nine-
month period.

• Quote from X - "For me, fashion means a sense of

accessibility and coziness, that can be seen in my
designs. These clothes are the extension of my
personality, of a multitasking woman who is in the age
group of 18-35.“

• Which multi-faceted Indian celebrity, with many feathers

in her cap?
• The character was created by Manuel R. Vega and
originally voiced by Mel Blanc, and been in use since
1960s. He exhibits the ability to smell _____ _____
from great distances and invariably locates a
concealed bowl while intoning, "Follow your nose! It
always knows!", sometimes followed by "The flavor
of _____! Wherever it grows!“

• In the 1970s, there was a tradition of having stripes

of 3 specific colours on the most iconic anatomical
feature of the character. However, its not been
followed since( if it were to be followed now, there
would be ~8 stripes )

• Which brand is this character the mascot of?

Toucan Sam
• This eponymous brand originated in the early part of 19th
century, in New York City. In 1980s, they launched
Kitchen Entrees, a line of frozen food products, hoping to
capture the growing market for ready-to-eat meals.

• Additionally, given their dominance in products typically

expected to be used pre/post meals, they wanted to be a
part of the dinner experience as well - A natural brand
extension of sorts.

• Which Company?
Mont Blanc's Tribute to?
The Beatles
• NABISCO came up with this specific confectionary in
1902, named after a legendary showman.

• The box was earlier intended to be a Christmas ornament

due to its eye catching red colour and represented certain
items on its cover.

• Some time back, a move from ethical treaters led them to

have a makeover in order to provide the necessary social
message.

• What confectionary item? What makeover

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Freed the caged animals
• John.J.Graham and Herb Lubalin of Sudler &
Hennessey designed a ‘bird’ to portray the richness
in colour their client possessed.

• The company used their logo as a promotional tool

for their new colour emitting product too.

• The animated logo with the musical backing of a

gong introduced every color show of them until a
revamped animation called Laramie appeared in
1962.

• Which company?
NBC
How is this list referred to
as due to its appearance?
Chevron List
• The ______ market in X is a crowded, busy place. But for the nose
of Y’s Francois Demachy, it is a 'smell bank'. It is the place the
perfumer creator of French fashion house Y visits every year to
imbibe the fragrances that help him create the floral perfumes that
Y is renowned for.

• Y uses extracts of Z and tuberose sourced from the same region,

along with other raw materials , for J'adore , one of the top selling
fragrances in the world. "Z is used in all J'adore fragrances due to
its olfactory qualities," says Demachy. "For me, it is a very strong
and unique ingredient , and I link its uniqueness to _______ soils."

• That is why he has been making a yearly trip to X for the last eight
years. For him, it is essential to see Z grow. "It is very important to
feel the _______ and see it in the ground, see the people who
grow it and keep it in your mind like a bank," says Demachy, who
is usually off to the fields by the crack of dawn. "Later on, the
fragrance reminds you of the whole experience ." And he draws
on that to help improve the quality of the perfume. Identify the
place X, fashion house Y and commodity Z.
 X - MADURAI
Y - DIOR
Z - MALLI/JASMINE
• Identify the context

• “To the grand old lady of Mount

Road, greetings on her new
make-up. May she continue to
render outstanding service for
many, many years to come!”

• ~ January 14, 1958

THE HINDU BRINGS NEWS TO FRONT
PAGE
what is being talked about?

• “ First it starts with eight in the game

• Hoping to eviscerate all else with a cane

• Then two fused to play a combined game (1989)

• The sun sparkles, and sprinkles down the rain

• One more opts to share the pain or gain (1998)

• while blackly rocks boil with languid summer rain

• Alas, one died due to utter shame (2002)

• Leaving _____ in the game..!!

 Evolution of ‘BIG 8’ accounting firms into
the (current) ‘BIG 4’

• Ernst & Whinney

• Arthur Young & Co.

• Deloitte Haskins & Sells

• Touche Ross

• Peat Marwick Mitchell (Later KPMG)

• Price Waterhouse

• Coopers & Lybrand

• Arthur Andersen
 Daisuke Inoue is credited with
creating the machine, although he
did not benefit from it as he did not
patent his creation. He received the
1999 Ig Nobel Award for the same.
What is he credited with creating,
something that derives from ‘empty’
and ‘orchestra’ in Japanese and is
one of Japan’s biggest cultural
exports worldwide?
Karaoke
 C21H23NO5 ?

One of the three products that brought the fortunes to Bayer

was a cough suppressant synthesised by C.R.Alder
Wright(1874) and re synthesis by their employee Felix
Hoffmann(1897). Identify
 Triplicane Six borrowed 1₹
and 12 annas in 1878 to
campaign for the support of
the appointment of Sir
Thiruvarur Muthuswamy Iyer
to the Madras High Court
Bench. How did they do it?
They started The
Hindu
 What are grouped as
FAANG at NASDAQ by
Jim Cramer from
CNBC's Mad Money?

G can be replaced by A but its still G

due to its ticker symbol.
 FAANG - Facebook,
Amazon, Apple, Netflix,
Google(Alphabet)
Which brand named partially after a
Swiss family, owns this label?
Voltas
 Expand
OMI. In
2017 they
also
started
Mission:El
ectric
Ola Mobility Institute
 Which
company
who
popularis
ed
paperbac
ks since
1935,
made
these
ads?
Penguin Books
This is the old logo of an express company
founded in 1852 by two partners who also
started another Express company in 1850.
 Thank You
Quiz by Samyuktha and Vishnu for
CCD quiz session on 3rd November 2018

SRR