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Who has the exclusive rights to make and sell the kitkat bars in the USA,

unlike Nestle, who sells it to the rest of the world?

Hershey’s

• Which mathematician had created the first ever reliable actuarial tables? PS. We all know him as a pioneer in some other arena.

• obligatory hint to make the question workout able: the item which he has created gets its name from latin for ‘something to count’.

• Charles Babbage

Toby Rowland and Riccardo Zacconi’s company has a very royal name, and their most famous product notoriously annoys facebook users. Name both for full points.

• Candy fucking Crush

• When Alfred Butts created it, he called it Crisscross, how did James Burnot change its name to, which is the way in which we all know it today.

• Scrabble

• In 2011, a historic court case in pakistan, came out with a dispute settlement over the price of a particular product, to which the leading daily, the dawn reported, “while the commercial bakers will rejoice at the verdict, others waiting for justice in Pakistan’s over clogged judicial system may be wondering when will their turn come”

• identify the product, the price was fixed at 6 Rs.

Samosa!

• In this huge entity, infamous for creating the ‘freeze dried ice-cream, which could be taken on to the space.

• It was set up in 1900, and hence called the Ninteen Hundred’s Corporation.

• Crazy Trivia- The founder’s granddaughter mmm, Kate Upton! yes.

• Wrirlpool

• Identify this ~hawas.ka.pujari~ chap from his younger days!

• He was honoured with a star on the hollywood walk of fame, for his efforts in reconstructing the hollywood sign.

• Hugh Hefner

The coins are an attempt to edify collectors or engage smartphone users. As far as we know this is the first currency to be embedded with a link to the Internet.Launched in 2011, what is so special about these Dutch Euros, available in the denominations of 5 & 10, of pure silver.?

• In a recent interview with CNBC, on being called the X of India, this eminent Indian said that he didn’t want to be a clone of somebody, as he denied having 50% of X’s knowledge and not even 5% of X’s wealth.

• Identify X and also the person in question?

• Rakesh Jhunjhunwala, Warren buffet

• X a confectionary item, loved around the world , gets its name from the mere fact, that the machine which makes it, makes noises which feels like X.

• What is this popular product in its iconic packaging?

• There are two entities issuing the Honkong dollar bills.Name both.

Identify the advertiser

• Coca-cola

• Which clothing brand’s Facebook page would read www.facebook.com/vdot ?

• CONNECT

• RUPEE!

A X rally is a rise in stock prices in the month of December, generally seen over the final week of trading prior to the new year. The rally is generally attributed to anticipation of the January effect, an injection of additional funds into the market, and to additional trades which must, for accounting and tax reasons, be completed by the end of the year. Another reason for the rally may be fund managers "window dressing" their holdings with stocks that have performed well.!The X rally is also known as the "December Effect" and was first recorded by Yale Hirsch in his Stock Traders Almanac in 1972

ROUND ONE

Connect

ANSWER

Special banknotes for a specific section of people. It’s serial number is prefixed with the alphabets HA. Fundae pls.

ANSWER

Banknotes for people who go for the Haj pilgrimage.

• “The government of an merchants is perhaps the worst of all governments, for any country, whatsoever”Identify the economist and also the point he wanted to convey.#thinklikeaschoolboy

ANSWER

• Adam Smith, on the East India Company

• A parody show on which company?

ANSWER

• Accenture

Put fundae

ANSWER

• GTA stock exchange

• Whose first unsuccessful venture.? image in the next slide.

ANSWER

• Walt Disney

ROUND 3

ANSWER

nolan bushnell, and Atari

• Evan spiegel had been for long associated with Rap, his idol in those days was the artist to the right

• What in this selfie-ish world has he inspired.?Need precise answer on pounce.

ANSWER

This is a picture of Italian Luca Pacioli. What is his excuse of showing up in

today’s business quiz.?

ANSWER

• Double entry book keeping system. The introduction of the ‘debit’ and ‘credit’.

• The company’s translation to German is ‘little nest’

ANSWER

Claude Johnson, which company’s co-founder and

subsequent chairman just because there was not enough space for him in the

company name.

ANSWER

Which indian business house owns this store

named ‘Eternnal Gandhi’ at the Ahmedabad domestic airport.

ANSWER

PEHCHANO+5,+5 BONUS ON ID ALL

EXCHANGE SHEETS

ANSWERS

Round 5

• Unilke the other currency notes in India, signed by the Governor of the Reserve Bank of India, the one Rupee notes were signed by the X.Who was the last Indian to do so.?

ANSWER

CHEIF SECRETARY, MINISTRY OF FINANCE

MONTEK SINGH AHLUVALIA

• X’s chairman, Philip Knight in sept early this year, came out with a confirmation of what has been a mystery among the various pronunciation nazis over half a decade or so.

• The result was, the brand was not really rhythmic with a bike, the persons claiming it to be rhythmic with a key, emerged victorious, like the brand itself.

ANSWER

NIKE (Naikey)

This company originally startd off with 60

varieties, but yet stuck to the usage of 57 as

they believed it caught many eyeballs, also till

date when the company has over 200 varieties, they still continue the usage of 57, calling it lucky for the company.

Identify.

ANSWER

HEINZ

• During a conversation with his boss, William Painter, who had made his fortune by inventing a cork lined bottle cap, X got a provocative advice. “Why don’t you try to think of something like the crown cork, which once used can be thrown away, and the customer keeps coming back for more?”

• This certainly led him to think upon the line, and his royal name can today be found in mostly all households.

• identify X.

ANSWER

KING GILLETE

penultimate qn

• You make the first move. make a legal soduku move: a number from 1 to 4 so that you dont put the same number in a single row, column or cluster. If a move isn’t legal, that move is blocked and you can’t make it.

• Where does Duidoku come from? The original idea comes from the cornelll university professor of economics, X.

• From Duidoku’s website. identify X.

ANSWER

Kaushik BasuDui is 2 in sanskrit. hence the name.

Last Question

• Rubies Costume Copany sells over 1,00,000 of these each year, and its the best selling of its type on amazon.com.One of the reviewer has aptly described it as “useful to hide your identity from the public while you go about your deeds”.

• A lesser known fact is that each time Rubies sells any of what is mentioned, a cut of profit goes to Warner Bros, which owns the copyrights till date.

• Identify the product.

ANSWER

GUY FAWKES MASKANONYMOUS MASK

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