Moneycontrol Ultimate Business Quiz #7: Test your knowledge
The seventh in the Moneycontrol Ultimate Business Quiz series. Want to know how many you got right? Check the answers in the last slides.
Avinash Mudaliar
&
Anubhav Chatterjee
December 13, 2017 / 07:55 PM IST
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Which space agency has signed with Uber to develop an air-traffic control system for the flying car project which goes by the name UberElevate?
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Ali Landry is an American model who won the Miss USA 1996.She is mainly remembered for a Super Bowl commercial aired in 1998 endorsing a brand which catapulted her to a new height? Identify the brand from the house of Frito-Lay?
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McDonald’s had launched a range of Happy Meals. What was it based on?
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The statue belongs to a person who was born into a peasant family began brooding about a new rifle design after he was wounded in a 1941 battler with the Nazis.
The name of the collection is derived from his jersey number 18. The collection has been launched in association with PUMA. Identify the person in the question?
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Who has recently been appointed as a brand ambassador for Bengaluru F.C?
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While building their side-by-side vacation homes in Cabo San Lucas, the long-time friends were spending a lot of time in Mexico — and consequently, drinking a lot of tequila. The name of the brand Casamigos Tequilla loosely translated into “House of Friends” is owned by three friends….One being very famous from a different professional background. Who is this celebrity?
This Japanese firm is trying to discourage the use of e-mail in favour of face-to-face meetings. Identify the company whose products range from camera to camcorders?
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Selling toilet paper was unmentionable in the Victorian era. So the Scott brothers had to devise a unique strategy to get druggists and consumers to purchase it. They gave each druggist a proprietary interest by allowing them to create something which we all know? What did Scott Brothers create?
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Kali Aerated Water Works is a century-old Tamil Nadu-based private firm that owns soft drink brands. X a grape-flavoured aerated drink, manufactured by them first hit the stands in 1958. Identify the drink which is very popular down South?
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During his tenure, he took several economic reforms like agri market regulation, multiple market structure, food price control, crackdown on hoarding, cloth market reforms. Who was the ruler who has been in the news for the wrong reasons?
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In 1960, Indian Army showed an interest in two vehicles from the Nissan stable. They were the Nissan Patrol P60 & the Nissan 4W73. The first production units were completed at Vehicle Factory Jabalpur (VFJ) around 1969. How was The Nissan P60 affectionately christened?
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The man in the picture is NBA great Dominique Wilson. He is shown wearing a T-Shirt with the name Champion Shave printed on it. Who owns Champion Shave?
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The picture shows dolls made by Barbie for their first ever campaign X which celebrates women who "like Barbie, have broken boundaries, challenged gender norms and proven girls can be anything they want to be, “? Identify the campaign X?
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The British India Corporation’s origin goes back to 1876 when the Cawnpore Woollen Mills was set up by five Englishmen. It was taken under the fold of BIC, which was founded in 1920, along with other subsidiaries. It had two woollen mills in Kanpur and Punjab producing blankets, rugs and cloth for military uniforms. Under what name were the products sold?
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Recognised the world over for their minimalistic, understated style and comfortable, flattering fits, Harry and Pearl, remain international bestsellers. Harry and Pearl possess copper buttons with antique finish, classic arcuate on the back pockets, busted our seam with red overlock stitching or orange selvage and iconic red tab and branded rivets. Identify the brand which has its denim named Harry & Pearl?
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The Academies provide business skills and training to local entrepreneurs and masons to supply latrines to their local communities – helping provide jobs and a boost to the economy, and at the same time promoting the importance of safe and hygienic sanitation practices in local communities. The academy was launched in Junapani village of Wardha District of Maharashtra. What is this Academy?
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The first store was opened in Hiroshima under the name “Unique Clothing Warehouse”. However during administration work in relation to the brand, the staff in charge of registration misread C as Q and that is how the brand was born. Identify the brand?
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This was a carbonated drink created by Anheuser-Busch which was packaged like Beer and contained slightly less than 1% alcohol. It was marketed as “the new not so-soft drink”. Identify the brand?
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The picture of the book shown belongs to a person who shook the automobile industry of America. He was portrayed on screen by Jeff Bridges in a 1988 movie directed by Francis Ford Coppola. Identify the person?
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On completing his engineering from IIT-Delhi, he pursued a course in Urban Planning from the prestigious Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at Columbia University in the United States. He has an extremely progressive outlook towards life that is deeply entrenched in culture. He is proud of his city and its rich heritage in terms of the forts, monuments, food, and customs. He is as comfortable with gourmet pasta as he is with gongura; as comfortable with burritos, as he is with Biryani!
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Among her inventing talents, she came up with "bouillon" cubes to turn water into a Coke-like drink, and a "skin-tautening technique based on the principles of the accordion". She is better known for inventing secret communication system which eventually became a part of GPS, Wi-Fi. Identify her?
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The founders are currently monetising via two streams - rental and sales. Priced at Rs 8 lakh, the company makes a majority of the revenue from renting out Mitra for corporate (Rs 25,000) as well as social events (Rs 15-18,000). Made by Invento Robotics, Mitra is a first of its kind Made in India product. What is Mitra?
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The company was born in 1851 when brothers Benjamin & Robert Knight bought their first mill and started producing cotton cloth and textiles in Warwick, Rhode Island. In 1871, the company was registered as an official trademark, making it one of the world’s oldest brands — predating the invention of light bulbs, cars and telephones! The brand’s name is an expression referring to clothes paralleling to a phrase referring to children in Bible. Identify the brand?
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Ans 1: NASA |Ans 2: Doritos. Ali Landry was called the Doritos Girl | Ans 4: Mikhail Kalashnikov | Ans 5: Virat Kohli | Ans 9: Canon | Ans 10: Toilet Paper Rolls | Ans 11: Bovonto | Ans 12: Alauddin Khilji | Ans 13: JONGA (Jabalpur Ordnance and Guncarriage Assembly) | Ans 14: Usain Bolt and Wayne Gretzky
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Ans 15: Shero | Ans 16: Lal Imli (Kanpur) and Dhariwal (Punjab) | Ans 17: Lee Cooper | Ans 18: Domex Toilet Academy | Ans 19: Uniqlo | Ans 20: Chelsea | Ans 22: Niz, Mascot of Hyderabad Metro | Ans 23: Hedy Lamarr | Ans 24: Humanoid | Ans 25: Fruit of the Loom
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Answer 3: Super Mario
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Answer 6: Rahul Dravid
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Answer 7: George Clooney
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Answer 8: Iran
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Answer 21: Preston Tucker
Avinash Mudaliar , Chief Products Officer at Network18, has been conducting quizzes as a hobby for over 23 years. He aims to make his quizzes engaging and enjoyable, see that his quizzes have something for everyone - the quizzing novice, professional quizzers and most importantly, the enthusiastic audience!
Over the last twenty-three years, he has conducted quizzes in numerous educational institutions ranging from B-Schools like the IIMs, FMS, IIFT, TAPMI, MICA; to Engineering Colleges like IITs, NITs and BITS Pilani et al.He has also hosted quizzes for various corporates across the country. He is also an avid quizzer and a knowledge geek.
Anubhav Chatterjee A salesman by profession with a keen interest in quizzing, movies and sports. Author of Diolkose-A Railway Quiz Book.
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