The document is a quiz about business, technology, and pop culture. It contains 20 multiple choice questions testing knowledge about companies, people, and terms. Some of the questions ask to identify companies like Snapchat, Archies, Harley Davidson, and Sennheiser. Others ask about people like Jack Dorsey, Jordan Belfort, Ashton Kutcher, and Warren Buffett. The document provides clues and context about the companies and individuals to help arrive at the answers.

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3. Prelims
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4. Rules
20 Questions in all
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5. What to expect
STARTUPS, ADVERTISEMENTS, ETYMOLOGIES,
ORIGIN STORIES, SHOWBIZ, SPORTS, GOOGLE, APPLE AND OTHERS

6. 1
Straightforward question
The ferret is a mammal belonging to the weasel genus.
What is a group of ferrets called?

7. Business
Alternate variations are busy-ness, besynes and fesynes

8. 2
What is the term/phrase to
describe this?
This term is over a decade old. However it has recently made a
comeback becoming a buzzword in the tech-space today.
It is a scenario in which objects, animals or people are provided
with unique identifiers and the ability to automatically transfer
data over a network without requiring human-to-human or
human-to-computer interaction.
It has evolved from the convergence of wireless
technologies, MEMS and the internet.

9. Internet of things

10. 3
Connect to a person

11. Hugh Jackman

12. 4
What did he start?
Evan Spiegel and Robert Murphy were
frat brothers at Kappa Sigma at
Stanford University.
They had previously founded
FutureFreshman.com
They were in the news last week after
their user database was hacked
resulting in disclosure of about 4.6
million usernames and phone numbers.

13. Snapchat

14. *5
Identify the company
This company was started in 1979 by Anil Moolchandani. It
initially sold song books, posters and leather patches before
moving into it‟s a category we know them for today.
It went public in 1995, and listed on NSE and BSE in 1998.
It recently launched a new range of tees under the brand name
Ginger Lemon, under categories like – attitude, humour and
spiritual.

15. Archies
They also sell jewelry, crystal ware, chocolates and perfumes on
their website archiesonline.com
What is different about Ginger Lemon is that it allows you to print
a caption of your choice on their tees

16. 6
ID the company
This company celebrated its 110th anniversary in 2013. They ran a
campaign called „110 years of freedom‟ for the cause.
One of the two major events was held in Rome, where Time
magazine‟s Man of the year for 2013 paid a surprise visit.
The other event was held in Milwaukee, where the company has
its headquarters.

17. Harley Davidson

18. 7
Arundhati Bhattacharya
recently became the first
woman chairperson of
which Indian bank?

19. State Bank of India

20. 8
Company Y‟s rep talking about
X (in pic). Id both (1/2 pts)
“X is a talented entrepreneur
who has helped create
groundbreaking new
businesses in the social media
and commerce spaces,” said Y
CEO Robert A. Iger in the
release. “The perspective he
brings to Y and its Board is
extremely valuable, given our
strategic priorities, which
include utilizing the latest
technologies and platforms to
reach more people and to
enhance the relationship we
have with our customers.”

21. Jack Dorsey, Disney
He quoted Walt Disney himself in a tweet following his
appointment –
I only hope we don’t lose sight of one thing—that it was all
started by a mouse.

22. 9
ID his venture
Luis von Ahn is no stranger to the tech world. As an associate
professor at Carnegie Mellon University, he created CAPTCHA as
a method of verification. He went on to start reCAPTCHA for book
digitization which was acquired by Google in 2009.
His latest venture aims to revolutionize teaching through
crowdsourcing. It is the number one education app in app stores
at a global level.

23. Duolingo
Free language learning application

24. *10
Id (1/2 pts)
X is a motivational speaker,
author and former
stockbroker.
X is also in the news due to
Y.

25. Jordan Belfort
His book The Wolf of Wall Street has been made into a movie by
Martin Scorsese

26. 11
Identify him
X is a biochemical major from the University of Iowa. He dropped
out of college after he got his first break with the International
Modelling and Talent Association.
He has investments in Skype, Foursquare, Airbnb, Path and
Fab.com. He is also the co-founder of the venture capital fund AGrade Investments.
He has recently been hired as a product engineer for Lenovo.

27. Ashton Kutcher

28. 12
ID this new service by
Google
In a bid to target the massively
popular AWS, Google has
launched its own Cloud Platform
service for businesses.
What is it called?

29. Google Compute Engine

30. 13
Id the brand ambassador

31. Magnus Carlsen
The current World Chess Champion

32. 14
Connect this list
1.
Michael Jackson
2. Elvis Presley
3. Charles M Schulz
4. Elizabeth Taylor
5.
Bob Marley
6. Marilyn Monroe
7.
John Lennon
8. Albert Einstein, and so on

33. Forbes list of highest
earning dead celebrities

34. *15
Etymology of which
company?
The name combines the Latin word for „day‟ and the greek word
for „earth‟. Together, the two words mean celebrating life every
day, everywhere.
One of their catchphrases goes as, „Every day, everywhere, people
are enjoying our brands‟
We know it for a high-profile acquisition in 2011.

35. Diageo
Took over United Spirits

36. 16
Who is the advertiser?

37. VISA cards
To teach kids about dos and don‟ts of online payments.

38. 17
ID the outlet
Pete Buck partnered with
Fred DeLuca to start this
chain of fast food outlets.

39. Subway
Fred wanted to become a doctor and opened a submarine
sandwich shop to help pay for it. Dr. Peter Buck loaned him
$1000 and offered to become a partner.

40. 18
ID the company
X was founded in 1945 by Fritz X and seven fellow engineers of
the University of Hannover in a lab called Laboratorium
Wennebostel (shortened „Labor W‟).
Their first product was the DM 1 and later the DM 2. They began
production of Geophysical equipment with the first noisecompensated microphone DM 4, microphone transformers,
mixers and miniature magnetic headphones.
„Labor W‟ was renamed X electronic in 1958.
Id this „notoriously viral‟ company.

41. Sennheiser

42. 19
Id X disguised as Walter White
from the TV show Breaking Bad

43. Warren Buffet

44. *20
Name her husband
23andMe is a personal genomics and biotechnology company that
provides rapid genetic testing. Their personal genome test kit was
named invention of the year by Time magazine in 2008.
The company was founded by Linda Avey, Paul Cusenza and Anne
Wojcicki.
Who is the more famous half of Anne Wojcicki?

45. Sergey Brin
Co-founder of Google