Quiz by Dhruv Bhatnagar and Aniruddha Mitra

1. The ‘Dhanda’(Business) Quiz Elims!
ANSWERS
QM’s:- Dhruv Bhatnagar
Aniruddha Mitra

2. Q. 1
The copper coin (shown below) was first introduced by Sher Shah Suri
during his rule of India between 1540 and 1545, along with Mohur, the
gold coin and Rupiya, the silver coin. Later on, the Mughal Emperors
standardised the coin along with other silver (Rupiya) and gold (Mohur)
coins in order to consolidate the monetary system across India. The
question is, which english phrase originated from the name of this coin.

3. 1.Dam,since it’s value was very
less.
It eventually began to called as ‘I
don’t give a dam[n].’

4. Q.2
Chetan Bhagat in his novel 2 States says
“When ‘X’ sees a great future in
you, it means you have no life at present”.
‘X’ is which company?

5. 2. Citibank

6. Q.3 Amul Tribute to?

7. 3 Mario Miranda

8. Q4
Which market in Mumbai controls 65% of
India’s gold trading & dealing ?

9. 4 Zaveri Bazaar

10. Q.5
The name for a clothing brand also
stands for the legendary sword of
King Arthur. Which word?

11. 5 Excalibur

12. Q.6 Which Company and who?

13. 6.

14. 7.
• Video:-
Tell me the name of the company(X) who mad
e this ad which depicts some other
company(Y) in a negative light.
And this ad was inspired by a novel by Z.

15. 7. Apple Macintosh 1984 Ad
• X –Apple Computers
• Y –IBM
• Z—George Orwell book ‘1984’
IBM is potrayed as a ‘Big Brother’ in a

16. Q.8.
This brand dates back to 1851 in Rhode Island when Robert
Knight, a textile mill owner, visited his friend, Rufus Skeel. Mr.
Skeel owned a small shop in Providence, Rhode Island that sold
cloth from Mr. Knight’s mill. Mr. Skeel’s daughter painted
images of apples and applied them to the bolts of cloth. The
ones with the apple emblems proved most popular. Mr. Knight
thought the labels would be the perfect symbol for his trade
name. What?

17. 8 Fruit Of The Loom

18. Q. 9. Amazon’s foray into Online Retail
in India. Which website?

19. Junglee.com

20. Q-10.
This Mascot has a scarf, a chef’s hat, two big blue eyes,
a blush when girls kissed him, and a soft, warm chuckle
when poked in the stomach.What are we talking
about?

21. 10. Pillsbury Doughboy Poppin’ Fresh

22. Q.11
What derives it’s name from the generic
ingredients used to make the object
below.?

23. 11.
Piggy Bank derives its name from the
orange clay “pygg” from which it was
originally made. In the middle ages
people used to store such items such
as salt in wide necked jars which were
made from a clay called “pygg”.

24. Q.12 Identify the company?

25. 12 Prometric(they handle the CAT
examination)

26. 13.
Name the 2 wheeler brand that got
associated with the movie ‘3 Idiots.’

27. 13. Mahindra Flyte

28. Q.14
Highest paying taxpayer politician in India?

29. 14. Mayawati! 

30. 15.
In 1970’s,this firm did a research for HLL
and the insight they got was that the
Indian housewife spent her time cooking
or managing the house except 10 minutes
that she spent taking a bath. Then they
commissioned what she dreamed from
dawn to dusk. What resulted?

31. 15. Girl in Liril Watrefall

32. 16. Whose ads?

33. 16. Burger King

34. 17. Which conglomerates major acquisitions?
• May 2000 - BSES
• Oct 2003 - FLAG Telecom, 207Mn$
• July 2005 - Metro Adlabs (51% stake), 74Mn$
• Nov 2006 - Travelmate services (100% stake)
• July 2007 - Yipes Services USA, 300Mn$
• July 2007 -Swan Telecom (now Etisalat DB) (9.9% stake)
• Dec 2007 - ND Studio (50% stake), 35Mn$
• Apr 2008 - Lowry Digital USA, 7.5Mn$
• Apr 2008 - eWaveWorldUK (90% stake)
• May 2008 - Vanco
• Sept 2008 - Wall street finance (36% stake)
• Mar 2009 - Synergy
• Nov 2009 - Quant Capital
• Jan 2010 - Ilab UK Ltd.
• Apr 2010 - Codemasters UK (50% stake)
• July 2010 - Digicable
• Jan 2011 - Imagine Showbiz
• Oct 2011 - Annapurna Studios
• Sept 2011 - Bloomberg UTV (66% stake)

35. 17. ADAG

36. 18.* Who vs Who? Name the
companies!
V/S

37. 18- Energizer vs Duracell

38. Breaaaakkkkkk……
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