Business Quiz

Business Quiz: 

Sum does some brain storming to prepare a few mosaic Quiz Questions. Try how many you can answer (Answer them by leaving a comment and leave your email address to know the correct answers)

Quiz1: Name the airline that used a famous Belgian Statue of a urinating child in one of its advertisement and used the words “pissed off high fares?” to play a spoof on one of its competitor's high fares.

Quiz2: Which head of an airline served in full cabin crew uniform as a flight attendent on a competitor airline’s flight after losing a bet on F1?

Quiz3: Which English word meaning "the faculty of making fortunate discoveries by accident" is derived from the name of an island in the Indian Ocean? How is it derived?

Quiz4: Name any other city that you can create by shuffling the letters in TOKYO?

Quiz5: Adnan Nevic, born on Oct 12, 1999 in Sarajevo, Bosnia; what is special about this person?

Quiz6: Which famous company derive its name from the last letters of the city that inspired it. 

Quiz7: Where on the earth would you find "one hundred thousand islands"?

Quiz8: Translate “Can’t you see this” into a Hindi idiom to name the F1 driver who is also the brand ambassador for a hair care product.

Quiz9: Name the company. Its business model is offering a daily discount deal, whereby the buyers/ customers buy a product or service very cheaply if a minimum number of people sign up for the offer.

Quiz10: Which animal is reputed to have a thousand legs?

Quiz11: Which famous gun derives its name from the two cities where it was designed and manufactured? 

Quiz12: Which American Multinational recently put out an advert seeking applicants for job vacancies? They said in the advert that ‘sexual minorities’ (transgenders, gays, lesbians, bisexuals) would be given extra points in the screening process. (The advert was later withdrawn due to public uproar).

Quiz13: Which Multi-National Company is named after a type of African antelope?

Quiz14: Name the politician. He is the mayor of a city in US and we have a Television channel by his name in India.

Quiz15: Name the politician whose teenage daughter got pregnant when she was campaigning for a political post. She also said during campaigning that “Russia is just across the border of an American state”.

Quiz16: Name the famous monument in Africa that features a scantily clad man and woman, holding a child. It’s a bronze statue built with a colossal expense of USD 27 millions.

Quiz17: Analyze the featured pic to name the product launched in 1990 by a legendary auto company. The product uses a type of patented engine that produces a "potato-potato” sound.

Quiz18: During which cricket match in India the crowd gave Pakistan a standing ovation after they defeated India…in India!

Quiz19: Name the fruit/ vegetable which gains prominence in the coming week. A type of beer is also brewed from this fruit/ vegetable. (Try and explain the reason for prominence)

Quiz20: Name the concept that is used by a publishing house to determine undervalued/ overvalued exchange rates based on an informal way of measuring. The pic features a very important element of this measurement concept.

Quiz21: Name the product I am referring to - Queen Victoria received this product as a wedding gift. There are over 2000 varieties of this product one of which is Leicester. NASA exploited a myth about this product to play a spoof on April fool’s Day.

Quiz22: Combine the name of a popular Bollywood movie based on Alzheimer's disease and the actress featured in the pic to name the company I am referring to.

Quiz23: Which airline’s flight steward quit his job by opening the door of a moving aircraft and jumping out through plane’s emergency chute?

Quiz24: You 'never' actually own this product, you merely look after it for the next generation. Name the brand who claims this.

Quiz25: Name the car company, whose cars are said to have a grill which look like a Greek Temple.

Quiz26: He used the code word of India - Sri Lanka cricket matches to receive and pass secret information. Name this head of a US company who was recently sentenced to prison over charges related to financial sector.

Quiz27: What is featured in this pic?

Quiz28: What is featured in the pic and what is this particular place called?

Quiz28: The Economist and Harvard Business Review have carried out separate articles on this “Hindi” word which roughly means frugal innovation. This term is also used for a type of a vehicle in rural India. Name the word.

Quiz29: Which Governor of a state in US recently ordered all the state employees to answer their phone by a particular salutation? This was done to boost employee morale and help sell the state to outsiders. (Hint: Only a lady can think of such a thing)

Quiz30: Name the non government organization whose logo is featured in the pic. The organization was formed in 1961 in England. The present Secretary General of this organization is an Indian.

Quiz31: Name the destination featured in the pic (Hint: Its an exotic SPA destination)

Quiz32: Name the famous animated sitcom which has a character called Maggie? It also was awarded a star on the Hollywood wall of fame. It is also famous for the annoyed grunt of one of its characters, “D’oh”.

Quiz33: Name the Bollywood actress who has live in Hong Kong, China, Japan, France, Switzerland, Krakow, Berlin, Belgium, Hawaii and England before moving to Mumbai?

Quiz34: What is common in these cities - Monaco, Melbourne, Valencia and Singapore?

Quiz35: Name the auto brand which derives its name from a river in Italy. There are museums devoted to this brand in Milan and England. The Indian government acquired this company in 1950 and after hitting record production in 1985, the production of this brand was ceased in India in 1997.

Quiz36: Name the car company - The world of bullfighting is a key part of this company’s identity and it names most of its cars based on the name of bulls

Quiz37: Name the brand whose advert featured models in the nude, wearing only shoes and a python wrapped around them. Also name the models.

Quiz38: The nickname 'SoLoMo' given by a popular venture capitalist refers to which three computer technologies.

Quiz39: Which international hotel chain advertisements feature these celebrities – Lance Armstrong, Christian Louboulin and Jerry Hall (among others)? Hint: Each featured celebrity has chosen a charity to which the hotel chain has made a donation of USD 10,000.

Quiz40: Name the company whose proposed headquarters in US is a ring shaped structure dubbed as spaceship.

Quiz41: Name the brand which the following tagline: ". . . . . mixes with everything except driving".

Quiz42: Name the airline: In Mar 11, the recording of an inflight transmission of one of its pilot's unintentional conversation with his copilot was released to the press. The conversation had foul language and discussed gay, overweight and older flight attendants.

Quiz43: What am I referring to when I say QE, QM, QV ? Name the company who owns these brands. Hint: Its related to travel industry. Its also got something to do with Monarchy.

Quiz 44: Which internet domain was launched in September and the addresses went on sale?

Quiz 45: What is common between New York City, London, Milan and Paris?

Quiz46: Name the brand associated with the following product names:

Red, Black, Green, Gold, Blue, XR21 and King George V

Quiz47: Name the brand associated with "eternity ring", "trilogy" ring and the "right hand ring".

Quiz48: Which airline would you be flying if you fly by "Queen's Own Aviation Company".

Quiz49: Name the airline in which cabin crew used to sing in-flight safety instructions (or sometimes interpret the instructions artistically). The featured picture depicts a Television Show that promoted the airline with a specialized concept. The airline ceases to exist now.

Quiz50: Name the country which is also referred to as the ‘eighth continent’ because of its rich biodiversity; 80-90% of the plants and animal species found in this country are found no where else in the world.

Quiz51: Name this fortnight long fair in which more than 7 million liters of beer is consumed. This is the largest people’s fair in the world.

Quiz52: Name the Company that played an April fool spoof on its subscribers wherein if anyone clicked on the company website’s main page, the whole page turned upside down. The company claimed this was a new layout.

Quiz53: Name the airline whose advertisement is featured in the pic. The advertisement appeared in the March 19th, 1979 issue of major dailies in the west. Yes, the shadow is in pretty much in the same place as where the planes hit on September 11^th, 2001. (I’ve cropped the pic to remove the name of the airline)

Quiz54: Name the airline. Every plane in this airline’s fleet is named with a destination containing some part of the airline’s name. The airline is also known for it’s “letter ads” i.e. the ads starting with Dear….and ending with Sincerely…

Quiz55: Relate the featured image to name the NGO which is one of the older human rights associations. It has a separate prison committee to provide assistance to its members who have been imprisoned, tortured, threatened, attacked, made to disappear, and killed for the peaceful practice of their profession.

Quiz56: Name the person. He became leader of a country in 1975. His policies and torture/ force resulted in the deaths of approximately 21 percent of the country’s population (approx 2.5 million people died under his leadership). Gas chambers were one of the ways used by him to execute people.

Why war with Pak is a bad idea?

An economist's decision on going ahead with a full fledged war (or controlled fisher attacks) on Pakistan’s terror camps and establishments may be very different from a populist decision of a politician. Not with standing the war hysteria being created in our bedrooms daily by the breed of new age news channels, an economist will perceive this situation very different and that can have catastrophic effects on Indian Economy

A brief on current economic situation brings out a vibrant picture of a country with high GDP growth rates for the last couple of years coupled with a well developed and functional system of capital and money markets ably supported by a strong banking system. On the flip side, increased government spending on infrastructure and high farm/ oil subsidy ensures that India is one of the few Asian countries with a current account deficit, which gives it little leverage on the fiscal front. This is precisely the reason why the stimulus package of the central government to counter recession is merely cosmetic in nature.

Now lets see what happens if India goes to war with Pakistan. Since this will be a full-blown war or even if it is a fisher attack the warring parties are official armies (and not proxy army or militia as happened in case of Kargil or now with Hamas in Gaza). A war in such circumstances is likely to be a prolonged offensive with collateral damage to both countries in terms of human and physical capital. While loss of human capital would require increased spending on medical aid and rehabilitation, physical capital damage will require much more spending both in time and money to be restored to its original glory. Another cost will come in term of increased military spending and internal policing. Business is likely to be disrupted both within the country and with the outside world. There may also be a cost in terms of sanctions from certain foreign countries and a medium to long-term suspension of trade with them.

While this sounds like a heavy cost burden on the economy, let’s see what options does India have to finance this cost. On the fiscal front, as already discussed we have little headway. Another couple of thousand crores in war spending will send the current account deficit reeling and put both the currency and the country at the risk of hyperinflation. Lets see How?

India will either borrow from Britton Wood institutions to finance its war expense or under desperate and extreme circumstances, print additional currency. While debt may not be forthcoming considering there may be some sanctions in place and even a depressed world economy will not help. In war times, foreign investors will frenzy for their funds and there will be capital drain, which may be in excess of India’s current foreign reserves. Printing additional currency, though the last of resorts will increase the money supply and shoot up inflation. In such a situation inflation will take big leaps and an era of hyperinflation may be experienced. A similar hyperinflation was experienced in Germany during World War in 1920s and Zimbabwe is encountering it in current times by deleting zeros from its currency, which already has issued some billion and trillion dollar notes.

Pakistan is looking into an era of hyperinflation even without war, as its economy has failed and its political and military set up does not command any confidence. It’s being seen as a den of terror activities world over and any kind of foreign investment (both institutional and capital) may not be forthcoming. There may even be a freeze on grants by US and other western allies. Pakistan incidentally is one of the nations that queued recently in front of IMF asking for relief to prevent bankruptcy.

This is a time for economic offensive against Pakistan stopping all trade and commerce with it. Diplomatically India should ensure that countries across the world are appraised of Pakistan flip flap on terror. India has a strong case to push for a “Terrorist State” tag for Pakistan. The first tactics in any warfare is to cut enemy supplies and that’s exactly what India should be doing. Nip the terror in the bud.