Ranbhoomi is a National Level Inter college business quiz competition for both campus and corporate. Participants will register for the quiz in a team of 2 from the same institution.
Quiz covers all business topics from logos, founders, trivia, company histories, ads, etc.
1. Jelly was an app founded by Biz stone, One of the cofounders of
Twitter. It is a Q&A platform which encourages people to use photos to
ask questions unlike Quora.
In March, 2017 _______ acquired Jelly for an undisclosed amount. FITB
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3. _____ Canada created the world’s
largest welcome mat to welcome the
tourists and the newcomers to
Canada.
They made it using 100 rolls of
industrial coir and spent 800 hours in
creating it over 85,000 sq. ft under the
fly path of Toronto Pearson airport.
FITB
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5. It was first released in 1979, the time when they haven’t branded their
product. They used to sell it under three different names in the early
months of its launch; Freestyle in Sweden, Stowaway in UK and
Soundabout in US but they realized that it wasn’t a good idea to sell
the same product under different names and understood the need of
being a brand thus naming their product _____. This brand became so
popular and found its way into the Oxford dictionary in 1986.
What are we talking about?
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This budget hotel chain is initially started in
2004, under the name Roots corporation Ltd
The concept of this chain was developed by IHCL
(Indian Hotels company ltd) along with C.K
Prahlad
Identify the hotel chain from the logo below
11. This is one of the early print ads that were created by this company which was then
known as the S.S. __ Ltd and was later renamed as X.
This company was founded by two motorcycle enthusiasts William Lyons and
William Walmsley in 1922. Identify X
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13. Find X and Y
In business, a ___ ___ (X) is a friendly acquirer/investor that acquires a
corporation at a fair consideration with the support from the
corporation’s board of directors and management. This may be during
a period of hostile acquisition from another potential acquirer ____
____ (Y).
____ ____ (X) are preferred by the board of directors who are acting in
good faith with regard to the interest of the corporation and its
shareholders and to prevent the unfavourable acquisition by ____
____(Y)
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17. Deal Snell is a plastic engineer and a famous designer, He worked with
BF Goodrich in the Aerospace and Defence division where he used to
work on F-14 and F-15 fighter jets. His experience with the
aerodynamics gave him an extra edge in developing some of his famous
designs that include Titleist Pro V1 and TaylorMade TP.
Later after he left his career as an employee and started his own
company under the name Snell.
What is he specialized in?
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19. It is an Indian online meat and seafood service start-up owned by
Gourmet Pvt Ltd and it is founded by Abhay Hanjura and Vivek guptha
in 2015. It is currently operating across 10 cities in India.
Which start-up are we talking about?
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21. Fred Baur created consistent saddle shape is mathematically known as
a hyperbolic paraboloid. Their designers reportedly used
supercomputers to ensure that the product’s aerodynamics would keep
them in place during packaging and that they wouldn’t break when
being stacked on top of each other.
Which iconic product we are talking about?
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23. X brand was established in 2015 by a telecom company Y. X was
marketed closely along Y's services, where the smartphones under the
brand were slated to launch in November 2015 and In January 2016, it
launched its first set of 4G-enabled smartphones named after the four
elements: Earth, Flame , Water, and Wind.
Identify X and Y (0.5 for each)
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31. Identify what this list is all about?
Gigayacht – $168 million
Gulfstream II – $4.9 million
Lunch with Warren Buffett – $2.6 million
The Town of Albert, TX – $2.5 millon
House With a War-Proof Bunker – $2.1 million
The Town of Bridgeville, CA – $1.77 million
Honus Wagner Baseball Card – $1.1 million
Ferrari Enzo– $1 million
Shoeless Joe Jackson’s Baseball Bat – $577,610
Ian Usher’s ‘Life’– $309,292
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33. This is first invented by a master engineer
who is known as the Hero of Alexandria in
Roman controlled Egypt during the first
century.
It was created to solve a problem that most
of the churches of his town were struggling
with. What did he create to solve their
problem?
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34. • Worlds first vending machine
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This is a report by Technavio on the trends in the global market of a
certain category of edible products (2018-2022). This is considered as
the top trends of 2019 in the food sector. Find the blanked out word?
37. ZooZoos are advertising characters created by Ogilvy &
Mather to promote ______. Identify the company to
which these characters are used as Mascots?
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