FINALS

Round 1

• Infinite Bounce (with pounce)

• Pounce : +10/-10

• Direct/Passed Question : +10/-0

Economic historians usually attribute the start of the Great Depression to the sudden devastating collapse of US stock market prices on October 29, 1929. This day is known as……..

In continental Europe, it means a small hotel or lodging or boarding house . When used as a verb, this word also means to discard something because it is too old. Incidentally, the word also alludes to the nickname of Chelsea Football Club, London, in the first half of the twentieth century.

Historically it meant a payment made to a royal favourite or to an artist or scholar to enable them to carry on work of public interest or value.

Identify the word.

PENSION

Currency of which place?

The original choice was the sketch of the Lion and Palm Tree. However it was decided to replace the lion with the tiger, the national animal of India.

What are we talking about?

RBI Seal

In 2000–2001, X was President of the All India Organization of Employers. He was also a member of the Prime Minister's Council of Trade and Industry (1996–2001).

He is a member of the Executive Committee of Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI). He has a strained relationship with his homosexual son.

In 2012, he was accused X of physically and mentally harassing him and his partner, Avi Mukherjee because of their sexual orientation. X was also accused of using his immense clout to get his son beaten up by the police in a Mumbai restaurant in 2012. Who is X?

N. SRINIVASAN

In the early 18th Century, Lahore was famous for its weekend markets.

Which term gets its name from the tradition that the first sale on every market day was made to a dwarf?

BONI OR BOHNI

Which recent ecommerce deal is being talked about as ‘It was simply Kunal calling Kunal.’ ?

Snapdeal acquiring Freecharge. Kunal Bahl and Kunal Shah

ROUND 2 6 Questions based on pictures

Write your answers in a sheet.

Please exchange the sheets after the final question

+5 for correct answer

Logo of which Organization.

Amul Poster for which incident ?

Identify this famous personality.

The book “ The Lion Wakes” is a historical account of a global Bank X.

Identify X.

Portrait of which famous personality on this Israeli bill ?

Old logo of which Bank ?

ANSWERS

SATYAM SCANDAL

PETER LYNCH

HSBC

Round 3

• Infinite Bounce (with pounce)

• Pounce : +10/-10

• Direct/Passed Question : +10/-0

After the great fire of London, Nicholas Barbon and a doctor started the first fire brigade.

They also started a concept/industry which has become quite popular today ?

Name the industry or the concept.

INSURANCE

The dictum “Kosha moolo dandah“ was laid down by a great administrator and diplomat X, which means revenue is the backbone of the administration.

These words are written on the emblem of the Income Tax Department.

Identify X.

Jim O’Neill coined the term X in 2001 “Building Better Global Economic X’s” a paper written for Goldman Sachs global economic paper series

Identify X .

Company X was registered on 19 May 1894 under the Indian Companies Act, with its office in Anarkali Bazaar, Lahore by several leaders of Swadeshi movement and now has headquarters in Delhi. Identify X

40 devotees of Maa Manglagauri Mandir in Gaya town, Bihar have opened a bank for their financial betterment.

Who are the principal founders of the bank or what is this bank’s uniqueness?

BEGGARS

Who started out as a stock broker before trying his hand at the family business of PVC pipe making and later went on to be the chairman of Gujarat State Finance Corporation in 1995?

AMIT SHAH

X is the ownership interest, or increase in value, that is created as a direct result of hard work by the owner(s).

It is the preferred mode of building equity for cash-strapped entrepreneurs in their start-up ventures, since they may be unable to contribute much financial capital to their enterprise.

Identify X

SWEAT EQUITY

Identify the missing company.

MYNTRA.COM

Companies Acquired by Flipkart

Satinder Mohan Bhagat is a professor of physics at the university of Maryland in college park, Maryland with over 200 research papers to his name.

In 2001, while travelling back home to India he found himself being harassed by petty extortion demands of government officials and realized that the common people were also facing such problems on a daily basis.

He devised a method to curb corruption which became more popular in the subsequent years. This method is nowadays being employed in corruption stricken countries like Ghana, Benin, Nepal etc.

What method did he devise?

Formula for calculating what ?

Tr – (TEMPLE RUN)

“Where truth doesn’t hide, where truth doesn’t hurt”

is the masthead of which news source?

Connect the pictures to identify this famous Personality from India

NAINA LAL KIDWAI

_________was the first credit card started in 1950 by Frank McNamara, Ralph Schneider and Matty Simmons after conceiving the idea at Major’s Cabin Grill restaurant in New York City in 1949 ?

DINER’S CLUBCREDIT CARD

What is the financial connect between these countries?

Countries that have Rupee as currency

lynda.com is a privately held online education company offering thousands of video courses in software, creative, and business skills. Founded in 1995, the company produces video tutorials taught by industry experts.

On April 9th, 2015, _______ announced its purchase of lynda.com for $1.5 billion.

Once a dump filled with nothing but garbage and coconut shells, today X is one of the few natural paradises left in the city of Mumbai. It stands out in the concrete jungle that surrounds it.

The X, a rather welcome cluster of grass and greens, is surrounded by some of the bigger banks of the country and is spread over 12,081 square yards. It has a neo- classical colonnade that faces a park and overlooks the town hall.

Just outside the garden is the legendary banyan tree, which is the root cause (literally speaking) of something truly historic in context of the business scenario in India. Identify this place, and give what the tree is known for.

Horniman Circle Garden

The BSE was founded here, when just 22 stock brokers started trading under this tree in 1851, which finally led to 318 brokers forming the BSE in 1875

The term ________ is defined as Corrupt, thieving Government, in which the politicians and bureaucrats in charge use the powers of the state to feather their own nests.

Russia in the years immediately after the fall of communism was a clear-cut example, with mafia-friendly Government members allocating themselves valuable shares during the Privatisation of state-owned companies, accepting bribes from foreign businesses, not collecting taxes from “helpful” companies and siphoning off International aid into their personal Offshore bank accounts.

KLEPTOCRACY

In 2010 Rajesh Jethpuria a 38-year-old businessman from Bhopal made a Rs 7 lakh purchase on the occasion of Dhanteras, becoming India's first individual owner of ____________ 

AUTOMATED TELLER MACHINE

(ATM)

___________ is a payment system invented by Satoshi Nakamoto,who published the invention in 2008 and released it as open-source software in 2009.

The system is peer-to-peer; users can transact directly without needing an intermediary.

Transactions are verified by network nodes and recorded in a public distributed ledger called the block chain

BITCOIN

Evolved from old French word ’tailler’ which means "to cut off, clip, pare, divide" in terms of tailoring.

Identify the popular word?

RETAIL

ROUND 4

THE LONG CONNECT

• The question has a series of pictures leading to a common answer

• The earlier you guess the more points you get

• Answering at various intervals may result in positive or negative points

+40/-20

+35/-15

+30/-15

+20/-10

+10/-5

+5/0

ANSWER

COMPANIES THAT STARTED IN A GARAGE

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