Monday 6 February, 2012

Business Quiz 7

201) In 1906, Ammembal Subba Rao Pai founded this organization as the ... Bank Hindu
       Permanent Fund. Fill up the blank. (Some more details: the organization has a bi-monthly, bi-
        lingual house journal called Shreyas, and has on its rolls sportsmen such h as Venkatesh
       Prasad and Vimal Kumar.)
       Canara

202) The following is part of Bono's foreword to this book: "His voice is louder than any electric
       guitar, heavier than heavy metal. He is not just animated; he's angry. Because he knows that a
       lot of the crisis in the developing world can be avoided." Can you name the author and the
       book, which talks about putting an end to poverty?
   
       “The End of Poverty", author is Jefferey D Sachs

203) After years of delivering speeches about a scandal and his survival of colon cancer, he has
        landed his first regular job in 10 years — as commercial manager of Ireland's Galway United
        Football Club. Who's he?
       Nick Leeson

204) It was started in 1887 as the Clinton Pharmaceutical Company, when its partners, McLaren
        Bristol and John Ripley Myers, got it officially incorporated. In 1898, the company got a new
        name, with the founders' names becoming part of it. After Myers' death h in 1899, when the
        company became a corporation, its name underwent a further change. How was it known
        before and after Myers' death?
        Bristol , Myers - after his death it got changed to Bristol-Myers

205) ‘India's Online Marketplace' is now ...?
       Baazee.com [now eBay.in]



206) Which is said to be the world's biggest mobile phone company by users?
       China Mobile

207) A broken printer ribbon forced Tom Stemberg to look for a store that could supply him the
       stuff, but he was getting nowhere with the search. That was in July 1985, and the incident was
       the basis for a pioneering effort by Tom. What did he start 10 month has later?
       Staples

208) This breath freshener brand in Belgium has been called "a small company with big
       ambitions." So, according to an executive with the ad agency Duval Guillaume, which worked
       for the brand, there had to be enough excitement around the product without it costing a lot.
       What did the agency do recently, and can you name the brand?

       'One Second.' The agency created a TV commercial for one second!

209) Which is the flagship company of the group that owns Hikal Chemicals, Automotive Axles and
        Epicenter Technologies?
        The Kalyani Group and that would be Bharat Forge

210) — Iron & Steel is more famously known as Posco. Fill up the blank.
        Pohang

211) If you are a 'Sheru,' you would be a registered member of ...?
        ShareKhan.com

212) Alain de Pouzilhac stepped down as CEO of which advertising company recently?
       Havas

213) 'Idiots Price Our Devices'! This was one famous comment among the many that were seen on
         the Internet when this company launched a product nearly three years ago. Demand,
        however, seems to have soared now. Which product are we referring to? Also, which is the
        company?
        Apple i-pod

214) M. P. Sharma, Dr Madan Vaidya Mishra and P. L. Agarwal. Why were the three names in the
       news?
        Priyamvada birla will case

215) This bank was established in Lahore in 1943 by Rai Bahadur Lala Sohan Lal, who also
         became its first Chairman. After Partition, the bank's registered office shifted to Amritsar. Its
         current head office is in New Delhi. Can you name this bank?
         Oriental Bank Of Commerce.

216) Can you name the company set up by Prince Charles in the early 1990s to make organic food
       products?
       Duch Original

217) Japan's second and fourth biggest banks in terms of assets have agreed to merge. The
        merged entity will become the world's biggest banking group. Can you name the two banks?
        Mitsubishi Bank n UFJ Holdings

218) In 1907, Eugene Schueller, a French chemist, developed a hair-colour formula. Two years
        later, he registered his company as 'Societe Francaise de Teintures Inoffensives pour
        Cheveux.' How do we know it today?
        L'oreal

219) SMS : Short Messaging Service:: XMS : ?
        Secure Messaging Service

220) “Authentic Marketing isn’t knowing the cost of selling of what you make, but knowing what you
         make” – Golden words, whom?
         Philip Kotler


221) Connect - Bernard Tapie, Credit Leonige, Robert Louie Dreyfuss to a Brand ?
          ADIDAS. After the Adidas Family gave over the entire Stock holding, these were the
          various people with whom the shares were transferred one after another.

222) Connect : Interstate, Chronical, Pure Design(or was it Theo Design) , etc
         Hindu newspaper called in Mario Garcia to re-design their newspaper and these were
          the 2 Fonts he introduced (Interstate, Chronical).

223) James Wilson, founder of Economist Newspaper and also Standard Chartered Bank gave
        India something – What?
        Income Tax


224) Started by Aristotle Onasis, it is the National Airline of Greece?
        Olympic Airlines

225) Jet-ix is one of the lesser known channels of –
         Disney

227)  Net merger is a registered trademark merging Telephony with Microsoft Speech server
        Platform, developed by –
         Intel


228) Eye-ware, goggles designed for Golf specifically by –  Adidas.

229) IQ magazine’s Online Publication is done by – CISCO.

230) Connect : (All pics are shown)
        Nimbus, Reliance, NAL’s SARAS (Fighter plane), Silk Route (Album) and then there is the
        song : “Chinna Chinna Aasai” from ROJA
     
        All of them are registered Trademarks Paint Shades of Asian paints (ROJA, Nimbus,
        etc)

231) Connect : (Again Pics)
        SS Music, Inquilab, Metro Railways, Kiran Karnik(Photo)

        Midday Magazine. Connect being, Metro being their editorials, Inquilab being Midday’s
        Hindi periodical, SS investments being their International stocks(or something)

232) Connect : (Pics again)
        Polaris, Hotel Trident, Hercules(& XENA warrior princess), Carmen Electra, and Song of U2 ?

         All Plane brands of Lock Heed Martin.

233) Connect : (pics)
         Alan Cox, “Story of accidental revolution”, Phoebe Buffay(friends) , Mustang Logo, Spirit
         watches. and Song from Enigma.

         Linux ; connect being like this : “Story of accidental revolution” was the subtitle of
         Linus torvaldis’s Auto Biography. Alan Cox gave the initial idea of the Tux. Phoebe,
         Mustang , enigma and e-spirit are the Code names of Unix versions.


234) Which sporting company entered a tie-up with Searra to enter into the Indian Market –
         Lotto Sport


235) Rallisport is the Blue tooth Mobile from Motorola with collaboration with –
        Oakley.

236) Which mercantile institution has had the motto “My word is my bond since 1801?
         London Stock Exchange

237) By what popular name was the coalition of various reformist groups that overthrew Ottoman
        Sultan Abdulhamid II in 1876 known? (Hint: The answer is a very popular show on CNBC
       TV18, well even though all the shows are popular this one has become famous )
        Young Turks

238) By what brand name is the Federation of Italian Automobile Works at Turin, more popularly
        know?
       FIAT

239) Which economist put forward the proposition “ Work expands to fill time”?
         Parkinson's law

240) Its principal subsidiaries are MGM Studios Inc., United Artists Corporation, and Orion Pictures
        Corporation. The name is taken from the three companies that formed a corporate merger in
        1924 under the control of movie theater magnate Marcus Loew ?
         Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc. (Ars Gratia Artis)

241) ------- was founded by Toshio Iue, a former Matsushita employee, in 1947
       The company's name means three oceans in Japanese, referring to the founder's ambition to
        sell their products worldwide, across the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian oceans.
       Sanyo

242)  ____was founded in February 1982 by Rod Canion, Jim Harris and Bill Murto, three senior
        managers from semiconductor manufacturer Texas Instruments.This company recently
        merged with another company ,the merger was one of the most talked about mergers after
       AOL Time Warner in America..
        Compaq

243) The first edition of the _________ was published in 1955, commissioned by the Guinness
        brewery after a debate over the fastest species of gamebird could not be settled with existing
        reference books. It was researched by Ross and Norris McWhirter, twins and noted British
       athletes and journalists, who at the time ran a fact-finding agency in London.
 
       The Guinness Book of Records

244)  ______ was co-founded in Hollywood, California, in 1923 by four brothers, Harry (1881-195,
        Albert (1882-1967), Sam (1887-1927) and Jack (1892-197.The first major star of this
        company was a dog, Rin Tin Tin.
        Warner Bros

245) Goodricke Group of companies head office in South Calcutta is called " __________ house"
        .Give me the full name and justify the name(why is it called so)
         Camellia House

246) The brains behind this tractor model, developed inlate sixties, gave it a name that signifies
         'something Indian’. Name the brand
         Swaraj

247) Which Indian organization has used outsourcing to the highest level and has 570 employees
        all over the country handling business worth Rs 54000 crores?
       Xansa

248) Which car has become the first car ever to be conferred with the Five star diamond award?
        Merc Maybach

249) Which famous brand name is derived from a combination of two words, that means’ dead' in
        French and 'one' in German?
        Mortein ( Mort + Ein )

250) Whats common with Gujarat Ambuja Cements,Bharti Televentures and Max Healthcare??
        Warburg Pincus , it has invested in all the three companies.

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