1) It wasn't the first time the No. 9 batsman was using this brand in a Test match. It was, in fact,
the second time! But it came under close scrutiny from rivals England during a Test match at Perth in December 1979. The batsman would later recount in hi s autobiography Menace that he was merely marketing the product. The No. 9 batsman was the business partner of Graham Monoghan, who is said to have developed the product for recreation use. Which product or brand are we talking about?
Dennis Lillee with his aluminum bat
2) In the late sixties,X started his career with McKinsey and Co. After some years he moved on to American Express where he worked for 11 years quickly moving up to the No.2 position just behind Jim Robinson. In 1989, he moved on to become the CEO of Nabisco, a major company in the foods business. However most people know him better as the CEO of another gigantic company where he moved on to after his stint with Nabisco. Identify X.
Hint : X even wrote a book about the company we famously associate him with.
Lou Gerstner.IBM. book is “How to make Elephants Dance.”
3) The name of this 94 year old product translates into English as 'Soul enlightenment". Was
created by Hakim Hafiz Abdul Majeed. What?
Rooh Afza
4) This Scottish veterinarian was very annoyed by the deep grooves that his son's tricycle left in his carefully tended lawn. He solved it by using a length of hose that he found lying around. Who and what was the solution?
John B. Dunlop, he converted the hose into a rudimentary set of tyres.
5) What name literally means 'prosperous rice field' in Japanese?
Akio Morita
6) This term was first used by the politician Subramaniam Swami in the context of Pepsi in
India. What term ?
Kick forward. [It means bribing to keep someone out. The reverse obviously is kickback
to Secure business advantages.]
7) An early but short-lived name for this product was ' Elite ' . It was first marketed in 1928 by the
County Chemical Co., Birmingham . The company's then manager Mr. Wilfred Hill was
responsible for this product to be manufactured . Name the product
Brylcreem - a combination of "brilliantine" and "cream"
8) The name was devised by Mr. A.R.Reid , to whom it came 'out of the air ' when he was traveling
one evening in 1929 on his usual train home from London to South end-on Sea . The name
also is [ or was ] that of a brand of adhesive tape in Australia , and a consequent
embarrassment to at least one lady visitor to England who should have asked for Sellotape or
Scotch tape .Identify the brand
Durex - condoms by LRC Internationals
9) Toyota was launched by a Japanese inventor Sakichi Toyoda in the early 1930s. Originally the
company was called Toyoda. Why was the name changed to Toyota ?
Toyota Motor Co. was established as an independent company in 1937. Although the founding family name is Toyoda
[ reason was Toyoda requires 10 characters in Japanese but Toyota requires only 8 and for
the-Japanese 8 is a lucky number.
Signify the separation of the founders' work life from home life;
Simplify the pronunciation, and
Give the company an auspicious beginning. Toyota is considered luckier than Toyoda due to
the fact that eight is a lucky number, and is the number of strokes it takes to write Toyota in
katakana.]
10) What is the Kanban system used in manufacturing?
KAN BAN is the Two bin system used for reducing theproduction time in manufacturing or production lines...one bin is labeled in and the other bin is labeled out and rawmaterials and processed goods are stored in them respectively...
11) Full Form of TEN as in TEN SPORTS? Which company markets the same in India?
Taj Entertainment Network
12) The Euro King is a French Helicopter. What connection does it have with the Indian National
flag flying on a steel mast in Kurukshetra?
The connection here is "Jindal".
[O.P JIndal died in a helicopter crash recently. His son, Navin Jindal, the MP of Kurukshetra won in a supreme court case the right to hoist the national flag 365 days a year. And the steel mast - well, the Jindals are a steel conglomerate!
13) A Sri Lankan by birth, he was a colleague of Rajat Gupta at McKinsey and went on to head
one of the fastest growing software services outsourcing companies. Who is he?
He is Kumar Mahadeva - former CEO of Cognizant Technology Solutions.
14) Whats the connection between the comic strip Peanuts and the coffee chain Starbucks?
The surname "Schultz". Peanuts is by Charles Schultz, while Starbucks was started off
by Howard Schultz.
15) She may be the wife of the chairman of Blowplast but is more famous for the books she writes.
Who is she?
Gita Piramal she wrote the book "Business Maharajas"
16) It was being considered to name it Jersey and Highland Milk, the product that was launched to
challenge the Swiss domination in this category. What was the product ultimately called?
Dairy Milk
17) This was first used as cellulose bandage in WW1, whats the product?
Sanitary Napkin
18) How do we connect Nipper and music industry?
The name of the dog in the HMV logo
19) This company was founded by John Knowles F. in 1913. It was a publishing company that sold
data to Wall Street. Name this company.
Fitch Ratings was founded as the Fitch Publishing Company on December 24th, 1913 by
John Knowles Fitch in New York City. It is the third largest Rating Agency in the world
20) This Company was founded in 1965 by Fred DeLuca and Dr. Peter Buck as Pete’s Subs. Later
this name was changed to the current name. Jared Fogle, a young man lost 245 pounds by
consuming this company’s products.. Name this Company.
Subway Chain of Sandwich Restaurants. Jared Fogle consumed low fat Subway Sandwiches in a diet and exercise program of his own design.
19) all of us must have heard of the 51% stake in CRISIL sought by Standard and Poor's, now the question is ...to which famous groupof companies does S & P's belong to ?
McGraw Hill group of Companies [among other things they also publish the Business Week
Magazine, Tata McGraw Hill is their venture in India.]
20) Which company began as Geophysical Service, an oil exploration company founded in 1930 by J. Clarence Karcher and Eugene McDermott pioneering the use of sound-wave technology to locate oil deposits? The current no longer operates in the oil business but is more famous in another completely different field altogether.
Texas Instruments
23) Harvard Business School once conducted a special case study on which NRI businessman
who was able to establish a Rs.500 crore business empire without a single advertisement?
Who was he?
Lakhubhai Pathak the Pickle King [he was also involved in that corruption case in which he
had accused P V Narasimha Rao ]
24) Recently two companies signed an agreement: Air India and APCO. According to the
agreement, what item will be exclusively provided to Air India by APCO?
Sarees to air hostesses for Air India [ APCO is a co-operative from Andhra Pradesh]
25) What is the new name of Barbie dolls, introduced, after she split with her boyfriend Ken
Cali Barbie which stands for California Barbie
26) Who is the official sponsorer for Davis Cup which is presently going on?
BNP Paribas
27) Which company was the first to sponsor Davis Cup in India?
SAIL
28) Which is the company founded by the person who drafted the 1st Electricity Act of Britain. The
company still exists in India.
Compton Greaves, Person was Colonel Compton
29) Mandira Bedi once approached an Ad agency for career. She was made to write a story on the
spot by this famous Ad man. Which company and Ad man/guru am i talking about? (it’s in
India, though not Indian)
Piyush Pandey, O&M.
30) How is these two guys Don n Frank related with reference to a special dish of Italy?
Pizza Hut, Don n Frank are the 2 who started it.
31) Jeff Bezos is the name associated with which famous company?
Jeff Bezos is the founder and CEO of Amazon.com
32) Sidenafil Citrate is more popularly known as--
Viagra
33) ANZ in ANZ Grindlays stands for—
Australia and New Zealand Bank.
34) The most expensive part of the body ever to be insured are the legs of a famous football player
for 60 mn pounds. Name the player
David Bechkham
35) Which logo is the most tattooed in the world?
Harley Davidson
36) Name the first ever brothel to be listed on a Stock Exchange
The daily planet at Elsternwick on the Melbourne Stock Exchange
37) This company was called Lutsuko and later changed its name to something that literally means
'to lose money'. Which one?
Sony
38) Which international brand had an ad campaign - 'Tomorrow is mine' and had signed Rahul
Dravid for the campaign?
Reebok
39) This organization has 1356 members and has the ad-line "the world put stock on us". Which
organization?
New York Stock Exchange
40) Of whom did Shahrukh Khan once say that 'our figures are similar'?
Cindy Craford & Pierce Brosnan while modeling for Omega watches
41) Who designs jewellery for the company called Artex?
Priyanka Gandhi(Vadhera) [ Artex is his Mr. Vadhera’s co.]
42) What is a coin with a minting error called ?
FIDO
43) To whom is the following quote attributed: "I have done more than anybody else to change the
face of mankind."
King Camp Gillette
44) It was a big news few months back when A cargo giant took over Blue Dart. Name it.
DHL Express India took over Blue Dart [Recent news--Dutch express company TNT is
buying secundrabad based GATI cargo]
45) 'Father, Son & Co.' is a book written by--
Thomas Watson Jr. the son of Thomas Watson Sr. who was the founder of IBM.
46) "I want _____ to be as well-known around the world as Coca-Cola", fill the blank & tell who
said it
Richard Branson for Virgin.
47) What was Fed Ex earlier name? Why they changed their name?
Federal Express [One reason for it to change was that in some other parts of the world,
people had trouble pronouncing Federal Express. Also in Latin American countries, it conjured
images of the federals i.e. it was considered bureaucratic].
48) Who said “The surest way to become a millionaire is to start as a billionaire and invest in the
airline industry”?
Richard Branson
49) Whats the connection between the following — the Fevicol campaign; the “Chal Meri Luna”
campaign; and the controversial movie song Choli ke peeche kya hai??
The people behind it were all siblings...Prasann Pandey and Piyush Pandey and Ila Arun
50) Who is the chairman of Asian development bank?
H.Kuroda (President of ADB)
51) Name the brand that appears in Harry Potter movies and shares its name with an Indian
Creative Company.
Nimbus. [remember the broomsticks for Quidditch. Malfoy getsNimbus 2001 for all players
and gets admitted into Slytherin team. Harry gets a Nimbus 2000 when he is admitted as a
seeker into Gryfindor.The Indian connection is Nimbus communications private limited
which makes entertainment software for TV channels.]
52) Saudi's make most oil, Americans consume most. Which countries citizens ship most of the
world's oil....(remember Jackie Kennedy)
Greece
53) In Gulliver's Travels, if dwarfs are Liliputs and Giants are Brobdingnagians, then what are the
race of animal like humans called.
Yahoos
54) In 2001, John Keogh, an Australian, obtained a patent for what he called 'Circular Transport
Facilitation Device'. This he did to show that patent system was flawed. What did he make
Wheel
55) Which three Asian countries have agreed to come together to help ASIA fend off attacks on its
currencies?
China, Japan and S. Korea
56) The founder of Harrod's H.C Harrod, was a retailer of ....
Tea
57) In Taiwan, the Pepsi slogan, Come Alive With the Pepsi Generation, was transliterated as.
Bring you ancestors back to life
58) Elite, Classic and Comfort are
ITDC's hotel brands
59) Who said this recently: "I understand that Iam, to put it mildly, a controversial figure. But I hope
that as people get to know me better, they will understand that I really do believe deeply in the
mission of the bank"?
Paul Wolfowitz
60) 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 as Venkatesh Prasad and Vimal
Kumar.)
Canara Bank Hindu Permanent Fund
61) RECC: Reva; Adam Motors:....?
Revo (Adam Motors, Pakistan)
62) It is a three-letter word which in Sanskrit means 'Mother Earth.' The word is also the brand
name of a designer jewellery collection launched by D. Navinchandra & Co. What's the word?
IRA
63) Which newspaper company has filed its papers with SEBI recently? Also, name the group who
owns the same company.
Hindustan Times of HT media Ltd. K.K.Birla Group owns it.
64) In Middle ages Vatican also used to be in Business. What did they sell?
They sold tickets to heaven
65) Currently, two American companies are locked in a bitter struggle to acquire MCI - a telecom
company. Which two?
Verizon and Qwest Communications had bid against each other.
[ MCI is merging with Verizon Communications Inc.]
66) This leader termed the use of dollar as international standard as an 'Exorbitant privilege' to
the Americans. He also switched his country back to gold standard. But he is more famous for
other exploits....Who?
Charles De Gaulle (He also said "China is a big country, inhabited by many Chinese.")
67) He started out big time by manufacturing toothpaste tubes. Now he is a media moghul. Who?
Subhash Chandra of Zee Network. [He started Essel Packaging Ltd. that manufactured
toothpaste tubes]
68) This firm was accused of using slave labor from concentration camps during the WW2. It
produced armaments for Third Reich. Its owner were tried at Nuremburg and all but were
convicted and served time. Which is the firm?
Krupp Works.
69) 'Pegasus' meaning the flying horse, is the logo of Career Launcher in India. Which famous
magazine has the same logo.
Readers Digest
70) What are the celebrities, who refuse to endorse products in ads, called in marketing
terminology?
Virgins
71) Complete The Group:Ruma Guha Thakurta,Yogita Bali,Leena Chandawarkar......
Wives of Kishore Kumar
72) whose Oscar speech was voted as the most memorable speech of the last 30 years?
Halle Berry
73) originally the name of this party meant "rebirth" in Arabic. originally there was just one
party, then it split into two, one each in Syria and Iraq. name this.
Ba'ath Party
74) he wrote a book "a salmon of doubt" before his death. his book has various manifestations like
tv,radio,comp games, bath towels. It’s being made into a major movie. his name?
Douglas Adams
75) who found general motors?
Willian Durant
76) in dec.1985,two teenage boys, James Vance and ray belknap attempted suicide on a
cemetery.belknap died but Vance survived only to die of drug complications three years
later. on trial in 1990,the boy's parents alleged the subliminal messages contributed to their
suicidal impuslses.those messages were believed to be heard in songs "better by you better
than me”,” beyond the realms of death”, both on a 1978 album "stained class"
of a Birmingham based band with rob halford as lead singer: Glenn tipton and k.k.downing
were on the guitars. the name of the band?
Judas Priest
77) which artist is credited for sketching and designing a helicopter as early as in 1483?
Leonardo Da Vinci
78) General Dwight D. Eisenhower sent a telegram requesting 10 ____ plants for the troops
overseas on June 29, 1943. At the beginning of the war, Robert W. Woodruff, president of
____, issued an order to "see to it that every man in uniform gets ____ for five cents wherever
he is and whatever it costs the Company.“ Fill in.
Coca Cola
79) "The companies in The _____ Index were carefully selected based on this formula:
Company = (P*10)+X+Y where P is my personal opinion and X and Y are both letters that don't
mean anything. P is subject to sudden and unexplained change, based on the e-mail reports I
get from readers in the field. Weight is given to companies that have high numbers of cubicles,
engineers." Who explaining what?
Warren buffet on his inability/ability to invest in tech stocks
80) Canon, 11 Bentley, 6 Timberland, 5 Jaguar, 1 Xerox, what are these means in USA in 2000?
these are the names of newborn baby given by some gr8 brand loving parents.
81) which airline was originally called Dobrolet?
Aeroflot
82) What is the connection between Finding Nemo and Steve Jobs?
Steve Jobs heads Pixar Animation Stidio, which has produced Finding Nemo
83) The person next in command to the CEO is often referred to as the ‘Upper Roger’. From what
Indian (Sanskrit) word does this phrase come?
Yuva Raja
84) What ‘social expression’ company (if I may coin a phrase) was started by the 18-year-old
Joyce Hall in 1910?
Hallmark
85) What is the name given to software developed exclusively for use by infants and toddlers?
Lapware
86) What spectacular success story was started in 1889 by Lila Acheson Wallace and DeWitt
Wallace?
Reader's Digest
87) Whose failed Oil and Gas venture was named Arbusto? The name is a Spanish translation for
the Guy's surname?
George.W.Bush
88) Golden handshakes are payoffs that are made to employees retiring before their term, usually
to facilitate a downsizing. What are incentives used to retain employees called?
Golden Handcuffs
89) 'Every Street is paved with gold' is the autobiography of--
Kim Woo Chang founder of Daewoo
90) 'Beyond Last Blue Mountain' is the autobiography of--
JRD Tata
91) Expand Following
ECOSOC - Economic and Social Council
FAO - Food and Agricultural Organization
IFAD - International Fund for Agricultural Development
ILO - International Labor Organization
UNESCO - United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
IBRD - International Bank for Reconstruction and Development
[it is World Bank's original name - IBRD]
MIGA - Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency
IFC - International Finance Corporation
Adidas - ADolf DAssler. [and then the popular All Day i Dream About]
92) Give Organization formed in the year, no. of members and HQ Detail of following
European Union (EU), 1991, 25 Brussels
Association Of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN), 1967,10, Jakarta
South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC),1983 , 7 Kathmandu
Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC),1960 ,12 , Vienna
International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol) ,1914, 177, Lyon (France)
The Asian Development Bank (ADB), 1966 , 63, Manila
93) The name of the flavor base included in the secret formula of Coca-Cola is referred to as?
7X
94) Expand YAHOO? Yet Another Heirarchial Officious Oracle
95) The management guru who describes himself as "Prince of disorder" and a "Professional
Loudmouth"?
Tom Peters
96) What connects Hexley , the platypus to Apple computers?
The Darwin [developers decided to adopt a mascot in 2000, and chose Hexley the platypus
Darwin is the core operating system of Apple Computer's Mac OS X, and runs on an open
source kernel called XNU. Apple first released Darwin to the open source community in 2000.]
97) He is a self-made multi-billionaire CEO. He is obsessive about mopping up water puddles in
the men's restroom, colleagues say. He has a slew of pets, including three dogs and six birds.
His company features one of the loopiest corporate cultures, where "having fun" is an official
goal. He has pinned up jumbo-sized pictures of grinning employees all over the hallway at the
company's corporate headquarters in Pleasanton, California. Who, and which company?
David Duffield of PeopleSoft.
98) Born in 1837, descendent of Welsh ancestors who came to Massachusetts in 1636, he began
his career in 1856. He disliked and disagreed frequently with Theodore Roosevelt, and when
the president was off on a safari in Africa, he is alleged to have said ‘I hope the first lion that
he meets does its duty’. He was once asked for money by a friend in need. He took the friend
for a walk all around New York and after an hour, told him ‘Now that you have been seen with
me, you will have no problems getting a loan’. A churchman called him ‘Pierpontifex Maximus’.
The Wall Street Journal called him ‘the undisputed leader who has stood between the business
of this country and disaster’. Who?
John Pierpont Morgan - JP Morgan
99) In 1923, he left Kansas and boarded a train to California with $40 in his pocket. When a fellow
passenger asked him about his intentions, he said ‘I’m going to direct great Hollywood motion
pictures’. After seeing ‘The Jazz Singer’ he wrote to his brother: "I think this is, Old Man,
Opportunity rapping at our door. Slap a big mortgage on everything we’ve got and let us go
after this thing in the right manner." In 1938, he received honorary degrees from both Harvard
and Yale universities, and also accepted an award from the League of Nations. He started the
‘Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow’ center in USA. Who?
Walt Disney
100) At a meeting of advertising heads at National Cash Register which was going nowhere, this
young Sales Manager jumped to his feet and yelled ‘The trouble with every one of us is that
we don’t think enough. We don't get paid for working with our feet - we get paid for working
with our heads. Any man on the selling force could make two dollars where he now makes
one if he would think along the right lines. ‘I Don’t Think’ has cost the world millions of dollars’.
Who?
Thomas Watson, who later went on to head IBM -& also it was he who gave IBM the motto
‘THINK’
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