Business Quiz 6

130) He is the pioneer in mutual fund industry and often referred as the Father of Index Fund
        investing. He created the first S&P 500 Index fund. Identify this person?
       John Bogle

131) Which financial services giant is referred as the "Thundering Herd"?
         Merrill Lynch

132) What term became popular after the newspaper report of Watergate Scandal in the year
        1973?
       'Money Laundering'

133) If you file the 'chapter number 11' in USA in the name of your company what would you do?
        You'll be filing for bankruptcy

134) What were built under the project 178 ?
        FIAT cars Siena, Siena weekend, and Palio

Business Quiz 5

TATA Quiz Questions with Answers:

1) Which international voluntary organization was founded by the present French minister for foreign affairs Bernard Kouchner?

Ans: Doctors without Borders

2) Which Indian was the richest man in the world in 1937 and appeared on the cover of Time magazine?
Ans: Nizam of Hyderabad

3) Ad Campaign
Ans: Happydent

4) Which legendary CEO owns a restaurant chain called Koo Koo Roo?
Ans: Lee Iacocca

5) Which television personality who in his early career did commercials for Doritos brand of chips is an automobile collector and writes a column in Popular Mechanics?
Ans: Jay Leno

6) ALFA Passenger, a new diesel powered three wheeler is by which company?
Ans: M & M

7) Which brand (foods) was sold by Marico to Good Food group of Denmark?
Ans: Sil Jam
 Which auto major launched S80 sedan and XC90 SUV in the Indian market?
Ans: Volvo

9) Hello Money, an innovative mobile banking service was launched and promises to take convenience to a new level. Which bank has introduced this concept?
Ans: Barclays Bank

10) Accor, is in talks to create neighbourhood hotels under the naem Formulae-1 with which Indian group, famous in the retail space?
Ans: A V Birla Group

11) Photo Ans: M Damodaran

12) Which is the first train to be branded as ‘Airtel Rajdhani Express’? (i.e which city to Delhi)
Ans: Bangalore

13) Tara International, an affiliate of Bengal Enamel has planned Tiny and Titu. What are they?
Ans:  Less than 1 lakh (Electric) cars

14) In the mid 40s I signed on for the Blue Books three month modelling course and was hired by Holga Steel (for some host party i think). Who am I?
Ans: Marilyn Monroe

15) Which Public-Private enterprise would the person in picture head (pic of Albert Bruener)?
Ans: Bangalore International Airport Limited

16) Which Indian fashion designers said ‘We dont make garments, we make heirlooms’?
Ans: Abu Jani and Sandeep Khosla

17) Which Hollywood superstar owns a production house ‘play tone’?
Ans: Tom Hanks

18) Which Indian was elected to the board of aviation giant American Airlines?
Ans: Rajat Gupta

19) Which management guru explained synergy as 2 + 2 = 5?
Ans: Igor Ansoff

20) Which media conglomerate did Lowry Mays and Red McCombs found in 1972 and focuses only on radio?
Ans: Clear Channel Communications

21) Established by a British gentleman whose name it took in the year 1908. It was later managed by Dr M.N Mahadevan in 1955 . Which Bangalore ‘landmark’?
Ans: Cash Pharmacy

22) Which Indian film director , who owns ‘Sahyadri Films’ once worked as an ad executive at Lintas?
Ans: Shyam Benegal

23) Which apparel compnay has a CSR initiative ‘Being Family’ that it has trademarked to help families who adopt children?
Ans: Jockey

Business Quiz 4

101) This person wrote about himself thus :"Principal virtues : keeps his nails clean. Principal faults
        that he has no family, is bad tempered and has a poor digestion. One and only wish : Not to
        be buried alive. Greatest sin : that he does not worship Mammon. Important events in his life :
        None". Who?


        Alfred Nobel

102) He called his wife ‘The Believer’ because she encouraged him at a time when everyone else
        called him crazy. John Kenneth Galbraith said this of him:” If there is any certainty as to what
        a businessman is, he is assuredly the things ________ is not." Thomas Alva Edison once told
        him ‘Young man, you have the right idea. Keep at it’. He got his greatest inspiration while
        watching Chicago meat-packers cut beef that moved past them on an overhead trolley. Who?

        Henry Ford - He got the idea of assembly line production while watching Chicago meat-
        packers cut beef that moved past them on an overhead trolley.

103) He has launched a university at Elk Grove Village, Illinois. President Nixon once met him and
        asked "What is it now, eight or nine billion?" To which he replied, "Mr. President, it is 12
        billion." When his company's market value surpassed U.S.Steel’s, Senator Lloyd Bentson
        complained ‘Something is wrong with our economy when the stock market is long on _____
        and short on steel’ At the age of 72, he acquired the San Diego Padres baseball team. Till the
        age of 52 he was a peddler of milk-shake machines. Who?

         Ray Kroc , He was the main force behind McDonalds. he has started a Hamburger
         University in Illinois. The answer for the blank is Burgers

104) An author, as a sign of gratitude to the nurse who had cared for his firstborn child, gave a
        script and asked her to sell it when she was in need of money. Years later, when the nurse
        was really in want of money, she sold it and lived in comfort for the rest of her life. The
        manuscript was the first part of a famous work of this author. Name the book and author?
     
        Book: Jungle Book Author : Rudyard Kipling.

105) Masaru Ibuka, after graduating in engineering, failed the entry examination for lifetime
        employment at Toshiba, and decided to start his own small business. He was fortunate to find
        a partner who had a flair for finance and salesmanship. Who was this partner? What was the
        company they started?
        Akio Morita was the partner & company was Sony