Thursday, October 21, 2010

Business Quiz 7

VESPERTINE QUIZ by Narasimhan and Richard

1.Who is the Successor of Vidya Balan for Toshiba?

2. SEBI = C B Bhave :: IRDA = ?

3. Who is the present CEO of Microsoft?

4. Headed by Carl Henrick Svanberg (Chairman) this company is fourth largest company in the world. This company came into recent spotlight because of the explosion in Gulf of Mexico. To protest this incident localities used the VUVUZELA. Which Company am I talking about?

5. Founded in 1995, by Gagan Dugal, this Telecommunication Company introduced the concept of Local Connectivity in India, by offering Destination Specific Mobile Connections to International Travellers. Travellers prefer to utilize this service whenever they go abroad. This Company recently completed 15 years of successful operations.

6. “Go on. Be a *****.” was how the ad campaign of this Consulting Company started way back in 2006, with its brand ambassador who represented the company as a symbol of its new High Performance Business strategy. But in 2010, it declared that he is "no longer the right representative" after the "circumstances of the last two weeks."

7. Transform Your Face On Facebook" an ad campaign to promote the Company’s range of skin-lightening products for men, in India has sparked an online controversy and pushed the racially-loaded issue of skin colour into the spotlight. Which Anglo- Dutch Company do you associate with this Campaign with?

8. Coming from a Mexican Lebanese background, this person is the CEO of Telmex and Telcel. Who is this person?

9. Born in Bangalore this personality collaborated with an Irish Firm, and founded company X with a Capital of Rs. 10,000/-. The initial operation was to extract an enzyme from papaya. Over the years, the company grew and is one of the biggest biopharmaceutical firm in India.
Identify the personality & the Company

10. Launched in 2001 by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger X is currently the largest and most popular general reference works on the Internet. It is a free, web-based, collaborative, multilingual information webpage which is supported by a non-profit Foundation. Its 15 million articles (over 3.3 million in English) have been written collaboratively by volunteers around the world, and almost all of its articles can be edited by anyone with access to the site. Identify X



Answers:

1. Sachin Tendulkar
2. J Hari narayan
3. Steve Ballmer
4. British Petroleum
5. Matrix Cellular
6. Accenture
7. Vaseline
8. Carlos Slim
9. Kiran Mazumdar Shaw
10. Wikipedia

Sunday, October 17, 2010

Business Quiz 6

Christ University Commerce Association Quiz

NOTE: Quiz by Kushal SS and Mithun Solanki

1. ”Badalte India Ke Badelta Classroom”. Which company came up with this Ad-Campaign?

2. The IIT-Guwahati PG student “UDAY KUMAR” shot into fame on 15th July 2010 for designing something that the nation is proud of today. What did he design?

3. Connect “Hyderabad, Mysore, Patiala, Indore, Sourashtra, Bikaner, Travancore”

4. RAGNAR FRISCH in 1933 came up with a term in “ECONOMICS” that dealt with performance, Structure, Behaviour and decision making of the entire economy. What did RAGNAR FRISCH come up with?

5. “X” claims itself to be “India’s No.1 multi brand pre-owned Car Company” which is owned by MAHINDRA group. Name “X”

6. People humorously call it “BETTER ITS NOT GOOGLE”, an internet service launched by Microsoft on June 1st 2009 to make its market share on the internet by competing with GOOGLE. What service did Microsoft launch?

7. Rashmi Bansal, an IIM-A graduate who runs the most popular youth blog called “YOUTHCURRY” published a book called “STAY HUNGRY STAY FOOLISH”-‘story of 25 IIM-A Entrepreneurs’ that created a wave in Indian Publishing. She recently launched another book that talks about 25 Non MBA Entrepreneurs, Name this book?

8. What connects “Mangaldeep, John players, Candyman, Ashirwad, VIvel”?

9. This is a 4 letter analysis that is shown in almost every business report. This technique is credited to Albert Humphrey, who led a convention at Stanford University in the 1960s and 1970 using data from Fortune 500 companies to develop this technique. This might be the first thing that might be asked in an Interview, What is this 4 letter technique?

10. On 8th June 2010 “X” acquired the business of “Y” in 15 countries of Africa to become one of the largest players in it sector. “X” is one of the most valued company in India and also a family run business. The parent company of “X” also has interest in retail, Insurance, Food. Name “X” and “Y”

11. This Company was originally called Coopers Inc., and was founded by Samuel T. Cooper in 1876 as a hosiery business. Cooper began the business when he learned that lumberjacks were suffering from poorly constructed wool socks. Later, this company moved onto manufacture of goods that this company is currently the leader. (This brand is something that most of the youth today is obsessed with). Name this company

12. After his course of Entrepreneurship, to encourage the budding entrepreneurs of India , Mr Narayana Murthy set up a venture capital firm recently. The name of this company its origin from the tamil word ‘kattumaram’, which is a type of a multi-hulled country boat comprising of two hulls, joined with some structure. It is used by the fishing community off the southern coast of Tamil Nadu. Name this Ventue Capital firm of Mr Murthy.

13. This is a multinational rubber conglomerate founded in 1931 by Shorijo Ishibashi in the city of Kurume, Fukuoka, Japan. This company is currently ranked No.1 tyre manufacturer in the global tyre market. The name of the company is originated from the Japanese word ishibashi meaning “stone bridge”

14. “Modular Object- Oriented Dyanamic Learnig Environment” is a free cost and opensource e-learning software platform, also known as Course Management System. This is one of the most popular applications used by the educational institutes including our own University. Name this Application.

15. How do we better know “AMAR RAJA Batteries” limited?

16.”Think” is the motto coined by Thomas J Watson while managing the sales and advertising departments at the National Cash Register Company, saying “Thought has been the father of every invention since time began. ‘I didn’t think’ has cost the world millions of dollars.” In 1914 he bought the motto with him to this company Computing Tabulating Recording Corporation, which today is better known as ..........?

17. Connect the following. “Mayabelline, Garnier, The Body Shop, Paris, Aishwarya Rai”.

18. He is the 10th and the current Dean of Harvard Business School. He was born in Nohar, Rajasthan, India. He graduated from St Columbia’s School in New Delhi, India following which he earned a B Tech in Chemical Engineering at the IIT Mumbai and earned a PhD in Management from the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Identify this personality.

19. This concept was introduced by Clarence Saunders in the year 1937, it was a concept that was first of its kindand it intended to be a grocery shopper labour saving and cost reduction of the grocery upto 15%. Saunders named his project “KEEDOZLE” that he implemented at his store “Piggly Wiggly” which has revolutionized modern retail industry around the globe. What has this concept created?

20. In 1862 Cuban wine merchant Facunda ________, originated from Spain, acquired a distillery in Santiago de Cuba. This facility used the method developed by _______ for the refining sugar and liquor into the white-colored, mild rum. Because there were a large number of bats living under the roof of distillery, it was decided that it was appropriate to show the bats on the logo of his brand. It’s worth mentioning that fruit bats are a symbol of luck in Cuba.(same word fills all the blanks)



Answers:

1.Tata Sky
2.Rupee symbol
3.State Bank Of India
4.Macro Econonmics
5.Mahindra First Choice
6.Bing
7.Connect This Dots
8.ITC
9.SWOT Analysis
10.Bharti Airtel and Zain
11.Jockey
12.Catamaran
13.Bridgestone
14.moodle
15.Amaron
16.IBM
17.Loreal
18.Nitin Nohria
19.Super Market
20.Bacardi

Saturday, October 16, 2010

Business Quiz 5

PRAYAS QUIZ


NOTE: THis Quiz was conducted by Tejaswi Udupa at Christ University

1. Ping is a new social network launched by which company?

2. Which automobile company started off in the textile industry manufacturing automatic looms? They continue to be in that field even today, manufacturing sewing machines.

3. Recently, British Prime Minister David Cameron sought advice from which young millionaire on how to be responsible for and accountable to millions of people?

*4. The Symphony No.25 in G Minor by Mozart is known worldwide for being the opening music in the award-winning movie Amadeus. But in India, it is famous for its use in the advertisement for which Tata-owned brand?

5. What change ha been made to the Kaun Banega Crorepati logo in the fourth edition to keep it up to date?

*6. One of the reasons why Singapore Grand Prix was a night race(the only one in Formula 10) was that it would fit into Singapore tourism’s slogan “……………. Singapore”. Fill in the blank with one word.

7. The H and S in HSBC used to stand for two cities in Asia. Name the two cities.

8. The name of which dynasty that ruled over India is also an English word referring to a powerful person, especially in the world of Business?

9. The first newspaper to be published in India was in 1780. In which language was it published?

*10. When TV was introduced to India in 1950s, it was with the aid of UNESCO and which Dutch electronic goods company (they provided TVs in rural areas)?

11. Pepsi’s bottled water brand is Aquafina. Coca-Cola has Kinley. What is equivalent to Parle Agro?

*12. The original aim of this invention was to make it easier for the blind people to write. Kores was the first company to produce and sell the stationery item on large scale. What are we talking about?

13. In 1869, Emperor Louis Napoleon III of France offered a prize to anyone who could make a substitute for butter, suitable for use by the armed forces and the lower classes. What came about thus?

14. Which company resulted from the merger of the Swedish company ALLmanna Svenska Elekriska Aktiebolaget with Swiss company Brown,Boveri & Cie?

15. What do you call cars where at the back instead of trunk lid, the entire back of the vehicle lifts up? Examples on Indian roads include Hyundai Santro, Maruti Swift,etc

16. Which Taiwanese company produces luxury laptops and mobile phones in association with Ferrari?

17. Reebok, the sportswear giant is a subsidiary of which company?

*18. Which is the largest online social network for artists and art enthusiast with over 13 million registered members, allowing artists to exhibit, promote, and share their work within a peer community dedicated to arts? Clue:The social network has the letter ‘art’ in its name.

19. UB City in Bangalore recently hosted a ‘Trousseau Carnival.’ The word Trousseau can refer to two things associated with marriages. Name either.

20. ‘The Last of the Imperous Rich’ a new book by Peter Champman is about which company from 1884 to 2008?

21. The last GE factory manufacturing these is set to close later this month. Their sale is going to be banned in the US starting from 2014, and many more countries have enacted similar bans. What am I talking about?

22. Which Bollywood movie features product placements by kitchenware band Tupperware, the modular kitchen brand Poggenpohl, snack brand Foodles and cosmetic brand Garnier and Loreal?

23. Dietrich Mateschitz, an Austrian entrepreneur, was the international marketing director for Blendax, a toothpaste company, when he visited Thailand in 1982 and discovered that a Thai drink called Krating Daeng helped to cure his jet lag. Between 1984 and 1987, Matechitz worked with TC Pharmaceuiticals(a Blendax licensee)to adapt Krating Daeng for the European market. What world-renowned brand came out this?

24.Tanaka Seisakusho was Japan’s first manufacturer of telegraph equipment and was established by Hisashige Tanaka in 1857. In 1904, its name was changed to Shibauru Seisakusho. Hakunetsusha, was established in 1890 and was Japan’s first producer of iincandesent lamps. It diversified into the manufacture of other consumer products and in 1899 was renamed Tokyo Denki. Which Company came about as the merger of these two companies?

25. This Scotch whisky brand is closely associated with the sport of rugby. Hence, the mascot of this brand is a bird nemed ‘Gilbert’(Gilbert is the top brand of rugby balls). Which well- known brand is this?