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