QUIZ 17

1. This company is one of the world's largest apparel companies. It was established first as ‘The Reading Glove and Mitten Manufacturing Company’ in Pennsylvania in October of 1899 by John Barbey and a group of investors. The company was started with only $11,000 and a 320 square foot factory that was leased for $60/month. It owns brands like Lee and Jansport. Name it.
VF Corporation

2. Steven Spielberg originally approached this company with the idea of product placement of one of its products in his movie, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. The company declined the offer. Spielberg later approached the Hershey Chocolate Company with the idea to use Reese's Pieces instead. They agreed, and their sales tripled a week after the movie premiered. Name the company that refused the offer.
MARS. The brand was M&M’s

3. Designed in1934, this product was introduced the next year in a Marshall Field & Company display window. The store management thought it ludicrous to be displaying the product when the worst blizzard of the winter was hitting Chicago. They ordered the display to be removed. Before the display could be taken down, six hundred packs of the product were sold. 30,000 pairs were sold in the next 3 months and the rest is history.

The Jockey brief

4. This term was possibly coined by Jaron Lanier in 1989. Lanier is one of the pioneers of the field, founding the company VPL Research which built some of the first systems in the 1980s. In practice, it is very difficult to create a convincing experience of this sort, largely due to limitations on processing power. However many science fiction books and movies have imagined characters being “trapped” in such a situation. Name this term.

Virtual Reality

5. He attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign on an academic scholarship from the Pullman railroad car company. He graduated with his bachelor's degree in engineering in 1958, and then went to work for the Douglas Aircraft Company. He eventually moved to Motorola.

He was a salesman at Fairchild Semiconductor in the 1960s. He was one of the company's best sales people and was famous for style and flair. He then co-founded a company and took his trademark style into his position as its CEO.

Around 1980, he was responsible for a licensing deal that made his company a second source to IBM in its field. At the end of the company's first $1 million quarter, he stood by the door of the company and handed a $100 bill to every employee as they left. Every employee at the company got stock options, a huge innovation at the time.
Jerry Sanders

6. Matteo Cambi founded this Italian clothing brand. Its logo is a daisy painted somewhat haphazardly. It is one of the sponsors of the Renault F-1 team.

GURU

7. This term is a trademark name invented in 1922 by Major General George O. Squier when he patented a system for the transmission and distribution of background music from phonograph records over electrical lines to workplaces. Squier developed his system because he had observed that workers were more productive when music was played in the background at workplaces. He used this observation to market his idea.

The system was readily adopted by many building owners and installed in many shops and offices. The service was later extended to telephone systems and in elevators. President Eisenhower was the first to pump this system into the West Wing.

NASA used it in many of its space missions to soothe astronauts and occupy any periods of inactivity. Today this corporation (named after the term) operates in 15 countries and is still heard in shopping malls, elevators, and while on hold.
Muzak. Squiers was intrigued by the made-up word Kodak being used as a trademark and so took the "mus" sound from music and added the "ak" from Kodak to create his word Muzak.

8. What controversial and symbolic bill was officially passed by the US House of Representatives, in House Resolution 269, dated 11th June 2002?
The bill officially recognised Antonio Meucci, and not Alexander Graham Bell, as the true inventor of the telephone.

9. In 1860, pharmacists John and Frank, who were brothers, opened a drugstore with a small research lab. In 1862, on the suggestion of doctors, they began to manufacture large quantities of commonly ordered medicines. For sometime in the early 1930s’, Harvard University controlled this company.

In 1930, the company purchased Anacin, a product for tension headaches which quickly became the company's flagship product. The company made history in 1984 with the introduction of Advil, the first nonprescription ibuprofen in America, as well as the most famous prescription-to-OTC switch in history.

In 2000 it lost a hostile takeover bid for rival drug company Warner-Lambert to Pfizer.
Wyeth.

10. The company’s founders Howard Vollum and Jack Murdock invented the world’s first triggered oscilloscope in 1946, a significant technological breakthrough. They founded this company in southeast Portland, Oregon, which they later moved to the suburb of Beaverton. It manufacturers oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, and both video and mobile test protocol equipment.
Tektronix

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QUIZ 16

1. This company was the first multinational corporation in the world and it was the first company to issue stocks. By 1669, it was the richest private company the world had ever seen, with over 150 merchant ships, 40 warships, 50,000 employees, a private army of 10,000 soldiers, and a dividend payment of 40%. The company was instrumental in introducing European ideas and technology to Asia. It supported Christian missionaries and traded modern technology with China and Japan. Name the company (A very specific name required).
The Dutch East India Company

2. Edward Temple, a civil war veteran and banker, founded Banker’s Life in 1879 to provide affordable life insurance to his fellow bankers and their families. Now based in Des Moines, Iowa, this company is rated as the 9th largest U.S life insurance company by Fortune magazine. The company name changed to its current one in 1985. It also has a presence in India. Name the company.
Principal Financial Group

3. The name seems to derive from Burroughs-Wellcome's 1884 trademark for their process of making compressed pharmaceuticals. The connotation was soon applied to other small things and to the "compressed' journalism that condensed stories into a simplified, easily-absorbed format. What term is being described?
Tabloid

4. CVC Capital Partners founded in 1981 as Citicorp's European private equity arm has formed a new entity, Alpha Prema, to buy a stake in which world reknowned entity owned by Bambino Holdings, Bayerische Landesbank & others?
Formula One Administration

Bambino Holdings is an Ecclestone family company. Bayerische Landesbank, JPMorgan and Lehmann Brothers acquired the 75% stake from Slec Media in F1 against the debt that the latter owed them.

5. ILFC or International Lease Finance Corporation is the world's largest aircraft lessor. It leases Boeing and Airbus aircrafts to airlines from all over the world including Air France, KLM and Lufthansa. General Electric's GECAS is its biggest rival. Which giant corporation owns ILFC?
AIG

6. Based at Donington Hall, close to Nottingham East Midlands Airport, this airline is the second largest full-service scheduled airline in the United Kingdom. Its roots lie in the formation of Air Schools Ltd in 1938, specializing in flying instruction for Royal Air Force pilots. The company was also contracted by Rolls Royce to transport aero engines to customers throughout the world, and in 1959 changed its name to Derby Airways. Its a part of the of the Star Alliance and has also started services to India recently.
BMI Airlines ('British Midland International')

7. Based at Donington Hall, close to Nottingham East Midlands Airport, this airline is the second largest full-service scheduled airline in the United Kingdom. Its roots lie in the formation of Air Schools Ltd in 1938, specializing in flying instruction for Royal Air Force pilots. The company was also contracted by Rolls Royce to transport aero engines to customers throughout the world, and in 1959 changed its name to Derby Airways. Its a part of the of the Star Alliance and has also started services to India recently.
BMI Airlines ('British Midland International')

8. According to New York Times , this T.V network is seen by 130 million people a month, making it the fifth largest network in America, behind NBC, CBS, ABC and Fox. Which network are we talking about?
The Wal-Mart TV Network. ( It is the in-store network showing commercials for products sold in the stores, concert clips and music videos for recording artists products sold in the stores, trailers for upcoming movie releases, and news.)

9. This service designed and controlled by the United States Department of Defense can be used by anyone, free of charge. It’s referred to as NAVSTAR by the US Military. The service is divided into three segments: space, control and user & has a maintenance cost of approximately US$400 million per year. What is being referred to in this context?
GPS (Global Positioning System)

10. It was referred to as "Project Xenon" during it’s development. The official unveiling occurred on Thursday, May 12, 2005 on MTV in a program called MTV Presents: The Next Generation _____ Revealed hosted by actor Elijah Wood with a musical performance by the band The Killers. It was also featured on the cover of Time magazine's May 23, 2005 issue. What is being referred to?
Xbox 360

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QUIZ 15

1. The D. E. Shaw group is a New York-based hedge fund and investment and technology development firm. Name its most famous former employee.
Jeff Bezos

2. This company’s logo is a play on Otto von Guericke's famous experiment demonstrating the power of atmospheric air pressure by having teams of horses try to pull apart the Magdeburg hemispheres, made of copper and joined together with the air pumped out. Name the company.
Levi’s Strauss

3. Created in 2000. Weighs 56kgs.It is the 11th of its kind created by its parent. On February 14, 2002 it opened the trade session at the New York Stock Exchange. Its name in Japanes means “legs also.” What is being referred to?

ASIMO, The Humanoid Robot from Honda

4. Identify this erstwhile logo.

Yamaha

5. This company began in Provo, Utah in 1979 as a hardware manufacturer. It was founded by George Canova, Darin Field and Jack Davis. The name for the company _____ was suggested by George Canova's wife who mistakenly thought that ______ meant "new" in French. Which company?
Novell

6. Born in London, England, but was raised in a wealthy Manhattan neighborhood, He received his education at the exclusive Aspen Country Day School in Aspen, Colorado and earned a bachelor’s degree in philosophy from Princeton University. During summers he would work jobs ranging from cleaning printing presses to sub-editor at The Sun and The Times. His first job came at Queensland Newspapers, which publishes The Courier-Mail in Brisbane. He has been criticized as a "rich brat" for his "poor handling" of a company called One.Tel & has recently started a company called Illyria Pty Ltd. Whom are we talking about?
Lachlan Murdoch

7. Founded in Tokyo in 1955 by Masaya Nakamura, it began by producing mechanical rocking-horses and similar children's rides. It acquired the Japanese division of Atari in 1974, thus bringing it into the coin-operated video game market. Some of the company's most famous games include Pole Position, Xevious and the Ridge Racer series. Which company?
Namco

8. This popular brand of shortening was first produced in 1911. When William Procter and James Gamble started P&G, they hired chemist E.C. Kayser and developed the process to hydrogenate cottonseed oil, which ensures the shortening remains solid at normal storage temperatures. The initial purpose was to make a cheaper substance to make candles than the expensive animal fats in use at the time. Electricity began to diminish the candle market, and since the product looked like lard, they began selling it as a food. Name the brand.
Crisco

9. The Kolkata-based Ruia group has worked out a block deal to acquire three companies namely ________, Falcon and the latter's trading arm ITL. The deal has been struck through a special purpose vehicle and the value of the proposed acquisition runs into a couple of hundred crores. Name the company.

Dunlop Tyres

10. Connect the visuals:

Starbucks

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QUIZ 14

1. This company was founded in 1932 by a Russian immigrant Maurice Greenberg to sell leather supplies to shoemakers. In 1975, the company entered the video game console business with Telstar. When the video game business began to implode in 1983, it seemed clear that video games were being replaced by home computers. So the company made the transition by introducing the ‘Adam’ home computer which bombed. In 1983, it released the Cabbage Patch Kids series of dolls that were wildly successful. In 1989, the assets of the company were purchased by Hasbro. Which company?
Coleco

2. Which company, also a worldwide leader in its industry, has tied up with Motorola to manufacture a special range of Bluetooth device called the RAZRWIRE, the first of its kind?
Oakley Inc

3. Torro Rosso is one of the big names in F1 racing. What does it stand for?
Torro Rosso means ‘Red Bull’ in Italian

4. Complete the list: __________ , Sarah O’Hare, Magdalena Wrobel, Adriana Sklenarikova.
Eva Herzigova. All endorsers of Wonderbra

5. Olivio Premium Products, Inc. founded in 2000, is a food manufacturing company based in Boston, Massachusetts. It manufactures spreads and cooking products under the Olivio brand name and is best known for an olive oil-based margarine-like spread. The company claims to donate all of its profit to diabetes research. Which famous name owns this company?
Lee Iacocca

6. Identify the personality.

Ben Bernanke, U.S Federal Reserve Chief

7. This company was founded in 1833 by Léon Pavin as an industrial lime producing operation. It signed its first international contract for the delivery of 110,000 tonnes of lime to the Suez Canal construction project in 1864. Which company?
Lafarge

8. Odyssey is a leisure retail chain that is engaged in sale of books, music, toys, greeting cards and FMCG products. A media company has recently bought the chain for $14 million in cash. Which company?
Deccan Chronicle Holdings Ltd

9. He was born in a Gujarati jain family of modest means. He studied at the Holy Cross High School, located at Byron Bazaar. After completing his secondary education he left for Bombay. While doing odd jobs he joined Lala Lajpat Rai College for a Bachelor’s degree in Commerce. After completing his graduation, he started his working life as an employee of the New India Assurance Company. Whom are we talking about?
Harshad Mehta

10. An image consulting firm presented a list of 219 names from which Vectre, Verone, Chaparel, Calibre and Alexis were top candidates. What was the name that was eventually selected?
Lexus

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QUIZ 13

1. We’ll begin with a tribute to this legend. He quoted - “The three greatest leaders of the 20th century were Hitler, Stalin and Mao. If that’s leadership, I want no part of it.” Name him.
Peter Drucker

2. In 2004, this company launched the "LIVESTRONG" campaign to raise money for the Lance Armstrong Foundation. Yellow rubber wristbands were sold for $1 each, with proceeds going to the now 7-time Tour de France champion's foundation to 'inspire and empower people with cancer to live strong.' As of September 2005, more than 55 million yellow bands have been sold. Which company?
NIKE

3. This brand is known as Norelco in the U.S. It was invented by an engineer by the name Alexandre Horowitz. It was introduced in 1939, though initial production was limited due to the outbreak of World War II. Name this popular brand.
Philishave

4. This company recently tied up with Bennett Coleman and Company to publish technical, scientific and speciality magazines. It is now finalizing an investment of Rs 55 crores in the FM radio sector by acquiring up to 20 per cent equity in Mumbai's private FM radio operator, Radio Mid-Day (Go 92.5). Which company?
BBC

5. This foundation started off with the aim of improving literacy in Africa. It has changed its name to First Voice International. On August 4, 2005 it offered its IPO on the NASDAQ Stock Exchange. Major content partners include BBC, NPR, CNN, Fox News and Bloomberg. Many channels are free of advertising, and they are known for high quality programs. The foundation has a presence in India. Name it.
Worldspace Foundation

6. Which company’s outfit is the first service uniform to be registered with the United States Patent and Trademark Office?
The Playboy Bunny Outfit

7. Which Indian company entered the mosquito repellent category in 2004 with the brand ‘Repelmos’?
Camlin

8. Which company offers internet access through the portal FM365.com?
Lenovo

9. With which organisation would you associate this flag?

Flag of the National Geographic Society

10. Malaysia: Khazanah Nasional :: Singapore : _____________________
Temasek Holdings

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QUIZ 12

Theme # 1

Give the answers to the 4 questions and Connect the Central Theme?
1. In the 1870's, a securities system was introduced in Japan and public bond negotiation began. This resulted in the request for a public trading institution.What was established on May 15, 1878 as a result?
A: The Tokyo Stock Exchange

2. Joseph Priestley is credited with the discovery of a specific use of this product, that’s why the current name. The first factory for this product in the world was established near Paris in 1803. Which product are we talking about?
A: Rubber. Priestley discovered its use as an eraser, thus the name rubber

3. In Vaise near Lyon, France, Marc Gilliard and Jean Marie Cartier begin production of chemicals for use in the leather and textile dye industries. With which present day Giant would you associate these founders?
A: Aventis

4. By acetylating salicylic acid with acetic acid, he succeeded in creating acetylsalicylic acid (ASA) in a chemically pure and stable form. Name the inventor and the product.

A: Felix Hoffmann, Aspirin

Theme Answer- Bayer
Explanation

• Bayer AG was the first German company to list its shares on the Tokyo Stock Exchange.
• Bayer is the world's biggest supplier of raw materials for the rubber industry.
• In October 2001 Bayer signed an agreement to purchase Aventis CropScience (ACS) for EUR 7.25 billion. This is the largest acquisition in Bayer History till date.
• In 1899 it was launched for the first time under the trade name Aspirin, initially as a powder supplied in glass bottles. Aspirin has made the Bayer name world-famous like no other drug product.
• A special highlight was the 100th birthday of Aspirin, which the company celebrated in spectacular fashion in 1999 by transforming its high-rise headquarters building into a giant Aspirin pack.

Theme # 2

Give the answers to the 4 questions and Connect the Central Theme?

1. In 1908, which famous company introduced the slogan "One System, One Policy, Universal Service"?
A: AT&T. Theodore Vail, then President of AT&T, began the national advertising campaign with this slogan

2. Total Cost - $35,000,000.
Total length - 1.2 miles
Chief Engineer: Joseph B. Strauss
Colour - International Orange
What is being discussed in the above context?
A: The Golden Gate Bridge

3. Salenko of Russia scored 5 goals against Cameroon as the most goals scored by a single player in a World Cup match. Which World Cup edition are we talking about?
A: The 1994 World Cup hosted by USA

4. Which film was the first all computer-generated feature film?

A: Disney's "Toy Story”

Theme Answer- Sun Microsystems

Explanation

• In 1987, Sun and AT&T laid the groundwork for business computing with an alliance to develop UNIX(R) System V Release 4.
• Revolutionary computerized retrofit of the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco uses structural analysis with 3-D animation on Sun workstations and servers to dramatically reduce costs while improving public safety.
• As the exclusive computer supplier for the 1994 World Cup, Sun enabled hundreds of thousands of soccer fans to tap into the Internet for up-to-the-minute information.
• More than 100 Sun systems are used to render images for Disney's "Toy Story," the first all computer-generated feature film.

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QUIZ 11

1. When Mary Kay cosmetics got listed on the NYSE in 1976, what was unique about it?
It was the first company chaired by a woman to be listed on the NYSE

2. Who is remembered at General Motors by: "Our father who art in styling… _______be thy Name!“
Legendary Car designer Harley Earl. "Our father who art in styling… Harley be thy Name!"

3. His birthdate is June 19th 1978. His favourite food is Lasagna and he hates spiders. Who is he?
Garfield

4. It was the first among international cars to be launched in India with a rather outrageous claim, 'The Buckingham Palace wouldn't move - so we brought the other masterpiece.' Which car?
Rover Montego

5. Scott Adams was inspired by a co-worker at Pacific Bell and created this character. He is a lazy employee always trying to work the system, although he is very capable at his occupation. Name him.
Wally

6. Rallis India sold its pharmaceutical business to which company? This sale marked the exit of the Tata Group from the pharma sector
Moscow based Shreya Corporation

7. Connect Rosen Motors and Compaq.
Ben Rosen. He founded Rosen Motors along with his brother Harold Rosen in 1993. (The company closed down in 1997. Ben Rosen of Sevin-Rosen Partners was one of the venture capitalists who funded Compaq

8. In 1953, this company which manufactured Kool-Aid powdered soft drink mixes was acquired by General Foods Corporation. Name this company.
Perkins Products

9. Sanders developed circuitry for making interactive patterns on the screen of a television receiver in 1967. This spawned the advent of which mega industry?
The video game industry

10. His voice actor is Mel Blanc. He is noted for his feuds with Elmer Fudd, Yosemite Sam and Marvin Martian. Porky Pig was the first of his opponents to end up hospitalized. Name this famous character.
Bugs Bunny

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QUIZ 10

1. In 1911, Woodbury Soap broke its "The skin you love to touch" campaign in the Ladies' Home Journal, marking the first time use of what?
First use of sex appeal in advertising.

2. Surya Food and Agro owns which brand?
PriyaGold

3. The Boxer is a well known song by Simon and Garfunkel. Name the brand of cheese that used this song as a jingle in its ad
Le Bon

4. C’est la Vie is a song by the group B*witched. This song is used in an advertisement to promote what?
Elle 18

5. Which company owns the ‘Cream Bell’ brand of ice creams?
The French company Candia

6. The share of which company are traded under the symbol “AED” on the NYSE?
Allied Domecq PLC

7. In 1911, for the first time in its history, P&G paid an outside agency, J. Walter Thompson Co., to launch which brand?

Crisco, P&G’s vegetable shortening brand

8. Rod Stewart’s song Passion is used in which ad?

Hero Honda Passion

9. Who / What was first responsible for the modern use of the word 'cartoon' to refer to a comic satirical drawing?

Punch Magazine

10. Who owns the ‘Arun’ brand of Ice-creams?

Hatsun Agro

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QUIZ 9

1. Which Hotel has the distinction of being the target of more takeover bids than any other hotel ?

The Ritz, Paris

2. The original design for this brand’s bottle came from an antique apothecary bottle. Based on this design, the Hull Pottery company developed several sample bottles out of wood, complete with hand painted designs. Which brand are we talking about?

Old Spice

3. ‘Love the skin you are in’ is the adline of which brand?

Oil of Olay

4. This blind Benedict monk ( 1638-1715) has a very famous brand name, of a drink that he invented. This brand is named after him. Name the brand.

Dom Perignon champagne after Dom Pierre Perignon

5. ‘Every Little Helps’ is the punchline of which company?

Tesco

6. The world’s oldest and most prestigious award, governed by the Imperial Mark Commission of UK, “Imperial Mark”, recognizes a level of service that goes beyond the boundaries of normal excellence. A number of hotels in India have been nominated but none of them have been successful. For the first time in November 2003, it was awarded to ………..?

The Leela Goa

7. This brand owned by Nike is the world’s largest hockey equipment maker. Name this brand.

Canstar Sports

8. “To see all without looking, to hear all without listening, to be attentive without being servile, to anticipate without being presumptuous.” This quote on the hotel industry is attributed to which personality.

Cesar Ritz.

9. “Where the people meet the people”. Where would you find this line?

Madame Tussaud’s

10. In 1962 John Glenn was the first American to orbit the Earth in a Mercury capsule launched by an Atlas rocket. Which company built the rocket?

General Dynamics

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QUIZ 8

1. The oldest proven records of __________are about 6,000 years old and refer to the Sumerians. A seal discovered around 4,000 years old is a Sumerian "Hymn to Ninkasi", the goddess of _________ It is said that the Sumerians discovered this process by chance. Fill in the blanks.
Answer: Brewing. This "hymn" is a recipe for making beer. A description of the making of beer on this ancient engraving in the Sumerian language is the earliest account of what is easily recognized as barley, followed by a pictograph of bread being baked, crumbled into water to form a mash, and then made into a drink that is recorded as having made people feel "exhilarated, wonderful and blissful.” The Sumerians were able to repeat this process and are assumed to be the first civilized culture to brew beer.

2. Born in Elkhart, Indiana, he first started doing artwork during World War II. One of his most famous logos is Notre Dame University’s Leprechaun. He earned only 50 bucks for his leprechaun logo, which was later copyrighted by the University. He also did the Chacago Bulls logo. Name him
Answer: Artist and Sports illustrator Ted Drake. He drew the Leprechaun when he was only 4 yrs old.

3. This company was responsible for the successful global digital feed of the 2002 FIFA World Cup accross three continents.This company was the first privately funded intercontinental cable to land in China and the first ever to land in Jordan. In Oct 2003, an Indian firm acquired this company for US$207 million in cash. Name the company which was acquired?
Answer: Flag Telecom

4. They were born and raised in Chicago, Illinois. They began creating comic books together at a young age. They dropped out of college to pursue careers in show business, and also at one time ran a carpentry business. Whom are we talking about?
Answer: The Wachowski Brothers

5. Connect the Hoshino Gakki Group and Joe Satriani.
A: Ibanez Guitars. The Hoshino Gakki Group owns the Ibanez brand and Ibanez has a Satriani range of guitars signatured by Joe Satriani himself.
Answer: Ibanez Guitars. The Hoshino Gakki Group owns the Ibanez brand and Ibanez has a Satriani range of guitars signatured by Joe Satriani himself.

6. In 1894, Joseph A. Biedenharn, owner of the Biedenharn Candy Company in Vicksburg, Mississippi, was the first in doing what?
Answer: He was the first bottler for Coca-Cola

7. This company was Japan's oldest motorcycle company having produced bikes as early as 1937, but they found trade going tough after the Second World War. Hence they sold out to Kawasaki after the war. But the symbol of this company is used even today on the packaging and signages of Kawasaki bikes. Name this company.
Answer: The Meguro Manufacturing Company

8. The 2 Indian Partners of this Swiss company are C.L.Mehta and Leena Mehta. The Swiss Parent is buying back the shareholding from its Indian partners and is establishing a 100% subsidiary in India. Name this famous company.
Answer: Rolex

9. To which Organisation did Albert Einstein bequeath his Intellectual Property Rights?
Answer: The Hebrew University, Jerusalem where he was a major driving force

10. Connect these Hotel brands – Sofitel, Novotel, Mercure and Ibis.
Answer: All belong to the French Hospitality giant ‘Accor’

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QUIZ 7 - PERSONALITIES

QUESTION 1
CLUE 1: After taking out a law degree, he went to the Paris School of Art, where he studied painting under Bouguereau. Seemingly destined to a career in the arts, he was soon called on to manage the small family business in Clermont-Ferrand.

CLUE 2: He held the post for 51 years, during which time he transformed a modest factory into an international group. At the time of his death the company had 25000 employees.

CLUE 3:

Answer: Edouard Michelin

QUESTION 2
CLUE 1: He overcame Dyslexia, struggled his way through Stanford, did odd jobs like bagging walnuts, caddying, tractor driving, and so forth throughout his school years. At the age of 12, he started raising chickens, and sold everything except feathers – the eggs, the droppings as fertiliser, and the bird itself at the end of its life cycle.

CLUE 2: His company bought US Trust, a private banking specialist, in 2002 for $2.7bn. Later, his company also acquired CyberTrade.com, a day-trade firm. Before he hit big time in 1975, he put money into a lot of unsuccessful ventures like Congoland USA, a drive-through zoo, and the Music Expo of 1972, a concert featuring Chuck Berry.

CLUE 3:

Answer: Charles Schwab

QUESTION 3
CLUE 1: He was born in Auckland, New Zealand, and was greatly influenced by his garage proprietor father who raced both cars and motor cycles. His first 'real' racing car was a 1929 'Ulster' Austin Seven in which he competed in local hillclimbs.

CLUE 2: He became the youngest-ever Grand Prix race winner at the US Grand Prix in 1959 and Founded his own company in partnership with Teddy Mayer and Tyler Alexander in 1964.

CLUE 3:

Answer: Bruce McLaren

QUESTION 4
CLUE 1: He was the sixth of 16 children, and a Virginia native. He knew virtually every employee of his company by their name. He was instrumental in getting roads built in the town, helped establish a savings bank, and served as a city commissioner.

CLUE 2: He and his wife supported numerous educational and human-service efforts in the community. He founded a famous company in 1875 when he was 25 yrs old.

CLUE 3:

Answer: R.J.Reynolds

QUESTION 5
CLUE 1: He was raised in Delhi by a bureaucrat father and a schoolteacher mom. He Studied engineering at the University of Delhi and later moved to the States to get a Ph.D. in electrical engineering at Northwestern University with only a $4,000 loan from his dad.

CLUE 2: Norwest Venture Partners

CLUE 3:

Answer: Pramod Haque

QUESTION 6
CLUE 1: He was born in India in the year 1954 in an army family. After his studies, he started working as a Management consultant. In 1984, he joined the Pacific Telesis Group in San Francisco.

CLUE 2: In 2000, he became the CEO of InfoSpace Inc., a small Internet software and content organization in the US.

CLUE 3:

Answer: Arun Sarin

QUESTION 7
CLUE 1: His net worth is $15bn. A onetime Communist Youth League activist, he made a fortune in the early 1990s in banking and commodities.

CLUE 2: In 1995, he bought a huge company from his country’s Govt. at a fraction of its market value.

CLUE 3:

Answer: Mikhail Khodorkovsky

QUESTION 8
CLUE 1: Born in London, he worked as a programmer, tried his hand at typesetting software and an operating system and, in 1980, came up with the idea of a project based on 'hypertext' while working at CERN -- the European Organization for Particle Physics Research.

CLUE 2: Time magazine cited him as one of the 100 greatest minds of the twentieth century. He is a Distinguished Fellow of the British Computer Society, an Honorary Fellow of the Institution of Electrical Engineers, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and Fellow of the Royal Society.

CLUE 3:

Answer: Sir Timothy Berners-Lee

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This Quiz is open till Wednesday 9th July, 2008.

QUIZ 6: PRINT ADS

Instructions: You can double click on the Images to get a clearer picture

1. Identify the product being advertised. - Audi TT

2. Identify the product being advertised. - Casio Mini TV

3. Identify the product being advertised. - Honda

4. Identify the product being advertised. - 3M Post It

5. Identify the product being advertised. - Band Aid

6. Identify the product being advertised. - Levis Black

7. Identify the product being advertised. - Jeep

8. Identify the product being advertised. - Scandinavian Airlines (SAS)

9. Identify the product being advertised. - Wrigleys

10. Identify the product being advertised. - Sony Playstation

ANSWERS
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This Quiz is open till Wednesday 25th June 2008

QUIZ 5 - LOGO QUIZ

1. Identify the Logo - Biocon
2. Identify the Logo - Cholamandalam

3. Identify the Logo - Oldsmobile

4. Identify the Logo - Saab

5. Identify the Logo - TetraPack
6. Identify the Logo - Carrefour
7. Identify the Logo - Faber
8. Identify the Logo - PowerGen


9. Identify the Logo - Faber Castle

10. Identify the Logo - Murugappa Group

ANSWERS

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• This Quiz is open till 17 th June 2008

QUIZ 4

1. This company was founded in 1937 by Shri Gangabisanji Agrawal .The motto of the company is : “Superior Input Superior Output”. The company is also starting an amusement park in the near future. Which company?
A: Haldiram’s

2. Hutcheson Shoe Company, U.S. Woolco, Supersaver, the McLane Company – Which company’s acquisitions are all these?
A: Wal-Mart

3. In 1916, which magazine began its reign as the longest continuously published motorcycle magazine in the world?
A: The Enthusiast

4. Which company was founded in 1985 by Tom Stemberg and Leo Kahn, former rivals in Boston's competitive supermarket business?
A: Staples, the Office Supplies Giant.


5. With which company would you associate - Claus Johannes Voss, Christian Lausen and Wilhelm Dziambor ?
A: Montblanc

6. What was officially opened at 3180 Porter Drive, California on July 1, 1970 ?
A: The Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC)

7. In 1860, Mr. Milton Bradley was a successful lithographer whose major product was a portrait of Abraham Lincoln. When Mr. Lincoln grew his trademark beard, Bradley's clean-shaven portrait was no longer popular. Out of desperation, Mr. Bradley printed up several copies of a game. Which game?
A: "The Checkered Game of Life."

8. George-Henry Rosetti , Hubert Hahne and Dr Neumann, the Mimram brothers, Chrysler, VW.Connect these.
A: Owners of Lamborghini at some point in time. VW is the current owner.

9. What was Vicks Vaporub initially called before the name was changed by H. Smith Richardson?
A: Vicks Salve

10. On the evening of January 13, 1888, thirty-three men traveled on foot, horseback, and in horsedrawn carriages through the streets of Washington to the Cosmos Club, then on Lafayette Square across from the White House. They convened around a large mahogany table to discuss the formation of what?
A: The National Geographic Society, officially incorporated on January 27, 1888.

QUIZ 3

1. This company was initially promoted in India as a joint venture between Swedish Match and the Jatia Family. Name this Brand.
Wimco Matches

2. Henry Royce designed his first aero engine in 1914 providing some half of the total horsepower used in the air war by the allies in WWI. What was the engine famously called?
The Eagle. The Eagle powered the first direct transatlantic flight as well as the first flight from England to Australia.

3. Which brand of Vodka was acquired by Bacardi recently for $2 bn?
Grey Goose Vodka.

4. For which Finnish tractor company did Mahindra and Mahindra make an unsuccessful acquisition bid some time back?
Valtra.

5. Isadore (“Issy”) Sharp founded the company in 1960 with the opening of the first hotel on Jarvis Street in downtown Toronto. After a decade of trial and refinement Mr. Sharp created a single vision that today has made this the leading luxury hotel operator exclusively focused on mid-size luxury hotels and resorts of exceptional quality. Name this company?
Four Seasons Hotels & Resorts

6. Which famous company was initially known as the Marufuku company?
Nintendo.

7. In 1922 the U.S. Navy Dept. in New York tested 76 foreign and domestic cars. Its goal was to select the best features of automobile motors for the adaptation to aircrafts. Only eight passed the test. Duesenberg, Fiat, Packard, Brewster, Hispana Suiza, Issota Franchina. Name the 8th car company.
The Velie Car Company. Willard Velie, grandson of John Deere formed the Velie Motor company in Moline, Illinois. Today the Velie is remembered only by automobile buffs.

8. After graduating from New York University (B.A., '32) during the Depression, Bill Bernbach felt lucky when he found a mailroom job at which company?
Schenley Distillers

9. This company’s origins date back to immediately after the Second World War when Cavaliere Alberto Beggio founded a bicycle production factory at Noale in the province of Venice. The company’s first mopeds were christened Colibrì, Daniela and Packi. Which company are we talking about?

Aprilia

10. First introduced in 1921. They were made by hand and were not a big hit. They were three inches wide and eighteen inches long. Only $3,000 worth were sold the first year. In 1963, this product went into space with the ‘Mercury’ astronauts. In the 1970’s, John Travolta and Brooke Shields appeared in its commercials. Name this household product?

Band-Aid

QUIZ 2

1. In which publication did the first signed original article, ‘Insanity – The Modern Menace’ by Henry Morton Robinson appear?
Reader’s Digest

2. Name the recalled cholestrol drug owned by Bayer wherein the company has agreed to pay around $ 1.06 Bn to settle around 3000 cases.
Baycol

3. What are Daiko, Yomiko and Hakuhodo ?
All are Japanese advertising agencies

4. With which company would you associate the car brand “Avigo”?

Hindustan Motors

5. Connect these – Universal cables, Vindhya Telelinks, Hindustan Gums and Chemicals.
M.P Birla Group of Companies

6. Name the companies who are jointly operating the Panna / Mukta and Tapti Oil and Gas fields.
British Energy firm BG Group, Reliance and ONGC

7. Name the parent Company of the famous advertising firm EURO RSCG.
Havas

8. Name the company that has bought the controlling stake (55%) in Hughes Software Systems from Rupert Murdoch.
Singapore based $15Bn Flextronics

9. We all know before founding Nike, Phil Knight sold shoes under the brand label Blue Ribbon Sports. Which Company manufactured shoes under this label?

The Onitsuka Shoe Company

10. This famous company is based in Townson, Maryland. It is the maker of DeWalt drills, Price Pfister faucets and Kwikset locks. Name this company.

Black & Decker

ATTENTION

The Next Quiz will be uploaded on 16 May 2008.

Happy Quizzing :-)

QUIZ 1

Thanks to all those who participated in the inaugral quiz of Quiz Nation. Folowing are the answers to the questions.

1. Which former high profile CEO in India has started the firm SKA Advisory?
Sunil Alagh, of Britannia fame.

2. With which Worldwide Advertising Agency would you associate the concept of “Disruptive Approach”?
TBWA

3. Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo is the CEO of which famous company?
Nokia

4. This company was founded by John Knowles F. in 1913. It was a publishing company that sold data to Wall Street. Name this company.
The third largest Rating Agency in the world, Fitch Ratings

5. 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.
The SUBWAY chain operates more units in the US and Canada than McDonald’s does.

6. This company was founded by 6 entrepreneurs in a garage that belonged to one of the founding members in 1975 under the name Microcomp. Name this company.
HCL

7. On 19th March 1899, Charles ‘Cheers’ Wakefield set up a company in England. Ten years later, he produced a product that would revolutionise transport in the first half of the Twentieth Century. What did he name this product?
Castrol

8. This company was founded in May 1876 by a Colonel in Indianapolis, in the Midwestern section of the United States. The colonel was a 38-year-old pharmaceutical chemist and a veteran of the U.S. Civil War. Name this global company?
Eli Lilly

9. Which media giant was initially known as Générale des Eaux?
Vivendi

10. This famous company was set up in Bombay in 1942 by 4 men. The company name was randomly picked up from a telephone directory. Since 1968, the company has been a leader in this industry. Name the company.
Asian Paints.

ATTENTION

The next Quiz will be uploaded on 10th May, 2008

ABOUT QUIZ NATION

“Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason so few engage in it.”
- Henry Ford

That’s what we do in every quiz you see!!!

ORIGIN OF QUIZ
A quiz is a form of game or mind sport in which the players (as individuals or in teams) attempt to answer questions correctly. Quizzes are also brief assessments used in education and similar fields to measure growth in knowledge, abilities, and/or skills.

The first appearance of the word is from 1782 and means an odd person. There is a well-known but untrue story of the word "quiz", which says that in 1791 a Dublin theater owner named James Daly made a bet that he could introduce a word into the language within twenty-four hours. He then went out and hired a group of street urchins to write the word "quiz", which was a nonsense word, on walls around the city of Dublin. Within a day, the word was common currency and had acquired a meaning (since no one knew what it meant, everyone thought it was some sort of test) and Daly had some extra cash in his pocket.

While entertaining, there is absolutely no evidence to support it and the term was already in use before the alleged bet in 1791.

ABOUT QUIZNATION
QuizNation aims at imparting Business Quizzing acumen among the quizzing enthusiasts around the globe. It is an initiative of Deepak Nair, a PGDBA Graduate of SIES College of Management Studies, Nerul, Navi Mumbai. Quiz Nation would host Weekly Quizzes. The quizzes would cover a range of topics and test the best of brains to their very limits.

ABOUT AUTHOR - Deepak Nair
I am a recent passout of SIES College of Management Studies with a degree in Management (PGDM 2006 – 08 Batch). I work with DRAFT FCB - Ulka as a Management Trainee. If there is one person to whom I would like to dedicate this BLOG it has to be my Quiz Partner Dinesh Nair. We are also called NAIR Brothers by the people who know us. We have shared all the spoils that we have earned in the 2 years of MBA. Our wins brought us Mobile Phones, Pen drives, Free Vacation Trips, Free T-Shirts, Loads of Certificates etc. Infact with the number of Quiz Certificates that I have I can now bind a thick book. Thanks Man!!! These two years were the most memorable years of my life. I Hope in the future DRAFT FCB and Star News can form a formidable Corporate Quizzing team.

Another important name to be mentioned here is that of Dinesh Patel. Without his intelligence network in Mumbai B-Schools we would not have won so many Prizes. Patel has also been lucky enough to win a few prizes with us. Thankfully that’s because I was out of town. Thanks Patel!!!

Besides winning many quizzes I have also organized some very classic Business Quizzes in Mumbai like SHARPSHOOTERS and Ad-Combat Quiz. SHARPSHOOTERS has a special place in my heart as I was associated with it from 2003 to 2007.