QUIZ NATION: 2008-09-07

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

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