Business Quiz 2014

Business Quiz

Ashish ChandelIIFT Delhi

7th March 2014

Business Quiz Personality

F C Kohli

• Faqir Chand Kohli (born 28 February 1924) popularly known as F. C. Kohli is an Indian industrialist and technocrat. He was the founder and first CEO of Tata Consultancy Services, India's largest software consultancy company. He is frequently referred to as the Father of the Indian Software Industry due to his significant contribution in Indian IT industry.


Ajit jain

• Ajit Jain (born July 23, 1951 in Orissa, India) is an Indian born employee of Berkshire Hathaway who currently heads several reinsurance business.


Jan Koum

• CEO and co-founder with Brian Acton of WhatsApp, a mobile messaging application which was acquired by Facebook Inc. in February 2014 for US$19 Billion.


• Rasiklal Manikchand of Manikchand group: Unche log Unchi pasand


• Marcel Dassault of Dassault systems


• Deepinder Goyal, Zomato


• Tom Peters


• Peter Lynch


• _______________ was born in Sangrur - Punjab, northern India in 1949 in the house of a jewellery dealer situated at Nabha Gate

• He studied up to sixth standard at Govt. Raj High School for Boys. When he was eleven years old, his family went through an economic crisis and his house was auctioned. He then lived with his mother's uncle. When he was eighteen he took a teaching degree.

• He started the career as cashier. He worked for his maternal uncle Seth Charan Das Ram Lal's who was operating a travel agency then.[3]

• After graduating in commerce in 1967, __________ joined the travel business as a general sales agent for Lebanese International.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sangrur

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punjab

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naresh_Goyal#cite_note-ET_Jet-Etihad_1-3

• Naresh Goyal

Business Quiz Indian

• The inception of _____took place way back in mid seventies, in West Bengal, when two childhood friends, Mr. R.S. Agarwal and Mr. R.S. Goenka left their high profile jobs as Chartered Accountants, with the Birla Group to set up Kemco Chemicals

• An Ayurvedic medicine and cosmetic manufacturing unit in Kolkata, in 1974. In 1995, Kemco Chemicals, the partnership firm was converted into a Public Limited Company under the name of ______Ltd.

• Emami Ltd.


India’s newest airline _______, promoted by Lingamaneni Estate Pvt. Ltd. Is headquartered in Vijaywada.It is the first regional airline from Andhra Pradesh.They currently have two Embraer jets flying. They plan to connect tier-2 and tier-3 cities in the future.

• Air Costa


• Founded at Pune in Maharashtra as Venkateshwara Hatcheries Private Limited in 1971 by the Dr. BV Rao, and couple of his friends, Jagapati Rao Chitturi being one of them

• company that specialises in chicken meat processing, and pharmaceutical products for both poultry and human usage

• The first outlet opened in Pune, with Akon performing at the opening

• Venky’s

Business Quiz Indian**

• Double Seven was an Indian soft drink brand. It was manufactured and marketed by the Indian government after Coca-Cola quit the Indian market in 1977 due to changes in government policies.Double Seven was launched at the annual trade fair at Pragati Maidan, New Delhi as a gift by the then ruling Janata Party.

• Double Seven was manufactured and marketed by_________, a government owned company.

• Modern Food Industries• Double Seven because of its launch in 1977


• Having its origin in the city of Bangalore, it has a restaurant located on the Lal Bagh Road in Bangalore and Gandhinagar area as well and also for the pre-packed food articles which are sold in packets having the______. ____also claims to be the inventor of the popular South-Indian breakfast item, Rava idli

• It is said that once a Chief Minister of Karnataka stood in a queue to have masala dosa at this restaurant

• In 2007 it was sold to Norwegian Firm Orkla

• MTR


• _______ is an Indian energy and environment engineering

company based in India and Britain. It manufactures, boilers, vapour absorption machines, offers water and waste solutions and installs captive power projects. ________ is also a historic brand name of boilers, and the name of a former toughened-glass company.

• Anu Agawas the chairperson of the company 1996–2004, till she handed over the reins to her daughter, Meher Pudumjee,

• Thermax


• In July 1945, two young brothers P.P Chhabria and K.P Chhabria came to Pune from Karachi in search of a livelihood and within six months set up a small shop selling electrical cables

• ________ brand was born from "Fine" & "Flexibles" and "O" with an electric arc across it - signifying the electrical cable business the company was

• Finolex


• An entertainment company that primarily produces motion pictures. The company is also involved in the production, distribution, and exhibition of television serials and entertainment software; equipment hiring; and generation and distribution of contents for the entertainment industry.

• Itoperates the Whistling Woods International Institute, an education, research, and training institute that imparts training in skills related to films, television, and media industry

• Filmography includes Kuch Kuch hota hain, Devdas and many more

• Mukta Arts( Subhash Ghai is founder)

Business Quiz Global

________was founded in 1997 as Jomax Technologies by_______, a veteran of the United States Marine Corps. In 1999, a group of employees at Jomax Technologies were brainstorming and decided to change the company name and came with ______ However, the domain name had already been purchased. Then _______came up with the name ________The name was available, so he bought it.

• GoDaddy.com


_________was created in 1996 from the merger of Ciba-Geigy and Sandoz Laboratories, both Swiss companies with long histories. Ciba-Geigy was formed in 1970 by the merger of J. R. Geigy Ltd (founded in Basel in 1758) and CIBA (founded in Basel in 1859). Combining the histories of the merger partners, the company's effective history spans 250 years

• Novartis


__________is a fruit-flavored drink. Originally formulated by General Foods Corporation food scientist William A. Mitchell in 1957, it was first marketed in powdered form in 1959. Sales of ____ were poor until NASA used it on John Glenn's Mercury flight, and subsequent Gemini missions. Since then, it was closely associated with the U.S. manned spaceflight program, leading to the misconception that ____ was invented for the space program. Identify the drink.

• Tang Drink


EdX is a non-profit organization that brings the best of higher education to students of all ages via the internet. EdX is a venture jointly developed by_________

• MIT and Harvard


• X-coin is a lite-coin derived cryptocurrency• As of last week, ~24% of the 100 billion total X-coins have been

mined• It was created by programmer and former IBM engineer Billy

Markus of Portland, Oregon, to reach a wide audience and avoid getting involved with the controversial history behind Bitcoin

• Its mascot is a Shiba Inu dog character which is famous in its own right.

• Dodgecoin


• This company was set up in 1938 and named after its founder. It manufactured parts for gas masks during World War II. After the war, its founder turned attention towards making a peace time product. While doing so, he discovered a way of turning polyethylene slag , a byproduct of crude oil refinement, into a strong, resilient, grease free plastic and gave it his name.

• Tupperware


• Amazon’s search engine has a facility which allows users to virtually walk down the blocks inUS cities. What is the name of this facility and the search engine?

• Block Search, A9


• In 1946 the company's founder Erling Persson was on a trip to the United States and came up with the business idea of offering fashionable clothing at attractive prices. In 1947 he opened his first shop Västerås, Sweden ________which exclusively sold women's clothing. ______is Swedish and means "for her" and/or "hers". In 1968 the hunting apparel retailer_____ Widforss was acquired, which led to the inclusion of a menswear collection in the product range and the name change to__________.

• H & M

For Coming question you have to tell unique thing about the image shown ,they are famous in their own regard.

Business Quiz Unique

• This is believed to be the world's first selfie, taken by Robert Cornelius. "Selfie“


• Javed Karim-one of the founders of Youtube.The pic is from the video 'Me at the zoo' the first Youtube video


• Oldest Central Bank of the world (Sweden)


• First Airmail from Allahabad to Naini• Indian Postal Service celebrating 100 yrs of the

event


___________which helps track loan defaulters and conducts recovery operations. What’s new, you may ask. Manju Bhatia runs an agency that hires only women as recovery agentsShe started _______in 2003 with three agents. Today she has a topline of around Rs 6 crore and 200 agents in different cities. ______works only with public sector banks (PSB) because Bhatia finds private sector banks lacking in empathy. PSBs, on the other hand, understand the customer and are always willing to give them another chance. “They look at customers as a long-term relationship and are very considerate in dealing with them,” she says.

• Vasuli Recovery run by Manju Bhatia


• The only brand logo visible from Space. It is 18,500-square-foot logo in Area 51 in the Nevada desert.

It took a team of nearly 50 designers, engineers, scientists (including astrophysicists), architects and other professionals working nearly three months to conceive, create and execute building the world’s largest logo.

•The logo consists of 65,000 one-foot by one-foot painted tile pieces that were assembled like a giant jigsaw puzzle: 6,000 red, 14,000 white, 12,000 eggshell, 5,000 beige and


In 1988, Warner Bros. bought the Summy Company for $25 million. With this, They also got the rights to something the company owned, itself valued at $5 million. This has been the subject of a lot of legal debate. What?

• Happy Birthday to You


• Aussies love shortening words and expressions. As Sunglasses are called "sunnies", Football is called "footy." And _______is called Macca's That's why, in honor of Australia Day (Jan. 26__________Australia will temporarily change its signs across the country to "Macca's." And motive is to make Aussies feel that __________proud to be a part of the Australian community.

• Mcdonald’s

Business Quiz Books

• Lego

Business Quiz Books

“Much of what passes for quality on British television is no more than a reflection of the values of the narrow elite which controls it”.-

• Rupert Murdoch

Business Quiz Books

• Seth Godin

Business Quiz Books

"Do you want to sell sugar water for the rest of your life or do you want to come with me and change the world?”

Who said these lines to whom?

• Steve Jobs to John Schully

Business Quiz Books

“There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.”

http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/s/samwalton146810.html







• Sam Walton

Business Quiz Books

• Raghuram Rajan

Business Quiz Terminology

• A profitable company — usually a start-up — with impressive assets but bad management. These companies are great candidates for takeovers.

• Sleeping Beauty


The term was popularized by Alex Faickney Osborn in the 1953 book Applied Imagination.

• Brainstorming


• Around the middle of the decade, media coverage of large, glittery celebrity events such as the Oscar and BAFTA awards ceremonies suddenly started making effervescent reference to the_________, an eagerly anticipated relaxing and drinking session taking place after the main event.

• The ______continues to thrive in 2013, providing yet more fodder for hungry paparazzi and celebrity gossip columns.

• Afterparty


• Example is countries which move directly from having no telephones to having cellular phones skipping the stage of copperwire landline telephones altogether.

• The use of ethanol fuel in Brazil where ethanol produced from sugarcane for transportation replaces gasoline, provides evidence that ___________is a possible alternative to business-as-usual development.

• Leapfrogging


• The term ____________technologies was coined by Clayton M. Christensen and introduced in his 1995 article __________Technologies: Catching the Wave,[4] which he co-wrote with Joseph Bower. The article is aimed at managing executives who make the funding/purchasing decisions in companies rather than the research community. He describes the term further in his book The Innovator's Dilemma.

• Helps create a new market and value network, and eventually disrupts an existing market and value network (over a few years or decades), displacing an earlier technology

• Its examples are email,telephone ,smartphones.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disruptive_innovation#cite_note-4

• Disruptive Innovation

Business Quiz Women

A movement of women working for social and economic change around the world. It advocates for young women’s leadership, peace, justice, human rights and sustainable development, both on a grassroots and global scale. It is the largest women’s organization in the world, and the second oldest organization of its kind, second only to the Relief Society. The organization is currently based in Geneva Switzerland.

Name the organization.

Q1.

• YWCA

Business Quiz Women

• Chitra Ramakrishnan(NSE)

Business Quiz Women

• She went on to do BA (Honours) in Economics from the Lady Shri Ram College for Women(LSR) in Delhi and MBA from IIM Ahmedabad. She also holds a post-graduate diploma in Software Technology from the National Centre for Software Technology in Mumbai.

• She is married to Sanjaya her batch-mate at IIM-A. Sanjaya is the Chief Executive Officer of Tata Interactive Systems.

• According to a Business Standard report,“Physics was her first choice for an undergraduate course but she settled for economics because the former was not offered by LSR. But she has no regrets as economics gave her enough opportunity to prove her formidable skills in maths — a subject very close to her heart.”

• Shikha Sharma

Business Quiz Women

• Marry Barr( General Motors)

Business Quiz Women

• Daughter of the industrialist KK Birla, industrialist and Congress party loyalist, and the grand-daughter of GD Birla

• Married to Shyam Sundar ,Chairman of the Rs. 14-billion pharmaceutical firm Jubilant LifeScience Limited

• served as a nominated member of the Rajya Sabha

• Shobhna Bhartia

Business Quiz Women

According to Forbes magazine recent publication she could buy a box of hair dye for every woman in the world.

• Lillene Bettencourt( l’oreal)

Business Quiz Women

• Archana Bhargava( United Bank of India)

Business Quiz

• Rupa Kudwa

Business Quiz

• Graduated from Northwestern University majoring in radio, television and film.

• She also got Master in Business Administration in Social Enterprise Management and Strategy from the Kellogg School of Management

• runs the not-for-profit Sri Sivasubramaniya Nadar College of Engineering and involved in VidyaGyan rural schools

• Roshni Nadar

Taglines are shown in visual and cryptic form . You have to tell the name of the company who is having these taglines.Only name of the brand/company.

Business Quiz Visual Taglines

• Finger Lickin Good- KFC


• Gives you Wings-Redbull


• “Often a bridesmaid, never a bride”-Listerine


• Connecting India-BSNL


• World is on time-FedEx


• Network is computer-SUN Microsystem


• Fair and Balance- Fox news


• Where is the cheese –Wendy