Canada, Ireland, Scotland, United States of America
A: The right answer is WHISKEY. The other countries producing similar product strictly can not use the same name.
1. Which Bombay ( Mumbai) based company started operations with its Horse Brand of Ink Powders?
Camlin
2. Name the company which was founded by George Blaisdell.
Zippo
3. Name the brand which was or being endorsed by Anupam Kher, Johnny Lever, Kapil Dev, Paresh Raval and Viv Richards
Rasna
4. Name this independent buy out group founded in 1981and has acquired over 220 companies in Europe for a total consideration of more than 61.9 Million Euros.
CVC the company which acquired Formula 1 recently
5. Which organization was found by Dorothy Stowe, Jim Bohlen and Bob Hunter?
Green Peace
6. In 1833, Marcus Samuel opened a small shop in London, selling sea shells to Victorian natural history enthusiasts. It soon became a thriving import-export business. His son continued this business and started exporting another product which eventually became a brand. Name the brand
Shell
7. Born in Kildare, Ireland in 1932, son of Archdeacon and was educated in England and United states. After graducation he worked with Shell as an Marketing executive before entering in to the Sloan School of Management. In 1967 he returned to England to design and manage the only Sloan Programme outside the United States in Graduate Schoo.l of Business. Name this Management Guru.
Charles Handy
8. This high profile former CEO worked in the same company as a Junior Engineer for a salary of $10,500. He was displeased with a $1000 increase in his first year and planned to quit to International Minerals and Chemicals. His senior Reuben Gutoff thought he was too valuable to lose, he took out that person and his wife Carolyn for a dinner and convinced him to stay back. Name this former CEO
Jack Welch of GE
9. Name the Bank founded by Professor Mohammed Yunus
Grameen Bank
10.“ Don’t Just Courier it, ______ it “. Identify the company
Afl wiz
1. What connects the Miss Universe pageant with CBS TV?
1. Donald Trump owns both of them
2. What product, with strong commercial applicability, was invented byImmanuel Nobel, father of Alfred Nobel?
2. Plywood
3. Who is known as Superman in Hong Kong?
3. Li Ka Shing, the founder/Chairman of the Hutchison Whampoa Group
4. The compass was invented by the Chinese, not as a device to assisttravellers, but to assist in another field, wghich was also a typicallyChinese practice. What practice?
4. Feng shui
5. If Albert Einstein was the Time Person of the twentieth century, who wasthe Time Person of the nineteenth century?
5. Thomas Alva Edison
1. Which company is behind Manzoni clothing line and Million Air (a chartered air service)? A: Raymonds
2. "Sarso ka saag" restaurant, Shahrukh Khan's new ad for Talcom Powder and cigar Shergar - What connects?
A: Prahalad Kakkar (he also has another cigar brand PK).
3. TIME person of the year 2005. Going by the online poll they conducted, who would have won?
A: Mother Nature (due to all the disasters in the year 2005). It was themost popular choice on online poll of TIME magazine for year 2005
4. Whats special about zip codes 60606 and 10048 etc in USA?
A: The zip codes are/were exclusively for buildings. 60606 is Searstower (Chicago), 10047-48 were for WTC
5. Whats a Blue Ribbon Company as per Fortune magazine? It has nothing to do with Nike.
A: A company thats on at least 4 top 500/100 lists of one year (listscompiled by FORTUNE mag - like best company, most profitable, biggest,highest growth etc)
6. What connect Seinfeld(sitcom) to Adidas company?
A: Julia dreyfus (who's ex-GF of Jerry in the the sitcom) is cousin oflong term serving ceo of ADIDAS.
7. Who (Famous marketing man of arguably world's most famous product company) has written books like - The End of Marketing As We Know It, The End of Advertising As We Know It, Renovate Before You Innovate
A: Sergio Zyman (Coca-Cola, man behind flops like new Coke, OK cola etcbut also big success of the company)
1) After completing his graduation, this youngster joined the family business. On a fortunate day, one of his customers presented him with two posters that he had brought back from the US. He displayed these posters in the shop and was amazed when visitors inquired whether the posters were for sale. Not one to let a business opportunity pass by, he started putting up posters for sale in his shop. In 1979, he a mail order poster shop, and started operating from a mezzanine office measuring 200 sq.ft. Identify the man and his venture.
Ans: Anil Moolchandani and Archies
2) Four brothers who left their home in Pakistan during the traumatic days of the country’s partition settled down in Indian Punjab and started trading cycle spare parts. This company is today the world’s largest manufacturer of bicycles. Identify the cycle company.
Ans: Hero Cycles, the flagship company of the Hero Group. The four brothers being The Munjal Brothers – Dayanand, Brijmohan Lall, Satyanand and Om Prakash
3) Living in the crowded streets of Old Delhi, Davinder Kumar Jain, understood the potential of the pen manufacturing way back in the early 1960s. At the age of just 19, DK started producing fountain pens, a writing instrument that deeply fascinated him, thus laying the foundation of the largest manufacturer of writing instruments in India. Identify the company/brand.
Ans: Luxor, which produces over 1,000,000 pens a day
4) This magazine’s ranking of India’s most valuable companies is considered the Indian equivalent of the Fortune 500 listing. Identify the brand
Ans: Business Today
5) This international company’s Indian business was set up initially as a small operation in Konnagar (near Calcutta) in 1931. In January 1934, it acquired a plot of 155 acres from the Calcutta Port Trust and from adjacent landowners. The foundation stone for the first building of their operation – now called the _______ Clinic – was laid on October 28th 1934. In the years that followed, the overall site was doubled in area. Identify the brand.
Ans: Bata. The township is today popularly known as Batanagar
6) More than two decades ago, Dr. Prathap C. Reddy, a successful medical practitioner in the United States lost a patient who could not make it to Texas for an open-heart surgery. That was the day when Dr. Reddy mooted the idea of setting up a healthcare facility that would offer world-class service to millions of people in India and the subcontinent. Thus setting up one of India’s best healthcare centers.
Ans: Apollo Hospitals- Touching Lives’
7) Connect Turner Morrison, Tata Coffee Company, C.Sivasankaran and Bean2Cup to an Indian superbrand.
Ans: Barista
8) Which over the counter antiseptic cream carries the line ‘Kin to your skin’
Ans: Boroline
2) In the late 1800s, Louis Glass and William S. Arnold placed a coin-operated cylinder phonograph in the Palais Royale Saloon in San Francisco. It was an Edison Class M Electric Phonograph in an oak cabinet that was refitted with a coin mechanism. This was the first Nickel-in-the-Slot machine. The Nickel in the slot machine was an early forerunner to which modern (well known) device.
Answer:The JukeBox.
3) A gentleman named Thomas Adams had first tried to make a particular type of sap into car tyres, toys, masks, and rain boots but every experiment failed. One day, he did something strange and this resulted in the creation of a brand new product. What did he do, what is the product?
Answer:He popped it into his mouth and he liked the taste. He added flavors to the sap (chicle from sapodilla tree) and thus was created chewing gum.Shortly after, he opened the world's first chewing gum factory. In February 1871, Adams New York Gum went on sale in drug stores for a penny apiece, and in 1876 he founded Adams Sons and Company Adams’ power brands are Halls, Trident and Dentyne. Cadbury Schweppes acquired Adams in 2002.
4) They originally imported Hermann Aegler’s Swiss movements to England and placed them in quality cases made by Dennison and others. The products were then sold to jewelers, who put their own name on the cases. Whom and more importantly what are we talking about?
Answer: These were how Rolex watches were first marketed. The jewelers put their respective names on the dial and sold them. Rolex was called Wilsdorf & Davis before it was renamed in 1908, after their founders Hans Wilsdorf and his Brother in law Alfred Davis.
5) This brand was launched by Transelektra Domestic Products Limited in 1984. The product was innovative and was perfectly priced. It struck the market at the right time and was a huge success in small towns, big cities and metros. Just identify the brand in question.
Answer: Good Knight. Godrej Hi- Care took over TDPL in 1994 along with other brands like Jet and Banish, besides Good Knight.
6) Sona Spice, Jai and Breeze are lesser-known brands of which Indian FMCG company?
Answer: Hindustan Lever Limited, more famous for Fair & Lovely, Lifebuoy, Sunsilk etc.
7) Which company has an NYSE ticker: SDX?
Answer: Sodexho. This company brings out the meal and gift vouchers, which are free of certain taxes, are provided by most MNCs.
8) Born on March 3, 1839 in the sleepy town of Navsari, Gujarat, this gentleman passed out from the Elphinstone College in 1858 as a ‘green scholar’. Identify the business great.
Answer: Jamsetji Tata, the only child of Nusserwanji Tata.
9) A toughie to end the quiz: Which company manufactures all the crockery at Rashtrapathi Bhavan?
Answer:Tata Ceramics Limited
1. As a means of distinguishing itself from its rivals, what modern-day practice was started by Financial Times in 1893?
Answer: Pink Newspapers
2. For nearly a decade, late Raja Ramanna, the former chief of India's nuclear establishment, served as the Chairman of a communications and animation firm founded by his son, Sham Ramanna. Identify the firm.
Answer: Crest
4. This group commenced its journey way back in 1907, when a certain unassuming gentleman named _______ Gandhi started a soda-fountain. As the business passed into the hands of subsequent generations, new divisions like processed foods, chemicals, industrial gases and construction were added. Identify it.
Answer: Vadilal
5. In 1994, Lindon Leader used to work at Landor Associates as Senior Design Director. Using subliminal advertising through logos, he created a right-pointing arrow within a company name to symbolize forward movement and thinking. Identify the company.
Answer: FedEx
6. Complete the list and identify the company: Julius Blank, Victor Grinich, Jean Hoerni, Sheldon Roberts, Jay Last, Eugene Kleiner, ______ _____ and ______ _____.
Answer: Gordon Moore and Robert Noyce; Fairchild Semiconductors
7. During the Depression, he borrowed $50,000 and mortgaged his home in order to start a business. His friends scoffed that he would end up selling apples on the street corner. He replied, "The hell I will, I'll give them away." Who?
Answer: Leo Burnett
8. The following is a sculpture at the entrance to 'The Midland Hotel'. Identify the duo.
Answer: Charles Rolls and Henry Royce
9. He sponsored the Indian contingent for the Antwerp Olympics in 1920 and, as President of the Indian Olympic Council, financed the Indian squad that went to the Paris Olympics in 1924. Who?
Answer: Sir Dorabji Tata
10. Born on 24th October 1966 his studies were truncated when he was drafted into the Army. He was elected to his country's parliament in 1999 and became a Governor in 2001. He owns the world's second largest Aluminium producer and has a 49% stake in the TV station ORT. Who?
Answer: Roman Abramovich
12. 36-year old Patrick Widenborg, a Dutch techie and a few friends were recently in the limelight for selling some cheats that enabled sexually explicit scenes in a best-selling video game. Identify the game and the company.
Answer: Grand Theft Auto - San Andreas; Rock Star Games
13. The following are certain specifications:
Age: Less than 25 years
Marital Status: Single
Weight: Less than 115 pounds
Height: Less than 5 feet 4 inches
Occupation: Registered Nurses
The first person to fulfill the above criteria was Ellen Church, who earned $125 a month. What am I referring to?
Answer: The first ever Air-Hostess
14. In 2001, reviewer David Manning called Heath Ledger "this year's hottest new star" for his role in "A Knight's Tale" and claimed that "Hollow Man" was "one hell of a scary ride". These reviews recently put this production house into big trouble. Which and why?
Answer: Sony Pictures created the fictional reviewer David Manning
16. Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru persuaded Raghunandam Saran to enter automotive manufacturing. The company initially assembled Austin cars and in 1950 got the local manufacturing licence from another British car manufacturer. How do we know this company today as?
Answer: Ashok Leyland
17. The following were specifications put forward by whom:
· The car should be able to carry two adults and three children
· It should have a cruising speed of 100 kmph
· The fuel consumption should not exceed 0.8 liter per 10 km
· The engine has to be air-cooled
· The car should also be able to carry three soldiers and a machine gun
· The price should be less than 1000 RM
Answer: Adolf Hitler
19. In the 17th century, King James I of England established a soap monopoly. In 1770 William _______, who sold swords, buckles and spurs to the English aristocracy, acquired one of the soap-making factories. He began to build up the toiletry business and handed the company on to his son Charles. The company moved to New Bond Street and trademarked a whole range of lavender-scented products. In the 1960s, the company was taken over by British American Tobacco. Identify the brand, which is today a part of Proctor & Gamble.
Answer: Yardley
20. Which company is credited with the following developments: Implementation and operation of Arpanet, the first-ever Router and the first Modem, Logo programming language, the first time-sharing system and TCP/IP protocol.
Answer: Bolt Beranek Newman Technologies (BBN)
21. Trained as a technical draughtsman, he was a teacher of Mechanical Drawings at VJTI, Bombay. He was denied promotion because senior posts in the institute were not open to Indians. He quit teaching and decided to start his own business. Who?
Answer: Laxmanrao Kirloskar
22. The name was coined after the production of a batch of over-dyed shirts, early in the life of the brand. The logo, which is a stylised rendition of the Greek letter Phi was designed on a napkin by Rajan Mudaliar, one of the founders of the company, during a flight across the Pacific. Which brand / company?
Answer: Color Plus
23. It is the world's largest single consumer of commodities like sugar, cardamom, rice, pepper, cashew, turmeric, edible oil, vegetables and jaggery. In a unique venture, it roped in JRG Wealth Management Ltd., one of India's leading commodity brokers, to install an online commodity futures terminal. What am I referring to?
Answer: Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanam
24. In 1973, the government decided to allot a plot of Horn Beam forest on the Alaknanda valley to a sports goods company. This angered the villagers as their similar demand to use wood for making agricultural tools had been denied. With the help of a local NGO, DGSS, the villagers decided to protect the forest by hugging the trees, thus sparking off the Chipko Movement. Name the sports good company.
Answer: Symonds
25. Who and on what occasion?
Answer: Mikhail Kalashnikov; Launch of Kalashnikov Vodka
26. (***) Born in 1937, he earned his MBA degree from the George Washington University. He served on the board of America Online before its merger with Time Warner Inc. His son, Michael, has been the Chairman of FCC. He is an investor and board member of Revolution, a health-care holding company started by Steve Case. In July 2005, he joined KPCB as a 'Strategic Limited Partner'. Who are we referring to?
Answer: Colin Powell
27. (***) Martin Plante, the child of a professional soprano mother and a violinist father, was the keyboardist of the Canadian band Bundock and also played for top classical ballet teachers including Daniel Sellier and David Howard. In 2001, About.com hired Martin, to create something, thus making him the first of his kind in the world. What?
Answer: The world's first-ever professional mobile ringtone composer
28. (***) A British author, book and software publisher he was a frequent visitor of Homebrew Computer Club. In 1981, he created the first-ever portable computer. He founded Paperback Software, a company that specialised in inexpensive software. One of its products was a clone of Lotus 123, which led to legal action against him. He died on 18th March 2003 at Kodaikanal, Tamil Nadu. Who?
Answer: Adam Osborne
29. (***) As a student of Christ College, Bangalore, he played alongside players like Brijesh Patel and in 1976 went to Fairfield University, USA to do his Masters in Communication and worked for CBS. When major US broadcasters showed little interest in televising non-US games, he bid for and won the telecasting rights for World Cup Soccer in 1994 and later the Alpine Skiing World Cup. The company he founded is based in Westport, Connecticut. Who?
Answer: Mark Masceranhas
30. (***) Unveiled in Jan 2000, as part of the millennium celebrations by a company, it was created by Saco Smartvision and measures 120ft*90ft. Built at a cost of $39 million, it housed at the Conde Nast building and the annual leasing fees is a whopping $2 million. What are we referring to?
Answer: The world's largest LED Screen put up by NASDAQ at Times Square
HLL’s Close Up is the first Indian brand to advertise in which US portal ?
Ans : MSN
It is said that this best selling brand of cookie gets its name from the ’mountain’ shaped goodies introduced during its test launch. Yet others say that the name came from its golden coloured packaging. Name the brand.
Ans : ‘Oreo’ of Nabisco. In Greek, ‘Oreo’ means mountain. In French, ‘or’ is gold..
This product of the company ( a cognac ) has been created in honour of a historic event in the timeline of the company. King Louis XIV bestowed a royal charter recognizing the quality of the wine and allowed extension of the vineyards operated by this company. Name the company and the new product commemorating the event.
Ans : Remy Martin, 1738 Accord Royal
‘Red Carpet Club’ is the offer to its priority clients by which company ?
Ans : United Airlines
In 1992, this cartoon character ( brand cartoon ) was used in a smart presidential campaign in the US, soaring the popularity of the mother brand. Identify the cartoon character and the brand.
Ans : Punchy of Hawaiian Punch
Set up in 1472, this bank is recognized as the earliest of the banks still surviving. Name the bank.
Ans : The Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena. Now this is Italy's seventh largest
bank.
Jahangir was the first in the world to introduce what on the face of minted coins ?
Ans : Zodiac signs
The new logo for the corporation was designed by Rediffusion DY&R. The launch was managed by Linopinion. Which corporation ?
Ans : UTI
One more on logo. The new logo has three curves which form the letters C, S and B. they represent continuity, stability and harmony. This also reflect ripple effect to progress. Intentionally the curves are not symmetrical which indicates it is not stagnant. Which logo ?
Ans : Catholic Syrian Bank
This brand is named after a person who popularized this product in England. He loved this product so much that when he was granted his last wish before his conviction, he opted for this for enjoyment. Which brand am I talking about ?
Ans : Sir Walter Raleigh Tobacco
1. Whats Hawaiian for "clever, intelligent and cool." (Name of tech company
originated from MIT)
:: AKAMAI
2. His children are named Maverick, Dakota, Colt, and Scout (after different
cars). His father was vice-chairman of American Motors. He's easily one of
the longest serving Chairman & CEO of a famous tech company. He was ranked #
1 by Golf Digest in CEO's championship (Jack Welch was #2). Who??
:: Scott McNealy (Sun Micro)
3. Vashi Melwani and his son Ravi Melwani are known for which famous retails
stores?
:: Toys/Kids Kemp
4. Apple computers logo shows an apple half eaten. Also in apple computers
logo the 7 colors of rainbow are in opposite order indicating unnatural
sexual orientation). People connect these signs/hints with someone who's
done a lot of technology in the last century. Who?
:: Alan Turing who committed suicide by eating a poisoned apple. He was a
homosexual so colors in reverse order in Apple logo
5. "Global Trade starts here" is the tag line for which b2b company. Was in
news recently for 1B dollars stake sell.
:: alibaba.com
6. IHOP is a restaurant chain in US (& elsewhere). What does it stand for?
:: International house of pancakes
7. Tiger Airways is the low cost airline of Singapore Airlines. Whats SA's
regional airline called?
:: Silk air
8. ICICI Bank uses finacle of Infosys. Whats the banking product of ICICI
Infotech?
:: Newton
9. Connect - Iris Interactive, Rajtaru Videosonic, Indian Academy of Arts
and Animation, Sterling Investment Corp
:: All were involved in colorization of Mughal-e -azam
10. T Haridas is the owner of Kerala export unit 'Family Plastics'. Why was
he/his company in news couple of months back?
:: Supplied plastic containers in which bombs were kept for London 7/7
blasts
1. In the 1940s, a company was faced with an overabundance of its product in South Africa, Australia and Russia, without knowing a way to market them. In 1947, Frances Gerety, a lady copywriter for the ad agency, N W Ayer & Sons, coined this slogan, after her nightly prayers. In her own words, "Dog tired, I put my head down and said, 'Please God, send me a line.' And then I looked up at the sky. That was it." Thus she got her inspiration. Identify the line.
Answer: A Diamond Is Forever
2. It was coined on June 12, 1995 in an e-mail sent by a 52-year old Massachusetts programmer named David Eddy. He later said, "People were calling it CDC and Faddle. There were other contenders. It just came off my fingertips." What am I referring to?
Answer: Y2K
3. Once while traveling across the sky
This ____ _____ caught my eye
And being curious, I flew close by
And now I'm caught here 'til I die
These are words from a song called 'Space Captain' by Joe Cocker & Leon Russell. Fill in the blanks.
Answer: Lovely Planet. Tony Wheeler misheard the lyrics as Lonely Planet and thus named the now-famous travel guides.
4. The tyre company B F Goodrich once ran a series of print ads showing clear blue sky with white clouds. What was the reason?
Answer: People would get confuse the company Goodrich and Goodyear. Hence, they ran the above series of ads to communicate to people, that they are the company without the blimps.
5. Alan Reed, the voiceover for Fred Flintstone took the line 'Yabba Dabba Do', after getting inspired from a jingle that went: "_________, a little dab'll do ya!" Identify the brand.
Answer: Brylcreem
6. Identify the brand from the following clues:
Clue 1:
During the 1910's, the leading brand in the US in a particular product category was 'Fatima' by Liggett & Myers. In an effort to counter it, a rival company decided that it needed a name similarly reminiscent of the Orient for a soon-to-be launched brand. Some of the names he considered were 'Kismet', 'Nabob' and 'Kamal'.
Clue 2:
Just prior to the launch of the brand, the company ran a series of teaser ads, the last of which read, "Tomorrow there'll be more ______ in this town than in all Asia and Africa combined."
Clue 3:
The founder of the company sent his secretary Roy Haberkern to the 'Barnum & Bailey Circus', to click some photographs. One of the photographs served as the reference for the illustration of the brand mascot. The name of what Roy had photographed was also the name given to the mascot.
Answer: Camel Cigarettes
