Business Quiz

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PRELIM 2SET 2

• This hugely popular and successful enterprise started off as Titan Sports. How do we know it today?

WWE

• This company X was founded on 11 MARCH 1774 in London. But at present, its headquarters is in New York. Its operation is divided into three segments: Auction, Finance, and Dealer. The company’s NYSE Ticker is BID. This company was recently in news when Mark Jancou, an art dealer filed suit in the Supreme Court of the State of New York against X. Identify the company.

SOTHEBY’S

Identify these person and what was their invention??????

SERGEY BRIN & LARRY PAGE

• X was founded in the year 1984 by Mike Lazaridis. It’s headquarters is in Waterloo, Ontario. Identify X.

RESEARCH IN MOTION

• X is an acronym coined by Robert Ward in late 2009. The term has also been used by HSBC's chief executive Michael Geoghegan. X shares its name with a carnivorous mammal that eats and partially digests coffee cherries, passing a transformed coffee bean that is considered very valuable and fetches high prices. Identify X.

CIVETS( COLUMBIA; INDONESIA; VIETNAM;

EGYPT; TURKEY; SOUTH AFRICA)

C O N N EC T

BOOKS WRITTEN BY ARINDAM CHAUDHURI

DISCOVER THE DIAMOND IN YOUTHORNS TO COMPETITIONCOUNT YOUR CHICKENS BEFORE THEY

HATCHTHE GREAT INDIAN DREAMS

IDENTIFY

1st SERVER OF GOOGLE

• This company derives its name from the Goddess of victory in Roman and Greek mythology. Identify the company.

• They come in eight sizes, the largest being a ‘Nebuchadnezzar’. What are they?

CHAMPAGNE BOTTLES

•Which mobile was the first to incorporate the “Rupee” Symbol in its handsets?

Which company advertised it?

BMW

Identify this famous family

AMBANIS

Tagline of which company????

• Along with whom did Bill Gates found Microsoft?

PAUL ALLEN

• “X” was launched in December 2007. Its headquarters is in Prague, Czech Republic. “X” is a social network that allows users to create free interactive posters. Although the majority of “X” users are teens, the tool is currently being used for advertising as well as for CVs. Currently this social network has over 8 million registered users in over 200 countries. Identify X.

IDENTIFY

1. Salman Khan is the brand ambassador and shareholder in this travel website.2. It is based in Gurgaon, Haryana.3. Dhruv Shringi is the CEO.

4. “Smarter way to travel” is the tagline of this company.

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EX- EMPLOYEES OF GOLDMAN SACHS

• What unique insurance is offered by ARAG, a German insurance firm, in Britain?

DIVORCE INSURANCE

• This European company was into forest products for the first 130 years of its existence, diversified into Television manufacturing in the eighties, but lost money there. Then they ventured into manufacturing of computers. Even that failed miserably and forced its CEO to commit suicide. The new CEO appointed decided to change the business they were in, and virtually reinvented the company. Name the company.

Print Ad for which event????????

2010 FIFA WORLD CUP

• What is the full form of DOCOMO??????

Do Communications over the Mobile network

Identify the Product

The shape of this product is modeled after a hyperbolic parabola.

This design is beneficial as it helps keep the product from breaking during distribution by eliminating lines of stress along which a small crack may easily propagate.

The name of the product came from a street in Cincinnati, U.S. The name was chosen simply for its sound and appeal.

ANSWER

Which Company had this Logo in its Inception?

• What is the most famous work of an individual named Bhagwan Rampure from Solapur?

Designing the BULL SCULPTURE of BOMBAY STOCK EXCHANGE

Logo of which organization????

BRIC NATIONSBRAZILRUSSIA INDIACHINA

IDENTIFY

• This company started making soaps in a vacant bank office during the years of great depression in New York.

• The first product of this company was developed for women however now the company is known for its men grooming brands.

• Today, this brand is owned by P&G.

• He set up shop in 1859 as a dry goods trader. The business thrived in 1861 after the outbreak of the US Civil War, when the US Army bought a lot of grain and supplies from him.

• In 1881, he set up a trust of dozens of companies that controlled 80% of a particular industry. Other industries followed suit and this started off the first ‘Anti-Trust regulations’ in the USA.

• He was the world's first ever billionaire

John D. Rockefeller

• This Google doodle was dedicated to whom?

Jim Henson’s 75th Birthday A well-known puppeteer and widely known

as the creator of THE MUPPETS

• Probably the “best two letters in one symbol” ever, this logo is in the form of a slime ball created by Takuya Kawagoi.

• Although it is meant to look partially like the symbiotic amalgamation of two letters, the logo also represents the company’s entire design philosophy.

• The logo is often shown as a quick animation at the end of television ads.

• Which company’s logo am I talking about?

ANSWER

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All the buildings were constructed by

SHAPOORJI & PALLONJI GROUP