BARBE-Q

Ques:___Which company was recently set up by IRON MAIDEN singer BRUSE DICKINSON (who himself is a commercial airline pilot)in Glamorgan which is expected to generate around 1000 jobs in the next 18 months ???

DAILY QUIZ SHOTS

This SLOVENIAN based Start-up company is best known for making Talking Friends Apps -in total twelve as of now. The most famous being the TALKING TOM . The company was founded by SAM LOGIN in October 2009,  and TALKING TOM even appeared on one of the shows of MODERN FAMILY.
Identify this COMPANY.

BUSINESS QUIZNESS #9

BUSINESS QUIZNESS #9

sharpen your inquisitiveness about the ‘first’ of everything....

1. Laptop was invented by ADAM OSBORNE in 1981 and commercially by his company “OSBORNE COMPUTERS”. But it wasn’t till 1984, when the first ‘PORTABLE PERSONAL COMPUTER’ was launched.Which company MANUFACTURED it?
   
2. First TV advertising in India dates back to the days of Doordarshan (which initially ran programs without any commercials). The first TV advertisement was a still photo of ‘Topaz Blades’ and the first advertisement film was of ‘Vichitra Sarees’. The first sponsored program was “SARAB SANJI GURMANI”. Who was the sponsor company
   
3. Which was the first company to introduce spikes in running shoes to enhance the grip while running on the tracks?? Notably it was the same company which first introduced soccer studs.
   
4. In 1949 a person named FRANK MCNAMARA took his friends for dinner but at the time of paying he noticed that he had forgotten his wallet, and forced his wife to bring it to him back from home.Embarrased from such a scenario he decided to manufacture world’s first credit card (made of wood).What was it’s name?THE FIRST CREDIT CARD)
5. E-Commerce business has of late grown and expanded in wider domains of the world.Its history dates back to 1979 when MICHAEL ALDRICH invented online shopping that could be either from B2B (business to business) or B2C (business to consumer).
   Which was the first company to start online transactions (B2B)??
   
6. KLM is considered to be the oldest airline company in operation today. Which was the first registered airline company??
   
7. [This one might prove to be quite intriguing]CHOCOLATE making business started way back in 1759. Around 1761 the first chocolate producing company was registered as FRY,VAUGHN AND COMPANY. Gradually factory system was adopted for the business, and then the first chocolate bar was manufactured. Name that company.
8. Which was the first iPOD virus to have been created?
   
9. The first GOOGLE DOODLE was designed in 1998 by LARRY PAGE & SERGEY BRIN in honor of which U.S. festival??
   
10. “FROOTI” has been one of the  most popular Indian Soft drink in the market for a pretty long time. But they never had any celebrity endorsing the brand as opposed to their competitors. But now the pressure of market growth has forced to reverse their strategy, as a result of which they recently signed an actor as their BRAND AMBASSADOR. Name FROOTI’s FIRST BRAND AMBASSADOR.
    
    

BUSINESS QUIZNESS #7

BUSINESS QUIZNESS #7

improve your logo identification quotient

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THIS SET OF BUSINESS QUIZ SHALL FOCUS SOLELY ON IDENTIFYING COMMONLY OBSERVED LOGOS.

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ANSWERS:-
1.AT&T  2.carrefour  3. lufthansa   4.wipro   5.chrysler   6.Wendy’s  7. World Bank   8.spykar 9.Adidas Originals  10. BP oil  11. Penguin (publishing house)  12. crompton greaves  13. suzlon  14. uninor  15.piaggio  16.CNBC 17. SAIL  18. seagate  19. jockey  20. vedanta  

BUSINESS QUIZNESS #6

BUSINESS QUIZNESS #6

your business and corporate knowledge booster

1. Which airline’s in-flight magazine is called namaskar ?
2. In the days of the East India Company what was known as the company kagaz ?
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   IDENTIFY the logo below.
   (hint :- hear this logo a loud )
4. This car model  is the face of Cabs in London and established a unique fame for itself. Recently 10 such cars were bought by Subhash Sanas exclusively for the guests at Oakwood Hotel in Pune. Which Car model am I talking about & which company manufactures it ?

5. Give the name of the  Japanese originated camera company which was the the main camera sponsor of Montreal Olympic Games and is named after the buddhist god shown in the image below.
   
6. Which is the first company ever to issue stocks ?
   (Else identify the same from the logo)
7. Which famous Indian sportsperson was one of the members of the Board for Kingfisher Airlines(the position he held previously with Air Deccan and hence moved on to Kingfisher when it bought the former company).

BUSINESS QUIZNESS #5

BUSINESS QUIZNESS #5

the fine tuning of business & corporate knowledge

1. Mark Zuckerberg started FACEMASH before FACEBOOK, which was described as a Harvard University version of which website?
2. The logo of which famous online marketplace.
   
3. What was the original name of WALT DISNEY COMPANY founded in 1923 ?
4. Which electric company received the first patent for alternating current transmission technology from Nikola Tesla, and was later used to light up the town of Great Barrington, Massachusetts ?
5. Which two Indian companies of ANIL AGARWAL owned Vedanta Resources PLC  will merge together to form a single entity?
6. A number of Sporting leagues are coming in near future with one of them being Indian Boxing League(2013), which is promoted by Indian Boxing Federation and which other company ?
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8. SG is the most common brand name in the world of cricket in India as it manufactures cricket bats and balls for the BCCI. Give me the full form of SG.

BARBE-'Q' #13

DIRECT QUESTION :-

Skoda Fabia is based on which '' Volkswagen Car's '' platform ?? 


                             

BARBE-'Q' #11

This Company used to make Earth-moving Equipments in collaboration with terex(USA) and fermac(UK) and later with Caterpillar, which itself was later sold to Caterpillar and stopped making the equipments. Identify this company which was one of India's First automobile manufacturers.

BARBE- 'Q' #5

 

In 1926 Einstein and his former student 

Leo Szilard invented a new 

refrigeration technology without 

any moving parts and worked on 

constant pressure, which was later patented in USA on november 11, 1930. A total of 45 patents were granted 

to three of their refrigerator models. Some of them were 

bought by a company which 

later 

became famous for its refrigerators. 

Name the COMPANY.

THE DAILY QUIZ SHOTS #1

1. Which Swiss watch's brand name means "always in motion" ??
2. Which company holds the record for having "maximum shareholders"??

BUSINESS QUIZNESS (the business quiz) # 1

1. which business personality and founder of a world famous cosmetics store is called the “the queen of green” for her passion for human rights and environment.
2. Today one of the giants of silicon valley GOOGLE, initially was to be registered for another name, which was accidentally misspelled to produce ‘google’. What was the ‘earlier name’.
3. Identify the motor company from the image below and also deduce what is the relation and significance of that motor company with BMW.

identify the motor company from  this  logo

4. which of the famous world car manufacturers once had ‘tank’ in their logo.
5. which was the first insurance company in INDIA.
6. What was the name of the single engine aircraft J.R.D TATA flew in the first ever flight from karachi to bombay.
7. What was the first brand to be endorsed by shahrukh khan (appeared in 3 ads for that brand).
8. It is a common fact that IBM is known as ‘big blue’, but then which company is called ‘big black’.
9. Mcdonalds entered in Indian market in 1996, but since Foreign Direct Investment was not allowed, it set up ties with two Indian restaurants. Name both of them.

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IDENTITY CRISIS #1

identify the indian companies from given set of clues and hints.

1. This company was founded by J.R.D TATA. Its mascot designed in 1946 by then commercial director bobby kooka and umesh Rao (artist with J.walker thompson Ltd.). It started operations in a hut with palm thatched roof at juhu aerodrome.
2. This company was set up in 1879. john abraham has served brand ambassador for this company. Maneka gandhi and lisa ray are some of the prominent names to have done modelling for this brand.
3. this indian company was formed by two foreign engineers who were representatives of their dairy manufacturing company but were forced to start a workshop at the time of world war II. One of the founders was honored with MAGSAYSAY AWARD by the indian government.