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 #8

BUSINESS QUIZNESS #8

the perfect set of questions refresh your corporate knowledge

1. RASNA has been one of the most famous brand and even after 25 years of its launch it still has a market share of more than 93% in soft drink concentrate . It is managed by PIOMA INDUSTRIES (Ahmedabad) . The company introduced a fruit drink in 2000 which failed due to its basic requirement to be refrigerated 24 hours. Name the “fruit drink”.
   
   
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3. MICROSOFT has evolved year by year and today it stands as one of the  IT giants, and so has the logo(which represents a company’s image). This year i.e. 2012 a new logo has been adopted by the company loosely termed as “It’s a window, not a flag”.  Which design house is responsible for the new logo, which are also related to several other popular names like DELL, NETGEAR.
   
   
4. Identify the logo :-
   [CLUE:- Red bird, Blue Bird, Yellow bird, White Egg, Black Bomb....]
   
5. During the 1960’s with computer industry gaining massive recognition and support all over the world, eight companies formed majority of the trends and were termed as “SNOW WHITE and the SEVEN DWARVES”. Which company was called as the SNOW WHITE ?
6. Bombay Stock Exchange is the oldest Stock Exchanges in Asia, including it there are in all five Stock Exchanges in India. Which was the first company to get listed on the BSE after it’s inception?
   
   

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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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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.

THE BUSINESS QUIZNESS #4 (the business quiz)

VOTE FOR ME PEOPLE, ON BLOGOMANIA!

1. When a problem was reported in one of it’s microprocessors in 1997, Intel downplayed the problem stating that it would only affect a tiny percentage of customers. But when IBM declared that it would not use Intel’s chip in it’s computers, Intel was forced to replace the chips. Name the chip.
2. The line “Is Rajesh khanna married?” along with a close up of rajesh khanna was the cover of the first issue of which gossip magazine in october,1971?
3. This service was introduced in Britain by a Bengali entrepreneur named Sake Dean Mohammad in 1814, when Dean, together with his Irish wife, opened ‘Mohamed’s Indian vapour baths’ in Brighton, England. His baths were like Turkish baths, where clients received an Indian treatment of champi. Origins of which producer are being discussed here?
4. It is a spirit produced by distilling wine , the wine having first been produced by fermenting grapes. It gets the name from the Danish for ‘burnt wine’. What is it?
5. Which brand, owned by the German company Beiersdorf, got its name from the Latin word for snow-white? The name was suggested by the company’s owner Oskar Troplowitz.
6. Which company was founded in the midst of the Great Depression, 1932, by brothers Charles and Joseph, along with a chemist, Charles Luchman, who contributed the ‘L’ in the name.
7. Highly skilled workers called Dighaa manufacture which product using the degs and Bhapka system.
8. Who was the first Indian actress to have appeared on the cover of TIME magazine in 1976 with the headline ‘Asia’s frenetic film scene’.

BUSINESS QUIZNESS #3 (the business quiz)

VOTE FOR ME ON BLOGOMANIA

1. 1. What is common to the logos of the following brands: Lowenbrau beer, Peugeot and MGM Studios?
   2. Fill the missing word (brand name) that made a famous tag line.  `Those who are shot the most, love to be shot on ____' .
   3. VICTOR GRUEN designed one of these in 1956 due to his hatred for cars and american suburbs .The structure he put up at Edina in Minneapolis was envisioned as a air conditioned centre where community could meet. This structure is still in use. NAME this creation which become hugely popular today.
   4. Identify the person in this Insulting ad of KFC (not officialy from KFC).
   5. To which car the following picture refers to ?
   6. Which book is the unofficial guide to the franchisee owners who bid for players in the IPLauctions ?
   7. Which was the first advertisment to have appeard on DD in INDIA and in which year?
   8. Qantas is the most famous airline brand in Australia. What did it originally stand for?