BARBE-'Q' #1

• Only two test cricketers have been able to achieve a unique feat in the history of sports (relates two different sports), out of which one of them is the person shown below, name the other sportsperson.

                                                   

THE BUSINESS QUIZNESS #4 (the business quiz)

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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’.

THE DAILY QUIZ SHOTS #3

“ SUBJECT :- movies & entertainment ”

1. Who is the only United States president to have worn a Nazi dress  ?
   [HINT: Don’t work on the lines of history of the person as a soldier.  ]

2. What is the original name of “Nicholas Cage” & what unusual reason  is supposed to be behind that decision?

BUSINESS QUIZNESS #3 (the business quiz)

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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?

BUSINESS QUIZNESS #2 (the business quiz)

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1. The motto of which business magazine is the same as that of the name of the magazine publisher’s private aircraft (a Boeing 727 trijet ) who died in early 1990’s.
2. which INDIAN BANK has acted as the central bank of Myanmar and of Pakistan the past ?
3. Which company sponsored Netherlands in ICC world cup 2011. Also name the team sponsored by the same company in the inaugural  edition of INDIAN GRAND PRIX.
4. The managing director RELIANCE ADAG, Mr. Amitabh Jhunjhunwala is one of the most trusted persons  of ANIL AMBANI, but only a few know that his relation with ANIL goes back to the early 80’s when RELIANCE used to be one of the clients of Amitabh. Since then the relationship has blossomed into loyalty. In 1993 he joined KOTHARI PIONEER (founded by Anil’s brother-in-law Shyam Kothari), but before joining the company and after working as CA, Amitabh started a magazine on finance. Name the magazine.
5. Name the Hitler’s theme based cafe to have opened up in Navi Mumbai only to be     renamed a week after its opening due widespread controversies.
6. Which movie is considered to be the longest commercial for ‘fed-ex’.
7. which is supposedly the first restaurant chain to provide ‘dining rooms’ (even though they were plastically furbished )?
8. Well we all know about BOEING being one the largest aircraft manufacturers in the world. As a matter of fact, the company name  comes from its founder WILLIAM E. BOEING. But a few know that the original name was not BOEING, so give me the original name.

THE DAILY QUIZ SHOTS #2

1. The castle (King John's castle, Trim, Co. Meath, Ireland) where a lot of the scenes were shot for “THE BIG RED ONE”  was also used to shoot scenes for which another movie ?
2. There have been three films which have won ‘the big five academy awards’ i.e. best picture,actor,actress, director & writing. One of them is “the silence of lambs”. Name the other TWO .

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.