Weekly Business Quiz # 145

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Q 1. Manna Dey, ______ artist was inscribed in the visiting card of the legendary singer. Fill in the brand name.

Ans. HMV

Q 2. Which Indian company is the world’s largest manufacturer of cricket gear ?

Ans.  SG Sanspareils Greenlands often mistaken with Sunny Gavaskar

Q3. Which retail chain started life as a butter manufacturer in Ooty in 1905 by Muthuswami Mudaliar ?

Ans. Nilgiris 

Q 4. Name the travel brand which Google has acquired from John Wiley to provide info on hotels and destinations .

Ans. Frommers

Q 5. What is innovative about the Dutch Postcode lottery started by Boudwijn Poelmann in 1989 ?

Ans. All tickets winning postcode get the lottery

Q 6. Name this accomplished B & W fashion photographer who created the landmark Kama Sutra campaign in ’90s who passed away.

Ans. Prabuddha Dasgupta

Q7. Name the Russian billionaire who has instituted a prize for fundamental physics that has a prize money of 3 mn $

Ans. Yuri Millner

Q8. What unique service do self-storage firms provide ?

Ans. They offer space starved cust. space to store things they don’t need but can’t throw

Q9. Expand REIT ?

Ans. Real estate investment trust

Q10. Name the earliest angel investor in Facebook whose 500,000 $ investment has become more than 400 mn $ and has exited largely .

Ans. Peter Thiel

Q11. By going past market cap of which co in 1999, Apple has become the biggest company ever ?

Ans. Microsoft

- Compiled by G.Mohan Twitter @go_mohan

 

Weekly Business Quiz # 136

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Q 1. Which group has created an Orbit in London at the Olympic Park designed by Indian born designer Anish Kapoor ?

Ans. Arcelor Mittal

Q 2. What is the name of the Tablet announced by Microsoft ?

Ans. Surface

Q3. What unique step is taken by australian online retailer http://Kogan.com  to dissuade people from using IE ?

Ans.  A tax for using IE

Q4. Which new film is being promoted with the slogan TERI KEH KE LOONGA ?

Ans. Gangs of Wasseypur

Q5. Which bank was founded in New York on June 16, 200 years ago ?

Ans.  Citibank

Q6. What price did the first Apple computer Apple I fetch in a New York auction ?

Ans.  345,000 $

Q7. A German Bank Sparkasse Chemnitz is issuing a MasterCard with a very unusual image for a credit card. Whose image ?

Ans.  Karl Marx

Q8. Which Bollywood superstar is behind the education cum entertainment venture KidZania ?

Ans. Shah Rukh Khan

Q9. Which Indian group has sought the suffix .indians under the new Internet domain registration policy of ICANN ?

Ans. Reliance

Q10. Which exchange is going to acquire the prestigious London Metal Exchange for 2.1 bn $ ?

Ans. Hong Kong Stock Exchange

Q11. In the context of enterprise computing what is a BYOD policy ?

Ans. Bring your own device

-Compiled by G.Mohan Twitter @go_mohan

Weekly Business Quiz # 126

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Q 1. What is the new GAAR proposed in the budget making FIIs doing GRRR ?

Ans. General anti avoidance rules

Q2. Which model of Porsche was designed by Ferdinand A Porsche who died recently ?

Ans. Porsche 911

Q3. Which well known Indian recruitment firm is selling out to become Randstad India ?

Ans. Ma Foi

Q4. Name the co that has replaced NOKIA as the most valuable co in the Helsinki Stock exchange.

Ans. Fortum the energy co.

Q5. Who has won the Tv rights for screening all Indian cricket matches for the next six yrs from BCCI ?
Ans. Star TV
Q6. After Samsung Galaxy Note’s surprising success what is the category being called now ?
Ans. Phablet (phone + tablet)
Q 7. Who has launched India’s first- multi-asset multi-manager fund ?

Ans. ING

 

Q8. At what price has Facebook acquired the photo site Instagram?

Ans. 1 Bn $
Q9 . We know the BRICs. Which countries make up the MIST?
Ans. Mexico, Indonesia, South Korea and Turkey
Q 10. Who has acquired 800 odd patents of AOL for over 1 billion $ ?
Ans. Microsoft
- Compiled by G.Mohan Twitter @go_mohan

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