Prelims
Gerald Feldman’s book X & the Gerald insurance business is a book that links between the Nazi party & big business in 1930?which insurance company is the book talking about
Which are being sold in
Neeva @ SCMHRD
Conducted By GIRI
Fauja Singh
In the past Fauja Singh has signed a deal with Adidas for a major advertising campaign that also features footballer David Beckham, rugby ace Jonny Wilkinson and boxer Laila Ali, daughter of Muhammad Ali.
BiZDoM 3*3 Business QuiZ 5
In the news
1. X while inaugurating India’s first large _____ Unit, said Z would help his department to identify Y in the country. He said though there were a few Y’s who believe that they can hoodwink the authorities, his department had enough information about them.
2. In a four-hour long auction conducted by Christie’s for a NGO, paintings with ___ & ___ signatures on them walked away with maximum bid. The person who comes third is already being mention in one of my quizzes in the past.
3. Patna Municipal Corporation has hit upon a novel idea to collect taxes from commercial establishments, just tell me this unique Idea that might change their life.
Founder
4. X was then offered a chance to turn around a failing Y restaurant. Working with Y founder, X turned four ailing stores into million-dollar successes. He however later sold his Y franchises and opened his first.______
5. In year 1876 he founded his company. He then retired to farming in 1901, and seemed set in his ways. One fine morning when his wife wanted to tour the countryside in a fairly new the horseless carriage leads toward the development of _______ . [Presently I am using his companies’ product to stay connected with my friends.]
6. He was not known for his financial prowess, but was determined to make _____ commercially viable. While incarcerated in debtors' prison, he began mixing raw _____ with everything from witch hazel to cream cheese. Later he accidentally spilled a drop of ____ and sulfur on his burning stove. He had discovered the process of vulcanization, named for the Roman god of fire, and set the stage for the business boom spurred by the advent of cars.
PicQdOm
7. Connect:
8. Logo:
9. Who’s this gentleman?
[He was an American playwright, one of his works in 1953 is known to every business quizzer (title of the work)]
Siddharth Misra
PGDBM-II ( Agri – Business Management)
VAMNICOM , PUNE
1. X while inaugurating India’s first large _____ Unit, said Z would help his department to identify Y in the country. He said though there were a few Y’s who believe that they can hoodwink the authorities, his department had enough information about them.
2. In a four-hour long auction conducted by Christie’s for a NGO, paintings with ___ & ___ signatures on them walked away with maximum bid. The person who comes third is already being mention in one of my quizzes in the past.
3. Patna Municipal Corporation has hit upon a novel idea to collect taxes from commercial establishments, just tell me this unique Idea that might change their life.
Founder
4. X was then offered a chance to turn around a failing Y restaurant. Working with Y founder, X turned four ailing stores into million-dollar successes. He however later sold his Y franchises and opened his first.______
5. In year 1876 he founded his company. He then retired to farming in 1901, and seemed set in his ways. One fine morning when his wife wanted to tour the countryside in a fairly new the horseless carriage leads toward the development of _______ . [Presently I am using his companies’ product to stay connected with my friends.]
6. He was not known for his financial prowess, but was determined to make _____ commercially viable. While incarcerated in debtors' prison, he began mixing raw _____ with everything from witch hazel to cream cheese. Later he accidentally spilled a drop of ____ and sulfur on his burning stove. He had discovered the process of vulcanization, named for the Roman god of fire, and set the stage for the business boom spurred by the advent of cars.
PicQdOm
7. Connect:
8. Logo:
9. Who’s this gentleman?
[He was an American playwright, one of his works in 1953 is known to every business quizzer (title of the work)]
Siddharth Misra
PGDBM-II ( Agri – Business Management)
VAMNICOM , PUNE
Score BiZDoM 3*3 BiZ QuiZ 4
TANEJAD@iocl.co.in 0
"sangeeta banerjee" 4
"jeevesh gupta" 4
AbHiShEk UpAdHyA" 1
"shiv das" 4
"Prasoon Ranjan" 4
ritika.s@tcs.com 2
"Sures pai" 2
"Vashishta, Sushil Kumar" 1
"Rohit Jain" 1.5
"Nidhi" 0
"priyabrata padhi" 2
"roshan lal anand" 1
"Shrinidhi Rai" 0
Manikantan Narender 2
"sangeeta banerjee" 4
"jeevesh gupta" 4
AbHiShEk UpAdHyA" 1
"shiv das" 4
"Prasoon Ranjan" 4
ritika.s@tcs.com 2
"Sures pai" 2
"Vashishta, Sushil Kumar" 1
"Rohit Jain" 1.5
"Nidhi" 0
"priyabrata padhi" 2
"roshan lal anand" 1
"Shrinidhi Rai" 0
Manikantan Narender 2
Most Expensive Whisky Ever
World’s Most Expensive Whiskies
Most Expensive Whisky Ever
The Macallan Fine and Rare Collection, 1926, 60 Years Old
Price: $38,000
Detail: http://www.forbes.com/2006/06/13/cx_np_0614featslide.html?partner=msnbc
BiZDoM 3*3 BrAnD QuiZ 4
This time there will be little delay in providing you the Score & answer .
Desi Brand
1. It was a modest beginning -- from a roadside stall in the 'Moti Bazar' of the heart of the walled city. The Delhiwallas relished their Bikaneri Bhujia and Rasogollas and they fast grew to a regular sweets shop in the historic Chandni Chowk. Soon the love and affection of Delhiwallas earned them the name
2. It was started in year 1937, when Mr Agarwal set up shop in Bikaner. Incidentally, he was not the first to make bhujias. The credit for that, according to history, goes to Tansukhadas, his grandfather.
3. The Ad campaigns of this brand showed footballer players and athletes using it and the jingle followed made it a product for the male. [this is not a desi brand]
Name Game
4. This company was founded by Joyce, son of George and brother of Rollie and William. In India ITC along with a Delhi based Company is their major competitor, which company? [No Marks if you require anymore hints]
5. Name of this brand was a combination of surname of the founder and their foreign partner (containing first four alphabets in that order). Presently the foreign brand is own by another company (owned by some Jain) and endorsed by Big-B?
6. XYYYY.co.uk , is the official website of a company , where X is the starting letter of the brand and YYYY is the year of it’s formation. [ YYYY was a leap year starting on Tuesday & a Good year for ____( as this company ad line says ]
PicQdOm
7. Connect:
[1 pt for naming the connection & 3 pt for giving detail answer]
DFL
8. Logo:
[Alphabet== Industry]
9. Identify the two brothers?
Desi Brand
1. It was a modest beginning -- from a roadside stall in the 'Moti Bazar' of the heart of the walled city. The Delhiwallas relished their Bikaneri Bhujia and Rasogollas and they fast grew to a regular sweets shop in the historic Chandni Chowk. Soon the love and affection of Delhiwallas earned them the name
'BIKANERVALA'
2. It was started in year 1937, when Mr Agarwal set up shop in Bikaner. Incidentally, he was not the first to make bhujias. The credit for that, according to history, goes to Tansukhadas, his grandfather.
Haldiram
3. The Ad campaigns of this brand showed footballer players and athletes using it and the jingle followed made it a product for the male. [this is not a desi brand]
Lifebouy
Name Game
4. This company was founded by Joyce, son of George and brother of Rollie and William. In India ITC along with a Delhi based Company is their major competitor, which company? [No Marks if you require anymore hints]
HallMark
5. Name of this brand was a combination of surname of the founder and their foreign partner (containing first four alphabets in that order). Presently the foreign brand is own by another company (owned by some Jain) and endorsed by Big-B?
Chelpark
6. XYYYY.co.uk , is the official website of a company , where X is the starting letter of the brand and YYYY is the year of it’s formation. [ YYYY was a leap year starting on Tuesday & a Good year for ____( as this company ad line says ]
Kronenbourg 1664
PicQdOm
7. Connect:
[1 pt for naming the connection & 3 pt for giving detail answer]
DFL
8. Logo:
[Alphabet== Industry]
'Wallop' is an Internet social network service that originated from Microsoft Research.
9. Identify the two brothers?
McD
Score BiZDoM 3*3 BiZ QuiZ 3
Scores (in the order I received):
"Varadha" 4
"Sachin Kadam" 4
"Sapna Rao" 2
"Murali Duggineni" 4
"vijayanand" 3
"Sures pai" 1
"Anant Singhania" 2
"Souvik Mandal" 1
"Ramaswamy" 0
"Balaji Krishnan" 2
Tanejad 1
"deepak narayanan" 1
"sangeeta banerjee" 3
"Anand Shankar" 0
"Nidhi" 1
"Viraj Patil" 3
"manoj prasad" 2
"Prasoon Ranjan" 3
"itsmeappu joshi" 1
"Deepak Cherian" 1
"jeevesh gupta" 2
"akalpita kanegaonkar" 1
Ritika 2
"Arun Caashyap" 3
"ritwam sen" 2
"Arijit Mukhopadhyay" 2
"Mr Sunil Sarangi" 3
"sheetal koul" 3
"Shrinidhi Rai" 1
"roshan lal anand" 2 ( only person to answer the Logo)
"Varadha" 4
"Sachin Kadam" 4
"Sapna Rao" 2
"Murali Duggineni" 4
"vijayanand" 3
"Sures pai" 1
"Anant Singhania" 2
"Souvik Mandal" 1
"Ramaswamy" 0
"Balaji Krishnan" 2
Tanejad 1
"deepak narayanan" 1
"sangeeta banerjee" 3
"Anand Shankar" 0
"Nidhi" 1
"Viraj Patil" 3
"manoj prasad" 2
"Prasoon Ranjan" 3
"itsmeappu joshi" 1
"Deepak Cherian" 1
"jeevesh gupta" 2
"akalpita kanegaonkar" 1
Ritika 2
"Arun Caashyap" 3
"ritwam sen" 2
"Arijit Mukhopadhyay" 2
"Mr Sunil Sarangi" 3
"sheetal koul" 3
"Shrinidhi Rai" 1
"roshan lal anand" 2 ( only person to answer the Logo)
BiZDoM 3*3 Business QuiZ 3
Retail-Tale
1. Initiated as a 50 sq ft shop in Lal Bazar in Calcutta. It’s first store was in New Delhi Rajouri Garden, since then it has sat up 5 more in Delhi and 21 across North India. Name this famous Retail chain (may be not so famous)
2. This pricing strategy help Mcdonald to enhance its revenue by 33% and have its share rocketed by 170% a remarkable turnaround when 4 years ago it seems to be going nowhere, which pricing strategy I am talking about?
3. Who own Spencer’s brand? (Don’t tell me it’s RPG)
Great Wholesale Club Ltd, a little known RPG outfit that owns the Spencer's brand
CoMpQdOm
4. Connect: Rajeev Motwani, Krishna Bharat & Anurag Acharya
5. Fortune magazine had fun with his missionary "good against evil" character and depicted him as a ___wielding, comic-strip super hero in 1997 (believe it or not in real life he proudly wears his own ___ ring). Dubbed the "Anti-Gates," he has publicly called the Microsoft chairman "the most dangerous and powerful industrialist of our age." Who’s this gentleman?
6. Recently I come to know about an Indian website, which the article said is on the platform of a very famous Chinese website. Started by two IITans, one of them share his surname with your QM (hope by now you would be knowing my name!!) . Name this newly launched website ?
PicQdOm
7. Connect:
8. Logo:
Kuwait
9. Who’s this gentleman?
1. Initiated as a 50 sq ft shop in Lal Bazar in Calcutta. It’s first store was in New Delhi Rajouri Garden, since then it has sat up 5 more in Delhi and 21 across North India. Name this famous Retail chain (may be not so famous)
VISHAL MEGA MART by Ram Chander Aggarwal
2. This pricing strategy help Mcdonald to enhance its revenue by 33% and have its share rocketed by 170% a remarkable turnaround when 4 years ago it seems to be going nowhere, which pricing strategy I am talking about?
DOLLAR MENU , where all item cost under $1 ( sorry for the line “ when 4 years ago” )
3. Who own Spencer’s brand? (Don’t tell me it’s RPG)
Great Wholesale Club Ltd, a little known RPG outfit that owns the Spencer's brand
CoMpQdOm
4. Connect: Rajeev Motwani, Krishna Bharat & Anurag Acharya
Google Rajeev Motwani was one of the guys behind Larry Page's PageRank tech. similarly Krishna Bharat-Google News and Anurag Acharya-Google Scholar
5. Fortune magazine had fun with his missionary "good against evil" character and depicted him as a ___wielding, comic-strip super hero in 1997 (believe it or not in real life he proudly wears his own ___ ring). Dubbed the "Anti-Gates," he has publicly called the Microsoft chairman "the most dangerous and powerful industrialist of our age." Who’s this gentleman?
Scott McNealy
6. Recently I come to know about an Indian website, which the article said is on the platform of a very famous Chinese website. Started by two IITans, one of them share his surname with your QM (hope by now you would be knowing my name!!) . Name this newly launched website ?
Guruji.com founders Anurag Dod and Gaurav Mishra
PicQdOm
7. Connect:
But apart from this no one given any further linking of the picture, just HLL as answer was given by most of them.
Taj Mahal Hotel pic connection is the Taj mahal brand of tea owned by HLL & JBIMS connection is the location. i.e opposite the HLL head office.
8. Logo:
9. Who’s this gentleman?
C K Ranganathan
That’s all for now, hope you are Njoying
Siddharth Misra
PGDBM-II ( Agri – Business Management)
VAMNICOM , PUNE
Score : BiZDoM 3*3 BiZ QuiZ 2
A pretty good response to my second quiz ( 4 times more than the first one)
Scores (in the order I received):
"Ankur Jain" 2
"Rohit Jain" 0
"Sures pai" 0"
Varadha" 2
"Shrinidhi Rai" 1
"Hobbes ." 2
"rashmi bagri" 0
"Gokul Warrier" 1
"Amresh Kumar" 3
"sheetal koul" 3 ( she attempted only FinQd0m, 100%)
"manoj prasad" 0
"mahendra chauhan" 2( he also attempted only FinQd0m)
"Deepak Cherian" 2 ( he attempted only CoMpQdOm )
"Prasoon Ranjan" 2
"Anubhav Rastogi" 0
"Jacob Dijo" 0
Also please give some feedback about the Quiz to improve the same ,
Will back with the Quiz 3 very soon.
Scores (in the order I received):
"Ankur Jain" 2
"Rohit Jain" 0
"Sures pai" 0"
Varadha" 2
"Shrinidhi Rai" 1
"Hobbes ." 2
"rashmi bagri" 0
"Gokul Warrier" 1
"Amresh Kumar" 3
"sheetal koul" 3 ( she attempted only FinQd0m, 100%)
"manoj prasad" 0
"mahendra chauhan" 2( he also attempted only FinQd0m)
"Deepak Cherian" 2 ( he attempted only CoMpQdOm )
"Prasoon Ranjan" 2
"Anubhav Rastogi" 0
"Jacob Dijo" 0
Also please give some feedback about the Quiz to improve the same ,
Will back with the Quiz 3 very soon.
BiZDoM 3*3 BiZ QuiZ 2
CoMpQdOm
1. The ____AG has taken the goal to set a new standard in web hosting, to better serve the needs of the community. A virtually endless scalable system has been intended with more than 1000 Terabytes of space and 80 Gigabit/s of internet-bandwidth. I am sure you can’t have untouched by it.
2. Back during the Internet boom days, _____was truly dynamic and innovative. And they proved it by doing things like advertising their website on fruit label (this was back during the boom time, remember). What was innovative about their offerings was that they allowed a searcher to do natural language searching: enter a question instead of a search query
3. The word _____ has been around for many years and was even referred to in 1595 by Shakespeare in Richard II (Act 3, Scene 3)
FinQdOm (Finance Q)
4. This Greek represents the rate of change between an option portfolio's value and the underlying asset's volatility - in other words, sensitivity to volatility.
5. It was originally coined in the 18th century, at the London Stock Exchange, to refer to a broker who defaulted on his debts, thus gone bankrupted due to the stock market
6. This model was introduced by Jack Treynor, William Sharpe, John Lintner and Jan Mossin independently, building on the earlier work of Harry Markowitz on diversification and modern portfolio theory
Capital Asset Pricing Model
PicQdOm
7. Identify the advertiser.
8. Identify him, though not related to business but a must know.
9. Identify this management guru
सिद्धार्थ मिश्रा
Siddhart.misra@gmail.com
1. The ____AG has taken the goal to set a new standard in web hosting, to better serve the needs of the community. A virtually endless scalable system has been intended with more than 1000 Terabytes of space and 80 Gigabit/s of internet-bandwidth. I am sure you can’t have untouched by it.
RapidShare
2. Back during the Internet boom days, _____was truly dynamic and innovative. And they proved it by doing things like advertising their website on fruit label (this was back during the boom time, remember). What was innovative about their offerings was that they allowed a searcher to do natural language searching: enter a question instead of a search query
Ask Jeeves
3. The word _____ has been around for many years and was even referred to in 1595 by Shakespeare in Richard II (Act 3, Scene 3)
Portal
FinQdOm (Finance Q)
4. This Greek represents the rate of change between an option portfolio's value and the underlying asset's volatility - in other words, sensitivity to volatility.
Vega
5. It was originally coined in the 18th century, at the London Stock Exchange, to refer to a broker who defaulted on his debts, thus gone bankrupted due to the stock market
Lame duck
6. This model was introduced by Jack Treynor, William Sharpe, John Lintner and Jan Mossin independently, building on the earlier work of Harry Markowitz on diversification and modern portfolio theory
Capital Asset Pricing Model
PicQdOm
7. Identify the advertiser.
Wills Life style (I will try to avoid such question from now onward)
8. Identify him, though not related to business but a must know.
Barry O’ Brain (quizzing dynasty)
9. Identify this management guru
Father of Scientific Management F.
सिद्धार्थ मिश्रा
Siddhart.misra@gmail.com
TITANIC Luxury Bath Soap
This is a Pears soap, makers of the famous “Pears Pure Transparent Soap”.“Vinolia” TITANIC Luxury bath soap is the same soap supplied to all the first class passengers and used throughout all the public rooms on the RMS “TITANIC” and the “OLYMPIC”, Both ships belonging to the WHITE STAR LINE.
See the original advertisement on this page for the WHITE STAR LINE showing the “TITANIC” and “Vinolia” Luxury bath soap.
[Source: http://www.carbolicsoap.com/pears-vinolia-titanic-luxury-p-861.html]
BiZDoM 3*3 BiZQuiZ 1
Hi,
So yet another biz quiz, hmmmmm . But may be U found it bit intresting . Anyway this Quiz series is called as 3*3 , as it will contain 3 set of 3 questions each, thus a total of 9 questions . Result will be announce within 4-5 days. Bit easy one to start , but will certainly tries to improve the level so suggestion & feedback are also invited. So go ahead and mail your answers to siddhart.misra@gmail.com.
In the News
1. Durand Cup- India’s oldest & world’s third oldest football tournament, recently got a big boost with a new sponsor, a rather strange one.
Osian
2. Mr. Mckelvey recently resigned as chairman & CEO from a company he had founded some 40 years back.
Andy McKelvey (Monster.com)
3. Who has been named the 'businessperson of the year 2006' by UK Trade & Investment, the UK's overseas businesses promotion body?
Y C Deveshwar
Loosely Connected
4. He is often remembered for his management approach expressed in his book__________, His father, who ran daily business in Hungarian capital, was called up to a jewish labour battalion and sent to the eastern front in 1942. He was listed to be missing a year later. However father son meet in year 1945 when his father returned from a Russian prison camp.
Andrew Stephen Grove
5. It has been called as “son of the spam”, next big thing to be hate in Web 2.0
splogging
6. Mr X, a scientist at bell labs in his spare time developed a computer game called "Space Travel." The game simulated the motion of the planets in the solar system. The game ran on a GE 635 computer but the game's display was jerky and hard to control because the player had to type commands to control the ship. He rewrote 'Space Travel' to run on ___ machine. This ultimately led to the development of which great product? [X was help by some C-grade person]
Unix
PicQdOm
7. Identify him, not related to business.
Pervez Musharraf
8. Identify the advertiser. [Hint: the two color of this company logo were very much a buzz word in marketing world]
So yet another biz quiz, hmmmmm . But may be U found it bit intresting . Anyway this Quiz series is called as 3*3 , as it will contain 3 set of 3 questions each, thus a total of 9 questions . Result will be announce within 4-5 days. Bit easy one to start , but will certainly tries to improve the level so suggestion & feedback are also invited. So go ahead and mail your answers to siddhart.misra@gmail.com.
In the News
1. Durand Cup- India’s oldest & world’s third oldest football tournament, recently got a big boost with a new sponsor, a rather strange one.
Osian
2. Mr. Mckelvey recently resigned as chairman & CEO from a company he had founded some 40 years back.
Andy McKelvey (Monster.com)
3. Who has been named the 'businessperson of the year 2006' by UK Trade & Investment, the UK's overseas businesses promotion body?
Y C Deveshwar
Loosely Connected
4. He is often remembered for his management approach expressed in his book__________, His father, who ran daily business in Hungarian capital, was called up to a jewish labour battalion and sent to the eastern front in 1942. He was listed to be missing a year later. However father son meet in year 1945 when his father returned from a Russian prison camp.
Andrew Stephen Grove
5. It has been called as “son of the spam”, next big thing to be hate in Web 2.0
splogging
6. Mr X, a scientist at bell labs in his spare time developed a computer game called "Space Travel." The game simulated the motion of the planets in the solar system. The game ran on a GE 635 computer but the game's display was jerky and hard to control because the player had to type commands to control the ship. He rewrote 'Space Travel' to run on ___ machine. This ultimately led to the development of which great product? [X was help by some C-grade person]
Unix
PicQdOm
7. Identify him, not related to business.
Pervez Musharraf
8. Identify the advertiser. [Hint: the two color of this company logo were very much a buzz word in marketing world]
Pepsi Japanese Ad( 2 colour Red & blue famous for blue ocean stategy)
9. Connect
Prasoon Joshi
सिद्धार्थ मिश्रा
John Maynard Keynes
Though the world had embraced his ideas, he made it to the cover of the TIME magazine almost 20 years after his death.
Almarai
Almarai, meaning 'green pastures' in Arabic, is a household name in the Middle East. The largest dairy foods company in the Middle East. It controls more than 40% of the Saudi dairy market and much of the rest of Arab world
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