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

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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

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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

Bank of Ayudhya

A Public Company Limited located at 1222 Rama III Rd., Bang Phongphang, Yan NawaBangkok, 10120, Thailand . Named after the old capital of Thailand , of the kingdom of Ayutthaya that existed from 1350 to 1767. U Thong was an adventurer allegedly descended from a rich Chinese merchant family who married royalty. In 1350, to escape the threat of an epidemic, he moved his court south into the rich floodplain of the Chao Phraya. On an island in the river he founded a new capital, which he called Ayutthaya, after Ayodhya in northern India, the city of the hero Rama in the Hindu epic Ramayana.

TrIvIa

Adolf Hitler wanted to be an architect, but he failed the entrance exam at the architectural school in Vienna.

Adolf Hitler was Time's Man of the Year for 1938.

After the death of the genius, Albert Einstein, his brain was removed by a pathologist and put in a jar for future study.

Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, never telephoned his wife or mother because they were both deaf.

Alexandre Gustave Eiffel, the man who designed the Eiffel Tower, also designed the inner structure of the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbour.

Fidel Castro was once a star baseball player for the University of Havana in the 1940's.

Leonardo da Vinci was dyslexic, and he often wrote backwards.