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.

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.

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. W Taylor

सिद्धार्थ मिश्रा
Siddhart.misra@gmail.com

The first issue of Playboy.

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]

Pepsi Japanese Ad( 2 colour Red & blue famous for blue ocean stategy)
9. Connect

Prasoon Joshi

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