BiZDoM 3*3 Business QuiZ 8

In the News

1. Connect: Indian Empress, Toyota & KBC- vijay mallya

2. This low-profile Indian conglomerate was little known outside the country, however recently it has re-branded itself. It also has the dubious distinction of being the first Indian Company to default on a foreign debt.-ESSAR

3. Rather than fight the lawsuit and prolong the development of the technology even further, X has bought Y out stake in the JV, which both of them had created [called as SED], in 2004 to work on the new television technology.-X- Canon, Y- Toshiba

Business Maharaja

4. During the First World War time, in order to keep the native tradesman on their side, British Government used to laurels them. In this regard he was honored in his life time. Later, they also made him an Honorary Magistrate. And, as he gave money for the war fund, they conferred on him the title of Rai Bahadur which he surrendered when he joined Non-Cooperation Movement in 1921.-Jamnalalji Bajaj

5. He laid the foundation for the motor transport industry in South India when he along with Kathar Nawas Khan first started a bus service in Madurai district in year 1912. His concept of speed limitation has paved its way to become a part of present day traffic rules. Later on this dynamic entrepreneur introduced the concept of “Test Drive “in India.-TV Sundaram Iyengar

6. They hailed from a small village called______ in Rajasthan. By 1860, their soaring ambitions under the British Raj took them to Kanpur. They used to be our regular recruiter, since they are into the business of Seeds also. Singhanias are famous because there is one family popularly known as "Singhania Family" which being one of the big industrial houses of the country. The JK Corp including JK Synthetics, JK Textiles (Raymonds), JK Cement and JK Tyres is owned by the members of the Singhania family.

PicQdOm

7. Identify the Logo.

[Hint: bank] Bank of China

8. Significance of this picture..

Girl is wearing the Hobble Skirt which inspired the Coca Cola Bottle

9. ConnectQ

Li Ka Shing
Li acquired his current flagship company Hutchison Whampoa Limited from HSBC
Ravi & Shashi Ruia [ Essar]
Rupert Murdoch [ purchase STAR TV from Li son]
NicK named as Superman

BiZDoM 3*3 Business QuiZ 7

EcoqDoM

1. There is ______ type of disequilibria in Indian agricultural market i.e. when there is a bumper harvest in a crop one year. As a result of that every one harvest same crop, thus there is slump, so next year no one harvest it, so this time prices goes up & again same cycle…

2. No product should be supplied by a firm unless its incremental revenues are expected to exceed its incremental cost. This theory was developed in the 1920s, which theory

3. Appeared in 1776, the same year the American Declaration of Independence was signed. The system in this book was based on rigid price controls, restraints on competition and countless other interventions by the state in economic life.

AdQdoM

4. This type of advertising is normally thought of an advertisement, message, or public communication regarding economic, political, or social issues. The advertising campaign is designed to persuade public opinion regarding a special issue important in the public arena.

5. Edward de Bono invented the word ________ to describe the act of being different just for the sake of being different (and believing that it equals “creativity”). This word is very often used by the ad-world people

6. Although World War II suspended production of many peacetime goods and services, many advertising agents found employment working for the War Advertising Council, which was responsible for mobilizing public support for the war effort. This organization later became _______.

PicQdOm

7. Identify the Doll.

8. Salman Khan inaugurates ____ outlet [hint is in pic only]

9. ConnectQ

1.Cobweb
2.Ramsay principle
3. ‘‘The Wealth of Nations’’
4.Advocacy advertising
5. Crazytivity
6. Ad Council
7. Doll is Sindy Dolls made by funschool India
8. Red Tape
9. AT&T or Bell Lab

Score BiZDoM 3*3 BiZ QuiZ 6

Sures pai
Alex Varghese 3
Taneja, Kartik 4
ramakrishnan r 4
piogniz R 1
Murali Duggineni 4
ARUN GEORGE 0 [ he is in 10th and is busy with board exams, gr8 going bro]
Abhimanyu Khan 2
manoj prasad
Sukrit
Karthik V R 4
aditya modi 3
Shafeeq S 1
Sarvashree b
Rohit Jain
Rajiv D'Silva 3
Ramachandran V 1
Mita 3
Sushil Kumar Vashishta 2
NIDHI NAHATA 4
Amit Roy 1
Abhinav kishore
Nupur maskara
praveen kumar 2

BiZDoM 3*3 Business QuiZ 6

Hi EveryOne i Am BacK , Hope U Will NjoY ! this new Quiz , WaitiNg FoR U'r ReLpY

CoMpQdOm

1. Between 1990 to 1999 this company built a hugely profitable PC business, growing its sales and profits at astonishing rates, with Compaq following respectably, Tandy and Apple lagging, and plenty of staggering wimps suffering erosion during the period, include AST, Digital, Atari, Tulip, Commodore, and Kaypro.

2. In 1873 Christopher Scholes developed this layout, named after the six letters in the top left row. Question is why he did so?

3. The whole concept began in the minds of three fellows at the Hingham Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts during the summer of 1961. First used at MIT on DEC's PDP-1, the large-scope display featured interactive used in it, inspired lot many.

FinQdOm (Finance Q)

4. What does the folkwisdom of “minding your Ps and Qs” means ?

5. Warren Buffet is widely credited for having propounded the ‘crayon rule’. What is the crayon rule?

6. They were typically small store front operations that catered to the small investor prior to the stock market crash of 1929. They used to takes positions opposite those of its clients, they actually tries to ensure that orders to buy nearly equal to that of sell order.

PicQdOm

7. Identify the LoGo.

8. Identify him, two of his company come for campus recruitment at our institute [we are into Agri Business].

9. ConnectQ

Amswer
1. Dell
2. When the typewriter was invented, when somebody typed at a reasonable speed, the heads got entangled and typing could be resumed only after disentangling these,thus hampering the process of typing.Christopher Scholes developed the QWERTY layout placing the most frequntly used letters as far apart as possible, in an attempt to reduce the typing speed [ as answer by Shafeeq]
3. Spacewar
4. This means grasping the basics nuance of accounting, and governance [ hmm tough one, i guess], however i did't ask the Q properly it was “minding your Ps and Qs” in investing term, sorry for that. though in the present formate Murli & Kartik were right
5. Don’t invest in any Co. whose product you can’t draw with a crayon.
6. Bucket Shops[ only answer by Karthik]
7. Kookaburra
8. Ajay Shriram, the chairman and senior managing director of DCM Shriram
9. Philips - The two gadgets are Philishave razors, the building is the Philips HQ, the stadium belongs to PSV Eindhoven and the old chap is the founder of the company? [ as given By Rajiv D' Silva]. Only correction is that hte pic is of Frits Philips,who saved the lives of 382 Jews by indicating to the Nazis that they were indispensable for the production process at Philips workshop.

SiDdHaRtH MisRA

FinqDom

Hi,friends so here i present my first quiz on this blog n i call this series as bizdom from shivy, i must mention that i m taking a cue from my senior partner Siddharth Misra who was the creator of earlier series of bizdom, so i hope there will be many answers with feedbacks.So here we start with the first of our series.

1. unsecured, high-yield, subordinated debt or preferred stock that represents a claim on a company's assets that is senior only to that of a company's shareholders.give the term for this definition.

2.This organisation was founded in 1919 by C.V.Starr in Shanghai, China. Starr was the first Westerner in Shanghai to sell this product/service to the Chinese. When his business was successful there, he expanded to Asia, Latin America, Europe, and the Middle East.In 1962, Starr gave management of the company's unsuccessful U.S. holdings to Maurice R. "Hank" Greenberg, who shifted the company's U.S. focus from personal insurance to high-margin corporate coverage.Which organisation am i talking about?

3.This great personality is an Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer of the 1964 batch. Prior to joining the IAS, he worked as a lecturer from 1961. He holds a Ph.D. from Osmania University, Hyderabad, and was a visiting faculty at the Osmania University and the London School of Economics. Who is this great personality?


4.In 1990, the logo plus typography and typeface was designed by Landor Associates. The shield symbolises reliability, tradition, protection and security, the colour combination green (turquoise),
yellow and grey sets it apart from logos of predecessors and rivals while at the same time being very modern, distinguished and clear. Which bank's logo am i talking about?


5.This bank mainly focuses on rural areas and less on urban ones. However, it's subsidiary has a good presence in the big cities, and the combination gives the banking group a leading market share in French territory.It is the largest banking group in France, second largest in Europe and the sixth largest in the world by Tier 1 capital according to The Banker magazine. Which is this banking group?

6.On 14th September 1918 , this Banking Society was founded. Mr. J.K. Parulkar became its first Chairman,The Bank has the unique distinction of being a witness to History. The Bank, which was originally founded in 1918, i.e. close on the heels of the Russian Revolution, also witnessed as a Society and as Bank-the First World War, the Second World War.

7.Identify the gentleman in the pic/painting