BiZdOm 3 * 3 BiZ QuiZ 19

BiZ HiSToRy

1. Paper money was first introduced in India in the late 18th Century. Among the early issuers, “this bank”(1773-75) was a state sponsored institution set up in participation with local expertise. Its notes enjoyed government patronage

---General Bank of Bengal and Bahar

2. Establishment of this business begins in year 1696, with the first register office in England , which was “Hand in Hand Society”. In India first of its kind was started in Bengal Presidency in year 1818. Which modern day famous business are we talking about?

Life Insurance

3. Founded in Exchange Alley about 1680, it was a suspect house in the Popish scare and several of its patrons were implicated in the assassination plot again William III in 1696. From 1762 until 1773, it became a club for London's leading stock-jobbers and served as the city's first stock exchange.

--Jonathan's Coffee House

In The News

1. On Dec 1 , Indian Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil released a 42 minute film named 'Saavdhan' -a film on AIDS awareness- which has been produced by UNAIDS in association with whom ?

-- BSF

2. Which media house has launched 'Aaja Nachle - Madhuri Makeover contest’? Three winners of the contest which is open for only female viewers, will be given a makeover by Manish Malhotra and Subbu, the designer-stylist team of Madhuri Dixit in the film Aaja Nachle.

-- CNN-IBN and IBN 7 in association with Buzz18.com

3. While India is slogging out against Pakistan in a cricket Test match in Kolkata, another face-off is tipped to be developing here between two bankers with origins in the two countries -- that for the position of CEO at worlds largest bank Citigroup. Name the two contenders for this job?

-- Vikram S Pandit, currently Citigroup's investment banking head and a former Morgan Stanley investment banker, and Shaukat Aziz, formerly the bank's global private banking business head and most recently the prime minister of Pakistan

पिच्क्दोम

1. Identify the advertiser

Goodyear

2. Identify the duo

Hugh and Christie Hefner

3 Identify this desi band

Indian Ocean band

November's biz quiz

The following questions are related to events which happened in the past month.Kindly give ur feedbacks.Pls note ans will be given to only those who reply (a common rule to all the Quizzes posted on Bizdom)

Q.1.This has been made in collaboration with Marcopolo of Brazil,This will be a refreshing change considering the state of the existing ones in Delhi,and what more the the expenditure to use it won’ t increase.It will be found between Saket and Shivaji stadium ? what am I talkin about?

Q.2.They left a small ad agency with the only small account they worked to set up this agency on April 1 1982 in Portland Oregeon,initially they didn’t even have the capital to have their own telephones but for the iconic work they did for that local account it went on become one of the largest agency in the world?Which agency and who was the account and what was the work they did for that account?

Q.3.They have their new manufacturing facility in Apache SEZ in Tamil Nadu,according to their CEO their new products will be more electronic driven, something which has already started.About forty years ago 80% of their T shirts were made up of cotton but now majority if them are made using Climalite and Climacool technologies.Which is this very famous company?

Q.4.According to which index has India’s rank moved up to 86 although it is still the lowest amongst the E 7 countries?

Q.5.He joined his current organization in 1998 as vice president and general manager .prior to joining this organsiation he cofounded a company called Pictura in 1996.Who is he?

Q.6.The Street of dreams project was brought into practice in Dubai.Which organization is behind it?

Q.7.This company will be showcasing its luxury segment car in 2008 auto expo alongside Grande Punto and Sedan Linea?Which company and which car?

Q.8.It is government managed program linked to the private sector needs.The private sector companies provide with the necessary input materials which helps to attune according to the market needs.Their major clients (in a sense ) include ITC,Future Group ,Mc Donalds,Unilever and many more retailing companies?What is this programme,please don’t mistake this to be a cooperative society making some product or any agriculture produce society!

Q.9.Which company would you associate with Kinder Sorpresa Eggs, Nutella Mon cheri and tic tac?

Q.10 This is my favourite question. In tourism industry what is meant by “set jetting”?

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CoMpQdOM [HacKer]

1. He was with US Air Force in 1964, and while stationed in Alaska helped his fellow servicemen make free phone calls home by devising access to a local telephone switchboard. After being honorably discharged from the Air Force in 1968, he adopted the counterculture of the times and operated a pirate radio station out of a Volkswagen van.

2. Kevin D Mitnick – Hacker and phreaker, served five years. Widely considered the 'most famous hacker in history'. Broke into Digital Equipment Corp, Motorola, Nokia, Fujitsu, Novell, NEC, Sun Microsystems, the University of Southern California, the Well and Colorado SuperNet, just to name a few. What nickname did he use?

3. This Phone 'Phreaker' is the hero of Internet hackers and crackers around the world. Name this bestselling author of "The Art of Deception".

BrAnDeD WaTeR [ very much googleable ]

1. For centuries in Italy, this brand has been referred as “baby’s water,” raising their children from infancy on this clear, crisp water because of its lightness, high quality and purity—appropriate for even a newborn’s delicate digestive system. The source is located 3,700 feet high in the serene Tuscan Apennines of Northern Italy. Name the brand?

2. It was Leonardo da Vinci who first made the town of San Pellegrino famous, but it’s the delicious, thirst-quenching properties of the area’s natural mineral water that made the this brand name famous worldwide. Name the brand?

3. This famous non-sparkling European water comes from Source Cachat in France, where the water emerges from a tunnel in the mountain at 52.88 degrees Fahrenheit. The source is fed from the melted snow and rain that filters through glacial sand from the Vinzier Plateau over a period of fifteen years. Name the brand?

PiCQdOm

1. I am famous modern day yoga guru, having taught Subroto Roy and Raveena Tandon .Can you name me …?

2. My album changed trends of music in India & Pakistan, it was first South Asian album hit in Brazil and Russia also . Name the album …?

3. Which brand is been advertised below?

BiZdOm 3 * 3 Business QuiZ 17

InVenTiOnS TiDbIT

1. In 1980, Alain Bélanger, a research chemist, was working with Georges Teutsch at Roussel Uclaf, a French pharmaceutical company. Teutsch and Bélanger were interested in understanding how changes in steroids affect the chemicals’ ability to bind to their steroid receptors. Result was “RU-486”, the first commercially available drug for that purpose, for what purpose “ RU-486 “ being invented.?

--RU-486 was the first commercially available drug that prevented fertilized eggs from implanting themselves in the walls of women’s uteruses.

2. It was first inexpensive and easy-to-use camera available to the general public, revolutionizing photography by making it possible for every person to become a photographer. Its advertisements proclaimed that everyone—even children—could take good pictures with the camera.

-- Brownie camera

3. Working for the General Electric Research Laboratory, Nobel laureate Irving Langmuir and his assistant researcher and technician, Vincent Joseph Schaefer, began an intensive study of precipitation and its causes. This lead to a very useful invention, name the invention?

-- Cloud seeding, Technique for inducing rainfall by distributing dry ice or silver nitrate into reluctant rainclouds.

MaNAgEmENt TiDbIT

1. In 1849, Elisha King Root went to work for Samuel Colt at his Connecticut factory and proved to be a manufacturing genius. He used “this management concept/principle “to make the famous Colt “Six-Shooter. Later Henry Ford applied Root’s idea for the making of its car engines. Which concept are we talking?

-- Idea of “division of labor”

2. First set of experiments was carried on factory workers between 1924 and 1932. Later second set of experiments began and were supervised by Harvard University professors Elton Mayo, Fritz Roethlisberger and William J. Dickson. The effect was an important milestone in industrial and organizational psychology, organizational behavior, and Ergonomics. Name this famous management effect….

--- The term gets its name from a factory called the Hawthorne Works

3. As of January 1 2007, it has 19,216 members (including 13,491 full timer and 3,049). However demography wise South Asia has maximum [20 %]. Also according to Peter Drucker, "it was most successful staff organization in the world.”. What are we talking about?

-- Society of Jesus, a Christian religious order of the Roman Catholic Church in service to the universal Church.

PiCQdOm

1. Nicknamed as Jack, whose logo is this .. Jack, the Cingular Wireless logo.

2. Which Indian FMCG used this mythological creature as its logo? --Karnataka Soaps and Detergents Limited. Sharabha, a mythological creature having a body of a lion and the head of an elephant, was chosen as the logo of the company.

3. Name this cultural icon of the United States?--Rosie the Riveter is a cultural icon of the United States , representing the six million women who worked in the manufacturing plants that produced munitions and materiel during World War II.

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AdQdoM

1. He is regarded as the patron saint of American advertising. He was not only a writer, editor, and publisher, but an aggressive adman as well. He had published the Pennsylvania Gazette, which carried ads for soap, books, stationery, and the 1730 almanac of Godfrey and Titan Leeds.

2. This brand has released an online game for PC called Mojo Master to promote their products. The game has the player trying to seduce digital women using its products to help them out.

3. In 1951, who appeared in a T-shirt and jeans in the film A Streetcar Named Desire
, which made the sales of T-shirts spiked to new heights.

In The News

1. This brand has launched an exclusive campaign targeted to tap the burgeoning market for women's wear in India. Its campaign 'I am More' targets the untapped women customer base.

2. Catherine McQueen, who starred in the Ice Palace in the Pierce Brosnan James Bond movie "Die Another Day" as a Russian model is all set to make an India debut featuring in an ad-film for which brand?

3. Who has launched country’s first customised luxury holiday package — Paradiso’s 101 Millionaire Holidays. The offering includes holidays at over 165 luxury properties across the globe, including exclusive island holidays at a whopping $46,000 a night.

PiCQdOM

1. Which famous Motor Company has this as its FIRST corporate logo?



















2. Which world famous media company's Head Office is been displayed here ?



















3. What's so special about this barbie pic..?