This company was founded in 1926 by an accounting professor of the University of Chicago's Booth school of business. They started the practice of hiring recent b school graduates as opposed to experienced managers, which was the norm back then. ID.
Answer:McKinsey
Another easy one. Which is the only foreign bank to be locally listed in India?
Read more...Fairly straightforward one: Name the four institutions the gentlemen featured on the cover represented.
X is a Champagne house, a producer of sparkling wines from the Champagne region of France. They produce several labels of Champagne under the X name, including the vintage Vieille Vignes Françaises, Grand Année and R.D. as well as the non-vintage Special Cuvée. Founded in 1829 in Aÿ by Hennequin de Villermont, Paul Renaudin and Jacques X the house continues to be run by members of the X family. In Britain X Champagnes are affectionately known as "Bolly". X is also a household name for followers of a certain franchise .ID.
Answer:Bollinger it is! Cracked by Bindu, OJ and Harsh!
Since its founding, X has never worn corporate advertisements on their shirt. However in 2006, this football club announced a five year agreement with Y, which includes having the Y logo on their shirts.ID.
Answer: FCB and UNICEF. Cracked by Vijay!
Which company manufactures these phones?(Hint:In the news recently)
Originally organized as an aerospace engineering firm, X has become one of the world's largest, most diversified multinational corporations. Under the astute - some would say, ruthless - management of its founder, Y, X grew and prospered, absorbing scores of smaller businesses.Some of it's first acquisitions were Inter-Continental Airlines and Atlantic Coast Air Systems. It soon bought out Southwestern petroleum. X has domestic holdings in Los Angeles, Denver, Houston, New Orleans, Chicago and Boston. X currently maintains financial institutions, research facilities, refineries, and/or manufacturing plants in a score of countries, including Australia, Venezuela, Argentina, Brazil, Germany, Switzerland, France, the Union of South Africa, Saudi Arabia, Japan, Singapore, and the free market of Hong Kong. ID.
Answer:Lexcorp and Lex Luthor! Cracked by Arvind, Super Vijay and Sunny!
This eponymous company was founded by a pharmacist, who developed a food for babies who were unable to breastfeed. His first success was a premature infant who could not tolerate his mother's milk or any of the usual substitutes. People quickly recognized the value of the new product, after his new formula saved the child's life. ID.
Answer: Nestle. Cracked by Arvind and CKS Vijay!
What business first is associated with this book?
Doctor, Wing Sung, Happiness, Huafu, Xinming, Guanleming, Xinhua, and Gentleman are some of this company's lesser known products. However it is best known for manufacturing the product X, which is a household name in India. Identify X and the company that makes it.
Answer:It is indeed the Shanghai Hero pen company, most famous for it's Hero pens. Cracked by Vijay and Rijo!
X on Y,""Y came to Z in 1986. Very quickly, I realized we had acquired an extraordinary talent. So I did the logical thing: I wrote his parents in New Delhi and asked if they had another one like him at home. Of course, I knew the answer before writing. There isn’t anyone like Y. " Identify X,Y and Z(Company).
Answer:X is Warren Buffett. Y is Ajit Jain. Z of course ise Berkshire Hathaway.Cracked by Arvind Srikantan and the novice.
In 1908, leading figures such as Bhai Vir Singh, Sir Sunder Singh Majitha and Sardar Tarlochan Singh founded this bank to help the weaker section of the society in their economic endeavours to raise their standard of life.This was the one of the few banks in northern India which has honored the obligations of the migrating people from Pakistan. This despitethe fact that all its major branches were left in Pakistan and only a few branches were in India after partition. ID.
Answer:Punjab and Sind bank. Cracked by Vijay and the novice!
ID the structure(Was in the news recently):
This company derives it's name from a city in the Ibaraki prefecture in Japan.Established in 1910 as an electrical repair shop,today it is one of the leading manufacturers in new technology. ID.
Answer: Hitachi it is! Cracked by Rijo, Arvind, Gautamjay and the novice.
Connect microfortnights, parsecs, microweeks, gigawatts, centibeats, femtogalactic years, hertz, times the velocity of an unladen swallow, centons, femtogalactic years, centibeats, jiffies, nanocenturies, microweeks, at warp, epochs etc.
Answer: This was a part of Google's All Fools Day Hoax, 2010. The search times were diplayed in the above mentioned units. Cracked by Arvind and Vijay!
This chain was originally founded by a former marine in 1962. Being an avid Mexican food take-out customer, he decided to start a restaurant which could provide mexican food without delay by changing the method of preparation. ID.
Answer:Taco Bell it is! Cracked by Rohit, the trooper, Arvind, the novie and Vijay!
Identify this landmark building:
Identify the logo:
What product owes it's name to a town/municipality lying in the shaded region depicted?
Identify this logo(Hint: Related to a controversial issue that's been in the news for quite some time now):
Jim Murray is the world's first-ever full-time Whisky Writer. He is best known for his observations on whisky and his annually updated book on the subject, Jim Murray's Whisky Bible.Which Indian whisky brand was rated the third finest in his Whisky bible 2010?
Answer:Amrut made by the Amrut distilleries. Cracked by the novice!
Identify the author of this book:
Sitter: Which company originally began as GE Capital International Services or GECIS?
Answer:Genpact. Cracked by the novice!
This company was founded in 1945, just a few weeks after World War II, by eight engineers of the University of Hannover in a laboratory called Laboratorium Wennebostel. The laboratory was named after the village of Wennebostel, where it had been moved to due to the war. Its first product was a voltmeter. ID.
Answer:Sennheiser. Cracked by none.
This person got an MS degree on his dissertation "Provincial Decentralisation of Imperial Finances in British India" and a DSc degree on the thesis "The Problem of Rupee — Its Origin and Solution" from the prestigious London School of Economics. He was one of the first Indian students to obtain a doctorate from the LSE. Identify this very famous Indian.
Answer:DR.B.R.Ambedkar. Cracked by Rijo P, sattepesatta and the novice.
Connect:
This company was founded by two brothers, John and Horace. John was the sales oriented managerial type,while Horace was a gifted mechanic and inveterate tinkerer. Using a dirt-proof ball bearing Horace invented and patented, in 1897 John arranged a deal for them to join with a third party investor to manufacture bicycles. Within a few years, they sold the business and in 1900 used the proceeds of the sale to set up their own machine shop in Detroit. ID.
Answer: Dodge it is! Cracked by Rijo, Nikhil, the novice and Neo Quiz Spot team!
This word is of Italian origin, and in Italian refers to a male or female "bartender", who typically works behind a counter, serving both hot drinks (such as espresso), and cold alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages. This word is also the name of a well known brand in India. What's the good word?
Answer: Barista! Cracked by Dinesh and the novice.
Before X's official incorporation, the founder wrote down several words from the game Go, eventually choosing X, a term which in the context of the game means a state where a stone or group of stones is imminently in danger of being taken by one's opponent.The word 'X' is used in Japanese when a prediction comes true or when someone wins a lottery. Identify X.
Answer: Atari it is. Cracked by Rijo, the novice and Ameen!
Identify this legendary businessman.
X traces its history back to the late 19th century to the city of Geneva, Switzerland where Arthur X developed a reputation for making solid and durable pocket watches. X has been in the news recently owing to it's association with Y, a very famous event. Identify both.
Answer:X is Bandelier. Y is IPL 3. Cracked by the novice, Kaushik and Bala!
Connect:
This monk gives his name to what brand?
Connect(Sitter):
This company’s origins can be traced back to the Societa Scientifica Radio Brevetti X founded by three brothers, Adriano, Marcello and Bruno, in 1926 in Bologna. It initially manufactured vacuum tubes, condensers and other radio components. Production was maintained during World War II, despite the X factory being a repeated target for Allied bombing. After the war, they branched out into a completely different line of business and they have achieved considerable success in this field. Identify.
X is Ducati. Cracked by none.
Connect to a legendary personality:
Which was the first mass marketed magazine to be printed on carbon
neutral paper?
Answer: Rolling Stone Magazine. Cracked by Meenakshi and Kaushik!
X’s fledgling textile company, Y, was just starting to take off. His new line of polyester yarns was doing well, but India's shaky power grid and the rising cost of electricity offset any profits. So he decided to generate his own power. The rest as they say is history. Identify both.
Answer: X is Tulsi Tanti, Y Suzlon. Cracked by Kaushik!
The name X has been associated with the iron industry for more than 350 years . Located in Karlskoga, Sweden, it originates from the hammer mill “X" founded in 1646. The company was founded in 1873. In 1999 Saab purchased the Celsius Group, then the parent company for X. The company’s most famous owner was Alfred Nobel who owned the company from 1894 until his death in December 1896 and played a key role in reshaping it to a modern cannon manufacturer and chemical industry. Identify X.
Answer: Bofors. Cracked by Kaushik!
This group is a diversified business house with a predominant focus on infrastructure - power, roads and urban infrastructure. The Company also has a significant position in services and manufacturing. As contractors, this company commissioned the NagarjunasagarDam - the world's largest masonry dam - in the 60s. They built the first five star hotel in Hyderabad and were also behind the development of India’s first independent power plant. Identify.
Answer:GVK group. Cracked by Kaushik!
What in the world of business derives it's inspiration from the following coat of arms?
This was started by a group of six young men, led by G. Subramania Aiyer, a radical social reformer and school teacher from Thiruvaiyyar near Thanjavur. Aiyer, then 23, along with his 21-year-old fellow-tutor and friend at Pachaiyappa's College, M. Veeraraghavachariar of Chingleput, and four law students, T.T. Rangachariar, P.V. Rangachariar, D. Kesava Rao Pantulu and N. Subba Rao Pantulu started this with one British rupee and twelve annas of borrowed money. Over the years it has grown by leaps and bounds and has received international recognition. Identify.
Answer: The Hindu. Cracked by Kaushik!
Back after a long hiatus! Conducted a quiz at college today. I shall try reviving this blog by posting questions from it in the next few days. Starting with this:
Which is the only private sector supercomputer in the world?
Answer: EKA supercomputer, built by CRL(TATA group). Cracked by Dilip and Kaushik!
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