- Carrefour is a hypermarket chain owing its origin to which country?
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
Famous endorsers
- Which single brand/ organisation is endorsed by Ana Ivanovic, Sir Jackie Stewart, Bernhard Langer and Anoushka Shankar?
d) CRY
Watches
- A part of the name of this watch brand expands to ‘Techniques d’Avant Garde’. Which brand?
- This company founded in 1853 has the Swiss flag as a part of its logo. Which company?
- Which Geneva based luxury watch company founded in 1851, also operates a watch museum in Geneva?
- Rado, the Swiss watch maker is a part of which larger group of watch companies since 1988?d) Timex
Monday, May 18, 2009
Finance
- Named after a rogue trader, it is a fraudulent investment operation where extremely high returns are given to investors from the kitty of new investors, instead of a kitty from real gains. What is it called as?
- Who made the world’s largest public offer worth around $20 billion in 2006?
- Which institution’s seeds were sown as a result of the Buttonwood Agreement, named so literally because it happened below a buttonwood tree, way back in 1792? d) NASDAQ
- What was introduced in The Economist in September 1986 by Pam Woodall as a semi-humorous illustration that "sought to make exchange-rate theory a bit more digestible"?
- Which bank is acknowledged to have pioneered credit cards in India in 1981? c) d)ICICI Bank
Famous Taglines
- “The customer is always right” is a philosophy adopted by many companies. It was actually the motto of which company before the world of business considered it a must? d) Mcdonalds
Famous Personalities
- Dustin Moscovitz and Chris Hughes are the 2 of the less famous co-founders. But Mark Zuckerberg is indeed quite famous as the founder and CEO of what?
- He is a computer scientist. He is well known as the founder and Chairman Emeritus of MIT’s Media Lab and the founder of The One Laptop per Child association. Who is this?
Aviation
- Which is the world’s oldest airline to be still in business since 1919? (i) KLM (ii) Lufthansa (iii) Quantas (iv) British Airways
- Which company was previously called as Pacific Aero Products Co?
(i) Boeing (ii) (iii) (iv) Honeywell
Books
- Where Have All the Leaders Gone, Improving the Landscape of Your Life, Liberty for All – all of these books have been authored or co-authored by which famous business leader?
- Ideas – that have arrived/ in progress/ in battle/ to anticipate. These are all the chapters of which wonderful book?
Brands
- As often mentioned in its advertising, which brand has had extremely famous owners including the likes of Napolean Bonaparte, George Washington, Leo Tolstoy and Nicolas Sarkozy? d) Swatch
- It was originally produced by the Rowntree Limited of York, England as Rowntree Chocolate Crisp. It was supposed to be a snack that a 'man could have in his lunch box for work' and its current name is actually that of a seventeenth century political club for artists. What is it? d) Munch
- Rado, the Swiss watch maker is a part of which larger group of watch companies since 1988?d) Timex
- With which brand would you best associate the 7X formula? a)Coke b) Johny Walker c) Ca mpbell soup d) 7 UP
- It literally means “sunrise”. Which Japanese company are we talking about?d)Sony
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