Marketing/Retail

1. Carrefour is a hypermarket chain owing its origin to which country?
2. 
   

Famous endorsers

1. Which single brand/ organisation is endorsed by Ana Ivanovic, Sir Jackie Stewart, Bernhard Langer and Anoushka Shankar?
   
   a) Unicef b) Rolex c) PETA d) CRY

Watches

1. A part of the name of this watch brand expands to ‘Techniques d’Avant Garde’. Which brand?
2. This company founded in 1853 has the Swiss flag as a part of its logo. Which company?
3. Which Geneva based luxury watch company founded in 1851, also operates a watch museum in Geneva?
4. Rado, the Swiss watch maker is a part of which larger group of watch companies since 1988?
   
   a) Rolex b) Swatch Group c) Seiko d) Timex

Finance

1. 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?
   a) Milken Offer b) Ponzi Scheme c) Leeson Benefits
2. Who made the world’s largest public offer worth around $20 billion in 2006? a) EcoBank b) Industrial & Commercial Bank of China Ltd (ICBC) c) Reliance Power
3. 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? a) Bank of America b) Merryl Lynch c) NYSE d) NASDAQ
4. 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"?
5. Which bank is acknowledged to have pioneered credit cards in India in 1981? a)SBI b) Andhra Bank c) PNB d)ICICI Bank
   

Famous Taglines

1. “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? a) GE b) IBM c) Selfridges d) Mcdonalds
2. 
   

Famous Personalities

1. 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?
2. 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

1. Which is the world’s oldest airline to be still in business since 1919? (i) KLM (ii) Lufthansa (iii) Quantas (iv) British Airways
2. Which company was previously called as Pacific Aero Products Co?
   
   (i) Boeing (ii) 3M (iii) GE (iv) Honeywell

Books

1. 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?
   
2. Ideas – that have arrived/ in progress/ in battle/ to anticipate. These are all the chapters of which wonderful book?
   a) Gurcharan Das’ India Unbound b) Nandan Nilekani’s Imagining India c) Lee Iacocca’s Autobiography

Brands

1. 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? a) Victorinox Knives b) Breguet Watches c) Gaultier Bags d) Swatch
2. 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? a) Mars b) KitKat c) Toblerone d) Munch
3. Rado, the Swiss watch maker is a part of which larger group of watch companies since 1988?
   
   a) Rolex b) Swatch Group c) Seiko d) Timex
4. With which brand would you best associate the 7X formula? a)Coke b) Johny Walker c) Ca mpbell soup d) 7 UP
5. It literally means “sunrise”. Which Japanese company are we talking about?
   a) Sanyo b) Hitachi c) Panasonic d)Sony

TATAs

1. What are the 2 global brands for which Titan owns license to distribute in India?
2. What is the Headquarters of TATA industries called?
3. What is the retail chain of Tata selling consumer electronic products?

Mktg!

1. Who said 99% of advertising does not work?
2. BATOVKA was the first from this company & launched in 1897. Which company?
   
3. Dabur to tie up with 150 Dhabas to promote sales for which brand?
   
4. Sunil Chetri wears the jersey of which brand?
   
5. Reckitt Benckiser has launched recently 2 new flavours of Rose & Orange of which product?
   
6. Bild Lilli, this German product was the inspiration for which Global brand?
   
7. Which company brought Jockey into India?
   
8. Which company brought Virgin Mobiles in India?
9. With which well known brand are the companies Bector foods, Dynamix diaries & Amrit foods associated with?
10. Raymonds entered into the ready to wear business in 1986 with the introduction of this brand

some random ques

1. Which major country of the world shares the same independence date as India?

2. In modern day office slang what is referred to as the “circular file”?

a) A file containing discipline related notices put up on the office board b) The waste-paper bin c) Archive of data in the office server

3. Politely speaking it is referred to as “Retail Shrinkage”. What does it mean to convey?

Yet another quizzing blog..

With so many quizzing blogs around , I have also started another quizzing blog. So wats the USP of this one. Nothing much except that I will try to focus on 'simpler' questions which newbies to the quizzing world can enjoy rather than the std level of others. The format i plan to have is to have questions in the post with answers in comments.