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Business Quiz Set - 53

1) X products carry the image of an elderly African-American named Frank Brown has been associated with X for last 70 years.  He was Gordon L Harwell a supplier of X to armed forces in WWII who chose this face for the brand to expand its product in US. As a part of advertisement to see Brown popularity, he was promoted to the chairman of the board in the company. Id which brand is this ?

- Uncle Ben's

2) Real Value Appliances owned by Mr. Pheroze Engineer started operations in late 1980's bringing to the country a new concept faded out after 12 years what product did they bring to the country ?

- Fire Extinguisher

3)  He is a French-Lebanese-Brazilian based businessman who is also a chairman of a Russian based automobile manufacturer. According to some resources he was hailed as a potential presidential candidate in Lebanon 2014.  Acc. to a survey by life-insurance company AXA, he was in top ten list to run the Japan. Who I am talking about who also earned nickname of Mr. Fixit. 

- Carlos Ghosn

4) Josiah Wedgwood, a 18th century entrepreneur known for pioneering this marketing strategy which has grown significantly over the last few years which has become standard practice today in direct marketing Very often, unreliable businesses use it as a tact to reel the customer into a false sense of safety.  This tech was major tool for company like Richard Sears & Crosely to win there customer confidence. Id which marketing strategy talked about ? 

- Money-back guarantee

5) Connect 

-  Birla 
a) Jay Mehta, earlier married to Sujata Birla, sister of Yash Birla
b) Yash Birla Group logo
c) Hindustan Times newspaper owned by Shobhana Bhartia, daughter of KK Birla
d) Aditya Birla Group's fibre division, Birla Cellulose

6) Id this Norwegian Nobel laureates who was first to receive in this category & he is widely known for coining two most important term in 1933.  ID him and term he coined ? 

- Ragnar Frisch; Micro & Macroeconomics

7) Id the logo of which organisation founded in 1999 ? 

-  Michael & Susan Dell Foundation

Business Quiz Set - 52

1) X was originally founded in Sweden by two frustrated music lovers having its headquarter in the Berlin. The founders initially aspired to allow musicians to share recordings with each other, but the concept later transformed into a full publishing tool that also allowed musicians to distribute their music tracks. The Government of Turkey blocked its access in 2014 when several phone call conversations were leaked of Turkish Prime Minister on X. Id what I am talking about ? 

- SoundCloud

2) In September 1948, President of X country attended a conference in Geneva. As he was scheduled to fly back in an military aircraft but as embargo was imposed at the time by European countries and US, as X were embroiled in war with Arab States. This was not possible for them to use military transport aircraft so X nation had to convert its transport into a civilian plane to transport President of Nation X home and in result Y Airline was incorporated and became a national carrier in late 1940's. Which Airline is this considered to be one of the world's most secure airlines? 

-  Israel Airline 

3)  What was started by these two in mid 90's as a supplier of Images to advertiser, media and corporate houses ?

- Getty Images, Inc.

*4) This is concept of Management theory in which selection/promotion of a candidate for a particular position is based on his previous & current performance on the job rather than his competency level and as a result he stops performing on his new job as he may not have required skills for the job which has been assigned to him in result failed to get promotion further. How do we know this concept ? 

- Peter Principle

5) This is an Indian book award hosted by a Mumbai based Bookstore which was instituted in 1998 with intention of competing with Booker Prize, Pulitzer Prize etc. This award has been sponsored by many companies since its inception which includes Hutch, Vodafone, The Economist and currently sponsored by Raymond Group. Id the award I am talking about ? 

- Crossword Book Award 

*6) He worked for many years as a journalist with the Time. He wrote books on company like Apple and Chrysler.  He switched his career in 1986 to become a venture capitalist, one of the early  investor in Yahoo who convinced its founders to commercialise their web directory. He is today most respected venture capitalist some of his investment is in PayPal, Youtube, Zappos etc and served at board of Google, PayPal. Id who I am talking about ? 

- Michael Jonathan Moritz

7) Id the logo of which US based fashion brand ? 

- Coach INC

Business Quiz Set - 51

1) In 2012, a petition was created on the White House website through a campaign "We The People" asking to end the ban on the import and sale of X in the United States. However the petition failed to meet the required number of signatures and was therefore declined. For what the petition was filed ? 

- Kinder Joy 

2) A book on a corporation, completing its 150 year of its existence ? (Coincidently we are also celebrating its 150 year celebration somehow :P)

  - HSBC 

3) It is kind of portraits which was the cheapest way of recording a person appearance before the advent of photograph in which a person or any object or scene represented as a solid shape of a single colour mainly black. It was cheap and alternative to the portrait miniature & specialist artist. 

      A particular word/term is used for such portraits or art form in mid 18th century  which derives from the name of a French Finance Minister who took severe economic measure to cope with credit crisis in late 1750's. And because of several austerity measure his name became synonymous with the anything done or made cheaply specially for these portraits. Id what is the term named after this Fin. Minister ? 

- Silhouette

4) It is based on free software and named after the Southern African philosophy meaning 'humanity towards others' or "the belief in a universal bond of sharing that connects all humanity". This is a Operating System developed by a South African entrepreneur and space tourist with a vision to provide access to all software should be free to all and available to everybody on the same terms. Today it is funded by Canonical Ltd. Id what I am talking about ?

- Ubuntu

5) It is generally believed X method  was first introduced by Frederic Le Play in 1829. which was further developed by the two sociologists Barney Glaser and Anselm Strauss in their research named Grounded theory in 1960's. Later this method earned great popularity in the world of education. What is this has been talked about ? 

- Case Study Method 

6) Give me overall connection ? 

- Silvio Berlusconi, former PM of Italy. He is a controlling shareholder of Mediaset, owner of A.C. Milan and founded Forza Italia

7) This  is an Indian Conglomerate Company founded by Dr. Ramachandra Naidu Galla in mid 1980's. Group having its presence in packaged foods, beverages, infrastructure sector, metals product etc. But this group is better known for its brand X which is second largest selling product in its segment. Id the group and brand X ? ( logo of group given below) 

- Amara Raja Group and battery brand 'Amaron'

Business Quiz Set- 50

1) What trademark is owned by William Longe since 1985, who is the owner of brand Leonard in Geneva which sells items like jewelry, precious stones, and timepieces of any kind etc. Id the trademark which is in news now days ? 

- Apple Watch,  which is not released in Switzerland 

2) This famous entity was started by Kapil Ram Vakil as Okha Works with the support of Gaekwar of Baroda which was later sold to Tata for Rs 11.5 lakh. How do we know this in today world ? 

 - Tata Chemical 

3) The company was first established as National Motor in 1937, later changed its name to Saenara Motor in 1960's. In Europe it was sold with the tagline "________ has grown up enough to become Chevrolet". Id which company it is own by GM ? 

- Daewoo

4) Isak Andic is a self-made textile billionaire, whose family came to Spain from Turkey. He opened his first store in Barcelona in 1984. He later joined with fellow entrepreneur Enric Cusí and his brother and re-denominated all their stores under the name X. Name of this brand was chosen by Andic after tasting the fruit on a trip to the Philippines and for the fact that the word is pronounced the same in every language. Id which retail brand is this named after a fruit ? 

- Mango

5) Reginald Myles an Australian businessman who started his road transport business which had become so successful it was threatening the freight & passenger revenue of Victorian Railway. This led the state government to legislate to put private road transport operators out of business. This inspired Myles to estd his own airline company which was under control of federal govt. and beyond the reach of state govt. Id which airline did he start named after him ? 

- Ansett Australia

6) It is a shorter dress around knee length. Prior to mid 20th century this type of dress was known as "Late Afternoon" dress. In early 20th century some designers began describing it 'Dancing Costumes". It was Christian Dior who first used X term for this costume in 1940's and since then we know this dress by this name.  Id which costume specially for parties ? 

- Cocktail Dress

7) Id the logo of which group majorly known for its Financial services ? 

-  Saradha Group, infamous for Chit-fund Scam