Business Quiz Set 55

 1) This is a premium brand of shoes from a little-known Bangalore based company - Sara Suole. This brand known for its statement "Pity we don't make shoes for women". Id the brand ? 

- RUOSH

2) Indian Ocean : Maldives, Mauritius, Seychelles

    Middle East : Bahrain, Jordan, Lebanon

    North Atlantic : Bermuda 

    West Africa : Liberia 

What is common to all these ?

- These are all Tax Havens Nation 

3) He entered into his father-in-laws business in mid 1860's. Where he was best known for his marketing efforts, he acquired the art work of John Everett painting 'Bubbles' and used it for many decades for X products. He has been called "The father of Modern Advertising". In addition to his business and advertising activity he also became Deputy Lieutenant of London and a Fellow of the Royal Microscopical and Statistical Society. Id who and brand which is remembered for its innovative initiative in sales and marketing ?  

 -  Thomas J. Barratt , Pears Soap

4) "The Most Special Way to Say You Care" is slogan of which Indian company founded in late 1970's, went public in mid 1990's and came up with online portal in 2000. Id the company ? 

- Archies

5) Connect ? 

- Rupa & Co.
All of Chetan Bhagat books have been published by them.

D. Mehra was the founder of Rupa & Co.
Current owner of Rupa & Co. launched 'Aleph Book Company'

6) This company founded in mid 1930's own which well known media house ? 

- The Guardian media group

7) Id the Logo of which financial entity, which is JV of a famous bank from India ?

  - Everest Bank; JV with Punjab National Bank

Business Quiz Set - 54

1) A small group of  25 engg. moved to Japan for a top secret project in Hamamatsu in mid 1980's. The project was code named K/YN4. In 2005 they came up with X which was launched in Hungary China, European Nation and today available in 140 countries. The project of X was so secret its trail/test were carried out in the midnight. Id what has been talked about celebrated its 10th anniversary few week back ? 
- Maruti Suzuki Swift

2) Who is this has been synonymous with investing in developing markets,  who often dresses in white suits,  constantly encouraging investors to put money into fast-growing developing economies. In the US he was voted by his peers in the top 10 investors of the 20th century, putting him alongside Warren Buffett, Julian Robertson and George Soros. Who is this sometime known as "Pied Piper of emerging markets", "dean of emerging markets" ; "Yul Brynner of Wall Street" . Id him a comic book on the life in visual ?

- Mark Mobius 

3) He is Samuel Stokes who came to India in 1904, who later settled here and also joined Indian Independence Movement. Very little was known about this extraordinary man until 1999, when his granddaughter came with his biography "An American in Khadi". Besides his effort as a freedom Fighter, he is best known for his contribution in Agriculture industry in North India , today his contribution is identity of X state. Id whats his contribution ? 
- Apple in Himachal Pradesh

4) Give me overall Connection ? 

- The Sunday Guradian both are founder of it 

5) ID  biography of whom ? 

- Jack Daniel 

6) 'SCAM' is a term which is widely used in IT  industry, which has changed the way a business can be run and get closer to the customer with minimal overhead and maximum reach. What does this stand for ? 
-  Social networking, Cloud services, Analytics and Mobile computing

7) Id the logo of which Chinese group which is mainly operating in biotechnology, retail, e-business, education and tourism. And it was in news recently for some reason, Id group and why in news ?

- Tiens Group, The Chinese company took its 6400 employees to a free four-day trip to France and Monaco.

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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