Quiz for Thursday

[Charpiece]

Dear Charpiece,

Tomorrow the quiz meet is at 2.45 p m. Members joining for this quiz
meet should respond back with confirmation to all.


Here's the quiz for today:


Which web major has launched a search engine called Axis aimed at
mobile users ?

What is Grexit ?

Who has acquired the online marketplace co Ariba yesterday for 4.5 Bn
$ ? SAP 1 day ago

What did Eugene Polley , who died recently, invent in 1955 which
changed the way people watched TV ? Wireless TV remote 1 day ago

What item belonging to Late Ronald Reagan is being auctioned online ?
A vial of his blood 1 day ago .

Which Mumbai based group is positioning apartments based on the cars
they own , Dadar for BMW and Worli for RR owners ? 1 day ago

Name the Facebook CFO who is being blamed for the IPO fumble. 1 day ago
Which brand of mixie an affiliate of Philips got badly affected bcoz
of Jayalalithaa's freebie schemes in TN ? 1 day ago

McDowells becomes the 2nd brand to reach 2 Billion $ in retail sales
in India. Which was the first ? Amul 2 days ago

Who has acquired controlling stake in Thomas Cook's India operations ?
Fairfax belonging to Indian American Prem Watsa 2 days ago

Best

Shirani

[Charpiece]

Charpiax,

 

Here goes;

 

 ** Please reply to all, when you answer the below questions**

1.

Which company owns India's leading sweetener brand sugar free?

2.

Which famous company was founded in 1985 following the merger of Houston Natural Gas and Inter

North of Omaha, and was one of the fastest growing companies in the world in the last decade?

3.

Which was India's first-ever free Internet service provider, which started operations in 1999?

4.

With which company has Pepsi tied up to market a ready-to- drink range of iced tea internationally?

5.

Which automobile tycoon built one of the world's tallest skyscrapers at the height of the American

Depression in 1929?

6.

Which famous personality recently resigned from the board of the controversial dotcom Tehelka.com

in 2001?

7.

The book 'Only the Paranoid Survive' focuses on which famous techno company?

8.

What was the significance about the purchase of a kilo of lychees on the French island of Reunion,

located in the Indian Ocean?

9.

When he founded his company in 1939 along with his partner Dain in San Francisco's Bay Area, he

effectively created the trend, which led to the creation of Silicon Valley decades later. He was the

CEO of his company till 1978 and died of natural causes in 2001. Who are we talking about here?

10.

Which company has been associated with sponsoring different events from the Olympics to the Nobel

Prize? Its chairman, Kun Hee Lee was also a member of the International Olympic Committee?

11.

With which international restaurant chain would you associate Hollywood stars Sylvester Stallone,

Arnold Schwarzenegger and Bruce Willis?

12.

Kia Motors was a large automobile manufacturer in Korea until taken over in the 1990s. Which

company owns it now?

13.

Which business group owns the brand Kirin, the largest selling beer in Japan?

14.

Which country is home to Rolls Royce?

15.

The name was adopted by the group of seven major industrial nations established in 1985 to discuss

the world economy, comprising the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, and

Japan is G7. Name the missing country?

16.

Big Blue is IBM, but who is Big Yellow?

17.

This shoe tycoon's visiting cards carry the title 'Senior Shoe Salesman'. Name the person referred to.

18.

Which brand did Farook Engineer the cricketer model for?

19.

Who was voted CEO of the millennium?

20.

Rajiv Menon being the director and rediff vision the producer for which product video

21.

What is the meaning of the word MOTOROLA?

22.

What is the logo of Indian railways?

23.

In which British tax haven are 11 of Dhirubhai Ambani's companies registered?

24.

In 2001 John Koegh of Australia filed a patent for "Circular transportation facilitation device". What

is this?

25.

What was launched in 1929 by the London Rubber company and derived its name from the qualities

of "durability, reliability and excellence"

26.

Which company used the following slogan to promote their brands 'Axor', 'Pharo' and 'Rendezvous':

"With 'aqua' in our middle name, it's hardly surprising we draw our inspiration from water"?

2

27.

Avinash Bajaj & Suvir Sujan, 2 Harvard Busines School classmates started this hugely popular

website. Which website is this?

28.

Popcorn industries suffered heavy loss in early 1950's.What was the reason? .

29.

What are missionware?

30.

The CEO of Wilshire Associates is a very famous man, but not as the usual businessman. Who is he?

31.

State Bank of India was previously known as what?

32.

Which company had insured the World Trade Center (WTC)?

33.

"Let Truth Prevail" is the punch line of which newspaper and it is published by whom?

34.

Which company has the patent for the CDMA technology?

35.

Which Japanese electronics company started by manufacturing calculators but came off the market

due to diminishing returns. It now regrets it as one of their biggest mistakes which kept them out of

the computer business. Which company are we talking about?

36.

These companies are collectively known as the Chaebols in South Korea. Name them

37.

Expand NASDAQ

38.

Which car indigenously made in India was originally adopted from the "Vauxhall Victor" (Vauxhall is

the British form of Opel), a British model?

39.

What is common to Kapil Dev, Lisa Ray and Leander Paes in the context of brand endorsement?

40.

What is common to the brands Rolex and Hallmark?

 

Best,

 

Shirani