Answers to Quiz for Thursday

[Charpiece]

Charpiax,

 

The call for bandh affected the quiz for Thursday. Answers to the quiz below are;

 

1

Cadilla

2

Enron

3

Caltiger.com

4

Lipton foods

5

Walter chrysler- empire state building

6

Amitabh bachchan

7

Intel

8

It was the first official purchase using the new currency, the Euro!

9

William Hewitt

10

Samsung

11

Planet holly wood

12

Hyundai

13

Mitsubishi

14

UK

15

Canada

16

Eastman Kodak Co.

17

Thomas J. Bata, Chairman-Bata Shoe Foundation.

18

Brylcream

19

Jack Welch (GE)

20

A.R. Rahman's airtel video

21

Motion of sound

22

Bholu the elephant

23

Isle of Man

24

Wheel, to show how flawed the patent system was

25

Durex condoms.

26

Jaquar

27

Baazee.com.

28

The invention of television.Movie attended dropped drastically

29

Products(T-shirt,Pen etc) with company logo given free of cost by a company to their employees for

promotional purposes

30

Dennis Tito

31

Imperial Bank Of India

32

General Electric

33

The Times Of India published by Bennet & Coleman

34

Qualcomm

35

Sony

36

Hyundai,Samsung,Daewoo

37

National Association of Security Dealer's Automated Quotation

38

Contessa

39

All have endorsed RADO watches

40

Their logos are exactly the same

On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 11:11 PM, Charpiece <char...@gmail.com> wrote:

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