Weekly Business Quiz # 122 Q 1. L & T chief AM NAIK is writing his memoirs and it will be called V to W. Why ? Ans.

Village to World Q 2. Who has launched a collection of digitally restored parallel cinema movie DVDs like Jaane Bhi Do under the Cinemas of India label ? Ans. NFDC Q 3. Which European country introduced a quota for women on boards of companies 10 years ago that has brought their share to 40 % now ? Ans. Norway Q4. As per LinkedIn which job title is the fastest growing among its members in US ? Ans. Adjunct Professor Q5. Name the Indian behind the Hollywood production house Hyde Park Entertainment that has produced Ghost Rider etc ? Ans.Ashok Amritraj Q6. In which Indian blue chip co a 72 year old is succeeded by a 67 year old veteran in the name of succession ? Ans. L & T Q7. Which is the first bank likely to deploy IBM Watson the supercomputer that had won Jeopardy ? Ans. Citibank Q8. As Rahul Dravid retires an old quiz question. Why is he nicknamed Jammy ? Ans His father worked for Kissan Jams. He later endorsed it also.

Q9. Apple launched its latest version of iPad with retina display, quad core , LTE ready etc. What is it called ? Ans. New iPad Q 10. Who has acquired the insurance business of HSBC worldwide ? Ans. Axa

Q11. Name this womens cooperative that has 650 cr sales and exports of 29 cr. Ans. Lijjat Q12. What is the new name for Android Market, the app store from Google ? Ans. Google Play Q 13. Name this Kraft brand that celebrates its 100th anniversary . Ans. Oreo Q 14.. What is an MOOC in the sphere of online education ? Ans. Massively Open Online Courses Q 15. Which MNC has set up hair salons in its headquarters for its employees ? Ans. Unileve 1. Hasbro has a tie up with Funskool India to market its toys and games in India. Name the parent company of Funskool. MRF 2. The ad featuring Moon Moon Sens daughter Riya Dev Varma for Nirma lime Soap looks very similar to the Liril ad. Could it be because it was directed by the same person? Who directed them? Kailash Surendranath 3. Name the newspaper started by industrialist Vijaypath Singhania of the J.K. Group. The Indian Post 4. What does TIMES stand for in the name of TIMES Television, the Television division of Bennett and Coleman Ltd. Television for Information, Music, Entertainment and Sports 5. A Bombay based jewellery house launched a range of earrings called H.B. a couple of years ago. Why were they called H.B. ? After Henry Blofeld the popular cricket commentator known for his penchant for earrings

6. When Henry Ford died, amongst his last possessions was a test tube. What did it supposedly contain? The last breath of Thomas Alva Edison 7. Which Indian businessman was part of the design team at Intel that designed the Intel 80486 microprocessor? Rajeev Chandrasekhar of BPL 8. In which merchant bank did P.G.Wodehouse work for two years? The Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation 9. To which company did the shipment of tea destroyed by the American colonists during the Boston Tea Party in 1773 belong? The East India Company 10. What was advertised with the slogan You press the button and we do the rest ? Kodak 11. What is an unrhymed Japanese poem of 3 lines, containing 17 syllables called? It is also the name of an Indian saree range. Haiku 12. Honda advertised in the 1960s with the line You meet the nicest people on a Honda. Which Indian automobiles advertised two decades later with the same line? Kinetic Honda and Contessa 13. Which brand created a sensation by sticking a Ford Cortina to a billboard at a busy junction in London? Araldite 14. During Wimbledon 1995 Pete Sampras and Andre Agassi played a mock tennis match at Trafalgar Square in London. Why? To shoot a commercial for Nike 15. Which Indian brand combined the Coke and Pepsi ad slogans to come up with the line The real thing is the choice of the new generations?

London Pilsner Beer 16. What was launched in 1959 in Kansas by the Carney Brothers? Pizza Hut 17. The highest ever wicket partnership in England was between Herbert Sutcliffe and Percy Holmes in 1923 against Essex in Leyton. How is this significant to the present day corporate world? They scored 555 runs giving 555 cigarettes their name 18. Complete this line There is but one cup to win, eleven proud people, twelve proud nations, lean to win the cup ________ . Share the Magic 19. What food item was patented in 1830 and called Dr. Miles compound Tomato extract? Tomato Ketchup 20. Which Indian clothing brand gets its name from Greek for Circle of Animals? Zodiac 21. Which industrialist Philanthropist donated $800,00 for the land on which the U.N. General Assembly has been built? John D. Rockefeller Jr. 22. Ken Follett has written a book On the wings of Eagles which deals with the true story of how 40 odd employees of an American Company EDS corporation escaped from Iran when caught in the Islamic Revolution. Who owns EDS and appears throughout the book? Ross Perot 23. 17 year old Rudyard Kipling roamed India as Assistant Editor of the Civil and Military Gazette, Lahore. He then wrote Soldiers Three a series of short tales that launched a pervasive, nation wide enterprise which exists to date. What? The A.H.Wheeler publishing House and chain of bookstores 24. What is a Sen in monetary terms? 1/100th of a Yen

25. Which brand derives its name from the Japanese God of Mercy? Canon from Kwanon 26. Following the super success of Food World, the Spencers Group has launched two other chains of superstores. Name them. Music World and Health&Glow 27. Which Indian newspaper advertises with the line Why settle for anything else? The Statesman 28. Ads for which Indian product feature the following a raunchy novel titled fantasies, perfume and a registered postal package? VIP Frenchie 29. Which Indian newspaper claims along with its price on the masthead that One Paise goes to charity for every issue sold. The Afternoon Despatch and Courier 30. This was the classification of the highest quality of ships, by the Lloyds shipping Registrar of the world famous insurance association Lloyds. It has now become a phrase in the language meaning something of superior quality. What? The term A-1 1) What is the name of Head Quarters of Tata Group? Answer: Bombay House 2) India's first steel mill was built by Tata. In which year was it completed? Answer: 1911 3) About 66% of the Tata capital is allocated by Tata Sons for which purpose? Answer: Philanthropic trusts 4) What was the first Indian luxury hotel established by the Tata Group? Answer: Taj Mahal Hotel 5) The Tata group consists of how many companies? Answer: 80 6) When was the ministry of divestment formed in India? Answer: 1999

7) Which was the first successful divestment of a PSU carried out by the ruling NDA combine? Answer: Lagan Jute Machinery Company Ltd 8) Who were the final three bidders for Balco when it was being privatised?(Bharat Aluminium Corporation ltd) Answer: Sterlite, Hindalco, Alcoa 9) Who was the first minister for divestment under NDA government? Answer: Arun Jaitley 10) Under which Indian prime minister were guidelines for the divestment process first laid down? Answer: Chandra Shekhar

11) Who are the Bretton Woods Sisters? Answer: World Bank and IMF 12) Who is the President of World Bank? Answer: Robert Bruce Zoellvick 13) Who is the President of IMF? Answer: Domanic Strauss Kahan 14) Who is WTO Chief? Answer: Pascal Lamy 15) When did the World Bank come into being? Answer: July 1944 16) What was Former Name of World Bank? Answer: International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) 17) Who was the first president of the World Bank? Answer: Eugene Meyer (18 June, 1946) 18) Which Asian nation was the first to get a World Bank loan? Answer: India on August 18, 1949 for Railway Reconstruction and Development. 19) When did India sign the World Bank Articles of Agreement? Answer: 1945 20) Which organisation instituted the Nobel Prize for Economics? Answer: Sveriges Riksbank (Bank of Sweeden)

21) Who is the first Asian to win the Nobel Prize for Economics? Answer: Amartya Sen (for his studies in Wellfare Ecconomics) 22) How many women have won the Nobel Prize for Economics since 1969? Answer: None 23) Who is the oldest recipient of the Nobel Prize for Economics? Answer: William Vickrey 24) How many times have three people shared the Nobel Prize for Economics? Answer: Three Times 25) Who was the first governor of the Reserve Bank of India? Answer: Sir Osborne Smith (April 1st, 1935)

26) Who has been the longest-serving RBI governor? Answer: Sir Bengal Rama Raju 27) Who had the shortest term as RBI governor? Answer: A.Ghosh 28) Which RBI governor has written Indian Economy: Essays on Money and Finance? Answer: Dr C Rangarajan 29) Who was the first Indian to become the RBI governor? Answer: Sir Chintaman D Deshmukh 30) Which brand of scooter when translated into Italian means 'wasp'? Answer: Vespa 31) Which popular car audio system company's name when translated into German means 'blue point'? Answer: Blaupunkt 32) Which brand name is derived from the word 'polar' suggesting coolness? Answer: Polo 33) When translated in Korean what does Daewoo mean? Answer: Great Universe 34) With a presence in 27 countries, the name of which company means 'three oceans?' Answer: Sanyo

35) Which was the first private mutual fund company in India? Answer: Kothari Pioneer(1993) 36) Samir Arora, who recently was banned by the Securities and Exchange Board of India, was a part of which mutual fund? Answer: Alliance Capital 37) Which was the first public sector mutual fund to be set up after the Unit Trust of India? Answer: SBI Mutual Fund 38) How many mutual funds are there in India today? Answer: 31 39) HDFC Standard Life Mutual Fund recently bought out which of its competitors? Answer: Zurich India Mutual Fund 40) Which is the official advertising agency of the Indian government? Answer: Directorate of Audio Visual Publicity 41) Which ad agency manages the career of cricket star Yuvraj Singh? Answer: Percept D'Mark 42) Which Indian biscuit brand is the single largest selling biscuit in the world in its segment? Answer: Parle G 43) The late television star and actress, Priya Tendulkar, used to endorse which brand of biscuits? Answer: Priya Gold 44) Which biscuit company was associated with the TV programme, Kaun Banega Crorepati? Answer: Britannia Industries 45) Which was the first Indian bank to open an international branch and where? Answer: Bank of India in London 46) Which bank was founded in 1906 at the temple town of Udupi and is today among one of India's largest banks? Answer: Corporation Bank 47) When were banks in India nationalised? Answer: 1969 48) Rana Talwar, who is now the head of Sabre Capital, was formerly the CEO of which bank? Answer: Standard Chartered Plc 49) Who is behind the current Wipro, Britannia, Marico and Lakme logos?

Answer: Shombit Sengupta 50) Who was the first Indian actress to model for Lux soap? Answer: Leela Chitnis 51) What do you call a stock market trend that is neither bullish nor bearish? Answer: Chicken market 52) What is picking stocks that have already sunk to the bottom but still have some bounce in them left called? Answer: Cigar butt hunting 53) How many stock exchanges are there in India? Answer: 23 54) What are illiquid stocks that do not follow SEBI rules called? Answer: Z stocks 55) By what name is the building 'Phiroze Jeejebhoy Towers' better known as? Answer: Bombay Stock Exchange 56) Which company's ad line was 'Geography is History'? Answer: Iridium 57) What publication advertised itself with the lines "Software for the most advanced microprocessor on this planet"? Answer: The Economic Times 58) "The Brighter Side of Life" is the ad line of which of these companies/groups? Answer: AV Birla group 59) "Don't blend in" is the ad line of which of these companies/products? Answer: Lifestyle International 60) "Life is One Incredible Journey" is the baseline of which magazine? Answer: Outlook Traveller Q1. Which bank has launched the Mother Dairy Tie-up Pilot Project? Punjab National Bank Q2. Which bank has launched the Moneygram International Money Transfer services in India? Union Bank of India The correct answer is Corporation Bank Q3. Who is the CMD of Indian Overseas Bank? A.C. Mahajan

The correct answer is S.A.Bhat Q4. Who has been appointed as the CEO of Birla Sunlife Asset Management Company Limited? Vaidyanathan The correct answer is A.Balasubramaniam Q5. Which Metal company is planning to takeover Asarco for $1.68 billion? Sesagoa The correct answer is Sterlite Industries Q6. Which company has bought the IT Captive unit of AIG? Mphasis Q7. Which Automobile company is planning to raise Rs.2000 crore through Global Depository Receipts(GDR's)? Tata Motors Q8. Which Indian company acquired Imperial Energy Corp. PLC for $1900 million? HPCL The correct answer is ONGC Q9. Which Indian Software company bought Axon Group PLC for $682 million? Tata Consultancy Services The correct answer is HCL technologies Q10. Which largest Oil company pulled out of the Lubricants business in India? Shell The correct answer is Chevron