Quiz

Which Investment Bank adviced Vodafone on Hutchison Buyout?
The IT officers has asked for 12000 Cr from Vodafone for non payment of Income Tax from Hutchison deal.

I love to Move It

Q1) Connect (1), (2) and (3)


(1)
For he/she's a jolly good fellow, for he/she's a jolly good fellow
For he/she's a jolly good fellow (pause), which nobody can deny
Which nobody can deny, which nobody can deny
For he/she's a jolly good fellow, for he/she's a jolly good fellow
For he/she's a jolly good fellow (pause), which nobody can deny

(2)
Should Old Acquaintance be forgot,and never thought upon;
The flames of Love extinguished,and fully past and gone:
Is thy sweet Heart now grown so cold,that loving Breast of thine;
That thou canst never once reflecton Old long syne.

(3)
Happy Birthday to You
Happy Birthday to You
Happy Birthday Dear " "
Happy Birthday to You

Coding the Decoded

Q1)

From the world of Business .... What is known by the code name " Weathering the Storm" and " Fit For The Future I and II"?

Q2)
From the world of M&A's, Connect the code names "Rome", "Madrid" and "Apollo"?

Q3)
Again from the world of M&A's. connect "Aprilla", "Suzuki" and " Moto Guzzi" code names?

Q4)
What was code named " Project England" and " Project Colour" in the world of M&A's?

Q5)
What was code named "Ruby taking over Diamond" in the world of M&A's?

Quiz 21

Q1) It was founded by Burt and Irv in 1945 at Glendale, California?

Q2) It is known for "31 flavours" slogan?

Q3) How do we know Carson Roberts ad agency today?

Q4) How do we know Baskin-Robbins, Togo's and Dunkin Donuts brand combined?

Q5) How do we know Joseph A Campbell Preserve Company?

Quiz 20

Q1) H.L Mencken once called it "the only American invention as perfect as the sonnet". What?

Q2) This name has been derived from the word "woda" in Slavic. Which Name?

Q3) It is produced in Ahus, Scania in southern Sweden by Lars Olsson Smith in 1879?

Q4) Peter Arsenievich __________ , founded this in Moscow in 1860s?

Q5) Name the vodka produced by Virgin Drinks, a subsidiary of Virgin group owned by Richard Brandson and launched in 1994?

Q6) Russian Vodka company, Russian Standard purchased a domain name for $3 million. Name the domain name?

Quiz 19

Q1) What was started in 1977 by Stanford Graduate School of Business alumnus Roy Raymond?




Q2) There are 1003 of these in all with $731 of avg sales per square foot. The net sales per store is about $37 mn or $3.7bn for all the stores. The parent company is Limited Brands. Name the comapny?





Q3) This brand of lingerie brand was developed in Canada by Canadian Lady Corset company? Name it.




Q4) Identify the patent?





























Q5) This company based in Kenosha, Wisconsin is credited with inventing the first Y-Front brief in 1934. Identify this world famous brand?


Q6) Identify the logo?

Quiz 18

Q1) According to the US Geological Survey research, this is 13.5 inches tall and weighs 8.5 pounds, it is made of tin (93%), antimony(5%) and copper(2%) and then plated with 24 Karat gold. What are we talking about?

Q2)

Connect the Picture above with PETA?

Q3) Identify this place?

Q4) Oscar made her famous. How do we know her?

Q5) The invities were served 3000 smoked salmon _________ and gold plated _________ choclates by celebrity chef Wolfgang Puck, the theme had blue curtain with 92,000 Swarovski crystals designed by David Rockwell, the gifts included GBK ' Circus of Senses' which had a suites of $35000 in gifted luxury, Watches worth $8000 to $18000, Vacation packages worth $10000, Diamond facials, a year worth of Botox, zero calorie wine called "Slender"? What are we talking of?

Quiz 17

Q1) Over 75 % of what is produced by Madagscar, Comoros and a bunch of other tiny islands off the East African coast?


Q2) Name the Indian Chapter of the World Economic Forum at Davos?



Q3) Control Your Destiny or Someone Else Will - Noel Tichy and Stratford Sherman. This was a subtitle of a book. Which one



Q4) During the Atlanta Olympics Nike had an interesting slogan. What?

Q5) Is Rajesh Khanna secretly married to Anju Mahendroo?’ What is the significance of this statement?



Q6) Which management buzzword appeared initially in an article in the Harvard Business Review by Gary Hamel and C. K. Prahlad?



Q7) After holding a minority stake for over 20 years, ford Motor Co., now has a controlling interest in which Japanese Motor manufacturing company ?

Q8) He has been a prof of Electrical Engg and Computer Science at the Massachussetts Instt of Technology for 35 years. His products are used in GM Cars, Zenith and Phillips TV divisions, NASA space shuttles, the Queen Elizabeth liner, and Broadway theatres. His father fled from Calcutta where he was wanted by the British police for revolutionary activities.

Q9) Born in 1837, descendent of Welsh ancestors who came to Massachussetts in 1636, he began his career in 1856. He disliked and disagreed frequently with Theodore Roosevelt, and when the president was off on a safari in Africa, he said ‘I hope the first lion that he meets does its duty’. He was once asked for money by a friend in need. He took the friend for a walk all around New York and after an hour, told him ‘Now you have been seen with me, you will have no problems getting a loan’. A churchman called him ‘Pierpontifex Maximus’. The Wall Street Journal called him ‘the undisputed leader who has stood between the business of this country and disaster’

Q10) In 1923, he left Kansas and boarded a train to California with $40 in his pocket. When a fellow passenger asked him about his intentions, he said ‘I’m going to direct great Hollywood motion pictures’. After seeing ‘The Jazz Singer’ he wrote to his brother : "I think this is Old Man Opportunity rapping at our door. Slap a big mortgage on everything we’ve got and let us go after this thing in the right manner". In 1938, he received honorory degrees from both Harvard and Yale universities, and also accepted an award from the League of Nations. He started the ‘Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow’ center in ?

Q11) He called his wife ‘The Believer’ because she encouraged him at a time when everyone else called him crazy. John Kenneth Galbraith said this of him : "If there is any certainty as to what a businessman is, he is assuredly the things ________ is not." Thomas Alva Edison once told him ‘Young man, you have the right idea. Keep at it’. He got his greatest inspiration while watching Chicago meat-packers cut beef that moved past them on an overhead trolley.

Q12)He has launched a university at Elk Grove Village, Illinois. President Nixon once met him and asked "What is it now, eight or nine billion?" To which he replied, "Mr.President, it is 12 billion". When his company’s market value surpassed U.S.Steel’s, Senator Lloyd Bentson complained ‘Something is wrong with our economy when the stock market is long on _____ and short on steel’. At the age of 72, he acquired the San Diego Padres baseball team. Till the age of 52 he was

Q13)He came from a rich family and was sent to Harvard, where he failed to complete his first year. His father helped him go into business but he lost $30000 in the first year. He spent $25000 per week and in 1937, his empire was in debt of $126 million. He was partly instrumental in causing an Spanish - American war, and once unsuccessfully tried to disrupt the premiere of a Hollywood movie based on his story

Q14) He set up shop in 1859 as a dry goods trader. The business thrived in 1861 after the outbreak of the US Civil War, when the US Army bought a lot of grain and supplies from him. He was a regular at the Euclid Avenue Baptist Church in Cleveland and served as a Sunday School Superintendent. In 1881, he set up a trust of dozens of companies that controlled 80% of a particular industry. Other industries followed suit and this started off the first ‘Anti-Trust regulations’ in the USA.

Quiz 16

Q1) From the world of fashion, identify this controversial magazine?

Q2) Connect? From the world of movies.

Q3) Identify my favourite footballer?

Quiz 15

Q1) Reebok with 1.19 bn Rs lost the bid, Adidas with 1.28 bn Rs lost the bid and Nike with 1.93 bn Rs won it. Which bid are we talking about?


Q2) Identify the organisation?

Q3) Name the Tower?












Q4)

Connect these two pics for a theme for fashion?

Hint - The designers were celebrating 50th Aniversary of someone




























Q5) Identify the couple?

Quiz 13

Q1) Identify the logo?

Q2) Identify the location?












Q3) He made himself famous. Who is he?
















Q4) Identify this world famous location?














Q5) Identify the person and the club he is associated with?

Quiz 12

Q1) Which Tata company executed "liquid gold" for 2004 Academy Awards and graphics for New York city's 2012 Olympics bid?

Q2) _____________ was formed from the merger of Koninklijke Hoogovens N.V. with British Steel?

Q3) Connect with a Tata brand - Kajol, Trisha, Irfan PAthan and Saurav Ganguly?

Q4) http://www.ichoose.com/ is associated with which Tata Company?

Q5)
To add glamour to my blog. Identify this beauty and the association with a F1 Team?

Quiz 11

Q1) These were first manufactured in Milan, Italy when Indian Government brought out the factory and license to the brand name in 1972. Identify the brand?

Q2) The founders include Alfieri, Bindo, Carlo, Ettore, Ernesto and Mario in December 1914. The headquarters is in Modena. The logo is named Trident?

Q3) Connect Renzo Rosso with a brand?

Q4)

Identify this brand which was founded by Maestro Bartolomeo _________ and used by civilians and police worldwide. It is one of the oldest corporations in the world and owned by same family since 1526?

Q5) From the world of fashion, identify this designer?

Quiz 8

Q1) The company was started in 1955, when Luciano saw a market for colourful clothes? The company is listed in Milan with the code: BEN and has its origination in Trevasio, Italy.

Q2) This company has "Sisley", "Playlife" and "Killer Loop" brands other than the main brand itself? Name It?

Q3) This F1 team entered the areana by ________ family buying Toleman and Spirit teams and branding it as ____________ Formula Ltd.

Q4) Michael Schumacher won his first drivers championship with which FI team in 1994?

Quiz 7

Q1) Which company is credited with worlds first Leverage Buy Out deal?

Q2) Name the company which was acquired?

Q3) What was the deal size?

Q4) Name the book which became famous for leting the world know the Insider Knowledge of Investment Banks and also is named after this same company?

Quiz 6

1. Whoever has seen _________ need not see Lisbon?

2. Which computer service firm was spun off by GE in 2004 and raised $494 million?

Only two today.... Guess that would be fine

Quiz 4

These are the IATA codes for the airlines. Name the Airline sCompany for the following codes.

1. BDA
2. FDX
3. UPS
4. DHK
5. SWA
6. KFR
7. EMT
8. SEJ
9. SIA
10. CPA
11. XCX
12. DKN

Quiz 3

Rajiv Gandhi Quality Quiz will be held on 10th April.
Some important questions have been blogged here.
Identify the logo?

ISO 226 - Paper Sizes

ISO 3103 - Method of brewing tea for the purpose of sensory tests

ISO 3166 - codes for countries and subdivisions

ISO 4217 - Currency codes

ISO 9000 - Quality management system in production environments

ISO 9001 - Quality management

ISO 9126 - Software quality model

ISO 14000 - Environmental Management Standards in production environments
ISO 14001 - Environmental Management
ISO 14064 - Greenhouse Gases

ISO 15930 - Portable Document Format PDF

Indian Standard IS:1417 - Specification for Gold and Gold Alloys, Jewellery/Artefacts - Fineness and Marking

ISO 9202:1991-Jewellery – Fineness of Precious Metal Alloys

ISO 22000 - Food Safety Management System Certification

Quiz 2

1. Which company runs a children's channel called CBeebies?

2. Name the company that produced the movie Akeelah and the Bee?

3. The original ___________ was opened in Seattle, Washington, in 1971 by three partners: English teacher Jerry Baldwin, history teacher Zev Siegel, and writer Gordon Bowker.

4. How do we know Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company today?

5. . This great brand's home is Strathisla Distillery, Speyside, Scotland.