Weekly Business Quiz # 198 Q 1,.Why did its founders, Tompkins and Klopp name the outdoor products company „The North Face‟ ? Ans. Climbing the The North face of any mountain is toughest in the Northern Hemisphere Q 2. What unique pre-paid service has been started under the name Baron Eagle in India ? Ans. Prepaid service for hiring planes and helicopters for HNIs and Corporates Q 3. Which consumer products co is offering 10% discount as its leader for last 42 years Sri Gajanan Pendharkar celebrates 80th bday? Ans. Vicco Laboratories Q 4. About whom Jobs once said, “He has more operational power than anyone else at Apple except me” ? Ans. Jonathan Ive , SVP of Design Q 5. What is common to Tesla Motors, LinkedIn, YouTube, Yelp and Yammer ? Ans. All cos floated by ex Paypal people, known as Paypal mafia Q 6. Taj Group has created a recycling project for PET bottles thrown from their hotels in Chennai. What products are made out of them ? Ans. Chairs and tables Q 7. If the start ups area around San Francisco Bay Area is called Silcon Valley, what is the start ups area around Los Angeles called ? Ans. Silicon beach Q 8. In the book Barons of Banking by Bakhtiar Dadabhoy six eminent bankers in India upto the 1990s have been covered. Name them Ans. Sir Sorabji Pochkhanawala, Sir Purushotamdas Thakurdas, . Sir Chintaman D. Desmukh, A.D.Shroff, H.T.Parekh & R.K.Talwar. Q9. Why did young engineer Arul Kumar from Salem receive a reward of $ 12,500 from Facebook ? Ans. Identifying a bug which resulted in one member being able to delete another member‘s photos Q 10. Which co in news was set up by Fredrik Idestam as a wood pulp mill company 148 years ago? Ans. Nokia Q 11. Which coupon site got an overwhelming response to its onion offer at Rs 9 per kg even leading to the site crashing for 10 minutes ? Ans. Groupon Q 12. What does the Buttonwood column in the Economist magazine cover and how did it get its name ? Ans. It covers stock market.It got its name from the Buttonwood Agreement of 17 may,1792,the agreement so named after the tree individuals would gather under daily,trading stocks and bonds. Q 13. The Union Telecom Minister Kapil sibal inaugurated EDUROAM facility yesterday on the occasion of Teacher‟s Day. What is it ? Ans. Free Internet for academics worldwide Q 14. A school dropout from Gujarat who has made it big in trading, power and infrastructure. He is known as The Other Big A. Name him. Ans. Gautam Adani Q 15. What business term comes from the French phrase that means “pledge to the death” ? Ans. Mortgage Q 16. For what price has Microsoft acquired Nokia‟s cellphone business ? Ans. US $ 7.2 Bn Weekly Business Quiz # 197 Q 1. Who is the author of the soon to be released book „ How not to make money „ ? Ans. Raj Kundra of Rajasthan Royals Q 2. B-Schools like ISB, SPJain Institute are using the Flipped Classroom model. What is a Flipped Classroom ? Ans. Students watch lectures are delivered through videos on their own and then assemble in the class to discuss Q 3. The Vodafone – Verizon deal was called Project River. What were Vodafone and Verizon called to keep them secret ? Ans. Verizon was called Hudson and Vodafone as Thames , after the rivers close to their offices Q 4. The most expensive coffee in the world retails at 80$ a cup. It is made from the shit of palm civet. Name it. Ans. Kopi Luwak Q 5. What term often used in management jargon was given by Alex Osborne 60 years ago ? Ans. Brainstorming Q 6. What was the original name of Nike ? Philip Knight when he went to Japan to import sports shoes he made up a name. Ans. Blue Ribbon Sports Q7. Which Indian patriotic film song was used in a television commercial for the Pakistani Al Habib Bank in 2012 ? Ans. Hum layen haim toofan se kashti nikal ke by Kavi Pradeep from Jagriti Q8. If RECs are traded in India Energy Exchange, expand REC . Clue : They come in two varieties Solar and Non-Solar. Ans. Renewable Energy Certificates Q9. Which brand of Britannia was rejected to be registered as a trademark because it was too close to the generic name ? Ans. Snax Q 10.Which actor MBA has produced the Shoojit Sircar directed films Vicky Donor and Madras Cafe ? Ans. John Abraham Q 11. Besides being PSUs, what is common to the following Air India, MTNL, BSNL and HMT Ltd ? Ans. Loss making in the last 3 years Q 12 With which fast food chain would you associate Connaught Plaza restaurants Pvt Ltd ? Ans. McDonald‘s Q 13. Which company is the largest exporter of buffalo meat from India for the last 20 years ? Ans. Allanasons Q 14. After 25 years Titan has a new logo and has also renamed the company. What is its new name ? Ans. Titan Company Limited Q 15. In which business is the company AEG, Anschutz Entertainment Group ? Ans. Managing stadia and arena Weekly Business Quiz # 196 Q 1. Which major international generics pharma manufacturer is making a large FDI to make India its largest sourcing base ? Ans. Mylan Q 2. Which car manufacturer has promised that they will launch self driving cars by 2020 ? Ans. Nissan Q 3. Besides being the best batsman ever, what was the profession of Sir Don Bradman ? Ans. Stockbroker Q 4. Who are the top 3 suppliers ( countries) of crude oil to India ? Ans. Saudi Arabia, Iran and Venezeula Q 5. Under what rule is the PSU Shipping Corporation if India set to lose its Navaratna status ? Ans. Losses in 3 consecutive financial years Q 6. What is the Project through which Mark Zuckerberg wants to bring access to Internet the next 5 Billion ? Ans. Internet.org Q7. Who said ” A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.” ? Ans. Henry ford Q 8. “An American in Gandhi‟s India” is a book about an American who brought Apples to Himachal Pradesh. Name him. Ans. Samuel ‗ Satyananda ‖ Stokes Q 9. Who is known as the Father of Fracking, the technology that helps production of shale gas ? Ans. George P.Mitchell Q 10. Who will be the new Director of IIM Ahmedabad from September 2 ? Ans. Ashish Nanda Q 11. What brand of premium chocolates has been launched by Nestlé to counter Toblerone and Ferrero Rocher ? Ans. Alpino Q 12. RIL has launched Vimal suitings with the tagline “be unformal‟. What is unformal ? They say it isnt informal Ans. Unusual Formal Q 13. Nishi Vasudeva will be the first woman CMD of a Navratna PSU. Which PSU will she head ? Ans. HPCL Q 14. What is the name given Google , where Google + members can connect to experts ? Ans. Google + HelpOut Q 15. Which drink introduced recently by Heineken was invented in Germany for sportsmen seeking something between a beer and a soft drink ? Ans. Radler Q 16. In which tech company, the CEO says the company culture is „work-life balance is for those who don‟t like their work‟ ? Ans. Amazon Weekly Business Quiz # 195 Q 1. In a move to reduce outgo of forex and earn customs duty, what is the duty imposed by Govt of India in import of TVs from August 26 ? Ans. 35 % Q 2. Expand VCES, the service tax amnesty scheme launched by GoI . Ans. Voluntary Compliance Encouragement Scheme Q 3.Which co has patented a „pay-per-gaze‟ technology that will help advertisers track emotional response to real world and online ads ? Ans. Google Q4. Which is India‟s and perhaps world‟s largest permission marketing firm which uses „missed call‟ to get potential customers ? Ans. ZipDial Q5. What was the tag line of the Vijay‟s Tamil film Thalaiva, which led to a standoff with the TN CM and hence not allowed to release in TN ? Ans. Time to Lead Q6. Which policy, now discontinued by Google, led to the creation of products like GMail, Google Reader, Google News etc ? Ans. 20% time on personal projects for employees Q 7. Airtel has launched an entertainment store for selling videos, music, photos etc.What is the price of each download there ? Ans. Re 1. Q8. With layoffs illegal in Japan, how do Japanese companies like Sony deal with their excess staff ? Ans. Employees are assigned to a Boredom Room where they spend time reading newspapers and technical books Q 9. As per a recent Forbes study what us the average revenue per app earned by developers who build Apple apps ? Ans. 17.5 cents Q 10. How did Levi Strauss the man behind the eponymous brand of jeans make his wealth ? Ans. Supplying tools like shovels to Gold miners Q 11. Who is the partner of Shripal Morakhia in the sports entertainment venture Smaaash Entertainment which has augmented reality simulators ? Ans. Sachin tendulkar Q 12. As onion prices are likely to hit Rs 100 per kg soon, govt has fixed a minimum export price for onions. What is the value ? Ans. 650 $ per tonne Q 13. Which agency owns the not for profit venture capital firm In-Q-Tel that invests in cutting edge IT related to intelligence ? Ans. CIA Weekly Business Quiz # 194 Q 1. Over 100000 people have applied paying 38 $ for Mars One project. What is the offer ? Ans. One way trip to Mars Q 2. Which UMPP is.owned by the co Coastal Gujarat Power Ltd ? Ans.