BizQuiz #36

What is an ‘Escrow Account’, a most popular term in M&A Deals?
In M&A deals, Escrow accounts are meant for safekeeping of payments made by the bidder till the time the deal is closed, after which it is released to the other party.

Who has tied up with one of the IPL teams, ‘Delhi Daredevils’ as their official travel partner and will organise the entire travel requirements for the team as a part of the deal?
Yatra.com

Tulsi Tanti is a founder of Pune-based World’s fifth’s largest supplier of wind turbines. Name the company.
Suzlon Energy

Recently, Reserve Bank of India(RBI) has allowed three more credit information companies to do business. Name them.
1. Equifax Credit Information Services,
2. Experian Credit Information Company, and
3. Highmark Credit Information Services.

What’s P20, which is recently in news, associated with Cricket?
It’s England and Wales Cricket Board’s(ECB’s) new Twenty20 competition.

BizQuiz #35

Which company claims itself as the only company in the world having the technology to produce the steel in-house for manufacturing Razor blades?
Vidyut mettalics Ltd, owner of SuperMax brand

Name the oil major who first set up a refinery in India, introduced LPG and Bitumen to the nation and the first company to introduce the co-branded credit cards and rewards programme in Petroleum Sector?
Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited.

Which corporation was built by three youngsters Tushar Jani, Clyde cooper and Kushroo Dubash?
Blue Dart Express

“To be success in Business, be daring, be first, be different” is the guiding principle of which Business women?
Anita Roddick of the Bodyshop.

In print media what is “Bulldog Edition”?
A particular edition that is available earlier than other editions of same publication.

BizQuiz #34

Name the eyewear division of Reliance Retail.
Vision Express

Who recently got the recognition as India Inc’s Most Powerful CEOs in The Economic Times Corporate Dossier?
Mr. Ratan Tata

Which division of Hampshire Hotels and Resorts, plans to open “Dream brand hotels” in various cities in India, including Bangalore, Mumbai and New Delhi with a Rs 5,000-crore (Rs 50 billion) investment?
The Vikram Chatwal Hotels

Name the eyewear division of Titan Industries Ltd.
Titan Eye+

What does ATCA stand for?
Advanced Telecom Computing Architecture.
(ATCA is a next generation platform that incorporates the latest trends in high-speed interconnect technologies and next generation processors, offering improved reliability.)

BizQuiz #33

Which is the most traded commodity in the world?
Crude Oil

Gulliver’s Travels is the inspiration for the name of which familiar internet company?
Yahoo!

Bombay House is the headquarters of which industrial house?
The Tatas

Who was the first chairman of ICICI Ltd?
A Ramaswami Mudaliar

Who writes the popular strip ‘Dilbert’ based on office and business life?
Scott Adams

Who is the founder of General Electric?
Thomas Alva Edison

What foreign company did Tata Tea acquire a stake in last week?
Grand

We know the Nano as the Rs1 lakh car. How much did the original affordable car, the Ford Model T, sell for in the second decade of the twentieth century?
$850

Which is the largest-selling soap brand in India?
Lifebuoy

What does the term GAAP stand for?
Generally Accepted Accounting Principles

BizQuiz #32

Expand MPS, a scale used to measure the overall potential of workers’ intrinsic motivation and used in the Job Diagnostic Survey developed by Richard Hackman and Greg Oldham?

Motivating Potential Score

What are “Blind Ads” in HR parlance?

Recruitment advertisements that does not have the name or identity of the Employee

Which internationally acclaimed Indian movie has been included as a case study for ‘Human Behavior at Work’ by Indian Institute of Management, Indore?

Lagaan

CAMEL is an effective system of rating by the banks. The model insists five main criteria and based on these the financial health is evaluated on a scale of highest to lowest, 1 to 5. In that, A means ‘asset quality’, M means ‘management’ and L for ‘liability’, then what are C and E refer?

Capital adequacy and Earnings

Reportedly, what were male employees of Walt Disney contractually not permitted to have?

A Moustache

BizQuiz #31

On which business tycoon was the movie ‘Aviator’ based?

Howard Hughes

What did October 29, 1929, the date of the great stock market crash, come to be known as?

Black Tuesday

‘The Polyester Prince’ is the unauthorised biography of which industrialist?

Dhirubai Ambani

By what contraction is The American Way better known?

Amway

Col Sanders started which famous eatery?

Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC)

BizQuiz #30

Which business tycoon owns the Miss World Organisation?
Donald Trump

How much was the creator of the Nike Swoosh logo paid for her work?
$35

Who became famous as the man who broke the Bank of England through his currency speculation?
George Soros

What famously has a river at one end and a graveyard at the other?
Wall Street

What company headed by George Eastman used the slogan, ‘You press the button, we do the rest’?
Kodak

BizQuiz #29

When the newspaper was published in 1838 in Mumbai , it was known as “The Bombay Times and Journal of Commerce”. How do we better know that today?
The Times of India

Which is the world’s first patented product?
Epsom salt

Which auto company plans to develop concept car “Aria coupe” and luxury sedan “Magna”?
Telco

Name the creativity simulation technique which tries to make the Familiar strange and strange familiar?
Synectics

Dr. Joseph Juran is the pioneer in this concept. What is that?
Quality Engineering

BizQuiz #28

This website was originally intended to be called ‘cadabra’, which was short for ‘abracadabra’, but the suggestion was dropped in favour of the present name because it was thought that it would sound like ‘cadaver’. Which website?
Amazon.com

William E. _____ studied at Yale University and worked initially in the timber industry, there he also acquired knowledge of wooden structures. He founded a company on July 15, 1916, together with George Conrad Westervelt, a Navy engineer, and named it after their initials. Soon the name was changed to “Pacific Aero Products”. In 1917, the company got its present name. Which company?
Boeing. Named after William E. Boeing

Fortune named it “America’s Most Innovative Company” for six consecutive years. This firm claimed revenues of $111 billion in 2000. At the end of 2001 it was revealed that its reported financial condition was sustained mostly by institutionalized, systematic, and creatively planned accounting fraud. Which company?
Enron

The first word of the name of this manufacturer means “without equal” in French. Which company?
Sanspareil Greenlands, or SG

The company was founded as ___, Watkins & Co. by Henry Overton ____ I and his partner Watkins, who opened a shop in Castle Street, Bristol in 1786. After Watkin’s retirement in 1789, it became “____ & Co.” This brand was withdrawn in the UK in 1988, but it remained in India and Pakistan.Which brand?
Wills

This company, which shares its name with part of the name of a suburb of Mumbai, began in 1929. It was one of the few Indian players in a market dominated by British brands, and made biscuits affordable at a time when they were luxury goods. Which company?
Parle

BizQuiz #27

Under Robert Woodruff, Coke changed its formula so that the glycerine in it came not from hog fat but from vegetable sources. For what specific reason was this done?
To ensure it could be certified as kosher.

The Coca Cola company decided to replace Coca Cola or Coke by a new product in 1985. Due to a massive consumer backlash, this new product had to be withdrawn and the original Coke reintroduced. The drink officially came to be known as Coca Cola II. What was the popular name of the new drink?
New Coke

This Italian designer originally trained in medicine before becoming a photographer. He then was in the army, and subsequently worked in a department store. He then worked as a designer, and in 1974, he established a menswear label along with his partner. Who?
Giorgio Armani

Which Italian automobile manufacturing company’s crest/logo comes from the founder’s sunsign?
Lamborghini. The bull logo is inspired by the founder’s sunsign Taurus.

This SUV made by an Indian company for a global market was launched in 1996. It was sold under the brandname ‘Goa’ in Western Europe in order to avoid confusion with another automobile there. Which brand?
Scorpio, by Mahindra