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Q1. Name only actor-actress pair who have appeared for both pepsi as well as coke ad together?

ans: Aamir Khan and Aishwarya Rai

Q2. Katrina kaif recently became new endorser of lux soap. which soap was she endorsing before this?

ans: Dyna

Q3. Which sports shoe manufacturer was earlier know as RUDA? If you can tell why?

ans: PUMA. RUDA cos started by Rudolf Dassier

Q.4 This Lemon based brand was introduced in 1964 by pepsi and though discontinued in US, was available in indian market as a soda brand in recent years.

ans: Teem

Q.5 This india based auction site was acquired for $50 million by ebay 2004?

ans: bazee.com

Q.6 "100 % Juice , Nothing else" is the tag-line of which brand?

ans: Saint by Parle Agro

Q.7 Name the first Indian movie to be insured also the insurer.

ans: Taal insured by GIC

Q.8 Identify this logo.

ans: Muthoot Panachan Group

Q.9 California based flash memory card product manufacturer. Uses u3 technology for some of its pen-drives.

ans: SanDisk

Q.10 Recently Panasonic acquired which company. The same earlier had a joint venture with BPL in india.

ans: Sanyo

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BiZ-O-BrandZ quiz

Its been long long time not putting any post here. I was planning to re-invent the whole QZiNG thing and actually did set up a twitter account for QZiNG few days back but thanks to Raveesh Mayya asking about QZiNG I got involved again.

I am starting an interesting quiz series which features questions from the business world related to brands mostly, called BiZ-O-BrandZ QUiZ.

Q.1 This company founded in 1894 in Czech Republic, moved headquarter to Canada after communism issues in czech republic and is currently headquartered in Lausanne, Switzerland. Name this pioneer in its field.

ans: BATA

Q.2 This brand named after William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin (widely known for developing the basis of Absolute Zero) was endorsed by Adam Gilchrist in 2000.

ans: KELVINATOR

Q.3 Which group owns the Planet M retail chain?

ans: Videocon Group through its reatil arm NEXT Retail India Ltd

Q.4 Fresh field is a venture between company X & Y ? company X earlier started a venture with Z for the agri-produce biz. Name X, Y & Z.

ans: X = Bharati, Y = Delmonte & Z = Rothschild

Q.5 Mint-o brand is presently owned by ITC. Which company was the previous owner?

ans: Candico

Q.6 What was MTS mobile service earlier known as in Rajasthan ?

ans: Rainbow

Q.7 Name the Indian franchisee for pizza chain Domino’s. The company got recently listed in stock market via IPO.

ans: Jubilant Food Works Ltd.

Q.8 Starbucks tried to enter india in 2006 with the help of which company?

ans: Planet Retail Holdings.
(Earlier a subsidiary of Kishore Biyani led Future Group)

Q.9 'Coffees and Conversations' tagline is used by which coffee chain?

(answer only if you know. Take up as a challenge without using google)

ans: Mocha

Q.10 'Knowledge First' tagline is used by which financial services company?

ans: Motilal Oswal

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Total entries 6. winner is Rohit Agarwal with 8 correct answers.

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Weekly Quiz

No correct answers received till 2nd march. So i'm putting the answers.

A1. April 1993.
A2. National Exchange for Automated Trading.
A3. NSE.IT Ltd.
A4.finvarsity (www.finvarsity.com)
A5. NCDEX.
A6. National Securities Depository Limited (NSDL).
A7. NSE's Certification in Financial Markets (NCFM).
A8. Dr. R H Patil
A9.Fifty.
A10. NSE and CRISIL.

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THE NSE INDIA QUIZ.

1. When was NSE given recognition as a stock exchange?

2. The Capital Market segment of NSE offers a fully automated screen based trading system, knownas NEAT system. what is the full form of NEAT ?

3. Name the 100% technology subsidiary of NSE,which was incorporated in October1999 to provide thrust to NSE’s technology edge, concomitant with its overall goal ofharnessing latest technology for optimum business use.

4. NSE.IT also offers an e-learning portal, dedicated to the finance sector. What is it called ?

5.Name the NSE promoted comodities exchange?

6.To promote dematerialization of securities NSE joined hands with UTI and IDBI to set up thefirst depository in India called the?

7.Taking into account international experience and the needs of the Indian financial markets, National Stock Exchange introduced in 1998 a facility for testing and certification. Name the same ?

8.Who was the first MD of NSE ?

9.The NSE's Nifty is an index composed of how many stocks?

10.S&P CNX Nifty is owned and managed by India Index Services and Products Ltd. (IISL), which is a joint venture between ?

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Business Quiz #5

Q1. Complete the following verse from the ninth chapter of the Bhagavad Gita, which is significant in the context of insurance.
Ananyashchintayanto mam ye janah paryupasat;
Tesham nityabhiyuktanaam ___________ _________.
Ans. Yogakshemam Vahamyaham ,This is the motto of LIC.

Q2. This is Italy’s largest insurance company. It was founded in 1831 as Imperial Regia Privilegiata Compagnia di Assicurazioni _____ Austro-Italiche. The blank gives the name by which it is currently known. Which company?
Ans. Generali

Q3. Even though this company’s name is written in capital letters, it is not an acronym as it is widely believed. The name was chosen because it can be easily pronounced by speakers of all languages. Which French global insurance companies group is this?
Ans. AXA

Q4. This car was named after a breed of bulls that were often called ‘the bulls of death’, because they were responsible for the death of many Spanish matadors. The bulls were named after a famous breeder whose surname has been blocked out in this 1971 bullfighting poster. Which car?
Ans. Miura

Q5. This automobile is named after a famous bull of the breed mentioned in question 4. This bull is best known because it gored and killed Manuel Laureano Rodríguez Sánchez ‘Manolete’, who is widely regarded as one of the greatest bullfighters ever. This widely mourned killing happened in 1947 in Linares, Spain. Identify the automobile/bull.
Ans. Islero

Q6. The name of which automobile comes from the Spanish word for ‘sword’?
Ans. Espada

Q7. This brand was first manufactured by a chemist at the Gujarat Government’s Department of Mining and Geology in 1969, and named after his daughter Nirupama. Which brand?
Ans. Nirma

Q8. This company, founded in 1931 and named after the founder’s son, commenced operations by manufacturing dhoties, sarees, dorias, crepes, shirtings, coatings etc. It is now the licensee of many international brands in India. Which company?
Ans. Arvind mills

Q9. This was first manufactured in 1959, and named after the daughter of the co-founder of Mattel. What?
Ans. Barbie

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Quiz on Rail, Brands & Ice-creams..

Q1 : Translate into French and abbreviate to get the popular name of a train: ‘train of great speed’
Ans : TGV

Q2 : This is an Italian family of tilting trains that were manufactured by Fiat Ferroviaria. The tilt was introduced to enable to trains to round curves at high speeds. The name of these trains comes from a commonplace object that is associated with repeated tilting motion. What are these trains called?
Ans : Pendolino

Q3 : The Madras and South Mahratta railway was one of the constituents of the present day Southern Railways. The logo of this railway company depicted a famous monument that is located at a place that was central to the railway’s operations. This monument also has the largest dome in India. Which monument?
Ans : Gol Gumbaz, Bijapur

Q4 : This is a piece of playground equipment for children that was invented in 1920 and was sold under a brand name that has currently become a generic term. Its initial patent refers to the ‘monkey instinct’ of children, and claims the benefits of climbing as exercise and play. Which brand name/which term?
Ans : Jungle Gym

Q5 : This is a proper noun that is the name of a dominant internet company. However, in course of time, it came to be used as a verb that referred to the act of using this company’s primary product. The verb form was chosen ‘the most useful word of 2002’ by the American dialect society. Which word/which company?
Ans : Google

Q6 : The name of this toy company comes from the Danish word for ‘play well’. The name of the company is now a generic term in English that refers to toys similar to the company’s most popular product. Which company?
Ans : Lego

Q7 : On July 23 1904, during the St. Louis World’s fair, Charles Menches was selling ice cream and ran out of dishes. He therefore is said to have sought the help of the owner of the stall next to his, who was selling a middle eastern delicacy called Zalabia. The result was the first use of something that is now very commonplace. What?
Ans : Ice cream cone

Q8 : It is believed that this ice-cream variety was created in response to the ‘blue laws’ that decreed that ice cream soda could not be sold on Sundays. This reason is also said to be the reason for its nomenclature. Which variety?
Ans : Sundae

Q9 : Ice cream makers who wanted to sell frozen ice cream cones faced the problem of the ice cream making the cone go soggy. The Italian manufacturer Spica invented a process whereby the inside of the cone was insulated from the ice cream by a layer of oil, sugar and chocolate. What name was used by Spica to register this product?
Ans : Cornetto

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New Biz Quiz.

Q1 : 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?
Ans : To ensure it could be certified as kosher .

Q2 : This was inspired by a picture of a cocoa pod, inspired by which the creator made a pencil sketch and subsequently the first prototype of this. What originated thus?
Ans : Contour bottle of Coca Cola .

Q3 : 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?
Ans : New Coke.

Q4 : This designer founded the company named after him in Florence in 1906 as a leather saddlery shop. Soon the company became famous for leather bags for horsemen, and expanded its business to Rome and subsequently to Milan and Manhattan. Which company, or which designer?
Ans : Guccio Gucci

Q5 : This woman is a fashion designer, and is depicted in this painting by her more famous father. Identify the woman.

Ans : Paloma Picasso

Q6 : 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?
Ans : Giorgio Armani

Q7 : Which Italian automobile manufacturing company’s crest/logo comes from the founder’s sunsign?
Ans : Lamborghini

Q8 : This brand, which began production in 1986, was initially a front wheel drive mid size car. It was considered a milestone in the American automobile industry, and was the best selling car in the US from 1992 to 1996. Which brand?
Ans : Taurus

Q9 : 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?
Ans : Scorpio

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Business Quiz @ LIVEMINT

Q1 : This guy served as U.S. Treasury Secretary and as Chief Justice of the United States. A bank formed in 1877 was named after him, even though he was not directly connected with the bank. It is now a part of one of the major financial services companies in the world. Who, or what bank was named after him?

Ans : Salmon P Chase

Q2 : The bank whose logo is shown here is best known because of a recognition conferred in 2006. Which bank?



Ans : Grameen Bank

Q3 : This famous advertising slogan for a bank was formulated by the agency Rich, Wells, Greene in 1977. The slogan was inspired by a common statement about the frantic activity-levels of New York city. Which slogan?

Ans : The Citi Never Sleeps

Q4 : Which two wheeler gets its name from the term for the class of military nobles of pre-Industrial Japan?

Ans : Samurai

Q5 : This two wheeler gets its name from the term for highly magnetized rotating neutron stars which emit a beam of detectable electromagnetic radiation in the form of radio waves. Which?

Ans : Pulsar

Q6 : This was the first of the small scooterettes launched in India. This was launched by Bajaj in 1990 with a 50cc engine, which was later expanded to a 60cc engine. This was targeted mainly at teenagers who could get a licence for ungeared vehicles at the age of 16. Which?

Ans : Sunny

Q7 : Which airline is named after the bird shown here?



Ans : Kingfisher

Q8 : This airline established by a former Formula One world motor racing champion and named after him, began operations in 1985. It belongs to the Austrian Airlines group. Which?

Ans : Lauda

Q9 : This now defunct Indian airline gets its name from the founder's surname. The surname indicates that the bearer of the surname hails from a place that is today a part of a union territory. This place was formerly a part of Portuguese India. Which airline/which surname?

Ans : Damania


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Q1) In 2004, this brand became the first premium whisky brand to clock one-million-case sales in a year. An IPL team, which shares this brand’s initials, is said to be named after it. Which brand?

Ans. Royal Challenge

Q2) This newspaper, with seven editions in Andhra Pradesh and one in Chennai, owns an IPL franchise that shares its initials. Which newspaper?

Ans. Deccan Chronicle

Q3) This Hyderabad based business group that has been involved in the construction of the Delhi and Hyderabad airports is the owner of an IPL franchise. Which group?

Ans.GMR

Q4) Which Mitsubishi group company was founded in 1907 by Toshiya Iwasaki?

Ans. Asahi

Q5) Which company originated as the French public enterprise Manufacture royale de glaces de miroirs in 1665?

Ans. Saint Gobain

Q6) This company, now a subsidiary of the company in question 4, came about as a merger between the companies Glaver and Univerbel. Which?

Ans. Glaverbel

Q7) The name of which social networking website is said to stand for ‘I build, I bond’?

Ans. IBIBO

Q8) This social networking website gets its name from a book containing freshmen’s photos, majors and hometowns that is distributed to all incoming students at Harvard University. Which website?

Ans. Facebook

Q9) Whose social networking profile is this?

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Ans. Orkut Buyukkoten
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