81 Connect

1865....2278 branches....Kolkata....March 2007 1 lakh crore mark....Tata Consultancy Services

Connect to a perticular service sector and name the organisation
(It would be wonderful if you could explain the connect)


ANSWER: The Banking Service Sector
The Allahbad Bank (pronounced E llahabaad Bank)
1865 year of incorporation
2278 branchs as of march 2007
In March 2007 it crossed the one lakh crore mark
Tata Consultancy Services' EBank Work Team manages the internet banking 

80 Guess who

Started in 1977 by a graduate of Stanford. The company was taken over but the brand remains the same. Today is one to the biggest apparel retailers in USA. One of the latest range ofproducts is Vertical. Name the CEO and the brand.

ANSWER: Victoria Secret's CEO Sharen Jester Turney

79 99 years

99 years of active services to the nation.
In 1911 it was the first fully Indian comercial Xservice provider.
Dream of Sir Sorabji Pochkhanwalla
"property of the nation and an asset of the country" exclaimed Sir Sorabji Pochkhanwalla
Sir Pherozeshah Mehta had connections with it.
Shri S Sridhar

Connect and tell us the sector and the institution

ANSWER: The Banking Sector and The Central Bank of India

The CEO Quiz 10

X was formed in 1922 to be perfect on the 18th of October 1922 when 6 companies came together and wound up on the 1st of January 1927 and was replaced by a public organisation under a Royal Charter under His Majesty's Government. Under the prospect of potraying its values it adopterd the following coat of arms. It does not have a CEO instead it has a President, name the organistion and the knight.

 

ANSWER:British Broadcasting Corporation and President SIR Michael Lyons

The CEO Quiz 9

I am the CEO of X which began life as a tobacco manufacturer X-Tupakka in 1950, acquired the right to sell Philp Morris ciggarettes in Finland in 1960. A publishing and printing divison was set up 1960s and the company was listed in the Helsinki Stock Exchange in 1977, the company was renamed X Yahtyma. In the 1980's the company set up car and truck distribution. In 1986 we established a perticular divison that now is our major business and we are world leaders in it. In 2002 we offically changed our name to X  Sports Corporation


Who do I work for and who am I...

ANSWER: Amer Sports Corporation and Heikki Takala

The CEO Quiz 8

X CEO compansation as CEO of X is US $2,02,40,457. Wow!!! X CEO became CEO of X Inc in 2007 before which he was senior executive vice president at the  Southwestern Bell telephone Company which he joined in 1982. A very controversial CEO and has gained a lot of ill regard for his behaviour with customer emails to him. He was appointed a director of X Inc in 2005 and is presently the director of X Mobility also

NAME THE X and XCEO

Answer: AT&T (American Telephone and Telegraph) Inc. and XCEO is Randall Stephenson

The CEO Quiz 7

 

Well he is a Chief Executive Officer 

Answer: Fred De Luca of Subway

Fr from fries

Ed of Ed Edd and Eddy

De from Dell

ca is given

of is given

Subway is the name of both the company and the underground railroad system so here we go

FrEd De LuCa Of Subway

The CEO Quiz 6

I was born in the Illinois State in 1944 and started my carrer with McDonalds in 1971 as a resturant trainee in Carpentersville Illinois.. I was the President and CEO of McDonalds Resturant Group for Asia Middle East Africa and Latin America. I was also responsible for McD's McDonald Japan Limited. Well...Well I never graduated from college but served in the United States Navy for 10 years. Who am I and Who do I presently work for.

Note: We would want you to name the perticular organisation he works for and not it's subsidiary companies.


ANSWER: McDonalds Corporation and CEO: Jim Skinner

The CEO QUIZ 5

X was established in April 2001 in a WestIndian country and grew to 100000 customers in 100 days!!! In the 7 years since the launch its customer base has grown to 1.6 million customers( 2008 figures). in the ill fated Haiti its services run across 2.5 million customers. Today functioning in 26 nations across Oceania, Central America and the Caribbean nations X has around 6.5 million customers. Its sister X Pacific operates in 7 Pacific nations namely Fiji, French Polynesia, Nauru, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Tonga and Vanuatu. Name this service provider and X CEO


ANSWER: DIGICEL and CEO Colm Delves

The CEO Quiz 4

She has been a Director of Bharti Airtel Ltd. since May 2001 also served as a Director of Shin Corp. Public Co. Ltd. since around the same time. She today heads a company which reaches over 350 million people. 

Name the CEO


ANSWER: Chu Sock Koong

THE CEO Quiz 3 continues..............

He has been appointed chairman of a newly-created advisory board at Stanhope Capital. He  In holds a degree in Physics from Cambridge University an MS in Business from Stanford University. He has been much criticized by Tom Bower for the cost cutting measure he took as a CEO in his company and comprising safety.

Name the company and the CEO.




 BP CEO: LORD JOHN BROWNE

The CEO QUIZ 2

AX was born as a national carrier for the world's heaviest currency nation with a limited service to Abadan, Beirut, Damascus and Jerusalem but soon spread to a larger base. During a war the company lost all its 42 flights and its premises and was the fastest recovery in Airline history. It is one of the world's premier Arab government funded airline carriers.  In 2008, the government of the country decided to privatize the carrier

Name the carrier and Its CEO

Answer: Kuwait Airways Corporation CEO: Hamad Al Abdulltif Al- Falla

Saturday to Saturday THE CEO QUIZ 1

X  traces its roots to a Textile manufacturing company in 1839 as the Valley Falls Company. In 1929 the Valley Falls Company merged with Berkshire Cotton Manufacturing Company established in 1889 to form the Berkshire Fine Spinning Associates. In 1955 it merged with another company which made textiles for the soldiers during World War II and thus got its name X.
In 1962 X CEO started buying shares in X and by 1967 he bought enough shares to become its largest shareholder.

Today X is a business conglomerate and has varied institutions under its banner with Investments being a major promoter business of the conglomerate.


NAME X and X CEO
(enough clues are given...CEO QUIZ gives the contestants 2 points for every correct answer)



ANSWER: BERKSHIRE HATHWAY and the CEO: Warren Buffet

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68 A Thinkpic for you

Think Think Think...well no clues cause it is easy real easy....were are all the management heads gone!!!!


ANSWER: Fredrick Winslow Taylor
 Fred Flinstones for Fred
Rickshaw for Rick 
Windmill for Wind
Mr Slow for Slow 
Tiger Tail (circled) for Tayl
Oranges for Or
and here we go FredRick WinSlow TaylOr

67 Racing with their tyres

The very first "Ishibashi" tyre was made on April 9 1930 by the Japanese "Tabi" Socks Tyre Division. One year later on March 1 1931 the founder Shijiro Ishibashi made the Tabi Socks Tyre Division independent and founded the "Ishibashi" Tyre Co. Ltd.

Ishibashi is also the name of the founder and the name of the company has something to do with it. Name this Tyre company.

ANSWER: ISHIBASHI means BRIDGESTONE 

66 A Think Pic from Focuspoint PLC

Think Think Think...if you get ill thinking dont worry this thinking is only going to help you get a medicine

ANSWER: Glaxosmith & Kline

Glass for Gla

XO laptop for xo

Smile for Smi

th for th

&

Kiln close to Kline

so there you go GlaXoSmiTh & Kline

65 Who is he

ANSWER: Jeffery Immelt 

Chief Executive Officer General Electric

Hello All

Its with great sense of gratitude and pleasure do we announce that we have completed 1 month (23rd Sep-22nd  Nov) of some wonderful quizzing, We have crossed 60 questions and some cracker of a contestants have answered very very very brilliantly. This is just the beginning and we hope with god's grace and your enthusiasm to continue many a mile.

Today as stated earlier we shall announce the Quizzard of the month
We have an IIITian who has done some marvellous quizzing as our Quizzard out scoring all the others marvellously, that at one point we were rethinking whether are questions were so simple but at the end all that one can say is he is simply brilliant so...as QuizMasters of Quizzards-the avenue for Quizzers we proudly present to you Shashwat Goel the Quizzard for the month of quizzing who has scored 31 points leaving the nearest 2nd position a full 20 points behind.

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64 The First of its kind

X was launched in 1894 in the UK and was the first of its kind in the history of mankind. The company which owns this brand started business in 1885 selling detergent and created phenol  as an household disinfectant, till then it was only used in the medical profession. X was also launched under the same prototype in a different shape-as to be used for washing of clothes purposes. In the year 1900 it was considered a marvellous breakthrough and was given Royal Assent as the Royal Disinfectant Bar. 1911 the brand went global. The year 1933 marked the year when the holding company launched it as a toilet soap which has lasted 116 years and still runs without any change to its positioning as a hygiene and cleanliness provider....

The company would be clear and X would be but obvious by now...Name X



ANSWER: Lifebuoy by Unilever

63 Identify

ANSWER: THE HINDU

Q 62 Whose logo

Name the organisation (Full name)

ANSWER: National Bank for Agricultural and Rural Development (NABARD)

61: Name the Car Maker

A car of the yesteryears. Its a 3 wheel car.


Answer: The Badal

60: Indentify the Duo

Answer : Domenico Dolce & Stefano Gabbana of Dolce&Gabbana

Q 59

X is the flagship company of Y, which has a heritage of over 150 years and is one of India’s leading media groups. The activities of Y also include publishing newspapers and magazines, television broadcasting, running internet portals, creating and distributing multimedia products and music publishing and retailing.

The Y is the largest media services conglomerate in India. Y publishes a daily newspaper in India. The company was founded in 1838 as The Bombay Times and Journal of Commerce and changed its name to Z in 1861. The company is based in New Delhi, India. Z is a subsidiary of X. The first edition of the newspaper appeared on November 3, 1838, then known as The Bombay Times and Journal of Commerce. 

Name X Y Z


ANSWER: X: Bennett Coleman & Co Ltd
Y: Times Group and Z: The Times of India

Q 58 if you want me..you better be rich

X was established in 1966, the name of X means Venetian Atelier and began to sell luxury leather products. Unique to the brand is it's leather weaving technique called intrecciato which is still the company's trademark. In the 1970s the company began advertising with the tag line “When your own initials are enough”.It lost fortune and sold out to the Gucci group with whom it has become a trademark


NAME THE COMPANY




Answer: Bottega Venetta

Q 57 The Mastermind!!

X is considered as the father of quiz masters and his questioning sense is considered as one of the most lethal in the world. X an IITian from Madras grew up in various parts of the country. He is the Head of media business for Synergy Adlabs Media Ltd. X is associated with many a quizzes starting form Quiz Time on Doordarshan to The "Spectrum" a quiz between 7 SAARC nations. The India quiz and the famous breath taking quiz THE MASTERMIND on BBC. He was also the genius behind India Child Genius and the prestigious University Challenge Quiz and the list goes on. He is the protagonist behind one of the most successful Quiz shows in the world

NAME THIS QUIZZARD



ANSWER: Siddharth Basu

Q 56

YES YES WE KNOW its a BLACKBERRY we not going to ask you that !!!!

Who manufactures and own this patented brand. What is the software the Blackberry uses.

ANSWER: RIM (Research in Motion) The Blackberry Enterprise Server

Q 55 THE OLDEST...

The X School, the world's first collegiate business school, was founded in 1881 by industrialist and philanthropist X. 
X became a leader in industrial metallurgy and built a fortune through his American Nickel Company and Bethleham Steel Corporation. X envisioned creating a new collegiate foundation that would produce educated leaders of business and government. The school of business is considered as one amongst the Holy spots of BUSINESS MANAGEMENT. 




Who is X and which School are we taking about




ANSWER: Wharton School of Business Pennsylvania 
Joseph Wharton

Q 54 Taglines sitter

Who has this famous tagline
" GOOD FOOD, GOOD LIFE"

Tell us the company, the name of its founder and the present CEO


Answer Nestle 
Founder Henri Nestle
CEO Paul Buckle

Q 53 GUESS

What was chosen from a public survey, where millions of designs were shortlisted to 10 and then 2 proposals  and finally fixed to the design made by Belgian Alian Billit .
16+3+5+4

1c 2c 5c 10c 20c 50c 1e 2e
5e 10e 20e 50e 100e 200e 500e



Answer: The Euro (16 member nations, 3 non European nations, 5 territories and 4 unregistered users use the Euro)
the denominations c standing for Euro cents and e standing for the Euro

Q 52

What was formed in 1933 and reorganized as Y due to the merger of two companies in Mumbai. They first started selling a common vegetable oil in India to move on to become the largest player in its market till recently, when other Indian companies started eating into its market share. In June 2007 there was a minute change made to the company's name by its parent company....

NAME Y


Answer: Hindustan Unillever Ltd ( Hinsuatan Lever)

Q 51 Loong Loong Ago........

The origin dates back to 1865 when Fredrik Idestam built a wood pulp mill in southern Finland. Over 145 years the company has evolved from manufacturing paper, rubber, rubber boots, power cable to what it sells now. Its name means a pine martin an animal found in Finland, but it was not named after it, it was named after a particular natural element in the area where it was started.

the founders

NAME  THE COMPANY
its predecessors were
Suomen Gummitehdas Oy
Suomen Kaapelitehdas Oy
and the X Aktiebolag








ANSWER: NOKIA derived from the name of the river Nokiavitra

Q 50! Name the author

ANSWER: F W Taylor

Q 49 Founder Drama....

In 1969 what started out as a document transfer mechanism between San Fransisco and Honolulu by a Law student of Berkeley's Boalt Hall School of Law. The original founder put a part of his student loans and roped in 2 of his friends to start this service that has worldwide accord now. This network was bought and made a subsidiary of Deutsche Post AG in 2002.

Name the co-founders of the company and the company  






ANSWER: DHL (Dalsey, Hillblom, lynn)

Q 48 Where would you be.....

You have been appointed as Director-Research & Consultancy and you walk in to your first board meeting and are warmly greeted by an elderly Manvider Singh Banga. You take your seat, on your right hand side is Keiichi Asai and to your immediate left is Mr. D.S.Brar. You also have Mr Aman Ganguli and Mr Suji Osihi come up to you and welcome you on to the board.

Which elite company's employee are you....



ANSWER: Maruti Suzuki India Ltd

Q 47 GURU

Name this jumbled figure.......

ANSWER: Venkat Ramaswamy

Q 46 Awards......

Who own  the following awards...(full name)

CAPA award for "Airport Environmental Performance of the year" 2009

BEST AIRPORT in the Skytrax World Airports 2010

Routes Airport Marketing Award for Indian Sub continent at the 8th Routes Asia, Adelaide 2010

Rank# 1 globally in Airports Council International (ACI) in 5-15 million passenger category airports and  Rank# 5 in all categories

well this is  enough we cant make it a bigger SITTER




ANSWER: GMR Rajiv Gandhi Hyderabad International Airport, Greenfield Hyderabad

Q 45 FLY FLY FLY AWAY

In Jan 2006 a consortium led by Z and comprising of Airports Company South Africa and Bidvest was awarded the mandate to modernizes X . A company Y was created as a joint venture between Z and AAI was set up in March 2006. Its new identity depicts Pride in India, People and Service and Global Standard.

Name Z, X and Y
(note Y is the joint venture name the JV COMPANY and not the brand name of the company)



ANSWER: Z: GVK
X: Chattrapati Shivaji International Airport Mumbai
Y: Mumbai International Airport Limited (MIAL)

Q 44 Guess the CEO 1

NAME HIM & THE ORGANISATION HE WORKS FOR

Answer: Dr Vikram Pandit of the Citi Bank

Q 43 COMPANY GUESS!!!

X was created in February 1907 when the N.V. KoninklijkeNederlandsche Petroleum Maatschappij and the "X" Transport and Trading Company Ltd of the United Kingdommerged their operations a move largely driven by the need to compete globally with the then predominant Standard Oil. The terms of the merger gave 60% of the new Group to the Dutch arm and 40% to the British.

Name this X Anglo-dutch Company which is world famous for it’s products.


Answer: The Royal Dutch Shell

Q 42 LOGO SITTER !!!!!

it couldnt have gotten easier than is....YES  ofcourse it is BOEING

Q 41 GURU QUEST

X is the Earl C Daum 1924 Professor  at the Trunk School of Business and the founding director for Trunk Center for Global Leadership. Alongside X is the co-director faculty for Global Leadership 2020 with his courses and programs running in 3 continents. His articles and papers have been path breaking and innovative with deep insight and thought. Considered as one of the BEST B GURUs to have ever surfaced on the planet and of ofcourse he is another jewel in the jewel box of INDIAN BUSINESS GURUs.

Name this famous ex Professor in Residence and Chief Innovation Consultant of General Electric

ANSWER: VIJAY GOVINDARAJAN 

Q 40 IPO

On October 7th 2010 an Indian company got listed in the NASDAQ and traded at a dream start with $ 34.5 from a base price of $ 14. The company fetched it self $ 70 million. The MMYT in NASDAQ is the first Indian company in it's sector to be listed in the NASDAQ. NAME THE COMPANY and it's CEO



ANSWER: MAKE MY TRIP (MMYT) 
CEO: DEEP KALRA

Q 39: Name the Bank and 'X'

It "represents a new standard of relationship banking which has been exclusively created to offer an enhanced levels of service to demanding individuals". Its also called the 'X' Preferred Banking.

ANSWER: Royal Bank of Scotland X: Von Gogh Preferred Banking

Q 38: Name the Company/Institution

What was founded in 1997 by R Balasubramaniam, an IIT-C & IIM-A Alumniand it literally means "qiver of all good things"


ANSWER: SUBHIKSHA
http://www.rediff.com/money/2007/feb/05bspec.htm

Q 37 Guess the Institution

November 1961 What did MIT Sloan School of Management, Government of West Bengal and The Ford Foundation in collaboration under Prof G Robbins suggestion set up. It's initial years, K T Chandy former Chairman of Hindustan Lever took up the responsibility of being its first director emeritus. Its core committee was filled with greats like Paul Samuelson, Jagdish Seth, J K Sengupta and Thomas Hill. The vision  "to emerge as an International Centre of Excellence in all facets of Management Education, rooted in Indian ethos and societal values"   


Name the specific Institute and not the Group


ANSWER: Indian Institute of Management Calcutta

Q 36 Connect

NORWALK, Connecticut....
Fortune 500....
1906....
The Haloid Photographic Company...
Chester Carlson...
Joseph R. Wilson....
Joseph C Wilson...
and Parle's Kaccha Mango ad


Answer: XEROX

Q 35 THINK THINK THINK Again

Easy actually name what the "THINK PIC" depicts


PriceWaterhouse Coopers
P for p
Rice for rice
Water for Water
Treehouse for House
Australian Coo for Coo
Purse for pers (pronounced as Purse)
so there you go PRiceWaterHouse CooPers

Q 34 Advertisement

WHOSE PRINT AD

ANSWER : AD by J M Financials

Q 33 THINK THINK THINK

What is this " THINK PIC" trying to depict


ANSWER: MICROSOFT WINDOWS


MIC from the microphone
RO from the rows
SOFT from the softdrinks
WIN from the winner
DOWS from dough (pronounced DOW) 
so here we go MicRoSoft WinDows

Q 32 GUESS

Born in Titlagarh, Orissa, India. His parents hailed from Gujarat and migrated to Orissa. They were deeply influenced by Gandhi and his philosophy and consequently, he and his brother were sent to Gujarat to imbibe Gandhian philosophy. He completed his schooling from Vallabh Vidyanagar in Gujarat and completed his Masters in Physics and Electronics from Maharaja Sayajirao University in Vadodara . After completing his Masters in Physics he went to the US and did his Masters in Electrical Engineering from Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago. In 2010, he received a Honorary degree from University of Illinois at Chicago. He is the founder & CEO of C-SAM, Inc.

The company maintains its headquarters in Chicago with offices in London, Tokyo , Mumbai and Vadodara. Following the development of core technologies in the U.S. and Europe, C-SAM's development centers in India now focus on innovation, customization and cost effective deployment for its customers.Currently Advisor to the Prime Minister of India on Public Information Infrastructure & Innovations, he is also widely considered to have been responsible for India’s communications revolution.^[1] As Advisor, he will be looking into creating information infrastructure for enhancing delivery of services to the citizens in various areas and will also be working on creating a roadmap for a ‘Decade of Innovation’ in India.

He has served as Chairman of the National Knowledge Commission (2005–2008), a high-level advisory body to the Prime Minister of India, set up to give policy recommendations for improving knowledge related institutions and infrastructure in the country. During its term, the National Knowledge Commissionsubmitted around 300 recommendations on 27 focus areas covering a range of aspects of the knowledge paradigm. X holds around 100 key technology patents, has been involved in several start ups, and lectures extensively around the world.

GUESS the personality

ANSWER: Sam Pitroda

Q 31 THE MAN

Onetime partner of Goldman Sachs, derives fortune from 48% stake in Y Bank, which X started in 1985 as a small finance firm, with the backing of tractor tycoon Anand Mahindra who lent his name to firm. Bank has 17 million customers and is a leading player in wealth and asset management services. Also has a life insurance joint venture with Old Mutual. Family is biggest shareholder in Business Standard, a daily financial newspaper. Recently X set up the X Education Foundation, family's private trust that focuses on educating poor children in and around Mumbai. Name

NAME X and the Y BANK

Answer: X: Uday Kotak and Y: Kotak Mahindra Bank

Q 30 IDENTIFY!!!

this a part of a particular organisation's LOGO NAME the organisation shown in this clip

Answer: Guinness Beer  

Q 29 LOGO

IDENTIFY

ANSWER: OLD LOGO OF SAMASUNG

Q 28 WHERE WOULD YOU BE

If you were at the Baker Library & Bloomberg Center on one Autumn morning at around 7:30 am reading Constructing the International Economy by Rawi E Abdelal and interacting with the Joseph C Wilson Professor of Business Administration on the topic of energy politics in Russia and Eurasia and its effects on the global business scenario WHERE WOULD YOU BE .

ANSWER: The Harvard Business School of HARVARD UNIVERSITY

Q 27 Identify!!

This group's vision is to be the foremost organization which builds and energizes leading global communities;

To be the creative force shaping global, regional and industry strategies and to be the catalyst of choice for its communities when undertaking global initiatives to improve the state of the world. An independent Swiss not for profit organisation dedicated to serve the world's economic needs with the motto " entrepreneurship in the global public interest"

NAME THIS GLOBAL INITIATIVE

ANSWER: THE WORLD BANK

Q 26: Name the Process! Another Sitter!

This is the process where, simply put it, one vehicle goes to multiple vendors and collects its input materials. It saves time and cost but it should be well planned and executed.

Answer: Milk Run Logistics

Q 25 This is a sitter people a real sitter

X was started in August 1999 by a diverse team of 10 professionals who came from three different nations and had already scripted successful careers. Their vision to build an institution that is among the most admired companies globally is shared with every X Mind and is reflected in the way they do business.


Deals wide from information support systems to business consulting to softwares...cant give u more than this..the logo...

ANSWER : MIND TREE Consulting

Q 24 Identify Mr X

Mr X joined a company Y in 1983, and over the years held many positions in the company. X was appointed as the Managing Director of Y in 2010. Mr X is a gold medalist Mechanical Engineering graduate from Birla Institute of Technology Ranchi. A Masters degree in Operational Research from State University of New York at Stony-Brook USA and successfully completed a AMP prog from the Harvard Business School Harvard University Boston USA.

Mr X was named the Outstanding Chief Executive 2000-2001 by the Indian Institute of Industrial Engineering. The Bombay Management Association unanimously conferred upon him the MANAGEMENT MAN OF THE YEAR 2005-06 in recognition of his contribution to the management movement in the Indian Industry. 2008 saw him win the "Enertia Award" for his achievement over several decades of excellence in the industry. BUSINESS STANDARD named him CEO of the Year 2008-2009

Name the illustrious Mr X and his company

A part of his picture is put below IDENTIFY

ANSWER: S M Trehan

CEO & MD of Crompton Grevars

Q 23: "Circular File"

In modern day office slang what is referred to as the “circular file”?




ANSWER: the answer my friends is a wastepaper basket

Q 22: Name the Company

"The customer is always right" is a philosophy adopted by many companies. It was actually the motto of which company before the world of business considered it a must?


The customer will always be right for IBM

Q 21 The Ad World

A print advertisement by X which says "Wrong Construction, find the right construction with X"
Name X


ANSWER: LEGO. 
The print ad is of Taj Mahal constructed as a spaceship

Q 20 THE GOOGLING AND DOODLING

A doodle for an Olympics which Olympics and which year?


ANSWER: The Vancouver Winter Olympics 2010
Opening Ceremony Google Doodle

Q 19 THE GOOGLING AND DOODLING

For what did GOOGLE put this doodle up....

ANSWER: Google's doodle for the Indian festival of HOLI

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Q 18 Dell Stratergy

What is the strategy that DELL used to sell its products with. Unique way, another company A also sells using this strategy. Name the strategy, the company A and has DELL changed its strategy
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Answer : Direct Selling technique. Till recently DELL used this technique, it cuts advertising costs as direct selling deals a lot with word of mouth advertising. The other company to famously use this method is American Way better known as AMWAY. In the near past DELL has also gone into retailing like all other companies leasing out franchises to dealers of their products  

Q 17: Connect to a company

Connect to a company

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Answer: Maruti Suzuki India Ltd;

the connect" Sanjay Gandhi's dream project which was launched as Maruti Motors Pvt. Ltd. 

R.C. Bhargava who was the Managing Director and Chairman of the nationalised JV between Maruti Udyog Ltd & Suzuki Motor Corporation and later MD of Maruti Suzuki India Ltd, and 14th Dec 1983 was the day the first Maruti 800 was handed over to Harpal Singh

Q 16: Company!!!

.     A young entrepreneur, K. M. Mammen Mappillai, opened a small toy balloon manufacturing unit in a shed at Tiruvottiyur, Madras (now Chennai). It does not deal in balloons anymore.. but the company is now famous for something that is used very often. They were sponsors for a living legend till recently. They run a foundation which develops one department of the particular game to which the legend stated above still is associated with. Their products is a very common sight on the roads of India. 

Name the company
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ANSWER: Madras Rubber Factory or MRF
Legend: Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar
Foundation: MRF Pace Foundation, a institute that cultivates genuine fast bowlers for the game of cricket

Q15 Name this Company

Fortune named this company as the Best Company to work for, beating even Google which is renowned for the perks the company gives to its employees. This company also give paid leave for its employees! The best part is that it gives Business Analytics Solutions.
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Answer: SAS (pronounced Sass) 

Q14 ADVs

This is print ad for which campaign

Answer: Incredible India

an ad for Indian tourism

Q13 Name the prestigious group

What connects the Indian cities Rohtak, Shillong & Ranchi

ANSWER: Logos of IIM Indore IIM  Kozhikode & IIM Shillong

Shillong, Rohtak & Ranchi are the new IIMs

Q12 Name the Product

In 1962, Fuji and Xerox established a joint venture at ratio 50:50. Name the first product which this company brought out into the market. This product was a hit in the market so much so it made a revenue of $60 million!





ANSWER
FUJI XEROX 914
(the first photocopy machine in the world)

Q11 Name the Two Companies

Two automobile giants took up a joint venture in USA. One wanted to enter the US market, the other wanted to gain expertise from the other. The plant under the JV is located in Fremont, Cali. The latest on them is that they have broken their ties. Name these two automobile giants.

GENERAL MOTORS & TOYOTA MOTORS

Q10 The first of it's kind

THE Inaugural Youth Olympic Games Singapore 2010  

Q9 Connect: These Indian gaints