This document contains a quiz with multiple choice questions about various companies and business terms. It includes questions about the origins of terms like EPSON and HITACHI, companies like DENA Bank, products like Rubik's Cube, and business concepts like ESOPs and ambush marketing. The document is in a question and answer format testing knowledge of business, history, and current events.

1. By Nikhar Maloo
QUIZ

2. Which company/group started ESOPs?
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3. Peninsular Newspaper Group
ANSWER

4. Times of India carried a blank front Sunday page some years back for the first
time in its history? What was it for?
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5. Ad for indya.com
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6. Every B-school student knows what is a PPO. But
what is a PPO share?
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7. PARTLY PAID ORDINARY share
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8. What is five-finger discounting referred to in retailing?
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9. SHOP LIFTING
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10. The latest products in Insurance industry are KnR
policies? What are they?
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11. Kidnapping and Ransom
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12. Everyone knows what e-mail is. What is we-mail?
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13. Joint Internet Account
ANSWER

14. What did the Bank of Sweden do to celebrate its
centenary?
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15. Launched the Nobel Prize in Economics
ANSWER

16. What is the origin of the word EPSON?
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17. The son of electronic printing

18. What does the word HITACHI mean in Japanese?
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19. “Hi”-Sun
“Tachi”-Rise
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20. Which was the first U.S product to be produced and
sold in the USSR?
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21. Pepsi Cola
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22. If Coke is Big Red, which company is Big Red zero?
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23. Lucent
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24. Which company in its country of origin was called as
Millicento?
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25. Premier Padmini
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26. Why is DENA bank so called?
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27. After its founder DEvkaran NAnjee
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28. What are James Bonds on Wall Street?
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29. Bonds that matured in 2007
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30. Which US company's headquarters is known as the
‘sweetest' place on earth’?
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31. Hersheys Chocolate Company
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32. If ‘Thing Big’ is to IBM, ’Think Small’ is to which
company?
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33. Volkswagen Beetle
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34. Shyam Benegal’s movie ‘Manthan’ had a record of
having more than a thousand producers. Who were they?
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35. Contributions from cooperative society of farmers
who form AMUL
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36. What did Nestle do in 1938 on the request of the
Brazilian Govt.?
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37. Invented Instant coffee
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38. For this world famous company, ‘Corporated
Incorporated' and 'Limited Unlimited' were names
considered but not adopted. What was finally adopted?
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39. Microsoft
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40. Ongio is a consultancy firm. It is a JV between 2
public sector companies. Name them.
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41. ONGC and IOCL
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42. Which company's logo is called the "spinning
ectasy"?
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43. BMW
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44. Who owns a company called G.O.A.T?
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45. Mohd. Ali. 'Goat' stands for Greatest Of All Time
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46. X in India (the first in Asia, too) was conceived primarily to improve the
availability of cotton to British textile merchants, after the 1846 failure of the
American crop. What?
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47. Indian Railways
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48. “In troubled times, adults are looking for things that remind them of happier
days.”
This is the Reason given by an analyst for 15 million units of X being sold
World wide
Identify X.
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49. Rubik’s Cube
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50. QUESTION

51. WWF
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52. X was first granted permission to start operations in India by the Foreign
Investment Promotion Board in April ’07. In exchange, the US Government
allowed the import of mangoes from India after a gap of 18 years.
Mangoes for what?
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53. Harley Davidson
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54. Which shower gel is sold using the slogan "The original. If your grandfather
hadn't worn it, you wouldn't exist."?
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55. ANSWER

56. X graduated from IIT Kharagpur where he was the recipient of Director's
Gold Medal. He received an M.Sc degree also in Physics from IIT Kanpur. X
topped the IAS examination in 1972.
In 1978, he did a Masters degree in economics from Ohio State University,
US. After a few years X joined the Humphrey Fellowship program at
Massachusetts Institute of Technology to study Quantitative Economic
Modelling.
X had finished his term, of what he is now, on September 2011. But
breaking from tradition, the Prime Minister's Office put out a statement
announcing that X, a former finance secretary would now retire on September
4, 2013.
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57. Duvvuri Subbarao
ANSWER

58. It’s stated vision is “to be earth's most customer centric company; to build a
place where people can come to find and discover anything they might want
to buy online”
Which company are we talking about ?
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59. Amazon.com
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60. A British entrepreneur LA Jackson founded X, an abbreviation of “
Durability, Reliability and Excellence”.
What is X?
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61. Durex
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62. A popular myth says that “X”, an India based group was awarded a six sigma
certification by Forbes magazine. This is a myth perpetuated by the news
media who wrongly inferred the accreditation from the 1998 article in Forbes.
In 2007, an explanation was provided by the lead author of the article to
clarify the matter.
Identify X
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63. Dabbawalas
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64. Kokuyo S & T Ltd. Japan acquired majority stake in an indian company X .
Kokuyo is a Japan based company with more than 100 years old history. It is a
leading marketer in stationery, institutional furniture and catalogue sales.
The company X introduced the product Y, the water mixable oil
colours, for the first time in Asia in 1999.
What is the name of company X and product Y?
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65. X= Camlin
Y= Artica
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66. Which is the largest and oldest and the apex business organisation in India
founded on the advice of Mahatma Gandhi and Purushottam Das?
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67. Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry
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68. Which company headed the forbe’s 2015 list of America’s most promising
company?
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69. Instacart.
Instacart is an Internet-based grocery delivery service
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70. Founder of Standard Oil company?
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71. John D. Rockfeller
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72. Who is a ‘PHILLUMENIST’?
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73. Collector of Match Boxes
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74. It is an American franchise which deals in bizarre events and items so strange
and unusual that readers might question the claims. The panel proved popular
and was later adapted into a wide variety of formats,
including radio, television, comic books, a chain of museums and a book
series.
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75. Ripley's Believe It or Not!
ANSWER

76. On whose order the German government stepped in to assist
the mortgage company Hypo Real Estate with a bailout, which was agreed on
6 October, with German banks to contribute €30 billion and
the Bundesbank €20 billion to a credit line, saving the Euro Zone of a big
financial crisis!
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77. Angela Merkel
ANSWER

78. Which company is known as HELLOFOOD in Africa and in the Middle
East?
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79. FoodPanda
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80. Who wrote the famous punchline “Naughty but nice” for cream cakes, and for
the agency Ayer Barker?
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81. Salman Rushdie
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82. Founder of KFC?
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83. Colonel Harland Sanders
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84. It is a practice by which a rival company attempts to associate its products
with an event that already has official sponsors.
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85. Ambush Marketing
ANSWER