TBQ Classic – Business Quiz Sample Questions
1) What are the last few lines of the song referring to?
Lyrics:
So Missus R., with all her trimmin’s,
Can broadcast a bed from Simmons
‘Cause Franklin knows
Anything goes.
2) Inventor Carmela Vitale was bothered enough by this problem. Her solution was “to provide a lightweight and inexpensive device,” which would be molded “from one of the plastics which is heat resistant such as the thermo set plastics and which will resist temperatures of as high as about 500°F.” The form that she preferred is a utilitarian tripod, a minimalist three-legged stool. In her description of the so-called “preferred embodiment,” she explained that the legs should have “a minimal cross section to minimize any marking of the protected article” and also “to minimize the volume of plastic required” and thereby keep the cost low.
A patent was issued in 1985 to Carmela Vitale for what she called the “package saver.” What are we talking about?
3) This brand has come up with a brand positioning statement, ‘Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam,’ inspired by the core message, ‘The World is My Family’. The words ‘Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam’ are written beneath the logo of the brand. Which brand?
4) ____ _______ Brand Jeans is an American clothing company is known for its premium -quality denim. It was established in December 2002 by Jeff Lubell. Name it.
5) The handmade carpet of ‘X’ is believed to come into existence centuries ago during the regime of great Mughal emperor Akbar. It is believed that centuries ago some Iranian master weavers stopped at Madhosingh village near Khamaria in ‘X’ district while travelling in India. They established the first loom and manufactured the first carpet in India . Today, the ‘X’-Mirzapur is the biggest carpet manufacturing hub of the country exporting carpets worth of about Rs 1,500 crore to other countries. It is the largest handmade carpet weaving cluster engaging about 3.2 million persons. One of the prominent woven carpets is hand knotted carpet, which is manufactured on a vertical wooden loom. The designs depicting flowers, animals, garden, and tree in various manners and hues are made to liven up the floors. What is X?
6) In 1992, Parag Milk Foods Pvt. Ltd. was founded by Mr. Devendra Shah at Manchar (in the milk belt of Maharashtra ). He owes his ideation and being to his father Prakash Shah and his cold storage-like facility way back in 1972 that provided services to the potato farmers.
Under the brand ‘X’, it offers traditional products like Ghee, Dahi, Paneer etc. whereas under the brand name “Y” it offers new generation products like Cheese, UHT milk, Yogurt etc. Put X and Y.
7) He was the fictional winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics in The Simpsons episode Elementary School Musical. Who?
8) Ralph Collier of Baltimore in partnership with Alfred H. Reip, tin and iron ware manufacturer invented the first rotary ‘X’ in 1856. Subsequently another version of it was patented in 1857 by E.P.Griffiths of London -“Every revolution of the handle gives 288 strokes.” In the US they were called Dover ‘X’ after being popularised by the Dover Stamping Company. What?
9) This company is a division of Prism Cement, established in 1958. Name this pioneer of ceramic tiles in India which is a part of the Rajan Raheja Group.
Answers:
1) The then first lady Eleanor Roosevelt used to host a weekly radio show sponsored by the Simmons mattress company—a cultural footnote immortalized by Cole Porter in one of the last stanzas of “Anything Goes”: “So Missus R. with all her trimmin’s, can broadcast a bed from Simmons ’cause Franklin knows, anything goes.” Porter’s line was also a sly reference to the fact that while Mrs. Roosevelt might have slept in her Simmons, her presidential husband was said to be fond of, er, more mattresses than just his own.
2) Pizza saver- the circular thing that keeps the pizza from hitting the inside of the box top.
In her patent, Vitale explained that the small, three-legged plastic structure was designed to be used with disposable containers, “particularly those used to deliver pizza pies or large cakes or pies, comprise boxes with relatively large covers formed of inexpensive board material” that have a tendency “to sag or to be easily depressed at their center portions so that they may damage or mark the pies or cakes during storage or delivery.”
3) Zee Entertainment Enterprises
4) True Religion
5) X: Bhadohi
6) X:Gowardhan | Y: Go
Source:http://en.bharat4india.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=339&catid=39&Itemid=124
7) Jagdish Bhagwati
8) Egg-beater
9) H & R Johnson