Narsee Monjee Business Quiz
Prelims
1) This Hotel in Mumbai ha a suite called Shantaram Suite. It also keeps a copy of Shantaram in every room, along with Suketu Mehta’s Maximum City. Which hotel?
2) After searching for and documenting millions of images on Flickr, researcher Eric Fischer has pinpointed New York City’s most photographed attraction, which one?
3) Hoechst… It’s molecular formula is C9H6Cl6O3S… 500 crore Industry. What?
4) This Mascot has a scarf, a chef’s hat, two big blue eyes, a blush when girls kissed him, and a soft, warm chuckle when poked in the stomach.What are we talking about? For complete 2 points give the name of the Mascot
5) Whose ad? http://www.madtrash.com/?id=112
6) Rekha promoted this brand… Dhoni currently endorses it…
7) He was taught English by the famous Marathi writer P. L. Deshpande. He started “Partha Institute of Personality Development” in August 1978. Who?
8) An alumnus of the Indian Institute of Technology ( IIT) Bombay, Vasant Mehar, has won the nation-wide competition for designing this which is is modeled after Japan’s design.What?
9) _________is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway.Whose quote and fill in the blank
10) It began life in Brazil as a one-time marketing plan to sell pre-packaged music on Nokia 5310 phones – where two different Brazilian artists recorded a show fusing different styles of music. What?
11) Guru in Chennai, Sri Sri Muralidhara Swamigal came upw ith the name of this PE Venture. Which one?
12) Sued by X, the company Y defends its position stating that shoes with red soles have been used for centuries, dating as far back to as the 1600’s when King Louis XIV donned red soled shoes, or more recently (relatively speaking) in the Wizard of Oz (you know, the ruby red bottoms on Dorothy’s iconic slippers). What are X and Y?
13) This company’s “The Tomorrow Project” introduced four science-fiction writers to the latest research in photonics, robotics, telematics, dynamic physical rendering and intelligent sensors. Then, the writers let their imaginations run wild. The end results are four short science-fiction stories that imagine a future where this latest research is the old research. This company hired a famous musician.
14) Headquartered in Kolkata,founded in the year 1994 by Shri S.M.Jalan, it is endorsed by katrina Kaif & Shahrukh Khan. Which brand?
15) kanti, Dant Kanti, Ojas, Tejas Beauty cream. Whose brands?
16) KPCB has invested in it. Its conference rooms are named after these famous places in hanoi, Amsterdam…
17) In 1934, the brothers Giovanni and Giacomo founded a tailoring workshop dedicated to the manufacture of high quality clothing. Gene Hackman wore its business suit in the film ‘The Firm.’
18) The term originates from chiseled horizontal marks, that surveyors made into which an angle-iron could be placed to bracket a levelling rod, thus ensuring that the levelling rod can be accurately repositioned in the same place in the future. These marks were usually highlighted with a chiseled arrow below the horizontal line. What term?
19) The company was founded by Dr. August _____ in 1891; the first product developed was “Backin”, a pre-measured amount of baking powder that, when mixed with 500g of flour and other ingredients, produced a cake.Logo represents a housewife
20) He along with vice president Greg Hart has been named as co-inventors of “a system and method for protecting devices from impact damage.” He was once Time magazine’s man of the year
21) This brand has asked Norwegian police to ban Anders Breivik from wearing its label amid fears it could seriously harm the brand. Breivik, the gunman who murdered 77 people in a shooting rampage at a youth camp and bombing in Oslo in July, has been spotted on numerous occasions wearing the company’s clothes. This company has a campaign ___________ 2083
22) What is the Three letter ticker symbol of Molson Coors?
23) This company will use gold fromMongoliato make medals forLondon’s 2012 Olympic Games. Which company?
24) Barbie is morphing not into a lawyer or doctor, but into Adele Bloch-Bauer. Adele’s visage was immortalized by painter _________ in Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I. Adele came from a wealthy Austrian banking family and was one of his most important sponsors.
25) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWaUUpaI9i8 Whose voice?
Answers:
1) Four Seasons
2) Apple Store on Fifth Avenue.
3) Endosulfan
4) Pillsbury Doughboy Poppin’ Fresh
5) MAD magazine
6) Emami
7) Anant pai
8) India Design Mark or I-Mark
9) Blank: Wall Street | Warren Buffett
10) Coke Studio
11) Multiples | Renuka Ramnath
12) X: Louboutin | Y:YSL
13) Intel | will.i.am
14) Linc Pens
15) Patanjali | Baba Ramdev
16) Square
17) Canali
18) Benchmarking
19) Oetker
20) Jeff Bezos
21) Lacoste
22) Tap
23) RioTinto
24) Gustav Klimt
25) Prasoon Joshi