Tag: indian business history

TBQ Classic Sample #1

1) What was ‘doing a Mysore’ in Rolls Royce’ parlance?

2) This premier industrial R&D organization in India was constituted in 1942 by a resolution of the then Central Legislative Assembly. Khwaja Hamied, the founder of CIPLA drew the blueprint for this publicly funded industrial research body. Which premier organization is this?

3) As per the Venetian Decree of 1474,any person who in the city of Venice made a new or ingenious device and registered it at the Office of the Provededori de Commun (municipal registrars) secured the privilege that consisted in all other persons being prohibited from making another device identical or similar to it for a period of ten years. This is usually agreed upon as the origin of _____. What?

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Ans1: The Maharaja of Mysore always purchased Rolls-Royce cars in sevens. The company lore calls it ‘doing a Mysore’.

Ans2: CSIR (Council of Scientific and Industrial Research)

Ans3 : Patent laws

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TBQ Quickie #7

1) He was born in Tasgaon in Satara District of Maharashtra on December 21, 1903 and had to face abject poverty in his early life. He gave up his education and left for Mumbai in 1920. He started “Deccan Motor Agency” in Girgaon and later got into plastic industry-a rising sector during those times. At least some of you would have seen VHS tapes made by them. Unfortunately, the group has lost its past glory. Identify the person, a staunch Gandhian and the group he founded?
Identify.
Identify.
Ans1: Bhalchandra Digamber Garware | Garware Group of Industries
2) In 1880 near Dusseldorf Germany, Joseph was born to a prize-winning gymnast father and a mother who subscribed to naturopath forms of healing. Inspite of suffering through lot of ailments in his childhood, by the age of fourteen, he had sculpted his physique to such an extent that he was posing for anatomical charts. He trained the Scotland Yard and later police officers in Hamburg. Identify this person whose remarkable method of physical and mental wellness is popular even today.
Ans: Joseph Pilates of Pilates
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