This document appears to be a business quiz containing multiple choice and fill-in-the-blank questions about various business topics, companies, terms, and people. Questions cover companies like Godrej, Tesla, BMW, Jaguar, and Subway as well as business terms like underwriting, ticker tape parades, and commercial paper. Famous business people mentioned include John D. Rockefeller, Pierre Omidyar, and Adar Poonawalla.
8. Financial bankers, who would accept
some of the risk on a given venture
(historically a sea voyage with
associated risks of shipwreck) in
exchange for a premium, would
literally write their names under the
risk information that was written on a
Lloyd's slip created for this purpose.
Which word from the financial word is
derived form this?
16. X strictly followed the norm that, while
naming the findings/discoveries of their
organisation Y (est. 1767), the local
name should be preferred. But this
practice was kept aside by his
successor Andrew Scott Waugh in 1852
when he named the latest discovery by
Mathematician Radhanath Sikdar as 'X'.
Identify 'X' and 'Y'?
(X retired from Y in 1843)
20. Which technologist and innovator who is best
known as the founder of AuctionBay, started Civil
Beat an online investigative reporting news service?
30. Q-Link was an Online service
provider in America for
Commodore 64 and Apple
II(AppleLink). The company
parted ways with Apple and
changed their name to?
32. In which company
founded by Karl Rapp
does Stefan Quandt, and
Sussane Klatten hold 50%
share?
(Came to the spotlight due to the documentary ‘The Silence
of the Quandt’s’ about their nazi connection)
36. Bloods: An Oral History of the Vietnam War
by Black Veterans, describes the use of
______ in search and destroy missions
during the War.
A veteran stated: "when you say level a
village, you don't use torches. It's not like
in the 1800s. You used a ______. Now you
would use a Bic. That's just the way we did
it. You went in there with your ______.
That's why people bought ______.
Everybody had a ______. It was for burnin'
shit down."
40. In 1909, in memoriam of his
mother, Karl Elsener chooses
her first name as the brand
name. In 1921 the company
was renamed by adding a word
which is the French
abbreviation for stainless steel.
Which company?
41. Inox - abbreviation for acier inoxydable, the French term for stainless steel
46. • A = Company started by Vilmos Fuchs in 1915
• B = Company started by Joseph Schenck and
Darryl F Zanuck in 1933
• A was taken over by B in 1935 forming BA.
• In 1985 BA was taken over by Australian born
mogul.
• In 2013, after a spin-off of mogul's assets, BA
came under its obvious successor.
Identify BA or its obvious successor(holding
company)?
47. 20th Century Fox / 21st
Century Fox
A = Fox Films, B = 20th
Century Films
50. What was founded by two
friends, William Walmsley aged
and William Lyons in 1922. This
company changed their
name(after an animal) towards
the end of WWII, because their
old name was closely
resembling to the abbreviation
of Nazi intelligence services?
54. What are these ads which announce a particular
transaction, such as an IPO of a company Known
as?
(Name comes from the appearance of advertisement with simple, centered text style with large
amounts of whitespace and few if any images, another view is that in the 19th century, financial
notices were published alongside birth and death notices.)
58. In his book The world is flat,
Thomas L.Friedman replaced his
old Golden Arches theory of
conflict prevention with new theory,
which suggests that:
“No two countries that are both part of a
major global supply chain, like …?.., will ever
fight a war against each other as long as they
are both part of the same global supply chain”
63. A bit more shadow on the right side of the face.
64. XY was created by Jhon De
Mol Jr based on famous
fictional novel about an
oppressive regime set in
London, Oceania. Owned by
Endemol Shine group, first
broadcasted in Dutch (1999).
What?
68. Frank McNamara’s
transaction at Majors
Cabin Grill restaurant, NY
in February,1950 is referred
by the company’s official
history as ‘The First
Supper’. Which company