PRATHIBA BUSINESS QUIZ

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a tribute to Quiz Gods of India….

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In 1952, Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, was concerned that Indian women were spending precious foreign exchange on their products and personally requested JRD Tata to manufacture them in India.The Brand was named after a French Opera?Name the brand

They have written a new book of of value statements based on one-liners of famous person.The book “Punchtantra”-gives you a unique perspective on thirty of the most fundamental and effective mantras for both business and life management.On who is it based?

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P.C. Balasubramanian Director of Matrix Business

Raja KrishnamoorthyDirectors of Talent Maximums India

Rabindranath Tagore has featured in a few ads.Which famous brand is being shown here?

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Identify the writer

The guy's put 'sex' back into the limp “Z”. That makes him seriously hot. So hot, in fact, he has made it to the Amul hoarding . But nobody is calling the man a Billboard Bimbo. You know why? Because this man knows his onions

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“Billion Beats” is an e-newspaper started by which famous Indian?

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A renowned management thinker was born in Coimbatore .He was the co-author of

"Core Competance of the corporation”.He proposed that businesses, governments, and

donor agencies stop thinking of the poor as victims and instead start seeing them as resilient and creative entrepreneurs as well as value-demanding consumers.

Name him

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In 1932 he started selling AGA cooking stoves door to door.His success at this marked him out to his employers,who asked him to write an instruction manual ‘’The theory and practise of selling the AGA cooker’ for the other salesman.Fortune magazine editors called it the finest sales instruction manual ever written.Identify the salesman

Question 2

"You" were chosen in 2006, as Time magazine's Person of the Year.Why

Question 3

Where will Quids used as a currency

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Which brand was started in 1959 by an entrepreneur HD Vasudeva .A Product in its category “Futura’ is the only one to be displayed at Museum of Modern art in New york

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The Corn Laws were trade laws designed to protect cereal producers in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland against competition from less expensive foreign imports between 1815 and 1846. A hat maker from the small Scottish town of Hawick, to campaign against the Corn Laws started X ?

What was founded to campaign against these laws and by whom?

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An Indian company’s promoter was inspired by the first moon-landing because it reflected his vision of being the first and foremost in his chosen field. He started his venture in the 1980s and also named his company appropriately. Identify both the founder and the company.

Question 7

What is a Google Toothbrush test?

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What is the term associated with an unlikely but not impossible catastrophe that no one ever seems to plan for? It was popularised by a book with the same title and is symbolic of the current downturn caused by irrational exuberance

Question 9

Connect the following: A character in Salman Rushdie’s Satanic Verses, Direct descendants of Chatrapathi Shivaji’s caste and Six Sigma.Group of people you will keep hearing in your MBA course

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Apart from being actresses, what is common to Leela Chitnis and Hollywood’s Ginger Rogers?

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What is a QWERTY Tummy?

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Question 1 Mark Pincus founded

this company in April 2007 under the name Presidio Media but later named after an American bulldog.

Name the company which goes by the mission “Connecting the world through games."

Question 2 “We believe passionately in the

power of ideas to change attitudes, lives and ultimately, the world. So we're building here a clearing house that offers free knowledge and inspiration from the world's most inspired thinkers, and also a community of curious souls to engage with ideas and each other"

What was concieved by architect and graphic designer Richard Saul Wurman

Question 3

The book of “The Man who owns the news is about which famous personality

Question 4

A popular beverage gets its name from the Greek athlete believed to have phenomenal strength. He is said to have supported the roof from collapsing building in which the mathematician Pythogoras was teaching?Name the beverage

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Audience Question

➲ What is the name of Colonel Sanders Autobiography

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➲ Finger licking good

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AUDIENCE QUESTION

Name the famous icon who owns line of designer clothing called Aneres

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Serena Williams

Her first name spelled backward.She plans to sell in boutiques in Miami and Los Angeles

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Audience question

Cecilia Abadie was pulled over for speeding and became the first in the world penalised for wearing what device?