Friday, December 4, 2015

BUSTLE 2015 - Corporate Quiz at MOP Vaishnav College

Prelims

1) Whose headquarters is this – Its architect was Charles Correa? 

Ans. MRF

2) It was created in a South African lab by an Ex-Unilever Employee called Graham Wulff. It was originally a thick pink liquid which was marketed as anti-ageing ‘Beauty Fluid’. It was created as a gift for his wife who was frustrated with the thick, waxy beauty creams that came in shoe-polish tins that left her skin looking greasy. Name it?  
Ans. Olay

3) After refusing to endorse any brand for almost five decades, Actor Kamal Haasan appeared in his first television commercial for?

Ans. Pothy’s

4) Which brand would come to mind with an incident on July 15 1997, that involved the man below? 

Ans. Versace

5) At 36, he was the very young president of Jenson & Nicholson (India) Ltd, his reputation already secure with this advertising slogan. Who? 

Ans. Arun Nehru 

6) Whose logo was this – It may be familiar to many of you from childhood?  


Ans. Indrajal Comics

7) Whose currency is this?  

Ans. Seychelles 

8) Who is she protesting against? 

Ans. Hindustan Unilever Ltd – Sofia Ashraf  

9) The National Airline of which Asian country has been named as the worst airline on the planet for the fourth year running. Indeed, it is the only airline on the planet to be given just one star by the Skytrax Rating System?
Ans. North Korea - Air Koryo

10) Pearson reached a deal to sell its 50% stake in The Economist. The British education services company is selling 60% of the shares it owns to Exor, the holding company of which Italian family?
Ans. Fiat

11) Which company has a range named after the person seen in the visual?

Ans. Vibram - Spyridon Louis 

12) Herb Kelleher, founder of this company believed that a company can be run either by fear or by love, and it’s obvious which he chose. Its logo has a heart and the day they hold their corporate annual meeting is February 14 – Valentine’s Day. Name it? 
Ans. Southwest Airlines

13) Its packaged in a Green glass bottlewith a silver-coloured medallion, with past famous spokemsan such as Joe Namath, Muhammad Ali and Jimmy Connors, this brand has positioned itself to live up to their tagline ‘The Essence of Man’. Name it? 
Ans. Brut

14) It’s the world’s largest, not-for-profit product safety testing and certificatioin organization with global name recognition and acceptance. Founded in 1894 in the US, it permits the use of its listing mark as its stamp of approval on Goods and Materials after standardized and stringent testing. Name it? 
Ans. Underwriters Laboratries


15) When Google changed its logo recently, what did it lose in its font?  
Ans. Serif from Sans Serif


16) At whose factory was this picture clicked?
Ans. (Company Name) Tesla Motors

17) What popular brand of antiseptic connected with personal hygiene is named for this British surgeon, who pioneed the idea of sterile surgery? 
Ans. Listerine

18) Video – Spiderman – Live Young – Evian

19) What word has these two meanings attributed to it – An unauthorized office for speculating in stocks or currency using the funds of unwitting investors – A travel agency that specializes in providing cheap air tickets? 
Ans. Bucketshop

20) On the Occasion of the first anniversay of certain event, Fox Star Studios recently hosted a special screening of a movie starring Matt Damon to a certain group of people belonging to which organization? 
Ans. ISRO

21) The name for this product came from the BF Goodrich company when they decided to use it on a new type of rubber boots. They renamed it after the sound it made when used. What name did they give it? 
Ans. Zipper

22) FIB – It began on an Ebay owned platform called Kijiji. Kijiji means community in Swahili, but it was difficult to pronounce and didn’t mean much for the company. So they decided to go with the name _____? 
Ans. Quikr

23) ‘Bilbo baggins was a hobbit who lived in his hobbit hole and never went for adventures, at last Gandalf the wizard and his dwarves persuaded him to go. He had a very exiting (sic) time fighting Goblins and Wargs. At last they get to the lonely monutain; Smaug, the dragon who gaurds it is killed and after a terrific battle with the Goblins he returned home – rich!. This book, with the help of maps, does not need any illustrations. It is good and should appeal to all children between the ages of 5 and 9. This report by the 10 year old son of the founder of which publishing firm helped the Tolkein’s ‘The Hobbit’ published? 
Ans. Unwin – Not a very good piece of literary criticism, Rayner Unwin later said of the report, ‘But in those happy days, no second opinion was needed, if I said it was good enough to publish, it was published

24) It was the answer to the problem of providing beer of the British Empire in the east. It was too hot to brew in the native country, so what was needed was a beer that could survive the gruelling six-month journey from Britain intact. In the 1780s, a London brewer called Hodgson answered the call by sending out a strong, heavily hopped beer that would normally be aged like wine before drinking. The beer not only survived the journey, but was found to have improved immeasurably. This was the prototype to which type of beer?
Ans. India Pale Ale

25) It’s a Spanish clothing and accessories retailer based in Arteixo, Galicia, and founded in 1975 by Amancio Ortega and Rosalia Mera. It is the flagship chain store of the Inditex Group, the world’s largest apparel retailer. Name it? 
Ans. Zara






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