Showing posts with label BusinessQuiz. Show all posts
Showing posts with label BusinessQuiz. Show all posts

Friday, June 1, 2012

New Business Quiz

Neo Quiz Spot is a quizzing organization based in India. Neo Quiz Spot intends to improve the quizzing pattern among the commoners and aim at making learning more easier. This quiz is being provided to with an emphasis on the MBA preparing students. You can contact us at neoquizspot@gmail.com for any further queries. Neo Quiz Spot Team will be responding within 24 hours. For quizzes on SNAP, IIFT, Civils and other exams, keep visiting us. Our quiz will be published every day at 10AM. So please check our blog after 10AM to see our daily updates.
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1. Connect the entities 




2. Which Indian surname translated in native language means a district accountant and when loosely translated from Sanskrit means 'a learned man'?
Ans. Deshpande

3. Which low cost hotel chain is established by Roots Corporation Limited, and is part of the Tata Group, under a category called "Smart Basics Hotels"?
Ans. Ginger Hotels 

4. During WW II, what were known as Tatanagars?
Ans. The Armored Cars that were produced by Tatas

5. The Bank of Italy was founded in San Francisco by Amadeo Giannini in 1904, to catering to immigrants.  When the 1906 San Francisco earthquake struck, Giannini was able to get all of the deposits out of the bank building and away from the fires. Because all the banks in San Francisco were in smoldering ruins and unable to open their vaults, Giannini was able to use the rescued funds to start lending within a few days of the disaster. From a makeshift desk of a few planks over two barrels, he loaned money to anyone who was willing to rebuild. Which bank had such humble beginnings?
Ans. Bank of America

Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Business Quiz Questions

Neo Quiz Spot is a quizzing organization based in India. Neo Quiz Spot intends to improve the quizzing pattern among the commoners and aim at making learning more easier. This quiz is being provided to with an emphasis on the MBA preparing students. You can contact us at neoquizspot@gmail.com for any further queries. Neo Quiz Spot Team will be responding within 24 hours. For quizzes on SNAP, IIFT, Civils and other exams, keep visiting us. Our quiz will be published every day at 10AM. So please check our blog after 10AM to see our daily updates.
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1. Identfy the person in the photograph  




Ans. TVS Iyyengar

2. Who authored Adventures of a Bystander?
Ans. Peter Ferdinand Drucker

3. In the rise of the Dollar volatility issues, Indian Government is talking about “Oil Window”. What is “Oil Window”?
Ans. The RBI directly buying oil instead of allowing USD to be chanelled through the market

4. Liberty Hyde Bailey ,'father' of rural sociology ,rural journalism and the cofounder of the American Society for Horticultural Science in 1903. He wrote extensively on horticulture and is credited with coining a portmanteau word to describe plants whose origin or selection is primarily due to intentional human activity. What is the word that is coined by him?
Ans. Cultivar from Cultured Variety

5. The first of these were started by X, a person who is known amongst other things for bringing up Y, an infamous Indian politician and who served as Union Minister in different departments in the 80s and early 90s, on the same street on which the Purana Qila and Pragati Maidan stand today. There are more than 130 of these in number. What are X, Y and Organization?
Ans. X is Reverend James Douglas Tytler, Y is Jagdish Tytler and the Organization is DPS Society 

Saturday, December 17, 2011

Business Quiz with Answers

Neo Quiz Spot is a quizzing organization based in India. Neo Quiz Spot intends to improve the quizzing pattern among the commoners and aim at making learning more easier. This quiz is being provided to with an emphasis on the MBA preparing students. You can contact us at neoquizspot@gmail.com for any further queries. Neo Quiz Spot Team will be responding within 24 hours. For quizzes on SNAP, IIFT, Civils and other exams, keep visiting us. Our quiz will be published every day at 10AM. So please check our blog after 10AM to see our daily updates.
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1. Logo of which company?

 Ans. Yandex.Ru. The most used search engine in Russia

2. What began as an Ohio partnership formed by the well-known industrialist John x, his brother William X, Henry Flagler, chemist Samuel Andrews, silent partner Stephen V. Harkness, and Oliver Burr Jennings, who had married the sister of William X wife?
Ans. Standard Oil tCorporation

3. Which company that was founded by Ilja Laurs in 2004, funded by Accel Partners? The company was in news when the makers of Android have taken a decision to utilize the services of this company over the conventional Android Market.
Ans. GetJar

4. What is the tern used to describe a system in which a worker is paid relatively high wages in order to buy in large quantity the products turned out in mass production?
Ans. Fordism as a tribute to the ideology of Henry Ford

5. Which Indian Businessman has a nick name "The Magnus"?
Ans. Shiv Nadar 

Sunday, December 11, 2011

Brand Quiz

After a hiatus of an Year Neo Quiz Spot back with a bang! The 513 mails/messages we received made us come back again into the quizzing arena. Here goes our first post after and year:

1. Identify the book




Ans. Fish!

2. Founded by John Stith Pemberton, it was an alcoholic beverage, mixed with coca, kola nut and damiana nad was was marketed mostly to upper class intellectuals, afflicted with diseases believed to have been brought on by urbanization and Atlanta's increasingly competitive business environment. What is the product that we are talking about?
Ans. Pemberton's French Wine Coca

3. In the news now! Founded by a Scotsman, Thomas Leishman, in 1857, the group made its initial impact by manufacturing bulk beer for the British troops, which was transported in huge barrels or "Hogsheads". Which company are we talking about?
Ans. United Breweries Group

4. Identify the character

Ans. Liam. The character/mascot you would have seen while using yahoo mails.

5. The dark blue background of the logo is known to designers as Pantone 294C. Colloquially called the 'Blue Oval', which company's logo is being described?
Ans. Ford

Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Business Quiz with Answers


Neo Quiz Spot is a quizzing organization based in India. Neo Quiz Spot intends to improve the quizzing pattern among the commoners and aim at making learning more easier. This quiz is being provided to with an emphasis on the MBA preparing students. You can contact us at neoquizspot@gmail.com for any further queries. Neo Quiz Spot Team will be responding within 24 hours. For quizzes on SNAP, IIFT, Civils and other exams, keep visiting us.Our quiz will be published every day at 10AM. So please check our blog after 10AM to see our daily updates.

1. Identify the company

Ans. Lloyds TSB

2. The paper still uses ink dot drawings called hedcuts, introduced in 1979 and originally created by Kevin Sprouls,in addition to photographs, a method of illustration considered to be a consistent visual signature of the paper. Which paper are we talking about?
Ans. Wall Street Journal


3. What business book written by Merrill Rick Chapman. It explores, in a humorous tone, the art and science of management used by high-technology companies. This is also sometimes quoted as the mockery of Tom Peters 'In The Search of Excellence'.
Ans. In Search of Stupidity

3. This business tool was was developed in 1970s and inaugurated in 1978 by Arnold Mitchell at SRI International. What are we talking about?
Ans. VALS Segmentation. Stands for Values, Attitudes and Lifestyles is a psychographic segmentation tool.

5. Which politically charged event has hit the Enterprise Messaging Services(EMS)a hard way in India?
Ans. Ayodhya Verdict. This has already affected the industry with some major players looking for Chinese Counterparts in the light of future possibilities. An estimated loss of 87 Crores reported already to the Industry*

Sources: Neo Quiz Spot Intelligence

Monday, September 27, 2010

Business Quiz 2010

Neo Quiz Spot is a quizzing organization based in India. Neo Quiz Spot intends to improve the quizzing pattern among the commoners and aim at making learning more easier. This quiz is being provided to with an emphasis on the MBA preparing students. You can contact us at neoquizspot@gmail.com for any further queries. Neo Quiz Spot Team will be responding within 24 hours. For quizzes on SNAP, IIFT, Civils and other exams, keep visiting us.Our quiz will be published every day at 10AM. So please check our blog after 10AM to see our daily updates.

1. Identify this high end pen company


Ans. Mont Blanc

2. In Internet Marketing Jargon what is CPC?
Ans. Cost Per Click. It is a mode of payment in which the affiliate is paid based on the number of click made on the advertiser's link/banner

3.Connect IBM, ABC, Cummins Engine, UPS and Enron
Ans. Logos of all these companies were developed by Paul Rand

4. In the year 1854, six private banking firms in Basel, Switzerland pooled their resources to form the Bankverein, a consortium that acted as an underwriting syndicate for its member banks. What came up as a result?
Ans. UBS Commonly called as the Swiss Bank

5. X is a brand of toothpaste with a wintergreen flavor. It was formerly owned by Unilever but, since 2003, by Church and Dwight in USA. It has also got a high pop cultural refences such as


You're the baby grand of a lady and a gent,
You're an old Dutch master, you're Mrs. Astor,
You're x.

Now what is X?
Ans. Peopsodent


Thursday, September 23, 2010

Business Quiz Questions

Neo Quiz Spot is a quizzing organization based in India. Neo Quiz Spot intends to improve the quizzing pattern among the commoners and aim at making learning more easier. This quiz is being provided to with an emphasis on the MBA preparing students. You can contact us at neoquizspot@gmail.com for any further queries. Neo Quiz Spot Team will be responding within 24 hours. For quizzes on SNAP, IIFT, Civils and other exams, keep visiting us.Our quiz will be published every day at 10AM. So please check our blog after 10AM to see our daily updates.

1. Identify the occasion
for this doodle

Agatha Christie's 120th Birthday

Ans. Agatha Christie's 120th Birthday

2. This project was led by Udi Manber of Google and it is a user-written article base mostly in the health and medical field. Name it
Ans. Knol, the Unit of Knowledge

3. Expand DLF
Ans. Delhi Land and Finance Limited

4. Gautham Thapar is the Chairman of which 4 Billion $ Indian Conglomerate?
Ans. Avantha Group

5. Original name of this company was cadabra.inc. How do we better know this online company now?
Ans. Amazon.com


Monday, September 20, 2010

International Business Quiz

Neo Quiz Spot is a quizzing organization based in India. Neo Quiz Spot intends to improve the quizzing pattern among the commoners and aim at making learning more easier. This quiz is being provided to with an emphasis on the MBA preparing students. You can contact us at neoquizspot@gmail.com for any further queries. Neo Quiz Spot Team will be responding within 24 hours. For quizzes on SNAP, IIFT, Civils and other exams, keep visiting us.Our quiz will be published every day at 10AM. So please check our blog after 10AM to see our daily updates.

1. Identify the logo of this company


Ans. TNT

2. Fortune named this company as "America's Most Innovative Company" for six consecutive years. It employed approximately 22,000 staff and was one of the world's leading electricity, natural gas, communications and pulp and paper companies, with claimed revenues of nearly $101 billion in 2000. Which corporation are we speaking about?
Ans. Enron

3. The secret and foucussed group research wing of which company is now gererically called as the Shrunk Works?
Ans. Lockheed Martin

4. What Web 2.0 based document sharing site was created by Trip Adler?
Ans. Scribd

5. In the Internet Advertising Jargon what is Ad Flight?
Ans. The duration of time for which an advertising campaign is live.

Monday, September 13, 2010

Business Quiz With Answers

Neo Quiz Spot is a quiz organization based in India, specializing on the Business Quiz. Neo Quiz Spot intends to improve the quizzing pattern among the commoners and aim at making learning more easier. This "Business Quiz With Answers" is being provided to with an emphasis on the MBA preparing students and also for the Business School Grads. You can contact us at neoquizspot@gmail.com for any further queries. Neo Quiz Spot Team will be responding within 24 hours. For quizzes on SNAP, IIFT, CAT, MAT other MBA Entrance Exams, keep visiting us. You can also avail more business services of us by contacting us.

1. Identify the commercial use of this portrait.


Ans. "Ponds Extract" used this portrait of the Marie of Romania by Philip de László (Marie Alexandra Victoria, previously Princess Marie of Edinburgh). This is one of the first instances of usage of Royal Blood portraits/photos for business.

2. What is a Bullet Loan?
Ans. Bullet loan is a loan where a payment of the entire principal of the loan and sometimes the principal and interest is due at the end of the loan term.

3. Who is the World's largest manufacturer of Flash Drive?
Ans. Toshiba. The Answer is not Transccend or Kingston!

4. "War in the Boardroom" is a recent book authored by which marketing guru?
Ans. Al Ries and his daughter & business partner Laura Ries. Al Ries is the first Guru to emphasise on Positioning.

5. What is the Nixon Shock?
Ans. It is collective term used for series of economic measures taken by U.S. President Richard Nixon in 1971 including unilaterally canceling the direct convertibility of the United States dollar to gold

Monday, September 6, 2010

Ads Neo's Pick: New Kit Kat Ad

Liked this advertisement in the one month that passed



A cute little squirrel sings a song to its finance.. Funny electro-modulation of voice that makes it memorable from the clichéd ads of the chocolate industry. Seems like the "Shubharambh Ad" has changed the industry to think out of box

Credits:

Advertisign Agency: JWT, Delhi, India
Agency Producer: Suprotim Day
Creative Director: Anuja Chauhan
Copywriter: Anuja Chauhan
Director: Shyam Madiraju
Production Co & City: Gobsmack! Bangalore
Producer: Kevin Sharpton, Robin D’Cruz
Director of Photography: Joshua Hess
Post Production & City: Radium, Los Angeles
Editor & Company: Quan Tran / Radium
Music & Music Publisher: Amar Manglurkar

Friday, September 3, 2010

Business Quiz With Answers

Neo Quiz Spot is a quizzing organization based in India. Neo Quiz Spot intends to improve the quizzing pattern among the commoners and aim at making learning more easier. This quiz is being provided to with an emphasis on the MBA preparing students. You can contact us at neoquizspot@gmail.com for any further queries. Neo Quiz Spot Team will be responding within 24 hours. For quizzes on SNAP, IIFT, Civils and other exams, keep visiting us.Our quiz will be published every day at 10AM. So please check our blog after 10AM to see our daily updates.

1. Identify the Author


Ans. Tom Kelley. Good book read it if you can !

2. Four brothers Hirsz, Aaron, Szmul, Itzhak who have migrated from Poland to the Land of Opportunities have founded something that changed the entertainment sector. What have they formed?
Ans. The Warner Brothers

3. What was the Google's answer to the Wikipedia?
Ans. Knol. Well, it is another story that it never ate away the Wiki as expected!

4. Which off-screen "Rambo" connects the following 'Harken Energy, Spectrum 7 Energy Corp., Arbusto?
Ans. George Bush Jr. All these were the business ventures of Dubia.

5.X, a person required a basic vehicle capable of transporting two adults and three children at 100 km/h (62 mph). The car 'Y' would be available to citizens through a savings scheme at 990 Reichsmark, about the price of a small motorcycle. Whos X and whats Y?
Ans. X - Hitler
Y - Volkswagen

Sunday, August 29, 2010

Trivia Business Quiz

Neo Quiz Spot is a quizzing organization based in India. Neo Quiz Spot intends to improve the quizzing pattern among the commoners and aim at making learning more easier. This quiz is being provided to with an emphasis on the MBA preparing students. You can contact us at neoquizspot@gmail.com for any further queries. Neo Quiz Spot Team will be responding within 24 hours. For quizzes on SNAP, IIFT, Civils and other exams, keep visiting us.Our quiz will be published every day at 10AM. So please check our blog after 10AM to see our daily updates.

1. Identify the software product


Ans. Thunderbird

2. Beastie, is the generic mascot for which Operating Dystems?
Ans. BSD Operating Systems

3. What was co-founded along with Jack Smith at Firepower Systems that influenced millions of users all over the world(and also microsoft) in a big way?
Ans. Hotmail.com

4.Connect these "Bellagio, Mirage, MGM Grand, Monte Carlo, New York New York, Stratosphere, Treasure Island, Venetian". Clue: Their infulence on business terminology is endless.
Ans. Casinos of Las Vegas

5. The standard dimensions of this product is always 85.60 × 53.98 with and an aspect ratio of 1.586. These are among the widely used products and often the one carried on person. What are we talking about?
Ans. credit Cards

Sunday, August 22, 2010

Business Quiz with Answers

Neo Quiz Spot is a quizzing organization based in India. Neo Quiz Spot intends to improve the quizzing pattern among the commoners and aim at making learning more easier. This quiz is being provided to with an emphasis on the MBA preparing students. You can contact us at neoquizspot@gmail.com for any further queries. Neo Quiz Spot Team will be responding within 24 hours. For quizzes on SNAP, IIFT, Civils and other exams, keep visiting us.Our quiz will be published every day at 10AM. So please check our blog after 10AM to see our daily updates.


1. Identify the advertiser


Ans. Burn from Coke

2. The lesser known founders of this social networking site are Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes. The website's membership was initially limited to Harvard students, but was expanded to other colleges in the Boston area, the Ivy League, and Stanford University. What is the SN site we are talkning about?
Ans. Facebook

3. Which Arts and Crafts company has roped in Deepika Padukone as a Brand Ambassodor?
Ans. Kalanjali

4. The most notable product lines from this companies include GeForce series for gaming, Quadro series for computer-aided design, Tegra for mobile devices. What company is it?
Ans. Nvidia

5. Largely due to declining sales, in 2006, who sold his company for $1.6 billion, or $16.80 a share, to Apax Partners, a private investment company?
Ans. Tommy Hilfiger

Monday, August 2, 2010

International Business Quiz

Neo Quiz Spot is a quizzing organization based in India. Neo Quiz Spot intends to improve the quizzing pattern among the commoners and aim at making learning more easier. This quiz is being provided to with an emphasis on the MBA preparing students. You can contact us at neoquizspot@gmail.com for any further queries. Neo Quiz Spot Team will be responding within 24 hours. For quizzes on SNAP, IIFT, Civils and other exams, keep visiting us.Our quiz will be published every day at 10AM. So please check our blog after 10AM to see our daily updates.


1. Identify the venture?



Ans. Mathematica from Stephen Wolfram

2. Whose private label is named as Pinzon?
Ans. Pinzon is the private label of Amazon.com

3. Whose earlier assignment before getting into Yahoo! was at Autodesk?
Ans. Carol Bartz

4. Who created RIM, the company behind Blackberry?
Ans. Mike Lazaridis, The CEO of RIM

5. Which Microsoft product was codenamed Milan?
Ans. Microsoft Surface

Friday, July 30, 2010

Business Quiz

Neo Quiz Spot is a quizzing organization based in India. Neo Quiz Spot intends to improve the quizzing pattern among the commoners and aim at making learning more easier. This quiz is being provided to with an emphasis on the MBA preparing students. You can contact us at neoquizspot@gmail.com for any further queries. Neo Quiz Spot Team will be responding within 24 hours. For quizzes on SNAP, IIFT, Civils and other exams, keep visiting us.Our quiz will be published every day at 10AM. So please check our blog after 10AM to see our daily updates.




1.Identify what came as a result of the 'Book' here?


Ans. It is the FaceBook :)

2. What is the first Microfinance company in our country to get listed?
Ans. SKS Microfinance (Swayam Krushi Sangham)

3.
He was the creator and lead developer of Gmail. He developed the original prototype of Google AdSense as part of his work on Gmail. He also suggested the company's now-famous motto "Don't be evil" in a 2000 meeting on company values. He worked at Intel first and later became the 23rd employee at Google. Who is that person that we are talking about?
Ans. Paul Buchheit

4. Bob Parsons is the CEO of which hosting service provider?
Ans. GoDaddy.com

5. In 1968, X founded X Ltd., a coat shop in the York Hotel in New York City, with $10,000. In 1969, he, who was later described as "the supreme master of minimalism," appeared on the cover of Vogue magazine. What/Who are we talking about?
Ans. Calvin Klein


Friday, July 16, 2010

Business Quiz

Neo Quiz Spot is a quizzing organization based in India. Neo Quiz Spot intends to improve the quizzing pattern among the commoners and aim at making learning more easier. This quiz is being provided to with an emphasis on the MBA preparing students. You can contact us at neoquizspot@gmail.com for any further queries. Neo Quiz Spot Team will be responding within 24 hours. For quizzes on SNAP, IIFT, Civils and other exams, keep visiting us.Our business quiz will be published every day at 10AM. So please check our blog after 10AM to see our daily updates.

1. In the dedication to which literary figure is the following doodle created?

Jean-Paul Sartre's 105th Birthday

Ans. Jean-Paul Sartre's 150th Birthday

2. Who tried a variety of jobs before settling on being a milkshake-mixer salesman?
Ans. Ray Kroc

3. Which business planned to raise over $18bn from its stock market flotation in the USA, making it the biggest flotation in history?
Ans. Visa

4.In 1976, she took a job with WJZ-TV as news co-anchor. Today she stands as one of the richest person in entertaiment sector. Who is this person?
Ans. Oprah Winfrey

5. Which European leader declared, during the immediate aftermath of the global financial crisis, that "capitalism is over" and railed against the "dictatorship of the market"?
Ans. Silvio Berlusconi

Neo Quiz Spot is a quizzing organization based in India. Neo Quiz Spot intends to improve the quizzing pattern among the commoners and aim at making learning more easier. This quiz is being provided to with an emphasis on the MBA preparing students. You can contact us at neoquizspot@gmail.com for any further queries. Neo Quiz Spot Team will be responding within 24 hours. For quizzes on SNAP, IIFT, Civils and other exams, keep visiting us.Our quiz will be published every day at 10AM. So please check our blog after 10AM to see our daily updates.

Saturday, July 3, 2010

Business Quiz

Neo Quiz Spot is a quizzing organization based in India. Neo Quiz Spot intends to improve the quizzing pattern among the commoners and aim at making learning more easier. This business quiz is being provided to with an emphasis on the MBA preparing students. This quiz will be useful in improving the business quotient. This quiz will also be useful in the GD PI rounds for MBA students. For quizzes on CAT, SNAP, IIFT, Civils and other exams, keep visiting us.Our business quiz will be published every day at 10AM. So please check our blog after 10AM to see our daily updates.

1. Identify this person who changed the way we communicate.


Ans. Mike Lazaridis

2. In 1894, Václav Klement, a bookseller, has founded a company along with Václav Laurin that were to cahnge the history of world auto. Which company are we talking about?
Ans. Skoda Auto

3. Which advertising agency produced the first-ever TV commercial in 1939?
Ans. JWT

4. William C. Weldon is heading which pharmaceutical and surgical equipment company?
Ans. Johnson&Johnson

5. Which company is behind the creation of FB games like the FarmVille, Mafia Wars, PetVille?
Ans. Zynga