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Master Mind I

Grand Slam

This famous personality made natural ice cream a 50 crore business

1.ID this famous entrepreneur or his business. Natural Way!

2.She is the CEO of one of the best Fortune 500 companies

3.Identify the personality who is linked with the other images in the picture.

Who is the Indian business person among 27 global leaders appointed by the United Nations to eliminate malnutrition?

5.Identify the two personalities in the picture Clue: One is a genius Scientist and one is associated with cameras

Identify this famous personality

Identify the companies to which the above logos belong (Start from top to bottom)

In June 2012, Coca-Cola announced plans to commence operations in Burma/Myanmar after a gap of 60 years leaving what two countries as the only places where it does not do business?

Name the oil major who first set up a refinery in India, introduced LPG and Bitumen to the nation and the first company to introduce the co-branded credit cards and rewards programme in Petroleum Sector?

Which division of Hampshire Hotels and Resorts, plans to open "Dream brand hotels" in various cities in India, including Bangalore, Mumbai and New Delhi with a Rs 5,000-crore (Rs 50 billion) investment?

We know the Nano as the Rs1 lakh car. How much did the original affordable car, the Ford Model T, sell for in the second decade of the twentieth century in dollar?

Beginning August 2005, X began selling products under its own private label, "Pinzon"; the initial trademark applications suggested the company intended to focus on textiles, kitchen utensils, and other household goods. In March 2007, the company applied to expand the trademark to cover a larger and more diverse list of goods, and to register a new design consisting of the "word PINZON in stylized letters with a notched letter O whose space appears at the "one o'clock" position." The list of products registered for coverage by the trademark grew to include items such as paints, carpets, wallpaper, hair accessories, clothing, footwear, headgear, cleaning products, and jewelry. On September 2008, X filed to have the name registered. Identify this parent company X.

Abbreviation

1. How do we better know the Fabbrica Italiana Automobili Torino?

2. What does SIM stand for in cellular telephone industry?

3. One of the most successful small cars on Indian road is ZEN from Maruti. What does it mean?

4. CIPLA was set up by Khwaja Abdul Hamied in 1935 in India. Expand CIPLA?

5. What is CALS, an initiative framework for e-commerce developed by US Department of Defence?

6. What does the abbreviation FFP stand for as in airlines jargon?

7. If you buy health drink brands you would have noticed the words RDA Balanced Formula on it. What does it mean?

8. Expand SKG in the production house Dreamworks SKG?

9. In computer terminology what does the acronym VERONICA stand for?

10. ATCA

Team 1
1.In HR parlance, who are 'Whistle-Blowers'? 2. How do we better know the employment agencies and executive recruiters who locate suitable candidates? 3. What is MBGO and who proposed it?

4. An illegal strike called by employees who refuse to work during the term of a binding contract is known as 'Wildcat Strike State True or False?
5. In H.R accounting the cost of recruiting, hiring, training totally a new work force is called ..?

Team 2
1.

Gulliver's Travels is the inspiration for the name of which familiar internet company?

2. 3.

Name the eyewear division of Reliance Retail. Which is the most traded commodity in the world?

4.
5.

Who was the first chairman of ICICI Ltd?


Bombay House is the headquarters of which industrial house?

Team 3
1. 2. 3. 4.

Which is the largest-selling soap brand in India? Whose tagline: "The edge is efficiency? Who is the founder of General Electric? The right to receive part of money a company has invested in a pension fund, even if the employee leaves

the company .?
5.

The final step of GRIEVANCE in most of the union companies is.?

Team 4
1.

The process of NOT HIRING replacements for employees who leave is known as Who replaced Mark Thompson as BBC director general in August 2012? The simplest method of job evaluation is Name the Process of Certifying the competence of a person, an employee, in an area of capability? India will sign an audio-visual co-operation agreement with which country to increase cooperation in filmmaking, screening and student exchange programmes?

2.

3. 4.

5.

Team 5
Which newspaper launched its website in Chinese language? From which part of India does Srilanka-based MihinLanka Airlines will operate flights to Colombo?

1. 2.

3.

Who will become the first Australian to compete at 7Summer Olympics Games?

4.

Thomas Cook recently expanded its presence in which Indian


state?

5.

Harvard Business Review has featured which home appliances maker as one of the 6th most successful sales and marketing company in the world?

Ans: True

Total Staffing Outlay

Vesting

A strike

Zero replacement

Job Ranking

Ans: Accredition

What are "Blind Ads" in HR parlance?

Ans: Recruitment advertisements that does not have the name or identity of the Employer

What is the tendency of the personnel to experience and express their negative emotional attitude and generally perceive themselves and others surrounding them negatively called?

Ans: Neuroticism

HRM is associated with the management of: A. General people B. B. Financial resources C. C. Organizational people D. D. Community members

Which of the following management function includes setting standards for everyone in the organization? A. Planning B. B. Organizing C. C. Leading D. D. Controlling

Motivating the employees is classified as: A. Informational role B. Interpersonal role C. Decisional role D. Conceptual role

A.
B. C.

D.

Customers of an organization fall under which of the following category? Shareholder Staff Partners Stakeholders

What could be the best approach for an organization to sustain in a dynamic environment? A. Be stagnant B. Responsive to change C. Reluctant to change D. Merge with others

The thorough & detailed study regarding jobs within an organization is represented by: A. Job analysis B. Job description C. C. Job specification D. D. Job evaluation

Who replaced Mark Thompson as BBC director general in August 2012?

George Entwistle

Which football team is set to file IPO in New York Stock Exchange? Manchester united Which Indian PSU bank recently setup its SecurityOperation Centre? United Bank of India Where does India stand on global innovation index rank as it drops 2 positions fromexisting one? 64th rank

Harvard Business Review has featured which home appliances maker as one of the 6th most successful sales and marketing company in the world?

Eureka Forbes

India will sign an audio-visual cooperation agreement with which country to increase cooperation in filmmaking, screening and student exchange programmes?

Poland

From which part of India does Srilanka-based MihinLanka Airlines will operate flights to Colombo?

Madurai, Tamil Nadu

Which mobile network recently launched Flat 30p plan for its customers in India?

Sistema Shyam Teleservices Ltd. which operates under MTS brand

Name the project of Mozilla which is workin g on Mobile Operating System, firefox OS.

Boot to Gecko project

Who is appointed as Chairman for Australian and New Zealand (ANZ) operations by Mahindra Satyam?

Edward Ted Pretty

Which PSU bank has waived off minimum balance criteria for savings bank account? State Bank of India How many IPOs worth 50,500 crores were called off in18 months? 55 Who will become the first Australian to compete at 7Summer Olympics Games? Andrew Hoy Thomas Cook recently expanded its presence in which Indian state? Bihar

29. How do we know Bob Diamond with respect to b ankingdomain? Ex-CEO of Barclays 30. Name the Chief Operating Officer of Barclays who quitrecently. Jerry del Missier 38. How man y listed companies on BSE and NSE will befacilitated with electronic votingby their shareholders for all postal ballot resolutions? Top 500 listed companies

Who now owns a joint stake in Tata Groups LifeInsurance? Hong Kong-based AIA Group, Tata AIA Life In surance Which newspaper launched its website in Chinese language? The New York Times Modem speeds are measured in ____ BPS

1.Modem speeds are measured in ____ BPS 2. Numbers are stored and transmitted inside a computerin _______ form ASCII Code

8.What is the process used to recall a document saved previously called?

Retrieve

3. Which corporation was built by three youngsters Tushar Jani, Clyde cooper and Kushroo Dubash?

Blue Dart Express

4. Name the eyewear division of Reliance Retail.

Vision Express

9. Which is the most traded commodity in the world?

Crude Oil

17. Which is the largest-selling soap brand in India?

Lifebuoy

Name the personality who connects all these corporate identities?

What did the Hawthorne experiments discover? a) That people need to belong to a 'social group' b) That people need heat and good lighting to work well c) Money is a motivator d) It makes no difference how you treat people at work in relation to their behavior

What company that was the fourth most valuable brand in the world after Disney, Coca-Cola and Microsoft as recently as fifteen years ago filed for bankruptcy in January 2012 having failed to adapt to the digital age?

Play the Game - BUSINESS WORLD


Journalism of Courage - The Indian EXPRESS CEAT - Born Tough EBAY - The World's Online Market Place

AMAZON.COM - Earth's Biggest BookStore

Kodak

His first business venture was a magazine called Student at the age of 16 From record labels to megastore to airline to telecom, this person has touched many sectors and with style Has also starred in Friends and Baywatch

Richard Branson

Which food joints had a major ad Blitz with the Hungry Kya? campaign?

Dominos

In the United Kingdom as ASDA, in Japan as Seiyu and in India as Best Price. Name the Parent Company

Wal-Mart

6) Idiom Design & Consulting Ltd designed the logo of which major event in 2010? A) CommonWealth Games

) Harmony, Ghazal, Southern, Aishwarya, Sushmita are the brand of diamonds from which group? A) Gitanjal

Which Insurance giant started a special initiative christened as Sunehre Sapne to educate rural farmers on the need for financial planning and insurance? A) MetLife

This company mainly known for its pain relief division is coming up with new spas under the name of Osmosys A) Amritanjan

Which Private equity firm founded by Stephen A Schwarzman and Peter G. Peterson is a word play on the founders names? A) Blackstone

Which company calls its employees as corporate assets?

Bell Telephone Company designed the original logo in 1900. In 1964 the "AT&T" of Bell Telephone Company became the dominate element of the corporate identity. Eventually dropping the Bell all together in 1970, the latest AT&T logo was released in 2005.

The canon logo was originally designed in 1933. The simpler version of the company's identity was introduced in 1956.

In the beginning, Kodak was a single print advertisement with "The Kodak Company" strung across the top in a simple serif font. The company created this first logo in 1907. Kodak adopted its most recent logo in 2006.

The British Airways logo was designed by Negus & Negus in 1973, when British European Airways merged with BOAC. (Note the missing dot above the i.) BA unveiled the current logo in 1997 to promote a new image that is worldwide and less stuffy

The first logo was designed in 1985, with multiple and various updates, leading to the latest version which was released in 2009.

The original logo was released in the early 1960's with only four updates since. The most recent version was designed in 2003.

The original, phoenix logo was designed in 2002. It was later changed to the firefox around 2004. Retaining the "fire" elements, the current logo was designed in 2009.

The simple script logo was first designed in 1892, with the circle around the initials added in 1900. Very few changes were made along the way. The blue tint was added in 2004.

Since inception, IBM has gone through significant identity shifts. Not only updating the logo but also changing the name multiple times. This original logo was designed in 1889 and represents International Time Recording Company (ITRC). International Business Machines as we know it today was introduced in 1924, leading to the current logo designed in 1972.

Lay's first logo was designed in 1965. The brand then went threedimensional with its current logo in 2007.

The first LEGO logo was designed in 1935 and, 26 iterations later, the brand seems to have settled on the simple block style logo that has been used since 1998.

Mazda's simple logo first debuted in 1934. The company then played with using a more abstract design of the "M" from 1936 - 1975, and again in 1991. Today's version was first released in 1997.

McDonald's used to be a barbecue? Well, only from 1940 1948. It quickly discovered its true passion was for hamburgers. From 1948 forward the company tried various versions of the iconic arches, coming up with today's "I'm lovin' it" in 2003.

Microsoft's first (incredibly ugly) logo was introduced in 1975. This latest version has been in place since 2011.

Back in 1889, the Japanese playing card company used this original logo which is three separate words: nin, ten, do. In 1967, the company began developing small electronic toys and took on the identity of Nintendo. The most recent logo was introduced in 2006.

The logo was first designed in 1976 by Ronald Wayne. The border around the image reads: "Newton A Mind Forever Voyaging Through Strange Seas of Thought Alone." The sleek logo everyone recognizes today was introduced in 2003.

Nissan's first logo was created in 1983 when Datsun adopted a new name. There have been few changes leading up to this most recent version, designed in 2002.

The original logo featuring Nipper the dog was first introduced in the early 1900's, and later redesigned in 1919 to the simple three letter stamp. Though there have not been many changes since, the current logo was introduced in 1988. Nipper, by the way, is now owned by GE.

The first shell was drawn in 1900. The company later fashioned the colorful, upright shell to create a more recognizable brand. The revision stuck, and with few alterations, the logo as it is today was released in 1999.

The first Xerox logo was designed in 1948. Later, the company dropped the Haloid Company label during a redesign by corporate identity experts Lippincott, which resulted in the 2008 version still used today.

Drug company Cipla appointed as the Chief Executive Officer of the company. The appointment is effective from February 1, 2013

Subhanu Saxena

Yahoo has appointed of Google as its new chief operating officer (COO), with a compensation package of up to $58 million

Henrique de Castro

Dr Verghese Kurien, the man behind India's White Revolution and who made Amul (Anand Milk Union Limited) a force to be reckoned with, passed away early on the morning of September 9.

Five Indian-Americans, including Silicon Valley venture capitalist Vinod Khosla and founder of IT major Syntel, Bharat Desai, have been named among the richest people in the US by Forbes, a list of 400 billionaires topped by Microsoft founder Bill Gates

Kaushik Basu has been appointed as new chief economist and senior vicepresident of the World Bank. He, till recently, served as the Chief Economic Advisor in the finance ministry

Raghuram G Rajan, former International Monetary Fund (IMF) chief economist, took charge as chief economic adviser (CEA) in the finance ministry

UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi has been ranked the sixth most powerful woman in the world, ahead of US First Lady Michelle Obama, by Forbes magazine in its list of 100 women, which was topped by German Chancellor Angela Merkel for the second year in a row

Formerly world,s largestnon-WTO economy , who joined the WTO in 2012 after 19 years of negotiation

Russia

In 2012 which IT major overtook RIL as Indias most valuable in terms of market capitalization

TCS

She topped Forbes list of Worlds 100 Most Powerful Women in 2006, 07,08,09, 11 & 2012-11-30

Angela Merkel

Which global giant was caught hiding details of transactions with the govt. of Iran, worth $250 billion?

Standard Chartered Bank

In Aug 2012, which travel guidebook did Google acquire to expand geographical search features?

Frommers

Which will be Indias first ever exchange to go for an IPO and get listed in the stock exchanges?

MCX

Why are the logo and interface of Facebook in blue color?

Mark Zuckerberg is red-green colour blind. Blue is the brightest color he sees.

Identify Logos

4.Identify the famous Indian Brand

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