Saturday, June 9, 2012

Business Quiz 3

 Whose baseline reads “Working for a World Free of Poverty”?
a)The World Bank 

The introduction of the pressure cooker in the late 1930s and an 11 herbs and spice formula invented by its founder has made this brand what it is today. Name it. 
a)KFC founded by Colonel Harland Sanders 

This brand was developed by a pharmacist and his wife way back in the 1900s in Australia. It was introduced in India in 1947. Today this brand is considered as the worlds largest in sales and market share in its category. Name it.
a)Rexona, brand owned by Unilever. It claims that it is the world's largest deodorant brand in sales and market share. 

The co founder of which company who had always enjoyed tinkering with machinery and had gained some notoriety for building a working printer out of Lego bricks, took on the task of creating a new kind of server environment that used low-end PCs instead of big expensive machines.
a)Larry Page of Google. 

 
Identify the logo.
a)Mahindra
  
 
The greatest contribution of this advertising genius of the 1900s was helping to create a national tooth brushing habit in the US. Before the advent of the brand for which he created advertising campaigns, almost no Americans brushed their teeth. Name the person and the brand.
a)Claude C Hopkins a pioneer in the field of advertising created strategies for Pepsodent which helped make tooth brushing a daily habit in the US
 
This American brand started in a Michigan farm by two brothers in 1892 is now British owned. Mark Twain, Theodore Roosevelt, Thomas Edison and Mahatma Gandhi were its users. It was one of the first to bring out a Mickey Mouse branded edition during the 1930s. Name it.
a)Ingersoll Watches 

Whose advertisement ran these lines “Lipsmackin, thristquenchin, acetastin, motivatin, goodbuzzin, cooltalkin, highwalkin, fastlivin, evergivin, coolfizzin,____?
a)These lines are from Pepsi Cola’s advertisement released in 1973
 
The Aston Hill races near Birmingham provided the inspiration for the first half of a very popular brand’s name. Which is the brand?
a)Aston Martin, the car James Bond prefers to drive. The name Aston was married to the surname of its founder Lionel Martin and hence thus it got its full name.
 
Name the term that is used to describe a technique for defeating a cipher or authentication mechanism (password) by trying to determine its decryption key or passphrase by searching all likely possibilities. It uses a targeted technique of successively trying all the words in an exhaustive list.
a)Dictionary Attack 

Who said this “Thinking first of money instead of work brings on fear of failure and this fear blocks every avenue of success”?
a)Henry Ford 

  Which airline was the first one to order the Boeing 747 when it was launched?
a)PANAM in 1966 

“IBM wants to wipes us off the face of the earth”, who said this to the Fortune magazine while discussing his company?
a)Steve Jobs of Apple Computers in 1984