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Thursday 15 March 2012

Identify Personality part-2 - business quiz

Identify Personality part-2 - business quiz

126) on the recommendation of kumaramangalam birla committee on corporate govenance Sebi

asked stock exchanges on 21 Feb 2000 to insert a new clause 49 in their listing agreements

with companies. it had about 2000 words. then appointed another committee under Narayana

Murty, following it, sebi revised clause 49. then in oct 2004 it sent another version to the stock

exchanges, this time about 3 times as large as the previous one Now by the end of 2005 all

listed companies will have to---. according to the amended definition under clause 49... what

is it

it deals with the appointment of independent directors and the new amended clause tightens the gamut of independent directors

The proposed Clause 49 of the Listing Agreement stipulates that at least 50 per cent of the board of companies should comprise independent directors. This is basically a corporate governance initiative to avoid the Board of directors being for from a single family or maybe too many government servants as in the case of ONGC.

The Government-controlled listed entities (where the Government has a majority stake), including ONGC, have in the recent months have been forced to review the composition of their boards on account of the proposed revised Clause 49 and also due to the capital market regulators' stance that the Government nominees on the boards of Government-owned entities cannot be counted as independent directors.

127) Name the drink that was initially sold as medicine for the headache and it was advertised with

a tagline of "The Idea Brain Tonic"
Coca Cola .

128) This term is derived from the Greek word 'Oikanomia' means "House Management". What is

it?

Economics

129) How ABN AMRO bank got its present name?

the Nederlandse and the Twentsche Bank merged to form the Algemene Bank Nederland

(ABN). later the Amsterdamsche Bank and the Rotterdamsche Bank merged to form the Amro

Bank. than, ABN and Amro Bank merged to form ABN AMRO

130) He is the pioneer in mutual fund industry and often referred as the Father of Index Fund

investing. He created the first S&P 500 Index fund. Identify this person?

John Bogle

131) Which financial services giant is referred as the "Thundering Herd"?

Merrill Lynch

132) What term became popular after the newspaper report of Watergate Scandal in the year

1973?

'Money Laundering'

133) If you file the 'chapter number 11' in USA in the name of your company what would you do?

You'll be filing for bankruptcy

134) What were built under the project 178 ?

FIAT cars Siena, Siena weekend, and Palio

135) Cannaught Plaza Restaurants and Hardcastle Restaurants have had the responsibility for the

entry of Which MNC to India ?

Mc Donalds

136) This famous business personality earn money by repairing toy trains when he was at 13. His

father escaped from the British Police in 1920 and landed in USA with $20 in his pocket and

later married an American school teacher and settled in Philadelphia. His corporate

headquarters is known as "The Mountain". Identify him.

Amar Bose of Bose corp.

137) Big Blue is IBM. Which corporate is referred as 'Big Black' ?

United Parcel Service (UPS)

138) This famous Japanese corporation first started as a tiny cork manufacturer in Hiroshima in

1920, and was known as Tokyo Cork Togyo Co Ltd. How it is known today?

Mazda

139) You may know what is blue collar or white collar worker. What's steelcolar worker? And Open

Collar workers?
Steel collar - robots are doing actual work instead of men; Open collar - someone who

works at home or telecommutes.

140) She was born in St. Petersburg, Russia on Feb 2, 1905. In 1926, she left for Hollywood to

pursue a career as a screenwriter. Cecil B. DeMille gave her a job, first as an extra, then as a

script reader. She sold her first screenplay 'Red Pawn' to Universal Studios in 1932 and also

staged her first play 'Night of January 16th' on Broadway. Her first novel was rejected by

publishers for years, until Macmillan published it in 1936. Identify her.

Ayn Rand

141) This world famous direct marketing company was founded by Rich Devos and Jay Van Andel

in 1959. Name it?

Amway

142) Name the person who coined the term "Management by Wandering Around (Walking About)",

and popularly known as MBWA?

Tom Peters [In his book In Search of Excellence, Tom Peters detailed for millions of

readers the trick behind HP's phenomenal growth and success. The trick, it turned out, wasn't

so much whiz-bang technology as it was a special kind of spirited management.

HP's idea of "management by walking around" focused more on a boss's ability to

communicate goals (rather than orders) to his or her staff. It also put a high premium on a

       manager's ability to watch and listen (rather than bark and bite).

        Here's an excerpt from one of interviews of tom peters:
         he says...
          "......So we talked to our colleagues and we then ended up chatting up Hewlett Packard and

chatting up 3M and chatting up only about two or three other companies and people had

talked to us and we said ‘my gosh, they are talking about all these incredibly strange things

for big companies like people listen to their customers, and if you an officionardo of my work

you will know that we shamelessly stole from Hewlett Packard this idea that was called

MBWA – Managing By Wandering Around’ – which you could call the worst kind of

management consultancy crap but at the time the whole notion was business is not all an

abstraction, business is not all about MBA schools, business is not all about numbers, it’s

about managers who get the heck out of their cubicles and who are actually in true contact

with their employees and their vendors and their customers and doing the face to face thing

        which was not where enterprise was at the time....."

         more details of the interview:
         http://www.redworld.biz/redbusiness/issue/vol3/issue04/guru
         more about MBWA go to :
         http://www.1000ventures.com/business_guide/mgmt_mbwa.html ]

143) Which successful investor is popularly known as "The Oracle of Omaha"? And his famous

quote is "Rule No.1: Never loss money, Rule No.2: Never forget the Rule No.1"

Warren Buffet

144) Which is the only country having paper currency and have no coins and it introduced cheque

only in 1997?

Vietnam

145) "I knew a trade name must be short, vigorous, incapable of being misspelled to an extent that

will destroy its identity, and in order to satisfy the trademark laws, it must mean nothing". Who

said this and name the brand?

George Eastman- Kodak

146) What was known as the Blue Ribbon Sports company earlier?

Nike

147) Which brand got its name from a Sanskrit word which means "Priceless"?

Amul

148) The Experience Music project in Seattle, Washington is an interactive music museum

149) In medieval times, as they do even now, merchants used to buy goods in bulk, for example

12 dozen bales of cloth, and sell these at fairgrounds. Now, what word was coined to describe

such merchants?
Grocery

150) One of the risk analysis models used to analyze, say a stock price, is a simulation method

that randomly generates values for uncertain variables over and over to simulate a model.

This model is named after a European city. Which method?

Monte Carlo method

151) ‘The Meghdoot Awards for Excellence’ is awarded to employees of which profession in the

Indian Service Industry?
Postal Service

152) In 1851, when consumers balked at the $75 price tag, this company "originated the world's

first installment plan to make it affordable"? Name the company.

Singer - the Sewing machine company.

153) connect : Bagpiper whisky brand ambassador, Bajaj 2 wheeler and ITC brand mascot...
         ITC brand mascot- Sunny mascot
         Bagpiper whisky brand ambassador- Sunny's father- Dharmendra
         Bajaj 2 wheeler- Bajaj Sunny

154) Who was the first Indian actress to endorse LUX.?

Leela Chitnis

155) The first product made by this company was a car record player. They gave themselves a

name similar to the name of the market leader in record players in those days. Name the

company.

Motorola

156) This product is considered the best of its kind. The first one was completed in September

1968, took four years and $1.5b to build, and the effort almost sank the company and threw

the city of Seattle into a depression. 7000 men worked to make it. What?

Boeing 747

157) What principle of stock speculation was first propounded by Thomas F. Woodlock?

the concept that odd otters are always wrong

158) He called his wife ‘The Believer’ because she encouraged him at a time when everyone else

called him crazy...Who is he?

Henry Ford

159) For which corporate Carolin Davidson designed the logo for $30 while she was a student in

Stanford University?

Nike

160) This former maid was the first woman to sell products by mail order, organize a nationwide

door-to-door sales force, and open her own beauty school.

Sarah Walker / Madam C J

161) Known as the 'Queen of Seventh Avenue,' this fashion designer launched her own line in

1984.

Donna Karan

162) The first woman to purchase a seat on the New York Stock Exchangewas:

Muriel Siebert

163) After working as a stockbroker, she founded a catering company that led to a magazine and

TV show devoted to cooking and entertaining

Martha Stewart

164) Her 1989 conviction for income tax evasion and her tough reputation earned this hotel owner

the nickname 'The Queen of Mean.'

Leona Helmsley

165) What cosmetics executive is known for giving pink Cadillacs as incentives for her sales staff?

Mary Kay Ash

166) It was called Racal Telecom when it was formed in 1984 as a subsidiary of Racal Electronics

Ltd. It became an independent company seven years later, at which time it changed its name

to ?
Vodafone

167) Who said this recently: "Although there will always be more work to be done to preserve and

enhance the integrity and strength of our nation's corporations and markets, I believe the time

has come for me to step down and return to the private sector an d my family."
William Donaldson Leaving the SEC

168) KitKat has always been seen in its well known red and white wrapper except between 1945

and 1947 when it sported a blue wrapper. Why was it changed then?

the wrapper was changed to a blue one in 1945 ,when it was made with a plain

chocolate covering instead of milk chocolate owing to acute shortage of milk after

World War 2

169) Dorcas Market Makers Ltd is the marketing arm of which wellness and personal care

company?
Cholayil

170) Such bonds of Latin American countries are issued in US dollars and backed by US Treasury

zero coupon bonds. They are named after a former US Secretary of Treasury. What are we

referring to?
Brady Bonds

171) North American Sports Network is a cable channel that broadcasts baseball, basketball, and

other US sports in Europe. Now, which investor, one of the world's richest people, recently

decided to sell his 70 per cent stake in it?
Allen Paul

172) Acme Clothing bought Acme Global and Acme Hospitality last year. What was it renamed as

this year?

Provogue

173) Byung-Chull Lee's business, started in 1938, initially focused on exporting dried Korean fish,

vegetables and fruit to Manchuria and Beijing. In over a decade, it had its own flour mills and

confectionery machines. Which company are we referring to?
Samsung

174) The currency of which country is zloty, literally meaning 'golden'? (The modern zloty was

introduced in 1924 after the hyperinflation post-World War I. It replaced the country's currency

'mark,' which had been around for eight years.)
Poland

175) Allied Domecq wants to revive the fading Canadian Club whisky, and for that it has unveiled a

strategy wherein 10 lucky winners of a programme will have a chance to compete alongside

champion Chris Moneymaker for a multi-million dollar purse. Chris is a leading player in which

'sport'?
Poker

176) Written by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner, the book's baseline reads, 'A Rogue

Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything.' Which book?

Freakonomics

177) Following protests from business leaders and unions, the British Government decided not to

go ahead with the proposal to change the name of the Department of Trade and Industry.

Which two words, separated by a comma, were proposed in the place of 'Trad e'?
Productivity, Energy

178) The weekly Economist compiles two indexes based on the concept of purchasing-power

parity. One is the Big Mac index, which compares the prices of the McDonald's burger around

the world. The second is the 'tall latte index.' What does it compare?
Prices of Starbucks Coffee

179) Which Indian company has joint ventures and alliances with organizations such as Babcock &

Wilcox, Kawasaki Thermal Engineering Company, Eco Tech, Honeywell, Bloom Engineering,

Struthers Wells and Ozone Systems?
Thermax

180) The chief of Mirna Voda, a mineral water company in Zagreb which has launched a brand

called 'Titoz Izvor,' said about the name: "It has nothing to do with politics. It is purely a

marketing move which could help us make a breakthrough in a rather saturated market."

What's with the name?
Its named after late Yugoslav leader Tito

181) About what did Warren Buffett refer to when he wrote this: "From 1733 to 1758, Ben Franklin

dispensed useful and timeless advice through Poor Richard's Almanack. Among the virtues

extolled were thrift, duty, hard work, and simplicity. Subsequently, two centuries went by

during which Ben's thoughts on these subjects were regarded as the last word. Then Charlie

Munger stepped forth."

Poor Charlie's Almanack , an assortment of Mungers ideas

182) Kleenex and Huggies are brands of which company?
Kimberly Clark

183) In 1993, a Director at this Ahmedabad-based pharma company, while travelling in interior

Gujarat, saw deep cracks in the heels of women working in the fields. "Some of them had

difficulty in walking and the mud, stones and dirt aggravated the problem." Which product was

created based on this experience?

Krack Cream Paras Company

184) "The histories of the family (which founded the business) and of the company are directly

linked to one region: eastern France, Montbeliard. The Lion, the emblem of the make, is also

on the coat of arms of Franche-Comte, the birthplace of the family." Which company?
Peugeot

185) A company called SeaCode has presented an "innovative service" called 'Hybrid-Sourcing.'

According to the plan, workers from countries such as India and Russiawould get paid

around $22,000 a year, which is about a third of the market rate. As what wil l the workers be

classified, and why is this scheme so unique?

"Seamen”, The Californian company plans to have its engineering facility just beyond

the three-mile limit off the US coast and will have foreign software programmers.

186) Complete the name: Peter Ferdinand ... Drucker

187) Recently, the Sanctuary group, which manages artistes such as Beyonce, took over Twenty

First Artists, originally co-owned by three people, including Frank Presland and Keith Bradley.

Who was the other?

Elton John

188) Who has recently become the majority shareholder in Crisil?
Standard & Poor (S&P)

189) The same two key words are used to describe the following two phenomena: (i) This kind of

liability is one wherein the injury or harm takes time to become known, and the gap between a

claim and the circumstances that caused it could be decades. (ii) T he phrase coined by Chris

Anderson to describe how products that are in low demand can collectively make up a market

share that rivals or exceeds the relatively few current bestsellers or blockbusters if distribution

is adequate. Can you name them?

Long Tail

190) In an interview to a daily, he said: "I live on my farm most of the time, coming to Mumbai only

for shootings." He was asked about his decision to be the brand ambassador of Mahyco

Monsanto's Bt Cotton products. Who's he?

Nana Patekar

191) The origins of this company go back to 1901, when Englishman William Knox D'Arcy got to

explore the oil resources of Persia, thanks to a concession he obtained from the Shah of

Persia. It took years to make the discovery, and when it was made, the Angl o-Persian Oil

Company was formed, which is now called what?
British Petroleum

192) Pepsi lost its bid to trademark one of its product's brands in the European Union. A EU court

ruled recently that the name could be confused with a German potato chips brand, marketed

by Intersnack Knabber-Geback. Which is this brand, and what is Pepsi 's?
Ruffles

193) Complete the name: Cara Carleton Sneed ....

Fiorina

194) Under what brand name does Bengal Waterproof Ltd, whose subsidiaries include Bihar

Rubber Company Ltd and Bensri Rubber Products, sell its products?
Duckback

195) Which pioneering industrialist said: "There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: Make the

best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages

possible"? He sure practised what he preached!
Henry Ford

196) Charles Simonyi, along with Butler Lampson, is said to have developed the first WYSIWYG,

pronounced 'wizzy-wig' or 'wuzzy-wig', document preparation programme. What does it stand

for?
What You See Is What You Get

197) Which country's Postal Department, for the first time, dressed up its postmen as Santa

Clauses in an effort to match up with the Christmas promotions of private players?

India

198) What is Santa Claus Effect w.r.t US teenager behavioral pattern?
The phenomenon of most US teenagers losing their virginity during Christmas

Holidays!

199) What was Mrs. Weasley's Christmas gift to Harry Potter on his first Christmas at Hogwarts

School of Witchcraft and Wizardry?
A bright emerald-green hand-knit sweater

200) Name the world’s first bicycle brand

Boneshaker (1866) manufactured by Swift cycle company at Coventry, England

201) In 1906, Ammembal Subba Rao Pai founded this organization as the ... Bank Hindu

Permanent Fund. Fill up the blank. (Some more details: the organization has a bi-monthly, bi-

lingual house journal called Shreyas, and has on its rolls sportsmen such h as Venkatesh

Prasad and Vimal Kumar.)
Canara

202) The following is part of Bono's foreword to this book: "His voice is louder than any electric

guitar, heavier than heavy metal. He is not just animated; he's angry. Because he knows that a

lot of the crisis in the developing world can be avoided." Can you name the author and the

book, which talks about putting an end to poverty?

“The End of Poverty", author is Jefferey D Sachs

203) After years of delivering speeches about a scandal and his survival of colon cancer, he has

landed his first regular job in 10 years — as commercial manager ofIreland's Galway United

Football Club. Who's he?
Nick Leeson

204) It was started in 1887 as the Clinton Pharmaceutical Company, when its partners, McLaren

Bristol and John Ripley Myers, got it officially incorporated. In 1898, the company got a new

name, with the founders' names becoming part of it. After Myers' death h in 1899, when the

company became a corporation, its name underwent a further change. How was it known

before and after Myers' death?
Bristol , Myers - after his death it got changed to Bristol-Myers

205) ‘India's Online Marketplace' is now ...?

Baazee.com [now eBay.in]

206) Which is said to be the world's biggest mobile phone company by users?
China Mobile

207) A broken printer ribbon forced Tom Stemberg to look for a store that could supply him the

stuff, but he was getting nowhere with the search. That was in July 1985, and the incident was

the basis for a pioneering effort by Tom. What did he start 10 month has later?
Staples

208) This breath freshener brand in Belgium has been called "a small company with big

ambitions." So, according to an executive with the ad agency Duval Guillaume, which worked

for the brand, there had to be enough excitement around the product without it costing a lot.

What did the agency do recently, and can you name the brand?

'One Second.' The agency created a TV commercial for one second!

209) Which is the flagship company of the group that owns Hikal Chemicals, Automotive Axles and

Epicenter Technologies?
The Kalyani Group and that would be Bharat Forge

210) — Iron & Steel is more famously known as Posco. Fill up the blank.

Pohang

211) If you are a 'Sheru,' you would be a registered member of ...?

ShareKhan.com

212) Alain de Pouzilhac stepped down as CEO of which advertising company recently?
Havas

213) 'Idiots Price Our Devices'! This was one famous comment among the many that were seen on

the Internet when this company launched a product nearly three years ago. Demand,

however, seems to have soared now. Which product are we referring to? Also, which is the

company?
Apple i-pod

214) M. P. Sharma, Dr Madan Vaidya Mishra and P. L. Agarwal. Why were the three names in the

news?
Priyamvada birla will case

215) This bank was established in Lahore in 1943 by Rai Bahadur Lala Sohan Lal, who also

became its first Chairman. After Partition, the bank's registered office shifted to Amritsar. Its

current head office is in New Delhi. Can you name this bank?
Oriental Bank Of Commerce.

216) Can you name the company set up by Prince Charles in the early 1990s to make organic food

products?
Duch Original

217) Japan's second and fourth biggest banks in terms of assets have agreed to merge. The

merged entity will become the world's biggest banking group. Can you name the two banks?

Mitsubishi Bank n UFJ Holdings

218) In 1907, Eugene Schueller, a French chemist, developed a hair-colour formula. Two years

later, he registered his company as 'Societe Francaise de Teintures Inoffensives pour

Cheveux.' How do we know it today?

L'oreal

219) SMS : Short Messaging Service:: XMS : ?
Secure Messaging Service

220) “Authentic Marketing isn’t knowing the cost of selling of what you make, but knowing what you

make” – Golden words, whom?
Philip Kotler

221) Connect - Bernard Tapie, Credit Leonige, Robert Louie Dreyfuss to a Brand ?
ADIDAS. After the Adidas Family gave over the entire Stock holding, these were the

various people with whom the shares were transferred one after another.
222) Connect : Interstate, Chronical, Pure Design(or was it Theo Design) , etc
Hindu newspaper called in Mario Garcia to re-design their newspaper and these were

the 2 Fonts he introduced (Interstate, Chronical).

223) James Wilson, founder of Economist Newspaper and also Standard Chartered Bank gave

India something – What?
Income Tax

224) Started by Aristotle Onasis, it is the National Airline of Greece?
Olympic Airlines
225) Jet-ix is one of the lesser known channels of –

Disney

227) Net merger is a registered trademark merging Telephony with Microsoft Speech server

Platform, developed by –

Intel

228) Eye-ware, goggles designed for Golf specifically by – Adidas.

229) IQ magazine’s Online Publication is done by – CISCO.

230) Connect : (All pics are shown)
Nimbus, Reliance, NAL’s SARAS (Fighter plane), Silk Route (Album) and then there is the

song : “Chinna Chinna Aasai” from ROJA

All of them are registered Trademarks Paint Shades of Asian paints (ROJA, Nimbus,

etc)
231) Connect : (Again Pics)
SS Music, Inquilab, Metro Railways, Kiran Karnik(Photo)

Midday Magazine. Connect being, Metro being their editorials, Inquilab being Midday’s

        Hindi periodical, SS investments being their International stocks(or something)
232) Connect : (Pics again)
        Polaris, Hotel Trident, Hercules(& XENA warrior princess), Carmen Electra, and Song of U2 ?

         All Plane brands of Lock Heed Martin.
233) Connect : (pics)
         Alan Cox, “Story of accidental revolution”, Phoebe Buffay(friends) , Mustang Logo, Spirit

watches. and Song from Enigma.

Linux ; connect being like this : “Story of accidental revolution” was the subtitle of

Linus torvaldis’s Auto Biography. Alan Cox gave the initial idea of the Tux. Phoebe,

Mustang , enigma and e-spirit are the Code names of Unix versions.

234) Which sporting company entered a tie-up with Searra to enter into the Indian Market –

Lotto Sport

235) Rallisport is the Blue tooth Mobile from Motorola with collaboration with –

Oakley.
236) Which mercantile institution has had the motto “My word is my bond since 1801?
London Stock Exchange

237) By what popular name was the coalition of various reformist groups that overthrew Ottoman

Sultan Abdulhamid II in 1876 known? (Hint: The answer is a very popular show on CNBC

TV18, well even though all the shows are popular this one has become famous )
Young Turks

238) By what brand name is the Federation of Italian Automobile Works atTurin, more popularly

know?
FIAT

239) Which economist put forward the proposition “ Work expands to fill time”?

Parkinson's law

240) Its principal subsidiaries are MGM Studios Inc., United Artists Corporation, and Orion Pictures

Corporation. The name is taken from the three companies that formed a corporate merger in

1924 under the control of movie theater magnate Marcus Loew ?
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc. (Ars Gratia Artis)
241) ------- was founded by Toshio Iue, a former Matsushita employee, in 1947

The company's name means three oceans in Japanese, referring to the founder's ambition to

sell their products worldwide, across the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian oceans.
Sanyo

242) ____was founded in February 1982 by Rod Canion, Jim Harris and Bill Murto, three senior

managers from semiconductor manufacturer Texas Instruments.This company recently

merged with another company ,the merger was one of the most talked about mergers after

AOL Time Warner in America..

Compaq

243) The first edition of the _________ was published in 1955, commissioned by the Guinness

brewery after a debate over the fastest species of gamebird could not be settled with existing

reference books. It was researched by Ross and Norris McWhirter, twins and noted British

athletes and journalists, who at the time ran a fact-finding agency inLondon.

The Guinness Book of Records

244) ______ was co-founded in Hollywood, California, in 1923 by four brothers, Harry (1881-195,

Albert (1882-1967), Sam (1887-1927) and Jack (1892-197.The first major star of this

company was a dog, Rin Tin Tin.

Warner Bros

245) Goodricke Group of companies head office in South Calcutta is called " __________ house"

.Give me the full name and justify the name(why is it called so)
Camellia House

246) The brains behind this tractor model, developed inlate sixties, gave it a name that signifies

'something Indian’. Name the brand
Swaraj

247) Which Indian organization has used outsourcing to the highest level and has 570 employees

all over the country handling business worth Rs 54000 crores?
Xansa

248) Which car has become the first car ever to be conferred with the Five star diamond award?
Merc Maybach

249) Which famous brand name is derived from a combination of two words, that means’ dead' in

French and 'one' in German?

Mortein ( Mort + Ein )

250) Whats common with Gujarat Ambuja Cements,Bharti Televentures and Max Healthcare??
Warburg Pincus , it has invested in all the three companies.

251) Its Mexico ads were supposed to have read, "It won't leak in your pocket and embarrass you."

The company thought that the word "embarazar" (to impregnate) meant to embarrass, so the

ad read: "It won't leak in your pocket and make you pregnant!"
Parker Pen

252) Its "Come Alive With the [company name] Generation" translated into "[company name]

Brings Your Ancestors Back From the Grave" in Chinese.
Pepsi

253) It introduced a toothpaste in France called Cue, the name of a notorious porno magazine.
Colgate-Palmolive

254) This auto major marketed this car in Central and South America by the name meaning in

Spanish, "it doesn't go".
GM for car Nova

255) This Scandinavian vacuum manufacturer used the following in an American campaign:

"Nothing sucks like an [company name]."

Electrolux

256) In takeover jargon, what is a Poison Pill ?
Liabilities or losses deliberately assumed by a company, to make it a less attractive

candidate for takeovers.

257) What is the key difference between cars for the American & Canadian markets?
Dashboard in FPS system vs. MKS system.

258) What is the similarity between Levi Strauss and Fevicol?
Their logos are similar: horses pulling apart jeans for Levi's, elephants pulling apart a ball

for Fevicol. As mentioned above, the respective product logos are derivatives of the

Magdeburg hemisphere experiment

259) A British company called Wire & Plastic Products Ltd. is the world no. 1 in its field. What field?

Advertising. It's the core of the WPP Group that owns O&M, JWT and other companies.

260) What invention of the confectioner George Smith was named after a famous race horse of the

early 20th century ?
The Lollipop

261) If you had bought stocks worth $15 in this company in 1964, it would be worth more than

$5000 in 25 years. This company's success is, more or less, based on a single

product.(Hint: The company’s name contains the product it sells)
Kentucky Fried Chicken

262) "Any Airline which has been in service since 1365...." is the beginning of an advertisement for

which airline ?

SaudiA

263) Tata - Fiat , connect (recent news)

Tata Motors going to use the Palio engines for the Indica petrol versions.

264)Tommy Hilfiger is being considered by which Fortune 500 company for buy out

Wal-Mart is buying Tommy Hilfiger

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