Biz Bytes #2

Posted by abhi in Business Quiz, Quiz | Feb 22 2009 | 4 Comments

At the stroke of midnight…..comes set #2. GOOD HUNTING.

1. The first was built with borrowed wood near Pasadena by two brothers, who wanted to pursue a career in Hollywood. There is one at the North Pole, and a floating one on a steamer at St. Louis. What are we talking about?

Ans: McDonalds

2. Which unit of measurement takes its abbreviation from the name of a constellation?

Ans: Pound. Its abbreviation is ‘lb’ which is an abbreviated form of the ‘Libra’ constellation.

3. Founded in 1984, this company developed the pioneering Legend Chinese Character Card that translated English operating software into Chinese characters. In 2003, the company changed its brand name to its present form by adding the Latin Word for “New”. Name the company?

Ans: Lenovo

4. If you sent someone a ‘Courriel’ in France, what did you do?

Ans: E-mail

5. This man kept the time when Roger Bannister ran his mile under 4 minutes. On the insistence of a bar owner he founded something that has become a standard of excellence in today’s world. Who and what?

Ans: Norris Mcwhirter, Guinness Book of World Records.

6. In 1898, while director of research at the Bayer Company in Darmstadt, Germany; Heinrich Dreser prepared diacetylmorphine and introduced it commercially as a quicker pain reliever than morphine. What did he dub this compound?

Ans: Heroin

7. Its original name is ‘ HMS Landship’. However during WWII, this war aid was codenamed to mean a sort of water carrier to keep its identity secret. What am I talking about?

Ans: Tank

8. He was the grandson of one of the pioneers of the Wild West. He grew up during the Great Depression on a small farmstead near Portland, Oregon. After graduating from high school in1942, he went on to study Electrical Engineering at Oregon State University. Setting his studies aside, he joined the Navy during World War II, serving for two years as an electronic/radar technician in the Philippines. His experience as a radar technician inspired him to develop his most famous creation. Who is he and what was his creation?

Ans: Douglas Engelbert. He invented the mouse.

9. What is the term that is used to describe the managers in the Indian family owned firms who do not add any value to the company but continue to occupy these positions for lifetime because of their family connections?

Ans: Fevicol Managers

10. Muggy weather was more than just uncomfortable for the Sackett-Wilhelms Lithographing & Publishing Co. in Brooklyn, New York. Sticky air caused ink to bleed and paper to bloat, hampering the printer’s ability to churn out the humour magazine Judge. In 1902, Sackett-Wilhelms called the Buffalo Forge Co., a fan and heater manufacturer, for help. A 25-year-old staffer fresh out of Cornell University and making an unimpressive $10 a week, was assigned the task. He designed equipment that sucked humid air through a filter, passed it over coils containing chilled brine, and then redirected it back into the room. The simple contraption provided the cooling equivalent of melting 54 tons of ice per day and rendered air dry and clean. He dubbed his device the “apparatus for treating air.” A modified version of the system was patented in 1906 and will always be ranked as one of the greatest products in history. Who was the designer?

Ans: Willis Havilland Carrier, the Father of Air-conditioning.

11. This was introduced by John Wallis in his treatise “On Conic Sections” in the year 1655. It is believed that he derived it from the old Roman sign for 1000. This assumption is lent credence by the labels inscribed on an ancient Roman hand abacus stored at the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris on which the number 1000 is inscribed with a similar symbol was found. What?

Ans: The symbol for infinity

12. This historic location was originally called Chickahauk by the Red Indians. The name literally meant “goose hunting grounds”. An English mispronunciation gave this place its present name. Today it is a premier summer resort and tourist locale in North Carolina. Which place?

Ans: Kitty Hawk, where the Wright brothers made their historic plane flight.

13. This term describes a corporate-takeover strategy with which a third party poses as a white knight to gain trust, but then turns around and joins with unfriendly bidders. Name the term.

Ans: Lady Macbeth Strategy

14. Legend has it that two world famous names in the world of luxury cars met in a hotel in Manchester, England, on May 4, 1904. Their business propositions in that hotel led to the incorporation of their chain of companies in the automobile sector. The HQ of the main company is located at Derby. The Americanised version of their car is called a Cadillac. Which company am I talking about?

Ans: Henry Royce and Charles Stewart Rolls of Rolls Royce.

15. What’s in a Name: This Company was founded as the Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering on May 7, 1946. Their first consumer product was a rice boiler. The name was changed later to TTK (Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo in Japanese). Thereafter the name for this company was tried in different phonetics and languages. At one stage, the name translated in Japanese meant, “Business gone bad”!!! Finally the name was decided such that it wasn’t part of any language. The name was decided in 1958. Eventually that did help them sue a candy manufacturer over the rights for the name.

Ans: Sony.

16. What practice was started by Horace Greeley, editor of New York Tribune, in 1859?(This is now commonplace in the business world)

Ans: Personal Interviews.

17. “TIP” as you know is a petty payment made to a hotel or restaurant staff. What do TIP stand for? (It is in fact the very purpose of TIP)

Ans: To Insure Promptness (And in fact it does…)

18. “F**king Eric Schmidt is a f**king p*ssy. I’m going to f**king bury that guy, I have done it before, and I will do it again. ‘m going to f**king kill Google….” Now who’d say such a thing about the evangelist of GOOGLE?

Ans: Steve Ballmer.

19. This is the story of two girls, Maya and Tara, who are raised together but come from very different social classes. Tara is an upper-caste princess while Maya is her servant. Maya is resentful of the inferiority she is made to feel, despite their nearly equal upbringing. Maya exacts her revenge on Tara by seducing the latter’s husband on the wedding day. These sets off a struggle for power which eventually brings about tragedy. Name the story?

Ans: Kamasutra.

20. Its first appearance was in Pep Comics on 22, December 1941. It was drawn by Bob Montana, and written by Vic Bloom. It was conceived by John L. Goldwater, who some believe was influenced by the Andy Hardy movies starring Mickey Rooney. What?

Ans: Archie comics.

 

Results in Brainiac Points

Priya: 15

Asif: 3

 

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