Biz Bytes #9

1. After whom has been the diplomatic enclave in Delhi named after?

2. He was a brother of Alpha Phi Omega, a service fraternity and Kappa Kappa Psi, a band service fraternity. He also made history by being the first sitting President to speak to a gay rights organization. Who?

3. Which ad is quite like this “A man is fishing and throws the bait. Under the water, a scuba diver follows a big fish, catches it and hangs it onto the bait. The man happily takes the fish and throws the bait again”. Which brand is this, trying to explain that it works hard behind the scenes for its investors?

4. On a field trip with his students this Professor, a Fulbright scholar and Doctorate in Economics, came across severe exploitation of Bamboo artisans at the hands of Middlemen. Deeply moved by their plight, he doled out a sum of around $30 to the artisans as assistance. What did this incident lead to?

5. During the Mid-Sixties, this young man headed the Accounts Dept. of the US Operations of a company, founded by his Uncle. A sceptical IRS Agent checked the company books for possible under reporting but found the company records to be correct & the profits indeed really small. The IRS Agent jokingly suggested closing down the US Operations and depositing the money in a bank to get better returns!! Nearly 3 decades later, the Accounts Head became the CEO Of the parent company. In a span of another decade, he overhauled the production system and laid strong emphasis on R&D. Today the Company is in the Fortune 500 list and one of the largest recipients of patents in the US. Name this company?

6. This company started out making something very simple. So simple and universal that its hard to imagine someone who hasn’t used their product. You probably have one on you right now. From its humble beginnings, today it operates
i. 120 + affiliated companies
ii. in 70+ countries
iii. 260 + plants and offices
iv. 36,000 + employees
v. 4 R & D centres.
X founded this company; his name is also in the name of the company. This company’s name translated into English means “X Company Limited” where X being the name of the founder. According to his philosophy, X believed he must manufacture only useful, high quality products that would benefit, or enhance, the end-use goods in which they were installed. Since his product was a component in his customer’s products, and the critical moving part, he believed it would have to perform perfectly over a long period of time so that those end-use goods would last longer and perform better than others on the market. Name the company, and the popular product?

7. This newspaper’s fictional editor is T. Herman Zweibel, who has “held the position since 1901” and “is rather insane“. It was actually founded by two students from University of Wisconsin, Madison in 1988. Comedy central failed in its attempt to buy the newspaper. The newspaper was even considered for a Pulitzer Prize. The newspaper is well known for its headlines. At one point white house had to write a warning letter to the newspaper asking it to stop using the president’s official seal. An article on Harry Potter inciting kids to practice witchcraft was believed by many to be real and was forwarded by many “concerned Christians” Name this popular newspaper which has a tag line “America’s finest news source”?

8. This clothing company founded in late 1960’s, created quite a stir when it started putting the acronym of the company on its products. In the United States, their brand has been extremely controversial. Most stores, refused to carry the brand, while many parents argue that the shirt’s messages could harm their children. In 2003, a judge in UK, banned a potential juror for wearing a shirt from the company, saying the misspelt Anglo Saxon word (company’s acronym) was a distraction and does not dignify the court proceedings. The company recently announced that it is going to stop putting the acronym on its clothes. Name the acronym and what it stands for?

9. If you were eating a ‘musa sapientum‘ which fruit would you be eating? Clue: A “Musa Sapientum” has also appeared on the cover of Penthouse magazine?

10. The drug MDMA (3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine) is a synthetic drug with both psychedelic and stimulant effects. It was first developed in 1912 as an appetite suppressant by the German pharmaceutical company Merck. It comes as a tablet, capsule or in powder form and is usually taken orally. This is one of the most popular illegal drugs available. What is it?

11. What are these statements part of:
i. “If your balls be found anywhere touching one another you are to lift the first ball till you play the last.”
ii. “The weight of the ball must not be greater than 1.62oz. and the size not less than 1.68 inches in diameter”
iii. “He who whose ball lyes farthest from the hole is obliged to play first”

12. There are two olive branches on the flag of Cyprus (the one with the map of the country); what do these branches signify?

13. They both soon found they were not alone in wanting a single useful place to sort things out. Before long, hundreds of people were accessing their guide from well beyond the Stanford trailer. Word spread from friends to what quickly became a significant, loyal audience throughout the closely-knit community. It celebrated its first million-hit day in the fall of 1994, translating to almost 100 thousand unique visitors. What are we talking about and who are the ‘they’?

14. After ‘its’ success, it was only natural for him to consider another park on the East Coast. Prior to his death the company purchased land, some 28,000 acres. It opened October 1; 1971.The company had the space it lacked in earlier. Finally there was room to create a destination resort; unencumbered by the urban sprawl that had grown up around it. What is the ‘it’ and who is the ‘him’?

15. He was born in 1846. He was asked to join the group of 20 men who were travelling to Egersund by Larsson. After a time, He took a new job with the iron smith Knut Bergman in Karlstad. In his shop, he did various types of iron work. Here he also became friends with another apprentice; Carl Johan Wennberg. The two boys began to talk about going to Stockholm to try their luck. Finally, in September 1867, they decided to start the trip, but when they had come half way, Carl Johan changed his mind and returned. He later started a large mechanical engineering shop in Karlstad. When the two parted, they were still friends. A few days later, the poor farm boy arrived in Stockholm alone. No one, least of all himself, could imagine that he a few decades later would create a global industry. Name him.

16. In midsummer of 1834 a bankrupt hardware merchant from Philadelphia, walked into the retail store of the Roxbury India Rubber Co., America’s first rubber manufacturer. He showed the store manager a new valve he had devised for rubber life preservers. The manager shook his head sadly. The company wasn’t in the market for valves now; it would be lucky to stay in business at all. He had played with bits of it as a child, but now, at 34, he experienced a sudden curiosity and wonder about this mysterious “gum elastic.” “There is probably no other inert substance,” he said later, “which so excites the mind”, was clapped into jail for debt. It was not his first sojourn there, nor his last. it was here, in his cell, he made his first experiments. Neither he nor his family was ever connected with the company named in his honour, today’s billion-dollar company, the world’s largest rubber business.

17. In1849, cousins founded the Company in a red brick building in Brooklyn, NY. The new century brought prosperity to company. The pioneering of the mass production of citric acid from sugar through mould fermentation fuelled growth for years. The second half of the 1900’s saw intense research and great successes. After successfully merging with Warner-Lambert and Pharmacia to create the world’s fastest-growing major pharmaceutical company, it continues its mission to become the world’s most valued company to patients, customers, colleagues, investors, business partners, and the communities where we work and live.

18. The name of this German company literally means “blue dot”. Initially called the ideal, the company changed to its now famous name, as its customers saw the blue dot the company stuck after its strict quality check as being synonymous with the brand. Enough clues – can you identify the brand?

19. The phrase was originated by John Seybold and popularized at Xerox PARC during the late 1970s when the first ____ editor, Bravo was created on the Alto. The Alto monitor (72 pixels per inch) was designed so that one full page of text could be seen and then printed on the first laser printers. When the text was laid out on the screen 72 PPI font metric files were used, but when printed 300 PPI files were used — thus one would occasionally find characters and words slightly off, a problem that continues to this day. (72 PPI came from the standard of 72 “points” per inch used in the commercial printing industry.) Seybold and the researchers at PARC were simply re-appropriating a popular catchphrase of the time originated by “Geraldine”, a character on The Flip Wilson Show, (1970-1974). What phrase did Seybold coin?

20. This company was initially known as the Howdy Corporation. The founder was unable to seriously challenge Orange Crush, the leader in the field, and over time Howdy lost market share to its predominant rival. Rather than see his company die by inches, the founder cast about for another sort of soda to broaden his company’s consumer base. This new soda which is an extremely popular drink was originally christened “Bib-Label Lithiated Lemon-Lime Soda.” Which drink?

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