Daily Quiz 20-Feb-2013 (Business Quiz)

Posted on February 22, 2013

1. Name the wholly owned subsidiary of Nokia who is a major provider of base electronic

navigable maps.
[edit]Karlin

History

& Collins, Inc.

The company was founded in 1985 by Barry Karlin and Galen Collins. Karlin, originally from South Africa, told interviewers that he started the company after being frustrated with a paper map of the San Francisco, California area. He thought 'Wouldn't it be nice if I had someone sitting next to me in the car who knew the way?'[

2. Which company is behind the open source projects Bazaar, Upstart and Quickly.
Canonical Ltd.
[7]

is a UK-based privately held computer

software company founded (and funded) by South African entrepreneur Mark Shuttleworth to market commercial support and related services for Ubuntu and related projects. Open-source

software

Mark Shuttleworth (standing) and other Canonical employees discuss Launchpad at a design sprint in Germany

Ubuntu,[8] a Debian-based Linux distribution with Unity (formerly GNOME) desktop Bazaar,[9] a decentralized revision control system Storm, an object-relational mapper for Python,[10] part of the Launchpad codebase Upstart, an event-based replacement for the init daemon Quickly Ubuntu Software Center

3. Who succeeded John Sculley as the CEO of Apple in 1993 and was nicknamed Diesel? 3. Michael Spindler.

Michael Spindler (born 1942 in Germany), nicknamed "the Diesel" for his reputed around-the-clock work

habits, was president andCEO of Apple fro

m 1993 to 1996.

4. They were brothers who emigrated to the United States from Italy in the early 20th century. They started created aircraft propellers and the toothpick was one of the more successful ones. Today they are known for their plumbing manufacturing. Who are we referring to?

Jacuzzi is an Italian multinational corporation that produces whirlpool bathtubs and hot tubspas. Its first product was a bath with massaging jets. [edit]History Around 1900, seven brothers named Jacuzzi (Italian pronunciation: [jakuttsi]) immigrated to theUnited States from the province of Pordenone, Friuli, Italy. They eventually settled on the West Coast in Berkeley, California and became machinists.

Daily Quiz 21-Feb-2013 (Business Quiz)

Posted on February 23, 2013

1. What was first produced in 1891 by the company Karl Elsener, and is currently produced by Victorinox?

1. Swiss Army Knife. 2. Which company produces the G-Shock range of watches primarily for outdoor activities

and sports? 2. Casio.

3. Which Walt Disney character first appeared in Mickeys Revue in 1932, and was voiced by

Pinto Colvig?

Goofy is a funny animal cartoon character created in

1932 at Walt Disney Productions. Goofy is a tall, anthropomorphic dog,

Daily Quiz 24-Feb-2013 (Business Quiz)

1. Which media conglomerate owns Vogue, Golf Digest, Epicurious, The New Yorker

and

Ars

Technica?

Cond Nast

Publications
Cond Nast, a division of Advance Publications, is a magazine publisher. In the U.S., it produces 18 consumer magazines, including Architectural Digest, Bon Apptit, GQ, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, and Vogue

History
Cond Montrose Nast launched his magazine empire in 1909 with the purchase of Vogue, which was first created in 1892 as a New York weekly journal of society and fashion news

2. Which French brand has three words in its name with Malletier as the thi rd word, but is popularly known by the first two words. 2. Louis Vuitton. Louis Vuitton Malletier, commonly
referred to as Louis Vuitton (/lui vwitn/;French: [lwi vi't ]), or shortened to LV, is a French fashion house founded in 1854 by Louis Vuitton

3. Who became the president of IBM in 1952 and was referred to as the greatest capitalist in history by TIME magazine?

Thomas Watson, Jr.

[1]

Thomas John Watson,

Jr. (January 14, 1914 December 31, 1993) was an Americanbusinessman, political figure, and philanthropist. He was the 2nd president of IBM (19521971), the 11th national president of the Boy Scouts of America Watson was called "the greatest capitalist in history" and one of "100 most influential people of the 20th century".

James Wilson (businessman)

James Wilson (3 June 1805 11 August 1860) was a Scottish businessman, economist and Liberal politician. He founded The Economist and the Standard

Chartered Bank. However, in 1853 he founded The Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China, which later merged with the Standard Bank to form Standard Chartered Bank in 1969.
[

Strangely even though he contributed greatly to the financial set-up of the British empire in India, he lay buried unknown at a cemetery at Mullick Bazar in Kolkata. His grave was discovered in 2007 by CP Bhatia, an assistant commissioner of Income Tax, while he was researching a book on India's tax history. Due to the efforts of CP Bhatia the tombstone was restored by the Christian Burial Board, thus restoring some dignity to a man that was in a way one of the forefathers of the Indian Tax structure.
[

Boy Scouts of America

5. Which company changed its name to Altria Group Inc. in 2003? 5. Philip Morris.

Daily Quiz 26-Feb-2013 (Business Quiz)

Posted on February 28, 2013

1. Which famous hedge fund manager was recently in the news for his criticism of Herbalifes business model? 1. William Ackman.
William A. Ackman,

more commonly known as Bill Ackman, (born May 11, 1966) is an American hedge fund manager. He is the founder and CEO of hedge fund Pershing Square Capital Management LP

Herbalife criticism
In December 2012, Ackman issued and presented a research report that is critical of Herbalife's multi[1 level marketing business model, calling it a pyramid scheme.

2. Name the company founded by Manoj Bhargava, who joined The Giving Pledge in

September 2012.

5-hour Energy (stylized as 5-hour ENERGY) is a

[1]

flavored "energy shot" brand made by Living Essentials in Wabash, Indiana, whose parent firm is Innovation Ventures inFarmington Hills, Michigan. It is sold in 1.93 -oz (57 mL) containers

Freeloader Inc., Tribe Networks and Support.Com is best known as the CEO of another company. Who and
4. The founder of which company? 4. Mark Pincus, Zynga.
Mark Jonathan Pincus (February 13, 1966)
[3]

Mark Pincus

is an Internet entrepreneur best known as the co-founder

of Zynga, which makes online social games. Pincus also founded Freeloader, Inc., Tribe Networks,

and Support.com.

[4

Daily Quiz 01-Mar-2013 (Business Quiz)

Posted on March 1, 2013

1. Which company did KLM, the aviation company, merge with in 2004? 1. Air France. 2. Which company claims to have launched the worlds f irst business class in airlines in 1979? 2. Qantas. 3. Which CEO of a major technology company co-authored the

lex software for UNIX-like systems?

served as the CEO of Google.

3. Eric

Schmidt. Early in his career, Schmidt co-authored the lex analysis software program for the Unixcomputer
operating system. From 1997 to 2001, he was Chief Executive Officer of Novell. From 2001 to 2011, he

3. What was first created by the company

Armbruster, based

out of

Arkansas in the United States, in 1928? 3. The stretch limousine

Reed Hastings

Wilmot Reed Hastings, Jr. (born October 8, 1960) is an entrepreneur and education philanthropist. He is the CEO of Netflix, and on the boards of Facebook and numerous non-profit organizations. After high school, he spent a year selling Rainbow vacuum cleaners door to door.

2. Who was awarded the 2012 Millennium Technology Prize along with Shinya Yamanaka

from

Japan?

2.

Linus

Torvalds.