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BUSINESS UPDATE QUIZ

1. What is the name of the Head Quarters of Tata Group?

Ans: Bombay House

Bombay House is a historic privately owned building in Mumbai that serves as the head office of the Tata Group. Situated near Flora Fountain it was completed in 1924 and has been the Tata Group's headquarters ever since. The building is a four storey colonial structure built with Malad stone, and was designed by architect George Wittet, who later became the head of Tata Engineering Company Limited, nowTata Motors

2. Who are the Bretton Wood Twins or Sisters?

Ans: IMF and World Bank

The Bretton Woods Institutions (or Bretton Woods Sisters) is the collective name for the World Bank Group and the International Monetary Fund. There financial institutions were established at Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, United States, and thus the sobriquet.

3.Which organisation instituted the Nobel Prize for Economics?

Ans: Sveriges Riksbank (Bank of Sweden)

In 1968, Sveriges Riksbank (Sweden's central bank) established the Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, founder of the Nobel Prize. The Prize is based on a donation received by the Foundation in 1968 from Sveriges Riksbank on the occasion of the Bank's 300th anniversary. The first Prize in Economic Sciences was awarded to Ragnar Frisch and Jan Tinbergen in 1969.

4. Charging Bull, which is sometimes referred to as the Wall Street Bull or the Bowling Green Bull, is a 3,200-kilogram (7,100 lb) bronze sculpture by Arturo Di Modica. Totally 5 statues were made and only 3 have been sold one is placed at the Wall street, NYC. Where is the rest, 2 statues placed?

Ans: Shanghai & Amsterdam

Charging Bull sculpted by Di Modica which looks "younger" and "stronger" was installed in Shanghai, and in 2012 one was placed on Het Beursplein in Amsterdam.

5. Who is the new CEO of Spicejet?

Ans: Siddhanta Sharma

SpiceJet announced that Siddhanta Sharma has taken over as Chief Executive Officer of the company. Popularly known as Sid, he has been associated with the company for almost five years and has played a key role in establishing Spicejet operations.

6. Logo of which company was inspired from this picture?

Ans: BMW

An artistic vision of an inspiration behind the BMW roundel. A drawing executed for the BMW advert from 1929, explains the idea behind the logo: a silver propeler blades turning with highspeed create an illusion. A publication in 1942 by Wilhelm Fahrenkopf confirms the airplane propeller as an inspiration for the logo.

7.In the movie Cast Away starring Tom Hanks, he is marooned in an island and considers a ball to be soul source of comfort and considers it to be a person . He gives the ball a particular name and it happens to be the real name of its makers. Name the brand?

Ans: Wilson

The Wilson Sporting Goods Company is an American sports equipment manufacturer based in Chicago, Illinois, and currently is a foreign subsidiary of the Finnish company Amer Sports. Wilson makes equipment for many sports, among them badminton, baseball, basketball, softball, football, golf, racquetball, soc cer, squash, tennis, and volleyball.

8. Connect

Ans: Coca Cola....Pic on the left was the place where it was founded, Georgia...The pic on the right is a Coca Cola ad...and the people in bottom are John Pemberton and Asa Candler

9. With which famous brand will you associate the Spirit of Ecstasy

Ans: Rolls Royce

The Spirit of Ecstasy is the name of the bonnet ornament (or hood ornament) on RollsRoyce cars. It is in the form of a woman leaning forwards with her arms outstretched behind and above her. Billowing cloth runs from her arms to her back, resembling wings.

10. Which company holds the rights to manufacture the products under the brand name Harry Potter after its worldwide success.

Ans: Warner Bros

Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc., also known as Warner Bros. Pictures or simply Warner Bros. (though the name was occasionally given in full form as Warner Brothers during the company's early years), is an American producer of film, television, and music entertainment. One of the major film studios, it is a subsidiary of Time Warner, with its headquarters in Burbank, California and New York. Warner Bros