BUSINESS QUIZ PACK - 03

Q No.01 : Which is the world's First Patented product?
ANS : Epsom Salt
Q No.02 : Which company claims itself that the only company in the world having the technology to produce the steel in-house for manufacturing Razor Blades?
ANS : Vidyut Metallics Ltd, Owner of Supermax brand.
Q No.03 : Name the oil major who first setup a refinery in India, introduced LPG and Bitumen to the nation and first company to introduced co-branded credit cards and rewards programme in petroleum sector?
ANS : Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL)
Q No.04 : Which auto company plans to develop concept car 'Aria Coupe' and luxury sedan 'Magna'?
ANS : TELCO
Q No.05 : What are ' Ethical Drugs '?
ANS : Drugs available only for the prescriptions from Physicians.
Q No.06 : Who founded the Amul milk co-operative in Gujarat in the year 1902?
ANS : Tribuvandas Patel
Q No.07 : What was invented by Dr. Willis Haviland Carrier, an American engineer, in 1902?
ANS : Air Conditioner
Q No.08: Who is credited as the world's largest bicycle manufacturer?
ANS : Hero Cycles
Q No.09 : The organization was founded by Charles Lazarus in the late 1940's as the first 'toy supermarket' which initially sold toys and furniture. Later it dropped furniture and concentrated only on Toys and later acquired by Interstate in 1966. After the bankruptcy of Interstate in 1974, more stores were opened in the process of reorganization. Identify the company?
ANS : Toys R Us
Q No.10 : Nowadays Coffee pubs and parlors are become popular, thanks to the retail revolution. You may tasted 'mMocha', 'Cappuccino', 'Espresso' etc. But what is 'Napoletana' coffee?
ANS : Nothing but Filter Coffee (Method of letting the weight of water itself pull it through the coffee powder)
Q No.11 : In Indian economic scenario what significant reform was introduced by the Indian Government on April 1, 1957?
ANS : Decimal Coinage System was introduced
Q No.12 : Who founded the famous Wall Street Journal?
ANS : Charles Dow and Edward Jones
Q No.13 : Name the first private sector corporate launched the gold fund in India?
ANS : Dundee Mutual Fund
Q No.14 : Which financial services giant is referred as the "Thundering Herd"?
ANS : Merrill Lynch
Q No.15 : What is an unusual service offered by Bank of Baroda at Tirupati?
ANS : Only bank in India to sell Prasada.
Q No.16 : What term became popular after the newspaper report of Watergate Scandal in the year 1973?
ANS : Money Laundering
Q No.17: How does the transaction termed when a company borrow money to lend it at a profit, taking advantage of a short term rise in interest rate?
ANS : Round Tripping
Q No.18 : What is the exchange rate of one currency for another over a fixed period of time called?
ANS : Swap or Currency Swap
Q No.19 : In which country's coins you can found the following lines imprinted, 'This is the root of all evils' ?
ANS : Vatican City
Q No.20 : Name the person who introduced the 'Double Entry' book keeping concept?
ANS : Lucas Pacioli
Q No.21 : In HR parlance, who are 'Whistle-Blowers' ?
ANS : Individuals who report unethical practices by their employers to outsiders
Q No.22 : Expand MPS, a scale used to measure the overall potential of workers' intrinsic motivation and used in the Job Diagnostic Survey developed by Richard Hackman and Greg Oldham?
ANS : Motivating Potential Score
Q No.23 : How do we better know the employment agencies and executive recruiters who locate suitable candidates?
ANS : Head Hunters
Q No.24 : What's the term used to describe an employee who is not tied to one country or company but moves around?
ANS : Mobile Worker
Q No.25 : Name the Process of Certifying the competence of a person, an employee, in an area of capability?
ANS : Accredition
Q No.26 : What are "Blind Ads" in HR parlance?
ANS : Recruitment advertisements that does not have the name or identity of the Employer
Q No.27 : Boulwarism is a popular negotiation strategy. Who developed this concept?
ANS : General Electric Company ( GEC )
Q No.28 : We all familiar with Buyback of shares. But while managing people what is 'Buyback'?
ANS : Buying back of a personnel, who attempts to resign, with an offer of increase in salary or wages and/or other benefits.
Q No.29 : Who proposed the 'Equity Theory' in the year 1960?
ANS : J.Stacy Adams
Q No.30 : What are 'Cafetaria Benefit Programs'?
ANS : Flexible benefits that allow employee to select the fringe benefits and services that satisfy their needs.