BUSINESS QUIZ PACK - 07

Q No.01 : Name the index which used to detect the Bullish or Bearish trend in stock market?
ANS : Advance-Decline Index. Ratio of the number of shares which increase pricewise to those decreased pricewise.
Q No.02 : What are the certificates issued by the US depository bank representing the shares of a foriegn company?
ANS : American Depository Receipts
Q No.03 : What was formed under the Banyan tree at Hormiman Circle?
ANS : Bombay Stock Exchange
Q No.04 : What does Chalu Upla mean in stock trading?
ANS : An unofficial deal, i.e a deal not made on the floor of exchange
Q No.05 : How is the interest paid by the buyers on the borrowed fund in carry forward transaction called?
ANS : Contango
Q No.06 : Name the Stock Market Regulator in United Kingdom?
ANS : Financial Services Authority
Q No.07 : Name the first Public Sector share quoted on the Bombay Stock Exchange?
ANS : Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited
Q No.08: Name the First women President of a Stock Exchange in India?
ANS : Omana Abraham of Cochin Stock Exchange
Q No.09 : What is DJIA in world stock market trading?
ANS : Dow Jones Industrial Average, an average of 30 blue chip stocks
Q No.10 : Which is the first foreign company listed on NYSE?
ANS : SONY
Q No.11 : Name the brand of Beer which got its name from the brewery which was founded on the Banks of the river Amstel?
ANS : Amstel Beer
Q No.12 : What was known as the Blue Ribbon Sports company earlier?
ANS : Nike
Q No.13 : Which brand got its name from a Sanskrit word which means "Priceless"?
ANS : Amul from Amoolya
Q No.14 : Which international brand was founded by Adrian Dasley, Larry Hillblom and Robert Lynn?
ANS : DHL
Q No.15 : Identify the brand which means 'Three Oceans' in English and has it's motto as "Saving the Earth and Serving its People".
ANS : SANYO
Q No.16 : "I knew a trade name must be short, vigorous, incapable of being misspelled to an extent that will destroy its identity, and in order to satisfy the trademark laws, it must mean nothing". Who said this and name the brand?
ANS : Geroge Eastman about his Kodak
Q No.17: What is known as the ratio of the percent (%) of a brand's sales in a market to the percent of national population in that same market?
ANS : BDI - Brand Development Index
Q No.18 : Sony get its name from the Latin word meaning 'Sound'. But which brand derives its name from a Japanese word for ' Sound '?
ANS : Onkyo
Q No.19 : This brand derives its name from a old French word meaning "Beam of Light" and a Greek word for "From the Gods". And the company was initially known as American Appliance Company. Identify the brand/company.
ANS : Raytheon from Rai and Theon
Q No.20 : Name the brand of pocket watch used by Mahatma Gandhi?
ANS : Vintage Ingersoll
Q No.21 : Name the famous personality known for his cartoon character and also wrote the books Bring me the Head of Willy the Mail Boy, Still Pumped up From Using the Mouse and Shaving the Whales?
ANS : Scott Adams
Q No.22 : Which two companies are associated with Tara Deshpande for India's first e-novel which is authored by Tara and co-authored by the readers?
ANS : Firstandsecond.com and Adobe Systems
Q No.23 : Whose autobiography is known as "Work in Progress"?
ANS : Michael Eisner
Q No.24 : In which book marketing legend Peter F. Drucker first coined the term Privatisation?
ANS : The Age of Discontinuity
Q No.25 : Which former Indian chief executive's autobiography is titled as "Bite the Bullet"?
ANS : Ajit Haskar, Ex-Chairman, ITC
Q No.26 : Who is the author of the book sub-titled as 'Necessary Disorganization for the Nanosecond Nineties'?
ANS : Tom Peters and his Liberation Management
Q No.27 : 'Who Moved my Cheese' is from the best selling author Spencer Johnson. Name the other book he co-authored with Kenneth Blanchard?
ANS : One Minute Manager
Q No.28 : Whose autobiography is called as "Just For Fun" and co-authored by David Diamond?
ANS : Linus Torvalds
Q No.29 : Who is widely referred as the Quality Guru and the author of the books Quality is Free, Quality Without Fears and Running Things?
ANS : Philip Crosby
Q No.30 : Who co-authored the book 'Weaving The Web' along with Tim Berners-Lee?
ANS : Fischetti Mark