SSN INSTINCTS BUSINESS QUIZ PRELIMS

SSN INSTINCTS BUSINESS QUIZ PRELIMS

-------X------- hails from Moolaipozhi village in the former Tirunelveli District of TamilNadu in 1946. He received his engineering degree from PSG College of Technology in 1968 and started his career in DCM's calculator division. ln 1976 he founded a company with an investment of Rs 187,000 from the 6 other founders and added Uttar Pradesh government as a equity partner. In 1996 -------X------ founded ---Y--- in Chennai, Tamil Nadu in the name of his father. Give X & Y
• X – SHIV NADAR
• Y – Sri Sivasubramaniya Nadar College of Engineering (SSNCE)

Expand FUNT in the context of the current economic crisis
Financially untouchable
Which was the first fully privately owned Television channel in India when it emerged in 1993. It remains the most viewed TV channel in the world in its language and is part of Rs 16000-crore network
SUN TV

Identify
Bobby Kooka

His parents are the promoters of hitech group of companies and he studied at the Doon school, Dehradun and later at St.Stephen’s school, Chandigrah. He did his BBA from university of Colorado. Identify the person and the company in which he is the CEO.
Abhinav Bindra and Abhinav futuristics

•The first board of directors of Reserve Bank of India

Until 1993, AIR a government undertaking, was th

e only radio broadcaster in India. The government then took the initiative to privatize the radio broadcasting sector. Which was the first private FM station to be launched?
Radio Mirchi

This company's name is actually taken from a Hebrew name meaning Spring or Renewal. The Company was formerly called CGNU, and was created by a merger of Norwich Union and CGU plc in 2000. In May 2008 it became Norwich Cit

y Football Club's main sponsor. Name the company.
Aviva
X asked that its logos be removed in scenes taking place in the slums. The company, according to Danny Boyle, did not want to be associated with the poverty-stricken area, fearing that that might taint its image.
Identify X
Mercedes Benz

Identify
CPCL

The most ineffective workers are systematically moved to the place where they can do the least damage: management. How do u better know this as ?
DILBERT PRINCIPLE

X was a Scottish born American steel baron in the late 19th and early 20th century who later sold his steel empire to JP Morgan, leading to the formation of US Steel, and became a philanthropist. Identify X
Andrew Carnegie

A branch of this company is descended from the industrial glassmaker Boussois-Souchon-Neuvesel (BSN), which was founded by the family of Antoine Riboud. After a failed attempted takeover battle for its larger rival Saint-Gobain, Riboud transformed it into one of Europe's leading groups in the 1970s through a series of acquisitions and mergers. Which co are we talking about?
Groupe Danone

In 2005, he featured in a Chrysler Advertisment with the legendary Auto Industry veteran Lee Iacocca, wherein he gave his own version of Iacocca's famous pitchline, "If you can find a better car, buy it." as " If the ride is more fly, then you must buy " Later Iacocca confessed - " I didn't understand half the things he was telling me, but it was fun." Name this person behind the clothing line " Rich & Infamous "
Snoop Dogg

In 1907 there was a great need in America for private messenger and delivery services. To helpmeet this need, an enterprising 19-year-old, borrowed $100 from a friend and established a company. James E. (“Jim”) Casey borrowed $100 from a friend and established the X in Seattle, Washington. This is currently known to us as UPS.
American Messenger Company

In many ways, the entire business of brand building in India started with Xs first ad for West end Watches.
X also advertised the now defunct gripe water brand, Ramthirth Brahmi Oil, the first indian color ad.
Identify X
Dattaraman n Co.

The Harmsworth brothers (John, Alfred & Harold) founded 3 newspapers : the Glasgow daily record, the Daily Mail, and the Daily Mirror (which was the first newspaper exclusively for women).However ,they are remembered in the world of beverages thanks to an exercise regimen using an Indian device which they popularized in Britain(by extensive advertorials in their newspapers) .What everlasting
contribution to design did they bring about?
The Perrier Bottle design was based on the Indian Clubs used by the
Harmsworth brothers for their exercise regimen

X was founded in 1897 and has been published daily ever since. X, a newyork magazine is printed in tabloid format.
Jameson, who began his journalistic career as a reporter for X while still in high school, is the editor-in-chief. Jameson purchased the then-floundering company with inheritance funds, from his recently deceased father-in-law and turned the paper into a popular success.
Identify X.
Daily Bugle, of Spiderman fame!