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Ans. Oprah Gail Winfrey

Name the co-author of this book?
Ans. C.K. Prahalad
GT, Agila, Antara, Insignia and Ampera are key
brands of which company?
Ans. Opel
Victor Gruen designed the first of these in 1956,
impelled by his hatred of cars and his hatred of
American suburbs. The structure that he put up
at Edina in Minneapolis was envisioned as an
air-conditioned centre where community would
be possible. This structure is still in use. What
did Gruen thus create?
Ans. Shopping Mall
Common practice in middle-management is to
impose unreasonable work demands on
subordinates. Upon completion of the task(s) in
question, equal or higher work demands are
then imposed; moreover, no credit, or overt
appreciation is demonstrated by way of
recognition. The name for this sort of treatment
is the ______Syndrome, an analogical reference
to the role of the King in the story of ______
Ans. Rumpeltiltskin
What variation on a six-letter word resulted
because Silicon Valley engineer Tim Beauchamp
refused in 1997 to relinquish the domain that he
was using as a site for math and astronomy?
Ans. Google.com
This management cliché is derived from a term
used in military strategy for a general who takes
his men into the attack. It was also used as the title
of cricketer Mike Gatting’s autobiography. What
four-word term?
Ans. Leading From The Front
______ is a group creativity technique designed
to generate a large number of ideas for the
solution to a problem. The method was first
popularized by Alex Faickney Osborn, in the
late 1930s, an advertising executive and one of
the founders of the agency BBDO, in a book
called Applied Imagination. Fill the blank.
Ans. Brainstorming
He is credited with having kick-started a revolution
in the FMCG sector in India. Identify him and the
revolutionary idea he came up with to market a
product named after his father Chinni Krishna?
Ans. C.K. Ranganathan and the Rs.1/-
per sachet for Chik Shampoo.
Identify this person who was recently in the news?
Ans. Homai Vyarawala (Tata Nano’s first
owner and India’s first woman
photojournalist.
In 1981, as Washington correspondent for an Indian
newspaper, he scooped the story of India taking a
$5 billion loan from the IMF under strict
conditions. Which present-day media bigwig and
newspaper editor broke into the limelight thus?
Ans. N. Ram
What began in October 2005 with a posting titled
Me at the Zoo by someone identified only as
Jawed?
Ans. Youtube.com
Explain the term ‘Sandwich Generation’?
Ans. Middle-aged individuals who are
pressurized to support both ageing parents
as well as growing children.
“Live the moment” is the tagline of?
Ans. Maruti Suzuki Ritz
India we use this word without the prefix motor. In
other countries it is also known as a child's toy or a
flat-bottomed sail boat.
In India we use this word without the prefix motor. In other countries it is also known as
a child's toy or a flat-bottomed sail boat - SCOOTER.
Ans. Scooter
Ans. Paris Hilton Stock Index
The key which is depicted on the logo entitles the

holder of ‘X’ to be welcome to the City of Bremen.
There is a folk lore joke that says this design is
interpreted as “Hamburg is the gate to the world –
but only Bremen has the key to it.” What is ‘X’?
Ans. Beck’s (Beer)
Name the famous concept pioneered by Rosser
Reeves in his book ‘Reality in Advertising’?
Ans. USP (Unique Selling
Proposition)
The complete title of Mike Wilson’s new biography
of X refers to a joke about him which went thus:
“Question: What is the Difference between God
and X? Answer: God doesn’t think He’s X”. Who is
X?
Ans. Larry Ellison (Co-founder of
Oracle Corporation)
Identify this personality?
Ans. Jack Dorsey (Creator of
Twitter)
Which company founded in 1923 by the brothers
Henry and Helal Hassenfeld uses a stylized smile
in its logo to indicate the fact that their business
is fun?
Ans. Hasbro (from Hassenfeld
brothers)
The ‘fixing’ started on 12 September 1919 and
takes place twice daily. These days, the
proceedings take place by phone and the five
participants are Scotia-Mocatta, Barclays Capital,
Deutsche Bank, HSBC and Societe Generale. The
chair always ends the meeting with the phrase
“There are no flags, and we’re fixed”. What is
being ‘fixed’?
Ans. (Price of) Gold
Connect a fruit, a rabbit in the Richard Adams novel
Watership Down, and a yuppie gadget?
Ans. Blackberry
This portal founded by New Delhi based sisters
Megha Singhal and Aditi Gupta with the tagline
“for the large hearted” offers unique matrimonial
services. Name the website?
Ans. OverweightShaadi.com
FieldFresh Foods Pvt. Ltd. is a joint venture
between Del Monte Pacific Ltd. and which Indian
company?
Ans. Bharti Enterprises
Nakshatra, Lucera, D’damas, Sangini, Asmi and Gili
are all jewellery brands of which company?
Ans. Gitanjali Group
Shri Kapilram Vakil set up Okhamandal Salt Works
in 1927. Tatas took over this company and thus
______ was born?
Ans. Tata Chemicals
This was an ad created by BBH in 1982. The line at
the bottom of the poster has been the BBH
philosophy ever since. Which company was this
poster made for?
Ans. Levi’s (for introducing black
denim)
What is a surge in the price of stocks that occurs in
the week between Christmas Day and New Year’s
Day called?
Ans. Santa Claus Rally
This Japanese city noted in 2006 that a certain
person had become very well known and decided
to use their common name for publicity. It sent
that person a set of the city’s famous lacquer
chopsticks, a DVD about the city and a letter
wishing him the best. As the person became even
more popular in early 2008, it began to organize
parties, posters and T-shirts in support. Name the
town.
Ans. Obama
Which company was created by the 1996 merger of
Ciba-Geigy and Sandoz Laboratories, both Swiss
pharmaceutical companies with long histories, and
is headquartered in Basel, Switzerland?
Ans. Novartis
Originally, the mark was referred to as ‘the strip’
but was later changed to its present name to
describe the fibers used. The logo and name were
originally in white, overlapping with each other. In
the early 1980s they alternated between name and
logo in white with name above and a red box
above logo. They no longer carry the name, just the
logo. What?
Ans. The Nike Swoosh
This confectionary company was founded in
Chittoor by B. Ventakatarama Reddy in 1952. It
grew to be a household name, partly on account of
its mascot, a Bugs-Bunny-look alike. This company
was acquired by Godrej Foods and Beverages Ltd in
2006. Identify the company.
Ans. Nutrine
Amazon, Nordstrom, Starbucks, Washington
Mutual and Safeco Corporation are five major
companies that are headquartered in this city. It is
also famous for being the birthplace of grunge
music. Identify.
Ans. Seattle
A market theory that suggests that when a
company reveals bad news to the public, there
may be more related negative events that are yet
to be revealed.
Ans. Cockroach Theory
Identify this management guru.
Ans. Tom Peters
It was Abram Games who created this company’s
first identity, also known as Bat’s wings. Name the
company.
Ans. BBC

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