Tata Group

Tanishq has launched the Jodha Akbar Series.

Maharaja is the mascot of Air India, founded by J.R.D Tata

Girish Wagh is the man behind much talked about Tata Nano.

8 O’ Clock Coffee has been acquired by Tata Group in 2006.

Walt Disney

Baby Einstein is a line of multimedia and toys from Walt Disney, which puts Einstein in the top 5 of most earning dead celebrities, according to Forbes.

Roadside Romeo is the first animated Indian movie by Disney.

Steve Jobs is the largest individual shareholder and a member of its Board of Directors.

Art Attack was originally one of iTV's longest running programmes, running from 1989 until 1997. In 1998, The series began airing on the Disney Channel

Ebay

eBay was founded to help Omidyar's fiancée trade PEZ Candy dispensers.

Skype was acquired by eBay in September 2005.

Through Mission Fish, eBay users are able to donate to registered nonprofit organisations when they buy and sell through eBay.com.

Pierre Omidyar is the founder of eBay.

Ebay Song is a parody of this Backstreet Boys’ Song.

Future Group

The Movie Na Tum Janoo Na Hum is from PFH Entertainment.

UK-based Lee Cooper is a joint venture partner of Pantaloon Group.

Dhoni is the Brand Ambassador of Big Bazaar.

Cadburys products were boycotted by Future Group but later the boycott was called off.  

CONNECT QUESTIONS AT BQ

Connect the pixs below:

Another Clue: Song Jashn Bahara

2) Connect : Song: Romeo Romeo (From Roadside Romeo)

3)Song : U r my fire - my one desire

4) Song : Dil leke Jaan Leke

Answers to BQ Prelims:

1. Cunard
2.  Lalbhai Group
3. Philip Kotler
4. Ad-valorem
5. Zune
6. It was printed on white paper to celebrate 100 years “in the pink”.
7.  ARCHIE’S (THE PRODUCT WAS GREETING CARDS)
8.  BLUE DART
9.  Mastercard logo
10.  Rolls Royce
11.  Byte an apple 
12. Centurion bank
13. Nokia
14. British Petroleum
15. Binaca
16. Financial services security
17. Larry Ewing
18. Vietnam
19. Bunge
20. Japan
21. Swap or currency swap
22.  Tarini vaidya of kbc bank India and South Asia
23. Saffron  
24. Google
25. Aditya Birla group

Prelims BQ (Part 2)

1. The Carpathia, the ship that took most of the survivors of the Titanic, belonged to which shipping line? 
2. Arvind mills, one of the foremost producers of denim & jeans- the world is the flagship company of which group?
   
3. Which marketting expert said that, "Marketting takes a day to learn, but unfortunately it takes a lifetime to master" ?
   
4. Which latin term is used to refer to duties that are levied oncommodities/products as a certain percentage of their price, these are different from specific excise duties that are levied on products?
   
5. If Apple=iPod, then Microsoft=?
   
6. The Financial Times turned 100 years old on 4th Jan 1993. How did it celebrate this occasion?
   
7. This company was founded in 1979 by a Delhi based entrepreneur who named his company after his neighbour's dog. He started out by selling song books, posters and leather patches, before hitting big with another product. Which company?
   
8. Which leading Indian brand was founded by three young entrepreneurs, Clyde Cooper, Tushar Jani and Khushroo Dubash.?
   
9. Where do you find 2 interlocking circles with 23 horizontal bars and italic, sans- serif  type face font
   
10. Osho Rajneesh holds the Gusiness world record for owning the most number of a single brand of a luxurious car . Name that brand.
    
11. Which was the first tagline of Apple
12. Which bank is promoted by 20^th Century Finance Corporation and Keppel Tatlee Bank of Singapore in India?
13. Identify the company started by Finnish engineer Frederick  Idestam as a wood pulp mill and paper manufactured company and then changed itself to a telecom major
14. In the European Union, which British company was granted the exclusive right to use green on signs for petrol stations?
15. This was one of the iconic brand, they were first to offer plastic toy animal as a collectible item for kids. Later due to an overseas takeover its name was changed. Name the brand with its old name.
16. Name the stock market regulator in United Kingdom
17. Name the person who first drew the Linux penguin.
18. Which is the only country having paper currency and have no coins and it introduced cheque only in 1997?
19. Which company owns the edible oil brand dalda
20. Name the country that recently launched a new high speed internet satellite named Kizma designed to provide super high speed data transmission in South east Asia
21. What is the exchange rate of one currency for another over a fixed period of time called?
22. Name the first Indian woman CEO of a foreign bank.
23. Which is the world’s most expensive spice by weight.    
24. Which website would you reach if  you  key in the url:http://216.239.51.100 
25. Which Indian business group runs an institute of management named Gyanodaya Learning Centre?

Answers to BQ Prelims

The response to the first part of the prelims wasn't good. The hits to the blog was good- with more than 100 hits, I hoped for a better response. The answers are posted below. Hoping for a better response in the second half.........

1.       Tetra pak

2.       Tata Steel

3.       Motorola

4.       Passat

5.       Puma

6.       Café coffee day

7.       Viacom

8.       Barclays global investors

9.       Mates condoms

10.  Henry ford

11.  The Wadia Group

12.  Colombia Pictures

13.  Walmart

14.  Gillette

15.  Bharat Forge

16.  ITC

17.  Wipro

18.  Eicher

19.  Bombay Stock Exchange

20.  Glaxo Smith Kline

21.  Amrtya sen

22.  Bosch

23.  Mindtree Consulting

24.  Frequent flyer programme

25.  Nike