The BT Business Quiz-VIII

The BT Business Quiz-VIII

There's more to business than meets the eye. Strange facts, unsung heroes, and stunning nuggets of trivia. If you can name the typeface used in Mobil's logo (Mobil), or the browser co-developed by Netscape's Marc Andreesen while he was still a student at Stanford U (Mosaic), here's your chance. BUSINESS TODAY presents a series of prize quizzes on business, business events, and business people. And the first 2 all-correct responses, received before October 22, 1999, will win a Canon Personal Organiser each.

1. Which company pioneered the concept of MBWA (Managing By Walking Around)?

General Motors Chrysler

Hewlett-Packard 3M

2. What does the letter 'T' in the late Gulshan Kumar's music label, T-Series, stand for?

Tulsi Truth

Taal Trishul

3. Which car was named after one of the founders of Detroit?

Cadillac Chrysler

Edsel Pontiac

4. Which Indian film-maker has a media production company called SIC (Stability Is a Curse)?

Shyam Benegal Nagesh Kukooner

Dev Benegal Shekhar Kapur

5. The name of which company, set up in 1918, is derived from the Japanese for 'under a pine tree?'

Sony Matsushita

Toshiba Suzuki

6. Which company offered Fidel Castro a job as the head of their advertising department in the early 1990s?

Benetton Raytheon

PepsiCo Virgin

7. Which is the first beer to be marketed in India with a temperature-sensitive tag that shows when the bottle is properly chilled?

Haywards 5000 Dansberg

Sand Piper Royal Challenge

8. Which company devised the first mouse for a computer in 1960?

Bell IBM

Xerox AT&T

9. Beyond Boundaries is the authorised biography of which Indian business magnate?

Swraj Paul Laxmi N. Mittal

M.S. Oberoi Aditya V. Birla

10. Which company coined the term, Imagineers, for its creative people?

Apple Computer NASA

Disney Corporation Dreamwork Films

RULES & REGULATIONS

This contest is open to all Indian citizens except employees (and their relatives) of Living Media India Ltd and World Media Ltd.

BUSINESS TODAY will not be responsible for any postal delays, losses in transit, or mutilation of entry-forms. All entries will be treated as the property of BUSINESS TODAY.

BUSINESS TODAY reserves the right to terminate or extend the contest at any time, or to accept or reject entries at its absolute discretion without assigning any reason.

The Canon Personal Organisers will be sent to the winners, who will be individually intimated, through registered post or courier.

The jurisdiction regarding this contest will rest exclusively with the competent authorities and forums of Delhi / New Delhi only.

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