The BT Business Quiz-XII

The BT Business Quiz-XII

There's more to business than meets the eye. Strange facts, unsung heroes, and stunning nuggets of trivia. If you know who started managing the Western India Vegetable Oil Mills when he was just 22 years old (Wipro's Azim Premji), or who designed Jet Airways' new uniforms (Ravi Bajaj), 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 December 22, 1999, will win a Canon Personal Organiser each.

1. What brandname did the Maharashtrian entrepreneur, Kaka Dandekar, coin after seeing an American cigarette ad in 1930?

Onida Dabur

Camlin Parachute

2. Which corporation is responsible for counting the votes cast by the members of the US Motion Picture Academy for the Oscars every year?

Arthur Andersen PricewaterhouseCoopers

Gallup Microsoft

3. Which film-maker, along with Mani Ratnam and Shekhar Kapur, set up the production-house, India Talkies, in 1998?

Ram Gopal Varma Saeed Mirza

Karan Johar Mansoor Hussain

4. In 1971, which company sold more than 1 million records of a song version of its ad jingle, I'd Like To Teach The World To Sing, recorded by The New Seekers?

General Electric Panasonic

Coca-Cola Philips

5. With which Indian company did Oracle Corporation tie up to promote its information solution products in urban markets this year?

Amul BPL

Godrej & Boyce HCL

6. Every Street Paved With Gold is the autobiography of the founding chairman of which transnational corporation?

Sony's Akio Morita Daewoo's Kim Woo Chang

Ford's Henry Ford WalMart's Sam Walton

7. Open Minds is an educational initiative launched in South Asia in 1998 by UNICEF in association with which company?

Hindustan Lever NIIT

Infosys Proctor & Gamble India

8. What was designed by Jaques Heim and originally called the Atome?

The microowan over The bikini

The scuba The electric shaver

9. E-Ventures is a transnational venture capital firm, one of whose promoters is Japan's Softbank. Which is the other?

Sony NewsCorp

Time Warner Zee

10. What, according to its founder, must be exactly 3.875 inches long and weigh precisely 1.6 ounces?

The Swatch watch McDonald's ;McBurger

Parker's Mont Blanc pen Mattel's GI Joe model

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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THE WINNERS
BT BUSINESS -- VIII

Shikha Dutt
HCL Perot Systems, B-26, Sector 57, NOIDA-201301

Sachin Kapoor
Isfaian Business School, Plot No. 53, Nagarjuna Hills, Hyderabad-500082

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