Subject Specialty Round at the Corporate Quiz---Something Corporate-6th October 2007

Man,Management and Markets

1. Who was boen on November 19,1909—the son of a civil servant in the Hapsburg empire,his first book was Friedrich Julius Stahl:Konservate Staatslehre und geschichliche Enturcklung (1932).He is credited to be one of the few who predicted the German-Soviet Pact of 1939.Who?
2. Darwin’s theory of natural selection is highly influenced by one specific theory.What and by who?
3. Born in 1942…his best book is In search of Excellence..Who?
4. Connect with one word----Adam Sandler,Eminem,to handle a horse
5. Which city has the world's oldest stock exchange?
   

Fockorate(Fictional Corporates)

1. Educated at Cambridge,she is 37 single an archaeologist and author of many travel books---net worth around 1 billion dollars.who?
2. Aged 51,estimated worth 1.3 billion dollars-marreid and living in Wiltshire,England..he has been a member of the Forbes list since 2005.Who?
3. With a net worth of 2 billion dollars,his source of wealth is from Candy and Aerospace.Living in Kent,England at the Academie d’Art Cullinaire,Le Cordon Bleu,paris.Who?
4. Sitter…6.8 billion dollars aged 32 single and living Gotham City,USA
5. Where would you find Viadoxic Pharmaceutical?

Company Histories

1. In 1876, ohio-born Thomas Alva Edison opened a new laboratory in Menlo Park,New Jersey.Out of the lab came the famous practical incandescent electric lamp.By 1890,Edison organized his Businesses into what company?
2. What was established in 1972,when Kinney National Company spun off its non-entertainment assets,due to a financial scandal.Among others,it has also held a majority stake in garden State National Park and Six Flags Theme Parks.
3. Founded in 1 March 1995 and headquartered at 701,First Avenue Sunnyvale California.Revenue---6.7 billion dollars.Which company?
4. Founded in Omaha in 1985 by Kenneth lay…Its slogan is Ask Why? And NYSE ticker is ENE.Which company?
5. Founded in 1989 in Moscow Russia.Its parent is the Russian Govt.Net income is 24.63 billion dollars and market capital wise the world’s 3^rd largest corporatation.Which one?

Corporate India

1. Founded in 1945,it started Toilet Soap manufacturing in 1985 and began the Six Sigma initiative in 2000.Identify.
2. Indian company incorporated in 1961 with 1100+ employees involved in R and D…Identify this Indian company headquartered in Gurgaon,Haryana.
3. Born in Ludhiana on June 15,1950…he started his first business in 1976 at the age of 26 with a capital investment of Rs.20,000 borrowed from his father.His first business was to make crankshafts for local bicycle manufacturers.Who?
4. Connect-----The World is Flat,Hero stone of Western Ganga Dynasty,Narayana Murthy
5. Singapore exchange acquired a strategic investment in what for 42.7 million dollars .

Terms and Definitions

1. What is a mutual fund that invests only in socially conscious companies or those that directly promote environmental responsibility
2. Who are scarlet collar workers?
3. Why are Blue Chip stocks named so?
4. In the 1903 story by HG Wells---Twelve stories and a Dream he says…”You waste your education in burglary.You should do one of these two things.Forge or what? It means to steal or misappropriate from one’s employer.
5. “The art of getting things done through people”...by Margaret Fuller..What term?

Mixed Bag

1. MBO is a process of agreeing upon objectives so that management and employees agree to the objectives and understand what they are…coined in 1954 in the book…Practice of Management
2. Connect---Shahid Kapoor,Ayesha Takia and World War 2.
3. This publishing house founder x chose this symbol Y for his company because Y had an “air of dignified flippancy” and was easy to draw in black and white.Name X and Y.
4. The word is a trademarked brand owned by a German company Bayer Ag.Only Bayer may legally use the word everywhere in the world with the USA being a lone exception.What?
5. What are urban agglomerations?

The main rounds which were much more interesting and are nearly all workable connects will be posted in due course

Happy Quizzing
Roshan