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Tuesday, October 24, 2006

Biz Quiz 251006


1. Which brand gets its name from the combination of the Latin for “to change” and the Greek for “taking the form of”?

2. Opening lines from which business bestseller in recent times?

“A One Time Accordion Player, stilt-walker, and fire eater, Guy Laliberté is now CEO of Cirque du Soleil, one of Canada’s largest cultural exports. Created in 1984 by a group of street performers, Cirque’s productions have been seen by almost forty million people in ninety cities around the world. In less than twenty years Cirque du Soleil has achieved a level of revenues that took Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey—the global champion of the circus industry—more than one hundred years to attain.”

3. ConAgra Foods' Microwave Popcorn is sold in more than 130 countries across the world. It is marketed under two brand names. One of the brand names is Orville Redenbacher. Name the other.

4. Who played a village girl in the award-winning movie Massey Sahib, and wrote the screenplays for “In Which Annie Gives it Those Ones” and “Electric Moon.” She also wrote the screenplay a TV serial called `The Banyan Tree.' Today, the person is more popular in another line.

5. “I would have been fired a hundred times at a company run by MBAs. But I never went into business to make money. I went into business so that I could do interesting things that hadn’t been done before.” Whose words?


6. Identify the logo


7. Identify the advertiser


8. Who is this new age marketing genius?


9. On what occasion did the home page of Google sport this doodle?