Biz Quizzard 292

Presenting the current affairs quiz for the week October 26 - 31. Hope you enjoy it.

1. Which retail chain has gained the exclusive rights from Vodafone to manufacture and retail official Zoozoo merchandise?

2. According to a news item last week, which luxury goods company is offering a limited edition fountain pen, adorned with pleated horse hair and starting at $3,500?

3. KR Kamath was last week appointed chairman and managing director of which bank?

4. Global women’s hair accessories brand Alexandre De Paris has tied up with which Chennai-based business house for its planned foray into India?

5. Which company last week unveiled Gio, a new light commercial vehicle?

6. Which FMCG conglomerate has, according to a report last week, quietly acquired the business of one of the country’s earliest homeopathy companies, M Bhattacharya & Co Private Ltd?

7. Which advertising medium turned 15 years on October 28?

8. Which MNC last week launched three new advanced mobile handsets – Satio, Aino and Yari?

9. Which MNC last week unveiled the ‘Thinspiration’ range of notebooks in the country?

10. Mr Subir Gokarn was last week appointed the deputy governor of RBI. He is currently the chief economist (Asia Pacific) of which global rating agency?

11. Which company last week launched Actimind, a new milk-based health drink for children?

12. The much talked about television commercial, in which AbhiAsh (Abhishek Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, for the uninitiated) appear together for the first time, is finally on air. Name the brand?

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Biz Quizzard 291

Presenting the current affairs quiz for the week October 19 - 24. Hope you enjoy it.

1. Which is the only Indian company to be named amongst the top 25 global companies in the 25 A T Kearney Global Champions For 2009 list?

2. The country’s longest elevated expressway (flyover in simpler language) was opened to public last week. Which city?

3. Which MNC last week said it was acquiring US-based staffing firm MPS Group for $1.3 billion?

4. Which automobile company last week bought the remaining stake of 79% in Hispano Carrocera SA, Spain’s largest bus and coach bodies manufacturer, for an undisclosed sum?

5. Mr Ranjan Das died of a heart attack in Mumbai last week. He was the managing director of which software MNC?

6. Lakme Lever, the beauty and wellness services business of the country’s biggest consumer goods company, will be launching a top-end variant of Lakme Salon. What will it be branded as?

7. Infosys founder NR Narayana Murthy last week sold shares worth Rs 174 crore in the company to start a venture capital (VC) fund. What is it called?

8. Why was US-based Raj Rajaratnam in news last week?

9. Security solutions firm G4S last week said it had acquired the project security systems division of which company for an undisclosed sum?

10. Model-turned-actress Chitrangada Singh can be seen in the television commercial (currently on air) for which skincare brand? (name both the brand and the variant)

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Biz Quizzard 290

Presenting the current affairs quiz for the week October 12 - 17. Hope you enjoy it.

1. General Motors last week launched its luxury sedan in the country. What has it been branded as?

2. Which brand last week unveiled its first high-end store ‘Dive in’ in Hyderabad?

3. Who has been appointed the president of the Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India (Assocham)?

4. Which MNC last week said it had agreed to pay $2.9 billion for Starent Networks Corp., a maker of equipment for wireless carriers?

5. Which company has agreed to buy the 80-year-old American magazine BusinessWeek?

6. Tata Motors last week launched its new generation sedan. What has it been branded as?

7. Which software company last week entered into a definitive agreement to buy Chennai-based Laser Soft Infosystems, a privately-held banking software company?

8. Which MNC has pipped a host of companies, including India’s Bharti Airtel and BSNL, to buy Luxembourg-based Millicom’s Sri Lankan mobile network?

9. OP Puranmalka has been named the new CEO of which cement company effective April next year?

10. Which company has launched a new brand campaign based on the concept of ‘joy of ownership’?

11. The new avatar of which brand was unveiled recently including new packaging and a new logo, which features a red 'eye' that the company refers to as the 'Eye of Good Health'?

12. Model Dipannita Sharma has been roped in to feature in the television commercial (currently on air) of which brand with the baseline ‘doobo taazgi mein’?

Please mail your answers on or before next Sunday to rajeevkondapalli@gmail.com with Biz Quizzard 290 as the subject.

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