Biz Quizzard 289

Presenting the current affairs quiz for the week October 05 - 10. Hope you enjoy it.

1. Actors Swapnil Joshi and Gaurav Gera have been signed on for the new campaign of which biscuit brand?

2. Which automobile MNC last week announced plans to licence its brand in the country as part of an image building exercise?

3. Which company has acquired an 80% stake in Ismart-Timex, a leading BPO services provider in Sri Lanka, for an undisclosed sum?

4. Which beverage chain last week unveiled its revamped identity and logo?

5. Bajaj Auto last week launched the world’s largest selling 250cc motorcycle in India. Name the brand?

6. Which celebrity has been signed on as a brand ambassador by Kolkata-based La Opala RG for its premium tableware brand Diva?

7. Nikos Kordaris was last week appointed acting CEO of which airline in India?

8. Which automobile company is all set to roll out Rio, the country’s cheapest SUV?

9. Who has topped the Football Rich List 2009-10, the list of wealthiest football club owners, as ranked by football magazine Fourfourtwo.com?

10. The Brazilian unit of Spanish bank Banco Santander last week raised $8.05 billion through its IPO. What is unique about this IPO with reference to 2009?

11. Which steel company last week launched its first hypermarket in Bangalore?

12. Private equity firm KKR & Co last week appointed which well known business personality as senior adviser?

13. Hrithik Roshan last week appeared in the print ad of which fashion brand with the positioning ‘BE THE CHANGE’?

14. Which company last week launched the first store of its retail chain “Maya’ in New Delhi?

15. One of my favorite models, the beautiful Sheetal Malhar, in a sari, drenched in rain. No, not a fantasy of mine but a TV commercial (currently on air) for a men’s deodorant brand. Which one?

Please mail your answers on or before next Sunday to rajeevkondapalli@gmail.com with Biz Quizzard 289 as the subject.

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