Business (Corporate) Quiz - 8

1. Eureka Forbes is part of which group of companies?
[A]Tata Group
[B]Reliance
[C]Shapoorji Pallonji Group
[D]Kanoria Group


2. Which is the most expensive domain name to be auctioned on the net till date?
[A]my.com
[B]microsoft.com
[C]google.com
[D]business.com


3. Which company bought Macromedia for $ 4 Billion?
[A]Microsoft
[B]Adobe
[C]Oracle
[D]IBM


4. Corporated Incorporated' and 'Limited Unlimited' were names considered but not adopted. What was finally adopted?
[A]Microsoft
[B]Adobe
[C]Oracle
[D]IBM


5. Which online matrimony site was founded by J. Murugavel, who himself found his wife through the Internet?
[A]Shaadi.com
[B]Jeevansaathi.com
[C]Bharatmatrimony.com
[D]Matrimony.com


6. The term "Big Blue" is associated to which company?
[A]Microsoft
[B]Adobe
[C]Oracle
[D]IBM


7. Which company introduced the concept of Six Sigma?
[A]IBM
[B]GE
[C]Motorola
[D]Intel


8. This guy is one of the largest shareholder of HP. He challenged HP - Compaq merger in court but he lost the case. Whom we are talking about?
[A]Walter Hewlett
[B]Bill Hewlett
[C]Bill Packard
[D]Larry Ellision


9. What was Accenture previously known as?
[A]Accenture
[B]Arthur Consulting
[C]PWC
[D]Andersen Consulting


10. India has domain names ending with .in, similarly Switzerland has domain name ending with .ch . What does ch stands for?
[A]Confoederatio Helvetica
[B]Czech Helvetica
[C]Confoederatio Helvetii
[D]Czech Helvetti


11. Who invented E-mail?
[A]Sabeer Bhatia
[B]Roy Tomlinson
[C]J. C. R. Licklider
[D]Ivan Sutherland


12. Which famous software personality once admitted on the David Letterman show in the US that he modified his school time-table program so that all girls would be in his class at any given time?
[A]Larry Page
[B]Bill Gates
[C]Larry Ellision
[D]Dennis Ritchie


13. Which company developed "Bluetooth" technology?
[A]Motorola
[B]ST Microelectronics
[C]Sony
[D]Ericsson


14. This vodka brand ‘A’ is produced in a Swedish city, named Ahus. It has been sold to a French company which is also an owner of another famous alcoholic brand ‘B’ – Name A and B.
[A]Absolut and Seagram
[B]Absolut and Smirnoff
[C]Seagram and Smirnoff
[D]Vat69 and Seagram


15. Which Internet term originally meant "harmless, creative fun"?
[A]Hacking
[B]Spying
[C]Chatting
[D]Whamming