One Biz Question a day Vol 1.5

A very easy one :

This company was the first to start the Frequent Flyer program. Which company?

One Biz Question a Day Vol 1.4

This series is slowly turning towards one biz question a week. will try to be a bit more regular.. going forward.

The name of this brand owned by Swire group is derived from the Medieval name of China. This company was registered at the cost of HK$2 by two men named Roy Farrel and Sydney de Kantzow. Which company?

The answer is Cathay Pacific -- Karan got it right..

One Biz Question a Day Vol 1.3

The Seminoles are a group of Native American people originally of Florida and now residing in Florida and Oklahoma. The Seminoles never surrendered to the US Government and thus call themselves the "Unconquered People". They have developed an economy largely based on sales of duty-free tobacco, tourism and gambling. They are however much better known as the owners of some other franchise – Which franchise?

Hard Rock Cafe - Franchise. 

Swaminathan Dixit, Jaldi Quizzer, Chandy and Asad Adam got it right.

One Biz Question a Day Vol 1.2

In 1998 this company's founder offered to include his invention in Kodak Cameras. Still a fledging company, Kodak offered to fund the development of the product under the consideration that the new company would provide three years exclusive contract. The founder refused the offer and is now an industry leader in the line of products that it offered Kodak. Which company and who is the founder?

The company is Sandisk -- Flash card makers. The founder was Eli Harari.

No one cracked it. 

One Biz Questions a Day Vol 1.1

After multiple sabbaticals , I am back with another attempt at a series of quizzes. Will be posting a Biz q everyday -- Answers the next day. The comments would be moderated -- So you can go ahead and guess to your heart;s content.

First question to kick off the series.

“Work, Rest And Play" was a famous slogan of which brand?

and the answer is Mars..

Chandy was the only one to crack it.

2 Questions a Day v1.2

Introduced in 1979 by Thomas C Hanks and Hiroo Kanamori as a successor to the Richter scale , this scale is used by seismologists to compare the energy released by earthquakes. What is this scale?

Moment Magnitude Scale.

Red Army troops adopted the nickname from Mikhail Isakovsky's popular wartime song, about a girl longing for her absent beloved, who is away performing military service.[2] It is the Russian equivalent of "Katie", an endearing diminutive form of the name Katherine Viktor Suvorov states in his book "Inside the Soviet Army" that the rocket launcher got the name because the soldiers didn't know its real name as it was secret, so they nicknamed her after a small K letter inscribed on the vehicles. The K actually stands for Kominform factory in Voronezh. German troops coined the sobriquet Stalin organ (German: Stalinorgel), after Soviet leader Joseph Stalin and also alluding to the sound of the weapon's rockets.What is the name?(source Wiki)

Katyusha -- The rocket that was fired at the Israeli City of Ashqelon by the Popular Front of the Liberation of Palastine recently

Two a day - 1.1

1.Known as the road to Mandalay during Colonial times , it is believed to get its name from the sanskrit Name Iravati or from her son Airavata - the elephant mount of Indra.Whatizzit?


Ayeyarwady River -- recently in news because of the devastating effect caused by the river's storm surge during Cyclone Nargis.

2.HP spun off a small company named Dynec - which specialized in digital equipment. Dynec was then renamed Dymec and was again folded back into HP. But what was the reason for pickying Dynec as the name of the company?

HP could use the same logo for Dynec by just turning it around. This would ensure that they didn't spendon creating a new brand etc.

A Noble Operation

What was the name of the operation in which two Indian Navy ships and two Indian Air force aircraft supplied relief material to Myanmar after Cyclone Nargis?

Operation Sahayata

Chinese mountainous province?

The present name of the province is an abbreviation of the Chinese word for 'Four Circuits of rivers' which is also abbreviated from Chuānxiá Sìlù - meaning Four circuits of rivers and gorges.


Sichuan -- The province in which the earthquake hit recently

What is the product?

Which open source software product gets is name from the English spelling of the Swahili word that means ' all together' or 'as a whole'?

Joomla -- This is an open source Content Management system and is a result of a fork from the company Mambo