The Business Standard Quiz Book by Gaurav Srikrishna

Author:Gaurav Srikrishna
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

In 1894 a successful businessman and his wife from Wardha, while on a visit to their village in North India, spotted a spirited young boy whom they subsequently adopted. The businessman urged the boy’s parents to accept some compensation. They asked for a well to be dug in their village. This well exists even today and the adopted boy founded one of India’s biggest business empires. Name him.

He was only 23 when he was offered the Chair of Agriculture in the University of Athens by the government of Greece. He declined the offer and went on to enlist in the Northern Army during the American Civil War in 1861. He came to Bombay (as it was then known) and during his stint in the city urged Indians to use goods manufactured at home. He inspired the first exhibition of Indian made products. Name the person, the organisation he founded and the movement that he kindled in India.

Before Indian Independence, on which magazine’s cover did the following feature: MK Gandhi, Nizam of Hyderabad, Netaji Subhaschandra Bose, Jawaharlal Nehru, Muhammed Ali Jinnah and Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel?

This person came up with clever packaging for an MNC brand in the mid-1960s, which helped stack up the product and prevent damage. This inspired a burst of innovation in supermarket product packaging. When he died at the age of 89, his family stopped at Walgreen’s and picked up a unit of the same brand on their way to the funeral home. Identify the person and explain his family’s action on the day of his funeral.

With which person are the Pillsbury’s Poppin Fresh Doughboy and the Green Lantern character from DC comics connected?

The first practical fountain pen is credited to Lewis Edson Waterman a 45-year-old American, who invented it in 1884. The story goes that he was getting ready to sign a vital contract on a building site, his pen refused to write and then it made an ink blot on the important paperwork. What was Waterman’s profession?

He is a successful dot com entrepreneur who sold out because he wanted to create a low-cost Mars mission. He now runs a company that is looking to build a transport system that is fully and rapidly reusable for space travel. Name him and the companies.

A French entrepreneur named Emile Morreau secured a contract with the Government of India in 1879 to purvey books to travelers at the growing railway network of British India. Along with an Indian partner he set up book stalls that were named after a British colleague who then owned city book stores in London. What was his name?

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