Corporate Quiz 3 : Business Tycoon

Corporate Quiz 3 : Business Tycoon

1. Which famous personality founded the first American insurance company Philadelphia Contributionship in the year 1752 who also played an imporatnt role in the Declaration of Independence (1776) and drafting the American Constitution (1787)?

2.      Ruben Rausing invented the 'tetrahedron-shaped' cardboard carton for holding liquids in the year 1952. Identify the famous company run by Rausing family? 

3.      He invented the 'Swatch' watch and convert the traditional functional role of watches into a fashion accessory in 1979. Identify him.

4.      Identify the company started by Finnish engineer Fredrik Idestam as a wood pulp mill and paper manufacturing company and then changed itself to a telecom major? 

5.      Name the First woman president of a stock exchange in India? 

6.      In Food & Beverages industry who invented the Frozen Foods and launched it in 1930?

7.      Emile Jellinek is a part-time salesman who worked for Daimler. He was a keen racing driver and agreed to order 36 cars from Daimler if they were named after his daughter. A famous brand was born then. Identify it. 

8.      William Owen admired Francis Barrauds' 1889 painting of his brother's fox terrier dog and paid him to redo the painting and adopted it as the new trademark for his recording company. The old trademark is known as "Recording Angel". Identify the company founded by him and the famous trademark icon? 

9.      Name the personality who is credited for the STD (Subscriber Trunk Dialing) revolution in India?

10.  Who was the founder of India's first mutual fund company ITI, Investment Trust of India? 

Answers:

1.  Benjamin Franklin
2.  Tetrapak
3.  Ernst Thomke
4.  Nokia
5.  Omana Abraham of Cochin Stock Exchange
6.  Clarence Birdseye
7.  Mercedes
8.  HMV, then Gramophone Company, and the icon is Nipper dog
9.  Sam Pitroda
10.  Chandalal Motilal Kothari