Business World

1. The person who launched airline in 1932 which has become international carrier now was Jahangir Ratanji Dadabhoy Tata.

2. The corporate bigwig who worked at shop floor level and became chairman and CEO of group companies and whose pet passion is production of a small car, is Ratan Naval Tata.

3. The person who worked with Shell Oil Refinery in the US at teen age and started his own commodity trading and export company in Mumbai which became a flagship company and was awarded Dean’s Medal for his outstanding leadership, was Dhirajlal Hirachand Ambani.

4. The person whose brand name has been almost synonymous with chocolates and the product is John Cadbury.

5. “I have three priorities: God, family and (fill in blank) McDonald’s, and at work these get reversed” said Ray Kroc.

6. Laxmi Narayan Mittal who is the world’s richest Indian is in the business of Steel.

7. The Indian politician who as the chairman of a certain state’s Industrial Development Corporation signed record number of Memorandums of Understandings and is called by his nickname as “M.O.U-DA” is Somnath Chatterjee.

8. The person who once said that he belonged to zero club and sent his two sons abroad to study business management, was Dhirubhai Ambani.

9. The person who gave the world a product called scooter, was Enrico Piaggio.

10. The American industrialist who was praised by Hitler in his autobiography, was Henry Ford.

11. The woman who is named as America’s smartest businesswoman by the Forbes magazine in 1992, is Madonna.

12. The lawyer who started to manufacturing surgical instruments during the British period but had to close his venture and who has become the world largest producer of denim, is Arvind Lalbhai.

13. Lala Juggilal Singhania and Lala Kamlpat Singhania started a group company called J.K. Group.

14. R. Lynn, Larry Hillblorn and A. Dalsey founded DHL company.

15. The inventor friend who employed Henry Ford in his company, was Thomas Alva Edison.

16. Industrialist, Mukesh Agarwal who married Rekha and committed suicide was the owner of consumer durable, Hotline.

17. The founder of Premier Automobiles Ltd. Was Walchand Hirachand.

18. The person who was inspired and founded the world’s most leading and diversified health care company, was Robert Wood Johnson.

19. The person who made his clothes as ready-to-ear collections, is Pierre Cardin.

20. Jack Welch, CEO of General Electric is known lovingly as “Neutron Welch”, because A neutron bomb kills all living beings but leaves all buildings intact. Similarly, Welch turned around GE by downsizing and laying off thousands of employees.

21. The Indian brand which was founded by Dr. S.K. Burman is Dabur.

22. The person who was among the two most powerful leaders in the world and acts in Pizza Hut commercials, is Mikhail Gorbachev.

23. The Indian who is heading the one of the largest and most revered publishing houses in the world, is Sonny Mehta.

24. The who after serving as IAS moved to BHEL as a director and retired as a managing director from a Indo-Japanese joint venture in 1997, is Rabindra Chandra Bhargava.

25. The person who served his company for 53 long years and was a longest serving chairman of any company in India was Rusi Mody and his company’s name is Tisco.

26. The woman whose name is synonymous with herbal beauty care and who was honoured by the US based Success magazine as “The world’s Greatest Woman Entrepreneur”, is Shahnaz Hussain.

27. The non-sportsman client of the management company IMG in India is Harsha Bhogle.

28. The person who became the group chairman after the death of his father, Aditya Vikaram Birla, is Kumarmangalam Birla.

29. The business man who produced jeeps in collaboration with Kesar Jeep Corporation and took the tractor division of his company to a prime position in the country and has collaborations with Ford and Mitsubishi to manufacture cars and mini vans, is Keshub Mahindra.

30. A Harvard Business School graduate who was one of the founders of the Bombay Club and supported the concept of Swadeshi outlined by BJP, is Rahul Bajaj.

31. The person who was the single largest shareholder of Tata Sons Ltd and was a chairman of the cement major ACC, is Pallonji S. Mistry.

32. The business person under whose leadership, Wipro grew from a tiny Rs.7 crore company to a Rs.1830 crores corporation, operating in services, technology, consumer products and information technology, is Azim H. Premji.

33. The Japanese legend who built his motorcycle and car empire from the ruins of World War II which he used to call “Truman’s Gifts”, is Soichiro Honda.

34. The Holywood man who boasted that “He had had more stars than there were in heaven” is Louis B. Mayer.

35. The American legend whose words, “Enthusiasm is at the bottom of all progress. With it, there is accomplishment. Without it, there are only alibis” are featured in the advertisements of his company, is Henry Ford and his company, Ford Motor Co.

36. The person who remarked about General Motors when he was a senior executive that “The first thing people do at GM when they see a snake is hire a consultant on snakes. Then they get a committee on snakes, and then they discuss it for a couple of years”, and also observed that “You get to the top of GM not by doing something, but by not making a mistake and changing GM is like teaching an elephant to tap dance”, is H. Ross Perot.

37. The business legendary who dubbed as “Self Reliance” and who combined shrewdness with American style entrepreneurship and Japanese penchant for technology and was nominated in the Asiaweek Business Hall of Week, was Dhirubhai Ambani.

38. The person who was a grandson of G.D. Birla and his group companies named after his death, was Aditya Vikram Birla.

39. The person who was the chairman and managing director of Procter & Gamble and was a well-known write and play-wright, was Gurcharn Das.

40. The person who is the Chairman of National Dairy Development Board and is behind India’s “Operation Flood”, is V. Kurein.

41. The Secretary of State who was prepared to eat every ounce of steel that Tata could produce when he was approached by Sir Jamseji Tata in London, was Lord Hamilton.

42. During the British Raj, an eminent industrialist and Indian Nobel laureate’s father was Rabindra Nath Tagore.

43. The Hinduja Group was founded by Paramanand Deepchand Hinduja.

44. The IIT-trained man who was first Asian to become CEO of the consulting giant, McKinsey & Co., is Rajat Gupta.

45. The BITS Pilani alumnus who founded Hotmail and sold it to Microsoft company is, Sabeer Bhatia.

46. The audio inventor who founded Bose Corporation in USA for the supply of the most advanced audio equipment to the leading institutions in the world, is Amar Gopal Bose.

47. The person who started a software company along with his six friends with a sum of Rs.10,000 and called their company as India’s first software company “of the professionals, for the professionals, ;and by the professionals”, is N.R. Narayana Murthy and his company, Infosys.

48. The heir-apparent to his family-owned company that makes and sells cars and who is major in film-making, not in management, is Anand Mahindra.

49. Dilip Chabria is involved in the field of Design and restyling of automobiles.

50. The woman who started her industry with a borrowed sum of Rs.35000 and has become an undisputed queen of the herbal beauty concept throughout the world, is Shahnaz Hussain.

51. Simone who married to Naval Tata and was awarded Udyog Ratan Award in 1988 for her contribution to Indian industry, was the head of the Tata Group Company, Lakme Ltd.

52. The Industralist who set up Mecca of Indian management education, the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, was Kasturibhai Lalbhai.

53. The industrialist who was not allowed by the then British government to satisfy huge demands for his pr9oducts and declared that “he was ready to go to jail for excess production just as both his parents had for the freedom struggle”, is Rahul Bajaj.

54. The industrialist who set up industries in Egypt, Thailand, Malayasia and Indonesia was Aditya Vikram Birla.

55. The legendary business clan of Birla was founded by Baldev Das Birla.

56. The industrialist who was known as “College King” for the establishment of several colleges and educational and research institutes in Delhi, was Lala Sriram.

57. The entrepreneur who quit the pharma company, IDPL and started his own venture of pharmaceuticals, involved in controversy because of violation of product patent in the US and decided to globalise his venture, is Dr. Anji K. Reddy.

58. Matching of names of the industrialists and institutions they founded:Name Institute1. Jamsetji Tata III. Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. 2. Lala Sriram IV. Shri Ram College of Commerce, Delhi3. Braj Mohan Birla II. BIT, Meshra (Ranchi)4. ARAM Annamalai I. Annamalai University.

59. The four brothers, Jugal Kishore, Rameswar Das, Ghanshyam Das and Brij Mohan belonged to Birla clan.

60. The first Indian who was elected as the head of International Chambers of Commerce, was Bharat Ram.

61. The industrialist who actively participated in India’s freedom struggle was Jamnalal Bajaj.62. The person who founded Bengal Chemicals during the British Raj and is considered to the pioneer of Indian pharmaceutical industry, is Sir P.C. Ray.

62. The most popular person in IT world is Sumit Kalia who born in 1981 in punjab.

63. The legendary Indian engineer who inspired the Tatas, Birlas and Walchand Hirachand to venture into car production which resulted in setting up of Hindustan Motors and Premier Automobiles, was Sir M. Visveswaraiya.

64. The person who actively participated in Dandi March and Quit India Movement and fathered and nurtured companies like, Bajaj Auto Ltd., Mukand Ltd. And Bajaj Electricals Ltd. Was/is Kamalnayan Bajaj.

65. A Maharashtrian, who was the first in the country to produce modern equipment for farmers and his company is well-known for diesel engines, farm equipment, electric motors, transformers, generators and oil engines, was Laxman Rao Kashirao Kirloskar.

66. The legend who launched Scindia Steamship Navigation Cjo. In 1919 was Walchand Hirachand.

67. The Indian who was chairman of London Metal Exchange and who has been awarded a peerage by the British government was Lord Raj Kumar Bagri.

68. Hamanka who controlled five per cent of the world market for copper and whose manipulations on the London Metal Exchange caused a huge crash, belonged to Sumitomo company.

69. Kim Woo Chong who desired to share his personal experience with younger Koreans as is described in his autography in English version “Every Street is Paved With Gold, was the chairman of Daewoo company.

70. The name of the book, in which it is described in the beginning that “Business is going to change more in the next ten years than it has in the last fifty and ended with I strongly believe that if companies empower their employees to solve problems and give them potent tools to do this with, they will always be amazed at how much creativity and initiative will blossom forth”, is Business @ The Speed of Thought.

71. Andy Grove in his book “Only the Paranoid Survive” calls companies as SIPs or strategic inflection points – times when they ‘have’ to change, reorganize and restructure themselves before they are forced to do so by external forces.

72. The charismatic Detroit legend who rose through the ranks of Ford Motor Company and later joined Chrysler Motor Company because of ego clash with Henry Ford II turned it around, was Lee Iacocca.

73. The greatest business man in American history on whose life a book “Titan” was released was/is, John D. Rockefeller, Sr.

74. The stalwart whose biography “Dare to Dream” is, M.S. Oberoi.

75. The name of the inventor of the process of vulcanization of rubber and gave his name to a tyre company, is Charles Goodyear.

76. The person who changed his name from Paul Julius Reuter and founded the news agency, Reuter, is Israel ben Beers.

77. The Indian legend whose autobiography, “Beyond the Last Blue Mountain”, is J.R.D. Tata.

78. The person who was employed with D.J. Keymers and advertised for Canthardine Hair Oil, was Satyajit Ray.

79. The name of the famous American CEO who wrote while speaking on management, “You’ve got to know how to talk to them, plain and simple” was Lee Iacocca.

80. The name of the Indian millionaire who shattered all records at the University of Michigan by completing his Ph.D in Pharmacy in two years, is Dr. Parvinder Singh..

81. The person who is synonymous with political and other types of polling in the United States, is George Gallup.

82. The great industrialist who won a transcontinental plane race organized by the Aga Khan, appointed as Wing Commander of the Indian Air Force and chairman of IATA, was J.R.D. Tata.

83. The person who flew his microlight aircraft around the world and has been featured as an example of the “Complete Man” in a Raymond’s advertisement, is Vijaypat Singhania.

84. The name of the industrialist, who melted rusty cannons to get the required iron and whose factory is now one of the largest heavy engineering groups, is S.L. Kirloskar.

85. The IIT alumnus who started Patni Computer Systems with his associates which has now become one of the largest IIT companies, is N.R. Narayanamurthy.

86. The achievement of Edwin L. Drake in August 1859 was that he drilled the first oil well.

87. The US ambassador who started his career as the head of an advertising agency in India, is Chester Bowels.

88. The owner of the jewellery import/export firm, Artex based in the US, is Robert Vadhra.

89. The person who heads the Monarch group of companies, has a record for featuring in the largest number of flop movies, is Mithun Chakraborty.

90. The person who is known in India for his collection of vintage cars and the popular liquors his company brews and his feud with Shaw Wallace, is Vijay Mallya.

91. The CEO on whose brave act a bestselling novel, “On Wings of Eagles” was published for rescuing two executives of his company as well as 30,000 other prisoners in the process, was Ross Perot.

92. The Indian industrialist who was a French citizen and served in a French cavalry regiment and later awarded French Legion Honour for his distinguished industrial career, was J.R.D. Tata.

93. The brilliant inventor who had gained wide respect for his work and shot himself leaving a suicide note which read “My work is done. Why wait”, was George Eastman.

94. The name of the inventor whose products are used in GM cars, Zenith and Philips TV divisions, NASA space shuttles, the Queen Elizabeth liner and Broadway theatres, etc. was Dr. Amar Gopal Bose.

95. The chemist who solved his country’s problem and patented his technology of controlled blast of nitroglycerine in 1863, was Alfred Nobel.

96. One of the co-founders of Sony Corporation, beside Akio Morita is Masaru Ibuka.

97. Founder of one of the heavy engineering groups in India and furthered the cause of medicine in a unique way, donated his body for medical research, was S.L. Kirloskar.

98. The CEO under whose leadership Intel also became synonymous with computer microprocessors, is Dr. Andrew S. Grove.

99. The magazine which was born out of the idea of DeWott Wallace that went on to pioneer the direct mail marketing of books, magazines, recorded music collections, home videos, and other products, is named as Reader’s Digest.

100. The Indian woman who holds the distinction of being first woman to graduate from Harvard University, is Naina Lal Kidwai.

101. The person who worked with GE Plastics and rose to become company’s youngest GM and later CEO, is John F Welch, Jr.

102. The company established by Rai Bahadur Janki Das to manufacture saddles and other bicycle parts and was the first one to introduce the fully Indian made bicycle was, Atlas Cycle Industries.

103. Melinda French’s famous rich husband is Bill Gates.

104. Beyond the Boundaries is the autobiography of a leading industrialist, Lord Swaraj Paul.

105. The author of the book, The Klone and I, a story of venture capitalist Thomas J Perkins, and who later married to Perkins, is Danielle Steele.

106. Margaret Thatcher said “I like him; we can do business together” this about Russian President, Mikhail Gorbachev.

107. The term used by Japanese for word, meaning “Great Lord” or “Great Prince” is Tycoon.

108. Areez Khambhatta in Ahmedabad is the man behind Indian brand, Rasna.

109. The Indian tyre company controlled by K.M. Mammen Mappillai and family, is MRF.

110. Bollywood actor with which the Monarch International College of Hotel Management at Ooty is associated, is Mithun Chakraborty.

111. Bimantata Citra and Citra Marga companies are owned by The Suhartos of Indonesia.

112. The person who left India for UK and later became the first High Commissioner and set up a publishing house, Penguin, was V.K. Krishna Menon.

113. Saudi billionaire and sponsor of international terrorism Osama Bin Laden made his money through the source of construction.

114. The company which Anita Roddick founded is Body Shop.

115. The greatest investors in the world who was also a philanthropist and supporter of Human Rights Organisation, is George Soros.

116. At the time of his death, P.R. Kumarmangalam was holding the charge of Ministry of Power.

117. The person who could not get exclusive TV rights to test cricket and made up his own teams with the best players in the world and started World Series Cricket, is Kerry Packer.

118. The woman who rose from shop floor level to a high rank of CMD of Exim Bank, is Tarjani Vakil.

119. An ecology house costing $ 97 million on the shores of Lake Washington was built by Bill Gates.

120. The cosmetic and perfume maker who said this “In my factories I make perfume; in the market, I sell hope” was Charles Revlon..

121. The businessman who contributed Rs.22,000 towards Sir C.V. Raman’s Nobel Prize-winning research, was G.D. Birla.

122. The institution of national importance set up by the visionary industrialist, Jamsetji Nusserwanji Tata, was Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.

123. The person who is remembered today for his saying “What is good for General Motors is good for the USA, was Charles E. Wilson.

124. The American industrialist who remarked, “A man who dies rich, dies disgraced”, was Andrew Carnegie.

125. The person who was granted patents for inventions ranging from light bulb, typewriter and electric pen to the phonograph, motion-picture camera and alkaline storage battery and left 3500 notebooks containing thousands of new products ideas after his death, was Thomas Alva Edison.

126. Scientist, Surendra Mohan Bose founded Bengal Waterproof Ltd. In 1920.

127. The veteran freedom fighter and industrialist who was considered by Mahatma Gandhi as his fifth son, was Kamalnayan Bajaj.

128. The software giant, Bill Gates was a drop out from Harvard University.

129. The woman whose cosmetic business spread over in 46 countries and said, “I hate the beauty business. It lies. It cheats. It exploits women”, is Anita Roddick.

130. The person who built a huge bungalow on the shores of Lake Washington with almost everything computer controlled, is Bill Gates.

131. The industrialist who was a close associate of Mahatma Gandhi, was G.D. Birla.

132. The former Soviet leader who maintained his eager-to-please style after reading the Dale Carnegie’s American bestseller, “How to Win Friends and Influence People” to make himself most effective leader, was Mikhail Gorbachev.

133. Bharat Ratna, the highest civilian honour of the country was awarded to the industrialist, J.R.D. Tata.

134. The person who gifted $8,500,000 to the UNO for building its permanent headquarters in New York, was John D Rockefeller, Jr.

135. M.M. Kothari’s claim to fame is that he is the original paan masala king who popularized paan masala in sachets under Pan Parag brand.

136. The former cavalry officer, Giovanni Agnelli founded Fiat.

137. V.V.R. Western Ghat Oil Company was launched by Raman Pillai.

138. The German gentleman, a denim supplier, along with Jacob Davis, a Latvian tailor, who got the style of putting metal rivets to strengthen trouser pockets patented, was Levi Strauss.

139. The entrepreneur whose products bear badges with letters DC on them, is Dilip Chabria.

140. The products which were discovered by Charles Plank and Edward Rosinski together in the shape of synthetic catalyst which helps to produce end product, are Petroleum and petrol.

141. A retired super coup who was hired by the association of the Indian music industry to help check the menace of audio piracy, was Julio Ribeiro.

142. The person who started his business with locks and whose group is now in businesses, like iron safes, typewriters, soaps and detergents, food products and many more, was Ardeshir Godrej.

143. The two men hired by Richard to handle repairs at his watch company were Sears and Roebuck.

144. The woman who set up her business of beauty products at Neiman Marcus was Estee Lauder.

145. The entrepreneur who is known as the “Queen of Green” because of her high-profile campaigns on animal rights, recycling and Third World aid, is Anita Roddick.

146. The person who was awarded by the League of Nations and started the “Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow”, is Walt Disney.

147. The sales manager who said at a meeting of advertising heads that “The trouble with every one of us is that we don’t think enough. We don’t get paid for working with our heads. Any man on the selling force could make two dollars where he now makes one if he could think along the right lines. I don’t think has cost the world millions of dollars”, was Thomas Watson.

148. The person who started his business of dry goods, later served as a Sunday School Superintendent and set up a trust to control 80% of a particular industry followed by other industries, was John D. Rockfeller.

149. The person who with inspiration of Thomas Alva Edison got the idea of assembly lines while watching Chicago meat-packers, was Henry Ford.1592. The CEO of one of American corporate giants who was approached by Drucker to conduct a study on his company, is Alfred P Sloan and company, General Motors.

150. The American industrialist who hired a police chief to keep a close watch on his executives so that they do not make decisions of their own, was Henry Ford, Sr.

151. The businessman who donated a million pound sterling to save the London zoo which has been given name of his daughter after her death, is Lord Swaraj Paul.

152. The great American industrialist on whose history the book, Titan is released, was John D. Rockefeller, Sr.

153. The only woman who has become the Director of Bombay Stock Exchange, is Deena Mehta.

154. The lawyer who gave up his profession and took up to lock-making business, is Ardeshir Burjorjee Godrej.

155. The person who founded the oil company Shell which was named it after his father’s death, was Marcus Samuel.

156. The CEO who ran for presidency against two successive US presidents, is Ross Perot.

157. The chairman of the UK based Capro Group of companies, is Swaraj Paul.

158. The Doyen of Indian hospitality industry who created the first International business hotel in India is/was Rai Bahadur Mohan Singh Oberoi.

159. The founder of the eponymous group Cadbury Schweppes was John Cadbury.

160. Colonel Drake’s first achievement in Pennsylvania in the US, was that He drilled the world’s first oil well.

161. The co-founder of an American company which is the world leader in business and who bequeathed the bulk of his billion-dollar to medical research and other charities, was Larry Hillblom.

162. Ross Perot was the CEO of Electronic Data Systems.

163. The American CEO who said to his employees that “The only job security any employee has in this company comes from quality, productivity and satisfied customers”, is Lee Iacocca.

164. The person who landed in India as the agent of East India Company and founded Calcutta comprising three villages: Kolkata, Sutanuti and Govindpur, was Job Charnock.

165. Common to Ashok Ganguly, Jagdish Narayan Sapru, Sushim Mukul Datta, and Keki B. Dadiseth is that All have headed Hindustan Lever Ltd.

166. At the age of 31, the person who became the Managing Director of a public sector company was Harish Bardhan.

167. The CMD whose company is known mainly for cigarettes and hotels, is K.L. Chugh.

168. Common to Dhirubhai Ambani, Aditya Birla, Rahul Bajaj, Ratan Tata, R.P. Goenka, B.M. Khaitan and Bharat and Vijay Shah is that All have been profiled in Gita Piramal’s book, as Business Maharaja.

169. Brothers Harsh Vardhan and Sanjeev Goenka lead the business group, namely RPG Group.

170. Brijmohan Lal Munjal is associated with the business group of Hero.

171. The founder of the Philips manufacturing company was Gerard Philips.

172. The IT Moghul, for whom his fans campaigned to make him the President of India, is N.R. Narayan Murthy.

173. The brand ambassador in India and the rest of the world for the Swiss watch-maker, Longines is Aishwarya Rai.

174. The free e-mail service concept was pioneered by Sabeer Bhatia.

175. The Indian Managing Director who said, “I am not working for remuneration. In any case, I earn half the salary of sweeper in France, was Rusy Mody.

176. The business family which lives at Seawind in Mumbai, is The Ambanis.

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