Business Quiz :- Business Quiz Questions and Answers

Business Quiz :- Business Quiz Questions and Answers

 Business Quiz Questions

Question: Which vehicle took its name from the fact that it was made to be used for general purposes?
Answer: Jeep (GP)

 Question: What is the name of the mascot on the bonnet of a Rolls Royce?
Answer: The spirit of ecstasy

Question: Who invented jeans?
Answer: Levi Straus

 Question: Which company owns 'Hotmail', the Internet based e-mail system?
Answer: Microsoft

 Question: South Africa is the world's largest producer of 3 metals. Platinum and Gold are 2 of them, what’s the third?
Answer: Chromite

 Question: Which designer is credited with inventing the mini-skirt?
Answer: Mary Quant

 Question: Which car is featured in the film Back to the Future?
Answer: De Lorean

 Question: The Baht is the monetary unit of which country?
Answer: Thailand

 Question: What is the national airline of Spain?
Answer: Iberia

 Question: Which was the first company formed to manufacture motor cars?
Answer: Daimler

 Question: Which car manufacturer uses a badge consisting of 4 interlocked circles?
Answer: Audi

 Question: In which country is Sikorsky Helicopters' head office?
Answer: America

 Question: What is the currency of Turkey?
Answer: Lira

Question: Which company manufactured Lancaster bomber?
Answer: Avro

 Question: How many old pennies were there in Half a Crown?
Answer: 30

 Question: In which country are Saab cars manufactured?
Answer: Sweden

 Question: Excluding India name 2 other countries that use the rupee as currency.
Answer: India, Mauritius, Nepal, Pakistan, Seychelles and Sri Lanka.

 Question: London's Drury Lane is associated with which industry?
Answer: Theatre

 Question: What commodity is traditionally measured in units called a Truss?
Answer: Hay/Straw

 Question: What is the national airline of Spain?
Answer: Iberia

Question: Which goldsmith and jeweler was famous for ornate Easter eggs?
Answer: Peter Faberge

Question: Who first produced a book in 1955 to help pub owners settle debates (and bets) between patrons?
Answer: Guinness (book of world records)

 Question: The Skoda car company is based in which country?
Answer: Czechoslovakia

 Question: Which creature features on the logo of Bacardi Rum?
Answer: Bat

 Question: As in the music shop, what do the letters HMV stand for?
Answer: His Masters Voice

Question: What is the name of Hong Kong's airline?
Answer: Cathay Pacific

 Question: Which vehicle took its name from the fact that it was made to be used for general purposes?
Answer: Jeep

 Question: Which London thoroughfare is traditionally associated with high quality tailoring?
Answer: Savile Row

 Question: What is the name of the mascot on the bonnet of a Rolls Royce?
Answer: The Spirt of Ecstacy

 Question: What word describes the minimum number of members required to be present for the proceedings of an assembly to be valid ?
Answer: Quorum

 Question: What name is given to a person authorised to vote on behalf of someone else?
Answer: Proxy

 Question: In which country are Lada cars made?
Answer: Russia

 Question: What was the Jaguar car called before 1945?
Answer: The SS

 Question: Which of the following is the smallest paper size; A3, A4, or A5?
Answer: A5

 Question: In which country is the world's largest McDonalds Restaurant?
Answer: CHINA (The McDonalds in Beijing is 28,000 square feet, 2 stories high, and seats 700 people)

 Question: Which company built the WW2 Spitfire?
Answer: Supermarine. The fighter pilots of Britain’s RAF won the Battle of Britain in 1940 by a narrow margin. The quality of their solidly built Hawker Hurricane and speedy Supermarine Spitfire interceptors was one vital factor.

 Question: It is made from thermo-plastic paper and the manilla hemp used to make rope, it is designed to withstand boiling water, what is it?
Answer: A teabag

 Question: Two South American countries were members of OPEC (the organisation of petroleum exporting countries). Venezuela is still one. What was the other?
Answer: Ecuador (they joined in 1973 and left in 1992).

Question: What colour is the M on the Mcdonald’s logo?
Answer: Yellow

 Question: Which popular children's toy originated as a weapon and was once known as the bandalore?
Answer: Yo-Yo

Question: What name is California's Santa Clara County, the heartland of the US Computer Industry, more commonly called?
Answer: Silicon valley

Question: Which two airlines have gone into partnership to become the largest airline in Europe?
Answer: Air France and KLM

 Question: What was Mr. Ferrari's first name?
Answer: Enzo

 Question: Which Airline owned the Plane that blew up over Lockerbie in 1988?
Answer: Pan Am. On December 21 a terrorist bomb exploded in a Pan-Am aircraft flying from Frankfurt to New York, via London.

 Question: Yoshida Kogyo Kabushibibaisha or YKK for short appears on nearly every what?
Answer: Zip

 Question: What is the name of the railway that was opened in 1901 and runs from Moscow to Vladisvostok?
Answer: Trans-Siberian Railway

 Question: Which company owned the ill-fated Titanic?
Answer: White Star line

Question: Which car manufacture makes the engine for the Mclaren F1 team?
Answer: Mercedes Benz

 Question: Which country does Red Stripe lager come from?
Answer: Jamaica

 Question: Vespa and Lambretta are famous manufacturers of what?
Answer: Scooters

 Question: Which formula one driver is the owner of the luxurious Columbus Hotel in Monaco?
Answer: David Coulthard

 Question: Which vehicle did J C Bamford give his name to?
Answer: JCB digger

 Question: What did Harry Beck design in 1931 which is still used in London today?
Answer: The map of the London Tube system (the Underground)

 Question: Founded in Canada in 1971, and now with its headquarters in Amsterdam, what was the original aim of the environmental organization Greenpeace?
Answer: To oppose U.S. nuclear testing in Alaska

 Question: Which cosmetics and perfume company was originally named The California Perfume Co?
Answer: Avon

 Question: What make and model of car was John F Kennedy in when assassinated in 1963?
Answer: Lincoln Continental

 Question: The world’s largest Mobile Phone maker is based in which country?
Answer: Finland, it's Nokia.

 Question: Who devised the Package Tour?
Answer: Thomas Cook. He ran a successful travel agency in the 19th century. It began after he led a temperance group on a guided train ride from Leicester to Loughborough

 Question: What did Earl W Tupper invent in 1944?
Answer: TUPPERware

 Question: Which company invented the computer floppy disc in 1970?
Answer: IBM

Question: What was the surname of the French brothers who founded a tyre company in 1888.
Answer: Michelin

 Question: Who are the engine suppliers for the 'Williams' formula 1 team?
Answer: BMW

 Question: Who had Skytrain printed on the side of his aircraft?
Answer: Sir Freddy Laker

 Question: What is an assembly of Cardinals called?
Answer: Conclave

 Question: Which company's name is short for Durability, Reliability and excellence?
Answer: Durex

 Question: The imprisonment of Nick Leeson followed the collapse of which bank?
Answer: Barings

 Question: Which American car firm made the Corvette?
Answer: Chevrolet

 Question: What did Albert Parkhouse invent that is one of the most stolen items from hotels?
Answer: Coat hanger

 Question: What is the name of Microsoft's free e-mail service?
Answer: Hotmail (not Outlook; that is software to collect any Email)

 Question: What was the name of the restaurant chain opened by Bruce Willis, Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Swartzeneger?
Answer: Planet Hollywood

 Question: Which is the World's most popular brand of cigarette?
Answer: Marlboro

 Question: Which mobile phone company shares its name with a fruit (it's Australian)?
Answer: Orange

 Question: Who was responsible for bringing down Barings Bank?
Answer: Nick Leeson

 Question: Who invented the lift/elevator in 1853?
Answer: Elisha Otis

 Question: What is the metal or plastic end of a shoelace called?
Answer: An aglet

 Question: P&O, the shipping line, stands for what?
Answer: Peninsular and Oriental

 Question: Which country is home to Grolsch lager?
Answer: Holland (The Netherlands)

 Question: Ron Dennis has been the manager for many years of the team behind which Formula One motor racing car?
Answer: McLaren

 Question: In 1996 what overtook Coca-Cola as being the most well known brand name in the world?
Answer: McDonalds

 Question: In the USA what name was given to a seller of illegal alcohol?
Answer: Bootlegger