i wish to conduct business quiz. so please suggest me some 30 interesting questions fully related to business?

Question

i want to conduct business quiz in my college. so i need some 30 good questions that can be asked. and it ishould be only about business. i mean about business releated quiz that an M.B.A. student can conduct

Answer 1

hi , this is thiyanes, working related to lottery feild, i cant give u 30 questions , i wil suggest u some question realting to my feild and others.

who is the highest individual income tax payer in india?
Mr. Martin

who introduced service tax in india?

p. chidambaram

what is the percentage of service tax in india?

12% + 2% cess on 12%

which is the first indian IT company to list in nasdaq stock exchange?

infosys

who is the first indian woman to head Pepsico as CEO?

Indira nuyi


thats all i can help u , all the best

Answer 2

How did Henry Ford make Office staff 'Redundant' ?

(He went into the office on a Sunday and cut their desks into half)

Answer 3

most imp. diffrence b/w management n administration

Answer 4

1. There are five visionaries who changed the face of technology – the unsung Heroes of Computing. These five includes a woman.
Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace (1815 – 1852). The other four are Douglas Engelbart (1929- ), Vannever Bush (1890 – 1974), Alan Turing (1912-1954), and J.C.R. Licklider (1915-1990).

2. She is credited with the idea for the first computer program. In 1979 a programming language developed by the US Department of Defence was named in her honour.
Ada Lovelace, Lady Byron. The programming language was named “Ada” in her honour.

3. As early as 1953, she invented the compiler – the intermediate program that translates English language instructions into machine language.
Rear Admiral Grace Hopper of the US Navy.

4. She has been hailed as the “most influential woman on the Internet”. She was the first interim chairperson of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) and earlier, also the chair of Electronics Frontier Foundation (EFF). She has also written the book Release 2.1.
Esther Dyson.(Source: Ken Freed, Media Visions Journal, www.media-visions.com/vis-dyson.html). She is Chairman of Edventure Holdings, which publishes Release 1.0, a monthly newsletter and sponsors the annual PC Forum.

5. Newsweek has honoured her as one of the “women shaping the 21st century.” In 1996, she founded the Webby Awards, hailed as the “online Oscars” by the Time magazine.
Tiffany Shlain, 32.
(Source:www.webbyawards.com/main/in_motion/shlain_bio.html).

6. She is Chairperson and Chief Executive Officer of Hewlett-Packard Company (HP), which launched the World e-Inclusion programme in October 2000. She joined the company in July 1999 and led the HP merger with Compaq, which was completed in May 2002.
Carleton S. (Carly) Fiorina (Source: www.hp.com/hpinfo/execteam/bios/fiorina.html and www.hp.com/hpinfo/execteam/speeches/fiorina/ciic_01.html).

7. Ananova said: “Hello, World! Here’s the news - and this time it’s personal.” But, who is Ananova?
She is a virtual newscaster at www.ananova.com on duty round the clock. The site was launched in April, 2000. She is an invention of the British Press Association (BPA).

8. All of us surf the Internet but she claims that she coined the term “surfing the Internet.” She is also known as Net Mom.
Jean Armour Polly in 1992. (Source: www.netmom.com).

9. She is founder and CEO of eHow, a Web site that provides 15,000 step-by-step how-to solutions.
Courtney Houston. (Source: ehow.com).

10. She has written Digital Divide: Civic Engagement, Information Poverty, and the Internet Worldwide (Cambridge 2001), outlining the debate between the cyber optimists (who see Internet as a great leveller) and cyber pessimists (who see greater inequality emerging) and examining the evidence in 179 countries worldwide.
Pippa Norris, Associate Director (Research) of the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard University and McGuire Lecturer in Comparative Politics at the John P. Kennedy School of Government. (Source: ksghome.harvard.edu/~pnorris.shorenstein.ksg/biograph.htm and www.pippanorris.com).

11. An illiterate woman launched the e-governance programme in Rajasthan in Nyala village in the presence of President Bill Clinton on March 23, 2000.
Kailashi Devi. She was ‘tutored over 2 days to operate Windows-based system, clicked on Rajasthan Government’s site and showed President Bill Clinton the immunization card of the health department.’(Source: www.rediff.com/news/2000/mar/24josy.htm). Clinton, impressed that an illiterate village woman got information on neo-natal care from the internet later stressed at the need for similar community centers all over the Mississippi delta. (Source: www.sims.berkeley.edu/`joyojeet/Threshold.htm#-ednref72).

12. She founded Girl Geeks.
Kristine Hanna and Peter Crosby in 1998 as a documentary film project about women’s past, present and future impact on computing. GirlGeek.com was founded in 1999 but sought dissolution in 2002. The site was reborn as GirlGeeks.org in September 2002. (Source: www.girlgeeks.org/about/about.shtml).

13. She is the first Indian to write an electronic book in English.
Tara Deshpande, a 25-year-old actress. The book is titled The Motive. The first chapter is available for free download from firstandsecond.com. It will be a 300-page book in seven chapters. (Source: Shweta Rajpal, The Hindustan Times, January 20, 2001).

14. The following have been honoured with 25 Top Women on the Web awards: (a) Ms Deb Agarwal, (b) Ms Radha Basu, and (c) Ms Mala Chandra. Who are they?
(a) Computer Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, (b) CEO, Support.com, and (c) VP, Platform Engineering, Zaplet. Ms Agarwal and Ms Basu were honoured with 2000 Awards while Ms Chandra was honoured with 2001 Awards. These awards are given by a Bay Area group, San Francisco Women on the Web (SFWOW), a non-profit networking and professional development organisation for women involved with internet, new media and web technology. (Source: www.top25.org and www.sfwow.org).

15. New York Times columnist Thomas L.Friedman states that Jodie Williams won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1997 for her contribution to the International Ban on Landmines. She achieved that ban without much government help and with opposition from the Big Five major powers. What did she say was her secret weapon for organizing 1,000 different human rights and arms control groups on six continents. What she said?
E-mail. (Source: Friedman, T.L. (2000): The Lexus and the Olive Tree, New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, www.lexusandolivetree.com).

16. Inspired by the work done by Educare in Argentina, which project relating to quality of school education in India has been initiated by Ms Sharmila Dalmia?
Shiksha India. Ms Dalmia, 37, is Founder and Executive Trustee of Shiksha India. Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) and Global Leaders of Tomorrow (GLT) of World Economic Forum (WEF) launched the initiative in December 2001 at India Economic Summit. It was launched as a pilot project in six schools. Its mission is to improve the quality of education in middle and secondary schools of India. The investment exceeds US$12.5 million. The target is to reach 60,000 schools with 30m children. The project is based on work done by Educare, Argentina. (Source: www.braahamam.net/shiksha.htm, www.weforum.org, www.ciionline.org and www.schoolsonline.org).

17. What is common between Indian Moms, Two Daughters, SoulKurry, SitaGita, SmartBahu and Indian Women Online?
These are portals for Indian women located at www.indianmoms.com, www.twodaughters.com, www.soulkurry.com, www.sitagita.com, www.smartbahu.com, and www.indianwomenonline.com respectively.

18. For which firm did Julia Forman, the heroine of Michel Crichton’s latest thriller Prey (HarperCollins 2002), based on self-sustaining and self-reproducing nanoparticles (micro-robots) programmed as predator, work?
Xymos Technology, Mountain View, CA, World Leader in Molecular Manufacturing. In this work of fiction, Ms Julia Forman, originally trained as a child psychologist ended up as a specialist in “technology incubation.”(Source: Chrichton, Michael (2002): Prey, London and New Delhi, HarperCollins).

19. What are the following: (a) iVillage, (b) gURL (c)Cybergrrl (d) Webgrrl (e) Silicon Salley (f) Systers?
(a) Established 1995 and headquartered in New York City, it is a network of commercial websites for women. For details, www.ivillage.com, (b) An online community for teenage girls (www.gurl.com), founded 1996 at the International Communications Program, (c) Cybergrrl.com (www.cybergrrl.com) claims to be the first general interest site for women on the Web distributed by Aliza Sherman, President of Cybergrrl, Inc. in January 1995, (d) Interactive online and offline community for women interested in new media, the Internet and technology offering networking, meetings, classes and job opportunities. Webgrrls was a spin off Cybergrrls. Webgrrls means “women with websites.” It has come to encompass the network of women worldwide, claims the site. Webgrrls International is a for-profit company. (e) Online magazine for 21st century women www.siliconsalley.com. A networking resource guide for women eager to embrace the challenges of the hi-tech world. (Source: femina.cybergrrl.com/best.html) (f) An informal organisation for women in computing with 2,500 members in 38 countries. It began in 1987 as a mailing list for women in systems, thus the name Systers (www.systers.org). It was founded by Anita Borg, CEO and founder of Institute for Women and Technology, Palo Alto, CA (www.iwt.org). She died on April 6, 2003 at the age of 54 years due to brain cancer.

20. For which newspapers in India the following information technology (IT) journalists have been writing: (a) Alpana Sarma, (b) Poornima Harish, (c) Sujata Sen (d) Prerna K. Mishra (e) Shauravi Mallik?
(a) Business Standard (Web Review), (b) The Economic Times (Net on the Net), (c) The Statesman (Cyberclick), (d) The Indian Express (Net Focus), and 5. The Hindustan Times (Net Profit). (Parentheses indicate the title of the column).