The Hindu Business Line : Biz Quiz

• 1. In 1945, after World War II, Masaru Ibuka started a radio repair shop in a bombed-out department store building in Tokyo. The next year, he was joined by his colleague Akio Morita and they founded a company called Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo K.K. which had the acronym ‘Totsuko’. But during Morita’s visit to the US, he discovered that Americans had trouble pronouncing the company’s name. So they decided to mix a Latin word and an American word. The American word is a familiar term used in 1950s to call a boy. Identify this company.

• 2. Connect these — 2006-Jack Dorsey-140 characters-followers.

• 3. What was built at the location 11 Wall Street, New York, in 1792 by two dozen New York City stockbrokers and merchants who signed the Buttonwood Agreement?

• 4 . A graduate from Punjab University, he started his first business of making crankshafts for local bicycle manufacturers in 1976 at the age of 18, with a capital investment of Rs 20,000. In 1982, he acquired an import license to become the exclusive dealer for Suzuki Motors’s portable electric-power generators imported from Japan. Later on, he established the first company to manufacture push button telephones in India. Identify the business tycoon and the company he founded.

• 5 . How do we better know Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company?

• 6 . Which company became the first private sector establishment in the country to be provided security by the Central Industrial Security Force?

• 7. With which international brand would you associate the controversial “Whopper Virgins” campaign?

• 8 . Picture perfect: One man’s the boss, the other is his right hand man. Together, they plan India’s finances.

Compiled by S. Hamsini Amritha

Readers are expected to send their answers by Thursday, August 20, along with a high resolution colour photograph only by e-mail to younginvestor@thehindu.co.in

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