- Which eponymous toy company has embraced corporate use of its products and even created a formal business group for the purpose? The group certifies professionals worldwide to coach managers and test candidates during job interviews using its products.
- Name the creator and the product that was first used when aviator Alberto Santos-Dumont set the first airborne speed record in 1907?
- What have been named as Andhra Pradesh and Assam?
- Which Wall Street firm is credited with having pioneered what were initially called bootstrap transactions and are now called leveraged buyouts?
- This company's first employee dreamt of a Greek deity in his sleep. The deity's name eventually replaced "Dimension6", the initial name under which the company planned to sell its merchandise. Identify the brand.
- What is common to the perfume brand Chanel No. 3 and an exotic Indonesian coffee?
- This brand was first introduced in France in 1983 and three years later in the United Kingdom where it was called Lynx for trademark reasons. Today, it is a global brand. Name it.
- The CEO of which company talks about his company's strategy as the Gretzky Concept?
- What is common to Parsi, Zamzam, Qibla and Mecca?
- Seven housewives borrowed Rs 80 from C K Parekh, a member of the Servants of India Society in 1959, and took over a loss-making unit. Today, their brand has a turnover of more than Rs 300 crore with their registered office in a building called Oracle Point. Name the brand.
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