[akash47]

Altavista.com WAS sold 3.3 mil$

Here's why: While the altavista technology was owned by compaq the domain name was owned by some Marshall guy.

So the sale was a settlement of a long standing dispute between the 2 parties.
In 1998, it was the highest recorded amt paid for a domain name

btw. when digital owned altavista, the web add for it was altavista.digital.com

[DesiGuru]

Some simple questions about bmen...

1. What was Bill Gate's and Paul Allen's SAT score?
2. Which top Bschool rejected Warren Buffett and Why? Which one accepted him?
3. Which school did Larry Ellison go to? When did he start Oracle?
4. Which Bank was the main funding partner for Ambani when he started out?

K

[sid_sid4]

though this cannot be termed as a business quiz but i thot may be this the correct place to get this posted here..

so here are a few Questions asked by P&G while recruiting at IIM-B.


1. There is one word in the English language that is always
pronounced
incorrectly. What is it?

2. A man gave one son 10 cents and another son was given 15
cents. What time
is it?

3. A boat has a ladder that has six rungs, each rung is one
foot apart. The
bottom rung is one foot from he water. The tide rise! ! s at
12 inches every
15 minutes. High tide peaks in one hour. When the tide is
at it's highest,
how many rungs are under water?

4. There is a house with four walls. Each wall faces south.
There is a
window in each wall. A bear walks by one of the windows. What
color is the
bear?

5. Is half of two plus two equal to two or three?

6. There is a room.! The shutters are blowing in. There is
broken glass on
the floor. There is water on the floor. You find Sloppy dead
on the floor.
Who is Sloppy? How did Sloppy die?

7. How much dirt would be in a hole 6 feet deep and 6 feet wide
that has
been dug with a square edged shovel?

8. If I were in Hawaii and dropped a bowling ball in a bucket
of water which
is 45! degrees F, and dropped another ball of the same weight,
mass, and
size in a bucket at 30 degrees F, both of them at the same time,
which ball
would hit the bottom of the bucket first? Same question,
but the location is
in Canada?

9. What is the significance of the following: The year is
1978, thirty-four
minutes past noon! on May 6th.

10. If a farmer has 5 haystacks in one field and 4 haystacks
in the other
field, how many haystacks would he have if he combined them
all in the
center field?

11. What is it that goes up and goes down but does not move?

..

cheers
kapil...

ps: tese questions have downloaded from te site would be posting te anserts later....just try tem out if u can get tese questions right

[DesiGuru]

1. incorrectly
2. quarter to two.
3. three , Four?. I dont get this one. Only catch could be how can u park a ladder in the ocean at high tide.
4. White, Polar.
5. mathematically three, but verbally 2.
6. Sloppy is the fish, it died due to the wind causing his bowl to fall down and break.
7. None. the dirt has been dug out to create the hole
8. first ball, at 30 f the water in the bucket is ice.
9. 12345678
10. One big haystack,
11. The Stock Market.

K

PS: I think i saw some of the answers in some thread somewhere...

[thedragonreborn]

Originally Posted by sid_sid4

3. A boat has a ladder that has six rungs, each rung is one
foot apart. The
bottom rung is one foot from he water. The tide rise! ! s at
12 inches every
15 minutes. High tide peaks in one hour. When the tide is
at it's highest,
how many rungs are under water?

no rungs are under the water.

the boat will keep rising with the tide and so will the ladder. as the bottommost rung is one foot above the water, it will stay so.

cheers!!

[sid_sid4]

Originally Posted by DesiGuru

1. incorrectly
2. quarter to two.
3. three. I dont get this one.
4. White, Polar.
5. mathematically three, but verbally 2.
6. Sloppy is the fish, it died due to the wind causing his bowl to fall down and break.
7. None. the dirt has been dug out to create the hole
8. first ball, at 30 f the water in the bucket is ice.
9. 12345678
10. One big haystack,
11. The Stock Market.

K

PS: I think i saw some of the answers in some thread somewhere...

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..............
hey desiguru, now thats cald quick work...but u shud have given sime other chaps some more time to think....but great work..

cheers
kapil

[DesiGuru]

Originally Posted by sid_sid4

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hey desiguru, now thats cald quick work...but u shud have given sime other chaps some more time to think....but great work..

cheers
kapil

i think some of these questions are in a diff thread, Try my questions above yours... let keep the quiz related to the area of business only.

K

[simon]

Originally Posted by DesiGuru

Some simple questions about bmen...

2. Which top Bschool rejected Warren Buffett and Why? Which one accepted him?
3. Which school did Larry Ellison go to? When did he start Oracle?

2. Harvard (coz he was too young) ......accepted by Columbia

3. Oracle - 1978

[Moron Matt]

1. What was Bill Gate's and Paul Allen's SAT score?

4. Which Bank was the main funding partner for Ambani when he started out?

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1 ) Paul Allen : 1600 which was considered to be all perfect.
Bill Gate : 1590

4) CBI (Central Bank of India) (a wild guess)

[EuPhOrIa]

Originally Posted by DesiGuru

Some simple questions about bmen...


2. Which top Bschool rejected Warren Buffett and Why? Which one accepted him?
3. Which school did Larry Ellison go to? When did he start Oracle?

K

2. Harward - Dropped him, Columbia - accepted him

3. Larry Ellison - went to Yale?? then drop out!!