Q.1. _____ ______ was launched on 1992 by Amrit Agro Ltd and later taken over by Frito Lay(owned by PepsiCo), India in 2000. Some of its flavours included Bombaat Chilli Masala, Paapri Chaat, Sendha Namak, Jhakaas Tomato Twist, Plain Salted and Spicy Treat.
Noted film music director Shantanu Moitra started his composing career with the hit-jingle for this brand, with Pradeep Sarkar, then the Creative Head of the agency.
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Q.2. The logo for this entity is derived from a yantra, an ancient symbol that depicts an unbounded universe in a perfect mathematical form.
At its heart, is an 8 pointed star derived from the compass rose that signals the brand‟s commitment to excellence in everything that it does.
Identify the entity.
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Q.4. This is a type of bar chart which illustrates a project schedule in the field of operations. It illustrates the start and finish dates of the terminal elements and summary elements of a project. Terminal elements and summary elements comprise the work breakdown structure of the project.
Name the chart and its inventor.
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Q.5. From the website:
While People Group can trace it's origins to the beginning of X in 1996, the Group was formally launched by Anupam Mittal in 2004 to explore opportunities in the Internet and Mobile space. In a few short years the group has earned the reputation for being one of the most innovative businesses in India, having developed brands such as X, Makaan.com and Mauj Mobile.
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Q.6. This bank was founded by sixteen men and seven women, each of whom owned a key to the bank's great vaults. Their descendants, now numbering more than one thousand, are known as "keyholders" and proudly display their keys on formal occasions, though these keys are entirely ceremonial. Certain of these founding families have declined, with some losing their wealth entirely, yet all of them they cling to their keys and the honors that go along with them.
However, this bank is not ruled by the keyholders alone. Some of the wealthiest and most powerful families of today are rather younger, yet their heads own shares in the bank, sit on its secret councils, and have a voice in selecting the men who lead it.
Identify this secretive bank.
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Q.7. The tagline for this product was born in the first meeting between Harry Oppenheimer and N.W. Ayer & Son, a prominent U.S. advertising agency.
After their first meeting in 1938, N.W. Ayer began his extensive research and found that the most critical ways to influence the purchase of this product was to first create emotional and romantic feelings tied to it.
The tagline is also the name of a 1971 James Bond movie.
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Q.8. _____ is a fictional character, a mutant superhero of the Marvel universe. ______ was created by Alan Davis and first appeared in Excalibur vol. 1.
Prior to the discovery of his mutant abilities, Scott Wright was a disk jockey. With the discovery of his powers he became a special British government operative for M.I.6, a secret British national security unit, under the name _____.
____ is also the name of a company in the technology space.
(Image on the next slide.)
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Q.9. Rudy Perz developed this iconic mascot in his early years at Chicago advertising agency Leo Burnett. It is still used in commercials today.
Perz said at the time that early incarnations of the mascot, originally animated, too closely resembled Casper the Ghost, which led to the development of the three-dimensional character.
(image on the next slide)
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Rules
7 Questions
The answer of the first question starts with S, the answer of the second with Y and so on
+10 for each correct answer
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S X is a global online audio distribution platform based in Berlin, Germany, that enables its users to upload, record, promote, and share their originally-created sounds. The founders initially aspired to allow musicians to share recordings with each other, but the concept later transformed into a full publishing tool that also allowed musicians to distribute their music tracks.
In 2014, Turkey banned X because a user uploaded seven secretly recorded calls revealing private conversations between the Turkish Prime Minister and others.
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Y The company was founded in 1946 by Minoru Yoneyama as a producer of wooden floats for fishing nets. The company was later forced out of this market because of the invention of plastic floats. This led to a commitment by Yoneyama to never again be left behind by technological advancements.
The company also has an advisory panel of which Saina Nehwal is the only Indian on board.
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N Nita Ambani‟s shopping list includes 25,000 pieces of X for her high-rise home, Antilla. For this, she settled on the 106-year-old Japanese brand Y. Interestingly, the big-ticket order was not placed at the exclusive showroom in Mumbai's Kemps Corner, a stone's throw from the Ambani tower. Rather, she chose Sri Lanka for this acquisition as Y is 70-80% cheaper there than elsewhere in the world, including India. This is because the Japanese brand has its largest manufacturing facility in Sri Lanka.
Her thrift, therefore, was complimented by social commentator Shobhaa De. "If she is indeed buying her X from Sri Lanka, I would say that she is a practical Gujju housewife, cost-conscious and sensible and I admire her for it," Ms De said. "Why should she pay five times more for something here? She is setting a good example for others to follow!"
Identify Y.
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E Leontopodium alpinum, usually called X is a well-known mountain flower, belonging to the Asteraceae (the daisy or sunflower family). X literally translates to “noble-white” (German to English).
A company headquartered in Mumbai has the same name. Identify X.
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R X is a Japanese electronic commerce and Internet company based in Tokyo, Japan. Its e-commerce platform, X Ichiba, is the largest e-commerce site in Japan and among the world‟s largest by sales. Its acquisitions include Buy.com, Priceminister, Ikeda, Tradoria, Play.com, Wuaki.tv and Kobo Inc.
Flipkart recently exited its e-books business, transferring its users to X Kobo.
Identify X.
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G X was founded by Bob Parsons. Prior to X, Parsons sold his financial software services company, "Parsons Technology, Inc." to Intuit. The sale provided him with several million dollars in the mid-1990s. As a result, Parsons decided to retire.
Parsons came out of his retirement in 1997 to launch Jomax Technologies, which later became X Group Inc.
In 2013, Jean-Claude Van Damme starred in a series of X commercials as a means for the company to stray away from its raunchy image. In the commercials, Van Damme is seen doing the splits while playing musical instruments before he appears upside down in front of the business owner and whispers, "It's Go Time”.
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Y Among the many people who died in the 26/11 attacks was Ashok Kapur. Kapur was the founding-promoter of ___ _____ and held nearly 12% in the company at the time of his death.
Fill in the blanks
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S X is a global online audio distribution platform based in Berlin, Germany, that enables its users to upload, record, promote, and share their originally-created sounds. The founders initially aspired to allow musicians to share recordings with each other, but the concept later transformed into a full publishing tool that also allowed musicians to distribute their music tracks.
In 2014, Turkey banned X because a user uploaded seven secretly recorded calls revealing private conversations between the Turkish Prime Minister and others.
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Y The company was founded in 1946 by Minoru Yoneyama as a producer of wooden floats for fishing nets. The company was later forced out of this market because of the invention of plastic floats. This led to a commitment by Yoneyama to never again be left behind by technological advancements.
The company also has an advisory panel of which Saina Nehwal is the only Indian on board.
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N Nita Ambani‟s shopping list includes 25,000 pieces of X for her high-rise home, Antilla. For this, she settled on the 106-year-old Japanese brand Y. Interestingly, the big-ticket order was not placed at the exclusive showroom in Mumbai's Kemps Corner, a stone's throw from the Ambani tower. Rather, she chose Sri Lanka for this acquisition as Y is 70-80% cheaper there than elsewhere in the world, including India. This is because the Japanese brand has its largest manufacturing facility in Sri Lanka.
Her thrift, therefore, was complimented by social commentator Shobhaa De. "If she is indeed buying her X from Sri Lanka, I would say that she is a practical Gujju housewife, cost-conscious and sensible and I admire her for it," Ms De said. "Why should she pay five times more for something here? She is setting a good example for others to follow!"
Identify Y.
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E Leontopodium alpinum, usually called X is a well-known mountain flower, belonging to the Asteraceae (the daisy or sunflower family). X literally translates to “noble-white” (German to English).
A company headquartered in Mumbai has the same name. Identify X.
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R X is a Japanese electronic commerce and Internet company based in Tokyo, Japan. Its e-commerce platform, X Ichiba, is the largest e-commerce site in Japan and among the world‟s largest by sales. Its acquisitions include Buy.com, Priceminister, Ikeda, Tradoria, Play.com, Wuaki.tv and Kobo Inc.
Flipkart recently exited its e-books business, transferring its users to X Kobo.
Identify X.
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G X was founded by Bob Parsons. Prior to X, Parsons sold his financial software services company, "Parsons Technology, Inc." to Intuit. The sale provided him with several million dollars in the mid-1990s. As a result, Parsons decided to retire.
Parsons came out of his retirement in 1997 to launch Jomax Technologies, which later became X Group Inc.
In 2013, Jean-Claude Van Damme starred in a series of X commercials as a means for the company to stray away from its raunchy image. In the commercials, Van Damme is seen doing the splits while playing musical instruments before he appears upside down in front of the business owner and whispers, "It's Go Time”.
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Y Among the many people who died in the 26/11 attacks was Ashok Kapur. Kapur was the founding-promoter of ___ _____ and held nearly 12% in the company at the time of his death.
Fill in the blanks
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Q.2. Vitality ___ was co-founded by Moses Lam and Troy Paquette in 2014. They manufacture cannisters as shown in the image containing a certain product. Recently, their sales have soared in China where their product sells for up to $46 dollars (£42) depending on the size. Identify the product which the canister contains?
(Image on the next slide)
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Q.3. Pepsi released this drink called „Pepsi Perfect‟ on October 21, 2015. Why the name and what is the significance of the date?
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Q.4. During World War II, X was inspired to contribute to the war effort by designing a jam-proof radio guidance system for torpedoes. With the help of composer George Antheil, she drafted designs for a new frequency-hopping spread-spectrum technology which they later patented.
X and Antheil realized that radio-controlled torpedoes, while important in the naval war, could easily be jammed, which caused the torpedo to go off course. With the knowledge she had gained about torpedoes from her first husband, and using a method similar to the way piano rolls work, they designed a frequency-hopping system that would continually change the radio signals sent to the torpedo.
Their invention was granted a patent on 11 August 1942. Yet, it was technologically difficult to implement, and the U.S. Navy was not receptive to considering inventions coming from outside the military at the time. Only in 1962, at the time of the Cuban missile crisis, did an updated version of their design appear on Navy ships. The design is one of the basics behind today's spread-spectrum communication technology, such as GPS, Bluetooth, wireless and cell phones, and Wi-Fi networks. (Image on next slide)
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Q.5. Anshu Gupta was awarded the Ramon Magsaysay Award along with Sanjiv Chaturvedi in 2015.
Anshu Gupta was recognized for his creative vision in transforming the culture of giving in India and his enterprising leadership in treating cloth as a sustainable development resource for the poor. He founded _____ in 1999, which is a non-governmental organisation based in Delhi
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Q.8. Sir David Brown was an entrepreneur, managing director of his family firm David Brown Ltd. and one time owner of shipbuilders Vosper Thorneycroft and automobile manufacturer X.
X has a series of Automobiles named after this businessman.
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