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IIM Raipur Quizzing Club presents
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17th October 2011
Question 1
• ______ is an Android-based tablet computer designed and developed by DataWind. The Government of India purchased 100,000 units of the device at $50 each and will be subsidizing it to sell it at the originally promised price of $35.
• Identify.
AKASH
Question 2Identify the person sitting with Gandhi
Charlie Chaplin
Question 3
• Identify this Great American Computer Scientist who said hello to the world.
DENNIS M. RITCHIE
• Co-creator of the C Programming Language and UNIX operating system.
Question 4
• Identify
HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL
Question 5
• Cupcake, Donut, Éclair, Froyo, ________, Honeycomb, Icecream Sandwich.
• What’s missing?
GINGERBREAD
• They are names of Android versions
Question 6
• When there was no electricity, net or computers , how was the Ishinomaki HibiShimbun newspaper brought out after the Japanese earthquake ?
• They were handwritten.
Question 7
• Who coined the term Marketing Myopia?
• Theodre Levitt
Question 8
• What is the ticker symbol for Apple Inc.?
AAPL
Question 9
• What is the tagline of Youtube?
BROADCAST YOURSELF
Question 10
• The term ____ has become a popular buzzword; in January 2011, ____ was awarded the honor of being 2010's "Word of the Year" by the American Dialect Society.
• Identify the word.
APP
Question 11
• Identify this hedge fund trader who was sentenced to 11 years for Insider trading.
RAJ RAJARATNAM
Question 12
• The __________Agreement, which took place on May 17, 1792, started the New York Stock & Exchange Board now called the New York Stock Exchange, NYSE.
BUTTONWOOD
Question 13
• Whose tagline is Lifeline to the nation?
INDIAN RAILWAYS
Question 14
• Which management term is derived from the Greek word which means "Art of the General"?
STRATEGY
Question 15
• What is the name of the renewable energy independent power producer who recently secured equity investment of Rs.1000 crorefrom Goldman Sachs?
ReNew Wind Power
Question 16
• Which is India's first Credit Rating Agency set up jointly by LIC, GIC, UTI, ICICI and Asian Development Bank in January 1988?
CRISIL
Question 17
• What are the Bonds that carry low ratings with correspondingly higher yields called?
JUNK BONDS
Question 18
•*Okhil Babu's letter to the Railway Department in 1909*
"I am arrive by passenger train Ahmedpur station and my belly is too much swelling with jackfruit. I am therefore went to privy. Just I doing the nuisance that guard making whistle blow for train to go off and I am running with 'lotah' in one hand and 'dhoti' in the next when I am fall over and expose all my shocking to man and female women on plateform. I am got leaved at Ahmedpur station.
This too much bad, if passenger go to make dung that dam guard not wait train five minutes for him. I am therefore pray your honourto make big fine on that guard for public sake. Otherwise I am making big report to papers.“
• Whats the significance of this letter?