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1. On April 1st, 2007- the battle of billionaires took place.

The battle took place between representatives of X & Y.

Y had expressed and interest in becoming US presidential

candidate-2012 and recently spent a million dollar to

research his chances of the same in 2016.

Y owns the miss universe organisation since 1996.

In 2004, Y filed an application to trademark the phrase –

“You’re fired!”

In the battle, both X & Y waged their hairs. X & Y?

2. March 1, 2001 saw a 176 point decline in Sensex as opposed to expected 177 point rise due to budget presented a day earlier. BSE president Anand Rathi had resigned. The market fell steeper. The crash was initiated by Y as the K-10 stocks dealing in Entertainment or internet related companies rose sharply. The K-10 stocks declined after bear-hammering by CSE traders. Y had started his career as a chartered accountant for X. Who is Y & X, both of them – legends in their own right.

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4. X, incorporated in 1982 & based in Gurgaon is an Indian

automaker. This company was a catalyst in the Indian

green revolution. The company owns Royal Enfield

motorcycle(worldwide oldest company in continuous

motorcycle production) business. Apart from India, they

are a prominent sight on roads of Sri Lanka, Nepal &

Bangladesh.

5. Stock Market Challenge is an online simulation trading game

where you CREATE and MANAGE your own PORTFOLIO and

COMPETE with other players in a RISK-FREE ENVIRONMENT.

Stock Market Challenge is a POWERFUL TOOL for building skill,

evaluating and tuning your strategy, and gaining important

INVESTING EXPERIENCE.

Who/What owns SMC-game?

Bombay stock exchange

6. X was the first Indian RBI governor and 4th Indian finance minister (1950 -

1956). He served as president of ISI (1945-1964), VC – DU (1962-1967) &

chairman of Indian institute of public Administration, which is now named after

him. E was on the board of governors of IMF & WB for first 10 years. He received

knighthood & Padma vibhushan.

In 1959 he was given Ramon Magsasay award for doing something unimaginable,

besides his service to administration in the following years. What did he do while

still an RBI governor that is still not understood by the State Bank of Pakistan and

Media on all 3 sides of the two borders?

(No Part points – 20 points for giving both answers correct)

C.D.Deshmukh

“Division of assets and liabilities between 2 nations”

7. Product offering from

which business house/

group?

8. “We applaud _______’s unconventional approach to marketing

and when they came to us with this idea, we thought it would be a

fun, creative way to highlight our partnership,” Roberto Rios, chief

marketing officer for PepsiCo’s food service division, said in an

emailed statement.

The blank is a restaurant chain formed by the Raffel Brothers and so

the name. As of December 31, 2013, there were 956 company-

owned restaurants and 2,448 franchised restaurants.

9. With a chain of 86 fashion stores across 40 cities and towns, X is

constantly extending its footprint into the rest of modern India. It

spans a retail space of 1.7 million square feet which is amongst the

largest in India. The loyalty programme of X is called Y. X is traded as

PFRL on NSE.

The benefits covered under Y include discounts, Payback points,

complimentary parking, complimentary home drop of altered

garments, relaxed exchange policy, complimentary shipping across

India, exclusive sale preview, exclusive billing counters and assisted

shopping among others.

Greencard

10. Bangalore-based ”Taxi For Sure” recently launched their new

category of ___ taxis in the city today. The service will be priced at

Rs. 25 for the first 2 km and Rs. 10 / km after that, making

it cheaper than the auto and the most reasonable and comfortable

taxi service available in the Bangalore city. The exactly same idea

has already been exploited in srilanka.

11. Which ex-deputy chairman of planning commission has penned a

to be released book :

“The dramatic Decade: The Indira years”

12. As of today, where can you buy this?

13. Selling like a rage after its launch in UK,

this product is the result of a tie up between

which two well known companies.

Sula

Reverse order from here.

14. W.W. Clements, former CEO and president of the

X Company, described the taste of X as one-of-a-kind,

saying:

"I've always maintained you cannot tell anyone what

X tastes like because it's so different. It's not an

apple, it's not an orange, it's not a strawberry, it's

not a root beer, it's not even a cola. It's a different

kind of drink with a unique taste all its own."

15. Ipca Laboratories is an international pharmaceutical

company based in Mumbai, India. It is also one of the

largest suppliers of these APIs and their intermediates

world over. It was founded by group of businessmen and

medical professionals in 1949.

Since 1975, who has been, with his wife, his brother, P C

Godha & M R Chandurkar seeing the management?

16. The previous govt. had advised RBI to look into the

possibility of something.

The RBI set up a design Panel for future notes. On

December 4th, the Committee submitted its result to the

RBI and therefore, the change for which people had been

waiting will not happen for now.

What change?

17. Who is this jobs fan?.

Lei Jun – Xiaomi CEO

18. If the next few images are supposedly the response, what was the original declaration?

Answer on next slide

19. Id the organisation from the logo. It does not do much business in visible

area.

20. Y’s Manufacturing Company - was founded in 1855 by the famous inventor XY. "Abe Lincoln may have freed all men, but XY made them equal." This post-Civil War slogan would have been music to XY’s ears had he lived long enough to hear it.

The Y commando family, Y Python & Y walker are best

known products. In 2002, the company spun off another

company so that it could cater 2 different markets in a

better way however there existed cross merchandising

and shared HQ. Both companies re-united in 2013.

Zilkha & co. owns 85% shares today.

21. One of the largest merger deals in Indian Tech market took place in 2008-09

when X beat Larsen & Toubro in a bid for Y. Y was two times larger than X in terms

of working staff.

X was created as a joint venture between W & Z in 1986 and got its present name

in 2006.

X has 95,729 employees across 51 countries, servicing 632 customers globally. It

has 15 overseas offices for BPO (business process outsourcing) operations and

software development.

X was ranked #5 in India's software services (IT) firms and overall #111 in Fortune

India 500 list for 2012.

Ten points for each of – X, Y, W, Z.

British Telecommunications

22. United World Colleges (or UWC) is an education movement comprising 14 international

schools and colleges, national committees in more than 140 countries, and a series of short

educational programmes. Students are selected from around the globe based on their

merit and potential. UWC schools, colleges and national committees offer scholarship and

bursary schemes as well as accepting a significant number of fee-paying students.

On 28 November 1997, Queen Noor of Jordan and Nelson Mandela inaugurated the UWC

Mahindra College in India as one of the now fourteen United World Colleges (UWC) and the

third UWC in Asia. It had been made possible largely due to financial donations

(approximately US $8m) and personal efforts by the ______- industrial family (especially

the late Harish________, deceased 1999).

23. X is a French food services & facilities management company HQd in Paris.

It is traded as SW on Euronext.

The company was launched in 1966 by Pierre Bellon, initially serving company

restaurants, schools and hospitals under the

name Société d'Exploitation Hotelière (English: Hotel Services Corporation).

Today it is on the Fortune Global 500 list and the second largest employer among

all French MNCs.

The reason for removing the letter 'h' from_____, is that "in certain languages an

'x' followed by an 'h' is difficult to pronounce".

The logo of the company was also changed, dropping the five stars to a single

star. The bar of the letter 'x' is also now curved, like a smile, supposedly

suggestive of the company's claimed desire to constantly seek and increase the

satisfaction of their clients.

24. The bank is located at North side, London, England. Besides

deposit it is the only place for a certain type of money exchange. It

has been operational since 1474. The motto of the bank is Strength

through loyalty, written in latin.

The management has been swinging back and forth between the

Ministry and Y.

It was in 1991 that someone broke into the bank although he took

away nothing and was never caught. It was previously unheard of

such an event at the bank.

25. X born in Chandigarh (1968) completed his engineering from

California Intitute of Technology after a foreign transfer from BITS,

Pilani. He worked briefly with apple.

He started Y, which rose to becoming second largest in the league &

was ultimately bought by Z in 1998.

Following the buy-out X worked at Z for about a year before he

launched and E-commerce firm Aarzoo inc. His lesser known

company is sabsebolo which bought Jaxtr.

10 points for each.

26. The logo of which novel start-up by public-private partnership?

Only Buzzer format(13)

Correct + 20 Incorrect -10

Only those who pounce can answer. No IB.

27. Identify.

Anand Mahindra

28. Identity of which organisation.

29. In which sector or what product, do these companies compete?

Ship building

30. Connect: Taipei world center, Petronas tower

31. This is the one world trade center with a height of 541 m or 1776

ft, after adding the final spire of the tower. Why was this height

deliberately chosen?

1776(imperial units ht.) Is a symbolic reference to Us declaration of

independence.

32. This is a poster for the 1933 movie King kong. Identify the building.

33. This is the state flag of Hawaii(US). This is inspired from which company’s

flag?

East India company

34-37 Googly questions: 34. Which was the fist company to issue stocks. This is the logo of that

company.

Dutch East India company

35. Which was world’s first stock exchange. It no longer exists by the

same name since 2002.

36. The Poor Fellow-Soldiers of Christ and of the Temple of

Solomon commonly known as the Knights Templar, were among

the most wealthy and powerful of the Western Christian military

orders and were among the most prominent actors of the Christian

finance. The organisation existed for nearly two centuries during

the Middle Ages.

What distinction does this organisation hold. It is the first in a

particular list.

Also mention the second and third organisations in the list in

chronological order. (+20/-10 for list, no negative for the other 2

companies 40/+30/+20/+10/-10) Attempt on the list is necessary.

First MNC in the world Second – English EIC

Third Dutch EIC

37. Offering from which business house?

38. Logo of a record labels company founded in 1982. Which company?

39. Ernesto X, who is the famous author of 1993 book Y has started an agency for motorcycle tours called - La Poderosa Tours meaning the mighty tours. La Poderosa II (the Mighty II) was the nickname that an Argentine medical student Z gave to his motorbike, a Norton 500cc, on which he rode 8,000 miles, along with his biochemist companion Alberto Granado. For the tours a special fleet of W bikes were ordered because Ernesto loved classic W’s. Attempt: +10 for each correct/ -10 for each incorrect. X – surname Y- book name Z – A person, well known W – a well known company

X- guevara Y – The motorcycle diaries

Z- Che guevara W – Harley Davidson

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