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Asia’s largest dairy brand, Amul, said it would be the official partner of Switzerland-headquartered Sauber F1 team at the inaugural Indian Grand Prix, scheduled to begin from October 28.

Kaspersky Lab recently announced that it has appointed Sachin Tendulkar as its brand ambassador, starting October 2011.

After four months and a global online campaign - backed by governments in Europe, North and South America, and Asia, and prominent activists - Predrag Stakic has been announced as the winner of a competition to find a logo for human rights.


Stakic's winning entry - which features a dove-like hand - was chosen from a short list of ten finalists and won the most votes in a public online ballot. It was open to people around the world.

Another question from TATA Crucible, Lucknow Edition-2011.
Identify the place.

Created by: MBA Online

What was thus started..? ( qts was asked in the Tata Crucible Lucknow edition, 2011)

Identify the logo. [Hint: Foreign Bank, in the news (India)]

Who own this brand ?

Contributed by Sukhwinder singh, whose team was 7th (just missed by one question!!).

1. Which Bollywood celebrity, apart from Shah Rukh Khan, rang the NASDAQ bell?

2. In response to Henry Ford's letter, which gift did Gandhiji gave to Ford:
a) Khadi Shirt
b) Charkha
c) Kashmiri Shawl

3. Who from the following gave the Voice for Simpsons:
a) Mohd Yunus
b) Amartya Sen
c) Martin Sorell

4. Which Indian leader is said to have popularized the Sambalpuri sarees. She was a sort of first brand ambassador for Sambalpuri sarees by flaunting it in public functions?

5. In India which subject has the most enrolment:
a) Arts
b) Commerce
c) Science

6. On the death of which inventor were all lights dimmed in the US for a minute on 21.10.1931 as a mark of respect?

7. Which event raised $250 million for the children with the tagline, `Beauty with a Purpose’?

8. Created by ICICI, which was the first Credit rating agency of India?

9. In which novel of Premchand the protagonist Hori Mahto desired to have a cow like everybody else? (not sure of the complete question)

10. Who is the richest Chief Minister in India with a declared wealth of Rs.86 crores?

11. Which ruler issued coins depicting himself as Sikandar-al-Sami?
a) Alla-ud-din Khilji
b) Akbar
c) Sher Shah

12) About 13 billion dollars is spent by the Americans on which apparel
a) T-Shirts
b) Caps
c) Jeans

13. Which software’s initial name was “Sky Peer to Peer” ?

14. Which is the richest football league in the world?
a) EPL
b) La Liga
c) Bundesliga

15. DMRC has introduced two educational games for young commuters on the Delhi Metro. One is Ludo, what is the other ?

16. Who is the most expensive female artiste in India
a) Amrita Shergil
b) Anjolie Ela Menon
c) Reema Bansal

17. 24th February is celebrated as the Excise Day in honour of the Central Excise and _____ Act, 1944

18. John Bissel's baby celebrated 50 years in India. Give the 8 letter word?

19. Which British beer is named after a reptile?

20. Name the Philippine Award instituted out of a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation.


21. Visual – OREO biscuits
22. Visual – Max Factor

23. Print Ad – Tanishq (showing Amitabh and Jaya Bachchan)
24. Audio – Song from Chillar Party movie
25. Audio – Sushma Swaraj's speech

Following five questions are from Idea zone:

26. A word in Japanese meaning "great prince" is applied to business magnets. What word?

27. Izzat ka _________ is a popular phrase in India.

28. Which King of the Solar Dynasty sold his wife and sons to Vishwamitra to pay off his debts that he owed to Vishwamitra?


29. In 2009 a street between College Street and Dartmouth Avenue was named after?


30. The most amounts are spent in the US for fighting which disease ?

a) HIV

b) Heart Disease

c) TB

Bollywood Director Karan Johar has joined hands with Lloyd to promote its 5 new models in LED series including 3D LED TV in 55 inch screen size.

Panasonic unveiled a range of special offers for a nationwide campaign ahead of the festive season.

1. What does the characteristic “i” used for the first time with Apple’s iMac stands for?
2. What was Yahoo! Originally called?
3. With which company has Reliance Industries recently tied up with to pursue opportunities in homeland security?
4. Which company was founded before HCL leading to HCL’s formation?
5. What is the name of Jet Airways’ parent company?
6. Which global business newspaper was launched as the London Financial Guide in 1888?
7. Which company tops the WWD Beauty Inc’s list of world’s top 100 beauty companies for 2010?
8. Who was recently fired over the phone by Yahoo Inc chairman Roy Bostock?

Compiled by: G.B.Jayakumar, Chennai

Prelims:
1. 500 millionth piece manufactured by Nokia s Chennai facility signed by whom?
2. Chandramogan - born in Thiruthangal in Tirunelveli started business named the company after a
common person name - he likes playing badminton and has won veteran's championship for two years. Name the brand.
3. River Noyyal is at receiving end of all pollutants from industrial units in the region. Name this town,
units of which are currently involved in a legal tangle with environmental organizations.
4. Whose ad campaign? [Be Stupid]
5. Origin of word meaning Path / route
6. During Warren Buffet s visit to India he was asked If you were to be reborn, what would you like to be
reborn as? . He replied Probably I could be reborn as ___________ s boyfriend .
7. Which company did Chad Hurley & Steve chen recently acquired from Yahoo!?
8. Which international airlines renamed it s airline name in Nigeria as Air Nigeria ?
9. Which country has the Game Rating Board which has legal powers to ban any computer game?
10. World of Diamonds, to choose the price of diamond 4C s are used? Colour, Clarity, Cut & ___
11. Company started in 1887, It s well known credo , a 303 word statement that has helped define
company culture since being crafted in 1943 by founding family descendant is carved in Granite at
company HQ new employees master the credo.
12. Maggi Ad
13. Which Group s entry into finance when Dr.Parvinder singh acquired Empire finance in 1995. Now a
financial super market.
14. When Thomas Wakley founded The ______ in 1823, he announced "A ______ can be an arched
window to let in the light or it can be a sharp surgical instrument to cut out the dross and I intend to
use it in both senses". This philosophy remains at the heart of the journal today. Which Journal?
15. Bank founded in Chennai in 1907 by Krishnaswamy Iyer.
16. Principal sponsors of this Team? [Dutch Cricket Team]
17. Started by Sai Ramakrishna in 1994 in Bangalore world s largest flower exporter
18. Kumaravel is Co-founder & managing director of unisex beauty salon chain, Naturals. He integrated
Naturals with his brother s Limelite, Green Trends under a Chennai based Group. Name it.
19. Trevor Beattie s famous 4 letter fashion brand?
20. Identify them?


21. Founded by Kodandaraman, Chandrasekar, Srinivas in Chennai. They named their company in
tribute to Swami Vivekananda. Identify the company.
22. Started under the leadership of A.K.Gopalan in 1957 restaurant chain with over 400 outlets.
23. The Babylonians developed a system which was practised by early Mediterranean sailing
merchants. If a merchant received a loan to fund his shipment, he would pay the lender an
additional sum in exchange for the lender's guarantee to cancel the loan should the shipment be
stolen or lost at sea. Which concept?
24. Product of Hicks India with baseline The right degree of truth .
25. Initial product name Rocky Soldier / marine , Skip Sailor and Ace Pilot .

Contributed by Ayush Sinha

1. NIC is a premiere S&T institution of the Government of India, established in 1976, for providing e-Governing/e-Governance Solutions adopting best practices, integrated services and global solutions in Government Sector. What does NIC stand for?
National Informatics Centre
2. Metcalfe left Xerox in 1979 to form 3Com . He convinced 3 tech-giants to promote Ethernet as a standard . It was so called DIX. If “D” is for DEC and “X” is for Xerox, then what is it for “I”?
Intel (Not IBM as mentioned in last year’s TCS IT Wiz book)
3. What great innovation was done by August Dvorak and his brother-in-law William Dealey, that is now a historical achievement as of now?(Specific answer required)
Keyboard(Dvorak layout)
4. Identify the logo?
Sony Playstation Move
5. John Walker founded this company with 12 other engineers in 1982, Which aims at providing brilliant 3D design software for use in architecture, engineering and building construction, manufacturing, and media and entertainment. What is the company?
Autodesk
6. It is a semiconductor device used to amplify and switch electronic signals . It was jointly developed by William Shockley, Walter Brattain, John Bardeen. What are we talking about?
Transistor
7.This famous book depicts which great personality in the world of IT?
Alan Turing
8. In computing , X is any small application that performs one specific task that runs within the scope of a larger program , often as a plug-in . What is X?(Options given Applet/Crash/Flog) Applet
9.What is the name of the mascot of Yahoo!Mail?(Hint- Its a cryptic word somewhere in the question)
Liam
10. Ludicorp, a Vancouver -based company, launched in February 2004. It is a video and web hosting site.The service emerged out of tools originally created for Ludicorp's Game Neverending, a web-based massively multiplayer online game .What?
Flickr
11. In 1941, Jorge Luis Borges created a novel based on that style. It is the underlying concept which defined the World Wide Web?
Hypertext
14.This company also called “Integrated Electronics” though initially founded in 1968 ran much popular in 1990s. What significant company are we talking of?
Intel
15.Edwardo Saverin, Dustin Muskovitz, Chris Hughes and one another boy found what significant site in the IT world?
Facebook
16.Acronym as PDF in general. What is the full form?
Portable document format
16. Which cricketer is the brand ambassador of the very popular for Optical and imaging products, Canon?
Sachin Tendulkar
17.This is the old logo of?
Nokia
18. A privately-held, online gaming portal, with browser games in India (services provided Globally), promoted by the Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group's subsidiary company Reliance Big Entertainment. Which is this famous gaming portal?
Zapak
19.Identify.(Clue given-First storage automatic Calculator)
EDSAC
20. Google celebrated this doodle on the 115 th discovery of what in the world?
X-Ray discovery
For visuals visit here

Put Funda.

Put Funda.

Name him.

1. When Takashi Hashiyama, CEO of a Japanese television equipment manufacturer, decided to auction off the collection of impressionist paintings owned by his corporation, including works by Cézanne, Picasso, and van Gogh, he contacted two leading auction houses, Christie's and Sotheby's,seeking their proposals on how they would would maximize profits. Both firms made elaborate proposals, but neither was persuasive enough to get Hashiyama’s business.

Unwilling to split up the collection into separate auctions, Hashiyama asked the firms to decide between themselves who would hold the auction, which included Cézanne's "Large Trees Under the Jas de Bouffan", worth $12–16 million.

The houses were unable to reach a decision. Hashiyama told the two firms to do "X" to decide who would get the rights to the auction, explaining that "it probably looks strange to others, but I believe this is the best way to decide between two things which are equally good". So what did thee houses "Do" to decide who would get the paintings?

2. Maurice Tillet was a French professional wrestler who developed acromegaly, a rare disease that causes bones to grow wildly and uncontrollably. Soon his whole body was disfigured as a result.His form was an inspiration for which character?

3. Mechthild Pierick who hails from a farming community in Reken, Germany is the Superior General of this org.The quality of care offered to terminally ill patients in this org. for the Dying has been criticized in the medical press, notably The Lancet which is considered a pioneer in Medical Journals, which reported the reuse of hypodermic needles, poor living conditions, including the use of cold... baths for all patients, and an approach to illness and suffering that precluded the use of many elements of modern medical care, such as systematic diagnosis. Dr. Robin Fox, editor of The Lancet, described the medical care of this org.as "haphazard", as volunteers without medical knowledge had to make decisions about patient care, because of the lack of doctors. He observed that the org. did not distinguish between curable and incurable patients, so that people who could otherwise survive would be at risk of dying from infections and lack of treatment. .which organization am i talking about?

4. According to Barks' as noted by a TIME article, X is worth one multiplujillion, nine obsquatumatillion, six hundred twenty-three dollars and sixty-two cents.
In the __________ Liquid Assets, Fenton Crackshell (X's accountant) notes that X's money bin contains 607 tillion 386 zillion 947 trillion 522 billion dollars and 36 cents. Don Rosa's the Life and Times of X notes that X amounts to five mult...iplujillion, nine impossibidillion, seven fantasticatrillion dollars and sixteen cents.
Forbes has occasionally tried to estimate X's wealth in real terms; in 2007, Forbes estimated his wealth at $28.8 billion; in 2011, it rose to $44.1 billion due to the rise in gold prices.
One website used the size of X's Money Bin as a basis and calculated that it could contain over $27 trillion.
Barks himself has said that the fortune is five billion quintiplitilion unptuplatillion multuplatillion impossibidillion fantasticatrillion dollars.

identify X

5. Boogie Woogie was the first dance show format to hit Indian Television. It has been entertaining audiences over the past 9 years. Hosted by the popular Film and Television personalities Naved and Ravi, the highlight of the show is Javed Jaffery who is the permanent celebrity judge. Boogie Woogie is the ideal platform to showcase & launch new talent across the cross section of people from all backgrounds, age groups, genders and cities. It is an iconic series, which has attracted celebrities like Esha Deol, Juhi Chawla, Rohit Roy, Mallika Sherawat, Govinda, Prabhudeva, Shefali Zariwala and Aadesh Srivastava as judges to add zeal and enthusiasm to the contest. Who was its South Zone champion in 1995?

Name Him. [A very Big Name in Indian Finance Sector and was also Founder-Chairman of an IIM]

Salman Khan has been roped as the brand ambassador for new US-based factual entertainment channel ‘HISTORY’, which is a joint venture between A+E Networks and TV 18, in India.