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IIM Raipur Quizzing Club presents Answersssssssssssssss 17 th October 2011

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IIM Raipur Quizzing Club presents

Answersssssssssssssss

17th October 2011

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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.

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AKASH

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Question 2Identify the person sitting with Gandhi

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Charlie Chaplin

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Question 3

• Identify this Great American Computer Scientist who said hello to the world.

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DENNIS M. RITCHIE

• Co-creator of the C Programming Language and UNIX operating system.

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Question 4

• Identify

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HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL

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Question 5

• Cupcake, Donut, Éclair, Froyo, ________, Honeycomb, Icecream Sandwich.

• What’s missing?

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GINGERBREAD

• They are names of Android versions

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Question 6

• When there was no electricity, net or computers , how was the Ishinomaki HibiShimbun newspaper brought out after the Japanese earthquake ?

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• They were handwritten.

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Question 7

• Who coined the term Marketing Myopia?

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• Theodre Levitt

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Question 8

• What is the ticker symbol for Apple Inc.?

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AAPL

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Question 9

• What is the tagline of Youtube?

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BROADCAST YOURSELF

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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.

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APP

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Question 11

• Identify this hedge fund trader who was sentenced to 11 years for Insider trading.

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RAJ RAJARATNAM

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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.

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BUTTONWOOD

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Question 13

• Whose tagline is Lifeline to the nation?

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INDIAN RAILWAYS

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Question 14

• Which management term is derived from the Greek word which means "Art of the General"?

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STRATEGY

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Question 15

• What is the name of the renewable energy independent power producer who recently secured equity investment of Rs.1000 crorefrom Goldman Sachs?

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ReNew Wind Power

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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?

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CRISIL

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Question 17

• What are the Bonds that carry low ratings with correspondingly higher yields called?

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JUNK BONDS

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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?

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