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• On last day at school, X’s headmaster told him that he wouldeither end up in prison or become a millionaire.
• He founded a US space company in which passengersincluding Stephen Hawking, Tom Hanks, Angelina Jolie etc.have paid to book a two-hour journey into space onSpaceShipTwo, which would include a planned five minutesof weightlessness.
• Identify X.
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• Richard Branson
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• Shaadi.com launched this game to raise awareness againstdowry harassment in India. Game is based on one of thehighly successful app created by Rovio Entertainment.
• Identify the game.
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• Angry Brides
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• X, a technology giant recently acquired Y for an undisclosedamount. Y is a leading commercial provider of software &services of an open source programming language R, usedfor statistical computing and predictive analysis.
• Identify X and Y.
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• X- Microsoft
• Y- Revolution Analytics
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• A Padma Bhushan awardee for contribution to CSR, X is theChairperson of the Aditya Birla Group Centre forCommunity Initiatives and Rural Development, andoversees the Group's social and welfare driven work across30 companies.
• Identify X.
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• Rajashree Birla
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• Mughal-e-Azam, a movie released in 1960 was produced bythis business tycoon.
• Identify.
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• Shapoorji Pallonji
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• A Bangalore based missed call start-up was acquired byTwitter in a deal for about $ 30 million this year. Itspecialises in helping people without smartphones toaccess online content.
• Identify the company.
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• ZipDial
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• Identify the first service company which won MalcolmBaldrige Award.
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• Fedex
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• One of the world’s largest fast food restaurants enteredIndia with announcement “GREAT NEWS – The WHOPPERIS COMING SOON TO INDIA!”.
• Identify.
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• Burger King
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• Shiv Nagar, a village in Muzzafarnagar district of UP hadwater scarcity problem which was solved by a company byinstalling series of hand pumps in June 2011. As a token ofgratitude villagers named their village after the name of thatcompany.
• What is the new name of Shiv Nagar?
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• Snapdeal.com Nagar
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• Making it one of the largest media deals in India, RILacquired majority control of Raghav Bahl owned company Xin a 4,000 crore rupee takeover deal, a strategic move forRIL which is going to launch its 4G network soon.
• X′s CEO, CFO and COO quit in the days precedingannouncement.
• Identify X.
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• Network 18
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11• Coca-Cola is advertising a product X, which is a giant,
human-sized, Coke-red dog collar. This gizmo will possiblystop/cure your Social-Media Addiction.
• Identify X.
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11• Social Media Guard
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• Om Pizza & Eats Pvt. Ltd, the Indian franchisee of company X acquired the local rival Pizza Corner to become the third-largest pizza chain in India, after Domino's and Pizza Hut.
• Identify X.
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• Papa John’s International
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• In 1896, Karol Adamiecki, a management researcherinvented a noble means of displaying inter dependentprocesses so as to enhance visibility of productionschedules.
• In 1903, his theory created a stir in Russian technicalcircles.
• Name the theory which later gained popularity in the west.
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• Adamiecki’s Chart – popularized by Henry Gantt and nowcommonly referred as Gantt chart.
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• Name the corporate takeover method by which a third partyposes as a White Knight to gain trust but then turns aroundand joins hand with unfriendly bidders.
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• Lady Macbeth Strategy
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• An Ashoka fellow, X grew up working in his father’s smallsweet shop in Agartala. X completed his master's degree instatistics from Dhaka University.
• X registered his NGO and started lending money to smalland marginal women entrepreneurs in areas not served bybanks.
• Identify X.
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• Chandrashekhar Ghosh
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• The launch of which brand was supported by an advertisingcampaign featuring 250,000 brightly coloured rubber ballsbouncing down on a San Francisco street.
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• Sony Bravia
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• Which Airline is the main sponsor of Arsenal FC of the EPLand had its name on Arsenal new stadium until 2014.
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• Emirates Airlines
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• “Grow up to ____________” was a successful campaign of whichbeverage that focused on the strength of the drink hopingthat the depiction as an adult drink will appeal to youngconsumers.
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• Thums Up
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• X is the founding board member and one of the firstinvestors of Google.
• X runs an organization Sherpalo that says, for companyleaders it is invaluable to have an experienced Sherpa toshare the load and make success come a little easier.
• Who is X?
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• Kavitark Ram Shriram
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• Emil Jellinek commissioned a race car and wanted this carto be named after his daughter which later became thebrand name of a famous German automobile company.
• Identify the automobile company.
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• Mercedes Benz
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• In 1930, Mumbai police implicated a top industrialist fromMumbai when the brother of the famous cricketer HD Kangadied in a car accident. The police filed a charge that theywere racing at that time. This industrialist sold the carbecause of harassment even after the case was dismissed.
• Name the person and the car he sold off.
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• JRD Tata
• Bugatti
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• X, a Japanese multinational conglomerate shares its namewith a Japanese city located on Pacific Ocean coast whichmeans “Sunrise”.
• Identify X.
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• Hitachi
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• Monisha Kaltenborn born in Dehradun is the first femaleteam principal in Formula 1.
• Identify the Swiss F1 team in which she holds 33.3 % stakeand acts as CEO.
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• Sauber
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• Wanda Cinema Line of the Dalian Wanda Group was “Asia’s largest” cinema operator. Following the merger with United States-based cinema operator AMC Theatres it claims to be the world’s largest cinema operator.
• The Dalian Wanda Group now plans to open traditional brick and mortar retail outlets for company X.
• Identify X.
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• Alibaba
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• X is a “fast casual North Indian restaurant serving fresh fooddevoid of artificial additives” at the “just right for me” pricepoint.
• X was started by two techies from North India to serve thevegetarian meal needs of North Indian immigrants byopening their first store in Bangalore and then expanding toHyderabad, Chennai & Pune etc.
• Identify X.
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• Mast Kalandar
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