1. This term is derived from Latin words ‘com’ meaning together and ‘merx’ meaning goods. – Commerce
2. A type of buyout wherein an investor, typically financial sponsor, acquires a controlling interest in a company’s equity and where a significant percentage of the purchase price is financed through borrowing. –Leveraged Buyout
3. Which bank was instrumental in starting the Preatham Grameen Bank. An initiative to spread banking to rural India. – Syndicate Bank
4. Print ad with caption ‘Every supermodel’s favourite airline’ (The hint given was the text font) – Indigo
Despite the fact that the meal itself seems to be a recent invention, the actual term “X” may be a bit older. The OED has found that the term dates back to at least 1837, with its earliest printed reference being found in the “Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott” by John G. Lockhart. Although the earliest known exact reference to seems to have appeared in the April, 1958, issue of The Times.
“X” consists of a platter of food which contains, at a minimum, bread, cheese, and pickled vegetables, typically onions. Usually other additions such as a green salad are included, along with apples, pickled eggs and beetroot, or even things like pate. The name and ingredients of the “X” are meant to evoke a bygone era.
The movie, “X,” is some kind of studied analysis of the media world in Margaret Thatcher’s England during the time of the Falkland Wars. The movie makes the claim that the “X” was actually an invention of a marketing campaign to encourage people to eat in pubs, not an eat-cheese campaign run by the Milk Marketing Board. Some believe “X” was actually the product of a marketing campaign organized by the Milk Marketing Board in the 1960s, the objective of which was to convince more people to eat cheese. What’s X?
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New Regency Enterprises, an LA based TV and film productio company was founded by Arnon Milchan & Joseph P. Grace.
Confidential is Arnon Milchan’s biography.
He has a partnership with NewsCorp which owns part of New Regency
He reportedly worked for Mossad
He produced the movie, Pretty Woman
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1)English singer/composer, brain child behind rocket record co. in 1972. Has a unique record, they are the only co. that has a trade mark to a song , that was sung only once in public?
2) Which former airhostess was Lakme’s first Indian model?
3) Which co. did Sunil Mittal get into an agreement in 1983 to manufacture the co’s push button telephone models for the Indian market? Later the co. went onto forge alliance with Nokia.
4)Picture of this famous Huge Entrepreneur.
5)Whose Tagline goes “ No Flavour Finer” The product carries a G I Tag and makes India proud?
6) The Vanilla Beans are used in the Ice Cream Industry. Which Country produces 80% of the world’s Vanilla Beans output?(Clue – Children will know from Cartoons)
7) On 5th April 2011, who announced about his new IT Venture “Happiest Minds Technologies Pvt Ltd” ?
8)Picture of a Logo – whose? (Probably the Toughest question- QM)
9) What term now used in media comes from the name given by the London based pharmaceutical company Burroughs Well Co to the compressed Tablets ?
10) Which Asian Country with Voice based revenues of $ 5.70 Billion has overtaken India as the Call centre capital of the world ?
11) Who is the main Holding company of LMVH, owning 42.38% of its Shares and 59.30% of its Voting rights? (Clue – Huge Brand)
12)From the Education Sector. Old Company. Whose Logo?
13) First example of an Indian company hiring a local face to endorse its brand exclusively in another Country. Dabur has roped in which Pakistani cricketer for its brand – Hajmola?
14) Which nation gets its top level internet domain as .Ch ?
15) He has donated a majority of his company’s shares to M.I.T to fulfill his desire. Under the terms of the Gift, M.I.T cannot sell its shares & will not participate in its management or governance of the Company but can get annual dividend on its shares. Identify this gentleman.? (Huge Indian name)
16)Arabian Logo . Identify ? (New tourism destination in the middle east. Did not get effected by the recession)
17) Logo – Identify ? (Local Company)
18) Which electronic commerce company would be associated with Andrew Mason?
19) This Company is recognized as India’s biggest chain of Family Clubs by the Limca book of world records. They boast of having around 600 corporate members including Microsoft, Brooke bond Lipton, CMC,etc…..
Winners: Arun Thomas Abraham and Ranjith K Wilson ( Malayala Manorama )
Runners ups- Vishal Vighnesh and Arun Kumar (Swadisht Foods, Bangalore)
Here are some of the questions, via Anil Raghavan. For prelims-click here.
1)US Census of 1890: Earlier census used to take 7years. This was cut down to 3months by an invention by company. What/ Who?
Ans: Hollerith’s punching cards-IBM
2)Started by Italian brothers -part of the brand name means ‘rock’ in French
Ans: Ferrero Rocher
3)Visual of an Indian- created which brand
Ans: Khambatta of Rasna
4)The icon created by artpaul got difft.connotation etc
Asn4: Playboy bunny
5)Some visual on Qr code
6)Connect on UB group-pegasus,kissan brandname etc
7)Connect q on Petronas-unheard of brands,with cesarpelli the architect
8)Question on clue round about Cathay Pacific.
8)q on clue abt st.gobain glass founder.manorama answered on first clue.would have really burned midnight oil on brand origin
9)Some retail funda tested in supermarkets by French company- Reynolds
10)Visual on Godiva brand
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With this credit, you can obtain an advance on a current account by pledging to the Bank your assets constituted and deposited on your account. It applies both to assets currently deposited in your account and to those which will be deposited in the future. The Bank determines the maximum rate that can be advanced for each negotiable security deposited. This value is set on the basis of the quality of your portfolio. How do we better know this credit that is named after a region in Italy and a transaction that derived its name from that name?
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1) His father, born in Mangalore, India, in 1910, was orphaned young and rose to become a respected principal of the posh Hyderabad Public School, India’s Upper Canada College. He was born in Hyderabad in 1950 and eventually attended the elite school, where he was an outsider, one of the few boys who didn’t come from a rich or aristocratic family.
After high school, he gained admission to the prestigious chemical engineering program at the Indian Institute of Technology. He didn’t want the plodding life of a chemical engineer, so his father encouraged him to take his chances in Canada, where his brother was already working. He decided to move to London, Ontario, where he enrolled in the MBA program at Western, selling air conditioners and furnaces to pay his way through.
He is the CEO and chairman of Fairfax Financial Holdings Limited which he founded in 1985. That first year the company took in $12 million in revenue. Twenty-five years later it was up to $8 billion, and the stock had gone up 120 times. That’s good for a 23 percent annual stock return. He predicted the crash of ’87, the Japanese collapse of 1990 and last year’s meltdown, which he parlayed into a huge payoff. Who is this ‘Canadian Warren Buffet’?
2) X was initiated in 1971 to address the colonial legacy of economic imbalance between the ethnic Chinese and the majority Malays, two-thirds of whom were left in poverty. The Malay could produce the necessary licence, while the Chinese would actually run the business. The arrangement was known as YZ, Y being the Malay and Z being the Chinese.
3) The French writer Guy de Maupassant liked to eat lunch in the restaurant situated in this structure because he hated the structure, and it was the only place he could not see it. He really hated it: “A high and skinny pyramid of iron ladders, this giant ungainly skeleton upon a base that looks built to carry a colossal monument of Cyclops, but just peters out into a ridiculous thin shape like a factory chimney.” Name this hated structure.
4) This is a public Limited Company promoted by the Khemka Group with the primary objective of promoting wind energy with Ravi Prakash Khemka as Chairman. They have had businesses across sectors. They ran an agro business, textile venture, an airline, owned a TV channel among other things. How do we know this company, and expand those letters ?
5) S & R Games is Selchow & Righter Co., founded in 1867 by Elisha Selchow, who originally called his game wholesale company E.G. Selchow & Co. Early on Selchow obtained the rights to sell “X”, The Royal Game of India in 1874, making it one of the oldest American game trademarks.
In 1880 Selchow partnered with John Righter and the name of the company changed to Selchow and Righter Co.. The company remained in the wholesale business, as ‘jobbers’ selling games from other companies, until sometime after the death of both Selchow and Righter in the early 1900s.
Selchow and Righter became a steady producer of games, but didn’t develop another game so popular that it could really be called a classic like “X” — until “Y”.
Selchow & Righter were first presented with the game “Y”, first called Lexiko then Criss Cross Words, by its creator “Z”, an unemployed architect, in 1949. When Selchow & Righter passed, “Z” sold the rights to entrepreneur and game-lover James Brunot instead. But when Brunot and his wife couldn’t keep up with the demand for the game, Selchow & Righter took over production of the game in 1952. In 1983, S & R Games acquired “W”.That game became one of the best selling games of the century, and in the second half of ’83, S & R sold 1.5 million “W” games — increasing the company’s previous revenues threefold
Selchow & Righter was sold to “V” (“V” famous for its Cabbage patch Kids dolls). Just seven months later “V” went bankrupt and was taken over by “U”. (Which is how “W” ended up under the Parker Brothers name in 1988.) End of Story. Crack the alphabets.
6) Hitting London, New York, Los Angeles, Miami, Rome and Milan over the coming weeks, it’s an ambitious undertaking which could revolutionise the way the art world works. Launched in NYC on Independence Day (July 4) the project got off to an eye-catching start by projecting a 200ft high flame shooting from the Statue of Liberty’s torch. The next phase of the scheme launches in Italy today, where green boxes (designed by Jason Bruges) will appear. After downloading the green box app, passers-by can view the artists’ visions come to life in front of them with moving images filtered through their smartphones, IPads or android devices.
The initial set of 30 boxes will showcase some top-quality creatives, including Bompas &Parr, Kate MccGwire, UVA and Petra Storrs. Overseen by Grammy-award-winning producer Sam Speigel and photographer Nick Knight, the plan is to create 1,000 more green boxes over the next 12 months. The company wants creatives around the world to come up with ideas and is stressing that although the cubes may measure just two metres by three metres, the possibilities are limited only by the participants’ imaginations.
Which company is behind this Green Box Project?
7) An increase in educational levels and the ability to communicate in English among Indian women in the late ’50s provided a suitable atmosphere for English-language women’s magazines to evolve and thrive. It was in this environment that Trend, a lifestyles magazine that catered to women, emerged and this magazine belonged to the ___ weekly group. The editor of Trend, Frene Talyarkhan, had a fall out with the group and she, along with Indu Sen, started another magazine called Flair. Soon the magazine was bought out by a major publishing group and relaunched in a new avatar. How do we know this magazine now?
8) [Tata Question] It was established as the Family Planning Foundation in 1970 by a group of socially committed industrialists led by Mr J.R.D. Tata and Dr Bharat Ram. Early in the 1970s, the foundation sought to promote, through research and demonstration projects, family planning among needy couples to usher in the small family norm in the country. How do we know this institution now?
9) Feminine hygiene ?!
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Tata Aircraft, whose main wartime activities were the assembly, repair and maintenance of military aircraft, were appointed the sole selling agents of the of the GOI for the disposal of surplus American goods lying at former American air bases in Bengal, Assam, the United Provinces and Sind. Tata Aircraft took over these goods and arranged for their disposal. Who was the Director-in-Charge of this company then?
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Sir Ghulam Mohammed (Founder of Mahindra & Mahindra, former finance minister of Pakistan)
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