TBQ-Tata Crucible Quiz-Current Affairs-Sample-3

Here are two current affairs questions.
1) Identify this personality.
Who is she?
Identify
2) The most valuable piece among the set is Andreas Gursky’s New York Mercantile Exchange 1991 photograph. Others in the collection include Gary Hume’s Madonna, a signed etching by Lucian Freud, and the ship Frankfield off Table Bay by Samuel Walters. Which collection?
Ans1: Cathie Lesjak, interim CEO of HP
Ans2: Works of art that adorned the Lehman offices. They are soon going to be auctioned off.

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TBQ-Tata Crucible Quiz-Current Affairs-Sample-2

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1)  “Pleased, But Not Satisfied” is written and published by – David Sokol who is long considered a possible heir to X.

This is what David has to say on M&A pitfalls: “Someone once said that when a man chooses the women of his dreams and proposes marriage, he does so with the expectation that she will never change. And when a woman selects a man for marriage, she does so after assessing all the things about the man she assumes she can change once they are wed….after the wedding, both realize their assumptions are incorrect.” Who is X
2)      The new consulting service is part of a general trend at Y to solve relevant problems faster. On July 29, Y launched a shorter-term contest that will serve as a model for its corporate contests. In this inaugural challenge, entrepreneurs are being asked to develop better technology to skim oil off of the surface of ocean water. The purse is smaller — the winner of the Challenge will get $1.4 million — and the competition will end in a year. What is Y?
3)      The franchise has been sold to a group led by Hall of Fame pitcher and Nolan Ryan and Pittsburgh lawyer Chuck Greenberg. This baseball team was owned by Liverpool FC Co-owners Tom Hicks & George Gillett. Name this team which was owned by a group led by former US President George W Bush in the early 1990s before he became governor of Texas.

Ans:

1: X is Warren buffett. Sokol is chief executive of Berkshire’s MidAmerican Energy Holdings , a large utility with $12.7 billion in annual revenues and 16,800

2: Y is ‘X Prize’  and  the X Challenge,

3: Texas Rangers Baseball team

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