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This company dates back to 1764 when a young Scot named John set foot on the shores of Mumbai. In search of a living, John was destined to lay the foundations of the company in India. The port of Mumbai had already gained renown as the doorway to India. It was in this background that a young Scot walked the deck of the trader ship, the ‘Asia’, carrying with him fifty bolts of canvas as merchandise.

In 1903, it merged with Ritchie Stuart & Company. In 1957, the Tata group came in when a bulk of its stake was divested.
In 1992, <<<A>>> Campbell & Company was amalgamated with <<<B>>> Patel Volkart, and was rechristened as <<<AB>>>. In 2001, the Tatas exited this company. Name it.

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Answer: <<<AB>>>= Forbes Gokak | Forbes & Company

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TBQ Classic Sample #5

1) In the spring of 1846, Moses Yale Beach (1800-68), publisher of The New York Sun, established a pony express to deliver news of the Mexican War. His pony express carried dispatches ahead of the Great Southern Mail from Mobile to Montgomery, Alabama, where the mail coaches carried them 700 miles to the nearest telegraph point near Richmond, Virginia. In offering an equal interest in the express venture to the major New York City daily papers (four of whom accepted), Beach effectively organized this institution. Name it.

Ans: The Associated Press

2) The idea to form one company out of a union of various construction and engineering firms came from Harry Morrison of the Morrison-Knudsen construction firm of Boise, Idaho. Morrison had forged a profitable working relationship with Utah Construction and decided they, too, should be in on the Black Canyon — as it was called at the time — project. Added to the mix was Charlie Shea, a seat-of-the-pants builder of tunnels and sewers.
Half a million was just the amount Shea pledged toward the performance bond. Along with his colorful and boisterous personality, Shea possessed the necessary skills and connections to further the project. He enlisted the interest of the Pacific Bridge Company and Felix Kahn of the San Francisco firm, MacDonald and Kahn. Meanwhile, Harry Kaiser, an ambitious young road builder from Oakland, California, and his mentor Warren A. Bechtel, a powerful old-line San Francisco contractor had become interested in the project. Kaiser’s experience in the working world extended back to when he dropped out of school at age 11. The elder Bechtel had developed an admiration for Kaiser’s work ethic and drive. It was Bechtel who suggested that he and Kaiser join forces with the alliance being formed by Harry Morrison. Felix Kahn coined the name for this alliance.

It was constructed between 1931 and 1936 during the Great Depression, and was dedicated on September 30, 1935.
Name the structure and the alliance.

Ans: Hoovers Dam | Six Companies

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TBQ Classic Sample #4

1) In late 19th century Bombay, the mill workers were men whose families stayed back in their villages. To begin with, employers accommodated these workers in specially constructed accomodations near the mills. Modelled after army barracks, each building had three floors. Every floor contained rooms, each given over to one person, and a common toilet. With the rapid increase in the number of mills, the rooms were often occupied by several people. Eventually, families of workers began to migrate to Bombay, and each room in such a building would have to accommodate the whole family. What were these buildings called?
Ans: Chawl
2) Malana, a tiny, mysterious village in Himachal Pradesh, supposedly inhabited by descendants of Alexander’s army,produces Malana Cream- the world’s best of its kind. What?
Ans: Hashish

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TBQ Classic Sample #3

1) Identify this international agency that was established on November 10, 1999 after a scandal rocked Tour de France. This agency was the result of the initiative taken by IOC to convene a conference, first of the kind, in Lausanne in February 1999.

Identify the logo.

2) An Electrical Engineer from Kerala, Kalyanaraman was working as a junior engineer at Batliboi in Mumbai when the entrepreneurial bug bit him. Soon he was a small distributor of ‘Vape’, a brand in a niche category. Later, he started a venture which launched its flagship brand in 1984 with a tie-up with Sumitomo Chemicals of Japan. This company and its brands were later acquired by Godrej. How do we better know this personality who is behind Shogun Organics and Shogun Films, a movie production company?

From Left to Right: Padmarajan(Malayalam director), Nitish Bharadwaj, Kalyanaranan

3) Which group traces its origins to 1783 when James founded a sugar cooperage and brokerage at 23 Harp Lane in the City of London? In 1784, the company won the exclusive contract to supply rum to the Royal Navy (a franchise the Company retains until 1970). In 2000, the company demerged its the agricultural commodities business and is now amongst the world’s largest providers of hedge funds and alternative investment solutions.

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Ans1: World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA)

The scandal was a doping scandal. The conference: First World Conference on Doping in Sport

Ans2: R Mohan or Goodknight Mohan -the man behind Goodknight mosquito repellents.Vape was a mosquito repellent mat brand. The venture was called Transelektra Domestic Products.

Ans3: Man Group founded by James Man

TBQ Classic Sample #2

1) It did not make sense for the farmers of Maharashtra to use canal water during ordinary years; they relied on rain water and used the canals only during famine. This was not what the government had in mind-they had plans of generating revenue from canal usage. The solution was found in a certain crop that consumed ten times the water of a seasonal subsistence crop and needed irrigation through out the year. This idea and the revenue generating system called ___ block system came from Sir Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya, then executive engineer for irrigation of Pune district. Thanks to this cultivation, the area under this crop multiplied manifold during the early 20th century. Which crop?

2) John left Sweden in 1887 and landed in New York. He ended up working in mines and logging camps. He went to Alaska when he read about the Gold rush there and came back to Seattle after earning $13,000. Name the business he started with Carl Wallin in 1901.

3)This law states that under some conditions, it is rational for competitors to make their products as nearly identical as possible. Name this law named after an American economist.

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Ans1: Sugarcane

Ans2: Nordstrom-Founded by John W. Nordstrom(pic)

Ans3: Hotelling’s Law named after Harold Hotelling (1895-1973)

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TBQ Classic Sample #1

1) What was ‘doing a Mysore’ in Rolls Royce’ parlance?

2) This premier industrial R&D organization in India was constituted in 1942 by a resolution of the then Central Legislative Assembly. Khwaja Hamied, the founder of CIPLA drew the blueprint for this publicly funded industrial research body. Which premier organization is this?

3) As per the Venetian Decree of 1474,any person who in the city of Venice made a new or ingenious device and registered it at the Office of the Provededori de Commun (municipal registrars) secured the privilege that consisted in all other persons being prohibited from making another device identical or similar to it for a period of ten years. This is usually agreed upon as the origin of _____. What?

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Ans1: The Maharaja of Mysore always purchased Rolls-Royce cars in sevens. The company lore calls it ‘doing a Mysore’.

Ans2: CSIR (Council of Scientific and Industrial Research)

Ans3 : Patent laws

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TBQ Quickie #7

1) He was born in Tasgaon in Satara District of Maharashtra on December 21, 1903 and had to face abject poverty in his early life. He gave up his education and left for Mumbai in 1920. He started “Deccan Motor Agency” in Girgaon and later got into plastic industry-a rising sector during those times. At least some of you would have seen VHS tapes made by them. Unfortunately, the group has lost its past glory. Identify the person, a staunch Gandhian and the group he founded?

Ans1: Bhalchandra Digamber Garware | Garware Group of Industries

2) In 1880 near Dusseldorf Germany, Joseph was born to a prize-winning gymnast father and a mother who subscribed to naturopath forms of healing. Inspite of suffering through lot of ailments in his childhood, by the age of fourteen, he had sculpted his physique to such an extent that he was posing for anatomical charts. He trained the Scotland Yard and later police officers in Hamburg. Identify this person whose remarkable method of physical and mental wellness is popular even today.

Ans: Joseph Pilates of Pilates

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TBQ Quickie #6

He was Chairman of Hesco Bastion Ltd, the world leading manufacturer of protective barriers. He is perhaps best known for his charity work with Help for Heroes and the Leeds Community Foundation. Identify this personality who died recently.

Ans: Jimi Heselden OBE,his company Hesco Bastion owns Segway

He died in a tragic accident recently.

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