2. • On last day at school, X’s headmaster told him that he would
either end up in prison or become a millionaire.
• He founded a US space company in which passengers
including Stephen Hawking, Tom Hanks, Angelina Jolie etc.
have paid to book a two-hour journey into space on
SpaceShipTwo, which would include a planned five minutes
of weightlessness.
• Identify X.
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4. • Shaadi.com launched this game to raise awareness against
dowry harassment in India. Game is based on one of the
highly successful app created by Rovio Entertainment.
• Identify the game.
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6. • X, a technology giant recently acquired Y for an undisclosed
amount. Y is a leading commercial provider of software &
services of an open source programming language R, used
for statistical computing and predictive analysis.
• Identify X and Y.
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8. • A Padma Bhushan awardee for contribution to CSR, X is the
Chairperson of the Aditya Birla Group Centre for
Community Initiatives and Rural Development, and
oversees the Group's social and welfare driven work across
30 companies.
• Identify X.
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12. • A Bangalore based missed call start-up was acquired by
Twitter in a deal for about $ 30 million this year. It
specialises in helping people without smartphones to
access online content.
• Identify the company.
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16. • One of the world’s largest fast food restaurants entered
India with announcement “GREAT NEWS – The WHOPPER
IS COMING SOON TO INDIA!”.
• Identify.
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18. • Shiv Nagar, a village in Muzzafarnagar district of UP had
water scarcity problem which was solved by a company by
installing series of hand pumps in June 2011. As a token of
gratitude villagers named their village after the name of that
company.
• What is the new name of Shiv Nagar?
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20. • Making it one of the largest media deals in India, RIL
acquired majority control of Raghav Bahl owned company X
in a 4,000 crore rupee takeover deal, a strategic move for
RIL which is going to launch its 4G network soon.
• X′s CEO, CFO and COO quit in the days preceding
announcement.
• Identify X.
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• Coca-Cola is advertising a product X, which is a giant,
human-sized, Coke-red dog collar. This gizmo will possibly
stop/cure your Social-Media Addiction.
• Identify X.
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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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25. • Papa John’s International
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26. • In 1896, Karol Adamiecki, a management researcher
invented a noble means of displaying inter dependent
processes so as to enhance visibility of production
schedules.
• In 1903, his theory created a stir in Russian technical
circles.
• Name the theory which later gained popularity in the west.
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27. • Adamiecki’s Chart – popularized by Henry Gantt and now
commonly referred as Gantt chart.
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28. • Name the corporate takeover method by which a third party
poses as a White Knight to gain trust but then turns around
and joins hand with unfriendly bidders.
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29. • Lady Macbeth Strategy
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30. • An Ashoka fellow, X grew up working in his father’s small
sweet shop in Agartala. X completed his master's degree in
statistics from Dhaka University.
• X registered his NGO and started lending money to small
and marginal women entrepreneurs in areas not served by
banks.
• Identify X.
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32. • The launch of which brand was supported by an advertising
campaign featuring 250,000 brightly coloured rubber balls
bouncing down on a San Francisco street.
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34. • Which Airline is the main sponsor of Arsenal FC of the EPL
and had its name on Arsenal new stadium until 2014.
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36. • “Grow up to ____________” was a successful campaign of which
beverage that focused on the strength of the drink hoping
that the depiction as an adult drink will appeal to young
consumers.
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38. • X is the founding board member and one of the first
investors of Google.
• X runs an organization Sherpalo that says, for company
leaders it is invaluable to have an experienced Sherpa to
share the load and make success come a little easier.
• Who is X?
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40. • Emil Jellinek commissioned a race car and wanted this car
to be named after his daughter which later became the
brand name of a famous German automobile company.
• Identify the automobile company.
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42. • In 1930, Mumbai police implicated a top industrialist from
Mumbai when the brother of the famous cricketer HD Kanga
died in a car accident. The police filed a charge that they
were racing at that time. This industrialist sold the car
because of harassment even after the case was dismissed.
• Name the person and the car he sold off.
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44. • X, a Japanese multinational conglomerate shares its name
with a Japanese city located on Pacific Ocean coast which
means “Sunrise”.
• Identify X.
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46. • Monisha Kaltenborn born in Dehradun is the first female
team principal in Formula 1.
• Identify the Swiss F1 team in which she holds 33.3 % stake
and acts as CEO.
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48. • 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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50. • X is a “fast casual North Indian restaurant serving fresh food
devoid of artificial additives” at the “just right for me” price
point.
• X was started by two techies from North India to serve the
vegetarian meal needs of North Indian immigrants by
opening their first store in Bangalore and then expanding to
Hyderabad, Chennai & Pune etc.
• Identify X.
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