ROUND 1

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In 1948 Bernard Silver (192463), a graduate student at Drexel Institute of Technology in Philadelphia, USA overheard the president of a local food chain asking one of the deans to research for a system to that could help their shops.
Silver told his friend Norman Joseph Woodland (1921-) about the request, and they started working on a variety of systems. After lots of failed attempts, he got inspiration from the Morse Code. What does he design?

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The First Barcode

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The first was built with borrowed wood near Pasadena by two brothers, who wanted to pursue a career in Hollywood. There is one at the North Pole, and a floating one on a steamer at St. Louis. What are we talking about?

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Mc Donalds

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Identify the movie: It is a ultra cool career for all smart people blocked from entering medical, engineering or business schools by brainless entrance exams. It is everything he dreamt of, with smooth dressing, smoother talking men...

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Rocket Singh Salesman of the year!

Identify the man in the picture below.

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A. S. Murthy: The new CEO of Satyam

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What was the company founded by these three exPayPal employees?

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Jawed Karim

Steve Chen

Chad Hurley

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Which brand gets its name from a Biblical Hero who had his strength in his long hair?

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Samsonite

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This company whose name literally means crossroads in English is the worlds largest hypermarket chain in terms of size, second largest in terms of revenue and third largest in terms of profit

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Carrefour

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This product was carried as a nutritional supplement when the British troops landed on the beaches of Normandy in World War 2?

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Complan

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He has an M.A. in economics from Madras University, hold a Ph. D from Osmania University, a Diploma in Economic Planning from the Institute of Social Studies, Netherlands and is Honorary Fellow of the London School of Economics. Identify him. He is an IAS officer who served as the Governer of the Reserve Bank of India from the year 2003 to 2008.

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Y. Venugopal Reddy

LATERAL THINKING
ROUND 2

What connects and why?

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Gmail Before its acquisition by Google, the gmail.com domain name was used by a free e-mail service offered by Garfield.com, online home of the comic strip Garfield. The Gmail project initially was known by the code name Caribou, a reference to a Dilbert comic strip about Project Caribou. It was released on April 1st 2004.

What is happening here?

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Ram Gopal Varmas Road Tata Safari 3 Idiots Volvo XC90 R Design

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One word.

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Nano

He was a follower of Mahatma Gandhi's brand of Indian nationalism. His family chipped in to send him to study chemistry in England, India's colonial master, in 1924.
Instead, he changed ships and went to Humboldt Germany, then the world's leader in his subject. On a Berlin lake, he met a Lithuanian Jewish socialist whom he later married. They fled as Germany was shifting into Nazi hands and founded this company in the year 1935. Which company?

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The Chemical, Industrial & Pharmaceutical Laboratories, CIPLA Founder of Cipla is Khwaja Abdul Hamied

In 1999, this brand was banned in America ostensibly because child labor was used to produce them. The fight against the widespread use of this by teenagers began in California in May when a study found that they were sold by scores of shops without age identification. The study also found that Brand was hugely popular in America and 70% of them did not contain warning label or tax paid stamps. The alarming factor was that it was becoming very hip for the teenagers to use them. What?

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Mangalore Ganesha Beedis

Grabbler, a word-building game conceived by iPlay Social, was declared the winning application among the 100 applications submitted by developers across India. Who started this developer contest?

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Facebook invited its Indian developers to design and deliver innovative Facebook applications and Facebook Connect Integration.

N.Gopal Holla, a great cook was in charge of the food catering in the Udupi mutt during the paryaya festival where there would be as many as 25,000 people present for the temple meal. This is when he created this munchy in 1949. This munchy is the favourite evening snack in these parts and its neighbouring areas as well as all over Karnataka. Name the food item?

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Goli Baje (Mangalore Bajji)

AUDIENCE QUESTION

It lasts 200 days for an average family of five, uses a combination of paddy husk ash and tiny silver particles. The company can afford to produce the this on the cheap because India produces 20 million tons of paddy husk ash each year as a byproduct of rice milling. What are we talking about?

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Tata Swach, their new water purifying filter

Brands owned by which company?

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ITC

ENTREPRENEUR ROUND
ROUND - 3

The founder of The Body Shop, one of the world's most successful retailers of cosmetics and related products. She is also known as one of the most outspoken social activists in the business world Who is this

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Anitha Roddick

Born in a small town in Mississippi in 1954 and raised in Nashville, Tennessee,she began her career in broadcasting at age 17 at radio station WVOL. By 19, she was anchoring the news at WTFV-TV, both the the first AfricanAmerican woman and the youngest person ever to do so. In 1984, She relocated to Chicago to host AM Chicago which has become the highest-rated talk show in TV history

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Oprah Winfrey

Born in England in 1950, he was an entrepreneur from the start. With two failed endeavors (growing Christmas trees and raising budgerigars) already under his belt, by the age of 16, this serial entrepreneur had begun his first successful company (a student magazine) and was on his way to extraordinary success. By the age of 20, he had founded a small mail order record retailer called Virgin, and shortly thereafter, he opened a record shop on Oxford Street in London.

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Richard Branson

He was not the inventor of the automobile, but his innovations in assembly-line techniques and the introduction of standardized interchangeable parts contributed to making the United States a nation of motorists and produced the first mass-production vehicle manufacturing plant.

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Henry Ford

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He was born on February 1965, started the road to success out of his University of Texas room in 1984 with just $1,000 and an idea to provide affordable personal computers to college students. He also innovated PC manufacturing by developing a process to mass-produce individually made-to-order computers. In 1992 He became the youngest CEO ever to earn a ranking on the Fortune 500. He has also been recognized "Entrepreneur of the Year" by Inc. magazine, "Man of the Year" by PC magazine, "Top CEO in American Business" by Worth magazine, and "CEO of the Year" by Financial World and Industry Week.

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Michael Dell, Chairman and CEO Dell Computer Corp

DRY ROUND - 4
CLOCKWISE +10 ON A DIRECT +5 ON PASS FAIRPLAY (+10 IF CORRECT & -5 IF INCORRECT)

_______ Techwin is a Asain aeronautics, optoelectronics, automations and defense company.It is currently the world's third largest digital camera manufacturer.It is one of the subsidiaries of ______ Group.The company established precision instrument laboratory in 1978.It started making cameras in 1979 and is still a world leader today.It acquired Rollei, a German camera manufacturer, and Union Optics of Japan, a manufacturer of semiconductor equipments. Began selling digital cameras under the brand of ______ Kenox in 1997.In 2005, the company marked first place in Asian digital cameras market share and started a technical co-operation with Pentax.It will now be a conjoined partnership with ______ Electrics. Where its latest CCTV Cameras and Digital Imaging technology is then passed on for further products.

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SAMSUNG

___ sponsors the Indian derby In September 2007___ joined Epic Aircraft as a strategic partner. On March 06, 2009 Ms. Sonia lied to the nation that __ participated in the auction for Gandhi's personal items on Congress Government's behalf which ___ himself rubbished the same day

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Vijay Mallya

Received her Bachelor's Degree in Economics from LSR at the University of Delhi MBA at the Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies at Bombay University Started her career with Voltas Ltd In 1980 she joined Cadbury India She is considered responsible for the lauch of Rasna The Coca-Cola Company chose her as its worldwide Marketing Director in 1994

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Vinita Bali,CEO Britannia.

CV Madhukar concurrently helped set up the X(A NGO), an initiative of ______. The initiative combines technology & rural India. In 2005 he won the Faraday Medal.It is a medal awarded by the Institution of Electrical Engineers. He studied in St. Mary's School,Mumbai The Kamla Bhatt Show has included interviews with _____ at the New York Stock Exchange. _____ is one among the famous residents of Breach Candy is a niche up-market residential and semicommercial locality of South Mumbai. In July 2004 ____ threatened to pull his company out of the city unless there was a drastic improvement in infrastructure over the next few years, stating "We do not see the situation improving in the near future"

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Azim Premji

ROUND 5

MIXED BAG
Anti-clockwise
Correct on a Direct Incorrect on a Direct Not a passable round + 10 -5

PUNCHLINE
Brand Ambassadors

LOGOS

CEOS
WATCH ME CATCH ME

Unscramble

PUNCHLINES

 We Make the Things that Make India Proud

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L&T

 There's no Better Way to Fly

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Air Lufthansa

High Performance. Delivered

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Accenture

karo jyada ka irada

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 Max life insurance

 The World's Local Bank

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 HSBC

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The World's Networking Company

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 AT &T

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SO!!! YOU THINK U KNOW LOGOS Mixed bags - Logos

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CEOs

Name the CEO of GE

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Jeffrey Immelt

 Name the CEO of Berkshire Hathaway

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Warren Buffet

 Who is the CEO of Samsung Electronics

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Jong-Yong Yun

Who is the CEO of Arcelor Mittal

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Laksmi N Mittal

 Who is the CEO of TCS

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S Ramadorai

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BRAND Ambassador

 Who is the Brand Ambassador for Nokia

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SHAH RUKH KHAN

FORD FIESTA

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SONATA

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MOTOROLA GLOBAL AMBASSADOR

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CHENNAI SUPER KINGS

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SONY ERICSON

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 Rani mukherjee, Genilia DSouza , and Trisha are brand ambassadors of which brand

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 FANTA

 Nicholas cage is a brand ambassador for

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 Mount Blanc

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TOSHIBA

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UNSCRAMBLE

 SIR ADORN BRANCH Unscramble for a twoword name of a well known CEO. A personality!

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 Richard Branson (SIR ADORN BRANCH unscrambled)

 SKEW US, BE SINE Unscramble the above for a media property that changed hands recently.

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Business Week (SKEW US, BE SINE unscrambled)

 AH, SEE A RABBIT Unscramble the above for a two word name of a famous entrepreneur

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 Sabeer Bhatia (AH, SEE A RABBIT unscrambled)

 CADRE TENET HIM SUN Unscramble the above for something owned by Malcolm Glazer. Two words, it is a famous European football club

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 Manchester United (CADRE TENET HIM SUN unscrambled)

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GET TEXAN BRIEF FIN Pranab Mukerjee gave it the boot. Unscramble for three words!

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 Fringe Benefit Tax (GET TEXAN BRIEF FIN unscrambled)

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WATCH ME CATCH ME

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 VIDEO THAI AIR AUDIO BRITISH AIR

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 VIDEO CENTER FRESH AUDIO FEVI QUICK

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 VIDEO VODAFONE(live search) AUDIO HUTCH GROUP

 Video - Honda Audio Bajaj Alliance

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 Video Videocon AC Audio moto yuva (motorolla)

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