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Identify the famous face in the Pharma poster boy of India

Ans. Dr. Anji Reddy, the founder of Dr. Reddy's 2. Arthur Andersen is an Accounting Firm which has been dissolved following their involvement in which scandal? Ans. Enron Scandal 3. Which Indian Tech company presently in news is a Joint venture between BT and M&M? Ans. Tech Mahindra 4. The Journal first published in 1889, featured the Jones 'Average', the first of several indexes of stock and bond prices on the New York Stock Exchange. How do we know that today? Ans. Wall Street Journal 5. The world's first university-based executive education was created in 1931 at MIT under the sponsorship which stalwart of GM? Ans. Alfred P. Sloan 1. Identify the Author

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2. Four brothers Hirsz, Aaron, Szmul, Itzhak who have migrated from Poland to the Land of Opportunities have founded something that changed the entertainment sector. What have they formed? Ans. The Warner Brothers 3. What was the Google's answer to the Wikipedia? Ans. Knol. Well, it is another story that it never ate away the Wiki as expected! 4. Which off-screen "Rambo" connects the following 'Harken Energy, Spectrum 7 Energy Corp., Arbusto? Ans. George Bush Jr. All these were the business ventures of Dubia. 5.X, a person required a basic vehicle capable of transporting two adults and three children at 100 km/h (62 mph). The car 'Y' would be available to citizens through a savings scheme at 990 Reichsmark, about the price of a small motorcycle. Whos X and whats Y? Ans. X Hitler

1. Identify the software product

Ans. Thunderbird 2. Beastie, is the generic mascot for which Operating Dystems? Ans. BSD Operating Systems 3. What was co-founded along with Jack Smith at Firepower Systems that influenced millions of users all over the world(and also microsoft) in a big way? Ans. Hotmail.com 4.Connect these "Bellagio, Mirage, MGM Grand, Monte Carlo, New York New York, Stratosphere, Treasure Island, Venetian". Clue: Their infulence on business terminology is endless. Ans. Casinos of Las Vegas 5. The standard dimensions of this product is always 85.60 53.98 with and an aspect ratio of 1.586. These are among the widely used products and often the one carried on person. What are we talking about? Ans. credit Cards
1. Identify the advertiser

Ans. Burn from Coke 2. The lesser known founders of this social networking site are Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes. The website's membership was initially limited to Harvard students, but was expanded to other colleges in the Boston area, the Ivy League, and Stanford University. What is the SN site we are talkning about? Ans. Facebook 3. Which Arts and Crafts company has roped in Deepika Padukone as a Brand Ambassodor? Ans. Kalanjali 4. The most notable product lines from this companies include GeForce series for gaming, Quadro series for computer-aided design, Tegra for mobile devices. What company is it? Ans. Nvidia 5. Largely due to declining sales, in 2006, who sold his company for $1.6 billion, or $16.80 a share, to Apax Partners, a private investment company? Ans. Tommy Hilfiger 1. Identify the logo of this bank

Ans. Deutsche Bank 2. This "religion" is founded by L. Ron Hubbard. It teaches that people are immortal spiritual beings who have forgotten their true nature..Its method of spiritual rehabilitation is a type of counseling known as auditing. Followers include John Travolta, Lisa Marie Presley, Tom Cruise. What Religion are we talking about? Ans. Scientology 3. Which Hardware Giant has developed an Active Management Six Sigma System called the Green Sigma? Ans. IBM 4. Which Internet Tsunami states that it is "founded by Chinese dissidents, journalists, mathematicians and start-up company technologists, from the US, Taiwan, Europe, Australia and South Africa"? Ans. Wikileaks 5. Following World War II t became common to see veterans wearing their uniform trousers with this new clothing covering the torso as casual clothing, and the product became even more popular after Marlon Brando wore one in 'A Streetcar Named Desire'. What is this 'new' clothing line we are referring to? Ans. T-Shirts 1. Identify this CEO behind the string of 11 blockbusters

Ans. Edwin Earl Catmull, the CEO of the celebrated Pixar Animation Studio

2. Y is a wearable gestural interface device that augments the physical world with digital information and lets people use natural hand gestures to interact with that information. It was developed by X, a PhD student in the Fluid Interfaces Group at the MIT Media Lab. The current prototype costs 350$, the software would be made available on Open Source. What technology(Y) are we talking about and who is this Dr.X? Ans. Sixth Sense and the whizkid Pranav Mistry. We know that the question was easy, but went on with it 3. The initial URL of this company was akebono.stanford.edu/___ . What is the company? Ans. Yahoo. The initial URL (Web Site Address read) akebono.stanford.edu/yahoo, before they shifted to the present URL. 4. One of the names considered for the company included "Moore Noyce", after the founders. The name, however, was a homophone for "More Noise", an ill-suited name, since "Noise" in electronics is usually very undesirable and typically associated with bad interference. What company is talked here? Ans. Intel 5. Channel 9 is an online discussion forum associated with which iconic company? Ans. Microsoft. Channel 9 was created to promote discussions among the Microsoft's customers targeted at Microsoft Windows users and developers.

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PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi,

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Mr Azim Premji, Chairman, Wipro

Parmeshwar Godrej,

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Mac donalds Adobe came from name of the river Adobe Creek that ran behind the house of founder John Warnock. Apache It got its name because its founders got started by applying patches to code written for NCSAs httpd daemon. The result was A PAtCHy server thus, the name Apache Apple Computers favourite fruit of founder Steve Jobs. He was three months late in filing a name for the business, and he threatened to call his company Apple Computers if the other colleagues didnt suggest a better name by 5 oclock. C Dennis Ritchie improved on the B programming language and called it New B. He later called it C. Earlier B was created by Ken Thompson as a revision of the Bon programming language (named after his wife Bonnie) CISCO its not an acronymn but the short for San Francisco. Compaq using COMp, for computer, and PAQ to denote a small integral object.

GNU a species of African antelope. Founder of the GNU project Richard Stallman liked the name because of the humour associated with its pronuniciation and was also influenced by the childrens song The Gnu Song which is a song sung by a gnu. Also it fitted into the recursive acronym culture with GNUs Not Unix. Google the name started as a jokey boast about the amount of information the search-engine would be able to search. It was originally named Googol, a word for the number represented by 1 followed by 100 zeros. After founders Stanford grad students Sergey Brin and Larry Page presented their project to an angel investor, they received a cheque made out to Google! Hotmail Founder Jack Smith got the idea of accessing e-mail via the web from a computer anywhere in the world. When Sabeer Bhatia came up with the business plan for the mail service, he tried all kinds of names ending in mail and finally settled for hotmail as it included the letters html the programming language used to write web pages. It was initially referred to as HoTMaiL with selective upper casing. HP Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard tossed a coin to decide whether the company they founded would be called Hewlett-Packard or Packard-Hewlett. Intel Bob Noyce and Gordon Moore wanted to name their new company Moore Noyce but that was already trademarked by a hotel chain, so they had to settle for an acronym of INTegrated ELectronics. Java Originally called Oak by creator James Gosling, from the tree that stood outside his window, the programming team had to look for a substitute as there was another language with the same name. Java was selected from a list of suggestions. It came from the name of the coffee that the programmers drank. Leave a comment if u like them. infosys : information systems wipro western indian products AOL- America Online Strange but most of us dont know!!!
1.

In the world of trade and commerce what is special about the commissioning of Monte dei Paschi si Siena in Italy in 1742?
Answer 2.

Which bank is promoted by 20th Century Finance Corporation and Keppel Tatlee Bank of Singapore in India?
Answer 3.

Name the term used for depreciating a company's intangible assets?


Answer 4.

This term is derived from the Greek word 'Oikanomia' means "House Management". What is it?
Answer 5.

What is known as the cost of living index which represents the goods and services purchased by consumers?
Answer 6.

How ABN-AMRO bank got it's present name?


Answer 7.

What is known as "Greenshoe Option" or "Overallotment"?


Answer 8.

Name the first Indian woman CEO of a Foreign Bank?


Answer 9.

Royal & Sun Alliance recently re-entered, after 29 years, to Indian financial market and it is the first foreign insurance company started operations here through a joint venture with an Indian company. Name the company?
Answer 10.

He is the pioneer in mutual fund industry and often referred as the Father of Index Fund investing. He created the first S&P 500 Index fund. Identify this famous person?
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