E-Cell S.P.C.E. – S.P.I.T.

& S.P.Q.C. Present

Round 1

Forward(10 pts each)

Q1

• X is a London-based businessman of Indian descent. In 2004, he was ranked as Britain’s 198th richest man. He currently serves as the CEO and/or Director of London-based UK Tradecorp Ltd. A self-made millionaire, X left his studies very early and at 21 years of age, started a fashion company named RK Collections Ltd, which imported luxury clothing to fashion houses in London, including Christian Dior, Joseph & Escada.

A1

• Raj Kundra.

Q2. I am the least-paid Fortune 500 CEO.

A2

Om Prakash Bhatt CEO SBI.

Q3

The first X was opened in Seattle, Washington, on March 30, 1971 by three partners: English teacher Jerry Baldwin, history teacher Zev Siegl, and writer Gordon Bowker. The three were inspired by entrepreneur Alfred Peet (whom they knew personally) to sell high-quality coffee beans and equipment. The name is taken from Moby-Dick; after Pequod was rejected by one of the co-founders, the company was named for the first mate on the Pequod, X.

A3

Q4

TH Tung, Ted Hsu, Wayne Hsieh, and MT Liao founded X on 2 April 1990 in Taipei, Taiwan — all four founders of X worked as computer engineers for Y.

Y is a Taiwan-based multinational computer technology and electronics corporation that manufactures desktops, laptops, smartphones, servers etc.

The company explains the name X as originating from Z, the winged horse of Greek mythology. The new organization used only the last four letters of the word Z in order to give the resulting name a high position in alphabetical listings. As of 2009 X receives Intel engineering samples ahead of its competitors. (X=6 pts, Y=2 pts, Z=2 pts)

A4

X – AsusY – Acer Z – Pegasus

Q5. ID the Brand. (This is not a logo but can be found on all products of the brand)

A5

• Jack Daniels.

Q6

In 1891, X became an engineer with the Y Illuminating Company. Even the great Y discouraged his friend, X, from pursuing his fledgling idea of a motorcar. Convinced of the worthlessness of the idea, Y invited X to come and work for him. X remained committed and tirelessly pursued his dream. Although his first attempt resulted in a vehicle without reverse gear, X knew he could make it happen. And, of course, he did.(5 pts each)

A6

• X – Henry Ford• Y – Thomas Edison

Q7. Connect.

A7.

• Ferdinand Porsche. Founder of Porsche Automobile.

• Hitler asked Porsche to design a peoples’ car (Volkswagen) and he came up with the first Beetle.

• Porsche also served as a chauffeur to Arch Duke Franz Ferdinand.

Q8

The BBC holds that “X" comes from the gathering of Members of Parliament and peers in the hallways of Houses of Parliament before and after parliamentary debates. One story states that the term originated at the Willard Hotel in Washington, DC, where it was used by Ulysses S. Grant to describe the political wheelers and dealers who frequented the hotel's lobby to access Grant—who was often there to enjoy a cigar and brandy.

The term “X" appeared in print as early as 1820 however it has gained maximum popularity in the last three months.

A8

• Lobbying.

Q9. Id this famous persona from the Indian TV Industry

A9

• Ramanand Sagar.• Producer of:– Ramayan.– Sai Baba.– Alif Laila.– Vikram aur Betaal.

Q10

The company X began to build factories in other locations in the United States, because the demand for products had outgrown the capacity of the Cincinnati facilities. The company's leaders began to diversify its products as well and, in 1911, began producing Crisco, a shortening made of vegetable oils rather than animal fats. As radio became more popular in the 1920s and 1930s, the company sponsored a number of radio programs. As a result, these shows often became commonly known as "Y". Identify X and Y.

A10

• X – P&G• Y – Soap Opera

Q11. Id this Nobel Prize winning Organization.

A11.

• Grameen Bank.

Q12 • X is a

global American pharmaceutical, medical devices and consumer packaged goods manufacturer founded in 1886.

• Casey X, the heiress to X fortune who made tabloid headlines with a purported engagement to reality star Tila Tequila, died at age 30 on 4th Jan 2010.

• Prachi desai endorses one of their products in India.

A12

• Johnson & Johnson

Round 2 : Written

Id the brand/company/organization(5 pts each)

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Q2

Q3

Q4.

Q5

Answers

A1

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A5

Round 3

Reverse (10 pts each)

Q1

• Carl X (27 August 1874 – 26 April 1940) was a German chemist and engineer and Nobel laureate in chemistry. He was a pioneer in the field of high-pressure industrial chemistry and founder of IG Farben, at one point the world's largest chemical company. The Haber–X Process today consumes more than one percent of the energy on Earth and is responsible for feeding roughly one-third of its population.

• His uncle Robert X pioneered the development of the spark plug. Robert X GmbH is the world's largest supplier of automobile components, and has business relationships with virtually every automobile company in the world.

A1

Q2. Solve for x.

+ X =

A2

• X = Telenor.

Q3

X, based in Delhi, started their operations in 1997, and now they are the Largest confectionery company in India. It is the largest Contract Manufacturer in India and most of their clients are located in Europe. X’s current and prior clients include :ITC, Nestle, Nutrine, HLL, Poundland.

Some of their past clients have been those that they were directly competing with in the market while they were advising them on how to reduce costs of competing products that they were manufacturing for them at the time. A great example of that was when they were marketing X’s Minto while also manufacturing Nestle’s Polo a substitutable product.

A3

• Candico.

Q4.

A4.

Q5

X is former Indian Cricketer. He was the only person to score a century in India’s last tour of England.

Recently X founded a Sporting Company Y. Besides X and his brother Dinesh, Ys other investors include former BNP Paribas Securities MD Praveen Chakravarty and former table tennis champion Vasant Bharadwaj. Y will cater to multiple sports, including cricket, football, badminton, table tennis and chess with stars like Rahul Dravid (for cricket ) advising the firm on developing education content.ID Y.

A5

• Tenvic.

Q6. Id

Hint: If you get one you should get the other.

A6

• Charles Ponzi and Bernard Madoff.

Q7. Connect

A7. ICICI

Q8

The original company came into existence in 1872 in Switzerland, when Julius X took over his father's mill. It quickly became a pioneer of industrial food production, aiming at improving the nutritional intake of worker families. It was the first to bring protein-rich legume meal to the market, which was followed by ready-made soup based on legume meal in 1886. In 1897, Julius X founded the company X GmbH in the German town of Singen where it is still established today. In 1947, following several changes in ownership and corporate structure, X's holding company merged with the Nestlé company to form Nestlé-Alimentana S.A., currently known in its francophone homebase as Nestlé S.A..

A8

Maggi.

Q9

• David Duke, former Ku Klux Klan (KKK) leader had made KKK merchandise in order to bring out the name of the Klan as the "National Organization For European American Rights". In February 2000, a particular lifestyle clothing brand filed suit against David Duke for infringements of their copyright, who has since changed the name of his organization to European-American Unity and Rights Organization (EURO). Which clothing brand filed this suit and why?

A10

• NO FEAR. (National Organization For European American Rights)

Q10. The man in the picture to your left is Belgian Alain Billiet. He affected the financial history of the world at the time of the 1992 Maastricht Treaty. The man on the right is D Udaya Kumar, his Indian counterpart. Claim to fame?

A10

Alain Billiet designed the Euro symbol and D Udaya Kumar designed the Rupee symbol.

Q11

In the early 1900s while India was still under the British rule, one of the strongest manifestations of mass awakening was the desire to patronize all that was 'Swadeshi' (Made in India). Great Indian patriots and eminent businessmen like Shri Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Sir Ratanji Jamshedji Tata, amongst others conceived the idea of a chain of co-operative stores across India.And thus this chain of stores in question came into existence on 14th December, 1905. On December 17th, 1906, the flagship store was inaugurated by Dr. Dadabhai Naoroji. The store was then located at the present Times of India Building, on D.N. Road, Mumbai. In 1938, it shifted to its present location on Sir Pherozeshah Mehta Road. What chain am I talking about?

A11

• The Bombay Stores.

Q12

• What started with the need to finance two voyages: The Muscovy Company's attempt to reach China via the White Sea north of Russia, and the East India Company's voyage to India and the east?

A12

• London Stock Exchange.

Take your pick!

Direct Questions. No questions will be passed.

(10 pts each)

Select a field.

AV IT Banking

Global Indians Sports Entertainment

Mascots Aviation Misc.

PSU Icons Trivia

AV

A

• Aaj tak

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IT• On August 16, 2010, Dell announced that it would acquire X in a transaction

valued at approximately $1.15 billion, net of X’s cash.• Following that, on August 23, 2010, HP announced that it had offered $1.5 billion

(33% higher than Dell's offer) to acquire X in a letter sent to X's president and CEO.• On August 26, 2010, X said that it had accepted Dell's revised offer for a price of

$24.30 per share, or approximately $1.6 billion, net of X's cash.• Then on August 27, both parties re-offered their bids, with Dell offering $27 a

share to buy X, and HP offering $30 only 90 minutes later, valuing the company at more than $2 billion.

• On September 2, 2010, Dell increased its offer to $32 per share but declined to revise its bid after HP upped its bid to $2.35 billion or $33 per share shortly thereafter. Dell received a $72 million break-up fee from X for the termination of the initial merger agreement.

• On September 27, 2010, HP completed the acquisition for $2.35 billion. ID X.

A.

• 3PAR

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Banking

A

• Ajay Banga CEO MasterCard.

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Global Indians• X was a professor of Computer Science at Stanford University whose

research focused on theoretical computer science. He was an early advisor and supporter of companies including Google and PayPal, and a special advisor to Sequoia Capital. He was a winner of the Gödel Prize in 2001.

• X joined Stanford soon after U.C. Berkeley. X was one of the co-authors (with Larry Page and Sergey Brin, and Terry Winograd) of an influential early paper on the PageRank algorithm, the basis for Google's search techniques.

• X was found dead in his pool in the backyard of his Atherton home on June 5, 2009.

He sat on the boards of Google, Kaboodle, Mimosa Systems, Adchemy, Baynote, Vuclip, NeoPath Networks (acquired by Cisco Systems in 2007), Tapulous and Stanford Student Enterprises

A. Rajeev Motwani

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Sports

X started out as a works team for employees of electronics conglomerate Philips on 31 August , 1913 to celebrate the centennial defeat of the French in the Napoleonic wars. X's home stadium, the Philips Stadion, then known as Philips Sportpark, was built at the same time as the inauguration of the club, although its current capacity was achieved by renovations and improvements over the years.

Because of their close ties with Philips, X have had the same jersey sponsor without exception since 1982, the year jersey sponsorships were introduced in the Eredivisie.

A.

Philips Sport Vereniging (PSV) Eindhoven

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Entertainment

• The Oscars are the big one, the emperor of Awards shows, the only one that really matters. Which organziation counts the votes cast by the members of the US Motion Picture Academy for these awards every year?

• Which optical company received an honorary Oscar in 1954 for its contribution to the advancement of the motion picture industry?

A.

• PWC.• Bausch And Lomb.

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Mascots

A

• Gattu.

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Aviation XY was one of India's first post-deregulation airline, launched in May

1993 by the Indian industrialist X, in technical partnership with the German flag carrier Y. The airline project was started in February, 1993 by X, Ashutosh Dayal Sharma and Kanwar K S Jamwal and on 5 May 1993 took the first flight from New Delhi to Mumbai. The airline actually started operations within three months of its conception - a record of kinds in itself. It maintained very high standards in flight safety, ground maintenance and on-time performance, owing to a strong support from Y . The airline ceased operations in 1996. However, the air-operating certificate (AOC) of XY did not lapse and the airline though bankrupt was renamed Royal Airways and the AOC was used with a different set of promoters such as SpiceJet following the low cost model.

ID XY.

A.

• ModiLuft.

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Misc. What is the main source of income of this remote set of pacific islands?

A

• Tuvalu derives revenue from the sale of its ".tv" Internet domain name.

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PSUs

• The incumbents of X as of 30.09.2010 are:-– Indian Oil Corporation – NTPC Limited – Oil and Natural Gas Corporation – Steel Authority of India Limited

Id X.

A

Maharatna Industries.

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Trivia King Khan was treated to a unique visit while shooting for My Name is

Khan in San Francisco. Before finding the Badshah of Bollywood, Chouw and Mouw mingled with the folks of San Francisco and even posed for snaps. On landing up on the sets they headed straight to the vanity van with ‘Rizvan' on it. The security tried their best to stop them but they screamed out of for SRK. They were in luck. King Khan heard them and made his way out to meet them to the surprise of the whole unit. Chouw and Mouw spent a few days in San Francisco with SRK. Shahrukh took special care of Chouw and Mouw and introduced them to the entire crew on the sets of the movie My name is Khan. In fact, Chouw and Mouw had free access to the entire set. The entire crew took an instant liking to them for their lovable and gregarious nature. They were seen mingling with everyone and helping out in the various tasks on the sets of the movie. Who are Chouw and Mouw?

A

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Icons.

In February 1981, X crashed his Beechcraft Bonanza while taking off from Santa Cruz Sky Park. X did not immediately return to Y after recovering from the crash. Instead, he married his present wife Clark. More than anything else, X wanted to became a teacher, a goal he wouldn't be able to achieve unless he earned his college degree. X returned to UC Berkeley under the name "Rocky Raccoon Clark" (Rocky was his dog's name and Clark his wife's maiden name), finally earning his undergraduate degree in 1986. A more noteworthy point is that X co-founded one the most successful organization of present times all before he could even get a degree.

A

• Steve Wozniak

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