6. 2.
• “This film is full of love and laughter. Apart from
working with Tamannaah, the best bit is that for
the first time in my career, I'll be working with a
dog! I've romanced women; I've played with
babies; I've done every stunt under the sun. Now,
it's time for me to take a cue from a canine. This
film promises fun and it has got what everyone
loves - dogs, dogs and more dogs.”-Akshay Kumar
• Which movie?
11. 4.
• Tokusatsu is a form of Japanese entertainment
that uses considerable amount of special
effects. One of the most popular genre of this
form of entertainment is Kaiju which literally
means strange creatures. X is one of the most
famous Kaiju , also appearing first in a film in
1954 and then has gone on to become a pop
culture icon. Give me X.
15. 6.
• The right to manufacture this is held by the
Khadi Development and Village Industries
Commission, who allocate it to the regional
groups. As of 2009, the Karnataka Khadi
Gramodyoga Samyukta Sangha was the sole
manufacturer of this product.
• Which one?
19. 8.
• X is an annual event spread over 3 days is
organized by Percept, an Entertainment,
Media and Communications company.It
features a flea market, massage centre, and
activities such as rock climbing, makeover
lounge and slippery football and volleyball,
along with the main attraction.
• The first edition was held in 2007, and has
been held every year ever since.
• What is X?
20.
21. 9.
• X has started new innings as businessman
with YouWeCan Ventures.
• He is floating a venture fund that aims to
support young entrepreneurs by investing in
startups across sectors.
• Id X.
25. 11.Id the Director, Producer and Writer of this $20-million action
thriller Hollywood flick from Reliance Entertainment starring
Vincent D'Onofrio and Anton Yelchin opened on April 10.
(Question Courtesy - Tanuj Bakshi)
27. 12.
• “A glass and a half of fresh milk”
• This slogan was introduced by the company in
1928. After almost 80 years, it has been replaced,
having been told it contravenes European
regulations.
• In its place, it now reads: “The equivalent of
426ml of fresh liquid milk in every 227g of ____”
• Which famous brand and its best selling product
is this?
29. 13.
• Formerly called Fourth Avenue, it runs parallel
to Madison Avenue to the west and Lexington
Avenue to the east. It shares its name with a
clothing brand in India? Identify.
39. Round 1
• Write answers on paper
• 8 questions
• +5 for each correct
• Bonus +5 if more than 6 correct
40. 1.
• This brand was born in a tea taster's chamber
in Kolkata in 1966. It is considered as India's
first premium brand. The tea leaves are picked
even today only from a few tea estates located
in Upper Assam. Name the brand.
41. 2.
• How is “Raftaar Ka Junoon” better known as?
49. 1.
• This brand was born in a tea taster's chamber
in Kolkata in 1966. It is considered as India's
first premium brand. The tea leaves are picked
even today only from a few tea estates located
in Upper Assam. Name the brand.
71. Zero rupee note
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_rupee_note
• A zero rupee note is a type of
novel & innovative money issued
in India as a means of helping to
fight systemic political corruption.
The notes are paid in protest by
angry citizens to government
functionaries who solicit bribes in
return for services which are
supposed to be free. The Zero
rupee note, is the mascot or
primary campaign tool of a non-
governmental organization
known as 5th Pillar, which has
distributed over 2.5 million pieces
as of Aug 2014, since their
inception in 2007.
76. 5.
• On Apr 1, 2015, as part of a great April Fool's joke, the
non-profit "Teach For America" announced on its
Facebook page that:
• “We're excited to welcome ____, who has accepted
our offer to join the 2015 corps after announcing his
departure from _____ last week. We believe that [his]
experiences being both revered and ridiculed by teens
and preteens and surviving Simon Cowell's
management - not to mention the overall Story of His
Life - will equip him well for success in the classroom…”
• About whom was Teach For America talking about, and
what was the departure from?
(Question Courtesy - J.Ramanand)
77. Zayn Malik, the English pop star, who exited from the
boy band "One Direction" in May 2015 to much
teenage heartbreak
78. 6.
• This American director won the Silver Bear for
Best Director at the 2014 Berlin Film Festival
for a film that took him a long while to
complete. Reportedly, he had made an
informal arrangement with one of the actors
in the film (and a frequent collaborator) for
the actor to finish this film in case the director
died before its completion. Which highly
acclaimed 2014 film?
(Question Courtesy - J.Ramanand)
79. 'Boyhood', which was made by Richard Linklater
over a decade, as his lead actor grew up. The
actor in question was Ethan Hawke
80. 7.
• P. B. Kasbekar ,a joint secretary in the banking
department attended the meeting convened by
the then Prime Minister, Indira Gandhi to take a
key decision. Kasbekar had kept a colourful
envelope that was actually a wedding invitation
in his shirt pocket which was orange in colour and
with a dash of red and saffron. PM liked the
combination and chose the colour scheme and
design for ‘X’.
• Identify X.
82. 8.
• The famous British actor, appeared in a new
2014 TV series, made in the US. This is a
sequel to a 1996 film that won a couple of
Oscars, including the Oscar for Best Actress.
• He plays a salesman in this TV series which
has the same name as the film - also the name
of a place. What's the name?
(Question Courtesy - J.Ramanand)
83.
84. 9.
• As a child, X attended an exclusive school in Switzerland, despite
being born with all the world's knowledge already inside his brain.
In addition to excelling academically, he was extremely popular and
by age 14 he'd had consensual sex with over 40 students and 7
teachers. After graduating at the top of his and all other classes in
the school, he then continued his education in Y, where he earned
118 PhDs – not just from the University of X, but also from X
University and Northwest X State.
• During his university years, X did pioneering work for the Y Space
Program. His projects were a success without rival, killing more
astronauts than both the Russian and American space programs
combined. Part of his research managed to confirm that there's not
enough oxygen for a political opponent to survive at altitudes
higher than 45,000 feet. In the same experiment, he confirmed that
there is enough gravity at 45,000 feet for a political opponent's
body to return to Earth when thrown from an aircraft.
• X and Y ?
85. X- Admiral-General Aladeen, Y- Republic of Wadiya
https://uk.movies.yahoo.com/video/exclusive-interview-062045013.html
86. 10.
• In Economics, a Veblen good is a member of a group of
commodities whose demand is proportional to its price, a
contradiction in the law of demand.
• The X effect is a similar phenomenon. It states that ceteris
paribus, a commodity generates more demand when its
price is set higher than it was before. A lower priced version
of it with similar quality has lesser demand.
• X is a famous brand, whose sales, according to as story,
sucked despite it being a very good tasting liquor. After a
brainstorming session in the boardroom, officials decided
to jack up prices and so, with it went up the demand.
• What is this effect known as ?
88. 11.
• In the Harry Potter novel series, the spell X is known as
the Killing Curse. During an audience interview at
the Edinburgh Book Festival on 15 April 2004, series
author J. K. Rowling had this to say about the fictional
Killing Curse's etymology: "Does anyone know
where X came from? It is an ancient spell in Aramaic,
and it is the original of Y, which means 'let the thing be
destroyed.' Originally, it was used to cure illness and
the 'thing' was the illness, but I decided to make it the
'thing' as in the person standing in front of me. I take a
lot of liberties with things like that. I twist them round
and make them mine.“
• Identify X and Y.
90. 12.
• Fresh out of film school, X was at the Academy Awards in
1979 when his documentary short about child slum
dwellers in Mumbai, India, "An Encounter With Faces," was
nominated for an Oscar.
• "I was too poor to rent a tuxedo," recalled X in Los Angeles.
"They said I could wear national dress. All I had was kurta. I
sat next to Jane Fonda in my pajamas. I was brash enough
to think I'd win, that I'd made the best movie ever."
• He didn't win, but he was hoping that the nomination and
recognition would pave the way for him in Hollywood. That
didn't happen. So he took a different route.
• He returned to India and made a string of highly popular
Bollywood movies. Two of these broke box office records in
India.
• Id X.
92. 13.
• With X premiere on the horizon, a report has surfaced
claiming Sony Entertainment TV is remaking the hit series
for Indian television.
• The report comes from Pakastani news outlet Ary News.
According to the site, Sony's series will be titled Rani
Mahal.
• And according to Dramatize, Rani Mahal will actually be set
in India in 1857 (the year of the Indian Rebellion), which
would suggest there won't be fantasy elements involved. It
should be noted that "Rani Mahal" is also the name of a
royal palace in the city of Jhansi that was damaged by
British bombardment during the 1857 rebellion.
• Which series (X) is being talked about?
(Question Courtesy - Tanuj Bakshi)
94. 14.
• Originally the scientists were developing this drug
named UK-92480 to treat high blood pressure
and a heart problem called angina but the drug
was inefficient in helping the conditions but there
was a side effect reported by many trial patients
and the company went to sell the drug for the
side effect they had found and it became a quick
success. So they were selling a product which
induced the side effect rather than the actual
intention.
• ID the product and company?
96. 15.
• This 12 letter English word is derived from the
adjective ‘To form or gather into a mass or
whole’.
• It comes from the the LATIN word for
“together” and for “ball”
• What is the good word?
98. 16.
• The sign is made by pressing your three
middle fingers of your left hand to your lips
and then hold them out to the person, or
people, that you want to show respect to. In
the books, the left hand is used, but in the
first film it is the right hand, and the fingers
are simply held up by their side. Later on in
the second film, the left hand is used like in
the book.
100. 17.
• This company's logo depicts an overhead shot
of three people joined together, holding
hands, and looking up towards the sky. All in
all, a rather clever and fitting logo/name
combination, as the word "X" means
“Humanity”.
• Id the company(X).
104. Powers (can be used twice in next
round)
• Bypass one team
• One member of opponent team sit out for
two turns
• Double the money (+20/-10)
• Audience helpline
• Change the direction
• Veto others power
105. Round 3
• Infinite Bounce (+10/0) & Pounce
(+10/-10)
• Anti clockwise direction
106. 1.
• The movie Chakra: “The Invincible” features Raju Rai, a
young Indian boy living in Mumbai, India. Raju's mentor,
the scientist Dr. Singh, develops a technology suit. The
suit weaponizes all the Chakras in the body. Raju uses its
powers to be a Superhero. Raju vows to use the suit to
protect and serve as he battles super-villains.
• It is an Indian animated superhero film based on the
main character created by a famous comic book writer,
along with Sharad Devarajan and Gotham Chopra.
• Who is this comic book writer who was also one of the
executive producers of the film?
108. 2.
• Bal X - Childhood Stories of X, a comic book brought out by
Rannade Prakashan and Blue Snail Animation, tells stories
of bravery and "fearlessness" from X's childhood. The comic
book, that has no known author, is a catalogue of larger-
than-life deeds for his family, friends and society in general.
• The 45- page comic book shows X rescuing a drowning boy,
swimming in crocodile infested waters, serving tea and
food to soldiers going to war in 1962, taking on school
bullies, helping his father sell tea, acting in theatre,
strategising his team's kabaddi win and saving a trapped
bird.
• Who is X?
110. 3.
• People love X who was on a roll in the 1990s
but very few would know that Disney's
Aladdin character's appearance is based on
him. If you have seen his smile, it shouldn't be
difficult for you.
• Id X.
111.
112. 4.
• Before Y joined the project, Warner Bros. bought the
screenplay for a reported seven-figure sum because of
Leonardo DiCaprio's interest in playing X. In the end,
DiCaprio did not come on board and the rights of the script
reverted to the screenwriter. Black Bear Pictures
subsequently committed to finance the film for $14 million.
Various directors were attached during development
including Ron Howard and David Yates.
• In December 2012, it was announced that Headhunters
director Morten Tyldum would helm the project, making
the film his English-language directorial debut.
• It also received nine British Academy of Film and Television
Arts nominations, including Best Film and Outstanding
British Film.
• ID X and Y.
114. 5.
• _____ is a growing city in Thane district, Maharashtra state, India. It
is a part of the Mumbai Metropolitan Region. Due to population
growth in nearby cities, people working in Mumbai have been
moving to _____ for a number of socioeconomic reasons, including
close proximity to Mumbai via rail. _____ City encompasses the old
villages of _____, Kulgaon, Manjarli, Belavali, Katrap, and many
other small villages. _____ was named for being a remount depot
on a travel route through the rugged Konkan region to Gujarat via
Surat.
• The town was famous for its splendid horses. Warriors (e.g. Shivaji
Bhonsle) changed their horses at the town in anticipation of the
difficult climb through the Konkan. The word "change" (_____ in
Marathi) was applied to the town. Name this town.
116. 6.
• Which 2014 English film by Warner Bros. is the
first ever to feature Superman, Batman,
Gandalf, William Shakespeare, C-3PO,
Abraham Lincoln, Green Lantern, and Wonder
Woman together?
117.
118. 7.
• X is an american lawyer and currently the interim
CEO of Y. X was previously the corporate director
at Flipboard. X is currently embroiled in a ‘gender
discrimination’ lawsuit against venture capital
firm Kleiner Perkins. The irony is, X is the interim
CEO of a firm known for a lot of gender bias.
According to a user, “Late-night Y is a disgusting
cesspool of racists and women-haters.”
• Give X and Y.
122. 9.
• The public sector UCO Bank set up the first-of-its-
kind branch in India when it opened its Shani
Shingnapur division in Maharashtra. The village is
located in Ahmednagar district of Maharashtra
The bank has taken this step despite the Center's
constant strive for hi tech security in both public
and private sector banks. "We took note of the
general belief of the people living in the area." a
senior bank official said while opening the
branch.
• What is unique about this branch of UCO Bank?
123. Lockless Branch “ever since the most revered temple came into
existence several years ago, the village has not witnessed A
single crime. In fact, all houses in the entire village have no
doors. We took the risk and started the lockless bank A week
ago," A senior bank official said.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/God-as-guard-Bank-opens-lockless-branch/articleshow/7300436.cms
124. 10.The Bombay High was drilled by drill-ship 'Sagar
Samrat' in 1973. 'Sagar Samrat' became an important
symbol and knowingly/unknowingly we've all seen it.
It's making a comeback after two decades. How?
125. The Drill Ship could be seen on Rs. 1 note which were
discontinued by GOI earlier but will be reintroduced again
126. 11.
• When the name for this Indian brand was
selected, there were strong feelings in its
company. Some referred to it as "Tenga" in
Hindi, which refers to teasing and mocking
and others alluded it to "Up yours" in English.
Finally the founder of the company stuck to it.
• Name the brand.
127.
128. 12.
• X was a 1979 seven-part drama spy miniseries for the BBC.
It is the television adaption of the 1974 novel of the same
name by Y.
Starring Alec Guinness in the lead role, the main
credits feature a matryoshka doll progressively revealing a
doll looking more irate than the previous, with the final doll
being faceless, an allusion to Winston Churchill's describing
Russia as "A riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an
enigma."
The miniseries was remade into a film in 2011, and earned
Z his first Oscar nomination, before which he was widely
described as "the best actor not to have been nominated
for an Oscar."
• Give X, Y and Z.
(Question Courtesy - J.Ramanand)
129. X - Tinker, Tailor, Soldier Spy
Y - John Le Carre
Z - Gary Oldman
130. 13.
• This company's logo has a lot more than
meets the eye. The colourful portion of the
logo represents a camera shutter, while the
white space within the logo represents a
house. "Y" means “house” in Spanish, while
“X” can be shorthand for Pixel Index. Put them
together(XY), and you have a house (i.e a
depository) for your photos.ID the
company(XY-single word).
132. 14.
• This was the classic case of “ambush
marketing” promoting the availability of its
services in Norway (for the Olympics in 1994
in Lillehammer) with an advertisement saying
“So if you’re traveling to Norway, you’ll need a
passport but you don’t need a Visa.” Identify
the company.
134. 15.Id X and the comapny.
• X was born on 15 November 1931 in Bulandshahar, Uttar
Pradesh in a Jat family. His father Ch. Mukhtar Singh was a
reputed lawyer in Bulandshahr. After graduating in science
from Meerut College, Uttar Pradesh, he pursued
Aeronautical Engineering in UK and was subsequently
selected to the Indian Army by British Officers Services
Selection Board, UK. He was commissioned into the
renowned cavalry regiment of 'The Deccan Horse' of the
Indian Army. In 1960, he joined American Universal Electric
Company and soon after its merger with a company in
1979, he took over as the Managing Director of this new
company.
• The company's US$ 2 billion IPO in July, 2007 was India's
biggest IPO in history (at that time).
135. K P Singh (DLF guy)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kushal_Pal_Singh
136. 16.
• Big Blue – IBM
• Big Brown – UPS
• Big Yellow - ?
138. 17.
• In 1974 a co-founder of this company got
excited by a feature on the Altair 8800
computer published in the December edition
of the Popular Electronics magazine. He took
this to his best friend who was then a Harvard
undergrad and had the skills to code a
programming language for this machine.
• What this incident lead to?
139. Microsoft. Paul Allen approached Bill Gates with
the article on Altair 8800 and rest they say is
history
140. 18.
• “You don’t need to be at your desk to need an
answer, You can make money without doing
evil, You can be serious without a suit.” These
are 3 out the 10 beliefs based on which a
company operates.
• Name the company.
145. 2.Funda?
• Colin Farrell as Ray Velcoro
• Vince Vaughn as Frank Semyon
• Taylor Kitsch as Paul Woodrugh
• Rachel McAdams as Ani Bezzerides
• Kelly Reilly as Jordan Semyon
• Afemo Omilami as Holloway
153. 6.Funda?
• William Wyler (12)
• Martin Scorsese (8)
• Billy Wilder (8)
• Steven Spielberg (7)
• David Lean (7)
• Fred Zinnemann (7)
• Woody Allen (7)
• Frank Capra (6)
• John Ford (5)
• Elia Kazan (5)
• George Stevens (5)
156. Hint
• The Nights of Cabiria - 1957
• Pelle the Conqueror - 1988
• No Man's Land - 2001
157. These films won the Best Foreign Language films at the
Oscars when the Indian films were nominated in the
foreign film category in 1957, 1988 & 2001 (Mother
India, Salaam Bombay & Lagaan respectively)
160. • Characters played by
Daniel Day-Lewis in the
movies for which he got
academy award for best
actor.
• Abraham Lincoln ( Lincoln)
• Christy Brown ( My left
foot)
• Daniel Plainview (There
will be Blood)
161. Round 5
The Last Ride (where you will find best of the
best – all my favorite questions in there)
• Super Pounce (+20/-20)
• Infinite Bounce (+10/0)
162. 1.
• "The Grand Budapest Hotel" is a film directed by
Wes Anderson, which will open the 2014 edition
of the Berlin International Festival. The film
follows the story of a concierge (played by Ralph
Fiennes) at the titular hotel through the first half
of the 20th century.
• Why did the director, known for his recognisable
and quirky style of film-making, choose to shoot
the film in three different aspect ratios?
(Question Courtesy - J.Ramanand)
163. Each aspect ratio conveys a different time period
- this helps viewers visually identify the different
periods
164. 2.
• Vikas Dubey, wrote the lyrics, while Salvi and
Utpat searched for the perfect singer - someone
who could pull off an alaap and a sufi tune with
equal ease. From Chandigarh, Alamgir Khan was
chosen as the voice and the trio started jamming
to find a tune.
• “It's just one word which is sung in different
tempos. It's similar to the way we tease someone
by repeating just one word,” chimes a smiling
Utpat.
• What does this trio create?
167. Brands owned by The Swatch Group
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Swatch_Group
168. 4.
• A characteristic of the course is the giant run-off areas,
which have been criticised for not punishing drivers
who stray off the track. However, they tend to prevent
sand getting onto the track and make X one of the
safest tracks in the world.
• Although alcoholic beverages are legal in X, the drivers
do not spray the traditional champagne on the
podium. Instead, they spray a non-alcoholic rosewater
drink known as Waard.
• X race is most probably the only F1 race where
champagne is not sprinkled. Which city is X?
170. 5.
• Dum Laga Ke Haisha marks a new beginning at Yash Raj Films,
with Aditya Chopra becoming the presenter and Maneesh
Sharma becoming the creative producer. Ten days before
release, YRF had changed something for Dum Laga Ke Haisha.
• For the first time ever, in the history of YRF, in 60 years, they
will be changing this at the beginning of the film. The reason
being, Ayushmann Khurrana's character in the film is a huge
fan of a person in the movie. Makers want the audience from
the very first instance to sweep into the milieu of the film. So,
in order to suit the screenplay, the makers decided to make
this change just for Dum Laga Ke Haisha.
• What change?
(Question Courtesy - Tanuj Bakshi)
171. Lata Mangeshkar’s voice for YRF logo replaced by
Kumar Sanu’s for Ayushmann Khurrana’s Dum Laga
Ke Haisha
https://in.movies.yahoo.com/news/background-score-yrfs-logo-change-dum-laga-ke-183000813.html
173. 1% rule (Internet culture)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1%25_rule_%28Internet_culture%29
• In Internet culture, the 1% rule is a rule of thumb
pertaining to participation in an internet community,
stating that only 1% of the users of a website actively
create new content, while the other 99% of the
participants only lurk.
• Variants include the 1-9-90 rule or 90–9–1 principle
(sometimes also presented as the 89:10:1 ratio), which
state that in a collaborative website such as a wiki, 90%
of the participants of a community only view content,
9% of the participants edit content, and 1% of the
participants actively create new content.
174. 7.
• During most of the 19th century, Americans used
to have left overs from the previous day in the
morning, which caused widespread indigestion
and related ailments. Wealthy people used to
visit sanitariums for treatment and it is in one
such visit the modern concept of breakfast was
invented. The person who invented it also built a
global brand, which is in existence since the
1900s.
• Name the brand.
176. 8.
• Dabbawallas have started a new thing which is
quite amazing.
• What's so interesting about it?
177. They give a "Share my Dabba" sticker to everyone.
Whosoever leaves some food at the end, can stick the
sticker on the dabba.T he dabbas with these stickers are
given to the slum people in Mumbai to feed them.
http://www.firstpost.com/living/share-my-dabba-how-mumbai-dabbawallahs-will-help-feed-street-kids-784183.html
178. 9.
• With what postulate in the financial world are
the following connected:
• The Singer Building and Metropolitan Life
Insurance Company Tower, the Chrysler
Building, Empire State Building and the
Petronas towers in Malaysia?
179. Skyscrapper index - the world's tallest buildings have
risen on the eve of economic downturns
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skyscraper_Index
180. 10.
• On a trip to Paris in the 60s, Jaikishen and Hasrat
Jaipuri visited a night club. Getting mesmerized
by the glittering costumes of the dancers under
the flashy lights, Jaikishen started to hum a tune
and wrote a few words on a piece of paper.
Hasrat Jaipuri completed the song and they
record it immediately after returning to Mumbai.
• Which hit song was made which was picturized
on Shammi Kapoor?
181. Badan Pe Sitare Lapete Hue
http://www.sjmusic.org/respage.php?Type=Interviews&ResId=25
182. Round 6
Long Connect
• Individual question carry 5 points.
• Points on respective slides for
connect.
183. +25/-20
• When Xerox aimed to exit the computer industry in
1975,[clarification needed] they asked IBM to migrate their
business systems to IBM technology. As part of IBM's compensation
for the migration, IBM was given the rights to the Scientific Data
Systems (SDS), reportedly for a contract credit of $80,000.
• Five IBM engineers from the AI department (Dietmar Hopp, Klaus
Tschira, Hans-Werner Hector, Hasso Plattner, and Claus
Wellenreuther, all from Mannheim, Baden-Württemberg) were
working in an enterprise-wide system based on this software, only
to be told that it would be no longer necessary. Rather than
abandon the project, they decided to leave IBM Tech and start
another company.
• Which German multinational software corporation did they start?
185. +15/-10
• This Factory was started by K. M. Mammen
Mappillai as a toy balloon manufacturing unit in
1946 at Tiruvottiyur, Madras (now Chennai). In
1952, the company ventured into the
manufacture of tread rubber. based in Ohio, USA.
• In 1989, the company collaborated with Hasbro
International USA, the world's largest toy maker
and launched Funskool India.
• Which company?
186. +10/-5
• X is a 50:50 joint venture between two of the
world's leading cable and satellite broadcasters.
As Asia's definitive and complete sports
broadcaster and content provider, X combines
the strengths and resources of its ultimate parent
companies - Walt Disney and News Corporation
Limited - to deliver a diverse array of
international and regional sports to viewers via
its encrypted pay and free-to-air services.
• Id X.
188. +25/-20
• When Xerox aimed to exit the computer industry in
1975,[clarification needed] they asked IBM to migrate their
business systems to IBM technology. As part of IBM's compensation
for the migration, IBM was given the rights to the Scientific Data
Systems (SDS), reportedly for a contract credit of $80,000.
• Five IBM engineers from the AI department (Dietmar Hopp, Klaus
Tschira, Hans-Werner Hector, Hasso Plattner, and Claus
Wellenreuther, all from Mannheim, Baden-Württemberg) were
working in an enterprise-wide system based on this software, only
to be told that it would be no longer necessary. Rather than
abandon the project, they decided to leave IBM Tech and start
another company.
• Which German multinational software corporation did they start?
192. +15/-10
• This Factory was started by K. M. Mammen
Mappillai as a toy balloon manufacturing unit in
1946 at Tiruvottiyur, Madras (now Chennai). In
1952, the company ventured into the
manufacture of tread rubber. based in Ohio, USA.
• In 1989, the company collaborated with Hasbro
International USA, the world's largest toy maker
and launched Funskool India.
• Which company?
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• X is a 50:50 joint venture between two of the
world's leading cable and satellite broadcasters.
As Asia's definitive and complete sports
broadcaster and content provider, X combines
the strengths and resources of its ultimate parent
companies - Walt Disney and News Corporation
Limited - to deliver a diverse array of
international and regional sports to viewers via
its encrypted pay and free-to-air services.
• Id X.