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X hails originally from Khatav, in Satara district.
He holds an MS from MIT, USA, a Masters in
PublicAdministration from Harvard and a
management degree from Carnegie Mellon
University. His company FLUCON is a global
leader in supplying stainless steel products and
designs for the food industry. ID X.

Sanjay Inamdar, the founder of BHAU Institute

This establishment was started in 1978 by Hormazd
Irani. Famous for its cheese omelette and bun
maska, this establishment was iconic in defining
this city's culinary landscape. Since it's very
beginnings this establishment has been known for
its low prices, which had a great deal to do with the
rent Mr. Irani paid for the property-a measly Rs 278.
However after a recent tenant landlord battle this
establishment was forced to move to a new
location, which caused it to increase prices by
about 50%.What place is this?

Vohuman Cafe

Salt and caramel, watermelon and salt, green
tea, sweet corn are some of the flavours of what
popular brand?

Kitkat

If model-actor Milind Soman and singer Alisha
Chinai (in the 90s) are associated with the past
tense, a lion with cogs is in the present tense,
since 2014.What is all this about?

Make in India

_________ is an Internet media company based in NewYork
City.The firm describes itself as a "social news and
entertainment company" with a focus on digital media and
digital technology in order to provide "the most shareable
breaking news, original reporting, entertainment, and video."
__________ was founded in 2006 as a viral lab, focusing on
tracking viral content, by Jonah Peretti and John S. Johnson
III. On July 17, 2012, humor website McSweeney's Internet
Tendency published a satirical piece entitled "Suggested
_________ Articles", prompting ________ to create many of
the suggestions, including "Elvis Presley’s 42 Sweatiest
Moments" and "10 Grizzly Bears Doffing Newsboy Caps". FITB

Buzzfeed

This ad was launched by company X, to
commemorate a specific event.What company
and what event? No part points.
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Mercedes celebrating 100 years of BMW

The X company was created by a 19 year old
entrepreneurTom LyleWilliams, after he saw his
older sister Mabel applyVaseline and coal dust
to her eyelashes to give them a darker, richer
look. He adapted this method using a simple
chemistry set and sold his product X, naming it
in honour of his sister. Give me X

Maybelline

Connect:
1. A Greek term, synonymous with zenith
2. Screw thread
3. LooneyTunes

Acme

A domain called Buy n Large was registered in
2008 for the website of a conglomerate formed
by the merger of a company called BuyYogurt,
which was acquired by Large Industries, a men's
suit company. (Image given)It became popular
for some time in 2008, but it now redirects to
the website of another company.Why did it
become popular?

Buy and Large is the name of the fictitious
company inWall-E

Smashing Kitty, Droplet Shuffle, Shuriken Block
and Ninjas Assault are all games available for
Android and iOS. Stylistically, the games are all
reminiscent of the retro 8-bit gaming styles of
the 80s. Needless to say they all come from the
same studio.
The studio, however is most famous for another
game it created, which at the peak of it's
popularity was making close to $50,000 a day.
What game?

Flappy bird

______ was established in 1887 as a piano and
reed organ manufacturer . However, due to the
machinery and the metallurgical/mechanical
techniques the company gained duringWW2,
the company ventured into a host of different
fields.The company is currently the largest
manufacturer of several musical instruments,
and its origins as a musical instrument
manufacturer are still reflected today in the
group's logo—a trio of interlocking tuning forks.

Yamaha

_______ Natural is the world's first global
cannabis brand, named after __________,
developed by his family in conjuction with
Privateer Holdings, Seattle. _____________ is
known as the Marlboro Man of Marijuana, and
earns close $20 million dollars every year from
his estate. FITB

Marley

ID this restaurant chain, whose logo is
"Delightfully tacky, yet unrefined."

X started his career working for Xerox corporation
where he was made a full sales representative. He
later went on to join Hammarplast, a Swedish drip
coffee manufacturer, as a general manager.
Through Hammarplast, he met Jerry Baldwin,
owner ofY, and later in 1982, joinedY as Director of
Marketing. On a buying trip to Milan he was
inspired, and started Il Giornale, and later after
receiving Jerry Baldwin's support, renamed it toY.
He was also briefly the owner of Seattle Super
Sonics, which he later sold to Clayton Bennett. ID X
andY. (part points)

X- Howard Schultz
Y- Starbucks

X founded in 1984 by Leonard Bosack and his wife,
is a major American corporation that manufactures
networking equipment like routers. It had an
extremely controversial start with Stanford,
Bosack's employer at the time of the founding of X,
claiming that one of their first products was made
using stolen technology from Stanford itself.The
name X is based on the city it was founded, with
the company engineers insisting on using the name
in lowercase in the initial days of the company.The
company's logo pays homage to one of the most
iconic monuments of the city. ID X

Cisco

This company's name comes from the Latin
words for day and earth, which is in reference to
them giving pleasure all over the world every
day. Since 2007 it entered an equal sharing
partnership with Sean Combs (aka P. Diddy), to
manufacture and market Ciroc. It is also owns
the world's leading vodka brand, Smirnoff and
has a 34% stake in Moet-Hennessy. However
Indians may be familiar with this company for
different reasons. ID the company

Diageo

A first of its kind in India, this company stopped
its services on 31st December 2009 due to
bankruptcy of the parent company. Name the
company, which saw A R Rehman as its brand
ambassador.

World Space Radio

He is an Indian-American economist, who
studied at Rajasthan University and Princeton.
He has worked withWorld Bank,WTO, IMF and
also served as chief economist at Asian
Development Bank. His latest book, India:The
Emerging Giant was described by Fareed
Zakariya as the definitive book on Indian
economy. ID

Arvind Panagariya, vice-chairman of NITI
Aayog

This book is a collection of economic articles
written by Steven Levitt, and Stephen Dubner.
Some of it's chapters include understanding
cheating among sumo wrestlers, information
control as it applies to Ku Klux Klan and the
economics of drug dealing.The book was
tremendously successful and has sold over 4
million copies.Which book?

Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explains the
Hidden Side of Everything

This publishing company, founded by two brothers from
Scotland in 1843, boasts of having published authors like
Charles Kingsley, Lewis Carroll,Thomas Hardy, Rudyard
Kipling and RabindranathTagore among many others.A
prominent British political figure, who later went on to be
the Prime Minister, served as a junior partner in the
company from 1920 to 1940 and again from 1945 to 1951.
After his retirement from politics he became chairman of
the company in 1964, up until his death in 1986.
The company was bought out by the German media
giant Holtzbrinck Publishing Company in 1999, ending
the family ownership of the firm. ID this company

Macmillan Publishers