6. 2. X observed that about 20% of the peapods in his
garden contained 80% of the peas. As a result he
theorized a widely known concept. Give the concept?
8. 3. Who is the founder of an organization called "Citizen for Accountable
Governance"? Before starting this he was working with UN as an health activist. He
works in a very niche area and is in high demand these days.
10. 4. X has been target of continuous satire. Washington Post article described the
phenomenon: "Nor is the fashion world enamored of X. Though their maker touts their
'ultra-hip Italian styling,' lots of folks find them hideous."
Tim Gunn, fashion consultant, told Time magazine, "... the X – it looks like plastic.
How can you take that seriously?"
A blog named "IHateX.com" was founded by two Canadian college students (one,
Kate Leth, referred to the X as "hideous"). The Facebook group "I Don't Care How
Comfortable X is, You Look Like a Dumbass" has been mentioned in the media.
X is no. 6 on the "Worst" list of Maxim's "The 10 Best & Worst Things to Happen to
Men in 2007."
16. 7*. X was conceived by computer programmer Casey Fenton in 1999, when
he was 25 years old. The idea arose after Fenton found a cheap flight from
Boston to Iceland but did not have a place to stay and did not want to stay
in a "boring" hotel. Fenton hacked into a university database and got the
mail-ids of 1,500 students from the University of Iceland. Hence originated
the idea of an website which has became a favourite of many, which
website?
18. 8. In the early days of cinema, movies sometimes had overly lovey-
dovey plots, all leading up to a thrilling and racy ending. Directors
started using "X," when asking someone to get straight to that scene and
avoiding unnecessary dialogues. Which Phrase?
25. Answer
Jeff Bezos
Logo of Blue Origin owned by him.
Goodreads – An Amazon subsidiary
And Two Pizza Rule given by him
26. 12. The idea was born out of Andrew Mason's frustration
trying to cancel a cell phone contract in 2006. In 2007
Mason launched The Point, a web platform based on the
"tipping point" principle that would utilize social media to
get people together to accomplish a goal. The Point was
intended to organize people around some sort of cause or
goal.
This was the origin of X.
X in response to Amazon’s drones has come up with X
Catapults.
X also owns Nearbuy.
Give me X.
33. Answer
The first image is of Prime Meridian
Logo of Marriot International – Parent
Air France – Started the Hotel Chain
Le Meridian’s 1000 Room building in Paris
34. 16*. Whose career timeline is this –
US Airforce
Om Shanti Om
Delhi Belly
The Wish Drivers
Proposed - Engineer Diaries and finally X.
36. 17*. X is an American seed accelerator started in March 2005. It has been called "the world's
most powerful start-up incubator". Fortune has called X "a spawning ground for emerging
tech giants".
As of 2016, X had invested in 940 companies including Dropbox, Airbnb, Quora, Disqus,
Coinbase, Stripe, Reddit, BuildZoom, Instacart, Twitch.tv, Weebly, Paribus and Chinese
startup Raven Tech.
41. Answer
Cecil Rhodes – Founder
Debswana – Its mining subsidiary
Sean Connery - Diamonds are forever
42. 20*. X was founded as a joint venture between two of the "big
three" record companies, Universal Music Group (UMG) and
Sony Music Entertainment (SME). Later on it was joined by
the third company Warner Music Group. It’s aim is to evolve
the way we watch videos.
Give me X?
44. 21*. X is a form of lock-in where employees detain
management in the workplace, often in protest against
lay-offs and redundancies, and has especially been carried
out in France. The term gained wide usage in the media
following a series of X incidents in the spring of 2009 in
France where workers used the tactic in the context of
widespread labor unrest.
56. 27. Corning Inc. is an American manufacturer of glass,
ceramics and related materials primarily for industrial and
scientific applications. Mostly known for Gorilla
Glass, it’s long history of innovation begins with
a pioneering project which accounted for half of
Corning’s business in the initial years of 20th century.
Which project was that?
58. 28. These date back to the 1930s, when new airplanes
allowed people to fly higher and farther. Many US Army
Air Service pilots were reporting that the glare from the
sun was giving them headaches and altitude sickness. So
in 1929, a US Army Air Corps Lieutenant General John
MacCready asked X, a Rochester, New York-based
medical equipment manufacturer to manufacture these
products to obstruct the sunrays. What were these called?
61. Answer
Shapoorji Pallonji Mistry Group
Eureka is owned by them.
They are the builders of RBI Head Office, BSE building, Palace of Sultan of Oman and also the Taj Continental.
The man is Pallonji Mistry.
