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2. E P I C Q U E S T FINALS

6. ACER Arena

7. Q2 Alexander Wilson founded the company in _______-, London in 1857.Originally named Alex Wilson and Company, then ____ Iron Works, the company built pumps and marine engines.In 1903, the company built its first car 1907 the modern name of _____ Motors was adopted.During World War I ______ made large numbers of cars for use as staff cars for the British forces.Bedford Vehicles, a subsidiary constructing commercial vehicles, was established in 1930 as the Stock Market Crash of 1929 had made importing American lorries uneconomical.During World War II, car production was suspended to allow ____ to work on the Churchill tank. Over 5,600 Churchill tanks were built.

9. VAUXHALL

10. Q3 _______ Techwin is a Asain aeronautics, optoelectronics, automations and defense company.It is currently the world's third largest digital camera manufacturer.It is one of the subsidiaries of ______ Group.The company established precision instrument laboratory in 1978.It started making cameras in 1979 and is still a world leader today.It acquired Rollei, a German camera manufacturer, and Union Optics of Japan, a manufacturer of semiconductor equipments. Began selling digital cameras under the brand of ______ Kenox in 1997.In 2005, the company marked first place in Asian digital cameras market share and started a technical co-operation with Pentax.It will now be a conjoined partnership with ______ Electrics. Where its latest CCTV Cameras and Digital Imaging technology is then passed on for further products.

12. SAMSUNG

13. Q4 ____ has historic roots through the involvement of Wilhelm who was the technical director of the Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft.The company originally developed and manufactured diesel and gas engines for the rail cars.The company first built an experimental car in 1919.The company also continued to build heavy duty diesel engines for marine and rail purposes._____ contributed to the German war effort in World War II by producing the engines for the formidable Panther and Tiger tanks.After the war the factory performed some repair work, but automotive production was never restarted, and some 20 years later, the company was renamed into MTU Friedrichshafen.

15. MAYBACH

18. Vijay Mallya

19. Q6 The origins of ______ go back to the early 1890s where the company started out with the manufacture of bicycles.It was 1894, and 26-year old Václav who was a bookseller by trade, was unable to obtain the right spare parts to repair his bicycle.Vaclav returned his bicycle to the manufacturers,with a letter, asking for them to carry out repairs, only to receive a reply, in Stating: "If you would like an answer to your inquiry, you should try writing in a language we can understand".A disgusted Valcav, despite not having any previous technical experience, then decided to start his own bicycle repair shop, which he and Václav Laurin opened in 1895 .Before going into business partnership with Valcav, Laurin was an already established bicycle manufacturer.The press credited them as makers of the first motorcycle.By 1905 cars were being produced by the firm.During the First World War ______ was engaged in war production.After WWI it began producing trucks, but in 1924, after running into problems and being hit by a fire, the company sought a partner.As a result it merged with ______ Works.Most later production was under the ______ name.

21. SKODA

24. Azim Premji

25. Q8 Son of a famous sculptor and respected artistic carpenter Ettore was born into an artist's family, in Milan, Italy, on September 15th, 1881.After finishing school Ettore began his training with the bicycle manufacturers.Prior to the end of the century, he took part in a race with his first vehicle.In 1901, Ettore presented his first self-made automobile at the international exhibition in Milan.Because Ettore had not yet reached the legal age of 21, his father had to sign the contract with de Dietrich.They obtained the license to build the car, and Ettore was named the leader of the production department in Cologne. Ettore with the help of a banker opened a business of his own in a disused dyeing works in the town of Molsheim.

27. Buggati

30. Palmolive Soap

33. A10 Amara Raja(Amaron)

34. Q11 Asian Hotels Ltd operate an international hotel chain in India.Which hotel chain do they operate.They have 7 hotels under there name?

36. A11 HYATT

37. Q12 _____was born of a vision. Founded in 1986 by Mr. P.V.Ramaprasad Reddy, Mr. K.Nityananda Reddy and a small, highly committed group of professionals, the company became a public venture in 1992. It commenced operations in 1988-89 with a single unit manufacturing semi synthetic penicillins (SSPs) at Pondicherry.Although the companies registered headquaters are in Hyderabad but company get its name as it first started manufacturing in Pondicherry?

39. Aurobindo Pharma

40. Audience Its price has been one of its highest USP. It was sold at Rs.4 for 25 years until 1994 when the price was raised by 25 paise to offset the overall hike in costs.

41. Audience Which channel has british telecom decided to distribute in the US.It was earlier distributing the channel in Dubai?

44. Q1

54. AMERICAN EXPRESS

55. Q2

61. Clue-3(+20,-10)

65. MICHELIN

66. Audience John hendrich is the chairman and founder of.His company also owns the website Howstuffworks.com?

67. Audience 1991 who did the India media refer to or call the "Big Bull"?

71. Rahul Bajaj

74. GM Rao

77. BMW

78. Q4 ______ was born to Jewish parents.He graduated from Far Rockaway High School in 1956, attended the University of Alabama for one year, then transferred to and graduated from Hofstra University (then Hofstra College) in 1960 with a degree in political science.The following year, he attended Brooklyn Law School, but did not continue._____ is married to his high school sweetheart, Ruth Alpern, who has been involved with the firm and in the ______ Charitable Foundation.They have two sons, Mark and Andrew.

80. Bernard Madoff

81. Q4-Identify the CEO (who sold it all)

83. Manoj Kholi

86. Reckitt Benckiser

89. Manmohan Shetty

90. Audience The rural empowerment intiative taken by Unilever is Branded as?

91. Audience ____ was born to a professor of French, and mother, Shalini was a professor of psychology.They are a Maharashtrian Konkanastha Brahmin family.He went to Hyderabad Public School. He studied chemical engineering at Osmania University and later graduated from Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad.___ joined ad agency Rediffusion soon after graduating from IIM Ahmedabad. He worked on assignments such as Colgate, Halo shampoo, Palmolive, Charmis etc.

92. ASSET MANAGEMENT

95. Hospitality Industry

98. Sodexo

99. Sportsmans In Business

102. Magic Johnson

103. Brand Ambassador

104. In 2006, _____ was selected as the first brand ambassador of the Mysore Sandal Soap?

106. MS Dhoni

107. Brand Origin/History

108. Q In 1945, the National Research Corporation of Boston, Massachusetts developed a method of concentrating juice into a powder using a high-vacuum evaporation process previously developed for dehydrating medical products for use in the U.S. war effort.The US Army had a need for 227,000 kg for the war, so NRC created a new branch, the Florida Foods Corporation. Led by John M. Fox, the company won the government contract for $750,000.The war ended and the contract was canceled before the factory could be built, but with investment, the company moved forward with a product.Rather than selling powder to the public market, the company decided to create frozen juice concentrate, using a process that eliminated 80 percent of the water in the fruit juice.A Boston marketing firm came up with the name ______ .With limited funds for advertising, Fox himself went door to door giving free samples, until demand skyrocketed.In October 1949 the company adopted the name ____Corp.In 1970 the company was involved in a scandal in the United States about bad housing, often referred to as "slave quarters," and working conditions of ___ farm laborers in Florida.

110. Minute Maid

111. CEO & TICKR

114. AT&T

117. Prettha Reddy MD, Apollo Hospitals

118. Audience How do we popularly know Poppin' Fresh?

119. Audience Docutalk is the In-House Journal of?

121. PRINT ADS

123. Q1

127. Q2

131. Q3

135. Q4

139. Q5

143. Q6

148. Audience Shahid Mustafa who was asked to leave Hutchinson Essar Ltd in Mumbai.Currently Which company is he heading which company?

149. Audience Allendale, Conroe, Merom-2M, Merom, Kentsfield, Wolfdale, Yorkfield, Penryn,Covington,Mendocino,Bloomfield,Katmai are all code-names of?

150. DRY QUESTION

154. Vinita Bali,CEO Britannia.

155. Q2 Born in Pune, ____ moved to Mumbai after her marriage.She started her experiments in the kitchen began soon after she discovered her husband was an avid food lover.Soon she was teaching these recipes to 6 young girls cooking during there summer vacations which was the beginning of her cooking career.She wrote her fist cookbook as medium to move ahead in the profession she got Rs 5000 for it.After the first books huge success She has published 20 cookbooks internationally.Her cookery show "Cook it Up with _____" is viewed to 40 different countries across the world.In the show comes on Sony Television Channel.She has made her way into the Top 50 richest women in India.

157. Tarla Dalal

160. Parle

163. ONIDA

166. SPRITE

167. Q6 Ever since the company was founded the logo has always participated in activities to stand upheld with the company. Nevertheless, ______ logo has experienced several alterations over the last seventy years. The pre-eminent shield of the _______ logo is widely recognized by all due to its extra ordinary features._____ logo grips to a shield-like structure which gives it a prominent position. This shield shape of _____ logo has been utilized ever since the logo design was created. Strength, power and supremacy are clearly depicted from the shield-like shape of _____ logo.there are the two alphabets inscribed in the ______ logo design. The typeface is kept quite simple and easy to understand however it is presented in a large and bold font. The alphabets methodically compliment with the shape of _____ logo, portraying the logo design in a beautiful fashion.

170. Audience ___ was founded in Austria in 1923.Following the Austria's annexation by Nazi Germany in 1938, the organization fell under the control of Nazi Germany and the Commission's headquarters were eventually moved to Berlin in 1942.After the end of World War II in 1945, the organization was revived as _____ by European Allies of World War II officials from Belgium, France, Scandinavia and the United Kingdom. Its new headquarters were established in Saint-Cloud, a town on the outskirts of Paris. They remained there until 1989, when they were moved to their present location, Lyon.

171. Audience Avinash Bajaj & Suvir Sujan,2 Harvard Busines School classmates started this hugely popular website?

173. STAGE 2 THE THEME ROUND

175. Braeburn Capital is an asset management company based in Reno, Nevada and a subsidiary of ____?

177. Apple

180. PRINCETON UNIVERSITY

181. GOING FOR THE THEME ITS +60/-30

182. ____ was the research organization of of the American Telephone & Telegraph Company (AT&T).In 1925 Western Electric Research Laboratories and part of the engineering department of the American Telephone & Telegraph company (AT&T) were consolidated to form ______.

184. BELL LABS

185. GOING FOR THE THEME +50 -25

186. _______ owes its beginnings to the Eyring Research Institute (ERI) in Provo, Utah. Dennis Fairclough, Drew Major, Dale Neibaur and Kyle Powell left their employment with ERI and took with them the experience and technology necessary to start and support the development of ___.Dennis Fairclough was the member of the original team that started ___ Data Systems.Drew Major, Dale Neibaur and Kyle Powell continued to supply support for _____ through their SuperSet Software Group.The company brought about the concept of cutting cost through LAMP.

188. NOVELL

189. GOING FOR THE STAGE 2 +40 -20

190. Q The company has got one of its NASDAQ symbol as one of its premium products.This product is the most recognizable by the company hence became its NASDAQ symbol.Chris Malachowsky, co-founder of NVIDIA & Edward Zander former CEO of Motorola were the employees of this company?

192. Sun Microsystems

193. GOING FOR THE THEME +30 -15

194. I n 1969, Chief Scientist at Xerox Jack Goldman approached Dr. George Pake, a physicist specializing in nuclear magnetic resonance and provost of Washington University, about founding and generously funding a second research center for the company.Dr. Pake selected _____ as the site of what was to become known as ___. While the 3,000 mile buffer between it and Xerox headquarters in New York afforded scientists at the new lab great freedom to undertake their work, time was to prove the distance also served as something of an impediment to the researchers' ability to persuade management of the promise of some of their greatest achievements.____ West Coast location proved to be proptitous in the mid-'70s when the lab was able to hire many employees of the nearby SRI Augmentation Research Center when that facility's funding from DARPA, NASA, and the U.S. Air Force began to diminish.Much of ____ early success in the computer field followed from the inspired leadership of its Computer Science Laboratory manager Bob Taylor, who guided the lab as associate manager from 1970–77 and as manager 1977–83.

196. PARC

199. GOOGLEPLEX GOOGLE

200. GOING FOR THE THEME +20 -10

201. THE STAGE 2 IS ...............

203. Eric E Schmidt the CEO of Google.