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Sathaye Quiz Prelims
SYNERGY - 2015
Q.1. The BBC recently came up with a tweet likening this person to Lord Voldemort. In response, JK Rowling tweeted this. Who are we talking about?
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Q.2. Which company recently bought the domain
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz.com?
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Answer Google/Alphabet
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Q.3. This shop was founded by Lala Sukh Lal Jain who had arrived in the walled city of Delhi from Amber, a few years after Mughal Emperor Shah Alam II was restored to the throne.
According to some sources, the shop was so named because Shah Alam II often asked his servants to get sweets from the shop by referring to it as ‘the shop below the bell’.
Identify this shop which closed down in July 2015 due to falling sales and increasing competition.
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Identify the person on the left?
Answer Salman Khan (Khan Academy)
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Q.5. ______ was founded in Madras on 20 September 1878 as a weekly, by what was known then as the Triplicane Six consisting of 4 law students and 2 teachers:- T. T. Rangachariar, P. V. Rangachariar, D. Kesava Rao Pantulu and N. Subba Rao Pantulu, led by G. Subramania Iyer (a school teacher from Tanjore district) and M. Veeraraghavachariar (a lecturer at Pachaiyappa's College).
Started in order to support the campaign of Sir T. Muthuswamy Iyer for a judgeship at the Madras High Court and to counter the propaganda against him carried out by the Anglo-Indian press, _____ was one of the many newspapers of the period established to protest the discriminatory policies of the British Raj. About 80 copies of the inaugural issue were printed at Srinidhi Press, Georgetown on one rupee and twelves annas of borrowed money.
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Q.6. X is known as Walkers in the United Kingdom and Ireland, Smith's in Australia, Chipsy in Egypt, Poca in Vietnam, Tapuchips in Israel, Margarita in Colombia and Sabritas in Mexico.
Its official blog is called Snack Chat. Identify X.
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Q.10. A graduate in advertising from Xavier’s Institute of Communications (XIC) Mumbai, Sasha Chettri was a trainee copywriter. While she spent her initial 16 years in Dehradun, Chettri moved to Mumbai for higher education. While interning with Creativeland Asia she realised that copywriting was not her calling. She decided to pursue music, writing, composing and singing. While she performed her gigs, ‘Ricksha Rani’, as she is known in the circuit, also auditioned for ads keeping up with her interest in acting.
How do we know her better?/ Where have we seen her in the recent past?
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Q.11. Micromax was till recently the majority stakeholder in the IPTL team – Indian Aces. However, even before they were announced as the owners in 2014, a group led by Prasad V Potluri and X had been the original franchise owners with a plan to play home matches in Mumbai. Unfortunately (for Mumbaities!), they missed a payment deadline due to which they withdrew their plan.
Who is X?
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Q.12. According to the history page of the organization's website:
Founded in 2006, X is not a company. It is a CONCEPT – a concept that links the rising destiny of millions of rural masses on the one hand and many more suffering the onslaught of the unhealthy urban life style on the other.
It is all about economically processing farm produce into daily use consumables ranging from health supplements to Foods and cosmetics and then supplying them largely to the urban world. The produce will be picked up right from the farms, thereby increasing the effective income of the farmers. The health based products will then be made available to a large population in the urban areas that is reeling under the scourge of polluted food items and artificial drinks that make them vulnerable to a variety of chronic diseases. And all this at a cost that is unmatched in the market.
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Q.13. This is the logo of which Institute established in 1931. The current director is Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay, an Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize winner.
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Neerja is an upcoming 2016 Indian biographical film directed by Ram Madhvani starring Sonam Kapoor in titular role and Shabana Azmi and Shekhar Ravjiani in supporting roles.
The film revolves around the factual hijacking of an aircraft in Karachi, Pakistan specifically focusing on flight attendant Neerja Bhanot.
Which airline was she working with?
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Nylon, Teflon, Mylar, Kevlar and Lycra are trademarked products by which company?
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Q.16. X is a term for chance occurrence, unavoidable accident. It is a common clause in contracts that essentially frees both parties from liability or obligation when an extraordinary event or circumstance beyond the control of the parties, such as a war, strike, riot, crime, or an event described by the legal term act of God.
Identify X
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Answer Force Majeure
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X is is a Silicon Valley venture capitalist, bestselling author, and Apple Fellow. He was one of the Apple employees originally responsible for marketing the Macintosh in 1984. He is currently a Managing Director of Garage Technology Ventures, and has been involved in the rumor reporting site Truemors and the RSS aggregation Alltop.
He has written books such as ‘What the Plus! Google+ for the rest of us’, ‘Reality Check’, The Art of the Start’, ‘How to Drive Your Competition Crazy’, ‘The Macintosh Way’ etc.
Identify X.
Answer Guy Kawasaki
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Q.19. Mandhana Industries Limited is an Indian diversified textile and apparel manufacturing company, headquartered in Mumbai, Maharashtra. The company owns businesses across India engaged in manufacturing of textiles and garments, apparel designing, yarn designing, yarn dyeing, weaving, processing, dyeing and garment manufacturing.
Why did its share price soar as much as 12% on 10th December, 2015?
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X is is an Indian regional airline based in Hyderabad, Telangana, India.
The airline s promoted by Vankayalapati Umesh and Ram Charan.
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SYNERGY - 2015