240: Five for the day!!!

• Which word has recently has been crowned as the one billionth word in English? - Web 2.0

• Whose Tagline is –'One Life. Why So Serious?' - Honda Jazz

• Whose wholesale joint venture is going to called as Best Price Modern Wholesale. (name both the companies) - Bharti Enterprises and Walmart


• Who owns the restaurant called Yellow chilli? - Sanjeev Kapoor


• Which magazine has entered INDIA in partnership with Network 18? - Forbed
Answer all five to get a point for each. 




All get something or the other right!!!

50: Citrification

Mario Gutiérrez Cotelo daughter ______ Cotelo(The drink was named after her) passed away due Citrus Nutritional Deficiency.His second daughter had the same disease and he attempted to make a citrus drink to save her from the disease.His efforts to save her dint prove succesful.Few days later in family function his citrus drink was served and it was well-appreciated by all family members.His wife started selling these drinks in market & there prodcution as well as sales grew.The drink was later sold to a turkish company (Yildiz Holding S.A.) .Yildiz Holding S.A. sold the drink to An American Giant in 1991.


Ans: The american giant... Pepsi, the drink Mirinda!

43: X & Y it doesnt get simpler

X was launched in 1986 as an drink in tetra pack after the mega success of Y. But X was not that successful compared to Y. This year we saw the new avatar of X . X changed in to nectar based drink in 1993.X was launched with a new bottle and communication this summer trying its luck in this large Indian market.The image of drink was created as a hangout friend.The voice of Cyrus Broacha was used to imply that the drink is the funny one in the group.

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Answer:
X : APPY CLASSIC
Y : MANGO FROOTI

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42: Call it Arrogance Or Attitude

The Dumfriesshire mill was founded by Alexander X, a weaver, and Joseph Y, a draper and financier in 1839. It was bought out from the founding families in the 1930s by Robert Scott Hay who reduced the customer base and concentrated on a limited number of clients to whom he supplied what became one of the best-known fabric labels in the world.He was once asked if he considered XY to be the Rolls-Royce of cloth production, to which he replied: "It’s more likely Rolls-Royce regard themselves as the XY of the motor car industry."

Answer :
X : Alexander ' REID '
Y : Joseph 'TAYLOR'.
XY : REID & TAYLOR.

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32:Tech Stuff

Question
____ CEO is founder Reid Hoffman. Hoffman, previously an executive vice president of PayPal, also is Chairman of the Board.Jeff Weiner is Interim President. Weiner, previously a Yahoo Inc executive oversees day-to-day operations. Dipchand Nishar is Vice President of Products.____ is located in Mountain View, California, and funded by Greylock, Sequoia Capital,Bessemer Venture Partners, and the European Founders Fund. _____ reached profitability in March 2006.______ also has offices in Omaha, Chicago, New York, and London.

Answer: LinkedIn

31: Which company

______ was established in 1825 . _______ was reincorporated as a mutual assurance company in 1925.The ______ group originally operated only through branches or agencies of the mutual company in the United Kingdom and certain other countries. Its Canadian branch was founded in 1833 and its Irish operations in 1838. This largely remained the structure of the group until 1996, when it opened a branch in Frankfurt, Germany with the aim of exporting its UK life assurance and pensions operating model to capitalise on the opportunities presented by EC Directive 92/96/EEC (the “Third Life Directive”) and offer a product range in that market with features which local providers were unable to offer.In the 1990s, the group also sought to diversify its operations into areas which complemented its core life assurance and pensions business, with the intention of positioning itself as a broad range financial services provider.

Ans: Standard Life Insurance

30: Merged Stuff

What was formed by the merger of Ennia N.V a merger of three companies 1969 & AGO Holding created by the merger of three companies in 1968?

Ans: AEGON

15 : An Indian ?

The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace is a formally private, nonprofit organization, in practice closely associated with the United States Department of State, many US presidents, "numerous private foreign affairs groups" and the leaders of major US political parties. The organization describes itself as being dedicated to advancing co-operation between nations and promoting active international engagement by the United States. Founded in 1910 by Andrew Carnegie, its work is not formally associated with a political party and it says that it is dedicated to achieving practical results.Which Indian has recently joined it?


Answer - Sunil Bharti Mittal , Chairman and CEO of Bharti Airtel.

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Nobody has cracked the answer.

:Google for personal dissatisfaction

8: Retail Chain

This retail chain gets its name from its open hours. But after that began in diffrent models and started off with 24Hrs stores. In 1987, John Philp Thompson, the CEO of _____ completed a $5.2 billion management buyout of the company his father had founded. The buyout suffered from the 1987 stock market crash and after failing initially to raise high yield debt financing, the company was required to offer a portion of the company's stock as an inducement to invest in the company's bonds.

Answer - 7/11

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7: DryWeb

In 1998, former North Carolina State University professor Marshall Brain started the site as a hobby. In 1999, Brain raised venture capital and formed ___. In March 2002, _____ was sold to the Convex Group.The headquarters moved from Cary, North Carolina to Atlanta, Georgia.The domain _______ attracted at least 58 million visitors annually by 2008, according to a Compete.com survey.___ puts out an educational magazine called "____ Express" for middle school students.____ recently acquired Mobil Travel Guide and Consumer Guide.Premiering in November 2008, ___ became a hit television series that is watched by around 12 million people.


Answer - HowStuffWorks.com

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4: Result of Merger

In March 2000 what was the result of the merger between Confinity and X.com.

Ans: Paypal
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