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ROUND 1

IN THE NEWS EARLIER THIS YEAR. IDENTIFY?

IDENTIFY?

COMPANY HE STARTED?

COMPANY HE STARTED?

WHAT’S MISSING?

WHAT’S MISSING?

ANWSERS

MARTIN WINTERKORN-EX-CEO VOLKSWAGEN

EMISSION SCANDAL

DROPBOX

AIRBNB

OCULUS VR

BABY BUFFETT

AFRICA RICHEST MAN

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ROUND 2

We cannot write @[4:] without space on the Facebook comment box in the

Facebook app.Zuckerberg programmed this as

whenever anyone write @[4:] on the comment box it automatically changes

to________.

FITB

MARK ZUCKERBERG

IDENTIFY X, Y, Z?

• The word X derives from the Latin ________, meaning "a great man" or "great nobleman".

• The word Y derives from the Japanese word ________ , which means "great lord", used as a title for the shogun. The word entered the English language in 1857 with the return of Commodore Perry to the United States. U.S. President Abraham Lincoln was humorously referred to as the  by his aides John Nicolay and John Hay.

• The word “Z” derives from a Old Norse word meaning "to burn" - recalling the practice of producers burning their mark.

X- MAGNATEY-TYCOONZ-BRAND

X was founded in 1979 by Richard Egan and Roger Marino introduced its first 64-kilobyte memory boards for

the Prime Computer in 1981 and continued with the development of memory boards for other computer types. 

On October 12, 2015, Dell Inc. announced that it would acquire X in a cash-and-stock deal valued at $67 billion—

the largest-ever acquisition in the technology sector. Dell CEO Michael Dell explained that the purchase was

meant to "evolve the company into the most relevant areas where IT is moving", combining Dell's enterprise server,

personal computer, and mobile businesses with X enterprise storage business.

AN EQUATION, ISN’T IT?

• This was the first of its kind place came in existence way back in 1510's in Mecca but was banned

because it started attracting political gatherings.• Later this was opened in Damascus in 1530 and not

long after there were many such places in Cairo even. After the introduction in Europe it quickly

became very popular, first of such venue was opened in Venice in 1629.

• In England, the first time it was set up in 1652 in Oxford by a Jewish named Jacob and in America had

its first in Boston in 1676.

• Id what place I am talking about which gave birth to number of financial institution in this world ? 

CAFE

The X (named after Christopher Columbus, known as Cristóbal X in Spanish) is the currency of Costa Rica.

The X is sometimes referred to as the peso, which was the name of the Costa Rican currency before the X, until 1896.

A slang name is caña (Spanish for sugar cane).

PUNCTUATION MARK, ISN’T IT?

COLON:::

Savitri Devi Jindal is a Non-Executive Chairperson, Jindal Steel & Power Limited. She was born to a family in Tinsukia, Assam in 1950. Savitri Jindal grew up living the lifestyle of a traditional Indian woman. In 1970 she married O.P. Jindal,

who had founded the Jindal Group, a steel and power conglomerate.

WHICH LIST DOES SHE HEAD?

RICHEST WOMEN IN INDIA/ASIA

The _______ originated during the nineteenth century in France where it was called "pain à la duchesse" or "petite

duchesse" until 1850.

The word is first attested both in English and in French in the 1860s.Some food historians speculate that _______ were first

made by Antonin Carême (1784–1833), the famous French chef. 

The first known English-language recipe for _______ appears in the Boston Cooking School Cook Book by Mrs. D.A. Lincoln,

published in 1884.

The word comes from French ________ 'flash of lightning', so named because it is eaten quickly.

WE ALL ASSOCIATE THIS WITH A FAMOUS BRAND. WHAT PRODUCT IS THIS?

ECLAIRS

This is what Peter Casey has to say about his book “I decided to write this

book after becoming fascinated with the story behind this amazing company and

their unique structure. It has been a voyage of discovery, and one in which I became more enchanted at every step.”

(pic next slide)

WHICH BUSINESS GROUP?

TATA

• Designed by Piero Gatti, Cesare Paolini and Franco Teodoro and produced by the Italian company Zanotta in 1969.

• X have become a globally recognized piece of furniture. It's said that they noticed the staff would sit on X filled with __________ during their coffee and cigarette breaks.

• The original X was called “Sacco”.

• On 22 August 2014, 2.2 million X were recalled due to two deaths of children who suffocated from the _________ inside the bag.

WHICH PRODUCT?

BEAN BAGS

The world's largest automobile manufacturing plant in belongs to this company, produces over 1.6 million

vehicles annually.

Chung Ju-Yung founded the company in 1947.

On 4 November, 2015, the company announced Genesis Motors as a new luxury car brand.

The stylize letter in the company’s logo symbolizes two people, customer and company shaking hands.

WHICH COMPANY?

HYUNDAI

TWEET BY WHICH COMPANY?

Six Apart Ltd., sometimes abbreviated 6A, is a software company known for creating the Movable Type blogware, TypePad blog hosting service, and Vox. The company also is the former owner of LiveJournal.

Its married co-founders are  Ben and Mena Trott.

PUT FUNDA ON THE NAME OF THE COMPANY.

THE FOUNDERS WERE BORN 6 DAYS APART, HENCE THE NAME.

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ROUND 3

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COMPANY OR PERSON?

OLD LOGO OF WHICH COMPANY?

THE WORLD’S FIRST _________ CARD. FITB.(NOT QUITE BUSINESS)

ANWSERS

GOLDEN GATE BRIDGE SAN FRANCISCO

BINARY FORM WITH 1 AS BLUE AND 0 AS WHITE UPPER ROW EIGHTY IN BINARY

LOWER ROW 20 IN BINARY

A HERSHEY’S KISSES BETWEEN

K AND I

SAM WALTON/WALMART

MC DONALDS

FIRST VALENTINE DAY CARD.

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ROUND 4

Arianna ________ is a Greek American author,syndicated colu

mnist, and occasional actress. She is the co-founder and editor-in-chief of ____________. She was a popular conservative commentator in the mid-1990s, after which,

in the 1990s, she became a liberal.

WHAT’S THE SURNAME?

HUFFINGTON/ HUFFINGTON POST

The company's name comes from a song called "Space Captain" whose lyrics contain the words "Lovely ___" but the founder heard misheard the word "lovely" and decided to name the company.

The company’s first book, Across Asia on the Cheap, consisting of 94 pages, was written by the

couple in their home. The original print run consisted of stapled booklets and sold out.

LOVE TRAVELLING, DON’T YOU?

LONELY PLANET

A person’s account-“ Once again, Starbucks proves to be a great place to

meet interesting people. Today, I met Michael Kovatch, who became recently

“Internet” famous for selling X to Apple. Michael Kovatch owns several other domains with excellent names for expansion. The X one has been actually

registered back in 1993. At that time, he thought of the possibility of placing calls over the Internet in the near

future and bought the domain with the intention of creating a company which enables this type of services.”

SOMETHING EXPENSIVE?

IPHONE DOMAIN AND NAME

X  is a marketing strategy in which an advertiser “________" an event to compete for exposure against competing

advertisers. The term “X” was coined by marketing strategist Jerry Welsh, while he was working as the manager of global marketing efforts for American Express in the 1980s.

IDENITFY X AND ADVERTISER?

AMBUSH MARKETINGPUMA

X is a brand of American automobiles that is a division of FCA US LLC (formerly Chrysler Group, LLC), a

wholly owned subsidiary of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles. 

The original X was the prototype Bantam BRC.  Willys MB X went into production in 1941 specifically for the military, arguably making them the oldest four-wheel drive mass-

production vehicles now known as SUVs.

Joe Frazer, Willys-Overland President from 1939 to 1944, claimed to have coined the word X  by slurring the initials

G.P. .

IDENTIFY X?

JEEP

One of the earliest known references to paperwork that served in a role similar to that of a X is found in the Hebrew Bible. Nehemiah 2:7-9 (450 BC), states that Nehemiah, an official serving King Artaxerxes I of Persia, asked permission to travel to Judea; the king granted leave and gave him a letter "to the governors beyond the river" requesting safe passage for him as he traveled through their lands.

In the medieval Islamic Caliphate, a form of X was the bara'a, a receipt for taxes paid. Only people who paid their zakah (for Muslims) or jizya (for dhimmis) taxes were permitted to travel to different regions of the Caliphate; thus, the bara'a receipt was a "traveler's basic X“.

Etymological sources show that the X is from a medieval document that was required in order to ______ through the gate of a city wall or to _____through a territory. 

IDENTIFY X?

PASSPORT

WHICH COMPANY?

INSTAGRAM

• The first X was installed by Siemens AG at Test Stand VII in Peenemünde, Germany in 1942, for observing the

launch of V-2 rockets.•  The noted German engineer Walter Bruch, Wayne Cox,

and Tashara Arnold were responsible for the technological design and installation of the system.

• In the U.S. the first commercial X system became available in 1949, called Vericon.

The first use by local government was in King's Lynn, Norfolk, in 1987. These were deemed successful in the government report “X: Looking Out For You", issued  in

1994.

IDENTIFY X?

CCTV

X is an American consumer and commercial appliances brand 

subsidiary of European parent company Electrolux.

X was founded as the Guardian _________ Company in Fort Wayne, Indiana, and developed the first

self-contained __________ in 1916.

In 1918, William C. Durant, a founder of General Motors, personally invested in the company and in 1919, it adopted

the name X.

The brand was so well known in the _________ field in the early-to-mid-1900s that it give rise to very common term.

GIMME X?

FRIDGEDAIRE/ FRIDGE

In the 1990’s, he submitted so many high scores to Ninento power that the could no longer print his scores, so he

started sending them under the name “Evets Kainzow”.He founded a new venture CL 9 which brought the first

universal TV remote control to market.In 2001, he co-founded Wheel of Zeus to create wireless GPS technology to “help everyday people find everyday

things”.He competed on Season 8 of “dancing with the stars”

where he danced with Karina Smirnoff

IDENTIFY X?

STEVE WOZNIACK

WHAT’S THE NYSE TICKER OF THIS COMPANY?

Steinway & Sons, also known as Steinway, is an American and German piano company, founded in 1853 in Manhattan, New York City by German immigrant Heinrich Engelhard Steinweg.

 From 1996 to 2013, Steinway Musical Instruments the parent company of Steinway & Sons was traded at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the abbreviation ______.

LVB/ LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN.

GNOSIOMANIA

TRIBUTE

Each team chooses a topic for another team which it wishes to challenge.

If the chosen team answers the question it gets +10, while the challenger gets -5.

If the chosen team does not answer the question it gets -5, while the challenger gets the right answer it gets +10.

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DERAILER

GNOSIOMANIA

These are hand-crafted by a man named John Billings in Ridgway, Colorado a town of less than 1,000 people. He redesigned theses more than 20 years ago, replacing the dull, lead trophies with a flashier, stronger zinc alloy he

named “__________”, which is then gold plated.At his company, Billings Artworks, he employs three people to help him build the these. He spends about 15 hours on

each of these What am I talking about?.

G

GRAMMY

In 1977, Motley Productions a theatre group was founded by X, X’s wife, Tom

Alter and Benjamin Gilani. Their first play was Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot,

which was staged at the Prithvi Theatre on 29 July 1979.

N

What was invented by James Watkins, a former engineer for the Pillsbury company and was originally manufactured by

the Golden Valley Microwave Foods?It is made and distributed by ConAgra Foods.

A

MRich Uncle Pennybags is the portly old man with a moustache in a top hat who serves as the mascot of the X. In large parts of the world he is also, or even exclusively, known as Mr. X. Brand mascot for what?

I

Ads by which brand?

O

Spirit of Communication is the formal name for a statue originally called Genius of Telegraphy when it was completed, and has been the

symbol of X since 1914. It is also known informally as the Golden Boy

statue.In the headquarters of which company would you find this?

A

Reserve Bank of India building. Bombay Stock Exchange.

A stone palace for the Sultan of Oman in 1971. The Imperial in Mumbai.

 Jumeirah Lake Towers in Dubai Ebene Cyber City in Mauritius.Brabourne stadium in Mumbai

 Jawaharlal Nehru stadium in Delhi.Manjri Stud Farm.

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