1. VYAAPAAR
---DOWN D BUSINESS LANE
By- Bhartrihari Pandiya, MBA (HR)

2.  Questions are very very easy…
 No negative marking, so feel free to guess…
 If you discover a definite pattern in the answers
(most will do), then u r d king…
 My decision is not final, you can discuss any
discrepancy if need arises…
 1 mark for each answer…

3. 1.
 In October 2011, the company X agreed to pay at
least $1.3 billion for illegally marketing
its Depakote epilepsy drug to the U.S. government
and 24 states. To date, it is the third-largest
pharmaceutical settlement in U.S. history. This
company had advertised Depakote to be used to
control behavioral disturbances for patients with
dementia and schizophrenia, without FDA approval.
ID X

4. 2.
 X is one of the Big Four banks of India, along
with State Bank of India, ICICI Bank and Punjab
National Bank.
 The tagline of this company is "India's International
Bank".
 Based on 2012 data, it is ranked 715 on Forbes
Global 2000 list.

5. 3.
 This company was founded by Serge Kampf in
1967 as an enterprise management and data
processing company.
 In 2002, it founded a subsidiary called Sogeti in six
countries to focus on the growing local IT market.
 Services are delivered through four disciplines;
Consulting, Technology, Outsourcing and Local
Professional Services.

6. 4.
 As of 2007, it is the second-largest chemical
manufacturer in the world by revenue and as of
February 2009, the third-largest chemical company
in the world by market capitalization
(after BASF and DuPont).
 The U S military dropped napalm bombs (produced
by this company)on North Vietnam during
the Vietnam War.

7. 5.
 This company X has its share of controversy,
including cases of fraud, and concerns over
forgeries and intellectual property violations in
auction items. There are also issues of how negative
feedback after an auction can offset the benefits of
using X as a trading platform.
 X has also been criticised for not paying its share of
UK tax: the Sunday Times reported in October 2012
that X pays only £1.2m in tax on sales of over
£800m.

8. 6.
 In June 1999 this company’s historical connection
with Siemens was revived, when the two companies
agreed to merge their European computer
operations into a new 50:50 joint venture called XY
Computers (Y being Siemens), which became the
world's fifth-largest computer manufacturing
company.

9. 7.
 X expanded into new markets including an
agreement with American Motors
Corporation (AMC). The automaker merged the
worlds of couture and automobiles with the X AMC
Hornet.
 Launched in February 2013, the "Chime for
Change" campaign by this company works to further
the global campaign for girls' and women's
empowerment.

10. 8.
Small V twins models of which company?
 D Model, 1929–1931, 750 cc
 R Model, 1932–1936, 750 cc
 W Model, 1937–1952, 750 cc, solo (2 wheel, frame
only)
 G (Servi-Car) Model, 1932–1973, 750 cc
 K Model, 1952–1953, 750 cc
 KH Model, 1954–1956, 900 cc
 Ironhead, 1957–1971, 883 cc; 1971–1985, 1,000 cc
 Evolution, since 1986, 883 cc, 1,100 cc and 1,200 cc

11. 9.
 Orthodox Jews have protested against this
company operating in Israel on Saturday, Shabbat.
The company ringed its office with barbed wire
before the protest, but there was no violence.
 It was facing charges of age discrimination, so,
Upside magazine requested data from them for its
hiring and firing by age, but the company declined
to provide any.

12. 10.
 This company is a chain of "general merchandise
stores" (or hypermarket) and the largest of its type
in Japan.
 The Hong Kong and Mainland China subsidiaries
have officially changed their name to AEON on 1
March 2013.

13. 11.
 The CEO of this airline company quit on 17 Feb
2014.
 Initially, passengers were able to watch only
recorded TV programming on the IFE system, but
later an alliance was formed with Dish TV to
provide live TV in-flight. Also they decided to have
an on-screen safety demonstration using the IFE
system, however the conventional safety briefing by
the flight attendants still exists on many flights.

14. 12.
 In 1864 this company signed its first international
contract for the delivery of 110,000 tonnes of lime
to the Suez Canal construction project.
 In 2001, this company, then the world's second
largest manufacturer, acquired Blue Circle
Industries (BCI), which at the time was the world's
sixth largest manufacturer, to become the world
leader in manufacturing of that particular product.

15. 13.
 In 2009,scientists from this company initially
discovered that insects had developed resistance to
the Bt Cotton planted in Gujarat and when studies
were completed, it communicated this to the Indian
government and its customers, stating that
"Resistance is natural and expected, so measures to
delay resistance are important.”

16. 14.
 This is a Fortune 300 company headquartered
in Charlotte, North Carolina, is the largest steel
producer in the United States, and the largest of the
so-called "mini-mill" steelmakers.
 It is North America's largest recycler of any
material, recycling one ton of steel every two
seconds.

17. 15.
 This company is an Italian manufacturer of
computers, tablets, smartphones, printers and other
business products such as calculators and fax
machines.
 Programma 101, the first commercially-produced
personal computer was developed by this company
in the year

18. 16.
 The Elefant (German for "elephant") was
a Schwerer Panzerjäger ("heavy tank destroyer") of
the German Wehrmacht used in small numbers
in World War II developed by a person who also
designed the 1923 Benz Tropfenwagen, the first
race car with a mid-engine, rear-wheel drive layout.
 In 1996, he was inducted into the International
Motorsports Hall of Fame and in 1999
posthumously won the award of Car Engineer of the
Century. Name the company he created.

19. 17.
 X pioneered the commercialization of the cdmaOne
(IS-95) standard for wireless cellular
communications, following up with CDMA2000, an
early standard for third-generation (3G) mobile.
 In April 2006, a dispute between Reliance
Communications and X over royalty fees cost X
approximately $11.7b in market capitalization. In
July 2007, Reliance and X decided to settle the
matter and agreed to expand the use of CDMA
technology in India. ID X...

20. 18.
 X is a British-Australian multinational metals and mining
corporation with headquarters in London, United
Kingdom, and a management office in Melbourne,
Australia.
 The company was founded in 1873, when a
multinational consortium of investors purchased a mine
complex on the X river, in Huelva, Spain, from the
Spanish government.
 X was also accused of planning and funding the murder
of RTI activist Shehla Masood in Bhopal, India.
Apparently she was protesting illegal diamond mining
done by X in connivance with government officers.

21. 19.
 The first X opened in Seattle, Washington, on March 30,
1971, by three partners who met while they were
students at theUniversity of San Francisco: English
teacher Jerry Baldwin, history teacher Zev Siegl, and
writer Gordon Bowker.
 The shop location of X in the former imperial palace in
Beijing closed in July 2007. The shop had been a source
of ongoing controversy since its opening in 2000 with
protesters objecting that the presence of the American
chain in this location "was trampling on Chinese culture”.

22. 20.
 X's UK operation is divided into six formats,
differentiated by size and the range of products sold-
X Extra, X Superstores, X Express, X Stop, X Metro and
X Homeplus.
 In January 2013, the British media reported that horse
meat had been found in some meat products sold by X,
along with other retailers, particularly burgers. David
Cameron called this "unacceptable", with products
showing 29.1% horse meat in the "Value" range burger,
which were supposed to be beef.

23. 21.
 This company is a Swiss global financial
services company that is headquartered
in Basel and Zürich, Switzerland. The company
provides investment banking, asset management,
and wealth management services for private,
corporate, and institutional clients worldwide, as
well as retail clients in Switzerland.
 It’s the biggest bank in Switzerland.

24. 22.
 This company X was implicated in the violent
suppression of pro-democracy protests in Egypt's
2011 demonstrations. On 27 January, X ,
responsible for much of Egypt's telecommunication
infrastructure, shut off all voice and data services
for Egyptian citizens and businesses at the request
of the Egyptian Government under Hosni Mubarak.
 Arun Sarin was the driving force behind the
Company's move into emerging markets such as
Asia and Africa.

25. 23.
 On Sunday, July 17, 1955, this hosted a live TV
preview, among the thousands of people in attendance
were Ronald Reagan, Bob Cummings and Art Linkletter.
It’s creator gave the following dedication day speech:
“To all who come to this happy place; welcome. X is your
land. Here age relives fond memories of the past ....
and here youth may savor the challenge and promise of
the future. X is dedicated to the ideals, the dreams and
the hard facts that have created America ... with the
hope that it will be a source of joy and inspiration to all
the world.” Name the owner and thus d company.

26. 24.
 The company came to prominence in 1959 with the
introduction of the X 914, "the most successful single
product of all time." The 914, the first product of
such type was developed by Carlson and John H.
Dessauer; it was so popular that by the end of
1961, X had almost $60 million in revenue.
 In the mid-1980s, Apple considered buying X;
however, a deal was never reached.

27. 25.
 Apart from the full form of their company which
was in media, they insisted they mainly selected the
name because they liked the slang definition of a
“X" (used by college students in one of the founder’s
native Louisiana in the late 1980s and early 1990s
to refer to an unsophisticated, rural Southerner):
"rude, unsophisticated, uncouth." His college
girlfriend often referred him as a “X" This meaning
derives from the name of a race of fictional beings
from Gulliver's Travels.

28. 26.
 X was launched in India on 1 October 1992,
becoming the country's first Hindi satellite channel. X
formerly had a partnership with STAR TV. However,
STAR TV ended their partnership with X
when Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation acquired
STAR TV.
 X was launched in the USA on 15 July 1998. In the
USA, some of programmes are subtitled in English
and some commercials are in English.