4. QUESTION 1
The company X was founded in 1971 and was one of the very few private industries
given permissions which was largely due to the managing director’s “close” relations
to PM Indira Gandhi. It went into liquidation in 1977.
It was nationalized in 1981 to revive the company and in 1982 Y entered into a Joint
Venture Agreement with 60:40 sharing. Production of their most iconic product
began in 1983.
XY became a huge success with the launch and continues to be a market leader in
the segment. In 2006 govt. sold all its shares in JV to private investment group and
the company became a subsidiary of the parent Y. In 2015 XY became the first
subsidiary in the world to valued more than its parent company.
10. QUESTION 3
Y Manufacturing Solutions, subsidiary of X has inaugurated a Rs 100 crore
assembly shop at its Nagpur-based facility for aerospace business. With a
manufacturing area of 96,000 sq ft and investment of over Rs 100 crore, the facility
has equipment to support technologies such as fluid cell forming, extrusion stretch
wrapping, and high speed machining of intricate parts along with facilities for
assembly.
"We have set up this new generic facility to build some of the most demanding
structures of an aircraft with the help of globally benchmarked manufacturing
technology. This facility will help us in delivering global quality and cost effective
aerospace components & assemblies," Y ED and CEO Rajesh Khatri said in a
statement.
Id X & Y.
13. QUESTION 4
X was developed in Delhi by Hakeem Hafiz Abdul Majeed in 1906 as a
refreshing herbal tonic. It’s translation means “nourishment for the soul”
in Urdu. It is manufactured by Hamdard Wakf Laboratories in India.
The specific Unani recipe of X combines several ingredients with
refreshing properties. Which iconic thing are we talking about ?
16. QUESTION 5
X originated as the Bank of Calcutta in June 1806. In 1809, it was
renamed as the Bank of Bengal. This was one of the three banks funded
by a presidency government, the other two were the Bank of Bombay and
the Bank of Madras.
The three banks were merged in 1921 to form the Imperial Bank of India,
which upon India's independence, became the X in 1955. For many years
the presidency banks had acted as quasi-central banks, as did their
successors, until the Reserve Bank of India was established in 1935,
under the Reserve Bank of India Act, 1934.
Id X.
22. QUESTION 7
Which fast food chain created a digital campaign called Plate of Hope
where visitors could create a plate online and the same food will be fed
to a hungry child by it at their cost ?
28. Shortly after moving to San Francisco in October 2007, Brian Chesky and Joe
Gebbia created the initial concept for X during the Conference held by Industrial
Designers Society of America. The original site offered short-term living quarters,
breakfast, and a unique business networking opportunity for attendees who were
unable to book a hotel in the saturated market
To help fund the site, the founders created special edition breakfast cereals, with
presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain as the inspiration for
"Obama O's" and "Cap'n McCains". In two months, 800 boxes of cereal were sold
at $40 each, which generated more than $30,000 for the company's incubation and
attracted Combinator Paul Graham.
Id X.
QUESTION 9:
32. What cinematic term, originally used to
describe the technique of engraving in relief
on gemstones, first attained its current usage
when Mike Todd used it to describe 44 odd
roles in his 1956 film ‘Around the World in
Eighty Days’ ?
QUESTION 1
38. QUESTION 3
Denmark ruled over the X form 1756 to 1868 naming them ‘ Frederick Andaman’
after a Danish King. In 1847, Denmark had offered to transfer this piece of land to
Great Britain for a consideration of 50,000 pounds but the offer was rejected by
British. However, in 1868 the king of Denmark handed over this piece of Land to
Great Britain free of cost .
Name this Piece of Land.
44. QUESTION 5
The X probably travelled to India along ancient trade routes from Central Asia. X
was easy to make around the campfire during night halts, then conveniently packed
into saddlebags as snacks for the next day's journey.
According to the “The Oxford Companion to Food” the Indian X is merely the best
known of an entire family of stuffed pastries or dumplings popular from Egypt and
Zanzibar to Central Asia and West China. Arab cookery books of the 10th and 13th
Centuries refer to the pastries as sanbusak (the pronunciation still current in Egypt,
Syria, & Lebanon).
Identify X
56. QUESTION 9
In kerala plans for a hydroelectric project
that threatened the parks high diversity of
wildlife stimulated an environmentalist
Social Movement in the 1970s called X
which resulted in cancellation of the
project and creation of the park in 1980.
Id X.
60. X was born as a son of a billionaire construction magnate with close ties to
the royal family. X had an olive complexion and was left-handed, usually walking
with a cane. He wore a plain white turban and he had stopped wearing the
traditional Saudi male headdress. X was described as soft-spoken and mild-
mannered in demeanor.
X was opposed to music on religious grounds and his attitude towards technology
was mixed. He was interested in "earth-moving machinery and genetic
engineering of plants" on the one hand, but rejected "chilled water" on the other.
Id X.
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63. X graduated in 1988 with a degree in computer science and
software engineering from the Ramrao Adik Institute of Technology
in Navi Mumbai, affiliated to Mumbai University, and was a software
engineer for Leading Edge.[
His wife Sangeeta is Maharashtrian and oldest son Siddharth, also
a singer, made his debut on the 2013 Bhaag Milkha Bhaag song
"Zinda". His youngest son, Shivam , also a singer made his debut in
2013 Dhoom 3 song Bande Hain Hum Uske. X is fluent in Tamil,
Marathi, Hindi, and English.
Id X.
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66. He earned a student flight certificate on his 16th birthday, then soloed later in August; all before he
had a driver's license. X was active in the Boy Scouts and earned the rank of Eagle Scout. As an
adult, he was recognized by the Boy Scouts of America with its Distinguished Eagle Scout
Award and Silver Buffalo Award
After 1994, X refused all requests for autographs because he found that his signed items were
selling for large amounts of money and that many forgeries were in circulation; any requests that
were sent to him received a form letter in reply, saying that he had stopped signing.
Although his no-autograph policy was well known, author Andrew Smith observed people at the
2002 Reno Air Races still trying to get signatures, with one person even claiming, "If you shove
something close enough in front of his face, he'll sign. He also stopped sending out congratulatory
letters to new Eagle Scouts, because he believed these letters should come from people who know
the Scouts personally.
Id X.
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69. It has been said that once his friend and teammate Javagal Srinath started bowling
wide outside the off stump, so that X could take the wicket. When the Indian
opener, Sadagoppan Ramesh tried to take a catch off Srinath, he was cautioned
by Javagal Srinath not to try and take any catch so that X could take wickets.
X’s performance was rated by Wisden as the second best "Bowling performance of
all time".The achievement was commemorated by naming a traffic
circle in Bengaluru after him, and gifting him a car with the customized license plate:
KA-10-N-10.
Id X.
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75. QUESTION 6
He was born in San Jose, California, the son of Margaret Elaine
(Kern).
He is of Polish and Swiss-German ancestry on his father's side and of
German, Irish, and English descent on his mother's.
He with his friend Did something which Changed the world
ID Him.