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2. Which company, now defunct, was colloquially referred to as 'John company' and 'Company Bahadur'?

3. The East India Company

4. Which brand had Scotty McTape as its mascot for over a couple of decades through the 1950s and 1960s?

5. 3M’s Scotch Tape

6. This brand was created in the 1860s under Tsarist Russia. The founder X was known to be pretty adept at marketing. One of his marketing strategies involved rounding up panhandlers and bringing them to his home for food and drink in one of Moscow's poorest neighbourhoods. Then he paid them to fan out and "demand Y" at Moscow's watering holes. Identify X and Y

7. X: PyotrArsenievich Smirnov Y: Smirnoff

8. Connect i586, Lexicon Branding and 'FDIV'

9. The Pentium Chip

10. The earliest documented example of this was a message advertising the availability of a new model of Digital Equipment Corporation computers sent to 393 recipients on ARPANET in 1978, by Gary Thuerk. What am I talking about here?

11. The first recorded instance of spam

12. With which brand would you associate the baseline 'Keep going'?

13. Energizer

14. Name the first Indian newspaper to go digital on the Kindle?

15. The Hindustan Times

16. Between 2003 and 2005 a series of coordinated hacking attacks were launched against Lockheed Martin, Sandia National Laboratories, Redstone Arsenal, and NASA. What were these series of attacks called?

17. Titan Rain

18. This one would be more identifiable with the Mumbaikars and the Puneites. Many of the public transport buses, you would notice, have "JNnurm" inscribed on them. What does this stand for?

19. JawaharLal Nehru Urban Renewal Mission

20. Identify the brand

21. Antonov !! the Russian aircraft manufacturer

22. Which brand would you associate with Facebook's three popular games: Farmville, Cafe World and Mafia Wars?

23. Zynga: The world’s largest social games company

24. Name the first private city in India to offer regular and exclusive air services to other cities?

25. Amby Valley owned by the Sahara Group

26. With which brand would you associate its promoters: 'Royal Holdings Services‘?

27. Spicejet

28. AT&T uses the iconic 'T' symbol on the NYSE. What does 'T' stand for?

29. Telephone

30. Identify the brand

31. IL&FS

32. What is Simon's connection to smart phones?

33. Simon was the first smart phone : designed by IBM and sold by BellSouth

34. Which brand is listed as 'KO' on the NYSE?

35. Coca Cola

36. Name the world's first touch screen phone?

37. The Ericsson R380

38. Which company connects Vodafone Essar, Bharti and Idea?

39. The Indus Towers Company: A JV between the 4

40. Which brand would you associate with this movie?

41. McDonalds