This document contains a general quiz with multiple choice and fill-in-the-blank questions about various topics including brands, movies, people, and events. Some questions ask the reader to identify products, companies, terms, and other details based on contextual clues and explanations provided.

1. GENERAL QUIZ
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2. It began life in Brazil as a one-time marketing
plan to sell pre-packaged music on Nokia 5310
phones – where two different Brazilian artists
recorded a show fusing different styles of
music. What?

5. Give Funda.

8. This best-selling reader-friendly series began in
1991with a book by computer science writer
Dan Gookin. The book, with its characteristic
standard format devised by Gookin, and
cartoons by Rich Tennant, became popular
due to the rarity of beginner-friendly materials
for using “X”. While initially the series focused
on software and technology topics (and still
does), it now includes many general and
diverse topics such as acne, chess, and fishing.
Name this series and what is “X”?

11. Who is sitting on the right of Gandhi?

13. • Charlie Chaplin

17. The Government of India’s MSTC (Metal and
Scrap Trading Corporation) conducted an e—
auction worth Rs 133 crore last year on behalf
of an unusual biological product mainly
obtained from a place in South India. Together
with other places producing this, the trade in
this commodity reached Rs 700 crore last year.
What product is this that is popular in the
West in the fashion industry?

20. Connect

25. • Daryl Harper and Simon Taufel, ICC umpires
from Australia

28. • Kathryn Stockett- author
• Reliance Entertainment-
Studio
• Octavia Spencer – won
Best Supporting Actress
Oscar for the movie

34. Brownie Wise

38. In 2010, Urs Holzle sent around an urgent
internal memo warning that the company
would be crushed if it didn’t figure out its
social strategy. The team named their social
project “Emerald Sea” after this painting of a
wave knocking a ship over and then recreated
that painting outside the elevators where they
worked. What was the outcome of this
project?

41. In September 2010, a certain range of furniture
and other interior accessories were launched at
Paris trade show. Some of these items were
named Radcliffe desk, Bodleian book case, Harry
Potter table, etc. The Critics were quick to label it
as vulgar and cheapens it image. Whose
venture?

44. Jim O’Neill, an economist with Goldman
Sachs, coined the acronym ‘BRIC’ to refer to
Brazil, Russia, India, and China. Now he has
come up with ‘MIST’, a next set of emerging
economies.
Expand MIST

46. • Mexico, Indonesia, South Korea, and Turkey

50. • The previous logo was in the shape of a ring.
The reason why the company decided to go
for the black and white colour combination
was that the agency had sent a coloured logo
but since the company had a black and white
fax machine hence they received it in black
and white and thought it to be selected by the
agency. The design and colours both were
liked and approved and hence they had a
black and white Logo. Which company?

56. • This term comes from the Greek word for
‘household management’. The term
eventually came to be used in a much more
generalized connotation. Which term?

58. • Economics

59. • One of the reasons for this car brand’s name
was that it was said to give zero engine noise.
Which brand?

61. • ZEN

62. • The founder of this drink brand used to send
ripe Florida citrus oranges in gift boxes from
Florida to the rest of US. He realized that he
could send only the best and biggest fruits in
his gift boxes, and that the relatively smaller
ones were going waste. He therefore decided
to make this beverage out of the relatively
smaller oranges. Which drink is this?

64. • Tropicana

65. • Which Indian brand, originally based in Morvi
, Gujrat, is the world’s largest selling clock
brand?

67. • Ajanta

68. • X was used by NASA to help insure the
successful launch of the Apollo 8 spacecraft in
1968. The rocket had a rubber strip holding
together a covering that protected a
measuring instrument. NASA needed a means
to insure that the rubber strip could slide off
freely during the rocket’s launch. A NASA
engineer used some X that he brought in from
home. It did the job so well that he planned
to use it on all subsequent Apollo launches.

70. • JOHNSON’S® Baby Powder

71. • ____________ became the first infant formula
manufacturer to be included in the London
Stock Exchange’s responsible investment
index. This company was started by a trained
pharmacist and is also one of the main
shareholders of L'Oréal, the world's
biggest cosmetics company. It was the first
company to develop policies based on the
WHO Code and apply them across our entire
operations in developing countries.

73. • Nestle