4. EuroMaidan
The name is composed of two parts: "Euro" is short for Europe and
"maidan" refers to Maidan Nezalezhnosti (Independence Square)
5. 2.
• Mohammad Assaf traveled from Gaza Strip to Egypt to
audition for X.
• It took him two days to reach Egypt by car due to
complications on the border. At the beginning, he had to
convince the Egyptian security at the border
crossing, where he was stuck for two days, to leave Gaza.
• Recently he was banned from performing at the FIFA 2014
Ceremony which made Shakira boycotting the ceremony.
• What is his claim to fame ?
7. 3.
• Q. What is a “Bald-Hairy” joke in Russian
Politics ?
8. Referring to the empirical rule of the state leaders'
succession defined as a change of a bald leader with
a hairy one and vice versa. This consistent pattern can be
traced back until as early as 1825, when Nicholas I succeeded his
late brother Alexander as the Russian Emperor. Nicholas I's
son Alexander II formed the first "bald–hairy" pair of the
sequence with his father.
10. • China's use of giant pandas as diplomatic gifts
to other countries.
• Later they are being given as Loans.
11. 5. Whose words ?
• On Britain: "Britain is a very cold, uninhabitable country with small
houses.”
• On gay people: "We ask, was he born out of homosexuality? We
need continuity in our race, and that comes from the woman, and
no to homosexuality. John and John, no; Maria and Maria, no. They
are worse than dogs and pigs. I keep pigs and the male pig knows
the female one.”
• On Hitler: "I am still the Hitler of the time. This Hitler has only one
objective: justice for his people, sovereignty for his
people, recognition of the independence of his people and their
rights over their resources. If that is Hitler, then let me be Hitler
tenfold. Ten times, that is what we stand for."
12. • On white people: "The only man you can trust is a dead white
man.“
• On being better than Jesus: “I have died many times - that's where
I have beaten Christ. Christ died once and resurrected once.”
• On cricket: "Cricket civilises people and creates good gentlemen I
want everyone to play cricket in Zimbabwe; I want ours to be a
nation of gentlemen."
16. 7.
• X is a lifelong Bruce Springsteen fan. At an
October 2012 concert in
Hartford, Connecticut, Springsteen
shouted, “This is for X!” before launching into
his song “Death to My Hometown.
• ID this Indian American ?
23. Russians made fun of the malfunctioned of the
rings in the opening ceremony.
24.
25. 1.
“X is a term used to indicate a group of
former PayPal employees and founders who have since
founded and developed additional technology companies[
such as Tesla Motors, LinkedIn, Palantir
Technologies, SpaceX, YouTube, Yelp Inc. and Yammer.
27. 2.
During the India tour of the Cambridge polo team, X
noticed that the polo sticks made in India were
different and of better quality than those made in
Britain. Imports of Argentinian products into Britain
was banned due to Falkland War and there was little
competition to British manufacturers. X began to
import polo sticks from India, selling these
successfully and profitably to Harrod's
and Lillywhites.
Who is this enterpreneur who is known for
alltogether different product which he created later
?
29. 3.
• He’s at #831 in Forbes Billionares List, #30 in
India with total Networth of $1.8 Billion.
Cousin of Adi Godrej, He has a 20% share of
the Godrej family fortune inherited from his
mother. Avid photographer and
birdwatcher, he 's not involved in the business.
He’s been actively involved in conservation of
birds and has setup organizations for bird
conservation.
31. 4.
She is Chi Chi, She arrived in London
Zoo in 1961 from China and became the
Most loved Zoo Animal in London.
She led to creation of an identity of an
Organization ?
What am I talking about ?
33. 5.
• The _x_ & _x_ series is a collection of games that
takes place during the Olympic Games in
the Summer and Winter.
• It debuted in 2007 for the Wii with the Beijing
2008 edition called _x_ & _x_ at the Olympic
Games. The Japanese version is published
by Nintendo, while Sega published the American
and European versions. Nintendo also published
the American and European versions of the
fourth game
40. • In 1912, the Hersheys were to travel on the ill-
fated British luxury liner RMS Titanic
However, they canceled their reservations due
to last-minute business matters.
41. 9.
• In April 2007, He sold X to Orkla, a Norway-based mining-to-
food conglomerate, for Rs 364 crore, with the agreement that
he would not launch a rival business for five years.
• He didn't, but his son did, an IT engineer by training, entered
the food business by opening the Maiyas restaurant in
Bangalore's upscale Jayanagar shopping area in April 2009.
• In April 2012, after the non-competition period with Orkla
ended, Maiya senior formally entered.
• ID the company X ?
42.
43. 10.
• X was established as a patent
medicine business in Mumbai in 1893 by K.
Nageswara Rao Pantulu.
• Even today,the words "Bombay" are inscribed
on the lid of its most well-known product.
48. 1.
• Which company has set up a network of Tata
Kisan Sansars (or Tata farmer centres) in the
northern Indian states of Uttar
Pradesh, Punjab, Haryana and Uttaranchal.
The centres are one-stop resource centres for
farmers
52. • He joined the firm of Tata & Sons as a partner in
1896. After the death of his father in 1904, he looked
after the affairs of the L’ Union Fire Insurance Co of
Paris, of which Tata & Sons were the agents in India.
He was also in charge of the trading firm Tata &
Co, which had branches in
Kobe, Shanghai, Paris, New York and Rangoon, and
traded in cotton, yarn, silk, pearls and rice.
• He was a personal friend of Gopal Krishna
Gokhale, the great Indian social reformer and
freedom fighter
3.
54. • The X is the first Business Archive in India. They collect, and
retain letters, documents, images, printed books, group
publications and ephemera of potential historical and critical
significance to the Tata Group.
• At X you can expect to find valuable records that have
been meticulously preserved, as well as information and
digitisation projects available to researchers on the Tata
history. Visitors are also welcome to view the exhibition
galleries.
56. 5.
• Infiniti Retail operates a national chain of
multi-brand electronics stores under the
brand name X. It is a wholly owned subsidiary
of Tata Sons, the holding company of the Tata
Group.
• In 2012, it acquired the Indian retail business
of which Australian retail giant.
69. 3.
Manju Bhatia started X in 2003 with three agents. Today she has
a topline of around Rs 6 crore and 200 agents in different cities.
X works only with public sector banks. X that hires only women
as their field employees.
73. 5.
• In 1970, She visited “X" housed in a car repairs and
garage in Berkeley, California selling naturally-scented
soaps and lotions . The shop run by Peggy Short and
Jane Saunders used natural ingredients, and helped to
employ and train immigrant women.
• Six years later, in 1976, She opened a similar shop in
the UK, using the same business name, color
scheme, and cosmetic lines. In 1987, She offered Short
and Saunders 3.5 Million USD to change their shops
name to Body Time.
75. 6.
• She started her career in Thermax in 1985 and
later headed its human resources division
from 1991 to 1996. After the death of her
husband she took over as Chairperson of
Thermax, retiring in 2004 and succeeded by
her daughter and company vice-
chairperson, Meher Pudumjee.
• Who’s she ?
