Alphabet Inc's first stock buyback of $5.1 billion in 2015 was not a randomly selected number. It was the square root of 26, which is an image commonly associated with Alphabet. 'White Print' is a magazine launched in 2013 targeted towards blind readers in Braille. During the 1996 Olympics, British sprinter Linford Christie wore his sponsor Puma's logo on his contact lenses to get around rules requiring he wear the official sponsor Reebok's logo. Bernie Sanders' views were shaped in part by the controversial 1957 move of the Brooklyn Dodgers baseball team to Los Angeles over a stadium dispute. Artisans in parts of North India specialized in making effigies burnt during Ramleela ceremonies, though prices

1. Prehilanth-2
Topic-Business(Generalishhh)
Researched and Conducted By
Karthik Kumar

2. Q1.Alphabet Inc. officially came into
existence on October 2, 2015. Soon the
company announced the first stock buyback
of nearly $5.1 billion. The exact dollar value
was $5,099,019,513.59. Of course, this was
not randomly selected number. What was
the significance of this number?

3. The number is the square root of 26

4. Where have you seen this image?
Q2.

6. 3.‘White Print’ is a magazine that was launched by
Upasana Makati in May 2013. Upasana originally
considered the name ‘On The Dot’ before settling
on ‘White Print’. The logo does contain several
dots though. Who is this magazine targeted at?

7. The blind. The magazine is in Braille

8. 4.In the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, Reebok
was the official sponsor and all athletes
had to wear the Reebok Logo on their
vests / shorts. However, in those days,
Linford Christie, the British Sprinter, was
sponsored by rival Puma. He managed to
sport the Puma Logo, leading to huge
controversy. What did he do?

9. He wore the Puma Logo on his contact lenses

10. 5.In 1957, New York based real estate baron Walter
O’Malley and owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers had a
standoff over several meetings with the city’s mayor since
he wasn’t granted the required land and had to move the
team to Los Angeles, much to the dismay of the locals.
A resident of Brooklyn then, aged 16, noted how big money
could easily forsake popular interests and described it as a
brutal act which impacted the region in a very significant
way – strongly believing that the entity in question
belonged more to the people than to the owners.
Who was this, whose long-held beliefs were shaped in part
by this move of the franchise?

11. Bernie Sanders

12. 6.Artisan families in states like UP and Punjab – specifically in the
towns of Agra, Muzaffarnagar, Meerut, Saharanpur and Rajpura –
are known to specialize in this annual business that gets them
purchases in various places in North India for a few weeks.
This business took a serious hit last year with prices falling by
about 40% owing to the rising costs of canvas and bamboo sticks.
In a normal year, a few hundred of these creations are sold at a
price of about 1-2 lakh rupees each – that helps sustain the
business year after year.
What do these artisans produce, seen by many as wasteful usage
every year?

13. Effigies burnt at
Ramleela ceremonies.

14. 7.IBM’s successful history in the field of accounting and data is
well known. One of its largest clients in the 20th century sought
assistance in business services, data collection and data
tabulations – a deal that was inked in 1933. Initial calculations
produced about half a million entries while the final number stood
close to 2 million, each given a unique identification number
instrumental to the client.
Besides the punch cards used for this purpose, IBM also later
oversaw the efficient and punctual functioning of the client’s
transport system that had over 50 wagons in action each day for 4
straight years – about 1600 in all.
Who was this client? What were these wagons transporting?

15. Jews to concentration camps.

17. 8.As the Prohibition was drawing to a close in the 1930s, this
Chicago-based kingpin needed to find an alternative way to sustain
business and thus moved on to the distribution of milk instead of
illicit liquor.
Having already acquired a Robin-Hood-like status in the city with his
largesse during the Depression, he lobbied with the Chicago City
Council for a law to introduce a certain feature to his milk sales with
the idea of protecting the city’s children from harm. With the lack of
regulation, he conquered the market and set in place a landmark
feature that soon extended to other products as well.
Who was this person? What addition to the product was this, that is
still seen by some to be the cause of wastage worth $165 billion
every year?

18. Al Capone

19. Having expiry dates on products.

20. 9.As part of its expansion strategy in the Middle East after
considerable success in Asia, USA and Europe in the recent past –
this company recently managed to raise a whopping $3.5bn
funding from Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund.
Such a heavy investment in one particular country was
unprecedented in the company’s history and was met with much
skepticism and online protest campaigns from a certain section of
the local population who saw it as exploitative and mutually
beneficial to both the company and the country’s conservative
minded administration.
Which company was this? What was the protest all about?

21. Uber
Women not being allowed to drive and therefore
naturally becoming Uber’s customers.

22. 10.The Chennai Corporation’s health department over the last few
years has had a serious shortage of sanitation workers – with 224
of the 706 posts in the city lying vacant as of September 2015.
The major reason behind this shortage is believed to be the
diversion of a good number of workers to performing similar duties
of maintaining cleanliness in certain government establishments
whose growing number in the city – close to 300 now – is also
taking up an annual expenditure of 90 crores from the
corporation’s budget.
What places are these?

23. Amma Canteens

24. 11.Introduced in the 1950s in response to demands of efficiency
in its field, these devices today range in size from 15 to 24 inch,
are equipped with custom designed hardware for best stability
and come with compatibility across various operating systems.
While the initial ones worked on the principle of using mirrors to
achieve undetectable reflections, advancements and
convenience brought about computer-based variants that have
been used ever since – with many people preferring to use two of
them at every instance lately, instead of just one, to achieve
optimal effect and ease.
What devices are being described?

25. Text tele
prompters

26. 12.Tobie Hatfield is one of Nike’s chief designers who has
been involved with some of their best designs over the
years.
In 2012, he received a letter from a college student seeking a
special design which came to light last year. Owing to their
market potential, they were also produced on a mass scale
and prominently used in a biennial sporting event in 2015
held in Los Angeles with over 6,500 participants from 177
countries.
What is the purpose of these shoes? What is the event in
question, that had India coming in 3rd overall behind USA
and China?

27. Shoes without laces
for the disabled.

28. The 2015 Special Olympic Games.

29. 13.In Iceland, a country of 300,000, three engineering
students came up with a much needed Android app, linked
to Iceland’s online registry Iselendingabok, with the tag line
“Bump the app before you bump in bed”. It addresses what
serious social problem for young Icelanders?

30. To check if the person they are dating
are not related.
For such a small population, almost
everyone is related to each other

31. Q14.The goal of Pierre Coffin, the creator of a language, was for the
audience to understand it without actually knowing the exact
verbiage through the speakers’ huge range of vocal melodies and
inflections, as well as their physical actions.
He says: “You don’t understand their words, you don’t understand
their grammar, but you do understand when they’re in a position of
conflict, if they’re sad or if they’re happy.”
The etymology of the language includes the basics of ancient
Egyptian, a dash of high-society French, some proper Transylvanian,
all the way back to the grunts and grrrs of early Homo sapiens.
Which language is being talked about?

32. Minionese

33. 15.Almost 65 years ago, P.L.Lamba wanted to create a company whose very
name would reflect the service standard of all iits future products –served
at the best price to satisfy the taste buds of an experimental Delhi .With this
mission in mind, in 1940 he opened thef irst restaurant in Delhi’s famous
Connaught Place and thus was born one of the most recognized brand
names of the country –a rich legacy that has continued to this day.
Today, that pride is undiminished and from its humble beginnings,the Group
today successfully runs the famous Asiad Village restaurant
complex.P.L.Lamba’s gen-next Sunil and Dhruv Lamba have taken the family
legacy into the future with pulsating new ideas like The Breads and More
café chains in India and the Express food courts in various malls and
hospitals.
What did P.L.Lamba start?

35. 16.Prosopis juliflora is a small tree from Mexico ,noted for
its straight, hardwood ,which was planted int he Rann of
Kutch as a soil binder but due to its explosive growth,has
become invasive and a threat to natural ecosystems.
Known locally as the ganda bawaal ,it cannot be used as
fodder(leaves being toxic )and neither is its wood preferred
for use in furniture as it does not last beyond a few
months.
Over the last few years they have been frequently used in
something—peak season being June to October
So what use is this tree being put to?

36. Manufacture of Dandiya Sticks

37. 17.

39. 18.

41. 19.

43. 20.

45. 21.Video Ad

46. Heinz Ketchup

47. 22.Connect

48. Rohan Narayan Murthy

49. 23.Identify this personality.
He was the CEO of DEN
Netowrks which was once
India's largest Multi System
Operator.He is the CEO of a
leading company . Either
give the company or the
name of the person.

50. Jio ans Shailendra Nath Sharma

51. 24.Connect

52. Urijit Patel