1.

• Recently sold to Peugeot for a measly sum, which car brand was named the best taxi in the world by BBC’s Top Gear in a World Taxi Shootout competition?

ANS.

• Ambassador

2.

• On 14th October Dexetra created Iris within eight hours of the launch of ____, incorporating “a lot of heuristic humor.”

• Fitb for Iris’s biggest rival.

ANS.

• Siri

3.

• To promote an upcoming project _____ _______ visited Anupam Kher’s acting school and even performed the mannequin challenge.

• Identify the visitor and the upcoming project.

ANS.

• Arnab Goswami or Republic.

4.

• Varun Agarwal is an Indian first-generation entrepreneur, film maker and author known for his book How I Braved Anu Aunty and Co-Founded A Million Dollar Company.

• The Million Dollar company he owns partners with educational institutions across India to make and supply customized sweatshirts to alumni. It is India's largest company for providing merchandise to students of schools and colleges.

• The name of the company is a common two word term meaning Nourishing Mother in Latin.

• What is the name of the company? (image follows)

ANS.

• Alma Mater

5.

• The Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena (BMPS) was the third largest Italian commercial and retail bank by total assets until late 2016, when it was the verge of collapse .

• In December 2016, the Italian government decided to bail out the bank in a multi-billion dollar deal and thus allowing it to continue to stay on top of a certain list.

• What is the claim to fame of this bank?

ANS.

• The Oldest Running Bank in the World

6.

• Two of the brothers are N Srinivasan, group finance director at Murugappa Group and N Ganapathy Subramaniam, COO of TCS.

• Who is now the most famous of the three brothers? • What position does he hold?

ANS.

• N Chandreshekhar; Chairman of Tata Sons

7. IDENTIFY WHO SWAPPED A WALTHER PPK FOR PAN BAHAR AND WAS MASSIVELY

TROLLED ON TWITTER?

ANS. PIERCE BROSNAN

8.

• The motto of this system is “Stop Spam, Read Books.”• Some have criticized Google for using _________ as a source of unpaid labor.

They say Google is unfairly using people around the world to help it transcribe books, addresses, and newspapers without any compensation.

ANS.

• Recaptcha

9.

• ‘Other Bets’, a subsidiary of this company, does research on fields that are not generally known to be revenue generating like self-driving cars and other futuristic ventures.

• The name itself is a word play on the parent company which is the primary revenue generating entity.

Name the parent company.

ANS.

• Alphabet. Google’s owners.

10.

• Getty Images, the image repository, and ______ ________ together are working on a project to get 2500 images of women. This is because the amount of stock pictures for women are very few.

• The name of this project is Lean In.

• So tell me who is partnering Getty Images?

ANS.

• Sheryl Sandberg

11.

• Jean Baptiste Colbert was the Minister of Finance in France from 1665 to 1683. He sought to boost the French economy by supporting luxury industries, creating new manufactories for all things wealthy people wanted to buy: mirrors, furniture, lace for fashionable clothes etc.

• Heavy embargoes were put on imports and the wealthy were forced to buy local.

• __________ became a showcase for these magnificent products and it really did help the French economy. However, this grandiose has been cited by historians to be the result of an event to hit France more than hundred years later.

• FITB for the place and event. (image in next slide)

ANS.

• Versailles

• French Revolution

12.

• In Kerala a kind of loan is often referred to as a Blade loan.

• This has also resulted in an underground organisation in the state called the Blade Mafia.

• What does a shaving equipment figure in financial talk?

ANSWER.

• Blade Loans are very high risk loans often given by unregistered moneylenders.

• The method of recovering these loans.

13.

• The top U.S. tobacco company CEOs, testified together before the U.S. Congress during a hearing on the regulation of tobacco products on April 14, 1994, in which they collectively denied, under oath, the addictive nature of nicotine.

• This was despite at least one published New York Times report at the time claiming that it has the ability to be more addictive than heroin, cocaine or amphetamines. (video next slide)

• What were these top CEO’s collectively called referencing a children’s storylater made to a Classic Disney movie?

ANS.

• The Seven Dwarfs

14.

• Who was bought for 14.5 crores by the Rising Pune Supergiants in the recently concluded IPL auction?

• Ben Stokes

15.

• Which auditing firm last morning apologised for the goof up at the Oscar awards ceremony and have taken full responsibility?

• Why would an auditing firm apologise? So basically what is the auditing firm’s connection with the Oscar?

ANS

• PriceWaterhouseCooper ; They have been counting, certifying the voting process of the Academy members for the last 83 years.

16.*

• The first Freedom Bazaar was opened by J Jayalalitha in December 2013 in Puzhal, a suburb of Chennai. The bazaar sells a wide variety of products from Mysore Paks to vegetables to fried rice and even vermicompost.

• Who ironically runs Freedom Bazaar?

ANS.

• Tamil Nadu State Prisons

17.*

• This is a Bomber jacket.

What was the cause of the sudden spike in sale of Bomber jackets by 40% in 1986-87?

ANS. TOM CRUISE IN TOP GUN

18.*

• From this year, tourists will be greeted by the decidedly non-photogenic scaffolding around the main dome of the Taj Mahal, the procedure is a much-needed step for the Taj’s preservation. 

• While the treatment does absorb dust and dirt from the surface, it is ultimately a cosmetic process, one that may make the structure look good in the short-term but doesn’t really fix the real cause of the discolouration.

• What product has been used to purify the Taj Mahal? (image)

ANS.

• Multani Mitti

19.*• The starter set, by chef Walter Kobayashi contains five utensils: two sets of

spear-ended chopsticks (one long pair and one short), a paddle for crushing and scooping, a fork with tiny tines, and, most intriguingly, a set of extremely precise pincers that fit over the bearer’s thumb and middle finger.

• He created it after reading about a prediction by a UN report on health and hygiene.

• What is the purpose of these utensils?

ANS.

• To eat insects

20.*• Engine, a marketing firm based in London’s Great Portland Street, had the

“edible elevator artwork” installed as part of an advertising campaign for McVitie’s Jaffa Cakes.

• The reason to do it was to increase worker satisfaction.

• What was the inspiration of this lift? (image next slide)

• Charlie And the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl

21.

• In 2011, Guillermo Moreno, Former Secretary of Commerce in the Argentinian government, a controversial but all-powerful thug-style figure, reportedly forced the sale of the ____ ____ at an artificially low price to manipulate the country's economic performance.

• What product did he manipulate?

• The Big Mac