FINALS

• Rules:

• Infinite Bounce/Limited Pounce*(5)

• Each question carries different points. When a clue is revealed the points for that particular clue will be revealed. Negatives will be the same as positives.

• A team who has the direct has a choice to ask for further hints.

• Single pounce per question. Pounce timer of 10 seconds.

• If the team with the direct question uses a single hint or more and guesses incorrectly, then the question is passed with the next hint revealed and pounce is re-opened. This will continue till all the hints are revealed.

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Q.1. Founded in 1898 and has been published daily ever since. It is printed in tabloid format. The paper also runs magazines such as the Now magazine and the now-defunct Woman magazine, edited by Carol Danvers. (+30)

• The founding editor’s company purchased the Goodman Building on 39th Street and Second Avenue in 1936 and moved its entire editorial and publishing facilities there. Now named after the paper, the office complex is forty-six stories tall, and is capped by the paper logo in 30-foot (9.1 m) letters on the roof. There are loading docks in the rear of the building, reached by a back alley. Three floors are devoted to the editorial office of thepaper and two sub-basement levels to the printing presses, while the rest of the floors are rented. (+20)

• Dexter Bennett, bought this paper after the original proprietor suffered a heart attack , and transformed it into a scandal sheet due to which a lot of the well known reporters left only to be absorbed by The Front Line magazine. This paper was later returned to the founding family when the founders son having received a considerable fortune and convertible shares exercised his options to acquire the paper. What paper? (+10)

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Q.2. He wasn't a particularly good student. He was lousy at math and twice flunked a test to get accepted into what he later described as the "worst university" in his home city. (+40)

• He told Inc magazine in 2008. "I always had a dream that when I finished my five years, I would join a business —a hotel or whatever. I just wanted to go do something.” (+30)

• “People don’t realize how much martial arts and kung fu novels influence him and his strategy for business,” one anonymous person close to him told The Financial Times. “They also helped shape his idealism because they are all about upholding the righteous way.” (+20)

• As said many times that investors rank on the low end of his priorities. As he told Charlie Rose in an interview, investors sometimes flee when his company goes through a crisis, while customers and employees show more loyalty. Who? (+10)

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Q.3. Founded on June 6, 1986, by Ronn Teitelbaum of Los Angeles, California, and "crafted as a 'nongimmicky' recreation of the 1940s-vintage malt shops of his childhood is the chain X. (+40)

• The firm was acquired in 2007 by The RedZone Capital and was subsequently passed to Sun Capital Partners in 2013. (+30)

• It is a restaurant franchise whose concept is to create a classic American restaurant atmosphere. The theme is the diner-style restaurant that had become a common sight by the 1950s. Decor includes Coca-Cola advertising featuring nearly life-size cardboard illustrations of women in World War II armed services uniforms, individual jukebox stations, chrome accents and red vinyl seats. (+20)

• The restaurant set up its first store in India in January 2014.Identify. (+10)

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Q.4. The person born February 6, 1975 is a Turkish software

engineer who worked on websites Club Nexus, inCircle and X.

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• Originally from Konya, Turkey, Büyükkökten (His Surname)

obtained a B.Sc. degree in Computer Engineering and

Information Science from Bilkent University in Ankara. He

received both a M.S. and a Ph.D. in Computer Science

from Stanford University. His research at Stanford focused

on Web search and efficient PDA usage. (+20)

• His first name forms the basis of an internet service which

was in the news in 2014. Put Funda. (+10)

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Q.5. This company was founded by the couple VivekPrabhakaran and Shubbra Chadha in 2009, after they spent six months on researching the products that they would love to buy and use. (+40)

The couple sold their apartment to start this company and managed to make the money back in 6 months once their company launched. The company was featured in a Google Ad words commercial highlighting how effective advertising can help Indian brands. (+30)

The couple graduated from their home to an aunts place to a duplex apartment and within a year finally to a warehouse. It was 1000sqft and housed the initial 7 people. Today they work out of an integrated office and warehouse.(+20)

The name of this company when translated literally means Kissing Stones. (+10)

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Q.6. Started by Dharam Lal Kathpalia in the 50s. The current location, was set up in 1969. (+30)

According to varying sources the business is apparently named after a loyal French customer. (+20)

What follows is the menu and perhaps the most important page from it is missing.(+10)

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• Q.7. Thermoplan AG founded in 1974 by Domenic Steiner is located in Weggis, Switzerland which is a town of 4,400 inhabitants near Lucerne and manufactures a proprietary product for an American client. (+40)

• Its CEO Adrian Steiner, an electrical engineer who has worked for Thermoplan for 17 years says of the product that "It's a product that matches the technology of those countries. It's like the watch industry, where you have everything from education to the people, the quality, value, to reliability." (+30)

• A basic Thermoplan model starts at 7,000 francs ($7,700), with bigger, self-cleaning ones going for as much as 17,000 francs. The Mastrena, which Thermoplan produces just for one client, was introduced in 2008. (+20)

• The company for which Thermoplan makes its product was almost about to be named Pequod before the name as we know it today was chosen from the same source as which Pequod was. (+10)

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• Q.8. OPERATIVE NEAR ALP

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• Q.9. This company was launched in Cape Town in 1988 by Jon Hardy, who first sold the product to Dean Jones, Geoff Marsh and David Boon. (+40)

• Apart from its core product of manufacturing cricket helmets this company also manufactures the lesser known Bespoke Cricket Teamwear. It competes with the likes of Ayrtek, Albion,Adidas and SS Sports. (+30)

• This company was in the news in 2014 because Philip Hughes was using this company’s helmet while playing his final game. (+20)

• The name of this company is similar to that of an Indian town which derives its name from'mansoor', a shrub which is indigenous to the area. (+10)

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• Q.10. A private investment office based in Bangalore and London, this belongs to a business family in India and currently is a 127 Million fund.(+40)

• The name refers to a multihulled vessel consisting of two parallel hulls of equal size. (+30)

• Investments include SKS Microfinance, ManipalUniversal Learning and Amazon.(+20)

• The person on the right is one of the main persons at the firm leading a majority of investments.(+10)

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• Q.11. Abraham and Thakore is a fashion label started by two alumni of the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad whose institutional clients include brands such as The Lodhi and Vana retreats. Another client was added to the list in 2014, whose uniforms they have tailor made to reflect the brand’s philosophy. (+30)

• This company operates in partnership with a company that was formed on 1 May 1947, by three companies two of which were the Ocean Steamship Company of Liverpool & the Straits Steamship Company of Singapore. (+20)

• The logo of the company being talked about is derived from the yantra, a perfect mathematical form representing an unbounded, perfectly balanced universe. (+10)

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• Q.13. He sold his casino interests in Nevada on February 21, 2008. They included the Stratosphere, Arizona Charlie's Boulder, Arizona Charlie's Decatur, and Aquarius Casino Resort which are operated through American Entertainment Properties, a subsidiary of his major company. The sale price of $1.3 billion was roughly $1 billion more than he paid for the properties. (+40)

• A stadium on Randall's Island in New York City is named after him, as is a Centre for Science and a Scholar Program at Choate Rosemary Hall, a prep school in Connecticut. He also established FoxfieldThoroughbreds, a horse breeding operation in 1985 which he later shut down in 2004. (+30)

• He attempted the grand prize of U.S. Steel, launching a hostile takeover for 89% of the industrial giant for $7 billion in late 1986. He was finally rebuffed by CEO David Roderick on January 8, 1987 and in February 2013 Forbes listed him as one of the 40 Highest-Earning hedge fund managers. (+20)

• He has taken substantial or controlling positions in various corporations including RJR Nabisco, TWA, Viacom, Marvel Comics, Revlon, Blockbuster, Time Warner, Netflix and Motorola. (+10)

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• Q.14.Founded and incorporated in July 2003 by Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning this company is at helm in its field in part due to the fact that there is no competition in the market. (+30)

• Gigafactory currently under construction being built primarily at the Tahoe Reno Industrial Center in Storey County, Nevada, and slated to be operational by 2017 is going to be the major factory for this company.The projected cost to build the facility is approximately US$5 billion and Nevada Governor Brian Sandoval estimates that Nevada would enjoy $100 billion in economic benefit over two decades from the construction of this factory. (+20)

• Designed by Prado studio the logo of this company according to one theory resembles the cross sectional view of one pole of an electric motor particularly an outrunner. (+10)

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• Q.15. Founded by Stepan Pachikov, this web service which seeks to increase user productivity by helping him/her organize better launched into open beta on June 24, 2008 and reached 11 million users in July 2011. In October 2010, under the present CEO Phil Libin, the company raised a US$20 million funding round led by DoCoMo Capital with participation from Morgenthaler Ventures and Sequoia Capital. (+30)

• Other applications launched by this company include Skitch, Scannable and Penultimate. (+20)

• This brand in partnership with Moleskin launched physical notebooks for better branding. (+10)

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• Q.16. Born on 7 May 1971, in the Parisian suburb of Clichy. At the age of 22, he was awarded his PhD for a thesis on wealth redistribution, which he wrote at the EHESS and the London School of Economics under Roger Guesnerie and won the French Economics Association's award for the best thesis of the year.After earning his PhD, he taught from 1993 to 1995 as an assistant professor in the Department of Economics at MIT. (+30)

• He specializes in economic inequality, taking a historic and statistical approach. His work looks at the rate of capital accumulation in relation to economic growth over a two hundred year spread from the nineteenth century to the present. His novel use of tax records enabled him to gather data on the very top economic elite, who had previously been understudied, and to ascertain their rate of accumulation of wealth and how this compared to the rest of society and economy. (+20)

• His most recent book, one which currently sells for 984 rupees on Amazon, relies on economic data going back 250 years to show that an ever-rising concentration of wealth is not self-correcting. To address this problem, he proposes redistribution through a progressive global tax on wealth. Who? (+10)

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• Q.17. It originates from an old Iberian legend, set during the Muslim conquest of Hispania c. 714. Seeking to flee from the Muslim conquerors, seven Christian Visigothic bishops embarked with their flocks on ships and set sail westwards into the Atlantic Ocean, eventually landing on an island where they founded seven settlements giving rise to this name.(+30)

• The New York Times in 2008 reported that it cost $500–700 million, it is believed to be worth $1 billion USD currently.(+20)

• Leighton Holdings and Perkins and Will collaborated to bring this to life. (+10)

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• Q.18.

• This company owns Invista, Georgia-Pacific, Molex, Flint Hills Resources and Matador Cattle Company. The companies are involved in core industries such as the manufacturing, refining and distribution of petroleum, chemicals, energy, fiber, intermediates and polymers, minerals, fertilizers,pulp and paper, chemical technology equipment, ranching,finance,commodities trading, as well as other ventures and investments.

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• Q.20. Kalyanji Bhagat and Rattan Khatri were the ones who pioneered and controlled this syndicate in Mumbai. (+40)

• The flourishing of textile mills in Mumbai, saw many mill workers getting attracted to this which resulted in shops of this in and around the mill areas which were predominantly located in Central Mumbai. This resulted in Central Mumbai becoming the hub of this business in Mumbai. (+30)

• In the beginning, it made use of the opening and closing rates of cotton transmitted to the Bombay Cotton Exchange which was then located at in Sewree by the New York Cotton Exchange via tele-printers. But in 1961, the New York Cotton Exchange stopped the practice, which caused the punters to look for alternative ways to keep the business alive.(+20)

• Khatri floated a novel idea of declaring opening and closing rates of imaginary products. Numbers would be written in pieces of paper and put in a big pitcher thus giving this business it’s name. (+10)

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• Q.22.This service was created in 1883 by Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits and ended in 2009. (+40)

• The two cities most associated with this are Paris and Istanbul. (+30)

• This service has been featured in the books Dracula, Travels with my aunt and From Russia with love. (+10)

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• Q.23. This is a social cataloging website founded in December 2006 and launched in January 2007 by Otis Chandler, a software engineer and entrepreneur, and Elizabeth Chandler. (+30)

• On July 23, 2013, it was announced on their website that the user base had grown to 20 million members, doubling in close to 11 months. The website's offices are in San Francisco (+20)

• Amazon.com announced in March 2013 that it had reached an agreement to acquire it in the second quarter of 2013 for an undisclosed sum. (+10)

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• Q.24. The name of this company refers to the leading part of an advancing military formation. It has a number of functions, including seeking out the enemy and securing ground in advance of the main force. (+40)

• The founder of this company is the man on the right. (+30)

• This person got fired from his job when he merged Wellington Fund with a fund that invested in speculative stocks.At the time, the proverbial riposte to the observation that most funds underperformed the S&P 500 was "of course, you can't invest in an index." He tried to create a way in which an individual investor could effectively invest in an index leading to the creation of this company. (+10)

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A.1. The Daily bugle

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A.2. Jack Ma

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A.3. Johnny Rockets

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A.4. Orkut

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A.5.Chumbak

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A.6. DePauls

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A.7. Starbucks Coffee Machines

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A.8. Businessmen with Private Airplanes

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A.9. Masuri

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A.10. Catarman

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A.11. Vistara Airlines

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A.12. Arturo Di Modicacreator of the bull,

The Charging Bull of Wall Street

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A.13. Carl Icahn

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A.15. Evernote

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A.16. Thomas Picketty

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A.17. Antilia

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Koch Industries

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A.19. Bezos Expeditions

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A.20. Matka gambling

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• A.21 Sensex

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• A.22. Orient Express

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• A.23. GoodReads

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• A.24. Vanguard Group

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How you

doing?

Rules:

What follows are short summaries of how Friends would take place if it were held today.

What’s been blanked out is a brand or a company. Identify.

+15/-15 on Pounce

+10 on Direct

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Rules:

Lego pieces of Businessmen.All answers to be written down.+10 for every correct answer.

Exchange Sheets

• Bill Gates

• Elon Musk

• Midas

• Donald Trump

• Conan O Brien

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Identinomics.Economics Covers will be shown.All answers to be written down.+10 for every correct answer.

EXCHANGE SHEETS

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Connect4Rules:Each slide carries individual points. (+10)All answers to be written down.Grand Connect with +100/-50, +50/-25. +25/-10 and +10

• He spent $8 million on a party in St. Bart’s. The Red Hot Chili Peppers performed and guests included Rupert Murdoch, Martha Stewart, George Lucas and Marc Jacobs.

• He bought nine apartments in London and converted them into a mansion. By the time renovations were complete, the 30,000 square-foot estate became the most expensive home in the country.

• He has a security staff of 40 people that costs him $2 million a year.

• In 2008 he spent $120 million on two paintings, The Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud which are on display in his home.

• His ex-wife got a $300 million divorce settlement, making it one of the most expensive divorces of all time.

• He owns the biggest yacht in the world, the $1 billion Eclipse. It has two swimming pools, lasers to block paparazzi and a submarine in case he needs to exit quickly.

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• He was allegedly the inspiration behind Tony stark in Iron man 2

• He's got 50,000 followers on Twitter but has only tweeted once

• One of his favorite mottos is from Genghis Khan “It’s not sufficient I succeed. Everyone else must fail.”

• "His peacock had wandered into my property and woke me up," X later recalled. "Then Y said, ‘I'm gonna tell her [his girlfriend] how much you hate this peacock, so we can get rid of it. You gotta back me up.’” More poignantly, X was there for Y‘s final days, "We'd always go for walks, and the walks just kept getting shorter.

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Paul Allen

Owner of Vulcan Capital and all the other mentioned teams and author of Idea Man.

Larry Ellison

Richard Branson

The estate used as a studio for Virgin Music, The first Virgin Shop, Larry Page married his wife on his private island, Heaven a gay nightclub that he acquired.

Roman Abramovic

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