Bartolomeo Cristofori di Francesco was an Italian maker of musical instruments, and is regarded as the inventor of what would become the present-day piano.
The Cristofori piano action, as depicted in the 11th edition of the Encyclopedia Brittanica

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1. What meaning “little bits of gold” in Spanish was introduced by Alex Foods in 1964? (Hint given: Alex Foods was later acquired by Frito Lays)



2. What is the name of the Venture capital fund started by Infosys N.R.Narayana Murthy from a Tamil Root word?



3. Complete this Quote by Coco Chanel: I want to give women….. a scent that smells like a _________ not like a flower.



4. In the year 2000, which film personality did “LEGO” teamed up to create the movie maker set for children?



5. Which entrepreneur initial stands for “Gorur Ramasamy Iyengar”?



6. Which company (retailing) is known for introducing “Blue light Specials” as they occurred at surprise moments when store worker would light up a mobile police light & offer a discount in a specific department of the store?



7. Which Tobacco company’s crest features the word “Veni, Vidi, Vici” meaning “I came, I saw, I conquered”?



8. Based on the patented invention created by Clyde J. Coleman & Charles F. Kettering, what was first installed in “Cadillac” in 1911? Later on, it was also introduced in two-wheelers?



9. What started out as a cable television channel called “pinwheel” then changed to “orange splat”?



10. What was unveiled by Steve Ballmer on May 28, 2009 at D: All Things Digital Conference hosted by the Wall Street Journal?



11. Who became the youngest ambassador of the United Nations “World food programme” in 2004?



12. Which brand you would associate with Ashok Kumar, Shami Kumar & Saeed Jaffrey advertised at various times?



13. Tax introduced in 1535 by King Henry VIII of England & in 1705 by Tsar Peter I of Russia. (Hint: Applicable only to males)



14. Which watchmaker company was founded in 1853 by Charles-Felicien along with his son Charles-Emile?



15. Which company was known as “company Bahadur” in India?



16. If you are TBTF in credit market, where you lower your risk and add more attractive investment. What is TBTF?



17. This statue in Venice is an inspiration for?



18. ‘Grrr! Magazine’ for kids is brought out by which organization founded by Ingrid Newkirk & Alex Pacheco?



19. Designed by fragrance experts, which product is inspired by the West Indies cricket team’s victory sign – the high five – which they liberally flashed & popularized on the cricket field? (Hint: Manufactured by CavinKare)



20. Star Health Insurance company became the 1st ever Indian company to provide Insurance to which particular group of people?



21. Identify this business personality. (Hint: Big name in Infrastructure sector)



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22. Identify this marketing guru.



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23. Identify the logo. (Hint: Coffee chain in India)



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24. Which company has the distribution rights for this movie? (“Thillalangadi” – Tamil Movie poster shown)



25. Coin released on what occasion?

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D’décor, the world's third largest furnishing company, relaunching its brand. It has signed in Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan who is first time teaming with his wife Gauri as its brand ambassadors.

WOMEN who hate skinny jeans can rejoice when the extra-tight denim, that has dominated the market for more than two years, makes way for wide-leg cuts. Bell-bottoms and boot-cut styles will appear in stores shortly. Many apparel watchers predict the eventual demise of the skinny that has spurred both adoration and revulsion.
"The pendulum is swinging away from skinny," said Ryan Dziadul, a spokesman for VF Corp's 7 For All Mankind. "There are millions of pairs out there. It is about bell-bottoms."

When first launched in 2000, the 7 For All Mankind® brand earned critical acclaim for innovative use of fits, fabrics and finishes. Today, 7 For All Mankind is a true premium denim lifestyle brand with men’s, kid’s, handbag and footwear collections.

Andy Harris from TooManyCars.info has updated (a few times) his fantastic Automotive Family Tree map of who owns the car companies.

Welcome to version 3.2 of the “Family Tree” style diagram of who owns who (or is it whom) in the automotive world. In this version of the “Family Tree”, I’ve added more categories: Heavy Trucks and Chinese made automobiles. The diagram now shows 130 different vehicle manufactures from US, Europe, India, Asia, Russia and China. I’ve read that there is more than 80 different vehicle manufactures in China. I made the decision not to list all of them, but the ones I included are among the top 40 manufactures in the world.

The first “self-acting” laundry detergent was launched by Henkel in the German market on June 6, 1907, and was given the name “Persil”. The name derived from the two most important chemical raw materials in the product, perborate and silicate.
Persil quickly made its name on the market, winning the trust of consumers. To assure consumers of the product’s consistently high quality, Persil was given a manufacturer’s warranty.
The “White Lady,” created in 1922, was Persil’s most famous advertising image. She featured on placards and metal signs until the beginning of the 1960s.
When she started smiling again for Persil in 1950 for the first time since the World War II, she conveyed to many Germans the feeling that lasting peace had finally arrived.
Today, both Henkel and Unilever manufacture their own formulations. Persil is Unilever's premium brand in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland.

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- The first product, the iron plough, was originally intended as an essential aid to agriculture, the plough soon became an icon of reform and revolution. Started by Laxmanrao in the early 1900’s which group is this?

- Two words come together to form the brand name Camlin. One of them is camel, which was chosen as a symbol due to its capacity to endure long periods of difficulty in the trips across deserts. What is the other word?

- This product of everyday use was registered as a trade name by English wholesaler Carless, Capel & Leonard in early 1890’s. Identify?

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A Catholic priest named Father Ferdinand Verbiest has been said to have built a steam powered vehicle for the Chinese Emperor Chien Lung around 1678.

The first vehicle to move under its own power for which there is a record was designed by Nicholas Joseph Cugnot and constructed by M. Brezin in France in 1769. It ran on steam and on rails. A replica of this vehicle is on display at the Conservatoire des Arts et Metiers, in Paris. Cugnot (1725 – 1804) was a French inventor and military engineer experimented with working models of steam-engine-powered vehicles for the French Army, intended for transporting cannon, starting in 1765 and built a working vehicle that was steam powered, using the steam to turn a piston that turned the wheels in 1769.

The first non-rail automobile was made by Jean Joseph Étienne Lenoir (January 12, 1822 - August 4, 1900) he was a Belgian engineer, generally credited with designing the world's first internal-combustion engine.

The Lenoir Engine

By 1859, Lenoir's experimentation with electricity led him to develop the first internal combustion engine, a single-cylinder two-stroke engine which burnt a mixture of coal gas and air ignited by a "jumping spark" ignition system by Ruhmkorff coil, and which he patented in 1860.

A firm owned by billionaire Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen today sued Apple, Facebook, Google, YouTube, and seven other companies, charging them with infringing patents filed more than a decade ago.

Google and Facebook blasted the lawsuit as "unfortunate" and "without merit."

The complaint, filed Friday morning in a Seattle federal court, named AOL, Apple, eBay, Facebook, Google, Netflix, Office Depot, OfficeMax, Staples, Yahoo and Google's YouTube.

The matter of who owns innovation is at the heart of the lawsuit filed by Interval Licensing, a Seattle company owned and controlled by Allen that owns the patents awarded to Interval Research, a Palo Alto company founded by Allen and Xerox PARC veteran David Liddle in 1992.

Over nearly a decade, Interval Research employed 110 scientists who worked at the leading edge of personal computer and Internet technologies, winning about 300 patents. Many companies earn money through licensing patents that they own. The lawsuit did not specify monetary damages Interval is seeking.

The FIP has finally revealed himself. Its some Anupam Mukherjee and surprisingly he is not a member of Kolkata Knight Riders.

Anupam Mukherji, the fake IPL player, who revealed himself on Times Now says that the blog was 'a figment of imagination' and was an inspiration from a fake blog on Steve Jobs.

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ABout the QuiZmaster: Anubhav Chatterjee,working with T.I.Cycles of India(Murugappa Group) for the past 2 years in the area of sales.An inquizzitive person since my childhood got exposed to professional quizzing during my stay in Pune.Passionate about Quizzing,Movies,Music and a complete foodie.

Q1.The idea of this company was conceived by Mr.Pai in Germany in the year 1959. He found that car seat cushions were manufactured of rubberised coir. The manufacturer was importing curled coir from Sri Lanka.Identify the company that is being talked about?

Q2.The Indian brand takes its name from an invention by Baron Karl von Drais.Identify the company?

Q3. When Jaikumar Pathare and L Jaipal Reddy, two electrical engineers left their jobs with the Maharashtra State Electricity Board, they planned on starting a business of their own. From small government contracts they turned their gaze on to the clothing industry and after much thought zeroed in on, of all things — the men’s underwear business. “We were in search of a product and felt underwear was the right one. We felt there is scope because it required less investment at that time – some Rs 20 lakh. Of course today it is quite different,”Identify the company they founded?

Q4.On 25th December 1954 three dreamers, Mr.D.P.Gupta, Mr.P.D.Gupta, and Mr.R.K.Bansal in a small town in Punjab thought of producing an Indian brand of footwear to make basic necessity available to their countrymen. Soon the product and the name became generic to quality footwear. How do we know the company?

Q5.X is a male member of a shakti entrepreneur family. In 2000,HUL collaborated with self-help groups to expand its rural reach .It parternered women entrepreneurs called Shakti Amma from rural areas of Andhra Pradesh and 14 other states by offering them business oppurtunities.What is X ?

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IPO markets worldwide are expected to accelerate in the second half of 2010, a reflection of a stablizing global marco aconomic enviroment and the many fast-growth business which seek funding for the next stage of their evolution.While robust Asian markets continue to drive global IPO activity. Europe and the US have also seen a resurgence of new issuances.
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From Scores.org, a data-heavy Google(graphic) by Jess Bachman

1. Virgin founder Richard Branson has announced the creation of a new magazine solely for mobile devices. Called Maverick, the magazine will take the form of an iPad app, and cover business, technology and travel.

2. ITC's Y.C.Deveshwar has been presented Global Leadership award by U.S.-India Business Council for his efforts towards empowering India's rural agricultural community and conserving the environment.

3. Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation(KSRTC) bags Golden Peacock Eco-Innovation Award 2010 for implementing ethanol blended diesel in over 1000 buses.

4. Kerala State Electricity Board is set to launch a free and open source accounting software, Structured and Real-time Accounting System(SARAS) designed and developed by the employees of the board.

5. Apple iAd set to compete with Google in ad market

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Italian vehicle maker Piaggio on Thursday said it plans to invest 30 million Euro ($38 million) in a new scooter plant and re-introduce the iconic Vespa scooter in the Indian market by early 2012.

"We plan to invest 30 million Euro to set up a manufacturing plant for Vespa scooter brand in India,"

said Ravi Chopra, chairman of the Piaggio's Indian subsidiary, Piaggio Vehicles Pvt Ltd, on the sidelines of an automobile conference.

"We will launch the Vespa scooter by the end of 2011 or early 2012," he added. The new manufacturing facility will come up in Baramati, Maharashtra, and have a production capacity of 150,000 units per annum.

Andrew Pettegree has dived into the history of the book just as its future seems most uncertain. His new work, The Book in the Renaissance, came out a mere month before Barnes & Noble would announce putting itself up for sale, reigniting debate about the end of print.

History is what survives. One man's dustbin is another's potential archive. A narrow partition divides the hoarder from the scholar. With this remarkable book, Andrew Pettegree immediately shows gratitude to scattered libraries which have somehow kept scarce books, and pamphlets, absent from earlier surveys of printed books. Paradoxically enough, only with online catalogues have so many near-fugitive works become more apparent. Pettegree not only pursues Continental haunts but "the Library at Innerpeffay, tucked away up a farm track in rural Perthshire".
He argues in The Book in the Renaissance that the early printed book market turns out not to have been at all like what scholars previously imagined. Printers, pressed by the tricky economics of the new technology, relied not on the famous new Bibles but rather on cheap pamphlets and light literature to stay afloat. News turned out to be a profitable area for these early publishers. Scholars, meanwhile, worried that the new technology would not so much advance civilization as degrade it, flooding the market with cheap, error-ridden classics and a prodigious quantity of non-scholarly rubbish.

Transcend Information, Inc. launched a new 16GB edition of its JetFlash V95C USB flash drives. The new JetFlash V95C features a retractable USB connector, a huge capacity, and a deep-gloss lacquer accent panel complemented by a genuine Swarovski sapphire crystal.

Price: Rs 3,650 (16GB)
Warranty: 3 years

The simple mapping tool takes historic events, objects and physical locations and maps them over familiar areas. Thus it maps key events, places and things such as the Pakistan floods, the Gulf oil spill and the Afghanistan-Pakistan border – over your postcode.
An early concept document explains the ideas behind the project:

We want to bring home the human scale of events and places in history. The Apollo 11 Moon walk explored an area smaller than Trafalgar Square; the distance between your WW1 trench and the enemy could only be as much as from your front door to the street corner.

Dimensions is a feature on websites that juxtaposes the size of historical events with your home and neighbourhood. You’re hearing about the span of the base of the Great Pyramids, or the distance of the book depository from JFK, or the extent of the Great Fire of London… Dimensions overlays this map on a satellite view of where you live.

What is the hidden agenda (message) of this propaganda poster?

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Training and development company NIIT has enters into a global alliance with Tally Solution, a business management software product company. The alliance will develop comprehensive business software professionals with an expertise in Tally.ERP 9 product.

Apart from India, the alliance will cover Middle East, Africa, China and Asia Pacific to make talents available for the growth of small and medium business (SMB) enterprises, in these countries.

Bipasha Basu is going great guns as far as brand endorsements are concerned.

After signing up with Kohler (leading bathing accessory brand) as their brand ambassador, the actress has been signed up by Dicitex Furnishings to be the face of the brand.

DICITEX furnishings Ltd is a leading Manufacturer and Exporter of home furnishings and Embroidery fabrics in India. thye started their operation in the year 1980.

Starwood Hotels and Resorts will open two new Four Points by Sheraton properties in the Indian cities of Pune and Visakhapatnam later this year.

Starwood has signed an agreement with D.I.H (Cyprus) Limited, an affiliate of Duet India Hotels Ltd, to manage two new-build Four Points by Sheraton properties in Pune and Visakhapatnam, both of which are due to open in October.

Starwood entered India with its Sheraton brand in Mumbai in the year 1973. Currently, the company has 26 hotels in India under the brands of Westin, Sheraton, Four Points by Sheraton, The Luxury Collection and Le Méridien.

Trivia: The internationally renowned Le Méridien brand was established in 1972 by Air France "to provide a home away from home for its customers." The first Le Méridien property was a 1,000-room hotel in Paris — Le Méridien Etoile

James Cameron's sci-fi epic "Avatar" revisits global multiplexes this weekend in a quest to pad its record $2.74 billion worldwide box office and hype DVD and Blu-ray Disc special editions.

"Avatar" originally bowed in 2D and 3D on December 18, but the theatrical special edition will be shown only in 3D venues.

To date, "Avatar" has rung up $749.8 million domestically and $1.99 billion in foreign coin. Prerelease projections have "Avatar" fetching somewhere in the mid- to high-single-digit millions this weekend, but execs are more uncertain about what to expect from the rerelease in total.

The version 2.0 "Avatar" also is being released on more than 1,000 locations in 14 foreign territories including the U.K., Russia and Taiwan this week, including 50 overseas Imax sites. The pic's theatrical special edition will bow later in some other countries, with Japan set to get the super-sized "Avatar" in October.

Moser Baer claims to have launched the world's slimmest USB flash drive measuring 2.3mm thin, offering up to 8GB capacity.

Moser Baer's new micro USB flash drive with embedded LED measures just 29.4 x 12.4 x 2.3mm and weighs 1.3 gm. The Moser Baer USB flash drive is equipped with advanced “Chip-on-Board technology” which enables up to 8GB of flash storage to fit into an incredibly small-and-slim case, claims Moser Baer.

- As a child, this british entrepreneur made his money growing Christmas trees, and left school at 16 to start a magazine, ‘Student’, which attracted many contributors, at the age of 19 he set up his mail order business and the rest as they is history. Who?

- Name the casual footwear brand, a division of Wolverine Worldwide was started to develop a practical method of pigskin tanning for the US military.

- Paws Inc., a privately held company founded in 1981 by cartoonist Jim Davis, and located in rural Indiana has the copyrights, creative and business license for all merchandise of which famous cartoon character?

Peugeot says that in launching what it is calling the world’s first diesel full hybrid vehicle — the 3008 HYbrid 4 crossover— next spring, the French automaker will be writing a new chapter in motoring history.
The combination of a fuel-efficient, 163-horsepower 2.0-litre HDi diesel engine and a 37-hp electric motor is the optimal combination for a hybrid vehicle, says Peugeot — the 3008 HYbrid 4’s diesel engine providing European Combined Drive Cycle fuel consumption of 3.8 litres per 100 kilometres and CO2 emissions of 99 grams per km.
The car gets the power due to a 2.0-liter 163 horsepower HDi diesel, which is accompanied with a 37 peak horsepower electric motor as well as 27 constant. Due to such characteristics, the car is efficient as well as powerful.

The 3008 HYbrid 4 is equipped with the Start-Stop technology which is developed by Peugeot.

To manage the available performance, a control selector mounted on the centre console enables the driver to choose between four different operating modes — Auto, ZEV, 4WD and Sport.

Name this aircraft which was very successful during the WWII.

From Dreamfarm, Australia comes a new rubber gadget that fits onto any tap and turns it into a water fountain. Made from water-safe rubber, the device has a hole in the top; after fitting it on the faucet, simply squeeze it to redirect the water from the hole, making it a convenient drinking method. The Tapi can help avoid the use of (potentially) dirty hands, or a cup.

Gmail users will be able to initiate free phone calls to the U.S. and Canada from within the e-mail service, thus Mountain View search giant is taking on Skype in the competitive Internet telephony space.
Users can launch calls by clicking on the "Call phone" option at the top of their chat list and then dialing a number or entering a name from their contact list.

For years, close to 80 actually, Zippo has been an icon of American cool. Soon people will be able to lay their hands on one imprinted with ‘Zippo from Rohit Bal'.

1. Reliance launches India's first Mobile Jockey Portal. The Mobile Jockey would be equipped with lots of Chat subjects like: Page 3 (Media Gossips), Naye Andaaz (Current trends), Fashion, Marriage, Education and Food recipe. Other interesting topics that can be covered during the conversation include: General topics, Friendship, Current events, Trends in Present Life, Personality Grooming, Movies and Music, Career & Household tips.

2. The Reserve Bank of India has finally approved Nokia Mobile Money services that enable consumers to transfer money to other individuals by using their mobile devices. Yes Bank has launched this service in India specifically for unbanked and under-banked consumer segments. Mobile Money Services will also allow consumers to pay utility bills as well as recharge prepaid SIM cards (top-ups), and later on also pay merchants for goods and services by using their mobile devices. Supported by Obopay's payments platform, the first-of-its-kind service provides the ability to initiate mobile payments through multiple channels i.e. SMS, IVR, WAP, JAVA and FIRE.

3. Dubai’s state-owned low-cost airline, Flydubai, has commenced its India operations with thrice-weekly flights to-and-fro Lucknow. Flydubai commenced operations in June 2009. It has eight aircraft and connects 17 international destinations. The company plans a fleet of 50 planes by 2016.

4. Rajasthan has launched an e-governance initiative that aims to communicate essential information to the underprivileged using mobile phones. Named as "e-Speech Application through Network for Automated Communication Help and Response", the application is developed through a collaboration between RajCOMP, the state's computer agency and OneWorld Foundation-India.

5. The majestic Emirates Palace, Abu Dhabi, has added more gold to its ornate decor as it becomes home to the world's first "Gold To Go" vending machine. "The reason we chose Emirates Palace is because it really fits with the surroundings here," said German entrepreneur Thomas Geissler, creator of the "Gold to Go" brand and chief executive of Ex Oriente Lux.

The Economist posted the following map of global beer drinking, using multiple sources for their data. China seems to have already won this race, but the U.S. isn't too far behind.

 
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