PRELIMS Qts
1. The Italians call it the snail, the Germans call it spider monkey, Dutch call it monkey tail and in Chinese it is called the little mouse. What am I talking about?
2. What is the present name of the Alexander Bell Telephone Company?
3. The immediate predecessors of it were "Optimum Coding in the Frequency Domain" (OCF), and Perceptual Transform Coding (PXFM). This format was made at the Fraunhofer Society. Which format?
4. What was started by these two young IIT graduates? (Name a website)

5. In 1971, Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney founded a firm, Syzygy Engineering. How do we better know this company now? (Clue: Famous company from the world of gaming)
6. It was founded in 1906 in Rochester as The Haloid Photographic Company, which originally manufactured photographic paper and equipment .It holds a Royal Warrant from HM Queen Elizabeth II and the Prince of Wales. Identify the company
7. It is a bit rate measure of available or consumed data communication resources expressed in bits/second or multiples of it (kilobits/s, megabits/s etc.). What is this term (one proper word)?

8. This is the logo of which famous website?

9. At the 1997 Macworld Expo, Steve Jobs announced that Apple would join _________ to release new versions for the Macintosh. For this the audience booed for 42 seconds. Identify this company?
10. In 1911 Charles Flint engineered the merger of Hollerith’s Tabulating Machine Company with two other firms the International Time Recording Company and the Computing Scale Corporation and formed the Computing Tabulating Recording Corporation. What is the present name of this company?
11. “Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart” is better known to us as what?
12. Identify this famous person from the world of Internet.

13. Which was the first DTH provider for rural part of India to start the iKisaan scheme which is India's first TV interactive application for farmers?
14. Go is a programming language from which company? Guess the company from the name of this programming language
15. Which company has rebranded it as “Be What’s next”?

16. Identify this product.

17. What company was started in June 1972 by five IBM engineers as ”System Analysis and Program Development"?
18. If Street view: Google, then Street side: ________
19. Which game features large, habitable ringed structures, similar to the Orbital’s in Iain M Banks' Culture novels or to smaller versions of Larry Niven's Ringworld?
20. Identify this computer from the world of History. Found in any standard computer science textbook.

By,
Syed Murtuza Hashmi,
Winner of TCS IT WIZ 2011, Hyderabad Edition.

1. This term is derived from Latin words ‘com’ meaning together and ‘merx’ meaning goods.

2. A type of buyout wherein an investor, typically financial sponsor, acquires a controlling interest in a company’s equity and where a significant percentage of the purchase price is financed through borrowing.

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By what name do we know this sporting event?

Brand is owned by Zydus Wellness, which is a part of the Rs 3900-crore Zydus Cadila Group. Zydus Cadila is fifth largest drug company in India. Zydus Wellness is maker of sugar substitute product - Sugar Free, Ever Yuth, Nutralite and recently introduced malt-based food drink ActiLife.

Put Funda.

Put Funda.

Name the event.

Identify the Brand.

Hinduja Global Solutions (HGS), the BPO arm of multi billion dollar Hinduja Group conglomerate, unveiled their new global corporate identity today. The new logo which comes to effect immediately will be the sole company identity homogenizing business vision across all geographies. It will be sported by all units of the company around the world, including the acquired entities.

The design of the new HGS logo was developed based on extensive research conducted in the markets the company serves. It emphasizes 'HGS', the acronym for Hinduja Global Solutions, giving the company an international brand identity, which is easier to pronounce and recall.

Henceforth, the company intends to use the acronym 'HGS' as its brand name.

Along with the new logo, the company also has launched its new corporate website, http://www.teamhgs.com. The website has a new look capturing the change that the brand has undergone over the last decade.

Put Funda.

Put Funda

Uruguay striker Diego Forlan believes his name is now enshrined in South American football folklore. Forlan struck twice, after Luis Suarez's early opener, as Uruguay sealed a record 15th title with a 3-0 win over Paraguay in the Buenos Aries final.

For Forlan, it was an emotional triumph as he followed his father and grand-father into the record books as a Copa America winner. Forlán was born into a family of footballers, his father Pablo having played for São Paulo (1970–1975) and Uruguay in the 1966 and 1974 World Cups and his grandfather, Juan Carlos Corazo, for Independiente in Argentina.

Courtesy Mr. Yogesh Pai (of Chennai Silks), who completed his hat-trick.

1. English singer/composer, brain child behind rocket record co. in 1972. Has a unique record, they are the only co. that has a trade mark to a song , that was sung only once in public?
2. Which former airhostess was Lakme’s first Indian model?
3. Which co. did Sunil Mittal get into an agreement in 1983 to manufacture the co’s push button telephone models for the Indian market? Later the co. went onto forge alliance with Nokia.
4. Picture of this famous Huge Entrepreneur.

5. Whose Tagline goes “ No Flavour Finer” The product carries a G I Tag and makes India proud?
6. The Vanilla Beans are used in the Ice Cream Industry. Which Country produces 80% of the world’s Vanilla Beans output?(Clue – Children will know from Cartoons)
7. On 5th April 2011, who announced about his new IT Venture “Happiest Minds Technologies Pvt Ltd” ?

8. Picture of a Logo – whose?

9. What term now used in media comes from the name given by the London based pharmaceutical company Burroughs Well Co to the compressed Tablets ?
10. Which Asian Country with Voice based revenues of $ 5.70 Billion has overtaken India as the Call centre capital of the world ?
11. Who is the main Holding company of LMVH, owning 42.38% of its Shares and 59.30% of its Voting rights? (Clue – Huge Brand)

12. From the Education Sector. Old Company. Whose Logo?

13. First example of an Indian company hiring a local face to endorse its brand exclusively in another Country. Dabur has roped in which Pakistani cricketer for its brand – Hajmola?
14. Which nation gets its top level internet domain as .Ch ?
15. He has donated a majority of his company’s shares to M.I.T to fulfill his desire. Under the terms of the Gift, M.I.T cannot sell its shares & will not participate in its management or governance of the Company but can get annual dividend on its shares. Identify this gentleman.? (Huge Indian name)


16. Arabian Logo . Identify ? (New tourism destination in the middle east. Did not get effected by the recession)

17. Logo – Identify ? (Local Company)
18. Which electronic commerce company would be associated with Andrew Mason?
19. This Company is recognized as India’s biggest chain of Family Clubs by the Limca book of world records. They boast of having around 600 corporate members including Microsoft, Brooke bond Lipton, CMC,etc…..

Iconic Italian luxury car manufacturer Lamborghini filed suit in U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada, Las Vegas against companies it claims are infringing its well-known bull-in-shield logo. The defendants in the suit are companies that operate Dal Toro Exotic Car Showroom, Dal Toro Merchandise Group, and Dal Toro Il

Name the car and the maker.

“Sepak takraw or kick volleyball, is a sport native to the Malay-Thai Peninsula. Sepak takraw differs from the similar sport of volleyball in its use of a rattan ball and only allowing players to use their feet, knee, chest and head to touch the ball. It is a popular sport in Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore, Myanmar, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, and Philippines”. – Wikipedia

Put Funda.

Two Indian companies Hindustan Unilever (HUL) and Bharat Heavy Electricals (BHEL) have featured in the ten most innovative companies in the world by the US magazine Forbes’ latest edition.

While the fast moving consumer goods giant is placed at the sixth position ahead of Google, BHEL is ranked ninth in the list, which is topped by US-based IT service provider Salesforce.com.

The magazine said the list is based on a study by Harvard Business School professor Clayton M Christensen, Jeff Dyer, professor at Brigham Young University, and Hal B Gregersen, professor of leadership at INSEAD.

Online retail firm Amazon has been placed at the second position with Intuitive Surgical in third, while Apple and Google are ranked at fifth and seventh positions, respectively.

“Our method relies on investors—voting with their wallets—to identify the companies they expect to be innovative today and in the future. Among them are familiar groundbreakers like Amazon, Apple and Google,” according to the study, which is published in Forbes latest edition.

Johnson & Johnson has become the eighth and final global sponsor of the 2014 FIFA World Cup, completing FIFA's global sales for the competition three years before a ball is kicked in Brazil. Johnson & Johnson becomes the Official Healthcare sponsor of the FIFA World Cup, with exclusive rights to activate across their consumer, medical devices and diagnostics, and pharmaceutical sectors.

The popular festival held in Denia in which revellers chase a bull into the sea during the “Bous a la Mar” (meaning "Bulls at the Sea") is held in July. The highlight of this week long festival is watching bulls run down the main street Marqués de Campo, only to be chased into the Mediterranean sea by those daring enough to enter a makeshift bull ring with them.
The festival is held in honour of the Santisima Sangre and commemorate a monk named Pedro Esteve, who, as the legend has it, saved the coastal town of Denia from a plague in 1633. The bulls chased into the sea are later brought back to land by small boats.

The Boryeong Mud Festival is an annual festival which takes place during the summer in Boryeong, a town around 200 km south of Seoul, South Korea. The first Mud Festival was staged in 1998 and, by 2007, the festival attracted 2.2 million visitors to Boryeong.



The mud is taken from the Boryeong mud flats, and trucked to the Daecheon beach area, where it is used as the centrepiece of the 'Mud Experience Land'. The mud is considered rich in minerals and used to manufacture cosmetics. The festival was originally conceived as a marketing vehicle for Boryeong mud cosmetics

People attend the Stranavigli Water Race held at the Naviglio Grande on July 16, 2011 in Milan, Italy. Stranavigli Water Race is an annual creative contest on the water.

On Saturday, NASA'a Dawn spacecraft entered orbit around the asteroid Vesta, becoming the first probe ever to enter orbit around an object in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. Dawn will study Vesta for a year before heading for the dwarf planet Ceres. With previous multi-target missions, such as the Voyager program, considered rapid planetary flybys, Dawn is also set to become the first spacecraft to enter orbit around one extraterrestrial body before continuing under powered flight to a second.

Dawn launched on September 27, 2007, and belongs to NASA's Discovery Program founded in 1992 to develop technologies to enable "faster, better, cheaper" planetary missions. Its study of two large bodies in the asteroid belt is aimed at providing information on the dawn of the solar system - hence its name. Data collected on the Dawn mission will also be crucial for future missions aimed at sending astronauts to an asteroid - something President Obama has directed NASA to do by 2025.

• The corporation’s emblem tend to project the firm’s determination to become a world leader, it’s bluish color suggests stability in an intimate feeling of warmth. The elliptic shape symbolizes movement through space combining an image of innovation and change. The partial letter S and letter G break out the oval to connect the interior with the exterior, showing desire to become a world leader. Whose logo is this?

• DG Khan, Dewan, Lucky, Fauji and Maple Leaf are some of the major brands in Pakistan in this product range. What is the product?

People watch as workers put some finishing touches on ''Forever Marilyn'', a sculpture by Seward Johnson, on July 14, 2011 in Chicago, Illinois. The stainless steel and aluminum sculpture which stands 26 feet tall and weighs 34,000 pounds will be unveiled tomorrow and remain on display in Chicago through the spring of 2012. The sculpture was inspired by Marilyn Monroe's iconic scene in the 1955 movie Seven Year Itch.

• Hallmark was named for its founder Joyce C Hall. The company would have probably been as also-ran and the greeting-card industry itself would have been a fringe industry but for an innovation that Hallmark brought to the industry. The innovation has to do with the way greeting cards are sold. What is the innovation?

• Ernest Mahler developed it, of 1918 Kotex fame, from cellucotton, and was introduced under the name Celluwipes. How do we know it now?