Atwal became the first Indian and just the sixth Asian-born player to win on the PGA Tour when he secured a one-stroke victory at the Wyndham Championship on August 22, 2010.
Also he becomes first qualifier in 24 years to win PGA Tour event.
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Atwal becomes first Indian golfer to clinch a US PGA Tour title
Atwal became the first Indian and just the sixth Asian-born player to win on the PGA Tour when he secured a one-stroke victory at the Wyndham Championship on August 22, 2010.
Also he becomes first qualifier in 24 years to win PGA Tour event.
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PrePare Tata Crucible 2
"PrePare Tata Crucible- the Gyan"
Frank Seiberling, the founder of Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, suggested the use of Winged foot of Mercury, the swift messenger of the Gods, a connotation of speed, as his company’s trademark.
Nobel Laureate Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman along with Dr. Krishnamurthy started a company called Travancore Chemical and Manufacturing Co. Ltd. in 1943.
Ken Follett has written a book ‘On the wings of Eagles’ which deals with the true story of how 40 odd employees of an American Company EDS corporation escaped from Iran when caught in the Islamic Revolution. Ross Perot, who owns EDS, appears throughout the book.
17 year old Rudyard Kipling roamed India as Assistant Editor of the Civil and Military Gazette, Lahore. He then wrote ‘Soldiers Three’ a series of short tales that launched a pervasive, nation wide enterprise which exists to date–The A.H. Wheeler Publishing House and chain of bookstores.
Walt Disney’s first foray into business was the founding of the ‘Laugh-O-gram’ corporation in 1921 which went bankrupt barely two years later.
Nintendo started as a playing card company in 1889 in Japan and literally means ‘Leave luck to Heaven’.
Nobel Laureate Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman along with Dr. Krishnamurthy started a company called Travancore Chemical and Manufacturing Co. Ltd. in 1943.
Ken Follett has written a book ‘On the wings of Eagles’ which deals with the true story of how 40 odd employees of an American Company EDS corporation escaped from Iran when caught in the Islamic Revolution. Ross Perot, who owns EDS, appears throughout the book.
17 year old Rudyard Kipling roamed India as Assistant Editor of the Civil and Military Gazette, Lahore. He then wrote ‘Soldiers Three’ a series of short tales that launched a pervasive, nation wide enterprise which exists to date–The A.H. Wheeler Publishing House and chain of bookstores.
Walt Disney’s first foray into business was the founding of the ‘Laugh-O-gram’ corporation in 1921 which went bankrupt barely two years later.
Nintendo started as a playing card company in 1889 in Japan and literally means ‘Leave luck to Heaven’.
A Communist in the house of Tatas
His mother was a Tata and he was a nephew of Mr. J N Tata. From the mid-1880s, Tata commissioned a series of surveys in India's coal-producing areas, such as Bihar and Orissa in the northeast of the subcontinent, to locate iron ore within easy reach of coal deposits and water, both essential elements in steel production. The intrepid hunters were C M Weld, Dorab Tata and Shapurji Saklatvala. However his health suffered so much that he was sent to London to recuperate.
Political career
Saklatvala joined the Independent Labour Party, the Labour Party and on its formation the Communist Party of Great Britain (Labour allowed joint membership at the time). He attended the 2nd Pan-African Congress held in Paris in 1921. At the 1922 general election he was elected as the Communist candidate for the constituency of Battersea North, with the support of the Labour Party.
The GuestQuiZMAster (GQM): Sandeep Das
Q1. Which company started life as the Anglo Persian Oil Company in 1909, before becoming the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company in 1935? The company adopted its present name as recently as 2001, before going through a series of name changes as a result of its purchases and acquisitions.
Q2. What is the name of the parent company of Philip Morris, USA, and which also holds a voting interest in one of the world’s largest brewing companies, the UK based SABMiller Plc?
Q3. Which character in the US TV series, ‘The Cleveland Show’, currently also shown on UK TV, is both based on and voiced by the acclaimed American director, David Lynch? David Lynch is an Academy Award nominated director for his films ‘The Elephant Man’, ‘Blue Velvet’ and ‘Mulholland Drive’.
Q4. Which company’s slogan is ’57 varieties’?
Q5. Which American actor co-wrote, co-produced and narrated the 2007 film documentary ‘11th Hour’, which was centred on the state of the natural environment?
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Box-Office Algorithm Predicts Revenue From Movie Screenplay
Read the full story at Freakonomics at The New York Times.
In a paper describing their model, they write that “a higher movie budget tend[s] to increase the movie’s box office, but at a diminishing rate. Thus, throwing money at a script does not always generate a blockbuster movie.”
First 3-D porn film
A group of Hong Kong filmmakers have started shooting what they claim will be the world's first 3D pornographic film.
No ordinary porn flick, "3-D Sex & Zen: Extreme Ecstasy" is being touted as the world's first IMAX-3-D erotic film.
The producers are hoping the erotic period drama will prove a titillating hit with 3-D-glasses-wearing audiences and help develop a lucrative, niche film market.
Eco-friendly, Bio-degradable Ganesha from The Bombay Store
These beautiful idols are specially made by traditional craftsmen in Maharashtra and in Sirsi, Karnataka. They are entirely hand sculpted using natural clay and painted using natural elements such as turmeric, red earth (geroo) and Multani earth.
You can immerse them at home in a bucket of water and they’ll get dissolved in a matter of hours. This way, the eco- friendly Ganesh idols help you protect the environment as well as conserve a heritage of craftsmanship.
L'Oreal's Total Repair 5 shampoo
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AQAD 101
Identify the logo. (Hint- In news)
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Tata Crucible -2010 Hyderbad round
This year TC begin with Hyderabad, and truely a grand begining, Hyderabad witnessed a Gladiators show with 6 powerfull teams on stage. (Mahindra Satyam, Vizag steel, Infosys, Microsoft, Google & IBM). It was first time in the history of TC that the stage was shared by current campus champion IIM-L (Mahinda Satyam), Defending National champions (Vizag steel) & defending Hyderabad round champions (Google). The battle was thrilling as expected but as you know that a quiz is alive untill the last question..... which was clinched by Infosys to emerge as a new team defeating the heavyweights.
Prelims – 25 Questions
1. This brand/product was created by Samuel Ruben & Phillip Rogers Mallory in 1964 as power substitute for cameras.
2. Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, D. W. Griffith & _______ teamed up to found United Artist Studio in 1919. (Famous all time entertainer, name him)
3. This refers to the sum of money that is added to the employee’s salary as a part of extra pay due to good performance, originated from a Latin word.
4. Li Ka Shing of Honkong , also named as Chiu yan – relate this to a great fictional character.
5. Bad-Aid is available in India in three different variants – Fabric, Wash-proof & ________ (think Indian way of remedy)
6. This 18th century engineer and explorer, was a British army soldier and one of the scientists who worked on Faraday’s Theory of Electromagnetic Induction led to form a big group in India – Name the company ( Famous Fan brand)
7. This business speaker, author was recently awarded as the Global Indian of the year 2010 – name him.
8. According to Conways Law: In every organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. That person must be “_______”
9. This famous car brand was taken over by GM in 1929, was initially famous for making Sewing machines, Bicycles & refridgerators – name the brand.
10. This two word expression is used to describe financial inducements used to persuade specialists to stay in a particular firm. – What two word term?
11. Which famous international hotel group was forced to drop its name in India by the court of Rajasthan against a Sirohi based hotel in Mount abu – Name the group of hotel.
12. Who was termed as England’s “Master of Mint” in 1717, when they took a decision of moving the pound sterling from silver to gold?
13. Mary Phelps Jacob the descendant of Robert Fulton the inventor of steam boat, was a inventor herself. What did she invented ( the product kept men fascinated since then)
14. This web based entity strongly rejected its departed co-founders accusation that the product served up child pornography.
15. In 1919 founded as Cohn-Brandt-Cohn Film Sales, by Harry Cohn, his brother Jack Cohn, and Joe Brandt is today known as. (_______pictures)
16. Elizabeth Arden created a new fragnance line based on this entertainer – Honey, Ribbon & Mine again. Name the entertainer?
17. In 1921 Gandhi was propagating the idea of boycotting foreign goods this man from AP who was involved in making lithographic blocks, methim came up with this product/brand which the Mahatma himself liked & used – name it.
18. Masincedane Sport was company formed in 2001 to mass-produce a product which sales has skyrocketed in 2010.
19. This rhyming name was given to the fall that occurred in May amounting to $ 1 trillion fall, at the Dow Jones Industrial AVG
20. Air france invented this to provide a home away from home for its crew & passangers in 1972.
23.
24.
Prelims – 25 Questions
1. This brand/product was created by Samuel Ruben & Phillip Rogers Mallory in 1964 as power substitute for cameras.
2. Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, D. W. Griffith & _______ teamed up to found United Artist Studio in 1919. (Famous all time entertainer, name him)
3. This refers to the sum of money that is added to the employee’s salary as a part of extra pay due to good performance, originated from a Latin word.
4. Li Ka Shing of Honkong , also named as Chiu yan – relate this to a great fictional character.
5. Bad-Aid is available in India in three different variants – Fabric, Wash-proof & ________ (think Indian way of remedy)
6. This 18th century engineer and explorer, was a British army soldier and one of the scientists who worked on Faraday’s Theory of Electromagnetic Induction led to form a big group in India – Name the company ( Famous Fan brand)
7. This business speaker, author was recently awarded as the Global Indian of the year 2010 – name him.
8. According to Conways Law: In every organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. That person must be “_______”
9. This famous car brand was taken over by GM in 1929, was initially famous for making Sewing machines, Bicycles & refridgerators – name the brand.
10. This two word expression is used to describe financial inducements used to persuade specialists to stay in a particular firm. – What two word term?
11. Which famous international hotel group was forced to drop its name in India by the court of Rajasthan against a Sirohi based hotel in Mount abu – Name the group of hotel.
12. Who was termed as England’s “Master of Mint” in 1717, when they took a decision of moving the pound sterling from silver to gold?
13. Mary Phelps Jacob the descendant of Robert Fulton the inventor of steam boat, was a inventor herself. What did she invented ( the product kept men fascinated since then)
14. This web based entity strongly rejected its departed co-founders accusation that the product served up child pornography.
15. In 1919 founded as Cohn-Brandt-Cohn Film Sales, by Harry Cohn, his brother Jack Cohn, and Joe Brandt is today known as. (_______pictures)
16. Elizabeth Arden created a new fragnance line based on this entertainer – Honey, Ribbon & Mine again. Name the entertainer?
17. In 1921 Gandhi was propagating the idea of boycotting foreign goods this man from AP who was involved in making lithographic blocks, methim came up with this product/brand which the Mahatma himself liked & used – name it.
18. Masincedane Sport was company formed in 2001 to mass-produce a product which sales has skyrocketed in 2010.
19. This rhyming name was given to the fall that occurred in May amounting to $ 1 trillion fall, at the Dow Jones Industrial AVG
20. Air france invented this to provide a home away from home for its crew & passangers in 1972.
21. 
22. 
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