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Founded in the 1940’s by Sam Launer who had fled Czechoslovakia with his wife and two sons. The sons pursued other paths – one with the RAF and the other in agriculture. The Queen is rarely seen in public without her Launer handbag by her side. The Queen first started snapping up Launer's bags back in the 1970s and was so impressed she awarded the firm with a Royal Warrant in 1981.
Read More: 9 Things You Never Knew About Queen Elizabeth's Iconic Launer Purse

Company Adds the Word ‘Blockchain’ to Its Name. Shares Jump 425% In One Day.

A company added the word “blockchain” to its name and saw shares surge 394 percent. British company On-line had its best day on record Friday after it announced plans to change its name to On-line Blockchain. The shares pared gains after the company published a follow-up release cautioning investors that the development of its blockchain product is still at an early stage.

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We are doing away with A Question A Day with A Factoid A Day. Its a simple new facts for you which we will try to bring.

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Carne y Arena (Virtually present, Physically invisible), the virtual reality installation from Birdman
director Alejandro González Iñárritu and cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki, is receiving a special award from Oscar, making Carne y Arena the first project to merit such an honor since Pixar’s Toy Story in 1996.

TATA CRUCIBLE COIMBATORE PRELIMS 2017

TATA  CRUCIBLE COIMBATORE 2017 PRELIMS

1.       Identify this gentleman

2.       Steve  jobs in his visit to India visited Kanchi Ashram. On his advice which other software guy visited the same ashram in later years

3.       This is Alex Ohninan the boyfriend of Serena Williams which website is he a co founder?

4.       This word is an inducement offered to an unwanted separation or retirement. It is also an coveted thing in several football tournaments? What term?

5.       The original title of this book was Four Flushes . why the title?

6.       Who is appointed the latest appointed Vice chairman of Niti Aayog?

7.       What product are these Koreans using to float? Regular consumed product. We all use?

8.       This plaque is in memory of a disaster in USA due to a company failure. The same company had a disaster years later. Which Company?

9.       A famous shopping area is named for this due of …. What was he duke of? A very famous area of India?

10.   Dutch Media End mol is behind which famous program often touted as a nonsensical TV show in India? Famous in TN?

11.   French Global insurance giant whose name is not an abbreviation and is in Capital letters.. Named so that in can be easily pronounced across the world? Famous in India.

12.   This car from FIAT is named after an Italian contest that pits the local residents with or towns against each other?

13.   Jyoti structures became the first in India to get proceedings from Z score. What was this about?

14.   16 century French used “Claquers” in opera house. What was their job? Used regularly.

15.   The Polaroid camera company by Edwin land was making which product earlier to making cameras? Related industry.

16.   Hongkong has a different race where people race in a different scenario. What is this race called? We use the term don’t run the - -?

17.   Dorothy sayers wrote advertisement for which Beer company If he can say as you can

'X  is good for you'
How grand to be a Toucan
Just think what Toucan  do. .what is X

18.   Original logo of this company was represented a family had 4 members but reduced to three now to show nuclear family. Famous logo we see everyday. Think chocolates and milk?

19.   Haagen daes releasing this flavor for a sporting event. Which sporting event? 

20.   In 1897, Pratap Singh wore and won the hearts of Victorian societies in London with his smart dress. He and his team mates inspired which particular fashion? Named after a city?

TATA Crucible Corporate Edition 2016 – Navi Mumbai – Preliminary Round Questions

1. Which global beverage company has been running the campaign #TasteTheFeeling?

2. Which equity is the ownership’s interest or increase in value that is created as a direct result of hard work by the owner?

3. Which business group owns the online grocery Nature’s Basket?

4. Which famous School of Business Management?

5. Which founding club of the I-league football was started as Varca Club in 1988 and later bought by a former Chief Minister of Goa?

6. If you are flying to Japan in an ANA Flight, what airline would you be in?

7. What is the name of the in game currency that is used in the game Kim Kardashian-Hollywood?

8. Identify her.

9. This phrase means a type of internet based computing where different services such as servers, storage and applications — are delivered to an organisation's computers and devices through the Internet.

10. Which company has been discussed in this book?

11. Expand LTE in telecom technology.

12. Identify the author.

13. Which apparel company recently had to recall its ‘Premier Slam’ wardrobe after complaints that the skimpy outfits reveal too much flesh?

14. Who was the Finance Minister of India when Dr. Raghuram Rajan took over as Governor of RBI?

15. Identify the brand from its old logo.

16. Identify the brand.

17. Today, there are more than 850 stores in 22 countries. The company employs more than 60,000 staff from 80 different nationalities. It is one of the world's largest sporting goods retailers, started with a store in Lille, France in 1976, founded by Michel Leclercq. Name it.

18. Which online retail major has forayed into traditional brick and mortar retail outlets in partnership with Chinese real estate company Dalian Wanda Group?

19. R. K. Laxman created a famous naughty boy mascot for Asian Paints. What was his name?

20. Which famous city is being referred in this book?