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Lala Karam Chand Thapar established company in 1945 with

'Three Aces' and 'Wisdom' being its first two brands. In 1969
Shree Gopal Mills Limited in Yamunanagar was merged with the
company. In 1975, the organisation was renamed Ballarpur
Industries Limited.

In which category is the company an industry leader?

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Banff National Park is Canada’s oldest national park,

established in 1885 in the Rocky Mountains.

Vitality is start-up company founded last year in the

western Canadian city of Edmonton.

This company and the national park attained media

attention recently through a particular ‘product’ of this
company that it is selling to another country.What?
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Dancing digger team were initially members of

drivers of demonstration team, who visit
prospective customers and demonstrate
machines on the customers property, in order to
prove the machines suitability for the task at
hand.

Now these teams tour various agricultural shows

and produce videos.With which company would
you associate them?
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X, born into a Bengali family in Hyderabad, owns the

company ‘Sensazione’, which works as a launch pad for
hotel chains, lounges and spas. She launched a
production company called ‘Tantra Entertainment’ & was
also heading the franchise ‘I Am She’ which was taken
over by Femina last year.
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Isabella Gilbert of Rochester, New York must have spent a

significant portion of her life distressed over her lack of
__________, because in 1936 she invented this spring-loaded
contraption. According to the advertisement, after continual use,
the device “soon make a fine set of _________.”

The American Medical Association argued that the machine

would not make _________ or even enlarge original _______.
They also stated that prolonged use of the devise may actually
cause cancer. What ?
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The brand's name is derived from the Spanish word ……. which is the
name for chewing gum. Introduced in 1900, the original flavor was
peppermint.
Various people have been credited with inventing …….. including the
brothers Robert and Frank Fleer, and Louis Mahle
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In 1982, at the age of 22, this architect

received an assignment from the
Italian edition of Fashion magazine
‘Vogue' .
The magazine printed a spread on
Rajasthani jewellery, and featured her
in striking poses laden with the ethnic
glitter.

Identify the model.

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The artificial sweeteners used in the new

formulation are sucralose, acesulfame potassium,
and neotame. The new formula is more
concentrated and distributed in smaller
containers.The TVC shows a bunch of kids
recycle waste material to make three giant
installations that look like Gandhiji's
monkeys.Brand?
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The 13th-century poem "O Fortuna" was made into a musical by

the German composer Carl Orff for his twenty-four-movement
cantata Carmina Burana in 1935-36. The composition appears
in numerous films and television commercials. One of them is
showing a white male surfing the cool blue seas.

Which brand used this composition for their campaign?

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The shoe shown was released by Adidas, as part of its

“Flavours of the world” series. To celebrate which event was this
limited edition shoe released?
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In July 1945, two young brothers P.P Chhabria and K.P

Chhabria came to Pune from Karachi in search of a
livelihood and within six months set up a small shop
selling electrical cables

________ brand was born from "Fine" & "Flexibles"

and "O" with an electric arc across it - signifying the
electrical cable business the company was into!
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FINOLEX
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The company is organized into three business units: Europe,

Emerging Market and Protective. The company has
a retail presence of over 5200 retail stores in more than 70
countries and production facilities in 18 countries.
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NISSSAN LEAF
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This is a term used by employment recruiters to

describe a job candidate with precisely the right
education, experience, and qualifications that
perfectly fits a job’s multifaceted requirements.
The implication is that over-specification of the
requirements makes a perfect candidate as hard
to find as a _____ _______. Which term or Fill In
The Blanks ?
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PURPLE SQUIRREL
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ASHTANGA
SASHTANGA
PANCHANGA
DANDAVAT
ABHINANDANA

are the five types.

WHICH IS THE SIXTH TYPE?

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They were traditionally made from bones & quills, ivory,

gold or silver, (if you could afford).

Mass production is traced to the American entrepreneur Charles

Forster who noticed young boys selling similar objects made of
Spanish willow while travelling through Brazil.

He returned to Boston in 1870 and set up a factory that used

white birch as raw material because it was tasteless. What
business did Forster thus begin?
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Sujatha Kesavan, wife of famous Indian historian

Ramachandra Guha, is a graphic designer and co-
founder of leading brand design firm Ray &Kesavan.
What was her most important contribution to South
Indian media?
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Gottago is a free smartphone app founded by Kunal

Seth in 2010 by the name p911. The app allow people
who where searching for X in museums, shopping
malls, hospitals etc, to find the nearest X with the help
of GPS.

The company appointed few staffs to cities to check the

conditions of X before listing it on the app. What service
do the app lends?
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This is the Pambar waterfalls near Kodiakianal. It has

got a popular nickname due to a 1974 campaign by
Lintas.What?
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On July 22 – The final _____________ was

manufactured by this Japanese company known for its
electronics products.
Ampex VRX-1000 in 1956 became the world's first
commercially successful one of its kind. What?
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When IBM launched its IBM PC in 12th August

1981in the US, the brand presented for the first time
a friendly face for the computer, a human face that
the common man could relate to.

Who?
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In 1990 when Glycodin cough

syrup approached Govind
Nihalani to create an
advertisement. They chose ‘X’ as
his model, since ‘X’ is the most
suitable person for that ad.

Who?
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Founded by Balvantbhai Parekh

as Parekh Dyechem Industries in
1950’s, they used German word
for product’s primary property as
a part of it’s brand name.

They partnered with advertising

agency Ogilvy to build huge
business out of a simple white
product called polyvinyl acetate.
Name the brand.
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Dating back to 3500 B.C, early depictions of _____ ______

could be seen on ancient Egyptian murals. These murals would
depict Egyptian nobilities wearing this to set them apart from
the lower class.

Persian horse riders used _____ _____ for functionality.

In ancient Rome, where sex trade was legal,_______ ______

were used to identify those within the trade to potential clients
and _____ ______ became associated with prostitution.What?
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Ranked as one of the worst career moves in the

cinema history X turned down an offer from Y, the
director of a super hit hollywood film! The director
of the film,Y had always an inclination for India and
his fourth wife Leela Wellingkar was an Indian!

But X has not mentioned much about the reasons

for doing so in his Autobiography ‘The substance
and the shadow’

X and Y?
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Michael Ferreira, the famous Billiards player of India

was awarded the Padma Shri award in 1981, after
he had won his second world amateur title. But he
refused to accept this and contended that as
X was offered the more prestigious Padma
Bhushan award, he too should be awarded the
same. Anyways later, he became the first billiards
player to be awarded with the Padma Bhushan!

Who’s X?
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In Most summer seasons, the farmers of Assam

perform this special kind of wedding to please the
Hindu Rain God Barun to get more rain in the coming
year. As per a mythological belief they perform this ritual
every year. What is special in these weddings?
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FROG WEDDINGS
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For about 160 years, X – A CHEMICAL ELEMENT was

also known as glucinum or glucinium (with the
accompanying chemical symbol ("Gl",or "G"), the
name coming from the Greek word for sweet, due
to the sweet taste of it. The new name is supposed
to come from a Pali word meaning ‘to become
pale’ although there are different stories of its
etymology!
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The city X is known as PITAL NAGRI- The city of brass

as it is famous for its brass handicrafts! It situates on
the banks of the river Ramganga. X is also named
after a Mughal prince! Identify the city X
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MORADABAD from the prince MURAD

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Jane Coelho, Adina Shellim, Heather Corine

Faville, Malathy basappa and Anjana Sood
are the only winners of this!

What?
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Bharath Sundari AWARD

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Srivilliputhur Andal temple in Srivilliputhur, a
town in Virudhunagar district in Tamil Nadu,
is dedicated to the Hindu god Vishnu.
Constructed in the Dravidian style of
architecture, the temple is glorified in
the Divya Prabandha, the early
medieval Tamil canon of the Azhwar saints
from the 6th–9th centuries AD. It is one of
the 108 Divyadesam dedicated to Vishnu,
who is worshipped as Vadapathrasayi and
his consort Lakshmi as Andal.

Although the temple is not very popular in

news, people know it through its
representation somewhere. Where?
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Kaala Pathar, a 1979

bollywood film directed by
Yash Chopra was based on
this disaster.
Rajesh Roshan composed
the songs for this.

Which disaster(memorial is
shown here) is depicted in
the film?
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CHASNALA MINING
DISASTER
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Jugaadu, "who likes to find innovative solutions to fix problems, and does
not view his disability as a handicap".

Bhaijaan, "who owns a corner store and knows several Indian languages".

Sid, "who is a cool,smart child and Googly is a fan of his style and dancing".

Dawa Di, Basha's wife, who is from North East India, and teaches dance.

Kabir, Basha Bhaijaan and Dawa Di's son, who is an active and curious
eight-year-old.

Col. Albert Pinto, a retired army person, is an advocate for healthy living
and civic sense.

Rukmini Pinto (Doctor Aunty), Col. Pinto's wife. A doctor by profession, she is
a combination of contemporary and traditional wisdom.

In which series can you find these characters?

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The name X refers to the fact that the group

historically constituted the the Pallava Army, which
eventually morphed into X, as it is known today.

The tradition of ONATHALLU here involves an

enactment or warlike performances by men of the
Nair community at the Vettakaruman Dewaswom
temle premises. The key component of the
performance involves men pairing up and, under
the guidance and supervision of elders in the
community, enacting physical combat, war
cries and battle-like behaviour. This is seen as a
vazhivaadu by the men involved, and is a highly
revered and attended festival during the Avittam
nakshatra of Onam.
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PALLASSANA
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The X was an Indian conservative political party that

existed from 1959 to 1974. It was founded by Y in
reaction to what he felt was the Jawaharlal Nehru-
dominated Indian National Congress's increasingly
socialist and statist outlook. It stood for a market-
based economy with the "Licence Raj" dismantled,
although it opposed laissez faire policies. The party
was thus favoured by some traders and industrialists,
but at the state-level its leadership was dominated
by the traditional privileged classes such
as zamindars and erstwhile princes.
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X= SWATHANTRA PARTY
Y= C.RAJAGOPALACHARI
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X is a brand of household product originally

produced by the British company Lever Brothers in
1884. It was the world's first packaged, branded
product of its kind.

The success of the brand was so high that, the

company's name was given to the name of a port &
model village built for its workers.

X=?
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According to CLSA and HSBC, X is the fastest

growing FMCG company in India. It is valued
at ₹30 billion (US$470 million) and has
revenues of ₹11,000 crore for the fiscal 2017–
18.
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The development of X is mainly credited to a

Japanese businessman Eiichiro Ueyama, who
with the help of his wife found that a spiral shape
helps in longer action of the product, which is
typically made from dried paste of pyrethrum
powder.

Identify X.
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This brand of detergent has became a headache to

retailers across US because thieves started to steal it
from stores to resell. Police called the detergent ‘liquid
gold’ on the black market and it has been known to be
traded for illegal drugs.

Which brand?
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In 1890, the town of Evanston, Illinois, laws were once

passed that prohibited the selling of soda water on a
______.

As an alternative local stores started selling ice cream

sodas minus the soda, which left only the ice cream
and syrup. That became the recipe of what was to
become know as the ice cream ______.
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INNER GARMENTS
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