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X was established In 1884 in Peru, Illinois on an innovative idea of Mr.

Charles Stahlberg. His patent of 1885 allowed him to expand the company

to 8 people producing 25 pieces per day. It became bankrupt twice but has

sustained in the industry due to Big Ben and the Dollar. In 1959 it

introduced the drowse feature which is extremely famous with us today

but known by a different name Y.

Identify the company X and the feature Y.

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This brand is the world’s first gel based product in the category as well

as the largest selling one in the world. It has sold the licensing rights of US

and Canada to Church & Dwight. This cinnamon flavoured product

became mass market after one of the scientist’s son travelled to Paris and

saw painters using paint from tubes. The original tubes were made from

lead but today it is available in wide variety of materials.

Which brand am I talking about?

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Close-Up

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In January 2003, this product was selected as the number one invention

Americans could not live without according to the Lemelson-MIT Invention

Index. In Europe, William Addis of England is believed to have produced the

first mass production of this product in 1780. In 1770; he had been jailed for

causing a riot. While in prison he saved a small bone from a meal, drilled small

holes into the bone and tied into the bone tufts of hair that he had obtained

from one of the guards, passed the tufts of bristle through the holes in the bone

and sealed the holes with glue. After his release, he became wealthy after

starting a business. This company now manufactures 70 million pieces per

year in the UK alone under the Wisden brand. Which product is this?

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Toothbrush


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A controlled study of 200 workers at FedEx in 2004 showed that placing

this product in an office resulted in 21% reduction in absenteeism.

Controlled studies showed an even greater reduction in absenteeism

(51%) in elementary schools and college dormitories (43%).

Lifebuoy’s product is possibly the fastest acting in this category as it acts

within 10 seconds, it has also been clinically proven that it kills the H1N1

virus without water in 10 seconds.

Which product is this?

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Hand

Sanitisers

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This company was formed in 1901 by the merger of 4 mills by Mr. Henry. The

company expanded into numerous areas, including other food and drink

products, and even into unrelated fields such as toys. During World War II it

manufactured millions of pieces of artillery. In 1969 it acquired Fisher-Price. In

the 1970s, the company financed the making of the film Willy Wonka & the

Chocolate Factory, obtaining in return a license to use a number of the product

names mentioned in the movie for candy bars. In 1982 it formed US Games, a

company that created games for the Atari 2600.

Which company is this ?

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Qauker

Oats

Company

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Anthony T. Rossi an Italian native settled in Florida in 1947 packing fruit gift boxes and jars of

sectioned fruit for salads under the name Manatee River Packing Company. As the fruit segment

business grew, the company moved to a larger location in east Bradenton, Florida and changed

its name to Fruit Industries. The ingredients for the fresh fruit salads on the menu of New

York’s famed Waldorf-Astoria Hotel were supplied by Fruit Industries. The company chose a

mascot, it was based on Chrissie Kesten Pool, who modeled for the drawing and played the role

of mascot. Which modern day brand is this?

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Tropicana –

The mascot

was Tropic-

Ana

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If Ola is the biggest rival of Uber in India, this company (Logo Above) is

competing against Uber in Middle East and Pakistan. Co-founded by

Mudassir Sheikha and Magnus Olsson, who had both worked as management

consultants at McKinsey & Company in 2012, it has expanded to 53 cities and is

currently valued at $1 Billion. It is the first company in Dubai to offer Chauffeur

Service for Women by women under Ameera.

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Careem


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Frank Canova, IBM's lead architect is considered to be the inventor of this product.

This was developed in 1994.

What is so unique about this product?

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World’s first

smartphone

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Every working Indian is eligible for a tax-free food allowance of Rs 50/meal

up to Rs 2,200 per month. However, between easily spoilt paper coupons, low

acceptability and expiry dates, 60 lakh Indians struggle to file their food

voucher claims every year.

X rolled out a first-of-its-kind product to make life simpler for them. Being a

part of the X app, the food credit is digital and eliminates risks of loss and

expiry.

It is a direct competition to Sodexo and Target Restaurants.

Which company launched this product?

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PayTM

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As kids growing up in New Mexico, Butch and Don Olhausen worked for their dad

setting up and re-covering tables. The company they bought was making about 35

tables annually. The first year, their goal was to somehow double the business and

sell 70 tables. Within two years, they were selling over 300. Today they are selling

almost 30,000 tables a year in their 250,000-square-foot facility in Portland,

Tennessee.

What tables do they manufacture and also offer lifetime warranty.

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Billiard or Pool

Tables

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The Aerovías del Continente Americano S.A is the largest airliner in Colombia

and the oldest airline operating in the Western Hemisphere. It is wholly owned

by Synergy Group S.A., a South American holding company established by Germán

Efromovich and specializing in air transport. It is listed on the Colombia Stock

Exchange. It celebrated its 90th anniversary in 2009.

The airline traces its history back to 5 December 1919, in the city of

Barranquilla, Colombia. The company accomplished their first flight between

Barranquilla and the nearby town of Puerto Colombia using a Junkers F.13,

transporting 57 pieces of mail. The flight was piloted by German Helmuth von

Krohn.

By What name do we know this Airliner?

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Avianca

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Started by Ankit Mehrotra, Vivek Kapoor, Nikhil Bakshi and Sahil Jain in Delhi in 2012,

today this app has over 18000 restaurants and seats over 400,000 diners per month.

In 2014 it was acquired by Times Internet, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Bennet &

Coleman Co. Ltd.

According to the founders “it was conceptualized over various phone calls made

between Ankit Mehrotra (Investment Banker based in London), Sahil Jain (IIM

graduate working in Seattle), Nikhil Bakshi (Fund Manager in Delhi) & Vivek

Kapoor (Chief Officer in British Petroleum owned ships).

And then one day, we all quit our jobs, returned to Delhi, and thus began the long

and arduous journey!!”

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This fashion brand began in 1924 as an Italian Wool Mill, but has a history of being

into textile trading since 1812. In the 1970’s they developed the worlds first branded

cloth – the Tasmanian Wool. Today, they are the single biggest producer of cashmere

fabrics.

Identify this brand which also sponsors the Italian and international horsemen and

has partnered with the Italian Equestrian Sports Federation (FISE) since 1985

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He is a contemporary perfumer who has worked at companies IFF, Quest, Dragoco and presently

Symrise. He began his career in perfumery on February 19, 1973 while working as the head

chromatography chemist at Chanel for 6 years. After that he commenced his apprenticeship under

Henri Robert, Chanel's house perfumer at the time. He joined Quest International and for 12

years developed his craft as a perfumer before switching to work for Symrise in 1996. He has over

100 iconic perfumes under his credit including the highest selling Nautica Voyage.

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Maurice

Roucel

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Despite sales being almost exclusively limited to one country, this beer brand is the most

popular beer on the planet. Unsurprisingly, that country is China. Its sales volumes have

exploded by 573% since 2005, when it was only the 11th highest selling beer in the

world, according to Bloomberg.

The 4% proof lager is a joint venture between SABMiller and China Resources and

Enterprise.

The taste is described as "very watery" and "highly carbonated" by Rate Beer. The beer

has become popular in large part due to its low price. It sells at around $1 per liter in

China. Identify this brand which rakes in over 5% of global beer sales by volume.

16 Though Viceroy cigarettes were the first company to introduce the filters, it is widely

known that X was the first popular filtered cigarette, introduced in 1952 by the

Lorillard Tobacco Company around the same time as a series of articles entitled "cancer

by the carton", published by Reader's Digest, scared American consumers into seeking

out a filter brand at a time when most brands were filterless.

As of today it one of the highest selling cigarette brands in the world and is owned by R.J.

Reynolds Tobacco Company.

Between 1970 and 1990 this was the most demanded cigarette in Romania and in some

parts of the domestic market used as payment or bribe.

Identify X. Hint – It also shares its name with an Indian Brand which is known for its

purity.

Note – Cigarette smoking is injurious to health! The QM did not smoke while making this question.

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This is a joint venture between the Tata Group and the 21st Century Fox.

It is the 2nd Company to launch this service in India and started in 2006.

It has technical collaborations with ISRO.

It is also the first company in India in its category to have been awarded the ISO

27001: 2005 accreditation, the benchmark for information security. ISO 27001:2005 is

an international standard that provides specifications and guidance for the

establishment and proper maintenance of an Information Security Management System

It has won several accolades including Yahoo Big Idea Chair Award and Best use of

Mobile Advertising. Aamir Khan is the Brand Ambassador for this company.

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This is the worlds largest hotel chain, founded in 1981 in Dallas, Texas, by Trammell Crow,

the president of Trammel Crow Company (TCC). The company appears to have been named

after a friend of Crow's, after a woman who wrote a profile of him for Fortune magazine.

It has over 8,092 hotels in 66 different countries found on six continents. It is best known

for rewarding its frequent customers with loyalty points in over 7,700 hotels worldwide,

offering free airline tickets, gift cards, free nights, and much more.

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This coffee chain's first store opened on May 17, 1964, in Hamilton, Ontario. The business

was founded by Miles G."Tim", who played in the National Hockey League from 1949 until his

death in a traffic collision in 1974, the founder had an initial venture in hamburger

restaurants.

Upon the founder's death in an auto crash in 1974, Joyce bought out the family's shares for $1

million and took over as sole owner of the existing chain of forty stores. Joyce expanded the

chain quickly and aggressively in geography and in product selection. The 500th store

opened in 1991.

Between 1992-95 it merged with Wendy’s, in 2014 it merged with Burger King under

the new parent company Restaurant Brands International (RBI). With over 4000 outlets

and 1,00,000 employees it is one of the largest coffee chains in the world.

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This is how this company began - During a visit to Germany, Ramesh Pai discovered that

high-end motor car seats used rubberized coconut-coir fibre manufactured from Sri Lankan

base material. He knew that India was one of the largest producers of coconut in the world

and so, he rightly assumed, there was a new business to be pioneered. Charged with this

thought, he returned home to start his journey of discovering how best he could take

advantage of the coir husk India produced. He found that coconut coir was being used only

by the cottage industry to manufacture retted fabric. From here his idea took shape and

become the predecessor to X – Karnataka Consumer Products Limited – was formed in

1962.

It is also the Official Comfort Partner of Sunrisers Hyderabad.

Identify X.

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Co-founded by Rahul Jaimini, Sriharsa Majety and Nandan Reddy, and bootstrapped till

last January, this startup which was present in just a few neighbourhoods of Bengaluru, with

Koramangala giving a major chunk of the business. Today, it has raised three rounds of

funding and is present in eight cities across the country, with close to over a million app

downloads. Its USP is inspired by McDonalds and it has exceeded the benchmark set by

McDonalds in most of the markets. Identify this Indian company!

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First registered on 21 June 2005 this service was launched in April 2010 by

Times Internet.

Their entire Indian catalogue is available to users worldwide, but only users in

South Asia have access to the international catalogue.

Its services are available in 21 languages with over 30 Million listings.

It was hacked by Pakistani hacker "Mak Man" on the 29th of May, 2015. The

details of users of the site were leaked by the hacker.

Micromax, bought a stake in this company on October 2015.

Identify this service!

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X is a California-based social enterprise that sells wine and other products and

services to raise awareness and funding for charitable organizations and social

causes. It donates half of its profits to charity and each of its wine varietal

supports a different charitable cause or organization. The company's charitable

donations are made through the X Foundation. The X Foundation has raised over

$1 million for various charities through its sales. It’s winery is in Napa, California.

In 2012, X began selling coffee in partnership with Lamill Coffee. The company

released its Darius Rucker signature series wine in 2012.

The Sauvignon Blanc by X priced at just $11 a bottle is the worlds largest selling

wine.

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This is a page from De Morbo

Gallico (The French Disease),

Gabriele Falloppio's treatise

on syphilis. Published in

1564, it describes what is

possibly the first use of

What.

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Condoms

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