Rules

•Each team will be asked two questions.•Questions can be passed to other teams.•10 points on a direct and 5 points on a passed question.•No negatives on a wrong answer.

1. A local sports goods manufacturing firm, which makes the popular ‘Rakshak’ brand of hockey sticks, has evolved the new technique of using the product X to make the sticks stronger and smoother. What is the product X that is used to make the sticks stronger?

2. In which Indian Bank’s logo would you find a dog?

(Hint:It’s of German Shepherd breed)

3. In 1892, an American Banker arranged the merger of Edison General Electric and Thompson-Houston Electric Company to form General Electric. This is said to be the first structured merger in the world. Which was this American Bank that arranged this merger?

4. X company specialized in deliveries as a competitor to the U.S. Postal Service, money orders (1882) and traveler's checks, which the company invented in 1891. The company discussed creating a travel charge card as early as 1946, but it was the launch of the rival Y card that put things in motion. Give me X and Y?

5. Initially it was started as 'Brahmanara Coffee Club' in 1924 and changed the name in 1951 to the present one. In 1976, during emergency, it started instant foods business due to the price controls imposed by the Indira Gandhi Government. Identify this successful desi company/brand?

6. The two pioneers in their field were working within 50 kms and both produced a motorized vehicle in 1850's. They never met each other but their companies merged after their death. Identify the duo?

7. X was founded in 1891 by Y, a maternal cousin of Z who was a famous German revolutionist and historian whose ideas are created as the foundation of modern communism. X’s first products were light clubs and other electro-technical equipment. Give me X, Y & Z.

8. Which English Web-based encyclopedia (also cofounded by Jimmy Wales), which lasted between 2000 and 2003, was the predecessor to Wikipedia?

9. This person was born in 1916; he always wanted to do something with mechanics. He started working in the Italian Air Force working for the transport section. Soon he also started tuning Fiat cars & started building tractors. Finally he started his own automobile company and the company’s logo was taken from his sun sign. Give me the person and the Brand?

10. It is a Mumbai based Bank incorporated in April 1994 by Dr. Manmohan Singh the then Union Finance Minister. The Bank’s logo is a Harrapa-Mahenjodaro symbol. Which is the Bank I am talking about?

11. X runs his business management consulting company in Dallas. Before becoming a full time consultant, he taught at the Harvard business school, Kellog school of management. He is the author of various books on Business including the widely acclaimed ‘What the CEO wants you to know’. He was recently awarded with the ET Global Indian of the year award. Who is X?

12. This company which is into the business of Trading in equity products and asset management was started in 1869 with its headquarters in New York. This firm has been credited with the development of a defensive hostile takeover strategy called the “white Knight” to successfully fend off the takeover attempt of International Nickel against Electric Storage battery. As an aftermath of the economic crisis in 2008 it had to convert itself from an investment bank into a normal commercial Bank. Which company?