Answers to Weekly Hafta Wasool # 8

1. In historic times, ____ also went by other names like the Isles of Seven Cities, and Sanbrandon. Recently, _______ has been in the news due to the completion of the design of Chicago based architects Perkins and Will.

Answer: Antilia, Mukesh Bhai ka chota sa ghar.

On another note, I would have loved it Mukesh Ambani had gone with a Sanskrit or Indian Origin name. For example, Baap sounds apt.

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2. Originally nine were identified in 1997, but with Oil India Ltd the number now stands at 19. What term?

Answer 2: Navratna. Was universally cracked. If you think about it, the babu who would have named this so must be squirming now. There are Unees ratnas now. 


But trust Indian jugaad to overcome anything. So we have further classification now in terms of Mahratnas and Mini ratnas. 

3. In the first decade of the last century, with debts of £2,670 the club was close to closure.Four local businessmen, including John Henry Davies (who became club president),then invested £500 in return for a direct interest in running the club. The name was then changed.

Which club?

Answer 3: Again Universally cracked. Manchester United.

4. The company was originally named Cadabra, Inc., but the name was changed when it was discovered that people sometimes heard the name as "Cadaver." Its current name _____ was chosen because ________ is the largest of its kind in the world, and so the name suggests large size, and also in part because it starts with 'A' and therefore would show up near the beginning of alphabetical lists.

Answer 4: Amazon. The marketeer in me thinks it is one of the most amazing names around. Simple to remember, signifies size and amazement, and most importantly shows up top of every list.

5. Originally, Thomas Knoll created it to display grayscale images on a monochrome display. This program, called Display, was subsequently renamed ImagePro.Later the same year, Thomas renamed it to its current name and and distributed copies of the program with a slide scanner. Around 200 copies were shipped this way.

Today, it is the industry standard in many ways and a cultural icon. Which software product?


Ans 5: The wonderful Photoshop. Anything that helps in the fight against the paunch in the pictures is wonderful, and nothing works like Photoshop.

Weekly Hafta Wasool # 8

1. In historic times, ____ also went by other names like the Isles of Seven Cities, and Sanbrandon. Recently, _______ has been in the news due to the completion of the design of Chicago based architects Perkins and Will.

2. Originally nine were identified in 1997, but with Oil India Ltd the number now stands at 19. What term?

3. In the first decade of the last century, with debts of £2,670 the club was close to closure.Four local businessmen, including John Henry Davies (who became club president),then invested £500 in return for a direct interest in running the club. The name was then changed.

Which club?

4. The company was originally named Cadabra, Inc., but the name was changed when it was discovered that people sometimes heard the name as "Cadaver." Its current name _____ was chosen because ________ is the largest of its kind in the world, and so the name suggests large size, and also in part because it starts with 'A' and therefore would show up near the beginning of alphabetical lists.

5. Originally, Thomas Knoll created it to display grayscale images on a monochrome display. This program, called Display, was subsequently renamed ImagePro.Later the same year, Thomas renamed it to its current name and and distributed copies of the program with a slide scanner. Around 200 copies were shipped this way.

Today, it is the industry standard in many ways and a cultural icon. Which software product?

Answers to Weekly Hafta Wasool # 7

1. " I never dared to break the glass of his house while playing cricket as I used to be extremely scared of him.
Who said about whom?"


Answer: Virendra Sehawag on the Olympic medalist Sushil Kumar


2. Dustin Moskovitz, Eduardo Saverin, and Chris Hughes. Name the fourth.

Answer: Mark Zuckerberg. These Harvard Classmates formed facebook

3. Who has launched the Playbook tablet?

Answer: RIM, the makers of Blackberry

4. The name is a homophone of "segue" (a smooth transition, literally Italian for "follows") while "PT" denotes personal transporter. What is the name?

Answer: Segway PT


5. Founded in 1997 as an OEM, this company has seen a meteoric rise to success. Amongst its creations are the Palm Treo 650 and the iPAQ. Which company are we talking about?

Answer: HTC,which is based out of Taiwan.

Weekly Hafta Wasool # 7

1. " I never dared to break the glass of his house while playing cricket as I used to be extremely scared of him.
Who said about whom?"


2. Dustin Moskovitz, Eduardo Saverin, and Chris Hughes. Name the fourth.

3. Who has launched the Playbook tablet?

4. The name is a homophone of "segue" (a smooth transition, literally Italian for "follows") while "PT" denotes personal transporter. What is the name?

5. Founded in 1997 as an OEM, this company has seen a meteoric rise to success. Amongst its creations are the Palm Treo 650 and the iPAQ. Which company are we talking about?

Answers to Weekly Hafta Wasool # 6

1. What was Sears Towers renamed to?

Answer: Willis Towers

2 Put Fundae - Bitching Betty, Nagging Norah, Natasha

Answer: Slang term used by pilots for voice warning systems.

3. Named after the engineer and founder of the company, this Austrian based manufacturer of firearms supplies to leading Armies and para-military forces of the world. Business week once reported that the founder had learnt his trade at a German Army camp sometime in 1944 or 1945. Name the company

Answer: Glock.

4. Last month, Arthur Fry and Spencer Silver, were inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame alongside the inventors of synthetic diamond and others "responsible for the great technological advances that make human, social and economic progress possible."


What did they come up with 30 years ago?

Ans 4: Post It Notes

5. Built in an astounding 410 days, this landmark was unprofitable for the first 20 years. The Percy Jackson series claims that Mount Olympus is accessible through a special elevator in this structure on the 600th floor. Which structure?


Answer: Empire State Buidling.

Weekly Hafta Wasool # 6

1. What was Sears Towers renamed to?

2 Put Fundae - Bitching Betty, Nagging Norah, Natasha

3. Named after the engineer and founder of the company, this Austrian based manufacturer of firearms supplies to leading Armies and para-military forces of the world. Business week once reported that the founder had learnt his trade at a German Army camp sometime in 1944 or 1945. Name the company

4. Last month, Arthur Fry and Spencer Silver, were inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame alongside the inventors of synthetic diamond and others "responsible for the great technological advances that make human, social and economic progress possible."

What did they come up with 30 years ago?

5. Built in an astounding 410 days, this landmark was unprofitable for the first 20 years. The Percy Jackson series claims that Mount Olympus is accessible through a special elevator in this structure on the 600th floor. Which structure?

Answers to Weekly Hafta Wasool # 5

By Gaurav Parab

1. The Smart Choice Café is the Retail Foray of Which FMCG giant in India ?

Ans: Pepsico 

2. Launched on April 18, 1948 as a 4-page newspaper with a circulation of 2,576 copies. ______ initially focused on political and social issues and crime stories. Twenty years later, the newspaper had a circulation of 20,000 serving over 14 districts in Western Uttar Pradesh. Today, with its tagline of Sach Zinda rahi, the group is foraying into the book publication business with the self help book Housewise to Homemaker. Which group?

Ans: Amar Ujjala

3. Which academic and writer, who founded a  Business school in Hyderabad, co-authored Managing Across Borders: The Transnational Solution a book that has been listed in the Financial Times as one of the 50 most influential management books.

Ans: Sumanthra Ghosal

4.  Identify this Management Guru, who is often called the father of Strategic Management

Ans: Igor Ansoff

5. This Padma Shri ( For Medicine) designed Yashasvini with the Government of Karnataka. Yashasvini is possibly the world's cheapest comprehensive health insurance scheme, at Rs.5 (11 cents) per month,  for the poor farmers of the state. Who is being referred to?

Ans: Devi Shetty