THE EPLS QUIZBy R Bharathkumar

EPLS: Easy Peasy Lemon Squeezy

–Bank Client

“My cheque was returned with a remark that said ‘Insufficient Funds’. I’d like to know whether it refers to mine or the bank’s.”

PRELIMS

• 15 questions

• No negatives

• Each question is worth 5 points

• The scores in the prelims are carried over to the finals

• Partial marks only for 'or' questions

• Star marked questions: 1, 4, 9, 11, 14, 15 (6 in total)

• Hints at request (provided that there are no objections)

QUESTION 1 *

This is a recent advertisement war between the airlines IndiGo and Air India. Identify the city or the airport where this war took place.

(Photo on next slide)

QUESTION 2

Identify X.

• X is a brand of Ceylon tea. The company was founded in 1974 by Merrill J Fernando.

• It is available in over 100 countries including Estonia, the UK, Russia, RSA, Australia and New Zealand.

• The name is an amalgamation of the names of Fernando’s sons.

QUESTION 3

This magazine X, in its most important issue of the year, coined the phrase

‘Divided States of America’.

Identify X.

QUESTION 4 *

Name the OS.

• The development process for this OS started as early as 2003 and was initially intended as an OS for ‘advanced digital cameras’.

• When it was realised that the market for such devices was not large enough, the development process took a turn and the efforts were diverted towards producing an OS to rival Symbian and Windows Mobile.

• This company was bought by a tech giant in 2005 and the product was first introduced in 2007.

QUESTION 5

Identify the logo.

QUESTION 6

Identify the company.

• X is an airline company founded in 1992.

• At the time of incorporation, the shareholders were P. V. V. Chalam and Anita Y.

• In 1994, these shares were transferred to TailWinds International which was at that time, co-owned by Gulf Air and Kuwait Airways. TailWinds International is now its parent company and its chairman is Mr. Y.

• In 2010, it became the largest airline in India with a marketshare of 22.6%.

QUESTION 7

Connect

QUESTION 8

Identify the brand.

• Sheela Foam is one of the leading manufacturers of mattresses in India.

• Their products are marketed under the brand name X.

• They recently came out with a public offering in 2016.

QUESTION 9 *

What was the alternate expansion?

• After the Good and Services Tax legislation, tabled as The Constitution (One Hundred and First Amendment) Act 2016, was cleared by the Rajya Sabha, former Finance Minister P Chidambaram in his closing remarks coined an alternate expansion for GST.

• His remarks were: “GST, danger lurks… Bad economic sense or hubris could trip the GST. I keep my fingers crossed.”

QUESTION 10

Identify the tweeter

QUESTION 11 *

This is an exhaustive list of what?

Iridium

Bionic

Kinetic

Platinum

Evolution

Karbon

Vendetta

Pulse

QUESTION 12

QUESTION 13

What would you relate these terms to?

Children Bank of India

Manoranjan Bank of India

Churan Lable

‘I promise to pay the bearer X coupons’

QUESTION 14 *

Identify the temple.

• Located at Prabhadevi in Mumbai, X is one of the richest temples in Mumbai. This temple attracts thousands of devotees everyday.

• Recently, this temple has started accepting shares and securities as donations.

QUESTION 15 *

According to BBC’s 2012 list of world’s largest employers, which

organisation comes first?

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Answers

This is a recent advertisement war between the airlines IndiGo and Air India. Identify the city or the airport where this war took place.

CSIA, Mumbai

Identify X.

• X is a brand of Ceylon tea. The company was founded in 1974 by Merrill J Fernando.

• It is available in over 100 countries including Estonia, the UK, Russia, RSA, Australia and New Zealand.

• The name is an amalgamation of the names of Fernando’s sons.

Dilmah

This magazine X, in its most important issue of the year, coined the phrase

‘Divided States of America’.

Identify X.

TIME

Name the OS.

• The development process for this OS started as early as 2003 and was initially intended as an OS for ‘advanced digital cameras’.

• When it was realised that the market for such devices was not large enough, the development process took a turn and the efforts were diverted towards producing an OS to rival Symbian and Windows Mobile.

• This company was bought by a tech giant in 2005 and the product was first introduced in 2007.

Android

Identify the logo

Identify the company.

• X is an airline company founded in 1992.

• At the time of incorporation, the shareholders were P. V. V. Chalam and Anita Y.

• In 1994, these shares were transferred to TailWinds International which was at that time, co-owned by Gulf Air and Kuwait Airways. TailWinds International is now its parent company and its chairman is Mr. Y.

• In 2010, it became the largest airline in India with a marketshare of 22.6%.

Subsidiaries of Amazon.com, Inc.

Identify the brand.

• Sheela Foam is one of the leading manufacturers of mattresses in India.

• Their products are marketed under the brand name X.

• They recently came out with a public offering in 2016.

Sleepwell mattresses

What was the alternate expansion?

• After the Good and Services Tax legislation, tabled as The Constitution (One Hundred and First Amendment) Act 2016, was cleared by the Rajya Sabha, former Finance Minister P Chidambaram in his closing remarks coined an alternate expansion for GST.

• His remarks were: “GST, danger lurks… Bad economic sense or hubris could trip the GST. I keep my fingers crossed.”

Good Sense Triumphs

Identify the tweeter

This is an exhaustive list of what?

Iridium

Bionic

Kinetic

Platinum

Evolution

Karbon

Vendetta

Pulse

Puma Cricket Bats

Oscar Pistorius’ trial on charges of murdering his girlfriend

What would you relate these terms to?

Children Bank of India

Manoranjan Bank of India

Churan Lable

‘I promise to pay the bearer X coupons’

SBI ATMs dispensing fake notes of ₹500 and ₹2000

Identify the temple.

• Located at Prabhadevi in Mumbai, X is one of the richest temples in Mumbai. Originally built by Laxman Vithu and Deubai Patil, this temple attracts thousands of devotees everyday.

• Recently, this temple has started accepting shares and securities as donations.

Siddhivinayak Temple

According to BBC’s 2012 list of world’s largest employers, which

organisation comes first?

US Department of Defence

Scores?

FINALS

• 48 questions

• 4 rounds:

1. Forward IB (18)

2. Long Connect (6)

3. Reverse IB (18)

4. ? (6)

Round 1Forward IB

• 18 questions

• Standard IB and Pounce rules

• Pounce: +10/-10

• IB: +5/0

Name the place.

• An iconic place in South Mumbai, this place is popular for shopping, namely antiques and hardware items.

• The origin of the name is that the British residing to the south of Crawford Market in Fort referred to this area to the north of Crawford Market as "Behind the Bazaar".

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Bhendi Bazaar

Identify the Indian multination conglomerate that recently

changed its logo to this new logo.(Photo on next slide)

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Aditya Birla Group

Identify X

• Breakthrough Starshot is a project by Stephen Hawking and X to develop the technology required to send ‘light sail spacecraft’ fleet capable of reaching the Alpha Centauri.

• This is one of the projects by the firm ‘Breakthrough Initiatives’ founded in 2015 and funded by X to search for extraterrestrial intelligence.

• X also happens to be the founder of Digital Sky Technologies which was later renamed to Mail.ru Group.

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Yuri Milner

Connect

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(Business district in London)

What was placed in elevators in early days to make the ride seem

faster than it actually was?

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Mirrors

What am I talking about?

• The X was the world's first adhesive postage stamp used in a public postal system. It first was issued in Great Britain on 1 May 1840, for official use from 6 May of that year. It features a profile of Queen Victoria.

• It was introduced to simplify the handling of finances by the British Postal Service. It was proposed to indicate pre-payment, as opposed to the earlier practice where the recipient used to pay for the postage on delivery.

• The X allowed letters of up to 1⁄2 ounce (14 grams) to be delivered at a flat rate of one penny, regardless of distance.

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Penny Black

Which actor am I talking about?(Photo on the next slide)

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Leonardo DiCaprio

Identify X.

• X Tyres

• X Rubber

• X Sport

• X Australia

• X Standard Aerospace Group

• X Manufacturing (manufacturer of musical accessories)

• X (Australian Capital Territory)

• X (A neighbourhood in Kolkata)

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Dunlop(The above logo is of Dunlop manufacturing)

What publication started in 1900 by two tire manufacturers evolved into the

current-day version after they realised the popularity of a section not related to

tires/autos?

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Michelin Guide

Identify X (Bonus for Y)

• X is Hong-Kong based container shipping and logistics service company.

• It is one of the world's largest integrated international container transportation, logistics and terminal companies.

• In 1998, X, along with Y and Nippon Yusen Kaisha (NYK) Japan formed the ‘Grand Alliance’. The agreement, which was initially for 10 years, was extended recently for another ten years and MISC Berhad, Malaysia was added to the alliance.

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X: Oriental Overseas Container Line Y: Hapag Lloyd

Connect

Aluminium Oxide

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Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company

Identify the industry.

• This industry is one of the fastest growing industries in the late 20th century and early 21st century.

• Warren Buffett called investment in this industry a ‘death trap’ in 2013 and said that Berkshire Hathaway wouldn’t invest in these companies.

• But, in recent filings by BH in 2016, the investments made in the third quarter include 3 companies from this industry.

• The three companies are DL, AA and UA.

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Aviation

Identify the brand that came up with the advertising campaign.

(Photo on next slide)

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When 'National No-Bra Day' was observed in the United States in 2011, which

company tweeted that it was in denial?

(Photo on next slide)

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Identify the bank.

• The ownership of companies is often decided by the number of promoter shares owned by an entity.

• This particular bank, although registered as a private bank, is a government owned bank by this above definition.

• The top two promoter share owners of this bank are ‘The Administrator of the Specified Undertaking of the United Trust of India - SUUTI’ and ‘Life Insurance Corporation of India’.

• Combined, they own 87.68% of total promoter shares, making this bank a government owned bank.

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What makes the ₹10 and ₹50 notes of Seychelles a collectors

item?(Photos on next slide)

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Which factories did he study?

• In his work ‘An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations’, Adam Smith recognised the value of business and division of labour.

• Published in 1776, it offers one of the world’s first descriptions of what builds wealth of nations.

• For this, he studied factories that manufactured X and often quotes these as examples in his book.

“One man draws out the wire, another straights it, a third cuts it, a fourth points it, a fifth grinds it at the top for receiving the Y: to make the Y requires two or three distinct operations: to put it on is a particular business, to whiten the X is another ... and the important business of making a X is, in this manner, divided into about eighteen distinct operations, which in some manufactories are all performed by distinct hands, though in others the same man will sometime perform two or three of them.”

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Pin factories

Identify the product around which these memes are based.

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Hard and soft tacos by Old El Paso

Scores?

Round 2Long Connect

Answer 4

Answer 2

Answer 5

Answer 6

Answer 3

Answer 1 Organisation/brand

Final Connect Organisation/

brand

Organisation/brand

Organisation/brand

Organisation/brand

Organisation/brand

• 6 questions

• Each question is worth 10 points (no negatives).

• You are required to write your answers. Please do not say them out loud.

• For the final connect, the points will be mentioned on the slide.

QUESTION 1

+60/-5

QUESTION 2

+45/-10

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Hint

QUESTION 3

+30/-15

Y

X - Phenix

Phenix Cheese

X Cheese

National Dairy Products Corp.

J. L. X and Bros.

Rieck-McJunkin

Dairy

Hydrox

XcoNational Dairy

Philip Morris (General Foods)

Xco X Foods

QUESTION 4

+15/-30

Choi Soon-sil

QUESTION 5

What does JL stand for?

• J.L. Partnership is a UK based company which operates J.L. department stores and W supermarkets.

• The company is owned by a trust on behalf of all its employees. This trust is called Partners.

• The employees have a say in the running of the business and receive a share of the annual profits.

• The JLP group was ranked third in the list of UK’s largest private companies by sales by the Sunday Times in 2016.

+10/-45

QUESTION 6

+5/-60

Azim Premji

Mark Carney

Azim Premji

Mark Carney

Mondelez International

Azim Premji

Mark Carney

2016 South Korean Political

Scandal

Mondelez International

Azim Premji

Mark Carney

2016 South Korean Political

Scandal

John Lewis Partnership

Mondelez International

Azim Premji

Mark Carney

2016 South Korean Political

Scandal

John Lewis Partnership

Maggi Controversy

Mondelez International

Azim Premji

Mark Carney

2016 South Korean Political

Scandal

John Lewis Partnership

Maggi Controversy

Mondelez International

Azim Premji

Mark Carney

2016 South Korean Political

Scandal

John Lewis Partnership

Maggi Controversy

Mondelez International

Azim Premji Yardley London

Mark Carney

2016 South Korean Political

Scandal

John Lewis Partnership

Maggi Controversy

Mondelez International

Azim Premji Yardley London

Mark Carney

2016 South Korean Political

Scandal

John Lewis Partnership

Maggi Controversy

Mondelez International

Azim Premji

Bank of England

Yardley London

Mark Carney

2016 South Korean Political

Scandal

John Lewis Partnership

Maggi Controversy

Mondelez International

Azim Premji

Bank of England

Yardley London

Mark Carney

2016 South Korean Political

Scandal

John Lewis Partnership

Maggi Controversy

Mondelez International

Azim Premji

Bank of England

Cadbury UK

Yardley London

Mark Carney

2016 South Korean Political

Scandal

John Lewis Partnership

Maggi Controversy

Mondelez International

Azim Premji

Bank of England

Cadbury UK

Yardley London

Mark Carney

2016 South Korean Political

Scandal

John Lewis Partnership

Maggi Controversy

Mondelez International

Azim Premji

Bank of England

Samsung Electronics

Cadbury UK

Yardley London

Mark Carney

2016 South Korean Political

Scandal

John Lewis Partnership

Maggi Controversy

Mondelez International

Azim Premji

Bank of England

Samsung Electronics

Cadbury UK

Yardley London

Mark Carney

2016 South Korean Political

Scandal

John Lewis Partnership

Maggi Controversy

Mondelez International

Azim Premji

Bank of England

Samsung Electronics

Waitrose

Cadbury UK

Yardley London

Mark Carney

2016 South Korean Political

Scandal

John Lewis Partnership

Maggi Controversy

Mondelez International

Azim Premji

Bank of England

Samsung Electronics

Waitrose

Cadbury UK

Yardley London

Mark Carney

2016 South Korean Political

Scandal

John Lewis Partnership

Maggi Controversy

Mondelez International

Azim Premji

Bank of England

Samsung Electronics

Waitrose

Nestlé

Cadbury UK

Yardley London

Mark Carney

2016 South Korean Political

Scandal

John Lewis Partnership

Maggi Controversy

Mondelez International

Azim Premji

Bank of England

Samsung Electronics

Waitrose

Nestlé

Cadbury UK

Yardley London

Mark Carney

2016 South Korean Political

Scandal

John Lewis Partnership

Maggi Controversy

Mondelez International

Azim Premji

Bank of England

Samsung Electronics

Waitrose

Nestlé

Cadbury UK

Yardley London

Mark Carney

2016 South Korean Political

Scandal

John Lewis Partnership

Maggi Controversy

Mondelez International

Azim Premji

Bank of England

Samsung Electronics

Waitrose

Nestlé

Cadbury UK

Yardley London

Mark Carney

2016 South Korean Political

Scandal

John Lewis Partnership

Maggi Controversy

Mondelez International

Azim Premji

Bank of England

Samsung Electronics

Waitrose

Nestlé

Cadbury UK

Yardley London

Mark Carney

2016 South Korean Political

Scandal

John Lewis Partnership

Maggi Controversy

Mondelez International

Azim Premji

Bank of England

Samsung Electronics

Waitrose

Nestlé

Cadbury UK

Yardley London

Mark Carney

2016 South Korean Political

Scandal

John Lewis Partnership

Maggi Controversy

Mondelez International

Azim Premji

Bank of England

Samsung Electronics

Waitrose

Nestlé

Cadbury UK

Yardley London

Mark Carney

2016 South Korean Political

Scandal

John Lewis Partnership

Maggi Controversy

Mondelez International

Azim Premji

Bank of England

Samsung Electronics

Waitrose

Nestlé

Cadbury UK

Yardley London

Royal Charters and Warrants

Scores?

Round 3Reverse IB

• 18 questions

• Standard IB and Pounce rules

• Pounce: +10/-10

• IB: +5/0

Identify the product.

SAFETY SLIDE

Johnson and Johnson lost multiple cases in early 2016 where it had to pay heavy damages for causing ovarian cancer.

What was the product?

SAFETY SLIDE

J&J products containing talc(Specifically, its baby powder that was used by the affected person)

Connect

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VIV AI(Or, Bixby - The New Voice Assistant in Samsung Galaxy S8)

Identify this book by the former media advisor to M. M. S., Sanjaya

Baru that was first published in 2014.

(Photo on next slide)

SAFETY SLIDE

IDENTIFY XY (Bonus for Z)

• XY is the parent company of Y India, a telecom giant.

• Y India was started in July, 1995.

• XY operates in many countries and has a tie up with Z, a U.K. based telecom service provider, in Jersey and Guernsey.

• It recently acquired the India operations of the telecom company Telenor and also acquired Tikona’s wireless broadband business in 5 circles.

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X: Bharti Y: Airtel Z:Vodafone

Name the MNC.

• Fairlife, LLC, often stylised as fairlife, was formed when Select Milk Producers entered into a partnership with this multinational company.

• The brand first appeared in Minnesota in February 2014.

• In November 2014, they came out with an advertising campaign featuring pinup models covered in milk with the tagline ‘50% more protein and calcium’. This advertisement was met with widespread criticism.

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Connect

“D.E.M O'Cracy, beloved husband of T.Ruth, father of L.I.Bertie, brother of

Faith, Hope and Justice expired on 25 June.”

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The Times of India

What is unique about Vickrey auction?

• Vickrey auction is a type of auctioning, named after the Nobel Laureate who came up with this.

• The auction is a secret ballot of sorts where the bidders submit written bids without knowing other’s bids.

• The thing that makes this auction unique is also what makes the bidders bid their true value, according to William Vickrey.

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The highest bidder wins the auction but the price paid is the second highest bid.

Identify this landmark.

• This is a cable-stayed/suspension hybrid bridge in the New York City.

• George C. Parker was an American con-man who is known for illegal sales of property he did not own.

• These were often New York’s public landmarks. One such landmark was the above mentioned bridge which was repeatedly sold by him, earning him the distinction of the greatest con artist.

SAFETY SLIDE

The Brooklyn Bridge

Identify X.

• X is a brand of perfumes, launched in 1964 by Fabergé.

• It was initially sold under the brand name ‘X 33’ because it contained 33% of the fragrance of the original product by Fabergé.

• In the world of wine, X means dry.

SAFETY SLIDE

Connect

Audio

Audio

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1980 Olympics boycott by U.S. and various other countries

What is its present name?

• Formed in March 5, 1857 as a joint stock corporation, the Waterbury Clock Company from its inception was an operation designed to be a major user of brass produced by the parent firm, the Benedict & Burnham Manufacturing Company.

• After 1890, they became a major manufacturer of non-jewelled pocket watches, supplying R. H. Ingersoll & Brother, a major mail order firm.

• Nearly two decades after purchasing the Ingersoll operation in 1922, the Ingersoll-Waterbury Company became known as the X and introduced the popular “Y” watch shortly after the war. In November, 1969, X was succeeded by Y Corporation which still continues business at Middlebury, CT.

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What does it manufacture?

• Uji is a startup that manufactures X.

• Its Xs are made entirely of repurposed bicycle parts and are a low-cost solution for people in developing countries and is designed to be manufactured and maintained in impoverished regions.

SAFETY SLIDE

Wheelchairs

In 2013, the founder of the e-commerce giant Amazon, Jeffrey Preston, bought an American daily newspaper

company for $250 million under the name of Nash Holdings LLC, a company specifically created for the acquisition.

Name the company.

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Which country is it based in?

• Yara International ASA is a chemical company based in the country X.

• Its largest business area is the production of nitrogen-based fertilisers.

• Established in 1905, they were the world’s first producers of mineral nitrogen fertilisers.

• Recently, they acquired Tata Chemicals’ urea plant based in UP for $400 million.

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Norway

Name the company.

• This is China’s largest piano manufacturer and claims to own the largest piano factory in the world.

• It is based in Guangzhou in China and was established in 1958.

• It is capable of manufacturing over 100,000 pianos a year and exports to over 80 countries in the world.

• In 2016, this company purchased over 90% of the shares of a German piano manufacturer, Wilhelm Schimmel.

SAFETY SLIDE

Pearl River Pianos

What is the advertisement for?

What is the advertisement for?

SAFETY SLIDE

Which company is the most valued in the world?

SAFETY SLIDE

Scores?

Round 4Bidding

• 6 questions

• Bids have to be a multiple of 5

• Minimum bid: 10 points (if you choose to answer)

• Maximum bid: Half of your present points, rounded off to nearest multiple of 5 (Example: 72 points imply your maximum bid is 35)

• Correct answer: + your bid

• Wrong answer: - your bid

• The team that chooses the genre cannot place a bid

• Each team bids for every question after the genre is chosen

• The answers must be written on your sheet of paper

Choose a genre.

• Sports

• Game of Thrones

• Food

• Literature

• History

• World War

Identify X or Y.

• In June 2016, to ‘battle the ever-growing problem of low battery’, a famous fast food restaurant chain (X) came out with a limited-edition solution.

• Dubbed the Y, it is a meal box paired with a removable 6100 mAh battery pack.

• The idea was tested out at select outlets in Delhi and Mumbai where few ‘lucky customers’ would be provided with this limited-edition meal box at no extra cost.

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Y: Watt A BoxX: KFC

Identify X.

• This term refers to the situation in London financial sector which is said to suffer from X.

• The roots of this term lie in the fact that England hosts the best players from all-around the world for a championship in the sport Y but a local rarely wins.

• Similarly, in London’s financial sector, it’s the foreigners who run the show.

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Wimbledonisation

Why has it been in new recently?

• The Azure Window was a natural arch on the island Gozo in Malta.

• It was Malta’s major tourist attractions.

• It is featured in a number of films, including Clash of the Titans and Count of Monte Cristo.

• It was also used as the filming location for Dothraki’s wedding scene in the first season of the popular TV show Game of Thrones.

SAFETY SLIDE

The arch collapsed due to storms

Identify the company.

• ‘Capital in the Twenty First Century’ is a book by Thomas Piketty, a French economist.

• The book’s main focus is wealth and income inequality in Europe from the 18th century.

• In the book, Bill Gates is compared to Lilian Bettencourt who happens to be the heiress to this group X.

SAFETY SLIDE

Name the drug.

• Z, also known as ASA from its chemical name, is a drug used to treat pain, fever and inflammation.

• This drug had been in use since 300 BCE in the form of leaves from the willow tree.

• In 1987, Y, while working at Bayer AG, had developed a method to manufacture this drug. The name Z was coined by Bayer and was patented.

• Later, Bayer’s rights to this name were lost or sold off in many countries and has now become a generic term for this drug.

SAFETY SLIDE

Aspirin

Connect

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The World Bank

Scores?

Tie Breaker

What is this type of email referred to as?

• Termed as X, it is email that has been subscribed to and is therefore requested by the subscriber. It has been described as "email you want but not right now."

• Some common examples of such messages are news alerts, periodic messages from e-merchants from whom one has made previous purchases, messages from social networking sites, and wiki watch lists.

• The name X is meant to convey the idea that such email is "better than spam, but not as good as a personal email". It was originally coined in August 2007 at PodCamp Pittsburgh 2, and since then has been used amongst the blogging community.

• The name resembles the name of a meat product usually prepared from pork.

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Bacn Mail

Thank you. Merci beaucoup.

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