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• Cracking the Vista code – 9 Questions

• Clockwise – 15 questions

• Anti-Clockwise – 10 questions

• Differential Scoring – 6 questions in writing

• Last Six – 6 questions anti-clockwise

Cracking the Vista Code

•9 questions off a grid – IIMB VISTA – answers begin with these letters (in case of names, it will be first names)

•One direct to each team - +10, no negatives

•+5/-5 in writing to the other teams if the direct team does not get it

I I M B

V I S T A

This $14 Bn. global enterprise was formed when the X-Sergeant Drill Company and the Y Drill Company merged in 1905 to form XY.

Headquartered in North Carolina, they own brands like Club Car, Schlage, Thermo King and Trane.

In India, they have been present since 1921, and have manufacturing facilities in Ahmedabad and Sahibabad, and technology centres in Bangalore and Chennai.

Name the company

I

ANSWER…

Ingersoll Rand

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Odysseyus’ delayed return to this island is one of the centre points of the Odyssey by Homer. Today, it is an island located in the Ionian Sea, in Greece, with an area of 45 square miles and a little more than 3000 inhabitants. A city in the US is named after it and, is among other things, the North American seat of the current Dalai Lama. It is best known however, for being the home of an Ivy League school named after Samuel C Johnson.

Name the city

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ANSWER…

Ithaca

HOME

This is the lovage plant, cultivated in Europe, with the leaves being used as a herb, the roots as a vegetable, and the seeds as a spice, especially in southern European cuisine. In Germany and Holland, one of the common names of lovage is _____kraut (German) or ____kruid (Dutch) because the plant's taste is reminiscent of the soup seasoning and sauce sold by this famous brand, even though neither of these has lovage as an ingredient.

Name the brand

M

ANSWER…

Maggi

HOME

Who connects and what is missing?

B

ANSWER…

Balakrishna Vithaldas Doshi

IIM Bangalore

HOME

What you see are the roots of a perennial grass primarily grown in India, Haiti, Java and Reunion Islands, for the fragrant oil extracted from its roots. It is known by a name that is derived from an Indian language, and there are brands with the same name as well (shown below).

Name please

V

ANSWER…

Vetiver

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Connect with a 6-letter answer and explain

I

ANSWER…

Indica

Al-Biruni and Megasthenes’ accounts of their travels to India were called Indica

The fruit is the Garcinia indica or kokum

HOME

What is the standard application that manages the iOS home screen called? Once iPhones started getting jail-broken, the way to manipulate this was called the Summerboard and later the Winterboard.

S

ANSWER…

Springboard

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What abbreviation originally used by a fun-loving New Yorker named Alan Stillman in 1965 to name his new venture, was made popular by this 1978 movie on the disco craze? The venture today is seen in many countries across the world, and its name is a common exclamation by corporate executives.

(bigger pic follows)

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ANSWER…

TGIF – Thank God It’s Friday

HOME

His Majesty King Zahir of ________ convened an audience with E. S. Patanwala along with a few other select entrepreneurs on his visit to India. The king was presented a hamper with all E. S. Patanwala's products; in it was a jar of pearly white cream without any name. His Majesty was impressed and commented that it reminded him of the ____ in his country. This cream was then named “_________ ______” in honour of the king, and was introduced in 1919, becoming India’s first of its kind.

Name the brand

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ANSWER…

Afghan Snow

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• 2007 Hotel Sheraton Centro Histórico, Mexico City

• 2008 Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn

• 2010 Central Military Club, Sofia

• 2012 Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

• 2013 __________________________

Which hometown location in India fills in the blank for this much awaited 2013 event?

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ANSWER…

Hotel Hyatt Regency, Chennai

Whiz Kids was a name given to a group of experts from RAND Corporation that X brought in to turn around the management of the United States Department of Defense (DoD) in the 1960s. The purpose was to shape a modern defence strategy by bringing in economic analysis, operations research, game theory, computing, as well as implementing modern management systems. The term recalled an earlier group that X was a part of – this group turned around the fortunes of a major American corporation post WW2.

Who and which company?

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ANSWER…

Robert S McNamara

Ford Motor Corporation

This Loyola College, Chennai alumnus, who was an executive at Netscape and Amazon, before becoming a founding board member at Google. He set up a “mentor capital firm” in 2000, to help fund select companies that have disruptive technologies to offer. The firm is named after a group of people who play an important role in guiding others in a certain type of endeavour.

Name him and the firm

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ANSWER…

Sherpalo Ventures by Ram Shriram

A kill fee is a common contract clause used in engagements like freelance writing and such. It is also used in corporate bids for takeovers, such as the Fairfax-RIM deal recently, where the former’s bid has been accepted in principle by the latter.

What is a kill fee?

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ANSWER…

Kill Fees are fees paid to writers if their article is cancelled (or “killed”) at any point after a

contract has been signed with a publisher (or editor) but before the article is actually

published.

In 1974, Embraer started development of a new aircraft – a pressurized turboprop. At first, it was named Araguaia, but then the name was changed in 1979, as a mark of tribute to a Lucio De Costa design.

What was the name changed to, and why?

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ANSWER…

The name was changed to Brasilia, in tribute to the modern city that looked like an aircraft in

aerial views.

In an initiative to build diplomatic relations between the countries, as well as handle conservation issues, a special flight left Chengdu and travelled 12,875 kms before landing in Toronto in March 2013 .

The flight crew was specifically chosen because of their domain experience along with an experienced Load Master with five such shipments under his belt, including the first ever one back in 2000. In-flight catering on this flight, included: • 100 kgs of bamboo

• 150 kgs bamboo shoots

• 50 kg of apples

• 15 kgs of fresh water

Explain what this is all about and who operates it

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ANSWER…

FedEx Panda Express

His first venture, a blue hard-bound book was popularly known as the “Blue-backed _______”. Most American children grow up with it.

His second venture – the one that we know him better for – was based on his sense of aesthetics and vision of logic. In it he propounded alterations. Some of them – ake, skoop, sley, tung, cloke – did not get public acceptance, while some others gained wider usage.

Who is being referred to, and what did he propose?

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ANSWER…

Noah Webster of the dictionaries fame.

His reworked spelling for some words such as ache, soup, sleigh, tongue, cloak, and women

were not accepted by the public.

Some others like center and honor are widely used in American English.

Examples from Japan are Yokohoma F. Marinos and Mitsubishi Mizushima. In Europe we find Sochaux-Montbéliard, VFL Wolfsburg and Carl Zeiss Jena.

In South America, Argentina has Rosario Central and Talleres de Cordoba. Brazil and Uruguay have many more.

Listing examples from the U.K., especially the Woolwich one will be a dead giveaway.

What are we talking about?

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ANSWER…

Works Teams or Factory Teams

Sports teams that are financed or run by a business. The Woolwich team is Arsenal.

At a Conservative Party meet in 1997, Dame Maggie nearly had a fit. The next morning’s Daily Mail followed up with a funny headline. What had happened?

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ANSWER…

British Airways had decided to ditch the Union Jack insignia and replaced it with horrendous

ethnic designs from around the world.

After Thatcher’s outburst they went back to the Union Jack based design.

He finished Yale in 1792 and hoped to become a schoolmaster. The president of Yale referred him to a tutoring job on a plantation and introduced him to Phineas Miller, another Yale alumnus who had been similarly occupied for many years.

He went south, and there he invented something for which he is canonized as the Father of American Technology.

While his invention transformed the antebellum South, it also had the unfortunate effect of reinvigorating the institution of slavery.

Who is this, and what did he invent?

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ANSWER…

Eli Whitney who invented the Cotton Gin

Founded in 1935 by a chemist Armand Petitjean, the name of this company came about when he encountered the historic ruins of a château while vacationing in the south of Paris. The mystic yellow flowers that covered the estate grounds inspired the golden rose emblem of the brand.

Which luxury product are we talking about?

Larger pic follows.

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ANSWER…

Lancome

Otto Berg and Ida Tacke discovered this element and they named it after a river. It is so rare that it is not directly mined. To put things in perspective, a scientist at GE says,“It takes, on average, approximately 120 metric tons or the equivalent weight of 44 Cadillac Escalade SUV’s – of copper ore to produce 1 ounce, the equivalent of five U.S. quarter coins.”

Which element that is important to industry because it has the third highest melting point of all elements?

Which other elements are above it on the melting point scale?

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ANSWER…

Rhenium

Tungsten and Carbon top it.

Norbert Bajurin, is the mechanic of the story. He has a radiator shop, and the other protagonist has a computer shop.

Both have humble beginnings. Both had overbearing, non-supportive fathers. Both are trying to make a mark on the world.

The book also talks about the behind-the-scenes technology and material science race, and the human story of the builders, engineers.

Name the book and tell us and what it’s about

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ANSWER…

The book The Billionaire and the Mechanic,

How Larry Ellison and a Car Mechanic Teamed

Up to Win Sailing's Greatest Race, The

America's Cup

Identify both with a common name that is also a term in a familiar sport. Explain the sporting connection as well.

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ANSWER…

#1 = Jaffa Oranges, a sweet, almost seedless orange variety, from the port city in Israel.

#2 = Jaffa sweets, popular in Australia and New Zealand

A Jaffa is an exceptionally well bowled, practically unplayable delivery in cricket. Taken

from the idea that a Jaffa is the best type of orange, or the best type of confectionary.

Based on a design by Fritz Fend, the company made

these unusual three-wheeled, two passenger

“cabin scooters” for about twenty years until the

market for economy cars went down.

Which company and what forced the company to go down this route (of making

these cars)?

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ANSWER…

Messerschmitt – following World War II they were banned from making aircraft. The company executives eager to put their lines back into

production opted to make these cars instead.

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A thriving market for these items abounds in a town where kids bunk school during the tourist season between October-February to sell these. If you are an Indian, you get one for Re. 1 while a foreigner is charged anywhere between Rs. 50-500 per piece.

The Japanese, who patronise this spot, call the plant huppa and hence the kids who sell them are called huppa bechawa – those who sell huppas.

In which town does this trade occur and what is the significance of these items?

Pic follows

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ANSWER…

Bodh Gaya

Leaves from the Bodhi tree

While this geriatric term was possibly used even earlier, the earliest print mention of the term comes from a Life magazine article, in which journalist Meyer Berger, says it refers to the institution’s ethics – starch conservatism and circumspection when it comes to facts.

An alternate theory, which is now more well accepted, says the origins are in the unusually high copy to graphics ratio that may have resulted in a dull and dreary tint.

What are we talking about?

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ANSWER…

The New York Times being called The Grey Lady

In what is reminiscent of Apple vs. Samsung, these two brands are fighting trademark and design battles in various countries.

Round 1 was won by brand X, in which brand Y was found to have copied its green and red stripe design, the designer’s name in flowing script and a diamond pattern logo, that is usually seen on X’s products.

Round 2 went to brand Y, when an Italian court ruled that brand Y’s Quattro pattern was not derived from brand X’s logo.

The battle has been popularly termed the Battle of the Interlocking ___s – in reference to how both brands are leveraging their names.

Name brands X and Y and what is the popular name?

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X

Y

ANSWER…

X- Gucci, Y – Guess

Battle of Interlocking G’s

Christopher Mason’s The Art of the Steal is a gripping thriller, that is set against a real life scandal in the 1990s when firms in a duopoly colluded to fix prices.

The half-hearted antitrust investigation was almost fizzling out in 2001 when one of the CEOs, Christopher Davidge surrendered documents and implicated the opposing CEO, Diana Brooks, who in turn implicated her owner Alfred Taubman.

Taubman was sentenced to 10 months, and grandly flew into prison on a private jet with butler.

Which long standing rival firms were at the centre of this scandal?

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ANSWER…

Sotheby’s, Christie’s

An example of such legal provisions that safeguard against liability in exceptional circumstances:

• In Accounting: A loss-making firm that cannot claim an investment credit can transfer this claim to a company that is profitable, which claims the credit and passes on the tax savings back to the lossy firm

• In Insurance: In the case of reckless driving, speeds under 25 mph do not constitute reckless driving

• Digital Copyright acts that protect ISPs against user actions in certain circumstances

What is the generic 2 word term for such provisions found on contracts that may be evocative of stranded ships finding solace?

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ANSWER…

Safe Harbours

Founded by Reg __ , it was a major airline group of 1990s and flew from its home country to destinations in and around Asia, offering premium services such as valet parking, chauffeur services and executive lounges.

To cricket fans, it was more well known as the sponsor of a team and their home summer Test Series, its logo “The StarMark” appearing on field and on player T-shirts.

The official airline of the Olympics, it would die a silent demise with the last flight operating on March 4, 2002.

Which airline?

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ANSWER…

Ansett Australia

Broderbund Software co-founder Gary Carlston proposed this game idea to programmer Dane Bigham in 1983 to get kids interested in geography.

The two of them chose a game script in which an imaginary underground cavern has countries with real treasures, and clues were based on the countries’ language, culture & geography.

The central character of these games was a huge hit, inspiring a new media franchise and launching 3 PBS TV shows.

Which character, named after a combination of the two shown? Pics follow

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ANSWER…

Carmen Sandiego

(named after Brazilian singer/actress Carmen Miranda and the city of San Diego)

Most people assume that the name of this erstwhile company must mean ‘one’ or ‘solo’ although the spelling differs by a single letter.

The word actually comes from the Latin word for girdle and is used to indicate white matter found in the brain or anything that encircles such as belts worn by monks – all meanings possibly indicating the all pervasive, surrounding nature of the mobile services delivered by the firm.

Which company that was once the 2nd largest of its kind in its country, and then eventually merged with a struggling competitor, dropping its own name in the process?

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ANSWER…

Cingular – comes from Cingulum and then became AT&T Wireless

Connect the following with one word 9

ANSWER…

Biomemetics – technologies inspired by mimicking animals

•Germ free catheters inspired by shark skin that remains infection free

•Lobster Eye Light – based on studying lobsters which can see through extreme dark

conditions underwater

•Drills based on wood wasps – which have 2 sets of drilling teeth to drill through wood

(No velcro, yes )

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Zeldox, a medical brand came out with this ad to illustrate how they might have changed the course of history. What does Zeldox supposedly cure?

ANSWER…

Schizophrenia

Acquired by GE in 1990, it is a Hungarian manufacturer of light bulbs and vacuum tubes since 1896 and one of the country’s largest, oldest and most prestigious firms.

The company got its first patent for electric bulb filaments in 1903, followed by multiple patents which improved the longevity of bulbs.

Like Osram, the brand name is a portmanteau but unlike Osram, is a uniquely tautological name combining alternately used names.

Which company?

Pic follows

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ANSWER…

Tungsram (Tungsten + Wolfram)

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The man featured on the cover of this marketing book started a fashion brand with 4 others that supposedly got its name from the fact that it would be made by those of his community for their own people.

Name the brand

ANSWER…

FUBU (For Us, By Us)

The 05 on many FUBU clothes supposedly stands for the 5 founders

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The 86th Academy Awards ceremony was originally scheduled to occur on February 22, 2014 but it was recently announced that the ceremony would move to March 2, 2014 to avoid diluting TRPs.

What was the Oscars originally scheduled to clash with?

ANSWER…

Sochi Winter Olympics

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In its earlier line of business, this firm invented this pencil that it claimed was perennially long lasting, a legacy that exists in its current name even after going into a different line of goods.

Which firm?

ANSWER…

SHARP, from ever sharp pencil

Standard Oil, a major petroleum player, branched out into making bug sprays with the brand “Flit.”

Having noticed the use of their Flit spray illustrations elsewhere, they hired someone to help them with their advertisements for national newspapers and magazines.

The individual’s stint between 1928-1943 is said to have contributed in popularizing the use of chemicals in the US, something that may have led to to an urge in him/her to redeem the inflicted damage.

Who was the individual and how did he/she redeem themselves?

Pics follow

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ANSWER…

Dr. Seuss

Wrote The Lorax

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They are also called ‘devilfish’ because their cephalic fins makes them appear like the ‘evil one’. They get their genus name from a coarse cotton cloth or a blanket made from such a cloth, native to Spain.

Listed as ‘vulnerable’, name this creature that also lends its name to an indie comic publishing house

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ANSWER…

Manta Rays. Manta is blanket in Spanish

The guy in the video you are going to see, died recently (in July 2013).

Name him and what evocative name is given to what he is shown doing in this 2010 demonstration?

(Video follows)

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ANSWER…

This is Barnaby Jack, the White Hat hacker. His ATM hijacking stunt was called “Jackpotting”

What three letter abbreviation would you associate with this? What purpose did it serve?

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ANSWER…

RMS – Railway Mail Service

These are specially built coaches where mail was sorted inside the train. In India this practice of

sorting was discontinued in 1986.

Jaideep Mondal and Sombodhi Ghosh of Aakar Innovations have come out with a machine which can work on 1.5KW inverters to produce low-cost sanitary napkins. This is a big boon for women in rural areas.

The pads are named _______ because a field study showed that rural women associate this name with change and a spirit to fight and leave behind taboos.

It is also called _______ for another reason, after what first for an Indian woman?

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ANSWER…

It is called Anandhi in honour of Anandhi Gopal Joshi (1865-1887), the first Indian Woman to get a

medical degree.

Such machines are used in papermaking, textiles etc. One has to be careful when spelling the word, the root for which is the Greek word for the shape of the rollers. A common error is to use the spelling for the system of timekeeping.

What is the correct spelling for the machine, and what is the commonly made error? (Larger pics follow)

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“Calender” which is a derivation of kylindros, the Greek word that is also the source of the word

“cylinder”.

A common misspelling is “calendar” which is derived from the Latin word kalendae.

One of the winners of the Golden Lion at Cannes 2012-13, these ads were released in France for what purpose / message?

More pics follow

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ANSWER…

Improving Literacy