1. He is originally from India and received his degree in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay in 1970. He received a Master’s degree in Management (M.B.A.) from the MIT Sloan School of Management in 1972. In the same year, he joined Citicorp in Corporate Banking. Later, he was posted in “practically every continent” — as one bio-sketch put it. Displaying exemplary banking skills throughout, he rose to the post of Chief Financial Officer in 1995. Who is this gentleman who is believed to have played a key role in crafting a $3 billion write-off in Latin American debt in 1987. This helped open the way for Latin American countries to access capital markets while clearing “an ugly mess from the bank’s books”.
2. Ghanashyam Das Birla’s Autobiography is titled “In the Shadow of the ………….” Fill in the blank with one word.
3. Which famous person had a theory which he developed after he was inspired by the behaviours of the monkeys?
4. Companies setting up a toll-free number has become very common these days. Here’s a question on this: What do you call a telephonic scam in which a company establishes a toll-free number that is just one digit different from a popular number so that it gets money when customers (mis) dial the actual number?
5. This word has its origin to the Greek words meaning “light” and “to draw”. It was first used by the scientist Sir John F.W. Herschel in late 1830’s. The word literally stands for recording images by the action of light/ radiation on a sensitive material. Give me the name of the word in question.
6. “Express yourself” – Adline of which Indian state tourisim department?
7. In 1983, who convinced John’s Scully to stop selling sugar water for the rest of his life?
8. Beer Game is a role playing simulation game developed in MIT in 1960’s. This gives us certain aspect of operation in a manufacturing organisation. What is the two word phrase?
9. Which company was up in arms, when a Canadian teenager, Michael Roe, opened his software website?
10. Which industry began in India when in 1886, certain person named gooenough of McKillop Stewart & Co. came across something at Jaypore in upper Assam?
11. In market research what does DKCS stands for?
12. Besides coastal resorts in low-lying islands, which other sport complexes will be affected due to the effect of global warming? (Think LOGICALLY)
13. In 1903, the Lever Brother’s (now Hindustan Unilever) launched their first food product in India. Name the brand?
14. Between 1920 and 1943 Sears owned the sole rights of selling which product?
15. Which concept relating to sequence of activities that any organisation indulges in valuation was promoted by Michael Porter?
16. Which organisation buys 5% of the potatoes and 2% of the chicken raised in USA & UK?(again, think logically)
17. Which 11 letter word connected to retail shopping is applicable to a space of minimum 2500 square meter, one third or more of which is not food items?
18. Which company is listed in NY stock exchange by the ticker PLA & PLAA?
19. Who invented the pioneering Third World prosthesis Jaipur Foot?
20. Who or what is known as The Old Lady Of Threadneedle Street?

1. To quote him about his paintings, he’s once said: “My painting is visible images which conceal nothing; they evoke mystery and, indeed, when one sees one of my pictures, one asks oneself this simple question, “What does that mean?”. It does not mean anything, because mystery means nothing either, it is unknowable.” His work frequently displays a juxtaposition of everyday objects in an unusual context, adding a new dimension to familiar things. People who have been influenced by his works include John Baldessari, Ed Ruscha, Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns, Vija Celmins, Marcel Broodthaers and Martin Kippenberger. Identify this surrealist artist.

Ans: Ans: René François Ghislain Magritte

2. The name of this medical condition has an indirect reference to an Oscar Wilde novel where the protagonist as a handsome young man looks at a just-painted portrait of himself and wishes that it, rather than he, could grow old. Little wonder that its sufferers are heavy users of cosmetic medical procedures and products in an attempt to preserve their youth. Identify the condition.

Ans: Dorian Gray syndrome

3. The cartoons in this list include Hittin’ the Trail for Hallelujah Land, Sunday Go to Meetin’ Time, Clean Pastures, Uncle Tom’s Bungalow, Jungle Jitters, The Isle of Pingo Pongo and six others. Friz Freleng directed four, Tex Avery did three, and Bob Clampett, two. What are they referred to collectively?

Ans: Censored Eleven

4.  Often attributed as a particular case of the effect of serendipity, what occurs when a person, after having learned an obscure fact, word, phrase, or other item for the first time, encounters that item again, perhaps several times, shortly after having learned it. What?

Ans: Baader-Meinhof phenomenon

5. In the movies The Aristocrats, One Tough Cop, Swingers, Better Luck Tomorrow and I Went Down it occurs a 100 times. A movie of the same name as the thing in context has the honor of maximum occurrences of it. What am I talking about?

Ans: The word ‘F*ck’

Brainiacs:

Priya – 5

Abhi* – 3

*Not listed on the Brainiacs Page.