Wednesday 27 November 2013

Question 3

Q. Connect the images to a business tycoon.





































A. Elon Musk (Cofounded Tesla Motors, X.com which later merged with Confinity to become Paypal and according to Jon Favreau, director of the Iron Man movies, he is the inspiration for Favreau's and Robert Downey Jr.'s interpretation of the genius Tony Stark.)

Question 2

Q. An electrical engineering graduate from BITS, Pilani, Phani was happy with his Texas Instruments job. But seeing the potential of organizing a certain ticketing platform, he immediately brought in partners. He then went to the registrar of companies with the idea of calling his company 7D, or 'Seven Dudes'. The registrar declined this name, telling them a company's name cannot start with a number. Finally the proposal to name the company Pilani Soft Labs, was accepted in their third visit to the registrar with ______________ being their brand name.


Fill in the blank.
































A. redBus

Question 1

Q. The copper coin (shown below) was first introduced by Sher Shah Suri during his rule of India between 1540 and 1545, along with Mohur, the gold coin and Rupiya, the silver coin. Later on, the Mughal Emperors standardised the coin along with other silver (Rupiya) and gold (Mohur) coins in order to consolidate the monetary system across India. The question is, which english phrase originated from the name of this coin.





















A. The coin was called the 'Dam' (pronunced daam) and the English phrase “I don't give a dam[n]″ originated from it due to its small worth.