Saturday, April 23, 2011

Q

In the Yuan Dynasty, Kublai Khan enjoyed it and kept it a royal secret until Marco Polo visited China and took the technique of making it to Italy. What ?

A-Ice Cream

Friday, April 22, 2011

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A tradition of was that participants could raise a small Union Flag on their desk to pause proceedings. Under the telephone fixing system, participants can register a pause by saying the word "flag", and the chair ends the meeting with the phrase "There are no flags, and we're fixed". What am i talking about ?

A-Gold Price Fixation

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The new hotel will feature approximately 480 guest rooms, along with a number of exclusive Skylofts brand suites and serviced apartments. It has tied up with Silver Resort Hotel India Private Limited for the Delhi project. It will provide design assistance and operate the hotel under the American brand. The hospitality district near the Delhi airport would be part of an area of 45 acres. Which hotel Chain ?

A-MGM Grand

Wednesday, April 20, 2011

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The owner initially maintained the companies core business of textiles, but by 1967, he was expanding into the insurance industry and other investments. He first ventured into the insurance business with the purchase of National Indemnity Company. In the late 1970s, He acquired an equity stake in the GEICO, which forms the core of its insurance operations today . In 1985, the last textile operations were shut down. Which Co & Identify the Owner ?

A-Warren Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway

Tuesday, April 19, 2011

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Kerala has the largest number of chains, approximately 51. Advocate T. K. Krishnan, a Communist Leader of Thrissur and N. S. Parameswaran Pillai, the State Secretary of the India Coffee Board Labor Union and a thrown-out employee of the govt chain were the founders of in Kerala. The first of Kerala was started in Thrissur in 1958. It was also the fourth in the country. It was inaugurated by A. K. Gopalan on 8 March 1958. What ?

A-Indian Coffee House

Q

He was one of these; he brought a new face to the study of human behavior. He called his new discipline, "Humanistic Psychology." His family life and his experiences influenced his psychological ideas. After World War II, he began to question the way psychologists had come to their conclusions, and though he didn’t completely disagree, he had his own ideas on how to understand the human mind. To prove that humans are not simply blindly reacting to situations, but trying to accomplish something greater, he studied mentally healthy individuals instead of people with serious psychological issues. Who ?

A-Abraham Maslow

Monday, April 18, 2011

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His father was a civil surgeon in Cochin. He graduated in Physics from Loyola College, Madras in 1940 and then did B.E. (Mech) from the University of Madras. After completing his degree, he joined the Tata Steel Technical Institute, Jamshedpur from where he graduated in 1946. He then went to USA on a government scholarship to earn his Msc in Mechanical Engineering (with distinction) from Michigan State University. Who ?

A-Verghese Kurien