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"Your Place In The Sky is the slogan

of which Airline company?

Air India

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Air India is a state-owned flag carrier Air India was founded by J. R. D. Tata in July 1932 as Tata Airlines, a division of Tata Sons Ltd. (now Tata Group). Tata Airlines became a public limited company on 29 July 1946 under the name Air India. It is India's oldest and largest airline Its corporate office is located at the Air India Building at Nariman Point in South Mumbai It is the 16th largest airline in Asia Air India is a part of the Indian government-owned National Aviation Company of India Limited (NACIL).

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Identify the famous entrepreneur who is worth over $1.8 billion as of today

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Mike Lazaridis of Research In Motion (RIM)

Mihalis "Mike" Lazaridis (born March 14, 1961, Istanbul, Turkey ) is the founder and co-CEO of Research In Motion (RIM), which created and manufactures the BlackBerry wireless handheld device Founded in 1984 ,Headquarters in Waterloo,Ontario, Canada Led by Co-CEO Jim Balsillie and President and Co-CEO Mike Lazaridis It Launched the BlackBerry smartphone in 1999 The company also creates software for businesses and the operating system that allows the BlackBerry smartphone to provide mobile access to email, IM, apps, media files, the Internet and more.

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Name the internationally acclaimed brand founded by Lionel Martin and Robert Banford in a small west London workshop? (Hint: Bond connection)

Aston Martin

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Aston Martin Lagonda Limited is a British manufacturer of luxury sports cars, based in Gaydon, Warwickshire From 1994 until 2007 Aston Martin was part of the Ford Motor Company On 12 March 2007, it was purchased for 479 million by a joint venture company, headed by David Richards and co-owned by Investment Dar and Adeem Investment of Kuwait and English businessman John Sinders.

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Probably the best "two letters in one symbol" solution ever. This 'slimeball' is created by Takuya Kawagoi. Although it is meant to look partially like the symbiotic amalgamation of two letters the logo also represents the company's entire design philosophy, as Kawagoi explained. It's both futuristic and organic, designed to invoke the concepts of flexibility and fluidity. It is often shown as a quick animation at the end of television ads. Which company's logo am I talking about?

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Sony Ericsson

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Sony Ericsson is a joint venture established on October 1, 2001 by the Japanese consumer electronics company Sony Corporation and the Swedish telecommunications company Ericsson to manufacture mobile phones The stated reason for this venture is to combine Sony's consumer electronics expertise with Ericsson's technological knowledge in the communications sector. Both companies have stopped making their own mobile phones. Headquarters Hammersmith, London, United Kingdom By 2009, it was the fourth-largest mobile phone manufacturer in the world after Nokia, Samsung and LG The sales of products largely increased due to the launch of the adaptation of Sony's popular Walkman and Cyber-shot series.

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Whose tagline: "The edge is efficiency"

BSE (Bombay Stock Exchange)

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The Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) (formerly, The Stock Exchange, Bombay) is the oldest stock exchange in Asia and has the largest number of listed companies in the world, with 4990 listed as of August 2010. It is located at Dalal Street, Mumbai, India. On Aug, 2010, the equity market capitalization of the companies listed on the BSE was US$1.78 trillion, making it the 4th largest stock exchange in Asia and the 11th largest in the world. With over 4,996 Indian companies listed & over 7700 scrips on the stock exchange, it has a significant trading volume. The BSE SENSEX (SENSitive indEX), also called the "BSE 30", is a widely used market index in India and Asia

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Which companies old logo is this?

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Renault

French automaker producing cars, vans, buses, tractors, and trucks, and, in the past, autorail vehicles. Its alliance with Nissan makes it the world's fourth largest automaker The company's most successful cars to date is the Renault Clio and the Renault Laguna, and its core market is Europe

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Which company's logo is called Muscle Man?

MRF

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Madras Rubber Factory, popularly known as MRF, is a major tyre manufacturing company located in Chennai, Tamil Nadu Founded in 1949 by K.M.Mammen Mappillai It is presently under the leadership of Vinoo Mammen, son of the late K.M.Mammen Mappillai MRF is mainly involved in making vehicle tyres. It is India's largest tyre manufacturing company It is also involved in a range of other activities via subsidiaries. Funskool India, a Joint venture between Hasbro and MRF, is a major toy manufacturing company in the country.

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Topeka , the capital city of US state of Kansas has changed its name temporarily to a well known brand / company. Topeka is test hub for a high-speed broadband network being built by this company. Name the company / brand..?

Google
broadband network being built by

(kansas capital would be known as Google- test hub for a high-speed

Google)

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Google Inc. is an American multinational public corporation invested in Internet search, cloud computing, and advertising technologies Google hosts and develops a number of Internet-based services and products, and generates profit primarily from advertising through its AdWords program The company was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, often dubbed the "Google Guys. Subsidiaries: YouTube, DoubleClick, On2 Technologies, GrandCentral, Picnik, Aardvark, AdMob Key people Eric E. Schmidt (Chairman & CEO) Sergey M. Brin (Technology President) Lawrence E. Page (Products President
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What major currency is known as Greenbacks in slang?

US Dollars

Greenback usually refers to the United States dollar: It generally refers to money: Greenback (money), a fiat currency that was issued by the North during the American Civil War There are at least two types of notes that were called greenback: United States Note Demand Note A term first used for the United States Demand Notes issued from August 1861 to April 1862 A modern (since 1914) United States Federal Reserve Note 7/12/12

Which famous TV personality owns a film production company called Harpo Films?

Look hard at the name, may be you can decipher the answer.

Oprah Winfrey

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Oprah Gail Winfrey (born January 29, 1954) is an American television host, actress, producer, and philanthropist, best known for her self-titled, multi-award winning talk show, which has become the highest-rated program of its kind in history She has been ranked the richest African American of the 20th century the greatest black philanthropist in American history and was once the world's only black billionaire She is also, according to some assessments, the most influential woman in the world

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Name the oil major who first setup a refinery in India, introduced LPG and Bitumen to the nation and first company to introduced co-branded credit cards and rewards programme in petroleum sector?

Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited

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Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL) is one of the largest state-owned oil and gas company in India, with Fortune Global 500 rank of 287 (2008) Headquarters Mumbai, Maharashtra Key people Radhakrishnan (Chairman & MD) Bharat Petroleum is considered to be a pioneer in Indian petroleum industry with various path-breaking initiatives such as Pure for Sure campaign, Petro card, Fleet card etc. BPCL has refineries at Mumbai and Kochi (Kochi Refineries) with a capacity of 12 Million Metric Tonnes (MMT) and 9.5 MMTPA respectively for refining crude oil.

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X was a French tennis player, nicknamed "________________" by fans because of his pugnacity on court. He was one of The Four Musketeers, French tennis stars who dominated the game in the 1920s and early 1930s. He won seven Grand Slam singles titles in the French, American, and British championships but never made the long trip to Australia to play in their championships. He was the world number one player for both 1926 and 1927. Identify X.

Rene Lacoste (The man who started the Lacoste brand of clothes. His nickname was "The Crocodile" and hence 7/12/12 the logo.)