Question Of The Day #83: Overpay

Weekly Theme: IPO


An investor overestimates a stock during an IPO because investor does not have sufficient information. This is popularly known as? 

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Winner's Curse

Question Of The Day #82: Ssshh

Weekly Theme: IPO


The period from the date of approval of issue by the board of directors of the issuer company and the allotment of the shares is known as? During this period the company is not allowed to do publicity about the company

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Quiet Period

Question Of The Day #81: Disclaimer

Weekly Theme: IPO


Preparation of a registration statement is the first step for any private company looking to go public. This statement has two parts, the first part: “selling document” which is available only to investors in the offering. This selling document is known by a very famous term and what does the name relate to

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Red herring prospectus: (the name "Red Herring" relates to the red lettered disclaimer displayed on the front page of each preliminary prospectus)

Question Of The Day #80: Ads

Weekly Theme: IPO


A type of ad (shown below) is used by the underwriters of the IPO to advertise their offering. This type of ad is known as X. Identify X

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Tombstone Ads

Question Of The Day #79: Pioneer

Weekly Theme: IPO


An option which allows the underwriters to oversell, max. up to 15% of the specified amount of shares during an IPO. Name the type of the option and from where does it derives its name.

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Greenshoe  option.

It derives its name from the Green Shoe company of US which used it for the first time.

Question Of The Day #78: Illegal

Weekly Theme: IPO

Firms looking to go public  may try to pre-condition the market by making optimistic statements about their organization in the quiet period. This is legally not allowed and this act of the firm is famously known as X. Identify X

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Gun Jumping

Question Of The Day #77: Slingshot

Weekly Theme: Technology


Connect to an app.Put funda.

Answer: (Please highlight the text below)

Answer is Angry birds.It was developed by Rovio Entertainment.First image is a spin-off to Angry Birds, called Bad Piggies

Question Of The Day #76: What Next ?

Weekly Theme: Technology


What is the latest in this list ?

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Tumblr is the latest acquisition of Yahoo!.Previous ones being flickr,billboard and summly.

Question Of The Day #75: Maverick

Weekly Theme: Technology


Connect to a person

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Elon Musk best known for founding SpaceX and for co-founding Tesla Motors and PayPal is the inspiration for Tony Stark in the IronMan  series.The SpaceX factory was used as a filming location for Iron Man 2 and Musk has a cameo in the movie.He has also done a cameo in 2005 movie 'Thank You for Smoking'

Question Of The Day #74: In one go

Weekly Theme: Technology


What new business model is being used in the 2013th edition of this serial ?And also,which company does it ?

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All the episodes of 2013th edition of House of Cards were released in one go by Netflix.

Question Of The Day #73:Blink

Weekly Theme: Technology


What is this system called ? And also, in which tournament is it being used ?

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This is called Zinga system.Used for the first time in KFC Big Bash League.

Question Of The Day #72: Hashtag

Weekly Theme: Technology


First in the list of  movies was occupied by the movie 'think like a man' followed by Hunger Games,The Avengers,Red Tails and 21 Jump Street.Id the list


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The most tweeeted movies of 2012.

Question Of The Day #71: Lobbyists

Weekly Theme: Technology


Connect to a group which was recently formed, which includes the likes of Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates,Erich Schmidt and Marissa Mayer. Put funda.

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 FWD.us is a 501(c)(4) lobbying group based in the United States that aims to lobby and advocate for its version of immigration reform, changes to the US education system to improve science and technology education, and the facilitation of scientifc breakthroughs with broad public benefits. It is primarily supported and funded by Silicon Valley entrepreneurs. The initiative is led by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg.

Question Of The Day #70: Connect

Weekly Theme: TATA Group


Connect to a company in TATA group

       

                                                                         

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Tata Communications is Official Connectivity Provider of Formula 1.

Question Of The Day #69: The A Team

Weekly Theme: TATA Group


Identify the common thread between the three people who were earlier associated with three companies in the pictures shown below and are presently working from Bombay House

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NS RAJAN, MUKUND RAJAN, MADHU KANNAN are part of the newly formed Group Executive Council under Cyrus Mistry.

Question Of The Day #68: New Blood

Weekly Theme: TATA Group

Connect to a person

 

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Cyrus Mistry, the present chairman of Tata group, was the MD of Shapoorji Pallonji Group that built the tallest residential tower till 2012, Imperial Tower.

Question Of The Day #67: Payback

Weekly Theme: TATA Group


Connect this building to TATA group

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This is the famous Esplanado Mansion at Mumbai formerly known as Watson Hotel. A popular myth goes that the staff at Watson's Hotel denied Jamsetji Tata access to the hotel. In retaliation he opened the famous Taj Hotel.

Question Of The Day #66: In Memory of

Weekly Theme: TATA Group


X set up this centre of national importance (Y) in 1941 with the help of Z, who
later on became the chairman of the company.Though set up by X & Z, it was conceived by A after the death of his wife(B) due to leukemia in 1932.Identify X,Y,Z,A and B.


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Nowroji Saklatvala(X) set up the Tata Memorial Hospital(Y), a pioneer of cancer research not only in the country but the entire South Asia with the help of J R D Tata(Z) who later on became the chairman of Tata Sons.

It was conceived by Sir Dorabji Tata(A) after the death of his wife Lady Meherbai Tata due to  leukemia(B).

Question Of The Day #65: Defiance

Weekly Theme: TATA Group

At the height of nationalization in India, employees of company ‘X’ said that any
disruption in the present working of the company will lead to a loss in production
there by retaining the status quo. Identify the government (Y) which tried to nationalize the company and the chairman(Z) of the group at that time.Identify X,Y and Z.


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X- Tata Steel
Y-Janata Party
Z-J R D Tata

Question Of The Day #64: The Beginning

Weekly Theme: TATA Group


At the extension of a very famous business of the TATA's  in 1895, J N Tata famously
said, “We do not claim to be more unselfish, more generous, or more philanthropic
than other people. But, we think, we started on sound and straightforward business
principles, considering the interests of our shareholders our own, and the health and
welfare of our employees the sure foundation of our prosperity”.

Identify the company(A), its name when it was started(B), the date when it was inaugurated(C) and the other importance of the particular date(D).

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A- Empress Mills

B- Central India Spinning, Weaving and Manufacturing Company

C- 1st January,1877

D- Queen Victoria was proclaimed Empress of India on that day.

Question Of The Day #63: Tragic Death!

And there we go with our final question of the week on Summer Olympics.

The person X in the picture, was killed on 4 December 1980 during an armed robbery. How did IOC react to this? Put funda.

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Stanislawa Walasiewicz a.k.a. Stella Walsh, the Polish Olympic Women's 100m Champion in 1932. Her case is often regarded as one of the reasons why the IOC has gradually dropped gender determination tests. 
An autopsy after her death showed that she possessed male genitalia, although some sources suggest she also displayed some female characteristics. There was also some controversy as to whether all her records and achievements should be erased.

Question Of The Day #62: Connect.

Weekly Theme: Summer Olympics

Connect the pictures to a famous person, and how did he contribute to this week's theme?

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Otl Aicher, the designer of the first Olympic Mascot, Waldi for the 1972 Munich Olympic Games. Lufthansa Airlines Logo was designed by him, the Rotis typeface which is used in Accenture Logo (wordmark) was also designed by him. He was the co-founder of The Ulm School of Design, one of the most progressive institutions for teaching design in the 1950s and 1960s.

Question Of The Day #61: Record-Holder(s)

Weekly Theme: Summer Olympics

Connect the two.

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Coroebus of Elis was a baker and athlete who won the stadion race in the first recorded Ancient Olympic Games in 776 BC, thus becoming the first Olympic champion. James Connolly, the American athlete, became the first winner of the Modern Olympics when he won the triple jump in Athen in 1896.

Question Of The Day #60: The Unnecessary Fifth Guy!

Weekly Theme: Summer Olympics

Connect this list, to a specific historic event. Who's missing? Give full funda.

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The missing person is Stan Rowley, an Australian sprinter. The historic event is him becoming the only person to win medals with two different countries in the same olympics. In 1900 Paris Olympics, in the 5000 metres team race, The French officials insisted that although only four runners were to count in the scoring, teams must consist of five runners, each of whom must complete the race. With Alfred Tysoe, Charles Bennett, Jack Rimmer, and Sidney Robinson available, Britain's victory seemed assured if only they could find a fifth runner. And Stan Rowley was roped in as the fifth runner, and they went on to win the Gold Medal.

Question Of The Day #59: Elite List!

Weekly Theme: Summer Olympics.

Connect the exhaustive list, and find the missing one.

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The only Test Cricket venues to be used in the Summer Olympics. The Missing venue is Lord's Cricket Stadium, used in the London Olympics 2012.

Question Of The Day #58: Rich in Tradition!

Weekly Theme: Summer Olympics

Identify the person, and name his most famous contribution to Olympics which has been a tradition since then.

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Carl Diem, known for creating the tradition of the Olympic torch relay when he organised the 1936 Olympics build-up event.

Question Of The Day #57: Misleading!

The weekly theme for this week's questions shall be Summer Olympics.

This immortalized a special incident in the history of the Olympics. Why was this shown on the scorecard? What was the change necessitated because of this event? Put funda.

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Nadia Comaneci makes history with her 'perfect 10' performance in Montreal Summer Olympics in 1976.

The Swiss company Omega scorecard had then room for three digits like 9.85 and could not display the four digits 10.00 (perfect score). So, they had to display the perfect score as 1.00.

After the event the scorecard had to be changed to make room for 4 digits for a perfect 10 score

Question Of The Day #56: Astronomical Significance

And that brings us to the week's last question on Print Media.

The person X in the picture has a celestial body Y named after him. His invention Z was picked as the most important invention of the previous millenium, by Time-Life magazine. Identify X, Y and Z.

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X : Johannes Gutenberg
Y : Asteroid 777 Gutemberga
Z : Mechanical Movable Type Printing

Question Of The Day #55: Ex-Classified Information!

Weekly Theme: Print Media

X was a detailed account of the US DoD's involvement in Vietnam. When it was published as series by Y, it drew a lot of resistance from the then US president Z. It was later declassified in June 2011, and then released for public access. Identify X, Y and Z.


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X : Pentagon Papers
Y : The New York Times
Z: Richard Nixon

Question Of The Day #54: The Parody!

Weekly Theme: Print Media

The work X (pertaining to the magazine Y) given below in the picture is perhaps the most famous work of the person Z. Identify X, Y and Z, and put fundas about X.

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X - TIME...FORTUNE...LOVE...LUCE - Profile of TIME editor Henry Luce
Y - TIME Magazine
Z - Wolcott Gibbs

Funda: X was written in a parody of TIME's style of confusing, backward running sentences. 

Question Of The Day #53: Pen is Mightier than the Sword, Indeed!

Weekly Theme: Print Media

The film X won Academy awards in 1976. The lead actors were portraying the characters of the journalists from Y. The issue shown in the movie had led to the resignation of the then U.S. president. Identify X & Y.

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X – All the president’s men Y- Washington Post.
 All the President's Men is a 1976 Academy Award-winning political thriller based on the 1974 non-fiction book of the same name by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, the two journalists investigating the Watergate scandal for The Washington Post. The film starred Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman as Woodward and Bernstein, respectively