- The ideal exchange rate for India is neither strong nor weak, just right. Typically, market forces get you to this __ rate, also the name of a fairy-tale character created by an English poet of the Romantic school and one of the "Lake Poets".
- Ian Fleming drew inspiration for the James Bond character Q from the Quartermaster in the army and also the deceptive Q-ships used during the WW-II. Name the company that has drawn inspiration from this character and is named after it. Also name the person who gave it its purpose.
- This business group owes its origins to a pharmacy set up in Guangzhou in the 1820s that later became a chain run out of Hong Kong and took the name of a British doctor who joined it as a manager. The doctor set up a scholarship to support a local medical school in which renowned revolutionary Sun Yat Sen was a beneficiary. Name the business group and the pharmacy chain.
- The chairman of which company in his letter to the shareholders makes this mention, "We think Mr. Modi can transform India, particularly if he gets re-elected for two more terms, as we think he will"?
- This company entered the pet care business way back in the 1930s after it bought a dog food brand called Chappie in Europe. Name the company.
- Name the brand that has vocalist Arijit Singh in an online-only music video that features vocals and sounds the car makes or people make by interacting with it. In all, 118 sounds are captured and harnessed in this visual-aural symphony.
- It is a fashion apparel now sold by Tommy Hilfiger, Levi's and other brands. It has been around from the 1790s. It was referred to as a cheap, coarse thick cotton cloth, often coloured blue but sometimes white, worn by sailors and poor people in a dockside village near Bombay. Later it was exported to the UK where it finally got its current anglicised name. Name it and the place of its origin.
- This company wanted to name its new product through crowd-sourcing. It received more than 37,000 suggestions during a three-day activity recently. Three names were shortlisted - Adore, Civet and ___. The last name was chosen after it asked people to vote. Name the brand and the company.
- This country's motto is "Pro Mundi Beneficio" which translates to "For the Benefit of the World". Ironically, it was in the news for the wrong reasons.
- Whose logo is this?

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