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- How did secure, relatively high-yielding stocks get to be known as "blue chip" stocks?
The term was taken from the game of poker, where blue chips are more valuable than white or red chips
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- Name the concept that evolved from an embarrassment that Frank McNamara faced in a restaurant while entertaining his clients.
McNamara's brainchild, the Diners Club credit card
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- Who remarked "640K ought to be enough for everybody", referring to a computer's memory.
Bill Gates, 1981
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- This WWII by-product led to the invention of a famous product "" made from a soap-like molecule that is without the alkaline element, is pH-neutral and a mild cleanser. It was first introduced in the US in 1957. We are talking about...
Dove, the beauty bar from Unilever
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- "This is a book about what happens to people when they are overwhelmed by change. It is about the ways in which we adapt "" or fail to adapt "" to the future." These are the opening lines for the introduction of which famous book?
Future Shock by Alvin Toffler
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- By 1862, this US product had higher sales abroad than in the country of its invention. Mahatma Gandhi called it "one of the few useful things ever invented". Name the product and the brand.
Singer sewing machines
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- What are the words creep, rise, gallop, increase, soar, climb, burgeon associated with?
All these adjectives refer to inflation
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- "There are three religions in Japan: Buddhism, Shintoism and ....," said Masaaki Imai. Fill the blank.
Kaizen
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- A teacher of transcendental meditation and a Buddhist, Mitchell Kapor started a foundation for electronic free speech and is the founder of a world-famous company. Which one?
Lotus
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- In October 1945, about 5,000 people jammed the entrance of New York's Gimbels Department store in response to full-page ads about the first sale of these products. On the first day of the sale itself, the store sold the entire lot of 10,000 at $ 12.50 each. Name the product.
The ballpoint pen.
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| And the winner is Swati Masson from Mysore Congratulations!
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| A cheque for Rs 2,000 is on its way in the mail
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