- What is the connection between Finding Nemo and Steve Jobs?
- The first Indian-built car (not fully indigenous) hit the roads in 1946. What was it called?
- When he was 19, this the future business tycoon got a job as a used car salesman. After enrolling at the University of British Columbia, he developed a novel means of selling cars: each morning, he would drive a sample to school, sell it to a fellow student during the day, and return home by public transport. Who was he?
- What did Peter Minuit buy from the local Indians 60 guilders, the equivalent of $ 24?
- US President John F Kennedy is said to have ordered 1,000 Havana cigars "for tomorrow". What did he mean?
- In B-school lingo, who are "poets"?
- His tryst with IT started way back in the 1960s. As a student of the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, he punched cards on a computer "as big as a room". In the 1970s, he was remote-sensing data at the Indian Space Research Organisation, and in the 1980s he came up with the idea of CLASS "" "computer literacy and studies at school". Who is he?
- Which 19th century American classic was the first book to sell a million copies?
- Which famous Indian once remarked, "Consumer is King"?
- In 1969, after being rejected by no fewer than 20 publishers, he finally saw his first book roll off the presses and into the book stores. Within a year, the hard-bound version was being printed for the 15th time. Ironically, the publishers who had rejected the book might have done well to study its contents. It stated: "In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence." Name this person.
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