This document contains 20 multiple choice questions about various topics including authors, companies, inventions, and historical figures. The questions are about Agatha Christie, Tata Sierra, life insurance, McDonald's royalties, Uber's Super Bowl ad, SAIL's IPO, MS Dhoni's cricket bats, Zomato acquiring Uber Eats India, Michael Jackson's patent for the moonwalk, Saravana Bhavan origins in Chennai, Alan Greenspan's theory on underwear sales predicting recessions, Lewis Hamilton's plant-based meat company Neat Burger, George Soros' background and career, William J. Riley inspiration for Dr. Scholl's foot products, TV Sundaram's contributions during World War

1. Synergy
Prelims with Answers
- Kapil Agrawal, Gopalarathnam Vummidi
& Pragun Chordia

2. Q1.
Who manufactures this in Chennai?

4. Q2.
Guinness World Records lists X as the best-selling novelist of all
time. X’s novels have sold roughly 3 billion copies, and the estate
claims these works come third in the rankings of the world's
most-widely published books, behind only Shakespeare's works
and the Bible.
According to Index Translationum, X remains the
most-translated individual author, having been translated into at
least 103 languages.
Which author(X)?

5. Agatha Christie

6. Q3.
Identify this EV Concept that made it’s return at the Auto Expo
2020. It takes its name from the first SUV to be designed and
produced in India.

7. Tata Sierra

8. Q4.
The Greeks and Romans in 600 AD organised guilds called
“benevolent societies” which cared for the families and paid for
funeral expenses upon death.
What concept originated out of this?

9. Life Insurance

10. Q5.
The original founders of this company walked away with a
handshake agreement in 1955 of a 0.5% royalty rate to franchise
the brand and was not held to its word.
If the deal was kept up, the original founders would have netted
an estimated $300 million a year (value in 2012).
Which is the company in question?

12. Q6.
At Super Bowl 54, X ran
an advertisement in
conjunction with the TV
series Rick and Morty.
The picture is a still from
the advertisement.
ID X, whose logo is
blanked out.

14. Q7.
The IPO of this Indian Company is expected to take place in early
2021. It’s expected to fetch 80,000 crores for 10% stake. It is the
largest with respect to the number of people it caters to. It is also
widely known as India’s “Aramco IPO”.
ID this company in Question.

16. Q8.
Mahendra Singh Dhoni, the former Indian captain used 3
different bats at the ICC CWC 2019 to pay tribute to the roles that
these companies played in different stages of his career.
If one of the companies in question is Sanspareils Greenlands,
Name the other 2.

17. Sunridges(SS), BAS

18. Q9.
A Gurgaon based company X recently acquired a competitor Y for
an estimated $350 Million in exchange for 10% stake in X. Y’s
parent company’s CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said that it aims to be
“number one or number two” in all the markets that it plays in.
And if it can’t do that, it would withdraw.
ID X,Y.

19. Y- X-

20. Q10.
Who owns this Patent
and identify its purpose?

21. Smooth Criminal - Dance

22. Q11.
In 1979, the person on the left was told that people had to go all
the way to T Nagar everyday since this type of establishment was
not available in this area. So, he opened this first outlet in 1981 in
this area, which is named after the person on the right
What started thus, and where, before expanding to 75+ branches
in India and overseas ?

24. Saravana Bhavan, KK Nagar

25. Q12.
Alan Greenspan, former chairman of the US Federal Reserve,
propagated a theory that when an economy faces a severe
downturn, demand for X changes as new purchases are deferred.
An index based on X has been relatively accurate in predicting
recessions in the past.
What unorthodox method did Alan Greenspan propagate? ID X.

26. Underwear / Undergarments

27. Q13.
Neat Burger is a plant-based meat
restaurant started by which
well-known sports personality?

28. Lewis Hamilton

29. Q14.
A native of Hungary, this management/finance “guru” survived
the Holocaust and the battle of Budapest between the Soviet and
Nazi forces. Later he immigrated to England for studies and then
to USA for his illustrious career.
Name this guru.

30. George Soros

31. Q15.
Trinity Truffles Extraordinaire chocolates is the world’s most
expensive chocolate. Which familiar company produces them?

33. Q16.
It is believed that William J. Riley was inspired to produce his first
product after watching chickens strut around his backyard.
Fascinated by how the chickens balanced so perfectly on their
feet, Riley designed a flexible arch support with three support
points.
Which company did he start?

35. Q17.
During the times of the second world war, Madras Presidency was
met with petrol scarcity.
To meet the demands, X designed and produced the X Gas Plant.
He also started a factory for rubber retreading, besides two more
concerns, the Madras Auto Service Ltd and the X Motors; the
former was the largest distributor of General Motors in the
1950s. ID X.

36. TV Sundaram / TVS

37. Q18.
Identify this famous Billionaire
that we know for a very different
reason.

38. Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman

39. Q19.
Which liquor brand uses the tagline ‘Born Colourless’ and has
been running a public service campaign against racism in line
with their tagline ?

41. Q20.
On coming to power in 1959 during the Cuban revolution, what
game did Fidel Castro ban, ordering that all paraphernalia related
to the activity be destroyed?