Wednesday, January 9, 2019

Hello Again!!!

Thank you for participating in the Online Prelims of Finatic 2019.

The 2 teams to qualify for the final round are:

Kleptomaniacs
Super Kings

The teams will be notified through email about the same.

THE ANSWERS

Answer 1
TESLA
1.Dawid Bowie played role of Nikola Tesla in movie Prestige.(The name of company was on Nikola Tesla as company uses AC motor invented by Nikola Tesla.
2.
The Tesla name came to Martin Eberhard when he was on a date with his wife at Disneyland.
3.Tesla has a ridiculous amount of patents. But instead of keeping their secrets to themselves, Tesla allows other companies to use their designs and principles. The hope is that other car manufacturers will expand the reach of electric vehicles and develop their own.
4.The company recently ventured into the solar energy realm. Last year, Tesla purchased the largest rooftop solar installer in the nation, SolarCity Corp, for $2.6 billion.

Answer 2

Hublot
1) Hublot means 'porthole' in french
2) Hublot's obsession for unusual materials started in 1980 itself, which paved way for the first rubber stamp watch
3) Hublot's partnership with archaeological museum of Athens
4) Jet Li is Hublot's first Asian ambassador.

Answer 3 
SAMSUNG        
Samsung was founded as a grocery trading store on March 1, 1938, by Lee Byung-Chull. He started his business in Taegu, Korea, trading noodles and other goods produced in and around the city and exporting them to China and its provinces. After the Korean War, Lee expanded his business into textiles and opened the largest woolen mill in Korea. Medical equipments and ships are manufatured by Samsung.

Answer 4
Huawei
1. Emblem of the Chinese People liberation Army. Huawei's founder Ren Zhengfei is an Ex-People's liberation Army officer. 
2. The poster of 2013 concert of the Jonas Brothers which was sponsored by Huawei to gain popularity in USA. 
3. Vancouver International Airport. 
Meng Wanzhou, Huawei's Cheif Financial officer and Ren Zhengfei's daughter was arrested by Canadian authorities while transferring planes at Vancouver International Airport on December 1, at the request of America authorities. 
4. Edward Snowden, he leaked documents which proved US Nation Security Agency has been operating a covert program against Huawei since 2007.

Answer 5
1. Tiffany & Co. initially started as a stationery store in 1837.
2. The Tiffany Cross Medal of Honor was awarded by the US Navy after WW1 for acts of heroism in combat.
3. In 2004, Tiffany sued eBay, claiming that the latter was making profits from the sale of counterfeit Tiffany products.
4. In 2015, they launched their first ever same-sex couple ad campaign.

Answer 6 Converse
Headquarters in Boston, Massachusetts.
When the U.S. entered World War II in 1941, Converse shifted production to manufacturing rubberized footwear, outerwear, and protective suits for the military.
Converse was the official shoe of the National Basketball Association until the 1970s.
In 2012, Converse is listed as a partner in the (RED) campaign.
The campaign's mission is to prevent the transmission of the HIV virus from mother to child 

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