Round IWho Am I?

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Q1.

X is an alumni of Cornell and Harvard Business School, having graduated from the former in 1962. He is also a Padhma Vibhushan Awardee.

ANSWER

X refused a job with IBM on the insistence of his future employer and worked with other blue-collar employees shovelling limestone and operating blast furnaces

Under X’s ownership, his company acquired Tetley Tea and the Corus group.

Ratan Tata

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Q2.

X has worked in institutions like the IMF and the UN and has taught in Delhi University and JNU

ANSWER

X’s daughter is a professor of history at St.Stephen’s College

X has been a Member of Parliament since 1995

Dr. Manmohan Singh

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Q3.

X was born in Shantiniketan Ashram and was given his name by Rabindranath Tagore

ANSWER

After partition, X’s family moved to India, where X studied at the Viswa Bharati University and the Presidency College

Since 2004, X has taught economics at the Harvard University

Amartya Sen

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Q4.

Besides being an economist, X was also an investor and amassed a huge wealth out of it.

ANSWER

At the Bretton Woods Conference, X was the leader of the British delegation and the chairman of the World Bank Commission.

X’s General Theory on Employment, Interest and Money is considered the basis of macroeconomics

John Maynard Keynes

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Q5.

X led an opulent lifestyle in Mumbai in the 1980s and lived in a bungalow called madhuli

ANSWER

X’s activities adversely affected 10 commercial banks of India

X was popularly known as The Big Bull and was arrested on June 5 , 1992

Harshad Mehta

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Q6.

X is a member of parliament and the 962nd richest person in the world

ANSWER

X owns a luxury yatch called The Indian Empress and is involved with F1, cricket and football

In 2007, X’s company bought the scottish company Whyte and Mackay

Vijay Mallya

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Q7.

X is the Vice-President of the Mexican Stock Exchange and President of Mexican Association of Stock Brokerage Firms.

ANSWER

X controls the company TelMex and TelCel

X is currently the second richest man in the world

Carlos Slim Helu

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Q8.

X started his entrepreneurial career by selling pakoras to pilgrims going to Girnar and at 16, went to Aden, Yemen.

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In 1962, X founded a company that manufactured polyester yarn and exported spices

1n 1966, X’s company introduced the clothing brand Vimal, named after his younger brother

Dhirubhai Ambani

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