Answers to last week's quiz (#193)

 

1. On Facebook, in December 2008, by an Australian law firm Meyer Vandenberg on a couple who failed to keep up repayments on a $150,000 loan they had borrowed from a mortgage provider. 
    
2. This commodity was discovered by the time of the Guptas, around 5th century AD. Buddhist Monks carried it to the Far East and Arab entrepreneurs took it to west Asia and Europe. India is its second-largest producer and consumer in the world. Name it.
   Crystallised sugar 
    
3. The name of the mascot Uncle Pennybags was changed in the late 1990s after its founders conducted research and found that it was not a memorable name. By what name is it now known today?
   Mr Monopoly, mascot for the board game Monopoly 
    
4. Which bank note has the record of having the most number of zeros? 
   The $100 billion note issued in Zimbabwe in 2008 which was enough to buy three eggs at that time due to high inflation 
    
5. To whom did Ramakrishna Dalmia, once the third richest person in the country, after DN Tata and GD Birla, sell the Old Lady of Boribander in order to recover his monies? 
   The Times of India was sold to his son-in-law Shanti Prasad Jain. The TOI building was known as the Old Lady of Boribunder. 
    
6. Which law is also known as the Bikeshedding or Bike shed effect?
   Parkinson’s Law of Triviality 
    
7. Where and when was a squash tournament held in a shopping mall for the first time in the world?
   The JSW-SDAT-WSF mixed team World Cup was held at the Express Avenue Mall in Chennai in March 2011 
    
8. Where would you find the world’s most southerly-located ATM machines and which bank manages them? 
   The ATMs located in the McMurdo station in Antarctica, managed by Wells Fargo Bank 
    
9. What term was coined in January 1999 by a consultant on electronic information design (information architecture) in her article, “Fragmented Future”?
   Web2.0 was coined by Darcy DiNucci 
    
10. Identify both the logo and the image and establish a connection between the trademark’s famous model and a bank whose logo is a black horse.
    
    
    
    The dog Nipper who died in 1895 and was buried in Kingston upon Thames and now the same site is occupied by a branch of the Lloyds TSB bank. On the wall of the bank, a brass plaque is displayed commemorating the famous terrier that lies beneath the building.

There were 36 all-correct entries for the strategist quiz #193. The winners who will receive a copy of The Living Dead are: Anshul Garg, Mathura; Pradeep TP, Kochi; Shibajee, New Delhi; Vipula Sharma, Faridabad; Minhaj Alam, Madhepura; Shamimur Rahman, Patna; Parag Sharma, Delhi; Mythili B, Coimbatore; K Suresh, Noida; and Aman Jain, Hoshiarpur. Anshul Garg also wins Rs 2,000.