Answers to last week's quiz (#086)

 

1. Which company’s in-house ad agency was called Kamerad News?
   BPL India 
    
2. Link the West Indies cricketers Lance Gibbs, Carl Hooper and Shivnarine Chanderpaul to the name of a product that is mostly found in coffee bars and restaurants. 
   Demerara sugar or brown sugar. Demerara is one of the countries of Guyana to which these three cricketers belong. 
    
3. Who expounded the People, Purpose and Process model?
   Sumantra Ghosal 
    
4. On which product would you find the initials of the brothers William Day and Henry Overtone Jr?
   Wills cigarettes 
    
5. Name the technology company and the beta version of its recent product that carries an image of the beta (betta) fish as its screen saver?
   Microsoft’s Windows 7 
    
6. The founder of this BSE-listed company quit his job as a medical representative because of physical illness. Using a small amount of money he received as severance pay, he launched a pharma company that produced drugs for the kind of ailments from which he himself suffered. Name the company.
   Torrent Pharmaceuticals Ltd 
    
7. In 1962, a system called the Bellboy was first introduced in a world fair. What was it? 
   The first commercial application for the paging system 
    
8. Which company launched a family soap by the name Montage which never took off as a brand? 
   Shaw Wallace. Before Montage it had successfully launched Aramusk, one of the oldest male deodorant soaps. 
    
9. With which brand is the character “Louie bhai” associated? 
   Mortein, the anti-mosquito and pest repellent brand. Louie is a mosquito character. 
    
10. Identify the logo of this company which is a subsidiary of a first of its kind company in the world. 
    Lab 126, an Amazon company that designed Kindle (in the picture), a portable digital book reader

 

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