Answers to last week's quiz (#182)

 

1. Who purchased a Boeing 767 from Qantas Airways for $15 million to make it a company jet?
   The Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin 
    
2. The founder of which company was awarded both the Nobel Prize and a Grammy Award?
   Generation Investment Management 
    
3. Link whiz kid at Ford Motors, World Bank president, first seat belts in Ford passenger cars and what do you get?
   Robert McNamara, who was a part of the statistical control team, the whiz kids. He had got Ford motors to introduce seat belts. 
    
4. This cigarette brand introduced in the 1890s that took its brand name from a sport had Santa Claus endorsing it with his image on the pack some time in the 1950s. It also used to publish a puff chart to indicate that it was a much superior product. Name it.
   Pall Mall cigarettes, which is originated from the 17th Century game, Paille-Maille. 
    
5. The founder of which company said: “All of you know that I have always, and will always bleed purple?” 
   Jerry Yang, co-founder of Yahoo! 
    
6. The word genius combined with a suburb of Mumbai makes up for one of the world’s largest selling brands in its category. Name it.
   Parle-G biscuits 
    
7. Which company marketed the first commercially manufactured car satellite navigation system?
   Pioneer Corporation of Japan in 1990. 
    
8. Which brand derided as “Mexican lemonade” is today the world’s 10th largest in its category?
   Corona Beer 
    
9. How is a treasury secretary during the presidency of Abraham Lincoln still remembered as a financial services brand today?
   The Chase Bank is now part of JP Morgan Chase, which was named after Salmon Portland Chase (a treasury secretary during Abraham Lincoln’s Presidency in 1877). 
    
10. Identify the brand from the logo and give reasons why it is named so.
    
    
    
    Meru Cabs. The Hindu and Jain mythology refer to Mount Meru as the centre of the universe.

 

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