Answers to last week's quiz (#318)

1. What is the portmanteau of recent coinage that describes the behaviour of people more interested in their mobiles than those around them?
   Phubbing. It is a combination of two words: phone and snubbing
    
2. Who said this "I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies"?
   Thomas Jefferson. American founding father and the third President of the United States 
    
3. Why has the business book written by Jackie Huba been titled Monster Loyalty?
   This is a book that details the strategies adopted by Lady Gaga to maintain her fan following. Gaga calls her fans Little Monsters hence the title
    
4. This is an economic indicator published by a bank based on its own research and reports published by the Economist Intelligence Unit. It is named after a term used in Chinese that refers to individuals who are generally coveted by employers in their home country because they have foreign educational qualifications, work experience and exposure to other cultures. Name it.
   The Chinese Bank of Communications publishes the Sea Turtle Index which ranks 80 cities in the world on the overall potential return on an undergraduate education at institutions in those cities
    
5. In the 9th century, Persian scholar Razi in his Kitab al-Asrar (Book of Secrets) described two methods for the production of kerosene, which was termed 'naft abyad' meaning white naphtha. It came into popular use only in the late 1800s because of heavy shortage of a particular commodity. Which one?
   In the mid 1850s crude oil was used to make Kerosene the main fuel for artificial lighting after overfishing lead to the shortage of whale blubber, which was widely used in oil lamps then
    
6. These are the lines from an advertisement of a consumer product published in 1926 "Women who realise the importance of daintiness are grateful to Mum". Name the brand and mention its significance.
   It refers to the brand Mum which was the world's first commercial deodorant.
    
7. Name this first of its kind finance company that accepts handbags on the spot, assesses them for their condition and authenticity and then procures loans which are 80 per cent of the bag's value within half an hour, as long as the bags are Gucci, Chanel, Hermes or Louis Vuitton.
   Yes Lady Finance Company, based in Hong Kong
    
8. Name the company and the comic character it created in honour of a hearing impaired four year old comic book fan in the US?
   Marvel comics created the character Blue Ear in honor of Anthony Smith, a hearing-impaired 4-year-old comic book fan who refused to wear hearing aid to school since he felt superheroes don't wear blue ears
    
9. This brand uses the slogan "Live Mas" (mas is Spanish for more). Name the brand and its previous slogan too.
   Taco Bell changed its slogan from Think Outside the Bun to Live Mas last year.
    
10. Identify the logos and mention what is common to them.
    All these are companies in which Jeff Bezos has got a stake. The first is Blue Origin, the second is Rethink Robotics and the third is his recent acquisition, the Washington Post Company.
    

 

There were 10 correct entries for quiz no. 318. Sabarish Krishnamoorthy from Trichy wins Rs 2,000. Winner was chosen by drawing lots