Answers to last week's quiz (#327)

1. After visiting quality-obsessed Germany, the CEO of this company in the mid 80s handed out sledgehammers and joined his employees in smashing 76 faulty appliances manufactured by the company in full public view. This made him a national celebrity and was the beginning of his firm's transformation. Name him and his company.
   
   Zhang Ruimin, CEO, Haier group. It is the world's fourth largest white goods manufacturer and a leading brand in China.
    
2. This person started her career as a graphic designer. Feeding problems faced by one of her children forced her to invent a solution, which is now being used for the last 30 years across the world and is widely acclaimed by the medical fraternity. Inspiration for her second invention unfolded when a child at a friend's place spilt black currant juice on the carpet. Today she is an inventor and entrepreneur running a company with her patented products. Name the person and the second revolutionary product she patented in 1993.
   
   Mandy Herberman, a British lady inventor and entrepreneur. In 1993, the first anywayup cup, featuring the Haberman valve, was made. The valve was used in the first totally non-drip toddler trainer cup (also known as a 'sippy cup'), that sealed between sips.
    
3. This company is named after its founder Haveli Ram. It is now being run by a septuagenarian who is its chairman. Name the company and its Chairman
   
   Havells. Qimat Rai Gupta is the current chairman of this company. He acquired it in 1976.
    
4. What is the term used to describe a new lifestyle disease or physical affliction that is caused because of inclining the head while peering at a mobile device's screen?
   
   Text Neck
    
5. During the early 1900, this person could not pursue his studies in Oxford because of a fall in the value of the Indian rupee. It was the currency in which his father's pension was expressed. His father found him a position with the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank. However, this person was never interested in banking as a career and never learned a thing about banking. Money for Nothing and Money in the Bank are titles of the two books which he authored. He wrote Money in the Bank while he was imprisoned in a Nazi camp in Poland for civilian prisoners during 1940-41. Name this person.
   
   PG Wodehouse.
    
6. Which brand was the first major US food processor to voluntarily adopt nutritional labeling (listing of nutritional facts) on all its food products in the states? This innovation made headlines throughout the country and was applauded by government officials as a breakthrough in consumer education.
   
   Del Monte.
    
7. Name the brand that is jointly managed by PepsiCo and Unilever?
   
   Brisk is a beverage brand managed by a JV of PepsiCo and Unilever (Lipton Tea) in 1991.
    
8. Connect the defunct companies: Ansonia Clock Company of Brooklyn, New York, and the Dueber-Hampden Watch Company of Canton, Ohio, with Yuri Gagarin and what do you arrive at?
   
   The Poljot Shturmanskie watches are made in Russia and were worn by Yuri Gagarin during his maiden space flight. Founded in 1930 under orders from Joseph Stalin, the First State Watch Factory was the first large scale Soviet watch manufacturer. The Soviet government bought the defunct Ansonia Clock Company of Brooklyn, New York in 1929, and the Dueber-Hampden Watch Company of Canton, Ohio. It moved twenty-eight freight cars full of machinery and parts from the US to Moscow in order to establish the factory.
    
9. Who uses the baseline "Be more everyday?"
   
   Marico Limited
    
10. Identify the logo and mention the significance of the entity it belongs to during October/November.
    
    
    Sveriges Riksbank, the central bank of Sweden. It is the world's oldest central bank and the world's 4th oldest bank still in operation. Sveriges Riksbank's Prize in Economic Sciences was established in connection with the Riksbank's 300th anniversary in 1968 and is popularly known as the Nobel Prize for Economics, which is announced every year during the October/November

There were 10 correct entries for quiz no. 327. Pradeep TP from Kochi, Kerala, wins Rs 2,000. Winner was chosen by drawing lots.