Answers to last week's quiz (#332)

1. What is the connection between a city in the state of Florida in the US, a rock band formed in the late 60s and the first modern assembly line used for manufacturing during the early 1900s in the US?
   
   Ransom Eli Olds. He was a pioneer of the American automotive industry, after whom both the Oldsmobile and REO brands were named. The modern assembly line and its basic concept is credited to Olds, who used it to build the first mass-produced automobile, the Oldsmobile, beginning in 1901. In 1913, Olds purchased 37,547 acres of land by the northern part of Tampa Bay in Florida and developed the area into what is now the city of Oldsmar. A rock band was formed by students of University of Illinois in Champaign, Illinois in 1967. They named the band REO Speedwagon, from the REO Speed Wagon, a flatbed truck Doughty they had studied in transportation history
    
2. Name the airline which is named after a Russian cruiser on which the first incidents of the October Revolution took place in 1900?
   
   Aurora airlines, a subsidiary of Aeroflot, is a Russian Far East air carrier. The airline was created by the order of Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev. It is named after the Russian cruiser Aurora. It is currently preserved as a museum ship in St. Petersburg. One of the first incidents of the October Revolution in Russia took place on the cruiser Aurora.
    
3. Which hotel chain is considered to be the world's first global chain to have announced a signature scent for its Hotels in 2005
   
   Westin.
    
4. This brand's label, which originated in 1880s, was redesigned in 1930 with a prominent red star. After the Second World War in 1951 in many countries the red star - due to its association with communism - was changed from red to white with only a small red border. It became completely red again in the early 1990s after Perestroika. Name the brand
   
   Heineken Beer.
    
5. Name the first company that eliminated hourly wages for employees in the United States and became the first major American industrial company with an all-salaried workforce. The decision strengthened its culture of equality at a time when labor-management disputes were common at other industrial companies.
   
   IBM in 1958 eliminated hourly wages for employees in the United States, making IBM the first major American industrial company with an all-salaried workforce.
    
6. What is a one banana problem?
   
   The term originated in the mainframe era when programmers and hardware experts claimed that the jobs of system operators could be performed by trained monkeys. Accordingly, the monkeys would be paid in bananas. Also at IBM, a conceptual system arose ranking problems, according to their difficulty, as one-, two- or three-banana problems.
    
7. This product was accidentally invented by DuPont in the 1930s. Later a French engineer used this to prevent his fishing gear from tangling. Subsequently, when his wife asked him if she could use it for her cooking pans, he immediately used it on the pans and succeeded. This got him a patent and also helped him start a new business. He made the pans in the kitchen and his wife sold them on the street. Name the person and the product.
   
   French Engineer Marc Gregoire was the one who found practical applications for using Teflon and was the first to introduce non stick Teflon coated cooking pans in 1958.
    
8. Name an erstwhile company that was set up during the 1920s and ran these marketing slogans: You're going to like us, We're Up To Something Good, One Mission: Yours.
   
   Trans World Airlines. It ceased operations in 2001 and merged with American Airlines
    
9. Which company has recalled its ice cream cones after pain relief tablets were found inside two separate cornets recently. The pills were found by customers in four chocolate and nut ice cream cones. All best before dated boxes up to and including July 2014 are being recalled.
   
   Tesco in the UK.
    
10. Connect both the images to arrive at a world's first of its kind facility.
    
    
    The world's first Bitcoin ATM is up and running at the Waves Coffee shop in Vancouver, Canada.

There were 13 correct entries for quiz no. 332. Aslam Ahmad from Jharkhand wins Rs 2000. Winner was chosen by drawing lots.