Answers to last week's quiz (#333)

1. For whom are these tools of the trade meant: Backdoors, Watering holes and Crackers?
   The hacker hunters or digital forensic experts. Their mission is to track down the gangs, hackers and increasingly the nations that are stealing billions of secrets around the world. PwC has one such team.
    
2. The designer of this shoe brand, inspired by a 4th century technique of preserving cheese and grains, buried 10 pairs of shoes in four pits. When the pits were opened four years later the shoes were in perfect condition despite the infiltration of water and mud. The leather had undergone a natural ageing process and bore an inimitable yellow and green colour. Name the brand.
   Designer Silvano Lattanzi's "The Buried shoes collection."
    
3. This person was declared by the Time magazine as the richest man in the world during the late 1930s. His fortune was then estimated at $2billion, which is equivalent to $230 billion today. As a child, he had insisted that a 400 carat diamond studded in his father's shoes was made into a paper weight. Name him.
   Mir Osman Ali Khan Siddiqi Bahadur- The Nizam of Hyderabad.
    
4. Name this company that built the India's first Iron bridge, the first steam road roller, and the first steam boat to sail over Indian waters.
   Jessop & Co. It is currently owned by Pawan Ruia and is in trouble.
    
5. What is the term used to describe the practice of examining merchandise in a traditional brick-and-mortar retail store without purchasing it and then shopping online to find a lower price for the same item?
   Showrooming.
    
6. Which brand uses these lines in its advertisements and why: 'Some men are kicked out of bars and some men are kicked of countries'?
   Bacardi. This is an ad about its being exiled after Fidel Castro seized Bacardi's assets in Cuba in 1960. It is headquartered in Hamilton, Bermuda.
    
7. Who launched an aircraft that was nicknamed the Tin Goose? It was this person's short lived attempt to branch into aviation. Only 199 of these were built.
   Henry Ford. The Ford Trimotor aircraft was nicknamed the Tin Goose.
    
8. The co-founder of which company in India is often seen quoting Mahatma Gandhi's lines "First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, and then you win"?
   Rahul Sharma, co-founder of Micromax.
    
9. This phrase was coined in a 1904 book of fiction by O. Henry, an American writer. He was on the run from Texan authorities, who had charged him with embezzlement. Name it.
   Banana Republic.
    
10. Whose global logo is this one?
    Proton Cars, Malaysia. Recent news is that It is making a comeback in the UK.

 

There were 20 correct entries for quiz no. 333.
Kumar K from Mumbai Rs 2000. Winner was chosen by drawing lots.