Answers to last week's quiz (#336)

1. Name this industrialist who wore suits stitched from soybean fiber and served his guests cheese and bread made out of soybean? He also built a car made out of soybean plastic - Soybean fiber in a phenolic resin with formaldehyde used for making the car.?
   Henry Ford. The car manufactured along with Soybean plastic was displayed by him in 1941. It never took off.
    
2. Which brand has been built on the Buddhist philosophy "A single grain of rice of a Buddhist is as great as a mountain"?
   Xiaomi, a Chinese cell phone brand. Its CEO chose the name because the "mi" part of it is an acronym for mobile internet as well as his favourite movie Mission Impossible.
    
3. Which technology company plans to reach out to India's eight million Kirana mom and pop stores through its initiative code named project Ganges?
   SAP
    
4. Which global brand publishes a multicultural online magazine that is the source for nightlife and culture across the world?
   Perrier. It is called Societe Perrier
    
5. What is the word used to describe the state of mind of a person who logs on to the internet, fully intent on surfing numerous websites, only to find his mind a complete blank, when he logs off? The term describes one's inability to remember which web site one saw an item of information on.
   Internesia.
    
6. The first Indian celebrity to get started was Zeenat Aman. Subsequently Lata Mangeshkar, Amitabh Bachchan, Shah Rukh Khan, Arjun Rampal, Shilpa Shetty and MS Dhoni. What is being referred to here?
   Perfumes branded after them.
    
7. This brand was established in 1838, when the founder opened a factory in Germany for supplying chicory to the coffee industry. Later he began to experiment with drying vegetables and seasonings, to preserve nutrition and flavour, leading to the product line by which this brand is recognised now. Name the founder and the brand.
   Knorr Soups. It was founded by 1838 by Carl Heinrich Knorr. The first Knorr® dried soups was launched in 1873.
    
8. This invention was voted as the greatest design of the twentieth century in 2001. The inventor, a road mender came up with this idea one night in 1933 when he saw the reflection of the light from his car headlamps in the eyes of a cat beside the road. Name the person and his invention.
   Percy Shaw of Yorkshire is credited with the invention of the catseyes in 1933. He came up with a simple device that could be used as a marker cum reflectors on the roads.
    
9. Connect the ribbon widths on men's hats, diameter of buttons and the size of a watch movement and what do you arrive at?
   Ligne (from the French word meaning 'line') is a unit of length that was in use prior to the French adoption of the metric system in the late 18th century, is still used as a measure for these three items.
    
10. This logo belongs to a global intergovernmental agency. Name it.
    The International Exhibitions Bureau.

There were 15 correct entries for quiz no. 336. Bal Reddy from Hyderabad wins Rs 2000.
Winner was chosen by drawing lots.