Answers to last week's quiz (#360)

1. At its annual conference in 2013, this MNC announced plans to hire people diagnosed with autism, with a target to have 1 per cent autistic work force by 2020. Name the company and the rationale it cited for doing so.
   The German technology major SAP made this announcement. The company had discovered that some people with autism have abilities that are extremely well-suited to performing some vital information technology tasks.   
    
2. Connect Mao, Nehru, Medici, Gladstone, Van Dyke, Eton, Windsor and what do you arrive at?
   Names of different kinds of shirt collars.
    
3. This company's name initially was Trinity _____. It changed its name in the early 70s because another South Indian company with the same name challenged its usage. It had to choose another name with the letter 'T' because it had made huge investments in moulds with the letter T. So it chose its current name by fluke. Name the company.
   Torrent pharmaceuticals
    
4. This company was founded by a young mechanic. Born in 1907, this person built his first "snow vehicle" at the age of 15. His motivation was to help people travel across the snow-covered roads of rural Quebec in Canada. Name the company.
   Joseph-Armand Bombardier founded Bombardier in 1937.
    
5. The former CEO of this Global Company always drove a Ford as a nod to his father, who worked as a manager at Ford Motor Company in Detroit. In fact, he also had a good relationship with Ford CEO Alan Mulally, who helped him plan a reorganisation of his company in 2012. Name this person and the company he worked for.
   Steve Ballmer, former of Microsoft.
    
6. This person experimented with different copper qualities, wire constructs and winding methods of audio cables in his family's garage and compared them while listening to Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture. His conviction that audio cables could be engineered to improve audio quality by conducting electricity efficiently led him to set up a company, which is now the world's leading manufacturer of cables that connect audio/video components. Name him and the company.
   Monster Cable Products, Inc. was founded in 1979 by Noel Lee, who was then a laser-fusion design engineer at Lawrence-Livermore Laboratory.
    
7. Less than a month after the 2010 World Cup wrapped up, a mining accident in a Latin American country made headlines. Thirty three miners were trapped by a cave-in for 69 days before being rescued. Today they are part of a local bank's ad campaign to raise the spirits of its country team, which is in the Group of Death. One of the ad lines is "We have defeated death before". Name the Bank and the country.
   The Chilean Bank Banco De Chile. The mining incident took place in Chile.
    
8. Which brand has started effective 5 second stories with the theme " these days just aren't the same as they used to be", with the promise of wohi pehli waali baat?
   Parle G.
    
9. What is the buzzword that describes the generation of middle-aged individuals who are pressured to support both aging parents and growing children? The trends of increasing life spans and having children at an older age have contributed to this on phenomenon.
   The Sandwich Generation.
    
10. Identify the character, the brand of the car and state what is this first of its kind branding.
    
    A real-life Mercedes car in Mario Kart 8 video game is a part of the surreal collaboration between Nintendo and Mercedes Benz. Japanese players are getting the Mercedes GLA as a DLC kart this summer.

There were 30 correct entries for quiz No. 360. Saket Maloo from
Ahmedabad, wins Rs 2,000. The winner is chosen on the basis of the first correct entry received.