Answers to last week's quiz (#363)

1. Launched much before the smart watches available now it was called a connected watch and was given the name Paparazzi. It displayed news,weather, horoscopes and stock quotes for a $59 annual subscription fee. It failed to take off. Who launched this watch?
   Nick Hayek of Swatch and Bill Gates of Microsoft launched the Paparazzi Watch in 2004 that ran on Microsofts Smart Personal Object Technology (SPOT). Microsoft subsequently discontinued the service that provided data to the watch
    
2. This foreign company's manufacturing facility near Chennai is the first one outside its home country. After having bonded with the locals for the last 18 years, the expats have discovered 600 words in common with Tamil. Name the company and the language.
   Hyundai and Korean. Eighteen years of bonding with Tamils has thrown up curious similarities, including 800 common words. Homer B Hulbert, a British scholar, feels Korean people and language are related to the Dravidian language of India because both languages share syntactic features such as word order subject-object-verb and postposition instead of preposition.
    
3. Why are these brands creating a controversy in the US - Hashheath, Hashees and Ganja Joy? Also name its manufacturer.
   These are all pot infused candies being made by a company called TinctureBelle that has close resemblance to Hershey's Heath, Reese's peanut butter cups and Hershey's Almond Joy.
    
4. This lady inventor passed away recently at 90. As a chemist with an MNC, she worked with polymers for tires. Her company during the 60s anticipated that a future gas shortage meant cars would want lighter tires, but at a similar strength as before. The material she invented they say is five times stronger than steel and has a 100 uses and also saved more than hundred lives. Name the person and her invention.
   Stephanie Kwolek invented Kevlar when she was working as a chemist with Dupont in 1965.
    
5. Which company runs the innovative mobile radio channel Kan Kajura Tesan?
   HUL.
    
6. Name the retail brand that is partnering with Google in its latest effort to get consumers to up cycle their leftovers? This is to tackle food waste that is turning out to become an enormous global problem.
   Sainsbury's of UK.
    
7. Which brand that sponsors a lot of sporting events uses the baseline 'The Power to Surprise'?
   KIA Motors.
    
8. Name the two handset makers with which Mozzilla, the developer of the Firefox web browser has tied up to bring smartphones priced at Rs 1500 to India.
   Intex and Spice Telecom
    
9. What are these names of Chevron, Walrus, Tooth brush, Chin Curtain, Handlebar, Friendly mutton chops, Dali and Fu manchu?
   Names of moustache and beard styles.
    
10. Identify this now defunct company from its logo. Its stock doubled on the first day after its IPO in 1995. People clamour ed to work with this company.
    
    General Magic. Originally an internal project at Apple, General Magic proposed making personal communicators that would let individuals get messages, perform computing functions and take calls remotely. In other words, a smart phone.Then Apple CEO John Sculley spun it out as a company in 1990.

 

There were 29 correct entries for quiz No. 363. Vaibhav Mogra from Mumbai wins Rs 2,000. The winner is chosen on the basis of the first correct entry received.