Answers to last week's quiz (#370)

1. Connect the Raj Bhavan built in 1803 in Kolkata and the Rambagh Palace in Jaipur with the firsts in India of two global brands that are now part of one company.
   The first Otis elevator was fitted at Raj Bhawan in Kolkata in 1892 and Carrier's first air conditioning installation was at the Rambagh Palace in Jaipur in 1930. Both of them are now part of United Technologies.
    
2. Name the owner and the airline whose call sign is "Mistral". Mistral is a strong, cold and northwesterly wind that blows from southern France into the Gulf of Lion in the northern Mediterranean.
   Open Skies, a transatlantic airline owned by British Airways (BA) that is headquartered in Rungis, Paris. It mostly flies to New York & Newark from Paris and has no economy seats.
    
3. Which brand has launched a campaign called 'Hello Life', inspired by the Italian way of life? One of its TVCs that showcases its various products has been set to the theme of popular American artist Pharell Williams song "Happy".
   Fiat Chrysler Indi.
    
4. Which scandalous company that folded in late 2001 had set up small limited partnership firms or special Finance Vehicles (SPVs) named after Star Wars characters. The SPVs were used to remove debt from its Balance Sheet in order to increase its borrowing capacity.
   Enron. Its SPVs were Chewco Investments L. P, named after the Star Wars character Chewbacca, because it was created to hide losses from the Joint Energy Development Investment Limited, known by its acronym "JEDI".
    
5. Which Pro Kabbadi sponsor has started a talent hunt programme by organising kabbadi matches outside its sales outlets?
   Future Group, which owns the Bengal Warriors, is conducting Kabbadi matches outside its Big Bazaar outlets in West Bengal to spot talent for its team.
    
6. Who is the first head of state to send a message by email?
   Queen Elizabeth II. On March 26, 1976 the ARPANET, the computer network that eventually morphed into the internet, had just come to the Royal Signals and Radar Establishment, a telecommunications research centre in Malvern, England. The Queen was on hand to christen the connection, and in the process, she became one of the first heads of state to send an e-mail Brew. The user name created for her was HME2.
    
7. Which brand's purpose and consumer message in 2014 reads "Forever Faster"?
   Puma.
    
8. What is the term used to describe a JavaScript-based application, which produces zombie cookies in a web browser that are intentionally difficult to delete?
   Evercookies. They were created by the famous Samy Kamkar, a privacy and security researcher, computer hacker, whistleblower and entrepreneur.
    
9. This firearms company had been selling bicycles designed for law enforcement, security and emergency response since 1997. So, it took another step by offering mountain bikes to consumers too. It did not take off. Name the company.
   Smith & Wesson.
    
10. Identify both the logos and then establish a connection between the two. (It is a question of influence)
    Visual No.1 is the mascot for the Piggly Wiggly supermarket and second visual is Toyota motor corporations old hood ornament. In 1950, Taaichi Ohno, an executive from Toyota on a visit to the Ford factory in the US also visited the self service grocery chain Piggly Wiggly in the US. Here he found a functional Just in time programe in practice. This inspired him to introduce the JIT system to manufacturing. This is the reason JIT is also referred to as the "Supermarket method".

 

There were 19 correct entries for quiz No. 370. Abhishek Mukherjee from Cuttack wins Rs 2,000. The winner is chosen on the basis of the first correct entry received.