Answers to last week's quiz (#375)

1. This person was responsible for inventing ______. His work was shaped by three different experiences. The first was the Great Depression - in 1932 his father was fired as a shipping clerk and managed to put food on the table only by helping the mafia transport bootleg alcohol. Next was World War II: he led a platoon into battle at the age of 19. The third was joining college and being mentored by Douglas McGregor, the social psychologist known for the Theory x and Theory y in running organisations. Name the person and fill in the blank.
   Warren Bennis was responsible for inventing leadership as a business idea.
    
2. This brand that gets its name from the Greek god who is considered as the protector of travellers, herdsmen, thieves, orators and wit, literature and poets. Its competitor picked up a majority stake through a series of equity derivatives to prevent it from having to declare it. Recently both companies agreed to a truce. Name both the companies.
   Shares of the luxury brand Hermes were acquired through a series of equity derivatives by rival LVMH (Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessy).
    
3. If you had your shares listed on the Tadawul stock exchange, in which country would you be in?
   Saudi Arabia.
    
4. At the age of 12, this person started selling sweets and newspapers in trains. He used an empty baggage carriage to produce a local newspaper, The Weekly Herald. In the 1860s he rescued a station official's child from an oncoming train and was rewarded with training in telegraphy. Name him.
   Thomas Edison.
    
5. Which profession is guided by The Well-Tempered Clavier, a collection of solo keyboard music composed by Johann Sebastian Bach? The title to Bach's book that contained this composition published in 1722 had these lines "for the profit and use of musical youth desirous of learning, and especially for the pastime of those already skilled in this study".
   The Well Tempered Clavier is generally used by Professional Piano tuners. They call it the Bach Method.
    
6. Which major global event was sparked off by the use of a product that bore the brand name FN Browning?
   World War I. Gavrilo Princip used a FN Browning firearm to assassinate Arcduke Ferdinand in 1914.
    
7. This ice cream flavour is found in the graveyard section of its brand website. It was created to help the traditional forest nut gatherers in Brazil to keep up with their tradition of harvesting without harming the forest environment. A cooperative was set up by this brand in Brazil with the purpose of improving the means of production and output and saving the Amazon forest. Name the flavour and the company.
   Ben & Jerry's Rain Forest Nut crunch. It was discontinued in a year's time.
    
8. Which brand's advertising is themed on this phrase: "Hands are made for Love"?
   Kohler. The US company that is into kitchen and bathroom products company. These lines were used for a hands free bidet/toilet seat.
    
9. Who uses this: "Apni Kismat Apne Haath," as the brand slogan?
   Google's Android One.
    
10. Identify the daily American comic strip character (launched in the 1920s and lasted till 2010) and connect it with the invention of a product owned by SC Johnson.
    

The Saran polyvinylidene (PVDC) chloride films or Shrink wrap that we commonly use for packaging. In 1933, Ralph Wiley, a Dow Chemical lab worker, accidentally discovered PVDC while cleaning glassware in a Dow Chemical lab. Since he could not scrub it out of a vial clean, he called the substance 'eonite', after an indestructible material in the comic strip 'Little Orphan Annie'. Later Dow's researchers made Ralph's 'eonite' into a greasy, dark green film, which Dow called 'Saran'. The military sprayed it on fighter planes to guard against salty sea spray and carmakers used it for upholstery.

There were 17 correct entries for quiz No. 375. Aashti Hamid from Gujarat wins Rs 2,000. The winner is chosen on the basis of the first correct entry received.