Answers to last week's quiz (#378)

1. This holistic product development strategy gets its name from rugby. It is a manner of restarting the game after a minor infraction. It has made a great impact on knowledge companies. Name the term.
   
   Scrum. It was first postulated in 1986 by Hirotaka Takeuchi and Ikujiro Nonaka. Subsequently, Dr Jeff Sutherland together with Ken Schwaber of Easel Corporation created Scrum as a formal process for Software development. Sutherland is the writer of a book called The Scrum Guide
    
2. "That's a good firm. Make a deal with them I am delighted at the opportunity of having my paintings exhibited through the medium of Christmas cards." Name the former Prime Minister of a country who made this statement and also the firm he is referring to.
   
   Sir Winston Churchill. Churchill published his essay, Painting as a Pastime, in book form, and JC Hall immediately thought about publishing WSC's paintings on Hallmark cards. Hallmark selected twelve paintings for use on cards. The New York Times issue published on 13 August 1950 called this "The Churchill Coup".
    
3. This city is considered a tax haven and its airport is the only one in the world to be intersected by a highway. The lack of flat space in this city forces its airport's only runway to bisect its busiest road, the Winston Churchill Avenue. Name it.
   
   Gibraltar, a British Overseas Territory.
    
4. When the brother of the famous cricketer HD Kanga died in a car accident during the 1930s, the Mumbai police implicated a top industrialist from Mumbai. The police filed a charge that the industrialist and his friend Russa Mehta in whose car the cricketer's brother was travelling, had been racing at that time. Even though the case was dismissed, the industrialist could not bear the harassment and decided to sell the car. Name the person and the car he sold off.
   
   JRD Tata. He sold his favourite Bugatti. Dr HD Kanga was a cricketer. His first-class cricket career spanned from 1899 to 1921. As an opening batsman, he holds the record of being the first Indian to score a double century in first-class cricket. Also the Kanga League in Mumbai is named after him.
    
5. If it was not for providence or vagaries of Fate, these three gentlemen JP Morgan, Milton Hershey and Guglielmo Marconi (Banker, Businessman & Inventor) may have perished in one of the most tragic events that occurred in the early 1910s. Name it.
   
   All three were booked to travel on the HMS Titanic, which sank on the night of 14 April through to the morning of 15 April 1912 in the North Atlantic Ocean, four days into her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York City.
    
6. Who said this: "When you have $1 million, you're a lucky person. When you have $10 million, you have trouble, when you have more than $1 billion, you have responsibility."
   
   Jack Ma, founder of Ali Baba.
    
7. When this product was first launched in the mid 1910s it was named a banana. Subsequently, several re-edited versions of the same product have been launched. One of the variants has been named in memory of the important relationship between the brand and the Czar's Empire. Name it.
   
   The Tissot Heritage Prince watch. It takes after the "banana watch"of 1916. This mechanical 18K gold watch was called "banana" due to its curved case, taking the shape of the wrist. In 1991 and in 2002, the watch was re-edited in several versions until today and renamed Tissot Classic Prince I and II, in memory of the important relationship between Tissot and the Czar's Empire.
    
8. Ayurvedic herbal wine recipes containing wormwood are said to be outlined in the Atharvaveda in 1500 BC. Greek physician Hippocrates is credited, around 400 BC, with infusing wormwood in white wine and creating vinum absinthianum or Hippocratic wine. By what name is this fortified wine known today in the spirits and wine industry.
   
   Vermouth. The name "vermouth" is the French pronunciation of the German word Wermut for wormwood that has been used as an ingredient in the drink over its history.
    
9. What does the term greenwash mean?
   
   The process of touting environmental benefits of a product or policy in order to deflect attention from other less savory aspects.
    
10. Identify the logo and also mention which brand is incorporated as a prefix to its name.
     
    
    
    
    The Mohan Bagan football club established in 1889. It is now called McDowell MohanBagan Club, who is its official sponsor.

There were 30 correct entries for quiz No. 378. Akshay Ajay Joshi from Bangalore, wins Rs 2,000. The winner is chosen on the basis of the first correct entry received.