Answers to last week's quiz (#288)

 

1. Name the person who was responsible for coining this slogan ‘Roti, Kapda, Makan, Bijli aur Bandwidth’ ?
   The Late Dewang Mehta, one of the most dynamic President’s of NASSCOM. 
    
2. In 1974 a co-founder of this company got excited by a feature on the Altair 8800 computer published in the December edition of the Popular Electronics magazine. He took this to his best friend who was then a Harvard undergrad and had the skills to code a programming language for this machine. What this incident lead to?
   The founding of Microsoft. Paul Allen approached Bill Gates with the article on Altair 8800 and rest they say is history. 
    
3. Name the commodity that is named in honour of the 6th Duke of Devonshire, who acquired an early specimen of this commodity and from whose hothouses the cultivars were developed for commercial exploitation worldwide. India is the largest producer of this commodity in the world. 
   Cavendish Bananas named after William Spencer Cavendish the 6th Duke of Devonshire. 
    
4. How did the charity Ekocycle get its name? 
   The name Ekocycle is Coke spelt backwards and the idea came from the front man of the band Black eyed Peas, William Adams. Ekocycle is his partnership with Coke to promote products that support recycling. 
    
5. Connect the calling sign 2LO and a building that was originally built as the Gaiety Restaurant in London during the early 1900s and what do you arrive at? 
   BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation). 2LO was the second radio station to regularly broadcast in the UK. It began broadcasting from the seventh floor of Marconi House which was known as the Gaiety Restaurant building. Later, 2LO was transferred to BBC. 
    
6. An employee of a company sent his CEO a note that read “ Herb I finally get it. You are making work fun and home is work”. Identify the CEO and the company
   Herb Kelleher, founder, Southwest Airlines. 
    
7. What is common to a Japanese professor at the Tokyo Merchant Marine College during the early 1900s, and a telegraph teacher from Wisconsin during 1888? 
   The Japanese professor Ryosuke at the Tokyo Merchant Marine College, Namiki, realised during his tenure that drawing pens needed improvement as his students were finding it hard to draw. He set up the Namiki Manufacturing Company, now known as the Pilot Pen Company. George S Parker, a telegraphy teacher, in 1888, started this Pen company in Wisconsin in response to his students' complaints that their pens didn’t work well. 
    
8. What is the term used to describe a technique used by a company to support its wholesaler or distributor’s sales force by deputing one of its employees with them?
   Missionary Selling. 
    
9. Whose baseline reads “The Power to Surprise”?
   KIA Motors. 
    
10. Identify both the logos and establish the connection 
    
    William Rosenberg, founder of Dunkin' Donuts was also responsible for setting up the International Franchise Association in 1960.

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