Answers to last week's quiz (#067)

 

1. In 1990, this Chicago-based company was the first to reward its workers for taking buses and trains to work, instead of driving cars. Name it. 
   Wrigley’s. 
    
2. Link Konnagar in West Bengal to the Velvet revolution and the founder of a global brand? 
   Thomas Bata, the Czech who started Bata International. He set up a small shop in Konnagar in 1931 and today it is a township called Batanagar. He returned to Czechoslovakia where Bata was founded after the Velvet revolution, which saw the overthrow of the communist regime in 1989. 
    
3. In which book does the author’s dedication read as: For my beloved Andrea? 
   The Age of Turbulence by Alan Greenspan. 
    
4. SnoreStop, manufactured by Green Pharmaceuticals of the US, agreed to buy a unique advertising space on eBay for over $35,000 a month. This created history in 2005. What did it agree to do? 
   SnoreStop accepted to use Andrew Fischer’s forehead to advertise its product for $37,375 a month. This was one of the first sales of ad space on body parts.
    
5. Which brand was first sold in two variants called Bubbly and Still? 
   Bisleri mineral water, in the mid- 1960s. 
    
6. This phone service brand when translated into English from its native language means the constellation, Pleiades. It has a prayer service that informs the user about the prayer timings. Identify the brand and the country where it was founded.
   Thuraya, a satellite phone service like Iridium that originated in the UAE. 
    
7. In 1979, astronaut Neil Armstrong and a test pilot of a business jets manufacturing company set five world records for business jets. Which aircraft did they fly? 
   Learjet Longhorn 28. 
    
8. Which company claims to be the largest employer of former FBI agents in the world? 
   Guardsmark. 
    
9. Who said: “I think the 21st century will make the 20th century look like a tea party?” 
   Jack Trout.
    
10. This logo (below) belongs to a welfare organisation and the person who founded it in 1988, recently passed away. Identify both.
    Hole in the Wall camps founded by Paul Newman.
     

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