Answers to last week's quiz (#139)

 

1. Name the tea brand that was used for the largest tea party ever held in the world?
   Brooke Bond Red Label. Dainik Bhaskar organised the tea party for 32,681 people at Indore in 2008. 
2. The birth of this brand is attributed to its founder having used the extract of the witch hazel plant, widely used by American Indians, to produce a cream that could heal small cuts and other ailments. Identify the brand.
   Pond’s cream, formulated by Theron T Pond in 1846 
3. As a part of its CSR initiative, this brand celebrated the anniversary of John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s Bed-In Peace by re-enacting the event and also named a product’s flavour after one of Lennon’s creations. Name the brand and the flavour.
   Ben & Jerry’s ice cream. The flavour was called ‘Imagine Whirled Peace’.  
4. India’s National Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasting (NCMRWF) is known to have the subcontinent’s largest and most powerful numerical weather prediction (NWP) system. What supercomputer did it buy for this purpose? 
   The Cray X1E supercomputer 
5. Which brand’s website provides the user with a “Boss Key” and what is it used for?
   The Kama Sutra lounge website. The boss’s key is the pg down key, when pressed it pops up an article on “How to be more efficient at work”.  
6. Identify this Harvard graduate and visionary who preached about computersation in the 1950s. He was hired by a New York-based consultancy firm and was fired three times for insisting that clients consider computerisation.
   John T Diebold  
7. Who postulated in the early 1960s that Asian economies will take off one by one, move in a cluster just like the migrating geese and Japan would be at the head of the formation?
   Japanese economist Kaname Akamatsu in his “Flying Geese Paradigm” in 1962  
8. Connect the following: A character in Salman Rushdie’s Satanic Verses, direct descendants of Chatrapathi Shivaji’s caste and Six Sigma.
   The Dabbawallas of Mumbai. In Rushdie’s novel the character Gibreel Faishta worked as a Dabbawalla.  
9. During which Union Budget in India was the first disclosure scheme for black money introduced?
   1965-66  
10. Identify the logo.
    The Mr World organisation 

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