- Which term was first used and also brought into fashion by World Bank Economist - Antoine Van Agtmael during the 1980s?
Emerging Markets.
- Which profession is said to have been established by this person who was retained by John D Rockefeller Jr in 1914 to represent his family and Standard Oil, after the coal mining rebellion in Colorado, known as the "Ludlow Massacre"? Name the person also.
Ivy Lee is credited as the first person to have set up and establish the Business of Public Relations.
- Which commodity with the names Kufri Lauvkar, Kufri Navjot, Santana and Lady Rosetta are grown and traded in India?
Potatoes.
- The damage caused to buildings by the powerful gusty South Texas winds in a city called Corpus Christi actually kindled an innovative thought in the minds of Lew Hewitt and Dee Horton in 1954. What did they invent? It lead to the establishing a new industry altogether.
The Automatic sliding door. Lew Hewitt and Dee Horton working for the Horton Glass company came up with an idea to build an automatic sliding door in 1954 , to circumvent the windy conditions in Corpus Christi.
- This memory-scraping malware, is believed to have been used in several retail data security breaches in 2013, including the attack that compromised the payment data of as many as 70 million customers who shopped at Target. The malware gets its name from Russian slang for potato. Name it.
Kaptoxa.
- Which FMCG company in India started a service where consumers in North India receive pre-recorded calls offering basic English lessons for free? Some other marketers supply rural mobile users with film songs interspersed with their product ads?
Marico.
- For a few years in the height of the Depression of the 1930s, the founder of this company eked out a living by selling private label soaps. He soon shifted to making a woman's fragrance based on a potpourri jar in his mother's home. In the 1940s, this person commissioned Salvador Dali to interpret a particular line of fragrance manufactured by his company. It was duly represented in Dali's trilogy of paintings. Name the person and the company he set up and also the fragrance line.
Shulton, the makers of the famous Old Spice brand that was founded by William Lightfoot Schultz in 1934. He commissioned Salvador Dali interpreted the Dessert Flower fragrance through his paintings titled Trilogy of the Desert- Mirage.
- This company is currently using the tagline "We know your next customer". Name the company and mention why it was in the news recently.
Radium One. Gubuksh Chahal who founded the company in 2009 was recently fired from the company after pleading guilty to misdemeanor charges in a domestic violence case.
- To compete with which P&G brand did Unilever hire Kermit Love, to create a mascot in the 80s? Kermit later also worked for Jim Henson on Sesame Street.
In order to compete with P&Gs Downy, a fabric softener, Unilever introduced Snuggle that was represented by a bear as its mascot.
- Identify the organisation and mention one of its recent distinctions.
Bandhan, the microfinance company, is one of the only two financial entities that was given an in-principle banking licence.
| There were 25 correct entries for quiz No. 355. KN Sujeer from Mumbai wins Rs 2,000. Winner was chosen by drawing lots. |