Answers to last week's quiz (#424)

1. The Global fashion major H&M just launched a new "Close the Loop" line-16 denim styles made from recycled cotton from textiles collected in the Garment Collecting initiative in H&M stores. What is the business term used to describe such a practice? Something that is restorative and in which material flows are of two types, biological nutrients, designed to reenter the biosphere safely, and technical nutrients, which are designed to circulate at high quality without entering the biosphere.
   Circular Economy.
    
2. Which car's name comes from Crete - Greece's largest island?
   Hyundai Creta. It comes from Crete - Greece's largest island. In Greek, the term 'Creta' means to induce the notion of creativity.
    
3. This person was 19 years old when he came out with his first invention in the late 1930s after the Second World War had already started. He was determined to investigate the unexplored frequency region above 100 MHz in radio waves. On hearing about this invention, the US Army invited him to join the army and help it solve the problem of sending and receiving messages to and from the war front. His invention for the army was called 'Joan' and the one he invented for the US air force was called Eleanor. He went on to set up a company after the war to manufacture his products. Name him and his invention.
   Al Gross who invented the two way radio or Walkie Talkie. He set up the Gross electronics company and subsequently in 1949 effectively invented the first telephone pager system.
    
4. Connect the Malabar Princess and Kanchenjunga to a Hamburg banker, Alfred Nehemias, and a Berlin engineer, August Eberstein. What do you arrive at?
   The Mountain Mont Blanc, the highest peak in the Alps where both the Air India Planes Malabar Princess and Kanchenjunga crashed. August Eberstein who recognised the signs of time and decided to produce simplicissimus pens. After a short period of time Wilhelm Dziambor, Christian Lausen and later Claus Johannes Voss took over the business and thus laid the foundation for the future internationally successful company Montblanc.
    
5. This company name when translated in English reads - Tiger-Leopard Limited. Actually named after its founders this company severed ties with its Indian counterpart four years ago. Name the company and its popular brand.
   The Haw Par Corporation Limited the makers of Tiger Balm recently severed its ties with Elder Pharma in 2011. The company gets its name from its founders Boon Haw (Gentle Tiger) and Boon Par (Gentle Leopard).
    
6. After graduating with a law doctorate from the University of Vienna, this person the son of the district administrator entered the civil service in the Austrian ministry of commerce and qualified for a university career as a professor in the field of national economics. He was also a professor at the renowned Theresian Military Academy in Wiener Neustadt and from 1882 for twenty years professor of national economics at Vienna's Institute of Technology. Name him and the invention he brought out in 1869?
   Emanuel Alexander Herrmann was an Austrian national economist. He is considered the decisive last in an international line of inventors of the postal card or Post Card.
    
7. Carl Linnaeus the famous Swedish Taxonomist's most persistent attempts to grow this particular crop in Europe during the 1700s failed after 20 attempts. After ages the first commercial crop of this plant variety was harvested in 2005 in Cornwall, UK. Name it.
   Tea.
    
8. What is the slang term for large institutions that have the funds to make high volumes in stock trades? Due to the large volumes of stock that it deals in, any investment decisions that they make will have a large influence on the price of the underlying financial asset.
   Elephants.
    
9. Name this company whose name comes from the Latin word for 'day' and the Greek word for 'world'.
   Diageo, the world's leading premium drinks business that owns brands like Johnnie Walker, J&B, Smirnoff, and Baileys.
    
10. Identify the brand from its product packaging.
    Halls cough drops.

 

There were nine all correct entries for quiz No.424. Saswata Pal from Kutch, Gujarat, wins Rs 2,000.