- Which Italian luxury apparel and accessory brand is opening its store at the Trident hotel in Mumbai?
- What is the term associated with an unlikely but not impossible catastrophe that no one ever seems to plan for? It was popularised by a book with the same title and is symbolic of the current downturn caused by irrational exuberance.
- Recently, an Istanbul-based company recruited 100 additional staff to meet over three lakh orders for its product model no. 271. Why is the product in demand?
- In 1905, on a cold winter night, an 11-year-old mixed soda water powder and water in a glass and left it on his back porch. He recounted the incident 18 years later and applied for a patent. Name this inventor and his invention.
- Who launched the brands Shhh and Controversial?
- Name the company which specialises in sending men dressed like extras from a 1930s Fred Astaire movie to humiliate debtors into paying up?
- Which brand launched a special edition of its product as a tribute to Marlene Dietrich? The product carries the star’s signature on it.
- Before the internet era, hard copies of memos were circulated in offices with a covering note carrying the names of all those who are to receive or see it. What was the covering note called?
- As per his wish, which actor-singer was buried with a packet of Camel cigarettes.
- This logo belongs to a brand which can be linked to Sania Mirza, Boris Becker and Martina Navratilova. Identify it.
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