Answers to last week's quiz (#164)

 

1. Which perfume was invented by Giovanni Paolo de Feminis towards the end of the 17th century?
   Aqua Admirabilis, also known as Eau de Cologne (meaning ‘water of Cologne’) 
    
2. Which was the first Indian housing finance company to be listed overseas?
   LIC Housing Finance Ltd 
    
3. At the age of 19, DK of Old Delhi started making fountain pens, and today, his company exports pens to about 75 countries. Name the company DK founded. 
   Luxor, founded by Davinder Kumar Jain 
    
4. Name the brothers who founded a company in the early 1940s to sell Willys jeeps in India.
   KC Mahindra and JC Mahindra who founded Mahindra & Mahindra 
    
5. Which company’s genesis is associated with a chemical engineer’s efforts to make India self-sufficient in manufacturing salt? Also, name the chemical engineer. 
   Tata Chemicals/Tata Salt. Kapil Ram Vakil. 
    
6. In 1936, ten cement manufacturers came under one umbrella and created perhaps the country’s first notable merger. Name the company that was established. 
   The Associated Cement Companies Ltd or ACC 
    
7. In 1895, who purchased a small grocery store for 26,000 Italian Lire in Turin — the origin of a famous global brand is linked to the store? 
   Luigi Lavazza who founded Lavazza, Italy’s largest coffee company and a global coffee chain 
    
8. What is popularly known as ‘hathiwala cream’ in parts of rural India? 
   Boroline which has an elephant logo 
    
9. Name the Indian company that was founded in 1962 after its founder on a trip to Germany discovered that car seat cushions were being manufactured with rubberised curled coir from Sri Lanka. 
   Karnataka Consumer Products Ltd which was renamed Kurlon Ltd in 1995. It was founded by Ramesh Pai. 
    
10. Identify the company from its logo. 
    
    Infomedia Yellow Pages

There were 122 all-correct entries for the strategist quiz #164. The winners who will receive a copy of The Living Dead: Switched Off, Zoned Out are:Sivateja Bandaru, Hyderabad; Gangubai Bhat, Bangalore; Prashant Kumar, Patna; Kalpak N, Thane; Shubham Roy, Bangalore; Sandesh Shenoy, Mangalore; Sapna Agrawal, Kolkata; Vishal Ganatra, Coimbatore; Ranjana Saraf, Bilaspur; Rajarshi Mandal, Vadodara. Sivateja Bandaru also wins Rs 2,000.