Answers to last week's quiz (#330)

1. Connect one of Louis Vuitton menswear collection launched in 2012, a limited edition of Jaguar Land Rover launched 10 years ago, a special edition of the Italian pen company Delta and a Swiss brand of rock bottom shoes. What do you arrive at?
   
   All these products have been inspired by the Maasai tribe and have been named after them. About six companies (including these) have each made more than a $100 million in annual sales during the last decade using the tribe's name.
    
2. In a recently published listing, Michael Jackson is ranked No.1. This list also includes Charles Schulz (creator of the comic strip Peanuts), Albert Einstein, Elizabeth Taylor and Bob Marley. What does this listing relate to?
   
   Published by the Forbes magazine they all find themselves in the list of top earning dead celebrities.
    
3. This brand in the US has donated close to a million dollars towards honey bee research by partnering with leading research facilities. It started this funding when it realized that one-third the honey bee colonies in the US disappear due to factors such as Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD), an alarming phenomenon that occurs when honey bees mysteriously desert their hive and die. Name the brand.
   
   The ice cream brand Haagen-Dazs.
    
4. With which product is a Swedish paper mill, a Connecticut housewife, and a Procter &Gamble engineer connected with?
   
   The Disposable Diaper. Paulistrom Bruk was the Swedish paper mill that first put pads of treated paper into rubber pants and produced the first diaper in 1936. Marion Donovan invented a commercially successful product called the boater in 1946. Victor Mills an engineer at P&G perfected the diaper idea and was responsible for the creation of Pampers in 1961.
    
5. What are Castro's convertibles?
   
   Sofa cum beds or Sofa Beds. During the depression era Bernard Castro and Italian immigrant to the US spotted a niche in the market and proposed a bed that could double up as a Sofa. He called it Castro's Convertibles.
    
6. What is common to the Spanish Bread Train and the second largest bank in Switzerland?
   
   Alfred Escher. He set up the bank to build the railways in Switzerland. In 1847, the first railway in Switzerland ran from Zurich to Baden. The train got the nickname "Spanish Bread Train", because it brought a bakery specialty to Zurich.
    
7. What is the term that is used to describe the act of aggressive competition that results in one company taking portions of another company's market share? Generally when one company has a bigger market share for a particular product or service, the company enjoying the larger market share is called _________.
   
   Eating someone's Lunch.
    
8. Who said this to his manager H W Stringfellow in the early 1900s: "Sir, I have made up my mind. I resign the bank service. One day my bank will be bigger than yours"? Stringfellow considered this as a huge joke.
   
   Sir Sorabji Nusserwanji Pochkhanawala, one of the founders of Central Bank of India.
    
9. Which company's base line is "Simplify the Business of Life"?
   
   Intuit software.
    
10. Identify the company from its logo. In this company's history a film personality and his family took over its management for some period of time. Name him too.
    
    
    
    IPCA laboratories. In 1975 the management of the company was taken over by Amitabh Bachchan, Ajitabh Bachchan, Jaya Bachchan, MR Chandurkar and PC Godha. Amitabh Bachchan and his family sold majority of their stake during the late 1990s.

There were 10 correct entries for quiz no. 330. Vikram Rana from Mayur Vihar, New Delhi, Rs 2000. Winner was chosen by drawing lots.