Answers to last week's quiz (#365)

1. Some in rural India use them as disposable water containers, contractors mix them with concrete and tar to ensure smooth road surfaces, sheaths of this product are placed beneath cement plastering on roofs to prevent water seepage and weavers in Varanasi use them to polish gold and silver threads. Name it.
   Condoms. These facts were published in a report in International perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health: Evidence from India.
    
2. During World War II when there was a ban on the use of fresh milk for manufacturing purposes in the UK, this company had to stop producing one of its regular products and sold a new product, Ration chocolate. It was also involved in the war efforts and manufactured aeroplane parts. Name the company.
   Cadbury's of UK
    
3. The founder of this brand was appointed as the official boot maker to the Prince of Wales during the 1860s. It takes pride in its heritage of following 190 steps even today to make a pair of shoes and dubs the process as 'stairway to heaven'. It has launched its by-request service in India with prices starting from Rs 70, 000 to Rs 6 lakh a pair. Name the brand.
   The 150-year-old bespoke shoe maker John Lobb. The company was acquired by the Hermes Group in 1976.
    
4. This company that was set up by a professor of mathematics from MIT and his student in 1998. The student & co-founders were killed aboard the American Airlines flight that crashed during the 9/11 attacks. Name the company and its founders.
   Akamai Technologies was founded by Tom Leighton, professor of mathematics from MIT and his student Daniel Lewin in 1998. Lewin was killed aboard flight 11 during the 9/11 attack.
    
5. Name the brand of the beer that is dedicated to Ernest Rutherford who discovered nuclear fission.
   The Atom Splitter. It is a beer brand that is brewed by the city of Cambridge brewery company. The Cavendish Laboratory is a world leading research centre for atomic and nuclear physics. It was established in 1874 in Cambridge and it is here where Ernest Rutherford who discovered nuclear fission
    
6. Which currency did the US model its dollar on when it first started minting dollar coins in 1792? It is said that this currency also gave US dollar its symbol.
   The Spanish Peso.
    
7. This person along with the sponsorship of William Wrigley Jr and packaging from the Cracker Jacks company created the K-rations, balanced meals for combat soldiers in World War II. He was also primarily responsible for the finding that high cholesterol levels are dangerous. Name him.
   Dr. Ancel Benjamin Keys.
    
8. This company was founded in early 1917 when 8 family owned businesses founded as early as 1603 got together. Today it uses the base line "Seasonsing your life."Name it.
   Kikkoman, the Japanese soy sauce manufacturing company.
    
9. This term was first coined at Boeing and it is now used to describe a place in a company where ideas are distilled and turned into working models. It is about working outside the traditional channels and use materials available to boost profits by driving out costly manufacturing techniques. Name it.
   Moonshine Shops.
    
10. The logo below is the modern version of The Way of St. James, known in Spanish as El Camino de Santiago. It is the name of pilgrimage routes to the shrine of the apostle St. James the Great in the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela in Galicia, Spain. Name the company, which in 1904 adopted the traditional symbol as its logo.
    Shell Petroleum. As per the company , both the word "Shell" and the Pecten symbol was suggested to its founder Samuel Graham. The Shell emblem was taken from his family coat of arms. The 'St James's Shell' had been adopted by the Graham family after their ancestors made the pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostella in Spain.

 

 

There were 18 correct entries for quiz No. 365. Ameya Parsekar from Goa, wins Rs 2,000. The winner is chosen on the basis of the first correct entry received.