Answers to last week's quiz (#372)

1. Whose words are these: "And there was Jack Welch. I got him into India because GE was not known in India and Pakistan. I pressed upon him to come. Rajiv Gandhi, who was a high-tech guy, had admiration for Jack. India was a closed economy and I became GE's national adviser?"
   Kushal Pal Singh, a former army officer and chairman of developer DLF Ltd.
    
2. Connect actors Margot Kidder, who played the role of Lois Lane in the first Superman movie released in 1978 and Timothy Dalton, who acted in the 1989 Bond film Licence to Kill, to a strange commercial proposition.
   Philip Morris paid the makers of Superman $42,500 to have Lois Lane smoke Marlboro cigarettes despite the character not smoking in the comics. Similarly they paid $350,000 to the makers of the Bond film Licence to Kill and had Timothy Dalton smoke their Lark brand of cigarettes in the movie
    
3. Which location has the world's only beach airport for scheduled flights? It was first licensed as a runway in 1936 and its flight schedule is drawn up to accommodate high tide, which submerges three of its runways.
   The Isle of Barra Airport in Scotland.
    
4. During the Depression era of the late 1920s and early 1930s movie theatres in the US introduced a box office stimulant called Bank Nights. What was it?
   During certain days of the week theatres used to have a bank nights, on these nights patrons had the opportunity to win prizes for the price of the admission ticket. They eventually fell out of the law since they were considered as illegal lotteries.
    
5. This word now being used as internet slang meant an ugly dwarf or a giant in old English and originated from a Norse word. It is also used to describe a fishing technique. Name it.
   Troll. In Internet slang a troll is a person who sows discord on the Internet by starting arguments or upsetting people, by posting inflammatory, extraneous, or off-topic messages in an online community with the deliberate intent of provoking readers.
    
6. Name the brand, which was created in 1997 to bring back to life the legendary nameless travel companion that was used by artists and thinkers over the past two centuries, among them Vincent van Gogh, Pablo Picasso, Ernest Hemingway, and Bruce Chatwin.
   Moleskine Notebooks, manufactured by a Milan based company Modo & Modo Spa.
    
7. This idea first surfaced in the work of US leadership theorist Warren G Bennis. It later received a boost through Alvin Toffler and then from Henry Mintzberg, who published a book in 1979 on the structuring of organisations. What was the concept?
   The concept of Adhocracy.
    
8. Which global beverage brand has historic links with Hannibal and Julius Ceaser?
   Perrier, the bottled mineral water brand. Legend has it that its source a spring in the Bouillens estate in France was first discovered by Hannibal and later developed by Julius Ceaser
    
9. Which company formed recently in India uses this sanskrit phrase "Atithi Devo Bhava" as its official slogan?
   Vistara Air. (Tata-SIA JV)
    
10. Whose logo is this?
    The Ford Foundation. It is one of the oldest non profits to have been set up in 1936 by Edsel Ford and Henry Ford. In 1952, it opened its first foundation office outside the United States in New Delhi.

 

 

There were 7 correct entries for quiz No. 372. C.Vasant from Chennai wins Rs 2,000. The winner is chosen on the basis of the first correct entry received.