Answers to last week's quiz (#419)

1. The CPU from the original ____video game console was used in NASA's New Horizons space probe, which just did a flyby of Pluto. The ______CPU was repurposed in 2006 by NASA to "fire thrusters, monitor sensors and transmit data." Now it has travelled 3.6 billion miles through space. Fill in both the blanks.
   Sony PlayStation. The same MIPS R3000 CPU/processor used to control New Horizon's onboard systems that once powered the first generation of Sony's popular gaming console.
    
2. What is the connection between the term 'software engineering' and the Apollo space missions? Name a person
   Margret H Hamilton. Hamilton developed the software for the onboard flight guidance systems for all the Apollo missions and is also credited for coining the term software engineering. She is currently the founder of Hamilton Technologies.
    
3. In 1893, these brothers established a brand named after them in Great Britain to manufacture soaps and jams. Soon they began to produce candy products such as caramels and traditional British favourites like chocolate limes and humbugs. For what specific product category is their brand still famous world over?
   The Halls cough drops. The Halls Brothers invented their patented Mentho-Lyptus formula, using a combination of menthol and eucalyptus, and began producing its popular cough drops in the 1930s.
    
4. Go set a watchman by Harper Lee has the following codes BISAC1: FICTION / General, BISAC2: FICTION/Literary, BISAC3: FICTION/Classics printed in the book. What does BISAC stand for?
   Book Industry Standards and Communications. These are codes established by the Book Industry Study Group. BISG develops and maintains a number of classification systems for both physical and digital products. The systems can be used individually or together to help determine where the work is shelved in a bricks-and-mortar store or the genre(s) under which it can be searched for in an online database.
    
5. This person lost his father at an early age. He later had a lot of trouble with his step father and was fired from multiple jobs, including that of a lawyer after a courtroom brawl with his own client. He never gave up and while working at a service station in a North Corbin in the US, he came up with his business idea and his brand got established in 1952. Today his brand clocks globally a sales of $41 billion approximately. Name the person and the brand.
   Harland Sanders, founder, KFC.
    
6. This brand/product gets its name from the Nahuatl language, known informally as Aztec, spoken by an estimated 1.5 million Nahua people, most of whom live in Central Mexico. This was the first sugar or candy coated product in its category and was apparently inspired by the coating used on Jordan Almonds in the early 1900s. Name the product and its creators.
   Chiclets. The product's name is derived from Nahuatl word tziktli, which is called chicle in English. Robert Fleer and Frank Fleer owners of the Fleer chewing gum company invented Chiclets.
    
7. In modern day offices what does the term Prairie Dogging mean?
   It occurs when employees pop up their heads from their cubicles to see what's happening or when the boss is walking past their work cubicles.
    
8. The actual name of the person who founded this company is Karunashankar. He was the son of legendary physician to Ranmal, the then King of Jamnagar. The King was highly pleased with his capabilities and services and, therefore, decided to give him a piece of land on the bank of Rangamati River in Gujarat for manufacturing medicines This is now the oldest factory manufacturing Ayurvedic drugs established 1864. Name the company and the other name the founder is known by.
   Mahatma Zandu Bhat, founder, Zandu Pharmaceuticals.
    
9. Which new airline's slogan is: "Fly your dream."
   Trujet. A Hyderabad-based airline co-founded by film star Ram Charan
    
10. Identify the brand that gets its name from German car Opel's sub brand and is in the news.
    Commodore. The company helped usher in the PC era before going bankrupt in 1994. Now it is teaming up with a pair of Italian entrepreneurs to try its hand at smartphones.

 

 

There were six all correct entries for quiz No.419. Pramod Kumar from Bengaluru wins Rs 2,000. The winner was chosen on the basis of first correct entry received.