Answers to Quiz - 10

1) What is Machinima?

Machinima is a way of making films using the technology of video games.


2) A portmanteau is a word derived by combining portions of two or more separate words, for example – advertorial (advertisement + editorial) or blog (web + log). Who coined the word portmanteau?

Lewis Carroll in Though the Looking Glass

3) A clandestine subversive organisation working within a country to further an invading enemy's military and political aims is known as ‘Fifth Column’. Who coined this phrase?

Emilio Mola Vidal, a Nationalist general during the Spanish Civil War (1936-39), originally coined the term. As four of his army columns moved on Madrid, the general referred to his militant supporters within the capital as his "fifth column," intent on undermining the loyalist government from within.

4) Developed in 1912 by Wilbur Scoville, what is the Scoville scale used to measure?

Scoville Scale measures the hotness of chillies

5) In September 2006, which city became the first fully wireless city in the world offering access to the Internet from anywhere?

Taipei

6) XBRL is poised to revolutionize business accounting throughout the world. What does XBRL stand for?

XBRL stands for eXtensible Business Reporting Language

7) What acronym coined by University of Colorado professors George Pring and Penelope Canaan describes a form of litigation usually filed by a large organisation to intimidate and silence a less powerful critic by so severely burdening them with the cost of a legal defence that they abandon their criticism.

SLAPP (Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation)

8) Called ‘The Last Great Race on Earth’ the Idiatrod is a dogsled race run over 1150 miles in Alaska and takes 9-12 days. Between which two points is this race run?

Idiatrod is run between Anchorage and Nome

9) The largest single span arch bridge in the world is in South Africa and is also recognised as the highest commercial bungee jump in the world at 216m. Name this bridge.

Bloukrans Bridge

10) The Black Museum, now referred to as the Crime Museum is not open to members of the public but is used as a lecture theatre for the curator to lecture police and like bodies in subjects such as Forensic Science, Pathology, Law and Investigative Techniques. Where is it located?

Black Museum is in London

QUIZ - 10

1) What is Machinima?

2) A portmanteau is a word derived by combining portions of two or more separate words, for example – advertorial (advertisement + editorial) or blog (web + log). Who coined the word portmanteau?

3) A clandestine subversive organisation working within a country to further an invading enemy's military and political aims is known as ‘Fifth Column’. Who coined this phrase?

4) Developed in 1912 by Wilbur Scoville, what is the Scoville scale used to measure?

5) In September 2006, which city became the first fully wireless city in the world offering access to the Internet from anywhere?

6) XBRL is poised to revolutionize business accounting throughout the world. What does XBRL stand for?

7) What acronym coined by University of Colorado professors George Pring and Penelope Canaan describes a form of litigation usually filed by a large organisation to intimidate and silence a less powerful critic by so severely burdening them with the cost of a legal defence that they abandon their criticism.

8) Called ‘The Last Great Race on Earth’ the Idiatrod is a dogsled race run over 1150 miles in Alaska and takes 9-12 days. Between which two points is this race run?

9) The largest single span arch bridge in the world is in South Africa and is also recognised as the highest commercial bungee jump in the world at 216m. Name this bridge.

10) The Black Museum, now referred to as the Crime Museum is not open to members of the public but is used as a lecture theatre for the curator to lecture police and like bodies in subjects such as Forensic Science, Pathology, Law and Investigative Techniques. Where is it located?

Answers to Quiz - 9

1) An important element of Bond films is the beautiful women. Who is the only actress to have played the role of a Bond Girl twice?

Maud Adams. She plays the role of Andrea Anders, the villain's girlfriend in ‘The Man With The Golden Gun’ and later played the title role in "Octopussy’

2) Another important element is the theme music. Which singer has the distinction of providing the theme song in more than one Bond movie?

Shirley Bassey,the Welsh crooner is the only artist to provide the theme for more than one Bond film. She has sung the themes for ‘Goldfinger’ ‘Diamonds Are Forever’ and ‘Moonraker’

3) Which was the first Bond film to win an Academy Award?

‘Goldfinger’ for Best Sound Effects and it was won by Norman Wanstall

4) Ian Fleming named James Bond, after an author because his name was "brief, unromantic, Anglo-Saxon, and yet very masculine - just what I needed.” Name this book, which is a collector’s item among Bond fans?

Birds of the West Indies








5) Which is the only Bond theme song to have reached No.1 on the US charts?





The theme to ‘A View To A Kill’ by Duran Duran

6) "Orbis non sufficit" is the motto of James Bond’s family. Its English translation is also the title of a Bond film. Which film?

The World Is Not Enough (1999)

7) Who is the only singer to have made a personal appearance during the opening credits of a Bond film?

Sheena Easton is the only performer to appear in the opening credits of a bond movie ‘For Your Eyes Only’

8) Universal Exports is the fictional trading company that Bond represents in Ian Fleming’s novels. In the later novels this name was changed by Fleming, since the cover was discovered by the opponents. What is the new cover name?

Transworld Consortium. The films however continued to use the older name

9) In the novels and the movies Bond's boss is known as M. How was the head of the real Secret Service known by?

The designation C after the original director general of MI6, Sir Mansfield Cumming. There is a theory that Fleming chose M since this is what he called his mother. In the novels, M is named as Sir Miles Messervy, which may explain the use of the letter

QUIZ - 9

Quizzing is bonding.

1) An important element of Bond films is the beautiful women. Who is the only actress to have played the role of a Bond Girl twice?

2) Another important element is the theme music. Which singer has the distinction of providing the theme song in more than one Bond movie?

3) Which was the first Bond film to win an Academy Award?

4) Ian Fleming named James Bond, after an author because his name was "brief, unromantic, Anglo-Saxon, and yet very masculine - just what I needed.” Name this book, which is a collector’s item among Bond fans?

5) Which is the only Bond theme song to have reached No.1 on the US charts?

6) "Orbis non sufficit" is the motto of James Bond’s family. Its English translation is also the title of a Bond film. Which film?

7) Who is the only singer to have made a personal appearance during the opening credits of a Bond film?

8) Universal Exports is the fictional trading company that Bond represents in Ian Fleming’s novels. In the later novels this name was changed by Fleming, since the cover was discovered by the opponents. What is the new cover name?

9) In the novels and the movies Bond's boss is known as M. How was the head of the real Secret Service known by?

Answers to Quiz - 8

1) Of which Central American country is ‘The Merengue’ the national dance?

Dominican Republic

2) What is the name given to planets that are located outside our solar system?

Exoplanets

3) In business parlance, what does the term ‘Chinese Walls’ refer to?

Separation of investment banking and brokerage operations to avoid conflict of interest

4) Many cargo ships are designed to suit the dimensions of the lock chambers of the Panama Canal. What is this special classification of ships called?

Panamax Ships

5) Having provided 4 out of first 5 presidents and 8 in all, which state is considered as the birthplace of American Presidents?

Virginia

6) What term did the astronomer Fritz Zwicky coin to describe stars that explode violently with their luminosity suddenly increasing several million times their normal level?

Supernova

7) In October 1986, a series of far-reaching reforms opened up the London Stock Exchange and is believed to be responsible for catapulting London to the status of the Business Capital of the World. What is the popular term given to the revolution ushered in by these reforms?

Big Bang

8) Name the geologists who in 1980 proposed that the mass extinction of dinosaurs 65 million years ago was caused by the impact of an asteroid on earth.

Luis and Walter Alvarez

9) Which word, meaning stone snake in the Aztec language, describes the stone canals that form part of an extensive network of aqueduct in the Tehuacan Valley in Mexico, believed to be longest prehistoric water management system in the New World?

Tecoatl

QUIZ - 8

1) Of which Central American country is ‘The Merengue’ the national dance?

2) What is the name given to planets that are located outside our solar system?

3) In business parlance, what does the term ‘Chinese Walls’ refer to?

4) Many cargo ships are designed to suit the dimensions of the lock chambers of the Panama Canal. What is this special classification of ships called?

5) Having provided 4 out of first 5 presidents and 8 in all, which state is considered as the birthplace of American Presidents?

6) What term did the astronomer Fritz Zwicky coin to describe stars that explode violently with their luminosity suddenly increasing several million times their normal level?

7) In October 1986, a series of far-reaching reforms opened up the London Stock Exchange and is believed to be responsible for catapulting London to the status of the Business Capital of the World. What is the popular term given to the revolution ushered in by these reforms?

8) Name the geologists who in 1980 proposed that the mass extinction of dinosaurs 65 million years ago was caused by the impact of an asteroid on earth.

9) Which word, meaning stone snake in the Aztec language, describes the stone canals that form part of an extensive network of aqueduct in the Tehuacan Valley in Mexico, believed to be longest prehistoric water management system in the New World?

Answers to Quiz - 7

1) To mark the 70th anniversary of the popular board game, Monopoly has recently introduced a new edition that carries brand names like Toyota, Starbucks, Motorola and McDonalds on its tokens. What is this edition called?

Monopoly Here and Now

2) What is the name of the recently released memoirs written by Carly Fiorina, the former CEO of Hewlett Packard?

Tough Choices

3) Which country has the world’s tallest people?

Netherlands

4) Which is the earliest known civilization in the Americas?

The Olmec Civilization

5) Which company will manufacture Microsoft’s digital music player Zune?

Toshiba

6) Name the author who has been nominated a record six times for the Booker Prize

Iris Murdoch

7) Name the young actress known as ‘The Black Dahlia’, whose gruesome murder in 1947, has resulted in several books, TV serials, songs, bands, internet sites and now a film.

Elizabeth Short

8) What unusual experiment is US jazz composer David Baker trying at this month’s Chicago Sinfonietta classical music festival?

During the 15-minute composition, members of the audience and the orchestra will be asked to use their cell phones at various points throughout the piece with red and green lights telling them when to turn their phones on and off

9) Who has created Vertu Constellation, Nokia’s diamond encrusted, platinum shelled premium range cell phones?

Frank Nuovo

10) With which country would you associate the cocktail Pisco Sour?

Peru

QUIZ - 7

Quizzing is staying current like a newspaper.

1) To mark the 70th anniversary of the popular board game, Monopoly has recently introduced a new edition that carries brand names like Toyota, Starbucks, Motorola and McDonalds on its tokens. What is this edition called?

2) What is the name of the recently released memoirs written by Carly Fiorina, the former CEO of Hewlett Packard?

3) Which country has the world’s tallest people?

4) Which is the earliest known civilization in the Americas?

5) Which company will manufacture Microsoft’s digital music player Zune?

6) Name the author who has been nominated a record six times for the Booker Prize.

7) Name the young actress known as ‘The Black Dahlia’, whose gruesome murder in 1947, has resulted in several books, TV serials, songs, bands, internet sites and now a film.

8) What unusual experiment is US jazz composer David Baker trying at this month’s Chicago Sinfonietta classical music festival?

9) Who has created Vertu Constellation, Nokia’s diamond encrusted, platinum shelled premium range cell phones?

10) With which country would you associate the cocktail Pisco Sour?

Answers to Quiz - 6

1) In the history of Nobel Prize, only four persons have received the prize twice. Three of them are Marie Curie, Linus Pauling and John Bardeen. Who is the fourth?

Frederick Sanger in 1958 and 1980 both times for chemistry

2) What important rule change on Nobel Prize happened in 1974?

Before 1974, someone who had been nominated but later died could get a prize. The rules were changed so a prize can only go to a deceased person who had won the prize, but died before receiving it

3) What is the Abel Prize?

The prize started by the Norwegian Government in 2001
with the intention of being a substitute for the missing Nobel Prize in Mathematics

4) What is the contribution of Norwegian sculptor Gustav Vigeland towards Nobel Prize?

He designed the medal for the Nobel Peace Prize

5) What happened while awarding the Nobel Prize for Economics in 1975 to the Russian Leonid Kantorovich and the American Tjalling Koopmans?

The name of the Winner for the Economics Prize is engraved on the edge of the medal, which is less obvious. Their medals were mixed up during the presentation in Stockholm and the winners went back to their respective countries with the wrong medals. As this happened during the Cold War, it took four years of diplomatic efforts to have the medals exchanged to their rightful owners

6) Which Nobel Prize medal carries no quotation on the reverse side?

Economics

7) Who declined to accept the Nobel Prize for literature in 1964?

Jean-Paul Sartre

8) Which organization has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize 3 times?

International Committee of the Red Cross in 1917, 1944 and 1963

9) Who are the only siblings ever to have won the Nobel Prize?

Jan Tinbergen (1969 Economics) and Nikolaas Tinbergen (1973 Medicine)

QUIZ - 6

Quizzing is aiming for the pinnacle of Nobel

Here are ten questions related to the Nobel Prize

1) In the history of Nobel Prize, only four persons have received the prize twice. Three of them are Marie Curie, Linus Pauling and John Bardeen. Who is the fourth?

2) What important rule change on Nobel Prize happened in 1974?

3) What is the Abel Prize?

4) What is the contribution of Norwegian sculptor Gustav Vigeland towards Nobel Prize?

5) What happened while awarding the Nobel Prize for Economics in 1975 to the Russian Leonid Kantorovich and the American Tjalling Koopmans ?

6) Which Nobel Prize medal carries no quotation on the reverse side?

7) Who declined to accept the Nobel Prize for literature in 1964?

8) Which organization has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize 3 times?

9) Who are the only siblings ever to have won the Nobel Prize?

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Answers to Quiz - 5

1) Where would people buy and sell using Linden Dollars?

In ‘Second Life’ the virtual community

2) If a bit is the smallest unit of information in conventional computing, what is a qubit?

The smallest unit of information in Quantum Computing, which relies on quantum physics and takes advantage of certain quantum physics properties of atoms or nuclei that allow them to work together as quantum bits, or qubits, to be the computer's processor and memory.

3) Name the freely available Linux based operating system developed by the South African entrepreneur.

Ubuntu

4) After which legendary rock guitarist has a premium vodka label been launched recently?

Hendrix Electric after Jimi Hendrix

5) Which word meaning ‘that which folds up’ in the Makonde language spoken in the Tanzania – Mozambique border describes a rare viral fever spread by mosquito bites?

Chikungunya

6) Who in 2004 coined the phrase web 2.0 to refer to the second generation of Internet based services like social networking sites?

O’Reilly Media

7) The concept of slugging is popular in many American cities, especially Washington. What is it?

Unofficial car-pooling to increase the occupancy level of a car so as to specially designated less congested traffic lanes.

8) Bluetooth technology provides wireless connectivity between various devices and takes its name from King Harald Bluetooth who made the warring parties to talk to each other. Which country did this king rule?

Denmark

9) Google recently launched its search engine in Quechua, the official language of an ancient empire. Which empire?

Inca Empire. It is spoken by more than 10 million people today in South America.

10) In the 1960’s following the discovery of natural gas in Holland, the country’s manufacturing sector went into a decline. This led economists to coin a term to explain the de-industrialisation of a country’s economy in the wake of a large inflow of foreign currency. What is this term called?

Dutch Disease

QUIZ - 5

Quizzing is staying on the cutting edge

1) Where would people buy and sell using Linden Dollars?

2) If a bit is the smallest unit of information in conventional computing, what is a qubit?

3) Name the freely available Linux based operating system developed by the South African entrepreneur.

4) After which legendary rock guitarist has a premium vodka label been launched recently?

5) Which word meaning ‘that which folds up’ in the Makonde language spoken in the Tanzania – Mozambique border describes a rare viral fever spread by mosquito bites?

6) Who in 2004 coined the phrase web 2.0 to refer to the second generation of Internet based services like social networking sites?

7) The concept of slugging is popular in many American cities, especially Washington. What is it?

8) Bluetooth technology provides wireless connectivity between various devices and takes its name from King Harald Bluetooth who made the warring parties to talk to each other. Which country did this king rule?

9) Google recently launched its search engine in Quechua, the official language of an ancient empire. Which empire?

10) In the 1960’s following the discovery of natural gas in Holland, the country’s manufacturing sector went into a decline. This led economists to coin a term to explain the de-industrialisation of a country’s economy in the wake of a large inflow of foreign currency. What is this term called?

Answers to Quiz - 4

1) What is the name of a new International Money proposed by Joseph Stiglitz, winner of Nobel Prize in economics and former chief economist at the World Bank?

Global Greenback

2) Which is the first country to issue currency notes in plastic?

Australia in January 1988

3) What symbol did Arthur Eisenmenger create?

The Euro Symbol - €

4) What is the study of paper money or banknotes called?

Notaphily

5) What is the origin of Buck, the slang term for Dollar?

From the practice of using buckskins as medium of trading by Indians

6) What is the name given to a specially struck coin, which is much thicker and heavier than normal, often exactly twice the normal weight?

Piedfort

7) An incident in a famous New York restaurant led Frank McNamara to invent the credit card. Name the restaurant

Major’s Cabin Grill

8)What is the term to define the profit that results from the difference in the cost of printing money and the face value of that money?

seigniorage

9) Which country’s currency is Balboa, named after the Spanish explorer Vasco Núñez de Balboa?

Panama

10) Name the silver mine in former Bohemia (now Czech Republic) from which the Dollar is widely believed to have derived its name.

Joachimsthal

QUIZ - 4

Quizzing is circulating (like money)

Ten monetary questions.

1) What is the name of a new International Money proposed by Joseph Stiglitz, winner of Nobel Prize in economics and former chief economist at the World Bank?

2) Which is the first country to issue currency notes in plastic?

3) What symbol did Arthur Eisenmenger create?

4) What is the study of paper money or banknotes called?

5) What is the origin of Buck, the slang term for Dollar?

6) What is the name given to a specially struck coin, which is much thicker and heavier than normal, often exactly twice the normal weight?

7) An incident in a famous New York restaurant led Frank McNamara to invent the credit card. Name the restaurant

8) What is the term to define the profit that results from the difference in the cost of printing money and the face value of that money?

9) Which country’s currency is Balboa, named after the Spanish explorer Vasco Núñez de Balboa?

10)Name the silver mine in former Bohemia (now Czech Republic) from which the Dollar is widely believed to have derived its name.

Answers to Quiz - 3

1)Who was the first Head of State to be assassinated with a handgun?

Prince William of Orange (also known as William the Silent) in 1584

2)What are Kingston Black, Court Royal, Breakwell’s Seedling, and Foxwhelp?

Premium variety of apples used for making cider

3)The term 'Vegetarian' was was first formally used on September 30th 1847 by Joseph Brotherton and others, at the inaugural meeting of the Vegetarian Society of the United Kingdom. What were vegetarians known by prior to 1847?

Pythagoreans

4)What is the slang term used to describe promotional merchandise given away free at trade shows, music concerts etc?

Swag (Stuff We All Get)

5)What are the bicycle-taxis in Uganda and Kenya called?

Boda-boda

6)What is Jarvik-7?

Artificial heart developed by American physician Dr. Robert K. Jarvik

7)Name the Roman slave who became the secretary and confidant of the great orator
Cicero and who is credited with having invented the sign & (ampersand)?

Tiro

8)Which Renaissance poet turned preacher wrote – ‘No man is an island’?

John Donne

9)Known popularly as Khatun or Lady, who was the first woman officer in the history of British military intelligence?

Gertrude Bell

10)Name the new sponsor with effect from 2007 of the Whitbread Book Awards, one of the most prestigious literary awards in UK.

Costa Coffee

QUIZ - 3

Quizzing is spreading your interests thin.

Here are 10 questions on a wide range of topics.


1) Who was the first Head of State to be assassinated with a handgun?

2) What are Kingston Black, Court Royal, Breakwell’s Seedling, and Foxwhelp?

3) The term 'Vegetarian' was was first formally used on September 30th 1847 by Joseph Brotherton and others, at the inaugural meeting of the Vegetarian Society of the United Kingdom. What were vegetarians known by prior to 1847?

4) What is the slang term used to describe promotional merchandise given away free at trade shows, music concerts etc?

5) What are the bicycle-taxis in Uganda and Kenya called?

6) What is Jarvik-7?

7) Name the Roman slave who became the secretary and confidant of the great orator Cicero and who is credited with having invented the sign & (ampersand)?

8) Which Renaissance poet turned preacher wrote – ‘No man is an island’?

9) Known popularly as Khatun or Lady, who was the first woman officer in the history of British military intelligence?

10)Name the new sponsor with effect from 2007 of the Whitbread Book Awards, one of the most prestigious literary awards in UK.

Answers to Quiz - 2

1) Name the deepest spot on earth located at 11034 m in the Pacific Ocean

Challenger Deep

2) The International Hydrographic Organization delimited and defined a new ocean in 2000. Name this fifth ocean.

The Southern Ocean

3) Name the Spanish explorer who discovered the Pacific Ocean

Vasco Nuñez de Balboa

4) There are three main processes that make the oceans circulate: tidal forces, wind stress, and density differences. What is the name given to the circulation driven by density differences?

Thermohaline circulation

5) The waters of the ocean are divided into three zones. While the top two zones can be penetrated by sunlight, it does not reach the deepest zone. What is the name of this zone that it not penetrated by sunlight ?

Aphotic Zone

6) Two important oceanic currents, one cold and the other warm meet at Grand Banks near Newfoundland, creating heavy fog and also one of the richest fishing grounds in the world. The warm current is the Gulf Stream. Name the cold current.

Labrador Current

7) What is the name given to the deposits of dead shells occurring uniformly on the ocean floors of the world?

Globigerina ooze

8) Who invented the Bathysphere, a spherical deep-diving chamber in which persons are lowered by a cable to study the oceans and deep-sea life?

William Beebe and Otis Barton

9) With a maximum depth of 8,047 meters, which is the deepest trench of the Indian Ocean?

The Diamantina Trench

10) What are lines on a map joining points of equal underwater depth called?

Isobath

QUIZ - 2

Quizzing is about plumbing the depths of ocean

Ten questions about oceans

1) Name the deepest spot on earth located at 11034 m in the Pacific Ocean

2) The International Hydrographic Organization delimited and defined a new ocean in 2000. Name this fifth ocean.

3) Name the Spanish explorer who discovered the Pacific Ocean

4) There are three main processes that make the oceans circulate: tidal forces, wind stress, and density differences. What is the name given to the circulation driven by density differences?

5) The waters of the ocean are divided into three zones. While the top two zones can be penetrated by sunlight, it does not reach the deepest zone. What is the name of this zone that it not penetrated by sunlight ?

6) Two important oceanic currents, one cold and the other warm meet at Grand Banks near Newfoundland, creating heavy fog and also one of the richest fishing grounds in the world. The warm current is the Gulf Stream. Name the cold current.

7) What is the name given to the deposits of dead shells occurring uniformly on the ocean floors of the world?

8) Who invented the Bathysphere, a spherical deep-diving chamber in which persons are lowered by a cable to study the oceans and deep-sea life?

9) With a maximum depth of 8,047 meters, which is the deepest trench of the Indian Ocean?

10) What are lines on a map joining points of equal underwater depth called?

Answers to Quiz - 1

1) Which country recently took over the Presidency of the European Union (EU) ?

Finland

2) Name the trade group that comprises five Latin American countries - Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay and Venezuela - as its full members

Mercosur

3) A British Member of Parliament whose tireless campaign against malpractices in the shipping industry culminated in the passing of 'The Merchant Shipping Act' in 1876, has also lent his name to rubber soled canvas shoes. Name this crusader.

Samuel Plimsoll. The shoes are called Plimsolls. The Plimsoll Line is the maximum level of submergence of a cargo ship

4) The 19th Century merchant who pioneered the concept of Department Stores and Price Tags once said - 'Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted. The trouble is. I don't know which half'. Who is he?

John Wanamaker

5) Which company that once made gumboots is today synonymous with its new product and accounts for a quarter of its country's exports?

Nokia

6) Which chain of restaurants has for its motto - 'Love all, Serve all', inspired by Sathya Sai Baba?

Hard Rock Cafe

7) Which American billionaire is the third largest shareholder of General Motors holding nearly 10% of the shares?

Kirk Kerkorian

8) Which Canadian company has built specially designed coaches to run on the recently opened Qinghai - Tibet Railway?

Bombardier Transportation

9) Which company, now bankrupt, was not too long ago positioning itself as 'The World's Leading Company' ?

Enron

10) Which company is the majority owner of Airbus, holding as much as 80% of its shares?

European Aeronautic and Defence Space Company (EADS)

QUIZ - 1

Quizzing is about organizing the mind

These 10 questions are mostly about organizations.

1) Which country recently took over the Presidency of the European Union (EU)?

2) Name the trade group that comprises five Latin American countries - Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay and Venezuela - as its full members

3) A British Member of Parliament whose tireless campaign against malpractices in the shipping industry culminated in the passing of 'The Merchant Shipping Act' in 1876, has also lent his name to rubber soled canvas shoes. Name this crusader.

4) The 19th Century merchant who pioneered the concept of Department Stores and Price Tags once said - 'Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted. The trouble is. I don't know which half'. Who is he?

5) Which company that once made gumboots is today synonymous with its new product and accounts for a quarter of its country's exports?

6) Which chain of restaurants has for its motto - 'Love all, Serve all', inspired by Sathya Sai Baba?

7) Which American billionaire is the third largest shareholder of General Motors holding nearly 10% of the shares?

8) Which Canadian company has built specially designed coaches to run on the recently opened Qinghai - Tibet Railway?

9) Which company, now bankrupt, was not too long ago positioning itself as 'The World's Leading Company' ?

10) Which company is the majority owner of Airbus, holding as much as 80% of its shares?

ANSWERS in a week's time.