Prelims
1) Whose headquarters is this – Its architect was Charles
Correa?
Ans. MRF
2) It was created in a South African lab by an
Ex-Unilever Employee called Graham Wulff. It was originally a thick pink liquid
which was marketed as anti-ageing ‘Beauty Fluid’. It was created as a gift for
his wife who was frustrated with the thick, waxy beauty creams that came in
shoe-polish tins that left her skin looking greasy. Name it?
Ans. Olay
3) After refusing to endorse any
brand for almost five decades, Actor Kamal Haasan appeared in his first
television commercial for?
Ans. Pothy’s
4) Which brand would come to mind
with an incident on July 15 1997, that involved the man below?
Ans. Versace
5) At 36, he was the very young
president of Jenson & Nicholson (India) Ltd, his reputation already secure
with this advertising slogan. Who?
Ans. Arun Nehru
6) Whose logo was this – It may be
familiar to many of you from childhood?
Ans. Indrajal Comics
7) Whose currency is this?
Ans. Seychelles
8) Who is she protesting against?
Ans. Hindustan Unilever Ltd – Sofia Ashraf
9) The National Airline of which Asian country has
been named as the worst airline on the planet for the fourth year running.
Indeed, it is the only airline on the planet to be given just one star by the
Skytrax Rating System?
Ans. North Korea - Air Koryo
10) Pearson reached a deal to sell
its 50% stake in The Economist. The British education services company is
selling 60% of the shares it owns to Exor, the holding company of which Italian
family?
Ans. Fiat
11) Which company has a range named
after the person seen in the visual?
Ans. Vibram - Spyridon Louis
12) Herb Kelleher, founder of
this company believed that a company can be run either by fear or by love, and
it’s obvious which he chose. Its logo has a heart and the day they hold their
corporate annual meeting is February 14 – Valentine’s Day. Name it?
Ans. Southwest Airlines
13) Its packaged in a Green glass
bottlewith a silver-coloured medallion, with past famous spokemsan such as Joe
Namath, Muhammad Ali and Jimmy Connors, this brand has positioned itself to
live up to their tagline ‘The Essence of Man’. Name it?
Ans. Brut
14) It’s the world’s largest,
not-for-profit product safety testing and certificatioin organization with
global name recognition and acceptance. Founded in 1894 in the US, it permits
the use of its listing mark as its stamp of approval on Goods and Materials
after standardized and stringent testing. Name it?
Ans. Underwriters Laboratries
15) When Google changed its logo
recently, what did it lose in its font?
Ans. Serif
from Sans Serif
16) At whose factory was this picture
clicked?
Ans. (Company Name) Tesla Motors
17) What popular brand of
antiseptic connected with personal hygiene is named for this British surgeon,
who pioneed the idea of sterile surgery?
Ans. Listerine
18) Video – Spiderman – Live Young
– Evian
19) What word has these two
meanings attributed to it – An unauthorized office for speculating in stocks or
currency using the funds of unwitting investors – A travel agency that
specializes in providing cheap air tickets?
Ans. Bucketshop
20) On the Occasion of the first
anniversay of certain event, Fox Star Studios recently hosted a special
screening of a movie starring Matt Damon to a certain group of people belonging
to which organization?
Ans. ISRO
21) The name for this product came
from the BF Goodrich company when they decided to use it on a new type of
rubber boots. They renamed it after the sound it made when used. What name did
they give it?
Ans. Zipper
22) FIB – It began on an Ebay owned
platform called Kijiji. Kijiji means community in Swahili, but it was difficult
to pronounce and didn’t mean much for the company. So they decided to go with
the name _____?
Ans. Quikr
23) ‘Bilbo baggins was a hobbit who
lived in his hobbit hole and never went for adventures, at last Gandalf the
wizard and his dwarves persuaded him to go. He had a very exiting (sic) time
fighting Goblins and Wargs. At last they get to the lonely monutain; Smaug, the
dragon who gaurds it is killed and after a terrific battle with the Goblins he
returned home – rich!. This book, with the help of maps, does not need any
illustrations. It is good and should appeal to all children between the ages of
5 and 9. This report by the 10 year old son of the founder of which publishing
firm helped the Tolkein’s ‘The Hobbit’ published?
Ans. Unwin – Not a very good piece
of literary criticism, Rayner Unwin later said of the report, ‘But in those
happy days, no second opinion was needed, if I said it was good enough to
publish, it was published
24) It was the answer to the
problem of providing beer of the British Empire in the east. It was too hot to
brew in the native country, so what was needed was a beer that could survive
the gruelling six-month journey from Britain intact. In the 1780s, a London
brewer called Hodgson answered the call by sending out a strong, heavily hopped
beer that would normally be aged like wine before drinking. The beer not only
survived the journey, but was found to have improved immeasurably. This was the
prototype to which type of beer?
Ans. India Pale Ale
25) It’s a Spanish clothing and
accessories retailer based in Arteixo, Galicia, and founded in 1975 by Amancio
Ortega and Rosalia Mera. It is the flagship chain store of the Inditex Group,
the world’s largest apparel retailer. Name it?
Ans. Zara
