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1. Hasbro has a tie up with Funskool India to market its toys and games in India.

Name the
parent company of Funskool.
MRF
2. The ad featuring Moon Moon Sen’s daughter Riya Dev Varma for Nirma lime Soap looks
very similar to the Liril ad. Could it be because it was directed by the same person? Who
directed them?
Kailash Surendranath
3. Name the newspaper started by industrialist Vijaypath Singhania of the J.K. Group.
The Indian Post
4. What does TIMES stand for in the name of TIMES Television, the Television division of
Bennett and Coleman Ltd.
Television for Information, Music, Entertainment and Sports
5. A Bombay based jewellery house launched a range of earrings called H.B. a couple of
years ago. Why were they called H.B. ?
After Henry Blofeld the popular cricket commentator known for his penchant for earrings
6. When Henry Ford died, amongst his last possessions was a test tube. What did it
supposedly contain?
The last breath of Thomas Alva Edison
7. Which Indian businessman was part of the design team at Intel that designed the Intel
80486 microprocessor?
Rajeev Chandrasekhar of BPL
8. In which merchant bank did P.G.Wodehouse work for two years?
The Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation
9. To which company did the shipment of tea destroyed by the American colonists during the
Boston Tea Party in 1773 belong?
The East India Company
10. What was advertised with the slogan “You press the button and we do the rest” ?
Kodak
11. What is an unrhymed Japanese poem of 3 lines, containing 17 syllables called? It is also
the name of an Indian saree range.
Haiku
12. Honda advertised in the 1960s with the line “You meet the nicest people on a Honda”.
Which Indian automobiles advertised two decades later with the same line?
Kinetic Honda and Contessa
13. Which brand created a sensation by sticking a Ford Cortina to a billboard at a busy
junction in London?
Araldite
14. During Wimbledon 1995 Pete Sampras and Andre Agassi played a mock tennis match at
Trafalgar Square in London. Why?
To shoot a commercial for Nike
15. Which Indian brand combined the Coke and Pepsi ad slogans to come up with the line
“The real thing is the choice of the new generations”?
London Pilsner Beer
16. What was launched in 1959 in Kansas by the Carney Brothers?
Pizza Hut
17. The highest ever wicket partnership in England was between Herbert Sutcliffe and Percy
Holmes in 1923 against Essex in Leyton. How is this significant to the present day corporate
world?
They scored 555 runs giving 555 cigarettes their name
18. Complete this line “There is but one cup to win, eleven proud people, twelve proud
nations, lean to win the cup ________ .
Share the Magic
19. What food item was patented in 1830 and called ‘Dr. Miles compound Tomato extract’?
Tomato Ketchup
20. Which Indian clothing brand gets its name from Greek for ‘Circle of Animals’?
Zodiac
21. Which industrialist – Philanthropist donated $800,00 for the land on which the U.N.
General Assembly has been built?
John D. Rockefeller Jr.
22. Ken Follett has written a book ‘On the wings of Eagles’ which deals with the true story of
how 40 odd employees of an American Company EDS corporation escaped from Iran when
caught in the Islamic Revolution. Who owns EDS and appears throughout the book?
Ross Perot
23. 17 year old Rudyard Kipling roamed India as Assistant Editor of the Civil and Military
Gazette, Lahore. He then wrote ‘Soldiers Three’ a series of short tales that launched a
pervasive, nation wide enterprise which exists to date. What?
The A.H.Wheeler publishing House and chain of bookstores
24. What is a ‘Sen’ in monetary terms?
1/100th of a Yen
25. Which brand derives its name from the Japanese God of Mercy?
Canon from Kwanon
26. Following the super success of Food World, the Spencers Group has launched two other
chains of superstores. Name them.
Music World and Health&Glow
27. Which Indian newspaper advertises with the line “Why settle for anything else”?
The Statesman
28. Ads for which Indian product feature the following – a raunchy novel titled ‘fantasies’,
perfume and a registered postal package?
VIP Frenchie
29. Which Indian newspaper claims along with its price on the masthead that ‘One Paise goes
to charity for every issue sold”.
The Afternoon Despatch and Courier
30. This was the classification of the highest quality of ships, by the Lloyds shipping
Registrar of the world famous insurance association Lloyds. It has now become a phrase in
the language meaning something of superior quality. What?
The term ‘A-1’

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