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Mint Quiz #20

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First Published: Fri, Oct 26 2007. 11 07 PM IST

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1. The first word of the name of this manufacturer means without equal in French. Which company?
2. Which brand gets its name from the bird shown below?
3. This company was the result of a merger of two

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restructuring option
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firms in 1940. The first firm was founded in

Cambridge by the then world rackets champion in
1855 and soon built a reputation supplying rackets
to University players, including the future King
Edward VII, while the second started making bats in
1876 in a workshop in Robertsbridge, East Sussex.
Which company?
Tobacco products and brands
4. The company was founded as ___, Watkins &
Co. by Henry Overton ____ I and his partner Watkins, who opened a shop in Castle Street, Bristol in
1786. After Watkins retirement in 1789, it became ____ & Co. This brand was withdrawn in the UK in
1988, but it remained in India and Pakistan. Which brand?
5. Since the 1920s, this brand was advertised as a womans cigarette based on the tagline Mild As
May. It was repositioned as a rugged, masculine brand as the result of an iconic advertising campaign in
1954. Which brand?
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6. Some of the most popular brands of this tobacco productGanesh, PVS and Bharath are based out
of a city on Indias western coast. Import of this product into the US was banned in 1999, causing a furore
among its manufacturers. Which product, and which city is the major producer of the product?

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Former England cricket captain

Tony Greig dies

Biscuit brands
7. This company, which shares its name with part of the name of a suburb of Mumbai, began in 1929. It
was one of the few Indian players in a market dominated by British brands, and made biscuits affordable

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at a time when they were luxury goods. Which company?

8. This company was formed in 1898 with the merger of American Biscuit and Manufacturing Co., the
New York Biscuit Co. and the United States Baking Co. The resultant entity was initially called National
Biscuit Co., and had 114 bakeries across the US and was headquartered in New York City. Which
company?

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11 PM IST

9. Which Indian company shares its name with the national personification shown in the picture?

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Biscuit brands

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7. Parle
8. Nabisco, from National Biscuit Co.
9. Britannia
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First Published: Fri, Oct 26 2007. 11 07 PM IST

Tw eet

ALSO READ
Former England cricket
captain Tony Greig
dies

Pepsi wins bid for title

rights of IPL for five
years

1931 Sanspareils
Greenlands | A historic
innings

1921 Frontier Biscuit

Factory | Tricks of the
treat

Decks cleared for third

set of private banks

Confident of passing food

security Bill this session:
Thomas

India becoming

Sunil Dutt | The plot to

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