Quiz LXXXXV - Answers

Which well-known brand derives its name from the Florida state
1 football team?
# Gatorade

Which Hollywood film has the tagline "Every dream has a price"?
2
# "Wall Street"

Which PC has been nicknamed the "Ford T Model of the PC

3 industry"?
# The Apple II

Identify these two people. (Visual)

4 # Brian Kernigham and Denis Ritchie, the creators of the
programming language C

If "prime time" refers to peak TV viewing time, which term in the

5 UK and Europe refers to peak FM radio listening time?
# "Drive time"

Which company manufactures and markets Volvo trucks?

6 # Volvo-this was a googly; Volvo’s passenger car business has
been acquired by Ford

Why was Nicholson’s café in the news during the 1990s?

# This was the café where the indigent JK Rowling would come
7 with her child, spend considerable time sipping a cup of coffee,
and working on her first novel-"Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s
Stone"

Identify this person. (Visual)

8
# Ruth Handler, the creator of Barbie doll

What product of commercial importance was invented by

9 Immanuel Nobel, father of Alfred Nobel?
# Plywood

What term, extensively used in management and business, was

10 coined by Alex Osborne of BBDO?
# Brainstorming

11 Shannon Airport in Ireland was the first airport in the world to

 offer what facility to its users?
# Duty free shopping

Identify this person. (Visual)

12
# Wendell Rodricks, the fashion designer

Mark McCormack wrote the book "What They Don’t Teach You in
Harvard Business School" to refer to the limitations of
conventional management education. What was the corresponding
13
book that he wrote about the limitations of legal education in a
conventional law school?
# "What They Didn't Teach Me at Yale Law School"

If it is the Silicon valley in California, what is it in New York City?

14
# Silicon Alley

Infosys and Progeon, Wipro and Wipro BPO, Satyam and...?

15
# Nipuna

Identify this building. (Visual)

16
# 1 Infinite Loop, Cupertino, the head office of Apple Computers

What is the new name of Bajaj Tempo?

17
# Force Motors

Which publishing powerhouse owns Penguin Books?

18
# Pearson

In what context are terms Burgernomics and lattenomics used,

and which organization has conceived these concepts?
19 # A crude indicator of Purchasing Power parity (PPP), based on
the price of a McDonald’s Giant Hamburger and Starbucks’ Tall
Latte

Which is the odd one out among the following companies, and
why: Grey Worldwide, Bates, McCann Erickson, Mind Share and
20 Y&R?
# McCann Erickson-it is part of Interpublic; the others are
members of the WPP Group