The Sixth Entry

On one of the Thursdays...Quiz master was Subrata Dass

1. The soft drink “dnL” is billed as the flipped version of which soft drink?

2."Wait a minute! Wait a minute! You ain't heard nothing yet!" Why are these words immortalized in the history of Entertainment ?

3. Connect Chritopher Columbus, Nimes-a place in France , and a person called Jacob Davis.

4. Complete the list.
Yashpal Sharma, Amin Hajee, Raj Zutshi, Akhilendra Mishra, Rajesh Vivek, Amin Gazi, Pradeep Rawat, Sri Vallabh Vyas, Daya Shankar Pandey, Raghuveer Yadav and ________

5. ­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­Mercedes Benz withdrew all ads for about a month in September 1997. What was the reason?

6. Shojiro Ishibashi is the founder of a famous tyre company. Name the company and why it was named so?

7. What is the significance of the song “Hips don’t lie” by Shakira ?

8. What term came from WWII fighter pilots in the South Pacific. Your reference is, When arming their airplanes on the ground, the .50 caliber machine gun ammo belts measured exactly 27 feet, before being loaded into the fuselage.

9. Hormel developed America's first canned ham (''Hormel Flavor-Sealed Ham'') in 1926, and eleven years later developed the first canned meat product that did not require refrigeration. It was a ''distinctive chopped pork shoulder and ham mixture'' developed by Jay C. Hormel, son of Hormel founder George A. Hormel, and marketed as ''Hormel Spiced Ham'' - not a terribly inspiring name for an innovative product fated to save lives, win wars, and balance diets of people world wide. Hormel Spiced Ham got off to a slightly rocky start. Other meatpackers began to introduce their own canned luncheon meats, and Hormel lost its controlling share of the market. Soon, however, they came up with a cunning plan to rectify this situation - they would give Hormel's luncheon meat a truly catchy name. Toward this end, they offered $100 for a suitable appellation. The winning name was, of course________________.

10.What was Shawn Fannings nick name in school ?

11. Why is the 1962 world cup semi final between Brazil ,Chile considered to be unique in footballing history??

12. Before World cup 2006, this company painted a billboard like a football ground and mounted it on a high rise building in Tokyo. Then, they secured two men on top of the billboard with ropes and suspended them. They also suspended a football in the same manner. To the people from down below, it looked as though these 2 men are playing football in the sky . Name the company which came up with such an impossible idea for an ad.

13. As per an old English tale, Lady Godiva rode through Coventry naked on horseback to protest the high taxes imposed on the people by her husband. Prior to this she had asked all the people to remain indoors and not look. All obeyed, except one. Who was the one who looked?

14. How do we better know Wilma Slaghoopal and Betty Jean Mcbricker?

15. "Leap Ahead" is the new slogan. Whcih more famous slogan, did it replace ?

16. What is the name of the official ball to be used in the upcoming football world cup ?

17.The name of this fictional character to be used for an advertisement was selected by the company only after thorough checking of the Telephone Directories and online directories so as not to insult any person. But still fell into controversy when a 11 year boy from chandigarh sued the company for an amount of 1 crore for using his name in a derogatory manner.

18. The name of this clothing company was a happy accident. It was named after the production of a batch of over-dyed shirts, early in the life of the brand. The brand’s logo is actually a stylized rendition of the Greek letter phi. Founded by Viju Mahtaney and Rajan Mudaliar determined to create a global brand for the global Indian. During a press conference to launch the revolutionary stain-free, wrinkle-free range, the CEO ‘accidentally’ spilled coffee on his shirt to prove his point. The name of the brand?

19. What brand name did Inter-brand wood , a company which designs brand names design for Pfizer ?

20. Connect the following: Anglo-Saxon word meaning "power", Greek word meaning "well born" or "stone" and a Portuguese phrase meaning "(He) was bad".

21. ________'s theorem states that if we construct equilateral triangles on the sides of any triangle (all outward or all inward), the centers of those equilateral triangles themselves form an
equilateral triangle. This is said to be one of the most-often rediscovered results in mathematics. The earliest definite appearance of this theorem is an 1825 article by Dr. W. Rutherford in "The
Ladies Diary". Although Rutherford was probably not the first discoverer, there seems to be no direct evidence supporting any connection with ___________, although it is known that he did well in mathematics as a school boy. According to Markham's biography," To his teachers _______ certainly appeared a model and promising pupil, especially in mathematics. The school inspector reported that _________'s aptitude for mathematics would make him suitable for the navy, but eventually it was decided that he should try for the artillery, where advancement by merit and mathematical skill was much more open. Even after becoming First Consul he was proud of his membership in the Institute de France (the leading scientific society
of France), and was close friends with several mathematicians and scientists, including Fourier, Monge, Laplace, Chaptal and Berthollet." Identify the man, more famous in other fields.

22. Which immortal slogan was coined by the advertising agency Wells, Rich & Green in 1977 ?{Clue: Morpheus}

23. Connect the following pics.

24. What is happening over here ?