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7/31/2019 Mint Questions

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Which award, named after a non-Japanese person, has been annually given by Union

of Japanese Scientists and Engineers (JUSE) since 1951?

Deming

Which record label was founded by the Beatles in 1968, as a part of a corporation

founded by them?

Apple

What does the letter T stand for in the brand name T -series?

Trishul

Which company is named after the highest mountain in Japan

Fuji

Which company is best known because its cameras were used to take photographs of

the moon during the Apollo program missions

Hasselblad

This board game formed the theme of a book __ _____ ____ _____: How to Succeed in Real Life

No Matter Where You Land. Which board game?

c. The Game of Life

In 1963, toy creator Stan Weston noted the success of the Barbie doll, and conceived the

idea of a toy that would be marketed to boys. Which brand resulted?

GI Joe

The standard reference used in this game is known as the OSPD. Which game?


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Scrabble

This building near Shimla was the summer residence of Lord Kitchener, and is now a luxury

hotel. Which hotel/building

Wildflower Hall

This Canadian hotel chain uses a 1723 work of an Italian composer in many of its ads.

Which hotel chain?

Four Seasons: Antonio Vivaldi music

This Indian automobile brand was named ____ President in 1973. However, in its subsequent

years it was known by its more popular name. Which brand?

Padmini

This word comes from a term for an opening in a wall, which was used to shoot arrows

from within a building. It is now present in English in the figurative sense of outlet, or

means of escape, mainly in legal contexts. Which word?

Loophole

What fabric gets its name from the town of Nimes in France, where it was supposed to have

been first made?

Denim

What word originates from a term for allowance for the purchase of salt?

Salary

This is the generic term for an annual athletic contest held to pit the residents of Italian


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towns or localities against each other. This is also the name of a Fiat brand. Which brand?

Palio

This banks full name was Amsterdam -Rotterdam Bank. How was it better known?

AMRO

This company was originally intended to be named Moore Noyce after its founders.

However, the founders realized it might sound like More Noise and therefore chose the

present name instead. Which company?

Intel

Which bank originated in 1765, when John Taylor and Sampson ____ II set up a bank in Dale

End, Birmingham?

Lloyds

This term, named after a TV channel, is used to refer to people born between 1975 and 1986.

It refers to a generation whose coming of age is largely influenced by popular culture and

mass media. Which term?

MTV Generation

The two letters on this companys logo indicate Scuderia _____, meaning the _____

stable. Which company?

Ferrari

Which brand of soap gets its name from camee, the French word for jewel?

Camay


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This is one of P&Gs oldest brands. Due to this, P&Gs headquarters are often referred to

as ____ towers and its factory and research center as ____dale. Which brand are we

talking about?

Ivory

This region encompasses the Southern part of the San Francisco Bay area in Northern

California. It gets its name from the fact that it was home to a large number of integrated

circuit manufacturers. Which region?

Silicon Valley

According to various etymologies, the name of this city originates from one of the terms

stone of heroes, city of guards or city of boiled beans. Which city?

Bangalore

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Which famous Indian surname literally translates to perfume seller, and has its roots in

the Sanskrit term for perfume or scent? \

Gandhi

Which brand name is an abbreviation of the name of the Mangalore based organization

Central Arecanut and Cocoa Marketing and Processing Cooperative Ltd.?

Campco

This brand is named after a noblewoman who, according to legend, rode naked

through Coventry city as a mark of protest against exorbitant taxes imposed by her

husband. Which brand?


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UK. What is the more popular name by which we know it?

Walkman

Which seminal 2004 work is subtitled Eradicating poverty through profits?

Fortune at the bottom of the pyramid, by CK Prahalad

Which car brands name comes from the Spanish/Portuguese words for high?

Alto

Which car brands name comes from the Spanish word for style?

Estilo

This term comes from the Spanish word for square or place. In Spanish it

referred to the town square or centre. It now is commonly used in relation

to shopping. Which term?

Plaza

This term, in considerable use in the context of collaborative applications

on the internet, comes from the Hawaiian word for quick. Which word?

Wiki

This term comes from the Greek word for household management. The

term eventually came to be used in a much more generalized

connotation. Which term?

Economics


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According to a Time magazine article, his total wealth is one multiplujillion, nine

obsquatumatillion, six hundred twenty-three dollars and sixty-two cents. According

to a book by Don Rosa, his wealth is five multiplujillion, nine impossibidillion, seven

fantasticatrillion dollars and sixteen cents. When he topped the Forbes list of richest

people in fiction in 2007, his wealth was estimated to be $28.8 billion. Who?

Scrooge McDuck

This fictional Greek-American tycoon is the owner of Cosmos Pictures. At two

other points of time, he is also shown to be the head of an opium cartel and a

slave trader respectively. Who?

Roberto Rastapopulos, in Tintin comics

This brand was named after its founder, who received a patent in 1894 on what he

called the lucky curve feed, which enabled withdrawal of excess ink back into the pen

body when the pen was not in use. Which brand?

Parker

This pen brand gets its name from a person after whom a US state is named. This name

was chosen because of phonetic similarities between the persons surname and the

product being sold. Which brand?

William Penn

Which Japanese company gets its name from the Buddhist Goddess of mercy?

Canon

This magazine, which calls itself a newspaper, was first published in 1843 to "take part in a

severe contest between intelligence, which presses forward, and an unworthy, timid


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ignorance obstructing our progress." Which magazine?

Economist

This instant soup product of Lipton launched an advergame, where the players objective is

to avoid the 3PM slumps, running into which will cause the player to fall into a deep sleep.

However a snack of this soup will make the player invincible against the 3PM slumps and

give him a bonus. Which product sponsored this advergame?

Cup a soup

This fast food company gave away Xbox games, known as King Games series, and entitled

Sneak King, Pocketbike racer and Big Bumpin for an extra $3.99 with every val ue meal.

Which company?

Burger King

This ballpark in Houston, Texas sold its naming rights to a Houston based company in a 30

year, $100 million deal in 1999. This corporation went bankrupt in the midst of a corporate

scandal, and the management bought back the remainder of the thirty years of naming

rights for $2.1 million, rechristening the ballpark as Astros Field in February 2002. After which

corporation had this ballpark been named?

Enron

This Madurai based airline flies only on short haul routes in South India, and offers full

business class service. Which airline?

Paramount

Which Gurgaon based airline was earlier known as Royal Airways, which in turn had

evolved from Modiluft?


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Spicejet

Who was succeeded by Air Chief Marshal PC Lal as the chairman of Air India?

JRD Tata

This firm was founded by two friends in 1852 to produce a lever action pistol nicknamed the

Volcanic pistol. The company was named after its founders. Which company?

Smith and Wesson

In 1945, Fortune magazine named this mascot the second most popular American woman

behind Eleanor Roosevelt. Who?

Betty Crocker, mascot general Mills

This mascot is an anthropomorphic legume dressed as an old fashioned gentleman, with a

top hat, monocle, gloves, spats and a cane. Which mascot?

Mr Peanut, the mascot of Planter

Which Chrysler brand is named after the bird shown below?

This Chrysler brand gets its name from the ray-finned fish covered with small, smooth

scales, and known for its large size. Which brand?

Barracuda

Which cigarette brand was originally positioned as a womans cigarette, and advertised

with the tagline mild as may, before being repositioned?

Marlboro


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This was one of the ads created by David Ogilvy for a then 116 year old shirt brand. It

showed a man in an eye- patch, and had the caption the man in the ____ shirt. Which

brand was the ad for?

Hathway

What devices name comes from an abbreviation of modulator and demodulator?

Module

Which term for a field of study comes from the Greek word for steersman. This term is also

the root of the term for governing, because of the connotation of steering an

administrative entity. Which field of study

Cybernetics

According to Wired Style: Principles of English Usage in the Digital Age this two word term

was described as "the whole digital enchilada - interactive, cable, broadband, 500-channel

[...] blame the cliche on then-Senator Al Gore Jr. who introduced it at a 1978 meeting of

computer industry folk, in homage to his father , Senator Albert Gore Sr"

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