Biz Bytes #10

1. Trey Parker & Matt Stone created what?
2. Connect: Catherine Deneuve, Brigitte Bardot and Laetitia Casta?
3. Bank of Baroda was the 1st to unveil a new logo among Nationalised banks; it was an elaborate process with a lot of TV and print ad’s with Rahul Dravid doing the job. Tell me the name of their new logo?
4. Which Hollywood movie gets its name from a Jamaican retreat?
5. How do we better know Manfred von Richthofen?
6. Connect Abraham Maslow, Howard Carter and C K Prahalad?
7. We all know about Eva Braun; but who was the mistress/companion of Benito Mussolini?
8. The origin of this phrase, meaning ‘to make up one’s mind to go through with an unpleasant situation or experience’, dates back to the days when the wounded had to be seen to without the benefit of anaesthetics or painkillers. The victim would be given an object that would help him brace himself against the coming pain. What phrase?
9. Novax, Rickenbacker, Washburn, Steinberger, Ibanez, Höfner, Gibson, Gretsch etc. Are manufacturers of what item?
10. In the 1880s, Harvey Henderson Wilcox of Kansas and his wife Daeida moved to Los Angeles from Topeka and bought 160 acres of land in the countryside to the west of the city at the foothills and the Cahuenga Pass. On a train trip to the east, Daeida met a woman who spoke of her country home in Ohio named after a Dutch settlement. She liked the sound of it and upon returning to Southern California, bestowed the name to the family ranch. What was it called?
11. Her real name is Nilanjana Sudeshna. A schoolteacher, who found her given name too long, used her nickname instead and it stuck. She wrote under that name; her first work has a character who was supposed to have a “good name” sent by his grandmother in India which gets lost in the mail. Who?
12. What 1830 invention by Edwin Beard Budding, inspired by a tool used in mills to give a smooth finish to woven cloth, is used extensively at Wimbledon and other such venues?
13. Which television series uses the tag line “Everyone has a little dirty laundry” and has many of its episode titles derived from songs by Stephen Sondheim?
14. It has the lowest coefficient of friction of any known solid material and is used in bearings and gears. One of its first advanced uses was in the Manhattan Project to coat valves and seals in the pipes holding reactive material. What is its common name?
15. Robert _______, the Scottish Patriot, and “Mad” Anthony ________, the American revolutionary war general lent parts of their names to a fictional character whose creation was primarily inspired by Leonardo da Vinci’s work. Which character?
16. Brussels is to EU as ________ is to SAARC?
17. The origins of this 900-mile-long overland route go back to 1821 when a desperate speculator named William Becknell set out with commodities to be sold at The City of Holy Faith of St. Francis. The route he discovered soon became a trade lifeline and also made the reputations of adventurers like J.C. Fremont, Wild Bill Hickok and Kit Carson. Fort Leavenworth was put up to protect it while Dodge City became important because of its strategic location astraddle the route. Identify this route that took its name from the city where it ended?
18. After marrying Ethel Wayman in New York during the year 1914, he found that the only source of income he could count on was the newly-founded Vanity Fair magazine. He wrote for them under his own name as well as under assumed names such as P. Brooke Haven, Melrose Grainger, J. Plum, J. Walker-Williams and C. P. West in order to sustain the household. Who?
19. When stainless steel was introduced in India, it was marketed under a name which suggested that it would not tarnish, unlike preferred metals of the day such as brass. The name continues to enjoy some vogue as a synonym for stainless steel in South India. What term?
20. This 1947 invention resulted out of a Hungarian-born physicist’s efforts at improving the resolution of electron microscope images. Pictures of a toy-train and a bird were transformed using this technology in 1962 – its first successful application. It was given a name derived from the Greek words for ‘complete’ and ‘message’. What?

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