BENT Quiz Finals

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A company called Printsome released 5 posters
featuring 5 brands. The posters, apart from the
visuals (which would serve as clues) also has
the etymology behind every name.
Name That Brand: An Etymology Exercise With
Brand Names

Dunkin’ Donuts
Starbucks
Virgin Group
Old Spice
Land Rover

Rules
+10/0 on infinite bounce
In case no one gets it, next question goes to
next team aka Bangalore Bounce
+10 on pounce
1 finite pounce for clockwise round

In the 1920s, the radio industry desperately wanted
advertisers to help increase station ratings and profits.
Radio executives managed to convince businesses that
sold household goods to sponsor radio shows.To do
this, they needed the programming to appeal to the
main consumers of household goods. Since most wives
and mothers stayed at home, female homemakers fit
the bill.Thus, the daytime serial was born.
Company X sponsored a popular daytime serial drama in
1933. Ultimately, it began to both sponsor and produce
the radio shows, which became known asY because of
the main products of the company X .

X- Proctor & Gamble
Y- Soap Operas

Set in a hospital room, the action revolves around
Ken Harrison, a sculptor by profession, who was
paralysed from the neck down (quadriplegia) in a
car accident and is determined to be allowed to
die. Clark presents arguments both in favour of
and opposing euthanasia and to what extent
government should be allowed to interfere in the
life of a private citizen.
By replacing one letter from the name of the play,
one can arrive at the name of aTV show where
everything’s made up and the points don’t matter

This photograph of SofiaVergara and Julie Bowen is a recreation of another
photograph taken in 1957 with Italian actress X and American actressY.

Sophia Loren and Jayne Mansfield

Eastern Scale Pvt Ltd and Northern Scale Pvt
Ltd manufactured these machines
To make them more attractive, they got
dazzling lights and moving wheels.Also the
brown thick ticket had a horoscope and even
a picture of Bollywood actors that made it a
collectors item

Mohammad Chaman , a 42 year old Sadar Bazaar trader , had thought the long haul
to his client’s office in early June 2013 in Kaushambi was not worth the small order the
client had first placed with him.
Their meeting had been short. And Chaman came out of it the loser. The client had
been polite but straight — he wanted only 300 pieces and a discount. Chaman was
asked to scale his profit back by 25 paise on each of his product pieces.
The product, made from a material called China net because it initially came from
there is now manufactured in Delhi at Wazirpur -- sell for Rs 3 each.
6 months later , Chaman was singing a different tune as he had sold 3 lakh units and
he only saw more sales in the future.
What product , which is now beginning to lose some of its sheen , are we talking
about?

Bento is a Japanese packed meal that holds different varieties of traditional Japanese
food in a box shaped container.The “simple, practical and place for everything”
concept of this Bento box served as the inspiration for a famous technology company
to design its flagship product in 1992.

• This is the coat of
arms of a
Scandinavian village
that gets its name
from the banks of the
river it stands on.The
river in turn is named
after the animal
shown, which in
English is called the
Soot Marten. What is
it called in the local
language?

A graduate of Johns Hopkins and Harvard
Business School, he started working with
Salomon Brothers where he headed equity
trading, and systems development for a bit.
Being in NewYork, he realised that people were
willing to pay for a particular kind of information
as long as it was delivered to them as quickly as
possible. He set up his own company to market
this product (still a huge revenue driver) and this
company has blossomed into a huge
conglomerate. Identify the person/company

Movie posters recreated by Simpsons
+5 for every correct answer
+10 for getting all correct

1. Pulp Fiction
2. Basic Instinct
3. Underworld
4. Shaun of the dead
5. Breakfast atTiffany’s
6. Edward Scissorhands
7. Rainman
8. 7 year itch

Rules
+10/0 on infinite bounce
In case no one gets it, next question goes to
next team aka Bangalore Bounce
+10 on pounce
1 finite pounce for anti clockwise round

Who published the following study /Where will you find it?
“ In a sumo tournament, all wrestlers in the top
division compete in 15 matches and face demotion if they do not
win at least eight of them. The sumo community is very close-knit,
and the wrestlers at the top levels tend to know each other well.
Take the case of a wrestler with a 7-7 record and one fight to go,
fighting against an 8-6 wrestler. Statistically, the 7-7 wrestler
should have a slightly below even chance, since the 8-6 wrestler is
slightly better. However, the 7-7 wrestler actually wins around 80%
of the time. Hence, the conclusion is that those who already have
8 wins collude with those who are 7-7 and let them win, since they
have already secured their position for the following tournament.”

“___X____ Man” is a neologism which refers to the
global elite of wealthy men whose members
view themselves as completely international.
X is an Alpine city which became famous in the
1990s for hosting the Y, an annual gathering of
international politicians and financiers who
represented a transnational elite. It is similar to
the term “Masters of the Universe” attributed to
influential financiers onWall St.
Give X andY.

What moniker is given to South Korea’s,
especially Seoul’s highly accelerated export-
fuelled economic growth, that refers to the
period between 1953 and 1996? (Shown in
next slide)
What phrase is the above moniker derived
from?

The above term is a reference to “Miracle on
the Rhine” which is used to describe the
economic rebirth ofWest
Germany afterWorldWar II, resulting
partially from the Marshall Plan.

The Lean Mean Fat-
Reducing Grilling
Machine is promoted by
a former boxing
champion who also lends
his name to the brand.

The circle topped with a two-bar cross in which the
word ____ resides is a variant of the Nabisco logo,
and is either “an early European symbol for
quality” or a Cross of Lorraine, as carried by the
KnightsTemplar into the Crusades.
The dot with four triangles radiating outward
either resembles a four-leaf-clover or the cross
pattée, also associated with the KnightsTemplar,
as well as with the German military and today’s
Freemasons.

Felice ______ was an Italian pharmacist, a maker of
liquor and freedom fighter under Garibaldi. Born in
Gerolanuova near Brescia, he established a
chemical laboratory in Milano, developing a
successful amaro made as an alcohol infusion of
cinchona bark, herbs, and iron salts.The laboratory
made the "l'esanofele", a chemical based on
quinine, iron and arsenic to combat malaria.
Why is this person very important in an Indian
context?

Sir James made this remark in September 1938:
...... s tree is all right but his tiger looks too like
some species of dog, and I am afraid that a design
of a dog and a tree would arouse derision among
the irreverent. .....'s tiger is distinctly good but the
tree has spoiled it.The stem is too long and the
branches too spidery, but I should have thought
that by putting a firm line under the feet of his
tiger and making his tree stronger and lower we
could get quite a good result from his design.
What was he commenting upon?

___ ____is a vatted Indian Rum, blended and
aged for 7 years. It is dark, with an alcohol
content of 42.8.It has been the biggest Indian
Made Foreign Liquor (IMFL) brand for many
years.

This is a phrase used to describe the effort of the United States -
particularly under President William HowardTaft - to further its
aims in Latin America and East Asia through use of its economic
power by guaranteeing loans made to foreign countries.The
phrase was originally coined by PresidentTheodore Roosevelt. It
was also used in Liberia, where American loans were given in 1913.
It is also used historically by Latin Americans to show their
disapproval of the role that the U.S. government and U.S.
corporations have played in using economic, diplomatic and
military power to open up foreign markets.The outgoing
PresidentTheodore Roosevelt laid the foundation for this
approach in 1904 maintaining that if any nation in the Western
Hemisphere appeared politically and financially so unstable as to
be vulnerable to European control, the United States had the right
and obligation to intervene.

Richard Howard Stafford Crossman was a British author
and Labour Party politician who was a Cabinet Minister
under HaroldWilson, and was the editor of the New
Statesman. A prominent socialist intellectual, he became
one of the Labour Party's leading Zionists and anti-
communists. His most famous work covered his time in
government from 1964 to 1970, and appeared despite a
legal battle by the government to block publication.
Much earlier, he had edited The GodThat Failed, a
collection of anti-communist essays published in 1949.
WhatTV show did his most famous work inspire?

Identify the brand from their old Indian Print
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