Quirvana 7

Hi all,Thanks for a great response to Quirvana - 7. Here are the answers to the quiz.

1. Which arbiter on branding was founded by Marcel Knobil in 1994 in London? SUPERBRANDS
2. Tobacco, Firearms, Used underwear, Human parts and Lottery tickets are a few banned items at this place. The list includes over a hundred such items. What is being referred to? eBAY
3. What was founded in 1917 by Larry Valenstein and supposedly gets its name from the color of walls of its first office? GREY GLOBAL GROUP
4. Which automobile company was founded as Kyungsung Precision Industry in 1944 and its name roughly translated as arise or come up out of Asia or Rising out of Asia? KIA MOTORS
5. What was started by Charles Lazarus in Washington, DC during the post-war baby boom era in 1948 as a baby furniture retailer known as Children's Supermart? TOYS R US
6. This company was established in 1843 and the same year, the founders got their royal warrant. This famous brand’s name comes from Gaelic seamhas, meaning ‘a narrow place in a river’. Identify. CHIVAS REGAL
7. Why was this Canadian teenager in news in year 2003?

HE IS MIKE ROWE. HE WAS IN NEWS FOR CREATING A WEBSITE CALLED WWW.MIKEROWESOFT.COM WHICH SOUNDED VERY CLOSE TO MICROSOFT. A CONTROVERSY FOLLOWED.

8. Identify the advertiser.

GOOGLE. IT WAS A RECRUITMENT AD FOR ENGINEERS

9. What is the claim to fame of this picture?

THIS PICTURE IS SUPPOSEDLY THE FIRST PICTURE EVER TO BE UPLOADED ON THE INTERNET. IT WAS CALLED 'LES HORRIBLES CERNETTES'.

And the scores are:

Murali Duggineni 8
Mahendra Chauhan 8
Sangeeta Banerjee 7
Praveen Kakkan 7
Arun Caashyap 7
Siddharth Shanmugam 7
Naresh Ranvah 7
Sheetal Koul 7
Keshav Sreedharan 7
Siddharth Mishra 6
Anant Singhania 6
Santanu Dey 6
Kartik Bharadwaj 6
Arjit Mukhopadhyaya 6
Ritika 5
Akalpita Kanegaonkar 5
Harshit Ajila 5
Ashish Golcha 5
Rajagopal Haridoss 4
Arindam Sanyal 4
Balaji Krishnan 2
Jacob Dijo 1
Abhishek Upadhyaya 1

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