Pot Pourri......

ANSWERS TO BE SENT ACROSS TO preetam.jena@wipro.com
1... A restaurant down under changed its older logo after demonstrations by the Indian diaspora. What was the controversy all about and name the restaurant also.The following is the later adapted logo.


Ans...Ballina-based curry franchise Handi Ghandi As per Tushar Gandhi ''It goes absolutely against all his beliefs.Using his image to sell beef curries and such doesn't gel." The company name Handi Ghandi was deliberately mis-spelt to differentiate it from Gandhi and later the image was changed.http://www.echonews.com/1125/index.html



2...Identify the man,who is credited for being the biggest influence in the advent of highrisers.

Ans...Elisha Graves Otis who invented a safety device that prevented elevators from falling if the hoisting cable broke.Otis's invention increased public confidence in elevators, and enabled a building trend: the skyscraper.The company he founded became known as the Otis Elevator Company.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elisha_Graves_Otis

3...As usual an AMUL ad presenting something which was quite hot at that time.Tell me what does the ad represent.Hints are throughout the poster just as we know the amul ads as.

Ans....It was a tribute to the then trend of making remakes.Don,Gabbar n Umrao Jaan were the 1s depicted by the chracters."Deja view" & "The original Choice" in the poster were some intelligent hints.No marks given for only don as an answer.



4...Identify the vintage ad.


Ans...Amul chocolates.




5...1st store of a certain chain.Identify the chain.

Ans...Pizza Hut.The house here resembles a hut which might have been a hint.


6...Another vintage ad.Complete what the girl says n u ll get the brand being endorsed by the cricketer.(Not me,but my...)

Ans...BSA-SLR.It was Kapil Dev and he endorsed only 3 brands I think Palmolive,Boost and BSA-SLR.

7...Identify the occasion for the google doodle.

Ans...Leap year.The picture was that of a frog leap.

8...Adjoining picture is a report,Bill,declaration or a statement.Just let me know what this piece of paper signifies.

Ans...Bhagat Singh death statement.

9...Connect the two gentlemen.

Ans...TVS motors.Dhoni endorses TVS bikes n the left fellow is T.V.Sundaram.The founder of TVS.

10...Connect the following picture with PAMELA ANDERSON LEE.

Ans...During her final speech at the Comedy Central Roast, Anderson referred to her breasts as "Pancho and Lefty" Which is an album by Merle Haggard and Willie Nelson whose cover is shown.

11...Famous lady lends her name to a very famous jargon used in a completely different domain to this lady's profession.Elaborate.

Ans...Bo Derek Stocks.A jargon used in stock market to describe a perfect stock or investment. Since in the 1979 hit movie "10", actress Bo Derek portrayed the "perfect woman", or "the perfect 10".

12...This map here suggest a route of some event.Just tell me what does the blue line represents.

Ans...Route followed in Around the World in Eighty Days by the French writer Jules Verne.

13...The picture down here is a very common n glutton inducing site.But it has something to do with sports.(Apart from forming the diet of sportsmen i.e.)

Ans...Fried Egg. Its a Golf term used when The ball lands in a sand bunker in golf, with at least half the ball under the level of the sand.The picture given was to represent the ideal situation.

14...Identify the personality.

Ans...He's the original "Man who sold the world" David Bowie.

15...A famous personality who was jailed during the Emergency chose to name his daughter after the Maintenance of Internal Security Act that he was booked under.Name the personality and his daughter ? Answer is in the question itself.

Hope noone uses google for this.

Ans...The intials of Maintenance of Internal Security Act gives us MISA which is the name of the daughter of Laloo Prasad Yadav.

16...Seems like a miniature oil tank carrier huh.Just tell me what is this instrument?

Ans...This is the Flight data recorder commonly known as Black Box.

17...Identify this rather famous brand.

Ans...Teen Spirit.The root of the Kurt Cobain number.

18...These were some illustrations by a famous personality meant to represent one of his creations.Just give me the name of the personality and the character or thing that it represented.

Ans...Designs created by Satyajit Ray for 'The Alien' a science fiction which was eventually cancelled, being produced by Columbia Pictures. The script was written by Ray in 1967, loosely based on Bankubabur Bandhu.When E.T. was produced in 1982 by the same company , many, including Arthur C. Clarke, saw striking similarities in the movie to Ray's earlier script - Ray discussed the collapse of the project in a 1980 Sight & Sound feature, with further details revealed by Ray's biographer Andrew Robinson (in The Inner Eye, 1989). Ray believed that Spielberg's film "would not have been possible without my script of The Alien being available throughout America in mimeographed copies."Spielberg denied this claim and said "I was a kid in high school when his script was circulating in Hollywood."

19...Son of a trapeze artist couple.Raised by a police officer.His original family is in Paris.His vital stats are Age : 19 Height : 5'11 Weight : 70Kgs.

Name this rather famous personality.

Ans...He is the king of desi comics SUPER COMMANDO DHRUV.

20..Identify the country the following national flag represent.

Ans...The Vatican City.

Response was amazing this time around.The scoreboard reads like this...

Pradeep Pati...14

Deepak Das...14

Sushanta Pathak...8

Hitesh Das...8(Some really good guesses.)

Manas Sahoo...7

Praneet Gourav Mishra...7

Subhrajit Mishra...6(Sorry for nt sending the notification.V ll take care next time around.)

Biswabikash Rout...6

Abhishek Sharma...3

Ashok Chandra...3

Rithwik Kallandy...2

Rocky Kumar...2

Malini Guha...1