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TBQ Classic Sample #10

Identify the advertiser.

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Ans: MTV
Watch the full ad here- http://goo.gl/NZPAf

TBQ Classic Sample #9

This company is a manufacturer of suitcases and travel luggage, and is based in New Jersey, USA.

Started in 1975, it takes its name from a Peruvian god known to its founder from his Peace Corps days in South America.

The company name also is a Peruvian ceremonial knife generally used for sacrifices.

Also the founder, Charlie Clifford had a dog by the same name and he joked that he named the company after the dog.

Which company are we talking about?

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Ans: Tumi

TBQ Classic Sample #8

AR Saunders from this company’s purchasing department designed the first ____ mark, winning an employee competition in 1920. He drew the two letters in ‘boxy’ style with wings on their edges, set into the outline of a shield. The shield represented the company for the next 80 years, albeit with minor changes. Which company?

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Ans: BP

TBQ Classic Sample #7

1) A mill engineer without equal in the late 19th and early 20th century, Stuart W. Cramer was responsible for the design of 150 mills -nearly one-third of the textile mills built in the South during that period. Cramer graduated as a naval
engineer from the US Naval Academy at Annapolis. At age 20 in 1888, fresh from that program, he elected to study mining engineering at Columbia in New York City. He was appointed chief assayer at the United States Mint in Charlotte, where he worked for four years analyzing gold and silver ores. After serving a two-year apprenticeship with D A Tompkins, Cramer formed his own company in the mid-1890s and began designing and building cotton textile mills.

Working with D.A. Tompkins and the Westinghouse Electric Company, he joined with James B. Duke of the famous tobacco family to establish Duke Power Company. His crowning achievement was the affiliation with the Mayes Manufacturing Company in Gaston County along the south fork of the Catawba River. Eventually, he bought a controlling interest and began putting his unique stamp on the mill and the mill village, which later became known as Cramerton and Cramerton Mills.

Identify.

This gentleman is credited with a term- something that’s a household term now. What?

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Ans: Air-conditioning

TBQ Classic Sample #6

In November 2004, the house of __________collapsed. The wine world learned that the Robert __________ family, the first family of American wine, would no longer own their namesake wine company. Robert ____________ Corp. had accepted a $1.3 billion bid from the global drinks giant Constellation Brands, dropping the curtain on what had been California’s greatest wine saga. Fill in the blank

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Ans: Mondavi

TBQ Classic Sample #5

It has been a tradition ever since the release of Version 2 of this product: Whenever they ship a major release, the rival product’s team sends them a congratulatory cake. The cake for the fifth version was received recently. Name the companies.

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Ans: Mozilla and IE/Microsoft. IE/Microsoft sends a cake after every major Firefox release is shipped.

TBQ Classic Sample #4

1) According to the book despite the promise of a large sum of money in exchange, the rather impoverished residents of Boyd County fought tooth and nail for two decades against this waste dump, which was to be built in a dangerously marshy area unsuitable for nuclear waste storage. Resident of which state in US (Blanked out) resisted the offer from Two MNCs?

2)PrimeTel Communications now controls 1.7 million toll-free numbers, which represent about 25% of all 800 numbers in the U.S. and Canada. Among them: 1-800-Metallica, 1-800-Cadillac, 1-800-Minolta, 1-800-Cameras, 1-800-Worship and 1-800-Whirlpool. They have been, for the last 13 years, been buying up every desirable 800 number on the market. What is their business?

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Ans1:Nebraska | Nuclear Nebraska

Ans2: P0rn

TBQ Classic Sample #5

1) In the spring of 1846, Moses Yale Beach (1800-68), publisher of The New York Sun, established a pony express to deliver news of the Mexican War. His pony express carried dispatches ahead of the Great Southern Mail from Mobile to Montgomery, Alabama, where the mail coaches carried them 700 miles to the nearest telegraph point near Richmond, Virginia. In offering an equal interest in the express venture to the major New York City daily papers (four of whom accepted), Beach effectively organized this institution. Name it.

Ans: The Associated Press

2) The idea to form one company out of a union of various construction and engineering firms came from Harry Morrison of the Morrison-Knudsen construction firm of Boise, Idaho. Morrison had forged a profitable working relationship with Utah Construction and decided they, too, should be in on the Black Canyon — as it was called at the time — project. Added to the mix was Charlie Shea, a seat-of-the-pants builder of tunnels and sewers.
Half a million was just the amount Shea pledged toward the performance bond. Along with his colorful and boisterous personality, Shea possessed the necessary skills and connections to further the project. He enlisted the interest of the Pacific Bridge Company and Felix Kahn of the San Francisco firm, MacDonald and Kahn. Meanwhile, Harry Kaiser, an ambitious young road builder from Oakland, California, and his mentor Warren A. Bechtel, a powerful old-line San Francisco contractor had become interested in the project. Kaiser’s experience in the working world extended back to when he dropped out of school at age 11. The elder Bechtel had developed an admiration for Kaiser’s work ethic and drive. It was Bechtel who suggested that he and Kaiser join forces with the alliance being formed by Harry Morrison. Felix Kahn coined the name for this alliance.

It was constructed between 1931 and 1936 during the Great Depression, and was dedicated on September 30, 1935.
Name the structure and the alliance.

Ans: Hoovers Dam | Six Companies

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TBQ Classic Sample #4

1) In late 19th century Bombay, the mill workers were men whose families stayed back in their villages. To begin with, employers accommodated these workers in specially constructed accomodations near the mills. Modelled after army barracks, each building had three floors. Every floor contained rooms, each given over to one person, and a common toilet. With the rapid increase in the number of mills, the rooms were often occupied by several people. Eventually, families of workers began to migrate to Bombay, and each room in such a building would have to accommodate the whole family. What were these buildings called?
Ans: Chawl
2) Malana, a tiny, mysterious village in Himachal Pradesh, supposedly inhabited by descendants of Alexander’s army,produces Malana Cream- the world’s best of its kind. What?
Ans: Hashish

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