4. This is referred to as a passive safety device and common terms used to describe it include Supplemental Restraint System (SRS) and Supplemental Inflatable Restraint (SIR). What is this best known as?
5. This is the first telecom operator in Bangladesh & has tied up with this well known bank to provide telecom services to the nation.One of its initiatives included 'Village Phone' which allowed villagers to borrow $200 from the bank & buy a cell phone connection.These villagers would then provide telecom access to other villagers for a small fee, thereby ensuring a livelihood for many.Name the operator & the bank
6. Named ‘Gayetty’s Medicated Paper’, US businessman Joseph C. Gayetty was the owner of the first factory produce and package it for sale in the Western world. In 1879 the Scott Paper Company was in the first to market it in the form we know it today. Originally, however, made for the purpose by the Chinese, what is this specific product?
8. Known as the "pecten" after the sea shell Pectenmaximus (the giantscallop), on which its design is based, the current version of the brand was designed by Raymond Loewy and introduced in 1971. The yellow and red colours used are thought to relate to the colours of the flag of Spain as Shell built early service stations in the state of California which had strong connections with Spain One of the six "supermajors"
9. The reputation of Standard Oil in the public eye suffered badly after publication of Ida M. Tarbell's classic exposé The History of the Standard Oil Company in 1904, leading to a growing outcry for the government to take action against the company. By 1911, with public outcry at a climax, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that Standard Oil must be dissolved and split into 34 companies. Two of these companies were Jersey Standard and Socony which eventually merged in 1999 to form X.
10. “X has enjoyed the relationship with Renault F1 and will continue to work closely with the team during the final year of the partnership." withdrew from the deal early in the wake of the crashgate affair. it was created from the merger of Nationale-Nederlanden and NMB Postbank Group.
11. X was founded in 1908 following the discovery of a large oil field in MasjedSoleiman, Iran. It was the first company using the oil reserves of theMiddle East. ampm is a convenience store chain run by X
12. Originally known as SoCal, it discovered the world's largest oil field (Ghawar) in Saudi Arabia. Its subsidiary, California-Arabian Standard Oil Company, developed over years, to become the Arabian American Oil Company (ARAMCO) in 1944. In 1973, the Saudi government began buying into ARAMCO. By 1980, the company was entirely owned by the Saudis, and in 1988, the name was changed to Saudi Arabian Oil Company
13. In September 1936, the company ran a public competition to design a new logo. Out of 27,000 entries the winning entry was the three katakana letters for “Y" in a circle. But Risaburo“Y”, who had married into the family and was not born with that name, preferred “X" because it took eight brush strokes (a fortuitous number) to write in Japanese, was visually simpler (leaving off two ticks at the end) and with a voiceless consonant instead of a voiced one (voiced consonants are considered to have a "murky" or "muddy" sound compared to voiceless consonants, which are "clear"). Since “Y" literally means "fertile rice paddies", changing the name also helped to distance the company from associations with old-fashioned farming.
14. In 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court decided the landmark case of ’Y’ vs. State of Wisconsin which held that under the Natural Gas Act[1], the Federal government should regulate the prices which natural gas producers charge when selling gas at the wellhead Z ran into early trouble when, shortly after acquisition, it was hit by the Great Crash of October 1929. Nevertheless, Z became a key supplier to the United States government during World War II. Under the leadership of Leonard F. McCollum, it grew from a regional company to a global corporation. Another rough patch for the company came during the 1970s oil crisis, from which it did not recover until 1981, when it became a subsidiary of former rival DuPont.
15. It is known in Mexico as Walmex, in the United Kingdom as Asda, in Japan as Seiyu, and in India as Best Price. Its founder met the Butler Brothers in 1945 who offered him to operate one of their stores in Newport, Arkansas.
