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1. The idea for this brand originated in 1858 when a Pennsylvania chemist first noticed oil workers treating cuts and burns with a residue from oil pumps. Now this brand has almost become generic to the product category.(Now don’t ask me whts a generic product!!!) What is the brand name?

2.This product was first used in Germany in WWII. Its name in german implied fantasy since considerable imagination was needed to create a palatable drink from the limited means available in the war years of austerity. What are we talking about?

3. It was initially sold as ‘Motor Spirit’, until a London based firm trademarket it to the present name. Name it

4.In the 1780s, Andrew ______ realised that Londoners were using rouges, creams and powders manufactured by him to repair the harm caused by hard soaps of that time. This led him to produce a soap. Its production process has been maintained over the two centuries. Each lot of soap takes about 10 weeks to manufacture and another 10 weeks to mellow, before each bar of soap is hand polished. Which soap are we talking about?

5.Richard Branson’s Virgin Group has a wide range of products under the Virgin brand. Name the only brand owned by this group which isn’t sold under this brand name, because it isn’t used by virgins

6. In the US a certain Barbie doll was banned by the schools. Hy?

7.Which product was the first and oly so far to be launched in the Indian Parliament ?

8. What is so special about THE Rothmans brand of cigarettes in London?

9. To the countless paramours, it is simply known as ‘The Bug’. It had its engine in the wrong place – at the rear of the compartment. Adolf Hitler was the inspiration behind this people’s car. It was designed by the legendary car designer Ferdinand Porsche. It first rolled out of the production line in Germany in 1938. Name this legendary car?

10.Washington Wentworth Sheffield was a dentist in New London, Connecticut in the mid 1880s, who developed a tooth cleaning powder that was quite popular with his patients. His son Lucius, also a dentist, helped him modify to make Dr.Sheffield’s Crème Dentifice. What first did this establish?